-- THE OMBUDSMAN ASKS THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF TVP FOR EXPLANATIONS REGARDING THE SUSPENSION OF BABIARZ - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2024/07/30 -- THIS EXCESSIVELY REINFORCES THE JURIDICAL-CRIMINAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE TASK OF RESTORING DEMOCRACY IN POLAND - PROF. ANDRZEJ RYCHARD IN GW: “ (...) I have the impression that this excessively reinforces the juridical-criminal perspective in the task of restoring democracy in Poland. This optics of ‘juridization of politics’, where whether a given person has been arrested or not, does not allow for a sufficiently clear perception of other issues. And surely, not all the evil that PiS has inflicted can be eradicated in courtrooms! Not all of this evil constitutes crimes. Not everything will be done by lawyers. Politics also matters.” -- NEW GOVERNMENT, OLD PRACTICES - RYCHARD FURTHER IN GW: “Here are examples, far from all of them: the situation at the border, the use of pushbacks, and generally the climate around the military, including the issue of facilitated use of weapons. How does this relate to human rights? And what, if not a continuation (and practices older than PiS at that) is the use of police to patch holes almost everywhere where other state organs fail?” -- I AM CURIOUS HOW MANY REAL COMPETITIONS WERE HELD FOR IMPORTANT POSITIONS DURING THE CHANGES IN STATE TREASURY COMPANIES - WRITES PROF. RYCHARD IN GW: “Furthermore: I am curious how many real competitions were held for important positions during the changes in state treasury companies. What do we know at all about the restoration of public service, about the progress of changes in this area? Was renaming the Dmowski and Paderewski Institute into the Narutowicz Institute and appointing a new head the best solution? Would it not have been better to transfer these resources, for example, to historians from some university? Instead, a simple mechanism was used, replicating, only with an inverted vector.” https://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,31180968,ile-starego-w-nowym-o-ciaglosci-instytucjonalnej-w-czasach.html -- AT THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION THEY MOCK KOSINIAK - PIOTR PACEWICZ IN OKO.PRESS: “As OKO.press learns, Deputy Minister of Education Henryk Kiepura from PSL did not announce a bill in the Ministry of National Education, and within the ministry, they are mocking the initiative of the Minister of National Defence. ‘Beyond the general announcements of Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, we know nothing about any bill. And yet, among the ministry's priorities, civic and patriotic education is already listed,’ I hear in the Ministry of National Education.” -- KOSINIAK IS ABOUT PATRIOT SYSTEMS, NOT PATRIOTISM - PACEWICZ FURTHER IN OKO: “It is interesting how Kosiniak-Kamysz would receive the announcement by Barbara Nowacka that her political camp will present a draft ‘law on the storage, disposal, and deposit of certain types of weapons and ammunition,’ as the sense of security of young citizens needs to be strengthened. The Minister of National Defence is exceeding his area of competence. Probably – like many people in Poland – the agrarian party members think they know about education because they went to school and are up-to-date, they have children and grandchildren in school.” -- KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ HAS NOT ONCE STOOD ON THE SIDE OF THE IGNORANT NATIONAL-CATHOLIC TRADITION - PACEWICZ FURTHER: “Kosiniak-Kamysz has not once stood on the side of the ignorant national-catholic tradition, for example, in March 2023, when together with PiS, he reprimanded the media for a ‘disgraceful witch hunt’ against Saint John Paul II.” https://oko.press/kosiniak-kamysz-chce-wychowywac-patriotycznie-pomysl-potrojnie-bezsensowny-w-men-sie-podsmiewuja -- KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ, A POLITICIAN OF EXCEPTIONAL TRANSPARENCY, LIKE CHANCE THE GARDENER IN SELLERS' PERFORMANCE, HAS RECEIVED A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW THAT HE IS NOT AS UNORGANIZED AS HE APPEARS - KRZYSZTOF VARGA IN NEWSWEEK: “Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, a politician of exceptional transparency, like Chance the Gardener in Sellers' performance, has received a unique opportunity to show that he is not as disorganized as he appears. But he showed it in the style practiced in my youth during street fights, when one would shout to colleagues: 'Hold me, hold me, or I'll beat him up!' and secretly hoped that those