Dear friends,
Two small points:
a) I am sick with a nasty stomach flu and I am spending most of my time in bed. I hope to get better by tomorrow. Until then, this affects my ability to reply to emails, moderate comments or write. I apologize for that.
b) I have done a poor job enforcing the rule that comments must be respectful. This has to change. So from now on, any comment which is disrespectful to any other person posting here or insulting to any nationality, ethnicity, culture or religion will be tossed in the trash bin. I apologize for having allowed many insulting comments to be posted here in the past week or more. This is an example of what from now on I will not allow:
Ok priest/ Imam or whatever you think you are, it might be better for you to target a more vulnerable crest, an easier prey to digest, because I’m very willing, ready and able to engage the likes of you on my own terms. Don’t they teach you con artists to avoid the real thing or risk exposure? I’ve noticed you preaching from your high perch in several posts here and I’ve held my fire too, but if you feel bold enough to try me, then by all means let’s open that portal and settle this. Just remember, I don’t play by your rules. P.S- With regards to your lord and his teachings on pigs and pearls, you better save those fairy tales for your sheep because I for one, never understood why such a silly and obvious advice would be considered “wise” by any one with an iota of common sense. Who in all of history, besides maybe your lord, would even contemplate feeding pearls to pigs? And why with all the worlds Ailments would the son of god waste his time amongst men giving advice no one needed or asked for. I doubt your lord ever even authored such an idiotic statement, you know like the tale of the sun standing still, so a few ignorant Jews could more efficiently murder and pillage their hapless victims, it is obvious that either Moses was ignorant of physics, or the scribe/ monk who pretended to be recording his thoughts was. Same principle applies here, some lying historian of a monk probably wrote his ideas on swine and pearls and presented it to the credulous sheep as heavenly wisdom. No wonder Putin is striving to keep his serfs under the thumb of the priesthood, keeps the serfs both holy and ignorant, which serves your purposes as well as his equally. You still care to school me priest?
Finally, comments which contains sentences IN CAPS or which have no interest whatsoever will also be tossed to the trash bin.
Kind regards,
The Saker
Saker, I was skeptical about moderation at first, but after reading the comment referenced in this post, I fully agree with the decision. To whomever wrote that comment: your comment is worthy of deletion not because disagree with certain religions – you are perfectly entitled to that opinion; your comment was deleted because you make no attempt whatsoever to form a rational or cogent argument. All you put forth were insults, innuendo, bile and invective: nothing of any argumentative substance at all. Being glib and nasty is not a substitute for reason and proof. I tend to skip reading the comment sections lately because they have become so voluminous, but, Saker, you just sold me on your moderation policy.
If it was i sitting on your seat….there would be no comments!!!!comments are a distraction….a time waster of your energies….you possess some valuable experiences and skills/insights which you are sharing…you are one man…the comments are legion…according to your previous reports you are delveloping your own intelligence sources….that being the case i would restrict your comment section to these people…as an example take myself….a 67 year old carpenter with no military/intelligence experience…although i have been following with great interest since childhood the geopolitical ebb and flow of events…i still am an observer from the outside and the best i can do is thank you for your efforts and give you encouragement to continue….as a carpenter i can only do so much….my building/creation of things are limited in time….and what you do/create is also limited in time….you can’t and i can’t do everything!!!! we must pick and choose…carefully in order to do our best!!!
You didn’t take my advice about Cold-eeze. You can get it at CVS, Walgreen, whatever…
Sorry for being a know-it-all, but the stuff really works.
Kids are real germ transports.
Cold-eeze is your best defense.
May the One God give you healing.
Abdnour
Drink plenty of good fluids and rest. See you when it’s gone;)
Dear Falcon,
Your report on contracting influenza is the second time in the last 3 months by my count. You need more rest and less tension in your life as it weakens the body. Take a walk every so often as it is a great stress reliever.
Since I’ve been taking 5,000 IU’s of vitamin D3 (not D2) daily, I haven’t had the flu in 8 years. Perhaps you should consider taking it as well.
Stay healthy as your excellent reporting and commentary on what is going on in eastern Europe is greatly appreciated by all who love freedom and truth.
Dear Falcon,
Your report on contracting influenza is the second time in the last 3 months by my count. You need more rest and less tension in your life as it weakens the body. Take a walk every so often as it is a great stress reliever.
