plan orbana

[János Sugár]

Title: plan orbana


its worth to put this text in google translate:

https://www.facebook.com/100050478939975/posts/plan-orbana11-lat-temu-na-jednej-z-konferencji-pod-rzymem-organizowanej-przez-ka/514701036889190/

roman giertych, ex polish deputy prime minister wrote 2 days ago
(and it is on his yt vlog channel, and on his twitter too) about an
earlier secret agreement in which russia, poland and hungary divide
ukraine between the three.
 


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Re: On the return of the interventionist state 7 fact-check

[János Sugár]

At 1:23 PM +0200 9/15/21, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:

Dear David,

please, fact-check; this is incorrect:


 the most powerful decision-making body in the EU is
 the European Commission is comprised of unelected officials


You may see deficits in the following procedure, but there are in 
fact elections and democratic confirmations:


"The president-elect selects potential Vice-Presidents and 
Commissioners based on suggestions from EU countries. The list of 
nominees has to be approved by all EU heads of state or government, 
meeting in the European Council. ... Following Parliament's vote[*], 
the Commissioners are appointed by the European Council. ..."


(* Remember that, in autumn 2019, the European Parliament rejected 
the Romanian and Hungarian commissioners-elect first proposed by U. 
von der Leyen, due to "conflicts of interest.")


If the Commission is ruled, as you claim, by a "neo-liberal 
orthodoxy", then this selection process shows that the problem is 
much bigger than just the assembly of Commissioners. (And arguably 
the EU of 2021 is not any more the EU of 2010.)


Moreover, the "most powerful decision-making body in the EU" is 
clearly the European Council:


"The members of the European Council are the heads of state or 
government of the 27 EU member states, the European Council 
President and the President of the European Commission."


As we have seen in the last years, the role of the European 
Parliament has been strengthened gradually, if too slowly.


Otherwise, thank you for pointing out some of the problematic 
concepts and levels of argumentation in the reference text!


Regards,
-a


Am 15.09.21 um 11:57 schrieb d.gar...@new-tactical-research.co.uk:
Thanks Paolo for this very interesting article. Just a few 
questions that I imagine will be answered by reading the book.


I am unclear what is meant here by 'the state'. Is it 
interchangeable with 'government'? Does the argument that 
neoliberalism (market fundamentalism) is being replaced by 
'neostatism' mean that you see neoliberalism as a kind of polity or 
set of constitutional arrangements rather than an economic 
orthodoxy?


To take one example the most powerful decision-making body in the 
EU is the European Commission is comprised of unelected officials 
whose principal task is to ensure that no national election of a 
member state will ever overturn the parameters of the neo-liberal 
orthodoxy. Anyone who doubts this should remember what happened to 
Greece in the debt crisis of 2009/10. So do you see the Commission 
as an example of a 'neostate'? Or is it something else again? Is 
the EU Commission included in the book?


I am curious whether your analysis of the neo-state addresses the 
current position of 'liberal democracy'which (for better or for 
worse) is in a (over used word) crisis. It seems to me that the 
liberal view of the state continues to trade on the old the 
increasingly tired old ruse of making a virtue of obscuring the 
answer to the question, who governs?   them or us, people or 
government. This deliberate ambiguity is the beating heart of 
classical liberalism and seen as a way holding the line between 
tyranny vs mob rule. But its effect is simply to keep the status 
quo in place.  This dubious magic trick (once described as the 
manufacturing of consent) has apart at the seams to be replaced by 
a techno/populist logic that depends on the 'manufacture of 
dissent'.


None of this hall of mirrors would matter if we were not facing a 
climate emergency that needs decision, action and immediate deep 
change.


I am looking forward to reading the book.

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Re: futurlab hungary

[János Sugár]

Title: Re:futurlab hungary


dear zeljko, patrice et al,

    sorry
for the late reaction, and another sorry for the lots of urls, but the
illiberal reality produces every day something new and
depressing:

Orban's dirty little trick: Conflating pedophilia with
homosexuality
https://kafkadesk.org/2021/06/13/orbans-dirty-little-trick-conflating-pedophilia-with-homosexuality/

Hungary Adopts Child Sex Abuse Law That Also Targets L.G.B.T.
Community
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/world/europe/hungary-child-sex-lgbtq.html

and concerning the Fudan university a brave act:
the mayor of Budapest names streets at planned Chinese university
after Uyghurs, Hong Kong
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/budapest-names-streets-planned-chinese-university-after-uyghurs-hong-kong-2021-06-02/

+

Orbán: government will appoint people
with "national worldview" to lead Hungarian
universities
https://insighthungary.444.hu/2021/05/06/orban-government-will-appoint-people-with-national-worldview-to-lead-hungarian-universities

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/orban-seen-entrenching-right-wing-dominance-through-hungarian-university-reform-2021-04-26/

Hungary Transfers 11 Universities to
Foundations Led by Orban Allies. The transfer, accompanied by billions
of euros in state assets, will enable the prime minister and his
supporters to exert long-term influence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/world/europe/hungary-universities-orban.html?referringSource=articleShare

"They have essentially seized every major institution in
society"-Hungary's university takeover
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/04/30/they-have-essentially-seized-every-major-institution-in-society-hungarys-university-takeover

Orbán has begun taking steps to preserve
his power
https://telex.hu/english/2021/05/04/orban-has-begun-taking-steps-to-preserve-his-power



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concerning .pl

[János Sugár]

Title: concerning .pl


Pupils in Polish schools will be 
taught that the European Union is an "unlawful entity", says
the education minister, Przemyslaw Czarnek. He also wants history
classes to focus more on teaching "pride" in Poland's past
rather than, than as before, "shame" about it.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/05/19/polish-schools-will-teach-that-eu-is-unlawful-entity-says-education-minister/


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futurlab hungary

[János Sugár]

