The Chicago Field Museum bought a bronze age sword from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hungary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hungarian</a> National Museum in the 1930s thinking it was a replica. Now, nearly 100 years later, an archeologist for the Hungarian museum says there must have been an error at some point, the Field Museum <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fieldmuseum/posts/pfbid03r6s7z591Pp7qf6uYRndu2CgMQPk7LMgvZrGtTTkdA8u1CSGNR2udX7KXSPzznR2l?__cft__[0]=AZW00ZWYW1Mp4QKI2yQHSyo-1Ut1usoI9CcX7r5tqG4runtXmoZlTMyFY4mSFTkMPcjgwMrBl3I8JQeMtKNCzGFBpFQySwVCD8bWKtHDVzwAjXSTZgxWynNO_vH-66GDIR7TZaBCU6rLOTlfcTYTZ04KbSTBSe05gINC8DQpw329_DL1OAk7Ortz6V7rPX--2BQ&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Tuesday.
The 3-foot-long “replica” sword is actually 3,000 years old. It was initially discovered at the bottom of the Danube River, the second-longest river in Europe, in the 1930s in Budapest, Hungary. The Hungarian archeologist uncovered the truth behind the sword last summer during a visit to the Chicago museum.
&#8220;So I pull it out and he said after half a minute, this isn&#8217;t a replica, this is a real sword,” Bill Parkinson, the Chicago Field Museum curator of anthropology, <a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/3500-year-old-bronze-age-sword-discovered-chicago-field-museum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;This is a real 3,000-year-old sword that was thrown into the Danube River at the end of the Bronze Age. And usually it goes the other way. It&#8217;s seldom that you&#8217;ve got something in your collection that said in the collection records for 100 years, ‘this is a replica,’ that you find out that no, it&#8217;s actually the real deal.&#8221;
“I think there was a clerical error when it got here,” Parkinson <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2023/1/17/23559126/field-museum-first-kings-of-europe-exhibit-sword" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. “Someone just wrote it down wrong.”
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It was found more than 100 yrs ago in the Danube River in Budapest, stored at the <a href="https://twitter.com/FieldMuseum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FieldMuseum</a> ever since. It was labeled a &quot;replica&quot; but it turned out to be a real 3500 yr old Bronze Age sword. Coming up today <a href="https://twitter.com/WBBMNewsradio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WBBMNewsradio</a>, the story behind the museum&#39;s newest display.⚔️ <a href="https://t.co/UBuOUjLRda">pic.twitter.com/UBuOUjLRda</a>
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To confirm that the sword was actually from the Bronze Age, researchers compared the chemical makeup of the museum’s artifact with known swords from the Bronze Age using an X-Ray fluorescent detector, according to <a href="https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/bronze-age-sword-at-field-museum-dates-back-3-500-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WBBM NewsRadio</a>. The testing showed that the comparison produced nearly identical makeups of bronze, tin, and copper.
During the Bronze Age, which lasted from <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/bronze-age" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approximately</a> 3300 BC to 1200 BC, throwing swords into rivers was commonplace as a way to celebrate treaties, <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2023/1/17/23559126/field-museum-first-kings-of-europe-exhibit-sword" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parkinson says</a>. This tradition helps explain why swords from the Bronze Age are often found at the bottoms of rivers. Metal weapons and tools were first used in the Bronze Age, replacing stone, according to <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/bronze-age" target="_blank" rel="noopener">History.com</a>.
The discovery was made while preparing for the museum&#8217;s upcoming exhibit called &#8220;The First Kings Of Europe.&#8221; The sword is now on display in the Field Museum’s Stanley Hall and will be included in the new exhibit, according to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/field-museum-sword-is-real/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS</a>.
“Starting their journey 8,000 years ago during the Neolithic Period and ending 2,500 years ago in the world of Iron Age kings, visitors will encounter archaeological finds that have never been shown in North America,” the museum <a href="https://www.fieldmuseum.org/traveling-exhibitions/first-kings-europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> of the exhibit. It will also include weapons, tools, and jewelry to “tell the story of how individuals gained power and influence by amassing wealth and controlling trade, technology, rituals, and warfare.”

