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Obama turn down this Cuban blockade Pope Visits Cuba

By Lech Alex Bajan - Nov 9th, 2009 at 6:46 pm EST

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Obama turn down this Cuban blockade Pope Visits Cuba

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Watching now life Hillary Clinton in Berlin Anniversary of the end of the Berlin Wall

By Lech Alex Bajan - Nov 9th, 2009 at 2:24 pm EST

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Watching now life Hillary Clinton in Berlin Anniversary of the end of the Berlin Wall

Thank You Mrs. Clinnton Thank you! from all Polish Americans

Thank you to say today in Berlin about the Polish Pope Papa John Paul II Karol Wojtyla

God bless You Mrs. Clinton and god bless America

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Clinton takes part in the commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

Map

Barack Obama Speech from Berlin, Germany

Former First Lady Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton greeted the pope at an airport in Newark, N.J., on the start of his four-day visit to America.

Peaceful the only way to cut it as our Pope John Paul 2 did

Extranormal, El Papa Juan Pablo II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vL99dv5Ltk

The Pope With Fidel Castro greeting with snake hands sign

Karol Wojtyla, the unpublished images - part 1 (1942-1956)

Karol Wojtyla, the unpublished images - part 2 (1962-1970)

Iohannes Paulus II

why the Zionist attacking Polish people and Poland?

after what Poland did to help for 1000 years to save the jews

Address to the Polish Parliament in Warsaw

July 7, 1994

Thank you very much. Mr. President, Mr.

Prime Minister, Marshal Oleksy, Mr. Speakers,

and representatives of the people of Poland: I

am honored to stand before you today in this

chamber, at the heart of Poland’s democracy.

I know that you have extended your session

in order to hear me today, and I am very grateful

for your hospitality.

We gather today to honor a friendship that

is as old as my Nation. And we honor ties that

grow stronger every day. We admire the contributions

that Polish-Americans, millions of

them, have made and are making to our Nation’s

strength. And we celebrate the cultural

ties that bind our peoples. But at this moment

of decision in history, in this time of renewal

for Poland and for the United States, Poland

has come to mean something even greater, for

your success is crucial to democracy’s future in

Central and Eastern Europe, and indeed, all

across the globe.

It has been said that if it were not for the

people of Poland, democracy might have perished

on the continent of Europe a half-century

ago. For it was the Polish mathematicians from

the laboratories of Poznan who broke the secrets

of the Enigma Code, what Winston Churchill

called the most important weapon against Hitler

and his armies. It was these code-breakers who

made possible the great Allied landings at Normandy,

when American, English, French, Canadian,

and yes, Free Polish forces joined together

to liberate this continent, to destroy one terrible

tyranny that darkened our century.

Yet, alone among the great Allied armies who

fought in Normandy, the Poles did not return

to a liberated land. Your fathers instead returned

to a nation that had been laid waste by its invaders.

Then one would-be conqueror gave way

to another, and an Iron Curtain fell across your

borders, a second foreign tyranny gripped your

people and your land.

It was here in Poland that all those who believe

communism could not stand, first found

their hopes fulfilled; here that you began to

hammer on the Iron Curtain and force the first

signs of rust to appear; here that brave men

and women, workers and citizens, led by

Solidarnosc, understood that neither consciousness

nor economics can be ordered from above;

here that you showed the peoples of Central

and Eastern Europe that with hearts and hands

alone, democracy could triumph.

But I come here today not simply to recall

the events of 50 years past or even to rejoice

at those of 5 years ago, for others have done

that and done it very well. Instead, I come to

the heart of a new, democratic Central Europe

to look ahead, to speak of how we can reverse

the legacies of stagnation and oppression, of fear

and division; how we can eradicate the artificial

lines through Europe’s heartland imposed by

half a century of division, and how we can help

chart a course toward an integrated Europe of

sovereign free nations.

The challenges our generation faces are different

from those our parents faced. They are

problems that in many cases lack pressing

drama. They require quiet and careful solutions.

They will not yield easily. And if we meet them

well, our reward will not be stunning moments

of glory but gradual and real improvement in

the lives of our people.

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AMERYKANSKI ZYD NASZCZAL PUBLICZNIE NA OBRAZ CHRYSTUSA

By Lech Alex Bajan - Nov 9th, 2009 at 12:58 pm EST

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AMERYKANSKI ZYD NASZCZAL PUBLICZNIE NA OBRAZ CHRYSTUSA

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS256725+29-Oct-2009+PRN20091029

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/10/28/catholic-league-blasts-larry-david-curb-episode-urinates-jesus/

Coraz wieksze protesty w USA budzi postepek amerykanskiego Zyda komika Larry’egoDavida, ktory publicznie zbeszczescil obraz Jezusa Chrystusa, oddajac na niego mocz w czasie telewizyjnego show HBO pt. “Curb your enthusiasm.” Ponizej jeden z listow protestacyjnych: Pan Prezydent HBOBill Nelson Z olbrzymim smutkiem przeczytalem o swietokradczym epizodzie w telewizyjnym show HBO pt. “Curb your enthusiasm,” ktory mnie zaszokowal. Larry David oddal
w nim mocz na obraz Jezusa. Nie moge zaakceptowac bluznierstwa skierowanego przeciwko Naszemu Panu Jezusowi Chrystusowi i nie moge milczec wobec obrazania mojej Katolickiej Wiary. Z szacunkiem zwracam sie do Pana, aby wydal Pan odpowiednie oswiadczenie, w ktorym przeprosilby Naszego Pana Jezusa Chrystusa oraz wszystkich katolikow. Przynajmniej tyle powinien Pan zrobic dla Nieskonczenie Doskonalego Boga, ktory w tak podly sposob zostal obrazony przez HBO. Przesylam Panu ten listprotest, ktory ofiaruje za wstawiennictwem naszej Pani jako prosbe o przeblaganie naszego Pana za wszystkie bluznierstwa tego swiata. Ponizej jest link gdzie mozna skladac podpisy pod tym listem (w jezyku angielskim):http://www.americaneedsfatima.net/campaigns/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=90 Wysylajcie listy do HBO, aby przeprosili za bluznierczy i chamski epizod w show HBOpt. “Curb your enthusiasm,” w ktorym Larry David oddal mocz na obraz Naszego Pana Jezusa Chrystusa. To sie po prostu nie miesci w glowie. Nie mozemy chowac glowy w piasek i udawac, ze nic sie nie stalo i wierzyc, ze taki rodzaj bluznierstwa juz sie nie powtorzy. Wedlug doniesien prasowych, w czasie wspomnianego show, Larry David odwiedzil katolicki dom, w ktorym wszedl do ubikacji, gdzie splugawil obraz Chrystusa.Nastepnie do tej ubikacji weszla po nim katoliczka, gdzie zobaczyla zamoczony obraz.Uznala, ze stal sie cud i na obrazie sa slady lez. Bedac pod wrazeniem tego co zobaczyla, zawolala swoja matke i pokazala jej obraz. Obydwie koniety upadly na kolana modlac sie. W nastepnym epizodzie, Larry David zapytany czy widzial w swoim zyciu jakis cud, wulgarnie odpowiedzial, ze “kazda erekcja to rodzaj cudu.” W imnie Jezusa i Maryi Robert E. Ritchie

America Needs Fatima (www.americaneedsfatima.net)

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Larry David Blasted for 'Curb' Episode Where He Urinates on Jesus Painting. Is this America we want?

