But, I do expect that Poland universities should be offering many Bachelor Degree courses through English only / English Program ;
It would propel English language proficiency directly into non-language Bachelor Degrees fields.

And, they should be offering Brit. OU Online ONLY Study Degree Programmes ;
Or at least, the Poland Government should.

OK, I will put to u certain questions in other than this thread in near future.

8-)
Thanking u

Reg. Irish in Poland: the motives described by you form significant but not the only reason why the Irish move to Poland.
Single Irish also move to Poland (sadly, that’s mostly men).
My girlfriend wanted to move to Poland before we broke up because she liked the food and the culture.
Not sure about your questions reg. studying in Poland – I know that medicine was always different in Poland (in that they had to pay for it) and there was always lots of Scandinavians studying medicine in Kraków (I remember that I once went to a bonfire party with 30 Norwegians studying medicine in Kraków).
I think that they can study other subjects for free and that in the 1990s Poland was even funding scholarships (four times as much as scholarships for native talented students) for foreign students learning Polish (that’s how I picked up my English – I lived with them).
Anyway, there are now so many Irish living in Poland (and many more French) that they even have GAA clubs.
Regarding courses in English – well, there are some courses in English, but having all course exclusively in English would be going overboard with the Polish céad míle fáilte – that’d be like someone expecting to have a full economic course run for him in TCD exclusively in Polish.
Having said that, you can study medicine in Poland only in English.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/studying-in-poland-could-be-just-the-tonic-for-our-future-medics-36074741.html

http://www.gaelicsportscast.com/tag/poland-gaa/

Generally, the Irish, the Scottish and the Americans are one of the very few nations that the Poles have no beef with (I’d probably add Italians and maybe Spanish).
French they deeply despite, Germans they fear, admire and despise at the same time, English they like actually really like but they also know history and that not always England played cricket with Poland (that Lloyd George arshole); they sort of like Austrians more than Germans, they love Czechs but I not sure it’s reciprocated; they are loved by Hungarians and about the nations in the east and south I don’t want to talk.

They really liked Dutch in the past due to very strong Polish-Dutch links (via Gdansk and huge Dutch immigration to Poland in the past):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol%C4%99drzy

Now they don’t like them that much because the Dutch companies are milking Poland like crazy; worse than Shell in Ireland.
Even the official Polish media are now raising questions about the mental health of the Dutchman’s Timmermans’ mental health (interestingly and worryingly, he lived in Moscow in the 1990s)

Can Irish citizen study at Poland university for free ?

Can Irish citizen attend Bachelor Degree course through English language only at Poland university for free ?

Does Poland have equivalent of British Open University ?

Brit. OU is great asset for Brit. population.

GRZEGORZ, I NOTICE THAT DMW’s LATEST ARTICLE IS UP ON INTERNET & POSTERS ARE POSTING ALREADY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwWGUAxXUi4

Btw – todays Sindo had an article on how the same Jihadists who did the attacks in London planned to do so in Dublin

Drugs use in Poland is 7 times lower per head than in Britain.

Btw, just recently we had a case where a native Norwegian mother of two has asked (and was granted) a POLITICAL asylum in Poland: the Norwegian court wanted to take her two children, not even because she was earning too little – yep, David’s beloved Scandinavia often takes children from their parents because they are too poor or they are tired after work – but because she was “addicted to medicine” and thus “unsuitable to raise children” (sometimes the Scandinavian courts would then find suitable foster families among Jihadists).

She was carefully examined by the Polish doctors and psychologists and deemed not addicted to anything and not mentally ill, and she was granted a political asylum in Poland and her children are now attending a Polish school where they are, for the first time in their lives, not bullied.
Norwegian government went mad about it demanded that Poland deports them; the Polish authorities replied that they believe that she and her children are not safe in Norway.

P.S. Your story about the Israeli authorities reminds me a bit of this story:

http://www.fiyazmughal.net/news/who-is-jacek-miedlar-detained-on-entry-into-the-uk/

By the way, it surely is the case that Mr. Dugin is not representative of Russian Intelligentsia let alone the ordinary Russian middle class.

