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We’ll
change the world
America needs a new guide.
We all are part of the success of
each-other, for as many Americans prosper, the more does America prosper.
We’ll make 2.000.000 new employments.
Taxes will be one third lower than
under President Reagan.
I’ll give end to the war in Iraq, so
that we might not pay anymore 10 billion dollars a month.
I’ll reestablish our moral position so
that America might be the last best hope on earth.
America is the country that permitted
our parents and grand parents to believe that even
if they couldn’t go to college they could save a few money
so that they children might go.
In America, our destiny isn’t written
for us, but by us.
By Barack Obama
President of the USA
It is a key moment in history. We have
to face an economical crisis, the worst one.
760.000 employers have lost their job during this year. Business and families
cannot have a credit. The price of the houses is decreasing and pensions are
disappearing. The wages are the lowest of these last ten years, while the cost of healthcare
and colleges are higher than ever.
If we’ve learned something from this economical crisis, it’s that we’re all sinking in it.
From ECO to its joint-stock, from financers to factory employees, we’re all
part of the success of each other for as many Americans prospers,
the more does America prosper. That’s why we have giants of industry who’s mission is to pay their
employees enough to be able to by what they produce - businessmen like Warren
Buffet. That’s why our economy wasn’t just the creator of greatest richness
in the world, it is the greatest originator of
employment. It was the wave that lifted up the ships of the biggest middle
class in the history.
In order to rebuilt this class I will
offer a rest from taxes for 95% of the families. If you work, pay taxes and
gain less than 200.000 dollars, you’ll have lower taxes. If you gain more
than 250.000 dollars, you’ll still pay less than in 1990, one third lower
than during the presidency of Reagan.
We’ll make 2.000.000 new jobs by rebuilding
our infrastructure and extending internet lines all over the country.
I’ll make an investment of 15 billion
of dollars a year during the next ten years for renewing energy, well paid jobs that favor the ambient, that do not drain
and help us ending our dependency on the oil from Middle East. As far as
healthcare is concerned we don’t have to choose between a state system and a
system we cannot afford that we already have. I’ll make the healthcare system
affordable and achievable for every American. If you already have a health
insurance, the only change you’ll see in my program is lower premium. If not,
you’ll be able to have the same service that the members of the Congress
have. In order to give to every child a world level education, so that they
might run in this global economy for jobs of the 21st century, I’ll invest in
the early education of children and will employ an army of new teachers. Yet
I’ll ask for high standards and account. We’ll make a deal with every young
American; if you dedicate yourself at the service of your community or
country, we guarantee that you’ll be able to pay your education.
When it comes to the defense of this
country, I’ll give end to the war in Iraq in a responsible way so that we
might stop paying 10 billion dollars a month, while Iraq stands over a giant
super production. For the good of our economy, our army and the long term
stability of Iraq, it is time that the Iraqi decide
for themselves. I’ll give end to the war to Bin Laden and the terrorists of
Al Qaeda who attacked on September 9, I’ll build new partnerships in order to
overcome ties of the 21st century and reestablish our moral position so that
America might become the last best hope on earth. None of this will be easy.
It won’t happen within a night. But I think we can make it because I believe
in America. This is the country that made our parents and grandparents
believe that even if they couldn’t go to college, they could save a little
every week so that their children might go to college, for even if they
didn’t have their business, they could work as much as it was needed for
their children to start their own business. Every moment of our history he
had to face challenges for we’ve never forgotten the fundamental truth that
in America our destiny isn’t written for us but by us.
Together, we’ll change this country
and the world.
