tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47924572299188568852024-03-12T21:13:03.385-04:00Also Sprach ZamolxisAşa Grăit-a Zamo.ca, the descendant of a Dacian God; teme personale, culturale şi sociale din Toronto. Patria mé îi limba romgleză. Formerly AlsoSprachZamolxis.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-72045299080938164572021-02-20T23:34:00.003-05:002021-02-24T22:18:21.846-05:00DW documentary on Romanian children beggars<span id="description">#atatsaputut: As busy as one gets, occasionally there is the old "something wrong on the internets" feeling, and that was triggered by this Deutsche Welle free documentary about Romanian Roma kids begging on the streets of Paris as well as in the Parisian Metro (subway / tube) and how the French and Romanian authorities are dealing with it. Ca de obicei, versiunea in romana a acestui articol pe <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zamolxis/posts/10157849785512011" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">FataCarte</a>. </span>
<p>It's not a lot, but “atat s-a putut”.</p>
<a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2021/02/dw-documentary-on-romanian-children.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-37906245040621398152020-08-04T01:00:00.001-04:002020-08-04T07:23:15.682-04:00That XVIII Century Romania Map Error<span id="description">A while back, we looked at a map that placed Romania South of Bulgaria, and Bulgaria in Romania’s place, in a kind of “castling” or “rocada” (cf Romanian) of the two countries. A relatively newer map, picked up somewhere on Facebook (fb below in Sources), makes the same “mistake”. Are the quotes around the word <em>mistake</em> warranted?</span><a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2020/04/map.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0North Macedonia41.608635 21.7452758.6841867436371913 -13.410975 74.5330832563628 56.901525tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-77501892106241713282019-08-13T01:00:00.000-04:002019-08-13T01:00:04.318-04:00free movement vs libera circulatie<span id="description">I’ve recently noticed a tweet that seems to indicate the Romanians are 3rd among EU countries least happy with free movement in Europe. That’s remarkable. Why would that be?</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2019/08/free-movement-vs-libera-circulatie.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-83042015687331898562019-05-16T01:00:00.010-04:002019-06-07T15:22:24.746-04:00Raspunsuri/Answers: Cornel G. Comsa, PSDi<span id="description">Cu exceptia introducerii, acest articol este in limba romana. As promised, I publish the answers received to <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2019/05/intrebari-questions-eurocandidates-2019.html">the questions posed</a> over the past few days with the deadline set on May 15. We did not specify a time for the deadline and as we write this article, it is possible that someone else may be sending us a reply. If that’s the case, comment on this article to let us know.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2019/05/raspunsuri-recomandare.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-73034501487424985102019-05-08T01:00:00.008-04:002019-06-07T15:15:50.024-04:00Alegeri Diaspora Europarlamentare MEP 2019 in Toronto<span id="description">The elections for the European Parliament are coming up soon, and this time around, I decided to ask all candidates a few questions and post their answers. But before sending these questions, it makes sense to look at the details, the first and most important being that the voting day is May 26 between 7:00 and 21:00, local time (EST) and there’s not voting by correspondence.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2019/05/alegeri-mep-2019.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-88403093063704601992017-03-23T01:00:00.002-04:002017-03-23T01:00:10.348-04:00toni erdmann 2016<span id="description">This is an (Austro?-)German movie shortlisted for the Foreign Oscar and filmed in Bucharest. It’s great and rated 7.6 on IMDB, with a Metascore of 93. It is also remarkably warm and positive toward Romania.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2017/03/toni-erdmann-2016.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-22166578214260219892016-07-16T18:26:00.001-04:002016-07-16T19:02:23.411-04:00Support Net Neutrality!<span id="description">I don’t have time for this any more than you do. It’s summer, it’s sunny, and I hardly have the time for my daily swim. But some bigwigs are counting precisely on our not paying attention to pass some really bad regulations.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2016/07/support-net-neutrality.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-18088712145033213682015-04-08T01:00:00.000-04:002015-04-10T17:10:45.864-04:00Inconsistencies: Basescu in the Guild of the Guilty<span id="description">I have in the past voted for the (former) President Basescu and even raised to his defence (more or less) when he was accused of <a title="I'll bone crush you with Basescu's fist" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2009/11/sa-va-dau-la-oase-cu-pumnu-lu-base.html">slapping an impertinent child</a>. Yet his latest display of in<a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/12/consistency.html">consistency</a> is more than I can bear.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2015/04/inconsistencies-basescu-in-guild-of.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-30447246387679456842015-03-11T12:36:00.001-04:002015-03-18T14:32:01.083-04:00Agerpres and Romanian MAE Fail European Geography<span id="description">Though it may be unfair to extend the failure of the Romanian National Press Agency (Agerpres) and the Romanian External Affairs Ministry to an entire nation, let us not forget that part of their job is to represent the country. The <a title="YouTube Video (opens to the right if you are on the main site): SAM COOKE - DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HoIfB4J3sqU?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&nologo=1&showinfo=0&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3" rel="ytvid" target="tutub">recent faux-pas</a>, confusing the French contours with the German one in a one-print commemorative brochure is, unfortunately, indicative of the <a title="Ponta (Romanian PM) placed'n perpetual plagiarism" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2012/06/ponta-pe-plaiul-plagiatului-perpetuu.html" target="_blank">dilettantism</a> that has taken over the Romanian government.