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 >>/55401/
They are not hard to explain, one was a nut job who sprinted at a security checkpoint with a gun and got shot, the other was a nut job who drew a gun at a security checkpoint and got shot. They didn't sneak through any checkpoints.

The first shooter was staying in the hotel that the event was being held in and the second was just a dude walking down a public street which he is fully entitled to do, there was no way to stop him other than at a checkpoint and a checkpoint did stop him.

Kirk shooter didn't shoot the president but just some public speaker.

There was the ear shooter who tried sniping Trump of course, it seems like the reason he was able to get there was because there was confusion between the secret service and Police over who was responsible for that building.

In theory all it should take is one line of sight and somebody can shoot trump. Probably a determined and calculating shooter could do it and it would not surprise me if it happens one day.
 >>/55413/
Buy bunch of dry pasta? Not sure.
As for day to day living I don't really expect much change. The lawmakers and their puppetmasters give us coloring books and we have to abide the rules of it.
I kinda fear for the Hungarian culture. Orbán govt not just let people do Hungarian stuff, but they had some faux-pro-Hungarian rhetoric and policy actions (like setting up some institution for research of Hungarian genetics and whatnot that fused with the old tradition). Among the backers of the current govt. there are people who hate Hungary, Hungarians, Hungarian culture, who openly deny it's existence.

Right now two things going on.
The current govt discovers items in the budget that has no cover to back it, in the thousands of billions of HUFs. That's liek a 100 Euro or so I dunno, but a lot. On the other hand they have promises to lower tax and give more gibsmedats to people. So they say they'll revise and examine everything and will audit govt spending and will keep the Orbán govt responsible, while slimming bureaucracy and whatnot. And try to get the money from the EU, but that has a deadline and I dunno, drama is high.
The other one is a scandal around a pardon the previous President of the Republic, Novák Katalin gave to some dude. The crime in itself is not really serious: he tried to cover up someone else's crime. Where it gets scandalous is that the crime the other dude committed is a sexual crime against underage people. So ofc everyone got riled up, crying pedophilia and ofc everyone wants to look very strict and demand justice because they fear they'll get accused with pedophilia... the accusation that can ruin lives. This was the reason Novák left her office, back then when this happened and got publicized.
However when this happened the Minister of Justice was Varga Judit, who was the wife of our current PM, Magyar Péter. Their marriage and divorce wasn't the nicest - there is another ongoing scandal around this but I won't go into that.
Anyway now they are publishing the files, and they behave like as if they were the Epstein files. Right now what I'm hearing everyone tries to pile the shit onto Novák. As far as it can be told someone put this case of in front of her to sign it and pardon the dude but noone seems to know who was it.
 >>/55413/
Watching the video.
> hungary is getting richer
Heh. What news does he read and/or listen?
> romania stable government
I don't even know when they had a stable govt last time. Orbán was japing that during his time, in 16 years, there were 11 or so Romanian prime ministers...
> expecting current PSD coalition to fix the economy with the previous PSD coalition fucked up
> János, I...
Also in one of his previous video he just said how Orbán's Hungary's economy is worse than Romania.
> paying for medical care every time they visit the doctor
They just discovered the free market. Romania caught up to the US finally.
All right I stop commenting every line.
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Kid Starver is gone.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/22/keir-starmer-quits-prime-minister-what-will-happen-next-uk-politics-explained
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/22/keir-starmer-resigns-prime-minister-burnham-labour/

Crocodile tears and everything. Whole country is cheering.
> But although he was elected with the biggest parliamentary majority in 100 years,
Kek. Their electoral system is more broken than ours.

Anyway.
The UK is going down the shitter, he was just the latest iteration of turd. Next guy won't be any better. The UK is getting turned into an impotent distopic multikulti police/surveillance state with imperial demeanor.
I wonder when will be a mass emigration of the remaining Europid population into the US. Perhaps when they provoke Russia enough to destroy their energy sector as a response. They don't even need to nuke anything.
I don't see any future for the Small Island bright. Not for Europe either tho, it's not like we'll fare much better.
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What's going on on the Hungary since the new govt. was stepped into office? 2 and a half months?
Not much to be honest. There are loud issues, tug-of-war over nothing. Well not nothing but these things aren't really an issue.

