EUSSR: Banking Union, Another Power Grab in de Making

The economy is still in private hands, but not for long. Statist vultures have long set their eyes on the banking sector. It started with enforced bailouts by which great sums of debt were shifted from the private sector to the taxpayer. Using the public utility arm of banking as an argument, the statists pleaded for nationalization.

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Lexicon: the Second-Hander 4/5

Taylor Schilling as Dagny Taggart in "Atlas Shrugged" part 1

A [second-hander] is one who regards the consciousness of other men as superior to his own and to the facts of reality. It is to a [second-hander] that the moral appraisal of himself by others is a primary concern which supersedes truth, facts, reason, logic.

ReBus: GueSS whAt iT saYs?

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The answer is upside down so as not to spoil the plot. No brownie points for the right answer.

Lexicon: the Second-Hander 3/5

In Galt’s speech, below, Miss Rand discusses the second-hand nature of the psychology of mystics:

A mystic is a man who surrendered his mind at its first encounter with the minds of others. Somewhere in the distant reaches of his childhood, when his own understanding of reality clashed with the assertions of others, with their arbitrary orders and contradictory demands, he gave in to so craven a fear of independence that he renounced his rational faculty.

EUSSR: ESM, Voluntary Declaration of Bondage

"For someone to be considered a bond labor slave, they would have to take, or be tricked into, a loan".~~ From Different Forms of Slavery

Caricapica: Greece and the Kommoonists

Ta Nea's Dimitris Hantzopoulos explains the position of the Greek Communist Party, KKE (pr. KooKooAa), spoofing the German film "Good Bye, Lenin!"

OMA! Interview With Wafa Sultan (2009)

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Optricks: "I Am a Greek"

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Geert Akbar! Wilders Saves NL From ESM Treaty!!!

There he is! The stuff of legends! The hero of the day: the man of flesh and blood, of muscles, nuts and spine! The Blonde Hurricane is going to save his country from the €uro €lite ConFab. From De Telegraaf newspaper: