Vint with Vintilă | S01 E20 | Ronald Reagan and the workers of Bangladesh

Marius Vintilă

Reagan is known as the American president who had the greatest contribution to the destruction of the trade union movement in the USA. In the 1930s, a large part of the workers were union members, while today only 6% of them are unionized.

The lack of a large-scale trade union movement can also be seen here, and the consequences are very serious. Last week several news from the labor field and the reaction to them showed how unprepared the Romanian society is in the face of an over-liberalization on the “labor market”

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Vint with Vintilă | S01 E19 | The double standard at war and censorship in democracy

Marius Vintilă

https://crsreports.congress.gov/produ… – 251 de agresiuni militare cosemnate de o instituție a Congresului american

 • Ukrainian Soldier…   – Jimmy Dore comentează interviul colonelului Andrew Milburn, fondatorul formațiunii de mercenari Mozart

 • YOU WERE RIGHT | …   – interviu Matt Taibbi la show-ul lui Russell Brand

 • Matt Taibbi REVEA…   – Matt Taibbi invitat la Breaking Points, un alt outlet independent de presă

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/01/0…

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The history of private radio in Romania (the part experienced by me), E4

Marius Vintilă

1992 – autumn – Radio Nova 22, part 2

In the studio, there was an older guy than me, probably just over 30 years old, who I later found out was also an architect. He welcomed me with a smile, both from his mouth and eyes, and introduced himself: Adi Popescu. He was one of the founding members of the radio, but I didn’t know that at the time. I didn’t recognize Adi’s name from the radio, probably because I didn’t listen to the radio at the time he was broadcasting, around three in the afternoon. I sat down next to him trying not to tremble. He explained that he would take the reins, meaning that he would support my interventions from a technical point of view, opening the way to the mixer and…

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The history of private radio in Romania (the part experienced by me), E3

Marius Vintilă

1992 – autumn – Radio Nova 22

Over time, I forgot about Contact Radio. The white nights in the dorm (not due to studying) and my ability to postpone my life, which had not yet become proverbial, occupied all my time. However, a new opportunity to work in radio arose, in the person of one of my most constant partners in white nights. The guy’s name was Razvan, and through a surprise circumstance, he was hired at Radio Nova 22 as an editor-presenter-producer, 4 in 1, for a weekly economics program. He was a math student, a latecomer like me, and had officially nothing to do with economics, but he was an intelligent person with a decent general culture, so he was able to research for 15 minutes of content per week, even if it was economic. Especially if we also consider John Kenneth Galbraith’s saying that economists were invented to make…

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The history of private radio in Romania (the part experienced by me), E2

Marius Vintilă

Around 1992, approximately in the spring.

Very few of my close ones know – and among those who know, very few remember – that the first radio station I knocked on the door of (literally) was Contact. I didn’t like either the music they played (Contact was always a CHR – contemporary hit radio), or what they said. That’s where the short intervention was invented, which started with the time, continued with the weather or the song, and ended with the wish “pleasant listening”, which I still hate to this day. Without serious content, such as politics, social issues or any field or subject on which people could have different opinions.

But it was the ’90s. Although my parents never complained to me, they…

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