By Lech Alex Bajan - Nov 9th, 2009 at 12:56 pm EST

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Larry David Blasted for 'Curb' Episode Where He Urinates on Jesus Painting. Is this America we want? I am Polish Ameican. What can i do?

Comedian Larry David pushed the mocking of religion over the edge in latest episode of his HBO show, critics say.

Comedian Larry David is under attack from critics who say he pushed the mocking of religion and Christian belief in miracles over the edge in the latest episode of his HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which the cable network defended as "playful."

On the show's most recent installment, which aired Sunday, David urinates on a painting of Jesus Christ, causing a woman to believe the painting depicts Jesus crying.

Deal Hudson, author and publisher of InsideCatholic.com, said he doesn't find any humor in the episode.

"I don't think it's funny," Hudson told Foxnews.com. "Why is it that people are allowed to publicly show that level of disrespect for Christian symbols? If the same thing was done to a symbol of any other religions -- Jewish or Muslim -- there'd be a huge outcry. It's simply not a level playing field."

Hudson said an apology from the show's producers and writing team should be issued.

"Somebody should [apologize]," Hudson said. "When is it going to stop? When is common sense going to dictate that people realize this willingness of artists to do to Christianity what they would never do to Judaism or Islam?"

In a statement to Foxnews.com, HBO downplayed the controversy.

"Anyone who follows Curb Your Enthusiasm knows that the show is full of parody and satire," the statement read. "Larry David makes fun of everyone, most especially himself. The humor is always playful and certainly never malicious."

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, also criticized the episode, saying David should "quit while he's ahead," and that the show is proof that the comedian's best years are behind him.

"Was Larry David always this crude? Would he think it's comedic if someone urinated on a picture of his mother?" Donohue said in a statement. "This might be fun to watch, but since HBO only likes to dump on Catholics (it was just a couple of weeks ago that Sarah Silverman insulted Catholics on 'Real Time with Bill Maher') and David is Jewish, we'll never know."

During Sunday's episode, David, who created, wrote and produced "Seinfeld," visits a bathroom in his assistant's home and splatters urine on a picture of Jesus. Instead of wiping it off, David leaves the restroom. Minutes later, David's assistant enters the bathroom and concludes that Jesus is crying. She then summons her mother to the bathroom, where both women kneel in prayer.

"When David and Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself) are asked if they ever experienced a miracle, David answers, 'every erection is a miracle,' Donohue's statement continued. "That's what passes for creativity these days."

The episode, "The Bare Midriff," primarily revolves around David's assistant and her belly-revealing attire. According to the show's Web site, a "new pill" increased David's urine flow, leading to the "misunderstanding about a miraculously weeping Jesus."

HBO promoted the controversial scene on the show's site, complete with a "squirm-o-meter" that ranked the urine incident ahead of David's confronting his assistant about her exposed midriff.

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ANTI-SEMITISM AND POLONOPHOBIA Sets the Record Straight on Polish-Jewish Relations

By Lech Alex Bajan - Nov 2nd, 2009 at 4:23 pm EST

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ANTI-SEMITISM AND POLONOPHOBIA Sets the Record Straight on Polish-Jewish Relations ANTI-SEMITISM AND POLONOPHOBIA Sets the Record Straight on Polish-Jewish Relations

In recent years, there has been a great deal of emphasis on Polish anti-Semitism. This is despite the fact that anti-Semitism existed virtually everywhere, and in Poland never approached the level which Jews encounted in many other European nations. Moreover, the positive aspects of Polish-Jewish relationships have been virtually ignored. Pogonowski's excellent book does much to show, in fact, how Jewish communities flourished in Poland.

This review updates an earlier one, and refers to the 1998 paperback edition. This latter edition contains several articles not found in the original hardback edition. The authors trace many mischaracterizations of Polish-Jewish history in the American press. The informed reader can appreciate how little has changed since then. For example, the recent publications of NEIGHBORS and FEAR by Jan T. Gross have resurrected many old Polonophobic canards that should have been, if nowhere else, laid to rest by this 1998 edition.

There is an extensive expose of the so-called Kielce Pogrom--A Soviet-staged event (pp. 403-422). The Soviets wanted to discredit a free Poland in the eyes of the west, and to terrorize the remaining Jews into fleeing to Palestine. Other anti-Jewish actions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia got little press in the west, probably because anti-Communism had been relatively weak in those countries.

In Kielce, the tale of the blood libel had been spread by agent provocateurs (p. 414). The Jews were shot by Communist police, and club-wielding fake "steel workers" also took their toll. Other Communist police involved in the so-called pogrom had been dressed as goons or priests. There is the fantastic myth of the 15,000 to 75,000 cheering Polish onlookers (p. 406), a myth recently repeated by Gross in his FEAR. The actual number of Polish onlookers, most of whom were probably motivated by curiosity, didn't ever exceed several hundred at its peak.

After the "pogrom", inconvenient eyewitnesses met their deaths. The Kielce files themselves were burned in November 1989, shortly before the Communists left power.

Pogonowski makes clear that the Communist anti-Jewish policies of 1968 were not Polish. They were plainly Soviet-dictated (pp. 30-31).

The atlas itself is chock-full of useful information. The reader soon learns that, despite the frictions and mutual prejudices which sometimes developed between Poles and Jews, Poland was historically one of the most tolerant nations in the world for Jews. If the fact that 80% of the world's Jews, at one time, made their home in Poland does not prove this fact, then what does? This book makes it clear that Poland had been centuries ahead of others in terms of human rights and religious tolerance.

Iwo Pogonowski's book is a veritable mine of information about Polish-Jewish relations since the Middle Ages. This subject has been badly distorted in the English-language publications, mostly for reasons that have nothing to do either with history or honesty. "Jews in Poland" needs to be read slowly, in small doses, with frequent returns because sometimes a very important fact is hidden in a footnote or some such obscure place. This volume looks and reads like a scrapbook, and the impression is reinforced by its graphic aspect.
"Jews in Poland" is full of very instructional maps and diagrams, it also carries a good selection of illustrations (although their quality is rather so-so). All in all, a book that stands head and shoulders over any other treatment of Jewish-Polish history in the English language.

Of course Polish anti-Semitism existed and still exists. So does Jewish Polonophobia. In fact, the very Polonophobia whose existence Pelta denies has been the subject of studies by academics, including Jewish ones. The premise that more Poles denounced Jews than helped them has mathematically been shown to be false. Of course, fugitive Polish Jews were denounced not only by ethnic Poles, but more so by Polish-speaking Germans (Volksdeutsche), Ukrainians, and other Jews. (To elaborate on these two issues, and many others, see my Listmania: Exposing Polonophobia...).

