Podcasts about Albania

نتعرف في هذه الحلقة إلى تاريخ ألبانيا في ظل حكم رئيسها أنور خوجة، الذي حكمها لأكثر من ٤٠ عاماً، قضاها الألبانيون في عزلةٍ عن العالم، وخوفٍ مستمر من حكمه الاستبدادي ومن حرب وهمية، تذرّع بها خوجة لبناء ما يقارب المليون ملجأ إسمنتي في كل زاوية من هذا البلد الصغير، مستنزفاً بذلك موارد الدولة الشحيحة أساساً. كتابة وتقديم بشر نجّار، تحرير جنى قزّاز، تدقيق بيان عاروري. الإخراج الصوتي لمحمود أبو ندى. بودكاست «منبِت» هو بودكاست معرفي نستمع فيه لقصص عن تاريخنا، عن السياسة والعلوم والفنون والاقتصاد، لنفهم أنفسنا وعالمنا وعلومنا بشكل أفضل. منبِت من إنتاج صوت. المصادر: ١) وثائقي عن ألبانيا تحت حكم أنور خوجة: https://youtu.be/CS_db_7cVh4?list=PL4UgrEBwk58e0rb0t2UE8mR8xoYtjmGtk ٢) تقرير تلفزيوني حول إرث الدكتاتورية لدى ألبانيا:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vaKwRjgmKc ٣) وثائقي عن نهاية الشيوعية في ألبانيا: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO79nDE8U5E ٤) وثائقي حول وضع ألبانيا الاقتصادي: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxaTKKQBhdM ٥) وثائقي عن إلبانيا الاشتراكية تحت حكم أنور خوجة: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7wWLK9xjI&list=PL4UgrEBwk58e0rb0t2UE8mR8xoYtjmGtk ٦) وثائقي: الجدل حول خوجة، جلّاد أم بطل؟ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFZHc8YZ_z8 ٧) مقال عام حول ألبانيا: https://www.britannica.com/place/Albania ٨) مقال عن أنور خوجة: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Enver-Hoxha ٩) مقال حول وفاة أنور خوجة: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/death-enver-hoxha

Episode 184: Robin Wigglesworth: Unpacking and Understanding Trillions   Episode 184: Show Notes.   We have often spoken about the book Trillions on the show, and in today's episode, we are lucky enough to interview the author, Robin Wigglesworth. We get to speak to Robin about his book and some of its central and most interesting ideas, while touching on other subjects too. Listeners will definitely come away with some enriched perspective, and hearing Robin's thoughtful and articulate answers was an absolute pleasure for us. Our guest is also the Global Financial Correspondent for the Financial Times, with his contributions to the publication being well worth keeping up with. After distilling some of the history of index investing, Mac McQuown, Jack Bogle, and the building blocks of what we do here at the Rational Reminder, Robin is generous enough to also comment on crypto, tech disruption, private equity, ESG investing, and more. This episode ties in so well with previous conversations we have had and Robin's dedication to his craft as a financial writer is truly inspiring, join us to hear it all.   Key Points From This Episode:   Simple reasons for why index funds are the best option for investors. [0:02:40.1] Tracing the roots of the culture of stock picking. [0:05:52.7] The initial intellectual push that the idea of index fund received from Wells Fargo. [0:10:44.4] Touching on some of the important yet lesser-known characters in the history. [0:15:05.8] Robin unpacks the evolution that Jack Bogle went through in the 1960s. [0:17:40.1] Jack Bogle's real superpower and getting to grips with the essence of his philosophy. [0:22:33.4] The important relationship between Dimension and Vanguard. [0:25:42.7] Differentiating between factor investing and total mark indexing. [0:29:24.5] Robin's thoughts on where we are currently with an imaginary alpha. [0:32:46.3] Reasons for Jack Bogle's decision to avoid embracing ETFs early on. [0:35:28.7] Why Robin stands by the idea that markets are not efficient. [0:37:31.8] The impact of bond ETFs on the future of the market. [0:42:48.1] Concerns around proxy votes at bigger asset managers. [0:48:34.4] Some thoughts from Robin about ESG investing and its value. [0:52:17.7] The skepticism that Robin still holds about cryptocurrency and its disruptive characteristics. [0:57:45.2] The example of Albania that Robin has used in his book to illustrate a point about crypto. [1:02:47.6] Looking at the trend towards private equity in the financial world. [1:09:23.4] Robin's own definition of success: the feeling of doing a good job. [1:17:46.6]  

Albania has transformed from one of the poorest countries in Europe to an upper-middle-income country. The country is implementing important reforms to revitalize growth and job creation while advancing the European Union integration agenda. The country is now open and in this video, Sadife from our Strategy team shares the best places to live in Albania. https://nomadcapitalist.com/ Andrew Henderson and the Nomad Capitalist team are the world's most sought-after experts on legal offshore tax strategies, investment immigration, and global citizenship. We work exclusively with seven- and eight-figure entrepreneurs and investors who want to "go where they're treated best". Work with Andrew: https://nomadcapitalist.com/apply/ Andrew has started offshore companies, opened dozens of offshxaore bank accounts, obtained multiple second passports, and purchased real estate on four continents. He has spent the last 12 years studying and personally implementing the Nomad Capitalist lifestyle. Our growing team of researchers, strategies, and implementers add to our ever-growing knowledge base of the best options available. In addition, we've spent years studying the behavior of hundreds of clients in order to help people get the results they want faster and with less effort. About Andrew: https://nomadcapitalist.com/about/ Our Website: http://www.nomadcapitalist.com Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nomadcapitalist Buy Andrew's Book: https://amzn.to/2QKQqR0 DISCLAIMER: The information in this video should not be considered tax, financial, investment, or any kind of professional advice. Only a professional diagnosis of your specific situation can determine which strategies are appropriate for your needs. Nomad Capitalist can and does not provide advice unless/until engaged by you.

Lea Ypi grew up in Albania during the 1980s and 1990s, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe. Almost impossible to visit and nearly impossible to leave, during that era it was a place of queuing and scarcity, political executions and secret police. But to Ypi, it was home. People were equal, neighbours helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. She joins award-winning foreign correspondent and author Luke Harding to discuss her memoir, Free, and growing up in a country on the brink of a huge transformation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EU auditors released a report on Monday that pointed out how the EU has been unsuccessful in its efforts to promote rule-of-law reforms in the Western Balkans. The bloc has spent about €700 million between 2014 and 2020 to help Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo make progress on reforms, and many EU governments see establishing high democratic standards in the region as important for the bloc's own stability and security, particularly as these countries aspire to join the EU. Professor Florian Bieber, an expert on the Balkans, joins The Greek Current to break down the key takeaways from this report. We also discuss his latest piece in Foreign Policy, which looks at the nationalist and authoritarian turn Serbia has taken under President Vucic and why this matters for the Western Balkans. Professor Florian Bieber is a Professor of Southeast European History and Politics and Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. He is also a coordinator at The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group.Read Florian Bieber's latest op-ed in Foreign Policy here: Why Serbia's President Is a Threat to EuropeYou can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:EU funds have little impact in Western Balkans, auditors sayRape trial of Greek sailing coach begins as #MeToo gains groundUS Ambassador to Greece nominee testifying before Senate committee

