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.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-8510411134663076312021-04-28T01:00:00.007-04:002021-04-28T01:00:00.307-04:00Octopus vs nanaUtolo<span id="description">There was a recent showdown in <a title="Oscars 2021 summary" href="http://t.zamo.ca/2021/04/oscars-2021.html" target="_blank">Oscars</a> documentaries between <a title="Collective - Official Trailer | Oct 6, 2020 | 289905 - In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers unprecedented access to his efforts to reform the corrupt system but also to the obstacles he faces. Following journalists, whistle-blowers, burn victims, and government officials, Collective is an uncompromising look at the impact of investigative journalism at its best." href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLgGoT7v3ro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Colectiv</a> and <a title="My Octopus Teacher | Official Trailer | Netflix | Sep 6, 2020 | 2360655 | A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world." href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s0LTDhqe5A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Octopus Teacher</a>. I rooted for Collective and it reminded me of a long running Italian TV series from my childhood, <a title="La Piovra - Caracatita - Seria 1, Ep. 1 | Musique My Love | Jul 12, 2019 | Povestea lui Corrado Cattani, un inspector de poliție ce și-a dedicat viața luptei împotriva mafiei. Chiar și când familia și viața îi sunt grav puse în pericol de criminalii italieni, Corrado îndrăznește să continue lupta." href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWsDehkaQvw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">La Piovra</a>. Caracatita a castigat si traducerea in romana pe <a title="Documentarul Colectiv a pierdut in fata Caracatitei" href="https://www.facebook.com/zamolxis/photos/a.10156220292282011/10157984286162011/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FataCarte</a>.</span><a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2021/04/octopus-vs-nanautolo.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-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="https://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-77217981362637692922019-11-08T01:00:00.004-05:002019-11-08T17:56:09.938-05:00Iohannis :) Birchall<span id="description">I noticed recently how the mere mention of Birchall, in a positive manner, by President Iohannis, has caused backlash in PSD and there is even talk of excluding her from that rapidly disintegrating party. One could say that he likes her, but is he just mouthing it? To me, this is symbolic of PNL encroaching in PSD’s home turf and, in some instances, replacing it.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/11/birchall-iohannis.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-80601149858096901992019-09-07T01:00:00.010-04:002019-09-12T16:49:43.744-04:00debating Roma reparations<span id="description">The most important debating tournament in Romania took place at the “Mihai Viteazu” high-school and the reporter summarized a debate with a BIRT on whether the Romanian government should provide reparations to the Roma community for the Holocaust. This is worth a discussion.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/09/debating-roma-reparations.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-38163769195015455902019-08-27T12:00:00.008-04:002019-08-27T16:04:14.835-04:00Horia Constantinescu, ANPC director and Savist Interloper<span id="description">A former CNSS (Sf Sava National College / High School) classmate sent me a link to an article about Horia Constantinescu (curi-interlop), asking me if I remember this guy being in our class. In Romanian, “interlop” is used to mean shady/criminal while in English it means “unwanted, persona non grata”.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/08/horia-constantinescu-savist-interloper.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-81512082912038963612019-08-14T01:00:00.001-04:002019-08-16T14:28:29.018-04:00Adriana Oprea's writing privileges should be revoked<span id="description">I have recently read an opinion by some “journo” in a tabloid on how anonymous SIM cards should be sold no more (i.e., make them available only to those producing ID). I argue that the writing privileges of this person should be suspended.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/08/adriana-opreas-writing-privileges.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-3634390057985568852019-07-30T14:40:00.007-04:002019-08-05T14:35:33.075-04:00Butoi 2: Alexandra 112 stenograma transcripts inregistrari<span id="description">In a significant development, the full transcript of the 112 calls by the last victim, Alexandra Măceșanu, has been published. It is unclear to me if these are the official transcripts or rather what some of those who have listened may have remembered or clandestinely recorded. I do not expect that the official transcripts are any different and I am publishing them along with the censured victim-blaming comments made in 2010 by Tudorel Butoi, who continues to provide his “expert opinion” in TV shows.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/07/butoi-2.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-73192850446947475362019-07-30T01:00:00.015-04:002019-07-31T09:32:45.998-04:00Why? Cuz Butoi Gheorghe Dinca Barrel<span id="description">I keep reading about Romanian Police incompetence and I can tell you that I’ve seen far worse here in Toronto. I learned about former cop and current “forensic psychologist” Butoi telling us why a living girl’s carbonized remains ended up in a barrel (cf Romanian “butoi”). And beyond all these facts, inadequacies and incompetence, the question we want to answer even though we know we can’t is why?</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/07/butoi-gheorghe-dinca-barrel.