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Romanian ultranationalist George Simion is making waves as he aims to become Europe’s next hard-right leader. Inspired by Giorgia Meloni and Donald Trump, Simion promises to reform the EU while defying rules that harm Romania. Learn how his rise could reshape Europe’s political future.

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A Romanian far-right leader is being investigated for election fraud, days before the country heads to the polls for EU and local elections. According to a statement from prosecutors seen by local media, George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for Uniting Romanians (AUR), asked his staff “to falsify several thousand lists of supporters” to allow a candidate to run in the European Parliament election. The statement did not name Simion, but he released his own statement confirming he was the subject of the investigation and calling it politically motivated.

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Romanian party leads protests against cancelled presidential election

Members of the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR) protested in Bucharest last weekend, according to Euractiv.

The protesters demanded a second round of the cancelled presidential election, according to AUR leader George Simion.

We continue to protest because the usurper president and the traitorous government refuse to listen to the people! They have not given us any answers, they have not taken any measures!

Independent candidate Călin Georgescu unexpectedly won the first round of the 24 November presidential election. In response, the Romanian Constitutional Court ruled that the first round should be cancelled and a complete re-vote should be held without a run-off.

Reacting to the court’s decision, AUR representatives stated that the cancellation of the presidential election was “disrespectful” to the millions of Romanians calling for the second round.

Romanians have woken up! And they will continue to protest for a sovereign Romania, where decisions are made in the interest of the people.

The protesters also demanded the resignation of President Klaus Iohannis, whose term had expired but who remained in office awaiting a successor. Although new presidential elections are scheduled for 4 and 18 May, it is unclear whether Georgescu will run again.

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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A top Romanian court on Friday annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after allegations that Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outside r who won the first round.

The Constitutional Court’s unprecedented decision — which is final — came after President Klaus Iohannis declassified intelligence on Wednesday that alleged Russia ran a sprawling campaign comprising thousands of social media accounts to promote Calin Georgescu across platforms such as TikTok and Telegram.

The intelligence files were from the Romanian Intelligence Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Special Telecommunication Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Despite being an outsider who declared zero campaign spending, Georgescu emerged as the frontrunner on Nov. 24. He was due to face reformist Elena Lasconi of the Save Romania Union party in a runoff on Sunday.

A new date will now be set to rerun the vote from scratch. Some 951 voting stations had already opened abroad on Friday for the runoff for Romania’s large diaspora but had to be halted.

Lasconi strongly condemned the court’s decision, saying it was “illegal, immoral, and crushes the very essence of democracy.”

“We should have moved forward with the vote. We should have respected the will of the Romanian people. Whether we like it or not, from a legal and legitimate standpoint, 9 million Romanian citizens, both in the country and the diaspora, expressed their preference for a particular candidate through their votes. We cannot ignore their will!” she said.

“I know I would have won. And I will win because the Romanian people know I will fight for them, that I will unite them for a better Romania,” she added. “I will defend our democracy. I will not give up.”

She said the issue of Russian interference should have been tackled after the election was completed. Some 9.4 million people — about 52.5% of eligible voters — had cast ballots in the first round.

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said in a statement the annulment was “the only correct solution” following the intelligence drop which revealed the “Romanian people’s vote was flagrantly distorted as a result of Russian interference.”

“The presidential elections must be held again,” he said in a post on Facebook. “At the same time, investigations by the authorities must uncover who is responsible for the massive attempt to influence the outcome of the presidential election.”

The same court last week ordered a recount of the first-round votes, which added to the myriad controversies that have engulfed a chaotic election cycle. Following a recount, the court then validated the first-round results on Monday.

Many observers have expressed concerns that annulling the vote could trigger civil unrest.

George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, said the development was a “coup d’état in full swing” but urged people not to take to the streets. “We don’t let ourselves be provoked, this system has to fall democratically,” he said.

Cristian Andrei, a political consultant based in Bucharest, said the court’s decision amounts to a “crisis mode situation for the Romanian democracy.”

“In light of the information about the external interference, the massive interference in elections, I think this was not normal but predictable, because it’s not normal times at all, Romania is an uncharted territory,” he told The Associated Press. “The problem is here, do we have the institutions to manage such an interference in the future?”

Thirteen candidates ran in the first round presidential vote in this European Union and NATO member country. The president serves a five-year term and has significant decision-making powers in areas such as national security, foreign policy and judicial appointments. On Dec. 1, Romania also held a parliamentary election which saw pro-Western parties win the most votes, but also a surge of support for far-right nationalists.

Before the first round vote, most surveys predicted the top three candidates would be Ciolacu, who came in third place, and Simion or Lasconi in second place. As the surprising results came in with Georgescu on top, and Lasconi narrowly beating Ciolacu, it sent shockwaves through the political establishment and plunged it into turmoil.

Georgescu’s surprising success in the presidential race left many political observers wondering how most local surveys were so far off, putting him behind at least five other candidates before the vote.

Many observers attributed his success to his TikTok account, which now has 6 million likes and 541,000 followers. But some experts suspect Georgescu’s online following was artificially inflated while Romania’s top security body alleged he was given preferential treatment by TikTok over other candidates.

