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A leaked USAID document outlines a plan to engineer a global famine before the year 2030 in order to depopulate the world and centralize control over the population.

According to a 1974 Kissinger Report, reducing human population numbers must be the top priority for globalists if they wish to realize their dream of a ‘New World Order’.

Granitegrok.com reports: As Human Life International recounts:

Although the United States government has issued hundreds of policy papers dealing with various aspects of American national security since 1974, NSSM-200 continues to be the foundational document on U.S. government population control. It therefore continues to represent official United States policy on government population control and was (still) posted on the USAID website (until recently). The subject of NSSM-200 is “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” This document, published shortly after the first major international population conference in Bucharest, was the result of collaboration among the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Departments of State, Defense and Agriculture.“

This transition has morphed from an environmental to a globalist socialist movement, manifested in the grand redistribution schemes of the Green New Deal and recent proclamations by the WHO, WEF, and World Bank (and the, thankfully defunct, Biden Administration) that a “whole-of-government” approach must be employed at all levels of human society – especially agriculture – to forestall certain doom. That global empowerment IS a certain doom and will do nothing to respond to the ecological threats exploited as justification for absolute control.

Later permutations of this plan have matured into more stealthy obfuscations, but the same result is visible – elitists and powerful corporations staging a final coup to eliminate individual human choices, nation-states and their cultures, and anything akin to democratic rights or processes. All totalitarian regimes employ this or a similar ruse, regardless of their ideological roots.

[mariacallous]

Members of the European Parliament voted on Wednesday by 508 to 53 with 104 abstentions for a resolution calling on Russia to respect Moldova’s independence and cease political interference ahead of presidential elections and a referendum on EU integration in Moldova on October 20.

The resolution denounced “voter bribery, cyber operations and information warfare”, according to the European Parliament website.

It said there were “a plethora of malicious actors, including pro-Russian Moldovan oligarchs and Russia’s state-funded RT network” involved in trying to sway voters against Moldova’s pro-European orientation.

The resolution noted that Moldovan security services have estimate that Russia has spent approximately 100 million euros to undermine the upcoming electoral process to get Moldovans to vote against closer ties with the EU.

The resolution came as the EU reportedly slapped sanctions on the pro-Russian governor of Moldova’s southern Gagauzia region, Evghenia Gutul, according to Radio Free Europe. 

Gutul, who claims her pro-Kremlin, anti-EU local administration in Gagauzia has the support of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has previously been sanctioned by the US.

She and other officials in Gagauzia were sanctioned for alleged attempts to destabilise the country in cooperation with the oligarch Ilan Shor. Convicted of large-scale fraud, Shor is currently a fugitive from justice and lives in Moscow, from where he has been seeking to influence the upcoming referendum.

The other official sanctioned were Yuri Cuznetov, deputy head of the department for external relations, Ilia Uzun, deputy president of the executive committee of Gagauzia, Mihail Vlah, deputy governor and press adviser to Gutul, and Evrazia, a pro-Shor organisation.

Gutul has not yet commented on the sanctions but said on X on Tuesday that “elections in Moldova have ceased to resemble any kind of democratic process” because of court cases against her and her allies.

In a separate development on Tuesday, a Russian-Ukrainian citizen involved in political activities on the part of pro-Russian parties in Moldova before the October 20 elections was deported to Ukraine after being arrested in Chisinau.

Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, said that the deportee, Dimitri Cistilin, 60, was “one of the Kremlin’s ideologues of the ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine”.

The SBU also stated that Cistilin is an assistant to Vladimir Putin’s former adviser, Sergei Glaziev, who was involved in the takeover of the Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine and in developing an “‘information warfare strategy’ that justified the large-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia”.

Cistilin faces life imprisonment and the confiscation of his property in Ukraine if convicted.

Ukrainian intelligence officers stated that Cistillin interfered in the Moldovan elections through his involvement in organising a ‘March of Peace’ in Chisinau on October 6. 

At the march, priests prayed for the well-being of Victoria Furtuna and Vasile Tarlev, two candidates for the presidential elections who are alleged to be close to the Kremlin and the fugitive oligarch Shor.

Before Moldova, from September 20-22, Cistillin was in Bucharest, Romania, where he organised a discussion event involving Diana Sosoaca, an MEP with pro-Russian views, and as well Moldovan presidential candidate Furtuna.

