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kondzior   
23 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

the money that we get is not just what is handed out in the form of grants, the mutual trade between the 28 countries of the EU makes them all richer, all safer and all with better prospects.

At the end of the day, Poland is a country of 38 million people, which makes it not only a considerable and growing market, but a huge investment location for a bunch of western (and especially German) companies. These companies are not going to throw away this opportunity, especially in uncertain times. They like their stability and their extra profits, and it is not like they can get the specific combination of skilled and affordable workers they require anywhere else in the neighbourhood. Poland is good for them. All these investments are more important than some joke politicians in the European Parliament, or even the Commission.
kondzior   
23 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

So, if a club is taking your right to have a say in said club, why would you want to still be a member of it?

For the money we get? That will run out sooner rather than later judging by the current economic approach by the Sugar Daddy Germany.

So I say, we got as much money out of EU as we could, and when the deal is not profitable then just bail, as any reasonable person would do. The talk about common Europe is good for neo-commies from France, but we know deep down that this ain't gonna fly, they don't see us as equal to them.

Its back to "Polak Węgier dwa bratanki", we can live with that.
kondzior   
23 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

If that happens - it hasn't yet - it will happen democratically by a vote.

Leftwingers love it. After Brexit and Trump internet was full of leftists going how democracy is great but referendums need to be banned and candidates need to be chosen by elites rather than people. For democracy.
kondzior   
7 Dec 2017
News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

If politicians can't be trusted to interfere with the judiciary, then it's the best of a bad situation.

Dude, what planet are you from?

Judges, prosecutors and lawyers has always been the most hermetic corporation with it's root going deep into communist times.
And right now there's absolutely zero public control over what happens in judiciary branch of the state.

Jan Bury (an obvious crook) was able to be a member of Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa (office meant to control courts) for how many years exactly? And why nothing could have been done against him, even though there was a mountain of evidence collected? Why a judge didn't allow for him to be arrested?

Because it's one big "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" buddy-buddy system of corruption.
kondzior   
7 Dec 2017
News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

You see nothing wrong with judges not being controlled by any democratically elected official? Its giving up democracy. What can the average voter do about judges? Nothing. Who elects judges? Other judges. How is that in any way shape or form democratic?
kondzior   
6 Oct 2017
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Hopefully the program of 500 zl a kid encourages birth rates.

I already does. A year ago a pregnant woman was a rare sight. Now, during quick stroll around town, you'd encounter several women pushing strollers, with another baby visibly on the way.
kondzior   
5 Oct 2017
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Kill your babies, whities. It's the right of a free, independent womans!

What? Your birth-rates are plummeting? Oy vey! You must take millions of rocket scientists and surgeons from Somalia to fix this!
kondzior   
8 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

When in Warsaw, I always buy bottled water, to make myself a tea or a coffee.
I have tried to make a tea with Warsaw' tap water once, and had to pour it down the sink, tasted horrible.
kondzior   
18 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]

Poles say yes to European Union because Poles do know, that we have a good government, wich will not let any muslims in. So we don't have to worry about something like the recent terrorist attack in Barcelona, is going to happen on our soil.
kondzior   
7 Oct 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

As mentioned the project got shot down, with Jarosław personally saying to the pro-life organisations representative that he does not believe their project is a good solution.

Corporate media is spreading rumours that PiS is preparing its own project and some of their members have hinted as much. It would probably ban "eugenic abortion", as these seems to be a popular buzzword being repeated by PiS during this latest abortion debate/mudslinging. If they actually go for it I expect that they will avoid adding any kind of prosecution mechanism, in cases some woman engages in pre-natal manslaughter of their down's syndrome fetus. That way nobody will really care about the ban besides the pro-choice agitators.
kondzior   
6 Oct 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

And the proposed law is already dead and buried, party's over folks.

Wasn't there just one member of the commission against rejecting it? But of course the opposition is claiming this is a major victory of the protests. Jaro went too lax on pulling the strings and didn't sink the project initially, so now he had to nip it in the bud before any protests could get traction to become anything actually threatening. His biggest concern I think was that the project was being associated with PiS even if it wasn't theirs.
kondzior   
6 Oct 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

My favourite part of the yesterday commission session regarding this was how the opposition went into full panic mode when it turned out PiS wants to reject the law proposal. "B-but this decision shouldn't be rushed, we should postpone the vote to reject the law we've campaigned tooth and nail to reject for the last 5 days to some later time like JANUARY!!!!"