In the intelligence release, the secret services alleged that one TikTok user paid more $381,000 (361,000 euros) to other users to promote Georgescu content. Intelligence authorities said information they obtained “revealed an aggressive promotion campaign” to increase and accelerate his popularity.

Georgescu, when asked by the AP in an interview Wednesday whether he believes the Chinese-owned TikTok poses a threat to democracy, defended social media platforms.

“The most important existing function for promoting free speech and freedom of expression is social media,” he said.

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The nationalistic right-wing Alliance for the Union of Romanians, AUR, has started a campaign to attract smaller nationalist parties, some with far-right leanings, ahead of the 2024 elections, gathered in an “authentic sovereignist choir”.

“AUR is a constantly growing force. This thing is more and more visible. The more our strength grows, the more [others] come to us. We will make the necessary selection and welcome all who deserve and correspond to our principles and values, ” AUR leader and MP George Simion said on Tuesday evening.

Next year, Romania will hold European, local, parliamentary and presidential elections.

“We want to unite because only together can we help Romanians. We don’t keep our doors closed. We’ve proved that we did not make a party for ourselves and a group of close people and that we are open to all who can do something for the country”, ther co-president of AUR, Senator Claudiu Tarziu, said.

AUR has already presented a narrative of winning the elections, pedalling a nationalist, Euro-skeptic and anti-NATO agenda, which matches Moscow’s own narratives.

Its “entire ideology … fits the type of narrative pushed in the West by Russian propaganda,” wrote Dan Tapalaga, editor of the G4Media , an influential Romanian independent news portal, in an analysis.

He described the party as “extremist and anti-Semitic … based on isolationist nationalism, anti-Europeanism, economic nationalism, traditionalism and [Christian] Orthodoxy”.

Simion said he was out to beat the “so-called democratic bloc” in 2024.

“In 2024, two ‘army corps’ will fight. The so-called democratic block PSD-PNL-UDMR [Social Democratic Party, PSD; National Liberal Party, PNL and Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, UDMR] will fight the sovereignist pole, concentrated around AUR … We need to win these elections,” he said.

AUR has brought into the party a businessman of Israeli origin, Ilan Laufer, and another, Mohammad Murad, of Lebanese origin, to signal that ethnicity and religion are no bar to membership of its nationalist projects.

Previously, Simion was accused of anti-Semitic attitudes for praising Marshal Ion Antonescu, the leader of Romania in World War II and the figure most responsible for the mass killing of its Jews and Roma. Simon rejected these accusation after he had a meeting with the Israeli ambassador to Romania.

Simion also stated that AUR is based on four pillars – the Romanian nation, the family, freedom and the Christian faith.

He further stated that the legacy of Corneliu Vadim Tudor, the former leader of the Great Romania Party, PRM, who championed anti-Western, homophobic, xenophobic and anti-Hungarian views in the 1990s, must be continued. That was why he welcomed his daughter, Lidia Vadim, into the party. However, Simion has publicly insisted that he has no anti-Semitic views himself.

Judging by recent opinion polls, AUR and one other Romanian nationalist party could win seats in the European Parliament elections.

According to the latest Avangarde opinion poll, from last month, AUR stands to win 19 per cent of the votes in those elections, while the party of Diana Sosoaca, formerly of AUR, S.O.S Romania, would win 5 per cent, allowing it to cross the electoral threshold.

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Lovitură pentru George Simion: Nu mai merge în SUA, după ce fundația Israel Heritage Foundation i-a retras invitația la un dineu ...

Lovitură pentru George Simion: Nu mai merge în SUA, după ce fundația Israel Heritage Foundation i-a retras invitația la un dineu …

George Simion a fost nevoit să-și anuleze vizita planificată în Statele Unite, după ce fundația Israel Heritage Foundation i-a retras invitația la un dineu care urmează să aibă loc în data de 18 septembrie, la New York, cu Mike Pompeo, fostul secretar de stat al lui Donald Trump, ca invitat de onoare. Liderul AUR își făcuse deja bagajul, cerând chiar conducerii Camerei să-i deconteze chiar…

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How Malignant’s Monster Calls Back to Stephen King

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This Malignant article contains spoilers.

Malignant has a twist so wild you need to see it to believe it. Seriously, stop reading right now if you have even the faintest interest in watching James Wan‘s latest horror offering. You really don’t want to spoil this for yourself. Sure, you’ll either really love or absolutely hate the movie’s batshit third act, but the experience of watching the twist for the first time is worth the price of admission.

If you have watched the movie, maybe you left as astonished as I did. After all, the first two thirds of the movie play like a standard giallo-inspired slasher film before things go completely off the rails. You might say that some of the clues were there all along — indeed they are, maybe you saw this coming from a mile away — but when you thought you’d put it all together, did you really expect Wan to go through with something so ridiculous? I certainly said, “No, that can’t be it” to myself midway through the movie when the clues started adding up. It’s a new direction for Wan to be sure…

But Wan’s first trip into a new sub-genre of horror isn’t necessarily without outside influence. There’s a bit of David Cronenberg mixed with hints of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but for the most obvious inspiration you have to look to the King of Horror himself.

Before we talk about Stephen King, you might be wondering what the hell was going on with Gabriel in the first place.

