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Posted: 02:43 03/05/2008
Lenin and Che Guevara are symbols of a system that has raped the Czech Republic and Slovakia. A system that has sapped the spirit of entrepreneurism, created an atmosphere for corruption, incarcerated millions, and murdered millions more.

Che Guevara was a coward who murdered people with relish. He was the executioner for Fidel Castro. When he was cornered in South America, he ordered his men to fight to the death while he snuck out and gave himself up to federal troops.

You all should remember the "iron man" Stalin. He is the man who sacrificed his countrymen and then rewarded them with Siberia. How a country that has suffered and lost so much to this man, tolerates those that espouse going back to that kind of life is beyond my comprehension.

Posted: 16:14 02/05/2008
This is not an accurate statement regarding the United States.
There are actually people registered as members of a communist party (and other parties) that appear upon our ballots at times. They are never taken seriously, of course (and thank God).
There really are many different political views in the United States, but the two dominant parties play toward the middle to get 51 percent of the vote.
So it does appear to an outsider that there is not much choice.
But, if I were to start to discuss what I think is wrong in American politics, we might be discussing a PhD dissertation.
I simply wished to correct Ms. Winston's false statements.
"Youths are always radical in their views, but you have to excuse them because they are young and inexperienced," - this is a very true statement.

Posted: 08:50 02/05/2008
This is rather typical of western "democracies". Every party is allowed, so long as it is capitalist. The United States has taken this to an extreme, with what is essentially a one-party system which uses fake "wedge issues" to create the illusion of choice.

Posted: 17:47 02/05/2008
It's really very simple.
1. Apply for a job in a reputable English-teaching company from your own country of residence.
2. Apply for your work visa in your country of residence.
3. When you have received all of your documentation, book a flight to Prague.

Most of the English teachers who have been caught up in all of this are the ones you don't really feel sorry for.
Like the guy in this article -- fleeing the United States for "political deterioration". Please!!!
While, as an American, I'm happy to hear it that people like him are choosing to leave the United States, I also feel bad for Zizkov for having to host such a bottom-feeder.
Schengen is the best thing to happen to the Czech Republic since joining the European Union.
Hopefully, the housing costs will rise sufficiently to push all the "I couldn't hack it where I'm from, so I'm moving to Prague"-types. There's a reason why they come here, or to Budapest, and not to Paris.
For the record, I've never had any problems obtaining visas from the Czech Embassy in Washington. Then again, I also followed the rules, and wasn't "fleeing" anything.

Posted: 21:03 01/05/2008
Despite all of the criticism, it really is quite simple.
A person of non-European Union origin needs a work visa to work in the European Union.
A person of non-American origin needs a work visa to work in the United States.
People who tried to skirt around this issue violated the law and should return home.
As for whether the system is difficult to navigate in order to obtain a work visa - well yes, it is.
Nobody should be whining that they now need to obtain what they should have already obtained.
If the English schools tried to skirt the system instead of doing the right thing (and they probably did try to skirt the system) then they should be fined - just as U.S. employers who try to skirt the system should be fined.
This is not an area of gray, it is black and white. There is no sympathy for people on either side of the Atlantic that tried to maneuver around the system.

In the USA the information needed is published online in English, not in Czech, German, French, etc. It is mind boggling even if you speak English. I've helped people complete the forms and I have even completed forms to bring someone here. It requires work, time and perserverance - regardless of which side of the Atlantic you are on.
Separately, the Czech embassy in Washington was very helpful in explaining the process to me prior to my travels. Although I will admit, I never filed anything in the Czech Republic, since my plans changed.

