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delphiandomine   
12 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

Seen the latest news? The EU will lift sanctions on Iran in the next few weeks, meaning even more oil on Poland's doorstep will become available at a very cheap price (as Iran need hard currency).

As I said before, with PKN Orlen signing a massively unfavourable deal with Russia and the Russians now controlling the refinery in Schwedt, it means that they've got a strangehold over fuel supplies in Poland. How could a government allegedly acting in the national interest allow such a situation to happen with oil prices so low?
delphiandomine   
12 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

I wonder how many cans of VIP one needs before that seems like a good idea.

Who needs cans of VIP when you can just blatantly introduce all sorts of pro-Russia deals and fill positions of power with ex-PZPR members?

Watching Greggy defend this deal is hilarious, because it shows that he's also very much in favour of doing unfavourable deals with Russia at Poland's expense.
delphiandomine   
12 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

All the forecasts which are constantly being cut, is that?

We're seeing the insane situation that the Americans have more oil than they can even store, the Saudis are determined to hold onto their overproduction and Iran about to enter the market and analysts predicting oil at $20/bl - and yet PiS signed a very unfavourable deal that completely cuts out the need for oil to be obtained from anywhere else?
delphiandomine   
12 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

It takes an oil sector expert to tell you the price of oil has gone down and is going down more?

Now now. Greggy is a PiS activist, which means that the only people he listens to are the ones that tell him that this deal was in the interests of Poland.
delphiandomine   
11 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

"I negotiated a $6.5 billion oil contract two weeks after changing jobs from licking envelopes at PiS head quarters and two weeks before the price of oil halved in price."

Where's Greggy when you need someone to present an abusive defence of why this incompetent idiot signed such a terrible deal?
delphiandomine   
11 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

And we certainly don't need to be experts to understand this.

foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/01/11/oil-prices-fall-for-sixth-day
It's pretty clear that paying a minimum of $36 to Russia for all our oil needs and cutting off talks with the Arab suppliers is very much designed to ensure Russian domination over our domestic oil industry while also subsidising the Russian budget. Why?
delphiandomine   
11 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

With Iran about to throw oil onto the market and (as Johnny told us) America now exporting oil again, you have to wonder just how low it will go.
delphiandomine   
11 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

The lowest price Poland would pay is $36. It's at $32 now.

The interesting part is that PiS broke off talks with the Arab oil producers without any real justification or reason. Why the hurry to sign a very unfavourable deal with Russia?

Still, nice to know that we're subsidising the Russian budget through overpaying for oil products.
delphiandomine   
11 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

I'm not you.

Notice how you attempt to completely move the topic away from PiS and Russian interests.

Not falling for it Greggy. Why are you so keen to stop discussion about Russian interests in PiS?
delphiandomine   
11 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

It's a blog entry wrote by a guy working for the the Soros Foundation.

Any attempt to lie and insult, eh?

Perhaps you might want to address the facts rather than commenting on who wrote the article?
delphiandomine   
11 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

Did you read the articles? There's certainly enough evidence to suggest that their Russophobia is like their anti-communism - a facade designed to cheat and manipulate the masses.
delphiandomine   
11 Jan 2016
News / PiS and Russian political/economic interests [70]

Well, well, well. Another week, and now the media are suggesting that there are connections between PiS and Russia.

pl.blastingnews.com/felietony/2016/01/pis-lokuje-jawnych-zwolennikow-putina-na-najwyzszych-stanowiskach-w-tvp-00725945.html

It's a good article, and it's worth a read. It essentially outlines how the new boss of TVP Kultura has been acting in accordance with pro-Russian interests, such as attacking fronda.pl for their aggressive anti-Russian stance against the occupation of Crimea. The publisher/editor Matyszkowicz has been openly calling for the destruction of the European Union. Furthermore, it explains how the PiS "good change" appears to be the implementation of Russian economic and political interests in Poland - with TVP Kultura being a vital aspect of that plan. Certainly, the appointment of a pro-Putin figure to lead TVP Kultura has to raise eyebrows.

