June 21

9:30 Suntem pregătiți? În fiecare an în Parlamentul României se votează două legi ale bugetului. Una este pentru Bugetul de Stat, care cuprinde ministerele și alți "ordonatori de credit" mai mici din care Ministerul Muncii are prevăzut un buget de 96 de miliarde anul acesta și 82 anul trecut. Celălalt buget este cel al Asigurărilor Sociale, pensiile, care are prevăzut 155 miliarde anul acesta. Pensiile pentru oamenii de rând adică.

Pe pagina 33 din bugetul Ministerului Muncii (un ordonator de credit din Legea Bugetului de Stat, deci nu de Asigurări Sociale) din Anexa 3 la Legea Bugetului de Stat sunt prevăzute 20 de miliarde cu titlul Pensii și ajutoare de bătrânețe. Ce sunt acelea decât pensiile speciale?

S-a vorbit mult pe tema asta în presă, până în momentul când am început să arăt cu degetul sumele respective, după care toată lumea a început să tacă.

10:20 Last night i made an audio note on my recorder to myself saying i will research more on the silk road subject. Mainly interested in settlements and advanced posts of the (ancient) Chinese to the edges of Europe and beyond.

Interested to prove if they could have had an outpost at the edge of Roman Empire near the occupied part of Dacia with its reach gold mines, in today's Romania, more precise Bacău and Roman counties where there is to this day there is a culturally distinct "Changu" population (pronounced changu) claimed by Hungarians who speak a language different than Hungarian or Magyar how they call it.

After all, it is only hundreds of miles away from Constantinopole.

What i found so far. The Chinese, at least once sent an envoy to Rome. Interestingly, the Chinese called Rome Daqin, which reminds of Dacia but this can be a true coincidence, as they called the Ionian Greeks Dayuan.

So far there is clear evidence they had settlements built especially for the silk road in the Tarim basin. This way, the distance to Rome suddenly does not seem so great anymore.

In a way, this was true. To this day silk is obtained by feeding leaves of the mulberry tree to the silk larvae. But i could be a myth.

Byzantine (Fu-Lin) embassies in southern China... Spy monks, secret uncovered. However, before the end of 7th century...

But the numbers of the remaining Changu population in today's Romania seem to be too great for an outpost. Could it had been an establishment and they were actually producing silk there? That lost its revenue after 7th century?

This coincide with the beginning of Magyar raids in Europe that lasted until the Holy Roman Empire granted them the territory of Pannonia region, which became what today is known as Hungary, with the capital then called Buda. Magyars could be Buddhist Magars from Nepal who were mercenaries hired to guard the silk producing Chinese population there.

Here is one of the Changu most known folk songs. It is about a yellow snake. Sárig.

11:30 Ungaria, cea mai săracă țară din UE...