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delphiandomine   
18 Jun 2010
Life / Small change in shops in Poland!? [95]

The problem is a lack of large amounts of change in bank branches.

Yep, that's what I've been told here as well - a friend owns a restaurant and struggles to get change from the bank.

I was once in the Carrefour Express in Galeria Dominikanska in Wroclaw - and we worked out that it was taking at least 20-30 seconds longer for each customer, simply by asking for the exact change from each person. But - to be fair - it's not the staff's fault if the shop is so inept at providing change.
delphiandomine   
17 Jun 2010
News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

That's the whole point. There are many questions about at least SOME of the so called Polish professionals jointly working with the Russians..

Really? As you obviously know, Poland has all but purged the armed forces of most of the Russian-trained forces. That's why the TU-154M was being flown by an inexperienced crew, and is also why they had no simulator time whatsoever.

Anyway, they have opinions, not facts. I particularly love the way that they accuse people of being a cover up, despite not having any evidence whatsoever.

The video tape? You mean the one where people saw and heard what they wanted to hear, not what was actually on the tape? I'll remind you that in part of that tape, a pilot is seen in the "cockpit". Of course, as an aviation expert as you are, you already know that it was actually an engine - "LOL".

Anyway, what Kremlin agenda? I'm trusting the Poles to get their side of the investigation right. Russia may have something to gain in not telling the full story, but Poland? I trust the elite of this country to get it right - as does Jarek, from the sounds of things.

No, I'd be saying that they trust the Polish investigation - like any sensible person would. Unless of course, you suggest that the Polish investigation is being manipulated by the Kremlin - which again, is a very serious allegation to make.

The only thing you are relying on is your agenda of Russia is perfect and ALL the fault is with the Polish side.

Who attempted to land the plane? That's right, Polish pilots did. Who crashed the plane? Russia? Nope, Polish pilots. Heck - who even began landing at Smolensk-North despite being told that they couldn't accept them there? That's right, Polish pilots were also responsible!

I'm supporting the Polish view of things - which is that it appears to be pilot error. I'd actually like to hear your opinion of why it wasn't pilot error - but bearing in mind that you keep making factual mistakes constantly, it'll be a pleasure to point out your lack of knowledge about aviation. But to be fair - it may not be pilot error, but navigator error. Wouldn't be a huge surprise, given his lack of experience!

What, you think that an interview, published in one Russian news outlet is "reliable"? I certainly don't, regardless of what opinion it has. As I've said - it appears that the interview could be a fabrication due to the inconsistencies with the CVR - you know, the transcript that the Polish State has approved. Again - either the CVR transcript is accurate, or you're accusing the Polish investigators of lying.

Wow. You really are out of touch with reality over there in America if you believe that Poles are actually afraid of Russians these days. Tell you what - why don't you ask your Polish relatives and friends if they're afraid of Russia.

So now you're saying that the Polish investigation is afraid of Russia? That's the best line yet - you've effectively just accused the Polish elite (remember, some of whom are Lech's appointees) of being cowards.

Its interesting how you seem SO familiar with kavkaz. Most Poles couldn't care a less about Kavkaz or whatever you call them. But most nationalist Russians KNOW about kakvaz. HMMMMMMMM

Actually, I got interested in them after they published the nonsense about the guy being killed in Ukraine. Did some research, including on their own site - and it's safe to say that they are murky at least. Even if they are genuine Chechen separatists, who the hell trusts people interested in jihad?

Why should it raise an eyebrow? As I've asked you repeatedly - what happened to Halina's dollars? Who stole from her corpse? I find it rather amusing that you can't bring yourself to admit that stealing from corpses is hardly anything new for Poles. Heck, even killing people for their body organs is nothing new to Poles!
delphiandomine   
17 Jun 2010
Law / Family immigrated 1880's from Galacia: Polish Citizenship - A few Questions [13]

how is a foreigner supposed to pay off a copper if they don't speak polish? ;)

Could be an advantage actually - if you speak Polish, they can tell you that you're nicked for attempting to bribe them. With a foreigner, it can easily just be a misunderstanding.
delphiandomine   
17 Jun 2010
Life / Warsaw public transport is not so bad at all [14]

Do you enjoy unheated trams in -20C temperatures with all doors opening whether necessary or not at every stop? Most of us don't.