Since I’ve been taking 5,000 IU’s of vitamin D3 (not D2) daily, I haven’t had the flu in 8 years. Perhaps you should consider taking it as well.
Stay healthy as your excellent reporting and commentary on what is going on in eastern Europe is greatly appreciated by all who love freedom and truth.
Beterschap Saker!
Saker get well soon!
Feng
“Blessed is he, who has learned to bear what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity, what he cannot save.” [ Schiller, Ueber das Erhabene ] Don’t fight stupidity. It defeats itself. Get well soon!
Br. Saker:
You should not even consider responding to such nonsense. It wastes precious time and gives attention to the ignorants. If you keep turning the other cheek so often you’ll run out of a face.
Peaceful Regards as always and speedy recovery
Zainab
Rest up and get well. As for comments, please do not let your site go the way of MOA, which has become unreadable, IMHO.
saker,
get well soon. wishing you a quick happy recovery.
with best wishes
from
a grateful reader.by
Dear friend, Banana is the quickest cure for gastroenteritis (stomach flu). Also avoid dairy and most other fruits, take a lot of water or herbal tea, rooibos is best (no caffeine). Get well soon!
Abel, South Africa
Take care of you, Saker, I hope tomorrow you´ll be
better.
Today is Mother´s day in Spain, and as usually we go away for lunch, but today, curiously, mom was delicate with her stomach, too. In any case we had a good time together.
I wanted to wish days of peace and tranquility to all mothers in the world, especially to Ucranian mothers.
Kind regards
Get some rest and get well soon Saker. You are invaluable and greatly appreciated.
BTW, some may hear reports of military aircraft flying in numbers over Crimea, it is true but my friend their says there is a celebration on the 9th of May they are prepping for. Celebrating return to Russia.
They seem quite happy about this day and the significance. I cry for those over the border and hooe peace and self determination come to Ukraine soon. With a sprinkle of oligarch cleaning, all assets can be regionalised for those people from which region oligarch assets were originally stolen from.
Justin.
Feel better soon, Saker! Stomach flu, btw, is not influenza, which is respiratory in origin. What you’ve got is some kind of reaction to food — a sensitivity, an allergy or something like salmonella, which is much more common than you’d think.
And anonymous 18:36,
I’ll be darned! So Schiller is the source of the Serenity Prayer, attributed to Douglas MacArthur and used by AA since forever. Wow. Slightly different, but infinitely wiser in its original formulation.
elsi,
Happy Mother’s Day, and peace and tranquility to you too! Left a message for you on the 2nd to last thread.
Saker
Hope you’re feeling better soon. Stomach flu sucks.
The best for gastroenteritis ( in my medio )is to not to eat for a day, only hidrated by drinking some isotonic drink ( about 1-2 liters ).
If diarrhea also may be tea with lemon.
When things go better, start with clean foods, some boiled rice with carrots, boiled white fish, mashed potatoes, etc…
In spring there are many viruses that affect causing what is called “self-limiting process”. Most of the times lasts about 24 hours, no more.
A hug, Saker.
Someone mentioned stress as a source of ailments.
Heard that advice just the other day, from a Chinese associate.
“Too much stress or anger will cause there to be too much energy in the liver. Too much energy in the liver will weaken the immune system thus make you more vulnerable to colds and flu.”
She also said I should eat dried red Chinese dates.
Don’t know about finding Chinese dates in Florida, but having a detached attitude, Saker, even when the world is going insane around you, is good advice. And some calming green tea :)
Smile more, bark less. Do it for yourself. You are worth it.
Is Russia’s action a show of strength or a sign of weakness?
http://youtu.be/BNbUSBhOmys
I have to say Russia watchers years ago predicted Russia’s action in Ukraine and the near abroad in the western states like Stratfor and the reason for it.
Saker:
I can not imagine what is “stomach flu”, perhaps a “shits”?
Here in Brazil a pill “Imosec” solves (formula, look at Google.br).
A song to soothe the gut:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNEa4pKCSDM
:-)
Please, what do you think about this?
http://napaki.livejournal.com/100072.html
Nora,
Thank you, very much. You´re very kind.
Here, now, it´s 23.15 UTC/Zulú, so
I´m going to bed, I have to work tomorrow.
Good day, afternoon, or night, to everybody.
