A third judicial "murder" (justizmord) within a day! An opposition MP was sentenced today for throwing a smoke causing device…
July 1, 2024
The popular vote in the first round of French election:
RN+ LR-RN : Le Penists + part of Les Republicains defecting to Le Pen (including Ciotti): 33.15%
remaining Les Republicains: 6.57% + other right wing: 3.66% + Reconquête 0.75%
Ensemble: Macronists: 20.83% + other centrists 1.22%
Nouveau Front populaire (of which cca 10% Melenchon): 27.99% + other left wing: 2.68% .
To summarize,
Right-wing: 41.65%, Center: 22.05%, Left-wing: 30.67%
https://24.hu/kultura/2024/10/17/kuria-itelet-lira-foliazas-vesszohiba-kormanyhivatal/
Second absurdity from the "Kuria". The "Kuria" changed the Hungarian language to be able to condemn a bookstore that put…
Ok, that explains something about purse spending (though I fail to see how restaurant prices can drive state-wide inflation) as…
Orban is becoming the Hungarian Caligula. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29703523 The vestiges of press freedom are being eliminated. The Austrian owner of Spar…
The Hungarian State Lottery gifted 9.2 billion forints to Orban’s friends and family from February 2015 through May 2024.
https://nepszava.hu/3241184_szerencsejatek-zrt-tamogatas-penz-holdudvar
Similarity between Magyar’s party and Macron’s party:
a big part of the leftist voters vote for a rightist personality in the hope of blocking the extreme rightist Orban or Le Pen.
First round pluralities or majorities by district:
https://www.liberation.fr/apps/2024/06/elections-legislatives-2024/index_base.html
Preparations for the second round.
Elected in the first round: 76
Extreme right: 39
Right: 3
Center: 2
Left: 32
Second round: 501 seats to be filled.
Reduction of the four-way and three-way races
(Left withdraws in favor of Center or Right,
Center withdraws in favor of Left in a combined 164 districts)
4-way —-> 4 way: 3
4-way —> 3-way: 2
3-way —-> 3-way: 144
3-way —-> 2-way 162
2-way —-> 2-way: 190
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2024/07/01/legislatives-2024-qui-est-qualifie-pour-le-second-tour-qui-se-desiste-ou-non-en-cas-de-triangulaire_6245837_4355770.html
Tuesday evening. There are only 97 districts where 2 non-Le Penist will face Le Pen’s candidate.
In 403 (or 404) districts, there will be a 2-way race, anti-Le Pen vs Le Pen, after mutual withdrawals.
Propaganda cum secret services minister Rogan gave public money to pole dancers.
( prostitute cum spy training ?)
https://telex.hu/belfold/2024/06/30/rudtancos-sportegyesulet-rogan-antal-kabinetiroda-4-millio-forint-tamogatas
Rogan’s April cum May published extra outlays under 5 million:
https://cdn.kormany.hu/uploads/document/4/41/41a/41aa0bd29057d6eae02b2373d001deea3cc3fa2c.pdf
The municipality of Budapest is de facto bankrupt.
It has to borrow 32% of the net public transport costs in 2024,
53 out of 165.4 billion.
The latest “agreement” with the Orban government resulted in a 18 billion additional loss for 2024.
Income from the sale of adult monthly passes
2023: 350,000*9500 forints = 3.325 billion forints/month
2024: 260,000*8950 forints = 2.327 billion forints/month
https://nepszava.hu/3241078_berlet-eladas-tobb-szaz-millio-forint-bukas
Stalin-style centralization of all cultural institutions starts on July 1, 2024.
Appointed culture chief: the Romanian-born & uncultured Sz Demeter.
https://444.hu/2024/07/01/demeter-szilard-szuletesnapjan-olvasztottak-be-a-nemzetibe-negy-muzeumot-es-az-oszk-t-a-pim-esek-csendben-tuntettek
Neither Emily Rauhala nor Beatriz Ríos the authors of a rare significant Washington Post article today on Hungary follow Hungarian politics regularly so Orban’s efforts to create a new right wing entity within the EU is missing entirely from this article. (Titled “With ‘Make Europe Great Again,’ Hungary taunts allies, touts hard right” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/01/hungary-orban-presidency-council-european-union/) The so called Patriots for Europe ( Hazafiak Európáért) group is not even discussed nor was Orban’s endless efforts to build a unified European rightwing discussed.
This article from Telex today is infinitely better (https://telex.hu/kulfold/2024/07/01/eu-europai-unio-tanacsa-boka-kovacs-zoltan-vesenykepesseg-vedelmi-ipar-strategiai-menetrend) but I doubt that these WAPO reporters even read Telex using translation software.
In particular the Telex article discusses the slogan of Orban’s presidency “Make Europe Great Again”, replacing America with Europe from the previous election slogan of former US President and current Republican candidate Donald Trump. At the Hungarian program presentation on the slogan it was justified the by saying, among other things, that it shows the perception that the EU can act independently.
