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Top Members of Far-right Swedish Party With neo-Nazi Roots Meet Israeli Minister in Knesset (Haaretz, January 29, 2024)

I’m reminded of a study that Peter Beinart wrote about on European antisemitism and how it is moderated by support for Israel.

Beinart explains, citing the findings of a study by Andras Kovacs, a sociologist and professor of Jewish Studies at the Central European University, and Gyorgy Fischer, the former research director for Gallup in Hungary:

In Europe, the story appears somewhat similar, but with a disturbing twist. This fall, Andras Kovacs, a sociologist and professor of Jewish Studies at the Central European University, and Gyorgy Fischer, the former research director for Gallup in Hungary, published a fascinating study entitled, “Antisemitic Prejudices in Europe.” To some degree, the evidence they find resembles evidence from the US. As a general rule, for instance, Western Europeans like Jews more but Israel less whereas Eastern Europeans like Jews less but Israel more. For instance, Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic exhibit some of the continent’s highest rates of both support for Israel and hostility to Jews. In Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands, by contrast, sympathy for Israel is far lower and so is antisemitism.

The reasons for this aren’t a mystery. Kovacs and Fischer find a strong correlation between antisemitism and xenophobia. “Antisemitism,” they write, “is largely a manifestation and consequence of resentment, distancing and rejection towards a generalised stranger.” Which is why Europe’s most antisemitic countries are also the most Islamophobic. But the very xenophobia that leads some Europeans—especially Eastern Europeans—to dislike Jews can also make them admire Israel.

The Beinart Notebook - Are Zionists more antisemitic than anti-Zionists?

Beinart states that the reason for this contradictory support is xenophobia and an admiration of Israel’s policies.

Israel, after all, has exactly the kind of immigration policy that many European xenophobes want for their own countries: an immigration policy that welcomes members of the dominant group and keeps out pretty much everyone else. Moreover, if you’re a xenophobe who dislikes the Jews in your country because they dilute ethnic and religious purity, Israel offers them a place to go and be with their own kind. That’s one of the reasons Arthur Balfour embraced Zionism in 1917. He liked the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine in part because he wanted Eastern European Jews to go there and not to his country.

The Beinart Notebook - Are Zionists more antisemitic than anti-Zionists?

In a nutshell, the study found a “strong correlation between antisemitism and xenophobia”—and Peter noted that xenophobic countries admired Israel, because they wanted to emulate similar policies towards immigrants.

While this news article in-question is about a Swedish figure (and Sweden overall, Peter notes, is less xenophobic, less antisemitic and thus, less pro-Israel), I think the politics at play here makes it applicable to Peter’s thesis. The Swedish party in-question are categorically fascist, ultra-nationalists. So one could see why they would find common cause with the far-right in Israel who would like to expel the Palestinians.

In England, one can observe a similar phenomena with the alliance between the English Defense League (EDL), in particular Tommy Robinson, and right-wing Zionists. The EDL has a branch for British Jewish members—and notable pro-Israel activists are supporters of such right-wing groups.

Supplemental:

Haaretz - Why the U.K.’s neo-Nazis Are Posing With Israeli Flags

Robinson in particularly has been coddled by right-wing Zionists, who have paid his legal fees when he continually fucks up in life.

The Philadelphia-based think tank Middle East Forum is one of the British extremist’s biggest sponsors. Daniel Pipes, MEF’s president, confirmed to The Times of Israel that his group has spent roughly $60,000 on three demonstrations defending Robinson’s legal trial.

The Jerusalem Post - Why are US ‘pro-Israel’ groups boosting a far-right, anti-Muslim UK extremist?

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Controversial ‘Russian spy bank’ set to break into Europe

The Russian-led International Investment Bank is set to complete its complex reformation with its relocation to Budapest, the Hungarian capital, despite the diplomatic controversy surrounding the bank reportedly linked to the Kremlin’s spy agencies.

The Moscow-backed development bank announced at the weekend it will in September hold its first board of governors meeting since moving to the European Union, signalling a start to operations at its new base.

