Sunday, April 13, 2014

Objectivism: Money Is The Root of All Good

Those who believe that "money is the root of all evil" have no understanding of the nature of money: a container of value, a tool of traders and a means to exchange value for value


Speech of Francisco D'Anconia at a party about money in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"!

"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters. The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably. The man who respects it, has earned it. Run for your life from any man that tells you money is evil. It is the leaper's bell of an approaching looter."


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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Marxist: North Korea Is Really a Popular Democracy

Monday, April 7, 2014

Igniting the Objectivist Student Movement

The Undercurrent was founded 9 years ago with the mission of spreading Ayn Rand's ideas on college campuses through a student newspaper



Where will tomorrow's Objectivist leaders come from? 

The Undercurrent is spearheading efforts to unite Objectivist students and foment campus activism. They've achieved some significant milestones this last year, but have even bigger ambitions for the year to come. Check out the new video and fundraiser which outlines The Undercurrent's plans to grow the Objectivist student movement. The focal project: host a major outreach conference in the fall of 2014. In order to make that happen, they need your help. With your support last year, The Undercurrent accomplished some major goals -- with your continued support, they can develop projects which will kick-start a true Objectivist youth movement. The Underrcurrent is seeking to raise $100k via this campaign to help fund development over the next year. (...) (Source)



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Sunday, April 6, 2014

An Objectivist's Uplifting Message To < 25 yods

Yaron Brook, director of the Ayn Rand Institute spoke on the Chicago Ideas Week and had a wonderful appeal to under 25yods



Yaron Brook speaking at the 2013 Chicago Ideas Week.

"There's a window between the ages of 15 and 25 where we can challenge the ideas we were brought up with, where we can make choices that are new and original to us, that are independent" .. and this will shape the rest of your life. So go and pursue reason, pursue your own happiness and live life to be the best you can be."
Such a great message!

Geert Wilders' Weekly Column in Al Hayat

This week Geert Wilders completed ten years under special personal protection against death threats. There are people objecting to this arrangement, yet they reject the suggestion they wish Wilders dead



Geert Wilders' weekly column op Al Hayat.

UPDATE: Do read the comments too!

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Documentary: Nigel Farage, Who are you?

Nigel Farage is a Member of the European Parliament for South East England and co-chairs the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group



Channel 4 documentary on UKIP Leader Nigel Farage - h/t @JRdeVrije

UKIP's performance in the 2013 local elections was the biggest surge for a fourth party in British politics since the Second World War.



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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Turkey Elections Live Tweets




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Anne Frank and Japanese Divine Race Theory

Abe's visit must convince the West that Japan is not the same Japan of the 20th Century. But Abe's vague comments used the passive voice, avoiding to name nations that violated human rights and the names of their victims


A day before the Nuclear Summit in The Hague, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe visited the Anne Frank Museum. 

Cross posted from American Thinker

Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended the Hague Summit, in part to confer with the U.S. on how to deal with Russia's "passé 19th Century" geopolitical predations upon Ukraine. The day before, he visited the Anne Frank Museum with no reason made for this stop. While there, he stated, “When we look back at the 20th century, it is fair to say that it was the century characterized by the violation of basic human rights,... and looking ahead to the many years of the 21st century, I would like to ensure that we will never see the same things happening, and I share the responsibility of realizing this goal."

Archive Live Blog Ukraine I: Feb. 18 - July 26, 2014

Updates on Live Blog Ukraine


July 26, 2014

Russian UN Ambassador Admits It Downed MH17

Total chaos in Ukraine has the Dutch off balance. They can't work this way! 7 forensic experts have been turned away by units of the People's Republic of Donetsk. The 40 unarmed military police that departed for the crash site yesterday can't help them because there's no government in Ukraine to give them the formal go ahead. While forensics from Malaysia and Australia are at work, the Dutch can't cut through the red tape. Body parts are still littering the fields. By the way, the Russian Ambassador to the UN has implicitly admitted guilt.




July 25, 2014

40 Dutch Unarmed MPs Depart for MH17 Crash Site

This morning a parliamentary Q&A was held in The Hague over the aftermath of the downing of flight MH17. The 40 unarmed military police have left Eindhoven Airforce Base tonight at 9 P.M. During the weekend the UN Security Council should reach consensus to provide military cover. A brigade of the Australian Defence Force is standby in England, as is a Dutch rapid, light infantry unit. A newspaper outlet this morning reported that special forces currentlty deployed in the African country of Mali will eventually join them in Donetsk. But this information is probably unreliable. Since Russia and China are permanent members of the UNSC the outcome of this exercise is in doubt. But the Government is willing to take that risk. The Dutch are still trying to cope with a national trauma due to a similar situation in Bosnia, where an unarmed brigade was defenseless when it was overrun by the Serbs following nightly raids of Bosnian Muslims from the territory of the safe haven. Stop Press Breaking News...
Front page of the Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta apologizing for the assault.
Maria Poetina's a lovely girl, by the way. Remarkable that this lynch mob was led by @PieterBroertjes, a former lefty newspaper editor, presently mayor of the town of Hilversum.




July 24, 2014

40 Dutch Unarmed MPs To Guard MH17 Crash Site

The matter of the unshared information is really immaterial. The information was freely available in open sources and was even partly posted on this blog if the source was reliable. The airlines should have read the news feeds. In the meantime...


This is criminal dereliction of duty. The consequences are squarely on the conscience of this government.



July 23, 2014


The Dutch government declared a day of national mourning as the country prepared for the arrival of the first bodies in the afternoon by two military transport planes, one Dutch and one Australian.

Risks of Flying over Donetsk Known Before MH17

Nico Voorbach, the chairman of the European Association of Pilots ECA has told a Dutch news outlet that the US, the UK, France, Australia and Canada were aware of the risks of flying over eastern Ukraine before July 17, when MH17 was downed. But they didn't share the information. Of course 5 Ukrainian fighters  had been shot down by then, obviously by a Russian equivalent of the SA-17 Grizzly. Stingers don't reach such altitudes. Somebody has been sleeping on the job.




Saturday, March 29, 2014

Top 10 Things Putin Said to Obama About Ukraine


Cross posted from American Thinker

While Barack Obama’s recent telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin about the Crimean standoff has been widely reported, the exact substance of the discussion has remained a mystery. That is, until now. Owing to highly placed confidential sources, I’m pleased to report that I have become privy to some of the details of their talk. What follows are the top ten things Putin said to Obama: