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Viktor Orbán's Strategy for Winning this Turbulent Decade
Prime Minister's Press Office
Instead of decoupling and returning to bloc politics, Hungary's strategic interest lies in increasing connectivity.
Dávid Nagy
At a private Christmas dinner event of the Széll Kálmán Foundation, in a wide-ranging speech Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán outlined the challenges and opportunities ahead of Hungary in the following years. Balázs Orbán, the Prime Minister's political director, summarized the remarks on how Hungary could be a winner of the next decade in a piece published on Mandiner. The following is a summary of his article.
According to Viktor Orbán, the biggest strategic challenge facing Hungary in the next decade is to move out of the league of middle-income countries and catch up with the developed economies, and achieve a regional middle-power status within Central Europe. The article describes the geopolitical context of this strategic objective and the difficulties of and opportunities for its realization.
Following the fall of the Soviet Union, the unipolar world order led by the United States was essentially based on neoliberal principles. After the turn of the millennium, this world order began to show signs of fatigue. The financial and economic crisis of 2008 was not seen as a crisis of the world order yet but as a temporary economic downturn. However, the Hungarian right already envisaged a drastic change in the world order at the time, which was confirmed by the events of the following years.
'The events of the 2010s, migration, Brexit and Donald Trump's victory have shown that the neoliberal world order is not working as well as it used to and is therefore losing legitimacy. And the pandemic in 2020 once again brought to light the fragility of the neoliberal world order.'
Finally, the Russo-Ukrainian war has made it abundantly clear that the exclusively Western-centric world order is unsustainable, as the West's challengers have grown stronger in the past years, precisely thanks to the liberal Western trade and economic model, which they have successfully used to reform their economies and join global trade.
The Risks of Breaking into Blocs
According to the Prime Minister's assessment, Hungary has been on the right track in the past ten years to grow to prominence in the region, but the fragmented world order makes it difficult to follow this path. The current tumultuous geopolitical situation threatens to re-establish a Cold War-style, blocs-based international order, which could lead to Hungary's marginalization and de-emphasis.
In response to the crisis of the world order, the US-led West is gradually severing, weakening or controlling its relations in what can be described in one word: 'decoupling'. This, however, can lead to a Cold War-like bloc politics, a system of hierarchical networks existing side by side.
In a world order based on such blocs, all economic, political and cultural transfers pass through the leading states of these given blocs. These form the centre of the blocs, with the individual countries, understood as nodes under the centres, playing only a peripheral role.
'This is particularly bad news for the European Union as a whole, but especially for its peripheral states, because in such a system the centre not only controls the links across the blocs but also takes on the task of allocating resources. In addition, any disruption in the supply chain of goods is first and most drastically felt in the periphery countries—and these countries have no means of changing the situation,' Balázs Orbán noted.
Hungary's historical experience also shows that a blocs-based world order leads to the country's irrelevance. This was the case under Turkish rule, in the era of the Habsburg Empire and during the Soviet Union when Hungary was marginalized on the Western flank of the Eastern bloc.
In such a world order, Hungary would have exclusive relations only with the centre of the bloc it belongs to, while relations with other bloc countries would be lost. This would prevent the country from emerging from the ranks of middle-developed countries, the ultimate goal of the current strategy. Therefore it is connectivity, not decoupling what Hungary strives for, the minister stressed in his article. Instead of disconnecting, Hungary's interest is to increase connectivity, as this follows from the country's history, geography, and culture.
Connectivity as a Breakout Strategy
At this point, it is worth to say a few words about the methodology and approach of the strategy. The strategy observes the world through networks between countries and regions. This approach is based primarily on Scottish-American historian Niall Campbell Ferguson's network theory written in his book The Square and the Tower published in 2018. One of Mr Ferguson's insights is that when networks interact with each other, the result is innovation and invention. He also states that we are now in an era when entrenched hierarchical institutions are being challenged by modern technology-enhanced networks. Both ideas are echoed in the strategy.
The essence of the interconnectedness model is that in an international system conceived as a network, a country should seek to connect to other countries and market players at as many points as possible— Balázs Orbán explained. In such a model, there is no risk of marginalization, since a state can establish links with other economic actors, and initiatives cannot only come from the top of the hierarchy. This model gives countries considerable room for manoeuvre in shaping their economic relations and is therefore a particularly suitable breakout strategy, as the growing number of relations increasingly enhances the economic role of the country concerned.
According to Balázs Orbán, by following this approach, Hungary now has a realistic chance of leaving the trap of middle-income countries by the early 2020s. This assertion is backed up by the fact that in the last twelve years, Hungary has become the country that has come closest to the EU average in terms of GDP per capita. In 2010, this figure was 66 per cent of the EU average, and in 2021 the country will have reached 76 per cent of the average level of development. 'So this is the most appropriate historical moment to put the Hungarian economy on a new path of growth through interconnectivity,' the Hungarian PM's advisor argued in his article.
The Next Steps
Balázs Orbán also outlined the concrete steps Hungary needs to take to rise above its former regional status through its economic performance. For example, Budapest needs to further increase foreign investment in working capital and build more links in the energy sector with major distribution hubs in the world and the wider region. Regional cooperation needs to be further strengthened, which is particularly important in an interconnected model of regional links. In this regard, the economic and geographic unity of the Carpathian Basin is highly suitable for such regional cooperation.
The Hungarian prime minister's speech also emphasized that it is of paramount importance for Hungary to become more prominent in the international arena than it is at present, and public diplomacy is the primary tool for this. In order to achieve this prominence, the military, ICT, food, pharmaceutical and automotive sectors will be given greater emphasis as the industries most suitable for interconnectivity.
'So this is Hungary's strategy for winning this decade. The strategy is in place, it is well thought out, it is being implemented systematically, and everything is in place to exploit its potential. The task is not easy, and the path is perhaps more difficult than it has been so far. However, we all believe that our country is destined for great things and that we are standing at the gateway to a historic opportunity. And success depends on us. Let's get to work!', Viktor Orbán's political director concluded his article summarizing the strategic vision of the Hungarian Prime Minister.
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David Nagy, political analyst, security and defence policy expert. He studied at the National University of Public Service in Budapest and at the University of Haifa. After he graduated in International Security and Defence Policy, he started to work at the Danube Institute as a research fellow. He currently works as a senior analyst at EuroAtlantic Consulting & Investment Plc. His main research fields include geopolitics and security policy in Central Europe and in the Middle East with a special focus on Israel.
Tags: connectivity, European Union, Hungary, national strategy, USA, Viktor Orbán
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A: The answer has already been given Python Time Seconds to h:m:s
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A: You can use dateutil's relativedelta for this:
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Security Guard at Giant Grocery Store Charged With Assault After Allegedly Forcing Transgender Woman Out of Restroom
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A Giant grocery store security guard has been charged with simple assault after allegedly forcing a transgender woman out of the women's restroom, NBC Washington reports.
Ebony Belcher, 32, said she went into a Giant store in Northeast Washington, D.C., and asked an employee where the bathroom was. On her way into the restroom, Belcher passed by a security officer who was standing in the hallway.
The female officer entered the restroom behind Belcher and told her to get out, Belcher said.
"She opened the door and came in and started calling me derogatory names," Belcher told the news station. Belcher accused the officer of putting her hand on her shoulder and arm and grabbing her and pushing her out of the store.
"You guys cannot keep coming in here and using our women's restroom. They did not pass the law yet," the guard said, according to Belcher.
