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What irony. Once a rebel, a journalist fighting against the arrogant establishment. Today he dances on a yacht, mocking investments in public services. He laughs at investments that allowed young working parents in small towns to send their child to daycare. At public transport, which allows for cheaper and faster commutes to work. At social housing, support for people with disabilities, vocational training in small towns, connecting sewer systems and the internet to places in Poland that would never be reached commercially. Mr. Stanowski reduces it to... "Haha, yachts." Mr. Stanowski, not everyone has a limousine, a chauffeur, money for private schools, and a villa near Warsaw. There are people who do not have all of this and need daycare, good public schools, trains, and buses for a dignified life. (translated)

Seven instead of eight years. This is not a correction, this is leniency. Simeon Trux, born as such, later called Maja T., attacked with other patriots on the "Day of Honor." Contusions, bruises, broken bones. For this, there is now a one-year discount in Budapest. The public prosecutor wanted to impose a harsher sentence. The court reduced it. Those who beat others often face a debate in Germany and at least a punishment in Hungary. However, even that is being downplayed again. Arrest in Berlin, extradition, the Federal Constitutional Court finds the procedure inadmissible, the family speaks of isolation and vermin. All important, as soon as the perpetrator suffers. The bones of the beaten do not feature in this sympathy. Seven years for a serious crime is not a scandal of harshness. It is the scandal that even this is considered too much. (translated)

You will hear announcements from our friends in Europe regarding new diesel fuel deliveries that will come to the market and significantly lower the prices of this fuel. Wright, who accompanied Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, said that the administration will soon announce measures aimed at lowering diesel fuel prices. (translated)

Pomysł z USA. Chcą wykorzystać m.in. polskie rezerwy diesla
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Sergei Lavrov, head of Russian diplomacy, threatens Poland in response to the desire to produce and service Patriot missiles, which Witold Jurasz describes as brazen rudeness and an element of Russia's psychological war aimed at intimidating the Poles. (translated)

Ławrow grozi Polsce. Jurasz: chamstwo szefa rosyjskiej dyplomacji

The prosecution has charged 11 individuals in connection with the operation of issuing fictitious diplomas, which led to financial benefits exceeding 22.5 million zlotys. (translated)

Fikcyjne dyplomy za miliony. Są zarzuty dla zatrzymanych ws. Collegium Humanum

Choice of parties in 2027 for men: KO: women deserve parity (but only in well-paid office jobs) PiS: dear man, you have to work 5 years longer because there won't be enough for women's pensions Confederation: you must die in a trench defending women (actually, politicians) KKP: a woman is a sacred thing, you cannot even strike in self-defense Together: a woman should be able to legally kill your child Left: the death of a woman is metaphysics, a meeting with the highest, and the death of a man is a biological process, which is why we need to introduce a separate category of murder in the criminal code called femicide In this patriarchal state, do men still have voting rights? Or did I miss something and men make up only 10% of the population? Is really no party interested in gaining votes from half of the voters? To be clear, I appreciate the honesty, better this way than if they were to lie, however, I find it quite a peculiar phenomenon where all parties are fighting for the votes of the same half of the electorate. To say the least, strategically foolish. (translated)

For 37 years, the political and media class has explained to us that patriotism and nationalism are xenophobia and almost fascism, because there is only the individual, their consumption, Europe, and a person being a citizen of the whole world. And now that same political class wants to say that Poles should fight. (translated)

In X there is Aleksander Stępkowski, who 🙄 received Russian money from a money laundering 🫢 was bribed with Hungarian cash 🤗 did not disclose it probably in the asset declaration 🫣 founded @OrdoIuris want rule of law? then take a look at the accounts 👀 notification sent and stop pretending (translated)

Gen. Piotr Błazeusz in the European Parliament emphasized that Russia currently does not have the capability to invade NATO countries, but is conducting a dangerous hybrid war in the shadows, aimed at weakening the West. (translated)

„Powinniśmy mówić o wojnie w cieniu”. Gen. Piotr Błazeusz ujawnia, jak Rosja testuje Zachód

So if I enter the intersection with a turning lane, hit a car with flashing lights and almost hit people on the island, that's okay? Good to know...... (translated)

