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			<title>Sam Vaknin - A more sophisticated Stevov</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:30:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Name is a name - Again</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:09:44 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>http://movies.broadwayworld.com/article/A_Name_Is_a_Name_Premieres_at_Masonic_Temple_Theatre_911_20100825 
 
Xoste.</description>
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Xoste.</div>

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			<title><![CDATA["Macedonian" chief killed by "Macedonian" woman]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:48:54 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Maktruth propagandists try to convince us that Todor Dimitrov,(better known by his nickname Panitza) was a "Macedonian" chief that was assasinated in...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Maktruth propagandists try to convince us that Todor Dimitrov,(better known by his nickname Panitza) was a &quot;Macedonian&quot; chief that was assasinated in Vienna by a &quot;Macedonian&quot; woman,Mancia Karniciu:<br />
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<img src="http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo321/zratak/the_washington_post-19250510-page02.png" border="0" alt="" /><br />
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    But how much  Macedonian where both Dimitrov-Panitza and Karniciu?<br />
  <font face="&amp;quot"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mencha_Karnicheva" target="_blank">Manca Karniciu (or Karnicheva) was of Vlach origin</a>:<br />
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<img src="http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo321/zratak/carnic1.gif" border="0" alt="" /><br />
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</font>    And Dimitrov-Panitsa was Bulgarian:<br />
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<img src="http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo321/zratak/carnic2.gif" border="0" alt="" /><br />
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And probably he had some Albanian origin too.His name was <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=el&amp;tbo=1&amp;tbs=bks%3A1&amp;q=Im+Fr%C3%BChjahr+1925+wurde+Todor+Arnautovic+Panizza+von+Mencia+&amp;btnG=%CE%91%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=" target="_blank">Todor Arnautovic Panitza</a>...doesn't Arnautovic mean &quot;son of the Albanian&quot;?<br />
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<img src="http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo321/zratak/panitsa.gif" border="0" alt="" /><br />
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    &quot;Dennoch erschoß <i>im Frühjahr </i><i>1925</i> im Wiener Burgtheater die Frau des VMRO-Führers Ivan Mihajlov, <i>Mencia</i>Karniciu, den makedonischen Politiker <i>Todor Arnautovic Panizza'&quot;</i><br />
(Also in spring of 1925 the wife of the VWRO leader Ivan Mihailov shot at the Vienna Burg Theater the Macedonian politician Todor Arnautovic Panizza).<br />
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However this &quot;Macedonian&quot; politician was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todor_Panitsa#cite_ref-1" target="_blank">born in Oryahovo,near the Danube</a>:<br />
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Just look where Oryahovo located is:<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryahovo" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryahovo</a></div>

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			<title>Review Ordered Into Controversial FYROM School Books</title>
			<link>http://www.macedonians.com.au/forum/showthread.php?11727-Review-Ordered-Into-Controversial-FYROM-School-Books&amp;goto=newpost</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:53:05 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[http://www.eurasiareview.com/201008237338/review-ordered-into-controversial-macedonia-school-books.html 
 
Macedonia's Education Ministry had ordered...]]></description>
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Macedonia's Education Ministry had ordered an urgent review of school  textbooks amid widespread criticism of their quality - just a week  before the start of the new academic year.    Review boards will begin assembling on Monday to launch a month-long  inquiry into the standard of the books' content, Nikola Todorov said.<br />
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He told local broadcaster A1 TV: &#8220;We have to start pinpointing those who made mistakes.&#8221;<br />
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The  revision comes amid a series of widely reported flaws in the New  Elementary School Society textbook for primary school pupils which had  been approved by the state.<br />
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<b>FYROMacedonian pop stars and celebrities  were portrayed as distinguished cultural figures</b> *<br />
and former government  ministers and ambassadors to the country were wrongfully included as  present office holders.<br />
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The book is being rewritten on the orders of the education ministry.<br />
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Other  state-approved textbooks have also been slammed, including a physics  book which gave a wrong description of ions and allegedly contained  pictures illegally copied from Croatian manuals.<br />
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Todorov said two out of three members of a board who assessed it had voted for it to be approved.<br />
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The  textbooks for fifth grade students are to be reviewed by the National  Commission for Textbooks, the Bureau for Educational Development and  experts at faculties across the country, he said.<br />
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The opposition  Social Democrats have called for Todorov's resignation, but he has  insisted he was not directly to blame for the mistakes.<br />
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Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has not commented on the controversy.<br />
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* Well.. thats all they got really. ;P<br />
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Did nobody check the History books??<br />
Im sure there is gold there to..</div>

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			<title>Wrong Map</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:03:41 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia 
 
This has a wrong map. 
Good if someone replaces it with the real bordes, cause it would leave most of FYRoM...</description>
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This has a wrong map.<br />
Good if someone replaces it with the real bordes, cause it would leave most of FYRoM out of the black highlight!.<br />
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Cmon!, get on it! ;)</div>