What a joke. The current Polish political scene is slowly reaching the hilarity levels of the American president election.
kondzior   
1 Oct 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

my religion also tells me it is a sin to judge others

So you're advocating that we should abolish all laws and let God sort it out?
kondzior   
25 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

I'm perfectly fine with letting people decide on this issue based on their own moral judgements.

Well, when a woman decides to have an abortion, it hurts the mother, as well as society. But not as much as the notion that people should just do whatever the hell they want, as if there was no such thing as morality, natural law and more importantly, divine law. And indeed, what many people object to in regards to abortion, and this is particularly true for Christians, is the inherently moral relativistic agenda underlying all pro-abortion arguments. The issue is not whether we should allow doctors to perform abortions on women under certain specific situations. The idea is to "normalize" the practice, to act like it is not a big deal, even though it pretty much damn is.
kondzior   
24 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

The problem is that there is no consensus on the moral status of a 10 week old fetus

The error of atheists is that they think consciousness begins with the receptacle. Not that the "consciousness" of the fetus has anything whatsoever to do with abortion being immoral. They are trying to refute the idea abortion is "murder" by trying to "prove" the the fetus is not a human being, except religion has never said anything about abortion being wrong because it is murder, only that it is wrong in and of itself. Its a question of vandalizing a process that is in conformity with a universal law, similar to homosexual marriage, racial mixing and the entire gamut of lefist or "progressivist" aberrations that define modern civilization, aberrations which stem from the moral relativism inherent in materialism and rationalism. After all, if there is no truth, who's to say what is "aberrant" and what isn't? All those attempts at trying to justify moral relativism with science is also a concrete example of how the latter is in itself incapable of dealing with questions of a universal or transcendent nature.
kondzior   
24 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

This is still all besides the point of course. Leftists are not advocates of abortion because they have any particular social hill in mind which might be amended by this practice. What we are seeing here is a clash between two different world views which are fundamentally opposed to one another, with one side claiming that human beings are nothing but biological machines who's life and destiny can certainly be determined and controlled rationally if not scientifically, like with everything else in nature, and another that contends there is something "more" to human existence or life in general, and that everything that exists must conform to laws and values the nature and object of which go well beyond that which is strictly and grossly utilitarian in a purely material sense. This "normalization" of abortion is bad precisely because it is predicated on a specific understanding of reality and the nature of life which contradicts any notion of the existence of values and laws of a transcendent kind. The issue is not whether it ought to be permissible to arrest the gestation of a child given certain situations. The issue is whether there is anything sacred about human life at all, and whether abortion ought to be seen as such a big deal to begin with, the answer being that it isn't, according to the average leftist.
kondzior   
3 Aug 2016
News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]

Francis actually goes against Scripture in his public stunts. He makes sure he has all the media attention on him before he goes and "humbly" washes feet (of Muslims, because that's the hot minority group right now) or "humbly" goes to confession (in a booth with the confessor and penitent in plain view where everyone can overhear him confessing his sins to God). He's the pharisee in the temple worshipping for the admiration and praise of everyone around him.

His silence on things is what's more astounding, where after the Cologne attacks he was more concerned about Europe's "humanistic spirit" being undermined than with the victims of all these migrants that have been loosed on Germany. And then he goes and says that this invasion is causing problems, but Europe can handle it. Either naive, hopelessly out of touch, or worse.

Christianity is not some weakling pusy as religion for dweebs. Liberals have been working for decades trying to skew its image that way, painting our Lord Jesus Christ as some communist weedsmoking limpwristed hippie preaching how nice it would be if "everyone were just nice to each other" in a half unconscious drug-fueled state.

Now this is what Jesus Christ really teaches:

I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

Matthew 10 is more about spiritual warfare, though. Sometimes this necessitates physical violence, either for self-defense or just war, but the spiritual aspect of being at odds with enemies "even of one's own household" is the emphasis. Taking up your cross will usually mean being at war with the world and with yourself. Remember that Jesus' kingdom was not of this world, and had to rebuke Peter to teach him this.