The nationalist-populist Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban insists that hosting the IIB will expand his country’s economic horizons and promote Budapest as a regional financial centre for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). However, critics say the bank is a front for a Russian intelligence operation that threatens the EU and NATO.

Revived by President Vladimir Putin from the ashes of the Soviet Comecon development bank, the IIB boasts nine states as members. Five – Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovakia – are former communist countries now in the EU and NATO.

Cuba, Mongolia, Vietnam and Russia make up the rest. The IIB insists it is not Russian, despite Moscow controlling a 47 percent stake in the bank. Hungary holds 12.87 percent.

The IIB will be “the first and only multilateral development bank with headquarters in the CEE region”, according to a blog written by government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs, who did not respond to questions from Al Jazeera.

The bank will offer Hungarian companies access to the international market and significant financing, he wrote.

Critics argue, however, this money goes almost exclusively to a network of oligarchs Orban has established to control certain economic sectors and to benefit from huge volumes of EU funding flowing into Hungary.

Playing both sides With a balance sheet estimated at just 1.3 billion euros ($1.4bn), the “supranational bank” is not even among the 10 largest in Hungary, but will have a staff of about 100. That has provoked worries that Budapest is not opening the door to bankers only.

“It’s more likely to make Budapest a Russian intelligence centre than a financial hub,” said Andras Biro-Nagy of Policy Solutions, a liberal Budapest-based think-tank.

IIB CEO Nikolai Kosov is another concern. His parents were both KGB officers in Hungary as the Soviets crushed Hungary’s 1956 revolution. He is also a Putin confidant, according to Attila Ara Kovacs, a Member of the European Parliament for the Demokratikus Koalicio opposition party, who sits on the EP’s security and defence subcommittee.

The government has reportedly granted the IIB full diplomatic status. Staff and guests will be able to enter the EU state freely, potentially undermining the Western sanctions on Moscow that Orban has so often criticised. The Hungarian authorities will have no right to oversee the bank’s activities.

“It’s foolish to believe the Hungarian security services have the ability to control the Russian ones in any way,” said independent MP Akos Hadhazy.

However, Mark Galeotti, an analyst on Russian security issues, called the level of concern “overblown”.

“If the IIB becomes too obviously the kind of den of spies that some fear, the Hungarian government can and likely would retaliate,” he asserted.

Nevertheless, concern persists that the arrival of the IIB is just the latest step in Orban’s pivot to the east. The Hungarian prime minister is viewed as the closest of any EU leader to Putin, with whom he shares a penchant for what Orban has described as “illiberal democracy”.

“Instead of defending Hungary against Russian malign interference, Orban appears to have welcomed it,” a report from the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee stated last year.

While Orban has also sought to cosy up to US President Donald Trump with recent weapons deals, diplomats and analysts report that Washington’s intelligence agencies and NATO have become wary of Budapest’s geopolitical commitment, especially due to difficulties Hungary has created for deepening ties with Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cautioned Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto over the IIB on a recent visit, noted Daniel Berg of Hungary’s opposition Momentum party.

In mid-August, Hungarian media reported Orban had privately promised US Ambassador David Cornstein he would keep an eye on his new guests. Washington reportedly blocked plans for the IIB to move in across the street from its Budapest embassy.

“Orban has been trying to perform a delicate balancing act between East and West for most of the last decade,” said Biro-Nagy.

No strings attached While he admires Trump’s politics, Orban’s regime also “needs financial and political ties to the autocratic regimes in the east”, pointed out a diplomatic source in Budapest, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The EU is seeking leverage to slow the prime minister’s efforts to tighten his grip on the levers of power, and threatening to reduce subsidies to Hungary, which totalled 25 billion euros ($27bn) in the 2014-20 funding window.

Orban wants alternative sources of financing that don’t come with such strings attached. He’s courted China for years and Turkey is in his sights. Hungary re-joined the IIB not long after it agreed to borrow 10 billion euros ($11bn) from Russia to expand Hungary’s sole nuclear plant in Paks.

“NATO has recently started to share less information with the Hungarians due to fears it leaves the door open to Russia,” said the diplomatic source.