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-80647271410385462152019-07-27T15:00:00.009-04:002019-07-29T17:11:35.719-04:00CaracaRimaru<span id="description">Whereas in English "Caracal" refers to a “medium-sized wild cat”, in Romania it’s a small town, possibly named after the long disappeared animal. Recently, what may very well be a serial killer has been arrested after some agonizing, train-wreck of a police investigation. This would be the first such criminal there in a long time.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/07/caracarimaru.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-31048064194090928242019-07-22T13:00:00.000-04:002019-07-22T14:41:46.736-04:00Dinamo Hurting and Diaspora News<span id="description">This blog has a Romanian Diaspora focus, so it’s only natural to go through the diaspora news. But our diaspora is everywhere (much like protochronist Dacians), and some have even returned, while some feel “exiled” in their own country, so we’re not going to discriminate. Especially since we keep hearing bad things about Dinamo, one of the 3 major “national” soccer teams while I was growing up.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/07/varatece-summer-diaspora-news.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-30520510499601064612019-07-12T01:00:00.003-04:002019-07-12T01:00:01.429-04:00Wong, PoliTichii<span id="description">Those of us who haven’t forgotten the recent elections (and this includes some of those happy with the results as well as those who predicted a PSD win, were proven wrong and keep looking for a reason to save their reputation) are still somewhat surprised. I know I am. So while looking for a well laid out contrarian opinion, I discovered the blog PoliTichii, obstinately hanging on to a pro-PSD viewpoint after having [wrongly] forecasted a PSD win.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/07/wong-politichii.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-9042669617554353292019-06-01T01:00:00.001-04:002019-06-07T15:43:07.005-04:00Top Romanian Parties PNL USR PSD; Partisanship, again<span id="description">I try to make sense of who voted for whom in this election, and especially who voted for PNL. Surprisingly for me, PNL managed to attract a majority of women / rural / “unoccupied” voters.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/06/romanian-main-political-parties-pnl-usr.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-30174500689114647812018-06-13T01:00:00.007-04:002018-06-13T13:46:28.192-04:00PSD protests and Kovesi departure<span id="description">#WTA has recently confused #Romania anti-#corruption #rezist #protest with people coming out in the streets to welcome and congratulate <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2018/06/simona-halep-wins-firea-gtfo.html">Simona Halep in her recent Grand Slam triumph</a> (gsp-tnr). It’s not only foreigners not getting what’s going on, but even some of those protesting.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2018/06/psd-protests-and-kovesi-departure.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-35540192713409516972017-05-05T10:30:00.005-04:002017-05-19T14:23:19.800-04:00The Dithering PSD (Firea Logo, Dragnea Corruption)<span id="description">In Romanian, “firea”, the articulated form of the noun <em>fire</em>, is part of many idioms. It is also the name of the current Bucharest Mayor, who recently had to shamefully backtrack on announcing the winner for a logo contest, due to a likely case of plagiarism. This fickle-mindedness seems to be common to her entire party, PSD, struggling as it is with the conflict between its deep desire to "forget and forgive" cases of corruption and the public commitments, forced by weeks or <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2017/02/resist-xi.html">#rezist protests</a> to the contrary.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/05/the-dithering-psd-firea-logo-dragnea.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-70665532454445103092017-05-03T01:00:00.004-04:002017-05-03T19:25:08.674-04:00Venus Incident III–Baile Herculane<span id="description">I just had today, on WhatsApp, a conversation with a former classmate, who posted some photos from Baile Herculane (Herculean Baths? – a touristic destination from Roman times with geothermal springs). The situation is dire. I advised her rather strongly to fight, to which she countered with the refrain I constantly hear in this situations: “you are disconnected from the Romanian reality”.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/05/venus-incident-iiibaile-herculane.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-68198046215198713232017-03-27T01:00:00.002-04:002017-03-30T17:48:21.537-04:00Liiceanu-Dragnea - Moralia 403<span id="description">When discussing corruption, my view is that Romanian corruption is not much higher than elsewhere, when comparing apples to apples. It irks me to hear people who try to motivate their compatriots with calls to make “corruption” like and idyllic West, because in so doing, they prove they do not know much about the West (or they have <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2009/12/misunderestimood.html">misunderstood</a> what they’ve learned), and are also selling short their own country.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/03/liiceanu-dragnea-moralia-403.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-45110146643588952182017-03-16T01:00:00.002-04:002017-03-16T01:00:03.938-04:00Ion Tiriac and politicians between fools and thieves<span id="description">Ion Tiriac, the richest former athlete in the world, had some choice words to say about the protest actions and as a result he is pilloried in the press. I can’t help feeling that he’s repeating what I’ve been saying.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/03/ion-tiriac-and-politicians-between.