… and because of that, he’s now a bigger target than ever.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is not willing to join the NATO alliance in pushing further escalation of war against Russia.
Now, we begin to connect the dots, see the bigger picture and understand exactly why Samantha Power is running an operation inside Hungary with the unspoken intent of destabilizing the Hungarian population against the government.
(Via Daily Mail) – Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban snubbed Wednesday’s meeting in Warsaw with President Joe Biden and the other Bucharest Nine leaders after insisting Donald Trump was the only person who could broker peace with Vladimir Putin.
Orban has been an outlier on the war in Ukraine, chiding the European Union for prolonging the conflict and saying in October that only former U.S. President Donald Trump could negotiate a deal between the Ukrainians and Russians to end the conflict.
‘This is going to sound brutal, but hope for peace goes by the name of Donald Trump,’ Orban said at the time, arguing Biden wasn’t the man for the job because he has ‘gone too far’ in calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a ‘war criminal.’ (read more)
Follow the bouncing ball of consequence…. TWO WEEKS AGO:
Hungary has been in the crosshairs of the Biden/Obama administration ever since Prime Minister Viktor Orban refused to align with the WEF Western Democracies in their quest for regime change in Russia. As the NATO led western alliance assembled to use Ukraine as a proxy war against Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban would not join.
In early April 2022, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was overwhelmingly reelected {LINK}, despite the massive efforts against him by the European Union, western and euro-centric multinational globalists. As a result of the victory, Brussels was furious at the Hungarian people. Associated Press – […] “Orban — a fierce critic of immigration, LGBTQ rights and “EU bureaucrats” — has garnered the admiration of right-wing nationalists across Europe and North America.” (link)
Within the statements reported from his 2022 victory speech, Prime Minister Orban warned citizens of the NATO and western allied countries about the manipulation of Ukraine and how he views the Zelenskyy regime: […] “while speaking to supporters on Sunday, Orban singled out Zelenskyy as part of the “overwhelming force” that he said his party had struggled against in the election — “the left at home, the international left, the Brussels bureaucrats, the Soros empire with all its money, the international mainstream media, and in the end, even the Ukrainian president.” (link)
This put Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the crosshairs of the western alliance, specifically the EU and U.S. bureaucrats who use their power, position and intelligence apparatus to manipulate foreign nations. A year later and now we see USAID Administrator Samantha Power in Hungary openly discussing her seeding of the NGO’s and political activist systems in order to generate yet another color revolution. {Direct Rumble Link} – WATCH:
Samantha Power, the wife of Cass Sunstein, is well known as the Obama/Biden administration’s advance operative who uses her position in U.S. government to influence activism in targeted nations. Hungary is now a target.
See the construct?
Its so heartening to know the world still has a few leaders who aren’t WEF demons!
Yes. It is so refreshing to see good men in leadership positions.
What ails much of the world and Canada in particular is a lack of enthusiasm for such men within the electorate. I made an attempt last spring to run for MPP of a truly God oriented political party provincially. I joined a host of other candidates that also ran in their respective ridings.
The apathy within my riding was soul sucking. The ones who knew of my campaign, and were energized were the same ones who saw through the Covid nonsense.
Godly leaders are out there waiting for an electorate to wake up and join them in advancing liberty. I’m still climbing through the bureaucratic headaches and costs of my campaign. It was neither cheap nor easy.
I know and prayed for other Godly men who ran locally with equally discouraging results.
My meeting with election officials was not pleasant. I noted that Dominion machines certainly eradicated faith in the election process. Their anger at my remarks sure seemed to tell me that I touched a nerve. But I don’t feel that Dominion can be the only excuse. I knocked on hundreds of doors. Apathy was by far my biggest take away from every conversation. Absolute apathy.
We can’t win until things in Canada become so bad that the sleeping are awakened. Then I fear it will be too late.
DD
Proud to know you virtually Dan. You are a good man trying to take action rather than be one who stands idly by and watches. We need more of us, men and women.
Keep up the good fight!
Dan: You would have had my vote.
