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Urgent: Designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization – Now by Robert Williams

Posted By on August 7th, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21819/muslim-brotherhood-foreign-terrorist-organization

A bill, H.R.3883 (Muslim Brotherhood Is a Terrorist Organization Act of 2025), was put forward on June 10, 2025 by US Senator Ted Cruz, “[to] require the Secretary of State to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization.” This designation is crucial for both US and international security. Even then, if the US government makes the FTO designation, this alone is not enough to slow down the aggression that the Muslim Brotherhood is still generating throughout the world.

“Qatar is at the top of funding terrorism worldwide, even more than Iran.” — Udi Levy, former senior official of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, who dealt with economic warfare against terrorist organizations, Ynet, April 18, 2024.

Currently, President Donald Trump is selling the Qataris the weapons with which they and their terrorist protegees hope to destroy the US!

In 1991, the Muslim Brotherhood listed 29 organizations that it envisioned working toward a “grand jihad” to undermine Western civilization. Several of the organizations mentioned in the document still operate within the United States, working actively towards America’s demise, while new ones have been formed based on the original ones: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and its various subgroups, the Muslim Students Association, American Muslims for Palestine and Students for Justice in Palestine, all of which were formed in the 1990s.

As the US, Canada and the entire West remain vulnerable, the Muslim Brotherhood doubtless could not be happier. Qatar’s rulers probably cannot believe how easily its influence was bought — and how agreeably the West sold its soul for petrodollars.

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Designating the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in the United States is a basic first step in countering the organization’s corrosive influence. The MB has spread extremism, instability and terrorism from the Middle East to the rest of the world, not least in the US and Europe, with affiliates of the organization spread across at least 70 other countries.

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UN Admits 95% of its Gaza Aid Trucks Were “Intercepted” After 5% success rate, UN demands another $265 million or everyone will starve. by Daniel Greenfield

Posted By on August 7th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/un-admits-95-of-its-gaza-aid-trucks-were-intercepted/

Over the past few weeks, the UN, the EU, the media and Hamas banded together to demand that aid deliveries shift back from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to the United Nations.

The campaign played out with Hamas kidnapping, torturing and killing employees of the U.S. aid group, while the media spread false claims that Israel was using GHF distribution sites as ‘death traps’ for killing Gazans, and world leaders demanded that the UN be put back in charge of aid.

Back when the UN had been in charge it had faked its own famine by refusing to deliver food and letting it pile up instead. Since then the UN’s food aid has kept on piling up even while GHF, an American Christian aid group, has managed to deliver millions of meals to Gaza residents, despite being smeared by the media as “controversial” for feeding those whom the UN wouldn’t.

Whom was the UN actually delivering aid to back when it even bothered trying to deliver it?

The UNOPS ‘Mechanism for Gaza’ revealed that of the around 2,600 aid trucks entering Gaza, only 300 made it to their destination. 2,310 trucks or 88% of them were ‘intercepted’.

Much of the ‘aid’ being brought in by the UN and its allies, including the UN’s WFP, UNICEF, the International Red Cross, the International Medical Corps and the World Central Kitchen, whose founder Jose Andres, has been constantly attacking Israel in the media, was ‘intercepted’.

Cindy McCain’s UN World Food Programme (WFP), which has been front and center in the media, crying for more money and denouncing Trump and Israel, only successfully delivered 1,864 pallets of aid since May while losing 29,673 pallets or 93% of it to “interceptions”.

The UN’s WFP recently claimed that it has run out of food stocks and needs $265 million for just the next 6 months to feed Gaza. Where did its food stocks go? Certainly not to aid stations.

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The Unbearable Lightness of the Woke Mind “Political correctness” pales next to the stupidity, toxic hyperbole, and preposterous lies of wokeness. by Bruce Thornton

Posted By on August 7th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-unbearable-lightness-of-the-woke-mind/

Back in the days when the grown-ups ran things, there was a gag about an elderly woman who called the cops on her neighbor for standing naked in his window on the tenth floor across the street. When the officer arrived, he looked out the window and said, “I can’t see any naked man.” The old lady scoffed and said, “Of course not! You’re not using the binoculars!”

Until the peevish, thin-skinned, self-selected cultural hall monitors took over the culture, I never dreamed that such preposterous, invented affronts could be taken seriously enough to be sanctioned as “hate speech” against politically selected “victims,” and subjected to censorship, abuse, and harassment.