Christianity is not about just blindly accepting punishment (contemporary over-emphasis on "turning the other cheek" plays a part in this), but denying one's self and rejecting sin and the world for eternal life. It's not about establishing a utopia through violence, but of conquering the real paradise through perfection and God's grace.

The Islamic parallel is of course the Greater Jihad being spiritual, the lesser with the physical. I think Wahhabism has turned this upside down.
kondzior   
15 May 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

experienced auditors

They rarely do that here, because no one wants being audited themselves after the next election. Also because of the federal government, it's almost always all major parties who are involved, so there's even less incentive to dig dirt. There's is an "independent" Court of Audit, which does yearly reports on wasting of tax payers' money, but since everyone knows that the government always wastes money on the most stupid things, people rage dutifully for a day and then shelve it.
kondzior   
14 May 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

It's a lot of nonsense made up on the spot, as witnessed by the way that several ministers were speaking off the cuff and others were relying on handwritten notes.

They said that the first charges were already brought for prosecution. Mind you, I'm not certain if most of those claims are not just hot air that will end just like the previous gubmint's excellent attempt to put Ziobro in front of the state tribunal, but we'll see.
kondzior   
14 May 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Thanks for translating the audit results so our full-blooded Anglo-expat plastic-card "Poles" will know what's going on in their "homeland".

To be frank most of this sheet was known for a long long time for those who know a thing or two, some of the points Macierewicz made were presented purely for maximum shock value. I'm the last person to defend PO, but for foock's sake don't mix valid criticisms with cheap sensationalism if you want to be taken seriously.

But the directive to ignore all airborne radar signatures below 3000 meters was... i mean i have no words, this just sounds like sabotage and treason of the highest caliber.
kondzior   
14 May 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Known among those-in-the-know as Operation Full Kurwa

Anyway, ze audit is done, here's some other info not included in the previous post that came later.

Healthcare ministry:
- The healthcare system's digitalisation programme was completely unusable and had to be 'salvaged' when the new gubmint took office.
- The total public hospital debt at the end of the previous year amount to 14 bln PLN.
- Polant currently holds the respectable 34th (out of 35) place in the prestigious European Health Index, beating only Montenegro, and falling behind Albania and Romania.

Environment ministry:
- The s19 route (part of Via Carpatia going from Slovakia to Belarus completely through Polant) was supposed to be finished by 2014. It was not constructed and instead was wiped from any future development plans.

- Due to massive neglections in the Białowieża National Park, there are now 4 mln m3 of rotten wood lying around there, and Polant is risking huge fines from the EU.

- The previous gubmint allowed for an uncontrollable selling of land to foreigners.

Ministry of justice:
- Back in the day, 1100 people would be sentenced to electronic monitoring. The previous gubmint reduced that number to 4.
- 70% of convicts do not work.

Ministry of the interior:
- During its 8 years in office, the government dissolved more than half the total number of police stations for no apparent reason.
- Two border guard detachments in the south were dissolved despite the current immigration crisis.
- For 8 years, the gubmint was not able to guarantee Frontex [EU institution for border control] a permanent HQ in Poland.
- Police would often remand hundreds of people opposed to the government, such as football fans, into custody and show off the numbers to the public. Except afterwards the people would all be found not guilty by courts and released.

Ministry of defence:
- The Polish forces were concentrated along the western border, reinforced even by garrisons from the east. Just as if the threat to Poland was to come from the west, not the east.

- "Europe will not see any war caused by russia" - this was claimed 2 months before the Russian aggression against Ukraine by the ministry analysts.

- The minister of foreign affairs in the previous government even claimed that one day Russia will be a member of NATO.
- The need, necessitated by law, to spend 2% of GDP on the army was dodged all the time and instead bounced between 1.7% and 1.9%.
- None of the armed forces development programs was ever finished. 50 bln PLN was spent on them in total. None of the modernisation programs were realised in full as well.

- Tank technical documentation was not supplied when signing contracts for buying them.
- 1.1 bln PLN was spent to buy a modern mortar system, but ammo for it was skipped.
- The government refused to let Polish soldiers participate when the Ukrainian army was training with US soldiers because they thought it would anger Russia.
- Poland's ability to mobilise army reserves is one of the lowest in Europe due to a badly performed professionalisation of the army.
- The gubmint got rid of a low-altitude airspace violation detection system.
- No action was taken to determine who came into illegal possession of 10000 phone numbers of defence sector workers.
- Long-lasting ex-commie counterintelligence officers were put in high army echelons. The careers of many ex-commie army and counterintelligence officers were also supported for no apparent reason.

