News / Ruling PiS party tried to cover up eco disaster in Odra River [88]


the point is there was no cover up - even the state controlled media reported about the situation (even if in somewhat belated manner)

News / Ruling PiS party tried to cover up eco disaster in Odra River [88]


on top of what I read in the internet

btw in current tests the Germans haven't detected mercury instead they detected high general salinity - dorzeczy.pl/kraj/334597/polska-otrzymal-od-niemiec-wyniki-odry-nie-wykryto-rteci.html

News / Ruling PiS party tried to cover up eco disaster in Odra River [88]

@pawian I told you I heard about the situation a couple of days ago on the state-owned media

News / Ruling PiS party tried to cover up eco disaster in Odra River [88]


I don't know - I seem to remember being reported on TVP (in the Alarm programme if you know what I mean), though


I don't know what was done about it to be honest

also to clarify: Wrocław's water supply is only partly based on water intake from Odra (and not directly but filtered through Odra valley sediments - officially it is said that the water is from the Oława river but in fact it is from wells on a strip of land dividing Oława and Odra)

News / Ruling PiS party tried to cover up eco disaster in Odra River [88]


I read the article now - and I seem to recall reports of fish dying in Kanał Gliwicki some time ago (probably during spring) - however as far as I know the source hasn't been discovered then - the thing is that the current fish dying happened more then 80 kilometer from Kanał Gliwicki and the incidents are separated by a couple of months

News / Ruling PiS party tried to cover up eco disaster in Odra River [88]


you state it as if the source of contamination is known - it isn't - think for a moment sometimes - unless it is all a part of PiS coverup - it isn't even established without a doubt what kind of substance killed the fish (although it was suggested it was mezytylen (whatever it is)

News / Ruling PiS party tried to cover up eco disaster in Odra River [88]

also part of the water supply of Wrocław comes from the Odra (it is filtered though) - if there was something serious there with water intakes 5 months ago Sanepid would know about instantly


what manipulations and lies - Wody Polskie is a state institution -according to the article you posted excerpts of it reacted almost instantly - as far as I know there were no instances of serious health problems caused by drinking tap water in Wrocław - ergo the situation probably was just probably underestimated by the central government

News / Ruling PiS party tried to cover up eco disaster in Odra River [88]


you are contradicting what pawian said in another thread - also where did you get the 5 months period - from what I read on the internet anglers reported mass dying of fish in the late of July - I understand you don't like PiS - but according to the article execrpts of which pawian posted said Wody Polskie reacted immediately after anglers' reports\


PiS is responsible of course - at every pipe sticking out into the Odra river there should be an state official monitoring what stuff is flowing in the river - are you for real

News / Ruling PiS party tried to cover up eco disaster in Odra River [88]


I heard about the whole matter a couple of days on TVP - if you call it a cover up then I congratulate you

Po polsku / Dyrdymałki o Niczem 2 [312]


i co by to dało, że rząd by zareagował wcześniej - wygląda na to, że ktoś zrzucił jakieś trujące ścieki w dużej ilości - ścieki zostały zbadane i co? - co twoim zdaniem trzeba było zrobić - bo ja nie słyszałem, żeby można coś zrobić innego niż pozwolić się rzece samej oczyścić (może ci Trzaskowski powie co w wypadku zrzutu niebiezpiecznych ścieków do rzeki trzeba zrobić)

UK, Ireland / Posting mail from Poland to the UK [26]


be patient for a while - European mail is delivered through air mail and as you have probably heard airports currently have labour shortages

Po polsku / Dyrdymałki o Niczem 2 [312]


poza tym parę dni temu przeprowadzone badania wody wskazywały, że ryby zabiła jakaś substancja organiczna (nie pamiętam nazwy, w telewizji słyszałem) - (jakby Ziemowit nie wiedział substancja organiczna nie znaczy tyle co naturalna)


znalazłem na necie: była mowa o mezytylenie (cokolwiek to jest) - tu jest źródło: wiadomosci.onet.pl/wroclaw/tajemnicza-smierc-tysiecy-ryb-w-odrze-to-ekologiczna-tragedia/ff2ph45