The Chisinau authorities believe Russia’s interference in the presidential elections and in the October 20 referendum is intended to derail Moldova from its path towards EU membership.

Moldova was granted candidate status by EU in June 2022 and has set a target date of 2030 for accession.

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PAINTING ELECTIVE

Brief One- "Portrait"

Anselm Kiefer Powerpoint

Due to some technical difficulties I unfortunatley was not able to present my powerpoint on my selected date. Thankfully Eoin was very understanding and instructed me to simply post my powerpoint onto tumblr.

I chose my artist somewhat randomly, so I was surprised at how much I related to his artistic process, particularily how he is inspired by poetry and incorporates it heavily into his work. I enjoyed researching this artist from various websites and from the books I took out of the library, and this has definitely made me take an interest in this artist outside of this project.

With that, here is my powerpoint. Trigger warning for themes of war and the Holocaust. I wrote a script to read while I presented each slide, so each page will be written under its assigned slide.

Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor, best known for his works depicting the horrors of the Holocaust. His works often incorporate unconventional materials such as straw, clay, ash lead, and shellac.

Kiefer was born to a Jewish family amongst ruins on 8 March 1945 in the German town of Donaueschingen. As the town came under intense bombing, Kiefer was born in the cellar of the family home that served as their improvised bomb shelter. In the first few weeks of his life his mother would take him during the day into the surrounding forest to shelter from the bombing. The house next door was blown to pieces.

The ruin next door became Kiefer’s playground. Before the age of six, when his family moved, he would spend his days playing in the rubble, prising loose bricks to build ambitious structures. Hitler’s ruins have haunted his work. Rubble piles up relentlessly in Kiefer’s work, and he deliberately portrays such imagery in his sculptures and paintings.

The past plays an important part in Kiefer’s work. His works are characterised by an unflinching willingness to confront his culture's dark past, and unrealised potential, in works that are often done on a large, confrontational scale well suited to the subjects.

This made him a very controversial artist when he first began his career as Germany and the German people were not ready to face and acknowledge the countries past. 

Kiefer often credited the poetry of Paul Celan to have had a key role in developing his interest in Germanys past and the cruelty of the Holocaust, and frequently dedicated paintings to him.

Paul Celan was born in 1920 Romania to a German-speaking Jewish family. His surname was later spelled Ancel, and he eventually adopted the anagram Celan as his pen name.

In 1938 Celan went to Paris to study medicine, but returned to Romania before the outbreak of World War II.

During the war Celan was apprehended by Nazi soldiers and forced to work in labor camp for 18 months, while his parents were deported to a Nazi concentration camp where they were both killed.

After escaping the labor camp, Celan lived in Bucharest and Vienna before settling in Paris. Due to his radical poetic and linguistic innovations, Celan is regarded as one of the most important figures in German language literature the post World War 2 era. His poetry is characterised by a complicated and cryptic style that deviates from typical poetic conventions.

Two of Kiefers his most renowned paintings, Your Golden Hair, Margarete and Sulamith, are drawn directly from Celans most famous poem, 'Death Fugue' or 'Todesfuge'.

Widely read in postwar Germany, the poem is set in a concentration camp and narrated by the Jewish inmates, who suffer under the camps blue eyed commandant. Singing "your golden hair, Margarete/ your ashen hair, Shulamith," they contrast German womanhood, personified by Margarete, and Jewish womanhood personified by Shulamithe.

In Kiefers paintings titled Mararethe and Sulamithe he depicts this contrast visually, depicting Margaret with strands of straw amidst light blue paint, and depicting Shulamithe using dark colours and harsh brush strokes. One artwork out of hundreds that Kiefer has been inspired to create because of Paul Celans poetry.

Aswell as painting and sculpting, Kiefer has also dabbled in the world of photography and performance art.

In fact, he was one of the first German artists to address the Nazi crimes in a series of photographs and performances called Occupations and Heroic Symbols. Dressed in his father's Wehrmacht uniform, Kiefer mimicked the Nazi salute in various locations in France, Switzerland and Italy. Naturally these pieces caused much controversy among critics and the general public. The meaning of this photography series was to remind Germans to remember and to acknowledge the loss to their culture from the xenophobia of the Nazi occupation.

At 79 years old Anselm Kiefer is still quite active in the art world and is still sought after by collectors and museums for his captivating artwork. These are some of his most recent works from the past 5 years.