Do you ever look at a successful entrepreneur and wonder what is that thing that propelled them to where they are now? In this episode you will hear a truly inspiring story that will make you see how a simple mindset shift can help you move forward too. This is the story of a successful career woman in Albania who left everything behind, taking her son with her and moving to the UK to start all over from scratch and achieve her big dream: creating an international platform to empower global women. I had a big vision but no evidence to support it besides my own determination and faith. Today Mirela Sula is the founder of Global Woman and the owner of a hugely successful global online business with a tribe of over 100,000 female entrepreneurs who believe in their potential. She is the owner of five magazines, author of 15 books, leader of 27 clubs around the world and the organizer of more than 500 events. She also speaks at major international events. What you will learn: Why Mirela decided to leave her comfortable life and successful career in Albania to start all over from scratch in the UK What major shifts allowed her to turn her big dream into reality What her key tips are to achieve your goals and make real impact Find Mirela Online Websites: http://mirelasula.com/ (Mirela Sula) & https://globalwomanclub.com/ (Global Woman Club) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mirela.sula_globalwoman/ (@mirela.sula_globalwoman) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MirelaSulaAuthor (Mirela Sula) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirelasula/?originalSubdomain=uk (Mirela Sula) Share Your Love! Do you enjoy listening to this podcast show? Leave your review on your favorite app – https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tandem-nomads-empowering-expat-partners-tips-inspiration/id1056812170?mt=2 (iTunes), http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/tandem-nomads (Stitcher), https://open.spotify.com/show/4mWuNrYGnmK6yuVHt1CEwx?si=QqgfqVkESK2IEnnlzwA9hg (Spotify), https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly90YW5kZW1ub21hZHMuY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdA%3D%3D (Google Play)   Share Your Thoughts! Connect with the Tandem Nomads community and share your comments! https://www.facebook.com/groups/tandemnomads/ (CLICK HERE)

Find out what WiFi is, because we are back for 2022's edition of Wie is de Mol! Over the next ten weeks, two guys who haven't always been good at trying - Logan & Michael - will be recapping, analysing and speculating all about Wie is de Mol's season in Albania, beginning with the premiere episode and elimination of Suzanne. In this episode - we get to ask a question for the first time in nearly two years, Production seems to have been looking east, Harmstone does sports, we wonder if there'll be a reunion, Michael changes his tune on the live stream, we try and work out if there's a clear set of Mole tactics, Facebook has a grudge against a WIDM alumnus, we try and work out where the missing 100 went, Logan reminds us he's been to Shkodër, Production gets generous, Logan joins a Discord server, Suzanne sees a laptop for the first time, our superfan status is challenged, absolutely no-one is shocked that Arno is suspicious, Sahil takes credit for things, we reveal our first suspicions and Michael is accidentally deceptive. You can join in with our First Suspicions game by filling in the form here and play along with this week's Bother's Bar Suspect List here. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & YouTube or you can tweet Michael & Logan directly! We will see you next week for Episode 2! Please note: We do discuss elements of previous seasons we've covered in this episode (17-21; Belgie 4-9) as well as the identity of the second US Mole.

In 1990 Albania's communist government agreed to allow independent political parties following a wave of protests. Lea Ypi was an 11 year old schoolgirl at the time and watched events with consternation – she was a firm believer in what she had been taught about communism at school, and an admirer of Stalin. But she soon discovered that her parents had a secret past that they had been afraid to reveal to her before 1990. Lea talks to Rob Walker about her life growing up inside the world's last Stalinist state. Picture: Lea Ypi as a child in Albania with her grandmother. (Credit: Photo provided by Lea Ypi)

We react to Ronela Hajati's win at Festivali I Kenges in Albania. She will sing "Sekret" at Eurovision 2022.

In our first show of the year we review Albania's selected song from Festivali i Këngës 60, look at the artists announced for Malta and chat about all things #ESC250 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aussievision

Francesco La Rocca"Interno Corte"Disegni di Moisi GugaGallucci Editorehttps://www.galluccieditore.com/Nazarena, la nonnina ribelle che ama i bagni d'aria, abita al primo piano. Sullo stesso pianerottolo c'è Nina, che insieme al fratello immagina i dinosauri in orbita nello spazio. E poi Mattia, che colleziona fossili di montagna, e Ayyoub che origlia i discorsi dal ricevitore del citofono: le storie degli inquilini di un palazzo di ringhiera si snodano una dopo l'altra durante l'esplosivo appuntamento che periodicamente la vita impone: l'assemblea condominiale."Le tre scale si aprono sul limite interno dell'androne: diciotto gradini per rampa, due rampe per piano, tre piani per scala.Ogni pianerottolo è pavimentato con la stessa pietra del cortile tagliata, levigata e composta a mosaico con decori geometrici differenziati per piano. Dal primo all'ultimo: esagono, fiore, picca."Francesco La Rocca è nato a Torino nel 1983. Ha studiato Diritti Umani e lavora nel sociale. L'esperienza lo ha portato a scrivere storie del quotidiano declinato al fantastico. Interno corte è la sua prima pubblicazione.Moisi Guga è nato a Shkodër, in Albania, nel 1988. Laureato in grafica d'arte all'Accademia Albertina, vive a Torino, dividendosi tra il disegno e una cooperativa sociale.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

The directors are in the building, new National Finals are announced, Albania makes it a Magnificent Seven, and more in this week's Insight News podcast. The post Eurovision Insight News Podcast: Our Magnificent Seven appeared first on ESC Insight - Home of the Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest Podcast.

Throughout 1996, Albanians sold their houses and their livestock to buy into pyramid schemes that were doomed to fail. By the year's end, this new kind of financial product had swallowed up almost 50 per cent of the country's annual income, and touched nearly every adult's life. How did an entire country fall victim to scammers? Gavin Haynes explores the psychology of one of history's great mass delusions, 25 years on. He heads to Albania to hear how, in something like a fable, Europe's most repressive Communist state was suddenly turned loose into a capitalist Wild West it was ill-prepared for. And how the knock-on effects of financial meltdown pushed the country to the brink of total anarchy. At the heart of his journey is an ongoing mystery - what became of the life's savings of so many ordinary people? With: Prof. Dr. ARBEN MALAJ, President of the Institute of Public Policy and Good Governance, MP for Vlore LAZER SOKOLI, Lawyer and former prosecutor ETLEVA DEMOLLARI, Director of the House of Leaves Museum of Secret Surveillance, Tirana REMZI LANI, Executive Director of the Albanian Media Institute Dr ARTAN HOXHA, Chief Executive Officer Tirana Business School GJERGJI and MARIETA SPIRI – musician and violinist in Gjirokastre and their daughter STEFANIE; GEZIM ZILJA – former Mayor of Vlore GENC DEMIRAJ – theatre technician in Vlore and former video journalist/camera person Dr. JONILA GODOLE, Executive Director of the Institute for Democracy Media and Culture, Tirana ERION VILIAJ – Mayor of Tirana Presenter: Gavin Haynes Producer: Caroline Finnigan Executive Producer: Katherine Godfrey Fixer: Edit Pula Engineer: David Smith Music Sound Engineer: Martin Appleby Actor readings by Orli Shuka A Novel production for BBC Radio 4

Ronela Hajati, Albania's Eurovision 2022 singer, reacts to her FiK win just minutes after Festivali i Këngës 60. She'll sing "Sekret" at ESC.

Photo:  Grain Sellers in Scutari Bazaar. Scutari is the principal market town of Albania. Since the war cut off Albania's communication to the east and south, all north Albania has had to look to Scutari for a market. Here is seen the grain market. On the right a row of grain sellers squat behind open sacks. Beyond them under the plane tree sit country folk with little piles of garden produce. 2/4 Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by  Nicholas Wapshott.  Hardcover – August 3, 2021 A Financial Times Best Economics Book of 2021 From the author of Keynes Hayek, the next great duel in the history of economics. In 1966 two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment: debate the world of business and economics. Paul Samuelson was a towering figure in Keynesian economics, which supported the management of the economy along lines prescribed by John Maynard Keynes's General Theory. Milton Friedman, little known at that time outside of conservative academic circles, championed “monetarism” and insisted the Federal Reserve maintain tight control over the amount of money circulating in the economy. In Samuelson Friedman, author and journalist Nicholas Wapshott brings narrative verve and puckish charm to the story of these two giants of modern economics, their braided lives and colossal intellectual battles. Samuelson, a forbidding technical genius, grew up a child of relative privilege and went on to revolutionize macroeconomics. He wrote the best-selling economics textbook of all time, famously remarking "I don't care who writes a nation's laws―or crafts its advanced treatises―if I can write its economics textbooks." His friend and adversary for decades, Milton Friedman, studied the Great Depression and with Anna Schwartz wrote the seminal books The Great Contraction and A Monetary History of the United States. Like Friedrich Hayek before him, Friedman found fortune writing a treatise, Capitalism and Freedom, that yoked free markets and libertarian politics in a potent argument that remains a lodestar for economic conservatives today. In Wapshott's nimble hands, Samuelson and Friedman's decades-long argument over how―or whether―to manage the economy becomes a window onto one of the longest periods of economic turmoil in the United States. As the soaring economy of the 1950s gave way to decades stalked by declining prosperity and "stagflation," it was a time when the theory and practice of economics became the preoccupation of politicians and the focus of national debate. It is an argument that continues today.