GOOD !
CHEAP !
LONG LASTING !
LOVING ! 8-)

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I was thinking over the week that maybe Russia is trying to break USA the same way that USA broke USSR by forcing their hand to invest at exponential rate in military spending with USA only able to show net Pyrrhic victories along the way.

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By the way, how is Hard Drug addiction with Poles in :
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Poland ?
USA ?
Germany ?
England ?
Irish State ?

NOT autonomous ;
Trump is “all stacked-up” in his administration 8-)
And, such folks have a certain egregore to further

a Rat & Liar
e.g.
Look at :
what he said he would do HELP Syria
what he is doing AGAINST Syria

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Were Trump autonomous, & then it would matter more so, I would not blame him for being disdainful of current Irish representatives of every main-stream sector
Currently, we are, in the main, appalling.

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However, there are remarkably major percentage Irish — incl. Irish-Americans — to the fore as meaningful Truth-Seeking + Truth-Telling Bloggers etc..

And, although not a blogger, the following personal report of nationally famous RTE personality Mike Murphy & published in Irish Independent yesterday, is very significant ;

OF COURSE, THE GCHQ HOMOSEXUALIST GUY[ S ? ] ON THIS BLOG SEEKING TO CENSOR FOLK HERE WOULD BE VERY HOSTILE TO MIKE MURPHY’s TESTIMONY OF WHAT HE WITNESSED.
These Effects are not even “…examples in daily life where people misdiagnose coincidences for causation.”
Rather, they are examples in daily life where certain people have the chutzpah to attribute alleged justifiably cause where it is not the case in the vast number of cases, & they so allege either before or after they gratuitously & callously inflict suffering on fellow Semites to the Irish* ;

*The original Irish being actually Semites.
Celts, Vikings, Normans not being so.

NOTE THE TREATMENT OF IRISH CITIZENS AT THE AIRPORT ;

“This is not provocative; it’s a fact.”
And, it relevant to the above article & the thread of discussion.
And, it is very significant in the history of media persons of Ireland.
Mike Murphy has being light-entertainment & arts Radio & TV programmes host for years & seen as somewhat of a promulgator for New York so-called liberal values.
For some 2 decades he would be considered the 2nd most important RTE television personality.
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HEADING ;
Mike Murphy ;
Degradation of Palestinians shocking to witness

Sole resistance open to Palestinian people against Israeli actions is to remain in place

Sat, Sep 23, 2017,

Mike Murphy

During the late 1970s, when I was what could be called an emerging talent in RTÉ, I received a letter from Kader Asmal, later to become a government minister in the first South African rainbow government, asking me to lend my support to the anti-apartheid movement. Through lack of interest, or callowness, or the pressures of raising a young family, or a combination of all of the above, I ignored his invitation.

Ten years or so later, I had the opportunity, in South Africa, to drive the entire eastern coast to Cape Town, through the Bantustans which then existed. Needless to say, I was appalled at conditions in these open-air prisons, and I deeply regretted my lack of common decency.

In recent years I’ve been reading and hearing about the abuses being heaped upon the Palestinian people by the occupying Israeli government. My sympathies lay with the Palestinians, and I wrote a letter to this newspaper decrying the actions of Bank of Ireland in arbitrarily shutting down the account of the Irish Palestine Solidarity Group. Much good it did!

But I still needed to see it with my own eyes. I heard about a fact-finding trip being organised through a Palestinian tour company, and signed myself and my son Mark up. We were a group of 31, all strangers to Mark and me, and the whole enterprise began with a bit of a stutter.
Passport control

On arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv just after midnight, about 16 or so of us were taken from passport control and ordered to a nearby holding area. We were asked who among us had visited Israel before. I admitted, a little sheepishly, that I had been involved in the Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem in the late 1970s. Our passports were gathered and about six of our number, including myself, were taken to another holding area where we were seated outside a partitioned office. We were brought in one by one – I was, I think, about fifth in line. I could hear a lot of shouting and banging of desks from the little room as one by one our four fellow tourists were interrogated and then led out and away.