THE KIELCE POGROM
Why does Pelta imagine that I deny the fact of the Kielce Pogrom? And of course there were other disturbances in Poland (see below). But this in no way negates the probable Soviet staging of the Kielce Pogrom.

OLD MEDIA CLIPS ON POGROMS
Old newspaper accounts prove nothing. Time and time again, the western press had uncritically printed accounts from Jewish sources that later turned out to be fabricated or greatly exaggerated. For instance, Jewish sources in 1918 spoke of massive pogroms in Poland where thousands to tens of thousands of Jews were killed. The outraged Wilson administration sent Henry Morgenthau, an American Jew and his team, to investigate. It turns out that the actual number of Jews killed was about 280, and a large fraction of them had been the victim of common crimes (whose victims also included Polish gentiles), caused largely by the breakdown of discipline in the then-inexperienced Polish Army.

In the 1930's, there was a big hullabaloo about the Przytyk Pogrom. It turns out that all of 2 (two!) Jews died in it, as did one Pole.

The total number of Jews in Poland killed in the years after WWII comes out to 300-600, and most of these were the victims of common banditry (rampant in Poland at the time), rather than anti-Semitism. Higher figures (e. g., 1500 or 2000) are completely conjectural. Considering the fact that about 300,000 Polish Jews survived the Nazi occupation, the Jewish death toll comes out to 0.1-0.2% of Poland's remaining Jews. If this is not making a mountain out of a molehill, then what is?

I wouldn't be surprised if more Jews were killed in horse-carriage accidents than in all the Polish pogroms. So, if anything, Jews should fear for their lives more from horses than from Poles. In addition, Jews also killed Poles, and certainly not only in self-defense...But that's another subject in itself.

POLISH "FREEDOMS" UNDER GERMAN RULE
Pelta tries to diminish Polish suffering under the German Nazi occupation by making the bogus argument about Germans allowing Poles to move around, but not Jews. How ridiculous! To begin with, the Germans, under the wartime conditions, lacked the manpower to arrest and ship 28 million ethnic Poles into urban ghettos. Secondly, most Poles, unlike Jews, were farmers, and the Germans HAD to allow them to move around in order to enable them to farm their lands and deliver their goods to market or to collecting points (mostly for German confiscation). Finally, the Germans couldn't kill many more than the 2-3 million Poles they killed because it would have interfered too much with German war production (for further elaboration, see my Listmania: Forgotten Holocaust: Nazi Genocide Against Poles).

SPARED "POLES" AND JEWS
Pelta also tries to diminish Polish suffering by asserting that Germans spared Polish children but not Jewish children. He is wrong on both counts.

The Germans knowingly and deliberately spared various full-blooded German Jews (the Schutzjuden), including children, and relabeled them Aryans. So the old argument that "Unlike any other people subject to genocide, the Jews were uniquely targeted for complete extermination" is false.

Polish children with racially-desirable features were thought by Germans to be self-evidently of German descent. So the kidnapping of Polish children and their raising by German families was not any sort of mercy to Poles, but an act of taking actually-German children and subjecting them to de-Polonization and re-Germanization in a German environment.

WHO IS STIFLING DEBATE?
Pelta's remark about the Poles attempting to stifle debate is as laughable as an ant calling a sauropod dinosaur a tiny creature. Fact is, it has always been the Jewish side trying to stifle debate by leveling the charge of anti-Semitism against anyone who disagrees with Judeocentric premises or who points out any Jewish wrongdoing. In fact, the accusation of anti-Semitism has become so overused that-like the boy crying wolf-- its effect has worn off.

Certain Jewish individuals and groups have joined the left-wingers in their smear campaign against RADIO MARYJA, and in attempts to get it shut down-all because its patriotic and religious message doesn't fit their worldview. Talk about attempting to stifle debate! (Charges about RADIO MARYJA being racist and anti-Semitic are completely bogus and slanderous. I have listened to RADIO MARYJA a long time and never once heard a single derogatory remark about any racial or religious group).

RESCUING JEWS
Considering the risks Poles took to so much as give a Jew a glass of water, Pelta should be ashamed of himself for his remarks.

Of course relatively few Poles helped Jews. To begin with, only a small fraction of Polish Jews had escaped from the ghettos to make themselves accessible to Polish help. And Poles lived under constant German surveillance and terror. Duh...

Pelta's wisecrack about Poles rescuing Jewish babies in order to convert them to Christianity is too absurd to dignify with a response.

PROPERTY RESTITUTION
Property loss during war is a common situation. My parents and grandparents were relieved of their property, of course without compensation, by the Soviets following their conquest of eastern Poland in 1939. Churchill and Roosevelt made it permanent by recognizing the Soviet annexation of eastern Poland at Teheran in 1943. So, as the rightful heir, from whom should I seek compensation? From Russia and/or the Ukraine? Or from the British and American governments? Or from all four?

EXERCISING KINDNESS
Considering the no small amount of moral arrogance with which many Jews talk down to Poles, dare I suggest that the Jewish side is in need of learning kindness more than the Polish side?

Jan Peczkis

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Lwowska Fala

By Lech Alex Bajan - Nov 2nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm EST

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Lwowska Fala

Polskie Radio w Katowicach
Co tydzie 4;, w każdą niedzielę o godzinie 8:15 na antenie Polskiego Radia w Katowicach gości Lwowska Fala, prowadzona przez Danutę Skalską.

Poniżej lista nadajników i częstotliwości Polskiego Radia w Katowicach:

Bielsko-Bia 2;a - 103 FM
Częstochowa - 98.4 FM
Katowice - 102.2 FM
Rybnik - 97 FM

Poza tym, możliwy jest odbiór audycji poprzez internet, bezpośrednio ze strony internetowej
PR w Katowicach.
Adres strony: http://www.radio.katowice.pl/

Audycje archiwalne
Na naszej stronie zamieszczamy audycje archiwalne zapisane w streofonicznych plikach dźwiękowych w formacie Ogg Vorbis.
Do ods 2;uchu audycji w Systemach MS Windows będzie potrzebny dodatkowy program, który potrafi obs 2;użyć format ogg. Takim programem jest np. Winamp, darmowy program do ods 2;uch plików muzycznych. Audycje zosta 2;y zsamplowane w systemie Linux Ubuntu 7.10 przy użyciu oprogramowania typu Open Source opartego na licencjach GNU/GPL.

Ostatnia audycja
Lwowska Fala 2009-10-25 08:10:00

Audycja nie zosta 2;a jeszcze skatalogowana.

Wielkość pliku: 15.05 MB

Pobierz plik

Szczepko i To 4;ko śpiewają pieś 4; o niewątpliwie najlepszym polskim mieście, "Tylko we Lwowie" w filmie "W 2;óczęgi" z 1939 roku.

