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		<title>Video: Ken Timmerman on &#8220;Dark Forces&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NY Times bestselling author unveils the truth about what happened in Benghazi.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>To order Ken Timmerman&#8217;s new book, <em>Dark Forces</em>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Forces-Truth-Happened-Benghazi/dp/product-description/0062321196/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>NY Times bestselling author unveils the truth about what happened in Benghazi:</p>
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		<title>Obama’s Budget Blame Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vasko Kohlmayer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president blames his predecessor for his own fiscal profligacy.]]></description>
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<p>Facing the brewing outrage about out of control spending, President Obama is doing what he usually does when he finds himself in trouble: He blames George Bush. He did this again in his State of the Union <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-state-union-address">speech</a> in which he repeatedly hinted that it is his predecessor who is responsible for the country&#8217;s fiscal plight. As to his own role, there was not much he could do, since he took office with “a government deeply in debt.” Our current deficits are thus largely Bush&#8217;s doing: “The problem is that&#8217;s what we did for eight years. That&#8217;s what helped us into this crisis. It&#8217;s what helped lead to <em>these</em> deficits.”</p>
<p>But let&#8217;s look at some facts. When Obama took office on January 20, 2009 the national debt was $10.6 trillion. By the time he delivered his State of the Union remarks last Wednesday, it stood at $12.3 trillion. As Ken Timmerman <a href="http://newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/kentimmerman-barackobamastateoftheunion/2010/01/28/id/348296">observes</a>, this spectacular increase represents “the biggest expansion of government spending in U.S. history.”</p>
<p>To be fair, the expansion is partially attributable to Bush. This is largely due to the $700 billion TARP authorization which was passed toward the end of Bush&#8217;s presidency, and part of which was spent during Obama&#8217;s term.  But we must not forget that then-Senator Obama supported and voted for the measure. To now blame his predecessor for the cost of the policy he himself helped to implement is duplicitous at best.</p>
<p>There is every reason to believe that had Obama been in charge when the crisis erupted the national debt would have been even higher today. If anything, Obama thought the government was not spending enough. He sought to remedy this shortly after he took office with the $786 stimulus package. This was the largest spending measure in American history. The amount authorized in that<em> single</em> bill was more than one and a half amount the largest ever <em>yearly</em> deficit posted under Bush in 2008.</p>
<p>This is not to excuse Bush&#8217;s spendthrift ways, but only to show the extent of Obama&#8217;s disingenuousness. But apart from the cynicism of it, there is an even more fundamental question that needs be asked. Even if we accept the claim that our present over-spending is somehow Bush&#8217;s fault, why has the president done nothing to address this problem?</p>
<p>During the campaign Obama cast himself as someone who would boldly tackle the great problems that afflict this country. Why, then, has he not tried to introduce some sanity into federal finances and budgeting? A year should given him plenty of time to at least make a start in the right direction. And yet the president has done anything to stop the spending craze. Quite to the contrary, he has inflamed it further by ratcheting up spending to unprecedented levels. And now when a shell-shocked nation recoils at his excesses, he tries to blame another. This is not how great leaders act.</p>
<p>It is truly ironic that even as he tries to make the case against Bush, the president unwittingly condemns himself. For if Bush was an ignominious spender, then Obama must be triply so. The highest deficit posted under Bush was $457 billion in 2008. In a budget document released on Monday, the White House <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60U1PZ20100131">estimates</a> that the deficit for fiscal 2010 – the first fiscal year in which Obama is charge for the full duration – will reach $1.6 trillion. In light of these figures, for Obama to charge his predecessor with fiscal profligacy is absurd. His behavior brings to mind the proverbial man who keeps pointing out a speck in his neighbor&#8217;s eye while failing to notice a plank in his own. This is by no means to suggest that Bush&#8217;s $457 billion deficit is a speck, but only that the president&#8217;s fiscal indignation is badly misplaced.</p>
<p>Even as he keeps blaming his predecessor, President Obama is creating a disastrous fiscal legacy for his successor. In a little publicized <a href="http://vasko.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/debt-as-percentage-of-gdp/">document</a> released by the Office of Management and Budget in August of last year, the administration projected a rapid growth in spending during the rest of Obama&#8217;s term. So much so that the national debt will exceed the critical level of 100 percent GDP in fiscal 2011. This will be the highest level since 1945 and the highest ever in peace time.</p>
<p>When the next president assumes office, he will inherit financial disorder of catastrophic proportions. He will be handed a bankrupt government and an un-repayable national debt swollen by this president&#8217;s spending binge. But do not hold your breath waiting for President Obama to accept responsibility. After all, it&#8217;s all Bush&#8217;s fault.</p>
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		<title>Rumble in Iran &#8211; by Ryan Mauro</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iranian people use a pro-regime holiday to demand democracy.]]></description>
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<p>The solution to the crisis with Iran was visible on December 7, Students Day in that country, which marks the anniversary of 1953 anti-American protests when Vice President Nixon visited after the coup that removed Mossadegh from power. The Iranian people continued their strategy of hijacking pro-regime holidays to express their opposition and demand democratic change. On the days when the regime is supposed to appear strongest, it instead appears weakest.</p>
