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Prince   
15 Jan 2009
Life / Illegal drugs enjoyed by many of the young male Poles. Availability? [24]

Amphetamine consumption in Europe

Lets have a look on Amphetamine production

drugscope.org.uk/newsandevents/newsarchivepages/november2005/cocaine-becoming-stimulent-drug-of-choice-for-many-young-europeans.htm

Globally, Europe remains the main centre of ecstasy production, although its relative importance is declining as ecstasy manufacture spreads to other parts of the world. Worldwide amphetamine production and seizures also remain concentrated in Europe. In 2003 amphetamine laboratories were uncovered in Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg (small-scale), the Netherlands, Poland and the UK.

Most amphetamine seized in 2003 originated in the Netherlands, followed by Poland and then Belgium. Around 82% of the total amount of amphetamine seized worldwide in 2003 was in Western and Central Europe. Quantities seized appear to have been on the increase since 2002.

Prince   
14 Jan 2009
History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]

During WW2 Britain made many promises to former colonies/allies.The Shan (Burma) are a good example of a people who fouight for UK. Lost many lives in barbaric ways to the Japanese. Expected Britain to support their claim for an independent homeland (It was obvious that the colonial era was ending and the Shan wanted their own sovereign state. Not just to be a minority race within a free Burma....A far worse situation than being a British colony to the Shan!) Britain promised them all this. After WW2 we granted Burmese independance without honouring our promises to the Shan.

heheh as I've said ...

From the other hand: alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13393939.htm

In his remarks, Olmert described his call to Bush while the U.S. president was giving a speech in Philadelphia.

"I said, 'I don't care. I have to talk to him now,'" Olmert said, describing Bush, who leaves office on Jan. 20, as "an unparalleled friend" of Israel.

Prince   
12 Jan 2009
UK, Ireland / Polish factory starts production in UK [7]

Well ... one more news.

thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/news/Factory-starts-production/article-584559-detail/article.html

The £40-million Can-Pack UK factory, on the site of the town's former MFI plant, will begin operating to produce up to 90-million cans a month.

Initially, the Polish-owned firm of Can-Pack UK, will operate a single line around the clock on the 36,000 square metre site on the Skippingdale Industrial Estate.

Prince   
12 Jan 2009
History / Mass Grave in Malbork [34]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes

Soviet war crimes refer to alleged serious crimes committed by the Red Army's (1918-1946, later Soviet Army) leadership and members of the Soviet armed forces from 1919 to 1990, including those in Eastern Europe late in World War II, especially murder and rape. No international court or Soviet / Russian tribunal has ever charged any member of the Red Army with war crimes.

Prince   
6 Jan 2009
History / Polish - Vikings relations [26]

You can find similar signs as on this coat of arms in different countries. Especialy in Sweden or Norway.

Or in different places... For example on Man Island

Which is even more similar to other Polish coat of arms - Drogomir.
Prince   
6 Jan 2009
News / No Way, No Apology! Poland has every right to support Georgia! [115]

BS. Why do you trust Russia more than EU members? That is the main problem. Lthuania pays already one of the highest prices in europe. Why Germany are against Nabucco pipe line which avoids Russia (goes throught Ukriane).
Prince   
5 Jan 2009
History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]

Well I've been telling diffenert things about English and it seems that once we were like their Scots...

To be honest we did't have much choice (country beetween Hitler and Stalin). We must remeber this lesson.
Prince   
5 Jan 2009
History / Malinowski - creator of the highest railways in the world Peru Andes [10]

Would you like to see photos?, I have many.

Sure :)

by the way ... there is another famous Malinowski.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Malinowski

Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (IPA: [ˌmaliˈnɔfski]; April 7, 1884 - May 16, 1942) was a Polish anthropologist widely considered to be one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century because of his pioneering work on ethnographic fieldwork, with which he also gave a major contribution to the study of Melanesia, and the study of reciprocity.

