Guys, there are good times, bad times and terrible times. I just had a major problem happen in my home (a teenager acting up in the worst way and at the worst time) and when I came back to my computer I managed to press the wrong button and delete the last 50 comments posted (across all posts, I think). I was really upset and I screwed-up.
I tried to find an “undo” command, but blogger does not seem to offer it. So I have to offer you my heartfelt apologies for shooting your comments today. I am sorry and I will try to never let that happen again.
If you have the time and patience to repost them, I will gladly do that. If you email me with a summary of your comment, I can go through my inbox and try to find your deleted comment. Other than that there is nothing I can offer.
This is the perfect time to call me a moron and an idiot. I would have no right to object :-(
Sorry,
The Saker
The art of war is not for emotional zealots or blind shooters. Russia is in a factual state of war, economical, diplomatic, and yes, military. Russia is not going to fall for action when losing is most predictable. So far, Russia has the upper hand despite lives being lost in the southeastern front. The next moves are coming. The west is desperate to get Russia involved in a hot action (war). The dogs (MSM) are barking quite loud.
Eye know
You have introduced me to Gilad Atzmon and Dieudonne, for which I am very grateful. Thank you good Saker.
Saker,
You’re funny and forgiven. Dealing with teens is on par with watching Vicky Noodles lie like a rug on Charlie Rose… Condolences are requisite for both.
AGS
Saker pivots to delete button.
Delete button scores! :)
You are not an idiot, Saker. I am so grateful to have survived the teenage years with my children. It is a tremendously difficult time both for them and for you, and gets worse as society, which used to be a stabilizing backup force in this country, no longer helps parents be parents.
Thank you for all you do. One little nugget to hang onto – even though it seems nothing you do or say works with your kids now, deep down they hear you. You’ll find that out much later. But I repeat, it is a very tough time both for them and for you.
Saker, don’t worry be happy this is not the end of the world emotions are running very high these days and we have accepted your apology. I was just worried that someone has hacked the blog.
Go out for walk with your son/daughter and try to spend some time with them, maybe they miss you and your compassion
Saker, don’t worry be happy this is not the end of the world emotions are running very high these days and we have accepted your apology. I was just worried that someone has hacked the blog.
Go out for walk with your son/daughter and try to spend some time with them, maybe they miss you and your compassion
These things happen, don’t worry about it.
I do have a nagging question:
Why is it *the* Ukraine? The Ukraine what, then? Wondering…
Saker, you’re not a moron, or an idiot — just a parent. Welcome to the club! :~)
Juliana’s words are very wise; please heed them. You’ll be amazed, some day, at the positive impact you did have. It just takes a while, that’s all.
irritating…yes….but under current events….hardly worth a mention…. watched a video just moments ago….russian people paying last respects to their fallen citizen defenders….in that sense….delete is truly unfortunate sad…and indefensible.
@ Saker,
Stuff happens. Wouldn’t life be easier for you if you post-moderate messages?
I would sure help in being able to directly reply to comments.
Any which way, cheers.
One of those days where by some odd chance I had the text “copied” on my left click.
***A gay story from New Zealand***
I decided to check out the annual Gay Pride Parade in New Zealand earlier this year. As a new immigrant, I was curious to see what goes on.
I made some really interesting observations but two of the ones which struck me most were:
1) A group of Israeli gay activists had a banner which said “Israeli Apartheid cannot hide under the rainbow flag”. 500m into the parade two men tried to snatch the banner away but after a protracted tug of war they failed and the crowd cheered. But then something strange happened, the security apparatus kicked in and they were ordered to remove the banner. In fact it was forcefully taken away.
I immediately burst out shouting ” Hey! Why did you do that!? Free Speech eh? This is what you call free speech?!”. I was the only brown man in an audience of 100s who bothered to speak. The sheeple just stood there.
I thought that maybe I was out of line and that politics was not allowed and anything political would have met the same response. I got my answers 5 minutes later when Amnesty International’s activists marched with the Sochi propaganda. But this time the security did not seem so keen to stop them.
2) The second incident is also very telling of the conformist narrative that is being force fed to even the western audience. There was a float for gay parents with children dressed in rainbow flags. I thought it was disgusting to use children like that but I was pretty sure I was the only one. I was wrong. Almost no one clapped or cheered this. What this tells me is that while people are silent they do still show their disapproval.
The trend in the west has been to severely limit the boundaries of opinion and then allow “free speech” within those boundaries.
At least you deleted other people comments.
It happens to me to press the wrong button after I wrote my best comments! There are these kind of moments that our PM (The Hon Tony Abbot) expressed in few memorable words: “Shit happens”.
WizOz, Isn’t Your PM Tony Abbot a monarchist and Catholic establishment figure?
Do you really love a mainstream politician so much that you embrace him as “yours”?
Let’s be like the slaves in ‘Spartacus. ‘I am idiot!’. ‘I am idiot!’ etc. Mine’s genuine, however.
