News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


The last bit of PiS-bashing of the day? One wonders what the pretext of his first morning PiS-bash will be?

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And you only believe what you read in the Michnik rag! How does that make you superior?


Unhreliable source. Like you they'll print anything as long as it fits the PiS-bashing mode.
Besides you're obsessing over three months, whereas the inmformal RT clique has ruled the roost for 26 years. There's far more cronyism, nepotism, corruption, fixed tenders and assorted scams to choose from there than in a puny three months' time, so go for it!

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Nearly ALL the guilty got impunity and used their contacts to cash in on the general confusion. The make-believe verification process let most PRL-era SB, police, military types, administrators and business officials move from PRL to III RP.

There would be no blood in the streets after the Soviets left Poland, because the army and security were under Wałęsa's command. It was only after June 1992 that he decided to play ball with the RT mafia. Once they got the ball, the PRL survivors and schemers ran with it, and their unelected shadow government have ruled the roost to this day regardless of which party happened to be in power. Now a chance to rectify past wrongs has finally emerged, and you can see the backlash it has caused: hateful, resentful, bile-spewing KOD losers who are not about to give up theri ill-deserved "gains" without a fight.

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One can only build on a solid foundation. A firm foundation is not one based on makeshift backroom deals (RT), unfinished business, unsettled accounts, lack of accountability and spray-painting the dirt or sweeping it under the rug. If injustice exists, it must be replaced by justice. If an informal, unelected clique have undeservedly received more than their fair share of benefits from transformation, that too must be rectified. It's as simple as that.

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There's nothing wrong with any of that. I was only pointing out the sudden incongruity of Wałęsa, a two-fisted, Catholic, conservative trade unionist hooking with the leftist eggheads he had opposded a short while earlier. His war at the top was aimed mainly against the Michniks, Kurońs, Turowiczes, Mazowieckis, Wielowiyskis, Lityńskis and others of that ilk who he felt were trying to take over the Solidarity movment. He changed his tune for strictly personal reasons to stop the police files being opened.

If he had never spied, informed and received money, what did he have to fear?

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But there was, It burst into full bloom in June 1992 when teh backroom conspiracy was hatched. If Wałęsa had nothing on his conscience, why did he conspire with regime types, agnostic non-gentile intellectuals, PRL collaborators such as Pawlak and SB informer Moczulski? He was always at loggerheads with that crowd and suddenly he jumped into bed with them. It was his personal fear of exposure that made him switch sides.

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Indeed, your ilk only knows personal profit, greed and self-interest.There also exist such values (you surely call them meaningless abstractions) as justice, honour, dignity and self-esteem, but you can't eat, drink, wear, drive, smoke or copulate with those, so they are of no value, right?

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Dunno if there was a noble line in ex-PM Kopacz's family but there wee two szlachta lines amongst the bearers of that surname (meaninn digger, as in ditch-digger). One belogned to the noble clan of Doliwa: (pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doliwa_(herb_szlachecki), the other was an own-name clan named Kopacz :(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopacz_coat_of_arms).

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I must agree with you here. Those PZPR members who had survived the post-war meanders (Bierut, Gomułka, Gierek, Jaruzelski) the 1968 anti-Semitic purge, the Solidarity revolution and the half-hearted kustration were defintiely survivors who knew how to scheme, which bandwagon to jump on, how to adapt and promote their own self-interest. I get the impression you feel the success they achieved through their adaptabiltiy, cunning and craftiness absolves them from any accountabiltiy for their PRL-era transgressions. In fact you seem to feel the RT clique is something to be perpetuated indefinitely to the detriment of the majority. I disagree. The successful have a moral duty to help the less fortunate. The fruits of transformation should be spread about more equitably, and people like Morawiecki seem bent on accomplishing that.


Too bad the PZPR was not officially proclaimed a criminal regime. The RT clique quashed such initiaitves. After the last Soviet troops had left, Poland was under no obligation to keep pledges given to political criminals with blood on their hands. Police negotiators will promsie kidnappers, terrrorists and other criminals everthing, but once hostages are free SWAT move in for the mop-up.

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I know you're not a fan of justice, so it makes no difference to you that the oppresesors made out better on the transformation that the victims they oppressed. Maybe the Americans were wrong to oversee de-Nazification in post-war Germany. Communism left in its wake a vicitm body count many times greater than that of Naziism/Fascism/Francoism/TIsoism combined.

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You mean more trouble for the red/pinko/foreign-itnerest-lobby IIIRP establishment and all the companies they set up by hook or by crook. Instead, they should have got an at least 10-year public office ban and the most senior of them should have been ordered by a court to pay financial reparations (garnished wages and pensions) to the Polsih nation whom they had oppressed and exploited for 45 years.

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Under PO we not only had widesrpead nepotism and corruption but also spying on journalists, police attacks on demonstrators -- protesting miners, Solidarity, Independence Day marchers, footie fans, etc. That beam is so large that it's a wonder you can still see the PiS speck.

Just realised the Good Book is probably noto on yoru reading list so here is an except from St Mathew who was chastising hypocirtes:
Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

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And why as a crusading nepotism-basher aren't you criticisng Mrs Rzeplińska who thanks to her hubby's pull landed herself a fat-cat consulative post in the CBA (ironically the brainchild fo PiS)?

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TK is totally wasteful and redundant, since Poland already has its Supreme Court. In the US the High court is all that is needed without amy need to create an additional feather-bedded bureaucratic moloch.

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Tyrants often cite the law. Urban smirked as he bald-facedly told Poles there were no political prisoners in Poland. Only people who have been duly convicted by independent courts of violating the law.

