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how hungarian politics are

this film is giving some insgiht about the sad reality how hungarian society looks like. for a bunge of people politics is even more important like family or friendsip, they are breaking up these relations becuse of other political views. in my opinion, fidesz, the conservative (but better populist) party has a big responsibility, declaring that the good hungarian is their voter, and who is not supporting them is a betrayer.
sadly rasist and nationalist happenings are more and more often. we had to get used to it, that on every national holiday nazi-looking people are rebeling on the streets. last week in the east of the country roma families' houses were attacked by molotov cocktails, and two people killed by hunterguns. it will be all the time harder to find back to european ways.

stripping hungarian teacher on a collage party

she is a german teacher in zalaegerszeg, tehere is a scandae right now in hungary about this.

help sweden!

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new music style discovered

this kind of music is called 'bitpop'

hungarian quality

this is how the cycle road looks like on the brand new colbert bridge of budapest. maybe constructors built it that way to give some mountain feeling for the low-land living hungarians.

ddr shop

some present idea: ostshop and ossiladen.

buying and selling

if you have ever sold something on ebay, you'll like this video:

hungary-sweden

this is the placate of the sweden-hungary world cup qualifying in sweden. they are not so much amazed about hungarian professionalism in soccer.

hungarian story

the budapest public transport is under a redeigning process. the inhabitants of a street were discussing against an extension of a bus line in their street, claiming that buses are to dirty and loud. this is in the hilly, fancy side of the city where people better ride car than bus. the public transport company came out with a funny strategy: they have told the people from this street were caught in the last 5 years 1000 times riding the public transport, they owe the company almost 20 million euros. and now they will start to collect that money.

hajdu sound

i've seen this brilliant video on a short film festival this weekend. this was made using the sounds of the 'hajdu' washing machine which was the one and only automatic washing machine in communist times in hungary, it was known for its abaleity that it can jump high and can be pretty loud.

death of a nation

check all 6 parts of this documentary.

dreher goes to south-africa

the one and only hungarian premium beer, drehet (founded by a swiss guy, who had brewery in ausria, schwechat before) will be produced in south-africa from october on. you can find this beer also in some bars in italy, because after ww2 the owener family had to leave hungary and the company was taken over by the state. now hungary will be known for its beer!

budapest history

i have read some interesting stories about the history of budapest.
in the 1870s there were lot of debates about the rapid construction of the city. in just 50 years budapest has its size, and there were some futuristic plans. the surroundings of the former city of pest, the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th districts was mainly swampland with smaller rivers. where today there is the big boulevard, there was also a small river and they wanted to create a shippable channel. why they have rejected this plan was the reason, that all the waste water would so swim in the city, which would be anti hygienic. still now waste water is a problem: the bulk of it is just flooding into the danube, without cleaning. there is a project ongoing, which will be finished in the next years to clean every waste water. so till that point never swim in this river!
in ww2 the front line was in the city between the germans and sowiets. in the bombings and in the fights the animals escaped from the zoo (which belongs to the oldest ones in the world). one lion lived in daytime in the subway, and was attacking people in the night. but as almost all animals died, they have asked the sowiet army not to shoot it, and they really have managed to catch it in the tunnel.

fröccs

the poster is telling: let's put together what we have!
it is and advert to make drinking fröccs (wine+soda) more popular by youth.

doping

because of the lot of new world records in swimming on olympics there is again the speach of doping. the biggest scandele was the case of the east german swimmers. the most shocking case was of heidi krieger, who started to get treatment with the age of 14 years, and at the end she really did became a man, andreas krieger. if some sporters are doping at least i hope they won't have to suffer from the side effects like athletes from ddr that time.

sziget

sziget festival was great again, it is a nice feeling to see people and artists from all around the world enjoying music and cultural events so peacfully tougether.

simply unbeliveable too much

thai girl danceing on hungarian crap music

if you find something more 'schirch' tell me!

newest hype

Nette Kollegen lassen mir ein Schlueckchen Restkaffee 8-( #Kaffeekochen on 12seconds.tv

here is 12seconds.tv, the "videotwitter". unbeliveable, there is always coming a new web 2.0 unnecessary thing.

cnn report on "belgrade demonstrations"

cnn has showed a report on belgrade demonstrations, but the first seconds of the video are showing the rebellion on andrássy street some years ago. you can see hungarian flags and licence plates. i didn't thought that we will have more videos showing rebells from budapest like from belgrade some years ago...

positive proof of global warming

reading

i'm a bit lazy for commenting in this hot summer, but some good books what i've read in the last weeks:
salman rushdie: shame
good insight in the muslim society, plus a great book

vladimír páral:professional woman: Romance for everyone
typical czech, i've liked it a lot.

mihály kornis: sóhajok hídja (bridge of sighs
deep and depressed, funny and sarcastic - like and intellectual from the down town of budapest.
there is also an analyses about the last speak of jános kádár which shows how stucked people are to their sins.

pride day budapest

sad what happened.

schicht is pflicht

euro cup fever

this recent video shows how the employees of the budapest subway construction celebrated the euro cup:

concerts online

just found fabchannel.com where you can watch a lot of concerts, and can prepare on the festival!

