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delphiandomine   
20 Dec 2015
Work / Some questions about average wages and hiring a cleaning woman/maid in Poland [23]

I just looked back and you actually advised me to ask the employee to tell me how much I should pay!

That's normal business practice in Poland. I can see you've got a long, long way to go if you ever hope to do anything here.

Maybe they're students or immigrants, but that might be who I want to hire for some tasks, at first at least.

Immigrants (as in non-EU ones) require work permits, which means you need to pay them properly. No-one is going to get out of bed in Wrocław for less than 15zł an hour if they're in any way competent - the exception are students, but they are unbelievably mercenary-like and they couldn't care less if they just ditch your work with no notice. Wrocław doesn't have a big "uneducated worker class" - in fact, it has the exact opposite. If you want such people, you need to look in economically deprived places - but the problem is that most competent workers have already left for the cities/abroad.

In your case, Ukraine, Serbia or Albania is far more suitable for what you want.
delphiandomine   
20 Dec 2015
News / Germans: Geh raus of Poland's business! [61]

Ah, that.

No big deal. If democracy was seriously threatened in Poland, NATO as a bloc would be heading in, not an individual EU member state.
delphiandomine   
20 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

In most of these places they couldn't gather more than few hundred people

You seem hell-bent on repeating this like some sort of mantra, even when the photographic and video evidence shows you to be lying through your teeth.

Keep going, Comical Greg.
delphiandomine   
20 Dec 2015
News / Germans: Geh raus of Poland's business! [61]

Plans to cancel decree 1066 is one example, I hope it goes through, it must be erased, no German should be allowed to enter Poland in order to meddle in Polish affairs.

What is decree 1066, and who exactly is proposing to cancel it?

Long long over due.

Johnny, what knowledge do you have of how the European Union works?

Hats off to the PiS to try and keep Poland Polish.

Remember, PiS appointed endless ex-PZPR party members to positions of power while souring relations with NATO. Their motto is rather "Give Poland to Russia!".
delphiandomine   
20 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Right now, you can bet your botto, dollar that the pro-democracy campaign is exercising most of their time and resources, and in what's left of their time, they are trying to unoick the various other messes they've made in such a short time.

I just wonder when the real dirty tricks will start. We're on our guard (systems are being put in place to warn others in the event of detention of coordinators, that sort of thing) - but PiS will surely wake up and realise that their crude psy-ops aren't working.

But you can bet your bottom złoty that they'll be looking right now for some populist measure, maybe involving the Curia - assuming the Curia are willing to go along with it.

Interestingly, I had a discussion about this today. The Church seems to be staying very clearly out of it, but there are murmurings that the Church is furious with PiS for not following through on their social promises. Times are very interesting indeed.

By the way, no news about the next demonstrations, only that efforts are being made to include more towns and cities.
delphiandomine   
20 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Well get on with it then! Let all of the PO bureaucrats who are in line to lose their jobs go on strike.

You do realise that if a strike occured in non-PiS local administrations, the country would be finished within weeks? Let me just remind you that a considerable amount of tax revenue from the richer and more developed Western provinces goes to subsidise the poorer Eastern ones. If we stop transferring tax revenue (here's something for you - in Poland - we pay our local tax office) - then central government will be on their knees.

Since they are all lazy worthless pigs feeding at the public trough it won't affect the economy like the old Solidarity strikes did.

Except you've forgotten that many private business owners are also behind KOD.

Oh, and all of you English teachers can go on strike as well.

Who exactly is an English teacher here, according to you?

So under this interpretation of the law, the Polish government is helpless to deny subversives a second citizenship even if they want to over throw its democratically elected president and parliament.

Remember, we pledge our loyalty to Poland, not to the government.

Anyway, enough about irrelevant topics.
delphiandomine   
20 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

One thing surprised me about the people I know who were taking part today.

Yes, at our last KOD meeting, it wasn't a huge surprise to have something in common with younger people, but there were quite a few older people who made it clear that they'd lived through one totalitarian system and that they had no intention of living through another.

Now the new government is expected to react favorably to our request that they stop naturalizing those who haven't renounced their primary citizenship, and pressure those who have been naturalized to either do the same or lose Polish citizenship.

The new government has absolutely no interest in changing the citizenship law. It wasn't in their manifesto, and they have far more important things to get on with. Anyway, some of us on here already have Polish citizenship and others (like me) will have it in less than a year. The beautiful thing is that the law doesn't provide for the possibility of rejecting an application for naturalisation if the documentation is complete.