Title: futurlab hungary


Hungary's parliament passed legislation on Tuesday setting up
foundations to take over the running of universities and cultural
institutions in a move critics say extends the ideological imprint of
the ruling right-wing government.
Orban's Fidesz party, which has a two-thirds majority in
parliament, voted for the legislation on Tuesday.
His government will appoint boards of trustees to run the foundations,
which will control substantial real estate assets and benefit from
billions of euros worth of EU funds, while also having considerable
influence over universities' everyday life
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/27/europe/hungary-orban-university-reform-intl/index.html

+

The Hungarian government is planning to build a Budapest campus
of the Chinese Fudan University with Chinese contractors, financed by
a ¤1.25 billion loan from China, it emerged this month.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/hungary-to-build-budapest-campus-of-chinese-university-with-chinese-loan/


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meanwhile in hu

[János Sugár]

Title: meanwhile in hu


Hungary's pro-government and state media reacted to last week's
storming of the United States Capitol by far-right supporters of U.S.
president Donald Trump by spinning conspiracy theories and shifting
blame to alleged antifascist provocateurs and Black Lives Matter
activists.
A January 7 video report by state-funded public television station M1
concluded that "Joe Biden's presidency brings chaos,"
despite the fact that the Democratic winner of the presidential
election will not be inaugurated until January 20.

https://insighthungary.444.hu/2021/01/14/hungarys-pro-government-media-spins-alternative-reality-in-reactions-to-storming-of-us-capitol


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in the meantime in .hu

[János Sugár]

Title: in the meantime in .hu


Europe is George Soros' gas chamber," Szilard Demeter,
ministerial commissioner and head of the Petofi Literary Museum in
Budapest, wrote in an opinion Saturday in the pro-government Origo
media outlet. "Poison gas flows from the capsule of a multicultural
open society, which is deadly to the European way of life."
https://apnews.com/article/budapest-george-soros-europe-hungary-europe-913b41d42319578a24d6daba50b7b0bb


Der Verband Ungarischer Jüdischer Glaubensgemeinden hat gestern
gegen die Aussagen des Leiters des Budapester
Petöfi-Literaturmuseums, Szilard Demeter, protestiert. Dieser hatte
dem US-Investor und Philanthropen George Soros vorgeworfen, Europa zu
seiner “Gaskammer" gemacht zu haben.
https://orf.at/stories/3191667/

Ungarischer Kulturfunktionär bezeichnet Europa als «Gaskammer
von Soros»
Der Funktionär Szilard Demeter steht der Regierung Viktor
Orbans nahe. Er bezeichnet sich selbst als «fanatischer
Orbanist».
https://www.nzz.ch/international/ungarischer-kulturfunktionaer-bezeichnet-europa-als-gaskammer-von-soros-ld.1589350?reduced=true


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#freeSZFE

[János Sugár]

Title: #freeSZFE


Internet is permanently shutdown at main buildings of
prestigious Arts University in Budapest while students
protest
/.../
The current internet shutdown in the University buildings at
Tuesday evening and the lock down of Odry stage, which is used as the
main venue of forums within the campus has been ordered 
admittedly by the government appointed former military colonel
Chancellor Szarka. " I will do all I can in order to make an end
of this internal anarchy."- he said. 
Gergely Gulyás, cabinet chief of Hungarian prime minister
Viktor Orbán has stated, that the annual budget of the University of
Theatre and Film Arts will be doubled by the government, consequently
the University may plan with a 3 billion HUF budget (8.3 million
euros) next year. As a response the protesting students claim that in
the current situation which involves infringement it is unethical to
respond with financial offerings.
The demonstrating students announced a protest march for the 23rd
of October, on the same day and location as the Hungarian Revolution
of 1956, which has began as a student protest.
/.../
https://telex.hu/english/2020/10/17/internet-is-permanently-shutdown-at-main-buildings-of-prestigious-arts-university-in-budapest-while-students-protest


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Re: teaching republic

[János Sugár]

Title: Re:  teaching
republic


At 12:11 PM +0200 10/11/20, Francis Hunger wrote:
Would it help to deliver more solidarity
addresses from art schools and academia? Is other help
needed?

dear francis, et al,

    i
think, yes.

https://hungarytoday.hu/hungary-theatre-university-ultimatum-offer/
    
althaugh i am not personally involved in this stand,
i can fwd some contacts:

#freeSZFE
link: https://www.facebook.com/events/4719786664699902/
email: sztrajkbizott...@szfe.hu

there are 2 symbols:
- the red white barrier tape,
- and a raised palm with _freeSZFE_

cheers,

j



https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/10/08/the-institute-of-network-cultures-stands-in-solidarity-with-the-budapest-university-of-theatre-and-film-arts/

 


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teaching republic

[János Sugár]

Title: teaching republic


Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts students have not
only occupied their university, they have now redesigned the
university completely and started new ways of teaching with their
'experimental teaching republic'.

https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/10/08/the-institute-of-network-cultures-stands-in-solidarity-with-the-budapest-university-of-theatre-and-film-arts/


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Military colonel appointed to University of Theatre and Film Arts

[János Sugár]

Title: Military colonel appointed to University of Theatre
and Fi


Col. Gábor Szarka, former Chief of Staff to the Minister of
Defense in the second Orbán government, was appointed chancellor of
the arts university by a board of directors recently installed by the
government.

Following his appointment, the students blocked Szarka from
entering the campus, a continuation of the month-long occupation and
blockade of the university in response to an intensifying conflict
between students/professors and the new board of directors. Students
maintained that they consider the board illegitimate, and vowed to
continue the blockade against all new leadership until their demands
for autonomy are met.