Orban is no “Muscovite mole”, insisted Galeotti. However, the friends whom he hopes will help him build his own mini-empire in Central Europe are raising suspicions.

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Controversial ‘Russian spy bank’ set to break into Europe

The Russian-led International Investment Bank is set to complete its complex reformation with its relocation to Budapest, the Hungarian capital, despite the diplomatic controversy surrounding the bank reportedly linked to the Kremlin’s spy agencies.

The Moscow-backed development bank announced at the weekend it will in September hold its first board of governors meeting since moving to the European Union, signalling a start to operations at its new base.

The nationalist-populist Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban insists that hosting the IIB will expand his country’s economic horizons and promote Budapest as a regional financial centre for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). However, critics say the bank is a front for a Russian intelligence operation that threatens the EU and NATO.

Revived by President Vladimir Putin from the ashes of the Soviet Comecon development bank, the IIB boasts nine states as members. Five – Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovakia – are former communist countries now in the EU and NATO.

Cuba, Mongolia, Vietnam and Russia make up the rest. The IIB insists it is not Russian, despite Moscow controlling a 47 percent stake in the bank. Hungary holds 12.87 percent.

The IIB will be “the first and only multilateral development bank with headquarters in the CEE region”, according to a blog written by government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs, who did not respond to questions from Al Jazeera.

The bank will offer Hungarian companies access to the international market and significant financing, he wrote.

Critics argue, however, this money goes almost exclusively to a network of oligarchs Orban has established to control certain economic sectors and to benefit from huge volumes of EU funding flowing into Hungary.

Playing both sides With a balance sheet estimated at just 1.3 billion euros ($1.4bn), the “supranational bank” is not even among the 10 largest in Hungary, but will have a staff of about 100. That has provoked worries that Budapest is not opening the door to bankers only.

“It’s more likely to make Budapest a Russian intelligence centre than a financial hub,” said Andras Biro-Nagy of Policy Solutions, a liberal Budapest-based think-tank.

IIB CEO Nikolai Kosov is another concern. His parents were both KGB officers in Hungary as the Soviets crushed Hungary’s 1956 revolution. He is also a Putin confidant, according to Attila Ara Kovacs, a Member of the European Parliament for the Demokratikus Koalicio opposition party, who sits on the EP’s security and defence subcommittee.

The government has reportedly granted the IIB full diplomatic status. Staff and guests will be able to enter the EU state freely, potentially undermining the Western sanctions on Moscow that Orban has so often criticised. The Hungarian authorities will have no right to oversee the bank’s activities.

“It’s foolish to believe the Hungarian security services have the ability to control the Russian ones in any way,” said independent MP Akos Hadhazy.

However, Mark Galeotti, an analyst on Russian security issues, called the level of concern “overblown”.

“If the IIB becomes too obviously the kind of den of spies that some fear, the Hungarian government can and likely would retaliate,” he asserted.

Nevertheless, concern persists that the arrival of the IIB is just the latest step in Orban’s pivot to the east. The Hungarian prime minister is viewed as the closest of any EU leader to Putin, with whom he shares a penchant for what Orban has described as “illiberal democracy”.

“Instead of defending Hungary against Russian malign interference, Orban appears to have welcomed it,” a report from the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee stated last year.

While Orban has also sought to cosy up to US President Donald Trump with recent weapons deals, diplomats and analysts report that Washington’s intelligence agencies and NATO have become wary of Budapest’s geopolitical commitment, especially due to difficulties Hungary has created for deepening ties with Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cautioned Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto over the IIB on a recent visit, noted Daniel Berg of Hungary’s opposition Momentum party.

In mid-August, Hungarian media reported Orban had privately promised US Ambassador David Cornstein he would keep an eye on his new guests. Washington reportedly blocked plans for the IIB to move in across the street from its Budapest embassy.

“Orban has been trying to perform a delicate balancing act between East and West for most of the last decade,” said Biro-Nagy.

