#wirtualna polska

[jamnickowa]

Gdzie się podziała tamta Wirtualna Polska?

Parafrazując słowa klasyka Wojciecha Gąssowskiego. Pani Eliza Michalik dostała pismo, w którym poproszono (?) Ją, aby przeprosiła wirtualną polskę. Kto wie, ten wie. Kto nie wie, niech, proszę, się dowie. Mną to wstrząsnęło do głębi(n). Już jakiś czas temu.

wp, dlaczego jesteście takimi c*ujkami?

[burningshellenberger]

[sebastianbenbenek]

Wielka delomologizacja

Stanisław Lem przewidział wszystko co nas otacza. Mit ten będzie pokutował tym bardziej, im bardziej zanikać będzie sztuka czytania. Polski fantasta nie przewidzi absolutnie niczego. Continue reading Wielka delomologizacja

[mariacallous]

Use of the Pegasus spyware by the previous Polish government appears to be much wider than initially suspected, according to officials in the run-up to the launch on February 19 of a parliamentary commission set up to investigate the use of such surveillance technology.

Among the many new suspected cases are journalists, one of the commission officials said.

Based on revelations by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, Polish media and a Senate commission looking into this matter, the Polish public is aware of around 10-15 cases of spying with Pegasus, some better documented and proven than others. The Senate has confirmed 14 such cases.

Among the documented cases are those of key politicians in the liberal camp, for example parliamentarian Krzysztof Brejza, who was spied on while heading the election campaign for Civic Platform, Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s party.

Poland is one of dozens of countries whose governments are believed to have purchased the powerful spyware from the Israeli cyber-arms company NSO Group and used it to spy illegally on its citizens, including opposition politicians and journalists. An international investigation led by a non-profit media organisation, Forbidden Stories, established in 2021 that it had been used against more than 50,000 phone numbers in more than 20 countries around the world.

On Monday, Tusk said during a meeting of the government with President Andrzej Duda that “the list of the victims of those practices is unfortunately very, very long”. The prime minister said he would send Duda “complete documents” about the issue.

No such list has been made public so far, and Gazeta Wyborcza reported that, based on sources in Tusk’s party, only the prime minister and a few people in his inner circle could be in possession of such a document.

In an interview with Wirtualna Polska on Wednesday, Marcin Bosacki, a Civic Platform MP and vice president of the new Sejm commission, who also headed the previous Senate one, was pressed to specify how many victims of Pegasus he was aware of in Poland.

Bosacki denied being in possession of any full list, but said that, based on his knowledge of the matter, it could include hundreds of people, out of which “over a hundred” were likely surveilled “without grounds”. The list included journalists too, Bosacki added. So far, among the known victims of Pegasus in Poland, there is only one blogger.

Bosacki explained that there were ongoing investigations about the use of Pegasus by the national prosecutor’s office as well as internally at the various intelligence agencies. Bosacki stated that the goals of these inquiries were to determine whether Pegasus was used legally at all in Poland – something he said is unlikely – as well as to identify the victims so they can be informed.

“PiS politicians I speak to on the Sejm corridors are expressing fears that Pegasus was bought, among others, to collect ‘hooks’ [to use for blackmail later] on politicians from the PiS camp itself,” Bosacki said in the interview with Wirtualna Polska.

Further new information presented by Tusk on Monday concerned the purchase of the Pegasus software, which the prime minister said was signed off on by the previous justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, himself.

It has already been established that the Anti-Corruption Agency purchased the spyware in 2017 for 25 million zloty (about 5.5 million euros) using money from the Solidarity Fund, which was established by the Ministry of Justice to support victims of violence but was later proven to be used widely to illegally channel funds to allies of the previous nationalist-populist government.

[beardedmrbean]

Compulsory, graded homework will be abolished in Poland’s primary schools from April, education minister Barbara Nowacka has announced, fulfilling a pre-election election promise by her party. She hopes that in future secondary school pupils will also no longer receive homework.

Nowacka, who took office last month as part of the new government led by Donald Tusk, also reiterated earlier pledges to slim down the curriculum and focus more on “critical thinking, not learning everything by heart”, as well as to reduce the number of Catholic catechism classes and increase teachers’ pay.

