BEYOND POPULAR PROPAGANDA

Propaganda offensive played role in increasing sanctions on Iranian regime

2011-11-04T13:55:00.001-07:00

Israel and the United States may successfully harm Teheran through the overt propaganda operation. It was launched last week by Israeli daily Yediot Ahoronot. And it was carried by Israeli politicians for few days. It appears to be coordinated effort of Israel and the Western states. All parties want to avoid another costly and unnecessary military conflict in the Middle East. Therefore they

Poland supports Israel during current crisis

2011-09-20T07:43:00.000-07:00

Poland will not participate in a shameful vote over so-called Palestinian state at the United Nations on Thursday, September 22nd. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk clearly stated that Polish government will not send its representative to that meeting. “If the content of the resolution can be negotiated so that it moves the Palestinian matter forward and not pose a threat to Israel, and it

Arab Spring unlike Solidarity Summer

2011-09-19T08:10:00.000-07:00

Solidarity leader Lech Walesa leads shipyard workers in prayer Big Peace published my article on the Christian origins of transformation in Poland. I tried to point at the difference between the Solidarity movement and the Arab revolutions. Here is an excerpt. the Solidarity movement was not aimed against anybody. Its first goal was to unite and reconcile people fragmented and isolated by the

Gorbachev praises Obama and admits that he did his best to save Soviet Union

2011-05-31T11:25:00.000-07:00

An amazing interview with the top communist apparatchik Mikhail Gorbachev. He repeats, although this time quite clearly, that in fact he was fighting to keep the Soviet Union alive. He did his best to defend the Soviet Union. Gorbachev explains that perestroika succeeded but it was disrupted. Soviet Union "could have existed longer today as the community of the sovereign states". As a good

Walesa rejected Obama because US President favors Russia over Central Europe

2011-05-29T03:36:00.000-07:00

Legendary Polish Solidarity leader and co-founder Lech Walesa did not agree to meet the President of the United States, Barack Obama on Saturday afternoon. Walesa said: "It does not suit me" answering a journalist why he was not going to talk to Barack Obama. Lech Walesa in the interview for a national newspaper added that he does not have time. According to the source, who spoke under the

Historic speech, profound statements

2011-05-24T23:32:00.000-07:00

He was applauded 57 times. He deserved it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his historic speech in the presence of the United States Congressmen. I think it is comparable to Reagan's Berlin Wall speech in 1988. It had so many profound statements. TRANSCRIPT The full speech to a Joint Meeting of the United States Congress - הנאום המלא בפני הקונגרס האמריקני by Benjamin Netanyahu

Russian communists support Gaddafi and inadvertently reveal their inglorious past

2011-05-23T13:09:00.000-07:00

Paranoid Russian anti-Americanism resulted in the glorification of Muammar Gaddafi. During recent the Victory Day parade a group of the pro-Putin supporters hold banners with the slogans about "Revolutionary Gaddafi". One of the banners read: "They reached Brest and we will get to Benghazi. Glory to the Antifascists of the Muammar Gaddafi". However this slogan shows the degree of the confusion

Propaganda slogans in the debate about the Middle East. Where Palestine is located?

2011-05-20T12:51:00.000-07:00

Who can challenge the rights of the Jews to Palestine? Good Lord, historically, it is really your country. - Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, Mayor of Jerusalem, in 1899. Jordan is a home of the resettled Arabs The amateurish and empty speech of president Barack Obama on the Middle East policy shows that the White House prefers the propaganda slogans to facts. Let us start from the fundamental slogan:

New speak: "the Public Interest", "the Social Justice" or "the Change"

2011-05-13T14:01:00.000-07:00

In the Soviet Neo-Collonial Empire or as Great President Reagan put it the Empire of Evil words had no meaning. The Communist Party leaders of different levels and by extension the Government used new-speak. A language that was not meant to be a means of communication but an instrument of the Empire's policy. The Communist propaganda in more or less subtle form twisted meaning of the words every

Is Poland's the debt to GDP ratio already unmanageable?

2011-05-06T09:21:00.000-07:00

The United States have its own reasons to be concerned about future of their economy. However recent estimates show that so-called the new economies in Central Europe, not affected by the crisis, are also in the urgent need of repair. According to the analysts from the Bank of International Settlements the debt to GDP ratio of the major Western governments will inrease over 200 percent without

A crisis of the Max Weber view on the economy

2011-05-05T10:14:00.000-07:00

While Chinese economists are studying Christian roots of the capitalist system American believers have more doubts about it. A new survey claims that significant ammount of Christians rethought their view on the capitalist philosophy. According to the survey, conducted by Public Religion Research Institute, only 38% believe capitalism and the free market are consistent with Christian values while

Chinese debate on values in the market economy

2011-04-26T01:41:00.000-07:00

This essay by Chinese prominent economist, which appeared at the beginnning of the last decade, is being reread anew. Partly because an interest in the Protestant work ethic is growing among youth. But also that China is looking for a new economic and social strategy, which can help to increase influence on a global affairs. That debate is not being widely transmitted in Western media. But it