Yep … Apathy. That’s why I stopped being active in politics a couple of decades ago … It was the apathy and stupidity of the electorate.
It’s as Sundance says … Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
That is exactly what they want….. YOU to be not taking part….as they can pay the other extremists to (and there are many) do their bidding. Their way is then easy!
When Trump got in you could see the power of folks when energized…… or the brainwashing of children in schools…. parents got rid of boards……. the Snowflake woke companies that have been laying off thousands Meta, Facebook Twitter…… Its the power of people like you and your vote!
Big thank you to Randi and her predecessors, all following the path laid down by Woodrow Wilson.
Yet this “apathy and stupidity” must be confronted in the most effective, intelligent way. But how? First, we have to understand what causes such apathy and stupidity.
In my opinion, there is a clearly visible, yet faint thread running throughout the entire ethos of our political, moral and social life: it’s the dwindling purchasing power of money caused, incidentally, by several levels of government mismanagement which creates this unbearable anxiety among struggling families. That’s Part I of understanding.
Part II is that critical moment when government chooses not to address the underlying problem of dwindling purchasing power, but rather prescribes a band-aid, a steroid, an opioid, or some other exacerbating stimulant which serves to relief symptoms ONLY, thus guaranteeing a return visit to the doctor’s during the next election cycle.
The apathy and stupidity we see regarding true, lasting solutions will continue as long as the electorate remains helplessly sedated until the continuous subsidies and band-aid, legislative fixes wear off in a few short years.
In the end, the problem of the value of money must be addressed, and that is the toughest of all rows to hoe given media obfuscation, party politics and the general ignorance of the electorate.
The present challenge remains: how does one do something like that and still get elected and then reelected???
Well, the facts of economic theory are that an appreciating currency brings down the cost of living, possibly at the expense of foreign countries or companies doing business with foreign countries which is a political reality. But the fact remains, the holders of US dollars will be living in an economic environment wherein goods and services will be more accessible through an increasingly strong US dollar.
IMPORTANT OBSTACLE: Our country’s current and past financial system is built upon debt and debt financing, as well as the misguided priority of keeping the dollar cheap so as to sell goods and services abroad at affordable prices in local currencies.
The entire world is in disarray precisely because of failed economic policies, and MAGANOMICS is the only solution.
The problem is people do not know what to do-every time they report fraud they hit a wall.
There seems to be no end to the traps and silence treatment.
It is evil-bit we all must do our part in exposing, shedding light, speaking truth and living the truth in Christ.
No other way.
Ditto in the USA. In fact, even worse here in my opinion. In my area, there is definite hostility to anything Christian or Jewish (until they want a free handout).
Run (again) Dan Run!! God Bess and His Will has all the power!
At least your conscience is clear even though your pocketbook is thinner and your spirit temporarily defeated. God knows, and your neighbors eventually will, what you tried to do for the benefit of all. Your children were given a good example. Bravo.
GO DAN GO!!!!
Dan, my sincere gratitude for your run for elected office. It takes courage, fortitude, and humility; I know this from experience some ten years ago.
During the time I took to decide whether I should even enter the race a very close friend counseled me, his words remain in my mind to this day – He asked, do you believe you can do more for the city as an elected official or as a private citizen standing at the public podium holding elected officials accountable?
Taking that counsel I decided to run for office knowing whether I won or lost that I can always stand at the podium and speak my mind. I did lose. I learned more than I could have ever imagined about the entire process, it was eye-opening, to say the least.
I tell everyone when they are not happy with things, in particular here locally, to get down to the public meetings, stand at the podium, prepared, and speak their mind.
I say to those reading here, do likewise.
—
Time is short.
Believe Jesus.
Agreed……some sanity remains in the world today in a world leader. Agree with a poster further down also……ban her from entering the country…..she’s probably been jabbed multiple times…….reason enough. ‘
And Jobozo continues to commit impeachable offenses while the UniParty band plays on.
Yes, and they need our prayers to the Lord, that they be strengthened by Him and kept firmly on His path.
More $$$ down the drain but that is not the most severe consequence of these war mongers.
