Dear friends,
First, I want to begin this news update with an un-official pre-announcement: it appears that the Saker Blog community might welcome a new Language Team in our community, and a big language at that! Since this is neither final nor official, I don’t want to announce this yet, but I cannot resist giving you a little head-up about this.
Second, I have seen the prototype of the new WordPress based blog, and it looks very good. Here is what one of the two IT specialists preparing the new blog emailed me two days ago:” I am hoping to have this thing ready this week, and hopefully ready to go to the live next week… then we can do the dual post phase like we talked about, and I am hoping it is fully functional and live by Oct 1 or sooner.” There will be kinks and various issues needing fixing, so for at least a month I will be double-posting here, the this blogger platform, and on the new blog. There will be plenty of time for everybody to adapt.
Third, I want to thank all the people who have sent contributions to support this blog:
Via PayPal:
BE, PW, MG, DG,HM, HK, IG, DW MB, WC, RM, GJ, VA, WK, RA, 4PP, RH RS, SC, MC, J6, GE, BD, PZ, MM, BG PP, LH, WV, AS, ALP, DA, EI, WV, VDH, RR, TW, JB, JM, MM, GK, FS, AW, NGG, JV, SF, MD, BR, ND, NE, JT, PP, DBRC, NM, RH.
Via Amazon:
MD
Via snail mail:
JR, RK, S, BS (whom I especially thank for his long letter!)
To all of you I cannot say anything other than what I said before: that you really help me, not only financially, but also morally, especially at a time when the hate mail is pouring in. I also want to thank you who simply send me very kind and often very heartfelt emails and letters. What I feel reading them is that I had grossly underestimated the number of kind and truth-seeking people our there. I am also regularly amazed at the deep felt anger so many of you feel when the realize how much they have been lied to. It is, truly, mind-boggling. I have already mentioned that even the Soviet era Pravda, Trud, or Izvestia were far more honest and lied far less then the modern MSM (take that form a fierce anti-Soviet like I used to be, who was totally against the CPSU rule over Russia).
Sure, our 1% masters and overlords can still enjoy the passive support of the army of zombies they have successfully created over the years, but I also think that they are becoming very concerned about those who took the “red pill” and are simply not buying any of their lies and propaganda. Besides, one awaken and conscious person is far more effective than thousands of zombies, so this is not about numbers, but about networks of people.
In conclusion I will repeat that I am truly very sorry that I cannot write to every one of you a personal reply. I physically don’t have the time any more. Right now I am basically working two jobs: one regular one in “meat space” and one here, on this blog. I the latter in reality takes more time than the “regular” one. In fact, it takes every free minute I have. And since you are not sending donations to this blog to have me spend time writing individual thank you notes but to actually work on this blog and the community it is building, I took the decision to thank you by means of a post like today. But that thank you is no less sincere. Without your help I simply could not do what I am doing.
My most sincere thanks to you all, kind regards,
The Saker
Spanish! Spanish! Spanish!
http://goo.gl/u4ROmJ
I would like to help if you need it in that language =D
Cheers form South-Macondo.
Congratulations, Saker: those donor lists just keep getting longer and longer! And our appreciation for all you do (and put up with) gets even more profound.
Thank you.
This works for me:)
If you are switching to a self hosted WordPress blog i hope you know what you are doing. You have to deal with security, hacks and ddos attacks all by yourself.
Hope you at least use something like cloudflare
Saker,
Thank you for being a voice for the suffering people of the Donbas.
” I am also regularly amazed at the deep felt anger so many of you feel when the realize how much they have been lied to. It is, truly, mind-boggling. “
This tells me you have a
readership that is fairly new to the lies, which is good.
Everything is a lie, especially everything having to do with war going
back decades, ” war on terror ” is War on You,
dear reader.
Magnes
Best Regards Saker
’nuff said, Saker. You’re welcome.
Your efforts to keep the Vineyard going daily are obvious. There are some of us who have run websites and who know the effort it takes, but your blog is ten times that. The standard and the global reach multiplies your task.
As for our anger at the mendacity of our governments and our media—they are armed and consider us the threat to their continuity as tyrants.
For many Americans who know the depth of goodness and morality that still exists in millions of citizens, it is particularly sickening to see the horrors continue and our helplessness grow larger.
We are the most psy-oped and lied to people on the planet. Our virtues have been turned on their head. Our soldiers volunteer to go fight for people and wind up killing innocents. Our Intel people risk their lives to assure our security in a dangerous world and wind up in criminal and inhuman activities. Even some of our NGOs go abroad and are co-opted into evil activities.
These are maddening turn of events. Americans are generous and naive. They want to leave the world to its own, help out when needed and compete fair and square. They often are believers in God, in Christ, in peaceful spirituality. And then discover the institutions of their religious beliefs are perverted and used by the tyrant.
Angry? Hell, we are shamed and angry. We are too intelligent to have been so suckered. We are without any excuses, and that angers us.
And we try our best not to be hateful, not to be superior. Even our self-designation of Exceptional has been misused and therefore misunderstood.
Most Americans think we really are exceptional, blessed by God with a precious nation that never really faced an external invader or the vast ravages of war from conquerors. And with the abundance of our natural resources we have a love of our land. All the while, we believe our Armies were sent to do for others what they couldn’t do alone—fight facism, fight Imperialism. These are what made us believe we are Exceptional.
Americans don’t analyze others. We butt out. We don’t study history or languages well. We work hard, build things, invent things and answer the emergency calls for help from others. That is all goodness in our character. So, yeah, we are angry that we have half the story, know half the truth.