No strings attached While he admires Trump’s politics, Orban’s regime also “needs financial and political ties to the autocratic regimes in the east”, pointed out a diplomatic source in Budapest, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The EU is seeking leverage to slow the prime minister’s efforts to tighten his grip on the levers of power, and threatening to reduce subsidies to Hungary, which totalled 25 billion euros ($27bn) in the 2014-20 funding window.

Orban wants alternative sources of financing that don’t come with such strings attached. He’s courted China for years and Turkey is in his sights. Hungary re-joined the IIB not long after it agreed to borrow 10 billion euros ($11bn) from Russia to expand Hungary’s sole nuclear plant in Paks.

“NATO has recently started to share less information with the Hungarians due to fears it leaves the door open to Russia,” said the diplomatic source.

Orban is no “Muscovite mole”, insisted Galeotti. However, the friends whom he hopes will help him build his own mini-empire in Central Europe are raising suspicions.

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Controversial ‘Russian spy bank’ set to break into Europe

The Russian-led International Investment Bank is set to complete its complex reformation with its relocation to Budapest, the Hungarian capital, despite the diplomatic controversy surrounding the bank reportedly linked to the Kremlin’s spy agencies.

The Moscow-backed development bank announced at the weekend it will in September hold its first board of governors meeting since moving to the European Union, signalling a start to operations at its new base.

The nationalist-populist Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban insists that hosting the IIB will expand his country’s economic horizons and promote Budapest as a regional financial centre for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). However, critics say the bank is a front for a Russian intelligence operation that threatens the EU and NATO.

Revived by President Vladimir Putin from the ashes of the Soviet Comecon development bank, the IIB boasts nine states as members. Five – Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovakia – are former communist countries now in the EU and NATO.

Cuba, Mongolia, Vietnam and Russia make up the rest. The IIB insists it is not Russian, despite Moscow controlling a 47 percent stake in the bank. Hungary holds 12.87 percent.

The bank will offer Hungarian companies access to the international market and significant financing, he wrote.

Critics argue, however, this money goes almost exclusively to a network of oligarchs Orban has established to control certain economic sectors and to benefit from huge volumes of EU funding flowing into Hungary.

Playing both sides

With a balance sheet estimated at just 1.3 billion euros ($1.4bn), the “supranational bank” is not even among the 10 largest in Hungary, but will have a staff of about 100. That has provoked worries that Budapest is not opening the door to bankers only.

“It’s more likely to make Budapest a Russian intelligence centre than a financial hub,” said Andras Biro-Nagy of Policy Solutions, a liberal Budapest-based think-tank.

IIB CEO Nikolai Kosov is another concern. His parents were both KGB officers in Hungary as the Soviets crushed Hungary’s 1956 revolution. He is also a Putin confidant, according to Attila Ara Kovacs, a Member of the European Parliament for the Demokratikus Koalicio opposition party, who sits on the EP’s security and defence subcommittee.

The government has reportedly granted the IIB full diplomatic status. Staff and guests will be able to enter the EU state freely, potentially undermining the Western sanctions on Moscow that Orban has so often criticised. The Hungarian authorities will have no right to oversee the bank’s activities.

“It’s foolish to believe the Hungarian security services have the ability to control the Russian ones in any way,” said independent MP Akos Hadhazy.

However, Mark Galeotti, an analyst on Russian security issues, called the level of concern “overblown”.

“If the IIB becomes too obviously the kind of den of spies that some fear, the Hungarian government can and likely would retaliate,” he asserted.

Nevertheless, concern persists that the arrival of the IIB is just the latest step in Orban’s pivot to the east. The Hungarian prime minister is viewed as the closest of any EU leader to Putin, with whom he shares a penchant for what Orban has described as “illiberal democracy”.

“Instead of defending Hungary against Russian malign interference, Orban appears to have welcomed it,” a report from the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee stated last year.

While Orban has also sought to cosy up to US President Donald Trump with recent weapons deals, diplomats and analysts report that Washington’s intelligence agencies and NATO have become wary of Budapest’s geopolitical commitment, especially due to difficulties Hungary has created for deepening ties with Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cautioned Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto over the IIB on a recent visit, noted Daniel Berg of Hungary’s opposition Momentum party.