We chat with “Sekret” singer Ronela Hajati ahead of the first night at Albania's Festivali i Këngës 60 in Tirana, Albania. She says she would like to add some English lyrics if she makes it to Eurovision 2022. 

In today's podcast we cover four crucial cyber and technology topics, including:  1. Dridex uses Omicron exposure lures in new phishing attacks  2. Inetum Group in France hit with BlackCat ransomware   3. Albania Prime Minister apologies for massive data leak  4. D.W. Morgan exposed client data via misconfigured cloud database I'd love feedback, feel free to send your comments and feedback to  | cyberandtechwithmike@gmail.com

We go over some of the top songs from Spain's selection for Benidorm Fest and preview this week's national final in Albania - Festivali i Këngës. Join our Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/aussievision

This is a report summarising the latest developments in news and current affairs in Albania. - Raporti me te rejat me te fundit nga Shqiperia.

This is a report summarising the latest developments in news and current affairs in Albania. - Raporti me te rejat me te fundit nga Shqiperia.

The winter break is here, and we somehow stay on topic for an entire episode. Wrapping up the year, we talk about only Russian football and discuss Spartak, Zenit vs Dynamo, Russia's Nations League draw, and many other topics!TIMESTAMPS:00:00 Introduction02:30 Krylia beat Rubin; Slutsky out?11:38 Rostov are wild15:45 Zenit 1-1 Dynamo: Do Dynamo have a better squad than Zenit?30:15 Spartak lose to Sochi; Vitoria out, Vanoli in42:07 Zenit draw Betis, Russia draw Israel, Albania and Iceland in their UNL group47:14 Transfer rumours, looking at expiring contracts in the RPLTwitter handles:Hanu- @H4nuuArtem- @AMakarevitchPodcast- @PodcastWTI

Lisa Thompson received her bachelor's degree in Government from Oberlin College and her law degree from Ohio State University. She has had a multi-faceted career in the arena of law. She has a number of licenses and certifications under her belt. Lisa is Licensed in the United States Supreme Court, The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. She When I asked her what stands out about her childhood as it relates to kindness, work ethic and values, Lisa quickly recalled that it was commonplace for she and her dad to read together avidly and have discussions around what they were reading. Additionally, Lisa has very clear memories of her parents working hard, managing their funds with integrity and emphasizing the importance of honoring your word and doing your best at all times. Lisa currently serves as a Juvenile Court Magistrate at Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court Branch. As Magistrate, Lisa sits on the bench where she hears delinquency, abuse, neglect and dependency cases. Prior to her work as Magistrate, Lisa wasthe owner of The Thompson Legal Firm and a Partner with Thompson Steward, LLC. Lisa shared that she has had extensive experience in the practice areas of criminal defense, legal research and trial practice. When I asked Lisa what are some of the most important things that she would like to achieve in her personal development, she responded that she would like to really focus on completing the writing of a number of books that she has in the coiffures. She hopes to set aside uninterrupted time to devote to this. Lisa also shared that many of her topics come from dreams and other related avenues. If she weren't already busy enough, Lisa finds time to travel, and she is very proud that she has visited 30 countries since 2012. Her favorite country is Spain! Lisa hopes that African Americans will not overlook traveling to countries that are unfamiliar but have plenty to offer – history, beauty, great cuisine, friendly people and exciting excursions. Countries like Bosnia should not be overlooked. She enjoyed her travels there, and was amazed at the sophistication of the city. She plans to visit Georgia and Albania soon. When I asked Lisa what words of wisdom did she have to offer our audience, she responded “stop putting things off; do things while you can!” Lisa's email address is Lisa_Thompson@fccourts.org.

Ask Win: http://askwin.weebly.com. Please donate to Ask Win by going to Payment Venmo Win1195 at https://venmo.com/. Win Kelly Charles' Books: https://www.amazon.com/Win-Kelly-Charles/e/B009VNJEKE/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1. Win Kelly Charles' MONAT: https://wincharles.mymonat.com.   On Ask Win today (Friday, January 8, 2021), Best-Selling Author, Win C welcomes Stephanie Fuccio. Stephanie is an American expat currently living in Tirana, Albania. Her podcast obsession includes creating all of the podcasts in the Geopats Podcast Network, part of many podcast and podcasting groups and a Freelance Podcast Editor and Consultant. When she's not creating or listening to podcasts she loves to go for long walk, cook anything with cheese or veggies and watch goofy YouTube videos with her husband. To learn more about Stephanie visit www.stephfuccio.com.

She is the founder and CEO of the Global Woman Club and with her background in media and psychology, she helps women go global. She has shared the stage with Grant Cardone, Gary V, Robert Kiyosaki, Kim Kiyosaki, Les Brown, Jack Canfield etc. and she shares her experience and helps female entrepreneurs start their business, leverage it, scale it and take it global. She has come a long way and her story is very inspiring. From a small village in Albania where before 1991 not even dreaming of having a career abroad was allowed, she made it the hard way but with lots of determination. The motto is: If you want to empower a women, give her a microphone and thousands of women in the world have had the opportunity to hold this microphone thanks to her. Improving public speaking skills is a huge boost for the self esteem and getting the opportunity to speak at an even like The Global Woman Summit is a very empowering experience. She is also the CEO and editor in chief of the Global Woman Magazine and helps people share their stories by contributing to the magazine. I am proud to be the Regional director of the Global Woman Club Cyprus and New York where I have the opportunity to help business women and female entrepreneur grow and get more exposure because as Mirela says: "If you are amazing but don't tell anyone about it, you are just a hidden talent." www.globalwomanclub.com www.globalwomanmagazine.com www.globalwomansummit.com www.globalwomanacademy.com Support this podcast

This episode is dedicated to Professor Frosini for Constitutional Development course on the history of Albania -- antiquity to the newly Independent nation of Albania -- current political system in place -- the judicial system and how the country dealt with COVID 19 pandemic. What holds a society together? What elements can create an identity?

As featured in Forbes Magazine, TIME Magazine, The Boston Globe, and more. Pamela Bardhi immigrated to the U.S when she was 5 Years old from Albania with her family. She started in small business at her family pizza shop in Boston when she was 10 years old.  Pamela started two restaurants by the time she was 21 and shortly thereafter bought her first single family home to flip. She fell in love with real estate since then. She's been featured in Time Magazine, Forbes, and among other major media outlets highlighting her 9 figure real estate career and achievements in Real Estate Development & Brokerage. Pam has sold, developed or acquired over $100 Million in Real Estate Assets in the Boston, MA market over the last 7 years. Her educational background includes Stonehill College, Babson College & Harvard Business School. Pamela is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of the Mosché Group, a real estate company comprising development, construction and brokerage based in Boston, MA.  She has recently released a podcast called "Underdog" which hit Apple Podcasts' New and Noteworthy within 30 days of launching catapulting her show into the top 1% of podcasts. Pamela interviews guests from all walks of life to share their Underdog Story. Pamela is deeply passionate about helping empower others to follow their dreams and breaking through their Underdog Challenge. Visit www.pamelabardhi.com and www.theunderdogshow.com for more details!   If you like what you hear be sure to like, share, subscribe! Podcast- Mindful Multi-Family show Instagram- Chris_Salerno_ Youtube Channel- Chris Salerno Facebook- The Mindful Multifamily Network  Website- www.qccapitalgroup.com  

This is a report summarising the latest developments in news and current affairs in Albania. - Raporti me te rejat me te fundit nga Shqiperia.