(I except myself, because I have been a little rebel since childhood, erudite in politics, interested in secrets, resentful of authority, and clever enough to stay out of the clutches of the bozos and criminals and liars running the show).
I also judge people one at a time. I grew up in a very cosmopolitan region in a very cosmopolitan time. But I’ve tracked the wrongdoing for more than half a century and know most of what my government and the media have done and are doing. I am no less angry. A few of you know I’ve suggested the Elites need to be eliminated. Only my lack of funds prevent this from being started. The hard part would be deciding who should go first.
The hero of the 21st Century is VV Putin.
In our mind, perhaps, a few of us would love to have an American hero lead the way. That’s not going to happen. We have a Russian. And what we see in the people of Russia and Novorossiya is the same old values of our ideal common Americans. The land matters to them, family matters, God and religion matter and helping others matter. So what we think is exceptional is shared by others—Russians in the current case.
Our anger is tempered to hope, and our passion for justice is whet by the fire in the hearts of those our evil government tells us are our enemies.
How ironic and incongruous that is. Russians? They are us, just like we think of ourselves.
And how damn wonderful we have the Vineyard to learn more Truth.
New info on MH17.
German party “die Linke” made an inquiry to German government which by law they were obliged to answer. In point “14.” it is said that two AWACS (in Poland and Romania) were monitoring the area where MH17 crashed and lost track with it about 30min before the crash. Both AWACS recorded two signals. One radar signal that the AWACS could not categorize. And another signal that they automatically categorized as SA-3. They say nothing about BUK.
http://www.jungewelt.de/downloads/mh17.pdf
Hello Saker,
This is my first comment on your excellent blog, although not the first time I have visited. There is information here that I would otherwise never find.
The hate mail must be unpleasant for you, but if you can step back and look at it with a sense of detachment (rather than feeling upset by it) then it might well be viewed as a measure of how effective your blog is. Because it is effective in getting out suppressed information and is a factual alternative to the endless MSM propaganda, it will anger those who feel threatened by it. If it was not effective at spreading the truth, it would not attract hate mail. Instead, you would just be ignored.
I am writing from Canada. Yesterday, I went to the CBC news site and there was a pathetic “report” there about how a Canadian warship in the Black Sea was allegedly “buzzed” by Russian planes. The story went on to quote one of our idiot government ministers whining about how “provocative” this Russian action was. As disgusted as I was by the shoddy quality of the “news report”, I was quite pleased to see that the comments from the public were very critical. We were never consulted in this stupid decision. The people commenting generally recognized that sending our military thousands of miles from home to sail around in Russia’s backyard is highly provocative toward Russia.
We’re routinely lied to and many of us are asleep, but some of us are awake. Thank you again for helping to encourage that awakening.
Larchmonter,
I wish I could believe what you said; I would really love to.
But I don’t.
I can’t possibly. The evidence just doesn’t support it: we are responsible for our own undoing, not any amorphous “other”. We did it to ourselves, by choosing to ignore any evidence that could challenge any of the myths, past or present, we hold about ourselves.
Including Exceptionalism, that Godawful word which we’ve talked about at length here before bc it used to refer explicitly to “the American way of life”, not us as individuals and not us as a people. That concept didn’t begin to exist until Ronald Reagan planted the vile seed which we happily let grow bc it could make us feel good about ourselves again, and once again avoid the truth. Used to be swaggering like that was considered so rude that if you were a kid you stood a good chance of getting your mouth washed out with soap even if you had something to swagger about. Good manners mattered, Christian humility, not rubbing it in: people *just didn’t do that*, at least not out loud around adults. Not in cities, not in towns, not in the country and not in suburbs, rich or poor. Not until St. Ronnie morphed together the Puritan “City on a Hill” with its obscene mutant Christian Zionism, and tried to make us forget (or never learn) that we lost in Vietnam. Then, over the next twenty years, the foul cancer grew, helped by the obscenely rich and utterly unmannered New Elites (sos), and metastasized into this utterly disgusting concept all too many of us still hold unquestioningly and with ever less reason.
And all the while, irony of ironies, we appear as a group to have almost completely lost the ability to think for ourselves. The only reason any of us even know half the story is by accident bc we’re too lazy, undisciplined, unthinking and still comfortable with our delusions and the propaganda we still swallow whole, to bother re-learning even the basics of fact vs. opinion vs. feeling, much less how to sift through anything not already firmly emplaced in our noggins by our gurus of choice. Especially if it contains more than a three- or four-word sound-bite or phrase.
And the last thing on earth we need, so help me, is a hero — we’ve let ourselves be misled by altogether too many in the past 35 years or so. We need to grow up and start thinking for ourselves rather than comfortably follow anyone, bc even though we pride ourselves on our individualism, we’re a bunch of very fat and really rather stupid, very easily-led sheep. And we need to stop blaming any and everyone else for the mess that we’re in, and own up that each one of us let the ball drop to one extent or another. And, sooner rather than later, we’ve all got to learn how to work together to fix what We. All. Let. Happen.
And I hope to God the Russians aren’t *at all* like what we’ve let ourselves become. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.
Larchmonter445 @10 September, 2014 21:59
“We are the most psy-oped and lied to people on the planet. Our virtues have been turned on their head. Our soldiers volunteer to go fight for people and wind up killing innocents. Our Intel people risk their lives to assure our security in a dangerous world and wind up in criminal and inhuman activities. Even some of our NGOs go abroad and are co-opted into evil activities.”
