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  • U.S., Polish Officials Agree to Terms for Stationing American Troops in Poland

    11/26/2009 12:44:19 PM PST · by lizol · 3 replies · 78+ views
    FOX News ^ | Thursday, November 26, 2009
    U.S., Polish Officials Agree to Terms for Stationing American Troops in Poland Thursday, November 26, 2009 WARSAW, Poland — A Polish official says the U.S. and Poland have agreed on terms for stationing American troops and military equipment in the eastern European country. The move is a prerequisite for deploying U.S. Patriot missiles to Poland next year and a possible future missile defense site. Defense Ministry spokesman Robert Rochowicz said Thursday Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government must still approve it. He didn't say when that would happen or give other details. In addition, Poland has expressed willingness to host elements...
  • Holocaust Survivor, Polish Rescuer Reunited

    11/26/2009 8:05:50 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 7 replies · 273+ views
    NBC New York ^ | Wed, Nov 25, 2009 | ULA ILNYTZKY
    The two men haven't seen each other since the Soviet Army liberated Ostra Mogila, Poland, in 1944A Holocaust survivor and the Polish Christian who risked his life to save him are especially grateful this Thanksgiving season: The two men were reunited for the first time in 65 years. Joseph Bonder, 81, went to John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday afternoon to welcome Bronislaw Firuta, 83, from Wroclaw, Poland. "My dear, beloved Joseph, we both outlived Stalin and Hitler, and I can't believe we are here today," said Firuta as the two men embraced in an airport press room, recognizing...
  • Poland to Ban Communist Symbols (hate crime to push communism)

    11/25/2009 5:38:01 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 32 replies · 483+ views
    Der Spiegel ^ | 11/24/09 | Andrew Curry
    11/24/2009 Vestiges of 'Genocidal System' Poland to Ban Communist Symbols By Andrew Curry Reforming Poland's hate-crime legislation may mean criminalizing communism. An amendment to the criminal code awaiting the president's signature would ban a broad category of communist symbols. Left-wing politicians say the law does more to violate human rights than protect them. Poland is on the verge of banning communist symbols in a change to the country's penal code that could make everything from the hammer and sickle and red star to Che Guevara t-shirts illegal. The amendment would adjust the country's hate-crime legislation to criminalize the "production, distribution,...
  • Pro-Darwin consensus doesn't rule out intelligent design (published on CNN!!!)

    11/24/2009 6:50:51 PM PST · by GodGunsGuts · 168 replies · 1,168+ views
    CNN ^ | November 23, 2009 | Stephen Meyer, Ph.D.
    Pro-Darwin consensus doesn't rule out intelligent design --snip-- (CNN) -- While we officially celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on November 24, celebrations of Darwin's legacy have actually been building in intensity for several years. Darwin is not just an important 19th century scientific thinker. Increasingly, he is a cultural icon. Darwin is the subject of adulation that teeters on the edge of hero worship, expressed in everything from scholarly seminars and lecture series to best-selling new atheist tracts like those by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. The atheists claim that...
  • Secretary Clinton won’t be in Washington to meet Polish foreign minister

    11/24/2009 12:28:33 PM PST · by lizol · 18 replies · 389+ views
    Blogger News Network ^ | November 3rd, 2009
    Secretary Clinton won’t be in Washington to meet Polish foreign minister Posted on November 3rd, 2009 Due to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s decision to prolong her stay in the Middle East, her scheduled meeting in Washington with visiting Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski has been cancelled. The announcement of the cancellation was made Tuesday by the State Department spokesman Ian Kelly. The cancellation of the meeting is another diplomatic setback for Poland in her relations with the Obama administration. President Obama declined the Polish government’s invitation to attend the official observances in Gdansk of the 70th anniversary of the...
  • Central Europe Ready To Send More Soldiers To Afghanistan

    11/24/2009 12:26:24 PM PST · by lizol · 3 replies · 213+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 12, 2009 | Marcin Sobczyk
    Central Europe Ready To Send More Soldiers To Afghanistan By Marcin Sobczyk Just as President Obama discusses the idea of putting Afghanistan more in charge of its own security, Central European troop contributors, despite growing casualties, mull sending more soldiers and equipment to the country. With around 2,000 soldiers in the Ghazni province, Poland is leading the Central European pack. The country is mulling an increase of its contingent as generals complain at insufficient staffing and equipment, even blaming politicians for underfunding that may have led to several recent deaths of Polish soldiers. The Czech Republic is also planning to...
  • Catching Up With Rich Nations