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The Left is having a reckoning abroad.
In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservative-giorgia-meloni-claims-victory-as-italys-first-female-prime-minister" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Europe</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brazilian-prez-bolsonaro-drags-dicaprio-again-i-know-progressives-you-want-to-change-the-entire-world-but-never-yourselves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South America</a>, a wave of elected officials, all with at least some conservative policies, have soared to victory and taken the reigns in the upper tiers of government.
The pendulum swing comes to the chagrin of their leftist opponents, who would prefer to keep any politician with a single conservative policy out of power.
These five newly-minted leaders are taking on the leftist political players in their countries.
<h3>Italy: Giorgia Meloni</h3>
On Monday, Giorgia Meloni claimed victory as Italy&#8217;s first female prime minister, to the chagrin of Italy&#8217;s left.
She led her party, Brothers of Italy to victory with a platform that was staunchly pro-NATO, pro-Italy, and cautiously <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-22/italy-front-runner-meloni-says-eu-is-wrong-to-antagonize-hungary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical</a> of the European Union.
Meloni, 45, is a Catholic mother who has also passionately emphasized family values, condemning abortion, gay marriage, child gender transitions, and euthanasia.
&#8220;Why is the family an enemy? Why is the family so frightening?&#8221; Meloni <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Z1LClnhsk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> in 2019 while speaking to the World Congress of Families conference.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t define myself as Italian, Christian, woman, mother, no,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I must be citizen x, gender x, parent one, parent two. I must be a number. Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators, the perfect consumer.&#8221;
When her victory appeared imminent, Meloni was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/italy-giorgia-meloni-far-right-nationalist-prime-minister-mussolini-rcna48506" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/sep/24/giorgia-meloni-is-a-danger-to-italy-and-the-rest-of-europe-far-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as a</a> &#8220;far-right nationalist,&#8221; and &#8220;a danger to Italy and the rest of Europe.&#8221;
Meloni is a member of the Chamber of Deputies in Italy and has also chaired the European Conservative and Reformist group in the European Parliament. Her victory comes as Italy continues to recover from the pandemic and struggles with spiking food and gas prices.
<h3>Britain: Liz Truss</h3>
British Prime Minister Liz Truss, while not as right-wing as Meloni, has embraced several fiscally conservative policies that have irritated her left-wing opponents.
The Conservative Party leader, 47, has pushed for a robust economic agenda that includes aggressive tax cuts and slashing regulation.
Truss became the United Kingdom&#8217;s prime minister on Sep. 6. Before she had been on the job for even two days, Queen Elizabeth II died, plunging the country into official mourning and marking a tumultuous start for Truss.
After the mourning period ended, Truss on Friday debuted her plan to cut $48 billion in taxes. Also on Friday, the Conservative Party government scratched a corporate tax hike and lowered the basic income tax rate to 19%.
“For too long, politicians have fought over how to slice up the economic pie,” Truss wrote Saturday in an <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11246335/LIZ-TRUSS-long-politicians-fought-slice-economic-pie.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> for The Daily Mail. “We will focus instead on growing the pie to the benefit of families and businesses.”
She has already been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/28/europe/uk-truss-crisis-labour-starmer-gbr-intl-cmd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> of pushing &#8220;radical policies&#8221; and of <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2022/09/liz-truss-moral-right-prime-minister" target="_blank" rel="noopener">having</a> &#8220;no moral right to be prime minister.&#8221;
Truss is a former Liberal Democrat and <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2022/9/5/23332419/liz-truss-uk-prime-minister-conservative-leadership-brexit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> Brexit before leaving the party and changing her view.
<h3>Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro</h3>
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is much further to the right than Meloni or Truss, but he is still significant right-wing presence internationally.
The conservative populist and political outsider, or &#8220;Tropical Trump&#8221; as he is sometimes <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/11/27/tropical-trump-where-will-brazils-bolsonaro-stand-with-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nicknamed</a>, was elected in 2018 and ran on a platform of bringing order back to a corrupt Brazil. His views have been frequently <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/brazil-presidential-election-who-jair-bolsonaro-popular-candidate-more-dangerous-ncna925011" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called out</a> for being significantly harder-right than those of the American right, including <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20180930-brazil-presidential-candidate-bolsonaros-most-controversial-quotes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a string</a> of discriminatory comments. At the same time though, he has rejected left-wing social values.
Bolsonaro, 67, is up for reelection in October and is currently trailing in the polls to his left-wing opponent, although the gap appears to be shrinking.
In his July reelection campaign launch, Bolsonaro emphasized law and order and family values.
“Today we have a president who believes in God; represents the military and police; believes in the family,” Bolsonaro told the crowd, some of whom shouted &#8220;mito&#8221; or legend.
Like several other right-wing leaders, Bolsonaro has been <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220816-bolsonaro-brazil-s-polarizing-far-right-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> &#8220;far-right&#8221; by critics.
Despite his conservative brand, Bolsonaro has also <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/08/31/906215778/coronavirus-hit-brazil-considers-major-public-funds-for-poor-and-unemployed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> for generous government assistance to Brazil&#8217;s poor, a move that <a href="http://media.folha.uol.com.br/datafolha/2020/08/14/da7301f937d9224fe7ddf4cc81bcdf87ab.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boosted</a> his approval in the dog days of the pandemic.
<h3>Hungary: Viktor Orban</h3>
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has the longest presence on the world stage out of these five political leaders.
Like Bolsonaro, Orban has been criticized for having extremely hard-right tendencies and holding discriminatory views. Critics have <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/ukraine/news/orban-is-the-poor-mans-putin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubbed</a> him &#8220;the poor man&#8217;s Vladimir Putin&#8221; and have slammed him for curtailing the press and damaging judicial independence.
However, while other European countries have found themselves in crisis after accepting waves of immigrants, Orban has stringently restricted immigration into Hungary. He has also encouraged families to grow by offering generous government support.
Orban won his last election with a slight majority of 52.5%, more than he won by in both 2018 and 2014.
In August, he delivered a speech at CPAC during which he came out swinging against &#8220;globalists.&#8221;
“The globalists can all go to hell,” Orbán said to applause.
“Politics are not enough,” Orbán said. “This war is a culture war. We have to revitalize our churches, our families, our universities and our community institutions.”
<h3>Canada: Pierre Poilievre</h3>
Pierre Poilievre may not be Prime Minister, but he was elected leader of Canada’s Conservative Party earlier this month.
The fiery new party leader was elected in a landslide 68-16% vote over his more moderate opponent.
“Tonight begins the journey to replace an old government that costs you more and delivers you less with a new government that puts you first, your paycheck, your retirement, your home, your country,” Poilievre <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGn-E826dAU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vowed</a> to applause and chants of “Freedom!” during his victory speech.
Poilievre, an energetic firebrand populist, has aggressively taken aim at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s progressive agenda. Now, the newly-minted Conservative leader is positioned to be a thorn in Trudeau’s side at the very least and a formidable force that hobbles the Liberal Party prime minister’s agenda at most.
Earlier this year, Poilievre voiced <a href="https://twitter.com/pierrepoilievre/status/1488264488457367552" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support</a> for the anti-vaccine mandate trucker convoy that blocked the U.S.-Canada border. His election comes as Canadians look back on over two years of draconian COVID restrictions that have harmed Canada’s post-pandemic economic recovery.

