News / National Foundation to boost Poland's international image [26]


I'm not a geologist or fossil-fuel expert, trader or user, so I can only give some general impressions.
Poland is blessed or cursed with its deposits of "black gold" as it is sometimes called. 95% of the country's electrical power is generated by coal-fired power plants. And doing away with collieries would throw thousands upon thousands of miners and auxiliary staff out of work. And yet we all know that coal burning pollutes the atmosphere. It looks like a lose-lose situation. There has been talk of turning coal into a low-polluting liquid fuel. If the EU supplied the funds for research, development and implementation, then maybe the collieries could be saved. At the same time, alternatives should be sought such as wind farms even watermills which can often provide enough energy to light up an entire village.

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]

Merged: Another day, another good change from the people-friendly PiS govt

Hardly a day goes by that some new law benefiting the Polish peoele is not enacted or work on such gets under way. Today the Sejm approved a tax cut for small firms, bringing the CIT down from 19% to 15%. That will enable many smaller, often family-owned companies to have a fighting chance in a market dominated by foreign biggies who enjoy tax breaks and other incentives. That will not adversely affect the state budget, because tax collection is getting beefed up so that less taxpayer money goes astray or falls through the cracks.

News / National Foundation to boost Poland's international image [26]


Not people, but mean-spirited, vitriol-spewing losers. In today's times image is an all-important element of succees whether laucnhing a government project or advertisign a new brand of dog food. Poland has never been good at self-promotion, so it's high time to get started and make up for lost time. The Morawiecki Plan, the National Foundation, the Development, Education and Culture Ministries and others with opinion-moulding potential shoudl team up to create the Poland brand as well as individual Polish brands and marques. PiS' predecessors didn't as much as even broach the subject, becuase they were too busy serving their foreign-interest masters and lining their pockets with the kikcbacks.

News / National Foundation to boost Poland's international image [26]


Here is a Reuters news story on the subject. Hopefully the mods don't delete it straight away so copy-paste it as soon as you can!

uk.reuters.com/article/poland-eu-reputation-idUKL8N19Z3WP

Poland's state-controlled firms will pay $25 million per year to finance a foundation aimed at bolstering its reputation abroad, Treasury Minister Dawid Jackiewicz said on Wednesday.

He said one of the foundation's tasks will be to defend Poland's coal industry from European Union plans to curb carbon emissions.

Since winning the first outright parliamentary majority since Poland's 1989 transition from communism, the Law and Justice (PiS) party has overhauled the rules governing the constitutional court, prompting the EU executive to launch an unprecedented inquiry in January into whether the party has weakened the rule of law -- a notion PiS mostly rejects.

"Poland is gaining today a strong weapon in the fight for its good name," Jackiewicz told a news conference with Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, announcing the Polish National Foundation.

He said it would have an annual budget of over 100 million zlotys ($25 million), roughly the same as the upper chamber of parliament, the Senate.

"We are a country with great ambitions, we want to conquer the world, conquer markets. We are prepared and now it's time to make the next step and launch the National Foundation," Szydlo said.

News / National Foundation to boost Poland's international image [26]


I believe from the Polskie Radio website, but maybe not because when I went back I couldn't find it. Or maybe it got pulled for some reason.

News / National Foundation to boost Poland's international image [26]

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News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


All governments are able to influence people's behaviour in various ways without issuing and enforcing commands. Doesn't Poland have something like the US Better Business Bureau to monitor business practices for abuses?

A government that believes in the family will tend to allow joint filing of income tax with deductions for each dependent child. A lefiist-libertine government may make individual filing more profitable to the taxpayer, thereby encouraging singlehood.


Every problem has a solution. If Polish employers are as bad as you claim, then attendance and a good grade at obligatory training seminars could be introduced as a prerequisite for obtaining a licence.

That's the difference between status quo backers like yourself (Polish business sucks so let's leave it that way and support foreigners!) and forward-thinking people like Morawiecki.


A nice sweeping generalisation, but you have neglected to specify what kind of conditions should be created.

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


It's good to knwo the epxceriences of other countries but it is rarely possible to imitate them en toto due to differing circumstances and market realities. But central governments can provide encouragement for the indigenous private sector through tax breaks, free land and other privileges. Every time you enter a Tesco, Carrefour, Leroy, Leclerc, Lidl or Biedronka in Poland, ask youself: why am I supporting foreign biggies who are chanelling their profits abroad and undermining local business?

News / Moody's credit rating of Poland unchanged, but outlook slumps [64]

Merged: Fitch maintains Poland's ratings, ignores KODist pressure to downgrade

Yet another setback for Poland's whiney-snitchy losers camp! The Fitch Rating Agency has maintained Poland's A- long-term foreign currency rating and stable outlook. Its domestic currency rating has also stayed put at A. "Poland's A rating reflects its solid macro fundamentals, government debt close to its rating peers median and improving external finances from a weak starting point," Fitch said in a statement. "Strong GDP growth in recent years has supported an increase in GDP per capita, which remains low relative to rating peers." Earlier this year, the Standard & Poor's rating agency succumbed to extensive snitching and lobbying by Poland's extremist opposition and lowered the country ratings, although it economy was just as robust as it is at present.

