Stackelbeck: Iranian regime building missile bases off coast of Venezuela

April 24, 2012

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Glenn invited Erick Stackelbeck onto radio this morning to discuss some of scarier news revealed in the new GBTV documentary Rumors of War 3: Target U.S. Would you believe that the Iranian regime is reported to be building missile bases off the coast of Venezuela? Or that they want to make inroads into Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of the United States? Glenn got the shocking details on radio this morning.

Transcript of interview below:

GLENN: Erick Stakelbeck is here. He's on this special tomorrow, Rumors of War III on GBTV.com. Erick, the Muslim Brotherhood, the president has come out and said, you know, hey, we're going to help them in small business.

STAKELBECK: Yeah.

GLENN: I don't know if we're helping out the shop keepers in Iran as well.

STAKELBECK: Yeah.

GLENN: Give me the tie with Iran and the missiles of a Cuban missile crisis that's possibly coming.

STAKELBECK: Glenn, this is one of the most frightening developments in the realm of national security that the average American knows nothing about. Now, about a year and a half ago, a leading German daily newspaper, Die Welt, very credible, very credible source did a wide‑ranging investigative report and they found that the Iranian regime, Ahmadinejad and the boys, are building missiles bases in an island off the coast of Northern Venezuela, in our hemisphere. Now, these missile bases would obviously be equipped with Iran's midrange missiles which could reach, as you played in the clip, Panama Canal, Florida, but Iran is also working on Intercontinental ballistic missiles. Now, the Obama administration has to know this. They have to know what Iran is up to in our backyard. There's even been reports that Iran is trying to make inroads into Cuba, just 90 miles off our shore. And it's not a coincidence, Glenn, that on his victory tour of Latin America back in January, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a pit stop in Cuba. So, so much for the Monroe Doctrine.

GLENN: I was shocked when I watched the documentary. I watched half of it this morning, the finished reel, and I'm shocked, Erick, at how many people in this administration are really bad, I mean really bad. You know, we found Van Jones, like, okay, he's a really bad, a communist revolutionary. Really bad Islamic extremist, all in and around this administration.

STAKELBECK: Oh, yeah. I mean, these, Glenn, these are Muslim Brotherhood‑connected individuals and it's not just me saying it. I'm not just throwing the label out there calling them brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood's own documents, as we reveal in Rumors of War III which everyone needs to watch, their own documents say these are our friends. These are our organizations. And Glenn, these Muslim Brotherhood documents name names: Hey, these are our people. Well, the very people that the brotherhood names are in the White House. They have entree to the Obama administration.

GLENN: And it's not that they've infiltrated. You know, I think we've used the wrong word in the documentary. We say that they've infiltrated to all of the highest levels in every realm of our government now. They haven't infiltrated. We opened the ‑‑ President Obama opened the door and said, "Come on in, guys."

STAKELBECK: Glenn, two delegations from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood were in the White House two weeks ago. Terrorists in suits. Because that's what the brotherhood is. They might not have the flowing beards and the long robes and that's where they get ya. They're wearing suits. They're well educated. They're eloquent. That's the Muslim Brotherhood's game: Deception. Well, they were in the White House two weeks ago meeting with Obama administration officials.

I never thought I'd see the day in American history where we had terrorists in the White House, but the Muslim Brotherhood is the granddaddy of them all when it comes to Islamic terror groups: Al‑Qaeda, Hamas all of the violent jihadists we hear about were spawned from the Muslim Brotherhood. They are the granddaddy. Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al‑Zawahiri, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, all of these kingpins, before they formed Al‑Qaeda they belonged to, surprise, the Muslim Brotherhood.

STU: A lot of this information, too, Erick is fairly recent in that a lot of it came from the Holy Land Foundation investigation. Is that right? How did that come ‑‑ how did we come across that stuff?

STAKELBECK: Stu, that he is a great point. In 2007 the largest terrorism financing trial in American history went down in Dallas, Texas. The Holy Land Foundation was a quote/unquote Islamic charity that was feeding needy Palestinian orphans. Well, in reality they were sending some $10 million overseas to Hamas. All of this came out in the Holy Land Foundation trial in 2007, and in that trial, guys, key point here: Two of the leading American Muslim organizations that are good friends of the Obama administration: The Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR, and the Islamic Society of North America, ISNA, both of these groups were named as unindicted co‑conspirators in this case, in the largest terrorism financing trial in American history.