Belcher said she called police and reported the incident after she left the store. A police report indicated that the guard, who has not been identified, was arrested and charged, according to NBC Washington. Belcher said that she suffers from Parkinson's disease and almost fell when the officer grabbed her.
Giant issued a statement, saying, "As this matter involves a third party that provides security services for Giant and there's an ongoing criminal investigation, all inquiries related to the incident at the H Street Giant should be directed to the local police for a comment at this time."
Read more at NBC Washington.


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Spanish Property Insight › Forums › Spanish Property Forums › Real Estate Topics, News & Discussion › Santa Maria…Developer wins case!!
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Just heard on news, despite being illegal etc two Britains have lost their case against developers of Santa Maria. It is in Sur de málaga but haven't time to digest as off to Doctors.
PROMOTION. The urbanization Santa Maria Green Hills, in the zone of Elviria. /JOSELE-LANZATriumph of the promoters in the courts of Marbella. The holder of the Court of First Instance number 3 of the locality has misestimated a demand interposed by the buyers of an illegal floor that refused to notarize the house after knowing that the license of the promotion was going to be revoked by the City council. The sentence considers that it is not possible to be made fall on the company the consequences of the municipal irregularities and forces the buyers to pay the coasts of the process.
The origin of the conflict took place when two British investors who had acquired a house in the residential set Santa Maria Green Hills demanded the promoter of the work, Marbella Vista Golf, to obtain the resolution of the contract by numerous breaches. Between these they mentioned the lack of license of first occupation and the legal situation of the promotion, on whose work license the manager of the City council of Marbella initiated to the last year an investigation of revision of office.
The buyers also adduced other irregularities, as it does not give of endorsement on the part of the constructor and the fact that the golf course had not been constructed anticipated in the project.
In the sentence, dictated by the Court of First Instance number 3 of Marbella and to which it has had periodic east access, the judge it considers that the possible responsibility that could be derived for the promoter "it has prevented that the buying plaintiffs have to their disposition" the house, reason why considers that the denouncers "have not been themselves affected by those circumstances". The "circumstances" to which the sentence talks about are the legal situation of the building.
Also, in relation to the lack of a license of first occupation, the judge understands that she is not a breach on the part of the promoter, but, in any case "a delay, imputable, based on the circumstances, not necessarily to the salesman, but perhaps to the City council of Marbella".
The license of the basic project was granted by the City council the 16 of October of 2002 to South Sema Investments, whose empowered Giovanni is the Italian industralist Piero Montaldo, stopped in the third phase of the "operation Malayan" and imputed by the judge of a presumed crime of bribe. Montaldo also is including in the complaint presented/displayed by the Anticorrupción Office of the public prosecutor by supposedly harmful agreements for the municipal interests. The work license was granted the 28 to him of April of 2003 by the then mayor, Julian Muñoz.
After obtaining the licenses, Montaldo sold the work in construction to the promoter, organization that now maintains the litigation with the buyers.
The affected ones have predicted to resort the sentence in appeal before the Provincial Hearing of Malaga.
This proves 100% that there is no justice in Spain!!!!!!!!!!
Should everyone sue the Marbella Town Hall. ❓ But it wasn't their fault! 😯 It was Jesus Gil….and he's dead!
This will be the tip of a very big iceberg as the L.F.O situation was never going to be won.
Yes it is good advice not to complete without the paperwork however as can now be seen it cant be used to not to complete in the end.
Marbella will be years ahead of the other areas in Spain as their corruption mess will be sorted where the rest it will just be the start.
Think I know which area I would put a bet on with prices similar along the coast.
This is because the laws are not implemented. If this is how the cases are going to go, then corruption reigns supreme in Spain. IMO.
Absolutely Katy. This is the case with La Reserva as reported on another forum. No LFO …No mortgage.
Beleive me I totally agree with both of you 100% and would support everyone to fight the corruption.
Any argument is not with me,as I am one that just has to look at the facts and this stupid court ruling is hardly a suprising decision.
As you say Claire this proves 100% that there is no justice in Spain and is a sad fact.
Before anyone says that there are laws to protect us then, if they would be sooo kind to let us know why they are ignored.
and this stupid court ruling is hardly a suprising decision.
Incredible! I guess the local government would have to take the owners to court in that case and the supporting defence would be the courts own ruling! Surely by the court ruling they must complete would be a strong argument for legalization??
Surely by the court ruling they must complete would be a strong argument for legalization??
Logic would dictate that in most civilized societies Inez, which in itself speaks volumes about Spanish justice.
Paul – have sent you a pm.
disgusting!!…….who on earth would advise buying in to this country, with a justice system like this??. I realise many are and will continue to do so (in smaller numbers) , but this to me proves, that justice in Spain is at best like russian roulette. Surely as a part of Europe, the courts have some obligation not to cheat and lie to whoever they wish?? If this were not so serious for all concerned, it would be hilarious and probably look far fetched in a comedy farce!!
Re. this case, it was against the developer (and not the bank) as they had never provided a Bank Garantee as they were legally obliged to do.
2) that no private golf gourse for use by owners only was going to be built as originally planned for the development, one of the many attractions of buying there in the first place.
In the new Marbella´s PGOU both urbanizations, Green Hills and Los Lagos are catalogued as "illegal", but with different 'levels' of illegality.
This judge is 'obliging' a purchaser to complete on a property where the building licence is currently suspended and under judicial review, it's current status is 'illegal' and there is no LFO.
And for not wanting to complete in this 'precarious' situation and taking it to court to get monies refunded, these purchasers are charged with paying the developer's costs.
Marbellas´s own Town Hall architect confirmed to the court the urbanization was currently illegal.
Justice in Spain? No comment.
2) Was this not the same Court (3) in Marbella that Suzanne had her case heard? Her verdict was equally ludicrous.
It caould also be as the judge is local, he is avoiding making the decision – hence having to take the matter to a higher court! It is a practise in the UK, although usually it would be refferred by the judge to the higher court.
Sounds like a case for the Human Rights law if an EU citizen is forced to complete on an illegal property. Even if marbella tried to legalise it the Junta could over-rule that as some of the building is on a public right of way.
Well done Paul for finding link – better than my 'attachment' !
Inez – I think there needs to be a ruling in the higher court once and for all on these situations/types of cases.
The ruling in this case is not a 'definitive resolution' and an appeal in the High Court in Málaga is essential in my view.
But as Charlie said Inez. these people have got to pay the developers costs + complete…and now pay to instigate an appeal in the High Court.
I understand, having been told many times, that "things are different in Spain" but surely, under these circumstances, the Judge should not have awarded the case in the developers favour.
And what happened to it being a criminal offence for a developer not to provide a Bank Guarantee on an off-plan? It is law.
Seems laws are only to be applied when it suits.
Was this not the same Court (3) in Marbella that Suzanne had her case heard?
Since this decision has surely established that this is not going to happen in Spain, perhaps the safest route would be for NO-ONE to buy is Spain – off-plan or anything else – until the legal system proves that it is capable of protecting the rights of the consumer.
Does Mark have the courage to support this stance in the Sunday Times?
It has made my husband & I rethink about buying in Spain at the moment. The fears are haunting us again!
you might be right?, perphaps a blanket boycott on buying in Spain until the courts agree to abide by acceptable laws based on common sense, would be the way to go?, and if that was employed, as a spin-off, Spain could perphaps evem market itself as being safer than the emerging markets? How would that be organised though?, and in the meantime, how many of the good guys (some of who post on here), would go bust? Surely some sort of EU buyers rights should come in to play here, or would it be the standard answer " we cannot interfere with another EU countrys laws"?
