Treaty Could Force US, UK Into War With Russia

Revealed: The forgotten treaty which could drag the US and UK into war with Russia if Putin's troops intervene in Ukraine

The Memorandum of Budapest (1994) sees signatories promise to protect Ukraine's borders.

Putin currently has 150,000 troops on Ukraine's borders and it is reported some have crossed into the country. President Obama says he is 'deeply concerned' by the news. The US and Britain have both made 'crisis calls' to President Putin to warn him to respect territorial boundaries. Here's why. A treaty signed in 1994 by the US and Britain could pull both countries into a war to protect Ukraine if President Putin's troops cross into the country.

Farage Explains Basic Economics to MEPs

Unbelievable when you start to think about it. Nigel Farage has to explain his colleagues in the Europarliament some very basic economic realities

In a currency union you can't devaluate the currency, so you have to devaluate the country. Solidarity requires a "we" of whatever nature.

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Liberty Is Rare, Civilization Can Be Broken

This tweet got 168 RTs and 60 FAVs... is that considered viral yet? If not, it should be! C'mon, give us another push! 

Human progress is not a natural evolutionary course. Nor is it an entitlement. Civilization can be broken pic.twitter.com/JWnF8O5zRg
— ★Cassie (@Cassie_Troy) February 13, 2014

.@Cassie_Troy @soproblematic Afghanistan & Iran remind one of Heinlein's quote about "bad luck."http://t.co/YWr3pQsCU9 h/t @instapundit
— Jean DuBois (@LtColDuBois) February 26, 2014

SOMEHOW, I THINK THIS ROBERT HEINLEIN QUOTE IS WORTH REPEATING ONE MORE TIME:

If Guns Kill, Spoons Cause Obesity

The difference between a slave and a free man, is his sovereignty and his absolute right to self defense. First point of order for any dictatorship is ensuring the people become the sheeple

World tyranny has been a long time coming: show down between forces of Good and Evil, Obama's America..

UPDATE:

If Guns🔫cause murders.Spoons🍴make you Fat..Cars🚗cause accidents & Paper📝write bad Laws🙀@Pit22 @atomiktiger @rustyf250 pic.twitter.com/4TbK6sKmDo
— Feisty Floridian (@peddoc63) February 26, 2014

Photo of the Year Defies Godwin's Law*

OOPS... @Benhartman Picture of the year so far, by Jpost photographer Marc Israel Sellem pic.twitter.com/D9r4hm7Nod
— Russian Market (@russian_market) February 25, 2014

*Godwin's Law

Ukraine: the History, the Background, the Future

After the battles in Kiev this week let's have an indepth look at the historical and geopolitical background of Ukraine and its position in the world

Geopolitical background by Caspian Report for Meydan TV

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 a paradigm shift in the geopolitical situation took place. US Foreign Policy advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote: "Without Ukraine Russia is just another Asian power. Should Russia regain control over the buffer state with its 52 million inhabitants, its natural resources and Black Sea ports, Russia will again become a regional superpower stretching from Europe to the Pacific.

Peanuts: "Pro Choice"

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward

The strip is the most popular and influential in the history of the comic strip, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being".

At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in almost every U.S. newspaper. (Source)

Awesome! Baby elephant pulled from sinkhole

Baby elephant pulled from sinkhole in Assam by train passengers http://t.co/WkJuC2CKJz pic.twitter.com/sBWUF7e1V6
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) February 18, 2014

While purist conservationists are killing healthy animals because of their unpure bloodlines, those who embrace basic morality risk their own life and limb to pull a baby elephant from a sink hole.

Meanwhile there's this conundrum. Winner gets a pilgrimage to Pomoland! Solution here tomorrow. 

Funny, Denmark slaughtered a giraffe and fed it to other animals in a zoo in front of kids. But banned slaughter without stunning.
— Barbarian Indian (@barbarindian) February 18, 2014

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.