The pledge to abolish homework in primary schools was included in the 100 promises announced by Tusk last September ahead of elections and was then included in the coalition agreement his Civic Coalition (KO) signed with two other groups in November, paving the way for them to form a new government.

In an interview today with news website Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka, who is from KO, confirmed that the plans are moving ahead.

“What is needed is a move away from compulsory and graded homework and from the beginning of April such a regulation will be in place,” she said, referring to primary schools, which in Poland children usually attend between the aged of 7 and 15.

Her pledge was also later repeated by Tusk, who shared a video clarifying that for grades 1 to 3 in primary school there would no longer be any homework and for older age groups only those who want to do extra work at home would be given it and it would not count towards their grades.

Nowacka said that currently primary school pupils have “an excess of things to learn, to memorise, also at home, at the expense of free time, at the expense of extra-curricular activities, at the expense of meeting friends”.

The minister also noted that often parents are expected to help with large projects given to their children that have to be completed by the next day.

Nowacka said that, in the case of high schools, which pupils attend from age 15 to 19, homework would be maintained for the time being. But she added her belief “that after a few years of no homework in primary schools, in secondary schools this too will be abolished”.

Her ideas were, however, criticised by former education minister Anna Zalewska, from the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party. Abolishing homework would reduce teachers’ freedom to choose their methods and would fail to prepare students for the realities of the labour market, said Zalewska.

In her interview with Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka said that other work was also underway to ease the burden on students and teachers, including slimming down the core curriculum because “recent years have seen an exponential overabundance of information”.

“Twenty percent of what has been forced on children to know will be removed, because most of this knowledge is redundant and unnecessary,” Nowacka told Wirtualna Polska. “Critical thinking is needed today, not learning everything by heart.”

Initially, the reduction in the school programme will apply to subjects such as Polish, history, social studies and natural sciences, but the education minister assured that this does not mean a reduction in the number of hours. _________________________________

Submitted by @thejdog2000

This looks wonderful, "exponential overabundance of information" is a good phrase to describe where we are at currently. I don't think there's ever been a point in my life where knowing that Albany is the capital of NY was needed, but boy howdy they made sure I knew that along with all the others for some reason.

Get the kids equipped for life and if they want to learn other stuff on their own, the internet is there as is the library.

She underlined that what would be removed from the core curriculum would be decided by experts, not her. “The days of one-man decisions by the minister are over,” she said, referring to her controversial predecessor Przemyslaw Czarnek.

The burden on pupils is also supposed to be eased by reducing the number of Catholic catechism classes in schools, said Nowacka.

Last month, on the day she took office, the new minister outlined plans to halve the number of such classes, which are optional but taken by most children, from two hours to one hour a week, to ensure they always take place at the start or end of the school day, and to remove them from end-of-year grade averages.

Speaking today to Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka said that she personally is “in favour of a secular state” where religious classes do not take place in public schools.

“But after hundreds of conversations with parents, I am able to accept that it is convenient for some of them that their children can attend religion at school,” she said. “The task of a minister is not to implement all his or her views, but to take care of social dialogue.”

The minister also said in the interview that teachers would get the promised 30-33% increases, which were included in the government’s 2024 budget, from March, not February as previously planned.

She blamed the delays on the decision by President Andrzej Duda, a PiS ally, to “toy with vetoing a budget-related law” last month. But she said that once the pay rises are introduced they will be backdated to January.

Raising teachers’ pay was another of the pre-election pledges made by Tusk. Research published by the European Commission in 2022 showed that Polish teachers are among the lowest paid in the European Union, even when taking into account the cost of living.

[lady-nightmare]

Google translation:

The expert talks about ordinary Russians. "They start behaving in a scary way"

The former Polish ambassador in Moscow told Wirtualna Polska about what ordinary Russians are like today. It turns out that we really don't know much about this nation yet. Włodzimierz Marciniak also talked about his vision of the future of Russia. The mood in this country is very worrying.

Russia has always based its policy on fear and threats. Many of us think that this country is remote and hostile. The success of Russian propaganda was to create a belief among others that they should be afraid of it. The situation changed in February 2022. After the invasion of Ukraine began, weaknesses came to light, gigantic corruption in the power structures, and above all, lies about its own military power.

