No luck.

blert says “Ferguson is at Harvard – his expertise is history. Not economics. Not politics.”

Not quite – not at all!

Ferguson is an interdisciplinary historian who first made his mark as a financial historian, first with “Paper and Iron-Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897—1927.”

Finance, economics, and politics are his real strengths. After that first one, he did an economically focused history of WWI. Then he turned to bigger picture works, with a specialty in asking probing counter-factual questions of the past, often with stunning analysis along the way.

Ferguson has also done a number of excellent television programs to accompany his books. The tie-ins have made him a best-selling historian, with conservative leanings, but using notable and innovative techniques, leavening a lively and contemporary narrative style.

A Scot, he admires the US. And thus, he followed the money from Oxford to Columbia and then Harvard. He divorced his wife and married the Muslim dissident-refugee, the Somali-born (and raised) MP from the Netherlands, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, also classically liberal-minded.

Now, admiring the US is not the same as understanding US politics. Furthermore, historians are noteworthy for having little success properly imagining the future.

That is to say, they typically worry about the wrong things.
Demographers do better than historians do.

Now, about Hussein Obama – I recall being surprised that the Kenyan was running for president, since after his speech at the Democrat convention in 2004, he was advertised as such.

After all that (somehow) changed with the primaries of 2008, because many of the young were excited to read his books, I grew curious about him.

Until the James Cone clone Reverend Wright came on the scene, and it was obvious that this Barack fellow was a Marxist, who hasn’t learned a thing from the counter-factual (and body count) failure(s) of Marxism (eg, the Soviet Union had to use market prices from the freer world to “know” what was scarce or abundant itself – in other words, it had to leech to have a clue about economic rationality within its realm, and therefore economically failed).

Since then, a lot of missing yet consistent biographical detail about Barry has been backfilled by prof Paul Kengor, Dr John Drew, and Stanley Kurtz – plus, the obvious narcissism of Barry being Barry – and you have a well-rounded picture of a bright but lazy narcissistic “leader,” not a thinker or intellectual or contrarian. But an America hating anti-Christian, only posing as such to gratify his power-lust.

He’s a knave to cultural-Marxism and its prejudices. And always has been.

Still, I have been puzzled for two or three years that no one has written the biography that directly paints Obama as a Marxist. It’s painfully obvious and necessary.

But to the cognoscenti of the Northeast and West coasts, few seem able to even understand that the economy has not recovered, that we are in the worst “recovery” in US history, and that Obama is a failure as a president, and the US is in dire decline – economically, constitutionally, and culturally.

And that (but for the first, at least in part), none of this will be reversed in the coming decade.

When did US decline begin? Between 2003 or 2004 and 2009 – my friends agree. (Intellectually, the PoMo relativism of the prior decades set the table for denial and rationalization of reality. The crisis of 9/11 shook plenty of ‘Leftists turned moderate,’ after the Fall of Communism, from their slumbers. Unfortunately, they have been replaced by foolish knaves and the intellectually retarded and historically ignorant.)

The most obvious sign was American decline was the failure to genuinely debate serious and pressing national (and international) problems – like, after 9/11, who was the enemy?

(We saw this in the demise of organs like “The New Republic.” And then the NYRB. After that, dissent and critical examination of Islamic terrorism was completely marginalized to the Right, and then almost ghettoized, eg, Pamela Geller.)

If you are in a GWOT and cannot name the enemy correctly, directly, honestly, you and your nation is in deep and serious trouble.

Denial is not your friend, nor is it a river in Egypt – but to the Left, it is (you F**king ISLAMOPHOBE! Homophobe, Trans-Cis-LBTGQ-hater)!

That and unsustainable debt, and the inability to diagnose the financial origins of the Great Recession (SEE “Fragile By Design” by Haber and Calomiris, reviewed at length, HERE http://eh.net/book_reviews/fragile-by-design-the-political-origins-of-banking-crises-and-scarce-credit/), and you can see a nation that can’t punch its way out of a wet paper bag.

Instead, pseudo-problems like rape and torture, police brutality and greed abound! motivated “thinking” has replaced engagement with reality (cf, the first “Democratic” presidential “debate”).

If I was surrounded with people preoccupied with inanities like this, who wouldn’t lose their way like VDH? John Roberts? Or Ferguson?

Either that, or it takes an exceptionally strong or stubborn mind.

