There are some folks that don't have to pretend to be time travelers. ;-)
♲ Bob the Traveler - 2024-12-09 03:48:00 GMT
Baron Miklós Istvánffy de Baranyavár et Kisasszonyfalva, born OTD in 1538, served as Palatinal Governor of #Hungary from 1582 to 1608 cromwell-intl.com/travel/hunga… #travel #history
Some of Bolsonaro’s political rivals seized on the news Monday to call for his #arrest, alleging that he once again is signaling plans to escape.
Israel allegedly manufactured booby-trapped pagers through a shell company called BAC Consulting, which was established in #Hungary to pose as an international pager producer. The devices were produced under contract with a Taiwanese company, Gold Apollo, but contained batteries laced with the explosive PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate). The pagers were shipped to #Lebanon and distributed among Hezbollah operatives, who used them for communication without realizing they were rigged with explosives.
At least 32 people were killed in the recent explosions caused by booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon. Among the casualties, some were #Hezbollah members, but others included civilians, with reports indicating that four of the deceased were children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html
or
http://archive.ph/LvRTo
#Lebanon #Terrorism #CyberTerror #Politics #Israel
#IsraelWarCrimes
#IsraelOccupation #StateTerrorism
#Spain prevented #Hungary from buying #Talgo, a Madrid-based train manufacturer, due to its potential usefulness for Ukraine's reconstruction, the Financial Times reported on Sept. 12, citing undisclosed officials.
Madrid vetoed the 619 million euro bid ($680 million) due to concerns about Budapest's warm ties to Moscow amid Russia's ongoing full-scale war against Ukraine, the FT wrote.
source: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n15/tom-stevenson/ill-suited-to-reality
In 1998, John Lewis Gaddis bemoaned that the decision to admit #Poland, #Hungary and the #Czech Republic was taken with almost no public debate and that ‘with remarkably few exceptions’ historians saw it as ‘ill-conceived, ill-timed and above all ill-suited to the realities of the post-Cold War world’. Enlargement violated the principle of magnanimity in victory, and risked driving #Russia to forge an anti-hegemonic alliance with #China.
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#Military spending by European states has increased by more than 60 per cent since 2014. Yet G7 meetings are still surpassingly easy for US diplomats to run. Nato is both stronger than ever and just as unsuited to averting the next world #crisis.
#politics #diplomacy #finance #arms #future #USA #security #defense #Europe
Israeli Minister Amichai Chikli, who heads the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and the “Combat Against Antisemitism,” has come under scrutiny following revelations of a meeting with the CEO of private intelligence firm #BlackCube. The meeting explored potential surveillance operations against Students for Justice in #Palestine (#SJP), an organization active on U.S. college campuses.
While the proposed operation did not materialize, the consideration of covert intelligence activities against U.S. citizens on American soil has raised serious concerns about potential violations of U.S. sovereignty and damage to U.S.-Israel relations.
Adding to the controversy, recent reports have highlighted Minister Chikli's growing associations with far-right and ultra-conservative groups across Europe. He has been a featured speaker at several controversial conferences, including:
The upcoming #Europa Viva 24 conference in #Madrid, hosted by Vox, a Spanish ultra-right party accused of welcoming neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers.
CPAC #Hungary, where he appeared alongside figures known for far-right views and conspiracy theories.
A "National Conservatism" conference in Brussels, where he praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a leader criticized for using antisemitic tropes.
#Chikli has also met with members of the "Sweden Democrats, a party with neo-Nazi roots that Israel has historically avoided formal ties with.
These associations have sparked debate about the appropriate role of Israel's Diaspora Affairs Ministry and its approach to combating #antisemitism while aligning with far-right groups. A recent report from Tel Aviv University's Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry has even called for the ministry to be dismantled, citing a lack of vision and relevant experience.
https://www.haaretz.co.il/tmr/allnews/2024-08-07/ty-article/.highlight/00000191-2843-d5e8-a397-fedbb20f0000 or https://www.archive.is/p5064
See also https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-16/ty-article/.premium/neo-nazi-curious-champions-of-israel-diaspora-minister-heads-to-spains-far-right-confab/0000018f-8192-d7f9-a5ff-b5f6d7fc0000 or https://www.archive.is/dEhOd
"I do not understand why Hungary wants to remain a member of organizations that they dislike so much and that supposedly mistreat them. Why does he (Orban) not form a union with Putin and with some authoritarian states of this type?" Bartoszewski said.
