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Friday, May 27, 2016

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Eurosphere agenda: “Europe’s economic strategy from 2008 to today…

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Timeline of a crisis: Europe’s economic strategy from 2008 to today

At the outset of the economic crisis in 2008, the EU mirrored the rescue packages seen in the US and elsewhere. In total, more than €1.6 trillion was used to save the banks and €200 billion to keep the European economies afloat.
Money is at the heart of many a battle and the referendum on whether Britain should stay in the European Union or quit is no exception.
Do French workers really have it easy?
So why then is the French workforce so restive?

“The fetishisation of the ‘working class’ or the hammer and sickle is an exercise of idealism,” according to Jorge Moruno, head of discourse in Podemos.Español.

Signs of 15M. youtube. CC.The 15M politicized a generation and in many ways, broke the consensus which constituted the ground of the so-called ‘78 Regime that emerged from the transition to democracy.

 

Debate: How effective is Germany’s integration law?

The grand coalition in Germany on Wednesday agreed on a proposal for a new integration law aimed at facilitating refugees’ access to work and education. The proposed law also foresees penalties for those who refuse integration measures, as well as residency restrictions. The German press hauls the proposal over the coals.

Austria far right narrowly loses poll

Alexander Van der Bellen is elected Austria’s president, as Norbert Hofer narrowly fails in his bid to become the EU’s first far-right head of state.

German AfD walks out of Muslim meeting

The German right-wing party AfD walks out of a meeting with a Muslim council.

What Can Europe’s Far Right Tell Us About Trump’s Rise?

There have been many attempts to explain the rise of Donald Trump, focusing on economic frustration, racial resentment or a combination of the two. Now, as we transition from the primary season into the general election, there’s the added question of what his political legacy will be, both to the GOP and the nation in general. Will his nativist and anti-immigrant brand of populism become a historical footnote, or will it find a root in our two-party system?

Pegida row over non-white Kinder photos

Anti-Islam protesters in Germany complain about non-white children’s photos on Kinder chocolates – but the images are childhood photos of the national football team.
The grand coalition in Germany on Wednesday agreed on a proposal for a new integration law aimed at facilitating refugees’ access to work and education. The proposed law also foresees penalties for those who refuse integration measures, as well as residency restrictions. The German press hauls the proposal over the coals.

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Erdoğan after his gift to Tsipras: “Where is kravat?

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made a brief return foray into the language of Chaucer and Shakespeare during the ongoing World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

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Ayşe Özer: MERCEDES’İN YILDIZI, MİNARENİN ALEMİ

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MERCEDES’İN YILDIZI, MİNARENİN ALEMİ

Yetmez ama evetçi, sonradan yetti artık hayırcı Adalet Ağaoğlu’nun Fikrimin İnce Gülü romanının beyaz perdeye uyarlandığı Sarı Mercedes bir yol filmidir. Her yol filmi gibi insanın kendi içindeki yolculuğunu anlatır. Alamanyalarda biriktirdiği parasıyla sarı bir Mercedes alan esas oğlan, üzerine titrediği arabasıyla köyüne dönmeye çalışmaktadır. Yemek yiyecek parası dahi olmadığı halde, arabasına Avrupa benzinden başkasını koydurmaz. Bütün dünyası arabasıdır. Onun için ruhunu, karakterini, hayatını gözden çıkarmıştır. 90’lar pop olsa “arabası var, maalesef ruhu yok” derdi buna. Yol boyunca hataları ve çelişkileri ile yüzleşir esas oğlan, ancak vicdan bir üst mahkemedir, her temyiz temize çıkarmaz insanı. Hatalarını her sorguladığında arabasının bir yerine bir şeyler olur esas oğlanın. Etme bulma dünyası, Balkız’ı kah arabalı vapurda, kah asfaltta yakalar. Duble yollar henüz yapılmamıştır, her sollamada yüreği ağzına gelir esas oğlanın. Ama onu en çok Mercedes’inin yıldızının çalınması incitir. Mercedes’in yıldızı, minarenin alemi gibidir onun için. Balkız, bir sevgilidir. Köyüne girerken şarampole yuvarlanan arabası yeniden çalışınca “başka araba olsa çalışmazdı” diye övünür yine Balkız’ıyla. Avrat ve silah da bir kenara atılır, esas oğlanın çocukluğunda amcası tarafından öldürülen atı bir kez daha vücut bulur Balkız’da. Film Mercedes sponsorluğunda çekilmiştir, elbette ki hadise bir az gelişmiş ülkede geçmektedir. Başkasının evraklarıyla Alamanya’ya giden esas oğlan, şark kurnazlığının bedelini ağır öder. Balkız, kim bilir kaç çerez parasıdır?