Today in Russia, few people see the power, but it still inspires fear. Although we know quite a lot about this country, how well do we know the Russians themselves? Włodzimierz Marciniak, a sovietologist and former ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Moscow, talks about what the Russian nation really is like. As he claims, "in every stereotype we will find a particle of truth."

He knows Russian society inside out. "Programmed submission to expected terror"

Russians are educated but inhumane Russians are an uneducated, backward, cruel nation - we can meet such opinions about our neighbors very often. Negative sentiment is fueled by the fact that Russia has been conducting a brutal invasion of Ukraine for several months.

It is a country of highly educated people who look at social issues mainly from a technical nature - says Marciniak. - The phenomenon of the Soviet system was that a huge part of society was educated in conditions of lack of freedom of speech - he points out.

"In Russia, a man is a wolf to man" Russia is a country with over 143 million citizens. Its area could accommodate almost two Europes, and the entire country stretches across nine time zones. Włodzimierz Marciniak points out that there is no way to define Russians as a unity. The same applies to support for the actions of the Kremlin.

Russian society is extremely stratified. The degree of polarization in terms of property is huge, the expert points out. - Various sociological studies show that support for the war was clearly related to material status. Well-to-do people were willing to accept government policies, he adds.

The former ambassador reminds that in Russia the power was always held by those who could show strength.

Beliefs have formed that only individual survival strategies are justified and proven. When all people follow their own selfish motives, the strongest will always win. It can be interpreted that they need it. If there is no order, someone will naturally impose this order by fist, subordinating everyone to their own interests - says Włodzimierz Marciniak.

Russia is an extremely atomized society, man is a wolf to man - he adds.

At the same time, Marciniak points out that it cannot be said that the invasion of Ukraine is only "Putin's war". According to his words, nothing happens without permission.

Wondering if this is Putin's or the Russians' war, it makes little sense. The society is ruled by a dictator, but there is some synergy and a kind of shaky harmony between these parties, the expert said.

"A Russian sees his flaws in Poles" Włodzimierz Marciniak also talks about the attitude of Russians towards Poles. As he claims, the Russians need approval and respect to consider others as allies.

This society is a collection of narcissists. They are delighted with each other. Others are good when they admire them, says the sovietologist.

The man addressed historical issues between our nations. As he claims, the Russians never treated us as "one of them" - even when for half a century Poland was forced to be a political ally of the USSR.

Poles are not a mirror for a Russian. A Russian sees his flaws in Poles - says Włodzimierz Marciniak. - The Russians have always known that Poland is something else, that we are different - he adds.

What is the future of Russia? "Each version is worse than the last" Nothing indicates that Russia will change its political course and cease to be the opposite pole for the West. There is more and more talk that we are entering the era of "Cold War 2.0". Sovietologist Włodzimierz Marciniak also told Wirtualna Polska about his vision of the future for Russia. She is quite disturbing.

I have a feeling that something will emerge from this war that hasn't been there yet and will not be a repeat of the totalitarian USSR and I do not rule out that something even worse - he says. - In successive versions of the Russian imperial entity, each successive one is worse than the previous one. The one that emerges now could be even worse, he adds.

Marciniak notes that Russian writers described the already existing and changing nightmarish reality of Russia. Over the centuries, the way regimes functioned evolved, but retained similarities. - This system of repression is getting tougher, but it is still not massive - assesses Włodzimierz Marciniak.

If you look at Putin's biography, without the element of a criminal past, we will not understand this system of government at all. Something like an organized crime group has been taken over by the state - informs the expert.

"Their goal is to get rich, like any mafia," he adds.

The future of Russia in black colors

"Once, people who seemed decent - including those I knew personally - start behaving in a terrifying way," Marciniak admits during the conversation. - My friends used to speak human language and were considered liberals, today they say terrible things - adds the former Polish ambassador in Moscow.

Everyone has an instinct for self-preservation, and today's system is heading towards a "digital gulag", where instead of guards, barbed wire and dogs, electronic systems will perform the same functions as they do - he says.

