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A different view on ACTA
It seems that the uproar around ACTA has turned into a complete nonsense. The discussion on this crucial contract has become absolutely one-sided and often strayed from the point. We forget what the purposes of the treaty are. The situation helps to realize that non-governmental organizations, journalists and elites express openly their opinions on issues [...]
Hungary abused
Who am I? This is the question that every child asks. Some are haunted by this question all their lives. Others are glad with the answer that easily crosses their minds and having found solace in the arms of the proud group that praises tradition and unity, they block all the other interpretations. And there [...]
Sentence on the youth
Without hearts, souls, these are the skeletal people.
Add me the wings, adolescence!
Beyond lifeless world let me float,
paradise domain spectacle!
We have to come to grips with the unemployment problem among young people if we do not want to lose hope for the better future of hundreds of thousands of citizens of this country, and not to [...]
Rice fields of Internet
The anecdote comes from Maoist China. The highest state factors and party agents were moved due to low rice harvest one year. They punished various saboteurs. They found the enemy of prosperity – it was the sparrows that suspiciously often and in a suspiciously large number flew round the rice fields. [...]
Healthy people of Europe
Growing compatibility of Polish and German economies is an argument for closer co-operation for financial discipline and stronger economic integration of the European Union.
‘Polnische Wirtschaft’ – this cluster of words has never sounded flattering in German mouth. In the colloquial language of our western neighbours Polish economy was for a long time a symbol of [...]
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PoliticsMore Politics »
Palikot, the Left, a piece of cake
Activities of the Palikot’s Movement (Ruch Palikota – RP) turned out to be the greatest, but predictable disappointment in politics (from the point of view of the liberal voter) of the last few days of the year. When the position of the group in the pre election polls become strong and especially since entering the [...]
EconomyMore Economy »
Future of euro is rather political than economic matter
The history of the ancient common currency shows that everything depends on politics, not the economy. For example, Latin and Scandinavian monetary unions collapsed, because of the cessation of unrestricted flow of gold between the forming countries at the outbreak of World War I; also the Austro-Hungarian and succeeding Czechoslovak crown disappeared along with the [...]
SocietyMore Society »
Lithuanian and Polish People: Traditions and Stereotypes*
Lithuanian and Polish People: Traditions and Stereotypes*
Old standing stereotypes become reinforced in public by both the attitude of politicians and the public words. Such lines show revival of constructs “treacherous, unreliable Polish guy” and “stubborn Lithuanian guy that may be prostrated by force only” that were at place in early 20th century. These constructs come [...]
ThoughtMore Thought »
LIBERALS RETURN
For more than twenty years the conservative liberalism has been a dominating trend of public life in Poland.
CultureMore Culture »
“The Help” – American black maids, tell us your stories
Mississippi in the 60s under the rule of governor Ross Barnett was not an easy place to live for black people who were treated by then as citizens of the second category. It was just beginning of civil rights movement, segregation policy was still in power and racism was in its heyday. Black women had [...]