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why not ride the bus in budapest?

watch here.
most of the things did happened :)

goulasch exotica

suprisingly this is the first hungarian band named after goulasch, i really like the idea! and also their music, more songs on myspace.

euro cup

as i don't have a television i've thought i have to go to bars every day to watch the games, but the hungarian talavision shows the games online, live. so if you don't mind hungarian language you can watch on http://www.telesport.hu.

polska football

the polish football team started to get annoyed of 'world famous austrian kitchen' and came over to hungary to have same goulash and gipsy music - wrote the local newspaper vas népe.

cheapest internet

in győr the local cabel television company has offered the possibly cheapest internet ever: 512 mbps for 2 euros per month, this the prise for a beer in the bar.

old tram

on this historical tram from budapest the sign is telling: "spitting forbidden"
an evidence for the chineese - hungarian relationship.

geistfahrer (ghost rider) hungarian style

for austria it is really typical that they have a lot of geistfahrer on the highways. now hungarians wants to catch up: on m7 highway by lake balaton an old man was driving on the wrong direction of the highway: but with a bike, holding a propane gas bottle in the hand. try to beat this!

cool statistics

i like to play a bit with numbers, and i'm happy that oecd has renewed their services, you can find it here.
what you think, which are the most opened economies in oecd?
Country Trade-to-GDP-ratio (trade of goods)
(current prices, current exchange rate)
Slovak Republic 157,38
Hungary 132,67
Czech Republic 130,71
Netherlands 110,13
Luxembourg 87,51
Austria 81,13
Ireland 80,89
Switzerland 75,34
Korea 71,42
Germany 71,24
Poland 70,67
....
Japan 26,29
United States 22,16

workoholic

hundstage

dog days of summer! yupi! budapest is the best place for summer: every day lot of programms, open-air concerts, bikeing next to the river. if there would be no winter it would be too perfect :)
and on friday erik sumo will play at szabadság tér at downtown festival.

green future

i have found the best summary of the energy problem, possile renewables and best goverment policies what i have read now:
i am only sceptic about their ideas about green tax, i think they underestimate the negative externalities of fossils.
i find also interesting the oil peak theory, jeremy leggett has a good book about that. the rising oil consumption mainly contributed by china and india and the shrinking oil production will lead the world to change the energy production.
why oil production cannot grove? in the last 20 years - in the ages of cheap oil - there was not enaugh investment and these can't be done in some years.
international energy agency, wich is an office of the united nations publicates a study every year - the world energy outlook. as this paper is prepared by the wisest people in this topic. they have also changed they forcasts and mainly accepted the oil peak theory and they are asking for change in philosphy: energy efficiency should be in focus. and we should invest in renewables but these investments will only yield on longer term - where we face again the same problem: the short term thinking of the most important companies.
so if there is a market failure we need the governments, if possible on the multinational level. kyoto process showed that we can mainly forget multinational level - fast growing countries will not participate, like china and india but that can be understood. kyoto was anyway everything but not useful: mainly none of the countries has done what they have promised.
europien union is a frontier of sustainable growth - but co2 trade and shrink of emission are not a success story. every member state has other policies how to achive the common goals. the big question is which is the best way to make alternative energies market-ready. green taxes are a good way but there are a lot of critics about that also. the subsidies are also questionable - which technics and which companies should recive them? maybe the best way is - and it looks like to work in germany which is pretty well performing in this field - is the warranted prices which are higher than market price. it is very important in this case that these has to be warranted for longer time, have to calculable and have to decline with time (not the case of hungary). maybe it would be a good way to put externalities tax on polluting technologies and finance the alternative energies from this.

conclusion: i have too much free time and need a job

some ideas about globalisation

globalaisation is mainly a good thing, sad that a lot of people don't want to get it - specially sad if these people are in the winning side - like hungarians.
nevertheless there would be a need to rethink the way global economy and globalisation is working: because the benefits are distributed a very unmoral way. this is not only problem in moral ways but also politically and economically. those nations, groups of people, regions that feel and see that only the other side (wich is already richer) is takeing the benefits of it naturally will feel embarrassed and will resist, they will turn to nationalism and protetism wich is bad for them but also for the hole world.
i have found a short nice articale summarizing these ideas by globalisation institute.

