Librarius
9 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
Did they know they were defending democracy? Did you ask them?
Did they know they were defending democracy? Did you ask them?
Librarius
9 Jan 2016
News / Poland bets on Russian oil again [82]
We feel then very much expertly guided through all foreign matters by your strongly opinionated views. Can you prove that you are right?
We feel then very much expertly guided through all foreign matters by your strongly opinionated views. Can you prove that you are right?
Librarius
9 Jan 2016
News / Poland bets on Russian oil again [82]
Did you watch the Borys Malaguski's film entitled the weight of chains?
Did you watch the Borys Malaguski's film entitled the weight of chains?
Librarius
9 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
and his comrades:
the Dear Leader, Chairman Mao
the Dear Leader, Chairman Kim Jong-il
the Dear Leader, Chairman Pao
the Dear Leader, Chairman Obama
the Dear Leader, Chairman Clegg
the Dear Leader, Chairman Mao-bama
the Dear Leader, Chairman Robert Mugabe
the Dear Leader, Chairman Gates
the Dear Leader, Chairman Gupta
the Dear Leader, Chairman McDonnell
that's his full title. Don't you remember?
The Dear Leader Chairman Kaczyński
and his comrades:
the Dear Leader, Chairman Mao
the Dear Leader, Chairman Kim Jong-il
the Dear Leader, Chairman Pao
the Dear Leader, Chairman Obama
the Dear Leader, Chairman Clegg
the Dear Leader, Chairman Mao-bama
the Dear Leader, Chairman Robert Mugabe
the Dear Leader, Chairman Gates
the Dear Leader, Chairman Gupta
the Dear Leader, Chairman McDonnell
that's his full title. Don't you remember?
Librarius
9 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
I did not watch Polish television unless there are some good programs from the past. Dumbing down made some audience too dumb to watch Kabaret starszych panów or even to enjoy themselves waching Sylwester Chęciński's comedies like Sami swoi.
Why anyone would sit down and watch Polish TV as an evening's entertainment is beyond my understanding.
I did not watch Polish television unless there are some good programs from the past. Dumbing down made some audience too dumb to watch Kabaret starszych panów or even to enjoy themselves waching Sylwester Chęciński's comedies like Sami swoi.
Librarius
3 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
The master puppeteer is always behind the scenes pulling the strings connected to little puppets. You can delude the public by an illusion of participation, that is democracy, but only within the confinements of their scene, that is televised political shows; however, when you are at large, you somehow loose that illusion.
The sole motivation of the above-mentioned string-pullers is the acquisiton of wealth and power.
The master puppeteer is always behind the scenes pulling the strings connected to little puppets. You can delude the public by an illusion of participation, that is democracy, but only within the confinements of their scene, that is televised political shows; however, when you are at large, you somehow loose that illusion.
Librarius
3 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
The investment theory of party competition or the investment theory of politics is a political theory developed by professor Thomas Ferguson - Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics.
The theory focuses on how business elites play the leading part in political systems. Sometimes it is summed up as: elections are occasions when groups of investors join together to invest to control the state
If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
The investment theory of party competition or the investment theory of politics is a political theory developed by professor Thomas Ferguson - Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics.
The theory focuses on how business elites play the leading part in political systems. Sometimes it is summed up as: elections are occasions when groups of investors join together to invest to control the state
Librarius
3 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
Chronicle of the deeds of Richard I
Richard of Devizes, late 12th century, English chronicler:
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Indeed, they most likely will share the same fate that happened to the Roman empire, they vanished because of foreigners.
Chronicle of the deeds of Richard I
Richard of Devizes, late 12th century, English chronicler:
All sorts of men crowd together there from every country under the heavens. Each race brings its own vices and its own customs to the city. No-one lives in it without falling into some sort of crime. Every quarter of it abounds in grave obscenities. The greater a rascal a man is, the better a man he is accounted... Behold, I prophesy to you: whatever evil or malicious thing that can be found in any part of the world, you will find in that one city... You will meet with more braggarts there than in all France; the number of parasites is infinite.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Librarius
2 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
I got a feeling that you dislike what you tagged Putinism. Apart from your likes and dislikes can you give a description of what you called Putinism.
pure Putinism
I got a feeling that you dislike what you tagged Putinism. Apart from your likes and dislikes can you give a description of what you called Putinism.
