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A casual hike on the slopes of Zvičina Hill in the Czech Republic led to a remarkable discovery when two hikers stumbled upon a lost gold treasure worth more than $340,000. The find, made in early February but only recently announced, includes 598 gold coins, jewelry, and other artifacts. The entire collection weighs about seven kilograms, with gold coins accounting for nearly 3.7 kilograms. While exploring the landscape near the Polish border, the hikers uncovered a tin container packed with nearly 600 gold coins. The coins were carefully stacked in eleven piles and wrapped in black cloth. Not far from...

George Simion, the leader of the right-wing Union of Romanians (AUR) party, has emerged as the frontrunner in Romania’s upcoming presidential election, polling reveals. Simion is projected to win the first round of voting on May 4 with approximately 29 percent of the vote, according to Politico’s Poll of Polls. This puts him ahead of his nearest rivals, former National Liberal Party leader Crin Antonescu at 22 percent and Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan at 20 percent. Simion’s rise to prominence comes in the wake of the controversial decision to annul the results of the previous presidential election held in December....

In yet another sad blow to the will of the people, Romania’s High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) has ruled to overturn a courageous decision by a local judge that sought to reinstate the annulled 2024 presidential election—an election originally won by the conservative, anti-globalist candidate Călin Georgescu. The nation’s top court sided, unsurprisingly, with the entrenched political establishment, affirming that the Court of Appeal in Ploiești (CAP), Prahova County, had “no jurisdiction” over decisions made by the Constitutional Court (CCR). The ruling is final: a full election re-run will proceed on May 4, with a second ballot on...

India reports a second night of firing by Pakistan... Meanwhile Iran and Saudi Arabia are urging restraint and seeking... In Serbia two suspects arrested wanted...conspiring against a Chinese government critic living in California... The credit rating of the City of Los Angeles downgraded... Israeli air defenses downing a missile fired by Houthi forces in Yemen... The Trump Administration deciding to restore student visa status... President Trump saying tonight that Russia and Ukraine are very close... The US Department of Education launching a probe into foreign funding of... The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda signing a letter of intent to...

Florida authorities said they were ready to “act on” any UK extradition order for Andrew Tate in a letter The Times has decided to publish after a woman he allegedly went on to assault questioned why the Home Office did not take action. The email was sent on March 7 from the office of James Uthmeier, the attorney-general of Florida, to Matthew Jury, a lawyer for four of Tate’s British victims, stating its willingness to arrest and extradite Tate if Britain made a formal request. Jury, a lawyer at McCue Jury & Partners, handed a physical copy of the letter...

Following pressure from the globalist mafia, Romanian authorities banned front-runner Calin Georgescu from running for president. Georgescu wanted peace in Ukraine and a democratic Romania.After the Romanian authorities canceled the first round of elections won by anti-Globalist Calin Georgescu, and detained him for questioning in a bogus prosecution, Georgescu was BARRED from running in the May poll, in which he is the leading candidate with 40% of vote intentions.Bucharest exploded in chaos after the decision was announced.On Thursday, Tucker Carlson posted his video interview with Călin Georgescu. During their talk – around the 15:39 minute mark – Georgescu talks about...

snip... ~This, for example, is an interesting development. From the Reinickendorf district of Berlin: Mann stürmt mit Machete in Bäckerei – und wird mit Baseballschlägern totgeprügelt Which means: Man storms into bakery with machete - and is beaten to death with baseball bats Who takes a baseball bat to a bakery? Well, as usual, the local media coverage is minimal and designed to obfuscate. The 38-year-old deceased had apparently been living in a homeless shelter and was a regular of the baker's who believed him to be Romanian. He entered the shop on the Residenzstraße bearing the increasingly popular Euro-accessory...

A French court recently sentenced National Rally leader Marine Le Pen to prison and banned her from running in national elections for five years, ostensibly for embezzling European Union funds. Even the court admitted that Le Pen did not personally profit. This is almost certainly a ruse, as French courts clearly do not care where or how non-conservative politicians and public servants get their money. Jordan Bardella, president of National Rally and Le Pen’s presumptive successor in the presidential run, strongly condemned the ruling stating, “Today, it is not only Marine Le Pen who is being unjustly condemned: it is...

A Swiss think tank has reported that U.S. intelligence agencies, allegedly acting under the directives of the Trump administration, are investigating former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his assistant James O’Brien for purportedly pressuring Romanian authorities to annul the country’s presidential election results. According to the report, Blinken—an arch-neocon and influential figure in America’s globalist, interventionist foreign policy establishment—collaborated with former Romanian Foreign Minister Luminița Odobescu to pressure officials in Bucharest into annulling Călin Georgescu’s first-round presidential victory, thereby ensuring Romania remained aligned with pro-NATO and globalist interests. The Diplomatic Affairs, a Geneva-based think tank focused on assessing global...