In mid-August, Hungarian media reported Orban had privately promised US Ambassador David Cornstein he would keep an eye on his new guests. Washington reportedly blocked plans for the IIB to move in across the street from its Budapest embassy.

“Orban has been trying to perform a delicate balancing act between East and West for most of the last decade,” said Biro-Nagy.

No strings attached

While he admires Trump’s politics, Orban’s regime also “needs financial and political ties to the autocratic regimes in the east”, pointed out a diplomatic source in Budapest, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The EU is seeking leverage to slow the prime minister’s efforts to tighten his grip on the levers of power, and threatening to reduce subsidies to Hungary, which totalled 25 billion euros ($27bn) in the 2014-20 funding window.

Orban wants alternative sources of financing that don’t come with such strings attached. He’s courted China for years and Turkey is in his sights. Hungary re-joined the IIB not long after it agreed to borrow 10 billion euros ($11bn) from Russia to expand Hungary’s sole nuclear plant in Paks.

“NATO has recently started to share less information with the Hungarians due to fears it leaves the door open to Russia,” said the diplomatic source.

Orban is no “Muscovite mole”, insisted Galeotti. However, the friends whom he hopes will help him build his own mini-empire in Central Europe are raising suspicions.

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Controversial ‘Russian spy bank’ set to break into Europe

The Russian-led International Investment Bank is set to complete its complex reformation with its relocation to Budapest, the Hungarian capital, despite the diplomatic controversy surrounding the bank reportedly linked to the Kremlin’s spy agencies.

The Moscow-backed development bank announced at the weekend it will in September hold its first board of governors meeting since moving to the European Union, signalling a start to operations at its new base.

The nationalist-populist Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban insists that hosting the IIB will expand his country’s economic horizons and promote Budapest as a regional financial centre for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). However, critics say the bank is a front for a Russian intelligence operation that threatens the EU and NATO.

Revived by President Vladimir Putin from the ashes of the Soviet Comecon development bank, the IIB boasts nine states as members. Five – Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovakia – are former communist countries now in the EU and NATO.

Cuba, Mongolia, Vietnam and Russia make up the rest. The IIB insists it is not Russian, despite Moscow controlling a 47 percent stake in the bank. Hungary holds 12.87 percent.

The bank will offer Hungarian companies access to the international market and significant financing, he wrote.

Critics argue, however, this money goes almost exclusively to a network of oligarchs Orban has established to control certain economic sectors and to benefit from huge volumes of EU funding flowing into Hungary.

Playing both sides

With a balance sheet estimated at just 1.3 billion euros ($1.4bn), the “supranational bank” is not even among the 10 largest in Hungary, but will have a staff of about 100. That has provoked worries that Budapest is not opening the door to bankers only.

“It’s more likely to make Budapest a Russian intelligence centre than a financial hub,” said Andras Biro-Nagy of Policy Solutions, a liberal Budapest-based think-tank.

IIB CEO Nikolai Kosov is another concern. His parents were both KGB officers in Hungary as the Soviets crushed Hungary’s 1956 revolution. He is also a Putin confidant, according to Attila Ara Kovacs, a Member of the European Parliament for the Demokratikus Koalicio opposition party, who sits on the EP’s security and defence subcommittee.

The government has reportedly granted the IIB full diplomatic status. Staff and guests will be able to enter the EU state freely, potentially undermining the Western sanctions on Moscow that Orban has so often criticised. The Hungarian authorities will have no right to oversee the bank’s activities.

“It’s foolish to believe the Hungarian security services have the ability to control the Russian ones in any way,” said independent MP Akos Hadhazy.

However, Mark Galeotti, an analyst on Russian security issues, called the level of concern “overblown”.

“If the IIB becomes too obviously the kind of den of spies that some fear, the Hungarian government can and likely would retaliate,” he asserted.

Nevertheless, concern persists that the arrival of the IIB is just the latest step in Orban’s pivot to the east. The Hungarian prime minister is viewed as the closest of any EU leader to Putin, with whom he shares a penchant for what Orban has described as “illiberal democracy”.