I guess it's up to everyone to make up their own mind. This just highlights to me that the risks of buying in Spain are far more than just loss/gain through market conditions. More like a 'free-for-all' for crooks, if this case is anything to go by!
We are often reminded that to every 1 unsucessful purchase made there are 100 sucessful ones.
That may be true – but how many of these representative one hundred are either 'making-do' with less than they were sold or are not even aware that they have problems which will will become apparent in the future.
We fall into the first category – we have reached the point where we are grateful that we have a house, albeit without any of the amenities in the sales blurb. This applies to approximately 800 houses currently. The second urbanization being built by the same developer has been halted now for almost two years because they did not have a legal bulding licence. Not sure how many are affected, but at least several hundred. Compared with the people who have put money down on those houses, we are lucky, but I still wouldn't include us in the one hundred.
Another local development I know of has inumerable legal problems, which have been ongoing for more than a few years. May of the purchasers are perfectly happy, but this does not make it right that they have been badly let down by a system which allows a large developer take money from people without giving them their full legal rights. There are several thousand of them, and I wouldn't include them in the one hundred either.
So, suppose the the number of houses I am talking about is 4,000, can someone name 400,000 sucessful purchasers to offset just these?
How many happy purchasers are truly happy.?
Please don't start another happy bunnies thread.
Well Tilly all I can say if is this the case I do not understand why folk completed on the development.
By doing so it tells promoters/developers they can do what they like and the Brit's will just accept it.
From what you write it seems they are correct.
Is it any wonder those who prefer not to accept the situation have a BIG battle on their hands.
…..all I can say if is this the case I do not understand why folk completed on the development.
Melosine – I do know that the developer sent out letters demanding purchasers complete by a certain date otherwise they will start court proceedings.
If you then couple that with being unfortunate enough to have a lawyer who, being 'somewhat' biased to the developer, advises that it's best to complete because the letter is fact, then there are those who would have felt they had no other option.
Not many have completed as this was very much an investors development being much cheaper than its sister development Los Lagos.
The bottom line appears to be is that if this ruling had gone against the developer then bankruptcy would have followed with a splash that would have sent the tidal wave through markets.
To award costs in favour of the defendent appears on the face of it as a dont waste your time and money message from the courts.
The various councils such as Marbella are possibly bankrupt,the buildings on numerous developments throughout Spain have been completed as per the bank guarantee (Even though it may be corrupt) and the developers havent got any money left as its in some bank account far,far away.
This just the start of it and it will continue throughout many areas of Spain as the attention is on Marbella at the moment however this will go on years after they put their house in order.
In short the clock simply cant be turned back,like it or not.
However this will never be allowed to happen. 😥 and certainly not through a newpaper forum as rightly so the editor has to protect his companies interests.
Because some have been offered a discount to "make up" for the lost amenity of the golf course and are happy, firmly believing it will all come out in the wash? We've had this discussion before and the consensus was that all LFO, illegal build problems will go away soon. So I think it's pointless discussing the merits of buying or making do.
None of us commenting so far has had sight of the judgement, the purchase contract or any of the other paperwork (have we?). It appears from the translation of the newspaper I've seen that the Judge is saying it's not the developers fault that the Town Hall changed it's mind, cancelled one half of the development, cancelled the golf course and now won't give it a LFO. Clearly it's not the poor sods that have bought either, maybe it's time that the people who have bought and are upset, join forces with the developer to get something done and fight for some sort of compensation from the Town Hall. Spending money fighting the wrong people seems to be a waste of time and clearly this judge thinks the wrong people have been accused of wrong doing, s/he say it's the Town Hall. I also bet, that if a bank guarantee had been in place the same thing would have happened so the lack of one is academic really.
Only 32 out of 192/6 apartments have been completed on. Frank is one of those who completed. Not everyone was an investor. I know that for a fact. Los Lagos is an inferior development and not more expensive than Green Hills.
Los Lagos is an inferior development and not more expensive than Green Hills.
You are right re the prices Paul 😳 🙂 but it was built AFTER GH. Prices were still rising.The end result is inferior 😉 As you say, it has nothing to do with the case in question.
Whatever opinion we all may have, I feel very sorry for the people involved.
I played golf with someone who has completed in total ignorance there. I did not say anything about the place just asked if it was Ok and he said except for a bit of disappointment with the quality finish he was pleased overall. Maybe I should have said something but suppose it would make little difference now, just hope it works out for everyone who is caught up in the mess.
As someone asked today what I thought of this: I think it is a completely unfair decission which serious and urgently needs to go to the Appealings Courts in Malaga and then, to further, higher jursidictions if needed.
As always your opinion is much respected. The case is being appealed in the High Court in Malaga.
Given the circumstances surrounding this case and others in similar position, I fail to understand how the judge came to his verdict when, you and other lawyers agree it is a travesty of justice.
thank heavens for common sense!
surely those who buy in good faith from the developer, should be compensated by the developer?, and then it's up to the developer to take up their fight with the local council, and so on. For the buyer at the end of the chain to have to foot the bill or even face a higher court because the council may have screwed the developer seems utter madness as well as being completely unjust.
I know that this may sound daft, but has anyone actually read the ruling? Do we know, exactly, why this case was brought before the courts? Or are we basing our opinions on a newspaper article (heavens forbid)?
No. Charlie and I know these people. We had email from them yesterday.
So, in their opinion, was the newspaper article accurate? Did it truly reflect the facts, or was it the usual sensationalism?
You must remain positive and like many of us hope that the result will be corrected in the High Court.
In my opinion, the case needs to be analized under the principles of Private Law: contract as they are now implemented by the principles of consumers law. Nothing to do with whatever has happened in the Administrative realm of the granting of licenses!!. According to this body of law, there is a breach of contract which deserves cancellation and full refund of money plus interests to the purchaser. The consequences of the lack of FOL needs to be charged on developer, whatever are the claim this developer can ( or cannot!!) oposse to Local Council. Of course, you, the purchasers ( consumers) don´t have to bear the weight arised as a consequence of illegality.
A good defense in the Allegation´s Court!! in Malaga.
Whilst many of us are shocked at the Court judgement in this particular case, those with imminent hearings must not loose heart.
A person pm'd me today to say how shocked they were to read about this case, and told me of their experience with taking a developer to Court. Earlier this year, they won their case. They successfully got their deposit back after bringing the La Reserva de Marbella developer to court.
However it cost 10,000 Euro in legal fees. They thought about pursuing the developer for their legal fees but their lawyer advised it would be at least November before the case would be heard and there was no guarantee of winning. Indeed they were told there was a possibility of losing what had already been won.
They decided that a 'bird in the hand, etc' was best.
They are now very pleased with the decision they took due to the recent Marbella court case in which the developers won.
This person who does not wish to be named, thought it would give hope to people in a like situation for me to tell the forum members of their case.
Great to read of a good result!
What I find depressing though is that it seems justice in Spain has become a bit like pot-luck, all depending on which judge you get.
This is not how it is supposed to be – judges are supposed to make judgements based on law, not on their personal opinions/views.
Maria – many thanks as always for your valued input. We're learning all the time!
I did post this news about La Reserva several weeks ago but was asked not to go into detail about it on here. However, this ruling was given to someone who would be classified as 'an investor' so this is vital information, and I have let all I know at LR of this – with the permission of the person concerned of course.
p.s. It was granted at the 'Preliminary Hearing'.