"It is the principle that if you do not want to be a member of some club, you can always withdraw. Certainly, this is an anti-EU, anti-Ukrainian, anti-Polish policy at the moment."
♲ Hanse Mina - 2024-07-24 02:22:15 GMT
#Hungary will block #EU refunds for member states that gave munitions to #Ukraine until #Kyiv allows the transit of oil from #Russia's #Lukoil through a pipeline over its territory, the Hungarian foreign minister said on Tuesday."As long as this issue is not resolved by Ukraine, everyone should forget about the payment of the 6.5 billion euros of the European Peace Facility (EPF) compensation for arms transfers," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.
https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=uC7o4a6oJIE
#diplomacy #peace #Hungary #Russia #EU #Europe #NeutralityStudies #PascalLottaz
Source: https://abcdd.org/en/2024/06/30/4588/
Not that we, of all people, believe in the German rule of law. It is common practice that deportations, for example, are usually carried out in exactly the same way in order to prevent any possible legal recourse. However, the fact that institutions such as the Public Prosecutor General’s Office in #Berlin explicitly ignore decisions by the Federal Constitutional Court and deliberately act contrary to them is something of a novelty in Germany. This says a lot about the political will to repress and the constitution of some German authorities.
#Germany #Hungary #justice #fail #court #politics #police #news #humanRights #crime
Other members include Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) from Hungary, an irredentist party which claims #Hungary's pre-Trianon borders, the Monarchist-Libertarian, Konfederacja from #Poland, Se Acabó la Fiesta from #Spain, NIKH from #Greece and Hnutie Republika from #Slovakia.
#Fascists all over #Europe creating a united front against our #democracy, while stupid liberals and centrist suck up to them and pushing for a disastrous military conflict with #Russia.
The Guardian
Don’t let anyone tell you the results are ‘not so bad’. The hard-right vote can pull the entire EU to the right, and imperil Ukraine.
A Europe that just celebrated on the beaches of Normandy the 80-year-old D-day beginning of its liberation from war, nationalism and fascism now again faces fascism, nationalism and war.
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The National Rally’s lead candidate Jordan Bardella with Marine Le Pen on the campaign trail in Paris on 2 June. Photograph: Vernier Jean-Bernard/JBV News/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock.
Please don’t be reassured by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s complacent statement that “the centre is holding” during what we might call E-day – 9 June 2024, when the results of 27 different national elections to the European parliament were announced. That’s true in the aggregate distribution of seats between the main party groups in the European parliament, with her own centre-right European People’s party group coming out comfortably on top. But the EU is run by national governments even more than by its directly elected parliament, and E-Day produced hard-right successes in core member states that range from the significant to the shocking. (...)
What we need is a combination of national governments and European institutions that between them deliver the housing young people currently cannot afford, the jobs, the life chances, the security, the green transition, the support for Ukraine. Will Europe wake up before it is too late?
Tags: #eu #european_union #european_parliament #fascism #ukraine #france #germany #netherlands #italy #poland #hungary #immigration #elections
On the eve of next week’s EU #election, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is inviting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to team up and form a right-wing super-grouping that would be the second-biggest party bloc in the European Parliament.
The far right is projected to perform well in the June 6-9 election but there are still intense doubts about which parties would be able to work together as cross-border political groups — because many of the national parties are sharply divided — especially over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The latest projections suggest 68 seats for ID and 71 for ECR, making 139 lawmakers in the 720-seat chamber. #AfD is on course for 17 seats and the unaffiliated Hungarian Fidesz party currently has 12 MEPs. All together, something over 165 seats would seem to be in play for the (currently disunited) far right.
#France #Italy #Germany #Hungary #Fascism #Europe
https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-giorgia-meloni-italy-france-eu-election-far-right-block-european-parliament/
Jó reggelt mindenkinek!
(Good morning all !)
Sunrise from Fisherman's Bastion (Halászbástya), Budapest (c. peter.rajkai on X)
#photography #photo #sunrise #budapest #hungary #halászbástya #goodmorningpeople
Voyages autour du monde
#MiskolciBaloghJancsi #worldmusic #romani #hungary #music
Holy Cow that's some Carp!!!
♲ Europe Says - 2024-03-18 04:31:04 GMT
https://www.europesays.com/1109153/ Közel 35 kilós pontyot fogtak ki a Balatonból #hungary
