http://revistapresei.hotnews.ro/stiri-radio_tv-15125995-live-text-traian-basescu-invitat-digi24-ora-20-00.htm
Hai să recapitulăm.
USL-ul anul trecut a iniţiat un referendum pentru demisionarea lui Băsescu. Pentru aceasta, şi-au tras ministru de interne pe Ioan Rus. "Ministrul Administraţiei şi Internelor, Ioan Rus, a anunţat, marţi, că
numărul total al cetăţenilor cu drept de vot este de 18.292.514" http://www.gandul.info/stiri/rus-numarul-total-al-cetatenilor-cu-drept-de-vot-este-de-18-292-514-9899590. Nu a zis nimeni nimic deci şi Băsescu şi Ponta şi Antonescu şi Voiculescu, toţi au fost de acord cu acest număr.
Dar dacă ne gândim că într-o ţară europeană la acest început de mileniu cam un sfert din populaţie sunt minori deci sub 18 ani deci fără drept de vot, din acest număr rezultă că populaţia totală a României ar fi de peste 22.286.642 locuitori. Dacă îi mai adunăm şi pe cei din penitenciare, pe cei care şi-au pierdut dreptul de a vota, etc, ajungem probabil la 23 milioane. Afară şi în ţară.
La 8 August, după 2 luni în funcţia de ministru de interne şi o săptămână după referendum, Ioan Rus a plecat la plimbare. Îşi făcuse treaba. http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioan_Rus Dar de atunci, a lăsat o lungă dâră prin news. (eu cred că este un prim bun candidat pentru ce spunea Băsescu la digi24), adică să răspundă juridic. (Numărul lui contrazice afirmaţia lui Băsescu că populaţia ar fi scăzut).
non-combat? http://www.ghimpele.ro/2013/04/usl-divizata-intre-sorin-frunzaverde-si-ioan-rus-razboiul-nevazut-al-grupului-de-la-cluj/
regionalizare acum sau niciodată? http://citynews.ro/politica/ioan-rus-ori-facem-descentralizarea-din-1012014-ori-nu-o-mai-facem-1242158
blat cu Băsescu? http://ingurapresei.a1.ro/politic/Mircea-Badea-Ioan-Rus-a-facut-blat-cu-Basescu-dint_5793.html
coabitare? http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/ioan-rus-este-obligatoriu-ca-victor-ponta-traian-basescu-si-crin-antonescu-sa-coabiteze-1033410.html
neseriozitate? http://www.napocanews.ro/2013/05/neseriozitatea-unei-regionalizari-asumate-de-dragul-lui-ioan-rus-si-al-lui-sabin-gherman-turnatorul-lui-marin-sorescu.html
Ioan Rus, un fel de eminenţă cenuşie a noului PSD?
Bine dar nu la asta am vrut să ajung, să mă întorc la titlu. Deci USL-ul îi serveşte lui Băsescu un referendum fără cifre electorale realiste. (Că nu au fost realiste dovedeşte plecarea lui Rus pe 8 August).
Prin plecarea lui Rus, practic s-a invalidat referendumul. Psihologic vorbind. (A fost "acuzat" de PSD că i-a făcut jocul lui Băsescu).
Singurul scop al acestui referendum a fost de a pregăti populaţia care nu îl mai vroia pe Băsescu, să voteze masiv la următoarele alegeri pentru USL. Şi aşa s-a şi întâmplat. Nu a fost nici un puci fiindcă nu a fost nici un risc. Toţi erau în "blat" Nimeni nu urma să fie demis, indiferent de rezultat.
Hai să uităm puţin de referendum şi să ne ducem la ultimele alegeri. Pe site-ul BEC avem http://www.becparlamentare2012.ro/A-DOCUMENTE/rezultate%20finale/Anexa%208A.pdf
Deci din 18 milioane şi ceva cu drept de vot, s-au prezentat la urne... 7,7 milioane, adică 41.76%. Cam tot atâţia câţi au votat împotriva lui Băsescu la ultimul referendum.
Hai să mergem puţin şi mai înapoi în timp la alegerile din 2008. http://www.becparlamentare2008.ro/rezul/anexa8abun.pdf
Nu ştiu, pare cam deja vu, cam tras la indigo.
Am visat eu sau am citit în ultima declaraţie a lui Băsescu unde spunea că populaţia a scăzut? Bine a crescut puţin din 2012 faţă de 2008 şi apoi a scăzut iar puţin în 2013.
A nu uite aici http://www.wall-street.ro/articol/Social/150926/basescu-despre-recensamant-populatia-scade-ca-urmare-a-natalitatii-scazute.html
A bine populaţia a scăzut numai la minori, pentru că a scăzut natalitatea. Şi probabil ca să justifice acelaşi număr de alegători, a crescut şi speranţa de viaţă în mod corespunzător.
Recensământul nu e un moft. Motivul pentru care ţările cu tradiţie democratică fac referendumuri este pentru redundanţă. Un organism politic care se păstrează de la un guvern la altul şi care nu are alt scop decât să numere persoanele pentru a avea o referinţă, un număr de arătat politicienilor mofturoşi. Imaginaţi-vă ce era în România pe la alegeri dacă nu erau recensăminte şi nu era o numărătoare independentă.