WizOz, Abbott’s comment was when he was asked about the circumstances of his birth.
Hi Mr. Saker –
No need to apologise about computer mishap – stuff like that happens. So my not-very-immportal prose is lost …
btw – being pedantic – the order of mental disability is – idiot, imbecile, and moron – moron being the most intelligent. So if you are a moron, I don’t see how you can also be an idiot!
However, it looks like you may have deleted your replies in the comments as well :( It would be nice to bring that back.
The important idea that I was interested in – the state of Ukrainian mfg. & technology – you answered the article in AsiaTimesOnline about Ukrainian weaponry.
For the other question – I am just wondering –
– if Putin pulled such a fantastic rabbit out of a hat, by turning the Checens into greatly admired allies (and vice-versa), and did a great trick with Crimea, why can’t he pull a similar rabbit out of a hat re Ukraine? Particularly when the folks on the other side are not very smart. I don’t think that right NOW is the right time … but later? Suppose later, portions vote to join Russia. Would the Duma look favourably at that? If Scotland separates from the United Kingdom, then surely NovoRossiya can separate from Ukraine?
Advantages as I see them
– extra land, water, extra seacoast, extra people
– people favourably inclined to Russia, happy to be rescued from crazy oligarchs –
2) Putin wants to increase the Russian population, has made it easier to immigrate to Russia, It seems to me that these people would be potential good citizens.
3) If there are engineers and scientists families with children – what’s not to like?
4) It ould really irritate the Neocons.
— Medea
Pushkin, the war never ceases. The war is the war of the ruling elites of the USA and the West against the rest of humanity, and it has been raging for 500 years. First it devastated the New Worlds, exterminating tens of millions, enslaving tens of millions and exploiting unprecedented natural riches, often to destruction or extinction. Then there was the colonial and imperial exploitation of cultures too big and resilient to physically exterminate, as with India and China. Then the internecine wars amongst the West for dominance, and the class wars against their own populations, then the Communist menace.
These wars by the psychotic Western elites have not ceased for a nano-second for at least 500 years. Murder is Business and Business is Good. Anyone who thinks that the Western ruling pathocracy would contemplate the rise of mere ‘Asiatics’ in China to global economic dominance for even an instant, is stark raving mad. If subversion and terror attacks cannot ‘bring China down’, then there will be war-you can bet the rest of your life on it.
WizOz, I don’t think you’re supposed to use bad language on this forum. Please don’t say T*** A***** again
Michael
Hi Saker, here is my deleted comment again :-)
Ok time to post my longest comment I had ever written here again.
Well, this is more or less just a article recommendation, as your post, it also had a huge discussion generated from it and some very emotional triggered responses.
From what I read in your post, I think you have a grasp of the topic and its slightly destructive aspects but its very comprehensive and well written with lots of data to back up its conclusions.
Hopefully you will find it as interesting as I did.
http://www.sott.net/article/279645-Mummy-why-is-Daddy-wearing-a-dress-Daddy-why-does-Mummy-have-a-moustache
Ps. Sott.net is have begun to post, more or less, all your recent blogposts. Just thought I should mention it.
Dearest Saker,
I am amazed under all these stress and time constraints, how well you keep everything together.
You are a kind, generous host, who seems to care very much about the well being of the society and mankind.
Best regards,
Mohamed.
I am a lot more worried about the teenager than the comments. Screw the comments.
Saker,
Great blog.
I read a story on euromaidanpr.com reposted from UNIAN where Kiev claims to have destroyed Novorossia’s training camp near Yaseny on May 27th. Can you confirm this? Will this have any affect on recruiting and morale?
Thanks,
letswalk said: “A group of Israeli gay activists [in the Gay Pride Parade in New Zealand] had a banner which said “Israeli Apartheid cannot hide under the rainbow flag”. … [Later] the security apparatus [a.k.a. goons] kicked in and they were ordered to remove the banner. In fact it was forcefully taken away.”
It seems that in the Anglo-Zionist Empire any criticism of Israel is treated almost the same as Kritik des Staats unter dem Drittes Reich.
At least criticism of homosexuality in the Anglo-Zionist Empire is merely ‘politically incorrect’, and will not get you arrested. I agree with The Saker that support for ‘gay rights’ is a covert way of undermining the institution of the family in contemporary society, and rendering children more vulnerable to state-sponsored indoctrination.
Anonymous said: “You have introduced me to Gilad Atzmon and Dieudonne, for which I am very grateful.”
For those who don’t know, “Gilad Atzmon was born as a Jew in Israel, grew up in Jerusalem and currently lives in London. During his military service in the Israeli army he witnessed the suffering of the Palestinian people at first hand and as a result became a committed anti-Zionist.”
Links to most of his articles from 2003 to 2011 can be found here.
Gilad Atzmon’s two novels are also well worth reading, especially his first, the hilarious A Guide to the Perplexed.