The loudest since day 1 is the sacking of the President of the Republic. Problem? He was elected by the Fidesz Parliament, he doesn't represent the unity of the country, which is a huge problem of course, can't live like this. So there was constant bitching about it, PM MP called upon him each week to resign. Finally they made an amendment to the constitution that included him gone. Ofc laws have to be signed by the Prez, if he doesn't do it then they can strip him from his office. So he was forced to sign his own sacking. He could have sent the law to the Constitutional Court, so they can check if this it conforms to the constitution, but it's not unconstitutional, it's just kind of a dick move to make a cookie cutter law just for a specific person, especially on constitution level.

Now PM MP announced somewhere that he found the best person for new President of the Republic: Polgár Judit, chess grandmaster.
Sure why not, we already had someone from the field of sports as a Prez, I don't mind. Maybe she will be a swell one, the Prez is essentially a figurehead, it doesn't really matter except when they can make noise out of it.
And this sounds exactly like that, the whole issue of the new person of the Prez sounds the good opportunity to be loud about, look busy with something that actually doesn't matter much.
Political theater to appear busy without actually doing anything. And to appease their voters since they promised a showdown with the Fidesz politicians.
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And they do more personalized legislation, to "deconstruct the Fidesz state apparatus".

I think first ad hominem law targeted Orbán. They amended the constitution so a PM can only serve two cycles. It's counted retroactively, to prevent Orbán becoming a PM again. Well, we could say, that it surely effects previous PMs as well, no? No. Even Gyurcsány isn't effected since he did not serve 2 full terms. It's clearly about Orbán.

Next law is about the members of the parliament, the representatives. In their case, they also want to introduce a term cap for them. 8 or 12 years (2 or 3 parliamentary cycles), I have not followed this that closely. Now this has constitutional problems because this would impede constitutional right of being electable.
Because of this, at least two Fidesz mp left/is leaving. I'm guessing to give place to new faces so they can become known names for the voters.

I couldn't care less if Orbán can't become Prime Minister again, and I don't care much how long people can serve as representatives. Perhaps at least this prevents career politicians to rise. But perhaps not.
The thing is, this ain't matter much anyway. Again a political theater to keep the attention of the people fixed.
 >>/55497/
Because they don't do much.
They hyped that PMMP got the EU gibsmedats with skillful negotiation = accepting everything Ursula von der Leyen told him. We don't and can't really know what are the terms they giving us to fulfill. There are a plethora of legislation, chains of laws, which we have some vague ideas of. But what else? They can demand what the fuckever.

After this PMMP did skillful negotiations with Zelensky. He achieved that Kiev will restore for all the rights of the Hungarian minority, language use, schooling and whatnot, in return we allow the €90 billion to flow. I see some problems with this:
1. There were laws in Ukraine that guaranteed the rights of the minorities, up until 2014.
2. It is a fundamental requirement to guarantee the rights of the minorities in case of any country if they want to join to the EU, so Kiev has to implement this no matter what.
3. The money now is already flowing, happened anything about the minority rights issue?
Basically PMMP told Zelensky that they get the money for nothing in return. Then our media told us how swell deal he made.

So basically this is the two things I can recall the new govt did beyond the showcase politics. Perhaps I missed something I generally do not follow that much.
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She said she don't/can't/won't accept the position. It looks like PMMP just threw the idea in without asking. However I do think there was previous talks, and this was some kind of testing the waters, perhaps not for her but for the openness of the Hungarian society.
Flames are high, or rather the smoke. There were many reactions form all sides. Even from such important figures like that high school girl who dared to say "dick" during some public performance (the public outrage propelled her to a position that now a generation of youth is listening to her).
Kneeway. Theater. Circus. No bread, just circus.
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Heh. Morocco dumped 60K "migrants" into Cueta's territory. It's a Spanish city in Africa near Gibraltar.
> That is equivalent to 70% of the city's regular population.
I write "migrant" because they are just regular Moroccans, all men, lot of young. So they didn't came from anywhere, warzones like Mali. "Some say" they released a bunch of prisoners to just for this. Spain has other similar enclaves (only Cueta and Melilla are sizable), all claimed by Morocco, so this is a way of simply occupy these areas.
Seems like Italy shat herself too.
Since this was obviously orchestrated some claims its the US punishing her bad client, Spain because they were critical about Israel, and did not allow the usage of their bases during the conflict with Iran. And a reward for their faithful ally, Morocco.