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These Five Foreign Political Leaders Are Taking On The Left

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The American left has a new bogeyman these days. This latest grave threat, as progressives see it, is an emerging international coalition of conservative politicians, pundits and thinkers who are loosely working together to preserve and protect the Western values that animate the right. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, delivered a speech at CPAC this month that occasioned much sturm und drang from American liberals, and has become the latest tool for fear mongering from the left.
Another speaker at CPAC in Dallas, Nigel Farage, also stands in the company of the New Right. The former British MP and UKIP leader was the face of the Brexit battle in the UK in 2015. Many political commentators viewed the successful fight to get Britain out of the European Union as a tremor that presaged the earthquake of Donald Trump’s stunning 2016 victory in his run for the White House.
The throughline between Farage and Trump was a deep suspicion of trade deals and global organizations trying to create a one world approach to problems like climate change, poverty, and migration. And there is an important point here. The global left has long formed international coalitions to achieve their goals. The official song of socialism is literally called, ‘The Internationale.’ But apparently when conservatives use similar tactics it is suddenly dark and nefarious.
The current iteration of fear regarding a rising global right centers on Orban. His approach to leadership has focused on Hungary as a Christian nation, promoting family formation (often with generous government subsidies) and on maintaining cultural cohesion by strictly limiting immigration. The latter issue got him in some hot water recently as he criticized the “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/04/viktor-orban-cpac-dallas-speech/">race mixing</a>” of much of Western Europe. For Americans and others in the West this understandably raised eyebrows, but it is important to understand that Hungarian is an ethnicity, American is not, and so prying apart cultural and ethnic identities is not so clear cut.
Another supposed terror spun by the left is that the global New Right seeks to impose a Christian theocracy. And yes, Christianity does lie at the core of much of this new coalition. Importantly though, there is a scale at work regarding the place of religion in Western states. Many Americans are appalled that Hungary would allow the teachings of Christianity to be at the center of so many of its policies. In our own system a state religion is barred by the constitution. But the UK has Christianity as its official religion, and even has a Church of England. This has never made Americans view the British system as a scary, illiberal theocracy ripped from the pages of the Handmaid’s Tale.
The fact is, it is impossible to even discuss the history and values of the West without discussing the role of Christianity. For most of its history the West was known as Christendom. When conservatives in the West seek to conserve its traditional ideals, those ideals cannot be divorced from the 2,000 year old religion which gave them shape and form. To surrender the core Christian underpinnings of our societies and cultures out of vague fears regarding separation of church and state would be to surrender the battle for our civilization itself without firing a shot.
The central idea animating the Trumps, Orbans and Farages of the global political scene is that the nation state must remain the primary source of power in a world increasingly given over to global institutions. If much of 20th century American conservatism was a battle to maintain power in the states against a jealous federal government, in the 21st century this battle has shifted to maintaining the power of the American state in a sea of creeping globalism.
Here is how Farage put it in his CPAC speech, “this battle on behalf not just of America, but on behalf of the whole of the free world [is] to save everything our forebears built, designed and defended against the world.” Part of this is of course economic, but the more important part, the piece that drives this global conservative mission is cultural. Something like the fight over the definition of what a woman is does not know clean national borders. As leftist international organizations work to codify transgenderism it is necessary for the forces aligned against such redefinitions to cooperatively confront them.
This has led to some leading figures on the American New Right being castigated for foreign alliances the left deems unholy. Fox News host Tucker Carlson has come under blistering attack for his embrace of Orban, and for broadcasting his show from Budapest. Others like Compact Magazine founder Sohrab Ahmari have been lambasted for finding elements of Chinese communitarianism that they believe America could emulate.
Disagreement with Carlson, or Ahmari, or anyone else is fine obviously, but the idea that they represent some grave threat to American democracy is laughable. In fact, the opposite is true. Their overwhelming concern is that Americans, Brits, and Hungarians decide for themselves and their nations what their future should hold rather than a global leviathan.
Hysteria in the US has reached a bizarre fever pitch. All over social media are images of a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in the 1930s, the left seems to truly believe that international New Right politics is a harbinger of fascism. It’s absolutely absurd. There is no call for dictatorship, for expunging anyone from the body politic, for the persecution of minorities. All of this is invented by a global left that sees the emerging global right as a check on their heretofore unchecked power. 
For decades now the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization and a whole alphabet soup of international organizations from Denver to Davos have pushed a far left agenda across the globe.
This new scrappy band of international conservatives is nothing for Americans or the people of any nation to fear. The only people who should be afraid of it are those trying to enforce a top down globalism on the nations of the world. But we are not citizens of the world, we are citizens of our countries and the New Right aims to keep it that way.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Hungary is facing backlash from members of the European Union after passing a law that prohibits showing LGBT content to children under 18 years of age, which many are calling discriminatory.
&#8220;Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, France and Ireland were among European Union countries” speaking out against Hungary on Tuesday for its new law on LGBT content, as Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarys-new-lgbt-law-contradicts-eu-values-germany-says-2021-06-22/">reported</a>.
&#8220;The new law banning the ‘display and promotion of homosexuality’ among under-18s clearly violates European Union values, Germany&#8217;s European affairs minister said ahead of talks with his 27 EU counterparts about deep concerns that Hungary and Poland violate the rule of law by trampling the freedoms of courts, academics and media, as well as restricting the rights of women, migrants and minorities,&#8221; the outlet said.
According to Channel 3000 Associated Press <a href="https://www.channel3000.com/i/eu-warns-hungary-poland-of-action-over-democratic-standards/">reporting</a>, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn also critiqued the law, saying that it “does not correspond to any values defended by the European Union. People have the right to live the way they want, really, we are no longer in the Middle Ages.”
“Freedom of expression needs to be protected, and no one should be discriminated (against) on the basis of sexual orientation,” European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova <a href="https://www.channel3000.com/i/eu-warns-hungary-poland-of-action-over-democratic-standards/">said</a>. “The commission is now looking into the law and assessing if it breaches EU law.”
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg wrote a joint declaration criticizing the latest law updates under Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban “as violating the right to freedom of expression and a ‘flagrant form of discrimination based on sexual orientation,’” per Reuters. Austria also said it was not right to put the LGBT items in a bill about penalties for pedophiles and the Swedish minister commented that the Hungarian law was “grotesque.”
Hungary&#8217;s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that the legislation was only directed at pedophiles.
&#8220;The law protects the children in a way that it makes it an exclusive right of the parents to educate their kids regarding sexual orientation until the age of 18,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This law doesn&#8217;t say anything about sexual orientation of adults.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hungarian-parliament-passes-law-banning-showing-lgbt-content-to-minors">reported</a>, lawmakers in Hungary passed a law earlier this month that would prohibit showing LGBT and transgender content to minors as part of legislation to combat pedophilia.
The bill reportedly primarily centered on combatting pedophilia by increasing sentences for sex crimes committed against children. It also established a public database of sex offenders, per <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/world/europe/hungary-child-sex-lgbtq.html">The New York Times</a>. However, it had amendments “that ban the representation of any sexual orientation besides heterosexual as well as gender change information in school sex education programs, or in films and advertisements aimed at anyone under 18,” according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/15/1006662043/hungary-lawmakers-pass-law-barring-lgbt-content-for-minors">NPR</a>. 
Some reported on the passage of the legislation as an effort to boost support for the conservative party before next year’s elections. The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/world/europe/hungary-child-sex-lgbtq.html">reported</a> that the additional rules added to the bill “require the labeling of all content that might fall into that category of ‘not recommended for those under 18 years of age.’ Such content would be restricted for media like television to the hours between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The restrictions extend to advertisements and even sexual education, which the law would restrict to teachers and organizations approved by the government.” 
The legislation comes after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nickelodeon-ratings-crash-amid-lgbtq-push">backlash has occurred</a> in the United States against entertainment companies such as Nickelodeon that appear to be catering to leftist ideology by creating children’s programming that promotes LGBT behavior.