Gabriel Origin Explained

Safari Riot’s cover of the classic Pixies song “Where Is My Mind” seems so out of place when it first blasts through a scene in the movie, an over-the-top accompaniment to what seems like your standard slasher flick, but it’s actually incredibly appropriate — not just for the massive tone shift but the plot itself. (“Where Is My Mind” is also the iconic tune that accompanies the final scene of Fight Club, another tale of split personalities.) Madison’s (Annabelle Wallis) mind has been playing tricks on her (and the audience) the entire time. She thinks her creepy childhood imaginary friend Gabriel has somehow taken corporeal form and started murdering everyone who had a hand in “separating” him from her. But little does Madison know that the separation was much more literal than her simply forgetting a figment of her imagination when her baby sister Syndey (Maddie Hasson) was born.

It’s Sydney who discovers the truth when she goes back to the institution where Madison spent her early childhood before being adopted by their mother Jeanne (Susanna Thompson). In the basement of the abandoned Simion Research Hospital, Sydney finds the harrowing tapes that reveal Madison’s past with her “imaginary friend.”

Madison was born Emily May to a 15-year-old girl named Serena (Jean Louise Kelly as an adult, Madison Wolfe as a teen) who is forced to give her away to the institution by her mother due to Emily’s…medical condition. In a stunningly gruesome sequence of body horror, we learn that Emily was born with a parasitic twin attached to her head and spinal cord, which allows it to control her movements and thoughts. The doctors at Simion at first diagnose Gabriel as a “massive teratoma,” a malignant tumor that can grow with fully developed organs and tissue, but as we see in the movie’s opening sequence, they soon learn that this is something much worse and decide to cut him out off of Emily for good.

But they can’t get rid of Gabriel completely. Because the siblings attached at the brain, the doctors are forced to remove as much of Gabriel as they can, hiding what’s left inside her skull. Of course that means that Gabriel never truly goes away. He continues to speak to Emily, now Madison, from inside her head, at one point almost convincing her to kill Jeanne while pregnant with Sydney.

While Madison eventually forgets her “imaginary friend” as an adult, Gabriel returns after Madison’s piece of shit husband Derek (Jake Abel) brutally slams her head against a wall during an altercation. (Let’s just say I’m glad he’s dead.) The injury reawakens what’s left of Gabriel, who can reemerge through her head wound to control and contort Madison’s body and go on his killing spree. Madison experiences these murders as visions, as she watches her sibling slash his way through all the doctors that tried to destroy him as well as the mother who gave him away in the first place. Madison’s only able to stop him after he’s already massacred a police station full of cops and prisoners and made his way to the hospital to kill Sydney and Serena. Using the mental link she has with Gabriel, Madison manages to lock her sibling away, promising that next time he reemerges, she’ll “be ready for him,” setting up an inevitable sequel and a new horror franchise for Wan.

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Gabriel and the Dark Half

Constant Readers will undoubtedly spend the weekend pointing out that Gabriel’s plot to control his sister in order to go on a murder spree is very reminiscent of one of Stephen King’s most famous books and movies, The Dark Half. The book and the movie directed by the late, great George A. Romero tells the story of Thad Beaumont (played by Timothy Hutton in the film), a writer of literary fiction in a bit of a slump by day. But he has a far more successful career by night as the author of dark crime novels under the pen name “George Stark.” Yet, the success of his Stark books feels like a curse to Thad, who is driven to heavy drinking and other vices when “the spell” of Stark’s prose. Now, a recovering alcoholic, Thad wishes to leave Stark behind and just write the literary fiction his agent and editor deem “boring.”

When the truth about Thad’s pen name comes out, the writer sees the perfect way to bury his career as George Stark once and for all — by throwing his pseudonym an actual funeral at the local cemetery. But Mr. Stark doesn’t like that very much. Thad’s pen name inexplicably “rises from the grave” to kill everyone he blames for his death — Thad’s editor, agent, and more.

You’re probably thinking it was Thad all along, but this is more than just another case of split personalities. Like in Wan’s latest, Stark was once actually very real, the sibling Thad absorbed in utero…except for a couple of teeth and an eye living inside of Thad’s brain. The “tumor” is removed from Thad’s head as a child, but he’s somehow unknowingly kept the spirit of his sibling alive through the books he writers, undoubtedly under Stark’s dark influence. It’s the kind of gory, supernatural twist King is best known for, and Wan sets out to celebrate the book with style. Mind you, this obviously isn’t a direct adaptation of King’s work but more like a spiritual successor to the book that pushes the plot much further into the ridiculous than even the writer did in 1989. Leave it to Wan to dream up an action sequence where a backwards (literally), contorting serial killer stabs his way through a building full of people to the sound of shredding guitars.

Even if you think Malignant‘s third act twist is an absolute mess, I’d argue it’s at least an interesting mess, a daring experiment in a corner of the horror genre we’ve not seen enough of in the past few years. Will this experiment lead to a new movement in body horror movies just as Saw for better or worse inspired years of “torture porn” movies and The Conjuring brought us the horror expanded universe? That remains to be seen. At the very least, Malignant is the kind of movie you’ll want to debate about with your friends as you exit the theater, even if it’s just to say you absolutely hated the twist. Aren’t you at least glad you saw it for yourself? The twist just isn’t as good on paper.

Malignant is out now in theaters and streaming on HBO Max.