Sincer, m-am săturat să caut, dar probabil că este făcut printr-o lege. Cei ce completează acolo sunt responsabili în faţa legii. Formularele completate sunt toate la INS. Sunt rubrici pentru cei plecaţi. Rudele îi ştiu pe toţi. Recenzorii au întrebat rudele sau în cel mai rău caz vecinii. Spre deosebire de alegeri, unde sunt multe interese contradictorii, la recensământ nu prea are nimeni de ce să mintă. Într-o ţară condusă de acelaşi guvern datele dintre BEC şi INS trebuie să coincidă. Şi BEC şi INS sunt finanţate de statul român. Dacă aceste numere nu coincid, cineva a greşit. Dar din toate greşelile posibile, acestea sunt din cele cu mari consecinţe asupra viitorului României, din cele care fac rău ţării. Dar Băsescu nu poate acuza nici BEC nici INS. Pentru că practic, aşa cum ştim toţi, au fost amândouă subordonate lui pentru o lungă perioadă de timp.
La INS atât am găsit că se subordonează guvernului şi este finanţat de statul român.
http://www.insse.ro/cms/rw/pages/about.ro.do;jsessionid=868952119f09bb1c3885addd4fa0100916fda12f6cfe7f56090eee9e8207289d.e38QbxeSahyTbi0Oc310
"Institutul Național de Statistica este condus de un președinte cu rang de secretar de stat" asta e aproape un ministru nu?
La BEC nu găsesc nimic dar nu ar trebui să fie că e subordonat ministerului de interne? S-ar părea că nu are un site în sine ci numai site-uri pe alegeri, pe ani, pe tip de alegeri.
Apropo, nu pot să deschid site-ul BEC pentru alegerile din 2004. Cred că ar fi totuşi interesant de văzut şi acele cifre. Din ce îmi amintesc, le-am văzut cândva şi sunt diferite radical faţă de cele din 2004 sau 2008.
http://www.bec2004.ro/
Atât INS-ul cât şi BEC-ul la vremea recensământului au fost subordonate guvernului. Guvernul şi parlamentul a ştiut problema românilor plecaţi în străinătate. Ca dovadă ca au ştiut sunt rubricile din formularele de recensământ.
Am mai spus-o şi o repet. Acel referendum a avut nişte scopuri pur psihologice. A determinat câştigarea alegerilor de către USL şi mai apoi a justificării coborârii prezenţei la 30% cu minim 25% da pentru următoarele referendumuri (în mintea electoratului, care vroia atunci ca Băsescu să fie demis, a rămas ideea că el ar fi fost demis dacă ar fi fost prezenţi mai mult de 46% .)
http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-politic-14847665-legea-referendumului-care-reduce-cvorumul-30-din-numarul-alegatorilor-fost-aprobata-senat.htm
Dacă Băsescu ar fi fost demis, sau dacă nu ar fi fost nici un referendum, nu ar mai fi fost necesară modificarea legii referendumului. Dar referendumul a avut loc, Băsescu a rămas iar legea a fost modificată anul acesta imediat după alegeri iar prezenţa a fost coborâtă nu la 45%, nu la 40%, nu la 35% ci la rotunda cifră de 30%. Pentru liniştea unora. Şi aceasta dovedește blatul de care vorbesc mai jos. Chiar dacă nu a fost blat Băsescu probabil prin consilierii lui ar ştiut ce urmăreşte noul USL şi ar fi trebuie să demisioneze mai ales după ce a văzut rezultatele referendumului lăsându-i fără motiv de a modifica legea prezenţei la referendum sau cu mai puţină motivaţie din partea populaţiei. Bine e greu de prevăzut ce se întâmpla dacă se făceau şi alegeri prezidenţiale şi cine le-ar fi câştigat. Dar nu prea mai aveau motiv să modifice legea referendumului ca să poată face regionalizarea.
http://www.becreferendum2012.ro/DOCUMENTE%20BEC/Rezultate/rezultat.pdf
La începutul săptămânii curente pe site-ul INS în locul rezultatelor mult aşteptate a apărut un anunţ care spunea că rezultatele vor fi afişate în septembrie. Anunţul încă mai este (ultimul link de pe site-ul INS link-at mai jos) Dar iată că ele au apărut în 3 zile. Cred că a trecut tot guvernul lui Ponta la frunzărit formulare repede repede şi le-au terminat pe toate care mai erau în 3 zile în loc de 3 luni cum au crezut luni că au nevoie. Sau poate, aşa cum cred şi eu şi era şi normal, erau scanate... hă hă de mult, tată.
Iar Băsescu vine cu părerea lui şi le invalidează (pentru cine nu înţelege ce vrea să spună). Părere care coincide totuşi cu cifrele BEC, pe care însă nu le citează. Anulează cheltuiala guvernului, munca tuturor recenzorilor şi a institutului începând de când s-a făcut recensământul până acum. Implicit acuză foarte multă lume de neglijenţă sau rea intenţie. Dar şi pe sine. Recensământul a fost organizat de guvernul PDL al cărui preşedinte a fost în timp ce era şi preşedintele României, înainte de ruptură.
