AMERICA'S GREATEST THREAT...not a conspiracy theory

 

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Everything you wanted to know about Tucker Carlson and David Portnoy

 

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THE DEMOCRAT'S PROMISE

 Yes, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) did express the idea of building from the bottom up, particularly in the context of his New Deal policies to address the Great Depression. 

One specific instance where he emphasized this concept is in his "Forgotten Man" speech in 1932. In this speech, he spoke of building "plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power...that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid". 

The idea behind this "bottom-up" approach was to stimulate the economy by focusing on the needs and welfare of the ordinary people, rather than solely on helping businesses or the wealthy at the top of the economic structure. This concept was a fundamental part of the New Deal's strategies for relief, recovery, and reform. 

The New Deal programs, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Public Works Administration (PWA), aimed to provide jobs and relief directly to the unemployed and those struggling with poverty. Other programs, like the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) and the National Recovery Act (NRA), aimed to boost agricultural prices and improve workers' wages and conditions. The Social Security Act, a cornerstone of the New Deal, created a system of social insurance for retirees, the unemployed, and the disabled, providing a safety net for those who had previously been vulnerable to economic hardship. 

By focusing on these "forgotten" individuals and addressing their basic needs, the New Deal aimed to "prime the pump" of the economy by stimulating consumer spending and ultimately fostering a more broadly prosperous and secure society. 

Yes, President Obama did emphasize a "bottom-up" approach in his economic policy and philosophy.

BUT THEY BOTH LIED

NGO's: 99.99999%* of the voters have no idea who or what they are. This should blow your mind!

NGO's are the cancer that Trump is searching for a cure.

*If you don't have the patience to listen to this, include yourself in this group. 

I Shall Not Pass This Way Again

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephen Grellet 1773–1855

I Shall Not Pass This Way Again

The meaning of this expression is explained below:

This expression means life is given to all human beings as one time opportunity; so, we should make best use of this opportunity by doing all the good and righteous work we can. We should love our fellow brethren and sisters; we should be kind and considerate to others; we should help the needy; we should reduce sorrow of as many people as we can; most important, we should love and thank God, who has given us this precious life because we get it only one time in eternity.  - Author unknown 

WHATEVER IT IS, BILL CLINTON PROBABLY DID IT

 [Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 112 (Friday, August 12, 1994)]

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[Congressional Record: August 12, 1994]
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              WHATEVER IT IS, BILL CLINTON PROBABLY DID IT

                                 ______


                        HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR.

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, August 12, 1994

  Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, I insert the following article from the U.S. 
News & World Report, August 8, 1994 edition.
  It should be noted that the politics of personal attack is, in its 
essence, character assassination. Character assassination like physical 
assassination can be effective, that is, it can destroy if someone is 
willing to stoop to it.
  One more conspiracy for the Merchants of Venom to contemplate: who 
slipped in that commandment on Moses, the one that says, ``Thou shalt 
not bear false witness against thy neighbor.''
  Violent and destructive words are akin to violent and destructive 
deeds. They will inspire violence on the part of others. Here is how 
Kipling said it:

     . . . And sure it keeps their honor clean
     The learned court believes
     They never gave a piece of plate
     To murderers or thieves
     They never told the ramping crowd
     To card a woman's hide
     They never marked a man for death
     What fault of theirs he died?

     They only said intimidate
     And talked and went their way
     By God, the boys who did the work
     Were better men than they.

           [From the U.S. News & World Report, Aug. 8, 1994]

               Whatever it is, Bill Clinton Likely Did It

                (By Greg Ferguson and David Bowermaster)