Orban should have her removed and ban NGOs and usaid (since that’s a soros entity)
Yep… She’s an open subversive.
Closing the US embassy and all of it’s corrupt CIAe satellites/NGO’s and deporting their staff from the country might buy him a little time.
Its hard to say “No” to all that $, and if you DO turn it down, they color revolution coup you out.
“Nice country you got here, be a shame if something happened to it!”
Take the “Aid”, and get with the program, including mouthing the trans and Global warming mantras, or we will stage a coup, drive you out, and install someone who WILL.
The U.S. has been doing horrible things to the Worlds people, in our name, for many, many years.
How will ‘all of this’ end, and will any of us live to see it?
“The U.S. has been doing horrible things to the Worlds people, in our name, for many, many years.”
I still have our flag flying, but I am coming to understand that the help I thought we were giving to the poor of other countries was actually undermining them. Very disturbing.
The they wants to Color Revolution Modi too.
If I was Orlando, I would increase my security detail.
Orlandoski.
(Sorry, I couldn’t resist!)
Who is Orlando? Did you mean Orban?
Yes. My phone seems to have turned on auto correct.
Auto correct seems to have invaded my post. Even it wants to take out Orban.
…and bill the d s, bigly…
He has only himself to blame for not taking the Brexit route and for allowing scum like Power and USAID in the country in the first place. Why are they even giving visas to a woman trying to run a color revolution in Hungary and turn it into the next Ukraine?
She is just another tentacle of a spreading cancer.
For the same reason some idiot gave Soras permission to become an American Citizen.
Leaving the EU wouldn’t make any difference. The US wants his ass out.
US citizens don’t need visas to visit Hungary. Schengen country.
Maybe he wants her there so he can have his security forces monitor her movements and contacts to see what’s going on so they can formulate a counterintelligence plan.
You’re not smarter than he is by a long shot.
The US Government reeks.
They have become the Evil Empire that Ronald Reagan spoke of 40 years ago.
Make Hungary Great Again, remember 1956.
I remember it in detail. I was 12 years old, and we had all the (which were actually filled with news at that time) news magazines coming into our farm home every weeks.
Dittos, as do I, we had several Hungarian refugees come to visit my small, Texas hometown, they didn’t settle there, but kinda ‘passed through’ and stayed a relatively short while, there really wasn’t anything for them to do there employment-wise; the Ackroyd/Martin(wild and crazy characters)from the ’70’s SNL skits always made me think of them.
This is when not being a team player is the correct position to take in order to win.
I wouldn’t know Jack doodly if it weren’t for you, my friend. I never saw the behind the scenes play when I was watching tv and radio/ newspaper news.
Thank you for showing me the inner workings. It’s too bad they’re so evil.
Me too..
The U.S. government and their tentacles truly are evil.
Always meddling somewhere..in the name of Democracy 🤮
We are from a proud military family.
None of our grandsons will be volunteering for any military, anywhere.
Our sons will be with me, taking care of the home fires.
F**k all governments.
Cheers!
Told my son the same thing. Do not ever join the military with the evil running it.
Under Trump yes because he doesn’t put up with the woke nonsense, especially in the military.
War has to be glorified by politicians to get the people to “patriotically” participate in the horrors, either as volunteers or conscripts. I would tell my children not to choose the military as a career because, for all noble personal convictions about protecting their country, the reality is that they become pawns of ambitious politicians and their coteries/grifters. The people who start wars to profit from them are despicable; the people who fight them are courageous patriots.
Spread the word, knowledge is salvation.
But ya gotta know what to do with that knowledge. There are too many like me…..I read and understand, but don’t know what to do and am not healthy enough (or young enough) to get out and do what needs to be done. Besides, if one doesn’t lie good enough, nobody will get anything done.
First off, PRAY.
Ask God for His will to be done, ask for His guidance to know and do His will, ask for His protection and blessings for all His people.
Reach out to others and spread the truth.
Prepare your own household as best you can.
Store food, water, warm clothing, medications, vitamins.