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There will be a message from the football hooligans??? GOD HONOR HOMELAND 🤣🤣🤣 Polish farmer Polish field Polish bread on a Polish table and other similar nonsense having nothing or at least very little to do with reality. There will be a statement about the disastrous government and the necessity to defend the Constitutional Tribunal, all of this to change the narrative that the hooligans and the palace pack are DESTROYING THE COUNTRY!!! 40-some vetoes in just over a year. Support for hooliganism at the level of about 40-some percent... and tell me how these 40-some percent managed to explain that these vetoes are for the good of POLAND??? (translated)

Former ministers in Viktor Orbán's government - Balazs Hanko (culture and innovation) and Miklos Sesztak (development) have been temporarily arrested. The first is suspected of misusing approximately 47 million euros of public funds. The second for accepting over 32 million euros in bribes and financial benefits. (translated)

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It's best to choose your parents or partner well, or to be alone in the economic-political elite and safely leave the country at the moment of W, like the mass of Ukrainian owners of Brabus, Lambo, and various M-cars that can regularly be seen in Warsaw's parking lots. And after the war, one can return to profit from reconstruction contracts and buy up ruined properties. (translated)

Iga Świątek and Maja Chwalińska have made it to the entry list for the WTA 500 tournament in Tokyo ✅ Here are the plans for both Polish players for the coming weeks: WTA 1000 Beijing (09.30-10.11) WTA 1000 Wuhan (10.12-10.18) WTA 500 Ningbo (10.19-10.25) WTA 500 Tokyo (10.26-11.01) Preliminary entry list published by the tournament organizers in Tokyo: Jelena Rybakina Jessica Pegula Elina Svitolina Iga Świątek Marta Kostiuk Belinda Bencic Iva Jovic Diana Sznajder Sorana Cirstea Naomi Osaka Alexandra Eala Elise Mertens Jasmine Paolini Maja Chwalińska Anna Kalinska Leylah Fernandez Ekaterina Alexandrova 📸 IG/Maja Chwalińska | #TorayPPO | #zkortu (translated)

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Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) have the potential to revolutionize nuclear energy in Europe, and Poland, with billion-dollar investments in this technology, aims to be a leader in this area, planning to launch the first reactors as early as the beginning of the 2030s. (translated)

Ta technologia miałaby uratować Europę. Polska może być liderem

The park ranger shot at the car in which a couple was sitting, the media thunder. However, there is also a second, much less publicized version of events in this story. According to Kampinos National Park, park rangers were on duty in a two-person patrol and were driving a marked vehicle. They intervened with a car that was in an area where private vehicles were not allowed. The park ranger's report states that the driver did not comply with issued orders and then suddenly accelerated the car towards the ranger, nearly hitting him. Only then did the ranger fire a shot aimed downwards. The bullet damaged the vehicle's radiator. This is significant because park rangers do not carry weapons "for decoration." They have legal authority to use it, and one of the legally provided cases is the necessity to stop a vehicle whose actions threaten the life or health of the officer or another person. Kampinos National Park has filed a notice in this matter concerning the suspicion of active assault on an officer. The ranger himself has many years of experience, appropriate training, and qualifications required to carry a weapon. Of course, it is ultimately the prosecutor who will determine which version of events corresponds to the actual course of the intervention and whether the use of the weapon was correct. However, it is worth remembering these circumstances before turning the ranger protecting the park into a person who "shot at tourists" for no reason. We wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that they simply wanted to flee to avoid responsibility for driving into the woods, and encountered a ranger who knows his rights and performed his duties excellently. (translated)