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2015/03/agerpress-fails-european-geography.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-22231229172877413132015-03-05T17:49:00.001-05:002015-03-06T17:23:37.048-05:00Romanians Are Coming On Channel4<span id="description">A recent documentary about Romanians and their come on Channel4 was left seemingly ignored on this blog (though announced more than a week ago: <a title="The director of Channel 4’s The Romanians Are Coming describes the choices and the journey faced by Romanians who move to the UK to work. (Photo: Sandu and his son Antonio, in Channel 4’s The Romanians Are Coming.)" href="http://zamoca.tumblr.com/post/111504264985/the-director-of-channel-4s-the-romanians-are" target="_blank">1</a>, <a title="Mihaila is a middle-aged, middle class nurse living in the Black Sea coastal city of Constanta, with her husband, her teenage daughter and her elderly mother. Her house is comfortable, she can afford to eat out occasionally, she makes wine from the vines that grow in her garden. Her life is good. The trouble is, her life can’t get any better. She can’t afford to extend her house, or buy her daughter a car, or take her family on a foreign holiday, all those things that it is natural to want." href="http://zamoca.tumblr.com/post/111525673590/mihaila-is-a-middle-aged-middle-class-nurse" target="_blank">2</a>), so I hereby correct this oversight. The “EAT ME” photo refers to a similar but Canadian story.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2015/03/romanians-are-coming-on-channel4.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-41302539135698809632014-12-25T01:00:00.000-05:002014-12-25T01:00:07.123-05:00I am Spartacus. Brown.<span id="description">Not brown as a result of my trip to Cuba, but rather as a state of mind.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/12/i-am-spartacus-brown.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-82907839883194955242014-12-21T01:00:00.000-05:002014-12-22T13:33:44.925-05:00Romanian Beggars Invade Sweden<span id="description">The stuff I haven't told you yet about Anaughtia (see previous and still unfinished, at this time, article) is on my mind, fighting its way into a sequel. But it will be a while. There are other stories for other blogs that also searching for a way out of my head. Until then, a somewhat easier subject, on <a title="Memories of Sweden" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2013/03/memories-of-sweden.html">Sweden</a>. </span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/12/romanian-beggars-invade-sweden.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-16948794469195714512014-11-07T01:00:00.000-05:002014-11-09T14:13:32.773-05:00Dacia, Gypsies and Romanistan<span id="description">I’ve hinted before on my personal struggle with answering such philosophical questions as “where are you from?” or “where were you born.” As I started answering with “<a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/likeadacian">Dacia</a>,” more and more of those asking me, unsatisfied with this answer, started to look it up. One such acquaintance, a Brazilian dude, was kind enough to let me record our conversation. So I made a movie to share it more easily (like the <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2013/11/romania-roadtripjens.html">Jens interview</a>).</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/11/dacia-and-romanistan.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-53148939440370344092014-10-16T01:00:00.000-04:002014-10-16T01:00:00.674-04:00Irish Travellers and Roma Adoption<span id="description">My resolve to stop speaking about the difference between Roma / Gypsies and Romanians was recently shaken by an Irish couple, one of whom had a Roma sister adopted from Romania.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/10/irish-travellers-and-roma-adoption.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-67269327112989722932014-09-28T16:30:00.000-04:002014-09-29T19:48:12.973-04:00Travel to and Road-building in Romania<span id="description">I recently read a longer article on Bloomberg about Romania and its lagging infrastructure - more specifically, roads and highways. Much to my surprise, all that I was reading on other blogs (or hearing from my relatives) was described and explained as facts.</span> (blmbrg-cows) <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/09/travel-to-and-road-building-in-romania.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-44888104079605660932014-09-17T01:00:00.000-04:002015-03-30T01:18:38.955-04:00Dan Alexe vs Dacopaths<span id="description">I sporadically come across Dan Alexe's writings. He's a smart dude, he's <a title="flight, curajosnicie or courajealousy" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2013/09/flight-curajosnicie-or-courajealousy.html">courageous</a>, and he seems to constantly be bullying "protocronists / dacologists" whom he calls "dacopaths" ("dacopati" cf Romanian original, a term most likely inspired by the derisive and pejorative “psychopaths”). I thought I deconstruct / smite him a bit.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/09/dan-alexe-vs-dacopaths.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-72308084715178408652014-08-22T01:00:00.000-04:002016-01-30T22:19:56.000-05:00Vaverite, or Latvian little birds<span id="description">"Little birds" is the English mot-a-mot translation of <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2010/05/de-ce-mor-poetii-mitica.html">bijboace, clampacioace, fofoloance</a>. Just the other day, a Latvian friend visited me and brought me as a gift some candy from her native country. And as she explained laughing and blushing, the candy name had a dual meaning.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/08/vaverite-or-latvian-little-birds.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-58738238891789231832014-07-27T01:00:00.000-04:002014-07-28T09:58:21.378-04:00MH17, again<span id="description">Discussing the tragedy is inescapable. I had started doing this a few days ago, focusing mostly on <a title="the end of pax americana" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/07/andrei-anghel-and-end-of-pax-americana.html" rel="first">Andrei Anghel</a>, but didn’t have the time to say all that I wanted to say, which is why I’m continuing here.