[fact-nova]

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I knew that this was going to be about the "Lightning Process" before opening the article.

Ms Cousins had reached a career goal many athletes can only dream of - being selected for the Olympics - when she developed long Covid. By the time the cancelled 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo were rescheduled for 2021, Ms Cousins was too ill to take part. When she went public with her struggles, she was approached by the Lightning Process. It offered her a free place on a three-day course, which usually costs around £1,000. "They were trying to suggest that I could think my way out of the symptoms, basically. And I disputed that entirely," the former rower said.

[...]

In secret recordings by the BBC, coaches can be heard telling patients that almost anyone can recover from long Covid by changing their thoughts, language and actions. Over three days on Zoom, the course taught the ritual that forms the basis of the programme. Every time you experience a symptom or negative thought, you say the word "stop", make a choice to avoid these symptoms and then do a positive visualisation of a time you felt well. You do this while walking around a piece of paper printed with symbols - a ritual the BBC was told to do as many as 50 times a day.

Pray, tell me, how does one "avoid" a symptom.

In some cases the Lightning Process has encouraged participants to increase their activity levels without medical supervision, against official advice - which could make some more unwell, according to NHS guidelines. Lightning Process founder, Dr Phil Parker, who's not a medical doctor but has a PhD in psychology of health, told us his course was "not a mindset or positive thinking approach," but one that uses "the brain to influence physiological changes", backed by peer-reviewed evidence.

I have serious doubts as to the legitimacy of this man's PhD. London Metropolitan University isn't a diploma mill by any means, but I do have questions as to why the only journals willing to publish papers authored by Parker about the Lightning Method are The Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy a Romanian journal from out of the University of Bucharest with ties to something called "therapy of unification (T.U.)" which from what I gather is some sort of Eastern European take on EST, and Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing, a pseudoscientific junk journal that publishes absurd papers like this one, which is featured in their most recent issue: "Birthmarks and birth defects in the head and neck region and claims of past-life memories: Cases in Ian Stevenson's Reincarnation and Biology". Science!

So who exactly is Phil Parker? Well why don't we let him describe himself in his own words in this excerpt from his old website, the memory of which he has desperately tried to erase.

Phil Parker is already known to many as an inspirational teacher, therapist, healer and author. His personal healing journey began when, whilst working with his patients as an osteopath. He discovered that their bodies would suddenly tell him important bits of information about them and their past, which to his surprise turned out to be factually correct! He further developed this ability to step into other people’s bodies over the years to assist them in their healing with amazing results. After working as a healer for 20 years, Phil Parker has developed a powerful and magical program to help you unlock your natural healing abilities. If you feel drawn to these courses then you are probably ready to join.

Oh so he's a quack and con artist. Anyway back to the BBC article:

The coach on the course we attended said "thoughts about your symptoms, your worry about whether it's ever going to go - that's what keeps the neurology going." [...] Dr Camilla Nord, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, disputed these claims. She said the Lightning Process was "right that the brain can create symptoms of physical ill health" but added: "I think it's a wild claim to say there's nothing wrong with your body." [...] The coach on the course stressed the importance of avoiding negative thoughts and words like "pain" and "fatigue", claiming using them can continue symptoms. "I'm afraid now we've strayed very, very far from neuroscience," Dr Nord says, calling this an "abuse" of scientific terms. When we put these specific claims to Dr Parker, he said our questions seemed to be "informed solely by the rumours and misinformation" circulated by what he called "anti-recovery activists".

Fucking incredible.

I won't get into it here because I'm saving it for a longer post, but psychiatrists, doctors, insurance companies and governments all went to bat for this man and his trademarked process that claimed to cure ME/CFS and all sorts of other chronic conditions. It's cheap! The structure of the treatment lays all the blame as to the origin of the illness onto the patient and if they don't get better, well, they're malingering and that's reason enough to cut their benefits. Millions of dollars were wasted running studies (a few involving children) that left patients worse off because the Lightning Process was deemed "cost effective" as a treatment. And it's still being championed as a "cure" and marketed to desperate people who have been ignored by the medical establishment or who otherwise can't access quality healthcare. And for whatever reason the Lightning Process is all the rage in Denmark, Norway and parts of Germany when it comes to treatment for ME. Make of that what you will.

