wybuchowych trwa. Na terytoriach barbarzyncow NATO oczyszcza Afganistan, USA zajelo sie Bagdadem i Izrael Libanem. W swiecie cywilizowanym po sukcesach Kanady i USA teraz i Brytyjczykom udalo sie udaremnic wybuchowcom planowane ataki terrorystyczne.
Patrze na zdjecie Yasira Khana, dwudziestokilkuletniego brytyjskiego ochotnika, ktory zginal ostatnio od amerykanskiej bomby w Kabulu. Ubrany jest w czarny podkoszulek z napisem: "ISLAM. Ostateczne objawienie. Ostateczne przeslanie. Ostateczny system. Ostateczny podboj". Trudno nie skojarzyc tego z innymi "ostatecznymi rozwiazaniami (Joanna Tokarska-Bakie, "Wstyd i przemoc", TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY).
Blogging the conflict in Lebanon (BBC NEWS - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4775393.stm).
Polish twins raise political alarm at EU
President, sibling Prime Minister 'radical' additions to government
BY KATE CONNOLLY
BERLIN * The latest clash between the European Union and Poland's government, headed by the troublesome Kaczynski twins, Lech (the President) and Jaroslaw (the Prime Minister), has reinforced the fears that, rather than bringing a fresh and forward-looking perspective to the club, Poland is increasingly playing the role of the introspective and unrealiable partner.
Tha President Lech - the younger by 45 minutes - has suggested the EU should reconsider its ban on the death penalty has alarmed other members. In so doing, he has deliberately attacked one of the core values held dear from Reykjavik to Athens and seen as a condition of membership to a union that Poland joined amid high hopes just two years ago.
Jaroslaw - who was brought into power by his sibling last month - swiftly came to Lech's defence, saying that it was his "private opinion" and "we're not aiming to make any such proposal right now."
But the words "right now" have rung alarm bells in some quarters. How many politicians have managed to turn "private opinion" into public policy? And with more than 70% of Poles said to be in favour of capital punishment, there is a political furrow ready and waiting to be ploughed.
With local elections due in Poland this autumn, it is clear to domestic observers that the stout and silver-haired brothers - who came to fame as the age of five when they starred in a film - are already on the compaign trail.
The junior partners to their Law and Justice party (PiS), the right-wing nationalist party Self-
defence - whose leader has praised Hitler and counts Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko as a friend - and the ultra-Catholic League of Polish Families are doing poorly in the polls. The death penalty topic now forms the main plank of their populist campaign.
The brothers also know that the concept of the strong man Poland standing up to the evil outside goes down well with the electorate and also helps to divert from other more pressing issues, such as Poland's 18% unemployment rate.
Yet the EU's largest new member is attracting increasing condemnation and ridicule amid the twins' regular colourful expression of their extremist views on issues from homosexuality - which they equate with pedophilia - to anti-Semitism, racism and the slighting of most minorites.
"We are radical," admits Jaroslaw, an eccentric, cat-loving bachelor who is said to be distinguishable form his brother only on the occasions that he forgets to brush the cat hairs off his trousers. "Poland needs a certain amount of radicalism to change and cleanse."
The EU, say the brolthers, is a threat because of its overly liberal, Western-oriented, anti-Catholic ways, which have so far made no room for Poland's Catholic conservatism.
The Daily Telegraph (NATIONAL POST, Wednesday, August 9, 2006).
Agencja DEA posiada swe biura w 50 krajach. Uruchomienie biura w Warszawie jest kontynuacja wspolpracy, jaka w walce z handlem narkotykami prowadzi od kilku lat polska policja z amerykanskim Federacyjnym Biurem Sledczym ("Narkotykom stop", THE POLONIA PORTAL - http://expatpol.com/index.php?stsid=29506).
"Ameryka jest w stanie wojny z islamskimi faszystami, ktorzy chca zniszczyc nasza wolnosc" - prez. George Bush.
24 wybuchowcow Brytyjska policja juz schwytala. Chcieli wysadzac samoloty plynnymi materialami wybuchowymi i zapalnikami zrobionymi z elektronicznych gadgetow.
London was scarred by yet another demonstration last weekend by the Left-Islamic alliance. The most chilling aspect was the drumbeat chant of the demonstrators: "We are all Hezbollah."
What on earth does that mean? That the Hezbollah wannabes identify with Taliban-style Islamism? That they support the death sentence for adulterers, homosexuals and "dishonourable" women? That they endorse the denial of education to girls and embrace prescribed forms of violence against disobedient wives? That they subscribe to the violent destruction of the Jewish state and attacks against Jews worldwide? (Douglas Davis in London, "Hanging Europe's Jews out to dry", NATIONAL POST, Thursday, August 10, 2006).