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


Of course, and that's all the more reason to kick start it now and make up for the many years lost under the post-commie pro-foreign interest group regime. When do you suggest such a plan should be launched? In 2092?


Indeed, the extremist, total opposition have pin-pointed and zeroed in on their chief enemies and are basing their entire programme on PiS-bashing and Kaczyński-bashing. That, plus the lack of a positive platform, is why they're losing their last shred of credibility with voters.

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


On the contrary, I am an objective observer of the Polish political stage. Not every move PiS make is good. The recent salary hike thing is one example. Another is their failure to even raise the issue of trimming down the bureacracy; 150-strong Sejm, 50-strong Senate, limits on the number of town councillors a municipality can have, etc. But my hero is Mateusz Morawiecki. Not only did he takle a huge cut in pay to serve Poland, but his plan to promote inidgenous Polish entrepreneurship is a real gem.

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


You obviously prefer perpetual oldboy rule that leaves the majority out in the cold. Never give newcomers a chance, we should watch the same, old tired faces of TV presenters and read the same codswallop in the press forever and ever. Amen. (The Gospel according to jon)

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


Spot on. You have described PO to a T. They have been using the PiS bogey for years to divert attention away form their lack of any meaningful programme. A recent issue of Newsweek lambasted Kaczyński in nearly every article as if there were no oher issues in this land of 38 million.

BTW the VIP salary hike proposal has been withdrawn following protests from Solidarity. Again we have yet another example of PiS' sensitivy to grass-roots Polish opinion, no to PO's Brussels/Berlin masters.


AWS in essence accepted the roundtable deal and the generation of roundtable benificiaries it had generated. PiS had two irksome coaliton partenrs in 2005-2007 and was unable to develop a full-blown programme to right the injustices. The IV RP project was a step in that direction but could not be developed in the couirse of half a term. Only now are the very foundations of the psot-commie hoodwink being questioned and hopefully exposed.


In democratic countries such as the USA a change of administration means a change of cadres across the board, and no-one whines about it being undemocratic.

How long would you want the same status quo gang to stay in power. If they had ruled much longer there wouldn't be anything left to steal, "privatise", juggle or embezzle.

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


That is one of the effective ways the mafia stayed in power all these years by dismissing attemtps to get to the bottom of things as ficntios and using PiS as a scarecrow or bugbear. And since the masses are easily swayed that worked for a tine, a good long time like 26 years. But isn't that long enough for any one ruling group to be in power?

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


And that is precisely why they have been able to get away with all their hand-washes-hand schemes ad scamsfor so many year. Glib and slippery politicans spouting nice-sounding propaganda have enabled the "układ" (post-commie mafia) to line their pockets and live on a silver cloud since 1989 at the expense of the Polish nation. Fortunely, that is now changing and injustices are being righted. But we cannot hold it against the frustrated opposition. No-one likes to go from riches to rags!

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


Spoken like a true defender of the post-commie status quo!

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


That's what people say about lefties. There isn't an honest, truth-speaking one in the lot.
There's a Polish saying: The left bends down over hapless humanity..... to pack a bullet in the back of their head.
Vile leftist scum!

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Au contraire, mon petit ami. One might easily imagine she's applying for membership of the good-change party PiS. Does this sound like a Thatcherite speaking?:

"Our government will not be guided by the interests of handful of privileged individuals. If someone is born poor, they will live 9 years shorter than the rest. If they attend a public (probably meaning state) school, they are less likely to obtain a higher education than those privately educated..."

Commentators have remarked she sounds like the Labour Party or Bernie Sanders.


A good leader must be guided first and foremost by his/her own nation's best interests.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Being extremely wealthy is not a vice if the wealth was honestly acquired and is shared with those less fortunate. A very wealthy lawmaker or other politician is less likely to dip in the till and is praiseworthy if he/she promtoes a more even playing field and more equitable distribution of wealth.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Of course, that's obvious, but blokes like peterweg, Harry, lower-case and a few others eat, drink, breathe and fart PiS-bashing. That's all they live for, so to them any lie, distortion or slander that allows them to vent their frustration and blind hatred is good. In the States as kids we used to say about people like that: HE DOESN'T KNOW SH*T FROM SHINOLA (a brand of boot polish).

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


You are one a*sehole! You made up the stuff about dissidents. Prosecutors handle mainly criminal cases even in PRL. They would not assign a rooky who had taken part in the March '68 student protests and was not in the party to deal with dissidents. Only their most loyal stooges got such assignments. In a totaliatrian state such as PRL everyone in the media, academia, law and many other fields was under constant SB surveillance.

So you want to punish someone who never became a prosecutor's trainee, but if he had he might have prosecuted dissidents. Meanwhile fugitive Jew Michnik HAS BLOOD ON HIS HANDS. and yet no-one has ever heard a peep out of you about that. His bastard brother Adam has called Jaruzel & Kiszczak "men of honour". That has totally disqualified him from ever being taken seriously in any subsequent evaluations or opinions. And again -- Harryesque acqueisence though silence. You are pathetic!