William Federer is a nationally known speaker, historian, author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc, a publishing company dedicated to researching America's noble heritage. He's the speaker on The American Minute daily broadcast. He has authored numerous books including, America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, Who is the King in America-, Socialism- The Real History From Plato to the Present, and The Faith of FDR.--In WWII there were 2 fronts. One front had Hitler's Germany, who made alliances with Italy and Japan, while also invading Poland and other Eastern European nations. The Soviets became involved in 1939 and the list of nations pulled in grew from there to include Albania, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Australia, New Zealand, Lithuania, etc.--The sides grew larger in 1940 and '41 but with all that activity, America remained on the sidelines.--Some American politicians thought that if we didn't get involved and Hitler wins, we'd be isolated with no friends. FDR had made numerous promises not to get involved but eventually began to communicate that we wouldn't, unless we were attacked.--Eventually, Japan did attack America at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. 2,403 people were killed. Of that number, 68 were civilians. Another 1,178 were wounded, including 35 civilians. The National World War II Museum reports that 2 battleships and over 160 aircraft were destroyed and more were damaged.

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From music hall to Red Dwarf, pantomime to Absolutely Fabulous, we look at the history of British comedy, the names, shows, and historical events that made it what it is today. Like what you hear?  Become a patron of the arts for as little as $2 a month!   Or buy the book or some merch.  Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram. Music: Kevin MacLeod, Steve Oxen, David Fesliyan.  . Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Links to all the research resources are on the website. Podchaser: Moxie got me through 2,500 miles. I listened to every episode regardless of audio quality from the vault. I got my fix of facts with a personality that kept me entertained the entire time. I shared it with everyone I knew that would appreciate the facts, wit and hilariously subtle segues. Profile avatar 2 months ago byBoredatwork23 Book: David Nowlin 5.0 out of 5 stars Be prepared to be amazed at what you needed know, but did not. Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2021 Great book. Read it cover to cover, but am planning to reread it again and again. It is so full of such wonderful pieces of information that I use to interject conversations whenever I can. Thank you Moxie for such a wonderful gift, and the book is great too Gift and merch “The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created.  This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”  Thus begins Douglas Adams' Restaurant at the End of the Universe, sequel to his culture touchstone The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  That's the book that gave us the answer to life, the universe and everything, though not the question.  Welcome to episode number 42, which I have decided to devote to [drumroll] the history of British comedy.  That means we're going to try to cram hundreds of years, thousands of performers, and a dozen mediums into a half-hour show.  But don't panic.  My name's Moxie and this is your brain on facts.    British comedy history is measured in centuries, from chase scenes and beatings into Shakespeare's comedies to the misadventures of Mr. Bean.  Even as times, tastes, and technologies changes, some themes are eternal.  Innuendo, for example, has been a staple in the literature as far back as Beowulf and Chaucer, and is prevalent in many British folk songs.  King Charles II was such a fan of innuendo that he encouraged it to the point that Restoration comedy became not only its own genre, but an explicit one at that.  The repressive Victorian period gave us burlesque, though not in the same form as the shows you can see today - more vaudeville than striptease.  Absurdism and the surreal had always been an undercurrent, which firmly took root in the 1950's, leading Red Dwarf, The Mighty Boosh, and Count Duckula.  Though the British Empire successfully conquered ¼ of the globe, but its individual people struggled and suffered.  Plagues, wars, poverty, class oppression, and filthy cities gave rise to, and a need for, black humor, in which topics and events that are usually treated seriously are treated in a humorous or satirical manner.  The class system, especially class tensions between characters, with pompous or dim-witted members of the upper/middle classes or embarrassingly blatant social climbers, has always provided ample material, which we can see in modern shows like Absolutely Fabulous, Keeping Up Appearances, and Blackadder.  The British also value finding humor in everyday life, which we see in shows like Father Ted, The IT Crowd, and Spaced, which also incorporates a fair amount of absurdity.   But there's nothing the Brits do better than satire and nobody does it better than the Brits.  “The British, being cynical and sarcastic by nature do have a natural flair for satire,” says BBCAmerica.com writer Fraser McAlpine.  “There's a history of holding up a mirror to society and accentuating its least attractive qualities that goes back hundreds of years...Sometimes the satire is biting and cold, sometimes it's warm and encouraging, but if you want someone who can say a thing that isn't true, but also somehow IS true in a really profound way. You need look no further.”  There are three principal forms of satire.  Menippean satire uses fantasy realms that reflect back on modern society.  Everything from Alice in Wonderland to the works of Terry Pratchett fit here, as would Dr. Who.  Horatian satire skewers cultural moments of silliness using parodic humor.  These are the kind of thing you tend to see most of in comedy TV shows, like The Office.  We're laughing at people being inept and harassed, but not evil.  Juvenalian satire skewers everything with abrasive, often bleak, wit.  If there's an element of horror at the topic being discussed, that's a clue that it's Juvenalian.  John Oliver is a fair hand with Juvenalian satire.  Most political cartoon and black humor fall under this heading.   Though comedy is as old as laughter, we're going to begin today's time travel with the music hall.  (FYI, the narrative today is going to overall linear, but there will be a fair amount of bouncing around.)  Music halls sprang up as an answer to proper theater, which was at the time heavily monitored and censored by the government.  It took place in humble venues like the backs of pubs and coffee houses.  By the 1830s taverns had rooms devoted to musical clubs. They presented Saturday evening Sing-songs and “Free and Easies”. These became so popular that entertainment was put on two or three times a week.  Music in the form of humorous songs was a key element because dialogue was forbidden.  Dialogue was for the theater and if you had speaking parts, you'd be subject to censorship.  The Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737 empowered the Lord Chamberlain's Office to censor plays; this act would be in force until 1968. So, no speaking parts, less, though still some censorship.  Music halls also allowed drinking and smoking, which legitimate theaters didn't.  As the shows became more popular, they moved from the pubs into venues of their own.  Tavern owners, therefore, often annexed buildings adjoining their premises as music halls.  The usual show consisted of six to eight acts, possibly including a comedy skit (low comedy to appeal to the working class), a juggling act, a magic act, a mime, acrobats, a dancing act, a singing act, and perhaps a one-act play.  In the states, this format was essentially vaudeville.  The music hall era was a heyday for female performers, with headliners like Gracie Fields, Lillie Langtry, and Vesta Tilley.  The advent of the talking motion picture in the late 1920s caused music halls to convert into cinemas to stay in business.  To keep comedians employed, a mixture of films and songs called cine-variety was introduced.     The other critically important tradition of that era was panto or pantomime, but not the Marcel Marceau type of pantomime you might be picturing, but a type of theatrical musical comedy designed for family entertainment.  Modern pantomime includes songs, gags, slapstick comedy, dancing, and gender-crossing actors.  It combines topical humour with well-known stories like fables and folk tales.  It is a participatory form of theatre, in which the audience is expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.  It's traditionally quite popular around Christmas and New Years.  In early 19th century England, pantomime acquired its present form and featured the first mainstream clown Joseph Grimaldi, while comedy routines also featured heavily in British music halls.  British comedians who honed their skills at pantomime and music hall sketches include Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel.  The influential English music hall comedian and theatre impresario Fred Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue in the 1890s, and Chaplin and Laurel were among the young comedians who worked for him as part of "Fred Karno's Army". VODACAST   Hopping back to famous ladies of music hall, one such was Lily Harley, though her greatest claim to fame is having given birth to Charles Spencer Chaplin.  When Lily inexplicably lost her voice in the middle of a show, the production manager pushed the five-year-old Charlie, whom he'd heard sing, onto the stage to replace her.  Charlie lit up the audience, wowing them with his natural comedic presence.   Sadly, Lily's voice never recovered, and she was unable to support her two sons, who were sent to a workhouse.  For those of us who don't know workhouses outside of one reference in A Christmas Carol, think an orphanage or jail with indentured servitude.  Young Charlie took whatever jobs he could find to survive as he fought his way back to the stage.  His acting debut was as a pageboy in a production of Sherlock Holmes.  From there he toured with a vaudeville outfit named Casey's Court Circus and in 1908 teamed up with the Fred Karno pantomime troupe, where Chaplin became one of its stars as the Drunk in the comedic sketch A Night in an English Music Hall.  With the Karno troupe, Chaplin got his first taste of the United States, where he caught the eye of a film producer who signed Chaplin to a contract for a $150 a week, equivalent to over three-grand today.   During his first year with the company, Chaplin made 14 films, including The Tramp, which established Chaplin's trademark character and his role as the unexpected hero.  By the age of 26, Chaplin, just three years removed from his vaudeville days, was a superstar.  He'd moved over to the Mutual Company, which paid him a whopping $670,000 a year to make now-classics like Easy Street.   Chaplin came to be known as a grueling perfectionist.  His love for experimentation often meant countless takes, and it was not uncommon for him to order the rebuilding of an entire set or begin filming with one leading actor, realize he'd made a mistake in his casting and start again with someone new.  But you can't argue with results.  During the 1920s Chaplin's career blossomed even more, with landmark films, like The Kid, and The Gold Rush, a movie Chaplin would later say he wanted to be remembered by.  We'll leave Chaplin's story while he's on top because his private life from here on out gets, in a word, sordid.   Though Chapin was English, his film were American.  British cinema arguably lagged decades behind, but they began to close the gap in the 1940's.  Films by Ealing Studios, particularly their comedies like Hue & Cry, Whisky Galore! and The Ladykillers began to push the boundaries of what could be done in cinema, dealing with previously taboo topics like crime in comedic ways.  Kitchen sink dramas followed soon after, portraying social realism, with the struggles of working class Britons on full display, living in cramped rented accommodation and spending their off-hours drinking in grimy pubs, to explore controversial social and political issues ranging from abortion to homelessness.  These contrasted sharply with the idea of cinema as escapism.  This was the era of such notable stars as actor/comedian/singer-songwriter Norman Wisdom.  Beginning with 1953's Trouble in the Store, for which he won a BAFTA (the British equivalent to an Oscar), his films were among Britain's biggest box-office successes of their day.  Wisdom gained celebrity status in lands as far apart as South America, Iran and many Eastern Bloc countries, particularly in Albania where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by dictator Enver Hoxha to be shown.  He also played one of the best characters in one of my favorite and most hard to find films, “The Night They Raided Minsky's.”   There are few institutions in British history that have had such a massive role in shaping the daily lives of British citizens as the British Broadcasting Corporation, which for decades meant the wireless radio.  “For many it is an ever-present companion: from breakfast-time to bedtime, from childhood through to old age, there it is telling us about ourselves and the wider world, amusing and entertaining us,” says Robin Aitkin, a former BBC reporter and journalist.  The BBC solidified its place in the public consciousness from its beginnings in 1922 to the end of the Second World War in 1945 is of special interest because these pivotal years helped redefine what it means to be British in modern society.  This was especially true during the high unemployment of the 1920's, when other forms of entertainment were unaffordable.  The BBC was formed from the merger of several major radio manufacturers in 1922, receiving a royal charter in 1927, and governmental protection from foreign competition made it essentially a monopoly.  Broadcasting was seen as a public service; a job at the BBC carried similar gravitas to a government job.  Classical music and educational programs were its bedrock, with radio plays added to bring theater to the wireless.  The BBC strove to be varied but balanced in its offerings, neutral but universal; some people found it elitist nonetheless.  Expansion in offerings came slowly, if at all, in the early years.     Trying to bring only the best of culture to the people meant that bawdy music hall acts had little to no place on the radio.  Obscenity was judged by laws passed as early as 1727.  British libel and slander laws are more strict than in the US, so making fun of public figures was taboo even in forms that would have been legal.  And blasphemy?  Lord, no.  