Posts tagged as Hungary
Toxic Red Sludge Disaster Hits Hungary
Oh God! The Hungarian government has declared a state of emergency after a million cubic feet's worth of toxic red sludge spilled out of a ruptured waste reservoir at an aluminum plant 100 miles southwest of Budapest. The nasty goop has spread across 15.4 square miles and killed five people and injured many other and threatens to contaminate the Danube. So this is sort of like the volcano and the oil spill meet Three Mile Island?
Gypsy Crime Nation Seeks Solution For Gypsy Crime Problem
Hungary's incoming prime minister, Viktor Orban, went on a little victory lap and ended up in Ord, where a third of the population is Roma. (Orban, as you well know, is the Fidesz guy; the formerly youth-driven fairy-liberal democrat party swung the other way some time ago, and the conservative group has 263 of the 386 seats in the new parliament. Also, the Jobbik party, which can safely be described as "nationalist," now has 47.) So what's the problem in Hungary? Mostly GYPSY CRIME. READ MORE
Hungary Is A "Grubby Hive Of Nationalism," According To Eloquent German Editorialist
"Twenty years after the end of the collectivist dictatorship, Hungary has turned into a grubby hive of nationalism in which far-right blood and soil ideologies are flourishing, pseudo-democrats are hailing the glorious history of the Magyars and militant racists are fighting against an allegedly 'overflowing' number of foreigners and ethnic minorities living in the country by parading around the streets with machetes and Molotov cocktails." READ MORE
Recent History: The Collapse Of Soviet Communism
The latest installment of Der Spiegel's continuing look back at the fall of the Iron Curtain focuses on Poland and Hungary.
