Politics
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….we’ll discuss it after the guests have left
The irony of consensus…. Romania’s political establishment appears to be irredeemably afflicted by a strange form of food poisoning, caused by a treatment-resistant bacterium. Faced with this difficult situation, we, civil society, would like to extend our congratulations to all politicians of the past 35 years for their efforts — namely, to do …their job,…
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Romania, June 2026: Guess Who’s Back
Bolojan was useful for exactly as long as he needed to be: long enough to sign off the budget.Everything else is merely set dressing designed to distract. I know you may be tired. I know you’ve been through this before, and at some point you probably stopped counting how many times. But let’s take one…
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The proxy asks questions. The analysis answers others
The discussion centers on Romania’s energy policy, focusing on NuScale’s reactor approval without documented shielding and the implications of Cs-137 contamination. The narrative highlights Romania’s missed energy opportunities, including the Neptun Deep gas field, and critiques the complex relationships between government officials and private interests. It questions Romania’s dependence on foreign energy while uncovering potential…
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$240 Million. A Plot of Land. Some Paperwork
The NuScale SMR project in Romania has faced significant issues, including accusations of viability and transparency. Despite spending over $240 million without a functional reactor or resolution, political leaders remain divided on its future, highlighting a lack of accountability. The project illustrates ongoing institutional ambiguity and unaddressed concerns about financial mismanagement and questionable partnerships.
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OPERATIONAL AND FINANCIAL AUDIT OF THE ROMANIAN STATE APPARATUS
This operational and financial audit of the Romanian state apparatus provides a unified analysis of the legislative, budgetary, and monetary layers of public decision-making. Based on 400 hours of independent research using official sources, the document reveals a system in which political decisions are diluted through parallel institutional circuits, making accountability structurally untraceable. The findings…
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Truth has no way out: The structural crisis of Romania’s justice system
In a system where truth no longer depends on facts but on institutional capacity to process them, selecting “those who have done no wrong” becomes a design flaw. Judicial reform cannot be reduced to identifying moral exceptions within a legal framework structured in such a way that accountability is fragmented, delayed, or rendered effectively inoperable.…
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Mapping a presidential proxy
The architecture of engineered power This eight-part documentary series interrogates the residual architecture of power by tracing the “footprint” it leaves behind – epistemic, tactical, and, most critically, those modalities operating beyond the visible apparatus of control designed to safeguard it. Each episode reconstructs, fragment by fragment, an alternative topology of power distinct from its…
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Two spheres of influence, two different miscalculations
I have often compared Latin America and Eastern Europe as competing spheres of influence: one associated with the United States, the other with Russia. Although the logic of power may appear similar, the outcomes can be radically different. In Eastern Europe, Russia’s opposition is composed of states and institutions: several Eastern European countries and a…
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Mr President, It would be wise to find the saving miracle. As Marghiloman once put it: “There is rather everything left to be done…”
We laugh, we joke, but we do not leave the premises.Written last year. Just as fresh today. There is nothing. Absolutely nothing. Yet we remain hopeful. We voted. We hope. Still, I suggest we make a list. Like at Obor Market. We cannot afford to spend recklessly. Have you seen inflation? There I go digressing…
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When a Russian Goes from Selling Underwear in Utah to Peddling SMR Schemes in Doicești, Dâmbovița
The collapse of the NuScale Carbon Free Power Project raises serious concerns for Romania’s energy future, highlighting mismanagement and costly failures in Small Modular Reactor (SMR) initiatives. Despite promises of economic benefits and job creation, skepticism grows as the project faces significant legal and financial challenges, questioning its viability.
Economics
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The proxy asks questions. The analysis answers others
The discussion centers on Romania’s energy policy, focusing on NuScale’s reactor approval without documented shielding and the implications of Cs-137 contamination. The narrative highlights Romania’s missed energy opportunities, including the Neptun Deep gas field, and critiques the complex relationships between government officials and private interests. It questions Romania’s dependence on foreign energy while uncovering potential…
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$240 Million. A Plot of Land. Some Paperwork
The NuScale SMR project in Romania has faced significant issues, including accusations of viability and transparency. Despite spending over $240 million without a functional reactor or resolution, political leaders remain divided on its future, highlighting a lack of accountability. The project illustrates ongoing institutional ambiguity and unaddressed concerns about financial mismanagement and questionable partnerships.
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OPERATIONAL AND FINANCIAL AUDIT OF THE ROMANIAN STATE APPARATUS
This operational and financial audit of the Romanian state apparatus provides a unified analysis of the legislative, budgetary, and monetary layers of public decision-making. Based on 400 hours of independent research using official sources, the document reveals a system in which political decisions are diluted through parallel institutional circuits, making accountability structurally untraceable. The findings…
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When a Russian Goes from Selling Underwear in Utah to Peddling SMR Schemes in Doicești, Dâmbovița
The collapse of the NuScale Carbon Free Power Project raises serious concerns for Romania’s energy future, highlighting mismanagement and costly failures in Small Modular Reactor (SMR) initiatives. Despite promises of economic benefits and job creation, skepticism grows as the project faces significant legal and financial challenges, questioning its viability.
Society
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The Revolutionary Miner
Forgive me. I have no hidden intentions. Either the revolutionaries of 1989 looked remarkably similar to the miners of 1990, or the person in these images is one and the same man. Film link from which I extracted the images from December 1989 here:https://ziare.com/mihaela-radulescu/pistol-revolutie-imagini-video-cu-vedeta-tv-1913193
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A Strategic Inconsistency Worth Discussing
If we take seriously the emerging structure of priorities in the NSS, a structural tension appears that is difficult to ignore. On the one hand, “peace through strength” is elevated to the status of a central strategic principle. On the other hand, Europe is being increasingly and explicitly pressured to relax restrictions related to climate…
Memoirs of the future ∞
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Imaginary Conversations with a Saxon (Ep. 2): The Squaring of the Circle? I Solved It Last Year
Come on…. Don’t be cross. You’re getting on a bit. It’s not becoming. How many years separate us? Five hundred years?? …Too few. Forgive my ignorance. Let’s say a thousand years, because you leave me without any frame of reference if I go further back. And, since I don’t have enough imagination to grasp what…
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Imaginary Conversations with a Saxon
Why did I choose you, of all people, for this imaginary dialogue? Because you possess everything. And here I am not referring — only in material terms. You secured those from the outset. You possess everything. That is, everything that exists beyond the material. Like an inverted Pascalian triangle placed alongside an official one. Together…
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Coliboaia Cave, Bihor
A symbol represents a distinction.And distinctions divide the world into two: in or out. Allow me to turn your counter upside down, Master Odin. Let us go back. Hmmm… How far back…?!? Far enough to forget what we thought we knew. 2.000 years back? Not enough. 10.000 years back? Not even close. This isn’t a…
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On Time, Calendars and Watches: Measurement Is Merely a Pretext
Some years ago, I was asked to write an article on the history of the Gregorian calendar. At the time, it struck me as the dullest and most absurd subject imaginable. Today, I could write an entire book about it. About civilisations and their two defining mirrors: the calendar and the watch. The calendar is…
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Between confession and flight: A manual for growing through fear
This text explores how fear becomes a subtle mechanism of human organization and growth, gradually replacing the balance between love and freedom. Through a blend of personal experience, psychological analysis, and classical mythology, it develops the idea that human energy is never truly lost, only redirected—sometimes constructively, sometimes into systems of control. Between confession and…