“Instead of defending Hungary against Russian malign interference, Orban appears to have welcomed it,” a report from the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee stated last year.

While Orban has also sought to cosy up to US President Donald Trump with recent weapons deals, diplomats and analysts report that Washington’s intelligence agencies and NATO have become wary of Budapest’s geopolitical commitment, especially due to difficulties Hungary has created for deepening ties with Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cautioned Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto over the IIB on a recent visit, noted Daniel Berg of Hungary’s opposition Momentum party.

In mid-August, Hungarian media reported Orban had privately promised US Ambassador David Cornstein he would keep an eye on his new guests. Washington reportedly blocked plans for the IIB to move in across the street from its Budapest embassy.

“Orban has been trying to perform a delicate balancing act between East and West for most of the last decade,” said Biro-Nagy.

No strings attached

While he admires Trump’s politics, Orban’s regime also “needs financial and political ties to the autocratic regimes in the east”, pointed out a diplomatic source in Budapest, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The EU is seeking leverage to slow the prime minister’s efforts to tighten his grip on the levers of power, and threatening to reduce subsidies to Hungary, which totalled 25 billion euros ($27bn) in the 2014-20 funding window.

Orban wants alternative sources of financing that don’t come with such strings attached. He’s courted China for years and Turkey is in his sights. Hungary re-joined the IIB not long after it agreed to borrow 10 billion euros ($11bn) from Russia to expand Hungary’s sole nuclear plant in Paks.

“NATO has recently started to share less information with the Hungarians due to fears it leaves the door open to Russia,” said the diplomatic source.

Orban is no “Muscovite mole”, insisted Galeotti. However, the friends whom he hopes will help him build his own mini-empire in Central Europe are raising suspicions.

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The next film in the Liszt Institute's 60's Hungarian New Wave series! The stream is free all you have to do is register on their website!

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Kovacs The Hun - Mirror World (The Content Label)

8DPromo · Kovacs The Hun - Mirror World (The Content Label)

The Content Label travels to Budapest to enlist Kovacs the Hun, for an evocative new album titled Mirror World. Born Nándor Kürtössy in the northern Hungarian town Balassagyarmat, Kovacs is known for his Mana Mana Records imprint, his groundbreaking album Five Finger Discount under the name Savages, and his projects Savages y Suefo and Vega Ass. A talented trumpet player, Kovacs dips into a well of varied musical styles for Mirror World. In his sonic palette, hip hop, jazz, and eerie soundtracks mix colorfully with experimental treatments and European musical influences. The Mirror World reflects all of Kovacs' fascinations — sounds and genres coming together on a collective surface. At times, the Mirror World resembles chamber jazz — or, perhaps, ‘murder jazz’ — with brushed drums, lurking horns, and cunning keys providing the backbone. Flavored drops of percussion, turntable scratches, or rhythm hints glimpse at contemporary roots, but Kovacs presents something that’s outside-of-time. He stretches out on the instrumental tracks, displaying moods that move freely from ominous to reassuring. Guest artists add to this bubbling concoction: jazz musician Andras Wohorn adds instrumentation to the creeping strut of “Manimals” and “Glimpse of Hope,” The Audible One drops urgent verses on “Phoney,” guitarist Marton Suto plays spacious guitar on the worldly “The Countdown,” and MC/poets Guante and See More Perspective inject social commentary into “Long March.” Kovacs' Mirror World is a distinctive statement, not quite sounding like anything else. The album’s ten tracks, impeccably produced and musically proficient, are an adventure in listening. Embark now on a sonic journey.