The First World War had broken out, and, as a Pole from Austria-Hungary in a British controlled area, Australian authorities gave him two options, to be exiled to the Trobriand islands or face internment for the duration of the war. Malinowski chose the Trobriand islands. It was during this period that he conducted his fieldwork on Kula and produced his theories of Participant observation, which are now key to anthropological methodology.

Apart from fieldwork, Malinowski also challenged common western views such as Freud's Oedipus complex and their claim for universality. He initiated a cross-cultural approach in Sex and Repression in Savage Society (1927) where he demonstrated that the complex was not universal.

;)

He stated that the goal of the anthropologist, or ethnographer, is:

to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world.

-Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Dutton 1961 edition, p. 25.
Prince   
5 Jan 2009
History / Malinowski - creator of the highest railways in the world Peru Andes [10]

poland.gov.pl/Ernest,Malinowski:,railroad,in,the,clouds,1981.html]

Polish engineer, Ernest Malinowski (1808 - 1899), was the originator and builder of the highest altitude railroad in the world. After the fall of the November Uprising (1830) he left for France, where he graduated from the elite Ecole des Ponts et des Chaussees and subsequently, in 1852, moved to Peru as an expert in the field of railroad construction.

Ernest Malinowski is regarded as a national hero in Peru. His achievement is immortalized by a monument on the Ticlio Pass.

Malinowski is among the most distinguished engineers, railway second half of the XIX century. Recorded in history as the creator of the highest railways in the world Peru Andes, then recognized as a miracle of technology, and as a pioneer in solving theoretical problems of the construction of bridges and tunnels

malinowski
Prince   
5 Jan 2009
Australia / Mount Kosciuszko the highest mountain in Australia [11]

Kościuszko fought for American and Polish independence.

So he is hero for both nations.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy

West Point was first occupied by the Continental Army on 27 Jan 1778,[19] making it the longest continually occupied post in the United States. Between 1778-1780, Polish engineer and military hero Tadeusz Kościuszko oversaw the construction of the garrison defenses. The high ground and a narrow "S" curve in the Hudson River enabled the Continental Army to prevent British ships from sailing up river and dividing the Colonies. The Great Chain was strung across the Hudson River in order to obstruct British ships from attempting to navigate the river

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Kościuszko

Prior to leading the 1794 Uprising, he had fought in the American Revolutionary War as a Colonel in the Continental Army. In 1783, in recognition of his dedicated service, he had been brevetted by the Continental Congress to the rank of Brigadier General, and that same year he had become a naturalized citizen of the United States.

He led the Kościuszko Uprising (1794) against Imperial Russia.

There was another hero fighting for both. Poland and America.

Statue of Kazimierz Pułaski at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC.
Prince   
4 Jan 2009
History / 70th Anniversary of start of WWII [50]

I have seen film of German tanks firing on Polish cavalry charging towards them , but it was more a case of the two units running into each other , rather than a futile attack by the Polish cavalry...Where the cavalry was used in an attack they did pretty well...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mokra

The 21st Armoured Battalion under Maj. Stanisław Gliński, equipped mostly with Polish TKS tankettes was ordered to counter-attack the village, along with the cavalry squadron of Captain Jerzy Hollak. In the clouds of smoke of the burning village, the Polish units accidentally drove right in the middle of a German tank column. Although the Polish tankettes were no match for some of the German tanks and the cavalry was very vulnerable to tank fire, the confusion in German ranks prevented the German commander from responding quickly enough. The Polish units managed to break through the German column with negligible losses and seized the forest to the Northwest of Mokra. This manoeuvre is sometimes referred to as a charge of Polish cavalry on German tanks, although no charge was planned nor executed.

The losses on both sides were quite high. The Germans lost approximately 800 men (killed, missing, captured or seriously wounded), and between 100 and 160 AFVs (at least 50 of them tanks). The Polish brigade lost 200 killed and 300 wounded, as well as 300 horses and several guns.

