Hungarian PM has words for ‘George Soros’s man’

Viktor Orban opposes nomination of Frans Timmerman as EC president because “Soros’s man” is “against anyone who has a different view of the world.”

In addition, some in the EC have decided “that the EC should be led by an unfaltering supporter of the NGO network of George Soros and of liberal democracy.”

Orban also warned of East-West divisions and attempts at restructuring Central European societies “especially in terms of migration.”

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/orban-rejects-soross-man-timmermans-as-ec-president/

Depression drugs next addiction?

As part of my annual physical yesterday, the nurse had me complete a checklist on depression. The doctor looked at the form when entering the exam room. My wife commented that the depression checklist was new. The doctor said it is now a Medicare requirement. All patients must be checked for depression. I commented that we now would see depression medicines prescribed, just as pain medicines have been for the last few years, leading to the opioid crisis. My wife said she had read of congressional hearings held a few years before the advent of opioid addiction. From the hearings, Congress decided people with no health insurance and people too poor to afford drugs were being cheated of their right to be free from pain. Therefore, Congress declared, Medicare would pay for pain drugs. The doctor said that before opioid prescriptions became national news, Medicare made pain questionnaires part of physical exams. Billions of dollars later, we have a deadly opioid crisis.

So, we had: Medicare mandating pain checklist for all patients, Congress deciding Medicare would pay for opioids, and a national death toll from opioid addiction.

And now, with hearings and lawsuits concerning opioids, and a possible loss of billions to pharmacy companies, Medicare requires depression checklist for patients.

How long before there are congressional hearings on poor people being deprived of depression medication?

Accepted conclusions based on wrong alpha males

Researchers who limited studies of zoo wolves reached conclusions that do not apply to wolves in the wild.

“The main characteristic of an alpha male wolf is a quiet confidence, quiet self-assurance. You know what you need to do; you know what’s best for your pack. You lead by example. You’re very comfortable with that. You have a calming effect.”

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-really-be-alpha-like-the-wolf/

Link at woodpilereoprt.com

Paying college loans

"When you say #cancelstudentdebt, you’re saying a minority of people who had the advantage of obtaining a degree should have their debt paid off by hardworking taxpayers, 2/3 of whom don’t have degrees themselves, or already paid their own student debt off.

"This is immoral." – Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Texas 2nd Congressional District

The Woodpile Report, linking to The Burning Platform

Serb business strike in Kosovo

Kosovo initiates 100% tariff on Serb imports, also on products from Bosnia and Herzegovina, which do not recognize Kosovo as a country.

By Blerta Begisholli

PRISTINA -- Shops, bakeries, gas stations, hairdressers, pharmacies, fast food shops and all other local businesses closed on Monday in the northern Serb-led municipalities of Kosovo, protesting against the 100-per-cent tariff that the government has imposed on imports from Serbia.

Many local businesses at first ignored the new tax, arranging their supplies from Serbian producers through alternative channels – until end of May, when police arrested more than 20 local Serbian policemen and accused them of assisting smuggling and organised crime, Kossev portal wrote on Monday.

“The common attitude of businessmen from the north of Kosovo is that all shops are closed in solidarity with colleagues who provide citizens with foodstuffs and who are most severely affected by the charges [imposed] from Prishtina,” Rados Petrovic, president of the Association of Businessmen from the North of Kosovo, told N1 media outlet in Serbia.

“The taxes on Serbian goods make it impossible for our businesses to function normally, and we demand that they are abolished,” he added.

Businesses are refusing to take alternative supplies from the Bosniak neighbourhood of the northern part of the divided town of Mitrovica, or from shops in the government-controlled south of Mitrovica.

Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and Foreign Minister Behxhet Pacolli last week accused some in the north of the country of trying to foment a “humanitarian crisis”.

“Different Serbian actors, traders and officials from the North of Mitrovica, in cooperation with officials from Belgrade, are coordinating a humanitarian crisis,” Ramush Haradinaj was quoted as saying on June 25. According to him, pressure was being put on Kosovo to close its eyes to contraband.

“We will object to this propaganda that intends to create tensions and incidents in the North of Kosovo. There has been no humanitarian crisis since 1999 when the Serbian forces left Kosovo and there will never be such a crisis,” Foreign Minister Pacolli wrote on Facebook.

“In the north of Kosovo, there are enough products and medicine. I invite the international community to monitor this attempt by Serbia to destabilize Kosovo and punish it,” he added.

The government first import a lower import tariff and then hiked it in November last year to 100 per cent in retaliation for Serbia’s lobbying against Kosovo’s accession to Interpol and other international organisations.

It has also been applied to products from Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, like Serbia, does not recognise Kosovo as an independent state.

https://balkaninsight.com/2019/07/01/kosovo-serb-businesses-stage-strike-against-import-tariffs/

  

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Ace of Spades HQ wisdom: This is fascinating. Germany is so terrified of any vestige of Nazism that they censor what is obviously a satirical use of a Nazi slogan that mocks the idea of eugenics. I wonder whether sanitizing their history is a wise thing; if the German people are ignorant of and protected from their past, then perhaps they will more easily revert to what could be more typical behavior. In that case it may get a bit sporty in Germany, unless they are overwhelmed by the Muslim horde before they can flex their authoritarian muscles.

http://ace.mu.nu/

A web site site said it was about ‘Short Latvian jokes’

I wondered, “What do they have against short Latvians?”

Also: “This Latvian joke list is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Latvian jokes. After all, much of life in Latvia is a joke. Except it’s not funny and very cold.”

One Day, Latvian Hear Knock at the Door

Man as "who is?"
"Is potato man, I come around to give away free potato."
Man is very excite and open door.
Is not potato man, is secret police.

Latvian is Pray For Months for Potato

Next day potatoes rain from sky! 

All town dead by potato to head.

What Komrad Say to Komrad With Potato?

Nothing. Is kapitalist spy, tell politburo.

(Now that Latvia is again independent, as it was from 1919-1940, when Russia, disguised as Communists, moved in, are there still potato jokes, or has a free market brought more spuds?)