       Sitting in a cozy parlor and wearing a red cardigan, Larry 
     Nichols looks into the camera like an earnest Mr. Rogers and 
     tells of ``countless people who mysteriously died'' after 
     having run-ins with Bill Clinton. Nichols, an Arkansas state 
     employee fired in 1988 for making hundreds of calls to the 
     Nicaraguan Contras from his office, says it's all part of 
     Clinton's ``evil society.''
       So goes ``Bill Clinton's Circle of Power,'' a video made 
     earlier this year by Citizens for Honest Government, a 
     California-based conservative group headed by television 
     producer Pat Matrisciana. The video is filled with dark 
     suggestions that as president and governor, Clinton was 
     connected to the murders and beatings of several people, 
     including political opponents. The Rev. Jerry Falwell 
     promoted the video during a month of TV infomercials, and it 
     has sold more than 100,000 copies, according to its makers. 
     They hope its sequel, ``The Clinton Chronicles,'' which 
     repeats the charges at greater length, might outsell the 
     first, even without Falwell's help.
       Beyond last week's congressional Whitewater hearings and 
     the ferment over Paula Corbin Jones' sexual harassment 
     lawsuit, attacks against Clinton have taken a decidedly 
     sinister turn. Televangelists, conservative talk-show hosts, 
     political opponents and some computer bulletin-board 
     aficionados are suggesting that Clinton could be tied to 
     dozens of deaths, from a pneumonia case in Delaware to three 
     of the four federal agents killed in the raid on the Branch 
     Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.


                               weird era

       Even at a time of great national anxiety and confusion, the 
     intense, fecund and often bizarre charges leveled against 
     Clinton are startling. He has unusually high negative ratings 
     in many polls, but even that fails to explain fully the 
     extreme nature of the charges leveled at him. ``These attacks 
     have reached a level of inventive and viciousness that is 
     unparalleled,'' complained White House counsel Lloyd Cutler 
     during last week's Whitewater hearings. ``There are a great 
     many people who would like to bring President Clinton down 
     who will stop at practically nothing.''
       No episode seems beyond Clinton's reach in the world of 
     conspiracy buffs. A Wall Street Journal editorial in March 
     chastised the ``respectable press'' for showing ``little-to-
     no appetite for publishing anything about sex and violence'' 
     in Whitewater-related matters. It proceeded to report that 
     while working on a story for the New Republic about 
     incestuous relationships between business leaders and 
     politicos in Arkansas, writer L.J. Davis opened the door to 
     his Little Rock hotel room and remembered next awakening face 
     down on the floor with a hefty bump on his head and 
     ``significant'' pages of his notes missing. The implication 
     was that some sinister elements had tired to quash Davis' 
     piece. But Davis soon admitted drinking at least four 
     martinis that night. No pages were missing from his notebook, 
     and he had no idea how he ended up on the floor. ``I 
     certainly wasn't about to conclude that somebody cracked me 
     on the head,'' Davis said at the time.
       Even the most serious charges are characterized by serious 
     deficiencies in corroborating evidence. In a letter to 
     congressional leaders, former Rep. William Dannemeyer lists 
     24 people with some connection to Clinton who have died 
     ``under other than natural circumstances'' and calls for 
     hearings on the matter. On Dannemeyer's list is James 
     Wilhite, a friend of White House adviser Thomas ``Mack'' 
     McLarty who suffered fatal head injuries in December 1992 
     when he skied into a tree in Colorado. Clinton was nowhere 
     near the scene. Dannemeyer also mentions Paul Tully, a chain-
     smoking, overweight Democratic strategist who, according to 
     Little Rock police spokesman Lt. Charles Holladay and the 
     Pulaski County coroner's report, died of a heart attack in 
     1992. Next is Jon Walker, an administrator in the Resolution 
     Trust Corp. office probing Madison Guaranty; Walker died last 
     year when he jumped from Northern Virginia apartment 
     building. Tom Bell, a detective with the Arlington, Va., 
     police says Walker was a ``particularly clear case of suicide 
     because there was a witness.''
       Others on the Dannemeyer list are more curious but 
     completely lack evidence implicating Clinton. In March, a 
     plane piloted by 72-year-old Herschel Friday, head of a 
     prestigious Little Rock law firm, crashed on approach to a 
     private runway near Friday's home. Friday served on Clinton's 
     presidential campaign finance committee, and his widow, Beth, 
     says the Clintons were ``good friends.'' However, rumors 
     about a link between Whitewater and Friday's death began 
     circulating soon after the crash. The National Transportation 
     Safety Board has not issued its final report on the crash, 
     but so far investigators have given the family no indication 
     the plane had mechanical problems. Mrs. Friday is confident 
     her husband's death was ``purely an accident.'' Dannemeyer 
     admits that Clinton may have had no involvement in Friday's 
     death and some of the others, but he insists that the 
     ``number goes beyond coincidence.'' He says he merely wants 
     them investigated.