Posted: 17:43 02/05/2008
The irony of the linkage of the Minnesota-produced 3M patient tracking system IR-DRG to the proposed U.S. missile defense system is not lost on this writer.
Minnesota is the home of 3M and also the location of a major interstate bridge which collapsed last year.
Highways, bridges, tunnels, ports and railways all comprise our aging infrastructure and are a major national security issue in the United States in need of support and funding.
The U.S. economy is close to recession, and approving treaties calling for dubious funding of unproven technologies is a disservice to the U.S. taxpayers and Czech and Polish citizens.
There may indeed be an agreement signed between the Czech government and U.S. officials on May 5.
As Vice-President Cheney recently observed in an interview, "So?"
I wonder if Prime Minister Topalánek and other Czech military officials coordinated their wish lists before the recent visit of the prime minister to Washington, D.C.
Recent reports of Czech military officials asking the United States for two additional C-130 transports and an updating of the Czech anti-missile defense system may satisfy Czech political ambitions but it seems that the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.
If Czech officials think the integration of a U.S.-designed patient tracking system into the Czech health care system is fraught with complications; try imagining the integration of the missile defense tracking system whose testing in Alaska and Central California has been less than successful.
The flawed performance of the U.S. missile defense system was not overlooked by the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, which cut funding for this project by $139 million in July of 2007.
The same U.S. Senate will be the major hurdle for ratification of the treaty approving the missile defense system.
In the interest of worldwide food shortages, I suggest Czech and Polish agricultural officials coordinate a plan to approach the European Union and apply for an agricultural subsidy to convert Brdy mountain from swords into plowshares.
So that would mean is that the prime minister would have to coordinate his wish list with agricultural, health and military officials. And Czech government officials should be careful of what they wish for; they just might get it.

Posted: 15:58 02/05/2008
For Brandon - your grammar appears fine for the most part. I am uncertain as to which letter writer that you refer to, however. It appears that the cultural difference between Americans and others (in this instance Czechs) is the problem.

Americans are taught to avoid conflict from birth. We attempt to avoid arguments (although there are a few such as me that enjoy a good debate - my British heritage shows through) and hence appear uninformed. Never misjudge the modesty of the American intellect. It is why Americans are usually misjudged by Europeans (you do not understand our culture, but we think of yours as quaint). When Americans do engage in debate, we are very much of the belief that evidence should be shown and validated (not that mistakes are not made - and sometimes skewed for political reasons).

Unfortunately, your comments seem to be of ranting and raving based upon a personal believe that is ill founded and makes no sense (even if the grammar is fine).

As for military personnel, it is well-known that unless you are speaking of someone with the rank of major or higher (and preferably higher), they probably are not that bright about anything other than their assigned duties.

I will admit that most Americans know less international news than Europeans, but then again, the United States is so large, we have more news within our borders than the totality of the European Union does.
Or to put it in perspective, the Czech Republic has a population smaller than the population of my state (North Carolina) and a geographic size of less than half.
So for a Czech to know what is going on in Germany is like a North Carolinian to know what is happening in Virginia.
Laugh if you may, but it is an accurate comparison. It is all a matter of perspective.

As for me, yes I know where America is. Heck, I can even find most countries in the European Union. Can you locate each of the 50 states?

Posted: 09:06 02/05/2008
Few Americans are informed, or even care enough about more than the price of gas to be aware of this dilemma.
Even active military personnel with whom I am acquainted are unaware of the entire "Eastern European Radar" situation.
And to my fellow letter-writer -- sir, you have absolutely no idea what you are commenting on.
You are the typical American, who probably says, "Yeah,....I dunno know where Czechoslovakia is, but if we can block the missiles, DO IT!!"
Well, we here in the Czech Republic know where America is, and I personally pray that we refuse your radar, and the missiles DO LAUNCH.
If the English grammar is incorrect, I repeat, "I KNOW WHERE AMERICA IS, AND I HOPE MISSILES GET LAUNCHED, NOT MISSILE, MISSILES, THAT WOULD BE PLURAL. NO COMMIES HERE, NO DEMS APPARENTLY EITHER.

Radar News and Updates in English

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Posted: 08:57 02/05/2008
Radar News and Updates in English

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Posted: 15:34 02/05/2008
I am sure you can get the cumin in every food store.

Posted: 12:10 02/05/2008
I agree with mBank: we need to fight these hidden banking fees! Also, what about the so-called "covert" advertising in films? Does that go against the EU directive? Or is that acceptable advertising? Seems like the EU would have a pretty big fight on their hands if they went up against Hollywood.

Posted: 08:38 02/05/2008
"Someone should build a monument to the victims of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968."

During the Soviet invasion of the CSSR, 72 people were killed.
During the more recent invasion of Iraq by the United States, many hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.
I suggest that we put up several hundred monuments to U.S. atrocities and leave the communist one until last, if we have enough time and energy.

Posted: 13:15 01/05/2008
Is Edward Barner a nom de plume used by a Prague Post employee or is he simply trying to score a free year's subscription in the most sycophantic way possible? I hope I meet him sometime in a bar as I'm sure he'll tell me how witty, well-dressed and handsome I am for the price of a drink.

