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Polonius3   
25 Oct 2016
News / FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF POLAND'S PiS ELECTION VICTORY [9]

One year ago the Polish nation made it loud and clear that they had had their fill of the pro-foreign-interest PO scamster regime with a few hayseeds thrown in to ensure a majority.

Despite all the noisy and disruptive street protests and attempts to derail the democratically elected government by the mean-spirited, vindictive and frustrated łosers'camp, the good-change government has managed to forge ahead with reforms and post-PO clean-up measures serving the entire nation, not just a small post-roundtable clique.

PM Beata Szydło's government has introduced major social and financial improvements. Successes have included the flagship "Family 500+" and "Home+" programmes, reform of law enforcement, anti-terrorrist measures, free drugs to OAPs , raising the minimum wage and lowering taxes for small businesses. PiS have improved Poland's security by pressing for US and NATO troops to bolster the EU's eastern flank, and Poland's opposition to obligatory migrant quotas has influenced other EU countries and forced the EU leadership to back away form the quota system.
Polonius3   
25 Oct 2016
Feedback / The Cognitive Dissonance and Campaign of Hate by Polonophobes and Other Peddlers of Anti-Polish Propaganda [60]

Merged: PF's Pole-bashers take heed! The Redoubt may soon zero in on you!

The Good Name Redoubt, an organisation set up to protect Poland's good name, has launched a system to detect anti-Polish slanders online. According to the Redoubt's president Maciej Świrski, the system will increase the effectiveness of combating anti-Polish lies and distortions. During its month in existence some 200 such violations have been found. Many refer to allegedly "Polish" concentration camps, death camps, gas chamber s and/or crematoria. Up till now, several hundred volunteers had scanned leading journals and the utterances of major politicans, but the new system has been programmed to weed out violations appearing throughout the web.

It was not immeidately clearly wehther the surveillance would extend to internet fora. PF would be a prime target, overwhelmingly populated as it is by consummate Polonophonbes and sundry Pole-bashers such as HB, Myfeetkiss, Smurf, lower-case jon et al.

polskieradio.pl/5/3/Artykul/1684682,System-do-wykrywania-znieslawien-Polski-w-Internecie-Ponad-200-naruszen
Polonius3   
24 Oct 2016
History / Kaczynski's Legacy [88]

equal educational opportunties

Of course not. To enrol one had to pass the entrance exam. Only a minority even sat it and fewer yet passed it. Those that did were the brainy type with higher IQs.

prosecute dissidents

Your litany of titles is growing. Not only PF's LL and HB but also the forums No. 1 conspiracy theorist (CT).
Polonius3   
24 Oct 2016
History / Kaczynski's Legacy [88]

Chairman Kaczynski

You have again demonstrated you odn't know sh*t from Shinola. Jarosław Kaczyński was not incarcerated, his brotehr Lech was interned during martial law. Jarek told me they probably wanted to have someone to follow to the sources of illegal bulletins, underground Soldiarity hide-outs, etc.
Polonius3   
23 Oct 2016
History / Kaczynski's Legacy [88]

education reserved for the children of the elite

HB, as usual your third-hand knwoledge shows you don't know (to use an Americanism) sh*t from Shinola. The regime could not produce enough cars, flats and appliances to meet people's needs but free infant-schhol to uni education was available to all qualified students. In their youth theK twins were not revolutionaries just ordinary PRL Poles. Only after Macierewicz thought up KOR in 1976 did they become active dissidents. You're thinking along the lines of class-conscious British stereotypes of the Oxford and Cambridge variety.
Polonius3   
23 Oct 2016
History / Kaczynski's Legacy [88]

Michnik

That Cat Michnik (unless you claim he ain't got no bollocks!) had it very good in the slammer. The warders treated him well and enjoyed chatting and joking with him compared to the normal riffraff and criminal scum they had to deal with. Only later did That Cat Michnik come round to the commies calling dictator Jaruzelski and his chief henchman Kiszczak "men of honour". For that alone he is on every decent Pole's sh*t list!
Polonius3   
23 Oct 2016
History / Kaczynski's Legacy [88]

real proletariat

No proletariat, they were strictly patriotic, Catholic intelligentsia, both parents had MAs, the father in engineering, the mother in Polish literature - she was chief librarian at PAN's IBL.