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Lawmakers in Hungary passed a law Tuesday that would prohibit showing LGBT and transgender content to minors as part of legislation to combat pedophilia.
The ruling conservative party to which Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban belongs introduced the measure and the National Assembly passed the legislation with a 157-1 vote, as <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/15/1006662043/hungary-lawmakers-pass-law-barring-lgbt-content-for-minors">reported</a> by NPR. “The ruling Fidesz party has a parliamentary majority, and lawmakers from the right-wing Jobbik party also endorsed the measure. One independent lawmaker voted against it,” the outlet noted. 
The other opposition parties reportedly didn’t show up to the voting session as a form of protesting the legislation. Those who are against the bill say that it could lead to stigmatization and harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The legislation sparked protests in Budapest as LGBT activists gathered with others in a failed attempt to block the bill.
Csaba Domotor, the Fidesz state secretary, said the goal is “the protection of children,” noting the inclusion of a searchable database of convicted pedophiles as part of the updates, The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-europe-hungary-laws-business-d093db541d1ad00bd4b28bb3a22cdb1b">reported</a>.
“Pedophiles won’t be able to hide any more – there are similar solutions in other countries, too. The criminal code will be even more strict. Punishments will be more severe. No one can get away with atrocities with light punishments and parole,” he said.
“Lawmaker Gergely Arato, of the Democratic Coalition parliamentary grouping, said the changes violate the standards of parliamentary democracy, rule of law and human rights,” NPR added. 
&#8220;On this shameful day, the opposition&#8217;s place is not in the parliament but on the streets,&#8221; Budapest Mayor Karacsony wrote on Facebook.
&#8220;Today&#8217;s decision in #Hungary&#8217;s parliament represents another severe state discrimination against #LGBTIQ people,&#8221; Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Roth of Germany <a href="https://twitter.com/MiRo_SPD/status/1404772298968735747">tweeted</a> Tuesday after the new legislation passed. &#8220;This law goes against everything we regard as our common European values. Full solidarity and support for LGBTIQ people in Hungary.&#8221;
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Today&#39;s decision in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hungary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hungary</a>&#39;s parliament represents another severe state discrimination against <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBTIQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LGBTIQ</a> people. This law goes against everything we regard as our common European values. Full solidarity and support for LGBTIQ people in Hungary.
&mdash; Michael Roth MdB 🇪🇺 (@MiRo_SPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiRo_SPD/status/1404772298968735747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The bill reportedly primarily centered on combatting pedophilia by increasing sentences for sex crimes committed against children. It also established a public database of sex offenders, per <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/world/europe/hungary-child-sex-lgbtq.html">The New York Times</a>. However, it had amendments “that ban the representation of any sexual orientation besides heterosexual as well as gender change information in school sex education programs, or in films and advertisements aimed at anyone under 18,” according to NPR.
Some reported on the passage of the legislation as an effort to boost support for the conservative party before next year’s elections. The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/world/europe/hungary-child-sex-lgbtq.html">reported</a> that the additional rules added to the bill last week “require the labeling of all content that might fall into that category of ‘not recommended for those under 18 years of age.’ Such content would be restricted for media like television to the hours between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The restrictions extend to advertisements and even sexual education, which the law would restrict to teachers and organizations approved by the government.”
The legislation comes after backlash has occurred in the United States against entertainment companies such as Nickelodeon that appear to be catering to leftist ideology by creating children&#8217;s programming that promotes LGBT behavior.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nickelodeon-ratings-crash-amid-lgbtq-push">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, &#8220;In the last two weeks, both Nickelodeon and its preschool-targeted network, Nick Jr., have released videos championing ‘trans,’ ‘queer,’ and ‘pansexual’ inclusion.”
It doesn’t seem to be doing the network many favors, however, as its ratings appear to have been negatively affected by the recent shows. 
&#8220;<a href="https://www.piratesandprincesses.net/viacom-struggles-with-paramount-and-nickelodeon-while-disney-pulls-away/">Pirates and Princesses</a>, a popular entertainment site specializing in Disney-related news, reports Nickelodeon YouTube videos were ‘downvoted to such a degree that they’ve now hidden the ratio.’ The site also says the network has seen a major decline in viewers since it began overtly pushing the LGBTQ agenda to its young viewers,” The Daily Wire noted.
It might be difficult for any legislation to pass that is meant to protect children from specific content, however, if those who oppose such efforts continue to push the implication that virtually all LGBT content is automatically acceptable.