I'm getting some distressing messages over this ruling, & think it's important to remember that some people are getting their money back. Charlie & Claire have both had their deposits back & they continue to post on this forum, but I suspect that many who have been successful probably never want to hear any more five letter words beginning with S, ever again and won't spend time on forums such as this one. As is the case with the returned deposit at La Reserva, some don't even feel able to post such good news & state publicly who they are, for various reasons – and this can also lead to confusion, particularly when they were previously posting. Hence more PMs, asking what is going on.
PLease know that frustration coming out from Judge decissions is everyday´s bread in the life of a lawyer. Nothing surprising.
Also, take in mind that Judges apply law according to the evidences and the defense brought to them, that is the reason why a decission on very similar issues ( never the same) can be so different: different person judging, different evidences brought, different defense acted.
It happens in every country.
Justice does not finish in first instance courts.
Marbella's´s own Town Hall architect confirmed to the court the urbanization was currently illegal.
Maria, IMHO, this alone is evidence enough that the people concerned in this instance should have won the case. They had no bank guarantee either. To award the developer their costs was adding insult to injury. It was based on the "It's not the developers fault that the Town Hall revoked the licence" 😯 Where did the fact that the developers did not heed the original BL to build Town Houses and that it was through bribery to Jesus Gil that led to apartment blocks which were then stopped. The whole development is miles away from what it should have been. Misrepresentation in the extreme.
All of these cases affected by the corruption in Marbella should be heard in other provinces, not the Marbella Court IMO. It is too incestuous, as has been proven by many lawyers being onside with the developers.
This principle is very true Maria. My comment was merely to emphasise the point that we don't hear all Spanish court case results on this forum. As you say Maria, the case quoted is not the end of the matter or a Final Ruling, and not everyone is having this same experience.
Yes but under common law a previous precedent would be taken strongly into account. Where the basics are the same, and they must be in the same development surely, then the same final ruling should be applied!
Our system is not the Common Law Legal system but Civil Law, also called Code System, where we are not that attached to previous, similar cases.
6. Court cases will complement the legal order, by the reiterated Decissions of the Supreme Court, when interpreting and aplying the Law, the uses and the general principles of Law.
Better hope the judge is in a good mood on the day then!
……….so what chance of justice, if we get a female judge at the wrong time of the month??????????
Worse if you get a MALE one at the wrong time of the month………….!
…….mmm, are yes, you could be right?


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Youth inmates play basketball at the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Ethan Allen School on May 20, 2010, in Wales, Wis. The facility has since closed. Morry Gash/AP Photo
New Report Highlights Disparities Between Arrest Rates Of Black, White, Native American Youth
Black Youth Are Three Times As Likely, Native American Youth Twice As Likely Than White Youth To Be Arrested
By Mary Kate McCoy
Friday, August 17, 2018, 3:00pm
While the number of kids arrested in Wisconsin is declining, it appears it is happening at a much faster rate for white youth, compared to youth of color, according to a new report from Kids Forward.
The report, from Race to Equity, a project of Kids Forward, found that black youth are three times more likely, and Native American youth are twice as likely, to be arrested in Wisconsin than their white peers.
Graph courtesy of Race to Equity.
That disparity not only continues, but increases once arrested, said Erica Nelson, director of Race to Equity. African-American youth are 15 times more likely to be incarcerated in the juvenile justice system than white youth.
"Our findings over the years have shown that reform in the juvenile justice system has resulted in fewer youth involved in the juvenile justice system," she said. "However the disparities between youth of color and white youth have not declined at such a fast pace as one would think they would."
In 2002, youth between the ages of 10 and 17 were arrested at a rate of 187 arrests per 1,000 youth, by 2016 that fell to 72. Yet between 2003 and 2013 the disparity between African-American youth and white youth in the juvenile justice system increased by 82 percent, according to the report.
Differential police policies and practices, location and victims perception of who is committing the crime are all contributing factors that can lead to disparities, Nelson said.
"And having just sort of structural and institutional biases built into the system itself in terms of who the police target, how prosecutors charge, how courts rule, the result is a racially unfair and essentially inequitable system," she said.
Exposure to the system is often much higher for people of color from a young age because the communities they live in are already highly policed, raising the likelihood of having more contact with police in a way most white youth don't experience, Nelson said.
"The policies that the police may have with respect to the communities is not an explicit policy," Nelson said. "I'm sort of speaking to implicit, unconscious bias that may exist in how we police and where we police."
Disparities within the education system can also exacerbate the problem, she said. Students of color are suspended and expelled at higher rates than their white peers.
"When we look at the school to prison pipeline ... if you have disparities within an education system that disproportionately pushes youth of color out of that system ... they're more likely again to have a level of disproportionate contact with police and then subsequently involving them later on in the juvenile justice system," Nelson said.
The overall decrease in youth arrested and in the justice system is a positive, but the question now is how do we reduce the disparities within the system, she said.
"There's been a lot of work ... around restorative justice programs around more diversion from the system in terms of looking to provide more comprehensive, holistic services for youth and families," Nelson said.
Going forward, Nelson sees opportunity for more investment in mental health and trauma informed care and focusing the role of the youth justice system towards being rehabilitative, as opposed to punitive.
Judith Siers-Poisson
Erica Nelson
J. Carlisle Larsen
Former Juvenile Offenders: Treat Traumatized Children With Stable Love, Not Life Sentences
How Trauma-Informed Care Can Prevent Youth Incarceration
Evers' Plans For Overhauling Juvenile Justice System
'An Absolute Atrocity': State To Miss Deadline To Close Juvenile Detention Facilities, Even As Conditions Worsen
Less Than 20 Milwaukee County Youth Remain At Lincoln Hills. The Goal Is To Get To Zero By The End Of 2021


Guess which bass guitar got a nice cameo during a scene in this motion picture?
A very quick cameo though. Only seen the film once (brilliant film want to go see it again) not sure what model it was, it looked like it had a lacquered neck ? Possibly an anniversary model of some description maybe?
I was thinking about this the other night... it appeared to be a modern Stingray Classic in sunburst with a crazy flamed neck. Obvious indications were truss rod wheel at pick guard and not at headstock. Still enjoyed seeing the it and wished it got more screen time.
Yeah, I saw that. Definitely a looker. I also noticed that they definitely did a good job getting the actors to look like they were actually playing the music.
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm glad the actors look like they're playing. Makes me nuts when the acting is so obviously fake.
It's definitely a new model but who is ever going to notice that apart from us lot ?
shows are archived as podcasts.
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It was an EBMM Classic Stingray. Not very historically correct lol. But most of the movie wasn't anyway. There was a discussion about it on the "Pre Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray Bass Fans" on Facebook already. I noticed it straight away in the cinema.
I remember reading somewhere that recent movies about musicians/bands have "instrument experts" just to make sure that things look reasonably correct. "Jersey Boys" is one example. Last thing we want is something like that Frankenstrat that was used in the "Buddy Holly Story."
John Deacon. What a great bass player he was. Sad he is out of the game. Has not touched a bass in 20 years now it seems. Think he had two Stingray´s.
Oh yeah, when he showed 'em the line for Another One Bites the Dust, right? Very cool.
Suddenly they stop talking and concentrate on that song.


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Q: Google Java api - error "com.google.gdata.util.ServiceException: Bad Gateway" during feed.insert(entry) I am having two worksheets in a spreadsheet. I will copy and change the value from one sheet to other if some conditions are met. It is working for 2 weeks and getting this issue from yesterday. No changes were made. Below mentioned error message is coming when executing this statement.