Online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan left the United States for Romania on a private flight on Friday (Mar 21) to fulfil legal obligations related to a criminal investigation against them, they said. The brothers are under investigation in Romania on accusations of forming an organised criminal group, human trafficking, trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering. They have denied all wrongdoing. "Spending US$185,000 on a private jet across the Atlantic to sign one single piece of paper in Romania," Tate posted on social media platform X. "Innocent men don't run. They clear their...

Romania’s electoral body has disqualified another politician, Diana Șoșoacă, from the presidential election re-run. In doing so on March 15, the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) cited her public rhetoric — including opposition to Romania’s European Union and NATO membership — as incompatible with the constitutional duties of the presidency. Șoșoacă is an MEP for the right-wing Eurosceptic SOS Romania Party — and unaligned in the European Parliament.

After the Romanian government and judiciary conspired to rig an election that was set to be won by conservative, anti-Globalist Călin Georgescu, chaos erupted in the capital Bucharest and other cities. But if one thinks that Romanians ‘sovereigntists’ were just going to lay back and complain, he’d be very wrong. Georgescu and his movement have thrown their support behind the candidacy of MP George Simion. After our latest discussion w/ @CG_Romania, I decided to submit my candidacy as President of #Romania. Our sovereignist movement continues with the full support of Călin #Georgescu. There is only solution: national unity! God help...

Romania, a country on Europe’s eastern fringe, is perhaps a surprising focus of attention for a new US administration whose foreign policy priorities include ending the war in Ukraine, reshaping the Middle East and expanding American territory. Accustomed to flying under the radar, many in the country have been stunned by the Trump administration’s interest in its politics, which rarely garners international attention. “It’s been unprecedented,” said Oana Popescu-Zamfir, director of the GlobalFocus Center, a think-tank in the capital, Bucharest. She said she cannot recall a time in Romania’s post-Soviet history that its affairs have been so closely scrutinized from...

A bite-sized chunk of my big-picture piece from Quadrant has now been excerpted in Australia's national newspaper, The Australian: The biggest story of our time is that the entirety of the western world is sliding off the cliff – and most citizens of the west are not even aware of it, and have no desire to be made aware of it. In that respect, I envy them. It is comforting to paddle one's canoe and insist that the ever louder roaring sound from up ahead is the crowd at a Taylor Swift gig and not Niagara Falls. To be sure,...

You could almost think that it is perfectly rational for a supposedly democratic country to bar a leading presidential candidate from appearing on the ballot if you read Monday's Reuters report, "Far-right candidate Calin Georgescu barred from Romania presidential election re-run."Here is Reuters acting as if it is normal to destroy a democratic election in order to save it.

I've written and talked for some years now about the emerging "Post-Democratic Era". But it has advanced significantly in recent months. On Sunday, Romania's "Central Electoral Bureau" ruled that Călin Georgescu was ineligible to be on the presidential ballot on the grounds that he "doesn't meet the conditions of legality" because he "violated the very obligation to defend democracy, which is based precisely on fair, honest and impartial elections." Mr Georgescu is ahead in all the polls. From the most recent: New polling (MKOR, Feb 25-28) shows Călin Georgescu dominating with 44.1%, far ahead of establishment-backed candidates. That's getting pretty...

Europe lauds Obama shutdown of secret CIA prisons By SHAWN POGATCHNIK and FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press Writers – DUBLIN, Ireland – U.S. President Barack Obama's decision Thursday to shut secret CIA-run prisons abroad brought renewed calls for their locations to be disclosed as well a fresh denial from Poland, one of two eastern European countries most closely linked to the practice. Across Europe, governments uneasy that CIA flights had been carrying terrorism suspects through their airports and air space for years said they were relieved to be heading into a new rendition-free era. Dick Marty, the Swiss lawmaker who spearheaded...

Social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered a brief outage before coming back online. The outage lasted around 20 minutes before the site was restored to full functions. --- X has faced increased scrutiny after its purchase by Elon Musk, who instituted major changes in the company, including removing around 80 percent of the original staff. Critics of Musk have blamed failures of the site on Musk's leadership, meaning this latest outage could be linked to him. A wave of reports to the social media tracker site DownDetector shows that a wave of reports for Elon Musk's social...

Romania’s streets are on fire! Nationalist leader Calin Georgescu has been barred from the presidential race, triggering violent protests in Bucharest. With claims of EU interference, accusations against acting President Ilie Bolojan, and shocking support from Elon Musk and JD Vance, Romania’s political future hangs in the balance. Is this the end of democracy in Romania? Watch now for the full story!

There is a long and incredible backstory {GO DEEP} However, a Romanian “constitutional court” has now rejected the leading presidential candidate calin Georgescu from running for President. As outlined by Reuters, “Romania’s central election authority said on Sunday it had decided to bar Georgescu’s candidacy, saying it was inadmissible after the Constitutional Court’s annulment of the December vote.” Georgescu won the majority of the vote in December; however, after certifying the first round of the election, the court in Romania then heard a secret report from the EU intelligence system that claimed the candidate received some mysterious election support from...