Your post is from the heart, and it is poetical too.
Though I don’t think Americans are naive.
They are zombified by endless mass media propaganda, and terrible education, and yes, the idea of exceptionalism. The one just war that US participated in was WW2. And none after that. I’m not going to list all of them, it is done million times. Are Americans so naive not to see it?
Americans are hard working, you cannot take that away, they built a beautiful country, but now…it is a nation of waitresses, housekeepers, and bankers, almost nothing more.
I remember after 9/11 then mayor of NYC Rudy Giuliani asked every New Yorker “to be patriotic” and to go shopping(!) I was shocked.
I will tell you how I see US:
1. Money is the beginning and the end of everything.
2. There is no real friendship – only “socializing”
3. No real Faith – religion is fake or a business.
4. Celebrity gossips, football, BBQ, shopping for newer gadgets that is all that is important.
BTW, I’m American citizen since 2000
THE SAKER WROTE: “I have already mentioned that even the Soviet era Pravda, Trud, or Izvestia were far more honest and lied far less then the modern MSM.” –
TRUE! That is what I am telling my son born in 1989.
A big language..Spanish? Arabic ? Chinese mandarin?
Thank YOU Saker!
Wish I were in a position to help financially. (Unemployed right now and living on dwindling savings.) This is one of the best resources for reportage and analysis of Ukraine that I have come across.
I will promote the blog to my networks and, should fortune so dicate, perhaps one or more of my network will be in position to contribute to your work.
Sincerest hat tip!
Saker,
Thought you’d find this quote buried at the bottom of Shawn Walker’s ‘anti-Ukrainian’ profile of the Azov Battalion in which one of their sponsors insists he would never tolerate Nazi symbology in Ukraine:
“President Petro Poroshenko will be killed in a matter of months, Dmitry said, and a dictator will come to power. This is a quote from ‘Dmitry’ a Ukrainian nationalist who says curiously he has more respect for Strelkov and Great Russian nationalists than Putin but that Strelkov has been used as a pawn for Putin’s imperial games:
The Azov have been partially brought into the military and officially function as a special police unit. There are discussions that Azov and other battalions could be integrated into the army or special forces when the conflict is over.
Some of them, however, are hoping Ukraine will look very different in the not-so-distant future. And while they may be a tiny minority when it comes to Ukraine as a whole, they have a lot of weapons.
“What are the police going to do? They could not do anything against the peaceful protesters on Maidan; they are hardly going to withstand armed fighting units.”
Larchmonter,
Good post about general USA zombiefication contrasted with our noble roots and Founding myths — I would be careful about statements about acting against the elites persons though — this blog is heavily monitored by all.
Looks like there was some merit to Mohamed’s repeated statements, even if Obama and Putin are not ‘in cahoots’ per se. Obama is supposedly giving the big speech tonight on why we have to go bomb ISIS in Syria. Granted Obama gave a similar speech in August 2013 on how it was imperative that the US bomb Assad to stop him from gassing his people with chemical weapons, and the combined pressure from Putin, the Chinese, the British Parliament failing to approve a war resolution for the first time in centuries, and the American people overwhelmingly rejecting another Mideast war in calls to their Congressmen and Senators backed Obama and the globalists off. But now the globalists have come back for more, just as they will inevitably rebuild the Ukie army for a mad, suicidal South Ossetia-style assault on Novorossiya.
I felt this ceasefire was just an inhaled breath before the plunge but the Empire appears more eager to strike with everything it has in Syria and ‘incidentally’ target Assad’s troops and air defense systems while doing so. OTOH, if our Shi’a Muslim friend Mohamed is correct Obama could actually refrain from hitting the Syrian forces because Obama has cut his deal with Iran, which is why the Saudis are so furious and the Qatari lobby has suddenly been ‘uncovered’ by the ‘shocked, shocked’ New York Times when the Brookings Doha Center has been operating in the open for several years.
Again maybe I’m trying to read too much into the tea leaves on the table but it seems to me Obama or more accurately his CIA Brennan (alleged Saudi agent and Muslim convert while station chief in Riyadh) and bankster handlers priority has been the Middle East all along. Ukraine was either a delaying action or a probe to see if they truly could bait the Bear into a blood intervention, which they only half-succeeded at because Putin didn’t take the bait. It remains unclear to me if Putin can prevent the fall of Assad and the installation of a Qatari/NATO/US puppet state in Damascus after the ‘war with ISIS’ results in NATO/US bombing of Syrian forces. I personally don’t think — and Saker could wind up concurring — that the Syrian army will prove as easily defeated with airpower as the demoralized Serbs, largely due to Assad having had 2-3 years to prepare and Russia or China sending him more weaponry should the US renege on whatever verbal ‘deals’ have been made with Moscow, Beijing and Teheran to only target ISIS and not go full blast for regime change.
Larchmonter445 said…
A few of you know I’ve suggested the Elites need to be eliminated.
Criminals can be eliminated only by legitimate authority. To date, patriotic elites remain aloof from the party contest because success looks futile in face of the hugely coordinated, alien dominated secret societies.
Therefore this blog should—and can most practicably—nag as its mantra the call to tell everybody to tell everybody to invade the nation’s top party toward the banner aim of replacing lice with statesmen. Individual initiative is powerless; frantic crowds can be aroused.
Dump Harper is a negative; relace the bum with what, the nation’s bum opposition?
Saker, accentuate the positive.