We should also mention that blastingnews brought attention to the unfavourable oil contract signed with Russia -

pl.blastingnews.com/ekonomia/2016/01/czy-prawo-i-sprawiedliwosc-jest-agenda-rosyjskich-sluzb-specjalnych-w-polsce-00717669.html

The title "Is PiS an agency of the Russian special services in Poland?" tells you all you need to know. The article explains how the deal with Russia has allowed Russia to dominate the Polish oil industry - not only through the unfavourable deal, but also through the takeover of the Schwedt (Oder) refinery in Eastern Germany which supplies a considerable part of Western Poland's oil needs. Furthermore, it also shows how the PiS-controlled media spread lies about the increase in oil prices to make it seem as if it was a PiS success, when in reality, oil prices are predicted to fall even further due to the entry of Iran into the market.

Perhaps this is the most crucial part of the text :

Biografia Jasińskiego mogłaby więc sugerować, iż był on wysokiej rangi funkcjonariuszem komunistycznego wywiadu.

The biography of Jasinski would therefore suggest that he was a high-ranking Communist intelligence officer.

The links between PiS and Russian economic and political interests are certainly very interesting.
delphiandomine   
11 Jan 2016
News / Jacek Kurski, the new chairman of TVP (Telewizja Polska) [37]

This is an old management technique - appoint incompetent or dishonest people who owe their job to you (because no one else will have them) in order to ensure their loyalty.

Indeed, it's pretty clear that the PiS strategy thus far has been to appoint incompetent/dishonest/inexperienced people or ex-PZPR members to prominent positions - all of them can be easily controlled and replaced if needs be, and none of them will have the brains or the talent to mount any serious opposition to Kaczyński. It means that Kaczyński can control everything easily and in his vision.

Kurski is just another in a long line of puppets.
delphiandomine   
11 Jan 2016
Real Estate / Best area in Krakow to live? [43]

My advice : don't do it if there's family involved. It will just end in tears - no matter how much you like them on a personal level, Poles are dreadful people when it comes to business - and they will ruin you. They will see no harm in letting cousin Paweł take some supplies for his own house building project, nor will they see any harm in letting the costs rise because "it's holidays".

It might sound alarmist, but unless you really know what you're doing and if you're not afraid to cause family problems, avoid.
delphiandomine   
10 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

He owes his political career to PiS, and if he attempted to go it alone, they would simply haul him up in front of the State Tribunal and prosecute him on random trumped-up charges. Still, would be better to grow a backbone now rather than face the humiliation of seeing the State Tribunal prosecute him in 2019.
delphiandomine   
10 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

At least it'll be cheaper and won't exist solely to provide members of PiS with lucrative public TV/radio contracts to produce 'national' propaganda. You honestly think that PiS care about promoting Polish interests? Of course they don't - they care about producing cheap propaganda that costs a small fortune to produce in exchange for the previous support of "journalists" and "filmmakers" when they were in opposition.
delphiandomine   
10 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Communist regimes were brought to Eastern Europe and kept afloat for 45 years with Soviet bayonets.

Soviet bayonets wouldn't have been enough by themselves. They needed a willing local population to control the levers of power, and that they found. Don't forget that every single post-war Communist leader was also a fearsomely talented organiser.

By contrast, PiS is the most pro-Polish party around not beholden to any external force, and that is the key difference.

Except, you know, they signed an unfavourable deal with Russia and have implemented several policies designed to push Poland further into the Russian sphere of geopolitics. If by "pro-Polish", you mean "pro-Russia", then yes, I'd agree.

In fact, soon there will be more Polish culture and history on National Television and more Polish music on National Radio.