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guvernul_Boc_%282%29
Dintr-o singură lovitură realizează cel puţin două scopuri, la fel, psihologice. 3,5 milioane afară vs 750.000. Linişteşte prin creare de dubiu pe toţi care se iau după cifrele INS şi spun că referendumul a fost valid. Prin aceeaşi creare de dubiu liniștește pe toţi cei care cred că există o acţiune concertată pe care el a prezidat-o şi o prezidează şi anume scoaterea, definitivă, a cât mai multor români din ţară. Numai că cifra de 750.000 nu reprezintă cifra românilor din afară. Reprezinta cifra pe care INS-ul nu e sigur LOL incertitudinea INS-ului! "In timp ce avem 3,5 milioane de romani in strainatate, INS a avut certitudinea doar pentru 750.000."
http://www.ziare.com/basescu/presedinte/basescu-romanii-cuceresc-italia-pe-vremea-lui-traian-378008
Din intervenţia de la digi24 nu lipseşte faptul că el nu este de acord cu modificarea Constituţiei (dar nu chestiunea regionalizării ci cea cu diminuarea puterii preşedintelui), o critică severă la Ponta din care noi să credem că nu e nici un blat, ameninţări, lovituri de stat şi puciuri. Nu ştiu în ce fază de ciclu mai e Băsescu acum, mâine va veni să plângă sau să râdă cu gura până la urechi ca să ne şteargă şocul acestor "cuvinte grele".
Apropo, dacă este separare a puterilor în stat, de ce îi trebuie lui Ponta mandat ca să plece undeva? Bine şi dacă pleacă, de ce iartă pe alţii de datorii, şterge sute de milioane, etc.?
Sincer nu mă interesează dacă pleacă Băsescu, vine Băsescu, pleacă Ponta, vine Ponta. Pentru mine toţi sunt la fel şi o să spun mai jos de ce.
Adevărata miză şi motivaţie a tuturor aceste manevre (dubiu asupra numerelor electorale, coborârea pragului prezenţei la referendum) este că s-a reuşit modificarea legii referendumului, ca prim pas spre uşurarea regionalizării, care este un obiectiv real (poate singurul) pe termen lung a unor politicieni români dintre care unul sigur e Ioan Rus iar altul la fel de sigur, Liviu Dragnea.
Apropo de Berlusconi, acest bărbat viril de 76 ani al Italiei, m-am uitat zilele trecute peste CV-ul lui Dragnea. În 1997 a absolvit un curs al Ministerului de Interne din Italia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviu_Dragnea în 1997 (bine nu era Berlusconi atunci prim-ministru, era într-o pauză), pe vremea când marele exod al românilor către vest era abia la început. Dacă era în 2007 mai înţelegeam, pe vremea aceea italienii aveau nevoie să ne înveţe cum să-i ajutăm în combaterea delincvenţilor români sau în repatrierea lor, dar în 1997, ce putea să-l înveţe pe Dragnea Ministerul de Interne al Italiei? Unde când şi cum e mai bine să plece românii în Italia fără să "deranjeze" prea mult populaţia de acolo?
De ce nu ne ajută acum guvernele Italiei sau Spaniei cu date din recensămintele lor, căci nu cred că toţi românii sunt ilegali acolo şi nu răspund la recensăminte. Sau poate sunt date pe site-urile instituţiilor echivalente cu INS-ului din România? Cred că mă duc să mă uit.
http://www3.istat.it/salastampa/comunicati/non_calendario/20101012_00/testointegrale20101012.pdf
În 2010 erau prezenţi în Italia 887.763 români
din care 85% bărbaţi. Deci soţiile şi rudele lor care erau acasă au spus
recenzorului.
Ok după ce am deschis site-ul italian, am zis că ia să deschid eu pentru orice eventualitate şi pe cel românesc. Pe care trebuia să-l deschid de la început, dar am crezut că am înţeles ce a spus Băse.
Pe site-ul INS avem http://www.recensamantromania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/prezentare-rpl-2011_04.07.2013_Partea_III.pdf
În sfârşit se spune ce înseamnă populaţie stabilă. Este rezidentă.
1990 - 23.211.395
2011 - 20.121.641
difer. 3.089.754
Care se explică prin
spor negativ 22,5% (atenţie din total diferenţă), adică 695.194 (calculat aici, nu pe site)
şi emigrare 77,5 (tot din total diferenţă) adică 2.394.559 (calculat aici, nu pe site)
Unele cifre a trebuit să le calculez căci nu sunt acolo. Ce 750.000? Ce spune Băsescu? sunt aproape 2 milioane şi jumătate. Deci România are o populaţie totală (din calcule, nu de pe site-ul lor care nu spune direct) de 22.516.200 din care foarte probabil un sfert fără drept de vot, iar probabil cifra avansată de BEC, pentru drept de vot este validă. Rămân valide şi următoarele întrebări.