                         the clinton body count

       Dannemeyer's list of ``suspicious deaths'' is taken largely 
     from one compiled by Linda Thompson. She is an Indianapolis 
     lawyer who in 1993 quit her one-year-old general practice to 
     run her American Justice Federation, a for-profit group that 
     promotes pro-gun causes and various conspiracy theories 
     through a shortwave radio program, a computer bulletin board 
     and sales of its newsletter and videos. Her list, called 
     ``The Clinton Body Count: Coincidence or the Kiss of Death?'' 
     and updated biweekly, now contains 34 names of people she 
     believes died suspiciously and who had ties to the Clinton 
     family. Thompson admits she has ``no direct evidence'' of 
     Clinton killing anyone. Indeed, she says the deaths were 
     probably caused by ``people trying to control the president'' 
     but refuses to say who they were. Thompson says her 
     allegations of murder ``seem groundless only because the 
     mainstream media haven't done enough digging.''
       Earlier this year, Thompson released two videotapes and a 
     folksy music video purporting to show that the February 1993 
     shootout in Waco, Texas, was a conspiracy in which three 
     agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were 
     ``executed'' in the Branch Davidian's armory by their own men 
     because of what they might have witnessed as Clinton's 
     bodyguards. Though the men did help the Secret Service guard 
     Clinton a few times, the Treasury Department's report in the 
     Waco standoff refutes the charge: ``Contrary to some publicly 
     disseminated accounts, none of the agents that entered the 
     armory was killed.'' According to the report, the men were 
     killed in different locations around the compound. ATF 
     spokesman Les Stanford says, ``Her videos are replete with 
     falsehood and errors.''
       Of the ``suspicious deaths'' listed by Thompson and 
     endorsed by Dannemeyer, many victims have only the most 
     tenuous ties to Clinton--four members of Marine Helicopter 
     Squadron One, for example. The unit is responsible for 
     transporting the president. The four marines died in May 1993 
     when the Blackhawk helicopter they had taken out for a 
     maintenance-evaluation flight crashed. According to a Marine 
     spokesman, Chief Warrant Officer Robert Jenks, faulty 
     installation of a spindle pin allowed the helicopter's 
     engines to produce too much power until an overspeed 
     protection device shut them down. There was no evidence of 
     sabotage. Clinton had set foot in the aircraft on only one 
     occasion, two months before, when he traveled from the White 
     House to the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Thompson concedes, ``I 
     don't know what Clinton's motive was.'' But she speculates 
     that they ``could have been privy to information about 
     Clinton's plan for Bosnia.''