Saker:
Grateful for all that has been said.
I greatly appreciate the direct and logical way of presenting things.
Thing Slavic, half of my blood is equal.
Sometimes it cost me a lot in Brazil, speak directly harshly people were offended.
I really enjoyed the article on BRICS, the anglozionists not act only in Ukraine.
Breaking through the BRICS Brazil influencing their internal policy think you agree, affect much.
Especially in relation to other countries in Latin America.
The fight was hard to create the MERCOSUR, was harder to get rid of the Alliance for the Americas – which would be increased according Mexico-USA-Canada.
I apologize if I made any comments on descortez observation – I honestly do not remember – but if I did, I apologize right now.
Grateful, strong hug and perseverance.
:-)
Someone said above…
The one just war that US participated in was WW2.
I dare recall that
if Dr Weiss had not murdered Hughie Long in 1935 WW2 could not have happened. The Roosevelt was nationally hated for inflicting the Depression but the satanic societies—bent on annihilating Germany and Japan—made sure his opponent was even more forgettable/despicable. If Long had been permitted to stand for president in ’36, FDR would be unknown to history.
AK,
Come on with the noble roots: everyone *wants* to believe that, but that doesn’t make it so. Please?
The Scots Irish who made it here got booted out of the chronically warlike and impoverished N. English borderlands and into N. Ireland where they were every bit as big a pain to the Anglican aristocracy, and finally sent here to the frontier to keep them as far away as possible from “civilized” folk. True dat. Interesting sidelight though: Appalachian English is actually the way all English spoke (forgetting the Southron accent) when they came over: this is wild but what we now know as the English accent was affected by grocers and other middling types who made enough money to get hoity-toity and wanted to distinguish themselves from that whence they sprang. Then the “older” upper classes started speaking that way too! ;~) And oh, those old ballads…
Also, I refuse to watch Obama so I know not what he’ll tell us but it’s quite possible he/they/whomever figured they could grab Sevastopol and then work on knocking Russia out of both Mediterranean ports (I forget the name of the one in Syria), but Iran has let it be known she wants in on the SCO so I’m not sure how friendly we’ll end up being. Otoh, again, all we know is the tip of the iceberg, and not even the names of major players on our side, so… But that Israeli missile reminds a lot of the one we finally knew for sure Russia downed back when Syria was last in the news. sigh
AK
Syria has Russia and China and Iran backing her. This will be the restraint on Obama.
Assad has indicated early on that he will cooperate with careful targeting. If the US does not adhere to principles of UN action and tread carefully, China and Russia will open a diplomatic and logistical effort to stop the US. The Hegemon will feel pressure it has never before experienced.
China and Russia are huge stakeholders in Syria and Iraq. China has been the primary Iraq infrastructure rebuilder and has oil deals there. Russia’s Mediterranean port in Syria is strategic. We will see an asymmetrical pushback from them.
Considering the US think tank strategies leaking out to combine ISIS threat into the Ukraine-Caucasus to bog down Russia, Russia and China will use SCO as their shield.
China just sent 700 troops to S.Sudan. They are now moving globally to use military to protect their strategic energy needs with boots on the ground. We will see their troops in other shooting war regions soon. IN the recent past years they have been the majority of UN blue helmets worldwide. They need to bleed their troops who haven’t any real combat experience since 1979, Vietnam, 2 weeks.
Syria still has Hezbollah and those guys have a long history of teaching nasty lessons to the US. The cost side of the ledger could be extraordinary this time around.
Putin will turn his full attention to this now that Ukraine is on his path to his resolution.
And maybe even India will want to back Russia, China and Iran. AQ declared that India is their next stop. So, jihadi madness threatens the BRICS, SCO and their markets and allies and partners.
Saker, you should add Dwolla to the list of accepted donation methods. Up to US$10.00 – no fees. For money transfers/donations over US$10.00 – the FLAT fee is only US$0.25:
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Great take down of American “journalism” here.
http://truthmachine2014.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/george-will-vs-vladimir-putin/
Don’t miss the paragraph about half way down that begins with “George, please!” All sides should keep it in mind.
Larchmonter,
Thanks for your reply. Thought you’d find this succinct reply to some spin from a pro-Kiev Anglo-American flack regarding Ukraine’s gas situation this winter amusing:
https://twitter.com/EasternEnsemble/status/509843148571676672
Good night to all.
Dear Saker,
I have been reading your blog reguarly since the beginning of the year without ever posting a comment. I just want to send a big thanks from Canada for cutting through the lies, half-truths and obfuscations of “Natopolis”.
Best wishes,
Saxawoogie
Obama’s speech on 9/10/2014 on ISIL / ISIS – only the first paragraph:
As Jack spoke – Ripper: let’s party …
Staff … and sent the United States to assess the situation on the ground.
– They lost their heads.
Our … staff and facilities in Baghdad and Erbil safe.
– Oil is safe.
Fighters killed … ISIL, ISIL destroyed equipment.
– Kill those who we train we bombed our equipment.
Civilians … trapped in a mountain.
– Split those guys who live there to millennia of his goats.
Along with dozens of … international partners.
– Saudi Arabia, Qatar, who else?
We … provide material support to Iraqi forces.
– To bomb later.
Saved … thousands of innocent lives.
– Were born Muslims.
hehe.
We know the American MO when using air power – before bombing a target, they first feel that they must completely destroy all air defences so that their pilots cannot possibly be threatened.
So bombing ISIS in Syria means the Americans would first destroy all of Syria’s air defences.