About 90 minutes later I was led into the same small office to be interviewed by two male immigration police. I asked what had happened to the four people who had been in prior to me, and was told they had been deported. I asked why and was shown a phone video of a demonstration of sorts with what appeared to be a couple of Irish people waving a Tricolour and throwing stones at a huge wall. I was asked would I be attending any demonstrations and I said no. I asked what was the deportation process and was told that the four would be on the 5am flight to Istanbul. I asked who would be paying for their flights and was told: “The airline.”

You need a permit to build a house extension, to put in a water tank, to instal a solar panel. And most applications are refused

They took my photograph, handed me back my passport and told me I was good to go. So we were a depleted and somewhat shaken little group who set out at about 4am to satisfy our curiosity about the plight of the Palestinians. However, I vowed not to let our airport experience colour my views over the forthcoming week.
Palestinian home demolished in East Jerusalem, November 2014.

But it was worse than I expected.

Start with the roads. The roads through the Israeli lands range from the superhighway to the efficient. Reach Bethlehem in the occupied territories, however, through the ubiquitous wall, and the roads are potted, higgledy-piggledy, treacherous S-bended and rubbish-strewn. Those Palestinians who have cars must bear white licence plates, to distinguish them from the yellow-plated Israeli cars and to ensure they cannot enter Israeli-controlled areas, including East Jerusalem, without a special permit, seldom granted.
Permits

Life revolves around permits. You need a permit to build a house extension, to put in a water tank, to instal a solar panel. And most applications are refused.

If your plot of land is now on the far side of the brand-new (and illegal under international law) settlement fence or wall, you now have to travel great distances to access it. It becomes no longer cost-effective and, as a result, many farmers lose their primary source of livelihood. And after three years the land can be formally confiscated because you didn’t tend it.

If you work or study in Jerusalem you may enter the city only on foot. And the queue starts at 4am. It snakes away for nearly half a mile for the next hours, while the checkpoint soldiers herd you into fenced holding areas before subjecting you to a search and, sometimes, interrogation, often leaving you melting in the sun while they take a coffee break. And then you might be refused entry on a whim.

There are checkpoints everywhere, manned by armed soldiers. I saw Palestinian youths being subjected to strip searches, being shouted at, pushed and ritually humiliated.

And the shrinking Palestinian territories are, like the Bantustans of South Africa, open-air prisons, walled in, with checkpoints between each one

Our guide, a middle-aged, multilingual Palestinian academic, was approached by three Israeli soldiers and told he was not permitted to walk on the street down which we were headed to the bus. They frogmarched him away. He acquiesced easily, and told us he’d take a taxi to a point some miles down the road.

We saw new homes and apartments being constructed in the settlements – bedecked with “sold” signs. Many Americans, in particular, are buying the dwellings as holiday homes. And the shrinking Palestinian territories are, like the Bantustans of South Africa, open-air prisons, walled in, with checkpoints between each one.

I saw some Palestinian “terrorists” – teenage boys – outside the refugee centre where they and their families live in shocking conditions, having been deprived of their homes and land by the Israeli state. The teenagers threw stones at an adjacent army barracks. None of the stones landed within 50m of their target, but the response was pretty stunning. An armoured truck came speeding suddenly out of the gates and hurtled down the hill to the boys, firing round after round of tear gas.

I found myself temporarily blinded, and I was standing in a doorway well to the side. The only resistance open to the Palestinian people in the face of their daily degradation and humiliation is simply to remain. The Israelis patently wish them gone.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/mike-murphy-degradation-of-palestinians-shocking-to-witness-1.3230666

Say what you want, Coldblow, but Enda Kenny wasn’t, for all his faults and whatever Frankfurt School he might have been infected, a lot, a lot less PC than most European British politicians (and that includes Theresa May).
Once he was on the radio and he pointed out to the absurdity of a claim that Ireland should take any refugees (correction: not refugees but the so-called “refugees”) that want to come here by saying that if 10% of Africa would like to come to Ireland, should Ireland take them too?

