Victims Unite: 2026

Pity the nation that raises not its voice except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero and aims to rule the world by force and by torture

Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own and no other culture

Pity the nation whose breath is money and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed

Pity the nation — oh pity the people who allow their rights to erode and their freedoms to be washed away

My country, tears of thee Sweet land of liberty!

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Brothers in Arms

(CNN) — Dozens of people were killed when Russia dropped at least nine bombs on a school building in southeastern Ukraine where they had taken shelter.

At least 31 people have been confirmed dead and another 48 are still unaccounted for after the attack on the building in Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region, which was being used as a shelter and a humanitarian aid distribution center, local governor Mykhailo Semikin said.

They were in a newly-built, EU-funded reinforced basement designed to withstand most strikes, Semikin said, but the massive force of the bombs caused the concrete structure to collapse and a fire broke out.

The shelter was built last year in an effort to keep classes going during wartime, but many civilians have since left as the fighting got closer to the village, and it is not currently used as a school. Instead, local authorities are using it as an administrative center and humanitarian hub.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky described the strike as “utterly horrific.”

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/02/politics/video/kaitlan-collins-white-house-prepare-for-possible-power-shift?cid=ios_app

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

But other than that….

I owe my Trump-supporting family and friends an apology. I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency and am still exhausted from the experience. But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than when:

He incited an insurrection against the government

Mismanaged a pandemic that killed nearly half a million Americans

Separated children from their families, and lost those children in the bureaucracy

Tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church

Tried to block all Muslims from entering the country

Got impeached, got impeached again

Had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history

Ppressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden

Fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia

Bragged about firing the FBI director on TV

Took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community

Diverted military funding to build his wall

Caused the longest government shutdown in US history

Called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate"

Lied 30,000 times

Banned transgender people from serving in the military

Ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions

Vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers

Refused to release his tax returns

Increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion

Had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history

Called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers

Coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist

Refused to concede the 2020 election

Hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House

Walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl

Called neo-Nazis “very fine people”

Suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID

Abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey

Pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans

Incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic

Withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords

Withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal

Withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block China’s advances

Insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter

Pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op

Failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies

Called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries

Called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation"

Claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere

Forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader

Believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe

Suggested the US should buy Greenland

Colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges

Repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people"

Claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases

Violated the emoluments clause

Thought that Nambia was a country

Told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public

Called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution

Nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet

Nominated a corrupt head of the EPA

Nominated a corrupt head of HHS

Nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department

Nominated a corrupt head of the USDA

Praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies

Refused to allow the presidential transition to begin

Insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death

Spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president

Falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote

Falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year

Considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions

Mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID

Locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones

Used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus"

Hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser

Pardoned several of his shady associates

Gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories

Got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!)

Had a Secretary of State who called him a moron

Forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history

Botched the COVID vaccine rollout

Tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him

Charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties

Constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate

Claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear

Called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas"

Used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise

Opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling

Got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers

Claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US

Ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings

Blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining

Redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle

Got played by Kim Jung Un and his “love letters"

Threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution

Botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

Threw paper towels and toilet paper at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them

Pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes

Thought that the Virgin islands had a President

Drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane

Allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing

Rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos

Pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID

Rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers

Held blatant campaign rallies at the White House

Tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a Black man

Refused to attend his successors’ inauguration

Nominated the worst Education Secretary in history

Threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted

Attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci

Ppromised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t)

Allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues

Struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble

Called an African-American Congresswoman “low IQ"

Threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders

Went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic

Claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts"

Seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution

Demanded “total loyalty” from the FBI director

Praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles

Completely gutted the Voice of America

Placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service

Claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower

Suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country

Suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public

Overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported

Reduced the number of refugees the US accepts

Insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames

Gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address

Named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties

Eliminated the White House office of pandemic response

Used soldiers as campaign props

Fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him

Demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade

Hired a ton of white nationalists

Politicized the civil service

Did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government

Falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts

Claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won

Insulted reporters of color and women reporters and women reporters of color

Suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uighurs

Attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him

Summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election

Spent countless hours every day watching Fox News

Refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas

Hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer

Tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him

Acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney

Attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault

Held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present

Didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media

Stopped holding press briefings for months at a time

"Ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power

Led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform

Claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers

Tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course

Suggested that the government nuke hurricanes

Suggested that wind turbines cause cancer

Said that he had a special aptitude for science

Fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure

Blurted out classified information to Russian officials

Tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida

Fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban

Hired Stephen Miller

Openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them

Interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel

Abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war

Tried to get Russia back into the G7

Held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden

Seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive

Lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated

Falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t

Shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies

Still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan

Still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks"

Forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID

Told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by"

F***ed up the Census

Withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic

Did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings"

Allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act

Seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican

Stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win

Constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump

Claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened

Said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake

Claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him

Claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President

Created a commission to whitewash American history

Retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain

Claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there

Hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims

Had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others

Bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties

Apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House

Stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians

Falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police

Said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about

Tried to rescind protection from DREAMers,

Gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic

Tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax

Said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states

Deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented

Claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln

Touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all

Retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile

Forced through security clearances for his family

Suggested that police officers should rough up suspects

Suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs

Tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender

Suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher

Nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy

Retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “F**k tha Police” at a campaign event

Hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags

Accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address

Claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia

Mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault

Was proven to be close friends with the biggest sexual predictor of young girls

Obsessed over low-flow toilets

Ordered the rerelease of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release

Called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek)

Hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech

Took advice from the MyPillow guy

Claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists

Said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure

Never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign

Falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent

Announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest

Insulted the leaders of Canada, France, Britain, imGermany, and Sweden!!

Falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues

Blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually

Continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders

Said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked

Left a NATO summit early in a huff

Stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that

Called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary

Refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise, and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.

But other than that.....

Monday, October 26, 2026

WE FELT IT AS CHILDREN

Quite possibly this will be our last chance, as human beings, to rediscover our birthright nature.

The meteors and missiles that will destroy us come from within our world’s and culture’s evil nature.

God gave each and every one of us the power to choose. Unconscious man’s evil mind (which chooses greed, war, poverty, and murder) are not of God‘s, or our - true nature.

The experience of presence in God‘s love, which is our true nature, is available to each and every one of us.

This experience of presence is not condoned nor supported by our culture of greed and hate.

Unfortunately, the powers in control of our world right now do not care to understand the essential essence of human nature.

Unconscious man’s mind and inhuman evil has always been thus.

Our “job” at this crucial time is to find our path to awakening to presence in God’s love.

We felt it as children. Then it was squelched by a culture that does not profit from celebrating or rejoicing in awakened children.

We will always be children of our true nature.

Simply remember the experience and let no one or government scare you, nor deprive you, of your true nature.

Godspeed! Look within! ❤️

John A Randolph

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Go BREWERS!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ZFcnHEJKq/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Saturday, October 24, 2026

Carl Sagan Legacy

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C6Ms5buLs/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Please listen to this!

And read this!

Humanity as Hunters and Foragers

I didn’t know what it was I was going to talk to you about tonight, and so I tried to pick a topic which was sufficiently broad and ambiguous that whatever I thought I would talk about would fit. However, what I’ve decided to talk about doesn’t fit. Well, maybe it does.

We humans have had civilization only for about 10,000 years. Our species is a few hundred thousand years old. Our genus, the genus Homo, is a few million years old. And therefore, for the vast bulk of our tenure on Earth, we were something other than sedentary. And the word has such an aura of self-congratulation, civilized. What were we?

We were hunters and foragers. We wandered in small, itinerant, extended families. And our knowledge of the hunt-and-gatherer lifestyle is due to a few courageous and far-seeing anthropologists who went and lived with the few remaining hunter-gatherer groups before they were finally and utterly destroyed by civilization.

The anthropologist from whom I learned the most about hunter-gatherers is actually here with us, Richard Lee of the University of Toronto. He studied a people, the Kung San of the Kalahari Desert in the Republic of Botswana.

And I want to just give a little flavor about my understanding of our ancestors from Richard Lee’s study of the Kung San. I want you to know I practiced before the mirror for about half an hour.

Technology: A Deeply Human Trait

The first thing that I think is very important is that they are highly technological. The technology is wood and stone and domestication of fire technology. But it’s absolutely technology. And there are experts and other people who are not quite as good at the technology. But not only are they technological for fun, they are technological because their lives depend upon it.

Chipping and flaking stone tools back before they had a little trickle of metal into their economy is very difficult to do. Of course, they did it superbly well. And the archaeological and anthropological record is clear that we were technologists all the way back to the beginning.