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-19470172428353798832017-02-10T10:28:00.000-05:002017-02-10T12:14:35.137-05:00#rezist in its 10th day<span id="description">Romania seems <a title="Malversation in Romania" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipuC38g4RQo" target="_blank">increasingly divided</a> between the “<a title="Sustinatorii PSD - contramanifestatii la Cotroceni vor demisia lui Klaus Iohannis" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Vai3LuJTE" target="_blank">bad teeth alliance</a>”, pro-government and protesting against the president Iohannis, and a massive, more numerous, <a title="Romanian protesters dance as demonstrations enter their sixth day" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIDZ_ZXaIR4" target="_blank">happily protesting dancing flash mob</a> who won’t take “<a title="AUDIO. Dragnea pentru presa străină, despre corupție: 'Bullshit'" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rUVZdzNlMw" target="_blank">corruption is bullshit</a>” for an answer. What irks me is that in the international media coverage, so much is lost in translation.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/02/rezist-in-its-10th-day.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-7317998022382011302017-01-31T17:33:00.001-05:002017-02-01T12:04:02.829-05:00Amnesty is as real in the Kingdom of Heaven as it is in Romania<span id="description">It is only natural for a government representing <a title="Religion and Choice" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2015/03/religion-and-choice.html">the most religious people in Europe</a> to implement mercy, this unabashedly Christian concept. I’ve just learned from my former classmates that the amnesty ordinance (which is really an executive order / edict / decree “emanating” from the government and bypassing the legislature) that formed the object of the past week’s protests has been adopted. <a title="Just Like Heaven" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dhn_iIQXDE" target="_blank">Precum in cer asa si pe pamant</a>.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/01/amnesty-is-as-real-in-kingdom-of-heaven.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-78244290657181557452017-01-21T14:23:00.001-05:002017-01-21T15:18:22.701-05:00Bamboo fire, PSD gov baptism<span id="description">It seems as if every new <a title="Don't Fear the P(T)SD" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/dont-fear-ptsd.html">PSD</a> government has to go through a baptism of fire. The latest such event has luckily resulted in no deaths. One of the club founders (or former co-owners) is Catalin Botezatu, which translated word-by-word is Baptized, Cat.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/01/bamboo-fire-psd-gov-baptism.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-9862989257451551372017-01-17T01:00:00.002-05:002017-01-19T11:26:54.409-05:00Adamescu II or Ivan, the American Spy<span id="description">I recently learned some interesting facts from a follow-up (by a Romanian news outfit) on the “Romanian Government attack” on the corrupt Adamescu family who is “not showing off” and it reminds me of a joke with Ivan, the American Spy</span><span>.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/01/adamescu-ii-or-ivan-american-spy.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-38655969213369490312017-01-11T01:00:00.002-05:002019-05-13T10:29:28.679-04:00Adamescu SWATting and Kovesi Plagiarism<span id="description">Another article (after <a title="Odalisque PM Sevil Shhaideh" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/odalisque-pm-sevil-shhaideh.html">Sevil</a>) that does not give me any particular pleasure but must be, nonetheless, written is on Kovesi and the ethics of her thesis. More specifically, how things we said about <a title="The Greatest Plagiarizer in SE Europe" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/09/the-greatest-plagiarizer-in-se-europe.html">Ponta</a>’s should apply to Kovesi’s as well, yet few of us have the courage to maintain that kind of consistency in our own convictions, let alone demanding that Kovesi does in hers.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/inconsistencies-xix-kovesi-plagiarism.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-27856395989608436622017-01-07T17:00:00.002-05:002017-01-07T22:14:15.046-05:00Celebratory Year-End Summaries<span id="description">I am beginning to see the limits of my enforced-positivity in terms of absorbing and interpreting the current political events. Yet the political situation in Romania is remarkably similar to what’s happening in USA.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/01/celebratory-year-end-summaries.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-44528942932524796182016-12-25T01:00:00.004-05:002016-12-25T01:00:02.163-05:00Iliescu arrested, for closure of Honest Ed!<span id="description">Honest Ed is an iconic “Canadian <a title="Who needs the kwik-e-mart - The Simpsons" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HizFLDyfOtE" target="_blank">Kwik-E-Mart</a>” that will forever close its doors on December 31, 2016. If you are wondering what does this have to do with the recently arraigned Ion Iliescu, well, <a title="N-am gasit alta rima - Toma Caragiu and Mircea Diaconescu" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYQMN0aHwgs" target="_blank">I couldn’t find another rhyme</a>.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/iliescu-arrested-for-closure-of-honest.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-46909068259750389382015-11-03T01:02:00.000-05:002019-10-27T15:33:55.792-04:00#colectiv echoes, corruption, prosecutions and direct democracy<span id="description">The fatalities count has gone North of 30, and I try to parse all the data, info and opinions that are squirting on the Internet much like the absent fire extinguishers should have in the infernal basement.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2015/11/colectiv-echoes-corruption-prosecutions.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.com0