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Homage to Doomed Soldiers Second World War, the German army left the Polish land, the soldiers fighting for the independence of the Republic of Poland refused to lay down their weapons

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 31st, 2009 at 8:34 pm EDT

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Homage to Doomed Soldiers Second World War, the German army left the Polish land, the soldiers fighting for the independence of the Republic of Poland refused to lay down their weaponsGrob wujka Wojek Kazimierz Kowal zaslozony dla Armi Krajowej na Lubeszczyznie Szczegolna zasloga za adbicie polskich dziewczat-kobiet z Powstania Warszawskiego wiezionych w okolicach Janowa kolo Lublina 1946 roku przez sowieckie NKWD. Zamordowany w 1947 roku przez sowieckich oprawcow

gdy nie wroce niechaj z wiosna

role moja sieje brat

kosci moje mchem porosna

i uzyznia ziemi szmat

w pole wyjdz pewnego ranka

na snop zyta dlonie zloz

i ucaluj jak kochanka

ja zyc bede w kloskach zboz

mysle ze sie tekst przyda;D

we wsi gdzies szczekaja psy

a nie pomysl sobie czasem

ze do innej teskno mi

kiedy wroce znow so ciebie

moze w dzien a moze w noc

dobrze bedzie nam jak w niebie

poca 2;unkow dasz mi moc

dobrze bedzie nam jak w niebie

pocalunkow dasz mi moc

zaraz ide w nocy mrok,

nie wygladaj za mna oknem

w mgel utonie prozno wzrok

po coz ci kochanie wiedziec

ze do lasu ide spac

dluzej tu nie moge siedziec

na mnie czeka lesna brac

Pamietamy i nigdy nie zapomniemy.

Armia Krajowa , sól naszej ziemi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZpUwblF024

Piosenka z okresu powstania warszawskiego wys 2;awiająca odwagę Warszawian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFYnEfg7tl4

Warszawianka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rokFImgexGk

Przekazuje gorace Podziekowania dla Pani Professor ze Zwiazku Harcerstwa Polskiego pani Alicji 1;ukasiewicz z Krasnika w Lubelskim.

Warszawianka

To co zrobiliscie to wspaniala rzecz.

"By 2;ismy dzisiaj na cmentarzu u swoich bliskich. Zaswieci 2;ismy lampkę i postawi 2;ilismy kwiatki z szarfą o treści: "Wujkowi - Lech Bajan". Grob jest zadbany , stoja kwiaty i swieca sie znicze.

Przepraszam za jakość zdjecia, ale mia 2;am zajeta karte w lepszym aparacie.

Jesli chodzi o ZHP to nie ma w Krasniku struktur organizacyjnych i nie ma szans na ich reaktywowanie. "

A moze jednak mozemy razem!

Pamięci tych, którzy nie upomną się o swoje prawa. Wilkom NSZ, NZW, AK, WiN. Wszystkim innym strace 4;com. Wiernym do ko 4;ca. Materia 2;y pochodzą ze strony: http://podziemiezbrojne.blo... Akcja "Po... Pamięci tych, którzy nie upomną się o swoje prawa.
Wilkom NSZ, NZW, AK, WiN. Wszystkim innym strace 4;com.
Wiernym do ko 4;ca.

Materia 2;y pochodzą ze strony:
http://podziemiezbrojne.blox.pl/html

Akcja "Pomnik Żo 2;nierzy Wyklętych"
http://www.tworcownia.pl/wilki.html

Muzyczny Ho 2;d Dla Narodowych Si 2; Zbrojnych:
http://www.twardzijakstal.pl/

"Inka 1946"
http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTcCtw3126c

"W ubeckich piwnicach przestrzelone czaszki, to śpiący rycerze majora 1;upaszki. Wieczna chwa 2;a zmar 2;ym, ha 4;ba im mordercom, tętno Polski bije w przestrzelonych sercach..."

"Rozstrzelana armia" A. Ko 2;akowski

"I teraz też ich s 2;yszę. Ca 2;y czas, coraz mocniej. Rozumiecie? Ja nie. Ale czuję, ca 2;y czas czu 2;em, gdzieś w środku. Krzyk umar 2;ych, umar 2;ych bez imion, bez grobu, krzyża, bez niczyjej 2;zy. Pomordowanych, i niepomszczonych. To jest straszny krzyk, krzyk umar 2;ych (...) By 2; jeden moment, nieustająca chwila stworzenia i śmierci. A dla nich, dla nas, wciąż ta sama chwila przeraźliwego strachu, bólu i osamotnienia. Świat nie zna straszliwszego bólu, niż ból samotności. Świat nie zna straszliwszej samotności, niż samotność umar 2;ych, nabrzmia 2;a potworną, nieopisaną krzywdą. Świat nie zna gorszego gniewu, niż ślepy gniew niepomszczonych (...) Świat nie zna gorszego gniewu, niż ten, który mnie wezwa 2;. Dla nich, dla nas, to wciąż by 2;a jedna i ta sama chwila, chwila potwornego mordu, chwila straszliwej krzywdy, wo 2;ającej o sprawiedliwość, o ukojenie."

"Godzina przed świtem" R.Ziemkiewicz

Homage to Doomed Soldiers Second World War, the German army left the Polish land, the soldiers fighting for the independence of the Republic of Poland refused to lay down their weapons.

In January 1944 the Red Army entered the Polish territory least of all to bring us peace and freedom.

To suppress the Polish spirit and to establish a new regime, the communists eliminated the intellectual elite, activists and soldiers of the Polish Underground who survived the war.

Although severely devastated by persistent fighting with the Germans, the Underground guarded the independence of the State. The last soldiers of Free Poland were up in arms to commence their hopeless battle.

Doomed to failure and struggling with the indifference of the world, the soldiers of the Polish Underground fought with the Soviet invader and internal collaborators.

Józef Franczak, a 45-year old Home Army veteran was the last soldier of the Anticommunist Underground. With an arrest warrant issued against him, he was tracked and died during a manhunt in the Lublin district in autumn 1963. Ready to fight with his gun in hand, he hid out for 24 years.

"Let us not leave the fallen heroes to perish" by Zbigniew Herbert.

All the people in the photos either died in combat with the Soviet NKVD, Internal Security Corps (KBW), Public Security Office (UB) and Civic Militia (MO), or were murdered, or lost without a trace.

How many pictures of the soldiers faithful to Free Poland have not survived?

Over 50 years have passed since those events took place but the knowledge thereof remains incomplete to this day. The common awareness is still based on false stereotypes being a product of the communist propaganda.

All those clichés have been reinforced by pseudo historians of the Peoples Republic of Poland who, for 45 years, referred to those times as the period of strengthening the peoples power. An extremely false image of the 1940s. and 1950s. they created was presented in manuals, encyclopedias and newspapers.

The historians were supported by socialist artists, writers and filmmakers whose work of art depicted the image of those years as viewed by the Polish United Workers Party (PZPR). Such practices were continued unit the fall of the Peoples Republic of Poland (PRL). The communist propaganda focused not only on misinformation but also on presenting the representatives of the Independent Movement as the vilest and most despicable criminals.

Traitors, nazi underground, scurvy reactionary midgets, bandits are just a few of the expressions used by the communist propaganda to slander the soldiers of Free Poland before the eyes of the society.

