Duly Noted: Hungary’s Socialists Subsidize the Far-Right
George Handlery about the week that was. It can pay to pay a convenient enemy. All nukes are not alike. How to make capital out of trumped up charges and long sentences ending by mercy. The baddies of civilian casualties. Fulfillment, respect and those who can not give it. How to conform to the commanded norms of originality.
1. Being cagey, for weeks I held this item spiked. The original and temporarily suppressed text follows. “Guess what! In the eyes of this writer, this is still an unconfirmed report (April 24). Not unlike most countries, Hungary has her own non-democratic rightist fringe. It is, not accidentally, manipulatively overrated abroad in quality and quantity. Meanwhile, anything right of the ex-Communists is run under the “Fascist” label. The real wrong right is getting dough from… What do you think? International capital? The Zionist conspiracy? Big Oil? All wrong. Allegedly, funding comes indirectly from the Socialist government. Why? Trying to keep in business, having right wing extremists cast as a photogenic force brings advantages. Their activity can be – and is – exploited at home and abroad. Doing so legitimizes the corrupt and locally compromised plutocratic system that rules the country. Sounds fantastic. However, supporting a convenient enemy is not unusual.” I know this as a fact from Soviet-times: the “Nazistic” Croatian Ustasha got money from Moscow.
Europe's Worsening Economic Crisis
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- This pleasant city on the Danube River is considered part of eastern Europe, although it is only as about as far from Vienna as Washington is from Baltimore (about 35 miles) and is, in fact, near the geographical center of the European continent.
Slovakia was the poorer part of the former Republic of Czechoslovakia until 1993 when the country split in two parts, one being Slovakia (the Slovak Republic) and the other the Czech Republic. Economic growth languished until a reform government took over in 1998, established a set of policies that gave it one of the highest growth rates in Europe (average of 7.2 percent from 2004 to 2008), and made it the world's 20th-freest economy, lagging behind only Estonia among the former communist countries.
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