<p>Liberal Middle East expert Juan Cole <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2009/12/student-protests-erupt-in-over-dozen.html">marveled</a> at how widespread the anti-government demonstrations were. He described them as being larger than the previous November 4 <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/iranian-people-to-the-u-s-recognize-our-existence/">rallies</a> and only being surpassed by the protests following the “re-election” of Ahmadinejad in June. These crowds were able to form despite the deployment of thousands of security forces known for their brutality, the closing of schools, the detaining of opposition leaders, and attempts to shut down the information flow with the outside world by slowing the Internet to a near halt and stopping foreign journalists from covering the events. Over 20 mothers publicly decrying the loss of their children were even <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/world/middleeast/07iran.html?_r=1">arrested.</a></p>
<p>The Iranian people and their leaders matched the regime’s viciousness with equal bravery. The regime admits that at least 200 were <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/78846982.html">arrested</a> (and the real number is probably far higher) and former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, who challenged Ahmadinejad for the presidency in the rigged election, reacted to attacks on his wife and harassment of him by the Basiji with anger. The exact quote of what Mousavi said varies from <a href="http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/12/09/6752/?test=latestnews">report</a> to <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/12/08/mousavi-vs-basij-the-first-confrontation/">report</a>, but the general <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran">line</a> was, “You&#8217;re agents. Do whatever you&#8217;ve been ordered to do, kill me, beat me, threaten me.” The 30 or so thugs later left and Mousavi was able to travel home from his offices to meet up with his wife who had been pepper-sprayed. The story is spreading like wildfire and will electrify the opposition.</p>
<p><em>The Associated Press</em> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran">reported</a> that the protestors “showed an increased boldness, openly breaking the biggest taboo in Iran, burning pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and chanting slogans against him.” According to Juan Cole, the Kurds in Sanandaj and elsewhere joined in, forcing the government to dispatch armored vehicles. Tear gas, intense blasts of water, gunfire, buses and cars with cages attached to detain protestors, steel clubs, knives, bottles and electric batons were all used in an attempt to oppress the people.</p>
<p>Clashes at universities ensued, some of which caused the security forces to retreat. <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=1910">Reports</a> I received from Iranians said that at Tehran’s Somayeh   Street, protestors forced Basiji attackers to run away, leaving behind a car and a few motorcycles. At Najaf Abad University, the resistance to attempts by security personnel to arrest protestors forced them to rely on violence just to disperse them. Also at this school, students chanted, “We don’t want nuclear weapons. We are tired of the Leader.” Basiji forces at Amir Kabir University had to leave after students pelted them with stones.</p>
<p>An estimated 6-7,000 security forces <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=1912">entered</a> Tehran University, ruthlessly beating the students who had staged sit-ins and chained themselves to the building. The agents stormed dorms where “Death to Dictatorship” was heard and the students scrambled to shut the lights so they could not be identified. Protestors also hoisted up an Iranian flag with the religious symbolism cut out at a mosque at the university and were attacked. At Valiasr, also in Tehran, a truck driver <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=1911">dropped</a> a shipment of bricks near Engelab Street so the protestors could defend themselves.</p>
<p>The security forces are becoming weaker. The original founder of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Sazegara, who has since become an opposition leader, <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/Iran_student_protests/2009/12/07/295233.html">says</a> that during the November demonstrations, the volunteer Basiji forces failed to show up.</p>
<p>“They had to hire 3,500 people, paying them $400 per day, in order to crack down on the November demonstrations. We have succeeded in destroying the Basij force as it has been known until now. Today, it is only a name,” he told Newsmax.com’s Ken Timmerman.</p>
<p>There are also signs that the loyalty of the most important security forces is faltering. Timmerman reported that on December 5, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander in Tehran had told his soldiers to greet the demonstrators with flowers.</p>
<p>The regime reacted with its usual violence and threats of harsher crackdowns. Ahmadinejad <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/12/ahmadinejad-has-proof-us-trying-to-stop-hidden-imam.html">claimed</a> he had proof that the U.S. was trying to stop the appearance of the messianic Hidden Imam from returning in an embarrassing attempt to distract his population. The country’s top prosecutor <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/78846982.html">warned</a> that the government would abandon its previous restraint and hinted at arresting Mousavi.</p>
<p>The Iranian protestors are becoming <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/iranian-protestors-call-to-president-obama-for-support.html">frustrated</a> with the lack of support from President Obama. A spokesperson for Mousavi’s organization has explicitly <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125865647765756061.html">asked</a> the U.S. to take the opposition’s side, debunking the argument that doing so is not in the Iranian people’s interest.</p>
<p>The lesson to be learned from the round of nationwide protests that began on December 7 is <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2009/12/09/us_should_back_irans_students/">well-articulated</a> by Iranian dissident Amil Imani:</p>
<p>“Even while continuing to pursue a negotiated resolution of the conflict over Iran’s nuclear program, Obama ought to express Americans’ solidarity with the democratic movement in Iran. The students there, playing on the meaning of Obama’s name in Persian (“he’s with us’’), have been chanting to him: Either you are with us or you are with them. The right choice could not be more obvious.”</p>
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