Po polsku / Dyrdymałki o Niczem 2 [312]


tysiące ton heheh - masz chłopie wyobraźnię - no i to przecież dla wszystkich jest jasne, że to PiS wylał rtęć do wody - albo że państwo jest z kartonu bo nie ma jednego urzędnika pilnującego rzek na każdy kilometr bieżący

Language / Brocki Spelling of Polish Surname [22]


there is not so much to refer to, regarding Brok - it is a quite small place that was popular in the interwar period as a vacation destination (it's not far from Warsaw) - that and the fact that the 'of Brok' gets translated in Polish as 'brocki' (which is an adjective) and there are millions of Poles who carry surnames that were created on the same pattern and are basically adjectives

there is little info on Jewish citizens of Brok on the internet - this article is on the Jewish cemetery of Brok (but well: is it concise): pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmentarz_%C5%BCydowski_w_Broku

Language / Brocki Spelling of Polish Surname [22]

@Gutless


the Brocki surname can originate from the town of Brok (on the lower run of the Bug river and... it is a small town) - the towns of the eastern parts of present day Poland were largely inhabited by Jews

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Merged:

Polish politicians and their English

interesting video on Polish politicians' English - youtu.be/qAjW3X23m6k?t=584 - I have put the running time at where the American shares his impression of Tusk

News / Poland highest inflation in 20 years [319]

@pawian

I may be wrong though about NBP printing empty money - here's what Gazeta Prawna says on the issue:
gazetaprawna.pl/wiadomosci/kraj/artykuly/8312906,czy-nbp-drukuje-puste-pieniadze.html

though I'm not sure whether the article is just glossing over what many central banks do - try reading about the so called 'quantitive easing' - both the US Fed and Central Euro bank are guilty of

ok I will give you my honest opinion on what Quantitive Easing - if the government bonds that central banks buy from commercial banks/private sector are not bought with hard assets of the central banks then it is all virtual money - I do not understand how commercial banks then transfer the money (virtual money) into the markets (well they can theoretically use the money to lend it to the real economy (suppliers of goods and services) -

I don't really know if NBP just printed empty money to be honest, it was my assumption -

I read things on fiat money system (the system that is used by most countries right now) and that it is bad in the long run but I don't really understand the issue - I need to go read about it again and try to figure it out

News / PiS politicians` mailboxes hacked. Russian intelligence suspected. [33]


current inflation has little to do with the previous governments - the PO government largely benefited from the retirement funds case verdict back then

also none of the rulings made in connection with the leaked email were controversial as far as I can understand

and the verdict in retirement fund case was hugely controversial

News / Poland highest inflation in 20 years [319]

NBP printed empty money during COVID - the alternative would have been a rise in uneployment - you and me have no way of saying how big it would have been - maybe the printing goes on till the present day though i doubt it though I understand that PiS would be unwilling to divulge on that (if that's the case then the same Czechs, Slovaks and Balts are doing the same stupid things)


or a huge leap in public debt (there was a big rise in public debt in Covid, anyway)

News / PiS politicians` mailboxes hacked. Russian intelligence suspected. [33]


it is fully independent - the president just chooses to cooperate with the government - what's not to understand here - if you don't know that such things happened in the past reach for the case of retirement funds case that was very favourable to the then PO government

News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]


we have covered this today - the councillor is suspended from the party and we will see what follows

unless you are such an idiot that you will repeat the same things all over again because of your blind hate


what's the actual difference? -the effect is the man is no longer a ministerial clerk, so?