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EXCLUSIV / EXPLOZIV / ANCHETA. CONTINUAREA. Ep. 3 - Vanguard

Soții Ursula și Heiko von der Leyen au fost șantajați în afacerea Pfizer de 36 miliarde dolari

S-o luăm metodic, ca la școală. Știți aventura mea de la Agenția mainstream. Nu mai repet. Pe 16 noiembrie (ora 10:42) am publicat pe Facebook primul episod al ANCHETEI Pfizer-Ursula, despre legătura dintre soții Heiko și Ursula cu Big Pharma, în contextul semnării contractului de 1,8 miliarde de doze cu mega-firma Pfizer.

La scurt interval de timp, pe 17 noiembrie (ora 19), am publicat și episodul 2. Cu date și nume concrete. Aveți în comentarii ambele episoade, nu mai insist. Din anchetă reieșeau cu claritate mari suspiciuni de corupție, în sensul că Pfizer ar fi mituit-o pe șefa Comisiei Europene prin intermediul soțului ei (aflat în board-ul Orgenesis).

Foarte important. De atunci au trecut cinci zile. Timp arhisuficient pentru verificări. Nimeni nu mi-a atras atenția că ceea ce am scris ar fi greșit (sau insuficient documentat). Dimpotrivă. Celebrii ”investigatori” de la Libertatea sau Recorder ar fi avut tot timpul din lume să zdrobească și să anuleze concluziile ANCHETEI. Să-mi arate că am greșit. Să mă ridiculizeze. Nu au făcut-o.

Cred că ceea ce am scris este foarte corect. Fără ieșiri în decor.

Apoi a venit o altă surpriză majoră. Sincer, mă așteptam ca ANCHETA să nu fie preluată de presa mainstream. Cunosc mecanismul din interior. În schimb, a fost distribuită masiv pe rețelele sociale. A apărut pe Active News, Sputnik , r3media, Blogul lui Cristoiu și încă vreo două televiziuni de nișă (scuze dacă am uitat pe cineva). Le mulțumesc mult, încă o dată.

Și acum vine surpriza. Din spectrul politic. Mă așteptam ca cei care au luptat împotriva vaccinării obligatorii și a pașaportului sanitar să aibă o reacție. Cât de mică. Să spună ceva. De bine sau de rău. Practic, le pusesem pe tavă ”glonțul de aur” în lupta cu MAFIA.

Nimic. Nici un sunet. Europarlamentarul Terheș și cei de la AUR mai au timp să reacționeze, cumva.

Ca să nu-și piardă de tot credibilitatea.

Simplii membri de partid ar trebui să-i întrebe pe domnii Simion și Târziu ce părere au. Poate șefii AUR cred că nu am adus suficiente argumente. Poate au altă tactică, habar n-am. Poate fac parte, și ei, din SISTEM. Vom vedea, foarte clar, în zilele ce urmează.

Și acum vine, cu adevărat, BOMBA. Am primit pe Facebook (ca de obicei, până acum) lista cu principalii acționari ai prestigiosului cotidian The New York Times (NYT). O aveți și voi în comentarii, sunt informații bursiere publice.

Dintre acționarii semnificativi ai publicației NYT se disting pe primele două locuri grupurile de investiții The Vanguard Group și BlackRock, cu acțiuni însumate de 16,57%. Cum am spus în anchetă, Vanguard deține cele mai multe acțiuni ale BlackRock. Așa că în realitate acum vorbim despre un singur MEGA investitor: VANGUARD. Potrivit surselor bursiere transparente, cei de la Vanguard dețin circa 90 la sută din toată mass-media din Statele Unite.

Potrivit acelorași surse, iată doar o parte dintre deținătorii de acțiuni în cadrul mega-grupului Vanguard: Rothschild Investment Corp, Edmond De Rothschild Holding, diferite familii ca Orsini din Italia, Bush din Statele Unite, du Pont, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller. Inclusiv familia regală din Marea Britanie.

Pe moment nu pot verifica, nu am deloc resurse. Dar intuiția îmi spune că din Vanguard fac parte miliardari ca Bill Gates, George Soros, Jeff Bezos sau Mark Z. Posibil și politicieni importanți, decisivi, ca Joe Biden (prin intermediul firmelor deținute de fiul său, Hunter – cunoscut ca un cal breaz).

Ca să vă faceți o idee despre puterea financiară a grupului Vanguard, imaginați-vă averile celor patru ”filantropi” menționați mai sus și înmulțiți totul cu 1.000. Sau cu cât vreți, nu contează. Practic, Vanguard deține cam tot ce mișcă în Big Pharma și mass-media. Două unelte esențiale, decisive, în pandemie.

Cum am văzut în anchetă, VANGUARD deține inclusiv firmele Pfizer și Orgenesis. Heiko, soțul Ursulei, a fost propulsat în board-ul Orgenesis cu un salariu anual de peste 1,5 milioane (de la 2-3 sute de mii de euro, cât câștiga în Germania). Probabil a primit și alte ”bonusuri de performanță”. Încă nu știm exact. Parchetul European nu a primit vreo sesizare. Iar Kovesi a avut alte treburi, nu să citească ANCHETA mea. Cert este că cei de la VANGUARD l-au cumpărat pe Heiko von der Leyen. Îl dețin în buzunarul de la piept. Îi cunosc toate secretele.