In 1949, the BBC issued to comedy writers and producers the Variety Programmes Policy Guide For Writers and Producers, commonly known as "the Green Book."  Among things absolutely banned were jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind, suggestive references to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, fig leaves, ladies' underwear, prostitution, and the vulgar use of words such as "basket".  (Not an actual basket, the Polari word “basket,” meaning the bulge in a gentleman's trousers.  More on that later.)  The guidelines also stipulated that "..such words as God, Good God, My God, Blast, Hell, Damn, Bloody, Gorblimey, Ruddy, etc etc should be deleted from scripts and innocuous expressions substituted."  Where the independently tun music halls gave people what they wanted, BBC radio gave people what it felt they needed.  But comedy writers are nothing if not clever and there is always a way to slip past the censors if you try.   In the very beginning of radio, comedies lampooned the poor, because only those with money had radios.  As radio ownership grew, the topics of shows broadened.  First half-hour comedy program in 1938, Band Wagon, included musical interludes, was effectively a sitcom and set the stage for much of what came after.  By then, nearly every household had a radio.   WWII had an enormous impact on British comedy and entertainment in general.  Unlike WWI, which was fought on the continent, WWII was right on top of them, with the Blitz, blackouts, rationing, et al.  All places of amusement, which by their nature meant lots of people would gather and could be a target for bombings, were closed.  But the government soon realized comedy had an important role to play in helping its people to keep calm and carry on.  Bonus fact: The iconic 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster was designed months before WWII began, but was never officially sanctioned for display.  It only achieved its prominent position in the public imagination after its rediscovery in 2001.  All the parody t-shirts still annoy me though.   Theater was allowed to continue, but television service was suspended.  This brought radio back to the forefront for communication and diversion.  The most popular show was It's That Man Again, which ran on BBC radio from ‘39-'49.  It's humor was a great unifier during the war, helping people to laugh at the things they were scared of.  People would often listen huddled around their radio during a blackout.  In its character archetypes, it offered a more comprehensive range of social representation than what had come before it, with characters ranging from east end charwomen to the upper class.  It was so universally popular that supposedly its catch-phrases, which is regarded as the first to really succeed with, were used to test suspected German spies.  If you didn't know who said what, they'd be shot.      During the war, Britain fought back against the Nazi propagandists' ferocious scaremongering with things like a song about the fact that Hitler may or may not have only one testicle, the other of which we were storing in a London theatre for safe keeping.  This attitude, combined with having had enough authority to last them a while, would extend to their own government at the start of the 1960's when Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller made fun of the prime minister in their stage show Beyond The Fringe, with the PM in the audience.  This would open the door for satirical news programs like 1962's That Was The Week That Was, grandfather to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.  There was also The Frost Report, whose staff of writers included five names many of know well and you know we're going to get into more detail on - Chapman, Jones, Idle, Palin, and Cleese.   The war would remain subject to comedy, either as the primary setting or a recurring plot point for decades to come in shows like Dad's Army, Allo Allo, and even Are You Being Served?, one of my personal favorites.   If you've ever seen me at my customer service day jobs, I pattern my behavior on Mrs. Slocombe, though I don't reference my pussy as often. [clip]  Experiences in the war led to the prominence of absurdism/surrealism, because nothing could match what they men had been through.  One of the most famous example was The Goon Show, with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers.  The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrases and an array of bizarre sound effects. Some of the later episodes feature electronic effects devised by the fledgling BBC Radiophonic Workshop, who also created the theme to Dr Who.  The Goon Show and other such programs were popular with those who were students at the time, seeding their sense of humor into the next generation.  Spike Milligan in particular had wide-reaching cultural influence.  The Goon Show was cited as a major influence by The Beatles, the American comedy team The Firesign Theatre, as well as, among many others, Monty Python.   PATREON   Do you remember how I said in episode #39, Short-Lived, Long Remembered that Jackie Gleason's Honeymooner's was the first TV sitcom?  I was mistaken and I don't mind issuing a correction.  Pinwright's Progress, which ran for ten episodes starting in 1946, was the first half-hour television sitcom, telling the tale of a beleaguered shop-owner, his hated rival and his unhelpful staff.  By 1955, ⅓ of British households had a TV.  That year saw the launch of ITV, I for independent, because it was *not run by BBC with its war vets with good-school educations, but by showmen and entertainers.  Where the BBC did comedies for and about the middle-class, ITV brought full-blooded variety to TV.  The BBC was forced to loosen its tie a bit to keep up.  ITV also had commercials, which BBC shows never did -a concept that is quite foreign to the American brain- so writers had to learn to pace their shows differently to allow for the break.  One stand-out was Hancock's Half-hour, which began on radio and moved to TV.  Fom 54-61, it pushed sitcoms with a focus on character development, rather than silly set-ups, musical interludes, and funny voices of radio plays.  Two writers on the show, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, would leave to create Comedy Playhouse in 1961, ten half-hour plays.  One of these grew into the TV show Steptoe and Son (1962–74), about two rag and bone men, father and son, who live together in a squalid house in West London.  This was the basis for the American series Sanford and Son, as well as version in Sweden, Netherlands and Portugal.  For those not in the know, a rag and bone man collected salvageable rubbish from the streets, making it a bizarre name choice for a clothing company but oh well.    The tone and offerings changed considerably with the cultural revolution of the 1960's.  Rock music, the birth control pill, civil rights, everything was changing.  Round The Horne, which aired on BBC radio on Sunday afternoons was chock full of brazen innuendos and double-entendres.  Some of them were risque to the point of being ironically safe -- people who would have objected to them were not of the sensibility to catch the joke it the first place.  Their most remarkable characters were Julian and Sandy, two very obviously gay characters in a time when it was still illegal to be gay in Britain.  Julian and Sandy got away with the bawdiest of their jokes because they spoke Polari, a pidgin language made up a words from Romani, French, Italian, theater and circus slang and even words spelled backwards.  They might refer to someone's dirty dishes and the squares would have no idea that “dish” meant derriere.  Bonus fact: You probably use Polari words without even realizing it, if you describe a masculine person as “butch” or something kitchy as “camp,” even “drag” meaning clothes, particularly women's.    The Carry On Films, a franchise that put out nearly a movie a year for three decades and spun off a TV series, held up a cartoonish mirror to the depressed and repressed Britain of the 1950s and 1960s.  They blended the rapid-fire pace of music hall sketches with topicality and a liberating sense of directness.  Carry On also filled the gap left as music halls as an institution collapsed.   Monty Python's Flying Circus aired from 69-74 and enjoyed a unique watershed success not just for British comedy but also for television comedy around the world. Monty Python was unlike anything that had appeared on television, and in many ways it was both a symbol and a product of the social upheaval and youth-oriented counterculture of the late 1960s.  The show's humour could be simultaneously sarcastic, scatological, and intellectual.  The series was a creative collaboration between Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, the sole American in a group of Oxford and Cambridge graduates.  The five Brits played most of the roles, with Gilliam primarily contributing eccentric animations.  Although sketch comedy shows were nothing new, television had never broadcast anything as untraditional and surreal, and its importance to television is difficult to overstate.  Their free-form sketches seldom adhered to any particular theme and disregarded the conventions of comedy that writers, performers and audiences had been accustomed to for generations.  Even the opening title sequence didn't follow the rules; it might run in the middle of the show or be omitted entirely.  Over the run of the series, a *few characters recurred, but most were written solely for one sketch.  The show spun-off a number of feature films, like Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), and the Meaning of Life (1983) and even a Tony Award-winning musical comedy Spamalot, first produced in 2005, as well as books and albums like Instant Record Collection.  Decades after the show's initial run, the mere mention of some dead parrots, silly ways, Spam or the Spanish Inquisition is enough to prompt laughter from even casual fans.  All the members who continue on to successful careers, but let's follow John Cleese to his next best-known project.  I put my favorite sketch in Vodacast; see if you can guess it before you look.  And tell me yours, soc med.   Fawlty Towers has been described as the sitcom by which other sitcoms must be measured, voted number one in the BFI's 100 Greatest British Television Programmes in 2000. Its main character, Basil Fawlty, was inspired by a seethingly rude hotel proprietor John Cleese encountered while filming abroad with the Monty Python team.  Cleese actually tested the character on another show in 1971, Doctor At Large, a comedy about newly-graduated doctors, based on the books of Richard Gordon.  The setting for Fawlty Towers was a painfully ordinary hotel that Basil constantly struggling to inject a touch of class into.  His escapades included trying to hide a rat from a hygiene inspector, keeping a dead customer hidden, and pretending that his wife Sybil was ill during their anniversary party, when in fact she's walked out on him).  Basil was the perfect vehicle for Cleese's comic talents: mixing the biting verbal tirades against his wife and guests with the physical dexterity utilised to charge about between self-induced disasters.  Part of the success of the show is arguably the fact that it ran for a mere twelve episodes, so never ran out of steam.  It's been remade in other countries, but those version never really capture the success of the original.  That's one of the key differences between British and American TV series.  A British show might have 2 writers for a season of 6-10 episodes, whereas an American show will have a team of writers for a season of 13-25 episodes.  Quality over quantity, I suppose.  In part, this is a reflection of the difference between the size of the TV audience in the two countries, and the economics of television production; for decades sitcoms on US television that delivered the highest ratings, whereas; in Britain the highest ratings figures were normally for soap operas.   The tone shifted again as the 60's gave way to the 70's.  The anger of 60's revolution gave way to a more comfortable feeling in the 70's.  One of the stand-outs of the decade, which continued into the 80's, was The Two Ronnies.  A sketch show starring Ronnies Barker and Corbett, it moved away from the long-standing comic and straight-man format.  It was the BBC's flagship of light entertainment, the longest running show of its genre.  If we're talking modern comedy duos, we need to talk about Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.  Even in alternative comedy scenes, women had trouble gaining the same notoriety as their male peers.  A step in the right direction was 1987's French and Saunders, a sketch show that displayed the wilful amateurishness of much alternative comedy, but shunned both the violence and scatology or the strident politics that were staples of the big-name performers.  The duo's humour was distinctively female, but not feminist, and most of their jokes were at the expense of themselves or each other.  As audiences and budgets grew, the pair increasingly favoured elaborate spoofs of pop stars and blockbuster movies.  After the show French starred in The Vicar of Dibley and Saunders to the role she's probably best known for, Edina in Absolutely Fabulous.   And that's where we run out of ideas, at least for today.  Don't be surprised if this topic spawns a sequel.  I left out Punch and Judy, skipped right over literature, had to forgo luminaries like Morecambe and Wise, didn't get to the panel show format, and said nothing of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, which may actually be a crime, I'm not sure.  Well, it's like they say in the biz, always leave them wanting more.  Thanks for spending part of your day with em.     Sources: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/truth-behind-keep-calm-and-carry-on https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/feb/17/the-five-stages-of-british-gags-silliness-repression-anger-innuendo-fear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Wisdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock%27s_Half_Hour https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/apr/17/gender.filmnews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_the_Horne http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1011109/index.html https://www.britannica.com/topic/Monty-Pythons-Flying-Circus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton_and_Simpson http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fawltytowers/ http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/06/history-brits-better-satire https://www.britannica.com/art/music-hall-and-variety https://www.biography.com/people/charlie-chaplin-9244327 https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1107&context=ghj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U77CXPANrCc&list=PL9e1sByp65ixpMQlW9hpMMdomwSwGK9-Y