What we used to call “political correctness” ––a phrase from the Thirties frequently used to compliment fanatic adherents of totalitarian regimes––as damaging as it was, pales next to the sheer stupidity, toxic hyperbole, and preposterous big lies that have flourished during the Trump decade and the left’s political meltdown. Their complaints and attacks with obsessive ad Hitlerum fallacy are dog-bites-man stories, and usually are just traffic noise for normal grown-ups.

But recently, the “woke” Stasi outdid themselves with their attack on actress and model Sydney Sweeney’s advertisement for American Eagle’s new line of jeans. In one video, Sweeney changed an American Eagle billboard featuring her tagline “Sydney Sweeney has great genes,” by crossing out “genes” and replacing it with “jeans.”

Passionate intensity ensued, some haters calling the ad “a dog whistle for eugenics.” Things got worse when Sweeney commented, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color.” This obvious truth really riled up the permanently offended race-hacks, who whipped out their ideological binoculars and took off virtue signaling. They discovered that Sweeney’s comments and visuals were all about eugenics and “white supremacism,” along with a nod to Nazism’s crackpot race theories.

This juvenile tantrum reveals the “woke’s” trademark ignorance of history. Francis Galton (1822-1911), Darwin’s cousin who invented the term eugenics, applied Darwin’s theory of “fitness for survival” to the mind, morals, and character of human beings. Galton, Robert Zubrin points out, saw human nature “almost as plastic as clay under the control of the breeder’s will,” and said the “unfit” must be kept from procreating, for “if these continued,” Galton warned, “to procreate children, inferior in moral, intellectual and physical qualities, it is easy to believe the time may come when such persons would be considered as enemies to the State, and to have forfeited all claims to kindness.”

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Righting Our Sinking Educational Ship The race hustlers and money grubbers must go, while the importance of intact families, rewarding the best teachers, closing failing schools, and phonics must be stressed. By Larry Sand

Posted By on August 6th, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/08/06/righting-our-sinking-educational-ship/

Public education in our country is struggling, and many proposed solutions are of no help whatsoever. First, too many people in the field are fixated on race. For example, many education schools partner with the Racial Justice in Early Math teaching fellowship, whose one-year program “helps kindergarten teachers better understand the intersection between racial justice and early math.”

Sung Yoon, who teaches kindergarten and first grade in Washington, participated in the program in 2023–2024. He said the fellowship changed his approach to teaching. Yoon reported that when he told friends and colleagues about the fellowship, a typical response was, “So you think math is racist?” He would clarify, “No, that’s not what this is about. It’s about how we teach math and dismantle the white supremacy that has been embedded since the dawn of time.”

On the other side of the country, New York City might elect a race-obsessed mayor in November. Currently a New York State Assemblyman, Zohran Mamdani has supported legislation to eliminate the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test—the only merit-based standard used to admit students to Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech, three of the top high schools in the country. These schools have graduation rates above 99% and college placement rates over 90%. Mamdani and his allies say they want to boost diversity, but replacing merit with subjectivity doesn’t fix inequality—it just lowers standards. The real problem isn’t admissions tests; it’s the K-8 schools’ failure to prepare students properly.

Mamdani has also co-authored a bill that allocates $8 million in taxpayer money to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) teacher hiring programs. These funds prioritize demographic quotas over merit. Meanwhile, New York’s teacher workforce is already diverse: a 2023 report showed that 42% of teachers identify as Black and 29% as Hispanic—figures that exceed those communities’ representation in the city’s overall population.

And then there are the money grubbers, and no one is better at this than Vermont’s socialist Senator Bernie Sanders. He has introduced legislation to address the “teacher pay crisis in America” and ensure that all public school teachers earn a “livable and competitive wage that is at least $60,000 a year and increases throughout their career.”

This is nonsense. Just Facts examined teacher pay data and found that, in the 2021–22 school year, the average school teacher in the U.S. earned $66,397 in salary and received an additional $34,090 in benefits, including health insurance, paid leave, and pensions, totaling $100,487 in overall compensation.

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Israeli MKs: Taiwan Must Be Included in International Organizations by Anna Mahjar-Barducci

Posted By on August 6th, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21815/israel-taiwan-china

The MKs are calling for Taiwan’s meaningful participation in global bodies, with a particular emphasis on health, transportation, environmental protection, and human rights.

The declaration, signed at the end of July, praises Taiwan as “a vibrant democracy committed to promoting the values of freedom, equality, human rights, and the rule of law, all in a challenging geopolitical environment.” It highlights Taiwan’s “impressive contributions during times of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, during which Taiwan was a global leader in finding solutions and assisting other countries,” and arguing that its exclusion from organizations such as the World Health Organization, the International Civil Aviation Organization, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is both “unjustified and irresponsible.”

