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Bratwurst Boy   
22 Jun 2018
Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]

Nope, it's just a shared hallucination, like many others...

You make it to something bigger than it is. Only you are building it up to that invincible monster, not the backward unrestructed stone age belief for weak, uneducated minds that it is. Stop that!
Bratwurst Boy   
22 Jun 2018
Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]

Now...religious affiliation has nothing to do with the DNA!

What puzzles me is that many stout Christians fear the looming muslimization so much. As if they don't believe Christianity being strong enough to convert the incoming muslim masses to Christians instead. For them only one way is possible and probable, that nice Christians get turned to bloody Muslims. Hence the fear and the hate!

Where does this inferiority complex come from? After all didn't Christianity conquer the world once? Is Islam really that much stronger than Christianity? Are you defatists?

Are Christians losers by default???
Bratwurst Boy   
26 May 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

But state was founded on Slavic heritage and nobody encouraged racial mixing

Maybe it would had been better they would had been build a yugoslavian identity and definitely encouraged racial mixing! ;)

And if it was so healthy, why was the breakup so bloody, bitter and brutal? There was not much holding these people together but the iron fist of the founders.

Compare the breakup of Czechoslovakia!
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2011
Genealogy / Are Scandanavians a mix between Polish & Iberian stock? [70]

What do you think about the blue eye genetic mutation.

Where does it put your polish genes when slavs, germanics and celts have blue eyed people, stemming from one ancestor.
They are all close and quite recent family....so what now with the slavic and germanic differences and hostilities? ;)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color#Genetics

...
In 2008, new research suggested that people with blue eyes have a single common ancestor.
Scientists tracked down a genetic mutation that leads to blue eyes. "Originally, we all had brown eyes," said Hans Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Copenhagen.[37] Eiberg and colleagues showed in a study published in Human Genetics that a mutation in the 86th intron of the HERC2 gene, which is hypothesized to interact with the OCA2 gene promoter, reduced expression of OCA2 with subsequent reduction in melanin production.[38]

The authors concluded that the mutation may have arisen in a single individual probably living in the northwestern part of the Black Sea region (around modern Romania) 6,000-10,000 years ago during the Neolithic revolution.[37][38][39]

Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2011
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

Poland was developing faster than those countries before it even joined the EU.

Any link to that?

Considering Poland is closer to the heart of Europe it makes trading easier as well.

Trading what? Take any product from Poland and show me how they would fare in the EU-market better from the outside.
As I said, look to Ukraine and other ex-commie, non-EU countries for comparisons.

Over and out! ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2011
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

You are so enthusiastic about everything EU
that it blinds you sometimes to the obvious.

Well...I have numbers, stats and even the polish farmers on my side. What have you got?

;)

Over and out.

*waves after Torqi*
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2011
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

Yup...polish farmers protested AGAINST the scrapping of the milk-quotas what was about to be settled in mean Brussels.

Farming without subsidies is just not possible in Europe, flawed or not!

There was no "commie shield" in the years 1989-2004 and somehow they didn't "go broke by the hundred thousands" :-)

Oh please, you are talking with an Ossie here. The economies of all ex-commie countries were already destroyed by 1989. Our countries looked from bad to worse....don't try to paint me an rosy image of a functioning economy in Poland!

Not prestigious, but "strategic" and they would stand on their feet eventually (just like your shipyards
did AFTER RECEIVING SUBSIDIES FROM YOUR GOVERNMENT), and Poland would be no more broke than

Not on it's own, no!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gdańsk_Shipyard

...Gdansk shipyards have fallen on hard times. Once a place of work for over 20,000 people, the Gdansk shipyards provide only 2,200 jobs today.[6] The European Union has backed a restructuring plan for the shipyard.[7][8]

Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2011
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

Erm... milk quotas for example, quotas for grain, meat and so on. Why have them at all?
Why can't every country produce and sell as much agricultural products as possible?

Let's see what the farmers think about subsidies and quotas:

...Meanwhile, the majority of Polish dairy farmers are unhappy about a proposal to abandon the EU milk quota regulations.
They believe that an entirely free market is not entirely positive.

"Some kind of substitute for the regulations should stay," argues Edmund Borowski from major dairy cooperative Mlekpol.
...
Poland is the only country to oppose the abandonment of milk quotas.

