History / 60th anniversary of the Poznan uprising! [60]


At least Tusk showed some concern for the president's well-being, unlike a certain twin I could name who has ultimately gained .... quite a lot from his brother's tragic demise. Why if a person didn't know better it would seem that maybe those who say they want to find the guilty party for Smolensk have been looking in the wrong place all along.... hmmm

The obsessive desire to make the true Polish Poznan uprising (something the russified warszawiaki were not up to) all about Smolensk seems maybe like a smokescreen? Or should I say fog screen?

News / Anti-Corruption Bureau investigates Warsaw city hall [69]


Yes, that the Polish public hasn't been following events in Greece or Venezuela.... (or doesn't remember Gierek's giveaway policies that lead to the privations of the late 1970s and 1980s).

PiS does not have an economic model, it's just buying the votes of the gullible. The bill will be very high when it comes due.

News / Anti-Corruption Bureau investigates Warsaw city hall [69]


Buying loyalty by giving low information voters trinkets and wampum


By going back to the PRL way of doing things!


By undoing the policies that saw the greatest rise in the standard of living in post PRL Poland. Again they want a PRL redoux and that's what voters will get sooner or later.

News / Anti-Corruption Bureau investigates Warsaw city hall [69]


Accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. The innocent don't need pardons. If his case was strong he could refuse the pardon and clear his name, but that's a lot of work and PiS are all about the shortcuts...

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


Yes. And it would have been easy enough to sort out the Syrians from the rest. Set up processing stations in camps in Turkey and Jordan and Lebanon so the non-Syrians could be turned away there. But for some reason, Merkel decided that Germany needs a bunch of Moroccans and Bangladeshis pretending to be Syrians because......? Providing shelter to unemployable young men who won't integrate into any European country is the highest distillation of European values?

News / Anti-Corruption Bureau investigates Warsaw city hall [69]


By _craaazeeee_ people.

Again, neither Putin nor PO had anything to gain from the crash. The party that had something to gain, is the party that did actually gain and is now running the country. Coincidence??? I think not!


Typical. Anything to divert suspicion..... (mafketis takes a sip of tea, takes a small bite of a cookie and looks around very, very innocently)

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


don't be a p|ssant, he said it whether you like the source or not


Much further west. but again these are mostly not refugees who need a lot of coddling. They're ready and willing to work and can fit in linguistically and culturally pretty rapidly.


The only way to stop it is with better ideas, not trying to shut down people by calling them names.

No pendulum swings one way forever, the globalist pendulum has swung about as far as the european public is comfortable with.

The Austrian election re-run will be important signpost.

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


What humanitarian crisis is going on in Sub Saharan Africa that 300,000 Africans need to be admitted to the EU?

breitbart.com/london/2016/06/29/frontex-chief-300000-migrants-headed-africa-europe

money quote:

The director of Frontex offered a grim overall evaluation of Europe's migrant crisis, summing up EU immigration policy as a "failure."
"The EU asylum policy has failed for a long time," he said. "The EU countries are not even able to distribute the 160,000 refugees proposed in 2015 by the Commission."

"But the problem is: The migrants do not want to be distributed in EU countries. They have precise target countries such as Germany, where they want to go. This complicates a fair distribution of people in Europe," he said.

In other words, you can have the free movement of people within Europe (with strong external borders or porous external borders with stronger internal borders)

It takes someone as stupid as an EU technocrat to think you can have loose external and no internal borders....


But is it a flood? most Ukrainians come to Poland to work. I now here more Russian and Ukrainian on the street than I used to but it's still pretty small.

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


The issue is the free movement into Europe by non-Europeans with very different values (and no realistic chance of supporting themselves legally).

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


Rushing it won't help anyone. It's like saying someday we'll have star trek style teleporters. It doesn't help anything in the current situation.

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


How much do you hate Europe?

How many hundreds of millions of people do you want living in the UK?

The unfortunate fact is that more people want to live in Europe than Europe can support.

More people want to live in the UK than the UK can support (unless you pave over the whole thing and turn into one giant metropolitan area.

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

Within the EU it's a great thing. But extending it to half the globe is a recipe for a rolling disaster....

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


There is no immigration within the EU. There is the free movement of citizens.

There is hardly anything resembling immigration in Europe (in terms of people learning local languages and integrating into local social networks).