On Wednesday night, one month after occupying a campus building
on Vas Street in Budapest, students placed another building under
blockade. A student forum voted Wednesday night to occupy the film
faculty building on Szentkirályi Street after the university's
previous leadership -  including the acting rector, deputy
rector, and the heads of each of the university's faculties - joined a
student demonstration as their mandates expired following their
resignations in August. 

https://insighthungary.444.hu/2020/10/01/military-colonel-appointed-chancellor-of-budapests-university-of-theatre-and-film-arts


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Hungary's Index journalists walk out over sacking

[János Sugár]

Index is the last of Hungary's key independent media and editor in 
chief Szabolcs Dull was fired on Tuesday. Over the past decade, 
supporters of nationalist and conservative Prime Minister Viktor 
Orban have gradually taken control of Hungary's independent media. 
Hungary is ranked 89th out of 180 countries on the Reporters without 
Borders World Press Freedom Index.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53531948

Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
https://index.hu/english

Editor-in-chief fired at Hungary's leading independent news site
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/22/editor-in-chief-fired-hungary-leading-independent-news-site-szabolcs-dull-index

Editor in chief of influential Hungarian news site Index.hu ousted
Szabolcs Dull warned that website's independence at risk of political 
pressure from Orban's government

https://www.ft.com/content/7832088e-7286-4d3f-b745-2015cd5c7046

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/pressefreiheit-in-ungarn-index-auf-viktor-orbans-index-a-1151361f-eb6d-4ec2-905c-f92c48dc7a44
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no go topics in state media

[János Sugár]

Hungarian state media bosses told staff they need 
permission to report on Greta Thunberg and EU 
politics, and banned coverage of reports from 
leading human rights organizations, according to 
internal emails obtained by POLITICO.
Editors working in state media are provided with 
lists of sensitive topics, and any coverage 
related to the issues mentioned requires staff to 
send draft content for approval from higher up, 
the internal correspondence shows. In the case of 
Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, 
journalists were told they need permission before 
they even start writing, according to one email.
Hungary is currently subject to the EU's Article 
7 censure procedure, triggered when the bloc's 
fundamental values are considered at risk in a 
member country. The European Parliament launched 
the procedure in 2018, citing media freedom as 
one of many issues that gave cause for alarm. 
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government has 
dismissed such concerns.



https://www.politico.eu/article/hungarian-state-media-not-free-to-report-on-greta-thunberg-human-rights/

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embeding

[János Sugár]

"we must embed the political system in a cultural era"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/11/the-guardian-view-on-viktor-orban-laws-controlling-culture



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Hungarian Academy of Sciences stripped of its research network

[János Sugár]

Despite demonstrations and loud protests, today, leader of the 
Ministry for Innovation and Technology, presented the bill to the 
National Assembly, which would completely reshape the Hungarian 
Academy of Sciences (MTA) by stripping it of its assets and allow 
governmental control over the 200 year old institution.


The Hungarian Government's intention to bring about changes in the 
way Hungarian scientific life is funded first manifested itself last 
June when the 2019 budget proposal intended to place the Ministry of 
Innovation and Technology in charge of around two-thirds of the 
Academy's funding. The scientific community strongly objected to this 
proposal, many said that it would endanger academic freedom in 
Hungary. Following several bouts of negotiations and several 
alternative proposals put forth by the MTA, the mostly one-sided 
dispute that lasted almost a year ended at the beginning of June.

https://index.hu/english/2019/07/02/hungarian_academy_of_sciences_research_network_taken_away_academic_freedom_ministry_of_innovation_and_technology/

Hungarian scientists mull legal action over government controls
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-scientists/hungarian-scientists-mull-legal-action-over-government-controls-idUSKCN1TD1AN

Government to Impose Total Control Over the Science Academy
https://hungarytoday.hu/government-to-impose-total-control-over-the-science-academy/
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Imre Nagy Memorial Removed

[János Sugár]

The memorial of Imre Nagy, Hungary's prime minister during the 1956 
revolution, was removed from Martyrs' Square near Parliament in the 
early hours of82. Dec. Friday morning. The Imre Nagy memorial will be 
replaced by a reconstructed post-WWI monument dedicated to the 
martyrs of the communist Red Terror in 1919.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/world/europe/hungary-statue-nagy.html


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The End of the Democratic Century

[János Sugár]

Title: The End of the Democratic
Century


The End of the Democratic Century
Autocracy's Global Ascendance
By Yascha Mounk and Roberto Stefan Foa
 
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-04-16/end-democratic-century