                             foster's death

       The starting place for all Clinton murder theorists seems 
     to be Vincent Foster, the deputy White House counsel whose 
     death last year unleashed a torrent of speculation. Jerry 
     Falwell, Pat Robinson, Rush Limbaugh and others have 
     suggested that Foster was probably murdered. On the 
     anniversary of Foster's death, July 20, Foster's family made 
     a public appeal to end the speculation. The death has been 
     ruled a suicide in two separate investigations. Foster's 
     family says they fully accept that verdict. That hasn't 
     stopped Clinton's attackers, however. Many have dismissed the 
     report by Whitewater investigator Robert Fiske Jr., a former 
     U.S. attorney for New York under Presidents Ford and Carter 
     and highly respected private attorney, calling Foster's death 
     a suicide. In rejecting more macabre theories about Foster, 
     these critics say, Fiske--a Republican--was simply doing 
     Clinton's bidding. ``Fiske was appointed by Janet Reno at the 
     suggestion of Bernard Nussbaum,'' says Falwell. ``It's like 
     putting Hillary Clinton in there.'' Testifying last week 
     before Congress, Nussbaum said he never mentioned Fiske or 
     anyone else to Reno as a potential special counsel.
       There are other suicides that the conspiracy buffs tie to 
     Clinton. In May, Sherwood, Ark., police officer Bill Shelton 
     found his live-in girlfriend, Kathy Ferguson, slumped on the 
     couch in his apartment, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot 
     wound. A month later, Shelton was found on Ferguson's grave, 
     a bullet hole through his head, a gun by his side and a 
     suicide note in his truck.
       Less than a week before Ferguson's death, her ex-husband, 
     Danny, was named as a codefendant in Paula Jones's lawsuit 
     against the president. Rumors began swirling that her death--
     and later Shelton's--was tied to the president's alleged 
     infidelities. But police have found no reason to think so. 
     The relationship between Ferguson and Shelton had reportedly 
     fallen on hard times, and Ferguson's daughter told police her 
     mother had been upset about a note from Shelton. The only 
     people hinting at ties to Bill Clinton are in the media, 
     police say. ``It's like they want me to say something [about 
     a connection],'' says Sherwood Police Department spokesman 
     Ray Snider. ``It was suicide, period.''
       Luther ``Jerry'' Parks's death last September is almost as 
     disputed as Foster's. Indeed, Parks's case is the only murder 
     on Dannemeyer's list that law enforcement authorities do not 
     consider solved. Parks's security company guarded Clinton's 
     campaign headquarters in 1992. His son, Gary, asserts in both 
     ``Circle of Power'' and ``The Clinton Chronicles'' that his 
     father collected a secret file of the president's alleged 
     indiscretions. Shortly before the elder Parks was shot to 
     death while driving his car, Gary says, the file was stolen. 
     Lieutenant Holladay says there is no evidence of such a file, 
     nor any evidence that Clinton had anything to do with Parks's 
     death. Gary, he says, ``is grasping at straws. We have found 
     his allegations to be baseless.'' Jerry Parks reportedly had 
     many enemies after he was fired from two Arkansas police 
     departments and after a bitter falling out with a business 
     partner. Still, Larry Nichols says he is helping Gary Parks 
     bring a wrongful death suit against ``someone close to 
     Clinton who doesn't have presidential immunity.''
       One recent death is that of Stanley Huggins, who died in 
     June. In 1987, Huggins examined the loan practices of the 
     thrift, Madison Guaranty, at the center of the Whitewater 
     storm. His 400-gage report has never been made public. But 
     Dr. Richard Callery, Delaware's top medical examiner, says 
     Huggins died of viral myocarditis and bronchial pneumonia. 
     Lt. Joel Ivory of the University of Delaware police says his 
     ``exhaustive'' investigation of Huggins's death turned up 
     ``no sign at all of foul play.''
       The flood of accusations shows no sign of abating. And to 
     all conspiracy buffs, official sources are suspect. Falwell 
     asks how the Arkansas police could investigate the deaths: 
     ``The police in Arkansas brought Clinton's girlfriends to 
     him.'' He also says that guilty or innocent, Clinton 
     encourages suspicion: ``He's trying to get the courts to 
     postpone his sex harassment suit. If he gets by with that, 
     O.J. Simpson should run for president.''

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Higbie got it right...except he forgot Benazir Bhutto

 

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Reference your comment about the death of Osama bin Laden: We didn't kill Bin Laden, he was already dead.  Watch Benazir Bhutto video here.

Dear Kash Patel, President John F Kennedy sounded the alarm, and look what they did to him.

🚨 Kash Patel is sounding the alarm on the Federal Reserve! He’s urging everyone to wake up and realize the Fed isn’t a public institution—it’s a PRIVATE entity! Run by the elite robber barons who built this, they’re rigging the currency game for their own gain! 😡

Credit Where Credit Is Due

Credit Joe Jose Esparza (Prescott Joe)

 

Credit Joe Jose Esparza (Prescott Joe)

Credit NationFirst.com.au

IT'S ALL ABOUT FAMILY

Personal note to Reverend X in San Antonio, Texas... 'nuf said.