The Post article seems not to grasp that Orban by adopting Make Europe Great Again is promoting an actual break with the US NATO alliance and American hegemony over Europe. This is very similar to the current Putin line on the need to break US global power because it is pushing the world towards nuclear war. In fact the Post’s article only mentions Orban’s opposition to EU accession talks with Ukraine in the abstract, never noting Russia sees it as a harbinger of nuclear war with Russia.
Trump actually accepts the Russian argument and prefers an isolationist stance relating to Europe and probably a full removal of the U.S. military presence from Europe.
Trump’s vision is that the global threat to the US is China. There are unfortunately many US generals and even more admirals that agree with that threat assessment.
By the way of all people Hillary Clinton about 12 years ago agreed that the major threat to the USA was China not Russia. (See https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/11/americas-pacific-century/)
US Supreme court, 6-3 ruling.
A US president (Trump) has “limited” immunity committing a coup d’etat, overturning the election results etc
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
This is a big step introducing dictatorship in the US.
page 3, Justice Sotomayor’s dissent
“The Court now confronts a question it has never had to
answer in the Nation’s history: Whether a former President
enjoys immunity from federal criminal prosecution. The
majority thinks he should, and so it invents an atextual,
ahistorical, and unjustifiable immunity that puts the Pres-
ident above the law”
“under the majority’s rule, a President’s use of any official
power for any purpose, even the most corrupt, is immune
from prosecution.”
“the majority declares that evidence con-
cerning acts for which the President is immune can play no
role in any criminal prosecution against him [,,,] That holding, which will prevent the Government from using a President’s official acts to prove knowledge or intent in prosecuting private offenses, is nonsensical.”
“The main takeaway of today’s decision is that all of a
President’s official acts, defined without regard to motive or
intent, are entitled to immunity that is “at least . . . pre-
sumptive,” and quite possibly “absolute.””
page 20, Justice Jackson dissenting
“Stated simply: The Court has now declared for the first
time in history that the most powerful official in the United
States can (under circumstances yet to be fully determined)
become a law unto himself”
“I simply cannot abide the majority’s sense-
less discarding of a model of accountability for criminal acts
that treats every citizen of this country as being equally
subject to the law—as the Rule of Law requires. That core
principle has long prevented our Nation from devolving into
despotism. “
page 29. Justice Sotomayor dissenting,
“The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world.
When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution.
Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune.
Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune.
Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune.
[…]
“In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.”
January 23, 2016:
Trump:
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters,”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTACH1eVIaA
“Opinion: We should all dissent from the Supreme Court’s immunity decision, and not respectfully”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-dissent-supreme-courts-immunity-173023105.html
I would say that my own daughter, a US Army Lt Colonel, who along with all commissioned officers must carry out direct commands from the President does not have immunity under the Military Code of Justice from prosecution for crimes they commit in execution of criminal order. But the President that orders a criminal act does have total immunity under this decision because under the Constitution it’s a core Presidential function.
Many US security officials submitted a brief warning the Supreme Court of that danger prior to this decision. (See https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-939/307065/20240408151425926_23-939%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20Claire%20Finkelstein%20et%20al_.pdf
As most men of my age, I was drafted into the “Néphadsereg” (People’s Army) during the “Socialism” (Communism).
I remember that in the booklet “Szolgálati Szabályzat” (military regulations or rules of conduct – which is a good translation?), there was a paragraph like this:
‘a soldier shall refuse any order that harms civilians or unlawful in any way’
(unfortunately, I do not remember the exact wording and I cannot find the booklet on the internet).
I was very proud that this paragraph was in the booklet, although I knew it was of little practical use. Say I am executed for refusing the order then rehabilitated posthumously)
I was a conscript, serving in the navy as a machinist.
The fuel fumes on the turbine deck left me without a sense of smell and the noise reduced my hearing.
to plus-minus..
We survived several excercises and regular patrolling duty. But we never saw battle.
.
A wise-guy, big mouthed presidential candisate with immunity for crimes against the state, is probably a turning point in American history.
Many will be harder at work, it seems.
I’m not wishing him good health.
The Budapest University of Technology (BME) is one of the two major universities not yet fideszized (= privatized, free of charge, to Orban’s friends and family).
The Fidesz-supported new “rector” (president) plans to fideszize BME quickly
https://qubit.hu/2024/06/05/kiszivargott-levelek-szerint-befolyasolni-probaljak-a-bme-rektorvalasztasat-hogy-a-modellvaltasparti-jelolt-nyerjen
https://eduline.hu/felsooktatas/20240611_BME_Muegyetem_rektorvalasztas_Charaf_Hassan
What a surprise!
Orbán is in Kiev today visiting his “friend” Zelensky.