They know that without quotas, regulations and subsidies lots of farmers in the whole of Europe would get broke.

Polish farmers on it's own without the commie shield anymore but without EU-help either would go broke by the hundred thousands.

No, I didn't. That's why I like the EU economic policies less and less. They are drifting towards communism

Then you would probably still have your prestigious but non-profit shipyards...and Poland would be still broke without any developing economy to speak of!

Ha!

Heh:)
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2011
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

...Polish tax burden is in fact very high, considering that we are a developing economy
and our taxes should be much lower if we are to catch up with the rich countries of the EU.

Poland should try a Soli...as Germany did to come up with the costs for the re-unification.
It worked!
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2011
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

Well, we couldn't help our shipbuilding industry (like Germans and French did, and somehow their
shipyards weren't closed) on the basis of it being against EU policy, so our shipyards went bankrupt.

And what would differ to when Poland would be all alone? Where would Poland get the money from to save un-profitable shipyards?

You know that there still is a difference between german/french and polish economies?
Do you think inefficient, aged and non-profitable shipyards could somehow survive in the german economy?

What competetiveness was lost after the fall of the iron curtain? I would be really interested to hear that...did you like living in a commie country with a commie economy?

Without the subsidies from the EU your farmers would starve to death...and what quotas are you talking about?

economy is not everything and Poland is ready to suffer economically to achieve
greater good - peace and unity in Europe.

You've got to be kidding!

...So, to sum things up, economic-wise being a member of EU is a disaster for Poland,....ready to make sacrifices for others!

Oh now I know....you are pulling my leg! You jester you!
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2011
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

Erm...dream on! Look to Ukraine or Belorussland when you want to know how Poland would look like without the EU.

It's so easy to blame some faceless identity for all your own woes, isn't it.
I doubt your in-efficient, aged, unprofitable industries or shipyards could be saved in any functioning, market-capitalist environment.
For that you would need to become a communist country and stay broke!

There are so many countries in the EU like economic models....France differs from Germany differs from the UK differs from Greece and so on.

Who is hindering Poland to do what it thinks best? Mean Brussel???
Bratwurst Boy   
1 Jul 2011
News / Visegrad Battle Group under the command of Poland [261]

Erm...you quoted his statement, remember??? And what was "bullying" about his opinion?

Look BB, I am not going to play with you a nit-picking game, because it leads to a tree-like explosion...

Umm...when you don't want opinions on your postings then you better stop posting links and expecting answers...you cannot have it both ways!

So let's stop here.

Heh:) Try me!
You are on a talkboard, you know... :):):)
Bratwurst Boy   
30 Jun 2011
News / Visegrad Battle Group under the command of Poland [261]

The reality is that Russia isn't a threat to Europe anymore. They couldn't even if they wanted to. That's the fact.
And even the US acknowledged that lately...more concerned with China and WOT now than with Moscow.
That is not wishful thinking, that are the facts!

The anti-balistic missile shield project has a chance of success only if it is developed with Russia - said Russian permanent representative to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, in Warsaw. He also said that otherwise Russia will find a response to deployment of the shield elements in Poland; and the best solution would be not to deploy any shield at all.

They REACT! That's the difference! Did you really believe that such military decisions like Polands make for good relationships???
And even then, most of the EU has no problems with Russia....(they don't plan to put up any missiles either).

Just to remind you, it is not Poland that pushes for the system alone - it is NATO.

No, it's definitely not "NATO", Germany is not happy about it and most others are not even interested. It's definitely between Poland and the US. You make your bed then lie in it.

But don't blame others for their better relationships with Russia.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO secretary general said last month that "mutual anti-rocket defense system is not possible with Russia."

Well...Russia is not a member of NATO...it should be really hard to pull something like that off together.

I would like to remind you that any attempts to align Poland along "confrontational lines" have always led to tragedies. During World War II, Poland lost nearly one-third of its population - said Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's representative to NATO.

He is right, isn't he. In WWII you were confrontional to both your neighbours...that cost you dearly!
Do you really want to go down the same part again? That's what Stratfor wants you to do....think about it if Stratfor really has your best interest at heart or rather american interests!

Well, a clown he may be, but he represents Russia.

I never heard of him so I doubt it.
Should you judge a nation by it's worst clowns?

