SCREEN: 'CONFIDENCE,' HUNGARY IN WARTIME (Published 1981)

Janet Maslin’s 1980 NY Times review:

www.nytimes.com/1981/03/15/m...

...In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as husband and wife in an effort to stay hidden in plain sight. Will they be able to maintain the illusion without giving in to their growing feelings for each other?

1980's CONFIDENCE was nominated for the Academy Award and director István Szabó won the Berlin Film Festival's Silver Bear for Best Director...

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Confdence (1980)
dir. István Szabó

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

-Albert Camus

Palantir Posts Manifesto Lamenting Post-War “Neutering” of Nazi Germany The surveillance giant has exploded in value as it’s scored massive contracts from the Trump administration.

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Trump's cabinet picks seem designed to unwind government itself, leaving the average citizen completely exposed and vulnerable to full exploitation by corporate interests.

-Joy Reid

These Middle Eastern News Sites Are Actually U.S. Government Propaganda Operations Al-Fassel and Pishtaz News publish pro-U.S. coverage about the war on Iran and the Trump administration’s plan to redevelop Gaza.

theintercept.com/2026/04/20/p...

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

-Albert Camus

‘It’s All About Keeping Wages at Poverty Levels to Overpay Their CEOs’: CounterSpin interview with Sarah Anderson on poverty wages "It's our taxpayer money that is going into those public assistance programs that these companies are using to make this model workable."

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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

-Simone Weil

Three sentenced for fake bear attack insurance scam - UPI.com Three people were sentenced this week in an insurance fraud scam that saw them wear a bear costume while damaging luxury cars in California.

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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

-Blaise Pascal

Why Pete Hegseth's Tarantino blunder wasn't the least bit surprising America's defense secretary is fixated on a fringe, violent version of Christian Nationalism.

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Texto: Soy hincha del Real Madrid desde 1977. Seguiré siéndolo, pero desde que echaron a Xabi Alonso, añadido a lo cansino y falso que es la propaganda de Don Florentino y sus súbditos contra los árbitros en el fútbol español, no he visto ningún partido del RMCF. He escuchado por radio los despropósitos de Arbeloa, Vinicius, Mbappé, Rüdiger y otros, y me ha entusiasmado escuchar las descripciones de las hazañas de Valverde y Güller, pero no he visto ni un segundo de un Real Madrid que da vergüenza ajena desde que se fue Alonso. Horrible todo, un asco total. No valen tantas idioteces, el hincha no merece tanta bajeza. Si dimite Florentino, volveré a ver jugar a un club que he seguido durante casi 50 años. Ya está bien, carajo.  V.M.

la escuda de Real Madrid

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

-William Shakespeare

This Isn’t Just Trump’s War on Iran. Both Parties Paved the Way for Disaster. We must recognize Democrats share responsibility with the GOP for creating the climate that made such a war possible.

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

-Albert Einstein

Lebanon: Urgent need for more aid after two months of devastation A pause in conflict does not undo months of trauma, death, displacement, and lack of access to basic necessities.

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Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

-Bertrand Russell

Jon Ossoff calls out ‘Mar-a-Lago mafia’ amid presidential bid rumors Georgia senator says Americans will pay for Trump’s Iran war, and family’s corruption, with child and healthcare cuts

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As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

-Friedrich Schiller

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

-Jimmy Carter

Iran War Powers Vote Fails House by 1 Vote, With 1 Democrat Opposed The Democrat, Jared Golden, announced last year that he’s not running for reelection after a challenge from the left.

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When (people) go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

-Saint Augustine

President Trump and PM Netanyahu, during news conference in State Dining Room of the White House Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo

President Trump and PM Netanyahu, during news conference in State Dining Room of the White House
Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo

The Dam Breaks: Democratic Senators Overwhelmingly Reject Arms Sales to Israel A majority of Senate Democrats voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s resolutions to block arms sales to Israel.

theintercept.com/2026/04/15/s...

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

-Bertolt Brecht

Greater North America and the US Government's New Regional Geography Just over a month has passed since the first missiles of Operation Epic Fury killed, on the very first day, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, 150 schoolgirls and school staff, and most of Iran’s military (...

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

-Oscar Wilde