Please note that this error is coming not all the times and also error is coming after iterating some for loops, sometimes when x=10 sometimes when x=100 or x=500
CODE CAUSING THE ERROR:
 for (int x=1; x <= row_TODAY_WS;x++){
    for(int y=1; y <= col_TODAY_WS;y++){
       CellEntry newEntry = new CellEntry (x, y, feed_cell_0.getEntries().get(i).getPlainTextContent());
       feed_1.insert(newEntry);
      i++;
    }
  }

ERROR MESSAGE :
com.google.gdata.util.ServiceException: Bad Gateway
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <meta charset=utf-8>
  <meta name=viewport content="initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width">
  <title>Error 502 (Server Error)!!1</title>

502. That?s an error.

The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
Please try again in 30 seconds.  That?s all we know.

        at com.google.gdata.client.http.HttpGDataRequest.handleErrorResponse(HttpGDataRequest.java:632)
        at com.google.gdata.client.http.GoogleGDataRequest.handleErrorResponse(GoogleGDataRequest.java:564)
        at com.google.gdata.client.http.HttpGDataRequest.checkResponse(HttpGDataRequest.java:560)
        at com.google.gdata.client.http.HttpGDataRequest.execute(HttpGDataRequest.java:538)
        at com.google.gdata.client.http.GoogleGDataRequest.execute(GoogleGDataRequest.java:536)
        at com.google.gdata.client.Service.insert(Service.java:1409)
        at com.google.gdata.client.GoogleService.insert(GoogleService.java:613)
        at com.google.gdata.data.BaseFeed.insert(BaseFeed.java:535)

A: HTTP error 502 (Bad Gateway) is a server error.  There looks to be a problem with one of the Google servers involved in running the spreadsheets API.  The problem isn't with your code.
Your computer contacted a Google server, which acted as a proxy for the server that would actually do the work.  This second server then encountered a problem of some kind which meant that it could not return a valid response to the proxy server which the proxy could then pass back to you.  As a result, the proxy server sent you back an HTTP 502 response.
I would hope that Google's systems would be smart enough to detect these problems and notify Google engineers automatically.  Perhaps someone from Google is working on the problem right now.  However, I don't work for Google so I can't say that this is true for sure.
If nothing else, you could try posting on the Google Spreadsheets API forum.


Park, Chocolate World, the Rose Garden or Sweet Lights in the Christmas Holidays you'll want to be sure to stop by the Hershey Pantry for breakfast. Gluten Free … you bet they understand Gluten Free foods.
On a recent visit we bought the Hershey Pantry Cookbook loaded with interesting recipes. I had make "impossible pie" (quiche) earlier in the week and saw that the Country Quiche recipe has a grated potato crust. They have several salads that are amazing. I think my favorite is the Grilled Honey Lime Chicken Salad with apples and raisins, some cashews and cheddar cheese served on a bed of lettuce.
Before you leave the area stop by Hershey Pantry's bakery called Deserts Etc. just down the street. Pretty amazing and worth going out of your way on your way to a game or event at the Giant Center or the theater. There's plenty to do and amazing food too in Hershey.


"How can the book find an adequate outside with which to assemble in heterogeneity, rather than a world to reproduce" – Deleuze and Guattari.
Emmett Stinson is a Lecturer in Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne. He is the President of SPUNC – The Small Press Network and a Fiction Editor for Wet Ink: The Magazine of New Writing. He is also a panelist on the Department of Innovation's federal Book Industry Study Group, established by Senator Kim Carr. His debut collection of short stories, Known Unknowns, has just been published by Affirm Press.
Sean Dockray is an artist in Los Angeles. He is a co-director of Telic Arts Exchange and has initiated a handful of collaborative projects including a school (The Public School), a theory text-sharing website (AAAARG.ORG), and an architecture radio show (Building Sound). He has contributed writing to X-TRA, Bidoun, Fillip, Volume, and Cabinet magazines, and his video and sculptural work have been exhibited at Gigantic Art Space, ESL, the Cheekwood Museum, the Turtle Bay Museum, and the Armory Center for the Arts. "The Public School (for Architecture)" in New York, a project in partnership with the architecture group, common room, was recently awarded a fellowship from the Van Alen Institute. With fellow collaborators in The Public School, Caleb Waldorf and Fiona Whitton, Sean is organizing a 13-day seminar at various sites throughout Berlin this July, called "There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing," which will discuss the promises, pitfalls, and possibilities for extra-institutionality. Sean studied architecture at Princeton University before receiving his Masters in Fine Arts from University of California Los Angeles.
Morgan asked me to introduce myself and my experience with AAAARG as a distribution platform and give an update on what's happening now, so I'll follow her questions more or less to the letter.
I think there is enough background about the project in these two links and I'll try and avoid repeating it here.
Now that digital reading devices like the Kindle or iPad are becoming popular and widespread, PDFs (and other digital text formats of course!) seem like a viable market. Obviously manufacturers are competing for students and trying to partner with academic publishers. The person who wrote the cease and desist letter from Macmillan (iPad partner?) describes himself as an expert from the music industry. AAAARG has been around for more than 5 years — there are a lot of places around that host or index the same material, not to mention the totally common practice of people sending each other PDFs — and it's been in this last 12 months that all of the cease & desist letters have come in. What was once just a bad copy now becomes the product itself.
Another point in this constellation are non-profit services like JSTOR, which again makes partnerships with publishers and academic institutions. An individual is absolutely aware of being outside of the academy here – most material is not accessible at all and the material that is accessible costs a lot of money. And for those in institutions but outside of wealthier countries, it's often a similar situation.
Within these kinds of shifts, who has the right to build a library? We're technically and legally not allowed to share a PDF between Kindles (the way I might give you a book after I've finished reading it) so what does that mean for similar collective acts? I'm thinking about the history of the public library, of little traveling libraries, of how collections were acquired, donated, redistributed, etc. about how one book might be read by hundreds of eyes. Now, of course, every individual is responsible for purchasing their individual file and sharing is reframed as unethical, illegal, naive, etc.
Maybe that's enough for now?
Oh, finally, for an update on what happened and what's happening now: see the very end of the interview with Morgan above! Before this week is through there will be more news, but for now I'll just say that some people will be unhappy and many more will be happy.
Briefly, we say that The Public School is a school with no curriculum. Which means that the curriculum comes out of the people participating in the school, in the life of the school. Because teachers, students, and administrators are constantly switching places, sometimes several times in a day, it's not simply the class, but the whole curriculum, the entire "institution" that is part of the regular discussions. Lots of people make the project. The Public School works by asking people to propose classes that they wanted to take (or teach); and then others can begin saying their interested, having discussions, sharing resources, etc; and then the classes that seem the most vital or timely or provocative are scheduled. There is no disciplinary framework (the school is not accredited and it has nothing to do with the public school system in the US) which means the people involved often come from different places and can have significantly different investments in the subject matter. Unlike online learning which uses the internet to broadcast classes, to disperse the classroom, we're more interested in using it as a way of getting people together, in trying to activate the radical potential of the classroom.
But this also means that as classes happen at The Public School, the people involved with that class will scan and upload readings to add to the syllabus. On the AAAARG side of things, if the issue is shared, then that means anyone can add a text into it (for example, I made the Kultural Kapital issue "shared" and then someone added Jason Read's "Micro-Politics of Capital" text). It's a double movement into and out of the discussion of the class.
The Public School is obviously localized (in several cities), relative to AAAARG. But hopefully the class wages themselves can be a resource to groups of people anywhere who want to do the same class. We don't record classes or broadcast them or anything (partly because it is usually boring to watch, but mostly because it impedes the physical meeting as people futz with technology or hold their tongue) but we do try and circulate the class idea itself and perhaps some material and organizing discussion. I know that Kultural Kapital has happened, or is happening now, in at least 2 other places!