În aceste condiții, la finele lui 2020, Pfizer a demarat negocierile cu Uniunea Europeană pentru 1,8 miliarde doze de vaccin (mult peste ceea ce am fi avut nevoie). Au fost negocieri directe, netransparente, între Bourla (aka VANGUARD) și Ursula (aka Comisia Europeană). Însă Bourla avea două mari atuuri: îl cumpărase deja pe Heiko și îi știa Ursulei secretele de pe vremea când conducea Ministerul Apărării din Germania. Pe atunci și-ar fi șters datele din telefonul mobil ca să mușamalizeze posibile acte de corupție.

Din ce reiese până acum, pot crede că Ursula a refuzat, inițial, să semneze acest mega-contract. I s-a părut FURT PE FAȚĂ. I s-a părut strigător la cer, după aproape doi ani de pandemie cu minciuni, amenințări și abuzuri altădată inimaginabile.

Și atunci VANGUARD (prin Bourla) a scos asul din mânecă: ȘANTAJUL. Mai întâi verbal, între patru ochi, apoi public, prin intermediul cotidianului The New York Times. Aflat, cum ziceam mai sus, în portofoliul VANGUARD. Deci la dispoziția lui Bourla (Pfizer).

Articolul așa-zis ”bombă” despre dedesubturile negocierilor dintre Bourla și Ursula (”How Europe Sealed a Pfizer Vaccine Deal With Texts and Calls”) a apărut în NYT pe 28 aprilie 2021. Adică la fix, în pline negocieri. A fost doar un semnal clar că lucrurile pot derapa. Fără informații concrete. Doar ”arătarea pisicii”. Știți cum se face atunci când vrei să obții un contract important de publicitate, în calitate de patron de presă. A fost un avertisment dur că Ursula își poate pierde atât funcția, cât și libertatea, dacă nu răspunde la comenzi. O așteptau, acasă în Germania, cei șapte copii și un nepot.

La doar zece zile distanță, pusă într-o situație de viață și de moarte, Ursula von der Leyen a cedat șantajului și a anunțat pe Twitter semnarea contractul dubios (și extrem de scandalos!). Încă 1,8 miliarde doze Pfizer. Dintr-un total, absurd, de 2,4 miliarde doze. Deci vreo 48 de miliarde dolari dintr-o singură împușcătură.

Ce spuneți, s-a mai ridicat, măcar puțin, vălul de pe ochi?

Acum știm clar DE CE politicienii vânduți (și cei ai SISTEMULUI), mass-media coruptă și așa-zișii specialiști (gen Mahler și Imbri) insistă peste limita penibilului pentru ”vaccinare obligatorie” și ”pașaport sanitar”. Totul este o MEGA-ESCROCHERIE. Și, foarte important, ea trebuie să continuie la turație maximă, cel puțin câțiva ani de-acum încolo. Indiferent de victime, de reacții adverse, de consecințe pentru oameni și economie.

În fond, banii sunt publici, deci nimeni nu pierde nimic. (vom/voi continua?)

ESTE FOARTE IMPORTANT SĂ DAȚI SHARE (SAU COPY-PASTE). ESTE UNICA NOASTRĂ ȘANSĂ.

ESTE FOARTE IMPORTANT SĂ ȚINEȚI APROAPE DE BISERICĂ: NU VĂ LUAȚI DUPĂ DIVERSIUNILE PRESEI CORUPTE. MULȚUMESC.

p.s.1 Pentru cei care îmi transmit tot felul de mesaje, prin intermediari, repet doar un singur lucru: câinele meu Aki are 1,8 kg și se descurcă minunat, până în prezent.

p.s.2 În comentarii găsiți ANCHETA (ep. 1 și 2) plus acționarii semnificativi de la The New York Times. Mulțumesc tare mult pentru susținere. Fără voi, nu aș fi putut continua. Ținem aproape!

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NATO critic emerges as favourite in Romania’s presidential election

The surprising outcome of the first round of Romania’s presidential election saw little-known right-wing candidate Calin Georgescu take the top spot with 22.9 percent of the vote, while Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, considered the favourite, dropped out of the race, results showed almost complete on Monday.

Georgescu is followed by centre-left Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu with 20.2 percent. Reformist candidate Elena Lasconi has 18 per cent, while another right candidate, George Simion, lags behind with 14.1 per cent support, according to data from 96 per cent of precincts.

An early exit poll suggested Lasconi was set to make it to the second round of the presidential election, but Georgescu’s numbers rose sharply on Sunday night, foreshadowing a result that is set to upend Romanian politics.

“The 35-year economic uncertainty imposed on the Romanian people has become today an uncertainty for the political parties,” Georgescu said in his first reaction after polls closed. He called the result a “surprising awakening” of the Romanian people.

Georgescu, an extremely religious man, campaigned on reducing Romania’s dependence on imports, supporting farmers and increasing domestic food and energy production. He also argued that the EU and NATO did not properly represent Romania’s interests and claimed that the conflict in Romania’s neighbouring Ukraine was the result of manipulation by US military companies.

