Dear friends,
I have absolutely no idea what happened recently, but I am getting comments and emails form many of you saying that their comments had been “censored”. Guys, I did not censor any comments or, much less so, ban anybody (well, I did trash a few comments, but they were either totally insulting and rude, or spam; I mean no “normal” comment was trashed)
Blogger is clearly doing something weird again, that’s all. I took a look at the Google Apps Dashboard (see for yourself here: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en) and it reports nothing. So maybe it is a local problem to some geographical area were all the “censored” comments came from? I have no idea. But here is my request to all of you:
1) Please do not immediately assume that your comment has been “censored” or that you have been “banned”.
2) If a comment you posted does not appear within at the most 24 hours, just resubmit and email me.
3) On the new blog server the moderation policy will be both crystal clear and very simple. So wait just a little more.
Speaking of which,
I was hoping to have the new server up by today, but it might take a few more days. Please remember that the 3 IT specialists helping me are not getting paid a single penny and that they do that on whatever time they have left after work, family life, and personal “meatspace” obligations. I think that you will all like the result very much, but we all have to be patient. God willing, there is no much left to wait.
Kind regards to all,
The Saker
@Not So Fast
You don’t have a provable answer about minorities in China and its One Child Policy, because you are spreading Western propaganda about China.
For instance, contrary to what American CIA asset, the Dalai Lama suggests, the Tibetan population has increased–not decreased–since the overthrow of the Dalai Lama’s feudal theocracy, where not a few Tibetans were slaves and serfs of the Lamaist theocrats.
If you want to find real genocide, look no further than European colonizer nations like America, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.
In all of these nations, White Europeons have genocided the Native populations and currently occupy all of their lands. And, the Native population has radically decreased since the European invasion.
That’s genocide–all disguised behind lies about freedom, democracy, Christianity, and Western (cough) civilization.
Indeed, the West’s “discovery of the New World” in the Americas is the *greatest* genocide and land theft in human history!
And this doesn’t even address the mass genocide or crimes that Europeans committed against Africa, Asia, and the Middle East past and present.
Cash is useful for many things. In fact you cant do without it. But cahs loses value since the $100 form last year wont buy the same this year.
Gold on the other hand will never lose value. I can say that with confidence because Gold and other heavy metals are produced in the final moments of a super nova. And that happens like once every 100 years even if there are 500 billion stars in our galaxy. Which is why technically Gold always buys the same amounts of stuff. Unless we use tricks like the FED is doing now to give the impression that nothing is wrong. Russia and China are buying all the gold thy can, they don’t export it and buys it from the miners. So prices are not affected. So other than the FED and the EU no one else believes Gold is worthless.
The reason to hold Gold instead of US$ is that holding large amounts of them can be determintal to your health. They have RFID tags that lets Federal officers find out how much you are holding. They can take it away and you would have a hard time ever getting it back. But you can store a 1KG bar worth $50K as part of your house so no one can find it. Lots of fake Gold and other PM’s so you got to be careful to buy some real stuff. But its not as dangerous as holding Cash.. You know that if the feds can find out how much you are holding, so can the crooks and at a distance, 50 feet at least..
If you leave cash in the bank then well dont blame anyone else except yourself when one Monday you go to withdraw money to buy some morning coffee and find you cant.
You can say this will never happen.. If so why did NZ, CA, US, UK, EU all pass laws to be able to do it? The US especially dont need to do is as they can create it out of thin air. And maybe they can but that cash wont be worth much, in effect instead of taking out a few zeros from the balance like Zimbabwe did, they will print out 50 or 100 trillion and be done with it pretty much the same thing.
People understand Real estate and that they hold value.. But the problem here is, you have no idea what it is worth. People were telling me they had to offer 25% or more than the asking price to get the house. And now prices dropped 50%. Lots of hot money form china, russia, india and other places pushes up prices in the US so you can pretty much expect prices to go up until all off a sudden the buying fries up but no one else will buy unless they are 50% lower. So big risk there as well.. But at leas yo have a place to live..
