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The health sector in Poland is experiencing a huge increase in the number of cyberattacks, with nearly 1400 incidents from January to September 2026, which the Deputy Minister of Health attributes to increasing digitalization and the threat of hybrid warfare. (translated)

Sektor zdrowia na celowniku hakerów. Wiceminister wskazuje przyczyny

In Poland, nearly 1400 attacks on the healthcare sector were recorded, the most common being online frauds such as phishing, as well as a major cyberattack on the company Fakturownia, which resulted in the leakage of sensitive data of many users. (translated)

Prawie 1400 ataków na sektor zdrowia. Hakerzy są coraz aktywniejsi
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A new analysis by McKinsey shows that Germany has strong opportunities to remain a global leader in 14 future industries such as biotechnology, mobility, and decarbonization by 2040, if targeted investments are made in these sectors. (translated)

Ist Ihre dabei? - Diese 14 Branchen retten unsere Wirtschaft!

At this moment, all available tickets for the match against Raków Częstochowa have been sold out. Additional tickets may become available for sale as reservations are released and seats are made available by season ticket holders. We are also awaiting information regarding the possibility of making sectors G3-G5 available for sale. (translated)

In Finland, there are: - 330,000 unemployed job seekers - 650,000 public employees (some unnecessary) - 85,000 third sector employees (some unnecessary) - and 360,000 university students studying themselves into mass unemployment. Why do we need immigration?? WHERE?! (translated)

Deputy Minister of Energy Konrad Wojnarowski announced that due to planned investments in the energy sector amounting to one trillion zlotys, Poles' electricity bills could be lower by 10% by 2030 and by 20% by 2040. (translated)

Rachunki Polaków za prąd mają być niższe. Wiceminister zdradził szczegóły

Our sources point out yet another unusual staffing situation: the assistant acting director (Igor Lamberger) of the General Director of the Police Service has, apparently to everyone's surprise, remained Iztok Škerbec, formerly an assistant to Lepoša, once a police advisor in the Internal Investigations Sector and a policeman in the special section of the Specialized State Prosecutor's Office, also a well-known figure in numerous anonymous reports, as he is said to have played a key role under Golob's government in the so-called "cleansing of Janšists" ... (translated)

"In terms of public sector demand, Hagos is a rapacious gold mine. A man like that cannot be driven away!" (translated)

Thanks to regulations requiring public sector entities to publish information about contracts, today we learn that we are paying Nawrocki... for horses with public money. Yes. Horses. For personal use. Since July, their upkeep has cost about 50k. 😵‍💫 Neigh. (translated)

Summary of information from around the world 🌍. Thursday - 🇯🇵 Tokyo. 34 days of rain in a row. Record - ⚒️JSW: employment will drop by 4248 people in 2026 - 🚗CEO Ford: "Too late. Europe will lose the auto sector" - 🧑‍🍳 40% of Poles buy too much food. They throw it away - 🇵🇱 increase of the tax threshold from 120 to 130 thousand PLN - ⚽️Ronaldo is leaving the Portugal national team - USA expelled the Iranian delegation "abused hospitality" - 🇵🇱 NBP: Poland's foreign debt is 2.2 trillion PLN - 🐞Biedronka unions: +1000 PLN. 30% more people - 🇫🇷 France. Public debt is the highest since 1946 - 🇵🇰 Pakistan: we will defend Saudis 🇸🇦 against Houthis - 🇲🇳 Mongolia has fuel for 11 days. The whole country will stop. - 🛖mortgage in the USA is already 7.6% interest - 🇸🇦 more oil facilities are burning in Saudi Arabia - 🇸🇾 Explosion of a gas pipeline to Tishreen near Damascus - 🗣️Polish ElevenLabs worth 22 billion $. Voice AI - 🪖Rutte: "Putin knows he will never win against NATO" - 🇬🇧 UK government is considering returning to 🇪🇺 - 🇺🇸 Google releases Gemini 4 Argon - 🇱🇹Lithuania wants to cover the costs of US soldiers in its territory - 🇩🇪 Volkswagen: union members want a 5% raise - 🇮🇳 India: explosion at the largest oil refinery - 🇺🇸 8 nuclear power plants ☢️ in the USA will be built by Koreans -🌱Vegetarianism Day (How does a vegetarian call her husband for a meal? Dinner withers 🙃) (translated)

China and the EU are heading for a great test of strength this autumn. Germany and France (the tandem has two wheels again!) proposed a new instrument that would allow the EU to impose high tariffs on entire sectors (and not just on individual products), similar to the American Section 301. (translated)

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A new survey shows that eight out of ten employees in welfare do not know about the possibility to study with up to 80 percent of their salary through the Transition Study Support, despite a great interest in skills development within the sector. (translated)

Åtta av tio medarbetare i välfärden vet inte om att de kan plugga med 80 procent av lönen

A strong majority of those who contribute to society today vote for the right-wing parties. They are the ones who go to their jobs and run businesses, etc. They pay the taxes and give more than they receive, thus holding society together. Meanwhile, those who consume tax money vote for the left, like communication professionals, HR, strategists, the aid industrial complex, the so-called civil society that generates about 30-40 billion every year in tax funds, administrators within the public sector, meaningless political academics, media people, culture folks who live on taxes, and recipients of benefits. (translated)

High interest rates negatively affect the real estate sector, which is reflected in the decline in bond prices of European real estate groups and the cancellation of planned issuances, as demonstrated by the case of Net Zero Properties. (translated)