Nevermind Saker, i never seem to get an answer from you anyway and not so my question in the “Juan” post yesterday about what may possibly drive the Ukie pilots to commit such massacres, but i did sort of get an answer from non other than Comandante “Steel” Strelkov himself:
“An officer, who is fighting against his own people and against his own beliefs is a coward and a faggot. He is a coward because he is afraid for “his family and pension” so much that at the end he is ready to make other families orphans. He is a faggot because by being a coward and betraying his people once he will continue to be a coward and fall further down to the very degradation… If one helicopter squadron joined us, it would be sufficient to make the Ukrainian army fall apart by itself. We could overthrow the junta and establish a fari government in Kiev. However complete amebic behavior of so-called “officers” allows the Ukrainians to bomb the defense forces and send the regular troops to the frontline. These people should not have entered military colleges, they should have been employed as sewage pipe cleaners.”
https://www.facebook.com/southfronteng
Mikhas.
I want to learn. Not of what technology created the weaponry used to destroy life but of the technology used to create that life
Reading the comments on this site is a big part of the education I glean here–but accidentally deleting is all too understandable. Thank you for all your hard work and great analysis!
About Russia intervening or not: Limited Russian attacks from Russia proper, under certain circumstances, without declaring a “no fly zone”, could and should be done with only the usual babble from the West as a possible consequence beyond the desire achievement.
Today may be such an “opportunity” since it is said that an ultimatum has been issued by the Banderastan Nazi junta, that if the anti-nazi Novorossiyan military don´t surrender, Grad rockets and worse will be used. Judging from 08.08.08/Georgia, these are not accurate “surgical strike” weapons,everybody knows that, but rather intended to instil fear,terror and panic and obvious gruesome death´s to countless civilians (with western support they are not going to stop them). This is what NATO did to Serbia, flatten it´s infrastructure kill thousands of people until the “people turn against their leaders” (never happened)or the victim surrender completely.Nobody needs that.
A few missiles from Russia, or a clear warning to do so, at those to prevent the freaks from committing large scale genocide would cool down things considerably. The Nazi junta seem to have stop anxiously looking over their shoulder, at Russia, after every killing spree, they need to be thought a healthy lesson.
Mikhas.
@Celabelle
the Ukraine is because the name means sthg ike the border lands as also with marches as in the Welsh Marches or le Marche, in Italy.
The nats like to drop the ‘the’ to make it more name-like.
Wikipedia is, this time round, accurate, I reckon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine
No, Saker. You’re not an idiot. Don’t be so hard on yourself.
I appreciate all the work you do here, and I eagerly await each of your posts, but I also understand and respect the fact that you have a family and other equally important matters to attend to.
Keep up the good work!
-Seamus Padraig
Hey, I got to rant and blow off steam, that’s all I was looking for.
I’m kind of glad my statement isn’t up there for posterity ;-)
reseaux voltaire in various languages e.g.
http://www.voltairenet.org/en
has a lot of stuff in various languages on the China-to-W Europe Eurasian axis and Germany’s interest in not having W Europe construct a new iron curtain againt the East.
Worth bearing in mind as background to the ongoing slaughter in the Ukr.
Russia’s Rise To Global Power — Paul Craig Roberts
May 24, 2014 | Categories:
Western propaganda about events in Ukraine has two main purposes. One is to cover up, or to distract from, Washington’s role in overthrowing the elected democratic government of Ukraine. The other is to demonize Russia.
The truth is known, but truth is not a part of the Western TV and print media. The intercepted telephone call between US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt reveals the two coup plotters discussing which of Washington’s stooges will be installed as Washington’s person in the new puppet government. The intercepted telephone call between Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and EU foreign policy official Catherine Ashton revealed suspicions, later confirmed by independent reports, that the sniper fire that killed people on both sides of the Kiev protests came from the Washington-backed side of the conflict.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/05/24/russias-rise-global-power-paul-craig-roberts/
SAKER, Anonymous 09:03
“I am a lot more worried about the teenager than the comments. Screw the comments.”
Yup.
Mr. Nora is still chuckling. We may not all have gone to war-war, but living with teenagers seems at times like a reasonable facsimile.
Dear The Saker,
Don’t beat yourself up:).As long as your posts weren’t deleted – all fine.
Rgds,
Veritas
Dear Saker,
Now for some fun and humor!
Since, you live in USA, you are not an idiot. You Are An American Idiot.
GREEN DAY LYRICS
“American Idiot”
Don’t wanna be an American idiot.
Don’t want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For that’s enough to argue.
Well maybe I’m the faggot America.
I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For that’s enough to argue.
Don’t want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It’s calling out to idiot America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For that’s enough to argue.
Best regards,
Mohamed.
It’s OK, Saker, these things happen. Thanks for giving us a place to discuss these momentous events.
@Anon 28 May, 2014 05:49
“Our” is just a geographical indication.
Thanks Mulga for the specification.