We can expect to lose a lot, but we can try to survive. Unlike most people who will not be able to survive and hope to steal from others to survive. That might work.. So guns and ammo and water are also good. maybe even some zombie spray..
BUT if nothing else I will burn the notes rather than let these crooked bankers steal my hard earned money to bail out their own fat arses. Buying Gold really hurts them. So if you cant kick em in the balls do the next best thing.
@ Straight-Bat 06:09
“nation-states”.
Here I simply intended to comment on one aspect of our evolution, namely the endless wars of our history. Up to now our international politics was a just a jungle of nation-states (by nation-state I mean a territory controlled by an arbitrary political system), and these nation-states just followed the simple rule of “me got bigger stick than you”. This is a normal reaction of life that tries to master its environment but because of technology we have to change, otherwise we will destroy either ourselves or our planet. (I will gladly accept a better descriptive word instead of “nation-state”)
Mongols:
I believe you are right here. it would be more understandable to differentiate between 3 sorts of hegemons:
-those who mainly want to impose their mastery (Mongols, Persians, Rome)
– those who mainly want to impose an ideology or religion (Nazis, Soviets,…)
– those who want to cull or destroy the conquered populations (AZ, China)
China:
pls see my answer to Mulga Mumblebrain
@ Soviet Observer
Wikipedia defines genocide as “the systematic destruction of all or a significant part of a racial, ethnic, or national group”. The figures you cite from Wikipedia for deaths from forced migration do not seem to qualify under this definition.
When you transport a large part of one community to a great distance while replacing the transported population with people from elsewhere, you disrupt the original community in a way that corresponds pretty well with Raphael Lemkin’s definition of genocide.
Consider the case of the Baltic states:
“… in the Baltic Republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (see Soviet deportations from Estonia and Soviet deportations from Lithuania).[20] More than 200,000 people are estimated to have been deported from the Baltic in 1940-1953. In addition, at least 75,000 were sent to Gulag. 10% of the entire adult Baltic population was deported or sent to labor camps.[21][22] In 1989, native Latvians represented only 52% of the population of their own country. In Estonia, the figure was 62%.[23]”
Certainly, those forced population movements were considered by the people of the Baltic states as genocidal. See The Captive Mind by Lithuanian Nobel-Prize-winning poet, Czeslaw Milosz.
By NotSoFast: “Comments?”
You sure? Since you asked…
It’s funny how you mention women only within a family context, only good for breeding and rearing kids, apparently. On the second part of your ‘Cultural Destruction’ they are nowhere to be seen.
It seems as if you’re either a closet MRA, or one of those that think that the good old days were all nice and picture perfect. Let me guess; you’re male, white, middle class, westerner, hetero, perhaps divorced and possibly X-tian. How many I got right? 7 out of 7? 6 out of 7? (rhetorical question, btw)
If people lack “values” it’s because they chose not to have any ((as they’re entitled to, btw) or have different “values” to yours. There’s nothing stopping you from living your life adhering to whatever tradition you want to follow, but you cannot impose those values on anybody else; children (not even your own), women, people of a different sexual orientation or anybody else for that matter.
There’s no destruction of anything, family or whatever, the only destruction that’s been going on for decades is the erosion of freedom, civil liberties and the right to self-determination.
“[…] no values except money which means that our youth (who needs some hope and some vision) is drifting aimlessly and hopelessly.”
First of all, young people are not “ours”, they are their own people, if they are needing guidance that’s because any Tom, ‘Dick’ and Harry are allowed to breed without being required to demonstrate their parenting capabilities first. In other words: whatever short-comings young people might display, are the direct result of abysmal parenting, and going back to outmoded “values” is not gonna fix that either.
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By Silenus: “I’d like to recommend that your new board disallow anonymous posts and require some kind of registration. A nickname doesn’t tell anything but helps identify and distinguish between participants.”