 

See also: https://youtu.be/vh24dWynWGk?si=1THxrDP6OAFW0eIW

IN MEMORY OF...

I Am A Retired Veteran
By Norman E. Hooben USAF, MSgt, Retired

I am a retired veteran of the United States Armed Forces
Now I am a member of We The People…
During my active duty years I’ve seen war and rumors of war.  I protected We The People…
I fought for God and country Blessed by We The People…
The path I chose was The road not taken by We The People….

They were the best years of my life
Unbeknown to We The People…
The hardships I endured Will never be shared
by We The People…
For over two score years in uniform
Now I dress as We The People….
Time moves on and I’m here to say
Freedom is not free for We The People….
When it was said that old soldiers never die
They just fade away by We The People….
When the time has come and my years are spent
I’ll be buried by We The People….

 

In memory of Harry C. White

October 22, 1942 – April 16, 2025

UPDATE

Dateline Robertsdale, Alabama

17 May 2025

THE USAF VETERINARY SERVICE ASSOCIATION

Diane Peacher Donaldson 

Today Tim and I attended the Memorial Service for Harry accompanied by Norman Hooben. It was very special to meet his family and other close friends. Norman recited his poem “ I Am A Retired Veteran “ which was very special and appreciated. The graveside service was conducted by the Naval Chaplain that had known and worked with Harry for 15 years. The service was very sincere and personal. There was an Air Force Honor Guard that presented the Military Honors. There were several comments that “ Harry was bigger than life” by many who knew him. He will be missed but not forgotten. Pictured are the flowers from our group and Norman delivering his poem.

It's not supposed to work that way.

Matt Walsh: Any country that can’t function without American aid has no right to exist.

Governor Healy Caught Disrespecting American Flag In Favor Of Chinese Flag

 

When the US, a state, and a Chinese flag are displayed together, the US flag should be placed to the left of the viewer (the flag's own right). When flown with other flags on adjacent staffs, the American flag should be raised first and lowered last. In a grouping of flags, the American flag should be at the center and the highest point.

Explanation: 

Position of Honor:

The American flag is always considered the flag of honor and should be displayed in a way that reflects its importance. To the Left: When displayed with other flags, the US flag should be on the observer's left (the flag's own right). Higher and Central: In a grouping of flags, the US flag should be at the center and the highest point, signifying its primary role.

WORLD HEADQUARTERS FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

 

And they'll stop at nothing.

FINANCE

Trump Moves to Restore the Gold Standard: America's Return to Sound Money Has Begun The greatest potential monetary shift in 50 years could help millions of Americans protect their retirement as a result.

By:JEREMY BLOSSOM 01/30/2025

In his first term as president, Trump often talked about how wonderful it'd be to bring America back to the gold standard.
Now he's backing up those words with action. 

Let me interrupt this story...

Side note from Storm'n Norm'n 

Been there, done that.

Are Qatar and China educating our children?

Nearly $29 billion in foreign money given to U.S. universities from 2021 to 2024

report April 27, 2025 by Jennifer Kabbany 

Foreign donors have given nearly $29 billion to U.S. universities between 2021 to 2024, according to a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute. “Foreign donors have given as much to U.S. universities in the last four years as they did in the previous 40,” according to the report, shared exclusively with The Free Press, which noted Qatar and China are among the largest sources of funding. “That $29 billion figure is more than double the total for the preceding four years, and accounts for half of the estimated $57.97 billion in foreign funding since 1986, when the federal government began tracking the data,” The Free Press reported. NCRI’s co-founder Joel Finkelstein told the Press: “This isn’t just a financial issue—it’s a national security crisis. Hostile powers are buying influence on American campuses at an industrial scale.” The report comes on the heels of an executive order from President Donald Trump last week that seeks to increase transparency over foreign funding to U.S. colleges and universities. A fact sheet accompanying the order stated that “$60 billion in foreign gifts and contracts have been funneled into American colleges and universities over the past several decades.” “Only about 300 of the approximately 6,000 U.S. institutions self-report foreign money each year,” the fact sheet states. “Undisclosed foreign funding raises serious concerns about potential foreign influence, national security risks, and compromised academic integrity.” Trump’s executive order directs the Secretary of Education to work to require universities “more specifically disclose details about foreign funding, including the true source and purpose of the funds.” The order also calls on the education secretary and attorney general to “hold accountable higher education institutions that fail to comply with the law concerning disclosure of foreign funding.” “In furtherance of this directive, the Secretary shall work with the heads of other executive departments, agencies, and offices, where appropriate, to conduct audits and investigations as appropriate and where necessary to ensure compliance with the law concerning disclosure of foreign funding and shall seek enforcement through appropriate action by the Attorney General,” the order states.