De ce Ioan Rus a avut în 2012 mai mulţi cetăţeni cu drept de vot decât în 2008 dacă populaţia a scăzut constant din 1990. Sunt nişte grafice care arată că s-au deplasat din cei sub 18 ani spre cei peste 18 ani mai mulţi decât au dispărut natural. Poate. Dar în 11 ani sporul negativ a fost de 695.194, asta pentru 4 ani înseamnă o treime, deci vreo 300 mii şi ceva mai puţini total populaţie. A crescut în aceeaşi perioadă numărul celor care au împlinit 18 ani cu 500 mii ca să justifice o creştere de vreo 200 mii cu drept de vot din 2008 în 2012? Iar "decreţeii" s-au născut în anii 70, poate şi în 80 la început. Că apăruseră anticoncepționale "de casă" etc. Dacă ultimul decreţel s-a născut în 89, el ar fi avut 18 ani exact în 2008. După 90, gata, nimic decreţei. 2008 - 1990 = 18. Să mă scuze toţi cei născuţi în acea perioadă pe care Băsescu îi numeşte decreţei fiindcă am preluat termenul lui dar mi-am pierdut răbdarea.
(Şi totuşi la 3,5 milioane cifră avansată de Băsescu lipseşte un milion faţă de INS. OK să zicem că aceea e incertitudinea INS-ului de 750.000 de care vorbeşte Băsescu.)
De ce a demisionat Ioan Rus imediat după referendum şi de ce a crezut PSD-ul şi alţii că a făcut blat cu Băsescu? Eu rămân la teoria de mai sus că referendumul nu a fost nimic şi chestia a fost doar psihologică.
Dacă am văzut că în Italia în 2011 erau vreun milion de români (de pe site-ul www.istat.it), probabil tot atâţia în Spania, unde pot să mai fie încă un milion şi jumătate? Hai poate 750000 în toate celelalte ţări din Europa.
(chiar UE nu are cifre cu migraţia? De ce pentru noi ce au alţii pe site-uri sunt necunoscute care atârnă la alegeri, referendumuri? LOL am obosit dar am să caut.)
(Deci în final avem de-a face cu 750.000 lipsă la socoteală (incertitudine care atârnă într-o singură direcţie). Inacceptabil. (LOL Cotidianul spunea că numai în 2012 au plecat peste 500 mii, cu câţi mai pleacă anul acesta, se face încă un milion care nici nu va apare în recensământ)).
De ce INS-ul a dat cifre 0-19 ani şi nu 0-17? Ca să nu putem calcula uşor numărul cu drept de vot şi corela cu BEC?
De cine aparţine BEC, de vreun minister sau tot vreun secretar de stat?
Care a fost prezenţa la vot în 2004?
Oricum deşi confuze, ca şi discursul lui Băsescu, amestecat cu tot felul de ameninţări, acuzări, ameţeli, cifrele vin să mai îmblânzească peisajul electoral românesc, dar prezentarea de pe site-ul INS este încă greu de acceptat. (Vezi calculele de mai sus). Eu rămân la aceleaşi păreri chiar dacă cifrele sunt mai blânde sau mai mascate. Aceste cifre trebuie să iasă la socoteală la om, ca în orice ţară civilizată.
Ce fac toţi blogerii independenţi din România? Am văzut prea mulţi care înjură aiurea fără date concrete. Dacă înjuri aiurea, nici nu te bagă în seamă sau îţi mulţumeşte fiindcă faci un serviciu (poate chiar gratuit LOL) tocmai celui pe care îl înjuri. Ia pune câteva date reale să vezi cum sare pe tine că vrei răul ţării.
Ce a vrut Traian Băsescu de fapt să spună în această intervenţie?
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Old Pictures Since @Year 2000
Orville Oster (Axle Roset), me, other people, AVX, Vancouver, WA, 2000 This pictures taken with a cheap camera had been designed on purpose with me at the dark end of the flash range. The first woman is not actully whiter than i was especially after many months or even years of not being exposed to sunlight. We were eating McDonalds and drinking Coca Cola but they caught me with a cup raised on purpose. It was in the evening during that swing shift and i was working a lot back then and i was also looking tired.
Adina Prața (center), the Philipin o Britney Spears, others
Lincoln City, Oregon, @2000
Lincoln City, Oregon, @2000
Sisters Quilt Festival, Oregon @2000
Shawn Parker (gen Petraeus) and his girls, near Cannon Beach, 1997
Florence, Oregon, @2000
Shawn Parker (gen.Petraeus lookalike) and his "girls", near Cannon Beach, 1997
Julian Mart (a Changu native), Darlene Hooley, PDX @2000
Florence, Oregon @2000
me Lincoln City, @2000
Me on Prozac at Pacific Gateway Hospital Sellwood, 1997, closed in 2001, now demolished
Me living the hospital in 97, a monthg before Les Schwab job. At the Beaverton Church of the Nazarene i met Shawn Parker (probably general Petraeus), Ron Bogger (probably Leslie Nielsen) with his wife Mary (probably Priscilla Presley), pastor Swift (probably singer Mealoaf), the mechanic, Dave Diggins (probably Tom Cruise) etc..