Everyone thinks to save their own skin, but historical experience should suggest that if this roller starts rolling, it will crush everyone - sums up the sovietologist Włodzimierz Marciniak for WP.

[ukrpress]

Большинство поляков считают, что отношения между Польшей и Украиной ухудшились

Об этом свидетельствуют данные исследования United Surveys для издания Wirtualna Polska По данным опроса, 43,6% поляков считает, что отношения между странами “скорее ухудшились” и 17,7% респондентов ответили, что они “однозначно ухудшились”. Ответ “скорее улучшились” выбрали 7,8% опрошенных и только 0,1% считают, что польско-украинские отношения “однозначно улучшились”. Также 21,9% респондентов…

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Poland says no 'external force' behind fatal arms plant explosion

There was no “external force” behind an explosion and fire at a Polish arms plant that killed one person, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on June 10, in comments reported by Wirtualna Polska. Source : kyivindependent.com/poland-sa…

[braksodont]

Wirtualna Polska i kasa od Ziobry

[archiveosorg]

Spik

Spik – an instant messenger of Wirtualna Polska, the successor to wpkontakt https://archiveapp.org/spik/

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[ad_1] 0:53 Your browser does not support the audio element. 01.09.2023 06:57 Население Украины приходит в ужас от результатов контрнаступления ВСУ, рассказал волонтёр из Польши Славомир Высоцкий. Фото: "Volodymyr Zelenskyy took part in hoisting the State Flag of Ukraine in liberated Kherson." by President Of Ukraine is marked with CC0 1.0. По его словам, украинская армия несёт огромные потери, а западное вооружение совершенно не оправдало возложенных на него Киевом надежд. "Человеческие потери с украинской стороны огромны. Западная техника горит как спички. Всё гораздо хуже, чем нам показывают", — цитирует мужчину издание Wirtualna Polska. Моральный дух ВСУ также оставляет желать лучшего, добавил Высоцкий. Солдаты видят количество новых могил на украинских кладбищах и отказываются отправляться на передовую. Поляк дополнительно отметил кратно лучшую выучку и оснащение российских подразделений, которые "основательно подготовились" к ведению боевых действий. Автор Антон Уткин Антон Уткин — журналист, корреспондент новостной службы Правды.Ру Куратор Любовь Степушова Любовь Александровна Степушова — обозреватель Правды.Ру * [ad_2]

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Польша помогла разминировать Киевскую область - Ostwest TV

https://t.me/open_society_news/7231?single&comment=17860

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In some buses in my city are screens that display news, advertising, etc. There are also slightly longer informative pieces about diet, cooking, whatever. Usually light topics.

But what was one such piece about this week? “What happens to the human body before death“, illustrated with scenes of young people lying too long in bed, being in pain, some dramatic shower, looking sad/depressed.

“Did you have to do such a report?“ or “Why“ or “Who greenlighted this“ doesn’t even begin to cover this.

Wirtualna Polska, ja rozumiem, że musicie o czymś robić te materiały, ale może tak lepszy dobór obrazów do treści??? Albo nie w komunikacji miejskiej?? Albo w innym tonie???

[zyciestolicy]

Trzaskowski: Kopacz jako jedyna miała odwagę polecieć do Smoleńska

Trzaskowski: Kopacz jako jedyna miała odwagę polecieć do Smoleńska

W opublikowanej w poniedziałek rozmowie Trzaskowski podkreślił, że “na serio traktuje swoje zobowiązania wobec ruchu Wspólna Polska”. Dodał, że “w najbliższych miesiącach będzie o nim znacznie głośniej”. Rafał Trzaskowski ocenił w wywiadzie, że po katastrofie smoleńskiej nie wszystko w administracji państwowej zadziałało tak, jak powinno. Równocześnie ocenił, że “PiS nie zrobiłby tego…

[lady-nightmare]

Google translation:

Unbelievable what the Russian asked the Pole on TV

The razing of Berlin, a nuclear strike on London or the seizure of Warsaw - these are some of the few absurd threats that have recently been made in the Russian state media. Robert Pszczel told Wirtualna Polska about what the "Kremlin's media industry" looks like from the inside. The diplomat took part in in the broadcasts of Vladimir Soloviev. Years ago, Robert Pszczel appeared in the Russian state media, including in Solovyov's programs.