What, don't you have selective door opening in Warsaw?
delphiandomine   
17 Jun 2010
News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

You say these guys investigating are HIGHLY TRAINED PROFESSIONALS??? LOL!!!! You mean like those Russians who looted the dead Poles on the crashed plane????

Yet again, you're questioning and insulting the integrity of the Polish professionals involved with this investigation. Yet - you know nothing about aviation and don't even live in Poland!

Also how convenient of you to cast aspersions on the many people on those Polish newspaper internet message boards as "cranks" who are "registering multiple accounts" just because they are questioning this Polish crash and DISAGREE with your Pro-Russia viewpoint.

Who said I was pro-Russia? You might notice that I'm relying on the Polish version of events. And yes, they're cranks - then again, if you're relying on them to tell you about the state of mind of Poles, then it's no surprise that you're badly misinformed.

But I'm sure they would have a lot of legitimacy with you if they were arguing for the Pro-Russian viewpoint on this matter that this crash was ALL the fault of the Polish crew and Russia was blameless! If that was the case, you would be here jumping up and down referencing these so called cranks and saying "This is what most Poles are saying about this! LOL

They wouldn't have any legitimacy regardless because the vast majority are uneducated when it comes to aviation. I haven't even bothered to read the forums (apart from the specialist aviation forums) about this - why bother, when they're mostly full of uneducated drivel?

The source of the report that the device warning the pilot of obstacles ahead being turned off was a Russian source. So why do you say the Polish elite were saying this....unless of course they are afraid of Russia and just repeating what Russian authorities say?

From what I gather, there's a good chance that many of these Russian "sources" were fabricated by the Russian and Polish media in an attempt to boost sales/webpage views. For a start - there's the mysterious interview with the controller after the accident, which only came from one source and could easily have been a complete fabrication - especially as certain aspects of the interview contradicted the transcript. I'll wait for the Polish report to tell me what was and what wasn't turned off - but we do know for certain that the TAWS was alive.

So it looks like the Russian transcripts have a dicrepancy with the Russian Interfax and their Russian sources. Is this the discrepancy you're talking about?

Nope, that's not the one. I'm not surprised there are discrepancies though - media always jumps to conclusions and fabricates things.

And what's wrong with the KavKaz center? They had good information on how the Russian government set up its invasion of Georgia.

Everything is wrong with them - for a start, if they're genuine (and I have my doubts) - then they are run by Muslim fundamentalists who believe in jihad - do you really trust those people? Seriously? But this is Russia we're talking about - it is perfectly believable that they could be a disinformation source designed to discredit the Chechen cause. Hard to say - and anyway, they don't publish any information about who they are.

Are any of these news sources OK with you?

First link - they make it clear that they shouldn't jump to conclusions. Which is correct - but it doesn't mean that they're still contesting it, the link is two months old.

June 15 Prof. Poteat comments on Polish plane crash

No good, there's quite a few factual mistakes within the text, particularly concerning the precision landing system.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski does not trust Russian authorities

No - he doesn't completely trust them. Nothing new there! But he's not saying that he doesn't trust them, either. Probably, he's operating on the old doctrine of "Trust, but verify". You need to tone down the sensationalism!

Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Tuesday that the Polish side withdrew from the Russian navigator on the flight to Smolensk, because the Russian side "did not want or could not" make it available.

There is an issue with this - because other people involved with the delegation seem to suggest that it was the Polish side at fault. Russia hasn't commented one way or another, and we all know how thick headed Poles can be when it comes to this sort of thing. Hard to judge really - I'll wait for the Polish report on this issue. Either way, if they felt they needed a Russian navigator and one wasn't supplied, then they shouldn't have taken the risk of landing.

Anyone still reading this? I can't. I give up.

What, you mean you don't trust random news "sources" over the Polish military elite?
delphiandomine   
17 Jun 2010
News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

How do you know about EACH of these people who you say have a "NO COMPROMISE WITH RUSSIA" attitude? Did you interview each of them?

Do you actually know anything about Polish politics?

Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc are fundamentally anti-communism and believe in complete lustration. These people are not interested in any sort of "compromise" with Russia - they see Russia clearly as the enemy. Whether they're right or wrong is irrelevant - the point is that PiS voters see Russia as the enemy. Given that all politics is sycophantic to a degree, and that Lech Kaczynski was well known to surround himself with yes-men (witness the complete destruction of public television!) - do you really need to interview every single person to know that his appointees were politically loyal and reliable? And the Kaczynski twins simply weren't interested in dialogue and communication with Russia.

Also Poles ARE speaking out against this investigation.

Really? Where are they, apart from in fringe media? I'm not reading anything in any credible newspaper or seeing anything on TV about it.

. 64% of Poles think something is suspicious about how their government is handling this investigation WITH Russia.

Source? That 64% figure reeks of "plucked out of thin air" - especially as I don't know anyone personally who thinks that there's a conspiracy. And - well - I actually live here.

I just told you about how Jaroslaw Kaczynski is speaking out against the Russian probe. Are you denying that he is?

I'm asking you to provide a source which is credible - ie, not a Russian State-controlled media source, but rather a Polish source. Remember, Jarek is no fan of Russia, and Russia doesn't particularly like him either - so it's in their interest to smear him on their websites.

Many Poles are supicious about this Russian explanation of "pilot error" as the WHOLE cause of everything.

Source? And please, not "Nasz Dziennik".

Authorities have so far failed to provide credible answers to the many unanswered questions that have emerged.

Why should they? The investigation is ongoing. Do we really need ANSWERS NOW, especially in the middle of a Presidential election campaign? I'm happy to wait to make sure that the answers are correct, rather than risking another screw up by the Polish government when it comes to false accusations.

"Authorities as well as the controlled mainstream media were quick to blame the crash on pilot error and fog.

Perhaps because the black boxes, opened and checked in the presence of the Polish authorities, confirmed this?

In addition, the rumor that Kaczynski had pressured the pilot to land and so caused the crash spread within hours in the mainstream media and was repeated without criticism even in some blogs belonging to the alternative media.

Do you have any evidence to suggest that he didn't? Kaczynski had history for doing it - so it's a fair assumption to make that he may have done it again.

But so many new facts and evidence have emerged CONTRADICTING government accounts that officials have been forced to retract statements.

It's called "new evidence is coming to light" - they're not forced to retract statements, they're simply updating people on what they know. For instance - after the 7/7 bombings, it was reported in the first hours as a series of power failures across the network. It only became apparent about 2 hours afterwards that it was actually terrorist attacks. Happens all the time with breaking news!

Doubts are also growing about the DNA analysis performed by labs in Russia to identify the victims, following a number of contradictory statements made by authorities."

Doubts are growing where, exactly?

“Forums and message board of Polish newspapers such as “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Rzeczpospolita” and “Dziennik” indicate that the majority of Polish people, in the meantime, REJECT the official account of the plane crash due to pilot error.”

Oh, come on. Cranks inhabit intenet message boards, it's a widely observed phenomenon. Given that there's no way of prohibiting multiple accounts, it's very easy for a conspiracy theorist to simply register 10 names, all agreeing with each other.

Anyway, are you telling me that you trust random internet message boards over the highly trained professionals involved in the investigation? If so - it's time to remove the tin foil hat!

By the way -from your link.

Compelling new facts and evidence that the plane crash two weeks ago in Smolensk was engineered include the revelation that a device warning the pilot of obstacles was turned off.

Turned off? The transcripts say otherwise. Again - are they genuine, or are the Polish elite lying about the murder of their own democratically elected President?

Oh - and the source for that article? Source: KAvkaz Center. The same place that allegedly belongs to Chechen rebels - and is quite possibly operated by the FSB to discredit them. In short - not a credible source whatsoever.

You know, I admire the way that you keep trying to prove a conspiracy - but when your sources all lead back to the one highly uncredible Kavkaz Center - really, you need to try harder!

Now - when are you finally going to pick up on the discrepancy?
delphiandomine   
17 Jun 2010
Life / Warsaw public transport is not so bad at all [14]

I'm not a fan of the systems in smaller towns - they tend to be overpriced for what they are. For instance - a monthly ticket costs the same price in Gorzów Wlkp. as it does in Poznań. I'm also not a huge fan of the systems in £ódź and Wrocław - but Poznan, Warsaw and Krakow all have fantastic systems.
delphiandomine   
17 Jun 2010
News / Nigel Kennedy on Poland (Positive and Negative Thoughts) [25]

Because he loved Poland as it was and not what its turning into, maybe he thought he'd found a little bit of paradise..