Generally, I agree (except for the registration part, I hate that noise, if a comment section requires registration, I never do it, that leaves me out of the conversation all together, but what you‘re gonna do? It’s one of my pet-peeves).
I’d like to think that the ‘Anonymous posts’ do serve a purpose, say, if someone wants to make a random comment once every blue moon, some people are naturally shy and don’t like to draw attention themselves, these introverted people should be accommodated, the problem arises when people post frequently and stubbornly refuse to pick a handle.
@ TooLegit2Quit:
All of your arguments seem to proceed from the basic assumption that the young generation has the values that it chooses to have. Do you think it is by chance (or by an arbitrary choice) that the Chinese and Russian young generations (i.e. the countries that seem to be the hope of tomorrow) have traditional values like studying hard, working hard, respecting the family etc? These are basic human values which give strenght to individuals, families, groups and countries.
I feel that our young generations (I do feel related to them whatever your opinion on that may be) have become the prey of a destructive political, social and educational system. My only hope is that the rot has progressed so far that survival is now at stake and our deeper feelings are reacting: I see an increasing number of young people questioning the current system and looking for honest and liveable values again. Do we have enough time to awaken again? Nobody knows – but I put my trust in life.
@Anon 14:02
If you’re really sincere in this, then you should support the deportation of all European peoples from the lands currently occupied by the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand–not to mention Central and South America.
I support the absolute right of all people to defend themselves. Make of that what you will.
I have made peace with those who have wandered these lands for thousands of years. With them I know I am welcome.
@Dutch
Deep Reource is pure (and clever) disinformation.
Read it carefully and you will see.
Saker, what does “meatspace” mean ?
@anon 16:12
“For instance, contrary to what American CIA asset, the Dalai Lama suggests, the Tibetan population has increased–not decreased–since the overthrow of the Dalai Lama’s feudal theocracy, where not a few Tibetans were slaves and serfs of the Lamaist theocrats.”
Tibetan population:
If my memory serves me right the Tibetans lost ~1 million people in the 1950ies because of the Chinese invasion and because of the brutal repression of resistance – but they managed to increase their birth rate and compensate for those casualties. But as far as I know their population has not increased for years now and the current colonization of Tibet is extremely brutal:
– Because of massive Chinese immigration (15 million Han), the Tibetans (6 million) are now a minority in their own country.
– the backbone of their culture (the monasteries) is broken: over 90% are destroyed and in the remaining ones there are more police than monks (note that the Chinese “constitution” promises religious freedom to the minorities)
– their language is being completely suppressed – verboten – (again the Chinese “constitution” promises the use of their own languages to the minorities)
– the Tibetans who want to protect their language are being beaten, put into jail, tortured (this is now systematic in Tibet) and either killed or released from jail as lifelong wrecks.
– Tibetan villagers are being cheated of their lands, herds etc by aggressive Hans while the Chinese police protects the aggressors.
This is not western propaganda but simple facts that you can check with any of the very numerous Tibet-support organisations in the world, from Singapore to Lisbon and from Quebec to Buenos Aires. Do you really think that all the members of these support groups, who are private persons, many of whom have traveled to Tibet and India (I’ve personally traveled to India) and talked to many Tibetans just spend their time, energy and money to satisfy some government propaganda? The explanation is much simpler than that: these facts simply reflect the Chinese mindset of “the stronger competitor wins” and “winner takes all”.
The Dalai Lama’s feudal theocracy:
This is pure Chinese propaganda. The very large majority of Tibetans willingly followed their leaders into Buddhism (8th century) it is known today (ask any Tibet-support organisation) that before the Chinese invasion religion was the backbone of their culture and that most families had at least one member active in a monastery and sincerely wanted to have more.
@NotSoFast: your reply to anon 16:12 – “- Because of massive Chinese immigration (15 million Han), the Tibetans (6 million) are now a minority in their own country.