I shall not forget.

And You?
Alex Lech Bajan
EMAIL: polonia@raqport.com

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" Mayn Shtetele Belz", famous Jewish song in Yiddish Polish Adam Aston 1934

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 26th, 2009 at 5:48 pm EDT

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" Mayn Shtetele Belz", famous Jewish song in Yiddish Polish Adam Aston 1934

Mayn Shtetele Belz", famous Jewish song in Yiddish (by poetess Agnieszka Osiecka described as „Main sztete 2;e Be 2;z") and in Poland known as "Miasteczko Be 2;z" is an expression of remembrance of happy childhood spent in that little town. The song became with years more and more legendary and the town itself - semi-mythical.
All sources from thirties that I know present names: Burstein, Lith-Frey, Roman as original authors of the song. The added name Roman on Polish records may denote the author of Polish lyrics.
Here -- recording made by Adam Aston in 1935, the little falters in his breath may account for true emotion of the interpreter during this great performance.

Adam Aston, who was a Jew by origin (Adolf Lowensohn born in Warsaw, recorded also the whole series of Jewish tangos, lullabies and romances, sung in a nostalgic, charming, called "typical East European Jewish" style. He was usually accompanied by Syrena Rekord Dance Orchestra led by the famous composer (and the musical director of "Syrena-Electro") Henryk Wars - also of a Jewish origin. "Nikodem" is one of the results of their collaboration. Besides this one, there are many other pre-war Polish-Jewish hits, which in the pass of time (and thru many many international performances) have became so popular in the world, that nowadays are considered "original Jewish folk songs" e.g. "Miasteczko Belz" (Stet'l Belz), "Rebeka", "Srulek" and many others.

This recording is by "Syrena-Electro" in 1933, with Syrena Rekord Dance Orchestra dir. by Henryk Wars.

SKRZYPEK NA DACHU Jerry Bock / Joseph Stein

Musical Skrzypek na dachu w naszych czasach sta 2; się symbolem teatralnego powodzenia. Jest wystawiany w teatrach dramatycznych, operetkach, teatrach operowych i w ko 4;cu od dziesięcioleci obecny w sztuce filmowej z niezapomnianym Chaimem Topolem w roli Tewiego. Warunkiem sukcesu jest mistrzowska realizacja i aktorstwo na znakomitym poziomie. W naszym przypadku Emil Weso 2;owski gwarantuje jako inscenizator i choreograf talent, doświadczenie i udzia 2; szeregu realizacji Skrzypka na polskich scenach. Scenograf Ryszard Kaja z nielicznymi wyjątkami zaprojektowa 2; Anatewkę w niemal wszystkich polskich premierach tego tytu 2;u.
Od kilkunastu lat publiczność, krytycy i artyści pytają mnie kiedy przywrócimy Skrzypka Gmachowi pod Pegazem. Niech dzisiejszy spektakl będzie odpowiedzią na to pytanie i na przysz 2;ość zabezpieczeniem naszej sceny gwarantowanym sukcesem kasowym!

OBSADA
TewieZbigniew Macias
Go 2;daBarbara Kubiak
Cajtla Magdalena Wilczy 4;ska
HudelNatalia Puczniewska
ChawaMonika Mych
MotelTomasz Piluchowski
JentaGabriela Klima
PerczykJaromir Trafankowski
LejzorMarian Kępczy 4;ski
MordkaBart 2;omiej Szczeszek
RabinKarol Bocha 4;ski
MendelWitold Nowak
Babcia CajtlaWies 2;awa Wiza
AbramKrzysztof Szaniecki
Fruma SaraTatiana Pożarska
FiedkaMarek Szyma 4;ski
SaszaDymitr Fomenko
PolicjantRafa 2; Korpik
NaumPiotr Bróździak
SkrzypekEliza Schubert-Pietrzak
KlarnecistaKazimierz Budzik

chór, balet i orkiestra

Dyrygent Aleksander Gref

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From Solidarity to Freedom to Poland and entire Eastern Europe

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 25th, 2009 at 4:32 pm EDT

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From Solidarity to Freedom to Poland and entire Eastern Europe

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Polish Shipyard Workers

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The War profitiering criminals in Iraq where is the money?

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 24th, 2009 at 10:56 pm EDT

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The War profitiering criminals in Iraq where is the money? part1

Rozbój w bia 2;y dzie 4; (1/5) (lektor pl)

Rozbój w bia 2;y dzie 4; (2/5) (lektor pl)

Rozbój w bia 2;y dzie 4; (3/5) (lektor pl)

Rozbój w bia 2;y dzie 4; (4/5) (lektor pl)

Rozbój w bia 2;y dzie 4; (5/5) (lektor pl)

By Jane Corbin
BBC News
Henry Waxman Waxman: "It may well turn out to be the largest war profiteering in history."

A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.

The BBC's Panorama programme has used US and Iraqi government sources to research how much some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding.

A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.

The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies.

War profiteering

While Presdient George W Bush remains in the White House, it is unlikely the gagging orders will be lifted.

To date, no major US contractor faces trial for fraud or mismanagement in Iraq.

The president's Democratic opponents are keeping up the pressure over war profiteering in Iraq.

Henry Waxman, who chairs the House committee on oversight and government reform, said: "The money that's gone into waste, fraud and abuse under these contracts is just so outrageous, it's egregious.

"It may well turn out to be the largest war profiteering in history."

In the run-up to the invasion, one of the most senior officials in charge of procurement in the Pentagon objected to a contract potentially worth $7bn that was given to Halliburton, a Texan company which used to be run by Dick Cheney before he became vice-president.

Unusually only Halliburton got to bid - and won.

Missing billions

The search for the missing billions also led the programme to a house in Acton in west London where Hazem Shalaan lived until he was appointed to the new Iraqi government as minister of defence in 2004.

Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi Judge Radhi al Radhi: "I believe these people are criminals."He and his associates siphoned an estimated $1.2bn out of the ministry. They bought old military equipment from Poland but claimed for top-class weapons.

Meanwhile they diverted money into their own accounts.

Judge Radhi al-Radhi of Iraq's Commission for Public Integrity investigated.

He said: "I believe these people are criminals.

"They failed to rebuild the Ministry of Defence, and as a result the violence and the bloodshed went on and on - the murder of Iraqis and foreigners continues and they bear responsibility."

Mr Shalaan was sentenced to two jail terms but he fled the country.

He said he was innocent and that it was all a plot against him by pro-Iranian MPs in the government.

There is an Interpol arrest warrant out for him but he is on the run - using a private jet to move around the globe.

He stills owns commercial properties in the Marble Arch area of London.