We have the ability to overinterpret. The Tu-95MS disaster caused a lot of speculation. Meanwhile, there is no point in speculating. We shouldn't attribute any intentions to people suggesting things, as legends then circulate. Operational commander, Maj. Gen. pilot Ireneusz Nowak, sarcastically wrote that "Perhaps this particular one was the carrier of the Ch-101, which ended its flight near Tarnawa!" Just that, and that is enough. I am lucky to personally know General Nowak; he is from the old guard of the F-16, people trained in the USA, pilots often retrained by veterans of American military actions, mentally shaped as "tactical minded." Among this group were the first base commanders, division generals Darek Malinowski and Czarek Wiśniewski, along with Jacek Pszczoła, also a division general, a laid-back person who cannot be ruffled, and at the door of his office in Łask, there was at one time a sticker with a large wasp. They are exceptionally competent people, calm but capable of making quick decisions and unafraid of the responsibility for them. Another characteristic feature is truly outstanding intelligence. Why am I writing about this? Because people at this intellectual level often fall into the trap that what is clear and obvious to them is incomprehensible to others, and their minds drift into fascinating directions, to places that make one’s hair stand on end, wondering how it is even possible. That was the case this time as well. The flood of comments is overwhelming; personally, I was stunned. Scholars of the holy scripture wrote that the general suggests it was Polish saboteurs from Kedyw-bis. What can drop on a person's head, drops (in my case, my jaw, both hands, and the other leg). Maj. Gen. Ireneusz Nowak DOES NOT SUGGEST ANYTHING LIKE THAT. This is a gross overinterpretation. He only wrote that it may have been this Tu-95MS that fired the Ch-101 missile, which landed in Poland, as established as a result of deliberate action, not a mistake (such an impact point was in the navigational system’s memory, the only chance for a mistake being incorrect input of coordinates, which is very unlikely). Additionally, the missile did perform a classic "bump" with a vertical attack, driving into the ground almost at a right angle to it, executing the attack at the programmed location. Since the Tu-95MS belonging to the 22nd Guards Donbas Heavy Bomber Division from Engels (now Olenia) and to the 326th Tarnopol Heavy Bomber Division from Ukraine rotate to Engels or, less frequently, to Akhtubinsk to fire the Ch-101 at Ukraine for several hours, it is theoretically possible that this aircraft launched that missile (about 1 in 40 odds, as there are that many of them). What Maj. Gen. Ireneusz Nowak REALLY suggested, Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, somewhat more directly stated. The experienced politician knows that you have to lay it on the line for the simpletons because they will twist everything. They will make things up, add remarks, and generally go off in the wrong direction. Mark Rutte said several really important things: "Vladimir Putin knows he can never win against NATO; NATO is so strong that Russia has no chance of overcoming it." What does this mean? That NATO MUST BE UNITARY. WE MUST NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE DIVIDED. He added: "NATO will defend every square kilometer of its territory. There is no doubt about it, and Putin knows this (...) If anything happens, we are ready to respond." “Well, first, about the word 'hybrid' – I have said this many times already. It sounds a bit too mild, almost cozy. In reality, we are talking about aggressive tactics in the gray zone. What we are dealing with is hostile drones, acts of diversion, sabotage, and even massive cyberattacks." "But I want to make it clear: we have all the response options we need. You will not always see them publicly. They will not always be symmetrical. It will not always operate on a 'tit for tat' basis, but I assure you that we have the tools for effective response, and the Russians know this perfectly well." THIS IS KEY. NATO IS NOT PASSIVE. NATO has many different tools for hybrid responses to Russia's hybrid attacks. And if Maj. Gen. Nowak suggested anything, IT WAS JUST THAT. You just need to understand it, know the context, listen to the statements of leading NATO politicians, and everything will become clear. And further Mark Rutte: “I do not claim that these malicious actions in the gray zone do not affect us. They do affect us, and sometimes it is very evident. However, our response can be multidimensional. Let’s look at the past. When, at the end of 2025, an underwater cable between Finland and Estonia was damaged, we launched Operation Baltic Sentry to protect our critical dilatory infrastructure. This was an example of a symmetrical response. But what happens next is asymmetric actions. More and more allies, such as Sweden, the United Kingdom, Belgium, or France, are taking coordinated steps to maximize the disruption of the Russian 'shadow fleet'. We are doing everything to make those rusted tankers stop generating the profits the Kremlin uses to fund its war machine." "Yesterday, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (SACEUR) stated plainly: 'Whenever you are able, when you are almost certain that the Russians stand behind an attack, publicly assign them the blame.' Just like Estonia did today. I fully support this and encourage it. Share all intelligence information with NATO and SHAPE structures. Russia continues its reckless campaign of hostile actions against NATO, trying to weaken our resolve and force us to stop supporting Kyiv. But it is failing. Our message to Moscow is clear: in response to any actions in the gray zone, we will do even more for Ukraine, not less. Because ultimately their only goal is to divide us so we lose focus and start arguing among ourselves." NATO is responding. NATO is providing Ukraine with a lot of ammunition. And Ukraine sends it further, to where it needs to land with a bang. NATO makes it harder for the shadow fleet to operate. It combats Russian spy networks; since the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022, NATO member states have expelled around 750 Russian diplomats: Bulgaria 83, Germany 80, Romania 52, Poland 45, France 40. How many "one-time saboteurs" are recruited in Russia for pennies remains a sweet mystery. But there, strangely enough, many different failures occur: trains derail, various things catch fire, blackouts appear, etc. Much of this is done by Ukrainians, but is it all? Who knows, who knows... Today, such saboteurs are rented online for pennies, massively, like cheap drones. They do it, and can we? And how do you know that there are no other intrigues? For example, discreet info in Kremlin circles that one is conspiring against another. Therefore, NATO has tools and can respond, which it is doing. Mainly in the field of cyberattacks that Russia is feeling. As for the Tu-95MS itself - if three engines go out at once, assuming it is true, in most cases it is due to fuel issues, either a break in fuel supply to the engines or fuel contamination, blocked filters, etc. Ukraine has seriously damaged the refineries producing aviation fuel. Often this production has been taken over by other refineries when technically possible. You can easily guess the quality of this fuel. So there could have been "not enough kerosene in the kerosene." Another issue is that the intensive use, these long hours of flights from Ukraine or Olenia to Engels, suspending missiles, and flying to launch over the Caspian Sea (if something goes wrong, the missile falls into the water), and then returning to the home base is about resources, resources, resources... Old bombers and their engines are wearing out at an accelerated pace. How do you think maintenance, spare parts, and technical servicing levels are? Well, exactly, the Russian bomber fleet is systematically degrading, and this can only be pleasing. Because we don't need those bombers for anything. In the picture, a "noisy cricket," the Tu-95MS, code-named "Bear" by NATO. Phot. Runet Dear friends, if you like it, and if I should dedicate my time to it, if you want to read something, I will ask for a coffee, it’s only 10 or 20 PLN. Best regards to everyone and a big thank you to those who buy coffees. (translated)