Media worldwide report on this, will be interesting.
Re Orbán’s economic policy:
Orbán said it had been a mistake to introduce “big international taxes”. “Taxes are detrimental, and stimulating the economy requires supporting economic players,” he said.
https://dailynewshungary.com/breaking-pm-orban-is-in-kyiv-meets-president-zelensky-first-step-towards-peace/
Well, Hungary’s consumer tax (VAT) is the highest in the world – what does that tell us?
Consumers in Hungary are not that important?
Illegal migrants or refugees entering Europe:
2024: 75,325 through June 30
2023: 270,180
2022: 160,070
2021: 123,540
2020: 95,666
2019: 123,663
2018: 141,472
2017: 185,139
2016: 373,652
2015: 1,032,408
Place of entry in the first half of 2024:
Italy: 25,804
Spain: 24,952
Greece: 20,062
Cyprus: 4,439
Malta: 68
https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/mediterranean?id=83
Illegal migrants or refugees entering the US from Mexico:
2024: 905,936 through May 31
2023: 2,541,967
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
So the size of the problem in the US is about ten times that in Europe.
Of course in Wisconsin where we have our second home. Companies and farms owned by Trump supporters are the major users of workers from Central America and Mexico that entered illegally.
Trump’s supporters are opposing illegal US entry while employing undocumented workers.
Overall these migrant workers play a critical economic role in the USA by laboring at jobs young U.S. citizens will not perform at low wages.
Most undocumented immigrants come to the United States because of work opportunities. These individuals are far more likely than the rest of the population to be in the prime of their working years, ranging in age from 25-64. Studies also indicate that undocumented immigrants are not displacing U.S.-born workers. Rather, they are filling jobs that few Americans are interested in pursuing.
Changes between the Hungarian government ministries:
[Addresses of citizens, voters, IDs, passport issuance, birth certificates] is moved
from interior minister Pinter to secret service minister Rogan.
The interior minister will still oversee education and health care, showing the insignificance for Orban of the education and health care of the Hungarians.
Space research and guest workers are moved from the foreign minister to the economics minister.
(Hungarian gold mine on the moon with Filipino guest workers? 🙂 )
Foreign minister Szijjarto is compensated with 10 billion forints.
https://magyarkozlony.hu/dokumentumok/fb48b1dcf657607f068c719c2889b8bebb98dc5e/megtekintes
https://24.hu/belfold/2024/07/03/orban-viktor-miniszterek-feladatai-valtozas-pinter-belugy-rogan-nagy-marton-szijjarto-lazar/
“Appeal to the Hungarian Council Presidency!
HungaroControl is a major cause of delays in European airspace.”
“Due to the Hungarian government’s negative attitude towards social dialogue with the unions and employees, as well as due to various legislative measures, the conditions for colleagues in our neighboring country have continued to deteriorate in recent years.
The staff of the Hungarian service provider suffer in a toxic corporate environment, leave HungaroControl to work in another country, or give up the profession altogether. The state-run air traffic control is unable to meet the minimum expectations of the workforce in terms of social standards and pay.”
Daniel Liebhart, Chairman of the Aviation Department in the [Austrian] union vida.
https://www.vida.at/cms/S03/S03_0.a/1342685339333/home/artikel/appell-an-ungarische-ratspraesidentschaft
“For four decades, a 60-vote super majority had been required to advance all federal judicial nominees and executive-office appointments”
2013: Democratic Senator “Reid orchestrated a move to lower the Senate vote threshold to 51 to confirm most presidential appointments — but not nominees to the Supreme Court.”
2017: Republican Senator McConnell & the Republican majority lowered the threshold for nominees to the Supreme Court, too – from 60 to 51.
This is how Trump’s three Supreme Court nominees were pushed in, without minimal consensus.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fact-check-gop-ended-senate-filibuster-supreme-court-nominees/3573369001/
The chairman of sports team Ferencvaros is G Kubatov, who is also the director of Orban’s party
Ferencvaros will not be sponsored by Russian GazProm as rumored, but a three-year old parfume firm “Superz” , led by a Muslim convert.
Superz also sponsors MMA fighter Khamzat Chimaev.
Chimaev is very close to Putin’s “foot soldier” & Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov.
(For instance, Kadyrov attended his wedding in 2022.)
https://hvg.hu/kkv/20240703_ftc-fradi-szponzor-superz-parfum-szerencses-szabolcs-ebx
Russian troops took the SE quarter of Chasiv Yar today !
The top-of-the-hill town is of strategic importance.
Orban will go to Moscow tomorrow (July 5).
Charles Michel (President of the European Council):
“The EU rotating presidency has no mandate to engage with Russia on behalf of the EU.