unemployed life

since 3 weeks i am unemployed and living from the friendly contribution from the 10 procent taxpayers of hungary. till now it was a lot of fun to have so much free time, but it would be nice to be able to start to work.
but i did not thought that you can have so much fun while not working: been to linz, italy, aquapark, was laying on the sun in every possible park in budapest, read books, all magazins wich i like, was riding bob and bikeing a lot. everyone should get one month summer holiday!

balmer in budapest

microsoft has sold for 100 million euros office programmes to hungary - which could have been purchased way more cheaper - lot of people say. the contract is made that way, that all universities and governmental offices have to use microsoft products.
one student was protesting with eggs.

china eating itself

i find interesting some aspects of the high oil prices. the high energy prices are driven on the bulk by the hunger of china and india. all studies are forecasting that the oil prices will continue growing - possible on 200 usd. it will change the 'flat world' how we know it: transport cost will grow dramatically and it will change our world economy. cheap labour cost countries will lose their competitiveness. globalisation will continue, but on a regional basis: europeans will produce in north-africa, eastern-europe; ameriacans in latin-america. europe can profit from high oil prices with the growing alternative energy shares: that way more money will stay in europe not by the oil exporting countries, and these masses of money can be the motor of a new economical growth - which is also more susteinable. and as europe is the frontier of alternative energy we can stay leaders in the world.

do you know cee?

there is a nice test on standard.at about central-estern europe, i also did not knew one, should travel more around :)

budapest is a bit dirty

i have desided to clean my windows, and it was shocking how dirty is the air in budapest. check the difference between the cleaned and the 6 month old version:

mountains drive prople really crazy

after the brutal affair of fritzl in amstetten and the kidnap of natascha kampusch there is again a shocking evenet from austria: a father has killed his son, wife, his mother and father and his father-in-low - in wien, amsfelden and linz - so he needed one day for this!
you could think that in austria violance and sexual abuse is much more higher than in other countries but in fact - i have searched several statisticts - austria performs international in the low- or middle-class. it looks like the some brutal cases are getting very big media reputation, or maybe a lot of cases stay hidden. these cases are showing the in wealthy states we still have huge problems with our societies - or mankind is just simply helplessly brutal.

mountains drive prople crazy

there is a new youth culture in austria, knowen as 'krocha'. these young people mainly in vienna have an owen 'culture' and speech - find the dictionary here. i was in italy on the springbreak party for austrian students and it was interesting that everyone started to use the speech of the krocha people, you just shouted 'bam oida' (tree dude) - and a lot of people replyed - 'fix oida'. this speech has absoltutly no sence, but everyone started to use - it will be interesting how long time does it take that people will forget this trend.
and if we speak about 'krocha' here is a video about their highly professional dancing and dressing style:

for more details visit krocha.tv

what if all the nuts of the world are gone

weird history

israel is 60 years old in 2008. zdf has dedicated series of documetaries for this event. i found it really bizarre that in the beginning of the 1st arab war the israelis had only handguns. that time truman was on power in us and did not wanted that israel will go independent, and imposed an embargo for guns. so the soviets has felt they have now opportunity to stregthen they presence in the middle-east and they've helped out the new state. they have advised czechoslovakia do deliver some jets - and they have delivered 4 exhausted messerscmits planes - with still the swastika painted on them, wich they have repainted with david-star.

haha

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better bike!

this is an advert video of the ministy of transport for promoting bikeing:

the only conversation is:
W: what would you think about a cup of tea?
M: that would be fine
later
W: you should also better bike rezső!

political compass

i have found the first interesting feed on facebook: the political compass
i am the red button, interesting to try it:

index video rules

this video is maybe not that easy to understand for non-hungarians but i was laughing for long minutes after it. the reporter guy dressed up like and speaking like a communist youth organisation guy from the 70s going on may day to the very various and interesting people and asking them to send music or cabaret like it was on television on the socialist times. this is the finest collections of hungarian 'high culture'.
the video was shooted on the picnic of the socialist party.

news from budapest

in the XVIII. district of budapest a public transport bus and a horse has crashed - news from the 21st century, from europe's 10th biggest city.

gta in budapest

in mexico hungarians are the gypsys

i don't know is it only a legend, but they call in méxico gypsys húngaros (hungarians in normal spanish, gitanos is the word for gypsys). i have found some spanish pages stateing it: 1, 2 but my spanish is too poor to understand it 100 pro.
about possible explanations:
1. maximilian i of mexico, a habsbourg king has collected some hungarian gipsys and took with him there.
2. the word 'magyar' (hungarian in hungarian) is similar to magic and as gipsys were on the journey in latin-america with circuses - that has lead to miss-understandings.
in gabriel garcia márquez's one hundred years of solitude there was also a scene telling how miraculous people in the middle of nowhere the visit of these magic gypsy circus found.
+ a hungairan guy visiting méxico told he is 'húngaro' - and locals asked him to do palm reading.

four tet

i have found the music of four tet and i'm amazed about it. surfing on the net i've found a hungarian album review which tells that four tet stands really close to hungarians 'cause only neruotic people like us or people that stand close to become neurotic listen to this kind of music. thx...