Prince   
4 Jan 2009
History / 70th Anniversary of start of WWII [50]

Please can someone telmme if the story of the Polish cavalry waving swords at german Panzers is true. I'm not being anti-polish, a Polish guy himself told me this but I am not very versed in history to be able to confirm it

It is not true. Only americans durring WWII had more or less fully mechanized army,. Poland in 1939 had airplains and tanks...

Poland had cavalery units but horses were used only to transport like in Fench, German and British army.

7tp

Germans had more tanks and plains ... and our border was very hard to defence. This story about cavalery against tanks is mith...
Prince   
3 Jan 2009
Life / Where to buy household furniture Lodz [19]

There are different polish furniture producers ... but as to Ikea I consider they producats as expenisve when I look on its quality.

Lets agree to disagree.
Prince   
3 Jan 2009
Life / Where to buy household furniture Lodz [19]

The responsibility remains in the product name, reliability and durabilty of the product.

Ikea doesn't make good furniture ... check it yourself...
Prince   
3 Jan 2009
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

In my opinion this system spoiled our farmers. I am realy gratful for possiblity for our farmers to invest in their infastructure it is very good thing (Germany thank you ! ). Donnations to land are wrong the same as KRUS is wrong ... it is kind of social rent for small farmers ... who work in different inductries (it is not possible to live on such piece of land) but hold this land only for donnation (per hectars) and health insurance (our Polish KRUS which is very bad for our budged)...
Prince   
3 Jan 2009
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

Very well. In that case the process of land consolidation in Poland will be faster. 5 hectar farms will collapse earlier than with subsidies which still help them vegetate.

The problem is that this most of this farms don't exist in reality ... most of this people work somewhere but it is better to be in KRUS (as farmer) than in ZUS but it is problem with our Polish system not EU system ... Changes in KRUS would help a lot.

Those farmers who produce on export would prefere no subsidies than not equal subsidies ...
Prince   
3 Jan 2009
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

No I am not talking in the name of Polish farmers but I know reality and I use all opportunities. I have some pieces of land in different parts of Poland and I am "farmer" :) I never worked on farm ...

You support ealir pensions for teachers you support donations for farmers ect. You are socialist.

Really? I have an impression it is other guys, barking against Union, including you, who are wrong.

We are part of EU and as I know that this system will be changed in close future ...

So, again, are you talking in the name of Polish farmers?

Are you talking in the name of Polish faremres ?
Prince   
3 Jan 2009
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

In my opinion foreign language isn't the most important thing when you are framer. To reform our agricultural system we need to change KRUS because it makes produces milions of "farmers" who have business or work in other industry but choose KRUS because it is the cheapest. In my opinion this new system is bad for farmers because this is kind of social benefit and this money not always are invested... In my opinion those Polish farmers who produce something would be much stronger if there was no donnations ... I support many things in EU but this sysyem should be changed ... it is my private opinion.
Prince   
3 Jan 2009
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

Yeah, 3 long years more to wait to reach equality with the other countries who paid so much more than Poland INTO the common pot for many years now, how horrible!

There is plan to change whole system after 2012 ... so I doubt that we are going to see this equalness in this case.

Anny way in my opinion in terms of develpomlent EU is good for Poland but in this point G. was right.

So, you propose that Poland leaves EU.

I am "farmer" myself because I have land and I have the cheapest possible health insurance ... but I do something much different for living and I live in Poznań :) other farmer does someting on my land I just take money...

Anny way you have strage attitude... and you are wrong when we look on details.
Prince   
3 Jan 2009
Life / Where to buy household furniture Lodz [19]

IKEA.

Ikea is rubbish everybody knows that ...

warsawvoice.pl/view/9817

There is no doubt that Poland has become a leader in furniture production over the past few years. This is one of the few products that Poland can boast internationally even though they are not always directly associated with Poland.