The European Council is clear: Russia is the aggressor, Ukraine is the victim. No discussions about Ukraine can take place without Ukraine.”
https://x.com/charlesmichel/status/1808901878140330222
“Official” Fidesz media haven’t reported on it yet – wonder how long it will take them.
probably waiting for commands from O and Szijarto who might accompany O.
Interesting times …
Just found it here:
https://dailynewshungary.com/pm-orban-meets-putin-in-moscow-on-friday/
But nothing here:
https://hungarytoday.hu/category/politics/
This was to be expected.
Since the beginning of the war, Orbán and his propaganda machine has been the echo-machine inside the EU, for whatever Putin says and fancies.
Very provokative, of course, but also assuring that whatever the position he may claim, it will be weighed against his commitment (or lack of commitment) to the combined Nato and EU efforts.
A political side-show.
If you look through the surface and listen through the words, it becomes obvious that Orbán performs an act of “peacewashing” Putin.
Helping the primary aggressor with the heaviest foot on the gas-pedal appear like a peace-seeking
victim of Western aggression. It probably works in Russia and Hungary, and must be intended to serve exactly that purpose.
July 5, 2024:
Tories deservedly lose the UK election, comedian Jonathan Pie reacts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYMy2qdNPF0&t=17s
Popular vote % ——> Seats in the Parliament
(648 out of 650 seats decided)
Labour: 33.8% ——> 63.6%
Conservative: 23.7% ——> 18.7%
Reform: 14.3% ——> 0.6%
Lib Dem: 12.2% ——> 11.0%
Green: 6.8% ——> 0.6%
Scottish NP: 2.5% ——> 1.4% (Scotland)
Sinn Fein: 0.7% ——> 1.1% (N Ireland)
Plaid Cymru: 0.7% ——> 0.6% (Wales)
Dem Union: 0.6% ——> 0.8% (N Ireland)
Soc Dem: 0.3% ——> 0.3% (N Ireland)
Indep.Islamists 0.3% ——> 0.8% (England)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jul/04/uk-general-election-results-2024-live-in-full
The Fidesz-appointed, so-called “Constitutional Court” does not accept Budapest mayor Karacsony’s electoral victory !!
https://media.alkotmanybirosag.hu/2024/07/sz_iv_2641_2024.pdf
Please notice that 3 out of 5 judges did not sign the ruling – other judges signed it in their place….
page 12
https://24.hu/belfold/2024/07/05/vitezynek-adott-igazat-az-alkotmanybirosag-uj-dontest-kell-hoznia-a-kurianak-fopolgarmester-valasztasrol/
https://hvg.hu/itthon/20240705_Fopolgarmester-valasztas-az-ervenyes-szavazatokat-is-ujra-kell-szamolni-ebx
Orban needs only one other party to form a new European party in the EU Parliament.
#1 Fidesz of Hungary (Orban)
#2 ANO of Czechia (Babis)
#3 FPÖ of Austria (Kickl)
#4 Vox of Spain (Abascal)
#5 Chega of Portugal (Ventura)
#6 PVV of Netherlands (Wilders)
https://hvg.hu/itthon/20240705_geert-wilders-pvv-patriotak-europaert-orban-viktor
#7 DF Dansk Folkeparti of Denmark (Messerschmidt)
#8 VB Vlaams Belang of Belgium (van Grieken)
Orban is building the Fasc-Intern
The story of the pedophile Russian priest who quickly received a Hungarian passport in 2022 and his Japanese boy servant turned thief:
https://hvg.hu/itthon/20240705_novaja-gazeta-hilarion-metropolita-szexualis-zaklatas-magyarorszag
https://novayagazeta.eu/static/records/83a1d69bbed74a69a03e10d00add2a22.webp
https://novayagazeta.eu/static/records/cd31b364274d43b2b94ce776f55d72ae.webp
Fidesz is getting even crazier …
After visiting Putin with Orbán Szijarto uninvited German foreign minister Mrs Baerbock who was supposed to come to Budapest on monday.
How nice of him to show his priorities!
Orban’s plane landed in Fizuli. Fizuli was part of Armenian Artsakh between 1994 and 2020.
The Turkic conference will be held in Shusha, which was part of Mountainous Karabakh until Azeri troops captured it from the Armenians in 2020.
Artsakh before 2020:
http://karabakhfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Map_Artsakh_NKR_en.jpg
% of Armenians in Azerbaijan
1959: 12.0%
1989: 5.6%
2024: 0.0%
Orban the Turk
Viktor interview with a groupie.
Orbán in Moskau: Das erste Interview nach dem Putin-Gipfel (youtube.com)
on board from Moscow to Fizuli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KbKJfPM1I
Orban had an op-Ed in a US weekly news magazine in the last few days see https://www.newsweek.com/orban-point-nato-peace-not-endless-war-opinion-1915287 . It seems to thrill Republicans in the USA who like how Orban just eliminates in his essay the fact that Putin invaded Ukraine and declared it to have a Nazi government.
