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The New Ass of the West

For those of you who don’t know much about Canada, I’m going to have to clue you in about a few thing so that you can correctly judge my frustration with the city of Calgary aka The New Heart of the West.

Request for proposals: Heart Gain Albania

A fellow blogger from the old country had this brilliant idea: in order to truly develop, Albania needs not a’brain gain’ but rather a ‘heart gain’ program. Being weary of the dismal fate of Ivy League run countries such as Georgia (run by lawyers), and Chile (run by MBAs) the quality of Albania’s returnees should not be judged by the stature or rank of their academic training or work experience[i.e no Goldman Sachs alumni need apply], but rather by the answer to the simple question: where does your heart lie?

So how does one attract ‘hearts’ and not ‘brains’. Pretty much by not listening to IMF/WB market prescriptions. You want to go to work in Albania..fine! You shall be employed only in a technical position, at the ’specialist’ level NOT “DIRECTOR OF DIRECTORIATE/CEO/or whatever other titles”.

Considering the current global financial situation, there should be many of us who have got time to spend in Albania. The question is what would truly be our inclination? Can we find a few good men and women who are ready, willing, and able to do what’s required in order to end this excruciating economic transition? If you wish to work with me on this project please contact me with some of your ideas.

Be still my heart: A poetry brothel in NY?

weell…personally Im a fan of prose..but i wouldnt mind visiting this joint. Of course one wonders why such a ‘charming’ place would never see the light of day in ..say..Montana (or north of it which is where im cooling my heels presently)

Good news: Albania has better roads than Norway

And in 2006, the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise warned that Norway’s petroleum fund—which contains the massive profits from North Sea oil that have made the nation rich—could wind up drained to cover outlays to immigrants. (This in a country whose roads, as a report last year indicated, are in worse shape than Albania’s.)

Djemt e Shem-it

Interesant! Hedhja ne kosh te plehrave e fese te Babes, Birit dhe Profetit, pak a shume mund te mendohet si antisemitizem korrekt(ne kuptimin qe as Arabet nuk ngelen jashte). Ironia eshte qe pa qene i mire informuar per djemt e Shem-it, dhe cudive ideologjike te Gjysme-henes Pjellore nuk mund te ishe kaq ateist korrekt Shqiptar (madje me korrekt se Richard Dawkins  qe nuk guxon te beje mekatin e antisemitizmit)

Albania: Privatization Vouchers Close to Worthless

Recently, the Albanian government made public its intention of privatising the remaining state ownership of subjects operating in the strategic and non-strategic sectors. However, apart from certain signals coming from the Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Energy (METE), the use of privatisation vouchers in this new and probably final phase of privatisation has not been made clear and concrete through concise strategy and legal backup.

To my current ex-girlfriend and future ex-wife

It is the white man’s burden to be a failed knight in shining armor. I have, on occasion, donned that wretched armor only to find myself in a rather quixotic position: the wench not only did not need saving, she was out to get me.

So here we are then, dear X, caught up in this comedy of errors! As another woman said: no good deed goes unpunished. Would that there were some nobility in all of us to accept that punishment which is due.

Here’s a little piece of poetry by one Dorothy Parker (and I’d rather read prose) that I always found ticklish:

By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.

Albanian Aromanian Angst

Owing to the recent press the Aromanians of Albania have been getting, i have been inundated with questions by Albanian-Americans who can’t tell ‘who’s what’ anymore. I don’t blame them. Here’s a typical answer I’d give to assuage their fears:

Ok I thought i made it clear that they never had an ethnic consciousness(and still dont)..just a linguistic one (those who can tell apart an Albanian orthodox from an Aromanian are very few and far between).

The Aromanians are  getting press recently due to the fact Albanian media pundits are frankly NUTS! Conspiracy theories abound involving jews and George Soros and his Popperian ‘open society’ panidea; and the accusation is that the aromanians are more amenable to these types of ideas owing to the fact that they kind of are like jews though at a smaller scale. Hence you find them controlling the purses of the Open Society Institute in Tirana.

You ask: Why are they primarily concentrated  in the south? Beacuse they gave up animal husbandry for a settled life involving merchandising..and for sure they werent going to source or sell their wares up north since there have always been a lot more deadbeats up there;)

Kriza ne Evropen Lindore: C’fare duhet bere?

Vladimir Gligorov Michael A. Landesmann
16 Mars 2009

Evropa Lindore po perjeton crregullime te jashtme te cilat kufizojne reagimin efikas te politikave te saj. Ky artikull thote qe BE-u duhet te jape Evropes Lindore mbeshtetje si fiskale ashtu edhe financiare, perndryshe rrezikohet nje krize me e tejzgjatur financiare si per shtetet anetare potenciale ashtu edhe per shtetet e anetaresuar rishtazi.