Poland enters the next stage of the fight with the pandemics. But it seems that the times, where everyone was working together is gone. Hospitals report a critical lack of PPE and other required materials. Doctors and nurses, or even the whole hospitals, are crying for help in social media, others reveal that the government […]
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Meanwhile in Cuckooland 121
And so, with the virus spreading, most of Poles stay at home. The internet is full of pictures of empty cities. Luckily, there is plenty of streaming services to choose from, including katoflix.pl, the Polish answer to Netflix that streams only Catholic materials. But pandemia is pandemia, #stayathome is #stayathome, but the political show must […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 120 – COVID-19 special
How Poland tackles Coronavirus pandemics? With the pandemics spreading through Europe I’ve decided to depart from my usual hectic style and focus solely on one issue: How Poland tackles Coronavirus? I will look at how the country deals with the issue at various levels and then, for those who really cannot live without idiotic absurdswe look […]
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Meanwhile in Cuckooland 119
So President Duda did it. He signed the controversial bill providing extra funding for the PiS propaganda in TVP. Yeah, for propaganda. OK, TVP offers also many valuable programs, but its financial situation is actually not that bad: it’s true that many people fail to pay their TV license fees, but, unlike for example BBC, […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 118
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 […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 115
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) […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 114
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 […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 113
It seems that years of forcing the church down the throats of Poles finally brings some results. In a recent poll, a priest turned out to be one of the least respected professions of over 31 vocations the respondents were asked about. Lower than priests are only politicians and stock brokers. And no wonder, as […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 112
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 […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 111
Finally, Poland has a worthy response to Jára Cimrman. Our Polish super hero is called Mateusz Morawiecki and was also participating in pretty much everything. Morawiecki is known for that with whomever he speaks, he is always telling the stories from his past to match. So if he speaks with farmers, he is telling them […]