At the height of World War II, Henry Luce, the founder of Time
magazine, argued that the United States had amassed such wealth and
power that the twentieth century would come to be known simply as
"the American Century." His prediction proved prescient: despite
being challenged for supremacy by Nazi Germany and, later, the Soviet
Union, the United States prevailed against its adversaries. By the
turn of the millennium, its position as the most powerful and
influential state in the world appeared unimpeachable. As a result,
the twentieth century was marked by the dominance not just of a
particular country but also of the political system it helped spread:
liberal democracy.
As democracy flourished across the world, it was tempting to ascribe
its dominance to its inherent appeal. If citizens in India, Italy, or
Venezuela seemed loyal to their political system, it must have been
because they had developed a deep commitment to both individual rights
and collective self-determination. And if Poles and Filipinos began to
make the transition from dictatorship to democracy, it must have been
because they, too, shared in the universal human desire for liberal
democracy.
But the events of the second half of the twentieth century can also be
interpreted in a very different way. Citizens across the world were
attracted to liberal democracy not simply because of its norms and
values but also because it offered the most salient model of economic
and geopolitical success. Civic ideals may have played their part in
converting the citizens of formerly authoritarian regimes into
convinced democrats, but the astounding economic growth of western
Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, the victory of democratic countries in
the Cold War, and the defeat or collapse of democracy's most powerful
autocratic rivals were just as important.
Taking the material foundations of democratic hegemony seriously casts
the story of democracy's greatest successes in a different light, and
it also changes how one thinks about its current crisis. As liberal
democracies have become worse at improving their citizens' living
standards, populist movements that disavow liberalism are emerging
from Brussels to Brasília and from Warsaw to Washington. A striking
number of citizens have started to ascribe less importance to living
in a democracy: whereas two-thirds of Americans above the age of 65
say it is absolutely important to them to live in a democracy, for
example, less than one-third of those below the age of 35 say the same
thing. A growing minority is even open to authoritarian alternatives:
from 1995 to 2017, the share of French, Germans, and Italians who
favored military rule more than tripled.
As recent elections around the world indicate, these opinions aren't
just abstract preferences; they reflect a deep groundswell of
antiestablishment sentiment that can be easily mobilized by extremist
political parties and candidates. As a result, authoritarian populists
who disrespect some of the most basic rules and norms of the
democratic system have made rapid advances across western Europe and
North America over the past two decades. Meanwhile, authoritarian
strongmen are rolling back democratic advances across much of Asia and
eastern Europe. Could the changing balance of economic and military
power in the world help explain these unforeseen developments?
That question is all the more pressing today, as the long-standing
dominance of a set of consolidated democracies with developed
economies and a common alliance structure is coming to an end. Ever
since the last decade of the nineteenth century, the democracies that
formed the West's Cold War alliance against the Soviet Union-in North
America, western Europe, Australasia, and postwar Japan-have commanded
a majority of the world's income. In the late nineteenth century,
established democracies such as the United Kingdom and the United
States made up the bulk of global GDP. In the second half of the
twentieth century, as the geographic span of both democratic rule and
the alliance structure headed by the United States expanded to include
Japan and Germany, the power of this liberal democratic alliance
became even more crushing. But now, for the first time in over a
hundred years, its share of global GDP has fallen below half.
According to forecasts by the International Monetary Fund, it will
slump to a third within the next decade.
At the same time that the dominance of
democracies has faded, the share of economic output coming from
authoritarian states has grown rapidly. In 1990, countries rated
"not free" by Freedom House (the lowest category, which excludes
"partially free" countries such as Singapore) accounted for just 12
percent of global income. Now, they are responsible for 33 

Frida and Billy in Hungary

[János Sugár]

A pro-government newspaper has criticized a hugely popular exhibition 
of her work at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest for 
"promoting communism".


In a July 14 article entitled "This is the way communism is promoted 
using state money", the Kahlo exhibition was listed in the right-wing 
newspaper Magyar Idok along with some other galleries, artists and 
exhibitions.


"You won't believe it but Trotsky has emerged in Budapest again, this 
time from Frida Kahlo's bed," the newspaper wrote, referring to her 
affair with Leon Trotsky, a key figure in the Bolshevik seizure of 
power in Russia, during his later exile in Mexico. Trotsky was 
assassinated in 1940.


In June, Magyar Idok also published an article by a guest commentator 
who accused the musical Billy Elliot in the Hungarian State Opera of 
spreading homosexual propaganda among its young audience. Billy 
Elliot has been on the program for two years, with over 100,000 
viewers so far.


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-orban-culture/communist-frida-kahlo-swept-up-in-debate-on-cultural-change-in-hungary-idUSKBN1KT174
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banning gender studies in Hungary

[János Sugár]

Title: banning gender studies in
Hungary


BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's government will stop financing
gender studies university courses, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's
chief of staff said on Tuesday, marking one of the first concrete
steps in a cultural shift signaled last month.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-government-education/hungary-to-stop-financing-gender-studies-courses-pm-aide-idUSKBN1KZ1M0

The Orbán regime introduced legislation to shut down accredited
gender studies programs offered by universities in Hungary. Academics
now have 24 hours to respond to the government's plan. The ban will
primarily impact students at Eötvös Loránd University in
Budapest (ELTE)-the only institution in Hungary, other than Central
European University, to offer gender studies at the graduate level,
and the only one to provide this program in Hungarian.
http://hungarianfreepress.com/2018/08/10/gender-studies-programs-to-be-banned-in-hungary/

+

An article published by Hungarian pro-government magazine
Figyelo, entitled, "Immigration, homosexual rights and gender
science - these topics occupy the researchers of the Academy",
claims that the research topics of the Centre for Social Sciences of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are politically suspicious, and that
the government should have a "greater insight" into the
Academy's work.
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/orban-allies-target-hungarian-social-scientists-battle-academy-sciences

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/hungary-should-withdraw-law-targeting-autonomy-academy-sciences-say-european-academies

Diminishing autonomy of Hungarian science academy worries
scientists
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/diminishing-autonomy-of-hungarian-science-academy-worries-scientists/3009327.article


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Re: on Hungary

[János Sugár]

Title: Re:on Hungary


Hungarian journalists admit role in forging anti-migrant
'atmosphere of fear'
Employees of state TV network describe how channels pumped out
pro-government messaging ahead of Victor Orbán's election victory
this week
/.../
The journalists believe the anti-migrant messages often come
directly from the government. People who work on stories directly
involving Orbán receive a list of keywords to use. "Sometimes the
editor will come into the office on the phone and dictate a whole
story to us, word for word. We do not know who is on the other end of
the phone," said one.
/.../
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/13/hungary-journalists-state-tv-network-migrants-viktor-orban-government


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Re: Orbán's threat of revenge

[János Sugár]

Title: Re:Orbán's threat of
revenge


original to:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/10/orban-election-hungary-europe-future-past

Orbán's Hungary is not the future of
Europe: it represents a dying past

Cas Mudde

The declining birthrate and brain drain
are likely to continue, as a fearful Hungary turns in on itself ever
further

On Sunday Hungarians went to the polls to
elect a new parliament. At stake was the fate of the prime minister,
Viktor Orbán, whom international media love to describe in dramatic,
but ultimately euphemistic, terms such as "Europe's bad boy" or
"Europe's flame thrower". Based on the near-final results, Orbán's
Fidesz-KDNP "coalition" won a staggering 48.9% of the vote, up by
4%, and a new constitutional majority of 134 seats.