Posted: 00:55 02/05/2008
PLEASE KEEP THE FUNDING GOING

Posted: 20:49 01/05/2008
How many arrested are actually designated an "illegal enemy combatant" and therefore not entitled to a trial in civilian courts? Really, get off the terrorist bandwagon. Besides, probable cause must exist first.

Posted: 18:22 01/05/2008
I am a museum director in Pennsylvania.
We have the same problem here with a group called the Rainbow People and other hikers who wish to establish outdoor camp sites.
They camp in our Nation Forests and around irreplaceable outdoor industrial artifacts and claim they cause no harm and protect the settings.
That is simply not true. They cause damage from fires, cut down trees and destroy out of ignorance, sometimes from the sheer joy of destruction. They claim this land is their land. It is not. It belongs to our communities and states. Why don't they do their romantic hiking in land set aside for them as your government and ours has suggested repeatedly. I monitor the sites here at least twice a year and can see the increasing deterioration of these areas first hand.
Barbara Perlstein
Pittsburgh, Penn., USA

Posted: 12:06 01/05/2008
"The tramping movement is a romantic hiking subculture established in the 1920s." Is it just about being outdoors with a romantic partner or is it a political statement? If just romantic, why would legal campsites be an issue with them?

Posted: 15:54 01/05/2008
Dave Fairies is such a bad reviewer.
I mean, if your lead is about a tiny restaurant that is open or closed according to the chef-owner's whim, shouldn't you at least tell us something about who this person is, where he trained and why he has a restaurant?
You don't even tell us his name.

Posted: 14:29 01/05/2008
I strongly disagree that CERN has "an open science spirit".
According to the legal complaint filed in Hawaii, CERN does not appear to allow open debate about the most significant issue, the real risks of operation of the Large Hadron Collider.
CERN's Web site states that we have not been destroyed by effects of cosmic rays and micro black holes will evaporate.
However, cosmic rays strike relatively stationary objects and results travel too fast to be captured by Earth's gravity, while colliders smash particles head on, may focus all energy to a single point and can be captured by Earth's gravity.
Einstein's relativity theory predicts that micro black holes will not decay but instead only grow, and Hawking Radiation contradicts relativity, is unproven and is disputed by at least three peer-reviewed studies that find no basis in science to support it.
The LHC Safety Assessment Group has been trying for months to prove safety without success.
However, science may still be a few years away from being able to provide reasonable assurance of safety or not at least with respect to creation of micro black holes on Earth.
Professor Dr. Otto E. Rössler (winner University of Li?ge Chaos Award and René Descartes Award), Dr. Raj Baldev (director of the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research) and others are warning of a very real, very possible, very present danger to the planet from the Large Hadron Collider.
Dr. Rössler predicts that a single microblackhole could destroy the planet in as little as 50 months. His calculations have been released for peer review.
If this experiment is so safe, why aren't CERN scientists allowed to express any personal fears they might have about this Collider?
Alleged in the legal action: Chief Scientific Officer, Mr. Engelen passed an internal memorandum to workers at CERN, asking them, regardless of personal opinion, to affirm in all interviews that there were no risks involved in the experiments, changing the previous assertion of minimal risk. (Statisticians generally consider minimal risk as 1-10 percent).
Previous safety studies ruled out any possibility of creating microblackholes in a collider. But predictions have changed and CERN has estimated the possibility of creating one microblackhole per second in the Large Hadron Collider.
No peer-reviewed safety study has ever been produced that I am aware of that speaks to the safety of creating microblackholes on Earth.
If we delay for a safety study, some scientists at CERN may not be the first to discover some new science, and some Nobel prizes may be at stake.
But which would more wise, conducting a full and independent adversarial peer-reviewed safety study first, or just turning it on now and discover science as quickly as humanly possible?

JTankers
LHCConcerns.com

Posted: 12:23 01/05/2008
As a prospective investor in Neocity's flagship development in Modrany I am disappointed to see that there has not yet been a spade put in the ground. This article is clearly a piece written by a PR company.

Neocity says that it is not ashamed of making money, yet a lack of correspondence and information to its prospective purchasers is very disrespectful and should perhaps be seen as shameful.

How can a company expect to make money if it treats PEOPLE with such disrespect as to deal with agencies who take money for reservation fees and then in turn not tell its purchasers that the development may not be built as planned and in leaving people with worry that their reserved plot is at risk.

I would appreciate any feedback or update to this article if you have any.

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