Millions of Poles had to survive and support their families as best they could under the Soviet yoke. Very few believed the USSR would ever collapse in their lifetimes. But the moment an opportunity to do something about it emerged, vague and unlikely as it may have seemed, the twins lost no time in jumping into the fray. At that time (mid-1970s) the Balcerowiczes, Rzeplińskis and many others were loyal, card-carrying PZPR members.

I had given you more credit than that obsessive-compulsive nincumpoop HB, but I can see I was wrong. You're two of a kind!
Polonius3   
23 Oct 2016
History / Kaczynski's Legacy [88]

K family

The twins were raised in a very patriotic anti-communist family. Both parents were in the AK. The father didn't play too great a role in raising the twins, but the mother taught them well in the God, honour and homeland tradition. The twins were not active in the dissident movement until 1976 when Macierewicz came up with the idea for KOR. Jarosław was a member of the editorial team of "Głos", a dissident journal edited by Macierewicz. In 1977, Jarek got his brother to join KOR. Lech was also a member of the dissident Free Trade Unions of the Baltic Coast and held clandestine lectures for workers on international labour law.
Polonius3   
23 Oct 2016
History / Kaczynski's Legacy [88]

[moved from]

Kaczynski volunteered to prosecute dissidents

Another constantly repeated lie. That oturageous statement has never been backed by the smallest shred of evidence. FYI, s peculation, conjecture, presumption, wishful thinking, insinuation and guilt by innuendo are not proof of anything other than being a mean-spirited SOB.
Polonius3   
22 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

no confidence in the government

Apparently Toyota and Daimler know soemthing you don't know. They both believe Poland is an excellent place ot invest thanks to a pool of skilled manpower and the country's location. You may have heard that Toyota, who have so far invested nearly $980 million in Poland, now plan to build a hybrid-engine facility here at a cost of $163 million. "Toyota is a world leader in hybrid engines and hybrid cars, and I'm happy the technology will be transferred to Poland," Deptuy PM Morawiecki told a press conference recently. The news followed an announcement earlier this month that Mercedes Benz planned to build an engine factory worth some $544 million. Both companies have chosen sites in SW Poland's Dolny Śląsk (Lower Silesia) region,
Polonius3   
22 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

because they produced rubbish.

Not all were hopeless but ex-commie Balcerowicz decided to sell everything off for a song or close down and destroy what he coulnd't sell. Just the opposite of Morawiecki. If Morawiecki had been around at the time, he would have selected works with the largest potential and done everything possible to make them viable.
Polonius3   
22 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

Chairman Kaczynski

Shouldn't that be That Cat Kaczyński? You're going against your own silly rules.
Also doing well under communism were Balcerowicz, Kwaśniewski, Rzepliński, Mazowiecki, Wielowieyski and all the many celebrity types and retired SB colonels who support KOD.
Polonius3   
22 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

They mostly are

Yeah sure. Just heard Siemens is scrapping its manufaturing facilities and is evovlving into orchard (esp. apple and plum) production. Opel figures the Japs and Koreans are putting enough quality cars on the world market so Opel can scrub its automotive efforts and specialise in pumpkin and wicker cultivation. Germany wants to outdo Poland by offering even cheaper manpower and free assemnbly sites to foreign manufacturers. Boeing sold to aerospace business to the Japanese and the company now runs an online dating service.....
Polonius3   
22 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

Capital is almost entirely internationalized

So all countries -- USA, Germany, France, etc. -- are dominated by non-native capital to the same extent Poland is? It's not important to have native banks. In case of an armed conflict, the foreign bank of a beligerent country will serve its Polish state and individual clients as if it were a Polish-owned bank? In case of conflict it is not imprtant to have ready access to helicopter maintenance and spares within the country rather than at the other end of Europe. It makes no difference if a country mainly offers cheap manpower and industrial sites for foreign assembly work nad specialises in the export of raw mateirals and unprocessed food. That is effectively what you are saying.

If that were true, countries such as Holland, Germany, France and Britain would be tripping over one another to scrap their manufacturing industries and investing in strawberry plantations and crude steel production.

P.S. Dep. PM Morawiecki can hardly be called an "old fogy"!
Polonius3   
21 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

on very small profit

No matter how you slice it, you are amongst the PF-ers (others include Hairy B, Smurf, lower-case jon, the late Delfodupa, etc.) who wish Poland ill and are heartened by every setback she experiences.