Propaganda and Russian media have been considered synonymous for years. Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has only reinforced the intensity and absurdity of the accusations that Kremlin propagandists produce every day.

Robert Pszczel, former head of the NATO Information Office in Moscow (2010-2015) and an expert of the Pulaski Foundation, had the opportunity to observe closely how the news of the day is prepared, how the most famous programs are created and what is the operating pattern of their creators. The Pole performed years ago, among others in with the greatest propagandists of the regime, such as Soloviev or Skabaev, which, as he himself admits, was not easy.

There was always a dilemma, although less than with friends from the Russian opposition. Faustian dilemma, because if you don't go, you have no chance of reaching 20 million people. Because of my job, I thought that if you can get through with the facts about NATO, it's worth doing. It wasn't a pleasant experience, he said.

It impressed me. I even sought medical advice on how to endure it, because it's a lot of stress. But the main thing is to be aware of what you are participating in. If I went to programs with the feeling that I could change Russia, I would be an extremely naive person. However, with the understanding that it is difficult, one should not be a defeatist that these Russians cannot be reached at all, said the diplomat in the Wirtualna Polska "Newsroom" program.

Pszczel emphasized that the invitations he received were not accidental. The authors wanted a representative of NATO to appear in the studio, and by the way of Poland, who could be attacked intensively. - NATO has always been a ball that is good to kick. But the depiction of the Alliance has always been a derivative of the state of relations with the West. And Poland was a bone in the throat for historical reasons. Russians from official circles did not allow themselves to be thick-skinned. As soon as someone said something, it was immediately toned down. But that has changed, he said.

The diplomat emphasized that the scheme of all programs is similar and resembles a "fight in the ring". - There are more people in the studio, the kind of clappers who know what to shout. Guests stand around a table where there are usually seven people. They all shout over each other, oppose each other, they don't let it end," he said.

The second thing is that these people are characterized by extremely far-reaching hypocrisy - they said different things in the program, and allowed themselves to make other remarks, for example, during the break. There was one such aggressive propagandist who told me how rotten the West was, and during the break he asked me if there was any chance for any grants. This is the norm, the diplomat reported.

As an example of hypocrisy, Pszczel also cited a story with one of the most famous Russian politicians of recent decades, the late Vladimir Zhirinovsky. - To put it in quotation marks, he liked me. Because he always wanted someone to yell at.

It was 2014, when they were downloading the so-called opołczeńców, i.e. separatists whom Russia supported in Donbas, who cried that Ukraine was so bad. And Zhirinovsky cherished one such person, pointing his finger at me and saying how terrible NATO is, how it destroys such people, and they live there without bread and water. And then, during the break, he invited the man he was defending to refreshments, telling him to "go away" because he didn't need him. It is a cynical world of people who are quite intelligent, like Soloviev, who are able to lie with all their heart, Pszczel reported.

The diplomat emphasized that the propaganda stars of the programs, such as Soloviev or Skabayeva, were only part of the whole machine. - There is a lot of talk about Soloviev, but there are roles written there. There are people who run it, there are people who write scripts. Once a week, I have seen it myself, there is a written instruction from the Kremlin as to what the main message of the day or week is. I saw these one which are primitive, concerning Ukraine. And there are people invited who are supposed to be such clappers, pretending to be experts. They are meant to offend. They take really big money for it - he emphasized and added that in one of the cases, after he had dealt well with the attack, Soloviev went to help his "opponent". He worked in Russia. He argues that propaganda can only gain strength

The former head of the NATO Information Office admitted that while the activity of "certified clowns" has increased with the war, the situation may be getting worse.

“The problem is that the Russians are very good at dealing with complete odds. I met people who were pro-Western, liked to earn money, had a communist party card and hung icons on the walls. But they've been practicing it for years.

I'm worried about the younger generation. The older one is still aware of all this. But the younger, because of the media, education reason that the world is like this, that Putin's nonsense has a reason and cannot be questioned. It is a sick society, as the Russians I know say it themselves, summed up the Pulaski Foundation expert pessimistically.