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CIA secret prison in Poland confirmed

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Video: an airport in Szymany, close to Szczytno in northeastern Poland, identified as a potential site which the CIA used to transfer al Qaeda suspects to a nearby prison. Another CIA-run interrogation ‘black site’ has been exposed after the confessions of top-ranking Polish officials blew the lid on the dirtiest secret in Eastern Europe. ­The former head of Poland’s intelligence service... 

ACTA error: Democracy not found

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Members of Ruch Palikota Party wear masks during a vote of no confidence for Health Minister Bartosz Arlukowicz in Poland's parliament in Warsaw January 26, 2012 More European parliaments are refusing to ratify the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, claiming it violates human rights. Now, some are asking: “why it was signed in the first place?” It looks like some of the countries who signed... 

Euro-2012 championship to cause $8 billion of losses to Ukraine

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The European Soccer Championship to be held in Poland and Ukraine is only four months away. However, Ukraine is no longer excited about the long-awaited sports event. Experts estimate that, instead of profits and stimulation of the economy, it would bring the country a loss of eight billion dollars. Ukraine along with Poland won the right to host the continental soccer championship in 2007, but the... 

Polish government asks Vatican to censure outspoken priest

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Poland's ambassador to the Vatican delivered a message to the Holy See urging it 'to take action to stop Father Rydzyk harming Poland's reputation abroad'. Poland’s government has asked the Vatican to censure a radical and influential Polish priest after he described Poland as uncivilised and governed by a “totalitarian” regime during a meeting at the European Parliament. The... 

2,500 illegal immigrants a week from North Africa flooding into Europe through Italy

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As many as 2,500 illegal immigrants a week are flooding into the continent from North Africa through Italy, the European Union’s border protection agency has revealed. The official figures, which came from Warsaw based Frontex, show that for the first three months of this year 33,000 people entered Europe illegally with 22,600 coming through Italy. Most of those were economic migrants from Tunisia... 

Massive safe-like house built in Poland to protect against the apocalypse

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Open mode: The Safe House, on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, is the ultimate in secure design. At the touch of a number of buttons, the whole building shuts into a concrete cube. Worried about an apocalypse, zombies or merely unwanted summer guests? The ‘Safe House’ may be right up your street. We all know about a panic room, but a team of architects literally thought inside the box to... 

Local elections in Poland test government's popularity

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Some 30 million Poles are eligible to vote in the elections Voting stations across Poland opened Sunday for municipal elections in which 48,000 regional leaders were to be elected. The elections are regarded as a political barometer ahead of parliamentary elections in 2011. Local elections in Poland have opened across the country, in a key test for the government ahead of parliamentary elections next... 

Nigerian shot dead, 32 arrested in market riot in Poland

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Street vendors are detained by police at a popular open-air market in Warsaw after throwing stones and metal objects at custom authorities in reaction to the killing of one of their colleagues. A 36 year old Nigerian was fataly shot after trying to flee from a routine police inspection. A Nigerian was shot dead in Warsaw on Sunday after a struggle with police who chased him through a crowded open-air... 

Russian Move Against US In Poland Kills President, Most Of Government

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Former Polish president with US president First reports on the tragic death of Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski [photo with Obama], his wife, top general, head of their central bank, and many more top officials in a plane crash in Smolensk, Russia are said by FSB sources reporting to Prime Minister Putin to have been a “successful decapitation” of that Nation’s leadership putting into power... 

Polish president and 132 others killed in Russian plane crash

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Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 132, officials said. Russian and Polish officials said there were no survivors on the 26-year-old Tupolev, which was taking the president, his wife and staff to events marking... 

Polish Jew: "I was a Neo-Nazi, sang about Satan and randomly beat up people"

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Pawel in the Warsaw synagogue When Pawel looks into the mirror, he can still sometimes see a neo-Nazi skinhead staring back, the man he was before he covered his shaved head with a skullcap, traded his fascist ideology for the Torah and renounced violence and hatred in favor of God. “I still struggle every day to discard my past ideas,” said Pawel, a 33-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew and former truck... 

Another man knowingly infects 40 girls with AIDS in Poland

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Simon Mol (born on November 6, 1973 in Buea, Cameroon) is pen name of Simon Moleke Njie, an HIV-Infected Cameroon-born journalist, writer and political activist, known mainly in Poland. Mol. Is best known for knowingly spreading his HIV virus to as many as 40 Unsuspecting Polish women who were apparently manipulated by Mol’s abiguous and exotic Background, which has proven to be complete fabrication.... 

Holocaust was a Jewish Invention, says top Polish Bishop

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Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, one of Poland’s most prominent religious figures, is reported to have told an Italian Catholic news web site that the Holocaust was a “Jewish invention”. The bishop says his remarks were “taken out of context” however. “The Holocaust, as such, is a Jewish invention [invenzione ebraica]. We could just as well establish a day of... 

Poland Imposes Strict Ban on Communist Symbols

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Poland’s president has approved legislation that allows for people to be fined or even imprisoned for possessing or buying communist symbols, two decades after communist rule ended. The new law says that people who posses, purchase or spread items or recordings containing communist symbols could be fined or be imprisoned for up two years. The new law has drawn criticism from left-wing lawmakers... 

Barack Obama’s grandfather was a Cannibal, ministers in Poland joke

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A political scandal is gathering pace in Poland. Officials of the Polish administration are accused of releasing racist statements against US President-elect Barack Obama. Poland’s large opposition party Right and Justice said that the remarks had been voiced by the Polish Foreign Affairs Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, the Dziennik newspaper wrote. “Why does Barack Obama have Polish roots? Because... 
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