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
FAA Rules Violations
Dozens of planes making a terrible noise, for years. I've been complaining to PDX noise management and FAA until i got tired of it.
On Port of Portland noise management web site there is a link to www.webtrack.com.
One day i got so mad after a conversation with FAA that i started making a collection of what i think are clear violations. However, this web site is not reliable. I saw planes flying much lower and closer than shown there. So i picked a date, May 1st and dragged that slider with the mouse and took screen shots until i got bored. I forgot about that little project but i saved a few screen shots. Here there are.
According to FAA, a plane cannot fly in urban "congested" areas below 1500 ft above ground level. Average elevation on the map below is 200 to 300 ft, and where i live, where the house is shown on the map in the last 4 pictures below there are about 750 ft.
One day i got so mad after a conversation with FAA that i started making a collection of what i think are clear violations. However, this web site is not reliable. I saw planes flying much lower and closer than shown there. So i picked a date, May 1st and dragged that slider with the mouse and took screen shots until i got bored. I forgot about that little project but i saved a few screen shots. Here there are.
According to FAA, a plane cannot fly in urban "congested" areas below 1500 ft above ground level. Average elevation on the map below is 200 to 300 ft, and where i live, where the house is shown on the map in the last 4 pictures below there are about 750 ft.
Everything Breaks
Since i moved in here many strange things happened they didn't happen an the other apartment. I mean they did but on a smaller scale. Besides endless cleaning and repairing of things broken, old and smelly.
After a few days my blood pressure monitor disappeared. I've been using it a lot in the past, maybe obsessively. I found it months later in a box in the storage in the balcony. Then it broke. The little air bag that was pressing when it was inflating got pierced.
I don't know if i can remember many things from the past, but i'll try. I'll start with the last one i found today. A month ago i replaced the shower hose. It was about five years old, ten bucks at Home Depot or Lowes, i liked it because it was light and flexible. The handle itself broke by the thread where it joints the flexible hose.
I bought a similar one at Lowes, about a month ago. A few days ago it was leaking and i tightened it by hand, lightly. Today the nut is cracked.
I had in the bathroom a number of spray bottles with all kind of cleaners, cleaning enzymes and stuff like that. For a few days now the exhaust fan at my down stairs neighbor runs continuously, day and night. It is out of balance and vibrates.The floor vibrates, the whole bathroom vibrates and all the bottles caps came loose. I had some chlorine left in a gallon bottle under the sink that had a loose cap. Yesterday i touched with my knee the door of the cabinet that closes the space under the sink when was opened and it broke with no effort, didn't fixed it yet. The result is this morning in the bathroom smelled like chlorine and other stuff. I thought it was coming from the walls from my neighbors, but after i cleaned everything and closed all the bottles and removed them from the bathroom i think the smell disappeared.
All this things happen mostly around holidays. To me holidays started to become a nightmare.
So this morning before i cleaned the bathroom we went for a walk in the park. I forgot something and came back from the parking lot. Just before i got into the car i saw this very low flying plane, making no noise, just above the tress.
About one hour after i came from the park (a three mile walk, 400 ft climb) i got really sick.
Yesterday i went to the ocean. (got some pictures on flickr here ). I ran out of gasoline and went to a Chevron in Seaside at @4:50. I bought 20 dollars worth of gasoline and when i tried to get back on the road, thinking heading south, a large gray silver truck (I think it was a Silverado with heightened supsension) with no license plate in front, with two mature heavy built blond male persons with very short or no hair came from the middle of the road into the right lane where i wanted to go to and accelerated and it was a tenth of a second that made the difference to me when i decided to look one more time to the left before taking off from the alley). Immediately two other cars came after him, cars i haven't seen when i first looked before i decided to make a right from the gas station's alley, a red Toyota Prius and a gray Ford Focus. Then they slowed down so i could not get close to see the number of that Silverado, cause it had one in the rear. But i had enough time to see it was of turquoise color, like that of an Arizona plate, as i've seen so many around here (in the last two or three years i've seen an unusually largy number of out of state license plates).
So i tried to follow the Silverado but the distance to the truck grew bigger and bigger until right before the intersection between 101 and 26 i lost sight of it and did not see which way it went. My initial plan was to go south to Rockaway Beach so i did. When the road turned to 2 lanes in one direction, right after the intersection, i passed the Ford, and saw an old man with a ducks' fan cap with the big yellow O on his head at the wheel and i thought i saw him sneering nervously at me.
Then i accelerated but there was no sight of the Silverado.
Than at one of the first left turns i saw the other driver, that of the Prius, that stopped unexpectedly (he too was covered by another car that stopped in front of me). But i didn't see his face.
But on 101, before losing sight of the Silverado, i took one picture, unfortunately it was too far away and the truck partially covered by a pole. Maybe people with more technology could do a spectral analysis of the plate for the color.
After a few days my blood pressure monitor disappeared. I've been using it a lot in the past, maybe obsessively. I found it months later in a box in the storage in the balcony. Then it broke. The little air bag that was pressing when it was inflating got pierced.
