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JonnyM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

I would give something to see and hear the other side in that conflict. And that I can't makes me thinking...

I know a few expats who worked there and had to leave. They're all pro-Gaddafi and are seeing conspiracies everywhere. Mostly to do with countries who stand to gain from high oil prices.

Doesn't bode well for the time after their victory (should that ever happen).

It will be a nightmare. The Senussi regime (who the rebels' tribes supported) were brutal and bloodthirsty. Doesn't bode well for groups like the Touareg in the south either. :-(
JonnyM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Just a question...who told you that?

Perhaps I should have said 'most people in Europe who are expressing an opinion'.

You know...if Ghaddafi was really so hated by the Libyans he would be out by now. Makes you think...(or should).
By now the soldiers should have been defected and there should be uprisings in more cities.

Yes. I think I mentioned before that it's a tribal thing. Gaddafi's tribe (a fairly small one) will always support him and tribes allied to them will mostly stay loyal. The rebels come from tribes who haven't had such a good deal over the last few years.
JonnyM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Now you're talking. Something we can both agree on.

Remember that France was the big player in Iraq during the Saddam regime and is very keen for a piece of the action in Libya where French companies were building a bit of a foothold but only as engineering sub-contractors.

The question on everybody's lips here is what will happen when Gaddafi is gone and how long reconstruction will take. And who is arming the rebels. Britain is largely innocent - they stand to lose a lot because of all this and Cameron seemed really unprepared.

I was supposed to be there now, a really good short term contract (for a French firm) on the mediterranean coast, basking in the sun. But off to Mexico (the Deepwater Horizon repairs) on Saturday, so not all bad.

Nope from Greece I believe, :)

Wow - I've never had Greek - is it good?
JonnyM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

That’s the beauty of it all, why do you suppose the France jump at it so fast? LOL

Contracts, dear boy, contracts. Check out Harouge inter alia.

Who cares about the faith of Moussa Koussa. The really have something to look forward to then, to see another take his place with your blessing. Wow a real revelation there.

What have you been smoking? And did it come from Libya? ;-)
JonnyM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

your colonial ambition fulfilled and back to the same old.

Poland has a "colonial ambition"?

We want no part of it

Your president and government are very involved.

You don't want to make it personal trust me.

Is that a threat? Wow, an internet warrior!

Hard to say anything about a 'puppet regime' since there's nobody waiting in the wings and Moussa Koussa is likely to be prosecuted. One thing is clear, most people want Gaddafi out. And fast.
JonnyM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

after all aren’t you doing it under humanitarian banner?

Under what? Poland is doing it 'under' treaties the Polish government have signed.

France and Britain can easily absorb them

Plenty there already, so yes.

We said no to the war this time and we will gladly sit it out watching you dig yourself a deeper and deeper grave

"We"? Aren't you an American? We in Poland are part of Europe which has common protocols on refugees.

It has nothing to do with the EU.

Quite a lot really, since we are a member.
JonnyM   
13 Apr 2011
USA, Canada / Opening a small shop, and selling many Polish items in USA. Do you think this would work? [32]

What are some other items, don't have to be just food items, but could be, do you think the people living here in my area, would like

I don't know much about your area, but dried mushrooms would be good to import due to being long-lasting and lightweight. Just be careful about following the laws of your country concerning food importing.

Polish chocolate is good to, plus honey (but again, there are strict laws in a lot of countries about importing honey). Christmas decorations from Poland are nice, plus linen products.
JonnyM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Exactly. My point entirely. Nothing to do with:

Time to open up a history book.

For some of us Poland isn't our history; it's our present.

There were two waves of refugees from Poland in my lifetime, and older folks can remember a bigger one. Many thousands of people in total. And you're bickering because Poland is taking 12 people having previously signed up to the European protocol on refugees.
JonnyM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Not exactly. Soft law is rather declaration of good will.

Which is all the more reason to stick to whatever good will one has declared. I know it's hard for people from certain parts of Europe to understand. You certainly don't seem to.

The council of Europe is not EU institution. It`s another organisation. Russia for example belongs to it.

Which still works alongside the EU. And doesn't in any way negate the protocol on refugees that Poland has signed up to.

Time to open up a history book.

As you say yourself, in a somewhat contradictory way:

Support only goes back as far as I can remember

I remember the Polish plumber an a missed opportunity to stay quiet so there. Perhaps they should follow their own advice before getting involved in foreign wars.

Meaningless.
JonnyM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

How short is your memory?

Well, I can remember them coming at the end of the 60's when I was a kid, so pretty good. My memory however doesn't rum to hundreds of years. Nor does yours.

We all know how hospitable the local inhabitants were at that time and no Pole in sight, stop preaching it all falls on deaf ears.

Not a particularly good attempt to wriggle out of something. And not really your business if the country I pay taxes to (and you don't) takes 12 refugees during a civil war.
JonnyM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Protocols and declarations are a soft law. If you know what is it.

But still a law. To be kept or to be changed following procedures.

Council of Europe HAS NOTHING common with Eueopean Union.

It has rather a lot in common.

we were also a refuge for the refugees for countless of centuries,

Funnily enough I only remember the ones coming in 1968 and 1981. And the older generation who came in the 1940s, before I was born. Who cares about "countless of centuries" whatever that means?

why should anyone else bear the burden of their mess in the first place.