And yes, we'll make sure to vote against PiS.

I just noticed that Vienna also came out in support of KOD today - Brawo!
delphiandomine   
20 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

It's not to hard to disprove a PiSite.

I think their lies and disinformation will only get worse as time goes on. There are some very interesting plans in Wielkopolska (and I assume other provinces are also doing similar things...) - let's say that the opposition can also organise effectively ;)
delphiandomine   
20 Dec 2015
News / Monthly Smolensk Commemorations in Poland! [34]

What's the difference between marching around with pictures of Lenin and marching around with pictures of Lech?

Seems to me as if PiS are using exactly the same tactics as the Communists used.
delphiandomine   
20 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]



Well, actually, Greggy.

Szczecin.

Poznań.



Gdansk.

Warsaw.

I quite like this one from Warsaw as well.

I'm reminded of the "Nie płacz Ewka" banner. Might have to get one made up saying "Nie płacz kocie" for next time :D

Anyway, good day out in Poznań today. People were cheerful, there were very young people there, very old people there and everyone in-between. It's obvious that the insults from Kaczyński and others are putting people on the streets, and the people I've spoken to today have all made it clear that they cannot tolerate the insults coming from this government towards them.

It's also clear that more and more people are getting involved - but this is an overwhelmingly happy movement. There's no violence towards people or animals, there's no thuggish behaviour - these are ordinary, decent citizens that are mad.
delphiandomine   
19 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Today's the day! And the final update at 08:00.

Public demonstrations organised by KOD - Saturday 19 December at 12:00 (local time) unless otherwise mentioned.

In Poland

£ódź : plac Dąbrowskiego
Poznań - plac Wolności
Kraków - Rynek Główny
Bielsko-Biała - at the memorial REKSIA - on the corner of ul. 1 Listopada / Stojałowskiego
Gdańsk - Długi Targ
Bydgoszcz, Stary Rynek
Torun, Rynek Staromiejski
Elbląg - next to the Cathedral in Starówka
Zamość - Rynek Wielki
Częstochowa - plac Daszyńskiego (at 11:45 rather than 12:00)
Legnica - Plac Słowiański - 12:00
Lublin : Plac Litewski 1
Wrocław - Plac Solny
Ełk - Mickiewicza 15
Katowice : Urząd Wojewódzki in Katowice.
Szczecin : Pomnik Trzech Orłów (Monument to the Three Eagles)
Warsaw: ul. Wiejska - at the Sejm.
Białowieża - corner of Waszkiewicza and Parkowa.
Zielona Góra - outside the town hall (Ratusz) in Stary Rynek.
Koszalin - Rynek Staromiejski.
Tarnów - Rynek
Grudziadz - Rynek Główny
Kielce - Urzad Wojewodzki

Abroad

Berlin, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Germany, Lassenstrasse 19-21
Brussels - the Polish Permanent Representation at the EU - Rue Stevin 139/Stevinstraat 139
London : Embassy of the Republic of Poland in the United Kingdom, 47 Portland Place at 12:00 GMT
Toronto - Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Canada - 2603 Lakeshore Blvd West.
Tokyo - Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Japan, 2-14-5 Mita, Meguro-ku, Toyko 153-0062 at 15:00 local time. (thank you Tokyo!)
Hamburg - Consulate-General of the Republic of Poland in Germany - Gründgenstrasse 20
Lisbon - Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Portugal, Av. Descobertas 2 at 11:00 local time
New York - 233 Madison Ave (12:00 EST)
Oslo - Nobel Institute - Henrik Ibsens gate 51

Join us at 12:00!

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twitter.com/kom_obr_dem
facebook.com/groups/KomitetObronyDemokracji/
delphiandomine   
18 Dec 2015
News / New law about Służba Cywilna (Civil Service) in Poland [11]

Delphi do your really think that I can be bothered to debate with you for real on a serious and sober level? You burned too many bridges.

I don't think you have a serious answer, because you know fine well that PiS want to abolish the independent civil service so they can pack it with their men. If the civil service really needs reformed, then the best reform would be to increase transparency by requiring open and full disclosure of all appointments and requiring all senior appointments to be approved by a cross-party commission.

The only question is how many ex-PZPR members can PiS pack into the civil service.
delphiandomine   
18 Dec 2015
News / "We will not hesitate to shoot Kaczyński dead" - KOD Facebook page [164]

Russian trolls don't criticize PiS because PiS is playing into their hand.

