How EU and BBC work

Last week, Germany and the Netherlands put a veto to further talks with Turkey on EU memberships, scheduled on June 26. They didn't say for how long or if indefinitely.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Germany+blocks+opening+chapter+accession+talks+with+Turkey/8554983/story.html

But according to BBC,

"Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle played down tensions with Turkey on Tuesday, saying he had had a "really good, constructive" discussion with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday evening."

So the talks are on again but postponed to October.

In their wish to maintain things positive and making our days birghter, BBC managed to turn this completely upside down saying

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23044600

So according to them, it's not Germany changed its mind, it's now Germany delaying.

But according to reality, it was blocking last week, now it changed its mind, opened again, but since they had to be somewhat consistent, or the arguments where not hard enough, postponed it 'till October.


I know Germany is one of the most important economies in the world, one of the only three countries with a net surplus, due mostly to honesty, realism and hard working. But lately, (although this issue has been decided through veto and Germany could legitimately reconsider as it did), since anybody else didn't have to say anything as most of the Europeans don't care, or don't know or don't recognize the importance of this issue, or have other things to worry about, or they trust Germany on all issues or have already been lobbied hard on different issues, anyone can see, everything about EU tends to be decided by Germany's top politicians. And if Turkey decided to enter EU, they know in which direction to push.

Be-Belu or Be-Bela?

"There's a sucker born every minute"



It's been a long time since i saw the title of this publication that belongs to http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medien_Holding.

I wanted to signal the reality of the fact that in US a lot of people still strongly associate the name Bela with the name of the actor who first incarnated Dracula about a century ago then maintained in the public's conscience throughout decades through movies and media.

Even right now there is an ongoing commercial on networks about a ... lip-o-suction local company named... Sono Bello!

For Romanians, there are no such associations as the movies about Dracula entered in their conscience only recently and they do not realize the consequences of these associations and the fact they are actually in the middle of it all.

I suspected for a longtime now that there is quite a long list of words in modern Romanian that have been introduced, tolerated by bribed scholars, used by some as little trendy "language endearments - alintări" (actually more in sarcastic phrases which denotes the non-fully acceptance of the terms) and slowly promoted in the mainstream of our culture mostly within advertisement without the majority realizing how damaging this may be.

The word bébé is borrowed from French alright. But why add a diminutive suffix to it then contract it under the pretext of familiar use to get it to this final shape and add it to the title of a well financed and advertised magazine for babies' stuff?

Is it again a coincidence that the name of the most important cemetery in Bucharest is again, Bellu?

As for the name Bela, it started with the ex and current trainers of our Olympics Gymnastics Team. Painstakingly, right under the ignorant nose of the ex-regime they probably made great efforts to get those two chosen, but through what lengths did they have to go to do it again with the new ones? Bitang, Bellu, Bitman. I remember the first time i said something about, within the next few days Octavian Bellu got a decoration from the President of Romania, Mr. Băsescu.

Don't get me wrong, they might be meritorious people, but this is how the bigger picture looks.

How many others words, names, people and instances of this sort, fruits of the decades of efforts to undermine our languages are they and will they ever be exposed and/or stopped?

Romanian Times

From the initial team who started Romanian Times, probably financed by a "generous sponsor"...
http://www.infoo.ro/romaniantimes/271/#/5/zoomed

Never knew Mr.Ciorba had blue eyes until today... Although i worked with him for a full year at AVX in Vancouver, WA, between August 1999 and August 2000... We had our times in there... I remember "Year 2000" New Year's eve when i was scheduled to work and the lights and power to all the machines went out in there at midnight and some women started to sing Christian songs... Last couple of times i saw him it was really dark, at Starbucks, and there were lots of distractions...


http://archive.romaniantimes.com/Editori.html

From these two above, Beni Lucescu is in jail and Mircea Lubanovici, well, you know...


http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/06/three_former_portlandarea_mort.html


http://www.romaniantimes.org/ioanide.html

Cristian Ioanide died... in the hospital.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning, With Typo

In this 2001 Pulitzer winning article from the Oregonian by Julia Sullivan-Springhetti, published December 2000, there is a typo, one occurrence only, yeras instead of years.

There used to be a direct link at the Pulitzer site to this article but they made it impossible to link to it. Down in this page you can search for this title and click on it.

"Congressional acts move the INS, sometimes: Pressure on the agency from elected officials often helps immigrant families through the system, but it doesn't ensure success"

http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/6932

Needless to say. John Pulitzer was Hungarian and Pulitzer prize is worth 10000 dollars and is given to many journalists every year.