So what else is new?

Here’s a story that’s not hard to believe although the source is unexpected:

Iran: White House Lying About Details of Nuke Deal

But in this case you would think that the Iranians are shrewd enough to let these lies go by. Of course Obama is lying, but the thing is he has to have enough cover to slip his Munich agreement past the public. The media will play along and the Democrats in Congress won’t make a peep. All the Iranians have to do is shut up. Don’t they understand anything? This is what the agitated Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman told the Iranian press on Tuesday:

What has been released by the website of the White House as a fact sheet is a one-sided interpretation of the agreed text in Geneva and some of the explanations and words in the sheet contradict the text of the Joint Plan of Action, and this fact sheet has unfortunately been translated and released in the name of the Geneva agreement by certain media, which is not true.

I’m sure over the next few days there will be a backchannel communication that words the Iranians up on how to play their own part. Don’t worry. This will disappear in a day or so. But in the meantime, quite amazing. A White House that can put every single side in the Middle East off side has a talent that is as destructive as it is rare.

A bitter, poisonous worm-eaten man

Worse than Munich from Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal. It is hard to fathom just how poisonous Obama is, a bitter, poisonous worm-eaten man aiming to inflict as much pain on the successful as he can. But whatever drives him to do what he does, his potential to cause major catastrophe is unrelenting:

In 1938, Chamberlain bought time to rearm. In 2013, Obama gives Iran time to go nuclear.

The rest of the story just fills in some detail.

How the far left really thinks

Having been on the left and still having friends and associates on the left gives insights into a way of thinking that is not just foreign to most people on either side of the political divide but is literally incomprehensible. The following was picked up via Glenn Reynolds who, not surprisingly, thinks of it as a parody. But if it is, it is not an exaggeration. It is an exact copy of what people really do believe. And in this case there is every reason to think that this man, a professor at Harvard it seems, thinks exactly what he is says he thinks. You may also conclude when you read this that it’s a parody, but I have heard people say just these kinds of things in conversation. From a website called Diversity Chronicle:

‘If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world! They only murder, exploit and oppress non-whites! At least a white woman can have sex with a black man and make a brown baby but what can a white male do? He’s good for nothing. Slavery, genocides against aboriginal peoples and massive land confiscation, the inquisition, the holocaust, white males are all to blame! You maintain your white male privilege only by oppressing, discriminating against and enslaving others!’ Professor Noel Ignatiev, a tenured professor at Massachusetts College loudly proclaimed to his class last Monday, his final teaching day before retirement.

The good Professor’s sound and reasonable words resonate with every enlightened and progressive mind. They are indisputable and no one can debate them. They should not be controversial in the slightest, yet remarkably a few far-right extremists object to the Prof. Ignatiev’s advice. The Professor however, reported receiving ‘a standing ovation’ from his ‘largely white and middle class students.’

And this is an earlier story from The Washington Times about the same chap in an article titled, Harvard professor argues for ‘abolishing’ white race:

Mr. Ignatiev pledges in the essay that his journal, Race Traitor, intends to ‘keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females, too, until the social construct known as “the white race” is destroyed not “deconstructed” but destroyed.

And as noted at the link, “as we all know”, he writes, “this type of thinking is rampant in liberal academia.” Even this is not altogether an exaggeration. While it is not a majority view it is common enough to be influential. If you really want to understand Obama, these are the ideas you need to understand first. It helps to make coherent a series of policies that are otherwise incomprehensible.

[All this from Weasel Zippers.]

A very long list of Obama’s descent

A list of all the steps towards the far left taken by Obama dated 24 November 2013. It comes under the heading, “Why Obama thought He Could Get Away with Obamacare”. That is, a list of all of the actions taken by the Obama administration that did not cause him problems. Both the American public but especially the American media have sabotaged the West. There is little likelihood of retrieval now even assuming anyone could even be elected who would want to try. The first six items on the list just to give you are start. There are apparently 77 on the list.

• $6 trillion in new national debt under Obama…after he promised to decrease the deficit.

• Obamacare — A massive and incredibly convoluted bill which exponentially increases the federal government’s control over our personal lives…which neither Obama nor a single Democrat even read before passing, and which will likely bankrupt the nation.

• In both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, the Obama campaign purposely disabled the credit card verification system for its Web site donations, allowing anyone from any foreign country to donate with no limit and no proof of identity; in both elections it was demonstrated that people overseas and people with obviously false identities were able to donate to Obama campaign, in direct violation of several laws. To this day it is not known what percentage of Obama’s campaign funds are illegally obtained, since there is no documentation.