Danny Ward (Moodymanc) – “I really like this release. Great vibes all around.” Jaymz Nylon (Nylon Recordings) – “This LP is a crucial piece of music.” Kid Loco (Flor) – “Brilliant & Haunting. This is a really good record.” Mr. Bristow (Subtek) – “Dusty & Crunchy – just the way I like it. Great work!” Quincy Jointz (Ibiza Global Radio) – “Nice one. I like Phoney and New Dawn Coming.” Crate Invader (Point Blank FM London) – “This is a work of genius.” Floored Capri (Kane FM) – “This has an almost spiritual, cosmic jazz kinda vibe. Really feeling it.” Dr. Best (Radio Z, Germany) – “Wow, this is a really nice album.” Linos Pascal (Linos On Canvas Radio Show) – “Full support from Greece!” Jon Fugler (XLNT Radio Show) - “This is good, quite outstanding actually. Almost impossible to date, it’s quite unique, and has been on repeat here.”

Available Now From: Bandcamp, Juno Download, Beatport, And Spotify.

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Kornél Fekete-Kovács & Modern Art Orchestra “Foundations”

Kornél Fekete-Kovács & Modern Art Orchestra “Foundations”

BMC Records, 2020

Kornél Fekete-Kovács węgierski trębacz, lider Modern Art Orchestra, od lat zgłębia filozofię Jogi. Materiał na swój najnowszy album, nagrany z tym właśnie zespołem, ��stworzył inspirując się dwoma elementami  filozofii Jogi: yamami i niyamami.   

Kornel Fekete-Kovács gościł już na łamach Donosu: Naszą recenzję jego duetowego albumu z Kubą Stankiewiczem można znaleźć tutaj:

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Hii! Can I request a romanian girl for a faceclaim? I have a character who is one of the iele(from romanian folklore) and I want someone who has the vibe and maybe look something like 20-25

Cristina Kovacs (1992) Romanian.

Alina Eremia (1993) Romanian.

Hannah Abeel (1996) Russian & Romanian Jewish / German-Swedish.

Oana Gregory (1996) Romanian.

Nadina Ioana (1996) Romanian.

Kira Hagi (1996) Romanian.

Laura Giurcanu (1996) Romanian.

Iulia Alexandra Neacsu (1997) Romanian.

Victoria Ecaterina Moraru (1997) Romanian

Diana Condurache (1997) Romanian.

Bianca Adam (1997) Romanian.

Anna Catify (1997) Romanian.

Danielle Marcan (1998) Romanian.

Irina Deaconescu (1998) Romanian.

Ilinca Bacila (1998) Romanian.

Nazanin Kavari (1998) Persian Romanian.

Andra Gogan (1998) Romanian.

Nicole Cherry (1998) Romani Romanian.

Adelina Szima (1998) Romanian.

Iuliana Doroftei (1998) Romanian.

Magdyz (1999) Romanian.

Adina Marina (2001) Romanian.

Here are all the Romanian faceclaims I could find in that age range!

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I can’t be bothered to make the graphics for my muses today, they’re mainly soldiers because we’ve been watching The Night Shift and NCIS recently and they’re all awake. Despite the fact that these aren’t all of my military, former military or soldiers of other kinds, this list is still longer than my usual but a lot of these muses have no interactions yet so feel free to hit me up for things with them.