William Federer is a nationally known speaker, historian, author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc, a publishing company dedicated to researching America's noble heritage. He's the speaker on The American Minute daily broadcast. He has authored numerous books including, America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, Who is the King in America-, Socialism- The Real History From Plato to the Present, and The Faith of FDR.--In WWII there were 2 fronts. One front had Hitler's Germany, who made alliances with Italy and Japan, while also invading Poland and other Eastern European nations. The Soviets became involved in 1939 and the list of nations pulled in grew from there to include Albania, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Australia, New Zealand, Lithuania, etc.--The sides grew larger in 1940 and '41 but with all that activity, America remained on the sidelines.--Some American politicians thought that if we didn't get involved and Hitler wins, we'd be isolated with no friends. FDR had made numerous promises not to get involved but eventually began to communicate that we wouldn't, unless we were attacked.--Eventually, Japan did attack America at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. 2,403 people were killed. Of that number, 68 were civilians. Another 1,178 were wounded, including 35 civilians. The National World War II Museum reports that 2 battleships and over 160 aircraft were destroyed and more were damaged.

Today's guest, Sister Dafina Grabanica, D.C., is not a newcomer to the podcast after joining us in season one to talk about her vocation story. This time, Sister Dafina sits down with Sister Liz to chat about the current situation in Albania, her ministry there, and more!

