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A Florida doctor has been indicted in connection with the death of a 70-year-old man who had the wrong organ removed during surgery.

Prosecutors allege that on Aug. 21, 2024, during what was scheduled to be a laparoscopic splenectomy, Shaknovsky accidentally removed the victim's liver instead of his spleen. The move resulted in "catastrophic blood loss and the patient’s death on the operating table," a press release said.

In a phone call, the victim's widow, Beverly Bryan, identified her husband, Bill Bryan. "When I tell people what happened, it still sounds too awful to be true that, that could happen," she said. "I still have trouble believing it happened myself. Can you imagine?"

From the political platform of the winning party -

* Lift defence spending to NATO's target of 5% of GDP by 2035.

* Suspend new permits for workers from outside the EU from June.

* Not accept the relocation of migrants from western Europe and opposes EU migration quotas and its migration pact.

* Seek a bilateral strategic partnership with the U.S. focusing on energy diversification, security and transparent economic cooperation.

* Strengthen Hungary's European and Western orientation.

* Clamp down on corruption and cut back on unjustified public investments.

* Cut the budget deficit from 5% to below 3%

* Limit state intervention in the economy and markets.

* Not send troops to Ukraine and does not plan to revive conscription.

* Greater transparency in public procurement, tougher conflict-of-interest rules.

* Two-term limit for prime ministers.

* Cut income tax for 2.2 million workers earning below the median wage. The current 15% rate would stay in place for higher earners.


Doesn't sound like any kind of loss at all, Just Orban without the absurd levels of corruption.

Several countries have said they will not follow the immigrant quotas, it is possible to do that.

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When Vice President JD Vance visited Hungary this past week, he spoke at and praised Mathias Corvinus Collegium, an educational institution set up to create a new conservative elite in step with the Russia-friendly and MAGA-aligned views of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Mr. Vance’s laudatory remarks on Wednesday about the 10-year-old college, known as M.C.C., as a bastion of free thinking and common sense, however, stuck in the craw of Zalan Alkonyi, one of its researchers focused on Russia. The college, Mr. Alkonyi said in an interview at his book-filled home in Budapest, has many serious scholars, but it puts pressure on them to speak and publish in support of the government’s line.

“For years I had to practice severe self-censorship on Russia and the Russian policy of the Hungarian government,” said Mr. Alkonyi, 28.

He recounted feeling pressure to support, or at least not contradict, Mr. Orban’s view that Ukraine, not Russia, was the main threat to European security and that the European Union had been foolish in helping Kyiv resist Russian attack.
With Hungary about to hold a general election that could end Mr. Orban’s 16 years in power — an outcome that neither Washington nor Moscow wants — Mr. Alkonyi is among a growing list of defectors from institutions that the governing Fidesz party for years counted as loyal allies.

The latest of these was Viktor Norman Virag, a former senior member of the National Bureau of Investigation, who on Wednesday told Partizan, an opposition media outlet, that 80 percent of his work involved “meeting political expectations,” which in one case meant dropping a case against a Russian suspected of being a cybercriminal.

I considered myself a right-winger, too, but I’m not sure anymore,” he said. “I have a crisis of identity like the whole country.” “I decided to speak up about Russian interference,” he added, “because this is not a distant issue happening in Moldova or Georgia but in my own country.”

Deciding that Fidesz’s rule might not be eternal after all, Mr. Alkonyi last month put a Tisza banner on the balcony of his apartment overlooking a busy Budapest avenue. Shortly after that, he posted a message on Facebook denouncing “Russian intervention in the Hungarian elections” that he said was “unprecedented in the European Union in its methods and sophistication.” That directly contradicted the government’s line — reinforced by Mr. Vance in public statements during his visit to Hungary — that the only significant interference in the election has come from “bureaucrats” at the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, and from President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.

As part of its election program, the opposition Tisza party has promised to claw back assets — primarily shares in a big state oil company — given to M.C.C. by the Fidesz government. The party says it will “end the practice of using public funds to build political networks.”

What proof do you have that it is a lie?

The guy elected is ALSO anti immigrant.

Why would they want to blockade the strait?

Why does Trump want to do that too? Just yesterday wasnt the USA saying it should be open?

Orban's estate with Palm Trees and Zebras.

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The guy who won is anti-immigrant too and a Euro-skeptic within reason he is not some Soros-ite. For goodness sakes for years he was like the number three guy under Orban, he just tired of the corruption. Orban has Zebras at his private estate!

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Sun, Apr 12 at 7:46 AM

But first, a study found that some people in vegetative states may have more awareness than we thought.

Let’s say something bad happens — a crash, a fall, a stroke, an overdose. Your brain absorbs a violent shock or a period without oxygen. But your heart still beats and your lungs still heave. Now you’re unconscious in the hospital, unable to respond when your spouse calls your name or your doctor prods you with a reflex hammer.

For years, these patients were said to be in a “persistent vegetative state”: bodies without minds. They idle, mostly in care centers and nursing homes, with little attention. But new research shows that many such patients — tens of thousands of Americans — may actually be hearing and thinking. That is the (somewhat horrifying) subject of Katie Engelhart’s new article for The Times Magazine. I asked her about it.

Adam: Now we know that some people declared vegetative can actually perceive and understand things around them. How many people are we talking about?

Katie: Nobody is counting. By some estimates, around 50,000 Americans are in a chronic vegetative state, meaning that they are technically awake, but have no awareness of what is going on around them. Another 200,000 to 400,000 are in a “minimally conscious state,” with fleeting periods of awareness. Research suggests that about a quarter of all these patients are able to follow commands like, “Imagine opening and closing your hand.”

How did researchers figure out that this set of patients was conscious?

Back in 2006, a neuroscientist at Cambridge University put a 23-year-old woman, who had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state, into an fMRI scanner and asked her to “imagine playing tennis.” And she did! The area that controls motor planning in her brain lit up in just the same way that a healthy person’s brain would. The phenomenon was widely replicated.

The scary thing is that it doesn’t seem like there’s any way for ordinary patients to get tested for this awareness.

Exactly. Researchers have been able to find covertly conscious patients for 20 years, but the testing is almost exclusively done through research trials. I interviewed many people whose loved ones had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state — and whose doctors never even raised the possibility of covert consciousness. But family members are doing their own research, and they want access to the cutting-edge science.

They said something about him about to enter the room, they spoke too soon, sorry. Oh well at least its something to watch.