I don't know if i can remember many things from the past, but i'll try. I'll start with the last one i found today. A month ago i replaced the shower hose. It was about five years old, ten bucks at Home Depot or Lowes, i liked it because it was light and flexible. The handle itself broke by the thread where it joints the flexible hose.
I bought a similar one at Lowes, about a month ago. A few days ago it was leaking and i tightened it by hand, lightly. Today the nut is cracked.
I had in the bathroom a number of spray bottles with all kind of cleaners, cleaning enzymes and stuff like that. For a few days now the exhaust fan at my down stairs neighbor runs continuously, day and night. It is out of balance and vibrates.The floor vibrates, the whole bathroom vibrates and all the bottles caps came loose. I had some chlorine left in a gallon bottle under the sink that had a loose cap. Yesterday i touched with my knee the door of the cabinet that closes the space under the sink when was opened and it broke with no effort, didn't fixed it yet. The result is this morning in the bathroom smelled like chlorine and other stuff. I thought it was coming from the walls from my neighbors, but after i cleaned everything and closed all the bottles and removed them from the bathroom i think the smell disappeared.
All this things happen mostly around holidays. To me holidays started to become a nightmare.
So this morning before i cleaned the bathroom we went for a walk in the park. I forgot something and came back from the parking lot. Just before i got into the car i saw this very low flying plane, making no noise, just above the tress.
About one hour after i came from the park (a three mile walk, 400 ft climb) i got really sick.
Yesterday i went to the ocean. (got some pictures on flickr here ). I ran out of gasoline and went to a Chevron in Seaside at @4:50. I bought 20 dollars worth of gasoline and when i tried to get back on the road, thinking heading south, a large gray silver truck (I think it was a Silverado with heightened supsension) with no license plate in front, with two mature heavy built blond male persons with very short or no hair came from the middle of the road into the right lane where i wanted to go to and accelerated and it was a tenth of a second that made the difference to me when i decided to look one more time to the left before taking off from the alley). Immediately two other cars came after him, cars i haven't seen when i first looked before i decided to make a right from the gas station's alley, a red Toyota Prius and a gray Ford Focus. Then they slowed down so i could not get close to see the number of that Silverado, cause it had one in the rear. But i had enough time to see it was of turquoise color, like that of an Arizona plate, as i've seen so many around here (in the last two or three years i've seen an unusually largy number of out of state license plates).
So i tried to follow the Silverado but the distance to the truck grew bigger and bigger until right before the intersection between 101 and 26 i lost sight of it and did not see which way it went. My initial plan was to go south to Rockaway Beach so i did. When the road turned to 2 lanes in one direction, right after the intersection, i passed the Ford, and saw an old man with a ducks' fan cap with the big yellow O on his head at the wheel and i thought i saw him sneering nervously at me.
Then i accelerated but there was no sight of the Silverado.
Than at one of the first left turns i saw the other driver, that of the Prius, that stopped unexpectedly (he too was covered by another car that stopped in front of me). But i didn't see his face.
But on 101, before losing sight of the Silverado, i took one picture, unfortunately it was too far away and the truck partially covered by a pole. Maybe people with more technology could do a spectral analysis of the plate for the color.
Monday, July 1, 2013
BBC Correspondence
On the date and time written below i received a confirmation letter form BBC following the filling of a form on their site (can't remember which). I know it had a 350 character limit. This is what i wrote in there (i hate email forms because they cannot be forwarded or easily reproduced and they generally do not behave like email).
"About the last referendum in Romania; the numbers simply don't add up. 19,0 [population INS] - 19,0 * 0,242 [24.2% under 18 (from US, in Romania unknown)] = 14,402 [right to vote]; 14,402 * 0,462 [turnout] * 0,875 [yes] = 5.822 # 7,4 [media]. Worried about the maths abilities of Romanians after 23 years of freedom. If i am wrong and why EU is silen"
From: BBC Audience Services <automail faq.external.bbc.co.uk="">
Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:06 PM
Subject: Email confirmation
To: "Mr. George Ion" <george .ion.email="" gmail.com="">
BBC
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Today i finally received an answer
From: bbc_faq_website@bbc.co.uk <bbc_faq_website bbc.co.uk="">
Date: Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 4:25 PM
Subject: BBC Audience Services - Case number CAS-2174909-D9M0F5
To: George Ion <george .ion.email="" gmail.com="">
Dear George
Reference CAS-2174909-D9M0F5
Thank you for contacting the BBC.
The role of this department is to respond to comment, query or complaints concerning programmes on any of the BBC's national, regional and local television or radio services broadcast within the UK. We also deal with issues related to BBC's policy.
As it’s not clear from your correspondence that your comments have any bearing on the BBC or reflect directly on its output, we’re unable to help you further.
Thanks for taking the time to contact us.
Kind Regards
Paul Graham
BBC Audience Services
www.bbc.co.uk/faq/
NB This is sent from an outgoing account only which is not monitored. You cannot reply to this email address but if necessary please contact us via our webform quoting any case number we provided.
Following their answer i went to BBC news submitting page and i filled yet another email form with approximately the following content. Some phrases are voluntarily censored. But for that, i did not receive any confirmation.