To be honest - from what I've heard from people here, I wonder what he was seeing before that was so romantic?

The only bad thing in Poland (that's getting worse) is the seemingly unregulated building spree in the countryside - but apart from that, things seem to be getting better, not worse.

Unless of course, wrecks are charming to him - in which case, he should move to Ukraine!
delphiandomine   
17 Jun 2010
News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

So you think every single one of them had absolute loyalty to Kaczynski? Or they couldn't have a change of heart expecially considering all the pressure on them to release something?

Kaczynski appointed people based on loyalty, not on ability. I can't believe that these same people would suddenly abandon their loyalty in the interests of better relations with Russia.

No these people may not be lying, they just may want to "get the whole thing over with" and be the ones responsible for bettering relations with Russia, which they could not do if they keep questioning Russia (but 64% of Poles have serious questions on how their government is handling this).

But these very same people were appointed for being the kind of people that supported the concept of the IV RP - which includes NO COMPROMISE WITH RUSSIA and similar hard line attitudes. If something was seriously dodgy, they would be screaming from the rooftops.

Also if the Polish government ACKNOWLEDGE that the Russians did something wrong, then that puts tremendous pressure on them to do something against Russia. Maybe they don't want to go through all that?

So what about the people outside of the Polish Government who have nothing to lose because they have no power to put pressure on Russia? You know - Lech's appointees. They can scream to their hearts content about it - yet none of them are. Why?

There are Russian dissidents who kind of see things the way as I do. They think the Polish government is purposely looking the other way for pro-Russia political reasons.

Of course the Russian dissidents would think that - they always look for an excuse to bash Putin. Don't you think that they might be manipulating Poles for their own political purposes? I mean - look at the amount of opposition in Russia who then turned out to be every bit as bad. Yeltsin, anyone? The hero who stood on the tank to defend the Russian White House then attacked the very same building two years later. That's opposition for you, Russian style.

Also the Polish army has been doing an independent investigation of this.

Of course. It's the report that I await with great interest, because they aren't bound to say exactly the same as the Russian report. The Russian report is really of no interest to me - it's what the Poles have to say that I want to know.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski IS not letting anyone slide and he IS questioning the Russian probe of the Polish Crash

Really? I can't find any reference to it, apart from on two Russian State broadcaster websites - both of whom would have good reasons not to want to see Jarek elected. Doesn't surprise me that they might be posting rubbish about him. Any articles from a reasonably credible Polish source? I can certainly say that he hasn't been questioning Russia in Poland.

Yes the Polish military has been part of the joint investigation and many of them are starting to question it. But they weren't going to do this early on in the investigation since they wanted to give the Russian investigators a chance.

Many? Again - prove it. As far as has been reported - the Polish side of things are happy with how things are going. I'd expect reports on TVP or Polskie Radio about these doubts - but so far - nothing. Why?

Prove it, because it's not on RFERL. Nor is it on TV, any websites here, or any of the dailys. But I'm guessing they're in on it too?

Of course, TVP - well known for being PO supporters, are participating in a cover up.

Then again convex, what do we know, we only live here!
delphiandomine   
16 Jun 2010
News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

This transcript is ACCORDING to RUSSIA.

No, it's according to Poland. Poland released the transcript, which means that the Polish state apparatus (which includes many appointees of Lech Kaczynski) approves of it as being authentic. As I've told you many times before - either these people are lying (and this includes the very elite of Polish society, many of whom are no supporters of the government) - or the transcript must be genuine. There's no middle ground.

But to accuse the very highest people in Poland of lying is a very, very serious allegation.

Would Russia ever have provided any transcripts or information on those Russian airport "security" guards who looted the dead Poles in the crashed plane if the Poles did not have evidence that that's what they did?

How would Russia ever know that happened, unless the Poles reported it? It's called cooperation - Poland detected the crime, Russia dealt with it. Problem solved.