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Poland Lwow 1936 Music Tylko we Lwowie, Fogg, Ordonowna,

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 24th, 2009 at 5:26 pm EDT

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Poland Lwow 1936 Music Tylko we Lwowie, Fogg, Ordonowna,

Hanka Ordonówna - Mi 2;ość ci wszystko wybaczy

Mieczys 2;aw Fogg - Ostatnia niedziela, 1936

The „Last Sunday" -- erroneously called „THAT Last Sunday" -- was composed by Jerzy Petersburski in 1936. It is a nostalgic tango with lyrics by Zenon Friedwald describing the final meeting of former lovers who are parting. The Polish title was "To Ostatnia Niedziela" ("The Last Sunday"). The song was extremely popular and was performed by numerous artists (best kown performance by Mieczys 2;aw Folg). Along the way, it first gained the nick-name of "Suicide Tango" due to its sad lyric (although, the real „suicie song" in the night restaurants of Eastern Europe -- where the shoot in the brow at 12 at night was not any unusual happening - was In 1930s another sad „Sunday": the „Gloomy Sunday" (in Polish: „Smutna niedziela") by a Hungarian composer Rezső Seress. (Soon, an international hit; in the US sung by Billie Holiday).
But this Polish „Last Sunday" song also had a terribly sad fate. During World War II In the concentrations camps it was often played while Jewish prisoners were led to the gas chambers and ovens, to be executed. During World War II its Russian version was prepared by Iosif Alveg and performed by Leonid Utyosov under the title of "Weary Sun" (Russian: "Utomlyennoye Solntse"). After World War II, the song remained largely successful and appeared in a number of films, including Yuriy Norshteyn's 1979 "Tale of Tales" (considered by many international critics to be the greatest animated film ever made), the award-winning Krzysztof Kieślowski's "White" (1994) and Nikita Mikhalkov's "Burnt by the Sun" of the same year. The Russian title of the song also became the name-sake for the latter film and -- as the result - even the more educated and worldly Russians nowadays consider the old tango from Warsaw their „Russian national song".
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Part 2 Poland Solidarity Shipyard was destroyed by European Union

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 23rd, 2009 at 3:23 pm EDT

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Manifestacja robotników w PoznaniuMaria Ochman - Przewodnicząca Sekretariatu Ochrony Zdrowia KK NSZZ "Solidarność" (2009-10-23)Aktualności dnia

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Poland Solidarity Shipyard was destroyed by European Union

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 23rd, 2009 at 10:04 am EDT

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Rodacy Polacy Stoczniowcy Zajmijcie Stocznie i zacznijcie produkcje sami.

Relacja z manifestacji w obronie Stoczni Szczeci 4;skiej, część 1/2

Solidarność ruch spo 2;eczny w Polsce, który uruchomi 2; efekt domina - demontując system komunistyczny w Polsce jak i ca 2;ej Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej, oddzia 2;ując także poza granicami.
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Przejmowanie fabryk (The Take) (1/9) (lektor pl)

Film twórców Avi Lewisa i Naomi Klein (autorki antyglobalistycznej książki "No Logo'') opowiada o próbie przejęcia przez pracowników upad 2;ych fabryk po krachu finansowym w Argentynie.

W wyniku krachu gospodarczego w Argentynie w 2001 roku, najlepiej prosperująca klasa średnia stanę 2;a przed faktem opuszczonych i nierentownych fabryk oraz masowego bezrobocia. Winą za to autorzy filmu i jego bohaterowie obarczają bezwzględną ekspansję globalnego rynku. Na przedmieściach Buenos Aires trzydziestu niezatrudnionych pracowników kieruje się w stronę ich dawnej, obecnie - pustej fabryki. Żądają ponownego uruchomienia maszyn i prawa do pracy. Są oni częścią odważnego nowego ruchu pracowniczego.

Okupują zbankrutowane przedsiębiorstwa i tworzą miejsca pracy na ruinach upad 2;ego systemu. Lecz przewodniczący i dzia 2;acze tego ruchu wiedzą, że ich sukces jest jeszcze daleko. Muszą rzucać rękawicę sędziom, policjantom i politykom, którzy mogą ich projektowi zapewnić legalną protekcję lub gwa 2;townie eksmitować z fabryki.

Walka robotników rozgrywa się w tle kampanii prezydenckiej, w której g 2;ównym kandydatem jest architekt zapaści gospodarczej w Argentynie - Carlos Menem. Jeśli wygra, fabryki wrócą do dawnych w 2;aścicieli, dla których znaczą one tyle, co sterta z 2;omu do sprzedania. Robotnicy uzbrojeni tylko w proce i wiarę w demokrację, stają twarzą w twarz z szefami, bankierami i ca 2;ym systemem.

W dokumencie "Przejmowanie fabryk", który by 2; pokazywany podczas PLANETE DOC REVIEW w 2005 roku, uderza przede wszystkim prosty dramat życia robotników i ich walka o godność i lepszy byt. Film otrzyma 2; w 2004 roku Nagrodę Ameryka 4;skiego Instytutu Filmowego dla Najlepszego Filmu Dokumentalnego oraz nagrodę publiczności na AFI Fest.
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Przejmowanie fabryk (The Take) (8/9) (lektor pl)
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In Poland, agents of change become its victims 2009

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 23rd, 2009 at 8:50 am EDT

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In Poland, agents of change become its victims The country's Baltic shipyards, the cradle of the Solidarity trade union and the struggle against communism, have lost their government subsidies and foundered. Onetime heroes face unemployment. Polish Shipyard Workers

Workers at the Gdansk shipyard attend a rally in 1997 at which it was announced that the facility would be shut that day, with the loss of 3,600 jobs. The shipyard was eventually sold in 2007 to a Ukrainian industrial conglomerate. (Robert Placzkiewicz / Associated Press / March 6, 1997)

Lech Walesa

Reporting from Gdynia, Poland - This shipyard is orphaned now, closed off from the world, storied old walls smeared with graffiti, cranes frozen over the Baltic tides. It is up for sale, but nobody offers to buy.

The shipyards scattered along Poland's northern coast linger at the base of the country's view of itself. The labor union of shipbuilders and technicians first cracked, then slowly eroded, communism's grip on Poland and, by extension, the rest of Eastern Europe. Workers struck, organized and made demands; they stuck to their fight even in the face of bloody repression and martial law.

Through everything that came later -- the rise from communism and reinvention through privatization, capitalism and European Union membership -- the shipyards remained a touchstone of Poland's national identity.

But sometimes the agents of change live long enough to become its victims. Today, the same shipyard workers who mounted the electrifying Solidarity labor union strikes find themselves unemployed. The fate of the yards themselves hangs like a politically laden albatross from the government's neck.

The shipyards have stayed vital for decades because of government subsidies; but the European Union is forcing Poland to privatize the yards -- or sell the parts for scrap and close them for good.

"We knew it. Deep in our hearts, we expected it," said Bogdan Smokinski, who worked in the shipyard for 43 years. He was laid off in May, and is studying computers in hopes of finding another job.

In the iconic strikes of 1980, Smokinski was a newlywed who left his pregnant wife at home to hole up in the shipyard with the other striking workers. He still brags about the glory days of Polish ship manufacturing, when "people knew Poland for our ships."

He thought he'd work here for the rest of his life. Like other workers, he is bitter over the government's failure to preserve the shipyards. "The reality is very brutal," he said. "On our backs there's a group of people who made their careers."