How to build a career in your parents' company? 1. Don't take the vice president position right away. You need to learn the company from the ground up. Starting as a senior manager would be reasonable. Let everyone see that you're climbing step by step. 2. Don't say you got the job through connections. Say that the owners recognized your potential. Your father has been watching your development for 23 years. No recruiter has spent as much time with the other candidates. 3. Earn the respect of older employees. Don't worry that some of them have been with the company longer than you've been alive. They have experience. You have a fresh perspective. And the owner's phone number saved as "Dad." 4. Don't misuse your position. Treat your father at work like any other boss. If you disagree on something, discuss it professionally. Preferably on a Sunday over chicken soup. 5. Start making changes. After three weeks in the company, you should already notice things that people who have worked there for twenty years don't see. It's natural. They are tainted by experience. 6. Show that you also started from the bottom. From time to time, go down to regular employees and help them for half an hour. It's best to take a picture. In a few years, you will be able to say that you have gone through every level in the company. 7. Don't demand a promotion. Let it come naturally. Manager. Director. Board member. President. Don't rush. You have a full two years for that. 8. Separate your professional life from your personal life. At work, your father is your boss. At home, he is your father. Therefore, leave the conversation about bonuses for the holidays. Grandma can be a good mediator. 9. Ensure financial independence from your parents. Don't take money from them privately. You're not a child anymore. Let the company pay for the car, phone, and fuel card. That's a completely different relationship. 10. After years, tell your story on LinkedIn. Write that you started from zero. That you didn't get anything for free. That the most important things were hard work, humility, and consistency. Don't mention the company from your father. They asked about the road to success. #FIRE (translated)

Orlen warns against disinformation, pointing to false posts aimed at causing panic among Polish drivers and undermining trust in the company. (translated)

Orlen ostrzega przed dezinformacją. Fałszywe wpisy mają wywoływać panikę

We live in a country where the president is a person not counted in the vote. Where illegal judges issue court rulings. Where the Constitutional Tribunal breaks the constitution at the request of one person. Where political parties distribute state assets in the form of villas and money. Where a criminal can be pardoned even though they have not been convicted. There are countless such paranoias. It seems that this is beyond cleaning up. Not for this generation. (translated)