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In November 2024 Romania, an EU member and NATO member, held a presidential election. The Romanian system employs a two-round system, a first round with a large field of candidates and a second round with the top vote-getters from the first round. If a candidate is able in the first round to draw a majority of the votes, they skip holding the second round. The 2024 preliminary election was won by "far-right" Calin Georgescu with 23% of the vote, four percentage points ahead of the next candidate. Polling at the time indicated that Georgescu was favored to win the final round. A Romanian court annulled the election on the grounds that Russia had used TikTok to unduly influence the election. The allegation was made that the annulment was in response to a demand from the EU president. Investigations showed that no Russian interference had affected the election as described, but Georgescu was arrested on trumped-up charges and disqualified from running for elective office.
The preliminary round rerun just completed, Georgescu's voters helped George Simon receive 41% of the vote, 21% more than the second-place candidate. Simon is the prohibitive favorite in the runoff election. Hopefully this will take place without further lawfare interference from his Globalist opposition. It is a tyrannical pattern of behavior unbefitting a civilized society.
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Where does one go for civilization these days?
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I'm working on that. Let me get back to you.
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Good luck.
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Try here:
(If you don't find any civilization at this place, you just aren't civilized.)
In addition to the eponymous song by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, we will also be singing the Beatles' song, Here Comes the Sun, composed by George Harrison. If you are too civilized to recognize Harrison, note that he was the composer of The Lumberjack Song, sung by the Monty Python troupe.
And a bunch of even more civilized choral works. Stuff that Arahant and that highbrow lot would love to hear, beautiful music with poetry that he and Ben Sears will understand right away. And some poetry that even I can understand, like
Music by Elaine Hagenberg, Eriks Esenvalds. More Gospel and Spiritual songs, and popular old songs.
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