MORE: Stanford took in $27 million+ from China since 2021

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THIS IS A BOSTON TEA PARTY MOMENT catherine fitts

Highly recommended for all

"WE THE PEOPLE"

I wonder what it would be like...

How dare she?

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Overview

Phyllis Fong is an American attorney who served as the inspector general of the United States Department of Agriculture from 2002 until her removal in 2025. Fong was nominated to the position in 2002 by President George W. Bush. She was removed from her position in 2025 by the Trump administration. 

USDA inspector general escorted out of office after Trump order.  Phyllis Fong had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her on Friday Reuters Wed 29 Jan 2025 14.22 EST Share Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the department, had earlier told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her on Friday, saying that she did not believe the administration had followed proper protocols, the sources said.

INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING...and institutions of lower learnings

Institutions of higher learning are educational establishments offering post-secondary education, encompassing various types like universities, colleges, and vocational schools. These institutions provide academic instruction that leads to associate, bachelor, master's, or doctoral degrees. 

INSTITUTIONS OF LOWER LEARNING 

Catholics are the enemy of Islam, but Pope Francis didn't care, for he met with all their leaders and nothing fruitful came forth from these tête-à-têtes.

"Jihad means the fighting of the unbelievers and involves all possible efforts that are necessary to dismantle the power of the enemies of Islam, including beating them, plundering their wealth, destroying their places of worship, and smashing their idols,''

This is still true despite what the mainstream media has to say.  Pope Francis was more a friend of Islam than a shepherd of his own flock. 

Pope Francis consistently met with Muslim leaders to foster interfaith dialogue and peace.
He emphasized human fraternity and the need for unity in addressing global challenges like climate change and religious extremism. His meetings often resulted in joint declarations and shared statements calling for cooperation and understanding.
Examples of Pope Francis' meetings with Muslim leaders:


Indonesia:
Met with Nasaruddin Umar, the grand imam of Southeast Asia's largest mosque, signing a joint declaration on religious harmony and climate action.


Iraq:
Met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a senior Shiite leader, in a historic meeting that marked the first time a pope had met such a leader.


UAE:
Met with Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand mufti of al-Azhar University in Egypt, to co-sign the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Common Coexistence.


Bahrain:
Met with Muslim leaders, including the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, during a visit focused on interreligious dialogue and understanding.


Paris:
Met with the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, who proposed a future interreligious meeting to promote fraternity between Christians and Muslims in Europe.



What Quran says about Muslim Brotherhood?
" … tradition: "Muslims are brethren, they never do wrong to each other, they never forgo supporting each other, they never abandon their brethren in hardships …"



