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Polonius3   
13 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Poles are free to own capital

Nice theory! How many Poles owned any capital whatsoever when the transition got under way? That being the case, the Polish powers that were should have prioritised the creation of an indigenously Polish entrepreneurial class, providing encouragement, training (how to be a capitalist), low-cost credit, even start-up funds from the budget, tax breaks and other incentives. But a strong Poland was the last thing the Soros-backed Balzerman clique was interested in. The goal was to dismantle and/or sell off the country's industrial assets for a song (and the hefty kick-baks that entailed) , so that today Poland has just barely started freeing itself from the grips of foreign capital. It's called re-polonisation.
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

a Boeing lobbyist

You really are shedding the crocodile tears of a true hyPOcrite. The whole PO mafia was and remains riddled with lobbyists in the service of foreign interest groups who have all but taken over Poland's banking sector, retail chains, major media, large-scale manufacturing and asssembly and and other key areas of the economy. And, guess what? No-one ever heard a beep or a peep out of you when the foreign take-over was under way. Why? Because you've got only goal in life: PiS-bashing! You're not getting your kick-back for promoting what's good for the Polish nation.
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
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seize control of the courts

The judiciary is so full of corrupt judges who can easily be bought by the highest bidder that Ziobro wants to clean up their act. There were those naive types that gillibly claimedthe post-communist judiciary with purge itself and become the judicial system of a democratic country, but in 25 years that did not occur. Instead, judges have formed cliques with local law firms, politicans and business, but the average citizen is in for unbelievably long delays in having his case processed. Courts are sluggish, inept, inefficient and above all self-serving. Poland needs a Ziobro, a true Captain Poland super-hero to the rescue! Ziobro recently declared. " I will not back down a single inch!" And more power to him!
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Stalinist

Stalin is long dead as a door-nail, but it is quite likely that Tusk, Gronkowiec, Sikorski, Mr Wristwatch (if he can be extradited frorm Ukraine), Kopacz and a few other political scamsters will go on trial for their misdeeds. The sooner, the better!
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

unbelievable cases of open corruption

An update FYI: Ziobro told public broadcaster TVP: "We estimate that private owners and the treasury could have lost as much as several billion zlotys as a result of the operations of organized gangs or mafia in Warsaw."

He added: "This is about really gigantic money, gigantic abuses, extremely influential people." Ziobro said suspects paid for false documents and credentials, and possibly also for decisions in their favour by various state organs, including courts.

Gronkowiec reacted last year when the scandal erupted by sacking a few underlings. Later she was convientily ill or on holiday when officials wanted to question her. She continues brushing off journalists in corridors before she disappears behind the safety of a closed door. A truly unsavoury witch to say the least! But what else could one expect from the vice-leader of PO?!
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

one of the most unbelievable cases of open corruption

You mean the Gronkowiec city hall property scam? Not millions but billions have been embezzled by corrupt city officials, shady lawyers and speculators linked to the city hall mafia including Mr Gronkowiec-Waltz.

want the best for Poland's defence

I know I do and that means it should be kept as far away as possible from PO operatives and scamsters.
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
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Harry:

having missed one Sunday mass last month

This sentence dropped out: Word is going round that Pope Francis is now preparing the excommunication trial of Kaczyński "who volunteered to prosecute dissidents". Do you plan on attending?
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

MPs shouldn't sign the attendance

Scrounge around and nitpick some more, as if ordinary, normal Poles are all up in armes over some obscure procedural points. What concerns them are the billions embezzled by the Gronkowiec city hall mafia, numerous PO-linked VAT swindlers, the millioms lost by depositors in the Tusk-linked AmberGold/OLT aireline scam and other scandals of Tusk's ancien régime.

You know you only bring these things up to bash PiS, whose leader "had volunteered to prosecute dissidents" and is no longer a Catholic, having missed one Sunday mass last month. Do you plan to attend?
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
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so dismissive

Becuase it's as plain as the nose on your face that your only nitpicking them out and raising a rumpus over them to give vent to your PiS-bashing obsession. No concern on your part for small towns or little guys when you side with a party known only to cater to a privileged elite. So save your crocodile tears, because everyone sees through them!
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

frowned upon

How many ordinary citizens care a wit about this or that document, some procedure, brands of helicopters, a school closure in Kozia Wólka (Goatville) or the removal of diseased trees in some remote woodland? The only ones who make a fuss about it are poiticians, political activists and the politicised partisan media who want to score points against their political foes (such as a politician who wanted to prosecute dissidents and isn't even a Catholic because he missed one Sunday mass last month).
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
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Nor does anyone

