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Polonius3   
2 Nov 2015
News / Poland directly threatened by ISIS. Do Islamists planning terrorist attacks in Poland? [390]

Islamists

Sharing the item below sent to me by a friend in Michigan:
The author, Rick Mathes, is a well-known leader in prison ministry. (Look him up on Google.) The man who walks with God always gets to his destination. If you have a pulse you have a purpose.

The Muslim religion is the fastest growing religion per capita in the United States , especially in the minority races.

Last month I attended my annual training session that's required for maintaining my state prison security clearance. During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths, who each explained their beliefs.

1timothy4-13.com/files/bible/allahorjesus.html
Polonius3   
2 Nov 2015
Language / Polish keyboard incompatibility issues [11]

Once you grow accustomed to

Once you get accustoemd to anything it becomes second nature. But since I have extensively used both layouts (Programmers and Typist's 214) often during the same day, after a few mintues you get the hang of it. But all in all 214 is better, more efficient and certainly more versatile. Not only are all the Polish accented letters right on the keyboard but also found there are such symbols as ç, é, ä, ö, ü, ë, â, ê, û, î, à, đ, š, ž, è, ř, á, ý, ß, §, and others, all of which are absent from the "cowboy" (programmer's) keyboard.
Polonius3   
2 Nov 2015
News / Don't read "Gazeta Wyborcza" Polish newspaper -- wPolityce.pl [83]

hole in taxpayers' pockets

Lobbyists for foreign banks and big chain retailers like yourself will naturally shoot holes in any attempt to have them pay their fair share of taxes. As it is, small Polish retailers pay much more and cannot compete with the biggies. It turns out that those taxes will provide billions of złotys to help bankroll the govt's social projects such as 500 zł per child. The president's council is only just emerging, so its laughable to expect it to already be operating in top gear and proudcing results.
Polonius3   
2 Nov 2015
Language / Polish keyboard incompatibility issues [11]

"Mocny Aksent"

How does Mocny Akcent differ from Programmer's*? You still have to double type to get the accented letters and that is a hassle.
Polonius3   
2 Nov 2015
News / Don't read "Gazeta Wyborcza" Polish newspaper -- wPolityce.pl [83]

perceives Poland as a brand?

That has got to change. President Duda's Developent Council should include a brand and PR subcommittee devoted to promoting the notion world-wide that "Made in Poland" means high quality but not overpriced, hence the best value available anywhere. The Platformers certainly didn't do anything to promote that. They were too busy milking the system for their private advantage.
Polonius3   
2 Nov 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

Kukiz

Yes, Kukiz is volatile and unpredictable. He mentioned in passing at one point that he'd like to be culture minister but later said he would join no coalition. (Probably PiS would not have him in the first place). But one thing he's got hands-on knowledge about is show business. Polish musicians and entertainers are often as cash-strapped as anyone, adn Polish culture is woefully underfunded. Kukiz himself was seen not long ago at ZAIKS hoping the get some royalties. The point is he understands the plight of the artistic community far better than professional MPs and government bureaucrats do. Whether as an ordinary MP (rather than a minister) he'll be in a position to do anything about it seems quite unlikely.
Polonius3   
2 Nov 2015
News / Don't read "Gazeta Wyborcza" Polish newspaper -- wPolityce.pl [83]

Poland 25 years from now

I am not a prophet or clairvoyant. But people who favour wholesome conservative values and national sovereignty rather than fly-by-night utopias like today's passing PC dictatorship and neo-colonial globaliom

look forward to Poland as an unquestioned regional power wielding considerable influence in a reformed EU. Reformed away from today's bloated and all-interfering Brussels bureaucracy into a democratic confederation of sovereign national states.

Since the refugee crisis will probably deal a crippling and destabilising long-term blow to Germany, Poland will all the more stand out as a bastion of stability in the region. Poland will move away from its neo-colonial status as a cheap-manpower source controlled by foreign corporations which have reduced Poles to the level of hired help (mercenaries) in their own country, and begin developing an indigenous enterpreneurioal class.

Unlike the Polish vusiness community of the first post-communist quarter-century, who mainly built their fortunes within or in close, subservient cooperation with foreign corporations and sold off nearly all of Poland's recognisable brands (Wedel, Wyborowa, Żywiec, Okocim, etc.), the new generation of entrepreneurs will begin designing, manufacturing and exporting

original and recognisably Polish products world-wide. The "Made in Poland" label will be seen as a guarantee of high qualtiy and good value.

Putin will not last another 25 years and it is not inconceivable that he will be assassinated and/or trigger a violent backlash leading to the break-up of the Russian Federation into its component parts (all republics lacking an overwhelming Russian majority will become independent).

But anything may happen over the next 25 years, not excluding an ISIS takeover, a world-wide recession greater than anything seen before or even a giant meteor, so all predictions involve a huge potential margin of error. We shall simply have to wait and see.

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Polonius3   
1 Nov 2015
News / Don't read "Gazeta Wyborcza" Polish newspaper -- wPolityce.pl [83]

extreme website

Here's another extreme story about the Kosher Kid (Michnik) warning against the PiS "velvet dictatroship" and Putineqsue rule under Kaczyński. I can quote rants on either side of ther barricade. So can you. Unlike the US, the PC mob has yet to take over in Poland and call the shots so it's still a free country.

wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/adam-michnik-porownuje-mozliwe-rzady-pis-do-putinowskiej-rosji/l07y8p
Polonius3   
31 Oct 2015
History / "I was more afraid of fellow Poles than Nazi German Officers", says Bartoszewski [130]

wrong practices

In terms of social darwinism they have mostly made the right choices. The Goyim who felt victimised by such practices will describe it differently, but in terms of pure survival they have followed the most effective path to success.