On another note, here’s an encouraging developement from occupied Germany:
Pedro Abreu @pmsxa
60% of Germans want independence from the #US < Being occupied is bad, follow #NovoRossiya’s example…fight!
http://www.dw.de/germans-drift-away-from-us-finds-transatlantic-poll/a-17908917 … #ukraine0
A big language? Shi bu shi Zhongwen?
123abc said…10 September, 2014 22:11
“New info on MH17…”
I posted a link to that report in a previous comment. It would be interesting to know what the report says. I’ll mention it to the people running the German section.
вот так
AK
Good laugh. Thanks.
Nothing better than to end the evening with the thought of frozen butts in Kiev.
Emperor Barack Obomber
“American sheeple. As celebration of the beginning of the Imperial Presidency on 9/11/2001, I give you a gift of more war. Be grateful, be afraid and go out and buy stuff.”
Does anyone here have a theory of Carlos the air traffic controller.
Is he an invention of Russia? If so, that was a pretty quick response by “him” to the news.
Carlos apparently had a twitter (email? whatever) account going back to 2010, and had been interviewed a few months earlier for RT.
Does anyone know a way to verify his existence and, unlikely, anyone have any idea of what happened to him? I can suspect what happened to him, but if it’s possible to prove his existence then Kiev has some serious problems.
@Saker, Keep fightin’ the good fight brother and many others will surely continue to join and support the mission. While there may be many with limited “funds” they will certainly do their part in any way they can!
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Wow, there is so much luv, warmth and admiration being felt here within the Vineyard and to get a mention along with Larchmonter445 in one comment, is truly humbling indeed as well, hehehe. :)
Michael McDonnell said…
Larchmonter445 said…
A few of you know I’ve suggested the Elites need to be eliminated.
Criminals can be eliminated only by legitimate authority. To date, patriotic elites remain aloof from the party contest because success looks futile in face of the hugely coordinated, alien dominated secret societies.
Therefore this blog should—and can most practicably—nag as its mantra the call to tell everybody to tell everybody to invade the nation’s top party toward the banner aim of replacing lice with statesmen. Individual initiative is powerless; frantic crowds can be aroused.
Dump Harper is a negative; relace the bum with what, the nation’s bum opposition?
Saker, accentuate the positive.
@Michael,
We had a larger comment prepared but it ended up down the comment abyss with a browser crash, so we’ll shorten it up a bit.
First, this revelation in front of such a vast global audience, is not letting any cat outta any bag, so to speak, considering our mission is no secret at all really.
Our aim is not to “replace” Harper and the neocons with either of the controlled Opposition necessarily. This can be noticed if you visit our web portal and taking a quick peek within the right menu bar where you’ll see links to these:
Getting prepped for 2015!
Dump Mulcair!
Dump Trudeau!
With that being stated, our mission is pretty much as your comment describes and suggests, just before you mention us. We are indeed “negative” to achieve our goal with our collaboration in this specific endeavour as others are working towards other goals in other ways within the system itself and we have infiltrated all 3 parties to a certain degree thus far. We have the Harper faction in a tizzy and they really don’t know who to trust within their own caucus. Many “true” conservatives are disgusted with the neocon’s agenda and are trying to fracture the party to a limit without breaking the party itself. Since Harper was “chosen” to create this “party” by US sponsored special interests, shall we just say by way of a bloodless coup d’etat, aka: deception, vote fraud and manipulation, this is extremely difficult task for them to achieve without a bit ‘o guidance, assistance and forcable inspirational.
The DumpHarper! campaign is 99% purely negative, raw, informative, fact based, in-yo-face propaganda that is really targeted at those within the Conservative caucus itself while at the same time putting preemptive targets on both Opposition Party’s and placing them on notice. The status quo, is unacceptable and has to go, period.
Hopefully that addresses your “concerns” but if it does not, we have selected a most appropriate quotation to sum it up from one of our favourite mentors…
“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.” ~ Sun Tzu
DumpHarper!
I don’t know if Carlos was real or not, but if he is, he is probably in hiding.
Spain seems to be the country outside the Slavic world which is most interested in events in Donbass and which understands civil war and resisting fascism. Perhaps the next Saker language site will be in Spanish.
I believe that this questionnaire could adapt to Ukies:
The Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form (from Andy Borowitz, who appears to have read our mind, and is breathtakingly simple.)
Welcome to the United States’ Moderate Syrian Rebel Vetting Process. To see if you qualify for $500 million in American weapons, please choose an answer to the following questions:
As a Syrian rebel, I think the word or phrase that best describes me is:
A) Moderate
B) Very moderate
C) Crazy moderate
D) Other
I became a Syrian rebel because I believe in:
A) Truth
B) Justice
C) The American Way
D) Creating an Islamic caliphate
If I were given a highly lethal automatic weapon by the United States, I would:
A) Only kill exactly the people that the United States wanted me to kill
B) Try to kill the right people, with the caveat that I have never used an automatic weapon before
C) Kill people only after submitting them to a rigorous vetting process
D) Immediately let the weapon fall into the wrong hands
I have previously received weapons from:
A) Al Qaeda
B) The Taliban
C) North Korea
D) I did not receive weapons from any of them because after they vetted me I was deemed way too moderate
I consider ISIS:
A) An existential threat to Iraq
B) An existential threat to Syria
C) An existential threat to Iraq and Syria
D) The people who will pick up my American weapon after I drop it and run away
Complete the following sentence. “American weapons are…”
A) Always a good thing to randomly add to any international hot spot
B) Exactly what this raging civil war has been missing for the past three years
C) Best when used moderately
D) Super easy to resell online
Thank you for completing the Moderate Syrian Rebel Application Form. We will process your application in the next one to two business days. Please indicate a current mailing address where you would like your weapons to be sent. If there is no one to sign for them we will leave them outside the front door.
