plan orbana

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

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

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 ele

Re: futurlab hungary

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.o

concerning .pl

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://

futurlab hungary

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-thi

meanwhile in hu

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 activis

in the meantime in .hu

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 socie

#freeSZFE

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 withi

Re: teaching republic

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/

teaching republic

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

Military colonel appointed to University of Theatre and Film Arts

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 appoin

Hungary's Index journalists walk out over sacking

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 18

no go topics in state media

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 sens

embeding

"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 # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative

Hungarian Academy of Sciences stripped of its research network

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 ye

Imre Nagy Memorial Removed

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 R

"slave labour" law in Hungary

Protests have broken out in Hungary after the country's parliament passed new labour laws, which have been labelled "slave labour" by opponents. New rules mean companies can demand up to 400 hours of overtime a year and delay payment for it for three years. Police used tear gas against crowds

The End of the Democratic Century

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, arg

Frida and Billy in Hungary

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

banning gender studies in Hungary

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.reut

Re: on Hungary

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 oft

Re: Orbán's threat of revenge

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

this is extremely dangerous to our democracy

https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI (by Timothy Burke, the video director at Deadspin) a similar one created by ThinkProgress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T50pLTvwO80&feature=youtu.be Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script https://www.nytime

disruption bubble

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

Hungary is withdrawing its ambassador from the Netherlands

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%5Egoogl

Hungary's transit zones

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/ # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a mod

the EU's first rogue state

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 # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering an

E-ticket, Hungary

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

lapsus art

"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!) # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filte

bete noire

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

Hungary: new NGO law passed

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 l

large protest in support of CEU

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 environ

Re: CEU

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: htt

Re: [spectre] Lex CEU

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 wh

Lex CEU

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://hungarianfreep

Re: CEU

(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 freed

Re: Hungarian government chasing CEU

At 10:58 AM +0200 4/2/17, christa schneebauer wrote: >After a daytrip to Budapest yesterday and reading all your posts in the >Train in the evening: i went there to see how it feels like After all >the news coverage, and i must say i liked it (as i always did) i was >observing People sitting outsi

Hungarian government chasing CEU

Central European University (CEU) expresses its opposition to proposed amendments to Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education, tabled in Hungarian Parliament today. After careful legal study, CEU has concluded that these amendments would make it impossible for the University to continue it

Would you deliver an electric shock?

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 Scien

The Pakistani government released a readout of its call with Trump

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 forwa

Word of the Year 2016 is ...

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'. #

The crushing of independent press in Hungary

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-m

black ribbon

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 Lu

Degrowth Conference, Budapest

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, artis

the purveyor of hate

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-purve

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

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 somed

Re: Offline is The New Luxury

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://ww

Re: your face is big data

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)

your face is big data

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 Ego

Sortir du noir

http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.com/f/index.php?sp=liv&livre_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 t

Re: Richard Stallman: Eradicate

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 c

save the Lukács Archive

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 # distributed via : no commercial use without permi

against illiberal education

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 administra