Genealogy / Polish and Russian DNA? [52]

Some sites do offer that
A friend opened the door to have a large American straight from central casting offering his hand saying "Hi, I'm Chuck Turtle your 3rd cousin" (or some such).

I have about 50 first cousins with a shed load of kids, 90% live within a mile of two of me some live in America and England. Add in all the ones I dont know about, Da's uncles etc and I have 1000s of direct relatives. A test will tell me that I have DNA markers common to here not who I'm related to. The same markers are common all over Europe so they can only tell me that I'm probably from NW Europe not that I'm definitely from here

The point is that your family told you that you were Polish and you have some family history and stories, you would be better following a paper trail if one exists.

Genealogy / Polish and Russian DNA? [52]

Pat save your money these tests cannot tell you anything significant about your family history, its not going to be CSI PF.

I can tell you now that you will have a number of markers that are common to people with your family history. They may throw in a percentage of some native North American just to spice the picture up.

What will happen is that you will be plagued by "genetic cousins" who have been given your details by the company.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


Very cleaver people created the internet and some others have made a mockery of that endeavour.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

I never heard of this Khazar crowd till I started posting here. I must be honest I’ve put it (the Idea of Jews etc) into one of the bonkers spaces of my mind.

News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]


That’s bad, a good teacher is easily worth their weight in gold however you were taught after the national curriculum was brought in (that’s sort of a designated way to teach and what to teach). My history teacher just taught what he felt like or so it seemed, later it all made sense the same with most of my other teachers.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


Ah man don’t be so touchy.

Bio fuels are fuels made from any plant material, one of the biofuels called bio mass is made from woody stuff and is ideal for Poland to generate electricity. That crop you mentioned is used as is a lot of others. The impact on food prices has been negative for people mainly because of the subsidies paid see the US and Maze.

The problem with land rights in the developing world particularly Africa and SE Asia is huge as the institutionalised development agencies (World Bank for eg) are pressing for this strategy. It deprives people of their traditional land and ability to develop agriculture for local needs among other things.

Large scale monocultures are bad at almost all levels but the big developers love big projects.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


Care to explain this agenda that has griped the scientific community and who controls it?

You are arguing yourself round in ever decreasing circles by attempting to deny man made global warming.

The arguments are all well known the albedo effect, the interplay between atmosphere and oceans, tectonic events and astrological orientation all these have been delt with as part of a dynamic open system, you are just tinkering around the edges with shady talk of agendas and brainwashing. If you have a conspiracy to reveal lets hear it.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


The battle to demonstrate that the earth is warming was a long and difficult thing to do as I'm sure you know, the factors involved and their interdependencies are extremely complex.

The battle to demonstrate that it is caused by human activity has also triumphed it’s only a few who don’t accept the science. Discussing with them is like trying to get religious converts, almost pointless except that they are very well funded and fundamentally dishonest polluting the media with junk conclusions.

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The Carbon cycle is taught to children.....nothing new there

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


Care to demonstrate the conspiracy? I haven't heard of any such thing that mesmerises the scientific community as you suggest.


All agree that the earth is warming mainstream and cranks (that battle was lost), experimentation shows the warming theory to be reliable so the argument is if this warming is man made or not. Grasping at straws and tripping your self up with half truths is doing no good.

for eg, suggesting that the environment self regulates (Oceans sucking up CO2 spewed out by Volcanoes) in the way you hope is just wishful thinking. That neat idea though elegant is directly contradicted by the data so a conspiracy is the only way to explain the logical flaw.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


The debate took place during the 1980s and the overwhelming view of the scientific community is that the earth is warming due to human activity.

UK, Ireland / There's not a lot wrong with Poles in the UK. There's just too many of them. [72]


I would love to comment on your ideas except I've no idea what they are

UK, Ireland / There's not a lot wrong with Poles in the UK. There's just too many of them. [72]

There's not a lot wrong with Poles. There's just too many of them. Is there not exactly the correct amount of polish people at the moment?

Anyway, I would love to comment on your ideas except I've no idea what they are for example what does this mean


Who in Britain uses Mall for a shopping centre?


Wave to the Pope?
Have water with Ice Cream?
Sleep with the fishes?
Did you know that rome backwards is emor.

UK, Ireland / There's not a lot wrong with Poles in the UK. There's just too many of them. [72]


Perhaps they turned the sound of the TV up to drown out the noises of an undoubted sex god?

Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]


And to think I was very nearly happy a short time ago

Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]

It's just lovely to log on and read a true pearl

Man you just made my night

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


It’s easy to interpret the rising as a disaster especially for those "hard empiricists", how you want to interpret it is something else all together. The rising is still seen as a beacon for freedom loving people. It's hard for others to understand what something like this means to a nation.

All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

Life / Why Milosz not Herbert ? [38]


OK, yes post was off topic, just responding to a comment about Roth. For goodness sake don't be so touchy.

Life / Why Milosz not Herbert ? [38]


I agree with the thrust of what you say but Roth is crap.

Incidentally in the English speaking world American fiction is far superior to any thing else and has been for some time.

History / Polish inventors - what have they ever given to the world? [101]


The first mention of distillation references Mary the Jewess,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_the_Jewess

She is credited as the person who discovered the process.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]


Did the founding fathers not outlaw murdering your own citizens that too would make you a democracy yet it happens.
Freedom of speech is not the freedom to say "Yer Ma's yer Da an yer Da's yer Ma" (The worst insult when I was a kid). There is more to a democracy than rigid rules. (OK Amendments are how you bend the rules)

I do understand that you are saying that no limits should be placed upon expression, that false outrage fills column inches and that is an inconvenience, the downside of free speech.

There are limits to free speech in every country even The US for eg you cannot call for the murder of someone especially a rich man, you cannot "glorify terrorism" whatever the hell that is; Other democracies have the right to form themselves how they want they dont have to use the US model which was designed to prevent change.

So you have a pinhead drumming up publicity this is how you do it in a democracy when you have no talent.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]


But sopa is more than that it prevents you telling someone where to find such sites.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]


All Laws in a democracy are based on a popularity contest.

I think what you are not getting is that commonsense has to be applied, that’s why the discretion of a judge and the separation of the legislature are important.

Freedom of speech is not just freedom to accidentally offended, intent has to be considered. As someone said the other day the US founding fathers were spot on in designing the constitution what they couldn’t foresee was the retards that would end up in congress. Take that a step outside the floor and you have all sorts of nutjobs saying anything they like, not to advance a noble cause but to stick it to the man as they see it.

We all restrict our freedom of speech/thought on an everyday basis its called social grace.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]

Alcohol was not used as a disinfectant or purifier.

The shellfish thing, I remember that lemon juice was initially used to see if the oyster for eg was alive thus safe to eat.

News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]

This is being reported today


He said:

News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]


Yes of course.


Not just loosing stuff the corruption in arms sales is worldwide look at Britain and Tony Blair stepping in to stop a major investigation into corruption with BAE systems. It seems that any dealings with arms companies, which by their nature must be secretive, are prone to corrupt practices.

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Strange thing to do, why do you think he would do that?

News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]


You need someone to pull the trigger and there are not many about.

News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]

Obviously the shooting wasn’t faked, the question is why did he do it. He said that the civil authorities were going to take over the investigations that had been carried out by the military. If there was/is corruption the civil authorities would be better placed to investigate, that would be normal. Questions about any illegal methods used in the Smolensk investigation would quite rightly be part of any outside review.

News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]


Fortunately not.

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]


Not a very good one:(
Of course you are right.