If you can just send bunch of men without weapons, you win, noone will shoot at them.
This wouldn't phase Israel tho.

https://whattovisitwheretotravel.com/what-are-the-seven-spanish-enclaves-in-morocco/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spain-deploys-military-ceuta-morocco-border-migrants/
https://www.firstpost.com/world/ceuta-crisis-did-king-mohammed-vi-of-morocco-release-prisoners-to-flood-spain-with-migrants-14035077.html

Note some neighbouring chauvinists, like in Romania fear that Hungary will recolonize the Carpathian basin. The EU makes it possible to move wherever you want, by property, run a business. And they scaremonger with Hungarians invading their country like this. Great difference: while Morocco have large enough population to utilize, Hungarian birthrates are still dropping.
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András Baka is da new President of Hungarys. What do?  >>/55534/

> Baka (Japanese word)
> Baka (馬鹿/ばか/バカ; Japanese pronunciation: [baꜜ.ka],[1] transl. idiot; stupid) is a Japanese pejorative. It is cited as the most frequently used pejorative term in the Japanese language.

Well?
 >>/55541/
I wanted to write about this. And yes, quite humiliating name. Imagine the Japanese visits.

There is some scandal around this, part of the political theater. I don't really have strong opinions on the issue.
I heard stuff and read the Wikipee page about it.
Essentially he was the president of the Supreme Court, picked for the role in 2009. In 2010 the Fidesz won the election and they renamed the Supreme Court to Curia. Then claiming this is a new institution they picked someone else for the role of the president of it, they did this via an amendment of the Constitution.
He turned to the European Court of Human Rights, where they decided his removal was unlawful and the Hungarian state had to pay him some dough.
Now the new Tisza government, with the amendment of the Constitution removed the President of the Republic, and they elected Baka instead.
Basically they did the same way as Fidesz did. Some probably think as rightful vengeance. Others could say: some injustices are more just than others.
Btw, baka means soldier in Hungarian. Some think it's derogatory, I don't think so, it's a baka argo. In regular speech it's katona in generic sense. The official name of the soldier serving in current army (for some time now, the precedent is 1848-49), is honvéd means "homeland defender" literally.
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 >>/55543/
 >>/55543/
 >>/55544/
> There is some scandal around this, part of the political theater. I don't really have strong opinions on the issue.

That's a lot of stuff going on. 

> Btw, baka means soldier in Hungarian. Some think it's derogatory, I don't think so, it's a baka argo. In regular speech it's katona in generic sense. 

ofc I'm just making a little joge and doing a funny. I don't mean anything spiteful with my post.
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AfD won an election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, some described it as "landslide".
Germany is a federal republic consisting of states, which hold local elections for their parliaments or landtags, to form new legislation and state government.
In Saxony-Anhalt the parties competing for 83 seats, 42 needed for the majority.

Pic #1: seat distribution in 2021
Classic CDU win, but AfD was already growing party, many forecasting rising popularity. Weird thing, it did rise. In the past 5 years the CDU did enough to dig itself down.
Pic #2: result of yesterday
High turnout 77,82%. Lots of people went and gave their vote in the hope to change the incompetent garbage CDU government. They really want different direction for Germany. They achieved 43,79%!
But the thing is it will mean little. Most likely.
Pic #3: seat distribution and some notes worth considering.
It is quite likely that noone will form a coalition with AfD, even tho they only need 3 seats. There is some chance that BSW, the Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance on the far left might cooperate with them, and that would be enough. Both parties have similar stances in various questions. Quoting Wikipee:
> The political positions of the BSW include further restrictions on immigration, a plan for deglobalisation, opposition to green politics, ending military aid to Ukraine, and a negotiated settlement to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 
This really mirrors AfDs goals.
So if BSW wants anything from their goals to bear fruit, they have to cooperate with AfD. If they just want to oppose evil far-right, then they'll have to give up all their stances and give support to parties that want the direct opposite things the BSW voters want.
They really need to get through with this.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/09/13/irish-scots-and-welsh-leaders-meet-to-plot-break-up-uk/
What can go wrong? Maybe this way the UK will finally leave Europe in peace, leave their enclaves, and their meddling, both military and intelligence.
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So Trump made a new agreement with Denmark about Greenland. It will replace the 1951 one.
What's in the new agreement not sure. If we can believe Trump's "truth" we pretty much can't, it's pure win for the US. There is no official publication of it yet, according to politico:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/18/trump-denmark-greenland-new-security-agreement-01084764
Same article links the the old one:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/den001.asp
Should read sometimes, it's not long.