Well, Russians are understandably terrified of KOD. It's the first real citizen's movement in a while in this part of the world, and if it succeds, it will give the Russian people hope that they can do the same there. On the contrary, PiS is doing everything "right", including ensuring that Poland will be financially unable to move when Putin makes demands regarding energy prices.
delphiandomine   
18 Dec 2015
News / New law about Służba Cywilna (Civil Service) in Poland [11]

Yep, out with those useless pen pushers! cushy jobs for PO voters. Civil servants phew! Greedy parasites more like!

So, Ironside... if it's really the case, why doesn't PiS change the law to require cross-party scrutiny of all senior appointments, with full biographical backgrounds being published of all candidates and the decision making process to also be cross-party to ensure the independence of the candidates? I would welcome it, and it would be very hard to argue against such a reform. Instead, they 'reform' the system to ensure that they can pack it with their own political appointees.

Let's face it - the problem with most of these civil servants is that they're independent and not able to be controlled by the Party, hence they need to be fired.
delphiandomine   
18 Dec 2015
News / New law about Służba Cywilna (Civil Service) in Poland [11]

Here's what it will do:

It will destroy the efforts made to establish an independent civil service in Poland that would work like the German or British civil service - where politicians come and go and the civil servants use their experience and knowledge to enact the policies. It will mean that the civil service becomes filled with PiS cronies, guaranteeing utter mayhem and incompetence.

All the progress made over the last 8 years will be lost within months as these people will destroy everything through sheer incompetence.

It's entirely like the old Communist system of patronage. People will owe their jobs to their patron in the Party, and so they will do exactly what they're told even if it's clearly bad for Poland.

(Bury/Kwiatkowski case ? just a tip of the ice berg) so it needs to be cleaned.

You mean it needs to be filled by people who owe their jobs to the Party.
delphiandomine   
18 Dec 2015
News / "We will not hesitate to shoot Kaczyński dead" - KOD Facebook page [164]

you are not making any sense, Kijowski this dude wearing dresses didn't want the police investigating so your claim that it was a fake is just a claim, he is a nutter and cannot be trusted.

What are you talking about? Everyone knows about the fake KOD profile, but the fact that it's actually been set up by Zmiana tells us everything we need to know. In fact, it all makes perfect sense - Russia absolutely does not want a strong opposition movement in Poland for the fact that PiS are doing a splendid job of wrecking relationships with the EU/NATO, and Putin knows that a PiS-controlled Poland is significantly weaker than one run by the opposition. Therefore, discrediting KOD is actually heavily in the Russian interest, hence why the Russian media has been rather quiet about the demonstrations.

It's pretty clear that supporting PiS means supporting Putin.

That zimina party nobody ever heard about could be fake in itself for what we all know and her claims worthless.

You've been out of Poland far too long, Ironside. Everyone knows about Zmiana and their open pro-Putin policies.
delphiandomine   
18 Dec 2015
News / "We will not hesitate to shoot Kaczyński dead" - KOD Facebook page [164]

Sorry to interrupt your mud slinging, but apparently the fake KOD facebook page has been set up by the Zmiana party.

Well well well. The fake one is used by a lot of the more offensive right wingers in Poland, so for it to actually be a front for Zmiana is quite interesting.
delphiandomine   
18 Dec 2015
News / "We will not hesitate to shoot Kaczyński dead" - KOD Facebook page [164]

But when an outsider throws in with plotters and helps them stir up trouble...well the "foreign subversive" tag is hardly a positive descriptive!

Don't worry Polonius, I rather enjoy the "foreign subversive" tag. If PiS ever brand me as such, I'll wear it as a badge of honour :D
delphiandomine   
18 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

As we can see, PiS supporters are hoping for blood on the streets and violence tomorrow.

At KOD demonstrations, anyone with offensive banners or covered faces will be asked to leave.
delphiandomine   
18 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

There hasn't really been anything from NATO.

General opinion seems to be that NATO will simply go very cool on Poland.

Yet more reason why we need to be out there tomorrow.
delphiandomine   
18 Dec 2015
News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]

Found it :

wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/opinie/artykuly/507250,marcin-hadaj-tak-sie-zabija-przedsiebiorcow-opinia.html

If the PiS government will implement the plan for full social insurance contributions from people running a one-person company, it will be a without precedent. It will be the biggest attack on the finances of Polish families ever in our country.

Where's Greggy when you need him to explain why PiS want to significantly raise taxes?