A temporary home for 12 people is a 'burden'? It's a good job you weren't the innkeeper at Bethlehem - Jesus would have been born on the pavement!

masturbating

Careful, or they'll suspend you again. Hopefully permanently since you contribute nothing here and just stalk people through threads. Paid that money back yet?
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

You are wrong. read some more about european law, and then we can discuss.

Read the EU protocols on refugees. Then we can discuss.

Also check out the history of Poland who for centuries has been a source of refugees. Including as recently as 1981. Now it's time to be a destination.
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Don't humiliate yourself. I saw your "Polish" on another thread.

Yes and it's not at all bad!

I think I will follow this advice:

Here's a better bit of advice, PiS Fanboy. If you make repeated posts about masturbating over corpses, as you did yesterday (4 or 5 was it, before the mods deleted them and suspended you?), people will see pretty quickly what you're about. If they hadn't figured it out already

It`s all about the treaties.

Including those on refugees, and Poland is part of that whether you like it or not.

The operation in Libya is not EU action, is privat war between Libya and France, UK , etc. And they should be responsible for effects of that war.

It's an action by EU countries, and refugees to Europe regardless of whose war it is are a shared responsibilty.
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

You are talking about Europen Union. This war in Libya is NOT UE conflict,

The issue of refugees however, is. Poland signed up to that.

They are acting their own way and we are NOT obligated to help them, and to finance cost of mess they did.

Not 'them', but us. Perhaps the

some countries from EU

aren't 'obligated' to pay for new roads, railways etc in Poland?
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

And you're even so humourless, bitter and inadequate that you don't even understand when someone makes a pun about beer (clue: where the money comes from to buy it with. Idiot. Paid that money back yet?

:-D
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

What are you going to lecture us on tommorow, Mr Europe ?

Your spelling for a start.

Seriously, aren't you too old for this nonsense ?

What 'nonsense'? The indisputable fact that Poland is a member of the EU and joined because the Polish people voted in a free and fair election? Or the 'nonsense' that Poland is receiving vast infrastructure funding?
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Why don't the French that are so eager to lead the war against libya take care of the war victims?

They are. Plenty are going there. If, however, Poland wants to be in Europe (and they voted in a free and fair referendum to join) they have to do their bit too. Or leave Europe and pay back the massive infrastructure funding they've received and give up Poles' right to work in the UK, France etc. Extending the hand of compassion to a dozen people who are in crisis is natural under the circumstances.
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]

If anyone still thinks there's anything good about this toxic procedure of shale gas fracking they should read this. And remember that there are foreign companies who want to do this to Poland.

Meet the families whose lives have been ruined by gas drilling
Cassie Spencer said she nearly "had a cow" when she returned home one day and saw her yard sprinkled with little red flags, like land mine markers in a war zone. Her 5-year-old daughter was playing in the midst of them. The family property had become a methane field.

Cassie believes Chesapeake gas wells 3,000 feet away that she never saw and doesn't profit from had somehow been sending methane onto her property and into her water, and onto her neighbors' properties on Paradise Road in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania. Testing by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) traced the methane to Chesapeake wells but the company has denied responsibility.

The Spencers' house, once valued at $150,000, is now worth $29,000. They have a methane monitor in their basement, a methane water filtration system in a backyard shed. They leave the door open when they take showers because with no bathroom windows they are afraid the house could blow up. Their neighbors were forced to evacuate once already because of high methane levels. In the middle of their yard, a shaft resembling a shrunken flagpole vents gas from their wellhead.

Here's the rest: guardian/environment/2011/apr/12/families-gas-drilling
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
Travel / Easter in Poznan. Will everything be closed? [14]

I never knew that!

Before WW2 they had a huge presence in Białystok and Warsaw - they're just going through the process of getting the Church property back now.
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
Feedback / No joke, but how do I LOG OUT? [19]

Im new to this site. I can't find a link to log out. Can anyone help ?

Click on your user name. It brings you to your profile page. You can log out there.
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
Life / Are there ISP's who have a broadband speed of 25Mbps in Poland? [6]

I feel like I'm being robbed every month now that I read how fast is the Internet in Polska,

People in Britain have the same problem. Because the phone lines were so bad in Communist times, Poland had to replace them - and obviously they've done it with the latest technology. In UK, US etc, lines have been fairly well maintained over the years and didn't need such radical changes. The phenomenon is called something like leapfrog technology.

It does depend on the area you're in, even in Poland. I used to get 25 Mbps in Wola through UPS, but couldn't even get a broadband connection through TPSA when I lived in Mokotów. Something to do with the building.
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Remember 1981? 1968? And pretty well all of the preceding decades...

Whe you've figured that out, you can send that money you promised to return to the EU, in lieu of infrastructure subsidies you think Poland shouldn't get. After all, what are

huge financial problems

compared to the political crises that have led to other countries granting asylum to Poles. But of course your post suggests that you're too mean-spirited to accept refugees. So take the Polish ones back.
JonnyM   
12 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

We've got huge financial problems. Reduce it to 3.

There'd be even bigger financial problems if even 1% of the Polish refugees scattered round the world over the years were repatriated to their ojczyzna.
JonnyM   
11 Apr 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles top the UK's EU crime figures [78]

There are at least several times fever citizens of the "following" countries in the UK than Poles, so they are much more likely than Poles to commit crimes.

That's mentioned in the article. Even before the statistics table. Still think it's 'polonophobic'?

Imagine the article stating that Chinese are the worst offenders in the world

Do they say that about Poles? They are however the most prolific offenders from the EU in the UK.