Get as physically fit as you can.
Do not lose hope.
God is in charge.
Get close to Him and ask for His guidance.
He will open doors and hearts.
We haven’t had TV or cable for well over 15 years. I get most of my information on the internet. I’ve been a reader at the Tree House for at least 10-12 years, maybe more.
It’s amazing how Sundance can be so out in front on all that is happening now. But he has been preaching that this was coming for as long as I have been reading here.
Hungary, is the perfect example of a sovereign country that just wants to mind it’s own business and allow their citizens to live their lives.
This is what we have done to sovereign nations for decades. These actions are sickening and there is no excuse for these actions. As for a person such as Samantha Powers, where is a drunk driver when one is really needed.
#BeLikeOrban
Samantha Power is a man.
Yes, and his wife’s name is Cass.
Seriously I had wondered about that. Deep voice, too.
so is muchelle obummer
Regarding the snag-lighting ugly Samantha Power, I assume Hungary has security services similar to our FBI or CIA, or Britain’s MI5 or MI6.
Just saying…..
they-HUNGARY- got a emergency laws….she is probably monitored……they gather a evidence…..
Orban’s MEN need to pay her a visit to eliminate this crappola!
At the very least, why can’t they deport her? She has no right to be there.
With our vindictive-on-steroids Biden “Administration”, I would guess the fallout against Hungary – and its people – from channels in the US government would overwhelm any good of deporting this warmongering hag.
I imagine Prime Minister Orban is faced with a difficult dilemma, trying to find the best path through a nasty situation.
I don’t know…
Risk losing US government money vs. deporting an existential threat to your nation and its people…
You can bet she is there on a diplomatic passport. Kicking her out would bring retaliation by the US.
Says who?
Orban ought to know by now that you cannot play nice with these people!
I am sure he doesn’t know that yet.
And way back, I recall PDJT saying that while Americans make America great again, other countries should make their own countries great…(not make the WEF richer).
My interpretation had been that other countries should do what benefits them and THEIR own people, too, while finding ways to survive in the global thing of things inspite of interference/bullying from other larger nations….meaning “get along with each other”.
Viktor was overwhelming re-elected, for a reason.
Likewise, Ag, my interpretation of that also.
If you saw the replies to her tweets…95%+ of them were on to her and her real intentions. This one just might not work out for her.
Is America the evil one the SWAMP ?
No, America is not evil.
But too many Americans are sloppy and lazy and have permitted Satanic evil to overwhelm our government at every level.
I pray the corruption is not so deep that it cannot be rooted out, but the means of rooting it out will be terrible.
The always insightful and entertaining Kurt Schlichter’s column today had this observation:
“The fact is that Iraq was not the worst foreign policy debacle of the last three decades. Not turning post-USSR Russia into an ally – or at least a not-enemy – was. Now, in large part because Democrat politicians found it in their interests to do so (RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA!), Russia is our enemy and it is sidling up to our even scarier enemy, Red China. Great job, everyone. Just spectacular. Letting you people run our foreign policy is like letting the Lincoln Project run a daycare center.”
I’ve said that for years. We could have been such a help to the Soviet republics in transitioning peoples into effective Self-government, and instead, we let it be ravaged by hedge funds, mafia, and oligarchs.
We lost the opportunity to create an ally, because of political short-sightedness and unbridled greed. Unreal.
A great strategy.
Gee, he sounds like that guy he hates, President TRUMP.
Let’s Go Ronnie D! #PleaseClap
He met up Trump in Aug 2022 before Orban addressed CPAC in TX. I am sure they discussed “nothing”.
The Americans who hate Russia and Putin the most seem to all be descendants of 1920s immigrants (Reds!) from the Soviet Union. Are the American taxpayers funding some sort of personal grudge these people have against a White Orthodox Christian Russia? Is that what Nuland, Blinken and Sullivan are waging…a personal war against Russia because it’s no longer Communist and Athiest?
Hammer hit nail.
Putin is the only one playing with a full deck.