:-)
Saker:
Você nunca ouviu falar sobre:
Projeto Radambrasil, que operou entre 1970 e 1985, foi dedicado à cobertura de diversas regiões do território brasileiro (em especial a Amazônia) por imagens aéreas de radar, captadas por avião. O uso do radar permitiu colher imagens da superfície, sob a densa cobertura de nuvens e florestas. Com base na interpretação dessas imagens, foi realizado um amplo estudo integrado do meio físico e biótico das regiões abrangidas pelo projeto, que inclui textos analíticos e mapas temáticos sobre geologia, geomorfologia, pedologia, vegetação, uso potencial da terra e capacidade de uso dos recursos naturais renováveis, que até hoje é utilizado como referência nas propostas de zoneamento ecológico da Amazônia brasileira.
ONGs estrangeiras impuseram a criação de inúmeras áreas indígenas e áreas de preservação ambiental sobre essas jazidas minerais.
Está tudo lá muito bem preservado, a espera dos anglozionists ou, se depender de caras como eu, dos BRICS.
Quando te digo que o Brasil é fundamental nessa estratégia de longo prazo, é com muito conhecimento de causa.
:-)
@Larchmonter445,
Since you brought up China, not sure if ya caught this piece from a while back but it seems like you provided a good segue…
China’s First Defense: Bodyguards Train to Protect Chinese Interests Abroad
Time.com World | Published January 18, 2013
In sub-zero winter temperatures, these trainees at a derelict army base outside Beijing wake before dawn to practice martial arts and evasive driving. It’s all part of preparations to provide security for the growing number of Chinese businesses investing in turbulent regions of Africa and the Middle East. Under the instruction of former Portuguese special forces bodyguard Marco Borges, the 40-strong group, most of whom have military backgrounds themselves, take part in a grueling regimen.
Continue reading: http://world.time.com/2013/01/18/chinas-first-defense-bodyguards-train-to-protect-chinese-interests-abroad/
btw: the above is one part of some of our archives and more can be found here within the “Blowback” section of our Repository:
https://dumpharper.wordpress.com/sharealike/repository/blowback/
DumpHarper!
MOSCOW, September 10. /ITAR-TASS/. Air strikes by the U.S. Air Force at ISIS positions in Syria without consent from Damascus would add more new complications to the international community’s efforts to counteract terrorism, the Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin said Wednesday as he spoke live on the Rossiya’24 news channel.
“Regular cooperation between Russia and the U.S. in the UN format continues and it embraces fighting with terrorism,” he said.
US pilots aboard an aircraft carrier after a flying mission over Iraq
Lavrov: Global antiterrorist effort should be based on international law
“I have a headache of a different sort on,” Churkin went on. “Newspapers are writing of President Obama’s willingness to deliver air strikes at the positions of ISIS on the territory of Syria and it looks like he would do so without the Syrian government’s consent.”
“I’m worried by a different thing,” he said. “Newspapers say President Obama has ostensibly taken a decision to deliver air strikes at the positions of the ISIS terrorist organization on the Syrian territory and judging by everything he will do it without the Syrian government’s consent.”
“This will complicate international operations and will pose problems for Russia as well as for many other countries respecting international law, including China,” Churkin said.
“Respect for international law is necessary so that the international community could be able to take consolidated actions on a problem as complicated as this one and if it /the U.S./ opts for such actions, its choice will be highly regrettable and will create obstacles for further cooperation – something we already spoke about,” he said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcVuDiMbjEI
http://vgiannelakis.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/the-shame-of-the-human-race/
Dears Saker:
Could you analyze the possible answers to the Russian sanctions imposed by European puppet governments in the pay of Washington to companies Rosneft, Transneft and Gazpromneft?
Paul Craig Roberts believes that a reasonable answer would be Putin cut, without warning, the gas shipped to Europe. Or cut the gas to those countries that belong to NATO.
Could you give us your view on the subject?
Thanks in advance.
Interesting. A Motorola unit recruitment video.
Saker !
I’m posting this here so I don’t have so many posts on the other thread…
I wanted to give you some (unasked for) advice…
When a person rides a horse…the main thing to learn is to “keep your center”
That means that no matter what a bad horse it is you’re riding, you never “lose your calm” Its about keeping your “center”.
Those are idiots that are rude to you, you especially, as the host of the blog…no matter who they think they are…
But they win, if you lose your calm…
Bye for now,
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Saker:
A US bombing Syria is serious.
As much as Putin and Lavrov insists the support.
For me, international law has been pro bag a long time.
What sends today is the customary law to remember:
Customary law is the law which arises from the customs of a particular society, not through a formal process of creating laws, where a legislative branch creates laws, constitutional amendments, interim relief etc. At common law, the laws do not necessarily need to be in a role or be sanctioned and promulgated. Customs become laws.
It is important to distinguish between usual and customary, since, to speak in a costume, you need to observe if there is repeated and constant practice (in relation to any matter), to be associated with the conviction requirement. The custom is then constituted by the material element, the use, and the psychological, the conviction that the adopted behavior is, in fact, mandatory.