I look forward to it. Nothing will alienate the voters more than endless cheap Polish productions of dubious merit which push the Party line.
delphiandomine   
10 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

If you look back to how Communist governments won power post-war, it was pretty much identical - they went after some high profile enemies as well as securing control of everything that really mattered. For instance, in post-war East Berlin, the Communists made sure to control education, media and policing/justice. With such control, you can do anything you want. They then enacted plenty of changes that suited their agenda, rendering the opposition incompetent.
delphiandomine   
10 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Not sure what you're blabbering about now Polonius, as I was only referring to the fact that things were more stable politically - fewer parties and more stable coalitions.

Still, looks like according to you, PiS have taken it to the ultimate level by swiftly removing everyone else from any sort of power and replacing it entirely with their own people. The looting and plundering of Poland, aka TKM, can now take place unopposed by any pesky workers that might oppose them.
delphiandomine   
9 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

So far and without exception, every step they've taken has been a wrong move!

The only example I can think of is the Olszewski government, but that didn't enjoy anything resembling popular support in the first place. Possibly Mazowiecki's government was also very poorly seen after a year or so, but certainly nothing in modern political times (if we take 1993 as being the start of more sensible politics).

Even the PiS 2005-2007 government wasn't so unpopular until Kaczyński got rid of Marcinkiewicz.

Notice how Polonius is openly celebrating the fact that PiS are now able to steal, plunder and manipulate Poland for all it's worth.
delphiandomine   
9 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

most Poles are willing to GIVE PiS A CHANCE!

Except they aren't.

29.6% Nowoczesna
27.3% PiS
16.2% PO
7.0% Kukiz'15
5.4% ZL
4.5% PSL
3.3% Korwin
2.2% Razem
4.2% don't know

It's clear that they're dropping like a stone in the opinion polls.
delphiandomine   
9 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Because I know of no party anywhere in the world that has done so

Scandinavia would be a good place to start, as would the UK and Germany.

Imagine how difficult it would be to oppose a PiS plan where every senior civil servant had to be proven to be politically neutral, and where the deliberations between commission members were made public? It would certainly be nearly impossible for any future government to change such a policy, and Poland would have a UK or German style civil service where they serve the government, not the party.

Instead, PiS chose the path of nepotism, and they're being punished in the opinion polls for it.
delphiandomine   
9 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Polonius, can you explain why you seem to find the idea of a fair and transparent recruitment process to be a problem?

PiS have done exactly what they accused PO of - they've filled the halls of power with their own men and women.
delphiandomine   
8 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Isn't this a golden chance for PiS to start off in the right way?

Public competitions, judges taken from the best in Europe, objective and transparent decision making and processes and PiS would be flying in the polls instead of dropping like a stone.
delphiandomine   
8 Jan 2016
News / Mateusz Matyszkowicz, executive director of Fronda will lead TVP Kultura [15]

With people who are not on the leash of foreign corporations.

Nice try, but they're just very much on the leash of Jarosław Kaczyński and PiS. Given that the party has very strong links with the PZPR and has just signed a very unfavourable deal with Russia with oil, I think we all can see where this is going.

I know that's painful to those who were getting hefty kickbacks and now stand to lose them.

Any proof of your allegations?

Also the post-nomenklatura kids who found safe haven in the PO camp may no longer dominate things.

Given that PiS is controlled by the nomeklatura...

Thanks to PiS normal Poles have received a new lease of life.

A new lease of life in which Party membership is required for any sort of career advancement in public life.
delphiandomine   
8 Jan 2016
News / Mateusz Matyszkowicz, executive director of Fronda will lead TVP Kultura [15]

I think one has to begin by understanding what PiS are doing in Poland. They are filling up almost every single governmental position and state company position with people that are loyal to them - mostly young people with little/no experience or older people who were prominent members of the Polish Communist Party, the PZPR. These people are not "Solidarity activists", but rather the kind of people that look east to Russia rather than west to Europe.

Matyszkowicz is a perfect example of this. He doesn't have any experience in TV production, doesn't have experience in management (a small fringe publication hardly counts) - but he's a loyal PiS member that can be trusted to produce the Party line.