I already had a coughing fit and figured out who is against the big Rosia Montana project. But who exactly is for it? I can’t reveal any of their names but there’s definitely a lot of money behind it. They are now literally buying entire chunks of three of Romania’s 24-hour news channels. They’re also paying for fake “documentaries” that all have 1950s sounding names … Continue reading Too Little Too Late
Achoo! Bless you, in my language when someone coughs we say Otpor! Continue reading Twitter Storm
I didn’t need any television reports to tell me last night that the protests against mining in Rosia Montana were going strong – I could hear the drums and whistles well past 11 pm from my apartment here in Cluj-Napoca. A review of the media today tells me that similar large-scale protests occurred in Bucharest and other cities around the country. And yet the question … Continue reading The Complete and True Story of Rosia Montana
I’ve been busy as hell lately, celebrating birthdays, taking more homeless people to the doctor, nursing a cat with a broken leg (she’s okay now, thank goodness) and doing a ton of writing for my new book but I’ve still had time to keep an eye on the news and it’s been a doozy here in Romania lately. Isn’t it always? – The fallout from … Continue reading The Book of Revelation 9:10
Well as I’ve written about before, the Pig Man and the Daddy Isarescu had big plans for Romania in 2012 with the first step to be selling off equity shares (or the entire company) of some of the last of this country’s state-owned firms. The first one on the block was Cupru Min (literally “Copper Mining”), a company that has rights to several large copper … Continue reading The Ballad of Cupru Min
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