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Another Satisfied Visitor

Built A Bicycle From Scratch, Then Cycled It 5,000km From Romania To Kazakhstan

Originally posted on Adventure Fanatic:
Built A Bicycle From Scratch, Then Cycled It 5,000km From Romania To Kazakhstan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgze73f0yZ4 ? ? In 2014 I finished building the first prototype of my new cargo bike design, Bringley. Not happy with just test riding around London, I decided to take it on a 5,000km journey overland from Romania to Kazakhstan. Continue reading Built A Bicycle From Scratch, Then Cycled It 5,000km From Romania To Kazakhstan

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Преступление и Наказание

Romanian Cops Engage In International Crime Spree

Ahh, it seems as though the good old Romanian police apparently are no longer satisfied with running scams in their own country and have decided to branch out to Denmark of all places. A Romanian thief was working at the behest of national authorities when he stole construction equipment from Danish firms, a report in the trade journal Tidsskrift for Kriminalret has revealed. . According … Continue reading Romanian Cops Engage In International Crime Spree

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Money, probability and predicting the future

The Ballad of the Budget of Marisel

Word Count: 2348 You cannot even imagine how excited I was to read this: A programme launched by the finance ministry on Friday now makes available monthly budget execution data for the country’s roughly 17,720 state institutions, including parliament, ministries, city halls, schools and hospitals. . “Any citizen, company and taxpayer can now see how public funds are distributed and how they are spent by … Continue reading The Ballad of the Budget of Marisel

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Romania Fail Whale, TV/Film

Rusty Broken Pot, Meet Kettle

Sometimes it truly is amazing how serendipitous the Unsleeping Eye is. Just a few days after writing Pot Calling Kettle about how Romania is planning on spending untold millions of Euros to broadcast Russian-language propaganda into Moldova, I came across this: The EBU’s Director General, Ingrid Deltenre, has written to Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Cioloş to request an “urgent intervention” to save Televiziunea Romana (TVR). … Continue reading Rusty Broken Pot, Meet Kettle

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