It is customary law of the United States to bomb anyone.
This needs a BASTA!
Perhaps the BRICS selling titles from the American Government in box, maybe, just maybe, require gold trade.
I think the most interesting would be leaving for barter, the direct exchange of goods and servços.
Gold is only worth what it is not because it is rare, but because in ancient times was brought from afar.
Same goes for ivory, whale oil, Alaskan crabs, fish roe from Russia etc.
We’ll have to go back in the past and find a balance in man / hours of work to equate currencies.
I always think of a ton of cement, one ton of aluminum, a ton of vegetables and a ton of wheat to equalize things.
How much in man hours to reach that ton by country?
In coming up with an average, there will be the exchange value of these aforementioned goods.
Of course you can not calculate the right technology involved as 35 tons of a fighter plane for the same 35 tons of sugar from Cuba, but it has been done before.
It is unwise to try again, so before anyone died.
International exchange.
Below Petro-dollar!
The zombification of the American public didn’t “just happen” and it wasn’t something “done to” us: each one of us was a willing participant every step of the way. Anyone alive at the time lived through every bit of it and could have paid attention: some people actually did but weren’t generally bothered enough to lift a finger. Everyone else just trotted right along clinging to their old stale myths overlaid and reinforced with bright fresh propaganda and their daily dose of hate and fear, now raised to an art form. And even at this point, while recognizing that indeed there’s something very wrong, there are people on this blog still clinging to those myths and that propaganda like an old worn baby blanket.
They’re oh, so surprised at what we’ve become as a people and as a society, and are working quite hard to keep blaming their team’s carefully-chosen scapegoat du jour for what we have all done to ourselves, collectively and as individuals. It’s not “the government”: the government is us and whomever we choose to represent us and hire and supervise the rest. We elect them and have let ourselves be duped into believing “our team” is the good guys so therefore anything else they do is ok as long as they keep on attacking the other side. And the problem isn’t minorities either, or Liberals, or Conservatives. It’s all of us, dammit. No one *had* to get brainwashed like this, they had to choose to buy into it, thinking things through for themselves a little less every danged step of the way until finally most of us simply forgot how to do it at all.
And the only way to regain our country is to regain our brains first, and not just whine, complain, issue empty threats and meanwhile continue to refuse to lift a finger about anything. Every single previous generation of Americans, since well before there was an America, has got to be utterly horrified at what we have let ourselves become. They didn’t live and die and love their country, in war or peace, for it to turn into a feeding station for a bunch of self-centered people who mistrust and dislike anyone not them, consider themselves involved citizens if they get out the vote for a candidate or two once in a while, and think they’re giving back to the community by volunteering for their kid’s soccer team for exactly as long as the kid plays on it and not one minute more. How many people have served on a school board or any other local office, or volunteered year after year for a community-wide project? People used to do that all the time, and plenty of them had very, very busy lives so it’s not just that. The average age in our civic organizations out here — and we’ve had some really good ones who accomplished a lot of valuable things — is, maybe, sixty, while the volunteer fire companies are having a hell of a time finding anyone who isn’t a fire-starter. That whole fabric of community and service and working for the general welfare is just about gone. But watching teevee and shopping, that’s where it’s at, and they’re both big parts of the problem. Because instead of being active and involved in making our communities a better place — and using our brains in solving those problems — we’re passively consuming drivel and violence on the boob tube and rushing out to buy anything we think will fill our empty lives. And very few among those who are now starting to see the problem see that connection or are the least bit willing to admit their own part in it.
http://russian.rt.com/article/49416
BTW Saker, if you use WordPress they have auto language translation plugin so that will solve your problem very much short of actually having a real human do your translation which is slow and painful.
These videos are slightly off-topic, but hopefully they will bring a smile to your face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7RD5ONjv8M&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZmCAZwhyY
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@Robert Miller
Robert, regarding Carlos, I found the following comments on Veterans Today posted by Irene Caesar, Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY, who has studied these issues in depth. I also added a related comment by the same person – the “coincidence” of the two Malaysian airliners – as I haven’t read much about this elsewhere.
“Air Traffic Controller from Spain reported on Twitter (@spainbuca) that two jet fighters were following the Malaysian Boeing right before it disappeared from the radar, and testified that Ukrainians downed the plane. The account was deleted by the Zio-Nazi who are in control of Twitter. Carlos wrote on his Twitter: “Before they take away our phones, and smash my head, I need the world to know the truth…” He said that Ukrainians knew in advance that the plane is going to be shut down.”
“Zio-Nazi tried to discredit Carlos’ testimony on their shill site “stopfake”. Nonetheless, given all other evidence, it is clear that Carlos was a hero and he was killed by the Zio-Nazi.”
“Carlos appeared on RT on May 9th, 2014, as it is reported by the well-established Russian Newspaper “Moscow Komsomoletz.” This newspaper also republished the twits, as well as other major Russian newspapers, such as “Komsomolskaya Pravda” and “Vesti”…
“When in March the #MalaysianBoeing had disappeared, some politicians were saying that this plane would be used for the provocation against Russia. And now we had seen what this plane was stolen for. This plane had the same passengers as before, in March; and EU passports were fake and thrown in immediately after the catastrophe, since everybody could see that everything is charcoaled from fire, while passports look new, fresh clean, as if just from under the printing press. And passports were lying in a neat heap. Also, all Dutch passports had expiration holes in them.”
