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Unione Cattolica incontra il Presidente albanese Ilir Meta
Unione Cattolica incontra il Presidente albanese Ilir Meta
https://unione-cattolica.org/unione-cattolica-incontra-il-presidente-albanese-ilir-meta/
09.04. - 13.04.2017 | Valbona Valley - Albania
We stay @one of the best rivers on the european continent. The incredible valbona. Nearly 35 Kilometers of cristal clear class III to VI white water. On the last picture you see one of the construction sides of the waterpower projects in this beautiful valley. In the next years lot´s of rivers of balkan will be deconstructed, blocked by dams or like at valbona stopped to collect the water inside a mountain. All to organize the change to “green” energy. Setting rivers and valleys dry or change them into big death lakes isn´t green! It´s all about profit so fuck that. There would be good ways to change the production of power more “green”, for example dezentralisation….. We hope that the people in the valleys will not be quiet and fight with us for this paradises!
Die Valbona bietet Traumwildwasser auf nahezu 35 Kilometern. Im Rahmen der sog. “grünen” Energiewende soll, wie viele andere Flüsse, auch die Valbona in Zukunft saubere Energie produzieren. Flüsse wie die Valbona auszutrocknen, in stollen umzuleiten oder aufzustauen hat mit “Grüner” nichts zu tun. Die Maßnahmen schaden den Menschen vor Ort, dem Tourismus und dem Sport. Wir hoffen dass die Menschen im Tal nicht ruhe geben sondern gemeinsam für eine gute Lösung kämpfen. Dezentrale Projekte wären problemlos möglich. Die kapitalen Interessen fordern natürlich anderes.,….
Psikologet justifikojne injorancen e tyre dhe helmin e shoqeris duke kritikuar preferencat muzikore te adolishenteve!
Psikologet shqipetare e kan gjetur arsyejn se pse rinia Shqipetare ka nje mentalitet kaq kriminal. Pse rinia Shqipetare eshte kaq agresive!
Arsyeja eshte Hip-Hopi!
Rinia shqipetare degjon muzik hip hop dhe si pasoj mer kallashnikovin dhe vret shoket e ti. Dhe nese nuk e besoni, ngjarja ne Kosove mes disa rreperave analfabet e verteton kete.
Injoranca e intelectit shqipetare me acaron pa mas.
Si ka mundesi qe keta psikolog flasin vetem sa per te kaluar rradhen. Si ka mundesi qe nuk mundohen te gjejne nje shpjegim te vertet.
Kemi pushkatime dhe pordhunime ne familje. Kemi shkolla ku korrupsion hedh valle. Kemi nje kuvend ku, tegjith depudetet jan 100 here me kriminel se rreperet (ky fakt vertetohet nga akuzat e tyre me njeri tjeterit). Nderkohe psikologet thone qe muzika i ka fajet.
Ku isha adoleshent ketu ne Angli ja u kam q* kopt tegjith "shokeve" ne shkoll. Por nuk kam shkuar ne shtepi te kap kallashnikovin! Ketu ne Angli kemi repper me te fort se ne shqiperi. Repperet shqipetare jan aq te dobet sa qe kur shajne shajne ne gjuhe te huaj, ndersa ne kemi rrepper si Eminem, qe edhe maman e tij e ka share. Dhe, sic thash, as nje nga "armiqt" e mi nuk ka vrar njeri.
Si ka mundesi? Si ka mundesi qe, as nje njeri nuk hidhet nga ballkoni kur shikon SuperMan? Si ka mundesi qe babai vret te birin dhe pse illull ka Gezim Niken? Si ka mundesi qe nena pordhunon bejen e saj, e perdor ate si prostitut kur nena nuk degjon muzik hip hop?
A mos ndoshta problemi eshte me serioz
Albania - 10 things you should know!
10(+1) Things you should know about Albania
Friendly Albanians
Albanians on the whole are one of the friendliest and most curious people we have met. Go anywhere and you will be greeted by the younger people with the English they have just learnt at school or the older people will ask in either German or Italian (maybe even Greek in the southern parts) where you are from. In almost every case they will have some relative living in Melbourne, Australia!
