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AdamKadmon   
6 Jun 2011
Po polsku / Amerykańskie chamstwo? [133]

Pozamykać połowę katedr w zakresie sociologii lub kulturoznawstwa.

A może dorzucić Balcerowicza i spółkę?

MARTIN REES: Faffing around with financial derivatives is further away from anything that matters than being a scientist, engineer, teacher, doctor or anything else.

treasureislands.org/adair-turner-financial-liberalisation-was-a-failure/

Adair Turner: financial liberalisation was a failure.
AdamKadmon   
6 Jun 2011
Po polsku / Amerykańskie chamstwo? [133]

"Bo Paryż częstą mody odmianą się chlubi. a co Francuz wymyśli, to Polak polubi"

Kilka cytacików.

Pierwszy etap: kuszenie chytrego diabła

Pamiętam, chociaż byłem wtenczas małe dziecię,
Kiedy do ojca mego w oszmiańskim powiecie
Przyjechał pan Podczaszyc na francuskim wózku,
Pierwszy człowiek, co w Litwie chodził po francusku.
Biegali wszyscy za nim jakby za rarogiem
Zazdroszczono domowi, przed którego progiem
Stanęła Podczaszyca dwukolna dryndulka,
Która się po francusku zwała karyjulka.
Zamiast lokajów w kielni siedziały dwa pieski,
A na kozłach niemczysko chude na kształt deski;
Nogi miał długie, cienkie, jak od chmielu tyki,
W pończochach, ze srebrnymi klamrami trzewiki,
Peruka z harbajtelem zawiązanym w miechu.


Drugi etap: żal po niewczasie:

Polsko! lecz ciebie błyskotkami łudzą;
Pawiem narodów byłaś i papugą,
A teraz jesteś służebnicą cudzą.
Choć wiem, że słowa te nie zadrżą długo
W sercu - gdzie nie trwa myśl nawet godziny,
Mówię - bom smutny - i sam pełen winy.


A na koniec bezsilne złorzeczenia:

Nasz naród jak lawa, Z wierzchu zimna i twarda, sucha i plugawa;
Lecz wewnętrznego ognia sto lat nie wyziębi,
Plwajmy na tę skorupę i zstąpmy do głębi.


Ale co tam Słowacki i Mickiewicz mogli wiedzieć on naszych czasach?
AdamKadmon   
6 Jun 2011
News / Tusk drops Chinese COVEC building the A2 motorway in Poland [83]

Sejm member Eugeniusz Kłopotek says throw the Chinese out of Poland, and stop with doing business with them.

The President of the Royal Society Martin Rees:

Of course the biggest tectonic shift in the world's science stems from the burgeoning growth in the Far East - in China above all. Since 1999, China's R and D spend has risen by 20 percent each year - up to a level that's now second only to the US.

China's technocratic leadership has astutely targeted its scientific investment on 'growth areas'.

Look, for instance, towards the city of Shenzhen. There, a 500-strong research team is hard at work, on the front line of genetic research. They were only established eleven years ago. Now they have more sequencing capacity than anywhere in the world - enough to sequence 10,000 human genomes in a year. And China strives to lead, too, in the quite different field of solar power.

Education is prioritised in China - and in Taiwan, South Korea and other countries of the Far East - with a focus on the aspirations of their fast-developing economies. And concerns are often voiced that we in the UK are falling behind.


Chińczyki trzymają się mocno i to bez żadnego Kłopotka.
AdamKadmon   
18 May 2011
UK, Ireland / Are Polish people importing a new wave of ancient racism into the UK? [402]

I am Polish and had lived in England from 1948 to1959, age 13-23. English people were prejudiced to all forigners.My experience is, they are snobs like all peoples that were imperialists.

Some time ago I sent, I think, an interesting historical résumé of racism. Polish people should know where it originated, what were the consequences of it and, first of all, do not allow to be cast in the role of racists. There are other peoples more responsible for introducing and disseminating the ideology, which brought, especially to Poles of different origins, untold suffering.

The UK's 'special relationship' with the US.

youtube.com/watch?v=VhWjM-8HhO4

'I'll tell you a story. Roosevelt was having lunch with Churchill. The Second World War was drawing to a close. They toasted the end of the war. Then Roosevelt gave Churchill a radiant smile, and said: 'You realize you're going to have to give up your precious India, don't you?' "Never!" And they had a quarrel over the lunch table. Many people who happened to be there spread it around. Roosevelt not only won the argument, it was force majeure. Roosevelt said, 'The days of Empire are over, and I trust you realize this."'

'Churchill said: "What do you want me to do? Get on my hind legs like your little dog Fala, and beg?" Roosevelt said simply: "Yes." Don't tempt an Emperor!'