- Despite having its own qualified force for IT support, the army kept outsourcing it to outside companies.
- The ministry was signing long-reaching contracts with people from the political environments of various ministers without making any documentation that would actually detail their duties to the ministry.

- The ministry had a stock of 30k periodic tables that it had gathered for no apparent reason.
kondzior   
12 May 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

A nuclear bomb has been dropped in Poland yesterday as the gubmint presented an audit of the previous gubmint's 8 years of office.

Some choice picks:

- Poland resigned from taking part in UN peacekeeping missions, even though they are low-risk and their costs are refunded.
- When Madonna was to perform in Poland, the ministry of sport and tourism bought 400 (!) tickets to the same concert in Turkey (!!) to see first how it will look like in practice.

- A company whose only client was the state treasury was nevertheless granted 1 mln coins to design its logo.
- The gubmint was supposed to construct 4k km of roads and highways by the end of 2012, they ended up with 1.5k. The costs of road construction per 1km were ~25% higher than, for example, in Germany.

- 50 mln coins was spent on "modern machinery" to show it off during the last electoral campaign and claim that the gubmint was supporting modernisation. Turned out that no work station in Poland was fit to use the machinery, so it was put inside a warehouse where it is still rotting away unused to this day.

- The ministry of foreign affairs spent 22 mln coins on a building that it didn't need.
- Its chief policy in the last years was also to follow the EU mainstream as much as possible, regardless of the fact that much of it was not in Polish interest.

- The ministry of family and social politics was essentially an internal travel bureau. Same as the sport and tourism ministry.
- Secret services were actively spying on opposition manifestations and right-wing journalists, including eavesdropping on their phone calls, following them to meetings, collecting personal data of people from their environments, etc. 52 journos in total were placed under long-reaching surveillance.

- They were also spying on ex-chiefs of services, suspecting them of arranging their own bugs against government members.
- In 2011, two central anti-corruption bureau directors were taking part in an operation meant to capture the leader of an international crime group. Both of them were under the influence of alcohol, which resulted in one of them stepping in front of a random car and needing to be rushed to hospital with serious injuries. No repercussions followed, the bureau made sure to forge documents to make it look like he was there privately and not on duty.

- Right after the presidential plane crash in 2010, a russian citizen went to the polish embassy claiming to have information regarding it. The intelligence agency didn't even bother hearing him out, and instead handed him over immediately to the FSB.

- The National Culture Centre was promoting the book of one of the current opposition party leaders shortly before the last elections.
- 65% of Polish export is done by foreign-held companies. There was very little support of actual Polish business, everything was directed into foreign hands and markets, and what state-held companies couldn't be sold were liquidated. Only 50% of industry in the country is actually Polish.

- 50 bln coins was spent to cover the addition of new civil servants.
- The prime minister's chancellery ended every year with a rough budget deficit of 15 mln.
- The Polish public debt during the last government's office rose by 100%. The prime minister said the total losses Poland took because of the previous gubmint's horrible governing are roughly 340 bln coins.

- 500 mln coins of EU funds were not used.
kondzior   
30 Apr 2016
Food / Is brain-damaging vegan fad growing in Poland? [176]

It's not about choice of food. I wouldn't have an issue if it was only that. Hell, I have plenty of vegetarian friends who don't turn their eating habits into some kind of "cause to save the planet" nor do they change their whole lifestyle just to accommodate their views. And I'm perfectly OK with that.

I take issue when vegans start preaching to me PERSONALLY about how unnatural the act of eating/using animals is. How foocking despicable we are. How high and mighty and empathetic their cause is. These urban faggots belittle those whose livelihoods depend on animals or people who do hard physical work and need protein. They belittle whole human race that still would be digging melons as monkeys somewhere in Africa if not for animals.

I swear to God, every time I read someone posting stuf like "Ow mah gawd, it turns out my pillows were filled with feathers this whole time. I'm such a sinner, ya'll XD" or "My kids will be vegans too" , it makes me want to choke them!