Sorry to say, but the rest of these clowns are too busy grooming our military with high heels and nail polish, pandering to the mentally ill. What a pathetic joke
Hatred because Putin is a nationalist (as was Yeltsen before him) and not on board with UN/WEF new world order.
US globalists were fine with Gorbechev.
NATO didn’t expand eastward while Gorbechev was in charge. It started with Yeltsen.
YELTSIN WAS NOT A PATRIOT…WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN..HE LET LOOT RUSSIA 1992-2000…
Boot her and her team out of the country.
It’s called Persona Non Gratia in Diplomatic terms! Otherwise, it’s Get The Fuch Out!
We are, and have been for over a hundred years, in a global war against communism.
Uh, I think our own government has been riddled with communists/Globalists for over a hundred years now.
Maybe we should have waged that war more thoroughly here at home.
Hungary may be a target. But Moldovia is where the action is. This neutral country is being militarized by NATO. The Ukraine is starting to bring more troops to the Transnistria border around The Village of Kolbansa. Where there is a large stockpile on old soviet ammo that Ukraine needs badly.
Russian MOD says they are fully aware of Ukraine. Moldovia, and NATOs invasion plans, to open a second front. Russia stands ready to defend Transnistria.
Large anti government protests are going on in Moldovia calling for the ouster of WEF lap dog Sandu. With American Troops stationed across the border in Romania. This power keg seems about to blow.
We need to contact our senators and reps now and demand they stop this insanity before the start a nuclear war! Give their office staff no rest. Praying that somebody in DC will come to their senses and fast. I also want to ask them when they start the investigation of Biden’s unilateral action to destroy Nordstream pipelines.
A wise move would be to deport the witch immediately. Powers exemplifies how America is no longer the force for good in the world.
That’s a point not to be missed. US and nato aggression have cost us the perceived moral high ground the US may have once had in world affairs. That loss will come with consequences both militarily and economically.
I fear most the Divine consequences.
Good for him. Finally a leader with some common sense.
Too bad. He just sealed his fate by mentioning Trump’s name. It’s like repeating Beetlejuice three times, it brings out the CIA demons.
Orban should have Powers deported from Hungary. There are laws against INSURRECTION! LOL
Surely Hungary can see what she is doing? Why not expose her openly and then expel her from the country?
I’m more interested in the public executions of these people (ie. her, Soros, Gates, Alex Soros, Piglousy, etc.)
Barring a miraculous divine intervention, pray for Peace. Latest positions of China, Russia and the U.S./U.K./NATO have been revealed.
Biden administration, (predictably); ‘will’ refuse all Russia’s demands in a note of protest to Lynne Tracy by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
That’s ok. The warning has been delivered which was the point. The Russians know the US will double down but they have to go through the motions because US and NATO soldiers are going to get killed. Russia knows where they are in the Ukraine and they are now targeted. Ignore at peril.
Feckless and deluded… particularly Tony Blair, unequivocably in favor of WW3, who (actually) believes China will save us tht the West is counting on China to ‘hold back Russia’.
This, EVEN AFTER Wang Yi’s Tuesday’s comments – China is “ready to join forces with the Russian side” making a point that China’s cooperation with Russia would happen “in all areas,” to decisively stand up for national interests and virtues” promote a restructured world order that China and Russia see as “more equitable.” So we have it clearly now that it has come to this stage of China-Russia-North Korea-Iran vying with the U.S,/U.K/Israel/-NATO for who gets to sit on top of the mountain and call the shots in the coming new digital world order.
The decrepit fool Biden sending 200 troops to train in Taiwan in the case China attacks Taiwan is another epic fail before it even starts.
Where for goodness’ sake is any of America’s national interest in anything/everything Biden has done?
Joe The Vigorous is not only a national crimminal here in the U.S. but also an international crimminal. Lucifer controls Biden and demands a war in the Butchered Lands- because he had so much fun last time. Im looking foward to the Draft- the loons that supported this stolen election will wail when they get that inprocessing letter.
Nothing is random and there are no coincidences. Thank you SD for always connecting dots to things that otherwise seem random! Is there even 1 foreign advisor/corespondent/“journalist”/dignitary that isn’t a swamp creature?