"Reference CAS-2174909-D9M0F5
Thank you for contacting the BBC.
The role of this department is to respond to comment, query or complaints concerning programmes on any of the BBC's national, regional and local television or radio services broadcast within the UK. We also deal with issues related to BBC's policy.
As it’s not clear from your correspondence that your comments have any bearing on the BBC or reflect directly on its output, we’re unable to help you further.
Thanks for taking the time to contact us.
Kind Regards
Paul Graham
BBC Audience Services"
Following my 350 character "letter in a form", (i cannot remember which form).
"About the last referendum in Romania; the numbers simply don't add up. 19,0 [population INS] - 19,0 * 0,242 [24.2% under 18 (from US, in Romania unknown)] = 14,402 [right to vote]; 14,402 * 0,462 [turnout] * 0,875 [yes] = 5.822 # 7,4 [media]. Worried about the maths abilities of Romanians after 23 years of freedom. If i am wrong and why EU is silent"
Since the last referendum in Romania, i've been intrigued by the following:
Lack of clear numbers regarding as the total numbers of persons with right to vote in Romania, deriving from the 2011 census. On their official governmental site http://www.recensamantromania.ro/rezultate-2/ there are only preliminary results and a vague total number of Romanian population. However within the last few days are given deadlines for completing those numbers.
It is troubling a referendum has been done last year without knowing the exact number of people and people with the right to vote. It is not clear to me what numbers they used to calculate the result. However, from my educated guesses, and putting together whatever appeared in media, those numbers do not add up or verify simple arithmetic calculations as in above "equation".
Since Romania is member of the EU and EU has not said anything regarding the irregularities of the last referendum, i am worried as well... well there are numerous legal, moral and ethical question on this subject as well.
Since i am alone in this as nobody followed up with direct answers to my fb posts regarding this issue, i am also thinking i may be wrong and i am missing some numbers. I used the preliminary numbers from the INS site mentioned above as 19 million total population and the percentage for people under 18 from... the US population, which for 2010 is 24.2%. From this i calculated an estimated 14.4 million with right to vote. Applying the percentages for numbers of voters present and numbers of voters who said yes that stabilized lately in media, results a total of 5.822 million yes votes, that contradict the number as well more repeated in media, of over 7 million yes votes.
Being and English speaker (as a second language) and a constant reader of www.bbc.co.uk i thought i should signal these findings that do not match any other analysis i've seen so far in any type of media as being a very worrisome deviation from standard democratic practices in Romania and EU.
If the calculations above are, there are very serious questions... well, you get the picture.
I did not want at first to fill out this information on a form as a news tip but i see no other way since BBC due to its nature as being a news agency cannot deal with this issue in other ways but i also was not sure of my calculations.
But doing this i let you decide whether this is a newsworthy issue or BBC should deal with this information in other ways, such as submitting it to EU decision structures i am only vaguely familiar with in case you decide my calculations are correct.
What worries me most about the above numbers is they confirm a theory that one can easily build by following online media from Romania in the last years, and that is the country is being subjected to enormous unprecedented political, economical, psychological and mediatic pressure with the obvious (to me) purpose of making as many people as possible leave that country and making it permanent and in the same time using the confusion created by the modification of electoral numbers in order to falsify further elections or referendums as sole purposes of admitting that country in the EU.
According to the news site www.cotidianul.ro, only last year over half million Romanians left the country.
If this "trend" continues and the "political" factors seen on Romanian media scene are continuing to try and hide it, in a few years there will be not enough native Romanian population in Romania to justify the naming of that territory.
[two rows missing]
I am also wondering if the EU leading countries do not give in into lobby from their part [a few words missing] and decide to turn a blind eye and breaking UE legislation regarding the organizing or supervising of census, referendums and elections in its member countries. But since i am not familiar with international law nor with how far EU legislation is going regarding the supervising the democratic processes in its member countries, i simply do not have a clue.
"About the last referendum in Romania; the numbers simply don't add up. 19,0 [population INS] - 19,0 * 0,242 [24.2% under 18 (from US, in Romania unknown)] = 14,402 [right to vote]; 14,402 * 0,462 [turnout] * 0,875 [yes] = 5.822 # 7,4 [media]. Worried about the maths abilities of Romanians after 23 years of freedom. If i am wrong and why EU is silen"
From: BBC Audience Services <automail faq.external.bbc.co.uk="">
Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:06 PM
Subject: Email confirmation
To: "Mr. George Ion" <george .ion.email="" gmail.com="">
BBC
Thank you for contacting the BBC.
We will reply to your enquiry if we can but cannot promise to answer everyone individually so hope the following information is helpful:
Information about particular programmes and when they will be transmitted or repeated is available at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ (please note our schedules are only confirmed for 7 days in advance).
You can find more information using our search service at www.bbc.co.uk, and information about the BBC at www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc.
If you asked about available BBC DVDs, books or other products please check with local or online retailers to see if they have been or will be commercially released.
For information about receiving TV or radio or dealing with interference issues, please visit www.bbc.co.uk/reception.
Thank you for contacting us.
