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Thomas Simaku with a CD Release on Naxos
A CD comprising 6 works performed by the Kreutzer Quartet has just been released in the UK on Naxos records,and also in USA and Canada.
Thomas Simaku is an Albanian Composer among 21st Century Classics.For more information about individual tracks, please go to Naxos website.
A new CD release of Thomas Simaku

Monument to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa - Canada
Communist Sign the petition to support the building of a Monument to the Victims of Communism, in Ottawa, Canada
To: Parliament of Canada
While the horrors of Nazism are well known, who knows that the Soviet Union murdered 20 million people? Who knows that China's dictators have slaughtered an estimated 60 million? Who knows that the Communist holocaust has exacted a death toll surpassing that of all of the wars of the 20th century combined ? Just as we must grasp Communism's brutality, we must understand the true cause of this era's most significant event: the fall of the Soviet Union. While we believe that Vaclav Havel was right when he saw the fall of the Communist empire as an event on the same scale as the fall of the Roman Empire, it was not the end of Communism. Sign and Join this petition

Who recognised KOSOVA as an Independent State?
Countries that have recognized or Announced the recognition of Republic of Kosova
We are honored and humbled that it is our generation that lives to see that day and we are aware and ready to take up the path that begins from here. Our future is with Europe.Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, for standing by us in the worst times. In memory of those who gave and lost their lives, and loved ones. May peace and light prevail. Countries who recognized Kosova

Boycott of Greek products in Albania
Boycott of Greek products in Albania!
 Albanian nationalists, who accuse Greece of turning the country into a non-conventional colony of Greece, are using the protest to halt the rising power of Greece in the country. In 2006 Greek Imports reached EUR 406mn, while Greek investments are estimated at over EUR 400mn. Greek companies and businesses own substantial shares in the telecommunication, petroleum and financial markets in the country. Strong protests were organized by the "Cham" population, ethnic Albanians that used to live in the territory of current Greece till the end of World War II. Afterwards, they forcedly expelled from their properties. Therefore we call on you to Boycott greek products in Albania

Donation for an Albanian Bridge in Shkoder City.
Has started a project to raise funds to build a bridge in the village of "Ure e Shtrenjte", near Shkoder. In need for donation to complete this project. More ..

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Letter to Berisha on Ridge
Albania News
  • Read inside: "Ridge Files Very Late for Albania" - By Anna Palmer, Roll Call

    June 28, 2008
    H.E. Prof. Dr. Sali Berisha
    Republic of Albania
    Tirana, Albania
    Gary Q. Kokalari - Political Analyst
    By Mr. Gary Q. Kokalari - Sent exclusively to ACLIS

    Your Excellency,
    Below you will find my December 30, 2006 letter to you regarding retaining former Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge as a consultant, and you will also find below a news report that indicates Ridge's relationship with Albania violated the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act.  I have also included my September 9, 2006 letter to Ambassador Marci Ries (on which you were copied by email)  in which I specifically asked her about Ridge's status as a foreign agent. 
    Ridge's failure to register was a clear violation of U.S. statute regarding working as a foreign agent, but Ridge did not have sole responsibility in this affair.  Because Albania has diplomatic relations with the U.S., your government also had an obligation to make sure you were working with foreign agents in the U.S.in full accord with U.S. laws.  So, it looks like there were mutual improprieties by Ridge and you in violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.   
     You had similar obligations to make sure that any ammunition Meico sold to the U.S. did not violate any laws regarding origin of manufacture and that  the ammunition was in serviceable condition and that there were no violations of the Foreign Export Control Act or the Foreign Corrupt Practices.   So it cannot be said that AEY, Evdin, or Albademil acted without the full knowledge and cooperation of the Albanian government.
Posted by acl on Sunday, June 29 @ 08:43:49 GMT (128 reads)
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Albania News:

State opens probe of US ambassador in Albania
Albania News
  • Read Inside: "We owe Mediu something ? - By Gary Q. Kokalari"

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department's top investigator will examine allegations that the senior U.S. diplomat in Albania aided in a cover-up of the illegal source of ammunition a U.S. military contractor shipped to Afghanistan's security forces.

    US Department
    By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press writer Foster Klug contributed to this report

    Tom Casey, a department spokesman, said Tuesday that the agency's inspector general has been asked "to go and look at these charges and conduct a thorough, fair and transparent investigation of these allegations."