This Power babe is bad news
May I recommend an eye exam?
Babe? I guess to men in a Turkish prison.
Nah, they are acclimated to the same sex they have at home, young boys and innocent farm animals. she would just be treated like their dogs.
What did Vlad do to irk O’Bozo after the hot Mike incident pledged cooperation with Vlad?
Ending the reserve currency.
The US killed Hussein in Iraq because he was going to sell oil not in USD.
The US destroyed Venezuela and starved her people because they deigned to sell oil in other than USD.
The US sodomized Ghaddafi with a butcher knife because he was going to sell oil in other than USD.
The US bombed Syria into oblivion and kidnapped their oil fields because Assad was going to sell oil in other than USD.
Iraq is now going to sell China oil in yuan, announced yesterday. Biden will soon find those weapons of mass destruction and announce an invasion. Stay tuned.
IIRC when Vlad finally met O’ in person, Vlad called O’ ‘a child’ under his breath and shaking his head as he left.
Attributed to Putin (paraphrasing).
Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. He knocks over the pieces, poops all over the board, then struts around like he did something important.
Putin is not on board with WEF agenda.
I wonder if he knows that nasty Samantha is there in his country. I hope someone warns him! Tucker Carlson did a week-long special on Mr Orban and Hungary. Viktor Orban is a very impressive man and Hungary looks like a wonderful place.
I am sure he hasn’t a clue.
Since she announced it on her social media, I’m sure it’s been pointed out to him.
Has Orban or the Hungarian Foreign Minister’s social media been flooded with Americans telling them she’s bad news and needs to be kicked out like Soros was?
Needs to happen.
“See the construct?”
Yes, the evil is clear to those who open their eyes, but there are too many in the world who have allowed their govts to destroy their countries under the facade of false narratives.
The United States currently has operations in about a half dozen countries trying to undermine those who oppose their vile and depraved ideologies.
It will be United States who will turn the globe into a flaming furnace as they attempt to extinguish everything good and wholesome.
For They themselves don’t understand the hate that drives them is really against God and the Way of holiness.
Holy and righteous living is an anathema to them.
The Revelation given to John is seen from Heaven’s perspective from the high and lofty view of the Angels.
However, we on earth will experience and see these events as coming from the actions of men; we will do it to ourselves for the flesh is fundamentally self destructive.
I’ll posit that it’s a well-organized band of evil forces using the wealth and power of the U.S. to establish world domination, of which the U.S., meaning we citizens of the Republic, will ultimately be subjugated to.
These evil forces have infiltrated our shores over many decades and indoctrinated their progeny and disciples in their mission using the resources we’ve so generously provided.
For those of us who are not scholarly students of history (I’m not, rather a widget builder), this is a good time to research and reflect on, for example, how Hungary came to be what it is today. Knowledge and understanding can be and are powerful tools to deal with what is to come. Kudos to Sundance and CTH for inspiring those efforts. 🙂
Powers might fall down a long, hard flight of steps. Cobblestone streets in Budapest can be dangerous this time of year. I hope she wears high heels often.
How many times bouncing your head off the cobblestones does an “accident” become implausible? 25 times? 40??
I’m just trying to apply the same common core math to this problem, as they did for the guy who committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head.
Or the man who beheaded himself and deposited his severed coconut in a trash can two blocks away from his body. (Look up that Arkancide).
I would love to see that FUGLY female hung for treason, as she should be, but not before she is tarred and feathered. It’s OK with me if it happens in some other country where she is meddling in their affairs.
Here’s the truth. These people who are always screaming about democracy do not care a whit about democracy.
They care about their democracy. The one where only they get to vote.
Love your work at CTH. For more on Victor Orban and Hungry check out Rod Dreher over at The American Conservative. He has been writing on this for some time. He actually lives in Hungry now. Rod sees the same thing as CTH.
My respect and admiration for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban increases every time I hear more about him.
You should visit his country. Budapest is terrific.
And visit Prague on your way back.