GLENN: Yeah. Wait until you ‑‑ Erick, I thank you so much for your hard work. You'll be here tomorrow?

STAKELBECK: I will see you there, Glenn.

GLENN: We'll see you. Okay. Thanks a lot, Erick. It is tomorrow, Rumors of War III, GBTV.com. This is a don't‑miss. This is a don't‑miss. Nobody is going to show you this stuff. Nobody. And our documentary team in Ohio has worked a long time on this. That's tomorrow night, 7:00, special time, 7:00 on GBTV.com.

Trump's education secretary has BIG plans for the DoE

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Our education system is broken, and the Department of Education is a massive failure. But that all ends now.

It's no secret that America's school system is seriously lacking in many ways. President Trump pointed out that despite our massive spending per pupil, we are behind most of the developed world in most metrics. Our scores continue to plummet while our student debt and spending skyrocket—it's utterly unacceptable performance and America's students deserve better.

That's where Linda McMahon, Trump's pick for Secretary of Education comes in.

The former WWE CEO and leader of the U.S. Small Business Administration during Trump's first term, McMahon laid out her harsh criticisms of the DoE during a confirmation hearing on the 13th and revealed her promising plans to turn things around. McMahon described the public education system as "in decline" and promised that under her authority, the DoE would be reoriented towards student success.

Here are the top three changes to the Department of Education:

1. Dismantling the Department of Education

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From the beginning Trump's orders for McMahon were clear: oversee the end of the Department of Education.

During her Thursday hearing, McMahon clarified what dismantling the DoE would entail. As Democrats have repeatedly pointed out, Trump does not have the authority to destroy the DoE without Congressional consent, as an act of Congress created it. That is why Trump and McMahon's plan is to start by shutting down programs that can be stopped by executive action, then approach Congress with a plan to dismantle the Department for good. The executive orders have already begun to take effect, and once McMahon is confirmed she will author a plan for Congress to close the Department.

McMahon also promised that the end of the Department of Education does not mean an end to all the programs currently undertaken by the doomed department. Programs that are deemed beneficial will be transferred (along with their funding) to departments that are more suited to the task. The example given by McMahon was IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) funding, which instead of being cut would be transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services.

2. School Choice

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In a huge win for parents across the country, McMahon pledged her support for School Choice. School Choice is the idea of allowing parents to enroll their student in any school of their choice, including religious schools and private schools. It would also mean that part or all of the funding that would have gone to a relocated child would follow them and continue to pay for their education.

This gives parents the ability to remove their children from failing schools and seek a better education for them elsewhere. A growing body of evidence suggests that the way we run our schools isn't working, and it is time to try something new. School Choice opens up education to the free market and will allow for competition.

Our children deserve better than what we can currently offer them.

3. COVID and DEI

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Trump's government-wide crackdown on DEI will ironically serve to increase inclusion in many American schools.

McMahon said as much during her Senate hearing: “It was put in place ostensibly for more diversity, for equity and inclusion. And I think what we’re seeing is, it is having an opposite effect. We are getting back to more segregating of our schools instead of having more inclusion in our schools.” She also spoke in support of Title IX, and the push to remove biological males from women's and girl's sports. In the same vein, McMahon pledged to push back against the rise of antisemitism on college campuses, which many Universities have failed to adequately address.

On Friday, February 14th, President Trump signed an executive order barring any school or university with COVID-19 vaccine mandates from receiving federal money. This only applies to the COVID-19 vaccine, and other vaccine mandates are still standing.

POLL: What DARK government secrets will Trump uncover?

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Will the dark secrets of the Deep State finally see the light of day? Or will they slip back into darkness, as they have many times before?

The Trump administration is gearing up to fulfill one of Trump's most anticipated campaign promises: to make the contents of the JFK files, along with other Deep State secrets, available to the public. Kash Patel, who has promised to publicize the highly anticipated files, is expected to be confirmed next week as Trump's director of the FBI. Moreover, the House Oversight Committee created a new task force headed by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna called "Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets," which is tasked with investigating and declassifying information on the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, UFOs, the Epstein list, COVID's origins, and 9/11. This all comes after the FBI found 2,400 "new" records relating to the assassination of President Kennedy following Trump's executive order to release the files.