In my opinion Trump is desperate to bring home a win, since Midterm elections are approaching, and everything looks like a disaster.
 >>/55587/
Here's the full text. They published it couple days ago:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/09/agreement-between-the-government-of-the-united-states-of-america-and-the-government-of-the-kingdom-of-denmark-together-with-the-government-of-greenland-to-amend-and-supplement-the-agreement-of-27-apri/

Fairly lengthy, I won't read it at the moment.
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Two weeks ago Russia had the election for the State Duma. 450 seats, 300 is 2/3 if that matters.
Turnout 59.58%.
Putin's Party (Medvedev is the leader of the party), the United Russia, won a majority with 59%. They gained 349 seats.
Communist Party lost 20seats, still the second largest party, means little.
Third is the Liberal Democratic Party, Wikipee says they are ultranationalist populist. Not that matters.
New People is fourth. Name reminds me of Homo Sovieticus. They are self-styled liberal, Wikipee says "populist communitarianist" whatever that means, doesn't matter.
The last one is A Just Russia. Perhaps social-democrats.

Politico called the election a sham.
Illusions must be kept.
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Brazil is having Presidential elections.
Bolsonaro vs Lula
No, not that Bolsonaro but his son. That one is still in jail, or in house arrest due to his health issues.
First round was yesterday, inconclusive:
- Bolsonaro 47%
- Lula 45%
And 50 was needed. In the second round they just need the majority of votes. 2% is not much I think, but it is an indicator. Past occasions:
2022 - Lula 48 vs Bolsonaro 43 -> Lula
2018 - Bolsonaro 46 vs Haddad 29 -> Bolsonaro
2014 - Dilma 41 vs Neves 33 vs Silva 21 -> Dilma
2010 - Dilma 47 vs Serra 33 vs Silva 19 -> Dilma
2006 - Lula 48 vs Alckmin 41 -> Lula
2002 - Lula 46 vs Serra 23 -> Lula
So in previous occasions the leading candidate won in the end, but differences were larger, in some cases significantly larger. Polls seem to favor Lula tho.
 >>/55607/
BolsoJr. outperformed the polls, widened his power in Congress and can expect to absorb most of the 7+% of the vote given to minor center-right or right-wing candidates. I'd say he has at least 60% odds.

The lineup is an ironic reversal of 2018, when a jailed Lula had to run a placeholder candidate. Flávio would be a nobody if not for his surname.

Whoever wins gets an institutional crisis at the Supreme Court and a fiscal collapse on his lap. In theory this would make for a strong leftist comeback in 2030, but by then Lula will be 84 years old and he has no successor.
Flávio is implicated on this year's corruption scandal, but so are multiple Supreme Court justices. Lula has chained himself to his allies in the Court and this evens out vote losses, even though he's nowhere as directly involved as Flávio.

The scandal itself is hilarious, a rogue banker and serial womanizer bribing and partying his way into friendship with scores of men of power, then suddenly falling from grace. His digital communications, even with his lovers, have been made public.
His friends include the Prosecutor-General and multiple Supreme Court justices. Two of them, hardliner Alexandre de Moraes and Bolsonaro-picked André Mendonça, have accused each other of crimes. Procedural rules no longer exist, justices are now overruling each others' decisions and any political party can pick their favorite justice to decide anything they want by filing a motion in an unrelated case. Judges are then very creative in pretending the motion is connected to the case. The Supreme Court has also found creative excuses to usurp the jurisdiction of local courts.
 >>/55608/
Thanks for the context.
I see parallel with the Hungarian situation. We also face economical setback the minimum with the realistic chance of a fiscal collapse - mainly due to the current energy crisis in Europe, with other local elements. The Fidesz couldn't have been able to handle it either, but this way they can preserve a modicum of appearance that they were the "last good year" before the shit hit the fan. The Tisza govt. propaganda will work hard to tell everyone the Fidesz is to blamed for all hardships, but if the govt. breaks, it won't matter much, only the Fidesz will remain and get in power next.
The age difference of the prominent figure might not be a key issue (Orbán is 63), for the Tisza govt amended the Constitution to prevent previous politicians (all well known names) from running for office. So while the Fidesz can rely on Orbán (he is the leader of the party) they have to rebuild their front row of cadres so they can provide a reliable candidate for the role of the Prime Minister too.
This will be the task of Brazilian left as well.
 >>/55633/
Apparently the Lula swing came from the first round abstentions. His party's second round campaign went all or nothing, posters warning Flávio would do austerity were plastered on every street. Instant win button.