In 2022, he argued that the US missile defence shield located in the southern Romanian village of Deveselu was part of a policy of confrontation rather than a peaceful measure. He said at the time that he had no support from Russia but felt close to its culture. Georgescu also said he admires Hungary because of its skill in international negotiations. Georgescu is a university professor and international consultant on sustainable development who has worked in various United Nations organisations for more than a dozen years.

He used TikTok to rally voters around him. “He managed to convince them with a combination of a messianic speech delivered elegantly to capitalise on people’s frustration,” said political analyst Radu Magdin. Georgescu has been mentioned several times over the past decade as a potential prime minister by various parties, including Simion’s AUR party.

Turnout nationally and among the Romanian diaspora was 52.5 per cent, slightly higher than the 51.2 per cent who voted in the previous presidential election in 2019. The second round of the presidential election is scheduled for December 8, following Romania’s parliamentary elections next Sunday.

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Reacțiile liderilor politici, după anunțarea primelor estimări. PSD – Românii au sancționat gestionarea pandemiei; PNL – Vom fi câștigătorii acestor alegeri: USRPLUS – Românii nu au dat un mandat clar niciunui partid. Vom negocia guvernarea.

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Reacțiile liderilor politici, după anunțarea primelor estimări. PSD – Românii au sancționat gestionarea pandemiei; PNL – Vom fi câștigătorii acestor alegeri: USRPLUS – Românii nu au dat un mandat clar niciunui partid. Vom negocia guvernarea.

Marcel Ciolacu, PSD: ”Le mulțumesc românilor că au sancționat această batjocură la adresa lor în ce privește gestionare pandemiei, închiderea școlilor, a piețelor, a bisericilor, intrarea în faliment a mii de societăți cu capital românesc și sute de mii de șomeri.”

Ludovic Orban, PNL: “Având în vedere că în cercetările sociologice nu sunt cuprinse voturile exprimate între 19:30 și 21, nu sunt cuprinse voturile numeroase din Diaspora și care continua să se exprime, luând în considerare marja de eroare, PNL consideră că este câștigătorul acestor alegeri, atât câștigătorul moral, cât și la finalizarea procesului de numărare a voturilor.”

Dacian Cioloș, USRPLUS: “Suntem acum o forţă politică matură, care a dovedit că poate rezista şi că poate creşte într-o competiţie directă cu vechile partide. Vom avea în Parlament o echipă solidă de deputaţi şi senatori, foarte probabil un număr dublu faţă de cel pe care l-am avut până acum. Românii nu au dat un mandat clar niciunui partid să formeze singur guvernul. Vom negocia guvernarea.”

Victor Ponta, ProRomânia: “În condiții de prezenta atât de scăzute, dacă avem probleme la numărătoare, legitimitatea viitorului Parlament și a viitorul guvern va fi un uriaș semn de întrebare într-o perioadă de criză.”

George Simion, AUR: “O mare victorie pentru România! Prima bătălie câștigată. Luptăm acum să oprim furtul voturilor.”

Traian Băsescu, PMP: “Va fi un guvern cu susținerea fragmentată. Ar trebui să dea de gândit prezența la urne, cât de oportun a fost să forțeze nota pentru aceste alegeri? La vârf va fi o luptă pentru numărarea voturilor între PNL și PSD și sper ca PSD să meargă în opoziție. Sunt, ca și cetățean, îngrijorat legat de fragilitatea următorului guvern dar asta e democrația, trebuie să luam lucrurile așa cum sunt.”

Kelemen Hunor, UDMR: “Este un rezultate echilibrat. Așteptările sunt mari, sunt uriașe, mai ales în sănătate”.

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Update: On December 6, Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, according to Romanian media.

It’s now a familiar story: a right-wing outsider candidate whose campaign is seen as so unserious that media coverage classifies it as entertainment rather than news pulls off a shocking upset. But while Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu has yet to secure victory, with a second round of voting still ahead, his rapid rise, incendiary rhetoric, and lack of a political party stand out even by the standards of the last decade’s populist surge. And while the Russian government has backed no shortage of far-right candidates in foreign elections in recent years, the success of its apparent influence in Georgescu’s campaign — as declassified Romanian intelligence documents indicate — is striking. Meduza explains why Georgescu’s first-round victory came as such a shock, what his presidency would mean for Ukraine and the rest of Europe, and what the newly released intelligence documents reveal about the forces promoting his candidacy.

From TikTok to the ticket

The first round of Romania’s 2024 presidential election came on November 24. Pre-election polling showed Marcel Ciolacu, Romania’s prime minister from the center-left Social Democratic Party (PSD), as the favorite to win among the 13 candidates running. Elena Lasconi from the center-right Save Romania Union, who stood out as the only candidate to oppose the idea that Ukraine should cede territory to Russia for the sake of peace, was also performing well.

The most prominent ultranationalist candidate in the race — who the ruling PSD was reportedly hoping would win just enough votes in the first round to give Ciolacu an easy win in the runoff — was George Simion, the 38-year-old leader of the right-wing AUR Alliance. Simion cited Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as his political role models. Even he, however, blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “war criminal” and declared his support for Romania’s NATO member status.

Largely absent from pre-election coverage, meanwhile, was Călin Georgescu, a 62-year-old sustainable development consultant who doesn’t belong to a political party and reached voters primarily on TikTok. Most polls predicted him winning less than 10 percent of the vote. Instead, he won about 23 percent — more than any other candidate. He and Lasconi, who came in second with about 19 percent, will now face off in the election’s second round on December 8.