“The plane was substituted in Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, while the scientists were either killed on the spot or abducted by CIA, alike it happened with the first group of scientists on the Malaysian Boeing in March, since, in both cases, the most sensitive interests of the Zio-Nazi were endangered by the break-through science.”
“The substituted plane had explosives. The act of substitution was needed to smuggle in the plane with explosives on board. The substituted plane was flown by the CIA agents who jumped from the plane with parachutes. They threw the fake passports in right after the crash.”
“To make the substitution easier, the board number of the March Malaysian Flight MH370 was 9M-MRO, while the board number of the July Malaysian Flight MH17 was 9M-MRD.”
“The corpses were reported to have horrible stink of flesh that was decomposing for very long time…”
Pat
@Larchmonter
Years ago an American writer living in Japan said in a public speech (to a Japanese audience) that the Chinese government was training an army of assassins to take out the Western global elite. I can’t remember this man’s name. Perhaps someone else does? He is very involved in the 9/11 truth movement in Japan and I believe wrote a book about it in Japanese.
Well, at any rate, they are slow on the draw, but I am sure many are still waiting the day… :}
I know Westerners shy away from such suggestions, but in the meantime so many are dying by their actions around the globe. If they get their way, in the end, it is believed that 90% of us won’t exist anymore. Given the magnitude of their crimes and the comprehensive nature of their planning, it seems it would be a small crime comparatively.
@American Kulak: It remains unclear to me if Putin can prevent the fall of Assad and the installation of a Qatari/NATO/US puppet state in Damascus after the ‘war with ISIS’ results in NATO/US bombing of Syrian forces.
Dearest American Kulak,
Excellent write up. No way USA will bomb Assad.
Try to look at that the false flag of saran gas in a different light. That is was cooked up by both USA and Russia together, not for Assad but for some other reason. The precise number of 1483 of dead quoted by Kerry within seconds of false flag was a dead give away.
No the British and American people didn’t stop the war on Assad. It was the Empire and MSM pushing for that.
The same American people now want the USA to bomb ISIS in Syria without UN resolution. And, both Russia and China are saying that it is OK for the USA to do that.
We all are noting but willing buyers when it comes to MSM, one way or another.
LOL, Both WizOz and Meadhross will love this, selling our souls to ….
Best regards,
Mohamed.
Saudi Agrees to Host Training Camps for Syria Militants
And, I quote:
“As part of US Presidnet Barack Obama’s strategy to combat terrorists of Takfiri group ISIL, Saudi Arabia has agreed to host training camps for “moderate” Syrian militants.
Obama announced he had authorized stepped-up US airstrikes in Iraq and for the first time would extend the aerial assault into Syria, where he also vowed to beef up support for “moderate” militants fighting the Syrian government.Syria militants
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“Now what we have is a commitment from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia … to be a full partner with us in that effort, including by hosting that training programmed,” a senior US official told reporters in a conference call.
The Saudi decision came to light after Obama spoke by phone earlier in the day with Saudi King Abdullah.
“Both leaders agreed that a stronger Syrian opposition is essential to confronting extremists like (ISIL) as well as the Assad regime, which has lost all legitimacy,” the White House said.
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“If you are switching to a self hosted WordPress blog i hope you know what you are doing. You have to deal with security, hacks and ddos attacks all by yourself.”
Afaik most attacks against wordpress occur via less scrutinized plugins, and less the platform itself. Having said that, a regular backup plan should mitigate most issues. The value of this blog is in the information and accessibility it conveys, which as a target serves badly since one would be attacking copies (not stuff such as user accounts or other more sensitive information).
Saker:
My regards to you, your efforts and all those you were able to involve in this most necessary blog. Best wishes for the transition, hope it can bring us even more reach.
E sim… umas palavrinhas em português e/ou espanhol seriam bem vindas. Tenho a certeza que muitos mais poderiam beneficiar dessa facilidade.
Saudações progressistas
Vasco da Gama
@Proftel said: We’ll have to go back in the past and find a balance in man / hours of work to equate currencies.
I always think of a ton of cement, one ton of aluminum, a ton of vegetables and a ton of wheat to equalize things.
How much in man hours to reach that ton by country?
Dearest Proftel,
“Walden Two” by B. F. Skinner
Best regards,
Mohamed.
RE: Carlos the air traffic controller.
This is not confirmed as real. But I saw Pepe Escobar say he searched it a little and it looked legit but since he is unable to trace it further we cant know the value of it.
It looked like carlos was scared in the end and did not expect to be let go. And it seems all foreigners at kiev ATC were “fired” or fried. If carlos was alive or free I am sure he would have contacted someone like RT to tell them what he knew. Like they say, dead men tell no tales.. But if we go by what carlos said then Ukrainian Military was not responsible, it was the interior ministry… It could be they are setting up someone who are also part of the power struggle in kiev to take the fall. Also kiev was not the one directing MH17. So why carlos was watching it is unusual. Also it was quite far from kiev and to watch such a large area? There would have been a lot of transponders out there cluttering up the place to watch 500-1000 km..
So I think Carlos is used for cover up to put blame on someone in case a patsy is needed. Although Carlos did know of the takedown as he was involved in it directly or passively.
Translation of the spanish tweets..
http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.in/2014/07/carlos-spanish-kiev-air-traffic.html
Wally B, it’s a short trip from ‘Natopolis’ to ‘Thanatopolis’.
Mulga M, congratulations on a brilliant bon mot (“Thanatopolis”). I feel myself deeply privileged to be in the company of such wit! Sigmund Freud would no doubt approve!