Look at it this way -- what other barely 15-milliion-strong nation wields more wealth, influence and clout?
Polonius3   
31 Oct 2015
Life / Polish culture versus rotten West [279]

eating curry bigos

Oh no! If there's anything I hate it's curry and tumeric-tainted American-style yucky-yellow mustard!
Polonius3   
31 Oct 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

Kukiz-Winnicki

Winnicki has said he is sticking with Kukiz amid rumours his group may go over to PiS. There are 5 RN-ers in the Sejm so they also have the option of forming their own parliamentary circle (a minimum of 3 MPs are needed). If that occurred, Kukiz could not form a parliamentary club (requiring 15) and would also have to create a Kukiz'15 Circle.
Polonius3   
31 Oct 2015
Language / Verb classification in Polish language [9]

The overwhelming majortiy of Polish verbs take the accusative case. I'd suggest you make up lists of the most common ones requiring genitive, dative and instrumental adn aqdd to them as you go along.

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Polonius3   
31 Oct 2015
News / Don't read "Gazeta Wyborcza" Polish newspaper -- wPolityce.pl [83]

the existence of an absolute political 'truth'.

Every absolute truth exists, but few if any have access to it. Did the praise and applause go to Merkel's head causing her to get even more deeply mired in the refugee mess? We don't know -- one would have to get into her brain to find out. So, yes, there is absolute truth known only to the Supreme Being.
Polonius3   
31 Oct 2015
News / Don't read "Gazeta Wyborcza" Polish newspaper -- wPolityce.pl [83]

not politically conservative

I read it on par with Rzepa just as I scan Polityka, Wprost and Newsweek along with wPolityce.pl just to knwo what's happening.

One may disagree with their pro-Semitic, anti-Polish and anti-Catholic editorial policy but technically it's a decent rag.
But Poland is no exception. In the USA, Obamites and other lefitsts are known for their America-bashing proclivities.
Polonius3   
31 Oct 2015
News / Don't read "Gazeta Wyborcza" Polish newspaper -- wPolityce.pl [83]

Do nor read "Gazeta Wyborcza"

Representatives of intellectual leftishness are enemies of their own country and direct all their effort into turning the nation against their own tradition - says news portal wPolityce.pl.

wpolityce.pl/polityka/270292-europejscy-inaczej-przedstawiciele-lewactwa-intelektualnego-sa-wrogami-wlasnej-ojczyzny-i-caly-wysilek-wkladaja-w-obrzydzenie-narodowi-jego-tradycji
Polonius3   
31 Oct 2015
Life / Polish culture versus rotten West [279]

What are western ideals?

This whole discussion is highly ahistorical. A few centureis ago it was the western "ideal" to burn heretics at the stake, but if Poland is an eastern country, you didn't have too much of that in the PLC (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). Goes to show that these concepts are extremely fluid and impermanent and therefore in a constant state of flux. The PLC in area was once Europe's largest land empire, but today Poland is a highly truncated medium-size European country and Lithuanian a postage-stamp-sized statelet. The largest empire was Mongolia up till around AD 1300 but today is a bleak, sparsely populated wasteland.

Most great nations were at their best and most resilient during their developmental upswing. When they achieved their "golden age" they tended to become self-satisfied, arrogant, fat, flabby and decadent, after which the decline ensued. The West as we know it is now in the intial phases of that inevitable final stage, but no-one knows when or how the ultimate collapse will occur (probably in stages?) and what civilisaiton will fill the resultant vacuum. The betting is on east Asia, but that is only a speculation.
Polonius3   
31 Oct 2015
History / How come Polonization never works? [87]

you have actually posted this

Perhaps the irony was lost on you. The point was to show someone glorifying logic and science that those too can be abused to do evil things.
Polonius3   
31 Oct 2015
History / How come Polonization never works? [87]

Poles that would love to use Zyklon B

There is probably more than one PF-er who wouldn't mind using it on a troll like you! PF is supposed to be a discussion forum, not a provocation platform!
Polonius3   
30 Oct 2015
History / How come Polonization never works? [87]

science and logic

Zyklon-B was pure science and logic. It produced higher output at a lower pricey than using exhaust fumes for extermination. The latter was a waste of precious fuel that could be better used to power tanks, APCs and troop trucks. Also, first structurally weakening buildings in Warsaw with flame-throwers enabled one to use that much less dynamite to blow them up. Simple economic logic.
Polonius3   
30 Oct 2015
History / "I was more afraid of fellow Poles than Nazi German Officers", says Bartoszewski [130]

The arendarz or innkeeper in Polish villages more often than not was a Jew, and dispensing food and drink has always been a lucrative occupation. Not to mention countless Jews in crafts and trade in a country where most people eked out a subsistence as hard-scabble peasant farmers.

The bottom line is that many different factors have contributed to Jewry's affluence and influence. The lopsided nature of Polish society (85% peasantry 5% mainly in Jewish and German burghers and 10% gentry) in cneturies past have largely contribtued to Poland's lack of cultural influence and political clout. The partitions as well as Nazi and Soviet occupation further impoverished the nation. A pruncated Poland has been fully free for a mere 45 of the past 350 years!
Polonius3   
30 Oct 2015
History / How come Polonization never works? [87]

PGR concept a total failure

I'm no agricultural expert however commie-era statistics have always been suspect. Under Gierek, statistics were selected and moulded in such a way to make Poland the world's 10th largest economic power. Presumably some PGRs were more successful than others but on balance they couldn't compete wtih smallholder production. Employees ripped the company off, saying if it's state property that means it belongs to us. Tools, fertiliser, tyres, batteries and other hard-to-buy items mysteriously disappeared. Why not google PGR.