Orban never in this article even in passing mentions Putin’s characterization of the Ukrainian government as a Nazi regime that he repeatedly said had to be removed. Now like Orban, Putin wants to appear to support peace and Putin sees the election of Trump as a possible pathway to his version of peace which is the eventual removal of the current government of Ukraine by force and its replacement with a Russian friendly regime.
The Viktor seems to be in the air to China.
No mandate from the EU to speak in their name for any trip, but he is pretending he does.
Shall we do a betting game about where the next landings will be?
I think, after China, it will be Turkey, and after that Serbia, followed by Belarus.
Orbán következő úticélja Kína lehet, úgy tudjuk, hétfőn hajnalban landol a gépe (444.hu)
Outrage !
The court “Kuria” just ordered the recount of the Budapest mayoral race AGAIN, but does not permit a new election !!
Orban does not want to repeat Erdogan’s mistake by ordering a new election.
It is very easy to alter the ballots before or at the recount….
https://kuria-birosag.hu/hu/valhat/kvkvi3920420242-szamu-hatarozat
https://telex.hu/belfold/2024/07/07/fopolgarmester-valasztas-szavazatok-ujraszamlalas-karacsony-vitezy-kuria
The cca 800,000 ballots will be delivered to the Election Commission headquarters. A lot of things can happen on the way ….
Mayor Karacsony’s opinion:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1060197245468946&id=100044360412900
Fidesz and the other sh*thole experts must be very disappointed tonight.
The French clearly voted for the ecology, for social aspects and for Europe!
Putin’s two horses will have only a minority of seats.
Black horse Le Pen: max 26.3% of seats.
Red horse Melenchon: max 12.8% of seats.
Left:
The breakdown of the New Popular Front:
Melenchon: 68 to 74 seats
Socialist Party: 63 to 69 seats
Greens: 32 to 36 seats.
other left-wing: 13 to 16 seats.
Center:
Macron: 95 to 105 seats
MoDem: 31 to 37 seats
Horizons: 24 to 28 seats
Right:
Right-wing “Republicains” NOT allied with Le Pen: 57 to 67 seats.
Right-wing “Republicains” allied with Le Pen: 12 to 16 seats
Le Pen: 120 to 136 seats
Map:
https://www.liberation.fr/apps/2024/06/elections-legislatives-2024/T2.html
Only 3 seats (from French living abroad) are undecided.
Left: 194 (including 74 Melenchon)
Center: 172
Right: 203 (including 143 Le Pen & allies)
(Left – Melenchon) + Center + (Right -Le Pen) = 352 > 289
(Left – Melenchon) + Center = 292 > 289
208 women
366 men
3 undecided
Final results.
Left: 195 seats
——————–
The breakdown of the left:
#1 NON-(Front Populaire) left: 13
#2 Melenchon: 75
#3 Socialist Party: 58
#4 Communists: 9
#5 Greens: 28
#6 other (inside Front Populaire): 12
Center: 174 seats
————————
#7 NON-Ensemble center: 6
#8 Macron: 89
#9 MoDem: 33
#10 Horizons: 25
#11 other (inside Ensemble): 21
Right: 203 seats
———————-
#12 independent right: 14
#13 Republicain NOT allied with Le Pen: 46
#14 Republicain allied with Le Pen: 17
#15 Le Pen: 126
#16 Regonalists and others: 5 seats
————————-
“Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a 246 variétés de fromage?”
de Gaulle, 1962
Yes I actually know one of the older Trotskyists who is from one of the parties you with the “other left-wing: 13 to 16 seats.”
I met him in South Vietnam and he was a journalist for Le Monde back then. Since I do not speak French and we both spoke Vietnamese so we conversed in Vietnamese.
He got trapped in An Loc with us in 1972 when we were under siege by the communists. We agreed about nothing in terms of politics but we still became friends.
I warned him not to tell the VC political officers he was a Trotskyist (Ligue communiste révolutionnaire) if the town fell to the communists because they might shoot him, since they were all hard core Stalinists.
He laughed at that, but I was not joking. His old party became the New Anticapitalist Party (NOUVEAU PARTI
ANTICAPITALISTE) and is part of the New Popular Front. A South Vietnamese intelligence officer and hard anticommunist wanted to shoot him in 1972 so I lied and told him the CIA would not like that so he said ok, but he stays away from the ARVN he said ok (được rồi). So I guess I saved his life and we have been friends ever since.
Nice story!
After expelling and killing Snowball, Napoleon plagiarized some of Snowball’s ideas:
https://youtu.be/fP9vfWrVUls?t=1901
Dear @István (Chicago)
My French girlfriend would like to know the name of your friend, the Trotskyist French journalist.
Funny in a way:
I sometimes look at the sites Hungary Today and its German twin Ungarn heute and they always are two or three days late with their reporting. They probably have to ask Fidesz first before mentioning anything about Orbán and Szijarto.