They were followed, at a considerable distance, by the Movement for a
Better Hungary (Jobbik), the notorious far-right party that had
campaigned on a relatively moderate anti-Fidesz-corruption platform,
with 19.3% and 25 seats - a loss of almost 1%, but a gain of two
seats. The centrist coalition vote was split over three parties this
time.

The Hungarian Socialist party-Dialogue for Hungary (MSZP) coalition
got 12.25% and 20 seats, whereas the Democratic Coalition (DK) got
5.54% and nine seats. In 2014, the two had contested together under
the misnomer "Unity" and had achieved almost 8% and nine seats
more. The nominally Green "Politics Can Be Different" (LMP),
finally, got 6.9% of the vote and eight seats, a gain of 1.6% and
three seats.

Orbán has been in power for eight straight years, during which he
first transformed Hungary from a troubled liberal democracy into an
illiberal kleptocracy, before taking on the European status quo, and
in particular German chancellor Angela Merkel, on a broad variety of
issues, but most notably immigration policies.

He regained power in 2010 with a relatively moderate conservative
agenda centered on a vague program of change. He used his two-thirds
majority to change the constitution, appoint cronies to each and every
new and old political institution, and lay the groundwork for a
long-term reign. His electoral engineering paid off in 2014, when his
Fidesz-KDNP "coalition" maintained its constitutional majority on
the basis of the votes of "Hungarians abroad" - Hungarian speakers
in bordering countries, whom Orbán had offered Hungarian
citizenship, for which they rewarded him by voting almost unanimously
for Fidesz-KDNP.

Since then Orbán has further consolidated his "illiberal state"
at home, while becoming the most influential voice of the radical
right in Europe abroad. Putting traditional radical right leaders like
Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders in his shadow - both openly support
him and Orbán has met several radical right leaders, including
Wilders, who has a Hungarian wife - Orbán has adopted all the
far-right conspiracy theories and has build his campaign and regime on
them.

Over the past years the Orbán government has paid tens of millions
of dollars for nativist campaigns against immigrants, including a
failed referendum, as well as the European Union. Barring a few
remaining outlets, the Hungarian media has been made into a propaganda
machine of the regime, bombarding the citizens with terrifying stories
about (Muslim) immigrants, while staying silent on the massive
corruption scandals surrounding the Orbán kleptocracy.

Polls had consistently shown that this was successful and they turned
out to have been largely accurate. Many in the opposition had believed
that if turnout was high, Fidesz would be vulnerable, and some
delusional opposition leaders even openly spoke of forming a
government. But while turnout was indeed high across the country, the
highest in this century, it was up both in the pro-government
countryside and in the pro-opposition capital. The net effect seems to
have been marginal or possibly even strengthening Fidesz.

Hungary has an electoral system with the highest disproportionality in
terms of translating votes into seats of all the EU member states - a
well-engineered outcome from the previous election reform, but there
is no denying that Orbán is by far the most popular politician in
the country. Similarly, while the OSCE published a "damning verdict"
on the elections, which might have been "free" but were certainly
not "fair", the opposition was mainly defeated by its own
incompetence. The price that they, and their supporters, will continue
to pay for this could become even higher.

In his last campaign speech, Orbán explained to his supporters what
was at stake: "For us Hungary comes first; for them George Soros and
the power he offers comes first. Because for power and money they are
capable of anything." In a previous Facebook post, he had already
warned that "we must stop any organization that promotes illegal
migration for ideological or other reasons that have no democratic
mandate".

On election night, the secretary of state for public diplomacy and

disruption bubble

[János Sugár]

David Einhorn, the founder of hedge fund Greenlight Capital, has 
started one of the most important conversations we can have during 
any stock market bubble.
It is not "When will it burst?" Nobody can answer that. The question 
is "What is it called?"

http://uk.businessinsider.com/what-do-we-call-this-bubble-2017-10
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Hungary is withdrawing its ambassador from the Netherlands

[János Sugár]

Hungary is withdrawing its ambassador from the Netherlands after 
outgoing Dutch ambassador gave critical interview about Hungarian gov.

https://thehungaryjournal.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/hungary-recalls-its-ambassador-from-the-netherlands/

https://twitter.com/LuiningMichiel?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

bonus:

Moscow spooks return to Hungary, raising NATO hackles
http://www.politico.eu/article/moscow-spooks-return-to-hungary-raising-nato-hackles/
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Hungary's transit zones

[János Sugár]

Hungary's transit zones are prisons where pregnant women are 
handcuffed and children go hungry

http://index.hu/belfold/2017/08/03/hungary_s_transit_zones_are_prisons_where_pregnant_women_are_handcuffed_and_children_go_hungry/
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the EU's first rogue state

[János Sugár]

Is Hungary the EU's first rogue state?
http://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2017/08/hungary-eus-first-rogue-state-viktor-orban-and-long-march-freedom
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E-ticket, Hungary

[János Sugár]

A teenager discovered that the brand new website 
of the public transit authority in Budapest would 
allow you to edit the price you paid for your 
tickets, so that purchasers could give themselves 
massive discounts on their travel, and when he 
told the authority about it, they had him 
arrested and issued a press-release boasting 
about it.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/45-000-facebook-users-leave-one-star-ratings-after-hackers-unjust-arrest/

Ein 18-jähriger Schüler aus Ungarn hat eine 
Schwachstelle im E-Ticketing-System der 
Nahverkehrsbetriebe in der ungarischen Hauptstadt 
Budapest gefunden und wurde kurz nach Meldung der 
Probleme an das Unternehmen festgenommen. Das 
System wird von T-Systems Magyar betrieben. Das 
Unternehmen gehört zum ungarischen 
Telekommunikationsanbieter Magyar Telekom (a 
subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom).

