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• Dracula’s Castle (Bran Castle) – The Yard

  Thursday, September 4th, 2008

  The decorative fountain, the secret passage, the habits of the Queen Maria, the chapel.
  Film made by Dan Alexoae

• Imagine

  Saturday, August 9th, 2008

  (A video against the war, including the actual war in Ossetia and Abkhazia, Georgia)
  More at http://www.setthings.com
  Imagine there’s no Heaven
  It’s easy if you try
  No hell below us
  Above us only sky
  Imagine all the people
  Living for today
  Imagine there’s no countries
  It isn’t hard to do
  Nothing to kill or die for
  And no religion too
  Imagine all the people
  Living life in peace
  You [...]

• The benumbing of the human spirit in Italy

  Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

  Some hours ago, an immigrant just died near the Reggio Calabria city in the Mediterranean waters, because he didn’t know to swim. Tens of Italians just looked at him and did nothing, They called the emergency after the man died, only. (La Repubblica)
  Some days ago, sunbathers sit next to the bodies of two Gypsy girls [...]

• Mass of Media: Radovan Karadžić

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Radovan Karadžić (Serbian: Радован Караџић, IPA: [râdovaːn kâraʤiʨ]; born 19 June 1945 in Petnjica, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Bosnian Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist who was a fugitive from 1995 until 21 July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the [...]

• The digital Europe – i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470}
  INTRODUCTION

  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services [...]

• Vatican, NASA, UFO, aliens, and the hopes

  Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

  I do believe in extra-terrestrial life, but not in UFO. It’s somewhat similar with the faith and the God. I believe in the Idea, but not in its generally accepted, specific perception. The Idea can be accepted from a logical point of view, but a specific, a concretization of the Idea [...]

• Turn your site into a social network: Google Friend Connect

  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

  Replacing the thousands of social networks with a single big social network? No, but a golden mine, maybe the best service of Google for me and my 287 web sites and tens of blogs, every one with its own users till now.
  So, from now on any of us can have his own social [...]

• Mass of Media: Jenna Bush

  Monday, May 12th, 2008

  Jenna Welch Hager, née Bush (born November 25, 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush and the fraternal twin of Barbara Pierce Bush. Jenna and Barbara are known as the First Twins both because they are the children of the U.S. [...]

• A new world?

  Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

  Is the capitalism able to overcome the actual crisis in the world?
  I talked some time ago about big changes in the geopolitics and economy due to the global warming and climate change. Now, it seems that the financial crisis and the food crisis make the changes. Is there any connection between the [...]

• NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania

  Sunday, February 24th, 2008

  The NATO summit will take place in Bucharest, Romania, during the April 2-4, in order for Allied leaders to carry forward decisions taken at the Riga Summit and review the evolution of NATO’s main commitments, which are all mutually reinforcing.
  During the summit, heads of state and government will assess the [...]

• Romanian traditions: Mărţişor

  Sunday, February 24th, 2008

  Mărţişor is one of the best Romanian traditions, celebrated in the beginning of the Spring, on March 1st. The tradition’s name is the diminutive of March (in Romanian: Martie). The men offer to the women a talisman object also called Mărţişor, consisting of a jewel or a small decoration like [...]

• Kosovo and the Russian dolls, the democracy as the new religion

  Sunday, February 17th, 2008

  Kosovo will proclaim soon, in some hours, its independence. It’s a fact. Kosovo will be the world’s newest state. And it will be recognized by US and most of the European countries, as well as the most other countries. But what if tomorrow, a small area within Kosovo wants to declare [...]

• Kosovo, the Pandora’s box

  Saturday, February 16th, 2008

  France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, the states of the old USSR… almost all the European countries have provinces in the same situation with the Serbian province Kosovo. The European Union would be a solution. But the independence of the provinces is a solution too.
  I think that the Kosovo’s independence is [...]

• Mass of Media: Kosovo

  Friday, February 15th, 2008

  Kosovo moves to calm minority Serbs as it prepares for independence
  The Canadian Press
  PRISTINA, Serbia – Kosovo’s prime minister announced on Friday the creation of a government office to handle the concerns of the Serb minority in an attempt …
  Kosovo breakaway prompts East-West split
  Times Online, UK
  Russia warned the West [...]

• Valentine’s Day

  Monday, February 4th, 2008

  Valentine’s Day (also called St Valentine’s Day) is observed by Western and Western-influenced cultures on February 14, as a cultural and multinational type where lovers express their feelings to each other by sending greeting cards and gifts, and dating.

  Saint Valentine of Terni and his disciples. 14th Century France. Richard de Montbaston.
  There [...]

• How much do you pay for an US spy satellite?

  Sunday, January 27th, 2008

  An US spy satellite is out of control and it will plunge to Earth in about a month. As of right now it is not possible to predict the place where the satellite is going to hit the Earth.
  It is possible to be an experimental imagery satellite built by Lockheed Martin [...]

• Carla Bruni denies marriage with Nicolas Sarkozy

  Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

  Very interesting this couple, Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, I think they will keep the first page of the media long time from now on. And I like the power of love of Nicolas Sarkozy that overcome all the protocols. “He wants to show that even presidents live, love and suffer [...]

• Penal investigation for 8 Romanian ministers

  Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

  In accordance with the Press Release of the Romanian President, he signed today the approval to start the legal procedures for the penal investigation for eight actual and ex ministers of the Romanian Government.
  The request was made by the National Department of Anticorruption.
  The eight ministers are the following:

  Adrian Năstase, ex Prime Minister [...]

• Mass of Media: Britney Spears

  Friday, January 11th, 2008

  Dr Phil McGraw versus Britney Spears
  Times Online, UK
  The only calamity that seemed to be missing was the one Britney Spears’s mum might have written. That would have read: Betrayed by a friend? …
  Britney Spears Update
  MTV.uk, UK
  You can trust MTV to give you the latest info on crazed popstars- [...]

• Two Romanian women killed in Italy

  Saturday, January 5th, 2008

  Breaking news:

  Two Romanian women, 21 and 22 years old, was killed with brutality in a hotel in Rome. Their dead bodies was found at the midnight. They have the necks cut The police started to investigate the crime. (Realitatea TV)
  As in many other previous crimes, I can bet that the police will [...]

• My predictions for the new year 2008

  Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

  Due to the global warming with increased effects for this year, the developed states will change their national strategies by taking into account these aspects, and we will see important geopolitical changes.
  United States will try to overcome the economical crisis by extending its influence in new areas, but it will encounter a [...]

• Terrorism, as a justification

  Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

  Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) publish new proves about the Administration’s attempts to enact the Protect America Act and eviscerate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). It is about negotiations between Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and members of Congress that resulted in the passage of the Protect America Act — [...]