Hungarian Politics

[Tamas]

Lets examine Orban's world view.

Hungarians:


Genetically related to them:



Genetically NOT related to them:

[The Larch]

Huh? Why?

Lots of countries with little relation to the Pacific are observers there, like India, Morocco, Israel, Switzerland...several EU members are also observers as well, Spain, Portugal, UK, Italy, Netherlands. Guess it's not an unusual thing in international organizations.

I think you are mistaking it with that big pacific alliance thingie. This is a kind of trade cooperation thingie for some south american countries.

Nope, I got the info from the very same wiki article you linked. 

[PJL]

To be fair, you could argue they're related to both. Though they're genetically more European than Asiatic these days.

[Tamas]

To be fair, you could argue they're related to both. Though they're genetically more European than Asiatic these days.

Well there is no evidence we ever went anywhere but SW of the Urals. Still, probably Hungarians of 1500 years ago looked very much like the Kazahs of today. That's long gone though. "Hungarian" has been a cultural and not genetical identity for centuries now, as we have become a nice mix of our original heritage, plus Slavs and Germans.

[Tamas]

Also Orban "cannot wait to see Hungary and Kazakhstan unite in a big union stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok".

[KRonn]

Also Orban "cannot wait to see Hungary and Kazakhstan unite in a big union stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok".

Heh, that's already been tried and failed, was called the Soviet Union and they only had the eastern part of that territory.     

[Syt]

Also Orban "cannot wait to see Hungary and Kazakhstan unite in a big union stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok".

Heh, that's already been tried and failed, was called the Soviet Union and they only had the eastern part of that territory.     

Oh, a political advisor close to Putin keeps dreaming of this idea.

[Tamas]

Orban to Kazah dictator: "we have followed your decision to enter the election race, and we believe you are serving your country's stability with that".

The guy has been winning 90% of the "votes" since 1990...

[Tamas]

Also, paging local drug experts, is Orban on meds or what?

[The Brain]

Also Orban "cannot wait to see Hungary and Kazakhstan unite in a big union stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok".

He wants to get rubed on the bitch?

[KRonn]

Orban to Kazah dictator: "we have followed your decision to enter the election race, and we believe you are serving your country's stability with that".

The guy has been winning 90% of the "votes" since 1990...

Sounds like an old Soviet style election, or a new Russian style.   

[Razgovory]

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Kazak chick is kinda hot.  Judging by the picture though, she might be taken.

[Valmy]

Also Orban "cannot wait to see Hungary and Kazakhstan unite in a big union stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok".

Huh. He wants Russia and Kazakhstan to join the EU? I thought he hated Unions and all that.

[Tamas]

I wanted to write a post explaining how almost 1 million euros officially meant to help integrating the Roma has basically either been spent on things like office buildings and stuff or just flat out disappeared, thanks to the organisation lead by Florian Farkas, main gypsy of Fidesz.

But nobody cares.

Least of all the Hungarian tax authority, who declared that it is perfectly fine to take one million euros for one given purpose, and then never spend a cent of it on that actual purpose.

This is the same tax authority that started investigations into civil organisations because they had 20-30 euros worth of questionable spending as running costs.

[KRonn]

Same thing happens in the US. Taxes will be created, collected and "ear-marked" for something, but wind up getting spent elsewhere and not much is often said about it.