DJT Speaks of Jews

A rabbi's response to our President calling Jews "lacking knowledge and disloyal" if they vote Democratic:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ALbd93Xzf/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Rabbi Danny Maseng writes:

As a Jew

Since you called me out as a Jew, Mr. President, since you thought to call me disloyal or lacking knowledge by not voting for you, I’d like to respond to you personally, even though I have no illusions you will read this.

As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to love the stranger who dwells among us no less than thirty-six times in the Bible you claim to treasure. I am commanded to have one law for the stranger and the citizen. No exceptions.

As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to pay my employees on time, including undocumented workers at casinos, construction sites, or golf courses.

As a Jew, I am commanded to repay bank loans and investors.

As a Jew, I am commanded to never bear false witness.

As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to guard my tongue and speak no evil.

As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to never embarrass my fellow human being in public, lest I be accused of spilling their blood – including Ted Cruz or the late Senator and war hero, John McCain.

As a Jew, Mr. President, I take great offense in my president attacking Denmark, a country that gallantly saved its Jews from the Nazis, while most of Europe fell asleep.

As a Jew, Mr. President, I take umbrage in my Grandfather, the sainted Dr. Rabbi Harry S. Davidowitz, who inhaled poison gas in the trenches of WWI as a US Army chaplain, being called disloyal because he voted Democrat.

As a Jew, born and raised in Israel, I take offense at you calling me disloyal to America AND to Israel because I oppose your inept, ghoulish, uncouth, deceitful, inhumane farce of leadership. How many tours of duty have you performed for Israel during wartime? Or, for that sake, the USA?

As a Jew, Mr. President, I reserve the right to oppose Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (neither of whom called upon the help of a former KGB operative to help them in their election to office), while simultaneously condemning your divisive, racist rants and policies.

As a Jew who has proud Republican family members who I love and cherish, I am ashamed of what you have done to the Republican party; to conservative ideals – even if I do not share all of those ideals.

As a Jew whose Christian uncle fought heroically at the Battle of the Bulge for our country and for the salvation of Europe – I am ashamed by the mockery you visit upon his sacrifice.

As the son of a Christian pilot, later converted to Judaism, who led American pilots to glorious victory over Nazi Germany, I am outraged by your embrace of neo-Nazi’s and racists in America (that same pilot, who became a squadron commander in the Israeli Air Force, and fought for Israel’s independence).

As a Jew, I am disgraced by your fawning adoration of the worst dictators of our century – you violate Christian and Jewish values by doing so.

As a Jew; as a well-informed Jew who loves and cares deeply for Israel and for America, I condemn you and call you out for the divisive fool, the ogre, the ghoul that you are.

May my soul not enter your council, let me not join your assembly.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

The Scariest Part ….Isn’t the Chaos…

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C7ma3NyDP/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Humans’ Contracted Intelligence

Phillip Shepard’s powerful description of how humans have become unconscious to their own grace.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19g6eRT7fo/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Saturday, September 26, 2026

Annihilate or Deal?

Trump supports murder and corruption.

The majority of Americans know it. Yet he remains free?

Please listen to the below article!

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1MTHaJhWvL/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Saturday, September 19, 2026

US Corporate Oligarchy

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CZST1DY58/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Thursday, September 17, 2026

“On Stupidity “ D. Bonhoeffer

Why People Stop Thinking For Themselves

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Essay.

Presented by Lucas Bean Bean

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19MBjtfv8y/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Famous Last Words -Jane Goodall

https://youtu.be/lfLKHY52ERc?is=tH7TFDa8cdASNOvB

🙏♥️

Sunday, September 13, 2026

The fool that sits as president

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HBPyPiWtD/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Over the weekend, Republican Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNBC.

In response to a very general question regarding the Trump Presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two solid minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump Presidency has done to our great country.

“Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.”

"When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country who’s ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.”

"It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale."

"And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk.

H/T Clarence Tucker

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

That MoFo Still Alive?

Why?

Awaken The Mind

https://www.facebook.com/share/19UUryPUP5/?mibextid=wwXIfr

We must awaken the

mind through presence, love and

sensing what we are 🙏

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Go ALBANIAN on Trump

Communists, Nazi’s, ETC, ousted, these folks are going to boot Kushner and Trump too! Go Albanian on these psychopaths America!

Independence & Monarchy

November 28, 1912: Ismail Qemali declares Albania's independence from the Ottoman Empire in Vlorë.

1914–1918: Albania faces severe instability and foreign occupation during World War I.