Fragments from the “Wall Street
Journal”
The
crime has no color
 The crime has no
color and flourishes when the State is inefficient. This is the only
definition for the history of the citizen Mehmet Mehmeta,
alias Spiro Kosta, born on January 26, 1961. He was
coming from a persecuted family, and Mehmet, of course was not content of the
communist regime of Enver Hoxha,
that ruled with a cruel hand for 45 year in Albania. He was part of all the
democratic movements in Albania, since the beginning of 1990, just like many
other young democratic people of Shkodra at the
time. Mehmet followed convinced the steps of his grandfather, who was
sentenced with 25 years of imprisonment for political motives in 1948 and got
a conditional in 1958. After two years the family of Mehmet Mehmeta was deported in Torovice
for 8 years. While his uncle, Dilaver Mehmeta, escaped in 1982, as he couldn’t suffer the
terrible communist pressure, Mehmet and his wife attempted to escape on July
15, 1990, and as they couldn’t make it, they were openly condemned in a
meeting called by the communists in the neighborhood. Since the first days of
democracy, the family of Mehmet Mehmeta was
involved in the Democratic Party, as the only hope for democracy in the
beginning of 1990. The family of Mehmet Mehmeta
paid dearly all their activity, with menaces of physical elimination, while
on April 12, 1990, at 23.15 there was placed explosive. They were safe for
miracle with great damages of their house. In these hard conditions of
continuous threats of life, Mehmet Mehmeta and his
family had to leave Albania. The criminal groups who menaced Mehmet Mehmeta, were economically empowered during the 8 years
of socialist government, and increased terror over their relatives in
Albania. They wanted to finish at any price their criminal act of eliminating
them physically. The criminals, with political and financial power, begun to
menace Donika Mehmeta,
the sister of Mehmet Mehmeta. They wanted to know
at any price the address of her brother, but Donika
didn’t give up, no matter the threats, as she didn’t want her brother to be
in danger again. The pressure over the relatives of Mehmet Mehmeta in Albania are continuous, even in these
days, after 2005. The first days of this week, unidentified persons met again
Donika, Mehmet’s sister, and asked again about his
address, but she didn’t tell so they mistreated her. The situation of life
safeness in Albania and in Shkoder isn’t yet at the necessary level. The
first days of November, there was an attempted attack for revenge in Shkoder,
and the police was accused to be involved. The suspicious murder of Kosta Trebicka, the key witness
of the “Gerdeci” process, is another
evidence that criminal groups continue their activity and they often
are supported by the police in their criminal acts. Even the reports of Donika, Mehmet’s sister, were not considered, and she
found support only in the Media. The lack of safety in Albania is in very high
levels and the return of Mehmet Mehmeta in Albania,
like for many others, equals to announced death penalty. Who can take such a
decision and assume such a responsibility?!
Fatime Kulli
Fear
from the gun of revenge
 His name is Gezim Bajram Mustafa and is
only 22 years old. He was born on June 25, 1986, in the village Kcar i Siperm of the
municipality of Gruemire of Malesi
e Madhe. He is the only son amongst 6 sisters in
the family Mustafa, and was grown in poverty and misery in that deep in the
mountains forgotten village, during the years of great democratic changes
after the fall of the communist dictatorship of Enver
Hoxha. Three years after Gezim’s
birth, on November 30, 1989, Bajram Mustafa, the
husband of Qamile and father of 7 kids, died of a
serious illness, leaving back a seriously hard economical
situation and also an enmity of blood-feud… The fatality came the afternoon
of August 13, 1980, when Bajram was 39 years old.
He was hunting with Sokol Qerimi
(Zenelaj), a friend of him, in the dense forest, to
feed their families. They had licensed hunting guns, as they were also
shepherds of the village and there were numerous wild animals in the forest
near by the houses of the village. There was never known what really
happened, but the inhabitants heard two shots followed by the terrible scream
of Bajram calling for help. The scene was terrible.
Sokol was lying dead while Bajram
was bitterly crying for his neighbor. Though the family of Sokol Qerimi lost their dear,
they asked the State not to condemn Bajram. The
wound was considered healed, but the three sons of Sokol
were still doubtful. The democratic changes brought back the terrible ritual
of blood-feud. As the State was falling, the phenomenon was assuming great
dimensions. Many murders for blood-feud shocked the region of Malesi e Madhe. Someone
reminded the family of Sokol Qerimi
that the son of Bajram Mustafa was growing. Qamile, a strong woman, mother of 7 kids, without any
support, left Kcar and was established in Koplik. She felt her son was in danger and she decided to
defend him, the light of her eyes, at any cost. Somebody had asked about Gezim Mustafa and since that day he wasn’t seen anymore
at the school. A man’s voice warned Qamile on 27
June 2006, about the danger menacing her son. The relatives of Sokol Qerimi had broken their
promise and asked for revenge. Their guns was ready to shoot on the 20 years
old Gezim Mustafa, who had never the chance to know
his father, yet had to be killed because of a damned article of the unwritten
canon of the mountains. Concerned for the life of her son, with the help of
her married daughters, she could send Gezim, not
without pain, abroad, where freedom and life is guaranteed by law. He can
never come back in his birthplace, near his dear family. He might never see
his mother Qamile again, who spends her days in
tears missing her son. But here’s the unmerciful gun awaiting
for him, in the name of an unpaid “debt”. Only during these 10 months there
were 12 murders in the county of Shkoder, and they were all for revenge. How
long will it take, without any certainty of life, without any future?
Rifat
Ymeri
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