Four Tet - And then Patterns
by Cos

new reason for visiting hungary

sexes institut found it out that prostitutes are the cheapest in europe in budapest - 66 euros per hour - even cheaper like in bucharest.

strike is fun

after last strike and mega traffic jam everyone went out of the city or stayed at home, there was absolutly no traffic, like a sunday morning. and the fun is you can bike on the tram tracks without stessing when the tram is coming.
and the strike is maybe changing the people and more people will start to bike.

hungary disappeared!

the Great Friend of Hungarians, jan slota and his slovak national party (sns) had this revised europe map on their homepage. he may thought he did something wrong against hungarians with that but for me it would be fun to live in austria, but i would need my pass to go to work from buda to pest every day. i think he just could make the austrians pissed with this plan: they won't be happy with transdanubia.

hungary is going to be like france!

i have discovered in the last years there is a big aspiration in the hungarian to be like the french. it started with riots protesting on the streets and in that field the student grew greater, nowdays we have more ritoing. Since a half year railway workers started to feel also they have to strike, which is also very typical for france - now they did 5 strikes in the last time. the public transport workers did not wanted to stay so uncool, so they have started the striking season also. but we can improve other nations traditions - now railway and public transport of budapest are striking together, this friday for the second time.
maybe this strike will push the people not to ride their cars, but switch to bike and maybe later we can copy something useful from the french: like the velo system.

Auroville: a place where communism works

with the right people you can build up a functioning communist community: check it here.

listen to -> lounge.fm

under http://derstandard.at/Radio

poem

If I were fire, I would burn the world;
if I were wind, I would bestorm it;
if I were water, I would drown it;
if I were God, I would hurl it into the deep;

If I were Pope, I would be happy,
as I would harry all Christians;
if I were emperor, do you know what I would do?
I would chop off the heads of the lot of them.

If I were death, I would go to my father;
if I were life, I would run from him,
and I would do the same for my mother.

If I were Cecco, as I am and have been,
I would take for myself all the young and pretty women,
and leave the lame and ugly for others.

Cecco Angiolieri, 1997

waiting for the storm

love is in the cigarette

i was just walking back from dinner and in front of the job center i've heared the following conversation (A: alcoholic, 40 years old lady, drunk; B: alcoholic, 50 years old gentleman, slightly drunk)
A: hey, give me a cigarette!
B: why would i? if i give you should kiss me
A: just give me a mother fucking cigarette
B: than you have to kiss me!

unfortunately i did not saw what was the end of the deal...

today's song

new favourite

new ways for boosting hungarian economy

since some years budapest really became a riot metropolis. on the 15th of march we were in the
city center in one of our fav bars, and while going there on one side there were the special forces of the police, on the other side the rebels (hooligans). in the last years it became a routine, that these people go on the streets on every national holidays. at the first rioting police was beaten heavily, they did not knew how to go on with that kind of rebels, had no equipment.
nowdays they are really impressive: they need max. one hour to clear the city, are equiped like a terminator.
as most places in europe rioting is not an everyday act, police has not that good possibilities for trainings. my idea is that for some money all european special forces could try out they knowledge on the streets of budapest.
that would boost tourism, all these policeman sure would liek to come back with family, showing them where they punched the hungarian riots, which shop they defended against them.

documentaries

found really interesting docmentaries also.
some insight of the darker side of world politics.

What is democracy?

find some shorts for that quesiton on arte's webpage.
specially liked the one from iran: telling so much about one society and human connections is really impressive.
what is also intresitng for hungarians: people are paying for public transport in teheran, not like in budapest...

springtme

it started to snow! in the middle of march, after beutiful sunshine some hours before. the hole office looked like a kindergarden, people going to window at getting vital.

bulgarian pop idol

the winner of the bulgarian pop idol was singing a hungarian mega-hit in the final, cool!



i rember june 2007 i was in praha, eating in a traditional restaurant and they played this song on the czech radio also in hungarian. omega is karel gott of hungary :)