History / Pomerania -a Polish land since the creation of Poland and the German invaders. [60]


Just like Palestine is 'part of 'Israel".

BTW, has Merkel visited Tel Aviv or Jerusalem yet this month?

History / Pomerania -a Polish land since the creation of Poland and the German invaders. [60]

It is now the 21st Century, and debates about historical events between Germany and Poland are interesting, and deserve to be investigated and discussed...However, there should be no arguments about ownership of certain territories, as too much water has flowed under the bridge, and there is too much intermingling of national peoples for this to serve a realistic purpose.

But I would suggest the ideas about Slavic union would go some way to clearing up mis-perceptions in historical reality about events that happened in the past and would give a better awareness to Poles and other Slavs about their history, and improve education.

News / Wal-Mart coming to Poland? [146]

Poland doesn't need WalMart...The United States doesn't need WalMart.

USA, Canada / Poles in Philadelphia [9]

I've lived in Philadelphia most of my life, and now I'm back in the old neighborhood, Bridesburg...Both sides of my family grew up in Port Richmond...I'll try to contribute if I can...Good idea!

Krakus Market, Richmond Street



Syrenka Restaurant, Richmond Street



St.John Cantius Church, Thompson Street, my parrish

Czerws Kielbasa, Port Richmond

Life / New Polish generation prefers black culture? [145]


You are right.

BTW, I talk as someone who knows, because I have been a musician for almost 30 years...I was influenced by the great Black blues guitarist like BB King, Albert King, and bluesmen like Muddy Waters...I have also played a lot of Jazz, and had the privilege of studying with a few of the greats.

Mist older African-Americans, who grew up listening to all the great music, look at rap and such as garbage.

Life / New Polish generation prefers black culture? [145]

If young Poles look to present African-American culture for worthwhile content, they will find they scrape the bottom of the barrel.

African-American culture formerly was rich, particularly in music, because much of it came from the church, in terms of gospel, which gave birth to modern R & B, and pop...Jazz was also a great contribution, but a lot of this was drawn from European classical, in terms of harmony and structure.

These musics and artists, from Duke Ellington through Miles Davis and Coltrane, through Motown, Stax/ Memphis and artists like Aretha Franklin were all music that elevated...They were lookin 'upward' for creative inspiration, while mingling in elements of street rhythmns and such.

Hip hop or rap is simply low ghetto culture mixed with computer programs, and it looks to the gutter, not upward.

Life / How many Jewish people live in Poland? [145]

How many Jewish people live in Poland?

Just two:

Norman Zalecki, Optometrist from Wroclaw

Mabel Krusz, retired textile business manager living in Krakow

Almost all the rest of the Jews were killed at Auschwitz, except for a handful, who either moved to Tel Aviv or Miami Beach, and a tiny number who stayed, to whom Pan Zalecki and Pani Krusz are related ...

News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Ha!...Listen, Shamir always goes a little hard on Poland, and he seems misinformed about certain things...I just liked the article because it presents a bit of the other side, not just painting Lukashenko as one of Satan's minions...Shamir may be wrong in some areas, but he covers a wide range of topics, primarily the Middle East...He is Russian by birth.

It is quite difficult to get unbiased, or at least somewhat balanced news about states of the former Soviet Union, and even Poland in the Western Press...Especially in the US, any stories about these countries seem as if written by robots from a computer program.

Now, I have met a few Belarussians here in the States, but, without exception, I had to pry this fact out of them...Unlike some, I am always interested in a person's ethnic background, because it makes things interesting...Anyway, the BRs are very tight-lipped in general, and, since they came over to the States, they must have felt a lack of opportunity there...This is why I say Lukashenko should reach out, make a gesture to the people, the young ones, to make them feel like they have a future there, and that he wants them to make some money, too.

I was very disturbed by the Minsk metro bombing, and we still don't know what the happened there, or who did it and why...

News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Yeah, but who leads this 'opposition'?...Does it have a platform or program?...Or is the goal just to remove Lukashenko?

Here is a good article about Belarus by Israel Shamir:

israelshamir.net/English/Belarus1.htm

News / Deepening of the neo-liberal model of market de-regulation in Poland [6]

Shapiro just another globalist Jew...'Neo-liberal' means 'let the Jews buy up cheap'.