It was here, in industrial cities strung along the Baltic coast, that Poland's battle against communism was waged and won. It was in Gdansk that an electrical technician named Lech Walesa hopped over a shipyard wall to take charge of a strike. Walesa would later win the Nobel Peace Prize and become Poland's first post-communist president.

Mindful of their history and a general sense of social gratitude -- not to mention the political weight of the workers and their outspoken union -- the government has propped up the shipyards for years with billions of dollars in subsidies.

The European Union, however, concluded that the subsidies had given the Polish shipbuilders an unfair edge over competition in the rest of Europe. The shipyard in Gdansk was sold in 2007 to a Ukrainian industrial conglomerate. The other two -- one in Szczecin and the other the one in Gdynia -- were closed down amid fruitless attempts to sell them to a private investor.

A frustrated Polish prime minister threatened to sack his treasury minister if the shipyards weren't sold off by the end of this summer. And for a flash, it looked as if a buyer had emerged -- an anonymous figure working through a Qatari investment bank offered about $159 million for the two shipyards at auction.

But the midnight deadline to deposit the down payment rolled around in August, and the shadowy investor failed to deliver. The shipyards were thrown back into limbo.

The treasury minister kept his job, and the government took out another round of advertisements, hoping to unload the shipyards.

These days, it seems as if the only thing still working is the Solidarity office. Men shuffle in to drink overcooked coffee and trade complaints about the difficulty of the computer courses for retraining.

"It's ironic. We fought for human rights and democracy," said Roman Kuzimski, a Solidarity organizer. "Now we have to accept the rules of the global market."

Kuzimski wears all black; he has outsized blue eyes set in a turtle-like face. He is 52 years old; his hair has gone white.

"My problem is, I can't imagine this," he said. "The shipyard and Solidarity, this is my whole adult life."

Five thousand workers have been laid off at this shipyard, thousands more at nearby Gdansk, and 4,000 at Szczecin to the west, the union says.

"From my kitchen window I see the shipyard and my heart aches because there is no sign of work," said Maria Rasiewicz, a 51-year-old former shipyard worker. "There used to be the signals, the signs of ships coming in and out. Now, it's all still. It's a sad view.

"We don't want to stand on a monument and have special treatment. We don't want privileges," Rasiewicz said. "On the other hand. . . ." She trailed off, and frowned.

Government critics say the prized political position of the shipyards, in the end, did the workers no favors. As the government heavily subsidized the ship construction, the technology slipped far behind international competition.

"The main product of the shipyards was not ships, but political activism," said Grzegorz Landowski, publisher of Nasze Morze (Our Sea) shipping magazine. "This was the birthplace of Solidarity. It is a part of history. But shipbuilding is primarily an economic issue, and there's no room for any other political or historical questions.

"It's just the past," Landowski said. "It's not important now."

And from Landowski's perspective, the future is marching along.

The shipyard at Gdansk has been restructured by its new owners so that the construction of ships will constitute less than a third of the business.

Most of the plant will be used to produce wind farm equipment, and the rest for steel works. The move toward wind farms is profitable; it's the future.

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FLU SHOT Permanently Disables Washington Redskins cheerleader with Neurological Disorder

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 22nd, 2009 at 5:36 pm EDT

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FLU SHOT Permanently Disables Washington Redskins cheerleader with Neurological Disorder

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 13, 2009) — Doctors at Fairfax Inova and Johns Hopkins have diagnosed 26-year-old Desiree Jennings of Ashburn, Virginia with a rare neurological disorder called dystonia after she suffered a rare side effect to the seasonal flu shot. She received the flu shot at a local grocery store on August 23, 2009. Ten days later, she came down with the flu. After that, her health spiraled downward. She started passing out and was hospitalized twice. Desiree now has difficulty speaking, walking, and even eating. During an interview with FOX 5 DC, she had several seizures. The effects are irreversible.

Experts claim serious side effects of flu shots amount to about one in a million - well this is what that one in a million looks like. This has freaked me out enough to bypass flu shots in the future. But what do I know - to each their own. A 25 year old woman in Ashburn, Virginia has come down with a severe debilitating neurological disorder days after receiving a seasonal flu vaccination.

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Komentarz J. Eislera do filmu "Cud nad Wisla Poland Russian War

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 22nd, 2009 at 4:14 pm EDT

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Komentarz J. Eislera do filmu "Cud nad Wisla Poland Russian War 1921

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Polish-Bolshevik War/Polish-Soviet War Polish bolshevik war(1919-1921), Battle of Warsaw/Miracle at Vistula Wojna

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 22nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm EDT

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Polish-Bolshevik War/Polish-Soviet War part 1

Polish-Bolshevik War/Polish-Soviet War part 2

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(Slavic Track) Biden visiting Slavic Europe

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 22nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm EDT

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Nie Lekceważ Nas (Slavic Track)

Norman Davies on Polish history

Nie Lekcewas Nas - Pono (PL), Ego (SK), Vova iz Lvova (UA), Remi (HR), S.A.F. (MK), Mih (BY), Sharks (SLO), Ill Government (SRB), Sokó 2; (PL), Wladimir (CZ), Ligalize (RUS), Frenkie (BIH), Koff (SLO), Cistychov (SK), Komplex (SRB), XL Deluxe (UA), Orion (CZ), Spens (BG), Bazyl (BY), Berezin (RUS) & Martina (PL)

The mighty Winged - Hussars. The Angels of War.

With the Battle of Lubiszew in 1577 the 'Golden Age' of the husaria began. Until the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the Polish-Lithuanian hussars fought countless actions against a variety of enemies, and rarely lost a battle. In the battles of Battle of Lubiszew in 1577, Byczyna (1588), Kokenhausen (1601), Kircholm (1605), K 2;uszyn (1610), Trzciana (1629), Chocim (1673) and Lwów (1675), the Polish-Lithuanian hussars proved to be the decisive factor often against overwhelming odds.

In all of these battles, they were victorious despite the fact that the hussars often had fewer men than their opponents. In the Battle of Kluszyn, the Russians had 35,000 troops, Crown of Poland only 6,800. However Poland came out of the battle as the victor.
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US, Poland renew contentious missile pact Biden Poland

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 22nd, 2009 at 3:16 pm EDT

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US, Poland renew contentious missile pactThu, 22 Oct 2009 09:24:34 GMT

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (L) and US Vice President Joe Biden. The United States has encouraged Poland to accept a plan B missile defense shield program following the reversal of an earlier aerial security scheme.

The preliminary agreement to launch a revamped rocket defense system has been made in Warsaw, Poland on October 21 upon a state visit to the East Europe by US Vice-President Joe Biden.

Biden managed to win the Poles' support for the overhauled aerial defense mechanism which is intended to deploy sea-borne Standard Missile-3 (MS-3) short and medium-range projectile interceptors at an air base in the Polish city of Redzikowo.

The newly-devised mechanism is meant to replace America's long range anti-ballistic missiles program that had angered Russia over its planned deployment on Moscow's 'doorstep'.