Librarius
2 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
You are wrong. Glorious Leader & Chairman would be delighted that simple and universal formula for success is sold so cheap by vagrant tinkers.
Glorious Leader & Chairman
You are wrong. Glorious Leader & Chairman would be delighted that simple and universal formula for success is sold so cheap by vagrant tinkers.
Librarius
31 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
If you fight with an enemy you take a lot from him, you become poisoned with his attitudes also, with his way of thinking.
Damn "democrats".
If you fight with an enemy you take a lot from him, you become poisoned with his attitudes also, with his way of thinking.
Librarius
30 Dec 2015
News / Is Jarosław Kaczyński the new Lech Wałęsa? [74]
Lech Wałęsa:
1. Przybyłem do was niejako w trzech osobach - I came here in three persons, as it were.
2. Jestem za, a nawet przeciw - I am for and even against...
3. Nie można mieć pretensji do Słońca, że kręci się wokół Ziemi - You cannot blame the Sun that it runs round the Earth.
4. Tonący brzytwy, chwyta się byle czego - A drowning man clutches at anything.
Jarosław Kaczyński:
W potocznym sensie znaczenia, słowo zbrodnia jest adekwatne do tego co się stało. Ale już w sensie prawnym nie.
In a colloquial sense of the word crime, it adequatily describes what has happend. But in a legal sense, it is not inadequate.
Sorry for mistake. The translation should be more like this:
In a colloquial sense of the word crime, it adequatily describes what has happend. But in a legal sense, it is inadequate.
Lately the surviving Kaczyński twin seems to be taking over Lech Wałęsa's habit of saying things that don't make any rational or logical sense whatever.
Lech Wałęsa:
1. Przybyłem do was niejako w trzech osobach - I came here in three persons, as it were.
2. Jestem za, a nawet przeciw - I am for and even against...
3. Nie można mieć pretensji do Słońca, że kręci się wokół Ziemi - You cannot blame the Sun that it runs round the Earth.
4. Tonący brzytwy, chwyta się byle czego - A drowning man clutches at anything.
Jarosław Kaczyński:
W potocznym sensie znaczenia, słowo zbrodnia jest adekwatne do tego co się stało. Ale już w sensie prawnym nie.
In a colloquial sense of the word crime, it adequatily describes what has happend. But in a legal sense, it is not inadequate.
Does anyone else have any idea what (if anything) that was supposed to mean?
In a colloquial sense of the word crime, it adequatily describes what has happend. But in a legal sense, it is not inadequate.
Sorry for mistake. The translation should be more like this:
In a colloquial sense of the word crime, it adequatily describes what has happend. But in a legal sense, it is inadequate.
Librarius
26 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
In Conversation with Noam Chomsky - A British Academy event
youtube.com/watch?v=1OGIJE8AzqM
The real problem is what to do about the effect that we don't live in political democracies; that's the real problem. So take the United States, which I know better and has been studied more intensively.
You can read an academic political science, not on the left. About 70% of the population, lowest 70% on the income scale, is entirely disenfranchised, meaning their opinions have zero impact on policy, even their own representatives, they are simply ignored - one of the reasons why they do not vote. I mean they may not read the scientific journals but they know it otherwise. As you move up the income scale you can start getting up a little more influence as measured by the relation between attitudes and policy. When you get to the very top, which is a fraction of one percent - policy is made. What kind of a system is that? I mean, does it matter if you pick one or another representative; sometimes it does at kind of way out at the margin, but the real problem is the nature of the system. I think England is not that much different.
People like their cheap trinkets too much.
