News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Deterring Democracy around the world: CIA Covert Operations and U.S. Interventions Since World War II

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and in Europe: Operation Gladio

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Hope that those courageous demonstrators will defend democracy not only in Poland.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


If you admit me as a member of PiS and if it is a compliment then I am compelled to compliment you back - but I am not sure about it. Unfortunately, I do not not belong to any political organization, let alone have voted in any elections; though democracy seems to me more sympathetic a political system than any other one.

As far as Gazeta Wybocza is concerned. I am a reader of it since may 1989, that is from it's first edition. And it is really a good newspaper, if it only presents well balanced opinions of honest men.

And do not forget I am 'Libratius' - I read everything.

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You may be right but who knows? That's what I am really afraid of.

Work / Some questions about average wages and hiring a cleaning woman/maid in Poland [23]

...hiring a cleaning woman/maid in Poland

Try not to appear to be gender-specific - you are ascribing stereotypical activities to women.
The best solution, if I may suggest something, would be to clean what should be clean by your own person - thus you will avoid any accusation of male chauvinism or class oppression.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Mr Jerzy Urban may or may not be a shrewd deceiver or a cunning liar who defended the regime he was a member of.

There are still people who look at that regime not only as defending the communism but also as a bulwark against what came after 'liberal' reforms... reforms which made their lives so miserable.

And do not mistake the people whom you do not like with the cause the majority of the demonstrators represent.

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And all this is the part of a modern style performance since he is very much on the cutting edge of his time - that's after all what makes him shrewd and cunning.

Love / Is the masculine look on women popular in Poland? [30]

The masculine look of women in Poland is very much popular. In fact this kind of woman is highly admired and called Herod-Baba.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


What makes him a slanderer?

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And what reason is given for such speedy and resolute action?

News / Germans: Geh raus of Poland's business! [61]


How do you define a country? As its people or as its business?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


You are painting the picture of a charioteer driving a chariot pulled by two horses; one of the horses is noble and of noble breed, but the other quite the opposite in breed and character.

The Charioteer represents intellect, reason; one horse represents rational or moral impulse; while the other represents irrational passions, appetites, or concupiscent nature.

The Charioteer directs the entire chariot, trying to stop the horses from going different ways, and to proceed towards enlightenment.

So we have two political parties and one TK; it is not difficult to guess which party is playing which role in your picture and what role you have prescribed to the TK.


For sure you put your trust to a bunch of TK's lawyers. Is that that you fear the numbers; less is more as wisdom is concerned?

At least that's what you imply; and that's your concept of democracy.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Let me be your humble student. As you have chosen Poland for your country then you should know when and where JK has spoken against the civil society.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

As you can gather from the type of mistakes I make:


instead of when and where JK spoke... my fist language is Polish not English. So let me translate the actual words of JK:

Here is the original text:

Pomysł na społeczeństwo obywatelskie "obsługiwał" [...] przede wszystkim interes polityczny grup dysydenckich, które wychodziły - czy to w sensie czysto biograficznym, czy środowiskowym - z realnego socjalizmu. One chciały mieć jakiś wehikuł polityczny, bo silnej partii nigdy nie udało im się zbudować. Takim wehikułem stały się struktury społeczeństwa obywatelskiego, przeciwstawione polityce i państwu. Owo społeczeństwo obywatelskie miało przy tym być konstrukcją całkowicie beztreściową [...].

My translation:

The idea of the civil society first of all 'served' [...] the political interests of the dissident groups that have its origin - either because of their biography or because of the circles they were part of - in so-called real-existing socialism. The groups needed a kind of political vehicle, because a strong party was our of their reach. And as that vehicle happen to be the structures of the civil society - which in turn worked against the political system and state itself. That kind of 'civil society' from its origin was invented as a wholly meaningless construction.

Your translation:

In the III RP a strong state and strong politics were not wanted by those dissident enviornments who feared the activization of citizens, were afraid of an awakening of - as it was called toward the end of the 80s - broadly understood national democracy. To oppose such a political awakening was supposed to be the task of, above all, the idea of civil society.

Do you see the difference?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


We have also the system of First, Second and Final reading of a Bill before legislation is passed to the Senat - equivalent of your House of Lords and the TK is a collective body serving as Her Majesty the Queen.

News / Germans: Geh raus of Poland's business! [61]

Tell your story. You must have surfed somehow from people you call Germans or you have worked in a corporation paying taxis in Germany in which the whole managerial staff were people speaking German and you was an oppressed worker.