– the backbone of their culture (the monasteries) is broken: over 90% are destroyed and in the remaining ones there are more police than monks (note that the Chinese “constitution” promises religious freedom to the minorities)”
Again, you got it wrong on Tibetan population, mostly because of misinformation campaign by AZ funded groups all over the world. Please refer to Wikipedia (who is funded by everybody except the Russian & Chinese governments) link- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region. It says in Tibetan region, Tibetans are largest community and more than 90% of total population. However, like any region within a State, internal migration happens in China which will certainly reduce this %age may be around 80% due to migration of skilled workforce into Tibet from other regions.
However, i agree with you in one historical fact – Tibet (like Turkestan) is a part of Chinese ’empire’-converted into-‘country’ which was brought under Chinese direct/indirect rule ever since Mongols built the Eurasian confederated empire during 1210 to 1290 (not withstanding the 1900 to 1950 period when China didn’t really had a ‘State’ apparatus…
@NotSoFast: your reply to my post- “nation-states:
Here I simply intended to comment on one aspect of our evolution, namely the endless wars of our history. Up to now our international politics was a just a jungle of nation-states (by nation-state I mean a territory controlled by an arbitrary political system), and these nation-states just followed the simple rule of “me got bigger stick than you”. This is a normal reaction of life that tries to master its environment but because of technology we have to change, otherwise we will destroy either ourselves or our planet. (I will gladly accept a better descriptive word instead of “nation-state”)”
I take this as a easy going statement from you. In discussions at Saker’s blog-site, the terminologies are put in right perspective. You can call any ‘politically sovereign State controlling a territory’ as a ‘country’, but not as ‘Nation-State’ for ‘Nation-State’ is only one form of country.
However, i agree with your observation, the endless warfare (since around 5000 BC) arising out of the quest of power-authority-resources by the 1% Elite group of every society will soon turn the (still livable) planet earth into barren land by AD 2100 …
@NotSoFast: your reply to my post- “Mongols:
I believe you are right here. it would be more understandable to differentiate between 3 sorts of hegemons:
-those who mainly want to impose their mastery (Mongols, Persians, Rome)
– those who mainly want to impose an ideology or religion (Nazis, Soviets,…)
– those who want to cull or destroy the conquered populations (AZ, China)”
I will still oppose your categorization, part of which again generalize lot of things. History will rather accept the following:
– those who want to cull or destroy the conquered populations (AngloZionists)
– those who want to cull or destroy selective part of the conquered populations (Nazi empire, Spannish empire)
– those who mainly want to impose an ideology or religion (Soviets, Arab Muslims)
– those who mainly want to impose their mastery & superiority (Mongols, Persians, Romans, Chinese)
Straight-Bat
@Where-Wolf: “China is silent. They are in a strong position to back Russia and put the threat to Syria to a permanent end. They could do it today.
I fear Chinese leadership are revealed as co conspirators with the West and Iran”
Just because Alibaba came out with 25 billion dollar share offering in the market, you can’t doubt the Xi Jinping team’s sincerity in joining hand with Putin team to build a core Eurasian block that integrates economy-energy-security along with peripheral Eurasian block (that includes India-Iran-Mangolia).
Your statement is either a result of panic, or with intentions to spread misinformation. AZ block will continue the disturbances EVERYWHERE in the world to break this core Eurasian alliance, but China knows AZ machination better than Russia – Taiwan and Hongkong are yet to be settled !
Every country (particularly Russia, China, India who are classic case of ’empire’-turned into-‘country’ in 20th century) have problems specific to it, they need to solve it keeping balance with the overall objective of creating new multi-polar world away from AZ hegemony.
Straight-Bat
@Straight-Bat,
Your statement is either a result of panic, or with intentions to spread misinformation.
Well said!
Best regards,
Mohamed.
