Dear friends First, a few quick announcements: We currently have 79 participants signed up for the Christian Vignettes This is NOT a closed list, newcomers can apply until the group becomes unmanageably too big (and we are not there yet!) One user entered a bad email or had a full email inbox. All others should, by now, have received their credentials to sign in and participate in the discussion In
Dear friends, I am leaving for the week-end, so I want to leave you with something nice: a full concert of the Argentinian Jazz guitarist Luis Salinas who, in this concert, plays a lot of traditional Argentinian music. I hope that you will enjoy this as much as I did, and see you all on late Sunday evening. Cheers Andrei
I heard about that video on Russian TV. I decided to check it out. Let’s make this clear, this is not a video produced by RT or some other “Putin propaganda troll farm”. These are the US servicemen Biden calls “heroes”. Here it is, with no need for further comments from me. Behold the best and greatest warrior-heroes in history: Note: should YouTube decide to “patriotically” “correct” or “cancel” this
What is a theologian? There are a lot of definitions out there, mostly like “person thinking about God” or “someone who studies the nature of God, religion, and religious beliefs” and the like. This is a profoundly NON-Christian view of theology, and I will come back to it later (in a future vignette) Imagine you are one of those modern wannabe “theologians” and you think about God and religion a
I have always been a big fan of Greek music, be it traditional singing, Orthodox singing and even more modern types of Greek music of the Rebetiko style including, for example, Giorgos Dalaras. Here is an example of Dalaras singing the famous Cuban son “Hasta Siempre Comandante” with Al Di Meola on guitars(!): Today a family member sent me a video of a singer I did not know, Yiannis Kotsiras,
Dear friends, Software engineers begin counting from zero, not from one, and that is nice since it give that first number a pre-beginning feeling. Please consider what is below as a first, test, “Beta” Vignette Zero. A first small trial. Andrei for the Saker blog First, a caveat which in the future I will post under every Christian Vignette. It is important, very, so please read it carefully. I, Andrei
By Andrei for the Saker Blog. The current mass hysteria about what just happened in Kabul and the rest of Afghanistan is not dying down. Why is that so? I believe that what is happening is this: if we compare the people of the USA to the passengers on the Titanic, we could say that our passengers were listening to the still playing orchestra until their feet got soaked in
Dear friends, For various reasons, I plan to make the new Saker blog more similar to the very old Saker blog (2007-2012). None of the planned adjustments below will dramatically change anything, so please think of is as a kind of mid-life minor maintenance overhaul. What follows is a summary of these changes: The biggest change will be not in what I write, but how I present things to you.
Since I wrote my overview about the causes and implication of the Kabul disaster things have not improved in the least. It is clear that the “Biden” administration has tried very hard to do some damage control, but that only made things even worse (just think of Biden’s talks to the nation). It is also clear that there is no way the US can evacuate all its citizens, nevermind former
Dear friends, I have LOTS of news for you, all of them good. I am writing a detailed open letter to you, the readers, to inform you of the coming changes to how this blog operates and spelling out things which in the past I only alluded to or rarely mentioned. But I am also still tired, but off my antibiotics and better rested. Please give me a day or
[This analysis was written for the Unz Review] In October of last year I wrote a column entitled “When Exactly Did The AngloZionist Empire Collapse” in which I presented my thesis that the Empire died on 8 January 2020 when the Iranians attacked US bases with missiles and the US did absolutely nothing. Yes, this was the correct decision, but also one which, at least to me, marked the death
Do I even have to introduce Roger Waters to my readers? Those born in the 1970s-80s all know the name “Pink Floyd” as one of, if not the THE, most talented group in the history of pop/rock music. As for our younger readers, they at least will have heard of albums like The Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall. Then there are the comparatively more recent releases by
Dear friends, After some rather involved work by our webmaster Herb (thanks!!) the Christian Vignette project is ready to go. To see how we have organized the thing, please see this announcement by Herb: https://10.16.86.131/release-of-christian-vignette-project/ I would like to stress out that this is still somewhat of a “Beta” version, so there might be bugs and things to fix. If you encounter problems, please email Herb at saker-webmaster@yandex.com. Please do
Dear friends (well, and foes), I have followed with absolute amazement what has just happened at the Unz Review. First, Ron posted an interview of himself being questioned by Mike Whitney. With its admittedly eye-catching title (authored by Mike Whitney, not Ron Unz!) “Are the Opponents of the Covid Injections “Anti-Vaxx Crackpots” it was clear that this interview would get a lot of reactions. But what happened then truly amazed
The Empire truly tried everything. First, Russia was accused of doping solely on the credibility of one man who had to flee Russia to avoid being jailed (for doping athletes, no joke! ). Of course, no actual evidence was provided. Then, in an amazing case of collective responsibility, ALL the Russian athletes were banned from not only displaying a Russian flag or hear the Russian national anthem. The Russians could
——- Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Islamic Republic will continue to support Palestine as the main issue of the Muslim world. “We have never had and will never have any doubt about this policy. In our view, Palestine has been and will be the first issue of the Muslim world,” Raeisi said in a Friday meeting with head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas Ismail Haniyeh, who took part
[This column was written for the Unz Review] I have to begin this column by admitting that “Biden” (note: when in quotation marks, I refer to the “collective Biden”, not the clearly senile man) surprised me: it appears that my personal rule-of-thumb about US Presidents (each one is even worse than his predecessor) might not necessarily apply in “Biden’s” case. That is not to say that “Biden” won’t end up
Recently, Ron Unz published a truly superb interview where Mike Whitney (a COVID-dissident) asks Ron Unz to clarify his views on both the pandemic and those who deny its origin/severity/danger. This interview is, by far, the best text on this topic I have ever come across. When I read it my conclusion was “Unz, game, set and match”. I STRONGLY urge those who still believe in the “plandemic” cum Big