Hayatımız Mercedes’in sponsor olduğu bir filme dönüşmekte son günlerde. Zırhlısının da fiyatını biliyoruz, yeni kasasının da. Bir Ankara Polisiyesinde Behzat Ç. “Biz araba kullanmayı devletin bize tahsis ettiği Toroslarda öğrendik” derken, birileri de devletin tahsis ettiği Mercedeslerde dini kullanmayı öğrenmekte. Sadece yılbaşı akşamlarında eğlencelik alabilenler, bir dolu Mercedes parasına eğlencelik, çerez parası diyenlere oy verme peşinde. Oysa o çerez parasıyla sağlık sigortası kapsamında sigortalıdan alınan bütün katılım payları kaldırılabilir. Yani ki, mesele Diyanet İşleri Başkanına zırhlı Mercedes tahsisi değil, o Mercedes’in tahsisine oy vermeye hazır bir seçmen kitlesinin bulunması, Mercedes’in yıldızının minarenin alemi haline gelmesi esas mesele. Mercedes bir putsa, onu yıkmak İbrahimî bir harekettir. Belki o vakit alnı açık dönülür gurbetten. Fikrimizin ince gülü, “yetti artık hayır!” demektedir.

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agar.io game becomes a battlefield in Turkish politics #TurkeyElections

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A simple, multiplayer game on the web has become the latest battleground for Turkish politics ahead of the June 7 general election, gaming website Kotaku has reported.
Three LGBTI associations have condemned homophobic news items published by a number of Turkish media outlets against an openly gay candidate running for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the upcoming elections, news portal bianet has reported.
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is systematically trying to undermine the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to prevent it from crossing the 10 percent threshold in the June 7 election, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said
Constitutionally barred from party politics as head of state, Turkey’s president has expressed his discomfort with criticism of the government by opposition parties when he served as prime minister
Turkey’s liberal west gears up for election
We talked to journalists and candidates from HDP, AKP and independent candidates from HÜDA-PAR; will there be an electoral realignment, how the President’s behavior and resolution process affect voters and how does election battle go?
Turkey’s top election board has now rejected for a fourth time the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) complaints regarding the president’s rallies alleged to be in favor of the ruling party
The mayor of the Gürsu district in Turkey’s western province of Bursa was shot at his office along with his security guard on May 20
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Bahçeli has accused President Erdoğan of holding “pirate” election rallies to ask people to vote for the government, stressing he did not recognize Erdoğan as the president of Turkey.
Turkey’s social democratic main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has revealed another economic pledge, this time a strategic one with less than three weeks left before the critical June 7 elections
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has received a number of reports of planned assassinations against the party’s co-chair, Selahattin Demirtaş, HDP Istanbul deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder has said
Deputy PM Yalçın Akdoğan has said the Kurdish peace process could come to an end if the Kurdish-oriented Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) passes the 10 percent threshold during the upcoming general elections.

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Journalism agenda: “News orgs are prioritizing mobile development and placing less emphasis on paywalls…

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Editor’s note: We’ve revised this post, in the Valuations section, to reflect today’s news that Digital First Media has “concluded we are not going to sell the company to a single buyer” — meaning Apollo Global Management.

If you want to talk about profits at the U.S.’s top newspaper companies, you don’t need big numbers any more.

Yelp’s for sale, and the news has generated the usual, now-tiresome lists of potential buyers: Google, Amazon, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook. It’s like all the money in the business world slid off one end of the table and sluiced down to Silicon Valley. Forget the old spend-a-week-without-the-Internet experiments; is it possible to spend a week without talking about one of those companies?

Anyone running a news organization — particularly one born in print, still struggling to adapt to the Internet — knows there are too many things to do: too many moves to make, too many innovations to chase, too many places to invest your limited resources of time, money, and attention. Your efforts are finite; you have to pick what to emphasize.

A BBC journalist invited to Qatar to examine the living conditions of workers building infrastructure for the 2022 football World Cup was detained for more than 24 hours, the broadcaster reported May 18

In the beginning, Megan Finnerty knew she’d have to tell a story in front of a group of strangers. That’s not counting however many friends and assorted colleagues at The Arizona Republic she could draft into service on the first night of Arizona Storytellers.

Not long after his family sold The Tulsa World to Warren Buffett’s BH Media Group in 2013, Robert E. Lorton III, the paper’s former publisher, began thinking about how he could get back into the news business.

The traditional newspaper model is broken, Lorton figured, and online advertising isn’t really a sustainable way to support a news organization. So he decided to start The Frontier, a for-profit online investigative news startup that will keep most of its reporting behind a hard paywall. A subscription, or membership as the site is calling it, will cost a non-trivial $30 a month. The site will be ad-free, but Lorton said he’s working to attract corporate sponsors who will help underwrite it.

The Mountaineer student newspaper at California’s Mt. San Antonio College no longer exists. About two months ago, the paper dropped its print edition, abandoned its website, ditched its longtime news production process, expanded its coverage base, and rejiggered its entire reporting philosophy. It also changed its name to SAC.Media.

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