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https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/654289767098531840

“EU DIPLOMAT: My Govt ‘Believes Obama Mentally Unwell'”

This report actually originates with John Schindler, who blogs at The 20 Committee.

http://20committee.com/

He’s an excellent source of information on intel, counter intel, and INFOSEC issues since in his past lives he was a USNR cryptologist, NSA intel analyst and counterintel officer, and lecturer at the Naval War College. Unfortunately he also likes to blog about politics. Which is fine, it’s his blog, but in my opinion he sort of goes off the rails when he steps outside of his areas of expertise.

He’s been in demand on TV of late to explain Hillary Clinton’s multiple crimes r.e. her email and mishandling of classified; you may have seen him on Fox, where he seems to appear most frequently.

He reports that a senior EU diplomat as well as an old friend approached him to ask about how the US impeachment process works. The reason why he asked is contained in the tweet from Drudge.

Frankly I think the strain of Putin and the Mullahs tag teaming him and alternately pantsing him in public is getting to him. I wish someone in the GOP had done their duty to the country years ago and pushed him into a public melt down, but then that would have taken some spine from that generally worthless crowd.

It must be harder for them to acknowledge this given that all the right people in politics, the media, and the academy, have been crowing about what a fine suit it was, and how it fit Dear Leader so well!

My speculations on the subject of Hillary and Obama, written in September of 2009, are here.

But this way, she’s off the hook. Bad move, Barack.

This comment from the same 2009 as the Art quote, from Occam, was pretty interesting I thought. A sort of pseudo prophecy even.

The question I generally have is that given what we know now, did Hussein plan to setup her and was smarter than people gave him brain credit for? Or perhaps it’s Valerie Jarret and the czars that are smarter than people gave Hussein credit for.

That’s not what the Oathkeepers and other allies did at the Brady Ranch, however.

The risk is real, but America’s units have already begun to self organize. Which is why the SPLC is keeping a close eye on them, and providing a target list to the Waco Democrat police and the police unions and the FBI.

Can a VDH or some other egg head and supposed academic intellectual, be capable of wrapping their brain case imagination and mental commands over that reality?

If they cannot, is it the result of a lack of brainpower or a lack of Willpower?

None of us can stand against them. We all mock and pick, because that is all we can do without being unpersoned.

That’s not even the most crazy part. Thinking a President is bad for America, well Americans have thought that about Bush II and FDR and Lincoln too. So to VDH and others, this is “normal”. It’ll all “blow over” come the next election cycle every 8 years or so.

But the “most crazy” part is that the Leftist alliance is a real organization and can command the loyalty of 51% of all Americans, that is more than 150 million people, based on a dual monarchy of secular and religious head powers. So whomever the Left chooses to replace Hussein with their Next God King, 51% of Americans will obey and will then require the other minorities to Obey as well, regardless of the cost.

That’s the most crazy part, when the issue is a leader, getting rid of the leader is something most people expect to happen over their life times. When they start imagining that this is a systematic problem that transcends one generation, then their imagination freezes.

I don’t speak or understand Russian, so can’t describe the validity of the Putin Russian subtitled vid translation.

Subtitled translations are better than the UN approved dubbing technique, as it allows you to learn a language as well as program your eyes to read and listen at the same time, to two different data streams. This has a counter propaganda and mental defense application as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Division

I did some preliminary research into the Democrat ran operation about yellow cakes in Niger, designed to discredit Cheney and Bush II’s Iraq policies.

The CIA action teams structured as back then, if I recall, were centered around military units, Special Forces types mostly, commanded by a CIA case officer. There’s been a lot of shifts around and agency changes, first under Clinton when they divided up the intel agencies to stop them from gathering intel together, Gorelick protocols. Then under Bush II which re united the various intel agencies with military action arms, in order to streamline counter terrorist operations. Then again under Hussein O, it was changed once again, utilizing Bush II’s changes to benefit the American Regime.

That’s why there was a CIA complex near Benghazi. That’s why the State Department can pull off the private bodyguards of the Ambassador of Libya before the Benghazi attack. That’s why Hussein’s chain of command was responsible for the “stand down” order, even though technically it came from the military branches. That’s why the only reason some dozens of Americans were saved is because some CIA military contractors “Disobeyed Orders” to stand down, and went to save the embassy staff at the cost of their own fatalities due to lack of air and ground support or intel. This battle went on for hours, just so you know.

Most people these days, who have converted from “Normal” sheep grazing on grass to what some call “crazies” for being able to accept the unacceptable and imagine the unimaginable evils in this America, can tell you a lot about their theories and hypothesis concerning the harm of these American operations.

But I have yet to find any intel analyst willing to connect the dots from merely open source data. And the dots are very easy to connect. It also leads back to the AA shoulder launchers that shot down the Seal Team Six copter, as well as the leak of their identities and/or operatnal details in Afghanistan.