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Hungarian Parliament Passes Law Banning Showing LGBT Content To Minors

On Tuesday, in another win for Israel since President Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, Hungary became the first nation in the European Union to open a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem as it opened its trade office in Israel&#8217;s capital.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, &#8220;Three diplomats from Hungary will be here. This is a step that Hungary is advancing to change the approach toward Jerusalem,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/in-first-for-eu-state-hungary-opens-trade-office-in-jerusalem/">The Times of Israel</a>. Hungary Today reported that according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, 200 Israeli companies employ 5,500 people in Hungary, trade between the two countries totaled over $525 million last year, and Hungarian exports to Israel over the last decade amounted to over $300 million.
Szijjártó added that almost all of the Israeli companies doing business in Hungary are planning to grow their businesses there, saying, &#8220;In doing so, they create further jobs, boost Hungary&#8217;s technological level and contribute to the country&#8217;s rise among the winners of a new economic era based on those technologies.&#8221;
Unlike Belgium, which has <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/424103-belgium-bans-kosher-and-halal-animal-slaughtering-methods">banned kosher butchers</a>, Hungary has no such anti-Jewish attitude; Szijjártó noted that Europe&#700;s biggest kosher butchery had been opened in southeast Hungary with a HUF 2 billion credit line from Magyar Eximbank and a HUF 540 mln grant from the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA), according to the <a href="https://bbj.hu/politics/hungary-to-open-foreign-trade-office-in-jerusalem_161742">Budapest Business Journal</a>.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán <a href="https://hungarytoday.hu/orban-in-israel-ep-elections-goal-to-rein-in-anti-semitism-in-europe/">said in February</a> that he had told the Israeli government that the European parliamentary elections would focus on curbing anti-Semitism in Europe. He stated he hoped European leaders would come forth &#8220;who don&#8217;t finance NGOs that meddle in political affairs and promote an anti-Israel position.&#8221; He said of the upcoming Maccabi Games in Budapest that they &#8220;will hopefully be the best so far.&#8221;
Orban also credited Netanyahu for smoothing relations between Hungary and central Europe. Netanyahu referred to the &#8220;strong bilateral bond&#8221; between the two countries, noting their joint fight against terrorism and extremist Islam as well as their cooperation on defense, research, science, and environmental protection.
The Trump administration&#8217;s commitment to Israel was demonstrated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44193/keeping-promise-us-consulate-jerusalem-merges-us-hank-berrien">yet again</a> roughly two weeks ago, when the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem merged with the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. State Department deputy spokesperson Robert Palladino <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/03/politics/us-consulate-embassy-jerusalem/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_term=image&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=2019-03-04T04%3A01%3A05">stated</a>, &#8220;We will continue to conduct all of the diplomatic and consular functions previously performed by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem. We will also engage in a wide range of reporting, outreach, and programming in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as with Palestinians in Jerusalem, through a U.S. Embassy Palestinian Affairs Unit (PAU), which will operate from our historic Agron Road location in Jerusalem.&#8221;
Prior to that, of course, the Trump administration made the historic move of moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem in May 2018. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30577/european-unions-effort-shame-american-over-emily-zanotti">The Daily Wire</a> reported, only days later, three European Union countries &#8212; Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Romania &#8212; blocked an effort by the EU&#8217;s general council to condemn and &#8220;isolate&#8221; the White House for moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
The Daily Wire continued:
<blockquote>
The effort, led by France, was designed to punish the United States for the decision to relocate its official presence in Israel, <a href="https://www.axios.com/hungary-czech-romania-block-eu-statement-against-embassy-move-jerusalem-6b85f6bb-8861-4dab-8473-e542196d1368.html">Axios reports</a>. If all 28 European Union member nations had signed it, it would have signaled a major effort to oppose the United States&#8217; change in policy and might have &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; the Trump Administration, even though the administration was adamant in its commitment to the move.
</blockquote>

