The emperor is weak. The empire is crumbling. Those who, up till now, were faithful servants of Kaczyński are raising their heads and try to cut themselves a piece of the power. Fratricidal fight begun amongst the top ranks of PiS. Gazeta Polska’s Man of the Year 2007 arrested Gazeta Polska’s Man of The Year […]
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Finally, a long-awaited revolution in Polish oncology! After the Senate rejected PiS plan to pour nearly 2 billion złoty into TVP – PiS’ propaganda machine, the bill came back to Sejm, the lower chamber of parliament. The opposition proposed to spend that money on Polish oncology instead. In Sejm the bill was sent to the […]
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I think there might be a reason why government drivers keep crashing into everything that moves or not. Perhaps they felt encouraged by a recent case in Gorzów Wielkopolski where a blind man struck by a car on the pedestrian crossing suddenly regained his vision after 20 years and they believe that by crashing into […]
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The government’s attacks on the speaker of Senate are continuing. The whole propaganda machine seems to be engaged: Internet trolls are going hand in hand with PiS controlled media. “Gazeta Polska” went so far that they printed an envelopes and fake money, urging its readers to send those to the speaker. Central Anti-corruption Bureau (CBA) […]
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The 2020 might be the year of change in Poland. Not only priests are being molested now (a local priest from Warsaw demands that his neighbours change their WiFi network name from Lucifer to something acceptable for a Christian neighbourhood – apparently he never heard about Saint Lucifer of Cagliari), but, to a surprise of […]
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It seems that after last elections, the characters and issues from first chapters of this series are coming back. It’s a true blast from the past. For example, it just emerged, that Edmund Janniger, one of the Antoni Macierewicz’ adolescent “advisors” is still assisting his former principal. Sure, Antoni Macierewicz today is just a regular […]
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Last week was unusually quiet in Polish politics. Probably because all the parties are planning how to begin the new term of the parliament. The only decision to be made was for the president to officially appoint Senior Speakers of both chambers of the parliament. In Poland, the Senior Speaker is mostly a honourable position: […]
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In the last chapter, I wrote about PiS’ preparations for the oncoming elections. Today, as promised, I would like to look closer at what the opposition has to offer. It is not easy to run campaign against PiS, that has at its disposal not only the public TV and Radio, that were turned into PiS […]
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Imagine walking along the street and witnessing a tow truck dumping a scrap car on some public car park. You would probably think that suddenly time started to run backwards, as the tow companies are supposed to remove abandoned cars from the streets, not dumping them there. But fear not, nothing is wrong with our […]
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– Did you hear that Czechs appointed the new minister of fishing and maritime industry? – What? Why? They are a landlocked country, they don’t have access to the sea! – Well, Poland has the Ministry of Justice and nobody seems for that to be any problem… This is a joke that I saw a […]