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Chinese dream
American dream is based on the assumption that any rogue with a little ingenuity and a holy pile of luck can become a millionaire. Chinese dream (in the West) means that you don’t have to be a millionaire to live like one. Celebrated by the Prime Minister Tusk “strategic partnership” between Poland and China must [...]
Social Platform
What kind of social policy Donald Tusk is going to pursue? The social politicy in exposé was presented mainly in the context of budget cuts, but not only. Its evident idea was based on saving up at the cost of the poorest people, according to one of the leaders belonging to the opposition party called [...]
Time for decision
“Not right-winger, not liberal, not even any fascist” – Kazik Staszewski [1], lyrics from the song 12 groszy Janusz Palikot, currently the chairperson of a numerous opposition party in the Polish Parliament, must realize that the time when he behaved as an unruly boy trying by all means to focus the attention of adults has [...]
Power and powerlessness
Why do we need a country? A.: so that we do not have the Wild West. Everywhere. Z.: at least in the Wild West there were big GDP growth and low taxes A.: and the risk of getting a bullet/fight/robbery/rape/assault etc. What for the growth rate if I do not feel safe – the greater [...]
Political ACTA
The generation 50+ which is governing the country did not understand that the attempt of limiting the freedom of using the Internet, which for few millions of young people is as real as the world outside the window (sometimes even more real) will change Poland into a nest of furious wasps. One of the myths [...]
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 [...]
Bomb bomb bomb Iran?*
The withdrawal of the American troops from Iraq means that from 1st January 2012 the way to Iran is open for Israeli bombers, the Iraqi army is still not able to control their own airspace. Ehud Barak, the Israeli Minister of Defence claims that in nine months (is it a coincidence that this time falls [...]
“Battle” for Hormuz, that is why there will not be another war in the Gulf (as yet)
Despite the fact that the two parties – Iran and the USA – do not seemingly avoid confrontation, there will not be an open armed conflict at least now. There are some reasons. Iranian threats Ataollah Salehi, the Iranian army commander-in-chief warned the USA against the return of their aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf [...]
After the Crisis: What Kind of Capitalism?
Jażdżewski, Żakowski, Sobolewski, Bochniarz, Winiecki, Rybiński, Gutkowski Leszek Jażdżewski: The greatest economic crisis of last thirty years seems to be over. But the example of Greece shows that the restitution will not be easy. The econimies of almost all of the developed countries are groaning under the weight of their debts. The public debt of [...]
Plain Placidity
Nihil esse bello civili miserius (There is nothing worse than civil war) Marcus Tullius Cicero The Polish politicians treat the rule of separation of Church and State even less seriously than the Polish Catholics treat their religion. Undoubtedly, the lay character of the state guaranteed by the Polish constitution is not fully respected. The straightforward [...]

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