1928: Ahmed Zog dissolves parliament and declares the country the Kingdom of Albania, ruling as King Zog I.

April 1939: Fascist Italy invades and occupies Albania, forcing King Zog to flee. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

Communist Era

November 29, 1944: Communist partisans led by Enver Hoxha take control of the country after German forces withdraw.

1946: The People's Republic of Albania is officially established as a hardline Stalinist state.

1967: Hoxha declares Albania the world's first officially atheist state, banning all public and private religious practice.

April 1985: Enver Hoxha dies after 41 years in power, leaving the nation severely isolated economically and diplomatically. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Modern Era

1990–1991: Student protests and civic unrest force the collapse of the communist regime, transitioning Albania into a multiparty democracy.

1997: A nationwide civil crisis erupts following the collapse of disastrous pyramid investment schemes.

April 2009: Albania officially joins NATO alongside Croatia.

2022: Albania begins formal accession negotiations to join the European Union as an official candidate country. [1, 2, 3, 4]

If you'd like to explore further, let me know if you want to focus on:

The Ottoman period and Skanderbeg
Enver Hoxha's communist regime
Modern EU integration and economy

BBC

Albania profile - Timeline * A chronology of key events: * 1939 - Shortly before the start of World War Two, Italy invades. King Zog flees to Greece

Britannica

The new state lasted until November 1944, when the Germans—who had replaced the Italian occupation forces following Italy's surrender in 1943—withdrew from Alba...

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Key Facts * Albania's territory was home to the Illyrians, an ancient Indo-European people, before being conquered by Rome in 167 BCE. * Ottoman rule

Office of the Historian (.gov)

Summary. U.S.-Albanian diplomatic relations, first established in 1922, were interrupted when Italy took control of Albania's foreign affairs in 1939. After Ita...

ConstitutionNet

Table_title: Timeline Table_content: | 1506 | Albania falls under control of the Ottoman Empire | | --- | --- | | 1878 | Albanian League of Prizen is founded |

Polyglot Club

Table_title: Albania Timeline Table_content: | Date | Event | | --- | --- | | 1912 | Ismail Qemal Bej declares the independence of Albania and becomes head of t...

Wikipedia

Albania declared independence in 1912, followed by a turbulent 20th century marked by monarchy, foreign occupation during both World Wars, and a communist regim...

U.OSU

Principality of Albania: The first recognized government of an independent Albania with the German prince William Wied as the ruler. This government lasted for

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1939 - Shortly before the start of World War Two, Italy invades. King Zog flees to Greece.

1940 - Italian army attacks Greece through Albania.

1941 - Enver Hoxha becomes head of new Albanian Communist Party.

1943 - German forces invade and occupy Albania following Italian surrender.

1944 - Germans withdraw after Communist resistance. Enver Hoxha installed as new leader.

1945 - Tribunals begin against thousands of "war criminals".

1946 - Purges of non-communists from government positions.

1948 - Albania breaks ties with Yugoslavia. Soviet Union begins economic aid to Albania.

1950 - Britain and US back landings by right-wing guerrillas, who fail to topple communists.

1955 - Albania becomes a founding member of the Warsaw Pact.

Isolationist state

1961 - Albania allies itself with China, after Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations over ideological rift.

1967 - Violent clampdown on religious activity. Albania declared the world's first atheist state.

1968 - Albania withdraws from Warsaw Pact over Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.

1978 - China ends economic and military aid to Albania after relations become strained by China's reconciliation with the US.

1985 - Hoxha dies, replaced by Ramiz Alia.

Political upheavals

1989 - Communist rule in Eastern Europe collapses. Ramiz Alia signals changes to economic system.

1990 - Independent political parties formed. Albanians granted right to travel abroad. Thousands try to flee through Western embassies.

Thousands more seize ships at port and sail illegally to Italy.

1991 - In multiparty elections, the Communist Party and allies win 169 of the 250 seats, the newly-formed Democratic Party takes 75.

General amnesty for political prisoners. First opposition newspaper published.

Alia re-elected president. Prime Minister Fatos Nano resigns after protests at economic conditions and killing of opposition demonstrators.

New government headed by Vilson Ahmeti.

1992 - Democratic Party wins elections. Party leader Sali Berisha, a former cardiologist, becomes first elected president. Aleksander Meksi is prime minister.

1993 - Ex-communist leaders, including Fatos Nano and Ramiz Alia, convicted and jailed for corruption.