Another Trump Win For Israel: Hungary First EU Nation To Open Diplomatic Mission In Jerusalem

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The George Soros-founded Central European University (CEU) has been issued an &#8220;arbitrary eviction&#8221; by the government of Hungary and has been forced out of the country. The school will be moving to Austria next year, reports <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/george-soros-central-european-university-says-forced-out-of-hungary_us_5c053115e4b04fb2116a2a01">HuffPo</a>.
In a statement following the closure, the CEU lamented that the Hungarian government, currently run by the right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has made an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; move by giving the Soros school the boot.
&#8220;CEU has been forced out,&#8221; said CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff. &#8220;This is unprecedented. A U.S. institution has been driven out of a country that is a NATO ally. A European institution has been ousted from a member state of the EU.&#8221;
&#8220;Arbitrary eviction of a reputable university is a flagrant violation of academic freedom,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;It is a dark day for Europe and a dark day for Hungary.&#8221;
HuffPo provided further context:
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CEU&#8217;s legal status has been in limbo for more than a year since changes to a higher education law that meant a foreign-registered university could no longer operate in Hungary unless it also provided courses in its home country.
CEU, founded in Budapest in 1991, has repeatedly said it has complied with all the new regulations set by Orban&#8217;s government, which has refused to sign off on an already agreed document with the State of New York that would allow CEU to stay.
Hungary&#8217;s government has dismissed the university&#8217;s move as a &#8220;Soros-style bluff&#8221;.
CEU said it would start enrolling students for U.S. degrees at its new campus in Vienna for the next academic year. Students already enrolled will complete their studies in Budapest.
The university retains accreditation as a Hungarian university and will seek to continue teaching and research activity in Budapest as long as possible, it said.
</blockquote>
The war on &#8220;the man who broke the bank of England&#8221; has been ongoing in his home country of Hungary for some time now. After parliament successfully passed the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27138/hungary-admits-stop-soros-bill-parliament-paul-bois">Stop Soros</a>&#8221; bill, Hungary has continued going full-speed ahead in the quest to rid the country of his influence, both culturally and politically.
The &#8220;Stop Soros&#8221; bill had the expressed intention of empowering the interior minister to ban non-governmental organizations (NGOs). After passing in May of this year, several aid groups founded by George Soros were forced out of the country, including the Open Society Foundation, which moved all local staff to Berlin.
Patrick Gaspard, president of Soros&#8217; propaganda organization Open Society Foundations, said that Hungary unfairly persecuted him at the time. &#8220;The government of Hungary has denigrated and misrepresented our work and repressed civil society for the sake of political gain, using tactics unprecedented in the history of the European Union,&#8221; he said.
Soros has spent multi-millions to promote left-wing causes in foreign countries he has little to nothing to do with. This year, he employed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30234/bono-false-christian-u2-tells-ireland-legalize-paul-bois">every celebrity</a> he can fit into his pocket in the effort to repeal Ireland&#8217;s 8th Amendment outlawing abortion. In May, the once-Catholic country <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31124/ireland-votes-overwhelmingly-overturn-8th-frank-camp">overwhelmingly voted in favor of legalized abortion</a> with 68% of the vote.
Soros has given over $32 billion in support of the Open Society Foundations.
In October of last year, Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán announced that expelling George Soros from the country was a personal mission. &#8220;The Soros network has an extensive sphere of influence within the European Parliament and other EU bodies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Its aim is to build a Europe of mixed population and to condemn the Hungarian government for opposing their view on migration.&#8221;
Critics have condemned Orbán&#8217;s efforts to clamp down on NGOs he sees as dangerous to the &#8220;social fabric&#8221; of the country as increasingly authoritarian and anti-democratic, but his government continues to ramp up pressure on the likes of Soros&#8217; Open Society.
&#8220;We are going to reaffirm those elements of our sovereignty which are under attack,&#8221; said the prime minister&#8217;s spokesman, Zoltan Kovacs. &#8220;The will of the people is going to rule the political arena.&#8221;
In reaction to campaigns against him in both Hungary and Britain, Soros has portrayed himself as a victim of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27042/george-soros-whines-about-toxic-personal-criticism-paul-bois">toxic, personal</a>&#8221; criticism against him.