News / Poland highest inflation in 20 years [319]

what about Slovakia 13.2 per cent inflation, what about Estonia above 20 per cent, Latvia 16 per cent, Lithuania 21 per cent - are they all mad, bad governments etc etc


what about Germany then - what caused the highest inflation in the last 40 years in Germany

News / Poland highest inflation in 20 years [319]


you similarly don't care for logic as well - if Czechia inflation is as high (or higher than in Poland) and even more importantly inflation is a worlwide phenomenon even if not as pronounced as in Poland, Czechia and Estonia then other factors which cannot be easily overcome must be at play - it seems you are no more sharp than Kaczyński when it comes to economy

and I never sad anything about the previous governments in relation to the current inflation - don't put things I never said in my mouth

News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

@pawian

the upper echelon of PiS had the minister (a vice-minister IIRC) fired from his position - free media have a role indeed in every democracy

if you listened to (or read) Ziemkiewicz (an independent journalist) you would know he likens PiS to the pre-war Sanacja - and he points out that it has similar characteristics (however you would never make Ziemkiewicz vote for the total opposition)

News / Poland highest inflation in 20 years [319]

@pawian

pawian spamming again - Inflation in Czechia 17.2 per cent - Czechia is secretly ruled by PiS it seems - what would you say, pawian?

News / Piotr Kraśko - road to perdition [9]


don't you think those politicians or 'autorytety' those two (Lis and Kraśko) embraced can be as hipocrytical as themselves (you know like hyprocrites of Poland cooperative or hypocrites of Poland unite!)


is it a new conpiracy theory among 'total opposition' - in case you didn't know Poland is the biggest producer of furniture in Europe: buypoland.pl/en/news/poland-the-largest-exporter-of-furniture-in-europe/

should we be buying wood in other countries while we have our own forests - the article above clearly states that the furniture output of Poland doubled in the last 10 years - it is indeed noticeable in the forest - I happen to live practically within one of bigger complexes in souther Poland - I have some sentimental attachement to the forests here and it feels pretty jarring when old forest stands are now gone but you know forestry has to pay municipal taxes etc etc

as for PiS shenaningans etc. - I don't think they are anything near what PO and company did back in their day - you just hear about them now because unlike then we have media watching PiS every step - unlike then: unlike under PO when current opposition media were doing a lot to cover up for the misdeeds of the then government

News / Poland highest inflation in 20 years [319]

[Moved from]: The latest examples of manipulations by 'total opposition' members

Minister Czarnek came under a heavy fire of criticism for allegedly appealing to Poles to eat less and cheaper in the face of inflation

Minister said he was talking about himself and his upcoming trip to Italy.

Here's the original statement by Czarnek from a SuperExpress interview: "We will have many stops. I have plenty of invitations from friends both in Poland, Italy and Austria. We are bound to cook here and there. Friends will invite us to dinners. But lest's not exaggerate. High prices will not prevent us from eating. You can eat a bit less and a bit cheaper."

the Polish text of the incriminated statement can be found here: wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,28687290,przemyslaw-czarnek-o-slowach-dot-drozyzny-manipulacja-bede.html#do_w=57&do_v=428&do_st=RS&do_sid=719&do_a=719&s=BoxOpLink

also a bit earlier a politician of Lewica, Tomasz Trela used a photo of Duda kneeling before Rydzyk in his twitter post - it allegedly showed Duda on Radio Maryja Częstowchowa pilgrimage - when the hoax as a photomontage Trela apologized and said he was not aware it was a photomontage - source: wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/udostepnil-fotomontaz-z-andrzejem-duda-teraz-przeprasza-to-byl-blad/zrwhflz

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


sorry, could you rephrase the question somehow? - I just couldn't understand what you mean

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


fanatical christian doesn't sound much better than fanatical muslim, if you ask me - there were bombings of abortion clinics in the US by fanatical christians and if I recall correctly there have been casualities involved

Po polsku / Wolności słowa w Polsce nie ma?? [93]


skąd wiesz co chciał PiS w tej sprawie - ustawa była o zagranicznym właścicielstwie mediów - koncern Discovery mógł sprzedać TVN komu by tylko chciał pod warunkiem, że podmiot ów był firmą Polską - przy okazji wyszło na jaw, że siedziba oficjalnego właściciela TVN to jakaś skrzynka pocztowa na lotnisku w Amsterdamie o ile sobie dobrze przypominam - ponadto TVN przez długie lata płacił minimalne lub nie płacił ***óle podatków dochodowych w Polsce