    Henry Waxman of California, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Monday that John L. Withers II — the U.S. ambassador to Albania — approved a plan to remove evidence that ammunition being supplied by AEY Inc. was made in China between 1962 and 1974. AEY bought the bullets in Albania before transporting them to Afghanistan even though U.S. law bars the purchase of Chinese-made ammunition.

    The State Department then attempted to conceal Withers' role from the committee, Waxman charged.

    Withers is a career foreign service officer who has served with distinction, Casey said.

    "When someone has had a cloud placed over them publicly, as Chairman Waxman has done through making these allegations, they deserve to have an independent body take a review of them and come to an appropriate conclusion," Casey said.
Posted by acl on Thursday, June 26 @ 20:30:49 GMT (134 reads)
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ALBANIA:

Firing blanks in Afghanistan
ALBANIA
    WASHINGTON - The saga of United States military contractor AEY and its supply of substandard ammunition to Afghanistan keeps getting curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland phrased it, after descending the rabbit hole. Or put another way, it is the news story that keeps on giving.
    Efraim Diveroli 22 years old, President of company AEY who bought weapons in Albania, cooperating closely with family of prime minister Sali Berisha


    David Isenberg is an analyst in national and international security affairs, sento@earthlink.net. He is also a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute, contributor to the Straus Military Reform Project, a research fellow at the Independent Institute, and a US Navy veteran. The views expressed are his own.

    Since the New York Times first reported March 27 on the contract awarded on January 26, 2007, to Miami Beach, Florida-based AEY Inc, headed by then 21-year old president Efraim E Diveroli, with the US Army to provide US$298 million in various types of ammunition to the Afghan army and police forces, and the rabbit hole just keep getting deeper. The contract required AEY to certify that it was providing "serviceable and safe ammunition". The army contract also banned supplying ammunition acquired "directly or indirectly from a communist Chinese military company". But according to the Times the company provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decomposing packaging. Much of the ammunition came from old communist bloc aging stockpiles, including those that the US State Department and North Atlantic Treaty Organization had determined to be unreliable and obsolete, and had spent millions of dollars to have destroyed. The ammunition had not been tested for reliability under well-established military standards.
Posted by acl on Thursday, June 26 @ 19:56:55 GMT (119 reads)
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World People:

Declan Ganley: Ireland's Mysterious Mr. No
World People
    Declan J. Ganley is the Boss of "Anglo Adriatic Investment Fund" in Tirana. This fund has been created in Albania since 1995 with a total of over 45,000 Albanian shareholders and the value of 120 Million USD. The activities of this Fund are still on hold and waiting for a "green light" from Albanian Government to re-enter in the business.

    Declan Ganley - a successful entrepreneur, is leading the No campaign
    The campaign against the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland is buoyant, thanks in large part to the zeal of Declan Ganley. But the question remains: who is bankrolling him ?

    By David McKittrick - The Independent

    Outside Dublin's Croke Park traders were selling hats, scarves and T-shirts to the thousands of fans on their way in to watch Dublin play Louth at Gaelic football. A well-dressed, well-groomed highly articulate man with an English accent was on a rather different selling mission, handing out, not sporting paraphernalia, but copies of the Lisbon Treaty on Europe's future.

    The man, Declan Ganley, should be a member of Ireland's elite establishment: he is after all a millionaire, living in a mansion in Galway and owning a Rolls-Royce, a Merc and a helicopter. Yet the establishment is intensely fearful of him, because of the highly effective role he has played in persuading Irish voters to reject the Lisbon Treaty and send the European Union back to the drawing board.

    They worry in Brussels too, apprehensive that an anti-Lisbon vote would deliver a huge setback to the entire European project.

    While all of Ireland's major political parties are urging the electorate to turn out and support the Treaty in this Thursday's referendum, 39-year-old Mr Ganley has been at the centre of the campaign against the document.
Posted by acl on Thursday, June 19 @ 17:12:10 GMT (114 reads)
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Albanian Economy:

The beaches are clean in Albania. And they're almost empty

Albanian Economy
    Clear seas, rooms with views, even a lost city to explore. How long till the hordes reach Albania, asks Marcus Tanner.