Au contraire, Ziobro is attacked only by the scamster lobby who want to dissolve the CBA. And no wonder. They don't want their myriad crimes and irregularities probed and made public. The opposition's other main support base is the SB wing, hence they promise the nail-pullers and back-alley assailants: "Vote for us and we'll dissolve the IPN."
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

volunteered to prosecute dissidents

Here we go again: "volunteered to prosecute dissidents" (but never prosecuted a signle one). And here we all thought and hoped he had been deported or voluntarily left the country or was banned from PF for life, but no such luck! So since he's back, let's again hear the one about Poland not being a Cattolic country. We haven't been entertianed with that for some time. ROFL!!!
Polonius3   
12 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

without badly needed helicopters

The latest exmaple of Delph's psycho-obsessive syndrome. He goes banging on about choppers broken-record-style the way his guru does about Poland not being a Catholic country, but he has yet to produce any credentials affirming his expertise in the realm of military aviation. If he read about it in some dodgy publication, he should say so and be done with it. We are all waiting with bated breath!
Polonius3   
11 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

two tenths of one percent

A major drop form the 50-45 figures produced by an April survey. In other words, Tusk's then 5-point fluke has withered to nearly zero. The desperate and clueless get an orgasm at the slightest computer blip.
Polonius3   
11 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

presidential election

Wow! A "lead" of two tenths of one percent -- very impressiver indeed! Reminbds one of the surveys preceding the 2005 and 2015 presidential elections where the leads were somewhat greater. The hopeless, clueless and deseprate have always been known to clutch at straws. But bark and yap away to your heart's content, as the good-change caravan moves slowly but surely forward.
Polonius3   
11 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Lech Wałęsa and Adam Michnik

Apparently your notion of heroes runs to communist-police snitches and RT conspirators. Each to their own!
Polonius3   
10 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Latest poll

No wonder you take your cues from the Selective Gazette (Gazeta Wybiórzca).
You also engage in selective reporting. Funny you didn't mention the poll of only two days ago showing: PiS - 35 proc -- PO - 27.

We can also expect you to remain silent when it'll be 34-25, 38-29 or 39-30. But when another fluke occurs, for instance 36-34, old Delph will be enthusiastically shouting "Almost neck and neck!"
Polonius3   
10 May 2017
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if there was an election today

Except there is no election today. If Donny Boy keeps up with his anti-Polish tirades and backs those wanting to punish Poland, more and more decent Poles will turn against him. Maybe PO's notorious wristwatchman Nowak will appoint him to some post on Ukrainian State Railways.
Polonius3   
10 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

closing hospitals and ambulance stations

Because harping on local incidents sounds a lot like your broken-record guru banging on about how Poland is not a Catholic country because every single Pole does not attend mass every single Sundeay. His obsessive-compulsive syndrome seems to have affected your thinking.

Most important is not some local issue, a school closure in the boonies, or which brand of helicopter is best -- that does not affect Jan Kowalski's daiłly life, his home and family in the least. What's important is the big picture, the broad programme of good changes that have been taking place for the past 19 months. Especiaqlly when contfratsed with PO's zero programme. Schetyna can't even get his party's act together. He has shown on TV saying: "We do not want any refugees." At the same time Kopacz said she favours accepting them.
Polonius3   
10 May 2017
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after the election

After the election Tusk will be behind bars. If stupidity is a punishable offence then, Schetyna too. Maybe the scamster duo of Mr & Mrs P hired yong Tusk for their dodgy OLT airline because of his high IQ and superior skills? No, because having the PM's son on their side was good for their shady business. Or so they thought. After Tusk's immunity expires, he will be held accountable for the biggest scandal in III RP history -- the great AmberGold/OLT affair.
Polonius3   
10 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

tax evasion

I don't believe using offshore tax havens is illegal but it certainly is unethical and not fair to the Polish people. The ordinary Jan Nowak or Wojciech Kowalski gets called in for the slightest oversight in his tax forms. Mega-corporations have batteries of clever lawyers and myriad other ways (including hefty bribes) to deal with tax and other issues. The common view about Polish legitimate mutli-millionaire busienssmen is that they stole their first million.
Polonius3   
10 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Please give specific examples of foreign corporations which have dodged taxes

Reminds me of that 1992 police-file session in the Sejm. Always the card, Korwin stood up and said: "Would all those MPs who had been SB snitches please raise their hands!" Naturally he brought the house down with laughter. Those who find ways of evading taxes, for instance by paying them in tax havens at a reduced rate, juggling their books or whatever, rarely if ever brag about it.
Polonius3   
10 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

succeeded on their own merits

Care to give some statistics. OK, at least estimates. No-one is saying there are no such cases, but they are rarer than hen's teeth. Bureaucracy being what it is makes it nearyl impossible to achieve anything strictly according to the rulebook. And not only in Poland or otehr ex-Soviet bloc countries.
Polonius3   
10 May 2017
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it's not a claim

I stand corrected -- billions it is. BTW how many billions were siphoned out of Poland officially, unofifcially, though cheap tax havens and other market tricks and ruses? I dare say no exact estmate is even possible except that it is much in excess of what the eurocrat-corporate EU mafia has provided in the way of subsidies. Maybe things were different in Eire.
Polonius3   
10 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

commie connection

In PRL, there were also businessmen who "made it" by knowing the right people, having the right contacts via marriage or cronies or what not. I hope you're not one of those well-meaning PR types that claim everything in capitalism is purer, honest and above board. In every system, private contacts, backroom deals and under-the-table transactions are nothing unusual. In fact, without them nothing would ever get done. The concept of hand washes hand predates both capitalism and communism by many centuries. Honest or not, it is human nature and a way of life.