[lucianbarbu]

September Log

Started the month by attending CultureQuest's Earthquake, art and protest workshop. The workshop was gracefully carried out by Ana Kun and Mihai Drăgan and organised by Indecis at the Seismologic Observatory in Timișoara. It materialised into a collective zine. I attached my spread.

Read the zine in its entirety here.

Strong start already, heralded by MotelyMag#4=5 that finally came in the mail. I submitted a collaborative diptic made with the ever so lovely Anca Vatavu for half&half earlier this year.

Took a train to Sibiu to put up the Make a Wish NonStop exhibition at Artă NonStop, at the invitation of Gia Țidorescu. We basically moved a big chunk of our Make a Wish exhibition made during our Balamuc residency to Sibiu, alongside some new works. Being expected to bring just a few works, we soon filled up all the walls and even gave the ceiling something to do. I had the chance to showcase the gay transformers for the first time and to draw with my family.

Right after that I took a bus back to my hometown to guerilla some walls with some comics. This is the first part of my project for Simultan's exhibition, more updates down the line.

Drew some more Transformers, reached 82 now, but had to stop to work on paid projects and commissions.

Then made a quick apparition at CozZzmonautica: Partisans in Space. This year Indecis invited me to make an artwork for their Sci-Fi extravaganza that took place over one weekend at the Ștefania Palace.

THE IRON GATEKEEPER

Deep beneath the waters of the Danube river lie dormant the Iron Gatekeeper, at the very meeting point of two states. An intergalactic spaceship built by the settlers for darker times. At the river’s bottom, inside mountains and rocks, ancient guardians, made of iron and stone, await their time of waking, when people will need it most. They will assemble, creating the ship that serves as a gateway towards new worlds with new stars for their biological cohabitants.

This month I also had to spend quite some time in waiting rooms so I had some time to draw some quick things. Streams of consciousness that got featured on MothBelly Gallery's insta page.

Finally had the time to edit and print No words, no words, a collaborative zine I made with my dear friend Meci. We started communicating with drawings a year ago and after a few of them piled up we decided that they should take a zine form, that we'll launch at this year's Sit and Read Bookfair.

Ana Kun and I cooked up this tasty vegan agenda illustration that we're planning on putting on a lot of things (walls, postcards, aprons)

Completed the half&half with Ana (still Kun). and posted them for the world to see.

Continued working on my Simultan project, two short comics about work accidents and a scandalous local paper headline calendar for 2015, filled to the brim with things that can go wrong at the factory. Finally finished this everything, only printing and wall-sticking remains.

At the end of the month I got the chance to take part in AnthroArt's fast ethnography online bootcamp. Here are some visual projects I developed during the two weeks:

Illustration for the AnthroArt website, which will be exhibited in Bucharest this November. The drawing is inspired by my team's research about migrant working mothers dealing with loneliness and difficulties in connecting to other mothers in their new countries, due to the lack of understanding the local language. We conducted a series of digital interviews in three different cities: Timișoare (RO), Amsterdam (NL) and Porto (PRT). Will post the finished version once it is posted on their website.

Very quick posters for my team's solution prototype - a matching system that connects migrant working moms with local moms.

Idem.

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Culinary photographer - Frank Hamel. 

http://www.photographe-culinaire.net/en

Franck Hamel is a food and lifestyle photographer based in Rennes (France)He always had a concealed passion for photography but shooting a film and developing his first photographs in the laboratory made his passion grow.He went on to study Arts at Rennes University and kept on learning the art of photography on his own.

Driven by his passion, he moved to Romania where he began his career as a photojournalist at the Romanian press agency, Mediafax, and “Regard”, a French magazine. The new challenges he faced were: to meet deadlines, adapt his work to the light, find the right angle and have a new life in post-communist Bucharest.

Read more on his website - given above.

[sciencespies]

Mother of invention: the new gadgets dreamt up to fight coronavirus

https://sciencespies.com/news/mother-of-invention-the-new-gadgets-dreamt-up-to-fight-coronavirus/

Mother of invention: the new gadgets dreamt up to fight coronavirus

LONDON/OAKLAND/BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Driving to work at his factory to the west of London last week, designer Steve Brooks had coronavirus on his mind. What could he make that would let him open a door without touching the handle?

Entrepreneurs Matthew Toles and Joseph Toles, co-founders of the company Slightly Robot, show smartbands, the Immutouch, which buzz when the wearer’s hand goes near their face, to prevent spreading the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Seattle, U.S., in this handout picture taken March 31, 2020. Immutouch/Handout via REUTERS

“Everyone has to use their little finger or find the bit of the door that nobody’s touched,” said the designer and owner at DDB Ltd, a company which makes office furniture. So he produced a hook to do the job.