1. Alexander [Tig] Trager || Kim Coates || Human || Canon || Male 2. Alter Lynch || Devon Sawa || Human || OC || Male 3. Angel Eyes || DJ Cotrona || Demi-God || OC || Male 4. Anna '010' Venom || Akira Reid || Human || OC || Gender Optional 5. Bellamy Blake || Bob Morley || Human || Canon || Male Pref 6. Callahan Hope || Ian Somerhalder || Human || OC || Male Pref 7. Carl Gallagher || Ethan Cutkosky || Human || Canon || Male 8. Carlos Alvarez || Oscar Jaenada || Human || Canon || Male 9. Cearul|Ciaran|Lorcan [Burke] Riordan|Morrigan || Michael Fassbender, Toby Hemmingway, Garrett Hedlund || Human || Canon || Male 10. D'avin Jaqobis || Luke Macfarlane || Geneticlly Modfied Human || Canon || Male 11. Etienne [Switch] McKenna || Alex O’Loughlin/Brock Kelly || Witch || OC || Male 12. Filip Telford || Tommy Flanagan || Human || Canon || Male 13. Fleurette Arany || Eliza Dushku || Human || OC || Third Female 14. Francesca Grafton || Ruby Rose || Human || OC || Third Female 15. Frazer Parkes || Zane Holtz || Human || OC || Third Male 16. Gary Unwin || Taron Egerton || Human || Canon || Gender Optional 17. Geralt of Rivia || Henry Cavill || Witcher || Canon || Male Pref 18. Hera Henshaw || Aigail Breslin || Enhanced Human || OC || Third 19. Hung Tae-Hee || TOP || Wechuge || OC || Male 20. Ian Gallagher || Cameron Monaghan || Human || Canon || Male 21. James Barnes || Sebastian Stan || Genetically Engineered Human || Canon || Male Pref 22. Jasper Whitlock || Jackson Rathbone || Vampire || Canon || Male Pref 23. John Andras Jaqobis || Aaron Ashmore || Human || Canon || Male 24. John Vaako Grimm || Karl Urban || Martian Enhanced Human Turned Necromonger || Canon || Male 25. Jorah Ruiz || Oscar Isaac || Human || OC || Male 26. Lavrenty Comescu || Jack O'Connell || Human || OC || Male 27. Lorene of Haak || Lady Gaga || Witcher || OC || Third Female 28. Noah Bello || Ben Barnes || Human || OC || Male 29. PSY 217 || Richard Harmon || Transgenic || OC || Male 30. Reileen Kawahara || Dichen Lachman || Envoy || Canon || Third Female 31. Sebastian Moran || Michael Fassbender || Human || Canon || Male Pref 32. Steve McGarrett || Alex O’Loughlin || Human || Canon || Male 33. Steven Rogers || Chris Evans || Super Soldier || Canon || Gender Optional 34. Takeshi Kovacs || Joel Kinnaman, Will Yun Lee || Envoy || Canon || Male Pref 35. Tamara Thompson || Sophie Turner || Human || Semi Canon || Female 36. Templeton Peck || Bradley Cooper || Human || Canon || Male 37. Thomas Charles Zia || Tyler Posey || Human || OC || Male Pref 38. Tori Markham || Maggie Q || Human || OC || Third Female 39. Wade Wilson || Ryan Reynolds || Mutant || Canon || Male 40. X5-494 || Jensen Ackles || Transgenic || Canon || Gender Optional

[fuckyeahromanianmusic]

Whatever I will never say "Please shut up and blow me a kiss" You said that if I'd go away You've got the right to call the police

[lesser-known-composers]

Ferenc Erkel (7 de noviembre de 1810, Gyula, Hungría - 15 de junio de 1893, Budapest, Hungría). Hunyadi Laszlo (Selección) Andras Molnar - Laszlo V, Istvan Gati - Count Czilley, Sylvia Sass - Erszebet, Denes Gulyas - Laszlo, Zsuzsana Denes - Matyas (soprano), Laszlo's brother, Sandor Solyom-Nagy - Miklys Gara (baritone), Maria's father, Magda Kalmar - Maria, Jozsef Gregor - Miholy Szilogyi (bass), Miklos Mersei - Rozgonyi (baritone), Attila Fulop - A lieutenant (tenor). State Opera Orchestra/Chorus and the Hungarian Army Chorus Janos Kovacs, director.

[ffschweden]

Sanna Kullberg till Djurgården

Sanna Kullberg till Djurgården

28-åriga backen Sanna Kullberg lämnar KIF Örebro och kommer att göra Stockholms stadion till sin hemmaarena. Efterträdaren Michaela Kovacs presenterades redan igår av KIF Örebro. Sanna är andra Kullbergsystern som har spelat i Närke och lämnar nu för Djurgården. Även Emma Kullberg som spelade för både Bopparbergs/Göteborg och BK Häcken har tidigare meddelat att hon och sambon Julia Zigiotti Olme…

[beatofhammockfewbucks]

'O amor é uma intercomunicação íntima de duas consciências que se respeitam. Cada um tem o outro como sujeito de seu amor. Não se trata de apropriar-se do outro.' #PauloFreire

#100anos de Paulo Freire #2021

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