• Billions of taxpayer dollars gambled on “green” companies like Solyndra, NextEra, Ener1, Solar Trust and many others — all of which went bankrupt.

• An intentional refusal to enforce federal immigration laws.

• Unemployment at or above 8% for almost his entire term in office (which was actually closer to 15% actual unemployment).

[From John MacHaffie at infowars.com via Alfonso.]

Where from here?

The new Middle East:

Tehran boasted at home that the accord recognised its ‘right’ to enrich uranium – which it says is for peaceful purposes – but Western leaders said the deal made no such reference.

Hassan Rowhani, whose election as Iran’s president in June raised hopes of a thaw with the West, insisted ‘Iran’s right to uranium enrichment on its soil was accepted in this nuclear deal by world powers’.

But US Secretary of State John Kerry was adamant: ‘This first step does not say that Iran has the right of enrichment, no matter what interpretative comments are made.’

I would say that Obama and Kerry are fools except that this is exactly what they want. The Iranian President is merely letting cats out of bags. No one is in any doubt about the troubles this is intended to cause.

The thing about being on the left when I was young was that there were adults still in charge who took a sober view of our interests and tried to act on them. We could go off to protest but it wouldn’t matter, and we knew it wouldn’t matter, because there were people at the top who paid no attention to us. Now there are no protests and the people at the top, if they are not opposed to our success and our way of life, certainly have an odd way of showing it.

If you are a nation dependent on American support, you would be wise to look for other kinds of friends and alliances. That Israel and Saudi Arabia may now make common cause is one more example of my enemy’s enemy is my friend. All this from Drudge today.

Netanyahu: ‘Historic Mistake’…
Appeasement…
Deal leaves Israel few options…
Obama calls…
BOLTON: Abject Surrender…
Six-Month Freeze, but Enrichment Issues Remain…
Iranians hail ‘smiling’ FM…
A STEP…
GOP sour…
Secret US-Iran talks…
Anger, jitters in Mideast…
Disagreements emerge…
‘Iran got what it wanted’…
Relief sweeps Tehran…
REPORT: Israelis inspect Saudi bases for possible strike…

Where from here? Two out of three of the “axis of evil” to have nuclear weapons. And it is American foreign policy to do nothing to stop it.

UPDATE: I hadn’t seen this but was sent to me by a friend. This is from Obama’s second inaugural:

And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice–not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity; human dignity and justice.

The phase is possibly not accidental but intended as directly in your eye to everyone who would like to maintain our way if life. But if just there by the force of words and concepts, then in itself in betrays the cast of mind and the personal beliefs that lie behind it. It’s not even si vis pacem, para bellum. The President may himself be a fifth column. We give up our freedoms so that a bunch of layabouts can have free phones.

Never apologise, never explain

As a fan anyway of our Prime Minister I am still astonished at his sure footed ability to handle our latest controversy with Indonesia. Everybody “spies” on everybody else because in foreign relations it’s important to keep surprises to a minimum. You do want to know what they’re up to and you also are not averse to ensuring they know what you are up to, unless you are up to no good.

There’s politics here and in Indonesia. The Indonesians have to be “outraged”. Their politics demands at least some sense of having been officially offended by the routine use of listening and other devices that they no doubt use themselves. So the politics will play out but should be an absolute nothing one year from today. There are and will be many other things to worry about.

The apology demanded by some, even of the weakest kind, admits fault, and there is nothing some people like better than to exploit weakness and to play the injured party. We would be making a massive mistake to end up with anything resembling an apology. We would never hear the end of it. Toughing it out now means that this should peter out with no permanent harm done.

November 22, 1963

It’s a date that remains edged in black for me always. Oddly, as incompetent as his execution was in many respects, John F. Kennedy, if he had the same views today that he had then, would have been a member of the Republican Party – and a very conservative member at that – because no modern Democrat has views as stridently pro-market and as militantly anti-communist as he did. His only stimulus was to cut taxes, not to increase spending. His brother Robert, the attorney-general in the Kennedy administration, worked for Senator McCarthy in the search for communists in the State Department.

He was shot down by a communist, a defector to the Soviet Union, a militant member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. But he was shot in Dallas, in the South, and so the story remains as told by the usual suspect sources that he was killed by those crazy right wingers. He was killed by a madman on the left, and a thousand conspiracy theories later, it remains firm in my mind that it was Oswald acting alone.