    11/24/2009 11:22:13 AM PST · by lizol · 155+ views
    The Warsaw Voice ^ | November 18, 2009
    Catching Up With Rich Nations November 18, 2009 Poland is beginning to catch up with the most affluent countries in Europe and worldwide, according to data by Eurostat, the European Union's statistics office. The data show that Poland's 2008 GDP per capita was 57 percent of the EU average, ranking the country fourth from the bottom in a league table of all EU nations. Latvia, which has been hit hard by the crisis, is just behind Poland with per-capita GDP at 56 percent of the EU average. Bulgaria and Romania, with 40 percent and 46 percent of the EU average...
  • Poles protest US Stalin memorial plan

    11/23/2009 12:25:35 PM PST · by lizol · 72 replies · 1,077+ views
    thenews.pl ^ | 23.11.2009
    Poles protest US Stalin memorial plan 23.11.2009 11:06 The Polish community in the United States is outraged by a plan to honour Josef Stalin by placing his bust on a pedestal at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia. According to William McIntosh, the director of the Bradford museum, which is coordinating the project, the Soviet dictator deserves to be acknowledged alongside Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt has he was an ally of the US after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The plans have met with protests from Polish war veterans in New York. President of the Kosciuszko...
  • NATO critical of Russian war games near Poland

    11/18/2009 8:10:04 PM PST · by Tailgunner Joe · 7 replies · 289+ views
    Reuters ^ | November 18, 2009
    BRUSSELS, Nov 18 (Reuters) - NATO countries voiced concern on Wednesday at Russian and Belarusian exercises held near the Polish border in September, saying they were at odds with improved relations with Moscow. Ambassadors from the 28 NATO states meeting in Brussels expressed concerns about the large scale of the exercises and a scenario that envisioned an attack from the West, NATO spokesman James Appathurai said. "There was the general sense that the political message of the exercise was incongruous with the general improvement in political relations and practical cooperation which is under way between NATO and Russia," Appathurai said....
  • Poland criticizes ban on crucifixes in schools

    11/14/2009 5:18:35 AM PST · by raybbr · 23 replies · 354+ views
    New Haven Register ^ | 11-14-2209 | N/A
    <p>WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Heavily Catholic Poland has joined the Vatican in criticizing a European court ruling against the display of crucifixes in Italian schools.</p> <p>President Lech Kaczynski said his country will never agree to remove crosses from its schools.</p>
  • Poland Defends Right to Keep Crucifixes in Schools

    11/13/2009 1:58:53 PM PST · by lizol · 15 replies · 359+ views
    Fox News ^ | Friday, November 13, 2009
    Poland Defends Right to Keep Crucifixes in Schools Friday, November 13, 2009 WARSAW, Poland — Heavily Catholic Poland has joined the Vatican in criticizing a European court ruling against the display of crucifixes in Italian schools. Polish President Lech Kaczynski said his country will never agree to remove crosses from its schools. The Nov. 3 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights does not require that Poland remove the crosses that hang in most public schools. It could, however, eventually force a review of the use of religious symbols in government-run school across Europe. The decision touched a nerve...
  • Crosses in classrooms.President of Poland condems the verdict of The European Court of Human Rights.

    11/11/2009 10:59:20 AM PST · by Matt_Rel · 45 replies · 832+ views
    Polish News Website 'Onet.PL' ^ | Nov.11, 2009 | Polish Press Agency
    [translation; excerpt] Crosses in classrooms. President of Poland condems the verdict of The European Court of Human Rights. This week the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg said," The presence of religious symbols in schools is in violation of the freedom of the parents to raise their children according to their own convictions. It is also a violation of the child's freedom of religion". Today, Nov.11, in his official speech at the ceremony of the Poland's Independence Day, the President of the Republic, prof.Lech Kaczynski, strongly condemned the verdict, saying,"  Nobody in Poland will not ever accept that crosses in...
  • C-130 arrival in Poland marks end, new beginning

    11/10/2009 3:02:38 PM PST · by SandRat · 4 replies · 450+ views
    Air Force Link ^ | Master Sgt. Scott Wagers,USAF
    11/10/2009 - RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFNS) -- Ramstein Air Base Airmen delivered the base's last E-model C-130 Hercules Nov. 2 to Powidz Air Base, Poland, marking the end of 38 years of service to the U.S. Air Force but the newest addition to the Polish air force's blossoming fleet of strategic airlifters. C-130 tail No. 1299 touched down and as the aircrew exited the aircraft Polish air force Brig. Gen. Tadeusz Mikutel, the 33rd Air Base commander, and Lt. Col. Mieczyslaw Gaudyn, 14th Airlift Squadron commander, welcomed the American Airmen with warm greetings and a firm handshake. "The main...
  • David Miliband accused by Jewish leaders of using anti-semitism" as "political football"