It's a pity that Poles did not, do not and will never have such an Emperor.
AdamKadmon   
17 May 2011
History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]

If you understand Russian watch this film.
youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CFEF4ACB0069D662

As for what you mean by saying the above, I do not understand you. But the film is a good one. Enjoy watching.
AdamKadmon   
13 May 2011
USA, Canada / Polish Americans and religion [28]

Is really abnormal when it comes to being a Polish-American to not be very religious?

About religion in America: For the neoconservatives, religion is an instrument of promoting morality. Religion becomes what Plato called a "noble lie." It is a myth which is told to the majority of the society by the philosophical elite in order to ensure social order.

In being a kind of secretive elitist approach, Straussianism does resemble Marxism. These ex-Marxists, or in some cases ex-liberal Straussians, could see themselves as a kind of Leninist group, you know, who have this covert vision which they want to use to effect change in history, while concealing parts of it from people incapable of understanding it.


About religion in Poland: Czy ludzie w naszym kraju są rzeczywiście wierzący, czy to nie jest bardzo zewnętrzne?

Czesław Miłosz: ... Pewien amerykański profesor określił Polskę jako kraj ludzi niewierzących ale praktykujących. Ja bym sformułował to inaczej, że Polska jest krajem ludzi praktykujących ale nie zastanawiających się dużo nad tym w co wierzą. To jest religia, która może okazać się mało odporna wobec nowoczesnego świata technologii, taka religia bez przemyśleń może okazać się dość bezbronna.

Translation: An American professor defined Poland as a country of non-believing but practicing people. I would formulate it in different words. Poland is the country of practicing people but not giving much thought to what they believe. This is a religion, which may turn out to be moderately resistant to modern technology, such religion lacking reflections can prove to be defenseless.

How do you fit to that picture?
AdamKadmon   
3 May 2011
Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [94]

Roman Gren The Shelter (pol. Schronisko)

It is about homelessness and the homeless. They came to France like many before them, driven by the hope of a better life. And they all came together in a shelter. Sissoko from Mali, whose close family were murdered in unexplained circumstances. Youmi from Senegal, who bought an apartment in one of the wealthiest quarters of Paris for a diamond. Monsieur Dembo; a minister in a Central African republic, who ran away from a diplomatic party which turned into a coup.

The book is available only in Polish.
AdamKadmon   
2 May 2011
Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [94]

tygodnik.com.pl/numer/275517/musierowicz-felieton.html - Barszcz w kulturze starożytnej Grecji Jerzego Gota
AdamKadmon   
27 Apr 2011
News / Poland's Lost Generation [172]

simply cannot understand that higher productivity = higher salary

Udarnik

Are you that super-productive?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udarnik
AdamKadmon   
26 Apr 2011
Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [94]

Feliks Topolski

What a great philosophy. Lie down when you can and it doesn't matter what goes on around you.

Jerzy Szaniawski
AdamKadmon   
25 Apr 2011
Life / Disco Polo - No No No No No! [95]

for the masses

Do you feel yourself to be... a mass, sameness swarming to a beat of DP music? Strange!

Music for the masses.

The Bolsheviks' dream come true.

PRECZ MI Z OCZU SZATANIE!!!
AdamKadmon   
24 Apr 2011
Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [94]

Janusz Głowacki Z głowy

W Trójkącie Bermudzkim

Bar Przechodni był położony mniej więcej naprzeciwko Hybryd, nocnego klubu studenckiego, ale tylko teoretycznie. Na bramce stał tam obecnie znany producent filmowy, który wpuszczał za dychę wszystkich: uczennice, badylarzy, cinkciarzy, aktorki, piosenkarzy, tajniaków i czternastoletnią Ewunię, która na pytanie ojca: "Czy ty aby, córeczko, za wcześnie nie zaczynasz?", odpowiadała: "Tatusiu, ja już zaczynam wychodzić z obiegu"...

.................

Niewierna Klaudia

Z mroków Trójkąta Bermudzkiego na Mokotowskiej wyłania się wspomnienie czystego uczucia miłości do niewiernej Klaudii. Chwilę przedtem, a może trochę później, rzuciła mnie prześliczna modelka Anna Maria, o której i dla której napisano piosenkę "Anna Maria smutną ma twarz", a chóry dziecięce śpiewały ją na festiwalu w Sopocie.
AdamKadmon   
24 Apr 2011
News / Poland's Lost Generation [172]

Nobody here in Poland is in a revolutionary mood. People are used to endure the hardship whatever it is. By the way, I do not understand what you imply when you mention PO, ex-communists, Hungry, Polonophobes.
AdamKadmon   
24 Apr 2011
News / Poland's Lost Generation [172]

They dragged the Poles in, exploited them, and then, having used them up, have been vilifying them, depicting them as those who have ripped off the British. Outrageous, psychopathic, unforgivable.