**EU directives or national legislation favouring the multinational biggies is good, that supporting native industry is bad;
**In any Poland v someone else (France, Germany, Jewry, Muslims, EU or other outsider), the Pole-bashers tend to favour the non-Polish side;
**It's good Poland's car industry has been taken over by foreign firms, because the Polonaise was a crappy car;
**Every attempt by the government to right the wrongs of the past is publicly attacked, criticised and derided in the hope that foreign circles get involved in the country's internal affairs;

**Due to be introduced is a much belated plan to remove commie-era Gestapo (SB) and militia from decision-making posts in law enforcement; non-one on PF has yet raised the topic but the above-mentioned Pole-bashers and their ilk can be expected to spring to the defence of the "poor" mistreated red Gestapo and PRL cops who have enjoyed perk and privileges for "only" 26 years while the victims they only beat, tortured and harassed (rather than killing) have been barely scraping by; let's see which Pole-basher is first to shed tears over the poor, maligned SB and MO!

Many more examples could be cited, but these suffice to define who Poland's friends and foes are.
Polonius3   
21 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

honest hard-working

You mean, of course, the honest, hard-working, civic-minded and altruistic corporations which exist primarily to benefit mankind and gladly forgo a huge chunk of their profits to protect the environment, ensure equitable prosperity and promote the highest civic values. NOT!
Polonius3   
21 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

reward them for their loyalty

No-one did more to reward the loyalty of their stooges than POO. They tried to stack the TK with 14 of the 15 judges and "generously" allowed 1 for the entire opposition. That is what started the TK conflict in the first place!

POO also filled the administration with therri own flunkies which incidentally is something all parties tend to do. You, HB, are pretending that only the pro-Polish good-change party choose reliable and competent appointees.
Polonius3   
21 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

the EU does,

What the EU do is to defend the mega-corporations against indiivudal sovereign states so that Eurocrat-lobbyists can line their pockets and live happily ever after.

Other than their fine-honed rhetoric and propaganda, the EU are not guided by democracy, freedom or civic values other than those that serve their bosses.
Polonius3   
20 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

nothing to say

The minute the EU's chef clients -- the filthy rich mega-corporations -- are threatened by even a tiny chink taken out of their billions, the EC spring to their defence. When an indigenous Polish business fails or is bought out by one of the foreign biggies, no-one hears a peep of complaint from the Eurocrats. That's called fairness EU style! And that's the reason Poland needs the ever-vigilant PiS to protect the country from EU excesses, abuses and machinations!
Polonius3   
20 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

how much of a savior he is

It is my ardent wish (and that of all people who wish Poland well) that Moraweicki turns out to be the modern Grabski. After WWI one needed a suitcase full of Polish Mark banknotes to buy a loaf of bread. After Grabski's reform which introduced the złoty Poland's currency became one of Euope's most stable.
Polonius3   
20 Oct 2016
History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]

mortal enemies

Mortal enemies are not forever. Amongst nations alliances, friendships and hostilities evovle over time. The British were once Americans' mortal enemy, now they are a special ally. Maybe someday you'll realise that Albanians are a brave and noble breed which you will come to admire and respect.
Polonius3   
20 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

create good change

Comparisons are inevitable, otherwise we'd just be dealing with unintelligible, abstract figures.
Dep. PM Mateusz Morawiekci, the saviour of Poland's national ecomomy.
recently pointed out that when everything is tallied up Poland is within the deficit margin set by the EU. By comparison, PO on more than one occasion violated that norm. Morawiecki has made it clear: whereas the previous govt catered to wealthy foreign corporations, his govt is making good changes with Poles, average families, businessmen, employees, patients and others in mind.

No govt is perfect and learning by trial and error is inevitable.
Polonius3   
20 Oct 2016
News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

according to connections

There has been no greater oldboy network than that created by PO/PSL, where not what one could do but whom one knew was what counted. The PO/PSL clique was better than PiS in one major area: creating major scams: Ambergold, gambling scandal, ignoring TK verdicts, Warsaw property restitution, myriad unkept campaign promises to mention only the most glaring. And all of PF's professionla PiS-bashers were strangely silent about those abuses. They wouldn't be horse-blinkered by chance, would they?