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Today on Max TV:
White Widow or black sham - the truth about the attack on the mall in Kenya.
Issue two: The Polish syndrome - we have talked about Americans, Muslims, Blacks,
time to talk about us - the Poles.
Today also: TVN recommends books about convicted killers to your children,
while in Ukraine its Poles who are called killers.
And: a "Real ***" talks to "Adolf Hitler" - i.e. your comments.
Max Kolonko, Max TV, welcome.
Exactly 1 month ago Black Islamist attacked a mall in Kenya.
They killed 67 people, including children and pregnant women.
It was a racial and religious crime,
murderers were ruthless, the crime was ***.
They checked captured people with questions:
"what was the Muhammad's wife name?",
"recite the lines from Koran" you don't know the answer - bullet to the head
Murderers were the Black Islamists,
but the next day unexpectedly, British daily "The Sun" publishes this surprising cover:
"Find the White Widow".
"The Mirror" repeats: "Britain's White Widow was bloodbath mastermind".
Polish journalists repeated the voice of British ones, like obliging Vistula parrots.
"Gazeta Wyborcza" (a national newspaper) started carefully, with 2 question marks:
"White Widow among the assassins? Who is the British woman who converted to Islam?"
"Wprost" used only one question mark,
and TVN24 (news channel) went all the way: "The White Widow is the world's most wanted woman".
When Poles sat down for the evening news,
a TVN's newscaster informed straight
about the real legend standing behind the bloodbath in Kenya:
"And now: attack in Nairobi and legendary White Widow.
More and more of speculations, that behind the attack in Kenya there was a British woman.
There are information, that among the killed assassins there is a white woman.
According to the British media, it may be wanted for years Samantha Lewthwaite,
called the White Widow.
A person arousing the most emotions is HER, famous White Widow,
a Briton fighting for years in Africa on the Islam's extremists side.
I don't know about you, but the first thing I thought seeing this information, was:
wait a minute, if this White Widow is so famous, why I've never heard of her?
And why this terrible crime of apparently racial and religious reasons, obvious from the first reports,
has a white woman's face on every cover?
Let's see what really happened that day in the mall in Kenya:
These are brutal shots, even the most drastic scenes were cut out,
please do not watch this, if you have a problem with it.
There were no 15 culprits, but 4 at the most.
They entered from the front and behind.
The first victim was a guard, who got shot.
On the cameras' recording you can see, that one of the murderers comes back
and shoots the guard in cold blood.
The Islamic terrorists were walking around the mall,
talking on their cell phones, and just shooting people.
They were shooting the ones who didn't move,
and those running all over the place.
They made a break in killing to pray to Allah.
This woman with children, and the one behind her were allowed to live.
Here on the pictures after leaving the mall.
There was a report saying, that her child acted like real small hero:
it called a terrorist a bad person, and he let them go.
He told them to convert to Islam, gave candy bars to the children,
and said that they are no monsters, that the Muslim's faith is not a bad one.
This story was in every European media, some journalists doubt this version,
me as well.
But it was not the version of this woman, but her uncle's.
But let's put it aside.
And these are some of the victims:
This is a British architect and his wife.
A Canadian diplomat - here with her husband,
A Kenyan journalist.
67 victims so far.
It was a crime of racial and religious nature, which followed from the first foreign press reports.
However the Polish media avoided the word "Islam" like the plague.
TVN - I don't know what world those journalists live,
wrote about the attack of terrorists' group Al-Shabaab.
Only at the end, they mentioned an Islamist commando.
"Gazeta Wyborcza" writes about the extremists' attack on the mall - again, not ISLAMIC extremists.
The word "attack" is being used.
Anyone can be an attacker, it could be the boy who hit the president with an egg on Ukraine.
But in the headlines there is no word "Islam", "Muslim", it doesn't appear at all.
But what does appear?
"Dada Muzungu", "White Sister",
here on the sweet family picture, improving her image.
And here, the European media deemed that this jovial fatty prepared and organized a bloodbath in the mall in Kenya.
Anyone, who knows just a bit about Islam,
knows that the idea of a woman giving orders- knowing how Islam treats women - ,
and organizing such a slaughter like the one in Kenya, giving orders to those militants.
This is a ridiculous conception, an insult to mujahideens.
There is no such term as legendary White Widow, as the world's most wanted woman.
Wide Widow never was in the mall in Kenya.
It is a fiction, created by the journalists.
This is just a regular Irish woman, who married a Muslim and converted to Islam.
Just like this American, who met Tarmelan Tsarnaev, converted to Islam,
and he blew himself up in Boston,
the other one died in London in those bomb attacks,
the greatest terrorist attacks in London, where many people died.
So then she moved to Kenya and supposedly married a Kenyan, linked to Al Qaeda.
And then she stepped into the Al Qaeda circle, which started to use her,
because she had a "white" name, "white" passport, white face.