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


You can post it in the po polsku section. BTW why don't you ever contribute anything to it being how very Polish youclaim to be? The Anglo-expats never contribtue a bloody thing to po polsku.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


So PM May is a marxist? There is a difference between marxism and conservatism if you didn't know. Marxism insists on blind loyalty to the Communist Party, fears and tries to stamp out religion and weaken the family which it regards as tied to tradition and reactionary, so commies encourage kids to sntich on their parents for reading prohibted literature or listening to foreign broadcasts. Commies also set up all kinds of commie youth organisations like Kuroń's Waterowcy (Red Scouts) or Russia's Komsomol which indoctrinate the young form a tender an early age. They insist the communist state owns all means of produciton and control every aspect of people's lives.

Conservatives by contrast reject revolutionary political schemes as well as libertine lifestyles and espouse such traditional values as God, country and family. They also reject PC style censorship. Conservatives promote a market-style economy (capitalism), although some retain a state sector in key or stratgic areas.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Merged: PM May a godsend for Britain just as PiS were for Poland

I never even heard of Ms May until she took over from cameron, but her initial remarks are very heartening indeed. She has gone on record as saying she did not want a Britain of privileged elites, and that's exatcly the same tack taken by Poland's pro-Polish good-change government. Looks as though Poland will have a reliable political ally in the UK.

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


In post-commie round-table Poland only those the clique regarded as criminals were punished and that let out the torturers, murderers and blackmailers of loyal, patriotic Poles. It was no court of law but only the clique that decided to prevent decommunsition, and that is why the guilty were never brought to justice. Jaruzeski's stalling, bogus sick leaves and change of defence councilors in mid-stream to delay and derail his trial only compromised the Tusk administration. A truly impartial judge would have declared Jaruzel's judicial ploys as obsrtruction of justice and even ordered the trial to be continued in his hospital room.

And if the Israelis were able to track down Eichmann all the way to Argentina after years of trying, how much easier would it have been for a Free Poland commando to pose as a tourist in Sweden and bring back fugitive Stalinist desk-top murderer Michnik for whom an arrest warrant had been out for years. The only thing lacking was a political will. It was lacking because ex-commies and ex-SB agents and their paid informers formed the backbone of the post-commie establishment known as III RP.


You've repeated this Harryesque lie at least 17 times or maybe 29. No proof? No link? Who would take Harry's word for anything?"!


When cornered, PF's liar laureate simply falls silent and hides under a rock. Can't really blame him though. Now he's only got lower-case to help out. Delph has deserted the forum in pursuit of wider horizons, although he pops back now and again under different aliases.

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They were criminals by virtue of serving a criminal regime dripping with blood, just as the Gestapo were for serving the horrific 3rd Reich. They evaded justice only because your your soft-on-commies round-table clique had prevented decommunsation and made a mockery of lustration to save their own skins and failed to declare the PZPR a criminal organisation. Presumably you also condemn the de-Nazification programme carried out by the US in post-war Germany.


Of course I see it. After 8 years of slanted pro-PO/a anti-PiS propaganda spewed by Tusk's compliant media stooges, the Polish people are entitled to see the other side of the question. At least now, the national media regularly invite opposition types to comment on every single isseu that that coems along, so people can get both sides of a given story.


You may find this link interesting:
reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2jkalw/how_were_members_of_the_stasi_handled_during/

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


Care to say whom you have in mind? You obviously have already prejudged and preconvicted those you claim were responsible for Smolensk, as biased and blinkered fools always do. You forgot to include Tusk and his stooges who did everything to discourage the president so as not to have to share the limelight with anyone. This was to be Tusk's big day, "resetting" things with Moscow and bear-hugging Putin at Katyń. His regime and servilistic media even circulated such nonsense as suggesting President Kaczyński might not get a visa from the Rooskies, as if heads of state have to queue for them like ordinary tourists. Then his flunky Arabski arranged to provide an antiquated Soviet plane for the presidential flight and have it land at a decomissioned, ramshackle ex-Soviet airfield, whose control "tower" was ground floor level and resembled a disused storage shed or repair garage. But you were here in 2010 so you know all this.

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


Toxic to those who have poured scorn and villified him from at least 1992 for wanting to expose their seedy arrangements as SB snitchers. Kaczyński was well aware of the fact that M had been tarred and character-assassinated by his mortal postcommie enemies who had ruled the roost and largely controlled most media for a quarter of a century. He also knew M's virtues -- patriotism, commitment, loyalty, determination and reliabiltiy and that he would be an asset to the good-change government. And he was right.

The Smolensk controversy should be resolved one way or the other if all its aspects are duly investigated without being swept under the carpet or hastily conlcuded before all the evidence is in. Poladn owes that to the victims' families.

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


That's what the mods are for. I have nothing against my threads being merged or consigned to off-topic as they see fit.