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/18-Jaehriger-meldet-Fehler-in-Budapester-E-Ticketing-System-und-wird-festgenommen-3781914.html

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lapsus art

[János Sugár]

"Tate is not responsible for the content of eternal websites."

see the last line:
http://www2.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/borderxing.shtm

(plz dont change it!)

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bete noire

[János Sugár]

The government billboards began appearing all 
over the capital and beyond just days after Orbán 
accused Hungarian-born financier and 
philanthropist George Soros of building a 
_Brussels kingdom_. He also suggested that Soros 
is directly involved in the European Commissions 
ongoing infringement procedure against Hungary 
for its refusal to participate in the relocation 
of refugees, and urged Hungarians to _not let 
Soros have the last laugh_.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-soros-orban-jews-idUSKBN19R24L

Hungary's Jews recoil at Fidesz portrayal of George Soros
https://www.ft.com/content/9c16b174-62e5-11e7-91a7-502f7ee26895?mhq5j=e2

http://hungarianfreepress.com/2017/07/02/how-i-became-an-agent-of-george-soros-at-budapest-airport/
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Hungary: new NGO law passed

[János Sugár]

The Hungarian Parliament passed a new law on non-governmental 
organizations today, which is widely thought to attack civil society 
in Hungary and has been criticized by the European Commission. The 
Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said it will apply civil 
disobedience.



The approved law requires groups receiving more than 24,000 euros 
annually ($26,000) in overseas funding to register as 
"foreign-supported" and disclose their foreign donors, or face 
closure. The legislation resembles a law passed in Russia in 2012, 
which requires NGOs receiving foreign funding to register as "foreign 
agents."

https://bbj.hu/politics/ngo-law-passed-tasz-plans-civil-disobedience_134218

In Anti-Soros Feud, Hungary Adopts Rules on Foreign-Financed Groups
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/world/europe/hungary-law-ngo-soros.html

Hungary: NGO law a vicious and calculated assault on civil society
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/06/hungary-ngo-law-a-vicious-and-calculated-assault-on-civil-society/



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large protest in support of CEU

[János Sugár]

BBC Budapest correspondent Nick Thorpe says it was probably the 
biggest anti-government protest in Budapest since Mr Orban came to 
power seven years ago. The protesters took to the streets both to 
defend the CEU and protest against attempts by the government to 
pressure human rights and environmental groups which support refugees.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39549120

Tens of thousands protest Hungary's education, NGO policies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/hungary-thousands-protest-govts-education-ngo-policies/2017/04/12/ab8b0858-1fa6-11e7-bb59-a74ccaf1d02f_story.html?utm_term=.a15b440ba01f

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Re: CEU

[János Sugár]

At 8:35 PM -0500 4/4/17, Keith Sanborn wrote:

> How can I add my name to a letter of support, or to whom shd I 
> address a letter of support for CEU? I did not find that information 
> on the links provided. Did I miss it?

hello keith,

you have to go through this long list:

https://www.ceu.edu/istandwithCEU/support-statements

cheers,

j

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Re: [spectre] Lex CEU

[János Sugár]

folks,

what in hungary is going on is not nationalism, but ethinicism,
big difference.

Gáspár Miklós Tamás:
/.../
To get as far as they possibly could from 
democratic nationalism-which is a variant of 
classical republicanism: political equality and 
self-determination-they engaged in what I called 
ethnicism: an apolitical, destructive practice, 
opposed to the idea of citizenship. Transylvanian 
Hungarians were in the first ranks of the 1989 
Romanian revolution, which they were 
repudiating-as it was 'foreign'-within a few 
months, after having been victims of Romanian 
pogroms. Common citizenship appears as a chimera. 
Small wonder though: citizenship and 
civic-democratic nationalism are dependent on the 
state, annihilated by neo-liberal politics. 
Nationalism has reunited small principalities in 
large states-Italy, Germany, Romania, 
Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, maybe even 
Soviet Russia. Ethnicism has destroyed them and 
created miserable little statelets, provincial 
and barbarous, dependent on international finance 
and local mafia for their livelihood. In this 
respect, Eastern Europe is not variegated. It is 
an area of fear where a plastic replica of 
tribalism appears soothing and homey.
/.../
https://newleftreview.org/II/80/g-m-tamas-words-from-budapest

cheers,

j


ps

https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/g-m-tam-s/anti-immigration-referendum-sunday-in-hungary



At 9:43 AM -0500 4/4/17, Frederic Neyrat wrote:
>nationalism is a good thing? I certainly misunderstood your email, sorry,
>as nationalism leads to wars and global destruction, cf. WW1, WW2 - and WW3?


>2017-04-04 8:16 GMT-05:00 heath bunting :

> > it appears to me that like many other countries, hungary is disengaging
>> from imperial vassal statehood and returning to nationalism
>>
>> this is potentially a good thing, as the rule of international law is
>> incompatible with imperialism and nationalism at least has the option to
> > be compatible with international law

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Lex CEU

[János Sugár]

BREAKING: "LEX CEU" LEGISLATION, WHICH MAY FORCE THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN 
UNIVERSITY TO LEAVE BUDAPEST, PASSED BY HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT
http://hungarytoday.hu/news/breaking-lex-ceu-legislation-may-force-central-european-university-leave-budapest-passed-hungarian-government-14033#

http://hungarianfreepress.com/2017/04/03/ny-hungarian-consul-general-ferenc-kumin-is-not-a-proud-ceu-alumnus-anymore/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/03/eu-tolerated-viktor-orban-hungarian-central-european-university

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Re: CEU

[János Sugár]

(btw in Hungary only government politicians and right wing-media 
calls CEU as Soros university)


Over 1,000 cognitive scientists, including 2 Nobel Laureates, have 
signed a letter to Hungarian authorities calling on the government to 
withdraw the proposed legislation and maintain academic freedom and 
scientific excellence. Signatories from over 30 countries include 10 
Harvard professors, 10 Yale professors, 12 MIT professors, 8 
directors of the Max Planck Institute, 25 University of California 
professors, 14 New York University professors, and members of the 
Royal Society and the British Academy, among others.