Realitní investory drtí vysoké sazby. Výrazně klesly i dluhopisy CPI
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The government absurdity continues 🙄 The supposed tough guy @RobertPlaga hysterically erupted at deputy chair @snemovna @BaraUrbanova in the style of "teacher, he keeps laughing at me, punish him." It was even said that he didn't start it! Lol 🤡 A grown-up Minister of EDUCATION... And still, the whiny little plaintiff, the liar, was applauded by the few followers of the sect present in the hall 🙄 #cimrmanolog #kňů #fuckano (translated)

Why hasn't Nahom Hagos been deported? Those demanding deportation clearly don't grasp the kind of public sector employer we are dealing with. One person-year corresponds to about 1,600–1,700 working hours, and Hagos's entire bureaucratic path from the reception center to repeated criminal convictions and victim care has tied up an estimated 14–25 person-years of publicly funded work. Even entry, integration efforts, and the reception center phase consumed a couple of years of work, on top of which come the continuous handling of social assistance, substance abuse social work, and staff resources for shelters for the homeless. With the criminal history, the machinery was really set in motion: three extensive rape investigations, property and drug offenses, and escapes kept the police very busy. Prosecutors, several levels of the judiciary, public defenders, and interpreters in turn worked through about another person-year in the courtrooms. The largest share of the workload comes from incarceration. Daily monitoring, administration, and prison healthcare average about 0.6–0.8 person-years per inmate per year, which, together with long sentences and probation supervision, amounts to 4–6.5 person-years. However, Hagos's widest impact is through the victims: acute hospital care for fractures, forensic examinations, years of trauma therapy, victim support services, and assistance for elderly victims with diminished functionality demand as much as 3–5 person-years from public healthcare and social services. The authority chain caused by a single man thus corresponds at best to the annual total work contribution of a small agency or department. From the perspective of public sector demand, Hagos is a rapacious gold mine. Such a man cannot be deported! (translated)

A historic meeting took place in the White House between Donald Trump and representatives of the artificial intelligence sector, which ended with the signing of a document concerning "superintelligence," although there was a glaring typo in the name "United States." (translated)

Porozumienie o „superinteligencji”. Internauci wypatrzyli rażącą literówkę

I'm already a bit tired of this war Nawrocki–Tusk over who wants to lower fuel prices more and who will hit their opponent harder. On a daily basis, I deal with law and legislation, so instead of another press conference, I prefer to try to do something more useful. Let's think about whether it is possible to create a mechanism that works independently of who is currently in power and who lives in the Presidential Palace. Let's tentatively call it the Fuel Price Stabilization Mechanism - nothing more spectacular comes to mind. I’m not talking about flashy slogans like administrative price setting or the prime minister should lower it, or the president presented a bill, so the problem is solved. I’m talking about an automatic system established in law. I imagined it so that if for a certain period, the reference price of oil or wholesale fuel exceeds a set threshold, a temporary reduction in excise tax is automatically triggered. Without a political decision being made anew each time, because that leads to endless arguments at the expense of citizens. The law specifies in advance: - when the mechanism is triggered, - by how much the burden is reduced, - how long it operates, - when it automatically expires. Of course, within the limits of EU law. Because it is worth reminding a rather prosaic fact - a member state cannot arbitrarily eliminate fuel taxation. Here the 2003/96/EC directive comes in, determining minimum levels of taxation for gasoline and diesel. So just as it should be done - first the law and only then the slogans - I’m directing this to my favorite camp, the surroundings of the office. Now there remains a more important problem. If we lower the excise tax, the budget receives less money. This cost does not disappear, it does not magically evaporate. You can't just move it to the "someone may pay later" column. That’s why the mechanism should have a second arm - a temporary levy on the truly extraordinary portion of profits in the fuel sector. But not on the entire profit and definitely not on the normal operation of the enterprise. Not because the company dared to make a profit but solely from that portion that exceeds the previously defined reference level. The current government project wants to use a similar construct - the reference point is margins from 2025 increased by 20%, and only the excess is taxed. The tax rate in the project is 60%, and the projected revenues are about 4 billion PLN. The government indicates that the funds are meant to compensate for the loss of VAT and excise tax revenue resulting from protective actions. However, I would change one fundamental thing. Only PROSPECTIVELY. First, we establish the rule, then we apply it. Not the other way around. This significantly reduces the dispute over retroactivity and legal safety - the reason for Mr. Nawrocki's veto. Revenues from such a levy should be additionally separated and accounted for solely for the purposes of the stabilization mechanism. Then we can show the citizen a simple calculation: - the budget lost X from the temporary excise tax reduction, - the extraordinary levy brought Y, - and the difference is Z. No miracles or political alchemy - simplicity in full scope. But there is still one problem. If the state reduces the burden by 20 groszy per liter, it doesn’t automatically mean that the driver will see 20 groszy less on the sign. Part of the relief may be taken by the margin because who doesn’t want to make a profit... That’s why there should be parallel, public monitoring: - raw material price, - wholesale price, - taxes, - average margin, - retail price. If there is an anomaly, we have UOKiK and competition law instruments. There’s no need to immediately create a state office to set the price of diesel at 7:43 in the morning. And a final safeguard. The price returns below the statutory threshold for a certain period? The reduction expires, the levy expires. The system returns to normal mode. (translated)

This individual case (of which I too know nothing more than what I have read in the news) is also a preview of how artificial intelligence affects employment. It concerns both the public and private sectors equally. (translated)

Pomerania plans to utilize the development of offshore wind energy and a nuclear power plant to attract investments in the semiconductor and electromobility sectors over the next decade. (translated)

Od morskich wiatraków do półprzewodników. Pomorze ma plan na kolejną dekadę