What is the reason for your anger?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Do we really need an unelected body to become a real democracy then? Historically, Senat was an unelected body and there are some who propose it to return to that tradition; in that case more than half of the honorable gentlemen siting in the House would be the highest ranks of the catholic clergy.

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Wait and see. After all you may be right.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


The current government was chosen by the majority of the Polish people not because it is their dream come true but because people were fed up by the corruption and conceit of the former government.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

OK. Still more than the previous one.

News / Regain banking assets - new Polish finance minister supports privatisation in Poland. Corruption? [33]

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April 13, 1993.

Interviewer:We were discussing before we went on air about Eastern Europe...
Noam Chomsky: Eastern Europe fits right into this. I mean... take, say, General Motors - the biggest corporation. They are closing plants here, trying to... they are the biggest employer in Mexico because they get very cheap labor in a kind of high repression, low-wage area. They are also opening plants in Eastern Europe. They just opened the big high-tech, seven hundred million dollar plant in East Germany and the international financial press, the business press, is very frank what it's about. I mean, they say, look they are opening with very high expectations, there is tremendous unemployment, almost 50% unemployment, they can get wages on... now, I am quoting, 'on 40% of the cost of the pampered western workers'... western workers are pampered, as far as the business press is concerned. They gather 40% of the wages and no benefits and longer hours so that's terrific for profits, not very good for the people in the pampered, you know, west. Poland's even better... they can gather 10% of the wage level, because the government is oppressive enough to be able to break strikes and so on, and so forth. They are opening plants in Russia for the same reason. Now, you get educated labor, skilled labor, very low cost, healthy people... they've got very good health system but very low cost. And it's a new third world, which undercuts western levels.

It would be interesting to hear your comment on that. Because you live in the US, the country of the pampered workers.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


The most radical anticommunists are those you now rant and rave against. This is an unbearably difficult time for an opportunist.

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OK. They are less radical than you are but more than any other big political party in Poland. Even Lech Wałęsa was member of ZMS - the Socialist Youth Union, they formed the youth faction of the Polish United Workers' Party.

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In Conversation with Noam Chomsky - A British Academy event

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The real problem is what to do about the effect that we don't live in political democracies; that's the real problem. So take the United States, which I know better and has been studied more intensively.

You can read an academic political science, not on the left. About 70% of the population, lowest 70% on the income scale, is entirely disenfranchised, meaning their opinions have zero impact on policy, even their own representatives, they are simply ignored - one of the reasons why they do not vote. I mean they may not read the scientific journals but they know it otherwise. As you move up the income scale you can start getting up a little more influence as measured by the relation between attitudes and policy. When you get to the very top, which is a fraction of one percent - policy is made. What kind of a system is that? I mean, does it matter if you pick one or another representative; sometimes it does at kind of way out at the margin, but the real problem is the nature of the system. I think England is not that much different.

News / Is Jarosław Kaczyński the new Lech Wałęsa? [74]


Lech Wałęsa:

1. Przybyłem do was niejako w trzech osobach - I came here in three persons, as it were.
2. Jestem za, a nawet przeciw - I am for and even against...
3. Nie można mieć pretensji do Słońca, że kręci się wokół Ziemi - You cannot blame the Sun that it runs round the Earth.

4. Tonący brzytwy, chwyta się byle czego - A drowning man clutches at anything.

Jarosław Kaczyński:

W potocznym sensie znaczenia, słowo zbrodnia jest adekwatne do tego co się stało. Ale już w sensie prawnym nie.

In a colloquial sense of the word crime, it adequatily describes what has happend. But in a legal sense, it is not inadequate.



Sorry for mistake. The translation should be more like this:

In a colloquial sense of the word crime, it adequatily describes what has happend. But in a legal sense, it is inadequate.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


If you fight with an enemy you take a lot from him, you become poisoned with his attitudes also, with his way of thinking.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


You are wrong. Glorious Leader & Chairman would be delighted that simple and universal formula for success is sold so cheap by vagrant tinkers.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


I got a feeling that you dislike what you tagged Putinism. Apart from your likes and dislikes can you give a description of what you called Putinism.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Chronicle of the deeds of Richard I
Richard of Devizes, late 12th century, English chronicler:


cropped to fit 100 words rule

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


The investment theory of party competition or the investment theory of politics is a political theory developed by professor Thomas Ferguson - Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics.

The theory focuses on how business elites play the leading part in political systems. Sometimes it is summed up as: elections are occasions when groups of investors join together to invest to control the state

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The master puppeteer is always behind the scenes pulling the strings connected to little puppets. You can delude the public by an illusion of participation, that is democracy, but only within the confinements of their scene, that is televised political shows; however, when you are at large, you somehow loose that illusion.