Anger on streets

1994 - National referendum rejects new constitution which opponents said allowed president too much power.

1995 - Alia released from prison following appeal-court ruling.

1996 - Democratic Party general election victory tainted by accusations of fraud.

1997 - Leka, son of late King Zog, returns from exile in bid to take throne. Referendum on restoration of monarchy fails. He is accused of trying to stir up an armed insurrection and goes back into exile.

Fraudulent pyramid investment schemes collapse, costing thousands of Albanians their savings and triggering anti-government protests.

Up to a million weapons are looted from army stores as angry mobs take to the streets.

Government resigns and Socialist-led coalition sweeps to power. Fatos Nano, now released from prison, returns as prime minister.

Sali Berisha resigns as president in wake of financial crisis. He is succeeded by Socialist leader Rexhep Mejdani.

Convictions of communist-era leaders overturned.

1998 - Escalating unrest in Kosovo sends refugees across border into Albania.

September - Violent anti-government street protests after prominent opposition Democratic Party politician, Azem Hajdari, shot dead by unidentified gunmen.

Prime Minister Fatos Nano quits. Former student activist, Pandeli Majko, named as new prime minister.

Refugee influx

1999 - Nato air strikes against Yugoslav military targets. In Kosovo thousands flee attacks by Serb forces. Mass refugee exodus into Albania.

October - Majko resigns as prime minister after losing Socialist Party leadership vote. 30-year-old Iler Meta becomes Europe's youngest prime minister.

2001 January - Albania and Yugoslavia re-establish diplomatic relations broken off during the Kosovo crisis in 1999.

2001 July - Ruling Socialist Party secures second term in office by winning general elections. Prime Minister Iler Meta forms a new coalition government in September.

2002 January - Prime Minister Iler Meta steps down after a growing dispute with Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano; he is succeeded by Pandeli Majko.

2002 June - Parliament elects Alfred Moisiu president after rival political leaders Nano and Berisha reach compromise, easing months of tension.

Royal family returns from exile.

2002 August - Fatos Nano becomes prime minister after the ruling Socialist Party decides to merge the roles of premier and party chairman. It is Nano's fourth time as premier.

Steps towards EU

2003 January - Albania and EU begin Stabilisation and Association Agreement talks, seen as possible first step in long road to EU membership.

2005 September - After two months of political wrangling, former president Sali Berisha emerges as the victor of July's general election.

2006 June - Stabilisation and Association agreement signed with EU.

2007 June - President George W Bush becomes the first US leader to visit Albania, highlighting its position as a close ally of Washington.

2007 July - Parliament elects ruling party chairman Bamir Topi president, after three failed rounds of voting made a snap election look like a distinct possibility.

2009 April - Albania officially joins Nato and formally applies for membership of the European Union. Albania is not expected to join the EU until 2015 at the earliest.

Berisha re-elected

2009 July - Sali Berisha's centre-right Democratic Party wins parliamentary elections by a narrow margin.

2009 November - Opposition Socialist Party begins series of demonstrations in Tirana in protest at alleged vote-rigging in the parliamentary election.

2010 May - Socialist leader Edi Rama calls for a campaign of civil disobedience to continue until government agrees to a partial recount of 2009 election.

2010 November - European Union rejects Albania's request for EU candidate status, but eases visa requirements for Albanians.

2011 January - Deadly clashes leave four anti-government protesters dead in demonstration about corruption and alleged election vote rigging outside the prime minister's office in Tirana.

2011 December - Former intelligence chief Ilir Kumbaro, wanted on torture charges in Albania, jumps bail and goes missing in London, where he had been hiding under a false name since 1996.

2012 November - The remains of former King Zog are repatriated to Albania from France, where he died in 1961.

2013 June - General elections. Opposition Socialist Party wins landslide victory.

2013 September - Socialist leader Edi Rama becomes prime minister.

Tensions with Serbia

2014 June - The European Commission recommends Albania as a candidate for European Union membership.

2014 November - Prime Minister Edi Rama's visit to Belgrade to mend bridges fails after he and Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic row publicly over Kosovo.

2015 March - Socialist government announces plan to privatise state oil company Albpetrol, two years after previous Democratic Party government shelved it.

2016 July - The governing Socialist Party and the opposition Democratic Party agree sweeping judicial reforms seen as key to moving towards accession talks with the EU.

2019 November - Albania is hit by the strongest earthquake to affect the country in more than 40 years, with 51 people killed and about 3,000 injured.

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