Posts from category:politics

On December 11 2016, Romania had parliamentary elections. Our political system works like this: the party with most elect senators and deputats propose someone to be the Prime Minister to the President, who says yes or no. If it’s a yes, that person forms the Cabinet and starts ruling. So, PSD (Social Democrat Party) won 45%, they enlisted […]

People are somewhat surprised that the presidential candidate with most votes, Hillary Clinton, will not be president. 2 million votes more and the loser of the elections will be president, because of the electoral votes and all that. They forgot the same thing happened in 2000, when Al Gore lost to George Bush. Gore had more votes, […]

These days, a media trust fights eviction, but they don’t fight just that. “Intact” fights the state, the politicians and common sense.   A little bit of history Intact Media Trust was founded by Dan Voiculescu, a businessman emerged from the old Securitate. In his autobiography, we find two interesting facts about his wealth: he […]

Russia invaded, sort of, Crimea. A peninsula it belonged to so many empires nobody ever owned it. The reason for this is Sevastopol, a city Russia has stationed a large portion of it’s naval army. They were not gonna let the new Ukraine government to take over that. So they just moved in. Problems ensured […]

Last night, in Bucharest it was hell. Young people fought with the police, threw stones, torched a car and broke windows. This is unusual for Romania, but it’s usual for the people doing it, because there are two types of people protesting: the football hooligans and the normal people. Unfortunately, the protest aimed at overthrowing […]

For a few days now Egypt has had a revolution going. People took the street to protest against the government and the president, who has been in that chair since 1981. Basically, we have the beginning of a world hunger crisis. The people would be happy to have food and would not care if the […]

Instead of action, we get a lot of talk and a lot of putting away measures that could save the country from recession. And we are on our way of becoming worse than Greece. Just because we can.

He granted me a 30-minute interview (in Romanian). He is not that much into social media, but he won the 2004 elections being very cool and loose, as opposed to an uptight Adrian Năstase, his opponent. I am not the first blogger to interview him, but i am the first that got to him by […]

The political campaign for Romanian Presidency has turned ugly. A 2004 recording in which the president Băsescu is hitting a child has been made public. It’s wrong.It does not matter if it’s true or not. It’s wrong to keep it hidden for 5 years and float it now, like it just happened. And yes, i […]

Urban Iulian, known and fined Romanian spammer, is now a senator in the Parliament of Romania. Great day for democracy, indeed.