There are no bus schedules
OK there are some bus schedules in the major towns, but predominantly there is a random service that leaves when full from departure points only known to locals and even then they are not sure. Arriving in one town the driver had to tell us and the 12 other locals on the bus that the journey was over. The one positive for the buses are that they are cheap, the negatives could fill a whole page on their own.
Rubbish
Albanian is filthy. It is a blight on both Albanians and the human race as a whole that people could take such abundant natural beauty and systematically destroy it with rubbish, or when the rubbish becomes too much even for the Albanian, the fires they set to try and either burn or melt the rubbish. The water isn't drinkable, most beaches are non swimmable and every available space is used as a rubbish dump. No site is immune, as the castle of Berat, which is UNESCO world heritage listed is a dumping ground for expired medical waste. Just walk to the back, peer over the wall and be dismayed.
Bad drivers
According to statistics, Albanians are only just worse than the average European driver. Statistics lie, and in this case this couldn't be more apparent. Find a blind corner, overtake. See a speed limit, accelerate. Drink and drive? Yes please. Pedestrian crossing? Swerve if you feel generous at the last minute. Red light? A mild suggestion to slow down. Mobile phone rings whilst you are driving? Put down your child, close your bottle of Raki and take the call. Pedestrians 10 points, cyclists 20 and other motorists 25. Bonus points for being on your mobile so steering with one hand when the kill is made. Only a slight exaggeration.
Food
Here's a challenge. Find a restaurant that serves Albanian national food. Burek, giro, baklava will all be passed off by Albanians as the national food, they aren't. Leave the Turks and Greeks to fight that battle. So you are left with 'fast food', burgers, pizza and all sorts of junk that is served up everywhere you go. When I am watching the sun set over the med, I want slow food, good luck finding it.
Local beer
Albanians make several very drinkable local ales, Tirana and Korsch being amongst them, yet in 75% of the places you go you will be told they don’t stock these local beers and be offered Tuborg, Amstel of one of a dozen German brews. If I want pizza I'll go to Italy, if I want German beers I'll go to Germany! Why are you offering them to me in Albania? Oh and if I get offered one more Corona.. there will be a beer related death in Albania and it wont be mine.
Make your own bed
Every hotel you stay in when travelling Albania will expect you make your own bed. Sheets etc will be provided. Hospital corners please.
Mercedes Benz
When Enva Hoxcha died they either gave every Albanian a Mercedes Benz as a freedom present or what you hear about all the stolen Mercedes in Europe coming to Albania must be true. We did a vox popoli and the worst result we came up with was that 36% of every car in Albania was a Mercedes Benz. An impressive result from a country where donkeys are still a mode of transport and you can get free to air porn.
Albania isn't cheap
Anyone coming to Albania and expecting the prices of the Czech Republic in the 90's or some Sth East Asian country will be sorely disappointed. Albania is part of Europe and the prices are European to match. Our cheapest hotel room? €18, whilst a fish dinner will set you back between €8 and €10. Not outrageous numbers, but not cheap, especially not when compared to other countries at this level of development.
Whats to see?
Albania has a very limited amount of things to see, and what there is has usually been either overdeveloped or polluted to the point of making you think 'What the hell did I just spend 8 hours on a bus for?'. In 2011 Lonely Planet listed Albania as the No.1 country to visit in the world. All I can say after transversing the country from north to south over several weeks is that the LP writers must have been on some strong drugs the day they made that decision. We read a 2007 LP on Albania and wherever it talks about unspoilt or undeveloped Albania we just stand amongst the rubble or trash, or in some cases dead animals and wonder how such catastrophe could have occurred in 5 years. I think the LP class of 2011 must have gone to somewhere else by accident..Thinking it was Albania...
Honourable mentions
Albanians let there country become a trash heap, but.... inside there own homes, their cars or their personal appearance.. no effort is spared. There are more car washes in Albania per capita than any country I have visited, the young women of Albania give their Italian counterparts a serious run for their money, especially if we are talking 1980's fashion and finally, their houses are clean, but they are furnished mainly garish brown over the top Florentine if the 57 furniture shops in a 10kms stretch of road into Torina was anything to go by.
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