In Conversation with Noam Chomsky - A British Academy event
youtube.com/watch?v=1OGIJE8AzqM
The real problem is what to do about the effect that we don't live in political democracies; that's the real problem. So take the United States, which I know better and has been studied more intensively.
You can read an academic political science, not on the left. About 70% of the population, lowest 70% on the income scale, is entirely disenfranchised, meaning their opinions have zero impact on policy, even their own representatives, they are simply ignored - one of the reasons why they do not vote. I mean they may not read the scientific journals but they know it otherwise. As you move up the income scale you can start getting up a little more influence as measured by the relation between attitudes and policy. When you get to the very top, which is a fraction of one percent - policy is made. What kind of a system is that? I mean, does it matter if you pick one or another representative; sometimes it does at kind of way out at the margin, but the real problem is the nature of the system. I think England is not that much different.
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
OK. They are less radical than you are but more than any other big political party in Poland. Even Lech Wałęsa was member of ZMS - the Socialist Youth Union, they formed the youth faction of the Polish United Workers' Party.
If PiS had any morals, they would make it clear that anyone that belonged to the PZPR in any capacity is prohibited from membership.
OK. They are less radical than you are but more than any other big political party in Poland. Even Lech Wałęsa was member of ZMS - the Socialist Youth Union, they formed the youth faction of the Polish United Workers' Party.
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
The most radical anticommunists are those you now rant and rave against. This is an unbearably difficult time for an opportunist.
How on earth did such an apathetic bunch of cattle ever stare down (and win against) the CCCP?
The most radical anticommunists are those you now rant and rave against. This is an unbearably difficult time for an opportunist.
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Regain banking assets - new Polish finance minister supports privatisation in Poland. Corruption? [33]
youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TzoGldt4
April 13, 1993.
Interviewer:We were discussing before we went on air about Eastern Europe...
Noam Chomsky: Eastern Europe fits right into this. I mean... take, say, General Motors - the biggest corporation. They are closing plants here, trying to... they are the biggest employer in Mexico because they get very cheap labor in a kind of high repression, low-wage area. They are also opening plants in Eastern Europe. They just opened the big high-tech, seven hundred million dollar plant in East Germany and the international financial press, the business press, is very frank what it's about. I mean, they say, look they are opening with very high expectations, there is tremendous unemployment, almost 50% unemployment, they can get wages on... now, I am quoting, 'on 40% of the cost of the pampered western workers'... western workers are pampered, as far as the business press is concerned. They gather 40% of the wages and no benefits and longer hours so that's terrific for profits, not very good for the people in the pampered, you know, west. Poland's even better... they can gather 10% of the wage level, because the government is oppressive enough to be able to break strikes and so on, and so forth. They are opening plants in Russia for the same reason. Now, you get educated labor, skilled labor, very low cost, healthy people... they've got very good health system but very low cost. And it's a new third world, which undercuts western levels.
It would be interesting to hear your comment on that. Because you live in the US, the country of the pampered workers.
youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TzoGldt4
April 13, 1993.
Interviewer:We were discussing before we went on air about Eastern Europe...
Noam Chomsky: Eastern Europe fits right into this. I mean... take, say, General Motors - the biggest corporation. They are closing plants here, trying to... they are the biggest employer in Mexico because they get very cheap labor in a kind of high repression, low-wage area. They are also opening plants in Eastern Europe. They just opened the big high-tech, seven hundred million dollar plant in East Germany and the international financial press, the business press, is very frank what it's about. I mean, they say, look they are opening with very high expectations, there is tremendous unemployment, almost 50% unemployment, they can get wages on... now, I am quoting, 'on 40% of the cost of the pampered western workers'... western workers are pampered, as far as the business press is concerned. They gather 40% of the wages and no benefits and longer hours so that's terrific for profits, not very good for the people in the pampered, you know, west. Poland's even better... they can gather 10% of the wage level, because the government is oppressive enough to be able to break strikes and so on, and so forth. They are opening plants in Russia for the same reason. Now, you get educated labor, skilled labor, very low cost, healthy people... they've got very good health system but very low cost. And it's a new third world, which undercuts western levels.