Or perhaps you might want to tell me how the Poles dealt with the theft of Halina Domeracka's dollars. Oh, that's right - they didn't.

Also even in the last 4 paragraphs of this Polish link you give, it said that what the airport TOWER said to the pilot was very important. It sayed the words the Russian tower sayed were vague. Small changes in pronuciation or grammar by the Russian tower could have made a world of difference in their communication to the Polish crew.

Sure, it could. But we already know that there was nothing in the transcript over the last few minutes which could cause trouble - they were cleared to 100m and no more. They were not cleared for landing, and there is nothing in the CVR to suggest that they had acquired a visual fix on the runway - therefore they should have gone around.

Its been claimed that the Russian airtower words of "don't land" could easily have been construed as "conditional landing" by just a minor change of the inflection of the Russian syllables or words used.

Can't comment, I don't speak Russian. But what I do know is that a conditional landing is just that, a conditional landing. However, they had no conditions for landing - nowhere in that ATC transcript is there any mention whatsoever of being cleared to land. This doesn't detract from the simple fact that they were told that Smolensk-North couldn't accept them - yet they still attempted a landing.

And NO most Poles did not approve of these transcripts. Especially when Russia is now refusing to hand back the black boxes.

So - where was this formal request for the black boxes? I don't recall anyone asking for them back. You'll also be well aware that under the relevant international conventions, the investigation is conducted in the country where the accident took place - what purpose would the black boxes have, especially when all the other pieces are sitting in Russia?

The black box issue is a red herring, especially when the Polish military elite were present in Moscow to witness the opening and decoding of the boxes.

I'll also remind you that you nor me know what was contained within the Polish "3rd" box - which was given to Poland to be decoded. Russia had no way of decoding the box, it was a Polish military piece of kit - and no-one has said about any contradiction in the transcript.

But tell me why the German aviation experts have cast doubt on the Russian tower? Why would the do that?

Because so far, we don't know exactly what was contained at Smolensk-North. There is a very real possibility that they were operating with very basic equipment - the airport was largely stripped at the end of last year when the military base was decommissioned. These same "Experts" seem to believe that there was some sort of precision landing device used at Smolensk-North - but there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that it was.

The crucial issue here is this - they were cleared to 100m. No more. Regardless of what ATC said or did, if they had stayed at 100m, be it barometric or radar - they would have been fine. Even if 100m was measured at the deepest point in the ravine, they still would have had about 30-40m to play with - but instead, they went below it. There's your cause of the crash. Nothing more.

I see the conspiracy theorists STILL haven't picked up on the discrepancy on the transcript yet. It wasn't a factor in the crash, but it's still interesting to note.

Delph, I cannot say this any more clearly. He didn't take the plane knowingly under 100m. He didn't know the true position of the plane and wasn't alerted by ATC.

Seanus, the captain heard (we assume - he may have gone deaf momentarily!) the call of 90m, 80m, 70m and so on. The second the plane went below 100m, he should have reacted - we know that the TU-154M turns off the autopilot as soon as the control mechanisms are manipulated. But they didn't turn off the autopilot instantly - which means he willingly went below 100m.

ATC alerted him as soon as it was obvious - hence the horizon command.

One thing that you might want to consider - if the data available has been interpreted right, then the pilots got it wrong in a 20 second window. Given the high stress that they were under to land the plane (especially since the Yak managed) - are you really, really shocked that they crashed?

However, if there's one good thing out of all of this - it seems that the Polish Air Force has been stripped of their VIP flying duties!
delphiandomine   
16 Jun 2010
Law / Can I come to Poland with my girlfriend on the student visa as a dependent? [40]

Because so many Poles are racists.

Even to go a bit further - many of them are casually racist - they wouldn't make monkey noises at a black person, or make slanty eyes in front of a Chinese person - but they'll still view them as being inferior.

As I've said - Asians and Africans have a very low opinion in the minds of many Poles, regardless of their true ability. I know a particularly well educated person who refuses to do business with Asians for example, except the Japanese. And he's responsible for a budget of around 50 million zloty a year!
delphiandomine   
16 Jun 2010
Law / Can I come to Poland with my girlfriend on the student visa as a dependent? [40]

The "just offering advice" line doesn't really ring true -.