Russian nuclear physicist calls comparison of Japan to Chernobyl a misinformation

2011-03-16T10:01:00.000-07:00

Today, a small distraction from the situation of Polish economy. This blog is trying to de-code propaganda themes in the world media. Majority of them are intended to stir up emotions in people to make them buy their local or national newspaper. Unfortunately frequently people are scared for a long time and media managers happy to sell their twisted stories to them. In recent days the strongest

Poland experiences goodness of carbon tax: electricity the most expensive in EU

2011-03-11T11:12:00.000-08:00

Not long ago Polish politicians, who steer the country declared that free market is the solution for the economic problems. Their supporters thought that they won their prize in casino but it appears that in reality they lost in Russian roulette. Once Civic Platform (led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk and FM Radek Sikorski - former employee of American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC)

Poland has almost the worst unemployment rate in EU after Greece and Spain

2011-02-28T20:15:00.000-08:00

Poland is losing economically or its economic foundation was not solid? One should know that Polish state's institutions were left unchanged from the final day of the communism. Walls were repainted, new furnitures arrived and even computers here and there appeared in the state's bureaucracy offices. However philosophy of government and what is more important the mentality of the people mirrors

Polish banks in trouble

2011-02-13T20:04:00.000-08:00

Polish banks have the same problems, which their western parent organizations. At least five banks operating on Polish market will disappear soon. Among those intended to be sold are five linked to Greek, Spain or Portuguese. The situation changes very fast because only few days ago week BCP bank, which owns Polish Millenium bank meant to be sold, said that Warsaw bank is one of their strategic

Polish economy in Jan 2011 among the slowest growing in C. Europe

2011-02-11T18:12:00.001-08:00

Central Europe countries may be in trouble again if high inflation will cause an increase of interest rates - says European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the recently published the report:Regional Economic Prospects in EBRD Countries of Operations: January 2011 (Polish Council for the Monetary Policy has already increased interest rates in January 2011).In January 2011 Polish GDP (

Every 5th Pole is bankrupted

2011-02-11T02:15:00.000-08:00

According to the TNS-OBOP survey, 55 percent of Poles remains in debt. Almost 36 percent took money from bank to be able to pay bills and food. More and more families have difficulty with paying for gas, electricity, rent and food. And 17 percent of families spend more than half of their income for that.By the end of December almost 2 mln were registered as bankrupted in the Homeland Registry of

Polish government lowers public debt... on paper.

2011-02-10T10:54:00.000-08:00

Polish Ministry of Finance spent Euro 4 bln of reserves to decrease the debt for EU Commission approval. Thanks to this intervention the level of the debt looked better on the paper than in reality.Few days before New Year the debt was 53 percent of GDP. Although earlier, there were speculations whether the debt will not grow more than 55 percent of GDP (the second threshold for public debt,

Jobs lost in Poland

2011-02-09T01:59:00.000-08:00

Unemployment rate increased to 13.1 percent according to the Ministry of Labor. It was 0.8 percent growth from December 2010. There were 2 111 600 unemployed by the end of January 2010. Unemployment increased in all of regions in Poland. In December 2010 umployment increased about 0.6 percent from the previous month.

Statement about the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, Anna Walentynowicz, Władysław Stasiak, and scores of Poland’s nati

2010-04-14T17:05:00.000-07:00

April 10th, 2010Speaker Newt Gingrich made the following statement today about the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, Anna Walentynowicz, Władysław Stasiak, and scores of Poland’s national leaders and leading citizens: Callista and I grieve with the Polish nation today upon learning of the loss of so many dear Polish lives. Throughout history, Poland has struggled on

Bond test for Greece - and EU too

2010-02-20T18:49:00.000-08:00

Information from WSJ (courtesy Business Week) is good to read along with testimony given by prof. Simon Johnson to Budget Committee about possible developments on European financial markets on the long run and in short time. He predicts repeat of speculative attack from 1997 on public debt - this time it won't be Asian countries but PIIGS. Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Eastern European investor

Immanent failure in euro mechanism

2010-02-19T11:39:00.000-08:00

Size and depth of financial crisis in Europe is still unknown. Commentators put their attention on Greek mess. But Greek minister of finance revealed that "the kind of derivatives contracts reported by some newspapers were legal at that time, Greece was not the only country to use them... They were made illegal, [and] we have not used them since then." Questions remains what countries used the

Volcker on the Economy - CNBC.com

2009-11-25T06:59:00.000-08:00

Volcker on the Economy - CNBC.com

Czechs tighten the belt - prosperity pre-crisis not to return

2009-09-29T23:39:00.000-07:00

After Hungarians radical reforms, Czechs reduce spending and increase taxes (The Czech lower house of parliament approved a $4 billion package of tax hikes and spending cuts on Friday). Mojmir Hampl, Deputy Governor of Czech Central Bank said it is sign of responsibility. Hampl says that Czech economy will encounter another recession in 2010. Speaking at the Reuters Central and Eastern Europe