Wednesday, November 22, 2017

U.S. State Dept Puts $700,000 into Hungarian Media, Demands ‘Programming’ Against Orban, Patriots

 Hungary

 Trump needs to cancel this.

The U.S. State Department has courted controversy by announcing it will plough $700,000 into Hungarian media, angering the country’s anti-globalist, conservative government.

The funding was announced by U.S. Chargé d‘Affaires David Kostelancik, who has previously appeared to openly criticise the Trump administration by alluding to “apparent inconsistencies in [U.S.] foreign policy” and remarking that “not every criticism of the government is ‘fake news’.”

Breitbart London spoke to a State Department official who confirmed it supports what it calls “democracy and human rights programming” in many countries, and that its intentions in Hungary — a NATO ally — are to “support media outlets operating outside the capital … to produce fact-based reporting and increase their audience and economic sustainability”.

The State Department also echoed Kostelancik’s claim that too many Hungarian news outlets are sympathetic to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s popular conservative government — which has earned powerful enemies by opposing the European Union on mass migration, building a highly effective border wall, and exposing the network of European politicians deemed “reliable allies” by billionaire open borders campaigner George Soros.

More @ Breitbart

11 comments:

  1. This US State Department should be purged to rid it of the Communist Progressives. Why it's not being done, I will never understand.

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    1. Tillerson is too easy-going. We need Secretary of State with teeth and claws to rid of Obama holdovers.

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  2. Huh, imagine that.
    Meddling in another country, while all the Russia hysteria is flung about here.
    What sayeth, or doeth, Trump about this?
    Inaction by him about the Swamp/State Dept meddling indicates who, and what, runs the show.
    Forbid a sovereign country look out for their interests.

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    1. Forbid a sovereign country look out for their interests.

      Really.

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  3. Going out on the assumption limb:
    There will probably be increased efforts by the Swamp Forces to reign in the central and eastern Europeans wanting to preserve their sovereignty and identity.
    US/NATO/Swamp forces positioned in Poland, Ukraine, etc. Propoganda efforts increased.
    Probably more so to keep them from warming up to Russia, and make sure they get with the diversity program.

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    1. There will probably be increased efforts by the Swamp Forces to reign in the central and eastern Europeans wanting to preserve their sovereignty and identity.

      I am sure.

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  4. How is this not interfering in foreign elections. The clear intent is to oppose Orban politically and reshape the politics to embrace "globalism". How about Congressional investigations into US government employees that are attempting to influence and even replace foreign leadership that the State department deems a threat to its goals. Russia, Russia, Russia. indyjonesouthere

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    1. How is this not interfering in foreign elections. The clear intent is to oppose Orban politically and reshape the politics to embrace "globalism". How about Congressional investigations into US government employees that are attempting to influence and even replace foreign leadership that the State department deems a threat to its goals. Russia, Russia, Russia.

      Agree wholly.

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  5. Orban supported Trump, one of the few in Europe and Trump
    praised Orban a month ago for his stance on sovereignty.
    I truly hope this is not one of Trump's inconsistencies.
    To the point:
    https://mikeyy.org/2017/11/22/meddling-the-us-state-departments-new-program-to-take-on-hungarian-media/

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    1. Same here and thanks. https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2017/11/hands-off-hungary.html

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