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December 07, 2024
Anti-war must be kept far away from EU center.

Romania, TikTok election interference is built on top of the premise that Georgescu came from obscurity to win the first round. 'How could a nobody win? There must have been interference. Must have been TikTok and Russia.'

Politico writes, Romanians "had two candidates to pick from: center-right small-town mayor Elena Lasconi, and Călin Georgescu, a far-right independent who was catapulted from obscurity into the lead in the first round of voting on Nov. 24."
"Barely a month ago, Georgescu was almost unheard of inside his own country, with no party backing and a low profile in traditional media."

Whatever your opinion is of Georgescu, he is not an obscure figure. As per Wikipedia, he has a long career in diplomacy:

  • 1991, Georgescu became head of the Office for the Environment of the Romanian Parliament.
  • 1992 adviser to the Minister of Environment.
  • 1997 to 1998 Secretary General in the Ministry of Environment.
  • 2000 to 2013 Executive director of the National Centre for Sustainable Development in Bucharest.
  • 2013 to 2015 President of European Research Centre for the Club of Rome.
  • 2015 to 2016 Executive Director of the UN Global Sustainable Index Institute in Geneva
  • Worked as the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights and hazardous waste.
  • Represented Romania on the national committee of the UN Environment Programme
  • 2020 and 2021 was proposed as prime minister by the Alliance for the Union of Romanians.

A more accurate way to frame the election is:
'Pro-war, pro-EU/NATO small town mayor in election run-off with anti-war, Romania first caeer diplomat.'

👆The above framing gets to the simple, heart of the matter. Pro-war must defeat anti-war. It does not matter if the candidate is left, right or center. Anti-war must be kept out of the EU. War is one of the few viable industries left in Europe...war and tourism. All other industries are undergoing deindustrialization (due to Russia sanctions).

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Putin has his eyes set on Kazakhstan pipeline. Here's why

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While Trump is shouting at the world like a mafia don, Putin is quietly setting up a chokehold — and the target is oil.

Trump wants everyone — from Delhi to Beijing — to stop buying Russian oil. He has already slapped a 25% tariff on India. He’s threatening China next. The message is clear: “Fall in line or face my tariff tantrums.”

But Putin isn’t playing checkers. He’s playing chess. And his next move could strangle global oil supply lines — starting with a single pipeline.
Here’s what Reuters just reported:
Trump’s demand to India — to halt Russian oil imports — could backfire massively. Why? Because Putin holds a massive trump card of his own: the CPC pipeline.

This isn’t some small route. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) runs from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea — and it passes right through Russian territory. It carries nearly 1.3 million barrels per ...

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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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September 29, 2023
Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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