    11/09/2009 4:01:10 AM PST · by lizol · 1 replies · 226+ views
    Daily Telegraph ^ | 09 Nov 2009 | Andrew Pierce
    David Miliband accused by Jewish leaders of using anti-semitism" as "political football" David Miliband, the foreign secretary, has been accused by leaders of the British Jewish community of using anti-semitism as a “political football”. By Andrew Pierce Published: 7:00AM GMT 09 Nov 2009 Mr Miliband has made a series of attacks on Michael Kaminski who leads the antifederalist Law and Justice group in the European Parliament which David Cameron’s Conservatives have forged a new alliance with. In his speech at the Labour Party conference the Foreign Secretary said Mr Kaminski’s “anti-semitic, Neo-Nazi” past made him “feel sick”. He quoted Poland’s...
  • Poland demands US troops be based on Polish soil

    11/06/2009 3:33:53 PM PST · by bruinbirdman · 24 replies · 650+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | 11/6/2009 | Andrew Osborn in Moscow and Matthew Day in Warsaw
    Poland has demanded that US troops be based on Polish soil in the wake of Russian war games which simulated a nuclear attack and invasion. Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, said he was alarmed by recent military exercises conducted by the Russian army in Belarus, a country that borders Poland, and wanted the US military as a counterweight. "We would like to see US troops stationed in Poland to serve as a shield against Russian aggression," he said. "If you can still afford it, we need some strategic reassurance." Despite assurances given by US Vice President Joe Biden last month...
  • Revolutionary War hero Pulaski becomes honorary US citizen

    11/06/2009 6:39:18 PM PST · by Saije · 31 replies · 662+ views
    Augusta Chronicle ^ | 11/6/2009 | AP
    Finally, Gen. Casimir Pulaski became an American, 230 years after the Polish nobleman died in Georgia fighting for what became the United States. President Barack Obama signed a joint resolution today of the Senate and the House of Representatives that made Pulaski an honorary citizen. Pulaski's contribution to the Americans' effort to leave the British Empire began with a flourish. He wrote a letter to Gen. George Washington, the Revolution's leader, with the declaration: "I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it." Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, whose home city of...
  • Poland votes against Israel war crimes investigation

    11/06/2009 8:15:52 AM PST · by Matt_Rel · 13 replies · 369+ views
    POLISH RADIO - EXTERNAL SERVICE ^ | Nov. 6, 2009 | (mmj)
    Poland votes against Israel war crimes investigationNov. 6, 2009 Poland has joined the United States in voting against a UN resolution to investigate alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza StripThe allegations were levied against Israel in the so-called Goldstone Report on the Gaza conflict earlier this year.Last month, Poland also voted against the Goldstone Report at the UN Human Rights Council. The report, released in September 2009, is a UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, led by Richard Goldstone of South Africa. The report, condemned by Israel for bias, accused both Palestinian militants and Israeli Defense Forces...
  • Fall Of The Wall? U.S. Sends Regrets

    11/04/2009 4:18:56 PM PST · by raptor22 · 30 replies · 1,377+ views
    Investors Business Daily ^ | November 4, 2009 | IBD editorial staff
    Cold War: The White House has announced our absence at ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Meanwhile, Russia has been practicing a nuclear invasion of an abandoned Poland. The Berlin Wall has been a famous backdrop for American presidents sounding the battle cry of liberty in the struggle against tyranny. It was there that John F. Kennedy expressed our solidarity with the encircled residents of that outpost of freedom with his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner." And it was there that Ronald Reagan, with a defiant "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," voiced our...
  • Over 60 tons of advanced arms and missiles found on vessel [Israel]

    11/04/2009 5:20:36 AM PST · by SJackson · 29 replies · 989+ views
    Special Navy forces discovered weapons and ammunition on a cargo ship overnight Tuesday, after boarding the Francop some 100 nautical miles west of Israel flying an Antiguan flag. Defense officials said the 140-meter long Francop, captured near Cyprus, was carrying arms sent by Iran and destined for Syria and Hizbullah. More than 60 tons of weaponry were on board, in dozens of containers. The Francop carried hundreds of containers. A significant amount of 122 mm. Katyusha rockets, likely made in Iran, assault rifles, mortar shells and grenades were found on board. Israel Radio reported that advanced anti-aircraft platforms not before...
  • Film about anti-Semitism in Poland sparks uproar By