It would be interesting to hear your comment on that. Because you live in the US, the country of the pampered workers.
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
OK. Still more than the previous one.
OK. Still more than the previous one.
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
The current government was chosen by the majority of the Polish people not because it is their dream come true but because people were fed up by the corruption and conceit of the former government.
However it is very hard to have any feelings of goodwill towards this government and their hate speech.
The current government was chosen by the majority of the Polish people not because it is their dream come true but because people were fed up by the corruption and conceit of the former government.
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
Wait and see. After all you may be right.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them
So I dare to presume that they will fight the scum.
Wait and see. After all you may be right.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
Do we really need an unelected body to become a real democracy then? Historically, Senat was an unelected body and there are some who propose it to return to that tradition; in that case more than half of the honorable gentlemen siting in the House would be the highest ranks of the catholic clergy.
Do we really need an unelected body to become a real democracy then? Historically, Senat was an unelected body and there are some who propose it to return to that tradition; in that case more than half of the honorable gentlemen siting in the House would be the highest ranks of the catholic clergy.
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Germans: Geh raus of Poland's business! [61]
Tell your story. You must have surfed somehow from people you call Germans or you have worked in a corporation paying taxis in Germany in which the whole managerial staff were people speaking German and you was an oppressed worker.
What is the reason for your anger?
Tell your story. You must have surfed somehow from people you call Germans or you have worked in a corporation paying taxis in Germany in which the whole managerial staff were people speaking German and you was an oppressed worker.
What is the reason for your anger?
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
We have also the system of First, Second and Final reading of a Bill before legislation is passed to the Senat - equivalent of your House of Lords and the TK is a collective body serving as Her Majesty the Queen.
And anyway we have a system of First, Second and Final reading of a Bill before legislation is ready to be passed.
We have also the system of First, Second and Final reading of a Bill before legislation is passed to the Senat - equivalent of your House of Lords and the TK is a collective body serving as Her Majesty the Queen.
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
As you can gather from the type of mistakes I make:
instead of when and where JK spoke... my fist language is Polish not English. So let me translate the actual words of JK:
Here is the original text:
Pomysł na społeczeństwo obywatelskie "obsługiwał" [...] przede wszystkim interes polityczny grup dysydenckich, które wychodziły - czy to w sensie czysto biograficznym, czy środowiskowym - z realnego socjalizmu. One chciały mieć jakiś wehikuł polityczny, bo silnej partii nigdy nie udało im się zbudować. Takim wehikułem stały się struktury społeczeństwa obywatelskiego, przeciwstawione polityce i państwu. Owo społeczeństwo obywatelskie miało przy tym być konstrukcją całkowicie beztreściową [...].
My translation:
The idea of the civil society first of all 'served' [...] the political interests of the dissident groups that have its origin - either because of their biography or because of the circles they were part of - in so-called real-existing socialism. The groups needed a kind of political vehicle, because a strong party was our of their reach. And as that vehicle happen to be the structures of the civil society - which in turn worked against the political system and state itself. That kind of 'civil society' from its origin was invented as a wholly meaningless construction.
Your translation:
In the III RP a strong state and strong politics were not wanted by those dissident enviornments who feared the activization of citizens, were afraid of an awakening of - as it was called toward the end of the 80s - broadly understood national democracy. To oppose such a political awakening was supposed to be the task of, above all, the idea of civil society.
Do you see the difference?
As you can gather from the type of mistakes I make:
when and where JK has spoken against the civil society
instead of when and where JK spoke... my fist language is Polish not English. So let me translate the actual words of JK:
Here is the original text:
Pomysł na społeczeństwo obywatelskie "obsługiwał" [...] przede wszystkim interes polityczny grup dysydenckich, które wychodziły - czy to w sensie czysto biograficznym, czy środowiskowym - z realnego socjalizmu. One chciały mieć jakiś wehikuł polityczny, bo silnej partii nigdy nie udało im się zbudować. Takim wehikułem stały się struktury społeczeństwa obywatelskiego, przeciwstawione polityce i państwu. Owo społeczeństwo obywatelskie miało przy tym być konstrukcją całkowicie beztreściową [...].