Hungary Forces Out Soros School Via ‘Arbitrary Eviction’

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Gender outrage warriors will have to be taught grievances from somewhere else in Hungary, as the country&#8217;s government has decided to remove gender studies programs from state-run universities.
A government official said the programs are based on &#8220;ideology rather than science,&#8221; and should not be taught in higher education, according to the Hungarian political magazine <a href="http://hvg.hu/itthon/20180809_Diktatum_jellegu_rendelettel_tiltjak_be_a_genderszakot_Magyarorszagon">Heti Világgazdaság</a> and <a href="https://www.pluralist.com/posts/1782-hungary-bans-gender-studies-from-universities/partners/44197">a translation</a> in the left-leaning Pluralist and other outlets. Another government spokesman <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/10/hungary-discontinues-gender-studies-programs-ideology-not-science/">told Breitbart News</a> that the degrees were of no use to students looking for work.
&#8220;There is no economic rationale for studies such as these,&#8221; he said, as the degree does not &#8220;furnish students with skills that can be readily and directly converted on the labour market.&#8221; He added that the programs aren&#8217;t sustainable and &#8220;take away valuable resources from other programs, deteriorating the economic stability of universities.&#8221;
To be fair, just two universities in the country even offer the program at the graduate level, and only 13 students total enrolled in them this year.

Hungary To Remove Gender Studies From Universities, Says Courses Based On ‘Ideology Rather Than Science’

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On Wednesday, the government of Hungary announced it would join the United State in <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/19/hungary-joins-us-in-withdrawing-from-un-global-migration-agreement.html">withdrawing from a U.N. global compact on migration</a>. The government called the compact &#8220;in conflict with common sense&#8221; and national security. The U.S. pulled out of the compact last December.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó stated, &#8220;The primary issue for us is the security of Hungary and the Hungarian people, and this document is totally at odds with the country&#8217;s security interests. According to the Government&#8217;s position, the U.N. Global Compact for Migration is in conflict with common sense and also with the intent to restore European security.&#8221; He added, &#8220;The Government regards this premise as unacceptable and regard migration as a bad process that has extremely serious security aspects.&#8221;
Last December, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had asserted, &#8220;The United States supports international cooperation on migration issues, but it is the primary responsibility of sovereign states to help ensure that migration is safe, orderly, and legal.&#8221;
The agreement, officially called the &#8220;Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration,&#8221; had <a href="https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites/default/files/180205_gcm_zero_draft_final.pdf">stated</a> that no country could address migration on its own, writing, &#8220;The Global Compact is a non-legally binding document. Its authority rests on its consensual nature, credibility, collective ownership, and joint implementation. This cooperative framework recognizes that no State can effectively address migration on its own due to the inherently transnational nature of the phenomenon.&#8221;
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban&#8217;s ruling Fidesz Party has centered on reducing mass migration as a focus of its agenda. President Trump told Orban in June that he agreed &#8220;on the need for strong national borders,&#8221; according to the White House.
As Fox News notes, &#8220;Hungary was on the front lines of the 2015 migration crisis, and angered international groups by building a border fence and deploying troops to the border in the wake of the crisis.&#8221;

Hungary Joins U.S., Pulls Out Of Global Migration Compact

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The Hungarian government, which has been increasingly putting the pressure on the &#8220;man who broke the bank of England,&#8221; has officially forced billionaire socialist activist George Soros to take his operation elsewhere.
After passing a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27138/hungary-admits-stop-soros-bill-parliament-paul-bois">Stop Soros</a>&#8221; bill in parliament with the express intention of empowering the interior minister to ban non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that support migration and pose a national security risk from operating in the country, Soros <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29632/it-worked-hungarys-tough-opposition-soros-forces-paul-bois">relocated</a> his Hungary-based college, Central European University, to Vienna.
Now, according to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/soross-foundation-quits-hungary-under-government-pressure-1526375017">Wall Street Journal</a>, &#8220;a network of aid groups founded by George Soros is set to close its offices in Budapest, citing an increasingly <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/hungarys-parliament-approves-legislation-targeting-george-soros-founded-university-1491313700?mod=article_inline">hostile political environment toward</a> the Hungarian-born billionaire.&#8221;
&#8220;The Open Society Foundations will move local staff to Berlin and base its operations for Hungary out of the German capital, the group said in a statement Tuesday, in what represents a fresh escalation in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/criticized-abroad-hungarys-orban-gains-support-at-home-with-migrant-crackdown-1442517065?mod=article_inline">the conflict between Prime Minister</a> Viktor Orban and civil society groups,&#8221; reports WSJ.
Patrick Gaspard, president of Soros&#8217; propaganda organization Open Society Foundations, says that Hungary unfairly persecuted him. &#8220;The government of Hungary has denigrated and misrepresented our work and repressed civil society for the sake of political gain, using tactics unprecedented in the history of the European Union,&#8221; he said.
Gaspard says this as Soros spends multi-millions, employing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30234/bono-false-christian-u2-tells-ireland-legalize-paul-bois">every celebrity</a> he can fit into his pocket, to repeal Ireland&#8217;s 8th Amendment outlawing abortion. Soros has given over $32 billion in support of the Open Society Foundations, which pushes his one-world, anti-family, anti-religion, anti-God, anti-capitalism philosophy in the 100 countries it operates in.
Prime Minister Orbán has made it his mission to expel the influence of Soros from the nation. This past October, he said of the hedge fund billionaire, &#8220;The Soros network has an extensive sphere of influence within the European Parliament and other EU bodies. Its aim is to build a Europe of mixed population and to condemn the Hungarian government for opposing their view on migration.&#8221;
Critics have condemned Orbán&#8217;s efforts to clamp down on NGOs he sees as dangerous to the &#8220;social fabric&#8221; of the country as increasingly authoritarian and anti-democratic, but his government continues to ramp up pressure on the likes of Soros&#8217; Open Society.
&#8220;We are going to reaffirm those elements of our sovereignty which are under attack,&#8221; said the prime minister&#8217;s spokesman, Zoltan Kovacs. &#8220;The will of the people is going to rule the political arena.&#8221;
In reaction to campaigns against him in both Hungary and Britain, Soros has portrayed himself as a victim of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27042/george-soros-whines-about-toxic-personal-criticism-paul-bois">toxic, personal</a>&#8221; criticism against him.