    11/03/2009 3:03:59 PM PST · by Nachum · 13 replies · 330+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 11/3/09 | JACOB KANTER
    A film about the rise of anti-Semitic movements in Poland has recently been met with censure by members of the country's parliament and public. Hitler's Daughter, directed by Aro Korol and produced by Korol's London-based Awesome Industry, focuses on right-wing radio station Radio Maryja, as well as its founder, Tadeusz Rydzyk, a Roman Catholic priest. "Father Rydzyk sees no contradiction between wearing a collar and spreading his politics via satellite," Korol wrote on the film's Web site, hitlersdaughtermovie.com. "One of Radio Maryja's many anti-Semitic commentaries suggested that Jews were sabotaging the struggle of democracy in Ukraine and Belarus. The station...
  • Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland (Hope-N-Change for Eastern Europe)

    11/03/2009 1:05:00 PM PST · by mojito · 17 replies · 847+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | 11/2/2009 | Matthew Day
    Russia has provoked outrage in Poland by simulating an air and sea attack on the country during military exercises. The armed forces are said to have carried out "war games" in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practised an amphibious landing on the country's coast. Documents obtained by Wprost, one of Poland's leading news magazines, said the exercise was carried out in conjunction with soldiers from Belarus. The manoeuvres are thought to have been held in September and involved about 13,000 Russian and Belarusian troops. Poland, which has strained relations with both countries, was cast as the "potential aggressor"....
  • Talk radio powered by higher calling

    11/02/2009 6:43:38 PM PST · by Coleus · 1 replies · 175+ views
    northjersey.com ^ | 10.25.09 | EVONNE COUTROS
    The Rev. Pawel Franciszek Szurek is taking his message of Christian empowerment from the pulpit to the airwaves with a new show, "Change Your Attitude … Change Your Life," debuting this morning at 9 on New York-based The Apple 970 AM, a 50,000-watt conservative-talk radio station. Szurek — born in Krakow, Poland, and pastor for two years at St. Philip the Apostle Church in Clifton — never dreamed he'd rise to the level of The Apple. Szurek recently became an instant hit at a radio gig on WMTR 1250 AM by offering messages of spiritual strength, despite, he says, an...
  • From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 12 ˝ (1): Central Central Europe

    11/02/2009 6:38:50 AM PST · by ihatedemocrats · 1 replies · 142+ views
    The Brussels Journal ^ | Fri, 2009-07-31 20:22 | Takuan Seiyo
    These are not happy days for Americans, particularly if raised on traditional American values of Northern European provenance. Conscientious work as redemptive virtue, thrift, self-reliance, self-restraint, Biblical ethical principles, modesty, high-minded civic culture, love of liberty, distrust of centralized power, America’s ruling elite – once the embodiment of such values and now a putrid trench running from Wall Street to Madison Avenue to Washington DC to Hollywood -- has debauched and upended them as thoroughly as though it has been teleported directly from 3rd century Rome. It has deployed the full arsenal of Roman degeneration: unsustainable spending, shaving the coins...
  • Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland (Russia being herself)

    11/02/2009 3:07:37 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 34 replies · 947+ views
    Telegraph ^ | 11/01/09 | Matthew Day
    Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland Russia has provoked outrage in Poland by simulating an air and sea attack on the country during military exercises. By Matthew Day in Warsaw Published: 4:37PM GMT 01 Nov 2009 The armed forces are said to have carried out "war games" in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practised an amphibious landing on the country's coast. Documents obtained by Wprost, one of Poland's leading news magazines, said the exercise was carried out in conjunction with soldiers from Belarus. The manoeuvres are thought to have been held in September and involved about 13,000 Russian...
  • Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland

    11/01/2009 5:09:05 PM PST · by Konrad_PL · 10 replies · 670+ views
    telegraph.co.uk ^ | 4:37PM GMT 01 Nov 2009 | Matthew Day
    The armed forces are said to have carried out "war games" in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practised an amphibious landing on the country's coast. Documents obtained by Wprost, one of Poland's leading news magazines, said the exercise was carried out in conjunction with soldiers from Belarus. The manoeuvres are thought to have been held in September and involved about 13,000 Russian and Belarusian troops. The documents state the exercises, code-named "West", were officially classified as "defensive" but many of the operations appeared to have an offensive nature. more...
  • Tadeusz Kosciuszko: Premier Polish Patriot