…You should manage your site in whatever way YOU think wise or necessary… and not be overly swayed by others. That said, I read comments with almost as much interest as the article — perhaps less so on your blog as the info you provide is REALLY informative and original. But other sites… like ZeroHedge… I tend to read comments MORE than the original articles. In fact… if I ran an intelligence team…or psy-ops… reading comments would be the MOST important leading indicator of how “independent thinkers” may be trending… and most importantly… how to sway those “thinkers”. But since I’m not psy-ops or intelligence — then its simply a way to learn more about important issues as they unfold from a variety of perspectives. Those who have been doing this for a while know intuitively what commentary is worthwhile. Ones “BS-meter” becomes more finely tuned. And one learns to appreciate artful and well constructed propaganda for what it is… without being totally pissed-off or adversely influenced. This is a long-winded way of saying that offensive commentary is in the eye of the beholder. Only you can judge and execute rules that are acceptable to your blog. That said, posters who blather-on or use this blog as a vitriolic outlet are wasting important real-estate. This blog is likely attracting an impressive and growing group of readers. And frankly, that’s the way to think about operational and management issues. You want to enhance and protecting the “value” of your blog to attract more readers. You’re doing a superb job. It’s the best site — hands down — for information and analysis.
Be well.
AGS
Does anybody know if this is true? I’m skeptical.
http://bodhita.com/cia-abandons-spies-killed-in-helicopters-shot-down-in-ukraine/
“Of the 14 CIA military operatives aboard the two Mil Mi-17’s, only one survived, who was initially identified as Captain Savuilov, but whose subsequent questioning revealed him to be an employee of the American mercenary company named Greystone Ltd…”
Get better Saker! In this life if five people comprehend your point of view and respect you and two or even three don’t and dissent, you’re doing pretty well! Better to respect those who share your wisdom and experience. Still I think it’s invaluable to hear what folks say disrespectfully, it’s just not critical to pay it too much heed. That demonstration email really said a lot while not saying anything at all. Did you make that up? I missed it. In general I’ve gleaned so much from the comments on your site, that I would encourage not turning them off!
Vampires, Zombies and Werewolves. This is the mythology of the modern world.
Regal and bloodthirsty aristocrats lording over dazed and confused masses, you know the Vampires well, perhaps averting your eyes in their presence. Popular culture celebrates their values — in newspapers, books, movies and on television. Perhaps you are so enthralled by them you wish to become one yourself.
The greater part is made up of Zombies, including most of the people you know. They are poisoned and addicted: too tired and distracted to think. They will feed on your mind while giving nothing in return. For brief and terrifying moments they are awakened to the reality of their lives only to become enraged and lash out against those who would see them as they are.
Last are the Werewolves, whose powers are limited to those moments when a full moon casts light over darkness. It is in these brief instances that the Werewolf becomes dangerous and unstoppable to the Vampires. The danger is he will rally the newly awakened Zombies. Like any canine he values loyalty and will fight them to the death on behalf of the people he loves.
Know you the Wolf for he roams the Russian steppe. Well hidden behind the name of a vampire, his back has stiffened, his lips have curled and he growls as danger approaches. The Vampires have sent assassins, pockets full of silver. He must be wary for he knows the fate of other such Wolves, like Martin Luther King or perhaps John F. Kennedy. Once known to the Vampires they will not cease in their efforts to destroy him.
It is the assassins and the people like them who are the main subject of my post. Our formerly beloved alternative journalist friend James Corbett is the one of whom I speak. Once a Zombie he was thrown into light and became terrified. Nothing could allay his fears so he found religion, in his case something called anarcho-capitalism. It could also be called elitism, priviledge or choseness and it takes many guises: Libertarianism, Bolshevism, Nazism, Scientism, Feminism and so on. In his way he pays hommage to the Vampires and their values by preaching sermons to other awakening Zombies. In doing so he gives them false hope and directs them away from those responsible for all great suffering.
In this very moment, thanks to events in Ukraine and elsewhere, the light of a full moon has revealed the truth of our reality. It can be seen by anyone who cares to see, Zombies included. Corbett hates the Wolf for reminding him of his fear and threatening to reveal the truth to his justifiably frightened followers. Only a new mirage can safely return them to their haze.
Above all else, the only thing that matters is what you do.
All hail the Wolf;)
What I do:
Sleep.
Lots of hot, black tea with sugar.
Salty crackers.
Sleep.