Hungarian Government Forces Soros Organization To Close Shop

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In February, Hungarian legislators introduced a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27138/hungary-admits-stop-soros-bill-parliament-paul-bois">Stop Soros</a>&#8221; bill in parliament with the express intention of &#8220;empower[ing] the interior minister to ban non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that support migration and pose a national security risk.&#8221;
Submitted by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the bill proposed an anti-immigration campaign that specifically targeted Soros for using his philanthropy to promote open borders in eastern Europe.
The Soros hammering now appears to have worked, as &#8220;the man who broke the bank of England&#8221; will relocate his Hungary-based college, Central European University, to Vienna.
According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-election-university/george-soross-hungary-university-signs-deal-to-open-campus-in-vienna-idUSKBN1HG2T2">Reuters</a>, the Central European University (CEU) &#8220;signed an agreement with the City of Vienna to open a new satellite campus there.&#8221; The move stems from a law in Hungary that set tougher restrictions on awarding licenses to foreign universities (CEU originated in New York).
&#8220;The new law stipulated that CEU must open a branch in its &#8216;home state&#8217; of New York alongside its campus in Budapest and secure a bilateral agreement of support from the U.S. government,&#8221; reports Reuters.
Sveriges Radio <a href="https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&amp;artikel=6930002" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reports</a> that Éva Fodor, Deputy Rector at CEU, expressed hope that CEU would not have to relocate to Vienna as they have complied with the Hungarian government&#8217;s requirement that they set up a branch in New York. More than likely, the government will still not approve their request for permanent residency, leaving them hanging in the wind with no option but to move.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said during a press conference that no decision will be made anytime soon. For this, Fodor said, &#8220;If the government still has not signed this agreement in mid-June, then we will start planning to move the entire university to Vienna.&#8221;
Fodor lamented that Hungary&#8217;s new law has created many new complications and headaches. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to recruit new staff when we can not even tell where their workplace will be,&#8221; Fodor added.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has made it his mission to expel the influence of Soros from the nation. This past October, he said of the hedge fund billionaire, &#8220;The Soros network has an extensive sphere of influence within the European Parliament and other EU bodies. Its aim is to build a Europe of mixed population and to condemn the Hungarian government for opposing their view on migration.&#8221;
In reaction to campaigns against him in both Hungary and Britain, Soros has only whined, portraying himself as a victim of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27042/george-soros-whines-about-toxic-personal-criticism-paul-bois">toxic, personal</a>&#8221; criticism against him.
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IT WORKED: Hungary’s Tough Opposition To Soros Forces Him To Relocate University In Vienna

The Prime Minister of Hungary has hope for Europe, and it is not a hope for more secularism or a hope for open borders, but a hope for a resurgence of Christianity.
According to <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/hungarian-prime-minister-christianity-is-europes-last-hope">LifeSiteNews</a>, PM Viktor Orbán gave an address to his nation warning that the EU and its open borders policy with Islamic nations has &#8220;opened the way to the decline of Christian culture and the advance of Islam.&#8221;
Orbán stressed that the acceleration in a wave of Islamic migrants has put Western European countries like France and Holland in an existential vacuum.
&#8220;Christianity is Europe&#8217;s last hope,&#8221; said Orbán.
&#8220;According to estimates, the proportion of immigrants will grow at an accelerated pace in the European countries west of us,&#8221; said Orbán. &#8220;I won&#8217;t even say anything about France and Holland, but even the born Germans are being forced back from most large German cities as migrants always occupy big cities first.&#8221;
Soon, Orbán warns, Islamic migration will spread into Eastern Europe and further put Christianity at risk from ever flourishing again on the continent.
&#8220;This means that the Islamic civilization, which always considers its vocation to convert Europe to what it calls the true faith, in the future will be knocking on the door of Central Europe not only from the south, but from the west, as well,&#8221; he said.
The European Union has previously threatened both Hungary and Poland <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/poland-supreme-court-eu-sanctions-a8127396.html">with sanctions</a> for refusing to accept migrants.
Hungary has also taken its anti-open borders fight to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27138/hungary-admits-stop-soros-bill-parliament-paul-bois">billionaire interloper George Soros</a>, with legislation called the &#8220;Stop Soros&#8221; bill being introduced to parliament. The bill would &#8220;empower the interior minister to ban non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that support migration and pose a national security risk.&#8221;
Orbán has accused Soros of antagonizing &#8220;not only us but also England, President Trump and Israel too. Everywhere he wants to get migration accepted. It won&#8217;t work. We are not alone and we will fight together and we will succeed.&#8221;

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