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YMix wrote:.

A young member of the almost defunct Greater Romania Party (PRM) has posted some pictures on her FB account in an interesting attempt to raise the party's... profile.





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An Honest Cop, and His Facebook Celebrity, Take Romania by Surprise

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The officer stuck to his standards. In February, he fined the driver of a local councilor for failing to stop at a crosswalk, almost hitting a girl. When the councilor, in the car at the time, complained, Officer Godina’s bosses called him in to say he shouldn’t have fined the driver and that he had been disrespectful. A disciplinary inquiry was launched, which Officer Godina chronicled on Facebook, posting the recording of his conversation with the driver.

His fans were outraged. Around a hundred policemen from across Romania showed up in Brasov to support him, sporting bumper stickers reading “I am Godina.”

“His bosses totally underestimated Facebook, they had no clue how powerful it is,” said Alexandru Berbecariu, a 16-year-old high-school student in Brasov, who repeatedly said Officer Godina was “awesome.”

The scandal was picked up in national media. In the following weeks, the local councilor resigned, while the head of the Brasov police and one of his deputies went into early retirement.

Anticorruption prosecutors have launched an investigation into abuse of power. The two police bosses and the councilor deny any wrongdoing. Liviu Naghi, spokesman for the Brasov police, said that Officer Godina’s accusations “look good on Facebook” but that they “need to be proven, with evidence, by the prosecutor.”

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Geek takes on Romanian establishment

The unlikely campaign of a mathematician dedicated to saving Bucharest from the developers — and the politicians.

“He is running for the specialized companies who can renovate historic buildings,” said Gheorghe Grătar, a taxi driver who believes everyone lies to get elected.

YMix wrote:There are. Doesn't seem to stop them.

YMix wrote:Certainly. One of the things that got the Save Bucharest Union (USB) up and running was an attempt by a sonofabitch to build four towers in Cișmigiu (let's call it Bucharest's small equivalent of the Central Park). Some people mobilized and made a ruckus and the public opinion was so overwhelmingly opposed to the idea that the businessman and the prospective bribe-takers in the City Hall had to back down. But there are dozens if not hundreds of other cases that nobody does anything about.

YMix wrote:Maybe.

I should write something about Sunday's local elections, but it's too depressing. Maybe later.

Clotilde Armand – the Frenchwoman who wants to change the face of politics in Romania

Clotilde Armand is a French woman aiming to change the face of local politics in Romania. It started with a love affair, two love affairs actually. There is the Romanian man, now her husband and then there is the city of Bucharest.

She stood as the Mayoral candidate for one of the richest sectors of the city. Exit polls had her ahead in the ballot only for the official results to declare she had come second.

Romanian politics have been marked by corruption. Clotilde Armand will have none of it. Her and the new party she represents are on a mission.

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YMix wrote:.

Went on Friday to a small Bucharest museum with a friend. Found this (apologies for the poor quality of these pictures):





It's a Jewish funerary tray of some kind, but the writing is allegedly Farsi. Azari, could you put your Persian supremacy to good use here ?

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noddy wrote:tIt was a highly inefficent corporate structure, therefor the tribute ring of dogbert around the outer edge.

Moscow is rapidly expanding its air force footprint in the region with a new base in Iran following its facility in Syria. Advanced bombers and fighters are stepping up operations in both countries, while Russian warships carrying Kalibr cruise missiles gather in the Mediterranean and Caspian Seas.

DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that Washington decided to remove the nuclear arsenal to safety after talks between American and Turkish talks on release 1,500 US airmen serving at the base from the siege clamped down a month ago broke down. The airmen were running the US air campaign against ISIS in in Syria just 112km away.

The talks ground to a halt over Turkish insistence on assuming control of the nuclear arsenal and America’s rejection of this demand.
The 50-70 B61 tactical gravity nuclear bombs were stored in underground bunkers close to the US bombers’ air strips. Although this was not fully admitted by Washington, the US air and ground crews were held intermittently in lockdown since the President Tayyip Erdogan suppressed a military coup against him a month ago.

The deteriorations of relations between Ankara and Washington contrasted strongly with the Turkish-
Russian rapprochement, which Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin sealed in St. Petersburg on Aug.8. Since then, there have been calls for the Russian Air Force to be allowed to displace the US warplanes at Incirlik. This process has now begun.

Heracleum Persicum wrote:.



United States has begun evacuating the tactical nuclear weapons Turkish air base Incirlik
and is transporting them to US bases in Romania.

Moscow is rapidly expanding its air force footprint in the region with a new base in Iran following its facility in Syria. Advanced bombers and fighters are stepping up operations in both countries, while Russian warships carrying Kalibr cruise missiles gather in the Mediterranean and Caspian Seas.

DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that Washington decided to remove the nuclear arsenal to safety after talks between American and Turkish talks on release 1,500 US airmen serving at the base from the siege clamped down a month ago broke down. The airmen were running the US air campaign against ISIS in in Syria just 112km away.

The talks ground to a halt over Turkish insistence on assuming control of the nuclear arsenal and America’s rejection of this demand.
The 50-70 B61 tactical gravity nuclear bombs were stored in underground bunkers close to the US bombers’ air strips. Although this was not fully admitted by Washington, the US air and ground crews were held intermittently in lockdown since the President Tayyip Erdogan suppressed a military coup against him a month ago.

The deteriorations of relations between Ankara and Washington contrasted strongly with the Turkish-
Russian rapprochement, which Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin sealed in St. Petersburg on Aug.8. Since then, there have been calls for the Russian Air Force to be allowed to displace the US warplanes at Incirlik. This process has now begun.

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