There's still going to be austerity next year. Maybe half-hearted, as that's what everybody wants. Four more years of the same clique running the country since the turn of the millenium. Gerontocrats leaning into moral panic, managed decline, stagnant productivity, high interest rates, legally mandated spending nearing 100% of the budget, the poor living on handouts, herded into debt and promised more cheap credit so they can pay earlier debts, unproductive industries propped up forever, resentment-fueled politics. Consumption over production, rents over investment. Nobody wants a vision of national development, only short-term gain.

Not that Flávio would solve this but Lula ran on sacrificing more of the future to keep this zombie system on life support.

Any lasting solution would probably require freezing consumption, reining  in rentiers, letting incompetent magnates go bankrupt and sending a lot of the political class to the firing squad. But the electorate doesn't have the heart to move an inch on this direction.
 >>/55634/
> first round abstentions
Sounds kinda fishy.
But whatever.
I don't see any good future for Latin America.
We had the Soviet Union and things sucked. Latin America had the US and things sucked worse and still suck. The US is a bane of your region, she is your Soviet Union.
They make disadvantageous agreements for all these countries, and if they try to seek other ties, or protect their own assets then the US comes down with sanctions and chokes these countries by ordering their clients to strangle them too.
There is no real choice.
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News airing some gossip: Trump wants Orbán as UN Secretary-General candidate.
The person of Secretary-General is suggested by the Security Council to the General Assembly to vote on. From the five permanent members US, Russia and China would accept him but UK and France expected to veto. So even if he'd get to be a candidate, the vote on his person wouldn't reach the GA.

Personally I think it would be hilarious. Imagine the butthurt. On the other hand if he actually got voted in all the way... poor Palestinians.

https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/26/trump-officials-back-orban-bid-for-un-secretary-general-wsj-reports
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Immediately after the election results were out, Supreme Court justice Moraes ordered Flávio BolsoJr. to hand over his passport so he wouldn't leave the country to escape ongoing proceedings on a money laundering case. He announced he'd comply, packed his bags, fled overland to Argentina and flew to Miami. Note that there isn't an actual arrest warrant on him yet.

Flávio is a senator and a senator from Rio de Janeiro at that, so he's most likely guilty in at least a few of the criminal proceedings against him. He's much more of a traditional politician than his father, in every good and bad sense.
But the timing leaves the impression Moraes would've kept the case on slow boil if Flávio had won.

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What are his diplomatic credentials? Past Secretary-Generals had careers as ambassadors, Foreign Ministers and so on.
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Israel held legislative election on the two days back.
Turnout 77.7% (heavenly number)

I'm sure there were other issues but the most glaring was the ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide. It's not that the largest opposition block, the liberals, wanted to halt it, but it seems they criticizes the Netanyahu govt. for being too soft. So part of the campaign was about who can overbid the other in chauvinism and ethno-religious hatred - at least what I gather chiefly from Jewish/Israeli researchers, historians, journalists, etc I listen occasionally in yt videos. Right now just started the Jeff Sachs podcast by Tucker Carlson, who often has Jewish guests on his show, but Neutrality Studies also has some, eg. Yakov Rabkin (he has interesting looking books, yet to read). They sharply criticize Zionist actions and intentions.
The two largest competing parties are the Likud with Bibi at the helm, and the Yashar with the challenger Gadi Eisenkot. Either of them has to form a coalition, by default as the winner it's Netanyahu's job to create working agreements, eleven parties in the parliament, at lot to negotiate.
Current governing parties standing:
Likud: 20,51%, 27 seats
Otzma Yehudt: 5,73%, 7 seats
Shas: 5,27%, 6 seats
RZP-Zehut: 5,07%, 6 seats
The New Hope - National Right seems dissolved? 
They needed 61 seats, but they only have 46. The other parties obviously could if all banded together, but can they? Maybe I'll be smarter after listening what Jeff Sachs has to say, maybe not.
I'd love to read an article on Haaretz, but I'm getting jewed by the paywall.
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So two Arab parties are in the Knesset, they gained a considerable number of seats.
Joint List: 8,8% - 11 seats
Ra'am: 5,92% - 8 seats
There is some talk about "arab influence" in Israeli media, and it seems previously this was pushed in the US conservative outlets before the election. This "Arab influence" seems to be Israeli Arab citizens voting. It's their local version of "Russian meddling", except nothing to do with foreigners. Netanyahu says it's a fraud and the Arabs stolen the election (source: Jeff Sachs)
So the Arab parties hold 20 seats, the incumbent governing parties 46, which means the rest has 54. So however wants to rule, they need at least some of the Arab votes. Can do that from minority government, but then it's whole lotta negotiations all the time.
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> Supreme Court
This is one issue I see with Brazilian Supreme Court. They aren't just busy with the Constitution as Hungarian CC, they have other functions. On the Hungary we have the Curia (Supreme Court) which is the highest authority to appeal both in civil and criminal cases. But we also have the Constitutional Court as a separate institution, they aren't there to make judgements in anything, just taking care of Constitutionalism.