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/07/mh17-again.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-91165541176305323492014-07-20T16:38:00.001-04:002014-08-05T13:05:28.036-04:00Andrei Anghel and the end of pax americana<span id="description">I have been staying away from the news of the moment, but this recent tragedy hits extremely close to <em>home</em>, whichever way a member of the Toronto Romanian diaspora (including myself) chooses to define that notion.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/07/andrei-anghel-and-end-of-pax-americana.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-49149260111517421312014-05-29T01:00:00.000-04:002014-06-02T12:28:32.572-04:00MEP 2014 election results III – Balkaniada<span id="description">Now that <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/mep-2014-election-results-ii-circle-of.html" rel="prev">the European results</a> are known and <a title="MEP 2014 election results I-euroscepticism and nationalism" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/mep-2014-election-results.html">Euroscepticism discussed</a>, after a short detour through Canadian visas for Romanians, we will finally take a look at the Romanian politics. </span> <p>Today I met another European woman. Originally from Spain, she told me she worked in the Czech Republic for a while as a translator. Upon learning I'm Romanian, she also felt the need to share with me that there were "a lot of Romanians" in the Czech Republic who wanted to come to Canada but couldn't, because there is no visa treaty. When I told her that there were some problems here with Czech Roma getting visa through fraud and the visa had been suspended, her reaction was to remove her Czech work experience from her resume, out of fear that “Czechs now had a <a title="YouTube Video (opens to the right if you are on the main site): Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KrZHPOeOxQQ?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&nologo=1&showinfo=0&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3" rel="ytvid" target="tutub">bad name</a>.” </p> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/mep-2014-election-results-iii-balkaniada.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-37246487266390110232014-05-28T01:00:00.000-04:002014-05-29T10:00:28.405-04:00MEP 2014 election results II – monkeysphere<span id="description">I continue to struggle to express my frustrations with the <a title="YouTube Video (opens to the right if you are on the main site): Status Quo - In the Army Now (Official Video)" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ObntvRcKMrE?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&nologo=1&showinfo=0&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3" rel="ytvid" target="tutub">status quo</a> while also presenting the election results. Here I'll start with the facts, hoping that the rest will transpire effortlessly.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/mep-2014-election-results-ii-circle-of.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-15194807240654509282014-05-27T01:00:00.000-04:002014-08-07T16:02:52.642-04:00MEP 2014 election results I–euroscepticism and nationalism<span id="description">It is almost painful to discuss the election results, chiefly because <a title="MEP elections" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/mep-elections-in-toronto.html">nothing is unexpected</a>, most voters see a completely different reality than I do (or, if you will, they see the same thing but interpret it differently) and there is no way I can ever bridge this gap. Not only that, but it's virtually impossible to do so, even if I tried. I gave up trying long ago.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/mep-2014-election-results.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-90305256133037280172014-05-25T13:02:00.001-04:002014-11-04T10:14:01.198-05:00Voting MEPs with TestVote 2014<span id="description">I suspect there is a 'TestVote' application for each member country of the EU. I decided to follow my own recommendation from <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/mep-elections-in-toronto.html">Romanian MEP elections in Toronto</a> and go through this, just before voting. Since there is very likely an English one in existence, <a title="UK, u keep UKIP" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/uk-u-keep-ukip.html">and the English vote has already concluded</a>, this article has the questions left in original, in Romanian.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/voting-meps-with-testvote-2014.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-40071917499855220772014-05-23T01:00:00.000-04:002016-12-14T15:10:37.627-05:00Romanian MEP elections in Toronto<span id="description">You may have heard that in Europe, on May 25, people <a title="YouTube Video (opens to the right if you are on the main site): Voteman - (No Ads / Engilsh) Folketingets omstridte valgfilm - Contentious animated video "Voteman" made by Danish Folketing (parliament) to get young people to vote in the upcoming European Parliament election. May 25, 2014." href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FjbBSLZlpsQ?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&nologo=1&showinfo=0&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3" rel="ytvid" target="tutub">vote</a> for euroskeptics to represent them in Brussels and simultaneously destroy whatever's left of the European dream. You can help destroy Europe here in Toronto as well.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/mep-elections-in-toronto.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-43762547197472201482013-11-18T16:22:00.001-05:002013-11-19T19:17:00.307-05:00Romania Roadtrip–Jens<span id="description">I have met quite a few Germans lately. One of them told me about his happy road trip through Romania and the Moldovan Republic, and I thought his story is worth sharing here.</span> <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2013/11/romania-roadtripjens.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com10