Many of Georgescu’s past statements make Trump wannabe George Simion’s positions look moderate by comparison. According to Politico, he has described the 1989 revolution that overthrew longtime communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu as a “coup d’état used by the West to steal Romania’s resources.” In 2022, he said that Nazi collaborator Ion Antonescu and Corneliu Codreanu, founder of the World War II-era fascist and anti-Semitic Iron Guard movement, were “heroes of the Romanian nation.” He has also expressed skepticism about vaccines and called climate change a “global scam that has nothing to do with reality.”

In 2018, Georgescu referred to Vladimir Putin as “a true leader” in a TV interview, and four years later, he referred to the Russian president as “a man who loves his country.” And while this may be the extent of his direct praise for Putin in public statements, there’s a lot for the Kremlin to like about his political positions.

For example, in 2021, Georgescu called a NATO missile defense shield in Romania a “shame of diplomacy” and said the bloc would not defend its members if Russia attacked. He has also called for ending Romanian aid to Ukraine and said that rather than creating its own foreign policy, Bucharest should look to “Russian wisdom.” On December 4, he told Reuters that he plans to ban transit of Ukrainian grain through Romania if elected. Asked about whether Romania would continue prioritizing defense spending in accordance with NATO benchmarks, Georgescu said, “This is ultra-secondary, I am not even interested.”

‘Romania first’

According to journalist Paula Erizanu, who covers Romanian and Moldovan politics, it’s likely not Georgescu’s praise of fascist leaders or admiration for Putin that won him the election’s first round. “Some of the far-right messages and the pro-Russian messages actually came as a surprise to people who voted for Georgescu,” she told Meduza. “Some influencers and ordinary voters came out after election day saying that they regretted their votes because they did not know about the extreme views. Others dismissed them as fakes, because Georgescu himself dismisses them and contradicts himself all the time, and still others just ignored these views and focused on the anti-system messages.”

Erizanu said that one of Georgescu’s most popular TikTok talking points had to do with Romania’s support for Ukraine. “Georgescu uses the same line as Russian propaganda across the West, which is that Romania has its own problems, so why should it help Ukrainian refugees, especially as some of them are really wealthy? Why are there Ukrainian males in Romania when they should be fighting in the war in Ukraine? And why is Romania giving weapons to Ukraine when this war is not Romania’s war?” she said.

These ideas likely resonated with voters in part because of the uncertainty and fear many Romanians feel as neighbors of a country at war. “I would say that the political establishment in Romania has not been communicative enough to the public about what the war in Ukraine means to Romania and how they can guarantee Romanian people that they will not be sent to the front line,” Erizanu explained.

On the other hand, she noted that Georgescu has vowed to introduce mandatory military service if he wins the presidency. “[He argues that] it supposedly ‘ennobles’ young men, but that doesn’t seem to scare Romanians off,” she said.

Outside help

Georgescu announced at the start of his run that his campaign would have “zero budget” and be run entirely by volunteers. On December 4, however, the Romanian authorities declassified intelligence documents indicating that at least hundreds of dollars were paid to TikTok creators to promote the dark-horse candidate.

According to documents cited by Politico, approximately 25,000 accounts made up a network “directly associated with Georgescu’s campaign and became very active in those two weeks.” Another declassified document says that the activity “could have been coordinated by a state actor.” While the documents don’t directly assert that Russia was behind the operation, they contain circumstantial evidence pointing to Moscow and note similarities between the TikTok campaign and Russian influence operations in Ukraine and Moldova.

Journalist Paula Erizanu said that while the documents don’t prove that Georgescu was in “collusion” with Russia, it’s difficult to see how he could be unaware of such a large-scale campaign. “This is, of course, what [Alexandr] Stoianoglo, the presidential candidate in Moldova, said when proof appeared that Russia was buying votes for him: he said he didn’t know about any of these schemes so he wasn’t guilty,” she told Meduza. “But of course, if something is done in your name in order to boost you, you should at least be worried about it if you’re not complicit in it.”

She also noted that Georgescu’s messages “seem to align with Russia’s funding into anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theories, and extremist content in the Romanian language.”

The shocking election results had aroused suspicion even before the intelligence documents were declassified. On November 28, Romania’s Supreme Council of National Defence announced that a document analysis had shown that an unnamed candidate in the presidential race “benefited from massive exposure due to preferential treatment granted by the TikTok platform.” This prompted the country’s Constitutional Court to order a recount of votes. On December 2, the court validated the votes and confirmed Georgescu’s lead.

The same day, Vladimir Putin joked about the recount, saying: “The authorities didn’t like one of the candidates, so they decided to recount the votes.”

‘Agents of chaos’

A Georgescu victory in the runoff election could be bad news not just for Ukraine and NATO but also for Romania itself.

“At the moment, analysts are talking about Romania turning into a sort of Hungary or Slovakia with Georgescu in power, and that would mean not getting E.U. funds, which are critical in order to keep Romania’s economy going,” Erizanu told Meduza, adding that Romania currently has a large budget deficit.