This is the first and important step to counter the “one-China” policy. To break this “one-China” policy — a policy that leaves the door open for China’s military to attack Taiwan — members of parliament from other countries, as many as possible, would do well immediately to band together and issue similar declarations. Such a move in a large number of countries at the same time could prevent a great deal of bloodshed down the road.

In a significant diplomatic gesture, 72 Israeli Members of Knesset (MKs), representing parties from both the ruling coalition and the opposition, have signed a declaration advocating for Taiwan’s inclusion in international organizations. This unprecedented cross-party initiative underscores a growing sentiment of solidarity with Taiwan, particularly in light of its steadfast support for Israel following the massacre of October 7, 2023.

The declaration, spearheaded by MK Boaz Toporovsky (Yesh Atid), chair of the Israel–Taiwan Parliamentary Friendship Association, and joined by MK Ohad Tal (Religious Zionist Party), chair of the Israel–US Relations Caucus, explicitly states that “Taiwan’s systematic exclusion from international forums is unjustified.” The MKs are calling for Taiwan’s meaningful participation in global bodies, with a particular emphasis on health, transportation, environmental protection, and human rights.

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MY SAY: HISTORY AUGUST 6-9 1941

Posted By on August 6th, 2025

HOW IT BEGAN: Pearl Harbor a U.S. naval base in Hawaii was the site of a surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. The attack, which killed over 2,400 Americans, led the United States to enter World War II.

HOW IT ENDED: Aug 6, 1945 – Aug 9, 1945-HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.
General Douglas MacArthur — Farewell Address to Congress

“War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.’

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What Is Western Civilization? Ryan Hammill and Pavlos Papadopoulos

Posted By on August 6th, 2025

https://americanmind.org/salvo/what-is-western-civilization/

In the 1980s Jesse Jackson helped banish “Western Civ” from Stanford with a silly chant. Many colleges and universities that had not already done so followed suit.

But in the classical counterrevolution of the 21st century, Western civilization is back. The Great Books, long thought a relic of Mortimer Adler’s Cold War-era salesmanship, now guide the curriculum at many of the over 1,000 classical schools that have been founded over the past few decades, dozens of which are publicly funded charter schools. A new Great Books college sprouts up every year or so. Dead languages like Latin seem to be very much alive again.

Whether it is humanism, the medieval liberal arts, or even just memes about the Roman Empire, it turns out that Western Civ did indeed have to go—big.

The 21st-century classical counterrevolutionaries should not get high on their own supply, though. If their project ends up being a retread of the Mortimer Adler-Robert Hutchins show, they may be greeted by an even deeper abyss of failure than the ostracism Western Civ faced in the name of diversity that occurred with the rise of racial and gender studies.

Avoiding such a future will require the efforts of everyone involved—teachers, students, parents, professors, policymakers, and activists. One of their many tasks involves apologetics, that is, giving a defense of what they are doing. Central to this project is answering a simple-seeming question: What do you mean by Western civilization? It seems obvious enough: Greece, Rome, Christianity, Europe, the New World. The history, thinking, and art stretching from Plato to NATO.

But if you’re going to base an educational system around this claim, your skeptics will have some questions:

You include Dostoevsky and Tolstoy on your list even though Russia is obviously in the East, so what about the literature of the Islamic Golden Age? Their philosophers were reading Aristotle before Thomas Aquinas was.
The Bible came from the Near East, not Europe. Will you then include more from the Near East—for example, Akkadian literature like the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Enūma Eliš? And if so, why not the Sumerians like Enheduanna and Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta? If you’re willing to do those, why not the Middle Egyptian language too? While we’re at it, let’s include all the Afro-Asiatic languages!
On what grounds do you exclude the study of Chinese literature and history? Much of what Confucius says aligns with the greatest Western philosophers of both ancient and modern times. After all, if what you’re after is “the best that has been thought and said,” you shouldn’t narrow your study on arbitrary geographic grounds.

Maybe Western civilization is not so much a place or a people, but more of a mindset. Yes: Western civilization—just like America!—is an idea.

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Judge Glock This Trump Proposal Will Reverse the EPA’s Climate Overreach Revoking the agency’s Endangerment Finding will lift costly regulatory burdens and restore the Clean Air Act to Congress’s original intent.

Posted By on August 6th, 2025

https://www.city-journal.org/article/epa-endangerment-finding-clean-air-act-trump

When Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, climate change wasn’t on anyone’s mind. Yet under an Obama-era decision known as the “Endangerment Finding,” the Environmental Protection Agency has claimed authority under the act to micromanage large parts of the American economy in the name of combating global warming.