He is an arsehole if he ends up abusing people who tell him bluntly what the deal is. The fact that he can barely afford to come here tells you everything - he's just another one in a long line of Indian subcontinental people who end up destitute in Europe. I'm not sure why many of them are attempting to come to Poland - could it be because Poland is still ridiculously easy to gain access to?

In fact there are plenty of successful Indians in Poland.

Sure, no-one's denying that. But there are equally many living in poor conditions, having been promised milk and honey and instead getting nothing - me and dnz once met an Arab guy here who was here illegally, who was having to work for 5PLN an hour in a kebab shop because absolutely no-one would employ him.

Incidentally, you don't know any Indian importers who are capable of giving a straight answer to a straight question, do you?

I suspect that many of the successful ones here are the ones who came here with a purpose and vision, rather than just "EU VISA".
delphiandomine   
16 Jun 2010
News / Komorowski, acting president, is a shower! [51]

The laddies are happy, because he is for parity, but thinks not all jobs are appropriate for women.

As opposed to Jaroslaw's policy of the woman staying at home, right?
delphiandomine   
16 Jun 2010
News / Komorowski, acting president, is a shower! [51]

Many people will vote for Komorowski not because they think he is good but to curb Kaczynski chance to become president.

Certainly, most/all SLD voters will do such a thing. Likewise, you might see PSL voters voting for Komorowski simply because he's their best chance of getting PSL-sponsored legislation through.

And even the masses of undecided people will vote Komorowski just to keep Kaczynski out, as you say.
delphiandomine   
16 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Matura - Does it meet the entrance requirement for English University? [9]

Does anyone here have experience of this and does Matura count as equivalent A Levels when applying to Uni?

Yes, of course - but as she passed so long ago, she'll be judged more on her post-Matura experience than anything else. Did she do a Polish degree?
delphiandomine   
16 Jun 2010
News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

Russians should also grow some balls in the matter and simply state that Russian Military Airports are not the greatest places for dog and pony shows with foreign dignitaries. It would not hurt anyone to fly to nearest civilian international airport and drive from there.

To be fair - Smolensk-North is mixed Military-Civilian these days. And the flight was military too - so really, there was no reason for Russia to say no. And of course - if Russia did say no, Lech Kaczynski would have screamed blue murder about Russia denying them.

This talk of yours about how the Poles "didn't have a trained navigator up to the task" and how they were "not trained properly" is just your propaganda since this crew landed at this airport before with no problem.

It's quite clearly obvious that they weren't up to the task - do you have to be reminded just how many hours they had together? I assume you're also well aware of the world of difference between flying into an airport under VFR and then under conditions wholly unsuitable for attempting such a landing?

The navigator was inexperienced on the TU-154, that much is certain. The crew as a team was also inexperienced.

Maybe the Russian airport crew and airport should have been more up to the task?

Why? Why should Russia upgrade an airport which has been all but decommissoned, just so a few Poles can fly in once a year? Smolensk-North is really nothing but a runway - it's there for commercial operators to upgrade if they want, but Russia has little to no interest in it.

You mean it never dawned on them to do everything humanly possible to upgrade the airport and its airport crew?

Why should they? If Poland wanted it, they should have paid for it - it's not Russia's obligation to upgrade the place. They provided the facility - it was Poland's job to use or reject it, and also Poland's job to pay for any upgrading that they might have wanted done for the flights.

Starting with not employing criminals to work at the airport?

It's Russia's job to hire who they want. I mean, it's not like the United States Government has ever hired the wrong people ;)

Most of the reports and opinions on this Polish crash came from those guys at the Russian airport where the plane crashed. And we know how honest these guys are.

No, most of the reports now come from the cold hard data - the trasncript which was approved by the Polish authorities. You really do struggle to understand this, don't you?

LOL Like when they were looting the dead Poles on the plane and taking their valuables. Yeah we can trust everything those guys said about this crash LOL

I'm still waiting for you to tell me what happened to Halina Domeracka's dollars. As I said - stealing from corpses is nothing new for Poles.

It was garbage right enough, MW. Arkadiusz Protasiuk had extensive flying experience, spoke Russian very well and wasn't suicidal. The Polish authorities are beginning to see holes in the Russian's story.