colleagues would actually restrain him.” -- GROWING A BEARD DOES NOT MAKE A MAN MATURE OR WISE - VARGA'S CONCLUSION IN NEWSWEEK: “Growing a beard does not make a man mature or wise. Nor does it make him serious, even with a beard.” https://www.newsweek.pl/opinie/kosiniakowe-wychowanie-mysle-ze-wspolczuciem-o-tej-mlodziezy/ds995rl -- LEGIA WARSAW ULTRAS FIT INTO KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ'S PATRIOTIC CANON - KATARZYNA PRZYBORSKA IN KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA: “They go hand in hand with the hunters whom Kosiniak-Kamysz invited to defend the borders, with the farmers pouring slurry at the sight of Muslims, with the MPs who voted to decriminalize shooting.” https://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/miasto/kibole-legii-mieszcza-sie-w-kanonie-patriotycznym-kosiniaka-kamysza/ -- PSL IS GOING FOR A SHOWDOWN IN THE COALITION - MICHAŁ PŁOCIŃSKI IN RZ: “(...) with the law on patriotic education, it enters the educational competencies of Minister Barbara Nowacka, who is the leader of one of the parties forming Civic Coalition. Thus, it is going for a showdown not with partners (former?) from Poland 2050, as in the case of the health contribution, and not even with the left, with whom it argued on issues of abortion and civil partnerships, but already with Donald Tusk himself.” -- THE ONLY THING LEFT FOR KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ'S PARTY WILL BE TO GO FOR AN EVEN STRONGER SHOWDOWN WITH THE REST OF THE COALITION PARTNERS ON MORAL ISSUES - PŁOCIŃSKI FURTHER IN RZ: “(...) it will clearly show the largest partner that if the PSL does not receive support from Tusk in deregulation disputes with the left in the autumn, then the only thing left for Kosiniak-Kamysz's party will be to go for an even stronger showdown with the rest of the coalition partners on moral issues.” https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art40883651-michal-plocinski-zamiast-skladki-zdrowotnej-lekcje-patriotyzmu-psl-idzie-na-zwarcie-w-koalicji -- THE GOVERNMENT SLEPT THROUGH THE BEST TIME TO CALMLY PREPARE THE REFORM. AND IT LOOKS LIKE HASTE AND CHAOS AWAIT US - TAX ADVISOR IN PRZEMYSŁAW WOJTASIK'S ARTICLE IN RZ: “– Many entrepreneurs are counting on a reduction in the health contribution and openly declare that if it is not implemented from the new year, they will liquidate their businesses – emphasizes Sylwia Rzepka, expert of the Association of Accountants in Poland. – Unfortunately, the government slept through the best time to calmly prepare the reform. And it looks like haste and chaos await us – says Piotr Juszczyk, tax advisor at inFakt.” https://www.rp.pl/zus/art40885931-obnizka-skladki-zdrowotnej-niepewna-czy-czeka-nas-chaos -- IT IS VERY EASY FOR THE OPPOSITION TO PUT TWO IMAGES TOGETHER – OUR COUNTRYMEN BEING SAVED FROM OPPRESSION WITH THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMITMENT OF THE MORAWIECKI GOVERNMENT, AND THE HELPLESS SHUFFLING OF HANDS BY THE EMBASSY UNDER TUSK'S RULE - ARTUR BARTKIEWICZ IN RZ: https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art40882541-artur-bartkiewicz-ambasada-w-libanie-jak-szatniarz-z-misia-czyli-stracona-szansa-rzadu -- IF THE PKW (NATIONAL ELECTION COMMISSION) YIELDS TO PRESSURE AND TAKES THE BAIT THROWN BY THE AUTHORITIES, IT WILL TAKE TERRIBLE RESPONSIBILITY - MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI: “If the PKW yields to pressure and takes the bait thrown by the authorities, it will take terrible responsibility – for its decision, which will be unlawful, and for the attack on the system of functioning of legal political parties in Poland. It is not ideal, but we will not have a better one. If they destroy it, truly dictatorial rule will come.” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/700635-za-tym-progiem-jest-juz-czysta-dyktatura -- IT IS PRECISELY ON YOUNGER VOTERS THAT A GREATER BURDEN OF MAINTAINING THE STATE WILL FALL. CONSEQUENTLY, IT MAY BE ANOTHER AREA WHERE CONFEDERACY WILL TEMPT YOUNGER VOTERS - TOMASZ SAWCZUK IN KULTURA LIBERALNA: “the program for the elderly seems questionable. Meanwhile, it is easy to present the argument that in conditions of low retirement age and increasing additional pension benefits, it is precisely on younger voters that a greater burden of maintaining the state will fall. Consequently, it may be another area where Confederacy will tempt younger voters.” https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2024/07/29/sawczuk-czy-renta-wdowia-to-dyskryminacja-mlodych-wyborcow/ -- BIRTHDAYS: Jan Truszczyński, Marek Materek, Patryk Wild.