    10/31/2009 8:26:55 PM PDT · by Coleus · 7 replies · 451+ views
    tna ^ | 10.02.09 | Charles Scaliger
    British General John Burgoyne must have been bitterly disappointed one day in July 1777 in the upper Hudson Valley — the day his army, hot in pursuit of the Americans they had just driven from Fort Ticonderoga, ran into a lake that wasn’t supposed to exist.  This part of upstate New York had already been thoroughly explored and mapped, yet the Redcoats, confident of speedily overtaking and finishing off the American force, suddenly found themselves blocked by a brand-new body of water where dry forest and field was supposed to provide swift passage. The British must have soon ascertained, as...
  • Botnet Attack on Polish Government Network

    10/30/2009 4:11:17 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 3 replies · 237+ views
    SPAMfighter ^ | 10/30/09
    According to security researchers, computer servers at the government institutions of Poland suffered a well-synchronized cyber attack, which was allegedly launched by Russian sources in September 2009. The details of this attack on the Polish government are not yet revealed, as reported by the daily Rzeczpospolita. The attack took place in the beginning of September, a particularly intense moment, near about Westerplatte visit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The purpose of his visit was to commemorate the outburst of the Second World War, as reported by NATIONAL on October 11, 2009. Meanwhile, security experts informed that generally botnets are...
  • Notorious SS unit 'traced'

    10/30/2009 8:13:48 AM PDT · by Arec Barrwin · 58 replies · 1,982+ views
    Daily Telegraph ^ | April 17, 2009 | Matthew Day
    Notorious SS unit 'traced' Polish authorities claim to have identified three survivors of an infamous SS unit that garnered a reputation for brutality that shocked even German wartime commanders. By Matthew Day in Warsaw Published: 5:47PM BST 17 Apr 2009 Prosecutors attached to Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), the body charged with investigating crimes committed during the war, have announced that they intend to bring the men to justice for their apparent involvement in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising while serving with the SS Dirlewanger Brigade. The unit, named after its leader Oscar Dirlewanger, comprised of criminals, the...
  • US warship fires at Polish coast in joint exercise

    10/29/2009 11:51:42 AM PDT · by lizol · 31 replies · 932+ views
    Press Tv ^ | Wed, 28 Oct 2009
    US warship fires at Polish coast in joint exercise Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:02:50 GMT The guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage An American destroyer has reportedly fired live rounds at the northern Polish coast while disposed of the combat-ready mode it had assumed during joint naval drills. The 250-crew guided-missile destroyer, USS Ramage, fired three shots at the port city of Gdynia, said spokesman for the Polish Military Gendarmerie, Marcin Wiacek, 'Russia Today' reported on Wednesday. Crewmembers and locals were being questioned on the incident which, according to preliminary data, caused no human or material losses. The warship had just partaken...
  • Communist-era files still haunt the old East Bloc

    10/26/2009 6:19:11 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 12 replies · 647+ views
    AP ^ | 2009-10-21 | William J. Kole
    BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Even his best friend betrayed him. Stelian Tanase found out when he asked to see the thick file that Romania's communist-era secret police had kept on him. The revelation nearly knocked the wind out of him: His closest pal was an informer who regularly told agents what Tanase was up to. "In a way, I haven't even recovered today," said Tanase, a novelist who was placed under surveillance and had his home bugged during the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's regime. "He was the one person on Earth I had the most faith in," he said. "And...
  • US to deploy Patriot missiles in Poland in 2010

    10/19/2009 1:15:41 PM PDT · by sonofstrangelove · 15 replies · 902+ views
    Space War ^ | 10/16/2009 | Staff Writers
    The United States will deploy ground-to-air Patriot missiles in Poland in 2010 and is discussing its plans for a new anti-missile system with Warsaw, a US defence official said Friday. "We presented some detailed information on how the rotations of our Patriot batteries would be conducted over the next few years under the August 2008 agreement" with Poland, US Assistant Secretary of Defence for International Security Alexander Vershbow said in Warsaw. "We look forward to the commencement of those rotations next year," Vershbow said following talks with Poland's Deputy Defence Minister Stanislaw Komorowski Friday ahead of next week's visit by...
  • Eucharistic Miracle: 2009?

