Nuk e dija qe kishte melodi polifonike edhe veriu. Per mua, kenget dhe vallet e veriut jane edhe me te hijshme. Ka edhe shume valle mjaft te bukura, por per fat te keq te regjistruara me cilesi te dobet.

Apparently though, these people have still not discredited themselves enough and they need to be continuously exposed as they try to reinvent themselves. Robert Spencer has earned himself considerable respect by just refusing to be bound by the chains of political correctness and voicing sound concerns over the rise of radical Islam. Impressed with that stance, people on the margins can come to treat him as an authority in every field. His connections must be exposed and discredited.

The danger of radical Islam is a simple truth. It’s not rocket science. Neither is the necessity to steer clear of national supremacist fascist groups, in this case, Serbian Ultra-Nationalist elements, who subvert the anti-jihadi agenda for their own gain.

If I(from an ex-communism country) might suggest some other topics for your nocommunism project these would be: Communism and its connections to terrorism. Italy’s Red Brigades and Greece’s “17 November” infamous terrorist groups who killed hundreds of innocent people including top reformist politicians, among others, are a vivid illustration. In Greece, and in many Latin American countries these groups are still very active and continue to kill. Besides revolutions which they consider legally accepted means to come into power, communists have resorted also to purely illegal and as antidemocratic as they could be, methods like terrorism.

One other facet which often now tends to be underestimated now is Communism virulence on interantional level. Being self-aware of how wierd communism is, it knows it needs more and more hosts to survive. It tends to spread like a virus until the whole body is taken and defense systems are dead. Lenis’s thory of the Interantional Revolution speaks by itself.

The third and may be last topic to bring forward is Communism as anti- patriotism, and by this is not meant the traditional old fashion nationalism. But communists have proven that their own country’s interests and wellbeing is without question to be subordinated or even sacrified on behalf of international solidarity and revolution. “Communists have no country”

I had no idea that he has blatantly mis-advertised his qualifications like that! That’s very shocking…

I could always tell he was presenting himself as far more knowledgeable than he really was (especially some of his analysis of Google’s business plan revealed that he had no idea how their adsense works) but if true, all these things you are telling me about him would really undermine any respect I still have for him.

I also noticed he saw nearly everything through a Keynesian lens, but I wasn’t sure whether that was because he didn’t know anything else, or just preferred Keynes above all else.

I am finishing up my degree right now. Taking my last exams through distance education. I am also working on my Senior Honour Essay, which will be a very non traditional approach to monetary policy. If you’re interested, I could forward it to you when it’s finished.

I love economics and I love math, but I have become increasingly convinced that they do not mix as well together as I’d like: i.e. mathematical models of economic phenomena are often so stunted that they’re practically useless for prediction purposes. … which is why I didn’t go the doctoral route in Economics.

Since I live in Manhattan, it will be good for me to get into the investment banking industry here. I also want to go to law school and get an MBA/JD soon.

So I’m more of a practical person. UCL is a good school. Don’t you find London outrageously expensive though? What do you plan to do after your PhD?

Tace care,

Kejda

thanks for responding to my comment. Sorry for taking some time to respond. I was on holidays. I am in London at UCL doing a PhD in economics, in macro/money. I think more people should open their eyes when it comes to what is being taught in Larry smith courses. Why I say he is a fraud is because he once told me that he has a PhD from Western and that he used to be a Professor at the Ivey School of Business at Western. Turns out he does not have a PhD and was lecturer (as he is at Waterloo) at Western. Since then, I was very careful about what he said to me and once I aaked him a question about Rational Expectations and what it was. His answer was “oh it is like animal spirits” What a bunch of BS. In fact, the more you talk to you, the more you find out that he is a very bad economists who knows very little about modern economics. He thinks that Keynesian economics is the answer to all of our problems (god have mercy on us!). I am glad I went to Waterloo because I met some very good professors who are also very good scholars. I am still in touch with Wirjanto and Lam and still find some of their lecture notes useful. What are you up to these days? Take care

Vic

As an Albanian I can attest that the risk of a rising of an intolerant brand of Islamist within Kosovo remains a possibility. In fact there are a number of Kosovars who already would love to see more Islam in their government and everyday life. But they are very few in number, certainly a smaller percentage than the neo-nazi sympathizers in Western Europe or white supremacists in the US.

Any careful and knowledgeable analysis would show that the chances of an intolerant Islam taking roots in Kosovo would increase tremendously if the Kosovars would have been forced to remain under Serbia.

Whether one agrees or not with Kosovo’s right for self-determination that is another issue. However to maintain that Kosovo should be denied independence because of the Islamist danger is a contradiction in itself.

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I understand your concern about trend now familiar in many Muslim societies around the world. However, as global as it seems, Islamist movements are usually based on local conditions and interests, rather than on the influence of some universal religious values.

I don’t have much to say about the Alawites, but in Turkey, the success of Erdogan was not based on his religious stance but in his ability to make common cause with democracy. The Kemalists are secular but that is not enough to win elections. Especially when secularity comes with failing public services, high corruption and an army that retains the right to overthrow a government that has been voted by the people.

The Islamist government of Erdogan has fared very well compared to its predecessors, but he is not the first Turkish Prime Minister in the recent years who comes to power from a religious party. A few years back, the leader of the Welfare Party, Necmettin Erbakan, became Prime Minister and was thrown out by an army intervention who ignored the fact that the people of Turkey had voted for him.

This intervention more than the cogency of the Islamists’ arguments has helped the Turkish electorate move closer to the religious forces. Had the army let Erbakan run its course as every government does eventually in a democracy, we would have not been so concerned today.

I am a fervent supporter of Turkish membership in EU, but the Kemalists should understand that a country where the army has the constitutional right to trump the will of the people has no place in Europe and should never do. They should read better the vote of their nation in the last electoral cycles and reinvent themselves.

I retain the ability to agree with Spencer some of the time and disagree with him on others. I didn’t say I didn’t have an opinion, just that I couldn’t speak for him, as in I am not willing to further speculate on his motivations.

I agree that lobbying to revoke Kosovo’s independence is not a matter of mere skepticism, and it certainly isn’t a ‘wait and see’ attitude that would sort of define a ’skeptic’.

In regards to ‘too close to the issue’ I wasn’t specifically referring to you in comparison to Jatras who is also clearly biased. I’m just saying that everyone who is for Serbia, or against Kosovar independence for any number of reasons isn’t automatically a Serbian stooge, or supportive of ethnic cleansing, or any other distasteful branding.

I thought the piece was informative, but I also thought it portrayed a very black and white picture of all dissenters and not just specifically Jatras/Spencer and ilk.

I apologize if I wasn’t clear in my previous post. I didn’t proof read it as well as I should have.