The so-called hygienehook is small enough to fit in a pocket and made from a non-porous material, which makes it easy to clean. It is one of hundreds of gadgets dreamt up in recent days and weeks to help prevent people from spreading the coronavirus.

From furniture makers to AI software developers, companies around the world are adapting existing products or inventing new ones to help fight the pandemic or just make life easier for those working from home, in hospitals or stuck in quarantine.

The flurry of innovation comes as companies from Ford (F.N) and Airbus (AIR.PA) to luxury goods giant LVMH (LVMH.PA) retool plants to make critical equipment like hand sanitizers, ventilators and masks.

In years gone by it was large companies like these, with the financial clout and factories, who typically had to be relied upon to move rapidly from designing a prototype to manufacturing the product.

A crucial difference now, though, is that 3D printing and high-tech software mean devices can be produced faster than ever by companies big and small.

“There is definitely a ton of people with 3D resources very willing to help,” said MacKenzie Brown, founder of California-based product design company CAD Crowd.

Two weeks ago, his company launched a month-long contest for practical devices for navigating the new coronavirus world.

About 65 entries have poured in, including a wrist-mounted disinfectant sprayer, half gloves for knuckle-pushing of buttons and a device that lets you open car doors without touching the handle, aimed at cab users.

As the pandemic makes people far more aware of hygiene, some new products may have a shelf life beyond the current crisis.

‘WE HAD THE ALGORITHM’

Startups are retooling their technology.

In Seattle, brothers Joseph and Matthew Toles and their friend Justin Ith, who own a young company called Slightly Robot, had developed a wristband after college aimed at reducing compulsive skin-picking, nail-biting, and hair-pulling.

When their home city reported its first fatalities from the virus last month, they adapted the design to create a new smartband, the Immutouch, which buzzes when the wearer’s hand goes near their face.

“We had the algorithm, we had the software and the hardware. We’ve repurposed it for face-touching,” Matthew Toles said in an interview. “We made 350 devices and a website in one week and now it’s how fast can we ramp up.”

Romanian robotic software company UiPath has meanwhile found a way for nurses in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in the Irish capital Dublin to ditch time-consuming data entry and automate filing of virus test results. It hopes to replicate it in other hospitals.

Scylla, a U.S.-based AI company that makes gun detection systems for schools and casinos, turned its sights on the virus when China, the original epicenter of the outbreak, reported its first cases three months ago.

It has re-deployed its AI analytics software to measure the temperature of a person’s forehead, sending out an alert if it detects a fever. Taking images from a thermal camera, the software can be used in public buildings like hospitals and airports, and corporate offices, chief technology officer Ara Ghazaryan said.

The government of a South American nation has placed an order for 5,000 licenses of Scylla’s system for its public buildings and transport system, Ghazaryan said. He declined to name the country.

WORLD WAR TWO INNOVATION

Global upheaval often spawns new products and innovation.

The current burst of creativity may eventually compare to that seen during World War Two when companies, governments and scientists embarked on projects that had lasting consequences.

Technology used to help guide rockets eventually led to the first satellites and putting men on the moon.

“There’s no question that inventors will be coming up with hundreds, if not thousands, of new ideas,” said Kane Kramer, inventor and co-founder of the British Inventor’s Society. He first conceived the idea of downloading music and data in the late 1970s.

“Everyone’s downed tools and are only picking them up to fight the virus. It’s a global war.”

Many companies are donating their new wares or selling them at cost price. The CAD Crowd contest designs are free for download and use, for example. For some, though, the extra business could provide a financial cushion as other sources of income evaporate during the pandemic.

DDB designer Brooks near London has worked quickly.

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Less than a week after his first design, four different models of the hook went on sale this week, selling at just under 15 pounds ($18.60) each. He is donating one hook for every one he sells.

Now Brooks is turning his creative eye to another gadget along similar lines.

“We’ve already had a request from the National Health Service in Wales about designing something for pushing a door.”

Additional reporting by Nadine Schimroszik in Berlin; Editing by Pravin Char

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Romania’s Permanent Electoral Authority, AEP, has refused to allocate over 2 million euros to the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, AUR, sought for expenses incurred by its candidates in the European parliamentary and local elections on June 9.