Immigration is a feature of the nation state and all the powers that be in the West are doing their best to destroy the nation state model.

The Brexit vote is a major obstacle in that plan (or ironically a move in the direction of destroy since the EU is ironically enough trying to turn the EU into a nation state).

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


Ah the sweet smell of crushing democracy....

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


I'm pretty sure that it was agreed that nicknames like "The Duck" for Kaczyński should not be used without the real names since those not acquainted with Polish politics won't know who is being referred to.

But I did use the politician in question's real name too so no foul.

Back to the topic of the thread please

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


I'll stop when you do. Deal?



Well, that didn't last long.

News / Anti-Corruption Bureau investigates Warsaw city hall [69]


No it wasn't. You were describing PiS (which even you don't trust in your heart of hearts).


Is there any political party that all three of those individuals belong to?

News / Anti-Corruption Bureau investigates Warsaw city hall [69]

Why would he write about PiS?

Language / How do you literally translate Home Sweet Home in Polish [22]


Do it's?

A guest in the home, God in the home is okay but lacks..... something (and definitely implies location rather than reception).

There are other versions like Gość w dom, masło do lodówki (A guest in the home, butter to the fridge) or Gość w dom cukier do szafy (A guest in the home, sugar to the cupboard) or even Gość w dom, żona w ciąży (A guest in the home, the wife (is) pregnant).

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

Duda, the dud of a dude, is actually right. But that's _within_ the EU, the leadership has moved on to insisting that everyone from the middle east, central asia and africa with nerve enough to get on a dangerous boatride should be made welcome in Europe, and that Germany should be able to tell other countries how to police or not police their borders, which is kind of... insane.

The quickest way for the EU to be saved would be for the EU leadership to remember the first word and be pro-European rather than pro-everybody-else.

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


That's why the EU will fail, the leaders are not only petty technocrats with little understanding of how human nature works (at both the individual and societal levels) _and_ they're arrogant and inflexible. Neoliberalism and open borders uber alles which is not what the majority of citizens in most countries want.

It's sad, because in its day the EU did a lot of good for a lot of countries, but the day is over and there's nothing to be gained in pretending otherwise.

Language / How do you literally translate Home Sweet Home in Polish [22]


Yeah, there's no way to conveniently do that with prepositions in English (since it doesn't have the same kind of nominal case system that Polish does) "Guest to the home" sounds ... werid, "Guest into the home" maybe even weirder. Maybe "When a guest arrives, God arrives" or "A guest at the door, God at the door" would be more idiomatic translations. Not as pithy as the Polish but closer in meaning.

History / 60th anniversary of the Poznan uprising! [60]

All public ceremonies in Poland must pay homage to the single most important even in Polish history. The Warszawiaki cannot bring themselves to recognize Western Polish history.

Some Poles claim that the ruling party is becoming more and more like a bizarre death cult.

History / 60th anniversary of the Poznan uprising! [60]

No. He took power short afterward. It is considered one of the elements contributing to the post-Stalinist "thaw" (odwilż) a general (if short) relaxation of some communist policies.

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

So you don't live in Poland then?

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


Are you an immigrant to Poland?

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


There is no such thing as "immigration" with the EU. There is the free movement of EU citizens who are not required to adapt linguistically or culturally (provided they can find a job while not adapting).

"Immigration" to the UK is only from non-EU countries (and doesn't include "asylum" seekers or refugees).

Language / How do you literally translate Home Sweet Home in Polish [22]


They have dom (house, home) but it doesn't have the same emotional connotations. Dom is good because you're away from strange unrelated people. Most of the warm emotional connotations of 'home' are transferred to 'rodzina'. 'Family' (at least for Americans) doesn't have the same emotional strength as 'rodzina'.

Language / How do you literally translate Home Sweet Home in Polish [22]

Yeah I agree. There is wszędzie dobrze ale w domu najlepiej roughly 'everywhere's nice but home is best', or even more loosely 'there's no place like home')

There's also ciasny ale własny, roughly 'small but (my/our) own' or more loosely "be it ever so humble"

But I don't think you can link those two expressions like you can in english.

UK, Ireland / London's POSK smeared with anti-Polish grafitti [150]


Rattled you. I'm not saying for sure that all the hate crimes being reported now are hoaxes (and maybe none of them are). I am saying that refusing to entertain the possibility is the sign of a dangerously naive person (and a very closed mind).