At the same time, she noted, it’s difficult to predict what Georgescu’s skepticism of international institutions would mean in practice. “It’s not clear whether Romania would actually withdraw from the E.U. or NATO,” she explained. “Just like we can’t predict what Trump will do once he comes to power, it’s unpredictable, to a large extent, what Georgescu will do if he comes to power. These are agents of chaos.”

In any case, according to Erizanu, Georgescu becoming Romania’s president would almost certainly give Moscow reason to celebrate. “There is so much information, including the declassified intelligence documents, showing that Russia was behind Georgescu’s campaign, so we can basically foresee Georgescu withdrawing support for Ukraine and becoming a kind of unfriendly neighbor to Ukraine and pursuing Russian agendas within the E.U. and NATO,” she said.

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Jazz special: Luiza Zan şi Big Band-ul Radio

(18 februarie 2019)

Un cadou frumos de oferit de zilele îndrăgostiţilor? O invitaţie la o seară de jazz cu totul specială poate fi cea mai bună idee! Joi, 21 februarie (ora 19:00), la Sala Radio, Luiza Zan – una dintre cele mai apreciate voci ale momentului în jazz-ul românesc, va cânta alături de Big Band-ul Radio. Concertul extraordinar se va derula sub bagheta cunoscutului dirijor şi compozitor român Ionel Tudor. Evenimentul va fi prezentat de Ştefan Naftanailă, realizator al postului Radio România Cultural.

Luiza Zan a absolvit cursurile Universităţii de Arte George Enescu din Iaşi şi ulterior a experimentat ea însăşi ipostaza de pedagog – a predat jazz vocal la Universitatea Naţională de Muzică Bucureşti (2008-2010) şi a susţinut cursul de jazz vocal în cadrul taberei de muzică IconArts între anii (2010-2014). A studiat jazz cu saxofonistul american Rick Condit şi cu pianistul american Armen Donelian. După ce în 2004 a obţinut premiul I la festivalul Cerbul de Aur, secţiunea interpretare, alături de trupa Slang, în 2014, Luiza Zan a obţinut premiul al II-lea la Shure Jazz Voice Competition, în cadrul renumitului festival de Jazz din Montreux, Elveţia.

Muzica Luizei Zan este rezultatul unei combinaţii inedite de influenţe: New jazz inspirat de Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Kurt Elling, Dianne Reeves şi mai ales Nat King Cole, Soul & funk inspirat de Aretha Franklin, Chakka Khan, Erykah Badu, Hip hop & R&b, inspirat de D‘Angelo, Angie Stone, Bilal.

A cântat cu nume sonore din ţară, ca Sorin Romanescu, Mircea Tiberian, Pedro Negrescu, Romeo Cosma, Ion Baciu Jr, Mihai Iordache, Alex Man, Abert Tajti, Liviu Butoi, Nicolas Simion, Arthur Balogh, Catalin Milea, Sebastian Burneci, Vlad Popescu, Emil Bâzgă, Big Band-ul Radio, precum şi cu muzicieni străini: Rick Condit, Dave Stamps, Petras Geniusas, Corrine Chapelle, Gyarfas Istvan, Berkes Balazs, Peter Sarik, UNC Jazz Lab 1, McNeese State University Big Band.

Luiza Zan a compus şi muzică de film, pentru producţiile Carambol, Circul Vesel (producţie HBO) şi Maria. Muzica ei a fost apreciată şi pe scenele de teatru din România: a compus muzica pentru spectacolul Năpasta – regia: Radu Afrim, care se joacă la Teatrul Naţional Bucureşti şi în care este şi protagonistă, şi muzica spectacolului Trei Rupturi – tot în regia lui Radu Afrim, care se joacă la Teatrul Andrei Mureşanu şi în care Luiza Zan are o apariţie live pe durata întregului spectacol.

Biletele la concertele Orchestrelor şi Corurilor Radio se pot achiziţiona online prin reţeaua www.bilete.ro, în oficiile Poştei Române, în magazinele Inmedio semnalizate bilete.ro şi la Casa de bilete a Sălii Radio.

Alte informaţii legate de Orchestrele şi Corurile Radio, pe www.orchestreradio.ro.

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KUALA LUMPUR: Three people were killed and 24 injured Tuesday when a powerful explosion rocked a shopping mall in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, but a fire official said it was not caused by a bomb.

The official Bernama news agency said the blast could have been caused by a leaking gas tank.

Wan Abdul Mubin, head of the fire rescue department in the state capital Kuching, told AFP his office received an emergency call at around 0737 GMT.

“We scrambled 39 officers to the scene. We are investigating the cause of the explosion. It is one of the worst tragedies in the state in years. But it is not a bomb,” he said.

“We recovered the bodies of three men. And we have helped in the evacuation of 24 people injured to the nearby public hospital,” he added.

Wan Abdul said the explosion happened near a store on the ground floor of the shopping mall that was undergoing renovation.

A video clip of the aftermath showed the facade of the store torn apart, with some people screaming for help.

“I was purchasing a pizza in front of the shop when suddenly a strong explosion occurred,” George Sting, 39, told Bernama.

“The workers in the shop immediately ran out,” he said, adding that some were seriously injured.

Wina Simion, 46, who was sitting near the store with her family members said the explosion caused their table to flip.

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