NewsBKV scandal curbs MSZP
The former deputy mayor of Budapest and Hungarian
Socialist Party (MSZP) MP Miklós Hagyó last Tuesday withdrew his
candidacy in the forthcoming general election and resigned his seat on
the city council. His move followed pressure from the party leadership
amid concerns over Hagyó’s proximity to a corruption scandal.
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PoliticsSmall talk
Viktor Orbán, the leader of Hungary’s centre-right
opposition party Fidesz, last Friday gave the impression that he felt
April’s general elections were a mere formality on his journey back
into government.
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EconomyTakarékBank Weekly Economy Watch - What happened so far – and what will happen after elections?At the end of January the government
submitted the updated Convergence
Programme for 2009-2012 to the European
Commission. Having a quick look at the document
provides us with a chance of considering economic
policies and macroeconomic developments of the
past four years and of looking ahead to the next
parliamentary term.
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CultureTemps d’Image festival kicks off this week
Temps d’Image is a programme created by the
German-French television channel Arte and the French art and culture
centre La ferme du Buisson to promote international theatre
collaborations.
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Eating OutSercli - Made to match
Sercli’s name translates as the “bread crust”, but this
attractive restaurant serves a far greater range of food. Situated near
Ferenciek tere in Veres Palné utca in a newly renovated building with
floor-to-ceiling windows, the warm lighting and discrete interior
design of the modern restaurant create a very inviting ambience.
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LeisureClearly heavenThanks to its thermal sources and above all the largest
thermal lake in Europe, Hévíz is best known as a health resort for the
relief of various, mainly age-related, pains. In an effort to attract a
broader range of guests, more and more hotels are offering a range of
“wellness” services. These include the four-star Danubius Hotel Health
Spa AQUA Resort.
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Wikinews has learned that according to an internet posting made just over 24 hours ago, the Church of Scientology's website is being attacked by hackers, causing the site to shut down.
The attack was launched on Wednesday by a user calling himself "Anonymous", on the website "Project Chanology". The "History" section of the site explains, in a satirical fashion, that the incident was prompted by the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove a promotional video featuring Scientologist Tom Cruise from YouTube. Though YouTube is complying with the Church of Scientology's requests to take down the video, other sites such as Gawker.com have stated that they will keep hosting the video.
Writing in a blog post, Matthew Ingram of The Globe and Mail dubbed the ongoing conflict involving the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove the Cruise video from the Internet: "Scientology vs. the Internet, part XVII". He characterized the conflict between the Church of Scientology and anonymous posters of the Cruise video as "another small skirmish in a war that Scientology has been waging for almost 15 years, since the early days of newsgroups such as alt.religion.scientology, which posted internal church documents in 1994. Lawsuits have been filed, mailing lists have been shut down, homes of discussion group participants have been raided and their computers seized -- an all-out war."
One poster admitted to being a part of the effort, writing in a blog post "I have myself, as per instructions, loaded up Gigaloader and started bombarding the Scientology homepage. Theres [sic] something in the hilarious anarchy of the net that produces these 'events' every now and again." The poster wrote that "Prompted I think by the Tom Cruise video, a new obsession is taking hold on the internet."
"Someone emailed me earlier today talking about a tool a group’s been using to attack the scientology website. It’s an interesting tool, created to overload/create malformed strings and crash a website’s database," said the post by an unknown author on pigmy.
The Church's website is currently unreachable. Some individuals report that when they are able to reach the site, all they get is a message stating, "The word scientology means search for truth...".
Posts on the message board for the Scientology-critic site Operation Clambake from Friday theorized that a denial-of-service attack had occurred, and wrote that as of Friday the Scientology.org site was either not loading at all, or loading very slowly. Critics of Scientology at the Internet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology were critical of the attacks to the Church of Scientology website, with one poster writing "How can people look at both sides if one side is gone?"
Traffic to the Scientology website had already increased 18-fold prior to the attack, following increased attention after the Tom Cruise video appeared on the Internet. Wikinews reported on this story in "Tom Cruise Scientology promotional video leaked to the Internet". At that time, one in three visits to the site came from BBC News, and the website increased to number 3 in the company Hitwise UK's Lifestyle-Religion category.
(Source: http://en.wikinews.org, released under CC-BY-2.5, for more information go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/)
Attacking a website is silly. The whole cult ought to be shut down. The FBI should investigate the abusive practices. Many survived Scientology and have long sad stories to tell.
3. Written by anonymous-yid on 20-01-2008 11:50 - Guest
keep going men!
man the harpoons! double the dataforce!
xenu aint getting out of this alive
4. Written by anon on 20-01-2008 13:10 - Guest
Wikinews
Hey people,
This is not correctly cited from Wikinews. In order to re-use their content, you must link directly to the article, and link to a copy of the liscence it is released from.
Thank you. Have a nice day.
5. Written by Brian McNeil on 20-01-2008 14:11 - Guest
Link to Wikinews
This story should really link to http://en.wikinews.org and cite the CC-BY-2.5 license that it is released under.
Corporate Finance / M&A CornerHiring a lawyer to help sell your company or raise capital
If you are looking to undertake a transaction such as raising capital
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This article will first describe the role that a lawyer will typically
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What lies beneathStairway to Heaven; Elevator from Hell
I have just learned that the elevator in our four-floor
building is not owned by the building. It is owned by the company that
owns the fourth floor. The company that owns the fourth floor also owes
the building six million forints (EUR 22,280) in back payments on
common fees, which is probably all the common fees owed since they
moved in.
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Letters to the EditorHappy Christmas
This time around it's a letter FROM the Editor: How can you miss us if we don’t go away? Well, the Times
staff has already made tracks (except for the office girls that answer
the phones, issue the paycheques and all that
technical stuff. They only get the public holidays off).
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EditorialBKV a reflection of Hungary’s ailmentsUntil recently Budapest public transport company BKV
generally appeared in the press when it was broke (again) and had to
beg the state for funds, or when one of its dilapidated buses had gone
up in flames (again).
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