Repeat. Listen to body. Whatever it says it wants to eat, go from there.
Sleep.
Know you have already made a huge contribution to peace in the world. [Well, that bit I can’t claim for myself.]
Sleep.
Dearest Saker,
Get Well Soon! :)
Best regards,
Mohamed.
Hope you have a humorous doctor- “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” ~ Voltaire
Dear Saker ! Excellent SitReps from Ukraine. Agree with your observation that Chechnya of 1999 is not likely to be repeated. But then each of these events are closely related to Uncle Sam’s full spectrum dominance. Control of global energy resources, which is the pivot of the dollar.
http://nomadicmongrel.blogspot.in/2014/04/a-rouble-dawn-begins.html
Get well soon, Saker!
And believe it, or not – vit C , colloidal silver and dr Hulda Clark zapper works for me each time some nasty virus is trying to attack me! Day or two and even staphylococcus aureus will not hold! Haven’t had flu in years.
Hey Balaban,
I don’t know if one can find red Chinese dates in Florida, but the remedy indicated by a friend of mine for sure you can: vodka taken on an empty stomach! Get well and cheers.
Hi Where-wolf
I saw your thank you in the previous post- re:the Corbett interview
glad you appreciated the tidbit of very relevant info! :)
So,Your welcome !
& I have written to Mr Corbett previously-
He does not reply
He likely gets way too many emails to address them all and probably doesn’t read them all either
The reason I wrote to him, fyi, was regarding his one sided take on the downing of the Polish government plane
I took the time to listen and it isn’t worth the tim
The example given is someone who’s incoherent and rambles. There’s no real point to it. Many millions are now on the internet and plenty of them are unhinged cranks. The person in this case seems obviously to be someone with mental issues. Too many cranks in one place drag down the level of the comment section of any blog. Making valid points or providing information are good and add something. Crackpots who haven’t taken their meds aren’t really needed.
@ Where-wolf
Your concise metaphor is really, really appropriate.
It could be expanded enormously, just factual examples to support it could fill an voluminous book, but brevity has merits of its own.
But I feel compelled to add just two quotes, necessary to give it a full meaning.
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4 In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
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14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.
15 Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
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These quotes make clear what is the only source of the light needed and where to find it, without being forced to rely on occasional full moon to dispel darkness.
After all, made as we are in His image and likeness, we can rule and create and do not depend exclusively on natural necessities. We can fight all the time, not once a month.
Now, that really makes the difference and that’s the reason why they are TERRIFIED by the Incarnation, the Cross and the Resurrection.
In fact, against men enlightened by that Light they lose their only real weapon, the death, because for those men, fighting for and by that Light, death has been defeated!
What can they do? To kill us? But Christ is Risen, and we kept His word!
That’s the reason why Christ has to disappear from collective memory, from public sight and public testimony.
That’s the reason why they push incessantly human societies towards the subversion of all God’s Commandments.
Vampyres are smart creatures and they understand what has to be done. Will Werewolves ever do?
P.S. – Would you mind if I paste your analysis in a post of mine?
@Penny
Thanks again Penny. Corbett chose to hide that Roman Skaskiw was a Captain. I appreciated the clear example of his dishonestly. Skaskw’s ‘extensive’ list of sources, as Corbett called it, is a laundry list of disinformation. Corbett is a fraud, plain and simple.
@Maedhros
Thank and thank you for the additions. I had to make it concise and I knew I didn’t have the religious stones to extend the metaphor to Christ.
Please be my guest and use the metaphor to your hearts delight. I’d love to see what you come up with so please point me there when you have something.
@Maedhros
I should add that I completely agree with you — the werewolf will not save us.
Man must rediscover his humility before God.
Pete, if you’re still around,
I don’t think grunt was a nutcase. He shape-shifted from being an Afghanistan-Iraq vet to a marine (yeah, right) to a grateful immigrant to an atheist angry mostly at Jesus, and the only constants were his age (did. not. write. like. a. younger. person.), his rightwing politics and his hatred for Russia. Not too many of our troops lately have been both immigrant and atheist, and I do think he actually might have been honest there.
So, sayanim/hasbara.
Maedhros, Mohamed and WhereWolf,
I’m still so filled with horror I can’t really reflect on anything of depth, but I’d love to continue our conversation when I can focus on it better.