Target her/them back.
I stand with Poland !
I once had great respect for Poland. …
The recent actions by their Government regarding Ukraine has changed my mind.
The Government of Poland is now nothing more than NATO and EU lapdog.
Hungary is fighting against becoming a lapdog. I have respect for Orban.
Poland Duda and Italy Meloni have shown themselves to be no different than all the other NATO and EU puppets.
Yes, very sad regarding the transition of poland and italy!
Grampaw Pettibone says, ” ‘attagirl or ‘attaboy for you.”
They seem to be looking for the big CHECK $$$ from Biden like Ukraine is getting?
Great. I stand with Ukraine.
Know any good Polish jokes?
Powers is married to Cass Sunstein, the ‘Nudge’ expert. Though this article (https://behavioralscientist.org/nudge-review-cass-sunsteins-why-nudge/) is favorable to ‘The Nudge’, it does point out the ideology behind it. Samantha & Cass are the Queen & King of manipulation. They believe that government is ‘more knowing’ of what folks need, rather than the individual making such decisions on their own. They argue that it is better for society as a whole to have government/institutions ‘nudge’ (manipulate) people in their decision making.
‘The point of the book is that people are often not the best judges of what will serve their interests, and that institutions, including government, can help people do better for themselves (and the rest of us) with small changes—nudges—in the structure of the choices people face.’
‘In domains as disparate as savings, health care, driving, energy conservation, eating, and even urinating (by men), Thaler and Sunstein provided evidence that left to their own devices, people often make mistakes, sometimes very consequential ones, and that these mistakes can be mitigated or even eliminated if institutions take an active role in doing so.’
(Apparently, Sunstein is above ‘people’ and can therefore make better decisions and choices for the ‘people’ than the ‘people’ can make for themselves).
‘It is no longer paternalistic to nudge people, because you are not (simply) protecting them from themselves; you are protecting others from them as well.’
Question: Who protects the ‘Nudger’ from himself and who protects himself from the ‘Nudger’?
These people make me sick, especially Ezekiel Emanuel who is also part of ‘the clan’. See Emanuel’s ‘Complete Lives System’ and his rationing of health care for those deemed ‘less productive’: https://www.liveaction.org/news/ezekiel-emanuel-rationed-health-care-biden-covid/
Also see: QALY…https://pallipedia.org/quality-adjusted-life-year-qaly/
Emanuel also believes that children should be able to be ‘aborted’ up to two yrs. of age. He rationalizes that since such young ones have no concept of ‘tomorrow’ that eliminating them would therefore not be harming them.
Betsy McCaughey outlines Emanuel’s ‘life-value’: https://betsymccaughey.com/obamas-health-rationer-in-chief/
A little history on Sunstien, Samantha Power’s choice as life-partner, from The New Yorker (consider the source): https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/how-a-liberal-scholar-of-conspiracy-theories-became-the-subject-of-a-right-wing-conspiracy-theory
Feb 19th Orban gave his State of Union address.
The only place I have found a transcript has been Thesaker.is website.
It is definitely worth reading.
Here’s a copy from the Hungarian source that appears to be the office of the Prime Minister….
https://miniszterelnok.hu/en/prime-minister-viktor-orbans-state-of-the-nation-address-2023-02-18/
Thanks 4GB and Dunes. Here are a few excerpts.
No matter how strong and powerful, anyone who thinks they can supervise, manage and gradually calibrate the conduct of war is overestimating their own power and underestimating the risky nature of war.
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It is at least as important to clearly understand what NATO is not. NATO is not a war alliance. NATO is not a war coalition. Membership of NATO does not imply any obligation beyond joint defence, nor can member countries expect any other member to jointly attack a third country for some joint military objective. If some NATO members, or a group of them, want to carry out acts of war outside the territory of the member countries, they must do so outside the framework of NATO: those who want to will participate; those who do not want to will not.