So they used the name, face and passport for financial operations:
they were opening bank accounts, conducting financial transactions, buying houses - she owned over a dozen of houses,
How would she get the money for those houses - Al Qaeda was buying them and she was covering it all.
Kenyan police got on the trail of it, they entered one of the houses and found her diary.
The diary has leaked to the press, as it was a nice story
She writes in the diary, that her dead husband (the one who blew himself up in London),
dreams about his children becoming mujahideens when they grow up.
And that's how the entire legend grew.
White Widow is no Patricia Hearst with a headscarf who is shooting people.
White Widow is a woman mixed up in the whole thing with her consent and will,
but this jovial fatty, do you really think,
she could be running away from CIA, Interpol and other supernatural forces all over Africa with three children?
It's a joke! It doesn't add up.
And so the question arises - who created the White Widow and why?
The answer is: she was created by the media and politicians.
First one was the Kenyan Minister of Foreign Affairs, who said:
"there were two or three Americans involved,
and I heard there was a British woman there, who did it many times in the past".
Why did she say that?
So it wouldn't turn out, that the Africans are responsible for the bloodbath in Kenya.
That those are people from different countries: Great Britain, Europe, United States,
that this is a global, not just Kenya's problem - that's for one thing.
But the media created the White Widow, and considered her responsible for the whole bloodbath,
because the political correctness doesn't allow them to tell like it is and call things by it's name,
that the Muslims are killing people.
But a woman? White British?
Yes! Perfect candidate to tell people she had a reason:
one of her husbands blew himself up in a subway, the other one was killed,
she was left alone with children and she seeks for revenge.
A perfect way to explain the European public,
why the Kenyan bloodbath took place, why women and children have died there.
Once again, as this example shows, Europe doesn't tell it like it is,
that Islam kills people, that jihad goes on in Africa, in Europe.
It is better to create a legendary, imaginary character, a women in a headscarf.
To make her up and say that she is responsible for the slaughter,
and people will buy that.
And this is as scary for me as the pictures of this tragedy's victims.
That there is some hack there, sitting by his desk in London and making all those things up.
His knowledge abut the world ends on his reporter desk, his head is full of empty platitudes from school.
And he writes all that staff, and entire Europe copies that,
and our alleged great journalistic personalities copy that as well,
with no shame or wink of an eye and give you that in the news, which are no news.
And on "Facts" (Polish News), which are no facts.
Max Kolonko, I tell it like it is, New York.
The Polish syndrome - the main topic of today's issue.
Each country has its showpiece, is famous for something.
Each country can be valued, like cars, by certain features.
This is a list of the countries having a good brand.
There are many factors here: lifestyle, well-being.
There are institutes creating those lists, but Poland is not there.
The Poland's brand doesn't show up in those surveys, Poland doesn't exist on the world as a brand.
But let's put aside those surveys, and let's think for a second.
Each of us has a stereotype of some country encoded in his mind.
We know what a given country is all about.
You say Switzerland - you hear "banks".
You say Australia - you hear "kangaroo".
You say Brazil - you hear "carnival".
You say Czech Republic - you hear "models".
You say Poland - you hear...well, what?
In the States we are associated with the Pope, Walesa, sausages,
and 3 Poles screwing in 1 light bulb.
What are the associations on the British Isles you know better that I do.
Why Poland doesn't have a good brand on the world?
A country in the middle of Europe, with a great history,
doesn't have a brand, is not famous in the world for anything.
And it's not about prosperity
- in those surveys Island is on the 23rd place, Costa Rica on the 25th.
Why don't we have a good brand in the world?
Why aren't we positively associated in the world?
I propose that we leave this question for a minute, we'll get back to it.
But now, please take a look at something else.
This is a part of commercial, which I'll show you in a second.
It's about some hearing aid, but it doesn't matter what the commercial is about.
What I want is, that you see this fragment, and say honestly,
what struck you, when you saw this fragment, what was your first impression, OK?
Ready? Go:
What's your first impression?
Mine is, that this commercial could've never been made in Poland.
Why? Because in Poland no one would ever say:
"Look, Kowalski has bought a new car, he must be doing really well".
In Poland this commercial would go like this:
Kowalski drives into his garage with a new car, and one neighbor says to another:
"Look at this son of a gun, he's bought a new car again! Some crook!
Kowalski walks down the sidewalk with his girlfriend in America, and someone says:
"Look, what a beautiful couple, they look so good together."
In Poland: "Who's the one Kowalski goes with? Who is this ***?
What is she wearing? What is this rag"
Am I right or not?
I am. That's the kind of nation we are.
We heave many negative features which distinguish us from other nations.
Obviously each county has its own, Americans have their own,
Poles have theirs.
We got many positive characteristics, but also, unfortunately, many negatives,
which make us stand out from other nations.