So to respond to your question a little more generally, Renate, AAAARG predates The Public School by a few years, but both are motivated by a certain tendency towards self-education and engaged autonomy (Charles Esche?). They are both collaborative to the point that the each has a life of its own.
Finally, I've been thinking more recently about "resources," how we might produce them and how their existence might change things. So, by resources, I simply mean something that is shared and useful (shared with and useful to whom is an open question). Producing resources could just be an act of designation; or maybe it rearranges, removing from one sphere of life and inserting into another; or by creating new knowledge, or making restricted knowledge available. Put together, these actions generate common resources. Given some of what has been making the news over the past year (at California public higher education, Middlesex Philosophy Department, for-profit colleges absorbing federal aid, Puerto Rico, just to rattle off a scattered few) or the larger financial trends over the past few decades, it seems appropriate to think about – resources as a part of strategic withdrawl.
PS: for a couple more days.
Michael has asked me to introduce myself, and I thought I¹d talk a little about my own research in relation to the posts so far.
I think the question of what AAAARG is (raised by Renate) is an interesting one. Sean, obviously, sees AAAARG as an online library or archive, one that offers freely accessible digital copies of books that, by and large, are related to the tradition of continental theory and related disciplines. Others (notably, it would seem, Pan Macmillan), however, would see AAAARG as simply a website for book pirates, which violates authorial copyright (and the copyright license owned by publishers).
I've just written an article offering a pragmatic analysis of so-called "book piracy" for Overland magazine, and I have mixed and contradictory feelings about the practise. On the one hand, I am emphatically against any attempts to criminalise or penalise activities relating to not-for-profit "book piracy" and am a staunch believer in copyright reform that enables a more free and open access to copyrighted material. But I also come from a publishing-industry perspective and strongly believe that both authors and their publishers (or other intermediaries) have a legitimate right to expect payment for their labour.
The argument that books and information should be (monetarily) free to everyone is absolutely compelling for academics; since most academics have salaried positions, they don't need royalties from books to survive. But for other kinds of writers, the idea of free culture may simply result in more alienated labour (i.e. people who say things like "write advertising copy during the week, but I'm a novelist on weekends").
Book piracy is clearly a huge problem for the industry (much bigger, I think, than most publishers realise), although I think publishers themselves can partially solve this 'problem' simply by acknowledging that ebooks require a different form than print books. This goes beyond ebooks that include "value adds" (i.e. audiovisual content); publishers need to radically rethink the form of ebooks by creating books that can be customised by users and include user feedback/interaction in order to make the book a dynamic process rather than a static artefact. An artifact can be pirated, but an evolving process can't.
On a final note, last week I spoke with two librarians in charge of major Australian research libraries; interestingly, they were both strong advocates of significant copyright reform, and very much believe in something like the creative commons mode of copyright. Ironically, they argued that electronic providers of copyrighted content are currently the biggest barrier to a more free and open information exchange. Most Australian research libraries spend far more money on electronic resources than they do on print, and very few digital providers offer reasonable single-use or single-user fees. So digital publishers, themselves, are not in anyway inherently more open or free.
I'm one of the curators of the topic for this month, along with Morgan Currie and John Haltiwanger. Thought it's a good time to introduce myself through some reflections on this topic of distribution.
To pick up a number of issues flagged by Emmett around sustainability, I'm interested in asking Sean whether he can speak more about if there are plans to perpetuate the ethos of the AAAARG.org experiment now that the site appears to be stalled? And on this point, I'm wondering more specifically whether AAAARG.org has a politics, and how might that be defined. I understand that providing access to resources and extra-institutional education are aims, but what underpins this desire, is it an idea of radical democracy? A liberalism? An anti-capitalism?
Of course, I've noticed that the way you speak about the project during interviews does imply a certain kind of politics of networking. Partly something out of your hands, not exactly based on critique, but about connective or reticular alternatives ("Rather than thinking of it like a new building … imagine scaffolding that attaches onto existing buildings and creates new architectures between them.").
The relation between filesharing and intellectual property is itself a complex situation, however. I'm wondering about the point of indistinction with this logic of networking at the center of AAAARG.org as an exchange economy. I'm thinking of Matteo Pasquinelli's recent work here, who has suggestively drawn attention to the parasitic dimensions of contemporary informational economies – utilizing the philosophy of Michel Serres – partly as a critique of free culture ideologies. A difficult point for radical thinking to grasp, he claims, "is that all the immaterial (and gift) economy has a material, parallel and dirty counterpart where the big money is exchanged. See MP3 and iPod, P2P and ADSL, free music and live concerts, Barcelona lifestyle and real estate speculation, art world and gentrification, global brands and sweatshops" (http://matteopasquinelli.com/docs/immaterialcivilwar.pdf). From this perspective, even liberated knowledge exchange-based sites like AAAARG.org (or blogs like Monoskop, not to mention massive e-book trading forums like Gigapedia) are not only targeted as threats to the rise of e-Reader markets, but also paradoxically prepare the way for devices like the iPad or Kindle in the first place. Liberated resources here return to commodification, not directly, but on the side.
Thinking about Emmett's post, I agree we need to seriously re-think the general impulse towards free, but also question the economics of this situation politically. We should definitely support, celebrate and fight for open access to resources, but it seems like there's no point being theoretically free, if there's no possibility of sustaining that autonomy. I'm wondering Sean if you have any thoughts on this paradoxical situation?
If it helps, Emmett, I also have mixed and contradictory feelings about the practice.
I know I've been playing too much chess recently – I'm imagining how discussions over "book piracy" seem to open up along fairly common lines: e4 – why are there restrictions on the movement of texts when it is technically possible to overcome geographic, political, or economic limitations? c5 – authors and publishers have put in real labor and deserve monetary compensation in return.
The variations that might come out of this position? Attempts to prove that piracy actually helps book sales as opposed to reducing them. Arguments to settle for symbolic capital or other forms of valorization that can be "cashed in" elsewhere. Assurances that if piracy just went away the market would make sure that all those limitations were overcome. Proposals for micro-payments, creative commons, and other reforms. (This is obviously not the route chosen by Macmillan, who made news last year for "standing up to" Amazon over lower prices for digital books). Less common lines might be that piracy amounts to a strange form of unpaid marketing; that when it comes to art and theory, reading and writing doesn't break down so cleanly along the lines of consumption and production, or leisure and labor.
Emmett's argument about alienated labor resonates with me at this moment in particular because I have had to wait until finishing my full-time day job (which is the equivalent of writing ad copy) each day to participate in this week's discussion! I'm assuming some in this discussion have a university job based in these issues, or are teaching a class on them, or are writing on the topics? Some are in the position to translate the knowledge or symbolic value from discussions on this list into real income. I'm conflicted when tenured faculty use AAAARG to make a reader for their classes, to save themselves time. I completely agree with the calls to think about the unaffiliated, selfishly I suppose, because that's my camp!
How might we pose our mixed feelings in a way that isn't point- counterpoint, but something less identifiable; or even how do we try and imagine possibilities beyond the capitalist framework, something that's not just turning the price dial down on a product until it hits the level where people start using their credit card again?