    Vlora's Beaches
    I never meant to go to Albania. Who would after reading Paul Theroux's apocalyptic account of a trip to Vlore in The Pillars of Hercules? The idea was a sunny week in Corfu. But Corfu and I didn't connect, so after two days I checked out of my hotel and wheeled my suitcase to the port.

    The first office I reached had the sign "Tickets to Albania" in the window, and as the man inside at his desk looked amiable, curiosity drew me in. When was the next boat? "In a few minutes at nine o'clock." "Umm, can I get back?" "There are three boats a day!" How long was the ride? "Twenty-five minutes." That more or less sorted it; the fact that my return ticket cost only €25 clinched it.

    I admit, I crossed the short stretch of water to Saranda, accompanied solely by grizzled-looking Albanian Gastarbeiters, with unease. I knew a splendid "lost" Roman city lay close to Saranda, but what of the town? Would there be hotels, running water, power – a menu I could understand ?
Posted by acl on Thursday, June 19 @ 16:56:09 GMT (134 reads)
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Albania News:

Albania’s Veil of Silence Over Hospital Deaths
Albania News
    The latest death of a teenager as the result of medical blunders has highlighted the need for doctors to come clean about the scale of these errors and about botched operations.

    By Blerina Moka in Tirana

    Red Cross
    “I never thought that operating her tonsils would endanger her life,” says Luan Adili, puffing away on a half-lit cigarette. “Everything went wrong, everything,” he adds, sorrowfully pondering his niece’s premature death.

    Matilda Petriti was just 17 and heading for what should have been an ordinary surgical procedure in the local clinic in Pogradec, southeast Albania.

    But a series of botched interventions cut short her life on April 27, opening a new debate on medical malpractice in Albania that has highlighted the need for hospitals to report deaths caused by medical mistakes.

    Experts say the absence of any system of systematically reporting medical errors and malpractice in Albania’s hospitals means serious mistakes go unreported and action is not taken to curb the phenomenon. After decades of isolation, Albania is seeing some successes in the fight to end poverty. Increased economic stability and wealth have raised expectations, driving a demand for better and healthier lives. After Matilda’s family filed charges against the doctor who operated her and published her story in the local media, others have felt encouraged to come forward.
Posted by acl on Thursday, June 19 @ 16:42:14 GMT (119 reads)
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Albanian Diaspora:

Albania to MIT: O’Bryant grad meets the challenge
I Am Albanian
    Born into a small farming family towards the end of the Communist era in Albania, 18-year-old Alban Colbi moved to the United States eight years ago and did so well, he was the valedictorian of the John D. O’ Bryant School of Mathematics and Science. Colbi is now getting ready to head to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall.
    Alban Colbi


    By Lindsay Perna

    This West Roxbury resident struggled through elementary and middle school in speaking English. He realized how hard he would need to work to succeed in America.

    Adjusting to a new culture was not his only feat.

    With a 4.78 grade point average, Colbi dedicated his time to baseball and the National Honor Society. He tutored his peers twice a week, rising above his own courseload of Advanced Placement classes.

    “I think I really understood the value of education in high school, and that is when I really got into it and liked learning,” said the graduate.

Posted by acl on Thursday, June 19 @ 16:30:15 GMT (132 reads)
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Canadian People:

The Law Office of Mrs. Tais Davis
Canadian People
    My name is Tais Davis (Chizhkov) and I will be writing a regular article once a month entitled Ask the Lawyer. As this is the first in the series I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about myself.

    Mrs. Tais Davis - Barrister & Solicitor
    I was born in Russia and arrived in Canada in 1965 at the age of 3 ½ years old. I have been working in real estate in both the residential and commercial areas since 1983 and have seen the market cycle through both the boom as well as the crash years many times. In the past 23 years I have had the opportunity to see many purchasers make mistakes and I wish to share some of my insights with my readers in the hope that they will benefit from my experience and avoid some of the costly lessons that other purchasers have learned the hard way.

    Offer of Agreement

    If there is one common misconception that most Purchasers share it is the belief that buying a home is a simple and easy process. Nothing could be further from the truth, real estate law in the common law countries originated in England in the middle ages. It is the oldest area of law and deals with the concepts and rights on which all other laws are based. Real estate laws have grown and evolved from the ancient feudal system of the king and nobles and been adapted in a complex and often confusing patchwork of laws to encompass the parliamentary democratic legal system we know today.
Posted by acl on Sunday, June 08 @ 14:30:16 GMT (174 reads)
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