News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]


But he was elected...Protests there are miniscule...This leads me to believe that this is a situation where outside agitators seek his downfall, and instruments of Globalist/Zionist power seek to get their dirty paws on Belarus assets...You give no credible examples except the usual hearsay and rumours...Globalists, and here I mean Western banking interests who suck dry European countries ranging from Germany, France and Greece by subterfuges like 'sovereign debt', which is simply the latest smokescreen for the theft of national assets through the derivatives, hedge fund swindle, want Belarussian goods too...Lukashenka has taken a hard line against this by maintaining state ownership/control of essential assets...He is then demonized as a 'Stalinist'...While Belarus may not have the 'gloss' of so-called 'emerging' economies, at least their is stability there.

Some reforms are needed, but when you let the Western bankers run the show, the result is disaster, and 'shock therapy' for the average people.

Problem is people watch things on TV, and think the West is a paradise...On IMF, you borrow money from them, you sign a 50 page document where you basically sell out your countries productive base if you don't make payments on time.

News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Journalist's Wife Climbs Fence to get to Him

Even the big demonstration is small, only a few hundred...I think most BelaRussians are probably happy with the stability of their society, although unhappy with certain decisions of Lukashenka like blocking exports of consumer goods west, where the BR people could make some money.

Are rich Jews powerful in Belarus?...I know they are powerful in Ukraine, and they probably wanted more power there with their 'coloured revolution', Timoshenko, this and that...IMF is all run by Jews, and they will let Lukashenka twist in the wind before giving him money.

Also, I don't understand all the demonizing of Lukashenka as a 'dictator'...He got elected, right?...All this crap spewed out by the Western press...Has Lukashenka slaughtered anyone, built any gulags, attacked any neighboring nation?...All I can think is that certain parties want him to privatize everything in Belarus, so they can snap it up at cheap prices.

Worst thing he do, like I said, i to NOT LET his less well off entrepenuers make some money by exporting goods and services west.

Work / Salary, holidays - questions to employer during a job interview in Poland [47]


STOP!!!


Well, my experience in my city (and understand that men my age do not generally even get considered for mainstream jobs anymore) is that many 'human resources' people are really quite pitiful, and usually just do their hiring based on a 'cheat sheet' or guidelines handed down from somewhere above...They really don't consider you as a person, but a human resource, like soybeans...This is my experience in the modern job market...If you display too much intelligence or individuality, you are dismissed rather quickly, even if you may be a good team player.

Much hiring is done nowadays by third party contractors, and they are the worst.

In the old days, your skills counted, along with your personality...Now personality is a negative, unless the personality is one that appears on the instructions given to the human resources firm, or department.

Life / Cost of delivering a child in Poland [30]


Lucky you didn't need brain surgery...

Work / Salary, holidays - questions to employer during a job interview in Poland [47]


This question is asked worldwide...It is simply part of the psychological warfare of the job application/interview process...From the employers POV, THEY ask the questions, YOU give the answers!

I make two suggestions: 1...If you are really interested in job, do some study and perhaps talk to people doing similar jobs about what the going rate of pay is...This way you can give a reasonable answer.

2...If you don't give a sh*t about the job, or the interviewer is particularly obnoxious, simply say to him/her 'My expectation is to make more than you, because you are a moron and an a**hole' loudly and clearly.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]


This lady correct...If you come, you will have to understand certain 'new realities' are in play at US airports:

youtu.be/4ajNpR6bmes

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]


Quite funny and, I'm sure, true.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]


Ha, ha!

Sure...Government does positive things, too, and in a modern complex society you need some kind of administration, hopefully one that works for the people...

But, the fellow asks what is their main activity, so, it's creation of red tape...Like a spider spins a web, or bees make a hive.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]


Primarily, governments create 'red tape'...Number One activity.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]

If you're thinking about visiting America, by all means, visit...You will not be harassed in the street by police.

What we do have, however, is more video documentation of this type of police activity, which is good.

America is mostly very free-wheeling, although the government is taking cues from former Soviet style bureaucracy to implement all kinds of red tape and such for our daily lives and travel.

But that's what government does.

Life / The day Poland ran out of artists. [40]


If you have ever been 'juried' for a spot in an art show, or even for some kind of fellowship (could be music, visual art etc) you will find that the people on the juries are the absolute worst, happy to have a little power to exercise control, actualizing whatever cockamamied view of 'art' they may have...The committee that selected this particular artist was probably leftist, Jewish and living out, as I said, a wet dream.

Jews needn't take offense, as these juries are mostly the same mentality, and can be of any ethnic group.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]


Well, in my city, those with the sub-mentality kill each other over a peanut butter sandwich, not just drugs...Or maybe a woman stirs something up, gets a brother or boyfriend involved, and somebody gets killed or hurt.