Glenn discussed this topic with the cast of the Patrick Bet David podcast. Glenn expressed his confidence in Trump's radical transparency—on the condition that Kash Patel is confirmed. The cast was not as optimistic, expressing some doubt about whether Trump will actually unveil all that he has promised. But what do you think? What files are likely to see the light of day? And what files will continue to linger in the dark? Let us know in the poll below

Do you think the JFK, RFK, and MLK files will be unveiled?

Do you think the 9/11 files will be unveiled?

Do you think the COVID files will be unveiled?

Do you think the UFO files will be unveiled?

Do you think the Epstein list will be unveiled?

Transgender opera in Colombia? 10 SHOCKING ways USAID spent your tax dollars.

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The government has been doing what with our tax money!?

Under the determined eye of Elon Musk, DOGE has rooted out the corruption that permeates USAID, and it turns out that it's worse than we thought. Glenn recently read a list of atrocious causes that were funded by USAID, and the list was as long as it was shocking.

Since the January consumer index report was published today, one thing is clear: eggs are bearing the brunt of inflation. That's why we illustrated the extent of USAID's wasteful spending of YOUR taxpayer dollars by comparing it to the price of eggs. How many eggs could the American people have bought with their tax dollars that were given to a "transgender opera" in Colombia or indoctrinating Sri Lankans with woke gender ideology? The truth will shock you:

1. A “transgender opera” in Colombia

USAID spent $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia. That's over 135,000 eggs.

2. Sex changes and "LGBT activism" in Guatemala

$2 million was spent funding sex changes along with whatever "LGBT activism" means. That equates to over 5.7 million eggs!

3. Teaching Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid binary-gendered language

USAID forked over $7.9 million to combat the "gender binary" in Sri Lankan journalism. That could have bought nearly 23 million eggs.

4. Tourism in Egypt

$6 million (or just over 17 million eggs) was spent to fund tourism in Egypt. If only someone had thought to build some impressive landmarks...

5. A new "Sesame Street" show in Iraq

USAID spent $20 million to create a new Sesame Street show in Iraq. That's just short of 58 million eggs...

6. Helping the BBC value the diversity of Libyan society

$2.1 million was sent to the BBC (the British Broadcasting Corporation) to help them value the diversity of Libyan society (whatever that means). That could have bought over 6 million eggs.

7. Meals for a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda

$10 million worth of USAID-funded meals went to an Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group. That comes up to be just shy of 29 million eggs.

8. Promoting inclusion in Vietnam

A combined $19.3 million was sent to two separate inclusion groups in Vietnam inclusion groups in Vietnam (why where they separated? Not very inclusive of them). That's over 55 million eggs.

9. Promoting DEI in Serbia's workplaces

USAID sent $1.5 million (4.3 million eggs) to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.”

10. Funding EcoHealth Alliance, tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology's "bat research"

EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs that funded the Wuhan lab's bat virus research, received $5 million from USAID, which is equivalent to 14.5 million eggs.

The bottom line...

So, how much damage was done?

In total, approximately $73.8 million was wasted on the items on this list. That comes out to be 213 million eggs. Keep in mind that these are just the items on this list, there are many, many more that DOGE has uncovered and will uncover in the coming days. Case in point: that's a lot of eggs.

POLL: Should Trump stop producing pennies?

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On Sunday, February 9th, President Trump ordered the U.S. Mint to halt the production of pennies. It costs the mint three cents to produce every penny, which Trump deemed wasteful. However, critics argue that axing the pennies will be compensated by ramping up nickel production, which costs 13 cents per coin.

In other news, President Trump promised on Truth Social that he would be reversing a Biden-era policy that mandated the use of paper straws throughout the federal government. From potentially slashing entire agencies to saying farewell to pennies and paper straws, Trump is hounding after wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars.

But what do you think? Was Trump right to put an end to pennies? And should plastic straws make a comeback? Let us know in the poll below:

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