G4media news website, citing sources from the AEP, wrote that it rejected the request because the AUR had not complied with laws on the financing of political parties.

It reportedly found that some loans to the party exceeded the maximum amounts allowed by law, and in other cases, that the money came from a single source, which is also prohibited. The AUR admitted on Sunday that the AEP had blocked its request for money, but without saying what sums it concerned, calling it an “abuse.”

AUR leader George Simion did not respond to BIRN’s request for comment. The AEP also did not respond to BIRN by the time of publication.

According to G4media sources, some of the loans for the AUR that the AEP did not approve came from the circle of Maricel Pacuraru, owner of Realitatea TV.

In addition, AEP confiscated sums from the AUR for the same reasons, a procedure provided by law. Previously, on November 3, 2014, the Bucharest Court of Appeal definitively sentenced Păcuraru to four years in prison in a case related to damages to Romanian Post worth almost 3 million euros.

In a separate development on Sunday, the Central Electoral Bureau removed the candidate of the far-right pro-Kremlin party SOS Romania, Diana Sosoaca, from the race for the presidential elections in Romania in November.

The decision came after the Constitutional Court, CCR, validated the Central Electoral Bureau’s decision regarding Sosoaca’s candidacy on Saturday.

“From this moment, a dictatorship begins. The gentlemen from the CCR said that Diana Sosoaca must be taught a lesson and shut her mouth,” Sosoaca responded.

The Central Electoral Bureau rejected Sosoaca’s candidacy for a second time, and for the same reason, namely that her registration for the position of president was submitted without the required list of supporters and without any electoral sign – the documents being the same as those she submitted the first time, on October 3.

An MEP, Sosoaca is known for her political populism and support for Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. She is a declared supporter of the Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

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Kinstellar Announces New Promotions In Bucharest, Romania (Detail) – Kinstellar

Kinstellar is delighted to announce the promotion to Managing Associate of MădălinaPerțe (Corporate M&A), Andrei Covaliu (Dispute Resolution) and Răzvan Constantinescu (Banking and Finance), and to Senior Associate of Raluca Constantin (Dispute Resolution).

These promotions come as a recognition of their contribution to our office’s recent development and their commitment to delivering exceptional value to our clients.  

MădălinaPerțe specializes in Corporate / M&A matters where she has dealt with various assignments. She has also been involved in multiple due diligence exercises and  regularly advises companies on daily housekeeping matters. Mădălina’s expertise extends to capital markets and financial regulatory. Clients describe her as “a competent, reliable and dedicated bucharest lawyer; very good communication skills, high level of availability.”

Andrei Covaliu specialises in dispute resolution and further focuses on compliance, risk and sensitive investigations. He has gained experience in litigation matters covering various areas (administrative law, public procurement, contractual liability and liability in tort), and has been recently involved in a large number of complex, high-profile litigations.

Răzvan Constantinescu focuses on banking & finance, as well as on a wide range of financial regulatory and capital markets matters. With several years of experience, he has already taken a primary role in numerous transactions having been involved in some of the most landmark, cross-border financings our office has recently assisted.

Raluca Constantin specialises in Dispute Resolution where she has advised companies on a wide range of administrative contentious matters, as well as projects related to compliance, risk and sensitive investigations. Raluca has been recently involved in a number of challenging cross-practice litigations.

Victor Constantinescu, Managing Partner Romania, comments: “The entire Bucharest and firm management thank them, and extend the thanks to all members of the Bucharest office. With these appointments, and with the entire local team’s support, we intend to grow the Bucharest office even more – to be a leader and the “go-to” firm in Romania across all practice areas’’.

For more information visit our website: https://kinstellar.com

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Binance Looking to Hire Developers, Support Staff in Romania

Global crypto exchange Binance is now hiring IT specialists and customer service representatives for its operations in Romania. The leading coin trading platform is also engaged in a number of educational initiatives in collaboration with Romanian universities and authorities.

Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance Recruiting Personnel for Romania Offices

Binance, the largest crypto exchange by trading volume, intends to hire a number of professionals this year for its technology hub in Iași, Romania’s third largest city. The hub was established in 2022 and the company is now recruiting its staff. Job openings are already available for IT specialists, including in backend, quality assurance, frontend, and mobile, the Romania Insider portal reported. Expertise is needed in Java, typescript, iOS and Android, automation, and framework. Binance Country Manager for Romania Ilie Pușcaș stated: Binance is constantly hiring and developing around the world, and Romania, recognized for its high skills in IT and technology, is an important point on our map. “Last year, we opened our first technology hub in the country, in Iași, after consistent discussions with the Romanian government, and this year we are entering a natural stage of growth, in which we want to attract many talents to our new center,” the executive added. Binance is also hiring customer support staff for its offices in Bucharest. The vacant positions for both the tech hub in Iași and the Bucharest branch have been listed on its global website. Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao announced the opening of the Romanian office during a visit to Bucharest in September. While in the country, he met with high-ranking officials and highlighted Binance’s plans to expand direct operations in Eastern Europe. Besides the recruitment efforts, Binance is also behind a number of educational initiatives in Romania. These are realized in collaboration with other platforms, universities, and government institutions, in order to organize courses, webinars, and training in finance and crypto for Romanians. The company has already held meet-ups in Bucharest, Iași, and Cluj-Napoca. The global exchange is engaged in similar projects in several other countries in the region and the former-Soviet space. Earlier in February, Binance agreed to support Georgia in developing its crypto sector through education and crypto-focused events. In December, it launched a blockchain education program in Kazakhstan and offered to help Azerbaijan with crypto regulation. Do you think Romania can become a regional hub for major crypto companies like Binance? Tell us in the comments section below. Read the full article

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Four Seasons 2 Stine Janvin ​Billy Bultheel

15 September 2022

Zwölf-Apostel-Kirche An der Apostelkirche 1 10783 Berlin On the occasion of Berlin Art Week, CCA Berlin is organizing the second iteration of its musical evening series Four Seasons with the Zwölf-Apostel-Kirche (Twelve Apostles Church) on Kurfürstenstraße, featuring live sets by Stine Janvin* as well as Billy Bultheel with Max Murray and Weston Olencki.

Vocalist, performer and sound artist Stine Janvin (NO) works with the extensive flexibility of her voice in relation to visual elements such as costume and lighting, as well as audio spatialization and the ways in which this can be used to channel physicality of sound, tangibility and trigger sensory response. Often inspired by electronic music genres, folk music and pop culture, Janvin creates audio visual works and live performances for a variety of spaces such as theaters, clubs and art galleries, and more recently websites and digital platforms. Since spring 2021 she has been touring with her latest live project Echoic Choir, co-created with choreographer Ula Sickle, which premiered at Wiener Festwochen and was recently presented at MACBA Barcelona, Mattatoio in Rome, Venice Biennial opening week and MUNCH in Oslo. Janvin has recently presented works at Performa Telethon, New York; Issue Project Room, NYC; Rokolectiv, Bucharest; Kunsthall Stavanger and MUNCH, Oslo; and Chords for Calling presented by Deutschlandradio Kultur and Berliner Künstlerprogramm. In autumn 2022 she will release a new book in collaboration with artist Cory Arcangel on the Brooklyn based publisher Primary Information. At the Twelve-Apostles-Church, Janvin will play a new piece for voice, Pop Coloratura, featuring echo and synth samples and paying homage to some of Janvin’s favorite pop songstresses. Billy Bultheel is a composer and performance-maker based in Berlin and Brussels. Coming from a classical conservatory background and academic studies in the performing arts, Bultheel has developed musical performances that unfold spatially. He practices an extended notion of composition which includes performance, architecture and narrative as musical parameters next to harmony rhythm and timbre. His practice combines heavy electronics with medieval, baroque polyphony and performance. Bultheel has released on the record labels PAN and C-A-N-V-A-S. At the Twelve-Apostles-Church, Bultheel will present Shadow Tracks, a collection of compositions from 2021 written for brass quartet at the Ancient Amphitheatre of Epidaurus for the Satire Ichneutai (Trackers) by Sophocles. Here, rewritten for tuba, euphonium, organ and electronics adapted to the resonance of the Twelve-Apostles-Church in Schoneberg. The compositions intend to give an impression of the first music ever heard by Apollo, played by Hermes on his lyre, who is hiding underground. Dumbfounded and unable to grasp the idea of music, Apollo finds himself, ear against the surface of the earth, paralyzed. Musicians: Max Murray (Tuba), Weston Olencki (Euphonium), Billy Bultheel (Organ and Electronics) *Stine Janvin’s contribution is supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.

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