Polish, EU and UK politics from a British journalist working in Warsaw
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The Adam Smith Institute Blog
http://www.adamsmith.org/blogAdd Comment (0) Blog Review 723 Written by Netsmith Thursday, 18 September 2008 Is this the end? No, at least, that's the view from Poland. Wise words: "Remember everybody, it is not a depression as long as Starbucks remains in business." The problems of being small enough to fail. What can you do when your broker won't stop buying things on
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The end of capitalism as we know it?
http://umbrellog.blogspot.com/2008/09/end-of-capitalism-as-w...Morbid headlines are starting to appear in the Polish media just as they have elsewhere - we are facing the "worst financial crisis since 1970s…no, 1940s…no, the Great Depression!" See the skies raining bankers and brokers as they take their last
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"She was seen with him in a photo while visiting Chicago."
And she was seen with in a photo with Barbara Bush, too.
Ever hear of John Wayne Gacy? Is everybody who ever had his or her picture taken with him guilty of his crimes?
And besides, you post on the blog of a well-known Trotskyite Stalinist! And, uh, so does Sneakersnit. -
Some portions of the Catholic Church are dirty and Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz was not about to help clean it up. Historians who say that 10 to 15 percent of the church’s priests in Poland served as SB informants. Including 39 senior clerics.
Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz and his friends actually wanted the old SB records burned so the truth couldn’t come to light.
Fortunately people are smart enough to know 85% of the clergy bravely refused to cooperate with the communists and priests like Rev. Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski saved the churches position in Polish society. The hierarchy of the church mishandled the situation with a sloppy attempt at a cover up.
What was Jolanta Kwasniewska doing there, was the pathetic communist whore looking for forgiveness from the Pope? Lets not forget this bitch had access to the special stores for the privileged comrades while decent Poles sat at home with little heat in the winter and only meagre rations for their children.
Recent claims to fame:
She testified before a Parliamentary Investigation Committee about her ties to PKN Orlen. Kwasniewska never released the list of the donors to her Foundation. While opening the foundation and getting the first donations, she used her husband's political influence
She was also questioned by the committee about her relations with a Polish businessmen living in Chicago, Edward Mazur, who was accused of killing the chief of Polish police General Marek Papala. She was seen with him in a photo while visiting Chicago.