Or are Hungarian reporters just uninformed and lazy?
The German SPIEGEL already reports on Orban’s visit to China but the Hun nedia???
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/ungarn-ministerpraesident-viktor-orban-besucht-ueberraschend-china
Orban government press conference (July 8)
#1 If a news medium accepts money form abroad, it will have to return the money “with the help of the justice ministry”
#2 banks, energy companies and multinational companies will have to pay “protection contribution” (I am not kidding, they used the word védelmi = “protection”). They expect 1 billion euros in “protection” money in the second half of 2024.
#3 Orban will probably meet Trump again. He negotiated with Putin as the current president of the EU, but “not in the name of the EU”
#4 The government is satisfied that the votes will be recounted (again) in the Budapest mayoral election.
https://index.hu/belfold/2024/07/08/kormanyinfo-gulyas-gergely-vitalyos-eszter-diplomacia-soros-elnokseg-orban-viktor-kina-usa/
Le Pen agreed to join Orban’s new party in the European Parliament.
Salvini also joins Orban’s Fascist international or Friends of Putin Party
#1 Fidesz of Hungary (Orban) 11 MEPs
#2 ANO of Czechia (Babis) 7
#3 FPÖ of Austria (Kickl) 6
#4 Vox of Spain (Abascal) 6
#5 Chega of Portugal (Ventura) 2
#6 PVV of Netherlands (Wilders) 6
#7 DF Dansk Folkeparti of Denmark (Messerschmidt) 1
#8 VB Vlaams Belang of Belgium (van Grieken) 3
#9 RN (Le Pen) 30
#10 LSP Lega per Salvini Premier: 8 MEPs
#11 P&M Přísaha a Motoristé of Czechia (Turek): 2
#12 LPV Latvija pirmajā vietā of Latvia (Šlesers): 1
#13 FL Φωνή Λογικής of Greece (Latinopoulou): 1
“The 23 kookiest MEPs heading to the European Parliament ”
https://www.politico.eu/article/23-kookiest-meps-european-parliament-election-results-2024/
Turek of Czechia loves Hitler:
https://hvg.hu/vilag/20240708_Filip-Turek-patriotak-europaert-fidesz-orban-viktor
It now has some weight unfortunately.
@István (Chicago): You are right …
Composition of the 2024-2029 European Parliament (720 MEPs):
#1 EPP European People’s Party: 173
#2 S&D Social Democrats: 139
#3 PfE Patriots for Europe (Orban): 84
#4 ECR European Conservatives & Reformists: 78
#5 Renew Liberals & democrats: 77
#6 GFA Greens: 53
#7 GUE/NGL: Left & Nordic Green: 47
Not affiliated: 69
I also noted in a Telex article today that there is some interest on the part of Putin in courting Orban’s new EU faction to become a peace party, largely on his terms of surrendering territory to Russia.
Remark:
In the town of Kalocsa, the regime permitted a new mayoral election and its candidate lost.
In Budapest, the regime is not willing to allow a new mayoral election. It hopes that a new “recount” will flip the election result.
The deficit of the Hungarian budget had reached 105.6% of the yearly plan by June 30.
It stands at 2.6564 trillion forints (€ 6.74 billion)
https://www.portfolio.hu/gazdasag/20240708/koltsegvetesi-deficit-rendkivuli-adat-erkezett-697229
Increase of “transaction fees” paid to the government.
#1
If you take out cash from your banking account in Hungary:
from 0.6% to 0.9%
#2
If you convert your money from/to forint to/from a foreign currency:
from 0.3% to 0.9%
https://www.portfolio.hu/bank/20240708/megvannak-az-adoemeles-reszletei-bejelentest-tett-nagy-marton-miniszteriuma-697361
Good for us!
So more of our friends and relatives who want to go shopping in Slovakia across the Danube or on holiday to Croatia eg will ask us to exchange HUF/€.
Good for both sides …
Countries that do not provide tax info about Hungarian residents to the Hungarian government:
Caribbean:
American Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Trinidad & Tobago, Panama
Pacific:
American Samoa, Samoa, Guam, Palau, Fiji, Vanuatu
Russia
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Mayor Karacsony’s press conference.
https://www.facebook.com/karacsonygergely/videos/1292993495268856
There were strange things already at the recount of the invalid votes.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1060709262084411
“National Election Commission”
The 800,000 ballots will be re-re-recounted on 3 days – July 9,10 and 11.