In our Hot Topic this week we have Odeta Kushi, Deputy Chief Economist at First American Financial Corporation on the program to discuss a special focus on the millennials and homeownership.  She was born and raised in Albania, moved to the US upstate New York when she was about seven years old. And she has actually always been just fascinated and interested in housing, homeownership as kind of part of that American dream. So she studied economics and really liked statistics. So she learned that statistics are so important in analyzing economic trends and just really developed an interest in real estate and housing and homeownership and also those demographics are just so important in housing, and being able to forecast what's going to happen in the housing market.  To read more about this week's podcast click here!!

In a huge week we cover the first Eurovision song of the season from Bulgaria, today's results from Eesti Laul in Estonia, touch on the songs released for Albania's national final, discuss the artists announced for Sanremo in Italy and Melodifestivalen in Sweden and finish with a portion of our interview with Australia Decides artist Sheldon Riley. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aussievision

Lea Ypi joins PTO to talk about her new book Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. It tells Lea's story of growing up in Stalinist Albania, the end of communist party rule in 1990, and the country's slide into violent chaos in 1997. We talked about Albania's isolation during the cold war after schisms with first the Soviet Union, and then with China, and how the regime made sense of Albania's place in the world. We also discussed Lea's childhood and her reaction to learning that her parents were not the communist true believers she'd thought them to be. Finally, we talked about Lea's views on what liberalisation meant for Albania and why her experience of the post-communist transition left her profoundly sceptical about liberal notions of what constitutes a truly free society.

Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. People were equal, neighbours helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. There was community and hope.Then, in December 1990, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, everything changed. The statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote freely, wear what they liked and worship as they wished. There was no longer anything to fear from prying ears. But factories shut, jobs disappeared and thousands fled to Italy on crowded ships, only to be sent back. Predatory pyramid schemes eventually bankrupted the country, leading to violent conflict. As one generation's aspirations became another's disillusionment, and as her own family's secrets were revealed, Lea found herself questioning what freedom really meant.Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history.Buy the book and support the podcastUK buyers  https://amzn.to/2ZVgRx4US buyers https://amzn.to/3psOkr8Now time doesn't come free and I'm asking listeners to support my work recording these incredible stories via a small (or large)l donation. If you become a monthly supporter via Patreon, you will get the sought after CWC coaster as a thank you and bask in the warm glow of knowing you are helping to preserve Cold War history.Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/If you can't wait for next week's episode do visit our Facebook discussion group where guests and listeners continue the Cold War Conversation. Just search Cold War Conversations in Facebook. SchattenbergI am delighted to welcome Lea Ypi  to our Cold War conversation…There's further information here.  https://coldwarconversations.com/episode210/Thank you very much for listening. It is really appreciated – goodbye.Looking for a Xmas gift for the Cold War aficionado in your life? Do check out loads of gift ideas including our wide range of CW themed mugs at our store. More info here https://rdbl.co/3kv7lYk Have a look at our store and find the ideal gift for the Cold War enthusiast in your life? Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/store/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coldwarpod)

“Whatever story God is writing in your life be available and be ready to say yes.” Today Stacy continues her conversation with wonderful mom of four, grandma to fourteen, and founder of an international sewing ministry, Kathy Arnold.  Listen in Kathie shares her amazing adventures with the Lord as she took His hand and stepped out of her comfort zone.   From a small town in South Dakota to traveling the world sharing Moms in Prayer and the love of Jesus in ministry through Come and Sew Ministries International, CASMI.  This is one beautiful God story after another. About our Guest: Kathie Arnold always had a passion for mission, yet she never imagined or planned anything like CASMI.  It just came out of her life story!    Kathie and her husband Steve were married in 1972, supported missions, raised 4 children, and now have 14 grandchildren.  Kathie and their oldest daughter went on their first mission trip to the former Soviet Union in 1991.  Upon returning home from that trip, Kathie began a sewing school from their home. Ten years after that first mission trip, Steve and Kathie were asked by another ministry to use their life experiences to return to Russia, to investigate how to bring the gospel to orphans through sewing classes in state-run orphanages. They saw a need, were encouraged to go forward, and in 2003 CASMI became an official not-for-profit 501(c)(3).  Steve and Kathie make their home in Texas and continue to share the love of Jesus through CASMI. Links: https://www.comeandsew.org/ https://momsinprayer.org/give/ https://momsinprayer.org/new-to-moms-in-prayer/ https://momsinprayer.org/join-a-group To give to the ministry of Moms in Prayer: Support Our Mission | Moms In Prayer International             Moms in Prayer International- www.MomsInPrayer.org

When you get into the real estate space with no experience but tons of determination, it's a recipe for some incredible lessons to be learned along the way if you can adjust and move forward. Originally from Albania, Arvi Carkanji started investing in real estate right out of college after finding out about it, and no matter the missteps never looked back.She bought her first flip in 2019, renovated it, sold it and broke even. She then got a 2nd flip and a 3rd one, in which she ended up house hacking. After 3 years of wholesaling and flipping deal after deal, Arvi, and her fiancé, realized that they were 50 deals in without having started with any experience! Since then, Arvi took her experience and started laying the foundation to scale her business, Money Making Duo, focusing on marketing and creating wealth for others. She now has a team of 10 people who play crucial roles in the company. In this episode, we're going to break down every lesson Arvi learned into actionable steps that will help you scale! So tune in and learn from her journey of wholesaling and flipping 50 deals in 3 years with no experience. Quotes• “I was like, you know what, I can do this. Whatever comes my way, I'm just gonna handle it.” (12:46 - 12:50)• “The first thing that I learned is that I'm not good with contractors or handling budgets, you know, and inspections and all this other stuff. So I was like, I need somebody to help me do all of this.” (14:20 - 14:30)• “So the main thing I did when it came to - alright, like this is serious, stop with all the BS; is to have a central system to handle all my leads.” (21:35 - 21:45)• “Whether it's cold calling, or direct mail, or whatever it is, just be consistent in that. Whether it's 100 leads that you're calling a day or a week, just keep doing it, don't stop doing it, because that's going to convert into deals.” (26:43 - 26:57)• “I always consider marketing as like the bloodline of the business and sales is like your brain. The two can not function without each other.” (29:08 - 29:15)• “Hiring is so very crucial for your company and part of the foundation. If you have everything else in place, but you have the wrong person in the wrong position, it's still gonna cost you money.” (35:53 - 36:05) Connect with Arvi Carkanji:IG: @arvi.carkanjiWebsite: https://moneymakingduo.com/ Book recommendation: The E-Myth Real Estate AgentThe Simplifier-Multiplier 3 DAY VIRTUAL EVENT on Dec. 6th, 7th, and 8th!We have planned a powerful 3-day virtual event “How to Build Partnerships that Last” on 12/6, 12/7, 12/8 at 7 pm EST!We are confident PARTNERSHIPS are the key to leveraging your time, funding, and skillsets. You can't buy yourself more time, but you can certainly “buy” someone else's time so you can start living the life you choose today.Here is what you can expect:• Learn the foundation of building a lasting partnership• Purpose of partnerships: short term vs long term partnerships• How to optimize alignment and leverage diversity• Learned lessons from our best and worst partnerships• Partnership structures: with RE attorney Bonnie Galam and CPA Amanda Han• How to set yourself up to attract rockstar partnersGrab your ticket today!https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/3-day-event-partnerships The Real Estate InvestHER Membership Our Membership focuses on three pillars: Real Estate Investing, Business Strategies, and Self-Care. We provide a financial freedom road map for women to create steady recurring income to live life on their own terms. Start today with our FREE membership level.https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/membership Your Voice Matters. We appreciate your feedback and would like to hear from you. Click here to answer a few questions about our podcast: https://airtable.com/shr8fJS0a0uHedcza Follow us on: Facebook: @therealestateinvesther Instagram: @therealestateinvestherYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQHEyioz1vC3w5Nx7qm-n0gSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Episodio emitido en Twitch durante la mañana del martes 23 de noviembre. Reedición del podcast que se perdió el lunes 22 por un problema del programa de grabación. - Twitter: @FFevermedia - Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/footballfevermedia - Juego de pronósticos: https://www.kicktipp.es/footballfever/ https://www.kicktipp.es/ffeverucl/ - Contacto: footballfeverradio@gmail.com - Canal de Telegram: https://t.me/FFeverMedia Contenido: - Resumen de competiciones y segundas categorías de: - Premier League (19') - Serie A (40') - Bundesliga (57'), - Ligue 1 (1h10') Repaso al resto de competiciones (1h21'): Portugal, Premier rusa, Ucrania, Eredivisie, Jupiler belga, Austria, Suiza, Escocia, Irlanda, Turquía, Grecia, Chipre, Croacia, Serbia, Albania, Dinamarca, Noruega, Suecia, República Checa, Polonia, Hungría. Final de Copa Sudamericana + Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Perú, Ecuador y Bolivia, y playoffs de Liga MX y MLS (1h48'): Con Xapa Red (@Xapa_red) Presentado y editado por Javier Quirós Sánchez (@JavierQS21)