A new Trump administration proposal to reverse the Endangerment Finding returns the Clean Air Act to its original purpose, marking the end of a failed effort to control the climate through executive fiat.

The Endangerment Finding stemmed from the 2007 Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA, which required the EPA to determine whether carbon dioxide qualified as a dangerous air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. In dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts warned that the decision “ignores the complexities” of addressing global warming through the statute—but suggested its effects “may be more symbolic than anything else.” He couldn’t have been more wrong.

In his first year in office, President Obama recognized the limits of the Clean Air Act and sought to push a bipartisan climate bill through Congress. But when lawmakers failed to act on his terms, he turned to executive authority. In 2009, in response to Massachusetts, the EPA declared that six greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, endangered public health and welfare and therefore required regulation.

Unfortunately, the structure of the Clean Air Act is not conducive to regulating CO2. This is partly because the act is designed to regulate industry. Yet CO2 is not just emitted by factories and cars but by every human, frog, parakeet, and muskrat, among other animals. The act required federal permits for any source that emitted more than 100 tons per year of an air pollutant. By this measure, some families would need permits just for breathing.

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Rewarding Hamas Major Western countries set to formally recognize a Palestinian state. by Joseph Klein

Posted By on August 6th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/rewarding-hamas/

In a disgusting display of moral cowardice, three of America’s major Western allies have indicated their intention to formally recognize a separate state of Palestine – France, the United Kingdom, and Canada. They will be rewarding the Hamas terrorists, who started the Gaza war with their unprovoked genocidal attack inside Israel on October 7, 2023 and are responsible for its perpetuation. Hamas can end the war in Gaza immediately by disarming and releasing all the remaining hostages. But Hamas has no incentive to do so. The terrorists would rather exploit the acute humanitarian crisis spawned by the war that they started as a cynical propaganda ploy to rally even more international support against Israel, while stealing vital humanitarian aid for themselves.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would recognize Palestine as a state in its own right. He intends to make an announcement of formal recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly session this September that many world leaders will be attending.

British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer declared that the United Kingdom will also recognize a Palestinian state this September, unless the Israeli government takes what he called “substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza.” Starmer’s government brushed aside a subsequent letter to UK’s Attorney General Lord Hermer, written by a group of eminent lawyers who are members of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, explaining that such a move would violate international law.

In addition to uncertainty over final borders that clearly define where the Palestinian territory comprising a hypothetical state would begin and end, the writers of the letter pointed to the lack of a “functioning single government.” Governance of the territory where most Palestinians live is divided between two intensely conflicting entities – the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza. “The former has failed to hold elections for decades, and the latter is a terrorist organization, neither of which could enter into relations with other states,” the letter’s authors said. The Starmer government’s response was that recognizing a Palestinian state would be in line with most UN member states that have already taken that step – i.e., a herd mentality justification.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that Canada would formally recognize a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September on certain conditions. Canada wants the Palestinian Authority to commit to holding an election in 2026 and to make other democratic reforms.

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When The Climate Zealotry Runs Hot

Posted By on August 6th, 2025

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/08/06/when-the-climate-zealotry-runs-hot/

We thought President Donald Trump was merely another Hitler. But, no, he’s also another Mao and another Stalin. Next he’ll be on his way to becoming Beelzebub himself, unless the climate fanatics can finally get a hold of themselves.

In one of the more maniacal rants we have seen, Rep. Sean Casten, an Illinois Democrat, swore before hundreds of millions that the administration’s dropping of the Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon dioxide endangerment finding is an act of mass murder. Seems to be a lot to put on an administrative order that reverses the EPA’s ability to regulate CO2, which provided government with the veneer of “science” to pursue its EVs-for-all, gasoline-for-none crusade, promote of unreliable renewable energy sources. attack conventional energy suppliers and micromanage consumer appliance manufacturing.

“This is anti-scientific, immoral and economically irresponsible. I say this without hyperbole – when the history of this era is written, Donald Trump will have been responsible for more deaths than Stalin, Mao and Hitler combined,” Casten said last week in a particularly frothy tweeted.

That would be quite a number, maybe as high as 100 million. But even if only a little more than half that, as some have calculated, it’s still a staggering sum.

As if he didn’t expose himself enough, Casten added that he’s sure “Millions, if not billions will die if we don’t address climate change; some will survive but if rivers keep moving, coasts keep eroding, fires keep burning we will be forced to become migratory. That is a choice.”