And quite often our thinking collides with the civilized world,
and results in not having a good brand on the world,
and in the country rankings we are behind Island and Costa Rica.
This set of our negative national features I call the "Polish Syndrome".
I talked a lot about it on dozen of pages in my book Discovering America,
I know you can't get it,
- don't worry, the book will be published by the end of a year,
and we will distribute it among the Max TV subscribers.
But now, I'd like us to think,
what are the features which create the Polish Syndrome.
No.1: We are the nation of malcontents, we are always unhappy.
We see the Eiffel Tower in Paris - it's a rustheap,
Empire State Building in New York - our Palace of Culture and Science is higher,
Sphinx in Egypt - what is this poor fellow with a smashed nose?
Grand Canyon - the Dunajec River Gorge in Pieniny is maybe not so big, but we got it!
It's not about what we have.
It's about our inability to be surprised or amazed.
It's almost like... admitting to a simple feeling of surprise or amazment over anything
- beauty of a woman, a neighbor's house, or someone's success,
was automatically making us second-class citizens.
That's why we say: that sucks, we have everything bigger, higher, more splendid.
Even though in 90% of cases, it's not.
Feature no.2: Ethnocentrism.
Have you noticed, how often our media write about our accomplishments, something that is the biggest in the world or in Europe?:
"Polish locomotive will conquer the world".
"Polish "Syrenka" will conquer entire Europe".
"Polish energy drink will conquer Europe".
"Polish food will conquer Europe".
"Weronika Rosati will conquer Hollywood".
"Polish *** will conquer the world".
"Polish sausages will conquer China, and then the world".
What's wrong with us?
Does Pole always have to conquer something?
Where is this military attitude coming from? Just as if we had some complex.
Did Swedes write: "Abba will conquer Europe"?
No.They were Europeans, and didnt' have to conquer anything.
They just sang great songs and that's why they succeeded.
If we had had Abba in Poland, would we have put up the monuments to them?
No! No? No!!
Why not?
Because the third feature of the Polish syndrome is the lack of affirmation of success.
If one of us really succeeds, we say nothing. Zip. Zero.
There are many famous Poles who succeeded abroad, but no one talks about it in Poland.
Krystian Zimerman, one of the greatest pianists of the world, won't play in Poland.
You can read why.
He won't live in Poland, he lives in Switzerland.
Ewa Minge, who's recognized in New York, in Italy, where she prefers to live recently,
has just received a remarkable award, but in Poland not a soul will mention it.
Roman Polanski -
- if Polish film establishment could drown him in a teaspoon of water, they would in the blink of an eye.
They won't say it, but I know it's true - he lives in France.
And when we have to talk about someone's success, we talk negatively.
We discredit those achievements, just like in that movie:
Kowalski has bought a new car, has accomplished something, but no - he stole and that's it!
And that's the next feature of the Polish syndrome: success negation.
When I say, that we have 300,000 of subscribers on Max TV channel,
it's my success, and it's your success.
That's why I tell about it, it's our common success.
But even some of you don't like that.
Why does he keep talking about it?
Media doesn't like it obviously, because they don't have that success.
But when I talk about it, they say: "Kolonko is boasting",
which equals - he is bragging, which is a negative term.
In Polish, during communism times, this term used for talking about success,
was eclipsed by the word "bragging" which has a negative connotation.
The one who brags, deserves a reprimand.
Look how the terms got reversed: starting with success we ended with reprimand.
The successful one is bragging, so he must be condemned.
That's the absurd of our Polish reality, which we got stuck in.
I once read in "Przegląd" (Polish weekly):
Prof. Alfred Majewicz: "I don't boast about anything because I think,
that such attitude and behavior are disqualifying".
Prof. Edward Szymański, sociologist:
"We don't boast. Poles are recently unfairly attacked
- for so-called xenophobia, anti-something etc.
- so even if they have some successes, they don't talk about it."
Yes, but why is that so? Who is to blame for this Polish Syndrome?
Do you want me to tell you?
Really?
As Tom Cruise once said to Jack Nicolson:
Responsibility for the Polish syndrome bears a disease.
A disease that came to the land of our mothers and our fathers.
The greatest disease of the 20th century.
A monster
called "communism".
This huge, destroying individuality machine created by Marks, Lenin and Engels,
which made us people different from the rest of Europe.
There is a diametrical difference between Polish and American way of thinking,
which I learned as I stood on American land, 25 years ago.
In the American thinking, American society has always been a class society,
there has always been a division for haves and have-nots.
So if someone has, it's like in this commercial - it doesn't bother anyone,
because today he has, tomorrow I'll have. That's how this system works.
But in the communist system,
we all have equally, the same, which means we got nothing.
It was the communism that taught us not to laud one another,
not to tell about success of others.
If we are to talk about somebody's success - we should stigmatize it saying: this son of a gun is bragging.
