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Duly Noted – Genocide and Its Misuses

George de Poor Handlery — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:03:55 +0000

About the limitations of legislating historical truth. Have you known that not everything that looks, moves and smells like genocide is genocide? A 1948 convention criminalized such actions. According to its definition, the extermination of ethnic groups, religious communities and nationalities constitute genocide. At first glance, this appears to be in order. [...]

On the Condition of Hungary

George de Poor Handlery — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:31:53 +0000

The perceived inequity of the current EU campaign against the Orbán government has moved about 120 Professors – the Batthyány Society – to correct the distortions that influence international opinion.

Currently, Hungary gets more international attention than she might desire. The medias and the political élite of the Left tag the [...]

Duly Noted – Whither Europe?

George de Poor Handlery — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:06:48 +0000

Europe’s self chosen fate is, due to her weight, not a local but a global issue. It does not take much skill to plead that, due to her size and economic power “Europe” is a decisive world neighborhood. The continent might not have the will or the organization to determine on the US, Russian [...]

Duly Noted – Would a Mormon President Subvert American Democracy?

George de Poor Handlery — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:13:44 +0000

Those that practice the politics of prejudice are serving their own phantom but not the common good. Some nations can only be defeated if its people lend a hand. Recent US cases come to mind. Russia and China, regardless of their system, are also members of the same club. In the coming election, the [...]

Duly Noted – Fascism? Or Just not PC? You Be The Judge

George de Poor Handlery — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:52:21 +0000

About a misuse of the media in the service of the challenged “Political Class”. The international press and the TV stations that serve the world are full of news that pillory an otherwise neglected Hungary. These reports bemoan that country’s new 2012 constitution. The charge is that this legislation creates a [...]

Duly Noted – What “Europe?”

George de Poor Handlery — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:37:40 +0000

Incompatible ambitions hide behind the professed desire to create a “Europe”. Europe has wobbled since about 1900. The attempts to structure the Continent have repeatedly turned the world upside down. Reacting to two world wars, the reluctant USA had to become a great power, Communism captured a major state and China was [...]

Duly Noted – The Evolution of Post Iron Curtain Hungary

George de Poor Handlery — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:31:03 +0000

The less you know about a matter, the more likely that you will be misled by distortions that mirror the news-making clan’s prejudices. Your correspondent dislikes themes that involve his origins. There was a time when, coming from the “other” Europe, you were rated as biased by birth. Familiarity with the system proved a [...]

Duly Noted – Atonement, Quotas and Self Destruction

George de Poor Handlery — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:03:03 +0000

Discrimination in societies always occurs as does evolution away from such practices. However the road is never a smooth one. Looking back, we discover that most societies have at one time disadvantaged some of their constituent groups. This could happen by ignoring them, by denying their potential, or by active discrimination. If discrimination, negative, or [...]

Duly Noted – Soothing Lies and Favored Idiocies

George de Poor Handlery — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:42:15 +0000

Lies and conspiracies are, inter alia, the stock in trade of politicians intent on using prejudice and propaganda to further their own agendas. The latest of these is Vladimir Putin.

Universally, the public likes soothing interpretations that resolve confusion. The demand is met with the connivance of the manufacturers of fictitious reality. An experience [...]

Duly Noted – Russia and Our Mutual Security.

George de Poor Handlery — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:13:25 +0000

Will Russia resist the temptations of imperial glory?

Since the 18th century, regardless of the doctrine of her managers, Russia has been a major power. Expressed on a dial, the indicator oscillates between “dominant” and “major”. Accordingly, world affairs are co-determined by Moscow while our liberty and Russia’s internal order are interrelated. [...]