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Mariusz Max Kolonko, MaxTV.
In Poland media write about it,
but the don't call the situation by the name.
I do it.
We can see the rise of a new political power.
The National Movement party have just met on their first congress.
Both sides of the Polish political barricade fear them.
They grow stronger and politically mature,
they call things their real names.
They tell it as it is
and they say it's not good.
Poland loses young people and specialists,
because political authorities aren't able
to fulfill their needs in the country.
The emigration is comparable
to the wave from Stalinism times.
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reports
that in the years 2000 -2012
more than 289 thousand people left Poland.
It's like a medium-sized city.
Every emigrant will tell you that:
emigration should be the last thing
a free man in free country should think of.
The ruling elite can't cope with rising unemployment,
economic scandals, corruption and the justice system.
Instead of being just,
they can't decide whether to speed up or slow down,
and very often it slows down.
Law and Justice can win the next election hands down.
Media won't support political authorities,
for they change their colours more often than traffic lights.
People can see it
and the number of undecided voters is growing.
There's a whole electorate who doesn't support any party
so called "the middle electorate".
I said that in the clip "Three years after the Smolensk catastrophe".
My viewers also say it.
"Me and my friends are the middle electorate.
Everything you say about us is true.
We can't support anyone.
Law and Justice is too far-right,
Civic Platform lied to us and keeps lying,
the rest is too far-left.
We're looking for something new
and either we can't find it
or it's not popular enough to win the election".
The National Movement roots in Polish political tradition
and I think they'll gain in importance.
In a generation's lifetime
they'll become a significant political power in Poland.
That's my commentary. I tell it as it is.
Now today's subject.
The top secret U.S. government program,
called PRISM, came to light.
For five years The National Security Administration could read your e-mails,
look into the folders you send,
watch videos, accounts, photos,
listen to your music and Skype calls,
spy on videoconferencing,
read chat room discussions,
keep track of what you're looking for in search engines.
All the big internet companies cooperate with PRISM.
Except Twitter.
The program was run by National Security Agency,
and it thrived for five years.
The agency has some other name, too.
It was also called No Such Agency.
The top secret programme came to light
because of Edward Snowden,
who stole from the Hawaii NSA headquarters
41 filmstrips showing how the program works.
He called the press too.
The Washington Post and The Guardian published the story,
but because of safety reasons printed only 4 filmstrips.
Snowden still has all of them.
Snowden is now in Hong Kong,
in the hands of Chinese authorities,
and applies for asylum in Iceland.
I don't think there's a place he can hide.
They will find him,
they'll charge him with espionage
and give him a life sentence.
PRISM itself
is the biggest wiretapping scandal
since the Echelon scandal seven years ago.
Then it turned out NSA wiretapped mobile phone calls
of the AT&T telephone company.
I talked about it in "The Echelon Secrets" video.
How was PRISM created?
It all started in 2001 or 2002
and was based on Echelon.
AT&T, one of the largest phone companies in the U.S.,
was paid a visit once.
They had its headquarters in San Francisco,
on 611 Folsom St.
One day a man from NSA came.
He had a permit to enter.
They couldn't stop him.
He was interested in a room
two stores under the AT&T telephone exchange
where a coded lock was soon installed.
Note on the door read "Authorized personnel only"..
One of the AT&T workers,
Mark Klein, noticed something.
He testified that in court.
Fibre optic cables in the room occupied by the agent
were plugged to the company's routers.
Just like a prism,
they split light in the fiber optic cables at the telephone exchange.
In that way they were able to monitor phone calls.
operated by AT&T.
NSA did the same at ATT switches in Seattle,
Los Angeles and San Diego.
In 2007 the Echelon project was run under a separate PRISM program.
It is since then that we write in web addresses
Https. Why the "s"?
S stands for "secure".
Since then in order to spy on the Internet calls
they had to contact
the internet service providers
to do what Echelon did with AT&T.
They had to physically send their agents to install the prisms manually.
They made an offer the providers couldn't refuse.
First to agree was Microsoft.
The year was 2007.
A year later Yahoo,
then Google, Facebook and PalTalk,
then YouTube, Skype and AoL.
Nine months ago,
the last stand of the free Internet fell
when Apple agreed to cooperate.
Now only Twitter is not being tracked.
The rest of Internet companies cooperate with NSA.
The government's watching you.
They keep an eye on you.
They see e-mails, videos,
personal data, accounts.
They have data from the whole world.
One of the filmstrips shows the Internet data take the cheapest,
not the shortest way to travel.
It can be e-mail address or chat discussion.
That way they can travel via American servers.
It's the obvious way.
They do, even if you're talking in another country.
Snowden showed it to the world and said:
Some call him a hero, others a traitor.
I don't know his motives,
but I think he's finished.
He can hide in Hong Kong, Iceland,
Greenland, you name it.
But they'll find him and jam him.
Telling the world, he didn't change anything.