It was the communism that taught us to snoop on one another,
to hate one another,
It was the communism that taught us the conspiracy theories,
It killed the worldly man we were before the World War II,
and turned us into the little man entangled in the cogs of the huge machine,
who keeps complaining and criticizing,
like those two Muppets sitting on the balcony giggling when something below screws up .
We keep criticizing and complaining about everything and everyone,
and we keep putting spokes in somebody's wheels,
and we are happy when things go wrong for others,
while we are in stuck deep *** ourselves and there's nothing we can do about it.
That's why we stand out from the other European countries,
and we didn't create any significant world brand.
That's why we are associated only with jokes, sausages,
and cheap and stupid workforce that jabbers loudly in its language.
For all of that, responsibility and blame bears our Polish Syndrome,
For all of that WE are to blame.
My name is Max Kolonko, and I tell you my countrymen what's like with us.
Over 70,000 votes in our poll: "Who is responsible for the road rage in Manhattan".
After hearing American press reports you decided that the BIKER GANG is to blame.
But after hearing my full report about the incident - that the SUV driver is.
What's interesting - the biker gang is totally buried in the American press.
Obviously, some of you didn't like the result,
so you started to convince one another to own opinions.
It's just like on the road.
I wouldn't like to have a car accident with some of you.
Man jumps out and starts throwing insults.
If I have a different opinion than you do, I shall be immediately insulted,
and after invectives it will come to blows.
That's not right.
I receive a lot of e-mails from you,
but I must admit I have few-months backlogs in reading, but I get them.
So I just have read, that TVN station, on the Children's Day
invited you children to read books about a murderer's confessions.
Don't you believe me?
Look for yourselves then:
"Tomek asks questions, just like children do - directly,
he asks inappropriate questions,
he asks a priest what does he have under his dress,
he asks a corpulent lady how did it happen that she looks this way.
He asks very direct questions, like in a tale which moved me a lot,
he asks a homeless person, why doesn't he have a home.
And those people answer in equally open and direct way about what has happened to them.
Which allows a child to understand the inconvenient and terrifying aspects of the world,
in a way that can be accepted by the child.
The way that arouses emotions, but not fear,
because it's not concealed by force by the author.
My son loved the most a story about the murderer,
a talk with the murderer, who did his time, but loves his grandchildren.
I strongly recommend, especially for the Children's Day."
I sent a letter to the TVN's president Markus Tellenbach in this matter,
asking why TVN encourages Polish children to read books about murderer's confessions,
but I haven't received any reply till today. Shame on you TVN!
You get a thumb down from Max TV.
Tree thumbs down and what? Will we go to the Media Ethics Council?
No...
The Media Ethics Council is no council, or ethics council.
We'll go to the media organizations in Europe,
and we'll turn them on to your program offer.
Please remember, that Max TV is in English, is being watched all over Europe, all over the world,
also by the people, who watch your stocks.
This came from Nowy Targ.
These are anti-Polish banners, which cropped up on the Lvov's marketplace.
Mrs. Kinga Krupa was there.
She writes, that many people stopped there, mostly tourists: Ukrainians, Poles, German and others.
Poles were shocked.
I'll look at this matter carefully in one of the Max TV's issues.
I ask for e-mails and pictures about how Poles are being treated on Lithuania and Ukraine.
The e-mail adress is: Max@Thanku.com.
We'll deal with it, there's a way to do it.
Top Ten comments on the "Road Rage/Downfall of Africa" story:
No.10: "If the level of audience of TVP depends on Jupiter,
then Wiadomości (main News) will shortly be presented from Tarot,
TeleExpress (short News) from the crystal ball,
and other shows from the presenter's eyes or tea leaves,
and TVP logo, will be replaced with AstroTV!
No.9: "Soon a C1 2012 ISON comet will appear on the sky,
maybe then the TVP's audience will increase."
"TVP's audience depends also on our Baltic Sea.
You didn't consider high and low tides :)."
No.8: "I live in UK now and talk to the taxi drivers, who turn of the taximeter before the second zone, so I could pay less!"
No.7: "A good Max TV is back:-) can you see, you TVP losers, how the f..k TV is done?"
No.6 & 5: A TruePole to Adolf Hitler: "What are you doing on the Polish forum?"
Adolf Hitler: "Go f..k yourself."
No.4 & 3: "Give me your address, and I'll show you a road rage, you moron."
No.2: "*** SUV driver!"
"*** animals on the motorbikes... I hope one on them hit a tree:)."
No.1: "None of you is right!! It's all PM Tusk's fault!!!!!"
And finally:
in the last issue, I tried to comment the audience prognosis of the TVP's journalists,
but it didn't quite work, but such things really happens,
especially on the live shows.
Making a long story short - we got the video:
Max Kolonko, Max TV, I tell it like it is, New York.