 >>/55645/
> What are his diplomatic credentials?
He is a great friend of Bibi and Trump. Isn't it enough? He is even on Trump's Board of Peace bringing all this peace to the Middle East we experience these days:  >>/55631/
Bit more serious answer: Guterres was the PM of Portugal. Orbán was PM of Hungary. This part is no big deal. As for his IR experience, he was quite busy traveler, he met, talked, negotiated around a globe with quite a lot of leaders and foreign ministers. For such a small country as Hungary it's quite remarkable. He was on speaking terms with everyone.
Compared what we have now our PM and even Foreign Minister talks essentially noone. Von der Leyen and neighbouring countries.
Would be enough for the General Assembly to accept Orbán as Sec-Gen of UN? Probably not. For me it feels like as serious as 99% what Trump says.
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 >>/55651/
Now Netanyahu gets to head a caretaker government. Not sure what's next, but it seems he'll stay in power. From minority govt. they can do less, hard to vote in the yearly budget like that for example. On the other hand the opposition could enact laws that counter the Netanyahu govt's efforts if they agree with the Arabs.
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Democrats won the US midterm elections, both the House of Reps and Senate are theirs.
Lots of implications but not sure what will happen.
I expect them to hamper the Trump admin, roll back whatever they did. Well at least to the amount they can cause harm for the Republicans. In other ways they'll go along with traditional US policies.
Hungarian circus.
The Tisza govt. is publishing the so called "agent files".
Background:
In the communism the internal political police was the "III/III Department" of the Ministry of Interior. Just to put it into perspective:
III/I intelligence
III/II counterintelligence
III/III internal counterintel
III/IV military counterintel
III/V operational tech (like forging papers and such)
The ThreePerThree run an extensive network of agents who were "employed" by various means, as a "human intelligence" tool to surveil other people, friends, family, coworkers, neighbours, groups, organizations, etc. and make reports about them. This "employment" could have been forced (it was often forced, either by violence or blackmail), sometimes payed (in favors, or for comfort, position, etc), sometimes it was done voluntarily.
There is a difference between the real staff of 3/3 who run the show, and the simple "agents" who were roped in, and oftentimes can be considered as victims themselves.
Many thousands were used in this way, and this is a sensitive point in Hungarian public life. Especially for those who run for public offices, for seats in the parliament. Being a communist agent isn't a flattering thing, in theory could break careers. I haven't seen such happening, but it's sure scandals can be made about them. For example Hungary's 5th Prime Minister (2002-2004), Medgyessy Péter was an officer in 3/3. He wasn't reporting he was the one who read the reports. This should have been very serious, but beyond minor discomfort the news caused little harm.
Other politicians came forward with their "agent past" themselves. For example Csurka István, a conservative journalist, later the founder of the right radical MIÉP was open about it. He was more of a victim, 3/3 operatives forced him to agree on working to them, by beating, torturing his father in the next room.
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The "agent files" were partially public in some minor way, but largely blocked from searching, viewing. The Tisza govt. decided to allow access to thousands of files, but still not the complete archive. They say it is a longstanding debt of Hungarian politics.
Now the mood of political witchhunt in the air, I'm sure there will be some uncomfortable moment for some.
Fun thing. Hungary's 0th Prime Minister (interim in 1989), Németh Miklós, came forward and alleged that Orbán Viktor himself was an agent in 3/3. Orbán however couple of times already published the files about himself, which prove he was not. What will come out of this, I don't know.
I'm fairly sure many from the so called "regime change parties" can be implicated in cooperation with the communist Kádár-regime. By doing soemthing illegal (creating internal dissent by forming illegal underground civil organizations), they were blackmailable, and also good targets to keep an eye on the hidden internal opposition. And on each other.

From what I see, the whole thing is good for making noise. I highly doubt will be a real "facing our past" moment. But I welcome all effort that ends secrecy on communist documents.


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