Jumping over to Michael Dieter's post, which says that file-sharing, like gentrification, produces value that ends up in the pockets of those few who own the networks or buildings or whatever, I'd agree that Free Culture is not the road map or destination point or anything (and so I haven't argued for that anywhere). Looking at the specificity of AAAARG, which is composed of people who are generally cognitive workers themselves, reading and referencing as a part of their practice, I see a space of confrontation over the very materials with which we produce; many of the authors on AAAARG are also registered and several of them have expressed extraordinarily nuanced, ambivalent, and internally conflicted positions: Paul Gilroy, Jason Read, and Stuart Elden for example, on the site or on other networks. Publishers (doing their job) surreptitiously register and send cease and desist letters about Marxist and anti-copyright texts. And of course the people who use the site think quite concretely about the nature of the site (what belongs?) and tactics for the project.
Back to P2P (actually in an effort to break free of the IP discussion).. as Pasquinelli writes of the parasite on (between) P2P culture (the owners of the network who take money for that very "free" activity), we can always be looking at who is profiting from free labor and Free ideology that sustains it. My mind jumps to things like access to libraries (my UC Library card was taken away when I stopped teaching) or access to JSTOR (also removed at the same time) or conferences, festivals, and the like. Those knowledge networks that academics take for granted, but the boundaries of which are most apparent to the precarious laborers (grad students, lecturers, adjuncts who regularly cross in and out of the institution, gaining and losing "privileges" each time), rely on valorization as compensation for virtually free labor, while education remains a profitable industry for some.
Thank you Morgan. Publication Studio is a for-profit business that uses what we call "non-exclusive rights." We ask the authors for permission to publish our editions (printed, bound book and DRM-free ebook) and we encourage or enable, if we can, the authors to publish the same texts with others. Where authors we admire are caught in an exclusive rights contract with a publisher that will not circulate their work we offer to "bootleg" the book and produce our customary non-exclusive edition, alongside the legal one. We always begin a "bootleg" by explaining our service to the other publisher and asking how they would like to proceed. We pick these cases very carefully in the hopes that we can productively model the use of non-exclusive rights. We feel this rights arrangement offers the best future for publishers and for writers. So far (10 months) we have five books that help model bootlegging.
By printing and binding the books ourselves using cheap, reliable print-on-demand machinery (an old Instabook III), maintaining a digital commons with free off-the-shelf tools such as WordPress and a.nnotate, and organizing social events that are paid for by whomever attends — we either go super cheap and make up the costs by selling enough books; or, we work with talented cooks and musicians, so that our audience pays for those things and gets the books and authors in the mix — we're able to make a profit producing books on-demand for an audience that can begin very small (one reader) and grow to whatever size it will.
Our guiding goal is to connect texts to readers meaningfully. We cultivate meaningful conversations around the work, and this grows an informed desire for the text itself. We have no interest and invest no resources in selling books to people who will not read them. This is a radical departure from the conventional approach to for-profit publishing. We focus only on cultivating the conversation around reading, which makes a market of readers and draws the books we sell into that market.
All of the material capacities of print-on-demand publishing together with digital distribution of (for us, PDF) texts have thrown us back on the primacy of social relationships. Publication is the creation of a public. Our only work is to attend to the relationships that create such a public. The economy and the material practice that supports writers will follow directly from proper attention to these relationships, one by one by one. We make money move through making these relationships rewarding and meaningful enough that people will pay for the texts. (We price our books at roughly 4x material production cost, which is roughly 2x labor and material cost, and split the profits 50/50 with the writer; most of our novels, for example, cost $20 of which the writers gets $5.) We pay writers more per-book than conventional publishers.


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About Norway, Israel and Anti-Semitism…….
One of the more striking aspects to the whole scenario surrounding the Jerusalem Post's publishing of the article by Maya Spitzer, was the reaction by the Norwegian media, the comments coming from Norway to the Tundra Tabloids' own comment box, as well as the response by the Jerusalem Post to news it helped to generate.
The Norwegian newspapers, Dagbladet and Aftenposten, had linked to a Tundra Tabloids' post -which had published the original Spitzer article in full- due to the Jerusalem Post's removal of the same article which had initially set the ball rolling through the Israeli, Norwegian and Finnish blogosphere.
First of all, what needs to be recognized concerning the Jerusalem Post's initial article, is that, in spite of the fact that Maya Spitzer could have, and should have, written a much better article, (Norway's Minister of Finance, Kristin Halvorsen, did not shout Death to the Jews, but much of the article was sound, as some of the respondents to the article have testified here at the TT.
In spite of that, and to the Jerusalem Post's credit, they took down the article as soon as they received word that something was amiss, and then republished it with a mention of the correction, that Halvorsen was not shouting "death to Jews". But they didn't stop there, as the J'lem Post removed the entire article and published an entirely new article by someone else, that embodied much of the same facts from the first article by Spitzer, and explained both sides of the brouhaha, while giving ample space for opposing views.
Secondly, could the same be said of any Norwegian paper acting in the very same way, when it was discovered that the facts to certain articles about Israel were as faulty, or worse? A Norwegian colleague of the Tundra Tabloids agrees, stating:
"Most Western media still haven't apologized for unfairly demonizing Israelis through uncritically broadcasting the obviously fraudulent Pallywood story about the "brutal murder" of the boy Muhammad al-Durrah."
There are also other examples as well, like the mythical Jenin "massacre" that the international media spread like wildfire, which blamed Israel for killing over 500 Palestinians in the refugee camp in 2003, though only 50 some people were killed, most of them terrorists, as well as over 20 Israeli soldiers among the dead as well. The Norwegian media has never issued an apology for its horrid reporting on it, neither has Finnish press.
Thirdly, angry Norwegians, after reading the Dagbladet and visiting the Tundra Tabloids, had not only the nerve to rake the J'lem Post over the coals, as if the JP is the worst paper on earth, but many dismissed the notion that their anti-Israel views had anything to do with anti-semitism, just Israeli policies.
1.) "I must just say that when mr Gerstenfeld says "Norwegian society must be forced to confront their racism towards Jews which is masked under the guise of criticism towards Israeli policies", it's BS. Right-wing israeli propaganda at it's best. So no one can criticize our Israel anymore, but you can criticize everyone else??"
2.) "What a big load of crap! There is absolutely no public antisemitism in Norway non-what-so-ever, it is an outright lie! Fucking right wing fanatics!!!"
3.) "Yes, there is some anti-Semitism in Norway. There is some Nazism in Norway and there is much idiocy in Norway. Show me a country without extremes. But Norwegians or Israelis most have no problem with each other, and are able to disagree on important topics without that turning into hate. There is no public voice in Norway trying to have it otherwise, so please Dr.Manfred Gerstenfeld and Maya Spitzer, do not be such a voice in Israel."
4.) "So no, their antagonism towards Israel isn't proportionate, and it isn't always rational. But neither is the fact that Israel tries to elevate itself above criticism by shouting "anti-semite" each time a critical remark is made. Israel's list of violations of basic human rights for the Palestinian population it occupies is long and dismal. They run a brutal occupation regime causing the suffering of millions of people. And as a matter of fact, not many other states are occupiers is this day and age."
5.) "…you have to believe very blindly in the cleverness of your own policy when you portray any critique of it as racism. The current situation does not warrant any such blind faith."
These few comments, and there's more of them, show exactly what Dr.Gerstenfeld has shown to be the problem in Scandinavia. In spite of their traditional concerns over human rights and being against all forms of racism, Scandinavians prove themselves incapable of spotting it amongst themselves. Perhaps they believe that their socialist credentials provide an automatic immunity shot against the disease of racism that affects us all?