Hi Saker, really like what you are doing on your site. Wonder if you had watched this video before:
http://blog.ted.com/2013/06/13/a-tale-of-two-systems-eric-x-li-at-tedglobal-2013/
The problem with the world right now is that the Western Elites insists that the rest of the world be changed into their image, when more diversity and pluralism is just what is needed!
Where Wolf
Yes, I have to agree with strait bat…xi Jinping is also well liked by Fidel Castro…
I don’t think China is double-crossing anyone right now.
@ Straight-Bat 15:11
Tibet-support associations:
I’ve been away from our local Tibet-support association for several years now but I strongly disagree with your contention that they just spew AZ-financed propaganda. I’ve been a member there for 4 years (I was responsible for the information bulletin) and the information that I collected never came from any government agency but from honest private people who visited either Tibet or India or from newspaper articles that could be verified. I myself have seen every year our special expenses for the victims of torture in Tibet together with the medical summaries, I’ve talked to Tibetan refugees in India,I’ve met the Tibetan exile government in Dharamsala, I’ve talked to members of other pro-Tibet organizations so don’t give me that crap. The only thing I will agree to is that the Dalai-Lama seems to be under AZ pressure and is now saying stupid things – and he is damaging all of the Tibet-support associations in the world with that.
Tibetan population:
What China call “The Tibet Autonomous Region” is /not/ the country of Tibet that they invaded. Because the conquered territory was so huge (it represented ~40% of the PCR) they split off large parts and simply added them to neighbouring Chinese provinces – looks better that way doesn’t it? As to the detailed population statistics I do not believe that my memory was off the mark but I’ll check it and come back with the details.
“nation-state”:
I do not feel that “politically sovereign State controlling a territory” or “country” is a good description of the yellow horde either but I do not wish to continue this discussion.
“Different sorts of Hegemons”
If you consider China as a Hegemon who is only intent on imposing its mastery then you are most regrettably wrong: China has depopulated its conquered territories and their attitude to other cultures is exactly the same as the AZ attitude: “We are superior”(this is called “patriotism” in China) and “winner takes all”. Finding a way to live with them will be a most severe challenge.
@NotSoFast 5 Oct 2014 14:14 :-
“Tibet-support associations: …”
I am not saying that Chinese government doesn’t carry out repression in Tibet. Yes, they do with pro-independence Tibetan associations. Tibetan exile government itself leads the independence drive since 1950. if you, me and anyone else feel that any territory that was captured in AD 1270 by Chinese empire will be given independence by the government of China after AD 2000, then we must also feel that USA/Canada/Australia/NZ residents dissolve their ‘colonial countries’ and give power back to aboriginals and come back to UK and Europe !
The AZ Plutocracy is not friend of pro-independence Tibetans, AZ Plutocracy uses these Tibetans to weaken Chinese government geopolitically.
“Tibetan population: …”
Please look into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region.
Add up all the regions, and still you will see that your earlier statement “15 million Han” compared to “6 million Tibetan” is wrong.
And, why are you whining about territory conquered by Chinese empire? There are so many ‘countries’ apart from China (like USA/Canada/Australia/NZ/ Russia/India/Indonesia) who have conquered territory within their current boundary!
“nation-state: I do not feel that “politically sovereign State controlling a territory” or “country” is a good description of the yellow horde either”
When we discuss any politically sovereign entity, we have to seek background truth. It is not my invention – I am only writing what ‘Political Studies’ say. And, whether it is ‘yellow horde’ or ‘white army’ or ‘brown army’ logically conclusion will be same for everyone !
“Different sorts of Hegemons: …”
I agree with you about the superiority complex with the Chinese. However, I found superiority complex of citizens of USA and western regions of Europe even higher !
And, had China depopulated the conquered territory since 1270, today Tibetans and Uighurs would have been extinct ethnicities !
Straight-Bat
Where-Wolf said:
“@Dutch
Deep Reource is pure (and clever) disinformation.
Read it carefully and you will see.”
I will WW, and start to hunt for the disinfo.
Seriously, it is my own blog.lol