However, for some reason, and I don’t why, the Red Dwarf’s line won (remember how he rebuked the Irish government last year for not taking more invaders?).

Albania. Albanians are not like any other new Irish, or whatever you call them. They really are not. Few people realise that Albania is not like a normal country, say even poor like Bulgaria, but that they are now pretty much run by the Jihadists, sponsored by Saudi Arabia.
In the UK, per head, the Albanians commit, out of all foreign nationalist by far – by a factor of many times! – the most crimes.
I know that this is really unfair to normal Albanians who must live there too, but Albania is a really dangerous country now, and by no means, they should be let in (if they are financed by Saudi Arabia, they can always go to Saudi Arabia).
P.S. Do you remember that episode of Top Gear when they went to Albania? If not, watch it – you’ll see that this really is not Europe.

As newcomers, and mostly unskilled immigrants, and also because practically all of them were very poor (this was like a lot of the 19th-century Polish emigration to the US – btw, in the 19th century skilled Poles were emigrating to South America rather than to North America) but unlike the earlier Polish emigration) the Irish turned into the only jobs that were available to them – manual jobs, public offices, Catholic Church and the police. This, in the long run, turned out to be beneficial for the Irish community in one way; in the other way, it made the Irish support leftists parties (as this election showed very well – no Irish representation in the Trump camp – almost all voted for Clinton; very significant Polish representation there, and Trump himself acknowledged that he won the election thanks to the Poles as Wisconsin and Michigan were decisive).

So what has changed after WWII with the image of the Poles? Three things: Hollywood, KGB and Agency 114.

Hollywood was manifestly pro-Soviet during WWII, and that involved justifying the fact that the Soviet Russia has started the WWII together with Hitler by invading Poland.
How do you justify that? By showing that Poland was an anti-semitic country, so it is good that the USSR invaded it.
KGB channeled considerable resources to prevent the Polish community in both Americas from organising themselves as the Poles, out of all people, were the most anti-communist (this was not only because of their 1920 and 1939 experience with the Bolsheviks but also because of their intelligence, then the best in the world (i.e. the CIA and British counterintelligence was established under the instruction of Major Jan Zychon – contrary to all that movie propaganda, the British WWII intelligence was pretty much useless and couldn’t function without the Polish underground – i.e. little known is the fact that the siege of Tobruk wouldn’t have been possible without it).
About Agency 114, I wrote many times.

“Poles are well intentioned overall.
And, very flattered with being granted honors etc.
But, they seem to always fall for the deceit of their appreciators.” – I agree with that; the same goes for the Irish (i.e. the reception of Obama in Ireland whereupon he did fuck all for Ireland; some people here were deluding themselves that Mr Trump will, due to the Gaelic roots of his mother, have any special consideration for Ireland – I think that Trump despises Ireland as a country whose politicians violated every neutral and mannered way of behaving towards the US election candidate, staked it all on Clinton and lost it all – and now they want to have a peace of cake all the same; Trump’s actions with the sanctuary cities clearly show that (that would have hit mainly the Irish and Latino illegal immigrants).

To be honest with you, I don’t know if there is any way of undoing the untold damage that the Irish diaspora has done to Ireland by staking everything on Clinton. It can be undone, but everything has to be now built from scratch and if the Taoiseach thinks that he can contrast the success Trump’s visit to Warsaw with the “success” of Canadian prime minister’s meeting with him (which resulted in nothing concrete anyway), well then guess what – no one outside of Ireland even knew such visit took place (it was a non-story in the worlds’ papers and media).

What is different now is that after decades of sweet nonsense Poland heard from the US politicians which resulted in nothing else but – this is just one example – Polish taxpayers subsidising the production of F-16 by buying it at exorbitant prices and the US reneging on its off-set promise, we hear not only w o r d s from Mr Trump but also a c t i o n s.

And the image of the Poles in the US is changing very quickly (i.e. there are many pro-Polish voices of conservatives in the US that I never heard before; not only from Trump administration but also from normal Americans).

Poles should do the same Re ;

Germans

&

Poland’s other direct neighbours.