Any criticism that appears to tarnish that image, must have deeper designs, there just couldn't be any truth to the claims. The person who points it out, in this case Dr.Manfred Gerstenfeld, must have a personal axe to grind and an agenda to keep. But if that criticism is coming from Norway, than it's justified, because the Norwegians are the righteous and noble vanguards of all that is good. Israel however, since its deemed to have been from its conception, living in a state of original sin, is therefore deemed to be bad, and full of the bad qualities that the good humanitarian Scandinavians reject.
That's one of the reasons why none of the comments registered at the Tundra Tabloids -concerning the J'lem Post article- which condemned Israel as an occupier and the killer of children, mentioned the Palestinians as being, at least partly to blame, for the ongoing tragedy. Only Israel had that honour.
The other reason why, is that for the most part, like minded Norwegians have become a nation of humanitarian racists who treat the Arabs in much the same, patronizing way as Southerners treated black African Americans in a segregated South.
Humanitarian Racism: "Attributing an intrinsically reduced responsibility for certain ethnic and national groups for the actions."
Norwegian humanitarian racists refuse to hold others, "not like themselves" to the very same high standards. That's why Hamas supporters can throw Fattah supporters from very tall buildings in a single bound, and there's no call of outrage in the Norwegian media, no call for a deepening in the boycott against Hamas until it respects human rights and the rule of law. As a matter of fact, I'd wager that many, if not most of those Norwegians "outraged" by the J'lem Post article, and by the claims of Gerstenfeld himself, are in favor of the ending the boycott sanctions against Hamas.
For humanitarian racists, no amount of violence and outrage committed by people "unlike themselves" are enough to condemn them. Here we have two kinds of racisms working side by side, ancient anti-semitic motifs now pitted against the modern state of Israel, and humanitarian racism towards "third world people".
According to the logic exhibited by "humanitarian Scandinavia", the only way for Israel to gain any sympathy and compassion from the Nordic region, was if they were to behave like the Palestinians themselves, and treat the Arabs in the very same way the Arabs treat themselves and their neighbors. Is that the lesson "humanitarian Scandinavia" wants to teach the world? KGS
NOTE: Like the TT has always maintained, some people do in fact get it. Here is the comment from an anonymous commenter from Norway:
I disagree with our Minister of Finance in her views on Israel's action, and her wish to boycott Israel. I would never for a second believe that she would cry "Death to the Jews", though. That is so cruel and crude, that it is unthinkable. She is a compassionate woman, whose heart goes out to Palestinian children.
That there are others, basically Arabs, that did shout that, is another matter.
I will not pretend that everything is as it should be, though. I think most Jews in Norway live fairly quitely, to avoid drawing attention to themselves, but I do not think they are afraid of Norwegians. Any fear they might feel would probably be of Arabs. Norwegians do not have any issues with Norwegian Jews, and are also in general very peaceful. A former President of our Parliament, Jo Benkow (Benkowitz) was openly Jewish, and well loved and respected. Just a years ago there was a ceremony at my children's school, in memory of three Jewish children that were deported to Germany during the second world war. I was concerned that nobody would show up, so I dragged my husband and my children with me, only to be left standing because it was absolutely packed with people, so we had to make sure the oldest participants would get the chairs. Jews have a lot of sympathy in Norway.
What would have bothered me, had I been Jewish, is the massive condemnation of Israel and Israeli politics. I understand that most Norwegians who have been fed with anti-Israeli propaganda for 30 years, and who by instinct take the weaker side, should be upset by the war in Gaza.
I would still think that this would be very painful for Norwegian Jews.
I am going to Eilat day after tomorrow, and the fact that I have not told more than a few very close friends speaks volumes. One of my friends even asked me if this was politically correct. Since I have been in Spain under Franco, in the Soviet Union under Bresjnev and in Cuba under Fidel Castro I think I have proved that I do not chose by politically correctness. It is however a political act on my part. This is me saying: I hear there are people who disagree with Israeli politics, and I do not allways support everything the government does myself, but I happen to like not only Jews in general, but also Israelis. I am looking forward to going!
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Let me echo John's gratitude.  I remember that first session so very clearly, and feel that we are all in Tom's debt for establishing such a resilient series.  Those early 90s meetings were very formative for me, and I learned so much from Tom, Neville, John Creaser, Martin and Gordon.  I will try to be present at the 50th meeting but fear the timing is not good with stateside commitments.
Well done, Tom! And thank you very much.
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[Pangyo Technovalley, Innovation hub in ASIA] Buzz & B, the Service Company of the Influencer Search Engine "vling" Containing 100,000 YouTuber's Information
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– Provides AI-based influencer search, trend analysis, and integrated marketing solution
LOS ANGELES, CA, October 09, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ — Among young people, influencers who have hundreds of thousands of subscribers on social media (SNS) such as Internet broadcasting and YouTube exert as much influence as entertainers. They are also positioning as important marketing keywords in the advertising market. Behind the growing influencer advertising market every year, there are cases where you get disappointing marketing results due to the lack of understanding of the brand and the lack of relevance to the products by the influencers. To solve this problem, it is important to find an influencer that is optimized for the brand to be marketed.
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Buzz & B develops and operates a platform service that searches influencers by using deep learning technology and analyzes their activities, allowing advertisers to get YouTubers that match their brand identities. While conducting game influencer marketing, too much time, effort, and cost were invested in searching for influencers and checking whether they are suitable for the brand to be marketed. The company developed the search engine because there are many companies that did not get the marketing effect they expected. With this search engine, Buzz & B was recognized for its technology as it was selected for the TIPS R&D project, a technology startup program by the MSS in the beginning of its business. In March this year, it has been selected as a supplier of NIPA's AI Voucher Support Project. Afterward, Buzz & B launched vling, an AI-based influencer search engine for full-scale commercialization.
All companies currently conducting influencer marketing are complaining of a lot of difficulty in finding the right influencer for their campaign. Vling is the integrated influencer solution that can solve these problems in a situation where the basis is unclear on how to evaluate the influencer especially before searching for influencers. Through the vling service, all participants in the ecosystem, including advertisers, agencies, MCNs, and influencers, can conduct efficient marketing by automating the series of processes required for influencer marketing and monitoring campaign performance in real-time.
Shim Chung-bo, the CEO of Buzz & B, said, "There were many search engines such as Google before, but the biggest differentiation of our company is in the pre-validation of influencer marketing. With our solution, YouTubers focus on the front-end, whether it fits the product to be marketed. But most other platforms focus mostly on the campaign and marketing results. What Buzz & B's vling platform service is trying to convey is that it is the process of buttoning the first button of influencer marketing, and this first button must be buttoned well to achieve the desired outcome at the end.
Vling platform service contributed to improving the market fairly and reasonably by providing transparent information in the influencer advertising industry. In June, it was selected as NIPA's Software Marketability Test Support Project, recognized not only for its technology but also for its marketability. Buzz & B currently has 12 patents related to the vling platform service as well as industrial property rights like trademarks and design rights.
In the vling platform, which provides AI-based influencer search, trend analysis, and integrated marketing solutions, there are currently 100,000 influencers and YouTube channel operators active in Korea, and the number is continuing to increase. In particular, Buzz & B is collecting Thai influencer data to provide global services, and plans to expand its service area to major Southeast Asian countries by securing data from Taiwan and Indonesia in the second half of 2020. Also, in the first half of next year, it plans to expand its expansion into major global markets such as the US and Japan.
About its location in Pangyo, Shim said, "The field where influencer marketing is most active is IT, BT, and CT, and there are many in Pangyo, so we have established a base in Pangyo. We are having three to four meetings in Pangyo everyday. This is how much the business exchange is being done here, and Pangyo has high competitiveness in scouting competent human resources and high accessibility to Seoul.
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