"We are writing to express our dismay about the proposed legislation 
that would effectively end a 25-year history of scientific excellence 
in Budapest. As an international body of psychologists, 
neuroscientists, and cognitive scientists, we can tell you that our 
colleagues at Central European University are among the most 
respected in the world. Their intellectual legacy has had a global 
impact. We believe any city should count itself fortunate to have 
such a renowned center of academic excellence in its midst.
The proposed legislation will make it effectively impossible for CEU 
to continue to occupy its current position as one of the foremost 
scientific institutions internationally. We respectfully ask that you 
preserve CEU's ability to act as a center of leadership and 
innovation in Hungary and the world by withdrawing this legislation. "

https://www.ceu.edu/article/2017-03-31/14-nobel-laureates-other-leading-academics-urge-hungarian-government-withdraw

Soros's University Turns Into Democracy Battleground in Budapest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/soros-s-university-turns-into-democracy-battleground-in-budapest

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Would you deliver an electric shock?

[János Sugár]

   Conducting the Milgram experiment in Poland, psychologists show people
   still obey

   The title is direct, "Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?" and
   the answer, according to the results of this replication study, is yes.
   Social psychologists from SWPS University of Social Sciences and
   Humanities in Poland http://english.swps.pl replicated a modern version
   of the Milgram experiment and found results similar to studies
   conducted 50 years earlier.

   https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/sfpa-ctm030917.php

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The Pakistani government released a readout of its call with Trump

[János Sugár]

Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif called President-elect USA 
Donald Trump and felicitated him on his victory. President Trump said 
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif you have a very good reputation. You are 
a terrific guy. You are doing amazing work which is visible in every 
way. I am looking forward to see you soon. As I am talking to you 
Prime Minister, I feel I am talking to a person I have known for 
long. Your country is amazing with tremendous opportunities. 

Pakistanis are one of the most intelligent people. I am ready and 
willing to play any role that you want me to play to address and find 
solutions to the outstanding problems. It will be an honor and I will 
personally do it. Feel free to call me any time even before 20th 
January that is before I assume my office.

On being invited to visit Pakistan by the Prime Minister, Mr. Trump 
said that he would love to come to a fantastic country, fantastic 
place of fantastic people. Please convey to the Pakistani people that 
they are amazing and all Pakistanis I have known are exceptional 
people, said Mr. Donald Trump.

http://www.vox.com/world/2016/11/30/13797178/donald-trump-call-nawaz-sharif

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-nawaz-sharif-conversation-fawning-mocked-phone-sex-a7448281.html

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Word of the Year 2016 is ...

[János Sugár]

After much discussion, debate, and research, the Oxford Dictionaries 
Word of the Year 2016 is:


post-truth

an adjective defined as 'relating to or denoting circumstances in 
which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion 
than appeals to emotion and personal belief'.


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The crushing of independent press in Hungary

[János Sugár]

Hungary's Left-Wing Paper Suspended Days After Breaking News
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/10/08/world/europe/ap-eu-hungary-media.html?_r=0

Protests in Hungary at closure of main leftwing opposition newspaper
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/09/protests-in-hungary-at-closure-of-main-leftwing-opposition-newspaper

Newspaper Closes in Hungary, and Hungarians See Government's Hand
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/world/europe/hungary-newspaper-nepszabadsag.html

The crushing of independent press in Hungary
https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/hidv-gi-b-attila-alexandra-barcea/hungary-shock-tactics-against-press-freedoms

ps

the ex journalists of _népszabadság_ will edit 
the next edition of the budapest street paper:


Protestaktion: Obdachlose Redaktion gestaltet 
Sonderausgabe der Budapester Obdachlosenzeitung

http://derstandard.at/245897281/Nepszabadsag-Redakteure-wollen-weiter-unangenehm-sein

..

The latest attacks on journalists and news 
organizations by corrupt populists are 
contributing to a global rollback of fundamental 
rights. http://fpif.org/stop-the-presses/


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black ribbon

[János Sugár]

The Russian Supreme Court upheld yesterday the decision of a Perm
regional court, which had found blogger Vladimir Luzgin guilty of the
"rehabilitation of Nazism" for reposting a text on social media that
described the invasion of Poland in 1939, TASS reports. The regional
court had also fined Luzgin 200,000 rubles (around $3,000).

According to Novaya Gazeta, the text described the joint invasion
of Poland by the USSR and the Third Reich in September 1939, which
followed the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Pact, a
neutrality agreement, included a secret protocol that carved up much
of Eastern Europe into Soviet and Nazi "spheres of influence."

http://www.tol.org/client/article/26273-russia-supreme-court-luzgin-19
39-ussr-poland-nazi-germany-molotov-ribbentrop.html

http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2016/08/23/statement-prime-minister-canada-bl
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Degrowth Conference, Budapest

[János Sugár]

The 5th International Degrowth Conference will take place in Budapest 
from 30 August to 3 September 2016.


