The domestic political agenda seem to have been fixed by the shamans of a tribe that lives out of the hay mowing and the mollusk fishing For some time, the Romanians discovered a new native talent: they are meteorologists. From the Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, who becomes initiated in the mysteries of the clouds formation from the meteorologists invited in the government meetings, to Ion Iliescu, who discuss at Cotroceni about the amount of the rivers flows with the ministries of Waters and Industries. What EU adherence, what privatization strategy, where from money for the pensions indexation. Oh no, the most important thing is whether it rains or not. The domestic political agenda seem to have been fixed by the shamans of a tribe that lives out of the hay mowing and the mollusk fishing. One of the big specialists in meteorology, who became conspicuous as a pathfinder in PDSR (Social Democracy Party) in the meteorological issue, is the current minister of Industries, Dan Ioan Popescu. Before the elections, in the autumn, probably when he was promised the function in the government, he had lent his ear to a prognosis that would have endangered the achievements of the portfolio. According to it, a terrible, Siberian winter would find Romania out of fuel and the country would freeze stiff. The calculation for such a scenario is as simple as that. If the promised frost came, the current minister would be right and we would freeze a little. It was not the first time, after all. If the temperatures kept pretty high, the same minister would become a cautious person, an official that thinks without pause, isn't it, to the people's possible problems. In both cases, he cannot but win. It was a modality to attract sympathy by imagining an emergency situation, in accordance to the most classical recipe of the propaganda. Now, half winter passed, the nature didn't manifest, so