    10/16/2009 2:11:04 PM PDT · by NYer · 41 replies · 1,122+ views
    NC Register ^ | October 15, 2009 | TIM DRAKE
    If reports from Poland are true, an alleged Eucharistic miracle that took place a year ago may have merit. According to a Polish blog, the Metropolitan Curia of Bialystok has announced the results of the investigation of an Ecclesial Commission appointed by Archbishop Edward Ozorowski on March 30, 2009. The original post (in Polish) can be found here. Father Andrzej Kakareko, Chancellor, writes that on October 12, 2008, a consecrated Host fell out of the hands of the priest distributing Holy Communion. The priest had it picked up and placed in the vasculum in the Tabernacle. After Mass, the vasculum...
  • Vladimir Putin, No Sanctions on Iran: Obama Sold Out Poland for Nothing

    10/15/2009 12:47:01 PM PDT · by lizol · 20 replies · 969+ views
    Right Pundits ^ | October 14th, 2009 | Beth Shaw
    Vladimir Putin, No Sanctions on Iran: Obama Sold Out Poland for Nothing By Beth Shaw It appears that Barack Obama sold out Poland for nothing. In spite of his preemptively giving in to Russia and promising to not use a missile shield to protect Poland and the Czech Republic, Vladimir Putin is saying no to sanctions on Iran. After all, how can we be absolutely 100% certain they are going to nuke us! Let’s just wait and see before we do anything. It seems the only preventative measures the United States can take against our enemies anymore is to give...
  • Possible Eucharistic Miracle in Poland

    10/14/2009 5:04:32 PM PDT · by magisterium · 10 replies · 654+ views
    An interesting report of a possible Eucharistic Miracle now being investigated in Poland. The link is to the discussion and comments from Fr. Zuhlsdorf's blog. The account is a translation into English by a Polish diocesan official, not from an official translation, so the English comes across as a bit "irregular" at times. Anyway, the account can be found here: http://wdtprs.com/blog/2009/10/possible-eucharistic-miracle-in-poland/
  • Obama’s Nobel ‘achievement’ was leaving Eastern Europe vulnerable to nuclear attack

    10/13/2009 11:57:28 AM PDT · by lizol · 13 replies · 450+ views
    The North Star National ^ | October 13th, 2009 | Dan Calabrese
    Thorbjorn Jagland: Obama’s Nobel ‘achievement’ was leaving Eastern Europe vulnerable to nuclear attack October 13th, 2009 Dan Calabrese And you thought President Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize without having done anything to earn it. Shows what you know. Thorbjorn Jagland, long-time vice president of Socialist International and chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, came out in public today in an attempt to answer the question on everyone’s lips since Friday: “For what?” One of the things Jagland mentioned specifically was Obama’s decision to welch on President Bush’s commitment to install missile shields in Poland and the Czech Republic...
  • Polish government sustains cyberattack (from Russian servers)

    10/11/2009 8:37:27 AM PDT · by lizol · 2 replies · 279+ views
    thenews.pl ^ | 11.10.2009
    Polish government sustains cyberattack 11.10.2009 10:10 Computer servers at Polish government institutions sustained a coordinated cyberattack in September, which allegedly came from sources in Russia. The daily Rzeczpospolita reports that the details of the attack are secret, but that they are suspected of having come from Russian computers. The attack took place during a particularly heated moment, at the beginning of the month, around the visit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to Westerplatte for the commemoration of the outbreak of World War II. Despite the details of the attack remaining classified, the daily reports that the attack was intended...
  • EU: President of Poland signs Lisbon Treaty

    10/10/2009 10:24:08 PM PDT · by bruinbirdman · 7 replies · 486+ views
    The Telegraph | 10/10/2009 | Matthew Day in Warsaw
    Lech Kaczynski, Poland’s president, has signed the Lisbon treaty, leaving the Czech Republic the only country yet to ratify the controversial European Union reform plan. Flanked by José Manuel Barroso, the head of the European commission, and the Polish president of the European parliament, Jerzy Buzek, Mr Kaczynski put his signature to the treaty in Warsaw. “The fact that the Irish people changed their minds meant the revival of the treaty, and there are no longer any obstacles to its ratification,” said Mr Kaczynski in a short speech, adding that it was a “historic” day for both Poland and the...
  • Pulaski, American citizen!