So BB, the cold war is over?

Yes, it is

Yes I know Germany would like to cosy up with Russia, and for at least two good reasons. And Statfor clearly shows it in the article we talk about.

There is a middle way between antagonizing a neighbour and to cosy up, Poland should try it some time.
And Stratfor talks again, how usual, out of their arse. They have so no idea!
Bratwurst Boy   
30 Jun 2011
News / Visegrad Battle Group under the command of Poland [261]

So where did he go wrong in you opinion?

He poses regionalization as an option...as something bad and to avoid.
That's typical american Stratfor. Also he tries to asses countries with Russia as the benchmark. That is soooo yesteryear!
Europe, the World and even Russia too have really other concerns today. The cold war is over.
(Somebody should really tell Stratfor)

All these talks about spheres of influence would mean something if it would be still about a pot of nationstates, wrangling with a plethora of alliances...but there are news for Stratfor: Most of them are now members of the European Union, the NATO and many even share the same currency, things have really developed.

There still exist spheres but they are now historically and culturally only.
Bratwurst Boy   
30 Jun 2011
News / Visegrad Battle Group under the command of Poland [261]

Oh boy...he talks as if regionalization is something new!

aer.eu

Typical Stratfor! No understanding of Europe at all.
The unifying of Europe implies the weakening of the Nationstates (and their spheres of influence) and a strenghtening of the regions and regionalisation. It's a natural process.

And it's developing for years now....
Bratwurst Boy   
30 Jun 2011
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

Almost the same, and considering the limitations that EU puts on our economy - probably better,
but that's not the point. Let me explain (soon).

Really!

Poland would be better off without the billions of the EU? Interesting to know...you should start a party on that!

You don't have to take them, don't you! The EU would be definitely better off without "wasting" so much money in countries which don't need it.

Gah!
Bratwurst Boy   
30 Jun 2011
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

It's peanuts money, mate, and let me assure you that my humble self, my family
and my country would do quite well without them.

So you think that Poland would modernize and develop the same without these funds?

You could shoulder that all on your own?

THE ESSENTIALS 2007–13

Over €25 billion for tr • ansport infrastructure
• €17.8 billion to protect the environment
• €14 billion for innovation
• €3.6 billion in support of entrepreneurship

A SNAPSHOT OF ACHIEVEMENTS

Nearly 85 000 projects implemented in the years
2004–07
• 3 700 km of roads and over 200 km of motorways built
or modernised by the end of 2007
• Over 15 000 projects offering support to enterprises
implemented in the period 2004–07
• Nearly 350 000 young people received job-related
support

Bratwurst Boy   
30 Jun 2011
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

Now... don't get me wrong... I am very grateful for the 20 eurocents a day that European Union
floods me with every day of my life.

No, you are not! Actually I can't counter your "facts" through a polish only opinion site but don't you think that it might be biased? Who is this Tomasz-guy actually?

But you can't dispute the raw numbers!
European Cohesion Policy in Poland

ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/informat/country2009/pl_en.pdf

THE ESSENTIALS 2007-13

Over €25 billion for tr · ansport infrastructure
· €17.8 billion to protect the environment
· €14 billion for innovation
· €3.6 billion in support of entrepreneurship

A SNAPSHOT OF ACHIEVEMENTS

Nearly 85 000 projects implemented in the years
2004-07
· 3 700 km of roads and over 200 km of motorways built
or modernised by the end of 2007
· Over 15 000 projects offering support to enterprises
implemented in the period 2004-07
· Nearly 350 000 young people received job-related
support

You don't have to be grateful Torq, but you don't have to be an ar*ehole about this help either....it's more than just the money!
Bratwurst Boy   
30 Jun 2011
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

In english:

...Poland could receive €80 billion in cohesion policy payments if new budgetary proposals are approved by the European Commission. In addition, the country's farmers may see direct subsidies increase to €30 per hectare of land.

It should be free trade area, nothing more.

What would you trade?

These funds are not gifts, it's investments....the older members helping the new members to develop "up to standard" to share the burden of this union.

The "price" is that you will do the same once you are out of the worst. Not only a taker but a proportional giver too.

Could Poland modernize and develop all on it's own? Maybe, maybe not....the majority of the Poles don't think so.