The several thousand local election commissions have to send the ballots to 23 locations, “after repackaging” (what does this mean?)
https://24.hu/belfold/2024/07/08/nvb-ules-nvi-fopolgarmester-valasztas-ujraszamlalas-karacsony-gergely-vitezy-david/
June 10 official result:
Karacsony: 371,466
Vitezy: 371,142
Grundtner: 38,942
Invalid: 24,592
Showed up, but did not vote: 914
Did not show up but was entitled to vote: 526,739
https://static.valasztas.hu/dyn/2024/ONK/FPMER/01/ONK-FPMER-01_v03.pdf
June 14:
Recounting of the invalid votes:
reclassified as valid
for Karacsony: 112
for Vitezy: 395
for Grundtner: 53
still invalid: 24,041
The recounting of the invalid votes was legally based on 226 written statements.
It is now proven that at least 114 of them were perjuries.
https://atlatszo.hu/adat/2024/07/09/tobb-mint-a-fele-hamis-volt-a-nyilatkozatoknak-amelyekkel-vitezyek-kicsikartak-az-ujraszamolast/
On June 9 & 10, every precinct counted the votes 2 or 3 times before validating the results.
Example:
https://static.valasztas.hu/dyn/2024/ONK/FPMSZK/01/002/074/ONK-FPMSZK-01-002-074_v01.pdf
June 09&10
count;
recount;
2nd recount at many precincts
June 14
recount of the invalid votes
July 09&10&11&12
recount of the valid votes
Karacsony
371 thousand and
466 —> 578 —> 538,
i.e. +112 -40 = +72
Vitezy:
371 thousand and
142 —-> 537 —> 245,
i.e. +395 -292= +103
Grundtner
38 thousand and
942 —> 995 —> 984,
i.e. +53 -11 = +42
Valid ballots = K+V+G
781 thousand and
550 —> 1110 —> 767,
i.e. +560 -343 = +217
Invalid ballots:
24 thousand and
592 —> 041 —> 548,
i.e. -551 +507 = -44
Valid + Invalid ballots:
806 thousand and
142 —> 151 —> 315,
i.e. +9 +164 = +173
https://telex.hu/belfold/2024/07/12/karacsony-gergely-vitezy-david-ujraszamlalas-nvb-budapest-fopolgarmester-valasztas-eredmenyek
For those who can read German:
The German government is not amused with O1G “uninviting” the German foreign minister.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-aussenpolitiker-harsche-reaktionen-auf-mission-von-viktor-orban-in-moskau-und-peking-a-92a3e311-5f12-4186-9e9a-a4066fe291bc
I’m wondering how NATO will react tonight on his visit to Washington.
Could they throw out Hungary from NATO?
As far as I know there is no provision allowing for a full expulsion of a member nation from NATO, or even suspend a nation. At least that is what I recall Eva Balogh writing years ago, or am I confused about that?
Orban’s new midnight decrees:
#1
Tax Authority will double the penalties
Reason: not the spiraling budget deficit, no, no, no…
It is Ukraine….
#2
The citizens of the following countries are not migrants but “guest workers”:
#1 Philippines
#2 Indonesia (Oops, isn’t this a Muslim country?)
#3 Kazakhstan
#4 Mongolia
#5 Vietnam
#6 Brazil
#7 Georgia
#8 Kirghizia
#9 Veneziela
#10 Colombia
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A paltry 156 pages of nightly decree production.
https://magyarkozlony.hu/
The citizens of the following countries can receive a Hungarian “National Card” (Guest workers cat A and more) from today.
Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro
Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova
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https://24.hu/fn/gazdasag/2024/07/09/nemzeti-kartyat-kaphatnak-az-oroszok-is/
“Since Budapest took over the rotating EU presidency last week, Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán has been zooming around like a cat on meth.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-europe-president-elections-2024-volodymyr-zelenskyy-xi-jinping-budapest/
Orban government will make a new law or decree by July 31, ordering the [independent] media to pay back financial support received from abroad.
(Of course it goes against the basic European principle of free money flow inside the EU, but it takes several years for a European court to give a ruling. The EU acts impotently against Orban, and he knows it)
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MAGYAR KÖZLÖNY • 2024. évi 74. szám (July 8, 2024)
The newly created “Sovereignty Defense Authority” has already renamed
Magyarország into Magyaroroszág
(kind of Hungary into HungaRussy)
https://hvg.hu/itthon/20240705_szuverenitasvedelmi-hiba
Revenge is sweet …
Szijarto uninvited German foreign minister Mrs Baerbock – because he had to fly to Moscow.
Now the EU parliament found that they don’t have time for Obán’s speech this week – too many important things to do …
Maybe they’ll listen to him in September?
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/07/09/eu-parliament-denies-hungarys-orban-chance-to-present-council-presidency-agenda?utm_source=vuukle&utm_medium=talk_of_town
No comment necessary:
https://dailynewshungary.com/pm-orban-arrived-in-washington-while-nato-allies-call-him-putins-useful-idiot/
But wait – soon it will all be different after the extreme right wing’s wins .
At least that’s what they believe ,,,
Medvedev wrote a Telegram article today.
Title:
“Will the godless clown agree to negotiate?”