For the first time, in parallel to the conference, an open festival 
"Budapest Degrowth Week" will feature practical workshops, panel and 
participatory discussions, and also concerts, artistic performances 
and interactive tours throughout the city.


http://budapest.degrowth.org/?page_id=638

fyi:
http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1303/msg00023.html



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the purveyor of hate

[János Sugár]

The hate-filled, racist, anti-Semitic journalistic hack, Zsolt Bayer, on the
recommendation of Zoltán Balog (Minister of Human Resources), received the
third highest decoration the government can bestow on people of great
achievement.

http://hungarianspectrum.org/2016/08/19/zsolt-bayer-the-purveyor-of-hate-in-his-own-words/

http://hungarytoday.hu/news/dozens-recipients-return-state-decoration-controversial-journalist-receives-knights-cross-75487#

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Re: Donald Trump, Peter Thiel and the death of democracy

[János Sugár]

At 6:04 PM -0100 7/21/16, nettime's_trilateralist wrote:


 Above all, Thiel is an innovator. He has made his fortune by
 recognizing the potential of an idea long before his peers.
 Silicon Valley, along with most of American business, may dislike
 Trump. But that doesn't mean they couldn't someday embrace the
 kind of politics he represents. A Trumpist state could do much to
 soothe the crisis of capitalism: it could pour public dollars into
 discovering the next lucrative technology for the private sector
 while holding the line against the redistributive clamor of a
 rising millennial majority. Thiel has a history of making bets
 that pay off big. With Trump, he may have made another.


imho, he bets on war,

cheers,

j

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Re: Offline is The New Luxury

[János Sugár]

Immediacy is The New Luxury!

cheers,

j

ps

/.../Meetings in real space are becoming a more and more precious 
good for the way they add a crucial stage to almost any networked 
media projects, whether in the arts, culture, or politics. /.../

Geert Lovink, The Importance of Meetspace

http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0001/msg00041.html

At 10:04 AM +0200 6/14/16, Florian Cramer wrote:


   Not only is offline the new luxury, it is also becomes a new necessity
   for critical infrastructures. Today, the government of one of the
   best-networked countries of the world, Singapore, announced that it
   will take all its 100,000 government and public administration
   computers off the Internet for security reasons:

<...>

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Re: your face is big data

[János Sugár]

At 9:02 AM +0200 6/6/16, Jaromil wrote:


 >Russia's new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70 percent 
accuracy

http://findface.ru/


fantastic! together with today's new leak
of 100M VK accounts basically one can
add logins and passwords to this info
(db is for sale at just 1BTC)
http://www.leakedsource.com/blog/vk

I'm going to setup a digital fortune teller
business ASAP 


it is already operating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I

cheers,

j

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your face is big data

[János Sugár]

Russia's new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70 
percent accuracy
http://findface.ru/

Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/findface-face-recognition-app-end-public-anonymity-vkontakte

Egort Svetkov: Nowadays the power structures begin to lose their 
monopoly control over the ability to identify a person's face and 
identify him with the help of photos and videos. But people are 
accustomed to differentiate patterns of behavior in society and 
social networks, and leave the ability to spy on their opinion of the 
best, successful moments of their lives for strangers. Such digital 
narcissism - a product of a culture of free expression that defines 
the boundaries of private and public in our time.
We often do not use the privacy settings specifically, and this has 
given rise to a network stalking. Using free-for-all software I was 
looking for the people who sat in front of me on the train 
underground. I learned about the life of people without any contact 
with them through the photos on the social network by comparing a 
real image with a web representation. Modern technologies thus allow 
to continue the practice of Vito Acconci and Sophie Calle - these 
artists followed the habits of the human body and its position in 
space. They did not focus on the personalities of people but only 
constructed character. The ability of quickly and anonymous searching 
people in network helps trace not for impersonal subject and within 
seconds converts to a friend incognito.
http://cargocollective.com/egortsvetkov/YOUR-FACE-IS-BIG-DATA
Find the project here:
https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/06042016-face-big-data.html

Face recognition app FindFace may make you want to take down all your 
online photos
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3071920/data-privacy/face-recognition-app-findface-may-make-you-want-to-take-down-all-your-online-photos.html

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Sortir du noir

[János Sugár]

http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.com/f/index.php?sp=liv_id=3184

Son of Saul is a 2015 Hungarian drama film 
directed by László Nemes. The film premiered at 
the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the 
Grand Prix. It also won the Golden Globe for Best 
Foreign Language Film. The film won the award for 
Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy 
Awards in 2016.

http://berghahnbooks.com/blog/searching-for-feelings-the-scrolls-of-auschwitz-and-son-of-saul

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Re: Richard Stallman: Eradicate

[János Sugár]

At 7:44 PM -0700 3/20/16, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote:

Perhaps repurposed ads from anti-smoking campaigns may help. Each 
handset should be labeled in bold type with slogans like "Using this 
device can damage your employment and health insurance prospects", 
"Data transferred with this device can turn you into a prosecutable 
criminal in less than 5 years", "Usage of this phone can raise your 
mortgage interest" etc.


it cries for adbusting!

cheers,

j

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save the Lukács Archive

[János Sugár]

The Hungarian government is threatening to close the Georg Lukács Archive.
http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2554-history-has-a-habit-of-intruding-save-the-lukacs-archive

Georg Lukács Archives
http://web.phil-inst.hu/lua/archivum/en/main.html




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against illiberal education

[János Sugár]

BUDAPEST-Hungary on Tuesday saw the largest public protest since 2014 
as demonstrators rallied against what they see as the populist 
government's tightening grip on education.


Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in a rainy Hungarian capital 
against Prime Minister Viktor Orban's administration, the latest sign 
of public discontent with governing politicians.


A group of teachers, parents and students-speakers at the rally in 
front of the country's landmark parliament building-called for a 
one-hour nationwide strike March 30 unless Mr. Orban ensures talks on 
teachers' demands continue in earnest.


http://www.wsj.com/articles/protests-continue-in-hungary-against-governments-education-policies-1458075911

http://www.reuters.com/article/hungary-protest-idUSL5N16N459

for those w r g:
http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/ungarn-lehrer-protestieren-gegen-viktor-orbans-bildungspolitik-a-1082249.html

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/viktor-orban-diffamiert-migranten-und-kritisiert-europas-fluechtlingspolitik-a-1082441.html

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