Remember last summer, during the peak of the COVID epidemics, where ambulances were queuing outside hospitals, and everyone thought that it can’t get any worse? Well, we should never underestimate the PiS government. Because now, the ambulances are parked in the yard and are not helping patients at all. There is not enough crews around […]
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Meanwhile in Cuckooland 189 – The Refugee Crisis and Polish Government’s Crimes Against Humanity
There was no Cuckooland last week, as I had to travel to Poland on family business. Unfortunately, the situation I am about to write is happening for more than two weeks now. And I don’t only want to write about it, I want to scream, as this is the biggest scandal taking place on the […]
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When Blisty wanted to write about PiS backing down and submitting to the European Tribunal of Justice ruling last week, I advised caution. Today we know, that my predictions were right: even though the Polish government claims it will ultimately abolish the controversial Disciplinary Chamber of the Highest Court, used to discipline judges that rule […]
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It seems I am a really, really bad journalist. For nearly 200 chapters of that series I tried to keep a close eyes on developments in Poland and somehow I missed a very important fact: that every worker in Poland in recent years got a 60% pay raise. Surely, I don’t know how it is […]
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Finally, the truth about the vaccines is out! A strange uniformed organization, a bit of crossover between Slavic Rodnovery, Neo-Nazis and paramilitary anti-Semitic organization, calling themselves “Bydgoskie Bractwo Rodaków – Bydgoszcz Camaraderie of the Countrymen” organized a “March for freedom and health” in their city. During that march, one could learn that “the history is […]
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If you need one scene that represents today’s Poland, the recent unveiling of the “renovation” market square in Janów Podlaski will be perfect. After chopping down a little park (94 of the 140 trees that grew there have been cut down), the square has been covered by concrete. In there a new fountain was constructed, […]
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So if you wondered why the English football team lost the final game to Italy, Mirosław Szumiło PhD, the employee of the Insititute of National Remembrance and an advisor to Przemysław Czarnek, minister of Education, is happy to explain: “English lost because of political correctness. They put forward as many as three black players for […]
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One of the readers, Mr Marek Benes, asked me: “Will your writing be equally critical of Poland when PiS will be no longer in charge there”? Well, how am I supposed to know? Polish politics is pretty unpredictable and we cannot really say today who will be in charge when PiS finally be removed from […]
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It seems Poland is at war. Just recently we heard about our submarine that got almost sank then one of the Polish fighter planes had been shot at and now two tanks have been completely destroyed. And then there is that instance of cyberwar, where the e-mails from the important member of the government had […]
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An employee of the wastewater processing plant had found a human fetus in one of the tanks. It is estimated to be about 20 weeks old. The police immediately sprung to action and it is now on the hunt for a fetus’ mother. Except this is not in the Republic of El Salvador, this is […]