Wednesday, July 11, 2018

House of Representatives, Subcommittee
on National Security, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,Washington, D.C.
The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:06 a.m., in Room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Ron DeSantis [chairman of the subcommittee] presiding. Present: Representatives DeSantis, Duncan, Gosar, Hice, Comer, Lynch, and DeSaulnier. Also Present: Representative Grothman. Mr. DeSantis.
The Subcommittee on National Security will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a militant Islamist organization with affiliates in over 70 countries, including groups designated as terrorist organizations by the U.S.
Whether the Muslim Brotherhood writ large should be designated as a foreign terrorist organization has been the topic of debate here in Congress in recent years and has been under consideration by the Trump administration. Thankfully, the Trump administration has discarded the Obama era policy of treating the Brotherhood as a potential ally. Now the questions are focused on how expansive to make the terror designation and whether it should be done through the State Department or Treasury Department. The Muslim Brotherhood has been militant from its very beginning. Its founder, Hassan al-Banna, who started the group in 1928, said that, quote: ``Jihad is an obligation from Allah and every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor evaded.'' And in a book titled ``The Way of Jihad'' he wrote: ``Jihad means the fighting of the unbelievers and involves all possible efforts that are necessary to dismantle the power of the enemies of Islam, including beating them, plundering their wealth, destroying their places of worship, and smashing their idols,'' end quote. This belief was put into action in the decades that followed as the Muslim Brotherhood's members committed numerous acts of terrorism, including the assassination of Egypt's Prime Minister in 1948. This jihadist ideology continues to fuel the Muslim Brotherhood today. The Brotherhood mourned the death of Osama bin Laden and its leaders developed teachings justifying revolutionary violence under sharia law. The Brotherhood has preached hatred towards Jews, denied the Holocaust, and called for Israel's destruction. The Brotherhood has incited violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt amidst a wave of church bombings and other attacks by terrorist groups, including ISIS. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, perhaps the Brotherhood's preeminent cleric, issued a fatwa legitimizing terrorist attacks against American troops in Iraq. And he's also deemed the Holocaust to be a, quote, ``punishment for Jews,'' and expressed hope that another Holocaust would someday be carried out by his fellow Islamists. The Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide, Mohammed Badie, has said that the organization's goal is to establish a new Islamist caliphate, including the imposition of sharia law, which is the totalitarian Islamic legal code. We saw what happens when the Brotherhood takes control of a country in Egypt from 2012 to 2013, and the results were chilling, that then-President Mohamed Morsi defied the rule of law and granted himself near absolute power. As Egyptian leader Mohamed El Baradi put it, Morsi usurped all state powers and appointed himself Egypt's new pharaoh. The Brotherhood's legislators enshrined the principles of sharia as the main source of law in Egypt's Constitution, while the Morsi government used state institutions to promote Islamic radicalism, roll back freedom of the press, and launched a wave of blasphemy prosecutions. The Morsi Muslim Brotherhood government is no more, but the Brotherhood and its affiliates continue to advance their agenda across the Middle East and throughout the world. There's no question that the Muslim Brotherhood affiliates are involved in terrorism. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed as much in testimony before Congress when he said that elements of the Brotherhood, both here and overseas, have supported terrorism. A number of these Brotherhood affiliates have been designated as terrorist organizations by the United States Government. The Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian branch Hamas has been a designated foreign terrorist organization since 1997. Hamas has taken control of the Gaza Strip, launched thousands of rockets against Israeli civilians, and committed suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks that have murdered numerous Israeli and American civilians. Muslim Brotherhood networks raise money here in the U.S. to support Hamas' terrorist activities in the Middle East. According to the Department of Justice, in the early 1990s, Hamas' parent organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, planned to establish a network of organizations in the U.S. to spread a militant Islamist message and raise money for Hamas. And the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation became the chief fundraising arm for the Palestine Committee in the U.S., created by the Brotherhood to support Hamas. In 2008, the Holy Land Foundation leaders were convicted of crimes, including providing material support for Hamas. Most recently the State Department designated two offshoots of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, HASM and Liwa al-Thawra, as terrorist organizations under Executive Order 13224. The State Department noted that these groups are responsible for bombings and assassinations of senior Egyptian officials. This hearing is an opportunity to discuss what the United States' next step should be in combating the Muslim Brotherhood's threat. Countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates have all designated the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. I know there's disagreement among experts on how best to use terrorist designations to address the threat posed by the Brotherhood and its affiliates, and we have different perspectives on this issue represented within our panel today, and I look forward to hearing the witnesses' recommendations. Between the radicalism of it hateful ideology, the danger of its theocratic rule, as seen in Egypt, its networks, including Hamas and HASM, and its powerful state sponsors, it is clear that the Brotherhood constitutes a real threat for the national security interests of the United States. We can debate the best way to counter this threat, but simply ignoring the threat is not an acceptable answer. We do have a distinguished panel of witnesses here to discuss these issues. I want to thank all of them for taking their time to come and provide testimony. And it is my pleasure to now recognize the ranking member, Mr. Lynch, for 5 minutes. Mr. Lynch. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd also like to thank you for holding this hearing to examine the multinational, religious, political, and social movement known as the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd also like to thank our witnesses for their willingness to help this subcommittee with its work. The Independent Program on Extremism at George Washington University describes the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928 in Egypt, as, quote, ``the world's oldest and arguably most influential contemporary Islamist movement,'' close quote.