My translation:
The idea of the civil society first of all 'served' [...] the political interests of the dissident groups that have its origin - either because of their biography or because of the circles they were part of - in so-called real-existing socialism. The groups needed a kind of political vehicle, because a strong party was our of their reach. And as that vehicle happen to be the structures of the civil society - which in turn worked against the political system and state itself. That kind of 'civil society' from its origin was invented as a wholly meaningless construction.
Your translation:
In the III RP a strong state and strong politics were not wanted by those dissident enviornments who feared the activization of citizens, were afraid of an awakening of - as it was called toward the end of the 80s - broadly understood national democracy. To oppose such a political awakening was supposed to be the task of, above all, the idea of civil society.
Do you see the difference?
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
Let me be your humble student. As you have chosen Poland for your country then you should know when and where JK has spoken against the civil society.
I'm a fan of civil society, a concept JK has spoken against
Let me be your humble student. As you have chosen Poland for your country then you should know when and where JK has spoken against the civil society.
Librarius
25 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
You are painting the picture of a charioteer driving a chariot pulled by two horses; one of the horses is noble and of noble breed, but the other quite the opposite in breed and character.
The Charioteer represents intellect, reason; one horse represents rational or moral impulse; while the other represents irrational passions, appetites, or concupiscent nature.
The Charioteer directs the entire chariot, trying to stop the horses from going different ways, and to proceed towards enlightenment.
So we have two political parties and one TK; it is not difficult to guess which party is playing which role in your picture and what role you have prescribed to the TK.
For sure you put your trust to a bunch of TK's lawyers. Is that that you fear the numbers; less is more as wisdom is concerned?
At least that's what you imply; and that's your concept of democracy.
Without the TK what legal constraints on action will PiS face?
You are painting the picture of a charioteer driving a chariot pulled by two horses; one of the horses is noble and of noble breed, but the other quite the opposite in breed and character.
The Charioteer represents intellect, reason; one horse represents rational or moral impulse; while the other represents irrational passions, appetites, or concupiscent nature.
The Charioteer directs the entire chariot, trying to stop the horses from going different ways, and to proceed towards enlightenment.
So we have two political parties and one TK; it is not difficult to guess which party is playing which role in your picture and what role you have prescribed to the TK.
Do you really trust a bunch of politicians enough to give them that much power?
For sure you put your trust to a bunch of TK's lawyers. Is that that you fear the numbers; less is more as wisdom is concerned?
At least that's what you imply; and that's your concept of democracy.
Librarius
24 Dec 2015
News / Germans: Geh raus of Poland's business! [61]
How do you define a country? As its people or as its business?
Germans have to take step back... alllllll the way back to Germany.
How do you define a country? As its people or as its business?
Librarius
24 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
And what reason is given for such speedy and resolute action?
As a result of the Michnikite/KOD/Petru hysteria the foreign minister of Luxembourg Asselborn is calling for sanctions against Poland's democratically elected government.
And what reason is given for such speedy and resolute action?
Librarius
20 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
What makes him a slanderer?
slandering the Polish nation
What makes him a slanderer?
Librarius
20 Dec 2015
Love / Is the masculine look on women popular in Poland? [30]
The masculine look of women in Poland is very much popular. In fact this kind of woman is highly admired and called Herod-Baba.
The masculine look of women in Poland is very much popular. In fact this kind of woman is highly admired and called Herod-Baba.
Librarius
20 Dec 2015
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]
And all this is the part of a modern style performance since he is very much on the cutting edge of his time - that's after all what makes him shrewd and cunning.
And all this is the part of a modern style performance since he is very much on the cutting edge of his time - that's after all what makes him shrewd and cunning.