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 […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 105
– 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 […]
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Poland is really struggling in the war for the survival of civilisation. Everyone is against us. Forget Germans and Russians, our biggest enemies. Today even kind Czechs are after us, illegally dumping their waste in our country. EU is useless and there is no chance, that that bunch of leftist puffs is going to help […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 103
How time flies! It’s mid-July already! It’s July already?!?! pic.twitter.com/pm7fDC7mNS — Calvin and Hobbes (@Calvinn_Hobbes) 1 lipca 2018 And even if there is nothing major happening in Polish politics, after the dust from European Elections settled down, it does not mean, that there weren’t any significant events taking place. Some of them were organized by […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 102
It has been over a month since I wrote last piece in the series of Meanwhile in Cuckooland. It is partially because of my work on the article on Jewish matters, which required extensive research, partially due to my other work commitments. That means that, unless you were following Polish matters elsewhere, you missed the […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 101
And so we had Easter, full of ancient traditions. Families across the country went to the churches to have baskets of food blessed by the priests. Since Jarosław Kaczyński is single, the honour of carrying the basket went to his bodyguard. In Pruchnik, locals resurrected an ancient tradition of punishing the Judas for his sins. […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 100
Today (3rd of April) ist 1234rd day since PiS came to power in Poland. And this is a hundredth piece in our series “Meanwhile in Cuckooland”. During this time we had a chance to learn a few things about Kaczyński’s political organization. Click HERE to read previous part of the series Click HERE to see […]
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Yet again Jurek Owsiak’s charity action Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy proved to be well rooted in the hearts of Poles. This year’s finale ended up with 175 938 717.56 zł raised, which is almost 50 000 000 more than a year before, which also been a record year. PiS constant rage against Owsiak seems to […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 98
With the election coming, the bag of financial scandals ripped open. And it seems, that the corruption in the financial control authority and Kaczyński’s shady development businesses are just the top of the iceberg. The issue of the overpaid assistants of the chief of the National Bank of Poland also seems to go deeper than […]