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We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague.

WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve...

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!

I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague.

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Friday, April 25, 2025 Something is rotten in Denmark

Murdock v. Pennsylvania Case in court

In the 1943 case Murdock v. Pennsylvania, the US Supreme Court ruled that a municipal ordinance requiring a license tax for religious colporteurs was unconstitutional. The case involved Jehovah's Witness Robert Murdock, who was arrested and fined for selling religious texts door-to-door in Jeannette, Pennsylvania without a solicitation license.

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Mon, 03.10.1969
Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham is Decided

*On this date in 1969, Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham was decided. This was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court struck down a Birmingham, Alabama, ordinance that prohibited citizens from holding parades and processions on city streets without obtaining a permit.

The Petitioner was Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a Black minister who helped lead 52 African Americans in an orderly civil rights march in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. He was arrested and convicted for violating an ordinance that proscribes participating in any parade or procession on city streets or public ways without obtaining a permit from the City Commission. Section 1159 permits the Commission to refuse a parade permit if its members believe "the public welfare, peace, safety, health, decency, good order, morals or convenience require that it be refused."

Petitioner had previously been given to understand by a Commission member that under no circumstances would petitioner and his group be allowed to demonstrate in Birmingham. The Alabama Court of Appeals reversed the conviction on the grounds, inter alia, that 1159, as written, unconstitutionally imposed an "invidious prior restraint" without ascertainable standards for the granting of permits and that the ordinance had been discriminatorily enforced.

However, the Alabama Supreme Court narrowly construed 1159 in 1967 as an objective, even-handed traffic regulation that did not allow the Commission unlimited discretion in granting or withholding permits and upheld the petitioner's conviction. The case was taken to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Shuttlesworth was represented by the prominent civil rights attorney James Nabrit III.

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Donald J. Trump - Will he go after Obama next? If does, watch for Hillary, Pelosi, and Schumer make a run for it.

A lawyer, Tom Renz, who actually read Trump's DOGE Executive Order and, expecting some illegal power grab, found it to be airtight. Turns out Trump and Musk didn't create anything. Obama did.

Obama created United States Digital Service (USDS) in 2014. It was meant as a bureaucratic patch job to fix the Obamacare website meltdown.

Fast forward to 2025. Trump rebrands it DOGE (United States DOGE Service). Keeps the acronym, keeps the funding, but gives it a whole new mission: Find the Receipts

Legally untouchable because it was already fully funded and operational. Trump invokes 5 USC 3161, which allows him to create temporary hiring authorities. DOGE teams get embedded inside every single federal agency. Each team consists of a lawyer, HR rep, a zoomer nerd, and an investigator. They report to DOGE, not the agency they're embedded in.

But wait, there's more! Trump invokes 44 USC Chapter 35, which governs federal IT and cybersecurity oversight. Since USDS was originally an IT oversight body, DOGE now has full access to all federal data systems. Yes, that’s right. All of them.

His executive order is written to block legal challenges. Includes language that overrides conflicting executive orders. Orders every agency to comply. Refusal means they violate presidential authority.

Congress can't defund it because it's not a new program, just a repurposed one. DOJ can't sue for overreach because Trump used existing laws exactly as written. Democrats trying to file legal challenges run into standing issues because DOGE operates within existing frameworks.

Obama literally built the perfect Administrative (read: Deep State) IT backdoor.

Trump and Musk just hacked the system and took the admin controls. Musk now has legal oversight of every major agency's internal systems. The Administrative State can't stop it without rewriting multiple federal laws.

They legally outplayed the system and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.


Obama created DOGE.

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