EU Doles Out First Punishment to Switzerland

The unelected chairman of the European Parliament has held the Swiss voters to account over their referendum over Sunday's immigration quota's. Others EU apparatchiks will follow his lead

#EU Parliament’s Schulz Warns Swiss on Anti-Immigration Vote.
— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) February 9, 2014

UPDATE: The European Union said yesterday (16 February) it had postponed negotiations with Switzerland on its participation in multibillion-dollar research and educational schemes, after Berne said it could not sign in its present form an agreement to extend the free movement of people to Croatia, the newest EU member. (Source, includes video)

'12 Years a Slave' Wins British Top Awards

In the pre-Civil War US a free black man from upstate New York is abducted and sold into slavery. He struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. His chance meeting with a abolitionist forever alters his life

12 Years A Slave is based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. 

The force of "Gravity" was strong at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday — but it was unflinching drama "12 Years a Slave" that took the top prize. Steve McQueen's visceral, violent story of a free black man kidnapped into servitude in the 19th-century U.S. South was named best picture. Its star, Chiwetel Ejiofor, took the male acting trophy.

Day by Day Cartoon: Obama's State Dinner

Day By Day Cartoons by Chris Muir

(Updated) The Russians Are Getting the Enemy They Deserve

The Russians, although unhappy with the way the EU and the US behave, do seem to understand the postmodern mindset of current Western leaders very well

That's because they introduced the West to cultural Marxism in the first place in order to destroy the culture from within.

Postmodern thought was made possible by the reactionary Counter-Enlightenment philosophers Rousseau, Kant and Hegel. The current variety is using cultural Marxism as a weapon to bludgeon the West's cultural roots on a daily basis (text, video). Not much is left at this stage. 

Competitor Rips Wilders' Economic NExit Report

The average household could be better off by over £8,000 a year and national income will grow by over £1 trillion if the Netherlands leaves the euro and the EU, according to a new study

Geert Wilders' euroskeptic Freedom Party is expected win the May European Elections in a landslide. 

UPDATE: The Economist trashes the report by Capital Economics. It's all fear mongering! No further argument needed. It's too kind, says Capital's competitor economist Sony Kapoor:

The Economist is too kind to the crappy #CapitalEconomist report simply calling it "flawed" | Dutch angst http://t.co/VtpJcPqUee
— Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) February 15, 2014

Movie Theater: The Shirley Temple Story (full movie)

Shirley Temple Black, child prodigee turned diplomat, who starred in a series of films that lifted the spirits of millions during the hard days of the Depression, has died this week at age 85

This is a movie biopic made about the most famous child star of all time, Shirley temple.

Wiki - IMDb - The Biography Channel 

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Leaked EU document: 'savings to plug financial gap'

Last week "an EU executive" leaked a curious document to Reuters. The report that ensued was entitled, "EU executive sees personal savings used to plug long-term financing gap"

More people than just our editors appear to have had trouble placing this news in the scheme of things. 

The intrepid Tyler Durden at Zerohedge has the story.

Europe Considers Wholesale Savings Confiscation, Enforced Redistribution 

At first we thought Reuters had been punk'd in its article titled "EU executive sees personal savings used to plug long-term financing gap" which disclosed the latest leaked proposal by the European Commission, but after several hours without a retraction, we realized that the story is sadly true. Sadly, because everything that we warned about in "There May Be Only Painful Ways Out Of The Crisis" back in September of 2011, and everything that the depositors and citizens of Cyprus had to live through, seems on the verge of going continental.

An Objectivist's Valentine

A condition for romance is morality, which in turn can't exist without free wil, in essence the choice for either Good or Evil

It is obvious why those who want humans to be slaves of the state, must deny the existence of free will and objective morality. 

A happy and romantic Valentine's Day, all!

H/t @DVATW

Shirley Temple and Bill Bojangles Dancing the Stairs

Shirley Temple Black, child prodigee turned diplomat, who starred in a series of films that lifted the spirits of millions during the hard days of the Depression, has died at 85

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson dances the stairs with Shirley Temple from "The Little Colonel" (1935).

"Mrs. Black," as we knew her here in Northern California, used to attend the odd Hoover Institution dinner, where she seemed a quiet, dignified, and very gracious old lady — hard to square with the adorable little girl we're all hearing about in the tributes today. Yet long, long ago, in a different America, she was just that: the happy, talented child who cheered millions up at a time when it cost a dime to see a movie — and, with the Depression on, lots of people had to count those ten cents carefully.

(Source) 

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ROMANTIC REALISM: ON THE TOWN (NEW YORK, NEW YORK)

The Legendary Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin are featuring in de 1949 MGM film, On the Town, another icon of Romantic Realism. Music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

The best known line of this song is, "New York, New York, a helluva town. The Bronx is up but the Battery's down".

Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin are starring in the slightly hedonistic yet romantic MGM film shot in 1949, On the Town. The music was written by Leonard Bernstein and the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.