But he also had the weight of not only the Air Force chief on his shoulders, but also the President and his cronies. He also took the plane, willingly, below 100m when he had no authorisation or clearance to do so.

At the end of the day, its hard to say what exactly happened, but I do know something very strange happened, which isn't being told.

The only strange thing that happened was that the Polish Air Force was responsible for putting the Presidential plane into the ground. Let me tell you - do you believe something strange happened at Mirosławiec? What about with Korean Air Flight 801? or what about KLM Flight 823? We could go on.

I also don't like the way my blind man analogy was brushed aside. If you have a blind man, in this case the plane in the fog, with a human helper to guide him and he walks down a manhole, who is to blame? The guide, of course, as he is his eyes. They were under a moral obligation to assist more fully.

We're waiting for the report to tell us exactly what the air traffic controller could see. It could be that they had only a very, very basic radar - after all, just take a look at the state of Ukraine to see how things are operating using antique equipment!

According to German aviation experts, they think the airport was deliberately giving out false data to the data recievers on the airplane. I don't know if it was a deliberate thing, but I could see the airport having flaws with its plane landing data equipment used to aid the plane in.

But what data was this? The airport wasn't equipped with such devices - I mean, you're welcome to show me where in the transcript it shows that they were using such technology.

Perhaps you might want to look back at what happened on the ground for Warsaw as to why this accident happened. You do know that the Poles not only failed to request a navigator, but also failed to provide weather reports?

What's your most surprising in the crash near Smolensk ?

Col. . Stefan Gruszczyk : That did not talk about how bad the presidential flight was organized machine . I do not mean to provide aerodromes, because they are always included in the flight plan .

Organizer flight [ in this case, Office of the President ] , command 36 Regiment and foremost commander of the crew must before the start to know what to do at the destination airport if conditions do not allow for landing . Do you go back to Warsaw - you can take the right amount of fuel. Do you fly to the aerodrome where the relevant departments will be waiting for the delegation . Such a plan should exist especially in the case of flight with the president and the delegation , which await - as in Katyn - hundreds of people . It can not be that the crew is flying without any agreements and frantically thought what to do ..


Perhaps you might want to read this.
delphiandomine   
16 Jun 2010
Law / Can I come to Poland with my girlfriend on the student visa as a dependent? [40]

Out of interest I assume all you self appointed immigration police who claim to be well educated and to have things to offer here speak Polish and have a recognizable trade other than being English teachers ?

What relevance does it have as to what we are? We're all saying the same thing - that Poland has nothing to offer a Sri Lankan with a poor command of English and no knowledge of Polish. We're also telling him that he's not going to survive in Poland if he expects to bring his girlfriend here too - especially as he needs money to pay for living expenses.

And why does being black or white make a difference ?

Because those of a different skin colour are viewed as inferior, even by well educated Poles. Time and time again, I hear the opinion that a black person can't teach English - I know it's ********, but that's a commonly held view. Then - add in the fact that people view Indian subcontinental English as being terrible - and you have someone who is all but unemployable, especially as he doesn't even speak Polish.

In substance you are all right - its tough to get work here if you are from outside the EU, but to be so ****** when in fact the only advantages you have are that you by chance were born in the UK doesn't reflect well.

Sure, it's all by chance - but he would have far more success going to somewhere like the UK or Germany, where finding work among the Indian community is bound to be drastically easier. If he moves to Warsaw, he's just going to end up being used and abused.
delphiandomine   
15 Jun 2010
Law / Can I come to Poland with my girlfriend on the student visa as a dependent? [40]

Must admit, I'd be a fan of introducing a rule that freedom of movement only applied to those who have obtained permanent residency in an EU country in which the spouse is a citizen. I wouldn't be shocked to find out that there was quite a few dodgy marriages going on!

One of the more strange things is that an Indian married to a Pole can freely move to the UK, but someone born on the Isle of Man isn't free to move to Poland!
delphiandomine   
15 Jun 2010
Law / Can I come to Poland with my girlfriend on the student visa as a dependent? [40]

it's great to see you coming to your senses, delph.

Well - to be fair, for people like us - white, educated and able to string a sentence together coherently, it's not *that* difficult a place to live - no worse than the UK, at least. But for someone from Asia who can't even speak English properly and who doesn't have the money to survive here without working? They don't have a chance.