If Kaczyński were to announce: "Poland will accept 100,000 refugee/migrants this year, he'd become "man of the year" in the European media and nobody would give a tiddler's wink about the TK. Turkey violates every human right in the book but has become "the good guy" by offering to help solve the migration crisis.

Realpolitik isn't about hgih-soundign slogans (those are for the rabble!) but about effective power management. Check out Machiavelli.

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You have conveniently omitted the part where the Venice Commission chief urged the government and opposition to work together to achieve a compromise, saying it is parliament that must utlimately resolve the stalemate. Unfortunatley, cooperation and compromise are very far indeed from the minds of the oppsiton. In fact, Schetyna has been hotting things up by threatening to institue a bloody Maidan in Poland. And Kijowski is threatening "nasty things" on the streets. Accorrding to Prof. Zybertowicz such talk places Schetyna beyond the pale of democracy.

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Since your'e always on the anti-nepotism warpath, this item should interest you. It turns out that the Irena Rzeplińska, the wife of that old commie TK head Rzepliński, was a member of the CBA consultative council. The CBA have decided to dissolve the council because of it. You can thank me profusely for posting this because you might have overlooked it (LOL!)

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I thought just the gist of a link was needed, not the full translation. The gist I have provided in my post.

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As a law-enforcement practice there is no difference. The purpsoe is one and the same: efficiency and cost-effectiveness. One needn't ideologise everything. Somehow no-one heard a peep out of you when the PO regime was spyingy physiclaly and electronically on dozens of journalists over the tape-scandal leaks. But what can one expected of those who start the day with an initial round fo PiS-bashing and say goodnight with a final anti-government flourish. Way to go!

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


RACHWAŁ: archaic form of the first name Rafał (Raphael, Ralph).

ZIEMSKI: from ziemia (earth); can also refer to something provincial eg sejmik ziemski (provincial assembly) and rural as opposed to municipal; something indigenous or local eg sukno ziemskie (home-spun cloth) or landed holdings as in dobra ziemskie.

ZEMSKI: believed to derive from the village of Zambski in Mazowsze.

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Dawn raids are typical of law enforcement wordl-wide- That's when it's most likely to find everyone in. They do this in raids on drug dealers and mafia types in the US and terrorists and other suspects elsewhere. It just stands to reason. Raids later in the day are less effective and wasteful if emeregncy forces are mobilised in vain and the action msut be repeated.

But there are the horse-blinkered set that imply everythng they dislike is a PiS innovation or specialtiy.

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All the KOD street commotion, the nocturnal anti-government camp-outs and the endless Michnik rants are all manifestation's of the frustrated RT establishment's mutual adoration society. But all their doggedness and decibels cannot change the fact that PiS enjoy more than twice the support of any opposition grouping.

The latest CBOS survey has shown:
PiS - 37%
PO - 18%
Petru - 17%
Kukiz'15 - 8%

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]


No, but it can help explain hsitory. Now we know how the post-RT establishment came into being and when. Had the dossiers been published, falsifications and all, within several years the forgeries would have got weeded out, we would have known who's who and the chaff could be separated from the grain. Instead the Soviet-serving oppressors of the nation obtianed guarantees of impunity, strenghrtened their grip on the military and security apparatus and were able to worm their way into administrative structures privatisation system, state treasury companies and private business to become the oligarchs of III RP.

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Godio article. Fro Guardian readers something new, but Wałęsa has said this over and over. Except in the past he has admitted to signing different things to get the SB off his back. If you were kept in a windowless dungeon for 4 days and asked whether you wanted to write a farewell letter to your family, would you have been a brave anti-regime rebel?

My own feeling after reading all that there's been to read about W is that he signed but did not spy. Some people pretended to spy by providing info that was in the papers. But too much is being made of W spying or not spying. Even the Kiszczak version (falsified or not) claims he terminated his SB links in 1976. Circumstances turned him into a hero, he won a Nobel Prize and Poland needs such a hero. His mortal sin was the parliamentary coup that assured impunity to the nation's henchmen and executioners and, by extension, spit in the face of their victims. Full stop.

Food / Smalec in a Jar - how to make it better? [19]


I'm not familiar with the Ontario outback but surely you'll find some in Polish Toronto. Better yet, make your own. I provided a recipe so scroll back. Good luck!

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Uphold the law of the established post-roundtable clique and not of those challenging the RT gang's 26-year monopoly.

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Isn't the impositon of unwanted foreign meddling known as "fraternal asssitance" aka the Brezhnev doctrine?

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For the sake of propagadna the smug, self-satisfied RT clique will even roll out such sob stories pretending they really care about the less fortunate. That's called hypocrisy. They really want to retain the establishmentarian status quo which has provided them with all the benefits and advantages.

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Sooner the PO/PSL mob will be behind bars after consequences are drawn from the already completed, ongoing and planned audits of their numerous misdeeds and scams. Get set to take them a cake (with a file inside).

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Just to close the day, now it's official, The "freedom-loving" Tusk regime sent their secret services to spy (bugging, billing checks and other surveillance techniques) on dozens of Polish journalists who wrote articles unfavourable to the ruling group.

Meanwhile, PM Szydło has on her desk a report on the audits carried out in various PO/PSL-era ministries. They project a dismal, at times downright criminal image of Poland.

wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/polityka/artykuly/514233,pis-audyt-koalicja-po-psl-rzad-raport-rzeczpospolita-opozycja-podsumowanie.html

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Another day and another round of boringly predictable PiS-bashing. Some blokes just ain't got no imagination and are incapable of anything creative innovative. Everything's got to be according to one run-of-the-mill stereotype.