Thursday, November 19, 2015

Whither democracy?

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Romania has a new technocratic government. With politicians either corrupt or assumed to be, there is a logic to that, and the idea of havi...
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Monday, August 10, 2015

"Human Rights Fundamentalism": Orban makes it clear where he stands

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I was away recently, and while I was away, Hungarian prime minister came to Tusnad (near where we now live) to make a speech at the annual...
Thursday, March 05, 2015

Walls of Disappointment

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Lumme. I haven't posted here since the day I made it clear that Victor Ponta would win the presidential election. What a lot of water h...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Why Romania is screwed

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We are now firmly in the endgame of the presidential election, with Victor Ponta facing Klaus Iohannis. Regular readers of this bog will ha...
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Friday, October 03, 2014

Romania's Presidential Elections (2014 edition)

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While the number of people in Romania continues to drop like a stone, the number of people who want to be the President of those who are le...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

On pro- and anti-

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Anyone who is connected to me on facebook will have noticed that of late my  updates have tended to be ones of support for the people of Ga...
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Wednesday, July 09, 2014

More collective punishment, more war crimes

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There will come a time, in the not too distant future, when those who seek to justify Israel's destruction of Gaza will be looked upon ...
Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Testing my patience

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So, I wrote last week about the important tests for 8th graders which go a long way to deciding their next 4 years. I mentioned then that...
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Friday, June 27, 2014

Day of the flag

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Yesterday, I learned while watching the news, was "The Day of the Romanian Flag". WTF is that? There's also a day for the nat...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Romtelecom, setting Romania back 30 years

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Customer service in Romania is frequently (though by no means always) a haphazard affair, with there still being a significant number of pl...