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JCDecaux is the exclusive operator of citylight advertising spaces on the city furniture in Prague. The surfaces are part of public transport stops, others are in the form of freestanding panels and columns. We also operate digital surfaces at the most prestigious addresses in the centre of Prague - https://www.jcdecaux.cz/mestsky-mobilar
I spoke to an employee who was removing anything that resembled JDEUX from bus and tram stops. He told me that the City Hall had not been able to remove any of the JDEUX products. Prague still does not have proper service contracts, the bus stops are not as clean, the glass is not cleaned, etc. Why continue a contract with a foreign company that everyone in Europe is happy with. The CEO of the company personally flew to Prague. He did not understand why the contract could not be renewed when everywhere in Europe the customers are satisfied. Let's divide the loot for ourselves and forget about the customers and the impression of Prague for tourists. It's bad, mother, you're running into thieves everywhere... JŠ
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"IF YOU DON'T PUT IT IN THE CUP, YOU CAN'T EAT OUT OF THE CUP."
From the wisdom of our grandmothers
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Updated 27.3.2024: Stanislav Vrbík: ON BATISM IN TIME:
... Perhaps the most open and eloquent admiration for the Batas as creators of a new type of human society was expressed in 1937 by a Soviet general, apparently from the secret services. (According to Jan Bata's later account. He did not remember the general's name). After a visit to Zlín, where he and Gen. Shaposhnikov in 1937, when he was invited to participate in the military manoeuvres of the Czechoslovak army, he was overwhelmed. He declared in a private conversation with Czechoslovak Gen. Luza that while in Russia they had shed streams of blood to exterminate the businessmen as pests of the country without achieving the goal of giving the people a happy life, in Zlin one of those cursed businessmen had achieved it to a degree that they in Russia could not even dream of. He is said to have slaughtered hundreds of businessmen with his own hands in the belief that he was doing the right thing. No, that's not possible, he added, digging his fingers into his face and on the verge of a mental breakdown. ... An excerpt of the essentials follows. JŠ
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This exercise of morality has been going on since the beginning of the last century. Unfortunately, only in Zlín and there it was limited by occupation and destroyed by nationalisation. It was not enough for the communist government. They had to hang a lot of people and rename Zlín to complete the work of destruction.
But the true Eldorado of plunder could only come after the fall of communism. Capitalism came, infected with the virus of extra-corruption. "Fortune favoured the prepared" (probably thanks to the StB) and our society went from mud to puddle. There was corruption even under communism. Such a hundred-crown and bonanza. With the new capitalism, a kind of perverse inflation of bribes reached billions.
Even today we can ask in amazement with A. Cekota: "How can a state whose political parties have hung themselves on their necks continue to prosper"... and which, thanks to the "pragmatists" in their ranks, cannot resist corruption and the influence of the nouveau riche, who are then, of course, allowed to invent and sophisticate their thieving work.“
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In our country, however, it is different and freedom of speech also excludes the promotion of genocide, acts of violence or advocacy of Nazi and Communist crimes. The aktualne.cz website provides a justification of the sentence against Josef Skala. "This was a clear propaganda exhibition beyond the bounds of the law, which from beginning to end was aimed at only one thing: to convince the listener who will have the misfortune to turn on the programme that not much happened in Katyn, and if it did, it was all the fault of the Germans, because the Soviet Union did not commit any war crimes during the Second World War or any other war crimes. ...No one anywhere in the world would dare to do that if it were about the crimes of the Germans, Auschwitz, the Holocaust," emphasized Tomas Hübner, the judge of the District Court for Prague 7 who heard the case in the first instance, adding that he believes the misconception persists that communist and Nazi crimes are not on the same level. "This is not true, the law knows absolutely no such distinction."
Correct, red and black totalitarianism should be treated equally. They are both comparably criminal and have been involved in the destruction of entire populations. The Holocaust has been proven beyond doubt and the culprits for the mass murder of millions of Jews are the German Nazis. Similarly, the guilt of the Soviet Communists in the murder of Polish officers at Katyn is indisputably proven. Of course, one cannot compare the number of dead, but denial of the historical truth deserves to be punished in both cases. Indeed, it could lead to a repetition of earlier horrors in the future. And if these three do not stop their lying and genocide denial, then I hope they end up behind bars. It is possible to lodge a constitutional complaint with the Constitutional Court against the Supreme Court's verdict, but in my opinion that would be absolutely irrelevant in this case.
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This is how it MOVED in the Czech TV Events on 24.3.2024. JŠ
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How many of the dozens of investigated generals who manipulated contracts and used the "saved" money to go on holiday to the Pacific, buy mountain bikes or even have gold "general" brooches made for civilian suits or custom underwear and T-shirts with the inscription "Section for the Development of the General Staff's Species of Forces" (a piece of brocade for seven hundred crowns) - have been demoted or convicted?
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One of the most tasteless and damaging remnants of the totalitarian past is the bowing of Czech society to ranks and titles. To satisfy the demand for titles among the uncultured power-holders, equally uncultured fraudulent university departments were even created, as in the law faculty of the University of West Bohemia or the famous "university" in Sládkovič, Slovakia, so popular especially among Brno politicians.
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Can you imagine the "quality" of leadership if there was a war? No wonder the military has never defended its country in the last 100 years. JŠ
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