"We appreciate Poland has stepped up and agreed to host an element of the previous missile defense plan, and we now appreciate that Poland's government agrees with us that there is now a better way ... with new technology and new information, to defend against emerging ballistic missile threats," the US vice-president noted upon the announcement of the new accord.

Biden added that the latest defense system is developed to confront 'a growing threat' against US and its allies.

For his part, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk expressed satisfaction with the new plan and said, "I want to stress that Poland views ... the new configuration for the missile shield as very interesting, necessary, and we are ready at the appropriate scale to participate."

Biden will also meet with leaders in Romania and the Czech Republic in order to gain their backing for a similar move.

US and Czech had earlier struck a deal on the erection of sophisticated radar systems on the country's soil.

The US administration opted for an altered missile defense shield plan after the original idea sparked controversies over Washington's goals by installing missile interceptors across the border from Russia.

In the new plan, the White House seeks to create portable marine bases equipped with interceptor missiles, aided by ground backing, in the eastern Mediterranean in a bid to deter 'foreign threats' on Israel.

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Afganistan nie do spacyfikowania?

By Lech Alex Bajan - Oct 21st, 2009 at 2:20 pm EDT

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Afganistan nie do spacyfikowania?

Afganistan jest nie do spacyfikowania wobec skrystalizowanej opinii jego mieszka 4;ców, którzy uważają wojska USA i NATO za wrogą im okupację, wed 2;ug raportu na 63 stronach, napisanego przez ameryka 4;skiego weterana s 2;użby w Iraku i w Afganistanie, podpu 2;kownika Daniel’a L. Davis’a. Autor raportu twierdzi, że już jest za późno na zadanie klęski powsta 4;com na polu bitwy.

Autor raportu uważa, że wycofanie obcych wojsk z Afganistanu na przestrzeni pó 2;tora roku, leży w interesie USA. Po ośmiu latach obecności w Afganistanie, Amerykanie i Europejczycy, swoim zachowaniem, przekonali Afganów, że stanowią obce wojska okupacyjne, przed którymi należy bronić się tak, że obecnie wysy 2;ka dodatkowych 40,000 żo 2;nierzy z USA, może sytuację tylko pogorszyć.

Zamiast planów powiększania ilości wojsk obcych w Afganistanie autor raportu uważa, że należy wys 2;ać tam s 2;użby specjalne USA i szkolić wojska oraz policję afga 4;ską w Kabulu, gdzie personel ameryka 4;ski by 2;by wystarczająco chroniony. Davis uważa, że Talibani i cz 2;onkowie AlQaidy powinni być uznani przez Afganów jako ich wrogowie. Niestety tak nie jest.

Autor nie krytykuje obecną sytuację polityczną w Afganistanie, gdzie miejscowa armia jest organizowana przez Afganów-Tadżyków pochodzący z mniejszości i znienawidzonych przez większość, która należy do grupy etnicznej Pasztunów. Pasztuni zamieszkują obie strony granicy Afganistanu i Pakistanu i tej granicy miedzy nimi nie respektują. Wszyscy Talibani są Pasztunami, ale nie wszyscy Pasztuni są Talibanami.

Davis uważa, że obecność wojsk obcych w Afganistanie w 2009 roku zapewnia jedynie to, że organizacje terrorystyczne trenują swoich żo 2;nierzy i planują następną wielką ofensywę na przyk 2;ad w Pakistanie, na terenach gdzie Pasztoni im sprzyjają.

Prezydent Obama podpisa 2; 15go wrześnie 2009, ustawę o pomocy USA dla Pakistanu w wysokości 7,5 miliarda dolarów na pomoc nie-wojskową, mająca na celu wzmocnienie rządu w Islamabad w czasie następnych pięciu lat. Jest to pomoc trzykrotnie większa niż jest pomoc bieżąca.

Trzeba pamiętać, że Pakistan, pa 4;stwo muzu 2;ma 4;skie, ma arsena 2; nuklearny mimo wysi 2;ków Izraela, żeby do tego nie dopuścić. Obecnie w Waszyngtonie panuje przekonanie, że bliskie wspó 2;dzia 2;anie USA z Pakistanem jest konieczne, żeby pokonać Talibanów i zniszczyć Alqaidę, której przywództwo podobno jest w niedostępnych górach na terenie Pakistanu.

Oficjalnie Waszyngton chce „strategicznego partnerstwa” z Islamabadem, opierającego się na popieraniu demokratycznych instytucji i cywilnej ludności Pakistanu. Niestety opozycja polityczna i dowództwo wojsk w Pakistanie protestuje przeciwko treści tej ustawy o pomocy USA, jako ubliżającej suwerenności i godności Pakista 4;czyków.

Zamiast poprawić anty-ameryka 4;skie nastroje w Pakistanie, treść ustawy o pomocy z USA wywo 2;a 2;a oburzenie na darczy 4;ców, mimo do 2;ączonych do ustawy pisemnych zapewnie 4; cz 2;onków kongresu, że kontrowersyjna treść „nie by 2;a napisana w celu ograniczania suwerenności Pakistanu, lub szkodzenia jego bezpiecze 4;stwu przez manipulowanie przez USA pakista 4;skich si 2; zbrojnych i w 2;adz cywilnych.” Tymczasem w Waszyngtonie szerzy się przekonanie, że powsta 4;cy w Pakistanie jeszcze bardziej popierają AlQaidę niż powsta 4;cy w Afganistanie.

Bombardowania osiedli w Pakistanie przez ameryka 4;skie samoloty-roboty mają na celu zbijanie dowódców powsta 4;ców i przygotowanie terenu na ofensywę wojsk pakista 4;skich wed 2;ug życze 4; USA. Od ataku terrorystycznego na wieżowce w Nowym Jorku 11go września, 2001, USA wyda 2;o pomoc dla Pakistanu miliardów wysokości 11 miliardów dolarów, przeważnie na cele wojskowe, podczas gdy by 2;a jednocześnie mowa o przekazaniu pakista 4;skich si 2; zbrojnych i wywiadu pod kontrolę cywilną.

Ostatni tydzie 4; w Pakistanie miną 2; pod znakiem morderczych ataków na policję i s 2;użby specjalne Pakistanu przez terrorystów oponujących przeciwko wspó 2;pracy w 2;adz pakista 4;skich z Amerykanami oraz przeciwko próbom pacyfikacji terenów Pakistanu kontrolowanych przez powsta 4;ców.

Komentatorzy w redakcji The Wall Street Journal doszli do przekonania, że niezdarna treść ustawy o pomocy USA dla Pakistanu zaszkodzi 2;a interesom ameryka 4;skim w Islamabad i że „by 2;oby 2;atwiej wojskom Pakistanu walczyć przeciwko Talibanom i AlQaidzie, gdyby lidzie w Pakistanie byli przekonani, że ich wojsko walczy wbrew interesom Waszyngtonu. Problemy USA w Pakistanie wykazują jak beznadziejnie trudne dla USA jest spacyfikowanie Afganistanu.

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