PRISM sees us through the data we ourselves provided..
But there's a constant feature of all governments,
be it on the Potomac or Vistula river.
They want to know everything about us.
Nothing can change it.
Only people can change the government.
I tell it like it is.
That's my commentary.
Now yours.
The video "Gotcha Journalism"
broke the record.
20 thousand "likes"
with only 353 "dislikes".
Five thousand comments
and I have read each and every one of them.
"In her interview for ia Polish television
deputy Pawłowicz explained why she used a phone.
'At TVN network they gave me a terribly dirty earphone.
It semed to be used before.
I said I would never wear that.
The phone they gave me was dirty too.
I tried to hold it during the interview,
but I looked like an old fogey'".
Well, the IFB can be used only once.
Nobody gives you used ones.
I can't imagine putting in my ear something somebody else wore.
It happened once, fifteen years ago.
It was at the United Nations
There was a line of reporters waiting to get on air
and they used one IFB one after the other.
There was a man, we called him "rag-boy",
he had a rag in his hand
and he cleaned the IFB after each reporter.
But that was fifteen years ago
and for some unimportant minor reporters.
When you have a clean IFB
and yet somebody wants to use a phone,
the program editor should not let him on air.
It adveresly affects the image of the TV station.
You only use a cell phone in emergency.
I didn't say that before,
as the situation was not worth my comment.
But I will add this:
it's not about Mrs. Pawłowicz, not about politics.
What matters is:
some people from THIS news program viewed by 170 thousand people
wanted to appear in THIS program viewed by three million people.
And Mrs. Pawłowicz was only a means to accomplish that.
It could be anyone, really, me, you, anyone.
They wanted to achieve a journalistic success at someone else's expense.
The person invited to the studio becomes a puppet.
You invite someone and you use him.
It's plain "gotcha journalism".
Later the video was shown in the "Fakty", the main evening news on TVN.
But here, they didn't explain the IFB was dirty,
that they are sorry for a mistake.
No. They just started pounding on her.
I wanted to show you their reportl,
but - surprise - it's unavailable.
The next day after my commentary it disappeared from YT.
They're covering the tracks
of a media felony.
Head of TVN, Markus Tellenbach is a professional.
He knows very well what I'm talking about.
He watches MaxTV and I know it.
I guarantee you one thing.
Phone calls have been made, orders have been issued
an images like this - will appear on TVN no more.
My mission was accomplished.
And if you DO see another video like this,
you know where to find me.
"A Polish Daily 'Gazeta Wyborcza' attacked the students in a town Sieradz".
A teacher in a high school in Sieradz
showed her students one of my videos.
The students sent a picture to my the MaxTV fan page,
run by Krzysztof Jan Wolny.
I let them know I got it and thanked them.
The newspaper wrote an article
"Kolonko went to war on Islam"
and in the article we read:
"After that' jihadists' remarks,
the headmaster fears for his students."
"They are excellent students,"
says headmaster Pietrucha.
"but they rather deserve a reprimand".
I dare to disagree.
The only ones who deserve a reprimand here are the newspaper's journalists.
My commentary Who will stop Islam? appeared much later, than the kids' picture on FB.
The students couldn't have watched it then.
That's One.
Two..
My channel is not about Islam.
I talk about current affairs in the U.S.
in Poland and all over the world.
Third, some episodes like "Who was Columbus"
or "The True Face of Lincoln"
or the one about the Bank of Vatican dirty business
are interesting for students.
They write to me, they'd like to see them
on geography or history lessons.
They find here information nobody teaches them in schools.
The teacher met the expectations
and she deserves a praise. Not a condemnation.
Mr. Michnik - the newspaper Editor in Chief, needs to see
what methods of journalism his reporters use.
They try to scare free people in a free country.
They use Stalinist methods.
If you want people in Sieradz to buy your newspaper -
don't do that.
But if you want to attack somebody...
But don't you dare to touch Polish teachers.
Stay away from attacking students.
Leave them alone.
About the article about Wojciech Fibak, a former greatest Polish tennis player:
"Polish journalism has hit the rock bottom.
Don't watch it, don't read the tabloids,
open up for the influence of those reporters
who do not sit in the pockets of big media corporations".
"Dear Mr. Mariusz, when will your book be available?
I check Internet bookshops and nothing.
Strike while the iron is hot
and publish a second edition".
I will, I'm in the middle of settling that.
But you can speed things up.
I'm sure some of you know publishers or printing houses.
We could publish the book quicker than commercial publishers.
Write me to max@ThankU.com.
The students from the group 2F will get the books for free.
And for the teacher at that school,
I got the book with my personal inscription.
And finally,
journalism is a stressful job in Poland.
So it in the U.S.,
as one of the reporters found out.
He got a job in a North Dakota.television station - his first day
turned out also to be his last..
Mariusz Max Kolonko, MaxTV.
See you soon.
Captions: maryla kowalska