The essence of it:
The Russian government wants a ceasefire now on its terms
(
#1 getting the entire regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporozhie (including parts still held by Ukraine)& keeping the Crimea &
#2 Ukraine will not join NATO
),
but later Russia intends to destroy the remaining Ukrainian state.
He expects that after a ceasefire, angry Ukrainians will oust Zelensky, then a more radical government will give enough pretext for Russia to restart the “special operation” and destroy Ukraine.
As he puts it:
“But this will not be the end of Russia’s military operation. Even after signing the papers and accepting [the Ukrainian] defeat, the rest of the radicals, after the regrouping of forces, will sooner or later return to power, inspired by Russia’s Western enemies.
And then the time will come to finally crush the reptile. Drive a long steel nail into the coffin of Bandera’s quasi-state. Destroy the remnants of his bloody legacy and return the remaining lands to the bosom of the Russian land.”
(Emphasis by Medvedev)
https://t.me/medvedev_telegram/515
Thanks a lot, tappanch!
I only get the original text here
Can you help us to get a translation of the complete text
Hi Wolfi,
My Russian is rusty, so I used translate.google.com
🙂
I had to laugh this morning:
There is new group in the EU parliament – the ‘Europe of Sovereign Nations’:
https://hungarytoday.hu/germanys-afd-forms-new-ep-group-with-hungarian-representation/
Almost all the members are from the former communist countries – including the AfD guys which are mainly from East germany, only 3 French.
So Budapest Mayor Karacsony won by 293 votes.
Momentum party lost only by 144 votes in order to earn a seat in the Budapest assembly, but they did not appeal.
Voters who showed up but did not vote for the assembly: 1,021
Invalid votes: 13,743
5% of the valid votes: 39,615
Momentum: 39,471
https://static.valasztas.hu/dyn/2024/ONK/FLER/01/ONK-FLER-01_v01.pdf
There was an attempt to kill Trump at a political rally in Pennsylvania today. The shooter was 200 to 300 yards out on a rooftop. The shooter using an AR 15 rifle got off 8 shots wounding Trump’s ear and killing a person in the audience and critically wounding two other in the audience.
We know nothing as yet about the shooter.
Trump is very lucky to be alive and if hadn’t ducked down more than likely he would be dead from a head shot.
“The roof where the body lay was less than 150 meters from where Trump was speaking. For reference, 150 meters is a distance at which US army recruits must hit a scaled human-sized silhouette to qualify with the M-16 rifle. The AR-15, like the shooter at the Trump rally had, is the semi-automatic civilian version of the military M-16.”
As a reserve US Army officer I was highly accurate with an M16 rifle out to about 184 meters without a scope and I was not qualified
to be a sniper.
I have an old Cold War era SKS semiautomatic rifle (made about 1963) that uses the same round as the modern AK 47 and I can hit targets out to 183 meters with that rifle too.
Crazy! This reminds me of a bad joke I once read (several years ago …):
After an event like this everybody in the Secret Service is aske what happened. One guy is asked:
Why did you call out “Micky Mouse” after the first shot?
Well, in panic I made a mistake, I wanted to call out “Donald Duck” …
Not everybody is so lucky as Trump.
On the same night in Birmingham Alabama, 7 died and 9 injured from shootings. The murderer escaped.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/14/alabama-shootings-deaths-birmingham
“Second Amendment
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7utz3SMkxM
A leading story in Magyar Nemzet today is titled “If you want to stop World War III, they will try to kill you” which is a quote from the right wing American blogger Jackson Hinkle on his social media site after the attack on Trump. The implications are clear. The blogger is not credible but do Hungarians know that?
“stop World War III”
Is that the reason for Putin killing Navalny and many others?
The 20-year old shooter was a registered Republican.
Trump already hated “Rinos” (Republicans who did not follow him).
Will he persecute “Rinos” if he is reelected? (The probability of which has increased after this failed assassination attempt).
Istvan (Chicago), prepare your place of refuge in France or elsewhere in Western Europe.
🙂 🙂
By the way, the 80th anniversary of “Unternehmen Walküre” is just a few days away..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Valkyrie
Most likely I would go to northern Wisconsin where we have our second home if a civil war starts which still is unlikely. It is close to a Native American reservation and they are anti Trump with their own police force. My wife who is Native American speaks the Siouan language and is close to the tribe even though she is a Seneca Iroquois.
The whites outside the reservation are heavily Trump supporters and hate the tribe (the Ho-Chunk Nation) to be honest. That seems as good a place as any other to make a stand if it came to that point.
My wife is an excellent shot herself as is her sister. Their father also an Iroquois taught them to defend them selves as his own mother was raped by a white man when he was a young boy in the early 1900s and witnessed the attack. He stabbed her attacker but he knocked him out. He vowed his daughters would be prepared for that possibility.