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gumishu   
1 Sep 2017
Travel / Travel Within Poland - from Warsaw airport to Mragowo [49]

Based on your experience, what would you say is the maximum a bus ticket from Olsztyn to Mragowo could cost per person if purchased at the station immediately before departure?

about 20-30 PLN i believe per adult
gumishu   
22 Aug 2017
News / 2.79% of Ukrainian asylum seekers granted asylum [46]

20 in Germany, 40 in Italy,

whole 20 in Germany - that's a staggering number

the government said it would not take any refugees because Polish people don't want it - you have beef with the will of Polish people?
gumishu   
22 Aug 2017
News / Poland's Public TV News Propaganda "Wiadomości" hated by viewers [31]

A most primitive propaganda reminding vividly the one of the PRL

do Wiadomości broadcast lies in your opinion?- I have only seen one Lech Wałęsa utterance taken out of context but I haven't seen anything that was outwardly non-factual - but it's true I don't watch Wiadomości on a regular basis
gumishu   
22 Aug 2017
News / 2.79% of Ukrainian asylum seekers granted asylum [46]

We are discussing refugees from a neighbouring country who need humanitarian help

Dougpol doesn't understand English apparently :

This definition implies that several qualifying conditions apply to be considered a refugee... (3) incapacity to enjoy the protection of one's own state from the persecution feared.The definition of refugees was actually intended to exclude internally displaced persons,economic migrants..

now Dougpol use your brain to apply that explanation to Ukrainian asylum seekers (if you have one)
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / 2.79% of Ukrainian asylum seekers granted asylum [46]

what justification does the Polish government have for evacuating refugees from Mariupol and other places?

these people held Polish Cards or whatever you call it in English - they were deemed Polish and as such offered a repatriation scheme - many used the opportunity
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poland's Public TV News Propaganda "Wiadomości" hated by viewers [31]

Viewers talk, and a 25% slide in 2 years says it all.

hmm - I don't watch TV a lot but if I do I mostly watch TVP now - I used to watch Polsat before (during PO rule) because they were more reliable than the state TV which was no less propaganda than it is now if you ask me - I did not consider Polsat to be fully reliable though

and if you ask me the situation when all the media are criticising the main opposition party in a given country instead of watching the hands of the government is pretty strange - that was the situation during the PO rule (with the exception of fringe media who were sometimes even denied the right to report)
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / 2.79% of Ukrainian asylum seekers granted asylum [46]

Poland should just open borders to Ukrainians and let them work legally

gregy you may not be aware of it but Ukrainians are actually in a privileged position on the Polish job market - it's because enterpruneurs don't have to pay ZUS for them as opposed to Polish workers - and they all get the minimum wage when working legally
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
History / For what the Germans owe Poland one trillion U.S. dollars? [299]

Act of Kneeling in Deference Before a Monument to the Warsaw Uprising)

act of kneeling before the Monument of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which is different - and Germany has payed almost zilch to Poland in reparations
gumishu   
14 Aug 2017
Work / Polish employer suggests I have my own company in UK [21]

it is legal as long as the UK is in the EU at least - is it moral - hmm no - you would have to pay British social and health and I guess taxes - someone will clear that for you I expect
gumishu   
27 Jul 2017
News / 2ND MIRACLE OF THE VISTULA: youth mysteriously appear out of nowhere! [231]

Has he been convicted yet by way of a final and unappealable sentence?

that happened in March or even before March - he should be instantly tried by the disciplinary branch of the KRS - and you say he is still suspended - seems like they are not in a hurry to get rid of him
gumishu   
26 Jul 2017
News / 2ND MIRACLE OF THE VISTULA: youth mysteriously appear out of nowhere! [231]

Do you mean that the judge in question took a pack of 20 sealed pen drives and was then caught trying to sell them on Allegro at 100zl each?

the judge in question was caught with full pockets of pendrives in MediaMarkt or some such supermarket in Wrocław - I don't have time now to google the details

there were other cases of similar common theft in Poland involving judges - such people should go from the profession

and it is not the direst of the problems with the Polish judiciary - the problem is that people cannot reach justice there because rulings and proceedings are often not just, defying logic, ignoring evidence, one-sided, you name it - the judges only recently (during PiS rule) were made to make public their financial and real estate assets - some of the judges are VERY rich and about half of them used a trick not to reveal these data this year
gumishu   
26 Jul 2017
News / 2ND MIRACLE OF THE VISTULA: youth mysteriously appear out of nowhere! [231]

To be honest 'independence' and 'accountability' go hand in hand.

not in Poland so far - as was pointed to you, judges (the upper circles mostly) appointed judges - you don't live here and you probably never heard about scandalous rulings defying logic, justice and decency and other scandals among the judiciary including common theft - these people are screened from justice - a judge who steals 2000 PLN worth of pen drives should be dismissed instantly from his profession - it's not the case in Poland

i'm all for the public to be able to elect judges (like in America) - but for now I can settle on the parliament to appoint most people in the National Judiciary Council who appoint the judges
gumishu   
25 Jul 2017
News / Coup d'état taking shape in Poland with Soros in background? [59]

Article 190.1 and 190.2 for a start.

Constitutional Tribunal is bound by law as well and the instances where some judges of the Constitutional Tribunal claimed to make a ruling where not legal according to the law about the Constitutional Tribunal at that time
gumishu   
24 Jul 2017
News / 2ND MIRACLE OF THE VISTULA: youth mysteriously appear out of nowhere! [231]

so all is well in the world again,

you choose to be blind and deaf - it's your choice - plenty of people have awakened though and plenty more will awaken in the coming years - eventually in not so distant future all of the current democracies will be direct democracies with people directly establishing laws in referendums - this perhaps will come sooner in the older democracies than Poland but it will eventually happen here as well
gumishu   
24 Jul 2017
News / 2ND MIRACLE OF THE VISTULA: youth mysteriously appear out of nowhere! [231]

And believe me - after years in power PiS will be no exception. Każda władza deprawuje, a władza absolutna deprawuje absolutnie!

the point is that at the very moment PiS is voicing the concerns of a big chunk of the society, plenty of people have awakened to the fact that contrary to narratives some people don't mean good to the society at large but only a small elite of which they are/want to be a part - these people will not support PIS forever unconditionally - if it degenerates it will lose their support - I count myself among these people

And I will repeat myself for the umpteenth time - the judiciary in Poland was without any democratic control which led to many scandals - my ideal is democratic election of judges of all levels - but to be a practical realist I for now accept the idea that our democratic representatives hold the controlling power for us

people are getting awakened to the reality that they are suppressed, exploited, manipulated and controlled by the elites - and I guess this process is irreversible