I feel for cops: most are OK, but the nature of the job would make you want to kill yourself or someone else...There are some real control freak types, like the ones in the video.

Best to avoid them if possible, because, in a sense, their job is to arrest you.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]


Sure, but I'm talking about a big urban area...The video was from Rochester NY which is a medium sized city, but the scene there is much like Philadelphia or Boston...Cops here, as I said, mostly just do clean up and paperwork after a crime has occurred...You will see this motto on many city cop cars 'To Protect & Serve': But that usually means nothing...Cops don't feel a duty to protect individual citizens, unless something happens right under their nose...In Philadelphia, the only time police really react is if another cop is in danger...Just the way it is.


This, too.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]

Cops don't like to get filmed, because they break the law..The woman was within her rights.What was the follow up?...The cop who arrested her should have been disciplined.

In the US currently, the main role of police is that of tax collectors for the state, through traffic stops primarily...As far as protection, the cops don't do anything until the body is cold, then they hang up yellow tape surrounding the crime scene.

Also, many police have the para-military control mentality, and many are anxious to display their 'power'.

News / Lithuanian ambassador 'Poles not loyal citizens' [63]

In USA, you call customer service for any corporation or government org and you get Spanish speaking options or messages in Spanish many times before you get English options...Now, this is an example of taking things to an extreme.

News / Lithuanian ambassador 'Poles not loyal citizens' [63]

Common sense points.


'Dodgy far right groups'?

From watching the RT video, I saw a Polish shop keeper and a Polish rights advocate..Neither appeared 'dodgy' in any way, nor were they extremists by any stretch.

Just a request for some Polish language street signs and Polish language signs in shops frequented by Poles...I see no movement for an 'autonomous Polish entity' in Lithuania.

Some good comments by posters about historic Lithuanian community now being centered in Belarus.

History / Why does the idea of a "Slavic Union" with Poland seem so popular on this site? [96]


First of all, this is just a web forum, where ideas are thrown about.

I have no idea what the average Pole would think: probably, like the average American, too busy to think about lofty political or social ideas.

However, the Slavs are a great nation, many different cousins and such, and the idea of some kind of unity, whether in political, cultural or economic areas, is a natural...Hasn't there always been a prejudice among Western Europeans toward Slavs, regarding them as 'neo-barbarians'?...One thing Hitler did actually say was that Slavs were incapable of self-government, maybe making an exception with the leadership of Pilsudski, whom he respected.

So, why not prove this to be a fallacy, not just to make a point, but for concrete benefits that would flow from such a union?...You have the EU, which is too big and unwieldy, so why not a more well thought out Slavic confederation?

Life / The day Poland ran out of artists. [40]


54th International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2011

This festival does have some history behind it, but it appears to be another over-blown, pretentious affair curated by the usual suspects who have their hands on government and foundation funding...

Now, the choice of an Israeli to represent Poland is quite curious, but one would have to know who the members of the Polish group/committee who chose the Israeli are for me to comment further...Maybe certain PF posters were involved...|---)

As far as the subject matter, it is a Jewish wet dream, but does illustrate the Jewish quality that, in Yiddish is called 'Leolum Tekitch' or 'always take'...I take a snippet from the link posted to illustrate this:

"This video installation by the Israeli-born artist Yael Bartana will be the first time a non-Polish national has represented Poland in the history of the Venice Biennale. Bartana's three films Mary Koszmary (2007), Mur i wieża (2009) and Zamach (2011) revolve around the activities of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP), a political group that calls for the return of 3,300,000 Jews to the land of their forefathers."

This is a fictional organization of course, but note: Now Poland is 'land of the Jews forefathers'...I thought that Israel was 'the land given to the Jews by G_d'...What a concept!!!

Really, everybody should read the entire article to get the full drift of this 'wet dream'...

Polish participation in the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice was made possible through the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.



Bogdan Zdrojewski

To be fair, Pan Zdrojewski, I'm sure was not responsible for this choice: I post this for informational purposes.

Life / The day Poland ran out of artists. [40]

The day Poland ran out of artists.


Sure, Poland ran out of artists...|--)

News / Visegrad Battle Group under the command of Poland [261]


You are right...This is a step in the right direction toward Slavic co-operation: In unity there is strength, and it just makes good sense because of difficulties with the EU...Economic co-operation, yes, very good.