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If we want to fight inflation, we must start with understanding. Why is there inflation all over Europe? Brussels has unleashed this affliction on us, with its sanctions on energy. The disease is called sanction inflation and the virus is the Brussels sanctions. Sanctions are the weapons in Brussels’ war policy. They target Russia, but they hit Europe. It was not so long ago that Brussels promised that these sanctions would bring an end to the war. A year has passed, and the end of the war is not getting closer, but ever more distant. They also promised that they would not extend the sanctions to energy. But then they did.
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Let us say it how it is: paedophilia cannot be forgiven. Children are sacred to us, and it falls to adults to protect children at all costs. We do not care that the world has gone mad. We do not care what repellent aberrations some people indulge in. We do not care how Brussels excuses and explains the inexplicable. This is Hungary! And this is where the strictest child protection system in Europe should be! The legislation is there, and the missing pieces will be found, but even the most determined government cannot succeed in this matter on its own. It will require everyone: parents, grandparents, mothers and fathers, teachers and educators. Because gender propaganda is not just an entertaining caper, not just rainbow chatter, but the greatest threat stalking our children. We want our children to be left alone, because enough is enough! This kind of thing has no place in Hungary, and especially not in our schools. I am counting on you, we are counting on all Hungarian people of goodwill, so that we can do this job together, once and for all, in 2023.
God above us all, Hungary before all else! Go, Hungary, go Hungarians!
Thanks!
I really am encouraging people to read it.
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YES IS IT…GREAT SPEECH….
Hungary needs to throw her sorry ass out of the country, then ban her and anyone associated with her from entry
The same people who go apoplectic over ‘foreign interference” in the US are the foreign interference.
I never dreamed Russia would be the catalyst to disintegrate an out-of-control NATO. NATO completely lost its way after the breakup of the Soviet Union. They have been adding more and more countries to their relentless warmongering.
What is astonishing is the leaders of these nations have lost all regard for the desires and demands of their own populations. These European country leaders don’t care if their own people freeze or starve on their march toward all-out war.
I can see Russia is going to break the backs of these warmongers who have been hiding behind the big bully – the USA. Without billions of American dollars, NATO is nothing.
NATO cannot prevail in a fight with Russia. Why can’t they mind their own business with respect to Ukraine? Ukraine is not a member of NATO. Russia has not attacked any member of NATO.
I admire Hungary’s Orban. He is the only leader in the European clown car to have any common sense.
America is being led at the moment by some mentally sick people with no conscience. The slaughter of innocents is like some video game to these Satanists. Ukraine is a dictatorship in which no dissent is allowed. It is run by a corrupt government in which leaders line their own pockets with millions while the peasants die in a hopeless fight.
Disgusting and evil.
Serbia is standing up. Croatia is standing up. Austria refuses to send weaponry.
The former Warsaw pact countries are suicidal. Be my guest.
Samantha “Supermodel” Power is harbinger of bad 0’Bama news…
Man, Samantha and “Sunday” Susan Rice are so migraine inducing…
It’s not like Buraq went away.
His third illegitimate term will give us WW3.
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Bribery, Blackmail and Leverage – Tools of their trade over and over again.
Not to put the fear of God in everyone but have you considered this possibility?
Most people are concerned for the safety of Mr. Orban .
These concerns are well founded. We would like to think he may the tip of the spear in combatting this political and military disaster.
Concern for his safety is due to the history of principled leaders being removed from office by actions that were taking behind the scene we were not aware of at the time ,correct.
President Trump comes to mind .
Well what if the remnants of patriotic military officers we have still in service ,whom we are all counting on , to be the persons of character ,integrity and of service to defend the constitution to save us all, are being systematically removed from power.
I assure you my friends that this is happening As I write this sad post.
A military leader without the support if the command above and subordinates below is rendered totally ineffective.
I hope I am proven wrong because our lives are depending on it.
I’m also afraid that mr orban is the new bolsonaro (sp?) of brazil.
Hungary will be quietly threatened by Biden and NATO’s flying monkeys … then Orban will join the BRICS alliance. Smart leaders only play these games for so long.
Quietly? Samantha in Budapest was anything but quiet.
Orban seems to be the only smart leader in Europe.