Ronald Reagan said that he hadn’t left the Democrat Party; the party had left him. Who can know what Kennedy would have done had he lived. The world is only partly shaped by the “forces of history”. It is also shaped by its great leaders. I still think of Kennedy as one of the great might-have-beens. It remains a tragedy that he died so young and so early before his promise could be fulfilled. Fifty years ago today.

Obama – still the people’s choice

It’s not a coincidence that Australia and the US ended up with the worst governments in our history at exactly the same time. The lame brain media, who could not identify a sensible policy if their lives depended on it, have backed incompetence to the hilt because they know no better. In Australia, with some luck, things should come good. In the US, it is hard to see how any of this could end well.

Obama’s disapproval ratings show him at the lowest level of his presidency. A survey conducted by ABC in the US figures no doubt correctly that it’s the Affordable Care roll out that has brought him so low. They’re a shrewd lot the American media. But what has taken five years for people to work any of this out:

He’s at career lows for being a strong leader, understanding the problems of average Americans and being honest and trustworthy – numerically under water on each of these (a first for the latter two). His rating for strong leadership is down by 15 points this year and a vast 31 points below its peak shortly after he took office. In a new gauge, just 41 percent rate him as a good manager; 56 percent think not.

But with everything that’s going on this is not in the least a bad result. It’s not the 56 percent who think he’s not all that crash hot that’s the phenomenon, it’s the 41 percent who still think he is a good manager who need their heads read. The US is becoming a nation of serfs. And if the election were run again today?

Registered voters divide numerically in Mitt Romney’s favor, 49-45 percent, if they had a mulligan for the 2012 presidential election.

45 percent still prefer Obama who’s only down by four percentage points! Well they’re welcome to him. But you do have to wonder what they must think a bad president would be like.

The US statistical agency faked the jobs report just before the 2012 election

That Obama’s election victory in 2012 was a stolen election must be obvious to Mitt Romney and others in the Republican hierarchy but what are they going to do? The IRS scandal of itself diverted enormous amounts of both time and money away from the political process. There are then the uncountable number of fraudulent voters which is inevitable in a system where everyone is capable of voting without any form of identification, not even evidence that one is a citizen. The laughable 59 voting booths in Philadelphia where not a single Romney vote was recorded, not even by accident, is an example of what happens in parts of America where the Democrats who count the votes are never going to be challenged by anyone from the other side, not even when there are more votes cast than there are eligible voters on the voters’ list. And these are merely efforts to steal votes although there are other ways in which the numbers were affected but that’s for another time. The US is dangerously close to becoming a one-party state, at least at the Federal level, and the Democrats are the party. The following tale therefore enters as one more strand in an immense effort to undermine the Republican vote and artificially strengthen the Democrats.

This is, in fact, such a big story, but with all the other stories, as big as this one is it’s small. The article beats around the bush but the central point eventually emerges many paras down. Even more weirdly, this is an “exclusive” so as a general news item that will go across the country there is no probability at all. This is an interview with a Bureau of Census employee who was found to have faked the unemployment data that were published during the three months leading up to the US election in November 2012.

The Census employee caught faking the results is Julius Buckmon, according to confidential Census documents obtained by The Post. Buckmon told me in an interview this past weekend that he was told to make up information by higher-ups at Census. . . .

‘It was a phone conversation — I forget the exact words — but it was, “Go ahead and fabricate it” to make it what it was,’ Buckmon told me.

And here are the paras leading up to that para:

In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington.

The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated.

And the Census Bureau, which does the unemployment survey, knew it.

Just two years before the presidential election, the Census Bureau had caught an employee fabricating data that went into the unemployment report, which is one of the most closely watched measures of the economy.

And a knowledgeable source says the deception went beyond that one employee — that it escalated at the time President Obama was seeking reelection in 2012 and continues today.

‘He’s not the only one,’ said the source, who asked to remain anonymous for now but is willing to talk with the Labor Department and Congress if asked.

The Census employee caught faking the results is Julius Buckmon, according to confidential Census documents obtained by The Post. Buckmon told me in an interview this past weekend that he was told to make up information by higher-ups at Census.

Don’t tell me the election wasn’t stolen. The system is as corrupt as it has ever been. The methods perfected in Chicago have gone national and are unlikely to be contained any time soon.

And once you know this about their unemployment date, then you also know there is not a number published by the American statistical agency, not a one, that you could guarantee for yourself that it is not an advocacy number, crafted to provide a picture but not an accurate reflection of the data collected. Post modern statistics. The numbers are whatever you need them to be, or at least they are if you are a Democrat.