The battle over Greece in a rap from Holland
From satirical TV program Cojones of Saturday, February 21, 21:50 NPO 1.
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Right Sector NeoNazis hold up casino, get *sskicking by mafia – Odessa
The cognitive dissonance of the European Union’s position
By Mikhail Khazin Source: м.хазин, “о когнитивном диссонансе в позиции евросоюза” Translated from Russian by Robin The problems with the European Union’s basic ideology of course involve Germany’s position more specifically. To see it with the utmost clarity, we must recall the standard mantra of the proponents of Western liberalism, whether they are from the European Union, from the United States or homegrown: the West’s main goal in relation
Main server back up again!
The main server at thesaker.is is back up. Thanks to the fast intervention of a few specialists of the IT team we also know that this was probably not a DDOS but a combination of problems including that Apache was configured to handle a greater number of connexions that the server can actually handle so it ran near out of memory. Still, there were some weird connection attempts from certain
05.03.2015 Ukrainian crisis news. Latest news of Ukraine, Donbass, US, NATO, Crimea
How MH17 was shot down – analysis by Colonel Cassad
Colonel Cassad has just published an interesting analysis about how MH17 was shot down (please see here for the original Russian text: Как убивали малазийский “Боинг”). Uncle Martin has already made a full translation and posted it on the English version of Colonel Cassad’s blog (please see here for the English translation: How the Malaysian “Boeing” was shot down). Since this is very long text, I will not re-post it
Putin did kill Nemtsov – we now have the proof
Important blog and community news
Dear friends, Many of you have noticed that the blog was loading very slowly or not at all. This is probably due to what is called a “distributed denial of service” attack but our IT team is also looking into the possibility of some script gone crazy. In other words, we are trying to be vigilant, but not paranoid (yet). The problem seems to be fixed but if it starts
Ukraine SITREP Wednesday March 4th, 2015
As of today the situation in the Ukraine is deceptively calm. If the Novorussians have completed the withdrawal of their heavy weapons, the junta forces by all accounts did not: they did withdraw some, but most if it was not so much a case of withdrawal as a case of relocation and even rotation of forces. The OSCE knows about it, but there is nothing which they can do. Furthermore,
04.03.2015 Ukrainian crisis news. War in Ukraine, Kiev, Donbass, USA
Revanchism and russophobia: the dark undercurrents of the war in the Ukraine
The situation in the Ukraine is more or less calm right now, and this might be the time to step back from the flow of daily reports and look at the deeper, underlying currents. The question I want to raise today is one I will readily admit not having an answer to. What I want to ask is this: could it be that one of the key factors motivating the
Ali Khamenei: Nuclear weapons sinful, West fears a developed and independent Iran (English subtitles)
By Sayed 7asan In these extracts, Sayed Ali Khamenei reveals the real reasons behind the Western persecution against Iran on the nuclear issue. It is useful to recall them at a time when in spite of Netanyahu’s raving, a deal seems closer than ever, especially as Iran’s voice is rarely heard. The hostility to Iran is actually due to the fact that it is a sovereign country which, since the
Beyond the ninth circle of hell: what changes are waiting for the Ukrainian society after the war
By Ivan Lisan for Odnako Source: За девятым кругом ада: какие перемены ждут украинское общество после войны Translated from Russian by Alexander The civil war in Ukraine is like a huge meat grinder. The hands that turn the screw conveyor kill dozens of people every day and destroy thousands of people’s lives. However, any war will sooner or later come to an end, and the wounds on the
03.03.2015 Ukrainian crisis news. Latest news of Ukraine, Donbass, Kiev, ISIS
The History of the Ukraine part 6
For parts 1, 2 and 3 see here: A short course in Ukrainian history For part 4 see here: History of Ukraine, part 4 For part 5 see here: The history of the Ukraine, part 5
The history of the Ukraine, part 5
For parts 1, 2 and 3 see here: A short course in Ukrainian history For part 4 see here: History of Ukraine, part 4
Western sanctions broke the old economic model. Perhaps, for the better?
By Alexei Polukhin Source: Западные санкции сломали старую экономическую модель. Может, и к лучшему? Translated by Eugene Russia has become a two-time holder of “junk” or, put it milder, speculative sovereign rating after Moody’s — the second member of the global “big three” of rating agencies – followed Standard & Poor’s in revising the credit standing of our country. While in the first instance the reaction of the Russian
East Mediterranean – Waters starting to warm up and not because of the spring
by Kakaouskia Some worrying events happened in the Aegean the past couple of days. Turkey has issued a unilateral NOTAM reserving large swathe of the Aegean, including large part of the Hellenic FIR for military exercises with live fire from 01/03/2015 to 31/12/2015. This effectively cut the Aegean in half, but most importantly it included part of Limnos, a Greek island in north Aegean. So in effect, Turkey has
02.03.2015 Ukrainian crisis news
Cyprus – Russia agreements: Testing the waters
by Kakaouskia It is with great surprise that I read the other day that Cyprus and Russia have signed an agreement on allowing the use of Cyprus ports by Russian Navy vessels. Not more so than the fact that this agreement was signed by a president which two years ago spoke openly on applying for entry into Partnership for Peace. First, let us take a look at what was signed.