Could the Poles resist the temptation or see right through it and say no thanks? Does the whole story make the young Poles wiser and not to go to Germany, where the situation seems to be the same and possibly worse? And what choice do they have when there is no prospect of a decent job here in Poland?
AdamKadmon   
24 Apr 2011
News / Poland's Lost Generation [172]

Gazeta Wyborcza is a part of the whole picture and not in the least the main culprit behind the whole business.
AdamKadmon   
24 Apr 2011
News / Poland's Lost Generation [172]

Those delusional ideas have been hammered into them by, among others, the newspaper you quote - the strongly left-wing Gazeta Wyborcza

Here is just the beginning of an article from the last Gazeta Wyborcza about the homeless Poles in London: Blondyna na wabia

Noc. Ewa pochylona nad laptopem w starej dwupiętrowej londyńskiej kamienicy. Męczy wniosek by wytargować parę funtów od tutejszego samorządu. Z dołu woła Janusz, były alkoholik, albo Tomasz, kiedyś dziecko polskich poprawczaków. Ewa wkłada sweter, dżinsy, upina włosy, by schować urodę. Bierze chłopaków idzie na patrol po nocnym Londynie. Kilku Polaków grilluje w zaułku. Ewa widzi skwierczące szczurze truchła. Upewnia się, że pourywali ogony nasiąknięte naturalną strychniną...

Night. In an old two-story building, Ewa leans over her laptop slogging her guts out with an application to gain a couple of pounds from the local authorities. From below, Janusz is calling out, an ex-alcoholic and Tomasz, once an inmate of the Polish community home. Ewa is putting a sweater and jeans on, pins up her hear and hides her looks. She togather with the lads sets off on night patrol over the streets of London. A few Poles grill in a backstreet. Ewa can see the sizzling sounds of fried rat carcasses; she makes sure that they have torn off tails that are naturally soaked in strychnine.
AdamKadmon   
24 Apr 2011
News / Poland's Lost Generation [172]

Poles have the third highest IQ in Europe

In modesty I am second to none, as the British used to say in private.
AdamKadmon   
24 Apr 2011
News / Poland's Lost Generation [172]

Poland's lost generation? Not the first time and not the last.. Seventy something years ago it was like this:

Czesław Miłosz: Pieśń Levallois

(Baraki dla bezdomnych w Levallois-Perret, 1935)

Boże, miej litość nad Levallois,
Wejrzyj pod dymem zatrute kasztany,
Daj chwilę szczęścia słabym i pijanym,
Dłoń twoja mocna w opiece ich ma.

Przez cały dzień kradli, złorzeczyli,
Teraz na pryczach rany swoje liżą,
I kiedy noc zawisła na Paryżu,
Oni twarz w dłoniach zbójeckich ukryli:
Boże, miej litość nad Levallois.

Oni za twoim przykazaniem szli,
Zbierali zboże, węgiel w ziemi darli
I nieraz w bratniej obmyli się krwi
Szepcząc imiona Jezusa i Marii.

W knajpach ich bełkot nieprzytomny rósł,
A to ich pieśń ku twojej była chwale.
We wnętrzach ziemi, na otchłaniach mórz,
W pyle ginęli, mrozie i upale.

To oni ciebie nad sobą dźwigali,
Ich ręka twoją wyrzeźbiła twarz.
Więc na kapłanów wiernych wejrzeć racz,
Daj im uciechy jadła i pościeli.

Znamiona grzechu i choroby zdejm,
Swobodnych wprowadź w podwoje Sodomy,
Wieńcami kwiatów niech ozdobią domy,
Niech żyć umieją i umierać lżej.

Ciemność. Milczenie. Most daleki gra.
Wiatr w Kainowych drzewach dmie strumieniem.
Nad pustką ziemi, nad ludzkim plemieniem,
Nie ma litości nad Levallois.


This part of the forum is English language only. If you don't provide a translation, this post may be moved.

The translation below is not a perfect one:

O God, have mercy on Levallois,
Look under these chestnut trees poisoned with smoke,
Give a moment of joy to the weak and the drunk,
O God, have mercy on Levallois.

All day long they stole and cursed,
Now they lie in their bunks and lick their wounds,
And while the darkness thickens over Paris
They hide their faces in their thieving hands.
O God, have mercy on Levallois.

They followed your commandment every day:
They harvested wheat, tore coal from the earth.
And often they drenched themselves in their brothers' blood
Murmuring the names of Jesus and Mary.

Their insane jabber welled from the taverns.
That was their song in your praise.
They perished in mines, in the snow, in the heat,
In mud and the depths of he seas.

It was they who lifted you above themselves.
Their hands sculpted your face.
So deign to look on your faithful priests,
Give them the joys of table and bed.

Take from them the stigmas of illness and sin.
The immodest lead into Sodom's gates.
Let them adorn their houses with garlands.
Let them learn how to live and die more lightly.

Thank you