Hi Nora,
I think you’re right about Grunt. He may be fighting his own demons or he may have been told to ‘contribute’ by doing the hasbarat shuffle.
So far he hasn’t answered the last pointed question I put to him, near the bottom of this post:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4046811478707691837&postID=8468610247928143252
If he’s real then I don’t envy him. Every day dozens of good people are putting a gun to their head and pulling the trigger because they can’t cope with the dissonance or how badly they’ve been lied to, abused and cast off.
The events of the last several days have been shocking but you can’t let your fear overwhelm you. I’ll repeat my advice to grunt: you are irrevocably tied to the things you most hate and fear. They will possess you if you let them. None of us need to know exactly what’s happening at every single moment. We need to pull back now and then to reset ourselves.
Something struck me when I visited Saker’s blog today. On the left side of the page beneath the picture he wrote I am a ‘legal alien’ currently living in the Imperial Homeland. I’d never seen it before. It’s possible he can’t pull away from this blog even if he wants to.
Hi Where-Wolf,
I think grunt’s been banned, so he can’t comment. Which is fine by me since he’s always been just a waste of time in my book.
I believe Saker lives here in the US, but I don’t really understand what you mean unless you’re saying our government is making him write this, and I don’t think that! (Actually, I’d LOVE it if that were the case because that would mean we’ve got some people SOMEWHERE in some official capacity who DO have some morality, common sense, intelligence, foresight or whatever you want to call it. And I deeply, deeply wish that were the case, but I don’t think it is.)
@Nora & Where-Wolf: ouch, looks like I am a topic of discussion again. Ok, I am currently living in the USA, nobody is forcing me to do anything, as for the small notice I am a ‘legal alien’ currently living in the Imperial Homeland it has been there since Day 1, which was on May 2nd, 2007. And, on, I am not working for DIA/CIA/NSA/FBI/GRU/SVR/FSB/Mossad/MI6/DGSE/etc. and that it rather easy to prove: none of them would ever put up with my weird idiosyncrasies, my lack of professionalism in the way I run this blog, the way the focus of this blog over the years has gone form Palestine, to Hezbollah, to Syria, to the Ukraine, to “what else God only knows tomorrow” or with my constant battles with the flu or overworked schedules. Only somebody with no knowledge of how the intelligence world really works would suspect that a chaotic blog like mine would be somehow sponsored by some government agency. Not to mention that writing an anti-Imperial blog sitting inside the Imperial Homeland is not exactly the obvious thing to do, LOL!
My only consolation is that I am not peggable in the Left vs Right continuum and that I have been accused of being both an anti-Semite AND a Jew or “Jew-lover” (as if being a philosemite was an obligation or being a Jew something shameful).
The truth is that I am just “a guy” with a original past, some good training, access to the Internet and desire to do the little something I can to stand up to the evil of this world. That’s really it. No big mysterious conspiracy at work here.
As for Grunt – he/she is not banned (since he/she can post under any name he/she wants) as much as I am fed up with imbecile and illiterate posts which I now flush down the virtual toilet regardless of what signature comes at the end. Ditto for a few other characters we have seen around here. I am done playing Kindergarten-cop for mentally retarded kids with a bad temper and a big mouth. They can go an play elsewhere.
Kind regards to both,
The Saker
@ Where-Wolf
Thank you!
I will not add much more than I have already written here. Just a few further considerations on Zombies, the real ones to compassionate.
If I may, it really takes a little to be able to extend anybody and anything to Christ. It suffices to start reading every day the Scriptures of the New Covenant, in the selection made by the Church’s Calendar.
http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/
It takes five minutes a day, give it a chance, because really it’s all there. You need the Fathers’ guidance and the Church embrace to really understand them, “Sola Scriptura” leads to seven billions Popes (i.e. seven billions “truth”), but it’s a necessary start.
Today I would particularly recommend the passages from St. Luke.
There you can read also the lives of the Saints. Today for example we celebrate the Holy Glorious Great-martyr, Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George.
You can read and understand why St. George can’t be won. You can read St. Luke and learn to don’t be afraid of those who can kill just the body.
These awarenesses make you able to bear infamies like the purposeful mass murder in Odessa by West supported Nazis, (a West full of laws punishing Nazism support, I must add) without drowning in your own rage for such iniquity (to look at such drowning is the most delicious pleasure of the devil, who is the ultimate puppeteer of that scum).