This episode dives behind the Iron Curtain into socialist Albania in discussion with Lea Ypi on her new memoir “Free.” The crew explores what has been gained and what has been lost in the transition to capitalism. Lea explains why some of the symmetry may surprise us and why Marxism is a philosophy of human freedom.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Lea Ypi, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Penguin Random House, 2021)Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com 

Gab and Juls discuss Portugal's dramatic 2-1 loss to Serbia in World Cup qualifying, debate where it went wrong for Ronaldo's side and look ahead to what changes need to be made by Fernando Santos prior to the playoffs. They also break down other crucial international fixtures, including Spain's win over Sweden, France's destruction of Kazakhstan and Harry Maguire's controversial celebration in England's win against Albania.

In an international week full of drama, Jimbo welcomes Julien Laurens, Matt Davies-Adams and Sasha Goryunov into the pod. Serbia strike late to win in Lisbon and secure their World Cup qualification and push Portugal into the play-offs. Pressure grows on Fernando Santos after underachieving with one of the most talented squads in the whole world. It's all to play for for Italy as they head to Northern Ireland on Monday. England are almost there as we give Gareth credit for getting a tune out of players who aren't performing for their clubs. Dean Smith is the new Norwich manager as Michael Bailey tells us whether this is a situation the hierarchy at Carrow Road lucked into. But don't get your hopes up of seeing Zizou and his interpreter rock up at Old Trafford any time soon. Plus the investigation rocking PSG women, John Portsmouth Football Club Westwood and the longest away trip in world football. RUNNING ORDER:    • PART 1: The PSG women debacle (01m 00s) • PART 2a: Portugal 1-2 Serbia (05m 30s)  • PART 2b: Croatia 1-0 Russia (12m 00s)  • PART 2c: England 5-0 Albania (17m 30s) • PART 2d: France 8-0 Kazakhstan (22m 00s) • PART 3: Norwich appoint Dean Smith, with The Athletic's Michael Bailey (29m 00s) • PART 4: World Cup qualifier previews (45m 00s) • PART 5: The odds with Paddy Power (53m 00s) • PART 6: Women's Football Weekend (55m 00s) SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC TODAY FOR 33% OFF THE PRICE OF AN ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION • theathletic.com/totally   GET IN TOUCH: • follow us on Instagram • find us on Facebook • send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow   READ STUFF ON OUR WEBSITE: • check out thetotallyfootballshow.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The FC crew debate whether Lionel Messi should be playing for Argentina during this international break considering his injury concerns while at PSG. Plus, the United States makes an emphatic statement by winning their third straight match over Mexico, and Harry Maguire responds to people criticising his goal celebrations against Albania.

Emma Saunders is joined by former England captain Terry Butcher, senior football reporter Ian Dennis and Talk Norwich City podcaster Jack Reeve react to the news Dean Smith is close to becoming the club's new head coach. We also hear from England and Chelsea full back Reece James, who impressed during the 5-0 win over Albania on Friday night. Former Scotland midfielder Kevin Gallacher joins the podcast to reflect on Scotland reaching the World Cup qualifying play-offs. And after a late Vivianne Miedema equaliser denied Tottenham a win over WSL leaders Arsenal, commentators Vicki Sparks and Laura Bassett review the action

Steve Crossman reacts to England's victory against Albania at Wembley with the former England goalkeeper Rob Green, our senior football reporter Ian Dennis and the Time's Chief football writer Henry Winter. The win means they're just one point away from qualification to the World Cup in Qatar. The team discuss the importance of Gareth Southgate to England's success and his future with the national team after reports that he's expected to sign a new two-year contract extension taking him to Euro 2024. We'll hear from Southgate himself with our football correspondent John Murray, plus Harry Kane is on the football daily. And we hear from Scottish football reporter Roddy Forsyth and the former Scotland international Charlie Adam after Scotland clinched a World Cup play-off place with a game to spare after beating Moldova. TOPICS 01:25 - England reaction 03:30 - Gareth Southgate post-match interview 07:00 - Further analysis of England's five nil win 08:20 - Significance of Southgate bringing best out of players 19:10 - Harry Kane post-match interview 21:19 - Importance of leaders in England squad 26:23 - Reaction to Scotland's two nil victory over Moldova 28:35 - Steve Clarke post-match interview 29:17 - Charlie Adam joins the football daily to react to Scotland's win

Connie McLaughlin is joined by former West Ham and England defender Matthew Upson, ex-Aston Villa and Wales defender James Collins and our senior football reporter Ian Dennis to react to the news that Steven Gerrard has been appointed as the new Aston Villa manager. The guys explain why they think it's a great move for both parties and what style of play they expect Gerrard to implement at Villa. Our Scottish football reporter Roddy Forsyth and ex-Scotland forward James McFadden tell us what this means for Rangers going forward and for Scottish football in general. Plus, Rangers fan Courtney tells us why many supports are feeling betrayed by Gerrard for leaving the club during the season. We discuss Scotland's World Cup qualifier against Moldova and the injury problems they're facing. And a year on from their infamous win over Serbia to qualify for Euro 2020, we hear from their manager Steve Clarke on what he thinks they've improved on over the last 12 months. Football correspondent John Murray drops by to give us the latest from the England camp ahead of their matches against Albania and San Marino, from which they need four points to qualify for Qatar. Gareth Southgate shares his thoughts on Harry Kane's form and Upson tells us why he thinks some players have struggled for form after the Euros. And ahead of Wales' crucial games against Belarus and Belgium, Collins tells us what it would mean for Gareth Bale to win his 100th cap and why he thinks Aaron Ramsey needs to leave Juventus for the benefit of his international career. TOPICS 01.49 - Reaction to Villa appointing Gerrard 07.44 – Roddy and McFadden on where Rangers go from here 10.49 - Rangers fan Courtney 14.54 – Is Moldova a must-win game for Scotland? 17.13 - Steve Clarke on Scotland improvements over last year 20.22 - John Murray on England 22.00 - Gareth Southgate on Harry Kane 28.48 - Wales' hopes for Bale and Ramsey

For most people, the old saying "it's good to be king" is just a cool phrase -- but for magician and noted spinner of tall tales Otto Witte, this sounded like an idea to take literally. In today's episode, the guys explore how one man (maybe) managed to con the entire nation of Albania into believing he was their king... and got away with it for a week. If, in fact, it actually happened. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Professor Lea Ypi reflects on her childhood years, which witnessed the final years of communism in Albania and the fraught transition to capitalist democracy. In conversation with Rob Attar, she also considers what these experiences have taught her about the true nature of freedom.(Ad) Lea Ypi is the author of Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Penguin, 2021). Buy it now from Waterstones:https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-viewingguide&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Ffree%2Flea-ypi%2F9780241481851 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The story of Zjermi, Handa, the dragon Kuchedra, and about a hundred naked armpit angels from Albania. When it comes to the creature this week, look, we all need our "me" time, just don't transform your children into sleepy foxes to get it. -- Sponsors: Headspace: Get one month free of their entire meditation library at http://headspace.com/legends! Bombas: Get 20% off your first order at http://bombas.com/legends Simplisafe: Get 20% off your entire new system and your first month of monitoring service free at http://simplisafe.com/legends Laithwaites Wine: Get six amazing bottles of wine, two bonus bottles, and two stemless wine glasses for $49.99 plus tax with free delivery! Just text MYTHS to 6400 -- Music: All music by Blue Dot Sessions See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.