Get the feeling that you’re missing out on something great, that somewhere at this moment your BFFs are doing something without you, something that you’d want to know about? Read the rest of this entry »
Poland has never really been a great football nation, though its infamous hooligans suggest the contrary. Recently, they have not only struggled kicking the balls, but also finding them for diplomatic efforts, particularly concerning a neighbor to the east. Read the rest of this entry »
Those who control Internet news sites have one chief goal: Get you to click as many times as possible as quickly as possible for the longest period of time possible. It’s the lougle and face race profit model. The more you click – the more money they make. User site traffic is monitored and recorded down to the nanosecond. The more traffic a site can attract with each user spending a long average time on that site, the more money they can charge advertisers. Read the rest of this entry »
The Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora here in Krakow, held a two day conference this past week show casing an American city, San Francisco and all aspects of it. Read the rest of this entry »
In October of 2008, the United States was staring down the barrel of a gun. Experts and pundits were telling the public unequivocally that something had to be done to prevent the trigger of that gun from pulling off a potentially fatal shot. Read the rest of this entry »
May 17. That’s the day you’ll help make a Harvard geek with the idea of creating a mutable online yearbook a very, very rich kid. Harvard, that all-knowing elite institution, that magnet which lures every over achieving suck up with a desire to cement their future in promise, prestige, and perfunctory pomp and the future UNESCO site of the face race conception. Read the rest of this entry »
In early March I repeated the Krakow to Wroclaw journey. Seven years and eight months after joining the EU, Polish rail transport has not improved in the department of efficiency. Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. and Russian Relations: The Countdown to Reset by Danielle Piatkiewicz
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May 7, 2012 is a date that is most certainly marked on every U.S. Foreign policy analyst’s calendar, probably in red ink. The date marks the long anticipated re-establishment of Vladimir Putin’s return to the Russian presidency. I have recently examined the work of a few journalists and specialists with varying insights on this topic: New York Times writer Charles Grant, Diplomatic correspondent for BBC News Bridget Kendall, Steve Pifer’s remarks before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs and Karen Parrish from the American Forces Press Service. Read the rest of this entry »
If Kraków is considered the cultural capital of Poland, it is for a good reason. The city has an amazing offer of museums, galleries, theater and music. One of the key players here is the Kraków Biuro Festiwalowe. Read the rest of this entry »
In 2004 Poland joined the EU. Around mid-December of the same year I arrived for a Polish holiday in Wroclaw where an old friend was living. I was in the first of a three year stint as an enterprising “relationship manager” in the mortgage business back in the states. Read the rest of this entry »