I suspect that there are "schools" in Poland aggressively recruiting in Asia - from what he says about his agent "recommending" him that joke of a school in Warsaw, it sounds like he doesn't have a clue. I'm really not sure why he thinks he can get a part time job here too - come on, it's Poland for crying out loud, it's hardly a multicultural place!

In fact, I'll give a piece of advice to people for free -

POLAND IS NOT AN EASY ROUTE INTO THE EU. In fact, it's probably one of the hardest ways in!
delphiandomine   
15 Jun 2010
Law / Can I come to Poland with my girlfriend on the student visa as a dependent? [40]

I would argue that it's him trying to go in the wrong direction ;)

How cruel - wont it be a bit cold in the hold for her? ;0)

Hahaha, I doubt he's got the money for the plane ticket anyway :P

Let this thread be a warning to Indians and others - POLAND IS NOT THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY THAT YOU THINK IT IS, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR "AGENT" TELLS YOU.
delphiandomine   
15 Jun 2010
Law / Can I come to Poland with my girlfriend on the student visa as a dependent? [40]

Using the student visa.

No. She will need her own visa.

how can i come with her ????

She gets her own visa.

Why are you still asking? It's obvious that you can't support yourself in Poland, and now you want to bring baggage, too? Even if you could bring her on the student visa (you can if you're married) - you would then have to have enough money coming in each month to cover both of you.
delphiandomine   
14 Jun 2010
Law / HELP IN IMMIGRATION SOUGHT " PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN POLSKA" [20]

When I tried to apply for a meldunek na stale ( and hence getting registered for local and EU elections, every PO vote counts in this country) two years ago

You shouldn't have needed the permanent residency to register to vote - it's a basic EU right that anyone legally resident - temporarily or permanently in another EU state has the right to vote in local and EU elections. At least in Poznan, the defining factor was the EU 5 year temporary residence card.
delphiandomine   
14 Jun 2010
Law / Problems with Polish Bureaucracy, residency [17]

I received a letter that I have to appear at the Urząd Wojewódzkie at 10 o'clock on Tuesday June 22nd. My temporary residency ends June 30th. They have said they want to ask me some questions. What exactly could they possibly want to know after submitting all my documents where not much has really changed?

Could be routine, could be that they have some concerns - could be anything, really. It may just be an informal chat before giving you a 2 year Karta Pobytu (which does happen...occasionally) - or they may simply want to enquire about what you're doing in Poznan to make sure that you're applying in the right office.

However, why would they schedule a meeting to see them and not even tell me what it is about, it seems a bit unfair doesn't it? I'm completely stressed out, my whole life is here in Poland and every year I feel completely ill-at-ease during this time.

If you're complying with all the legislation, then there's nothing to worry about. It may not be about anything in particular, but rather just a chat to enquire what you're doing in Poland. Really - nothing to worry about. At the very least, you'll have 90 days once your residency expires anyway if you're from a tourist stamp country.

Can I ask by the way - who/what are you working for in Poznan over the summer? I was wondering if there was any truth to the rumours about summer camps being run here :)
delphiandomine   
14 Jun 2010
Real Estate / Kraków Mortgage in US dollars [5]

Quite frankly - the vast majority of the English speaking ones in Poland are nothing but pond life. If they're vauge and mysterious, walk away - they thrive on misinformation and false promises, and the vast majority of them are attached to a particular bank.
delphiandomine   
14 Jun 2010
News / Poland to penalise commie symbols [27]

From what I gather, they're being used to help the IPN persue their idiotic strategy of attempting to wipe every last trace of Communism from Poland. No doubt Polish history will stop with the failure of the Warsaw Uprising, and start again with the election of Lech Walesa. It's already scary how badly educated some early 20's people are in this respect!
delphiandomine   
14 Jun 2010
Law / HELP IN IMMIGRATION SOUGHT " PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN POLSKA" [20]

When they got married as is the case here in Poland the Town Hall demanded His Original Birthcertificate which they have kept in their file and returned a certified photocopy.

They certainly shouldn't have done such a thing - they should have supplied a notarized copy, nothing more.