Best wishes
BBC Audience Services.
NB: Please do not reply to this email. It comes from an automated account which is not monitored.
Today i finally received an answer
From: bbc_faq_website@bbc.co.uk <bbc_faq_website bbc.co.uk="">
Date: Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 4:25 PM
Subject: BBC Audience Services - Case number CAS-2174909-D9M0F5
To: George Ion <george .ion.email="" gmail.com="">
Dear George
Reference CAS-2174909-D9M0F5
Thank you for contacting the BBC.
The role of this department is to respond to comment, query or complaints concerning programmes on any of the BBC's national, regional and local television or radio services broadcast within the UK. We also deal with issues related to BBC's policy.
As it’s not clear from your correspondence that your comments have any bearing on the BBC or reflect directly on its output, we’re unable to help you further.
Thanks for taking the time to contact us.
Kind Regards
Paul Graham
BBC Audience Services
www.bbc.co.uk/faq/
NB This is sent from an outgoing account only which is not monitored. You cannot reply to this email address but if necessary please contact us via our webform quoting any case number we provided.
Following their answer i went to BBC news submitting page and i filled yet another email form with approximately the following content. Some phrases are voluntarily censored. But for that, i did not receive any confirmation.
"Reference CAS-2174909-D9M0F5
Thank you for contacting the BBC.
The role of this department is to respond to comment, query or complaints concerning programmes on any of the BBC's national, regional and local television or radio services broadcast within the UK. We also deal with issues related to BBC's policy.
As it’s not clear from your correspondence that your comments have any bearing on the BBC or reflect directly on its output, we’re unable to help you further.
Thanks for taking the time to contact us.
Kind Regards
Paul Graham
BBC Audience Services"
Following my 350 character "letter in a form", (i cannot remember which form).
"About the last referendum in Romania; the numbers simply don't add up. 19,0 [population INS] - 19,0 * 0,242 [24.2% under 18 (from US, in Romania unknown)] = 14,402 [right to vote]; 14,402 * 0,462 [turnout] * 0,875 [yes] = 5.822 # 7,4 [media]. Worried about the maths abilities of Romanians after 23 years of freedom. If i am wrong and why EU is silent"
Since the last referendum in Romania, i've been intrigued by the following:
Lack of clear numbers regarding as the total numbers of persons with right to vote in Romania, deriving from the 2011 census. On their official governmental site http://www.recensamantromania.ro/rezultate-2/ there are only preliminary results and a vague total number of Romanian population. However within the last few days are given deadlines for completing those numbers.
It is troubling a referendum has been done last year without knowing the exact number of people and people with the right to vote. It is not clear to me what numbers they used to calculate the result. However, from my educated guesses, and putting together whatever appeared in media, those numbers do not add up or verify simple arithmetic calculations as in above "equation".
Since Romania is member of the EU and EU has not said anything regarding the irregularities of the last referendum, i am worried as well... well there are numerous legal, moral and ethical question on this subject as well.
Since i am alone in this as nobody followed up with direct answers to my fb posts regarding this issue, i am also thinking i may be wrong and i am missing some numbers. I used the preliminary numbers from the INS site mentioned above as 19 million total population and the percentage for people under 18 from... the US population, which for 2010 is 24.2%. From this i calculated an estimated 14.4 million with right to vote. Applying the percentages for numbers of voters present and numbers of voters who said yes that stabilized lately in media, results a total of 5.822 million yes votes, that contradict the number as well more repeated in media, of over 7 million yes votes.
Being and English speaker (as a second language) and a constant reader of www.bbc.co.uk i thought i should signal these findings that do not match any other analysis i've seen so far in any type of media as being a very worrisome deviation from standard democratic practices in Romania and EU.
If the calculations above are, there are very serious questions... well, you get the picture.
I did not want at first to fill out this information on a form as a news tip but i see no other way since BBC due to its nature as being a news agency cannot deal with this issue in other ways but i also was not sure of my calculations.
But doing this i let you decide whether this is a newsworthy issue or BBC should deal with this information in other ways, such as submitting it to EU decision structures i am only vaguely familiar with in case you decide my calculations are correct.
What worries me most about the above numbers is they confirm a theory that one can easily build by following online media from Romania in the last years, and that is the country is being subjected to enormous unprecedented political, economical, psychological and mediatic pressure with the obvious (to me) purpose of making as many people as possible leave that country and making it permanent and in the same time using the confusion created by the modification of electoral numbers in order to falsify further elections or referendums as sole purposes of admitting that country in the EU.
According to the news site www.cotidianul.ro, only last year over half million Romanians left the country.
If this "trend" continues and the "political" factors seen on Romanian media scene are continuing to try and hide it, in a few years there will be not enough native Romanian population in Romania to justify the naming of that territory.
[two rows missing]
I am also wondering if the EU leading countries do not give in into lobby from their part [a few words missing] and decide to turn a blind eye and breaking UE legislation regarding the organizing or supervising of census, referendums and elections in its member countries. But since i am not familiar with international law nor with how far EU legislation is going regarding the supervising the democratic processes in its member countries, i simply do not have a clue.