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			<title>bulgar-slav-onskis on an al-jazeera european blog</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:21:30 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>http://blogs.aljazeera.net/europe/2010/08/18/macedonia-ancient-name-modern-dispute 
 
Posting the usual crap they post. Need more posts to counter...</description>
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Posting the usual crap they post. Need more posts to counter their false claims and fantasies.</div>

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			<title>Macedonian media – a muddle serving the interests of power</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:41:05 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The brutal dismissal at the end of July of five journalists from one private Macedonian TV station has sparked a heated debate about the government's...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>The brutal dismissal at the end of July of five journalists from one private Macedonian TV station has sparked a heated debate about the government's political and economic influence on the media.<br />
  The TV station Kanal5 is owned by the son of a prominent politician from the governing coalition, Boris Stojmenov. The station tried to justify the sackings by the economic crisis and the need to save money. But the explanations failed to silence suspicions that the request for the journalists' dismissal originated in the cabinet of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, because of their alleged closeness to the socialist opposition.<br />
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                Macedonian TV: it is hard to say who owns what and who is capable of pulling strings (Photo: Dnevnik/Macedonia)<br />
<ul><li><a href="mailto:debate@euobs.com">Comment article</a></li>
</ul>                      A lack of transparency in the media is probably the biggest problem. Cross media ownership of broadcasting stations and newspapers is illegal but it is widely assumed that coalition politicians and close relatives are, at least indirectly, in simultaneous control of print and electronic media anyway.<br />
  The political parties are not willing to introduce a tighter regime because that would mean they would have to give up valuable power tools. This had led the industry into open crisis. Most journalists in Macedonia are poorly paid and they do not enjoy social benefits. The three daily publications of the German WAZ Media Group and the bilingual Albanian-Macedonian TV channels Alsat-M and Alfa are exceptions.<br />
  In an interview for the Dnevnik daily, Aidan White, Secretary-General of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), said: &quot;The lack of transparency is a scandal for democracy. Politicians may talk about building democracy, publish declarations on human rights and honesty, but not to have full transparency of their interests in the media is unacceptable. The two major problems for the media in Macedonia and other countries in the region are political interference and a lack of good laws that would regulate the media market.&quot;<br />
  &quot;The media have a responsibility to be even more transparent than other businesses,&quot; Mr White said. &quot;If they want credibility, it should be publicly known who they are and where the money comes from.&quot;<br />
  Macedonian experts agree the problem is first and foremost one of implementation. Communications expert Klime Babunski points out that the Broadcasting Law calls for ownership to be laid open. In theory it is impossible to get a licence without submitting a clear ownership structure. But ambiguities and loopholes in the law leave a wide space for manipulation.<br />
  &quot;The government has a political and economic interest to tolerate such a chaos in the media. Since the first Broadcasting Law in 1997 things have worsened instead of improving,&quot; Mr Babunski said. Regulative measures promised by the Broadcasting Council last year have failed to materialise.<br />
  Zoran Stefanovski, the president of the Broadcasting Council, concedes that a special law on media ownership would be helpful. He also agrees that the IFJ's Mr White is correct in identifying the most pressing problems in the media sector, including political support being bought through government-sponsored advertising and political and enonomic pressures on journalists. <br />
  &quot;An additional problem is that for print media there is no regulation at all. We don't have a law for the media as most European and countries in the region have,&quot; he said.<br />
  According to Zaneta Trajkovska, the director of the Macedonian School of Journalism and Public Relations, legislation without implementation is useless. Journalists themselves were hesitant whether or not to press for a new law, she said: &quot;We need to seriously discuss the advantages and disadvantages. Such a law will set out both the rights and the responsibilities of journalists and media owners. The journalistic scene must not be afraid of pressures - they will not occur if we have a strong association of journalists or self-regulatory body.&quot;<br />
  In its annual progress reports on Macedonia, the European Commission regularly pays special attention to the media, criticising them for being subject to political interference. So far, these critical remarks from Brussels have not had any substantial impact in Macedonia itself.<br />
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I don't know whether all what this guy wrote is true or...]]></description>
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I don't know whether all what this guy wrote is true or not,after all in Salonica are gathered people from every part of Macedonia and one can certainly meet people that speak Slavomacedonian,however I'm 100% sure about one thing.The little girl that asked money  (if this story is true) was certainly of Roma origin,I've seen myself many times children asking money at traffic lights in Salonica and all of them are Roma.But the only Roma people in Salonica that could understand Slavomacedonian are Gypsies that come from Bulgaria.After the entrance of Bulgaria to EU,many Bulgarian Gypsies cross the Greek borders looking for work,especially in the adjacent regions of Serres,Drama,Salonica e.t.c.:<br />
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