A photo worth 1,000 blogs
Bloggers were crowing yesterday over the exposure (by sharp-eyed bloggers, apparently) of a doctored Reuters photo from Beirut that made Israeli bombing damage look worse than it was. Here's Burlington's Matthew Foster (http://rightwingtory.blogspot.com/).
It would seem that one of those that we rely on to be "unbiased" when reporting the news was caught altering a photograph to give the impression of heavier bombing damage than was originally done to the airport in Beirut. Granted, it may not make a catastrophic difference on its own ... however, the fact that the photo was altered and then published by a reputable news organization outlines how some in the media will lie and cheat to make Israel look guilty ... it also brings into question not only how editors filter what is press-worthy but also how many other journalists may be doing it. And the sad part is that journalists who try their very best to present an unbiased account of the news are now lumped into the same group as these other "journalists" who engage in such deceptive behaviour...
If you distort the truth and try to get away with it, this is what happens to you ... Let's hope that people will use this opportunity to see beyond what they're merely getting in terms of information and make up their own minds as to who's right and wrong in this conflict ("Best of the blogs", TORONTO SUN, Wednesday, August 9, 2006).
Wayne White, former deputy director of the U.S. State Department's Middle East intelligence office, said it is possible Israel underestimated "how well dug-in and prepared Hezbollah was."
"What has perhaps been overestimated is the effect of the artillery fire and air strikes on dug-in Hezbollah forces, particularly if they had years to dig in and build underground tunnels and more elaborate, subterranean defences, not just trenches," Mr. White said in an interview yesterday.
"I'm sure they were ready for ferocious resistance. What has stunned them is how well the enemy dug itself in."
With the death toll rising after weeks of air strikes, Israel yesterday decided to expand its ground operation as far north as the Litani River. The decision came one day after Israel appointed a new top commander, Major-General Moshe Kaplinski, to take charge of its ground operations in south Lebanon (Mary Vallis, "Israeli tactics questioned as war drags on", NATIONAL POST, Thursday, August 10, 2006).
Tadeusz Gajl w "Herby Szlacheckie Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodow", zacne szlacheckie rodziny KAPLINSKI przypisuje do klanow: Brodzic, Topor.
The term "Semitic" is a linguistic classification, referring principally to certain languages (e.g. Hebrew and Arabic) and sometimes, as a kind of shorthand, to speakers of those languages. The term "anti-Semitism" was introduced by Wilhelm Marr, in his 1879 anti-Jewish pamphlet The Victory of Jewry over Germanism, to characterize a negative attitude toward Jews based primarily on racial considerations rather than religious ones. It was with this sense that the term made its way into common use throughout Europe (Bernard D. Katz, Toronto, "Letters", NATIONAL POST, Wednesday, November 23, 2005).
Dwa linki warte zerkniecia:
1. CSIS (Center for Strategic & International Studies) - http://www.csis.org/.
2. The Monarchist (http://themonarchist.blogspot.com/).
Al-Qaeda's ideology is deeply entrenched in the Muslim tradition and reaches far back, into the earliest years of Islam.
Al-Qaeda's terrorists are a throwback to those Muslims in the first decades of Islam who believed their faith was the purest, while doubting the belief of others around them, and approved of violence as the right way to advance their views of faith and power...
The Prophet's immediate family were the most conspicuous massacre victims in these seventh-century conflicts. The wars of succession left permament schisms within Islam (Salim Mansur, "Osama's godfathers", NATIONAL POST,Wednesday, August 24, 2005).
Bronislaw Wildstein opowiadal mi, ze kiedy czytal raporty Leslawa Maleszki dla SB, najbardziej zszokowalo go, ze czlowiek, ktorego uznawal za swego najlepszego przyjaciela, sam z wlasnej inicjatywy proponowal esbekom rozne sposoby, na to, jak najlepiej zlamac lub skompromitowac Wildsteina (Grzegorz Gorny, "Przyjaciel", OZON 21 grudnia 2005).
Polska zajmowala podczas spotkania szefow dyplomacji panstw UE, w Brukseli stanowisko zblizone do brytyjskiego - nie popiera zadania natychmiastowego zawieszenia broni w Libanie - ujawnily unijne zrodla dyplomatyczne ("Polska proizraelska", GONIEC, 4-10 sierpnia 2006).
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