    10/09/2009 12:36:45 PM PDT · by lizol · 16 replies · 545+ views
    thenews.pl ^ | 09.10.2009
    Pulaski, American citizen! 09.10.2009 09:27 The US House of Representatives has unanimously passed a resolution to grant Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski honorary posthumous American citizenship for his service during the American Revolutionary War. The motion was put forward by Congressman Dennis Kucinich who described the Pole as ‘one of the great heroes of the American Revolution, a dedicated freedom fighter who deserves the highest recognition the United States can give to an immigrant war hero’. He added that he was honoured to join with other Members of Congress to help enshrine Pulaski’s memory with honorary posthumous citizenship. Alex Storozynski, President...
  • Stalin’s grandson blames Poland

    10/09/2009 12:32:49 PM PDT · by lizol · 21 replies · 659+ views
    thenews.pl ^ | 09.10.2009
    Stalin’s grandson blames Poland 09.10.2009 16:01 Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the grandson of Joseph Stalin, is suing an opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta and a civil rights society Memorial for defamation of the Soviet dictator and blaming Poland of having masterminded the libel. Yevgeny Dzhugashvili says that an article published in Novaya Gazeta, in cooperation with Memorial, is a lie. The article claims that Stalin personally ordered the deaths of thousands of Soviet and Polish citizens in Katyn. Stalin’s grandson, who was not present at the hearing in a Moscow court, is demanding 10 million ruble (23,000 euro) compensation for moral damage, claiming...
  • Polish president to sign EU treaty Sunday-aide

    10/08/2009 3:08:12 AM PDT · by myknowledge · 6 replies · 488+ views
    Reuters India ^ | October 8, 2009 | Gabriela Baczynska and Pawel Florkiewicz
    WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish President Lech Kaczynski will sign the European Union's Lisbon Treaty into law on Sunday October 11, a presidential aide said on Thursday. Poland and the Czech Republic are the only countries in the 27-member EU still to ratify the treaty after Irish voters overwhelmingly backed the document in a referendum last Friday. The treaty aims to streamline EU decision-making. It has to be ratified by all 27 member states to come into force. "The president keeps his word. He said he will sign the treaty with no delays if the Irish say 'yes'. On Sunday he...
  • Warsaw Ghetto uprising leader Edelman dies at 90

    10/05/2009 3:22:53 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 25 replies · 798+ views
    AP ^ | 2009-10-03
    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of WWII Warsaw Ghetto uprising, died Friday in Warsaw at the age of 90. Paula Sawicka told The Associated Press that Edelman died at her family's home at 2 p.m. EDT (1800GMT) of old age. "He died at home, among friends, among his close people," Sawicka said.
  • Russia practices war in the west (see pictures)

    10/05/2009 1:29:00 PM PDT · by lizol · 18 replies · 1,147+ views
    East Week ^ | September 30, 2009 | Andrzej Wilk
    Russia practices war in the west The last ten days of September have seen the final phase of the Zapad-2009 and Ladoga-2009 military exercises of the Russian Armed Forces in cooperation with the Belarusian army. The two drills were the largest exercises to be held on the western borders of Russia and Belarus since the end of the Cold War. The field exercices taking place in Russia and Belarus' border districts from Murmansk to Brest, in the Kaliningrad oblast and on the Baltic Sea featured a total of at least 30,000 soldiers and navy servicemen. From the military perspective, the...
  • Twenty first Podhale Rifles leave for Afghanistan (see pictures)

    10/04/2009 11:31:21 AM PDT · by lizol · 51 replies · 1,192+ views
    thenews.pl ^ | 01.10.2009
    Twenty first rifles leave for Afghanistan 01.10.2009 08:05 The sixth rotation of Polish forces in Afghanistan has begun with the departure of the 21st Podhale Rifles Brigade. The brigade left the south-eastern town of Rzeszow for its mission in Afghanistan, Tuesday afternoon. At an official departure ceremony, representatives from Poland’s Ministry of Defence and army officers were in attendance. The brigade are taking part in the sixth rotation of Polish forces in Afghanistan, and numbers 1200 soldiers, who will come back to Poland in six months’ time. The highlander soldiers have been in training since November last year for Poland’s...
  • Last leader of Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising dies at 87

    10/03/2009 7:50:57 AM PDT · by kingattax · 15 replies · 716+ views
    Reuters ^ | Oct 3, 2009 | Gabriela Baczynska
    WARSAW (Reuters) - The last leader of the wartime Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, Marek Edelman, died in Warsaw on Friday at the age of 87, friends said. Edelman was the last surviving leader of small Jewish militant groups which fought against the Nazis in 1943 when the occupiers moved to liquidate the ghetto. Jewish fighters were poorly armed and the uprising was crushed in a few weeks of fighting. "It's a very said day. He was a man of great character," said Szewach Weiss, former Isreali ambassador to Poland.
  • Obama worries Europe after Polish slight

