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30 juillet 2008

More news on Casa Nenitescu

De ar Everyone, The more I dig, the more I find, and the more depressed I get. The owner, says Dan Ghelase, President of Artrad, is a Spanish Real Estate company who bought it with view to demolish in order to construct a 'spectacular' (??) twenty storey...

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12 juillet 2010

It's a miracle!! Vision restored!

Sa razi sau sa te indignezi!!! This from Adevarul, and it is just the tip of the iceberg. There are literally hundreds of these ripoffs going on over periods of what must surely be years. And how wonderful that miracles happen, for in the country of my...

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14 juillet 2010

From flames to watermelons

These journalists obviously have nothing better to do... (either that, or Geoana really has lost the plot) This from Bucharest Herald: Geoana the exorcist, from violet flame to Dabuleni watermelons: I get mad when I see Turkish watermelons E-mail Print...

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18 juillet 2010

It's a sign!!

Bravo! In times of recession, wouldn't dough have been better spent financing the rapidly dwindling pensions? Wouldn't Elena Udrea have been wiser saving money on the ridiculous shoes she distributed to the flood victims and give building materials instead...even...

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18 juillet 2010

Shoes on the Danube

Evocative and deeply touching, this memorial has, I think, broken my heart.... Around 20,000 jews were shot dead on the banks of the Danube in Budapest by the Hungarian Arrow Cross party between December 1944 and January 1945. This memorial of iron shoes...

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18 juillet 2010

Violet, the woman who almost changed history

In 1926-7, three attempts were made on the life of Mussolini. Unfortunately, they all failed and the fascist regime used them to crack down harder than hard on all internal opposition. Violet Gibson came the closest to killing the dictator, shooting him...

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20 juillet 2010

La Multi Ani to the Ilies and Ileanas of the world!

Over 127,900 Romanians celebrate their patron saint’s day on Saint Ilie Bucharest Herald Over 127.944 Romanians are celebrating today their patron Saint Ilie. Out of the total, 113,932 are men and 14,012 are women, according to statistics provided by...

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21 juillet 2010

Cum se mananca un pepene?

Un baietel face senzatie pe internet, mancand un pepene ... din interiorul acestuia Bucharest Herald Cum se mănâncă un pepene? Toată lumea ştie, dar se pare că un băieţel kurd are o soluţie mult mai interesantă şi eficientă: mănâncă pepenele dinăuntru...

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23 juillet 2010

Nuns on the run

From today's Telegraph (and thank you, Emil!) Two nuns go on run over threat to send them to retirement home Two fugitive nuns in their 80s have gone on the run in France to escape being sent to a retirement home by their Mother Superior. Published: 5:02PM...

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25 juillet 2010

Piffle!

What utter piffle. Basescu, I am sure, has no more intention of helping the Rroma 'integrate' today than he did last year nor the year before. This is just another excuse to get an additional handout from the EU, as if its a bottomless pit of cash to...

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25 juillet 2010

Respected and not debated

I was having a debate with someone just the other day about the Szekely of Transylvania...he suggested that they are not anti-Romanian at all and that a post I wrote back in July 2008 was insulting to a whole people... I stand by my views that there exists...

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29 décembre 2009

Let there be light...and there was

Sent this morning by Dan. Thank you so much: http://www.lumeavazutadeionb.ro/ I hope you can watch it straight through as I had cuts every five seconds. Maybe the network stops at Finland again! Here's some additional info. This film tells of a homeless...

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4 octobre 2009

Roumanian theatre in Paris

Le Théâtre de l’Orme (www.amsorme.com ) est un petit théâtreparisien niché dans les restes d’un vieil immeuble, lui-même àl’intérieur d’une cour d’un autre immeuble. Ce petit lieu jouit d’uneatmosphère d’exception, grâce d’un côté à sa forme toute à faitoriginale,...

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13 août 2010

Illegal camps demolished in France

I do not see the problem. I cannot see (for once) why Sarkozy is being so severely criticised for sending those immigrants convicted of a crime back from whence they came. When you are in a foreign country (or even your own), you must tow the line. There...

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13 août 2010

Monfort puts his foot in it

Nelson Monfort put his foot in it yesterday afternoon with his "Roumanian" gaffe. He was interviewing French swimmer Aurore Mongel at the time. Telling her how very appreciated she was, he remarked that another French swimmer Roxana Maracineanu born in...

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1 mars 2010

La Multi Ani de Martisor

Dear All, How I love this festival and how sorry I am not to be there to celebrate it with you. This time last year I was sitting in the Roumanian restaurant in the 7è arrondissement sloshing palinca and delecting on mici. The year before, I was in Bucharest....

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21 août 2010

Day 5 more inquiries at Giulesti

Day 5... and the unbelievable stupidity and endless incompetence of everyone involved is seen as clear as day. I had been imagining the door to the babies, locked tight and only possible to open with a swipe key (in the pocket of the absent assistant...

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23 août 2010

In a nutshell

To watch absolutely: In memorium ingerasilor de la maternitatea Giulesti... heartbreaking... And this video from Pro-TV - a reconstruction of events... the burnt out incubators and those tiny little fingers and toes... I wonder what the point is of such...

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24 août 2010

Florentina Carstea stands alone

(Photo: News 24 de Ore ) Florentina Carstea, detained yesterday for 24h, has now been formally placed under preventive arrest for 29 days without bail on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter and grievous bodily harm, says the Romanian Times. According...

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2 juillet 2008

Walk with Mihai, str. Paris and other gems

Dear Everyone, I saw Mihai yesterday for a Nicole Tour...and he knew everything before I had to say a word! 6, str. Biserica Amzei is still up for sale (left)...looks like no one fancies it, but if anyone would like to give it to me for Christmas, that's...

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27 août 2010

Vasile Dima arrested at last

And so today, we finally see the arrest of one Vasile Dima, head of maintenance at Giulesti, a far more guilty party than Florentina Carstea, for he was responsible for training staff for evacuation in the event of a fire, the equipment itself, inspections...

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28 août 2010

Dima released, Carstea still in custody - unbelievable

I just woke up to the news that Vasile Dima has been released...and Florentina Carstea is still in custody. I do not understand this, I cannot accept it - it is a travesty of justice and a joke to the whole system of responsibility. While Florentina did...

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28 août 2010

Petition for Florentina Carstea

HERE is a petition in support of Florentina Carstea organised by the OAMGMAMR (The Order of Nurses). Please, please do take the time to visit the site, read the letters and comments, perhaps add your own and/or simply sign the petition. Florentina needs...

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9 août 2008

The Guilt of Cornel Todea

Dear Everybody, Sometimes it does to stick your neck out, make a scandal and a lot of noise rather than remaining quiet, stalwart and elegant. Cornel Todea is certainly someone who should be surrounded by a great deal of clamour, none of it pleasant....

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11 juillet 2008

Angels, Aurors and Duchesses

Dear Everybody, Just when I think I should be getting to bed and that, really, I should turn off the computer, I remember I have more to tell you. I already said that I'd met Nicole's great and much loved friend, Nely, last Friday for tea in a café on...

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