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Polls have closed in Hungary, we are now awaiting results of the nationwide election. It's very possible that we may see Orban ousted from power.
 
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Maybe... or maybe Russia did some work. We'll see.
 

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It seems like Peter Magyar, who's a pro European moderate conservative is leading.
 

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Current news: Tisza leads by a wide margin with over a quarter of the vote counted.
 

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. Navy would “immediately” begin a blockade to stop ships from entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, after U.S.-Iran peace talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement. Iran has demanded the right to collect tolls from vessels traveling through the strait, but Trump said no one who paid them would “have safe passage on the high seas.”

Energy expert says oil price could jump by $10 on Trump’s threatened blockade of the Strait of Hormuz

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Brent crude oil, the international standard, has gone from roughly $70 per barrel before the war in late February to more than $119 at times. Brent for June delivery fell 0.8% to $95.20 per barrel Friday.

Michael Lynch, distinguished fellow at Energy Policy Research Foundation, estimates Trump’s threatened blockade could boost oil prices $5 to $10 when the market opens on Monday.
The blockade would take an estimated 2 million barrels of oil per day off the market, and the Iran war has already taken roughly 10 million barrels per day out of supply, Lynch said.
“This is a pretty big insult to a pretty big injury, I guess, is the way to put it,” he said.
But Lynch said the blockade might be short lived as Trump will be pressured to walk it back.
“I wouldn’t be surprised to see him to give it up by midweek, especially if oil prices keep going up,” he said.
 

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I guess defending the police is okay after all
 

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Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing in the street outside as they were pursued and then destroyed by a nameless malevolent force, something neither I nor anyone else could control, a great darkness that was, somehow, all my fault.

Today, that childhood dream is finally coming true. Today I can finally say the sweetest nine or 10 words in the English language: Global Tetrahedron has completed its plan to control InfoWars.

I’ve had a lot of time to think about InfoWars in the last year and a half. As the seasons have changed, my ambitions for the project have grown grander, crueler, better aligned with market data. Come, friends, and imagine with me…

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Two top stories today:

- Benjamin Netenyahu announces cancer diagnosis. What a shame.

- The Justice Department announces a return to firing squads for federal executions.
 

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Two top stories today:

- Benjamin Netenyahu announces cancer diagnosis. What a shame.

- The Justice Department announces a return to firing squads for federal executions.
I have never understood why we use the death penalty at all. Once somebody is in custody, they’re not much of a threat.
 

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Trump was evacuated, looks like a lone shooter situation.
 

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The actual breaking news is that Trump was at the White House on a Saturday
 
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