    09/30/2009 12:53:26 AM PDT · by underthestreetlite · 9 replies · 606+ views
    Russia News Net ^ | 29 September 2009
    The American decision to back out of a Bush-administration agreement has Europe worried that Barack Obama may sacrifice Central Europe to repair relations with Russia. The Los Angeles Times has reported that the Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, said last week his country would now have to look inward rather to the US for security. Barack Obama in overturning the Bush-era plan for the missile shield in Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe caused memories of the Cold War to come flooding back in Poland, which was once the casualty of Russian domination. In Poland and among other members...
  • Send message to Polish embassy re missile shield - here is contact info

    09/28/2009 9:13:12 PM PDT · by doug from upland · 37 replies · 722+ views
    2640 16th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20009 phone: (202) 234 3800 - fax: (202) 328-6271 - telex: 089 480 polmision wsh email: embpol@dgs.dgsys.com Dear Mr. Ambassador: Dzień dobry. The Polish people have been great allies of the United States. We appreciate your sacrifices in the War on Terror and war in Iraq. We wanted to let you know that a great number of Americans oppose our president and his decision to turn his back on what was promised to you in good faith - a missile shield. We are working hard to get him to change his mind as well...
  • Anger in France and Poland after Polanski arrest

    09/27/2009 11:20:01 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 49 replies · 1,190+ views
    reuters ^ | Sun Sep 27, 2009
    PARIS, Sept 27 (Reuters) - France's political elite rallied to the defence of Roman Polanski on Sunday, calling on Switzerland to free the 76-year-old film director rather than extradite him to the United States. Artists and film makers also urged the release of Polanski, who faces charges of having sex with a girl of 13 in 1977, accusing Switzerland of being overzealous in pursuing the case. Polanski was due to receive a prize for his life's work at the Zurich Film Festival on Sunday, but was arrested on a 1978 U.S. arrest warrant after arriving in Switzerland on Saturday....
  • Musical tribute to Katyn

    09/27/2009 9:09:25 AM PDT · by lizol · 4 replies · 322+ views
    thenews.pl ^ | 17.09.2009
    Musical tribute to Katyn Rock musician Pawel Kukiz, leader of the band Piersi, has commemorated the victims of the Katyn massacre. Kukiz recorded the song, along with several others, as a form of expressing the truth rather than the falsification of history by presenting certain facts. Below is our English language translation of the song and see the video, too. 17 September (by Pawel Kukiz) A hen, not a bird, Poland – not abroad* So pour the vodka, Grisha, Because once you shoot, In the back of the head, It’s to the trench. Bodies thrown on bodies, Sasha, you must...
  • Why we do not like America: 20 reasons why we are better than the Americans [Poland retaliates]

    09/27/2009 8:32:07 AM PDT · by wolf78 · 107 replies · 2,200+ views
    EFAKT.PL via Google language tools ^ | 23.09.2009 | Jerzy Kubrak
    Complex of America? Not with us! Poles do not have the slightest reason to feel worse than the Americans. Quite the contrary. We are sending them to the head in almost every field. In our food is healthy - strawberry tastes like strawberry and tomato like tomato. And in the U.S.? Sam shocker! Americans wcinajÄ… Crap and the power of Tiya. How do they look? When you enter the elevator, wait for the next, so as not to be flattened on the cake. And that's not all. Presuming the citizens of the United States can only envy us ponadtysiÄ…cletniej history,...
  • Obama’s Delusionary March Toward Utopia

    09/27/2009 8:07:40 AM PDT · by lizol · 10 replies · 590+ views
    Obama’s Delusionary March Toward Utopia ^ | September 18, 2009 | Marek Magierowski
    Obama's Delusionary March Toward Utopia "The Americans have opted out of building an anti-missile system. … This may mean a chillier era in Polish-American relations. … The Kremlin killed several birds with one stone: U.S. soldiers will not appear 125 miles from Russia’s European border; 'Russia-phobic' Poland has been humiliated; and Moscow's prestige as an influential player has been boosted." By Marek Magierowski Translated By Halszka Czarnocka September 18, 2009 The Americans have opted out of building an anti-missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic for three reasons. First, they came to recognize that Iran will not soon be...