Dear friends,
I just wanted to let you know that a member of our community – palmtoptiger – sent me the full sum to pay for the Soundcloud “Go Unlimited” plan! Before that, Larchmonter445 also made a donation towards the same goal. So we got it! Full Soundcloud for a year :-)
Thanks a lot to both of you – this will certainly provide the best and most flexible option for the future podcasts. I will still post on YouTube also, but I will drop Mediafire, 4Share and other lesser options are redundant.
This is fantastic news, I am very grateful and very happy!
The Saker
PS to: palmtoptiger and Larchmonter445: I am $25 dollars over the needed figure. What shall I do with it? Split it and return one half to both of you? Please let me know.
Saker Message:
I wouldn’t have bought soundcloud.
Waste of money when you can host files for free forever at depositfiles etc…
and next year? somebody gotta cough up another 25 bucks.
Dear Palmtoptiger and Larchmonter445,
Thank you so much for giving The Saker the money to get soundcloud. It was very kind and thoughtful of you both.
Congratulations The Saker. :).
Rgds,
Veritas
music might be nice. some bumper music anyway. but nothing that can be used to sue you, so I recommend sites like:
https://www.scenemusic.net
where you can download most tunes and they have no copyright.
It’s yours to use for music lessons.
Donations are donations.
Mazel tov, Ben (just pulling your vocal chords)
Spend it well before it gets devalued.
Thank you, Larchmonter and palmtoptiger – just reading of Soros’s treachery here (and I used to think he was a good plutocrat – just shows you who your friends really are!)
I still have a soft spot for Kim Dotcom, who exposed himself quite selflessly to ridicule in New Zealand – I know as a rich guy he has his flaws, but I’m with Putin when the oligarchically inclined bow to the service of the nation, and I do think Kim Dotcom did that.
So, many thanks to you, mini-oligarchs though you be – we peons salute you!
Many thanks to these members of the “vineyard” community.
As for the excess, take your wife to dinner. She puts up with a lot :-)
Great news, soundcloud is very good!
A must read!
Vladimir Putin Is the Leader of the Moral World
BY PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS • OCTOBER 25, 2014
http://www.unz.com/proberts/vladimir-putin-is-the-leader-of-the-moral-world/
Can I vote for Saker’s own inspired acoustic jazz guitar creations for bumper music? And Mrs. Saker cannot be thanked enough for all her personal sacrifices to make this blog possible. God bless you, Mrs. Saker!
Soundcloud was a good choice, it’s easy to share on Facebook and other social media too.
Those who may not be clear should understand it’s not simply about storing files for download, it’s more about hosting files that can be streamed in real time from a strong platform, and also shared with others.
I finally managed to listen to the podcast.
My g-d man I’m impressed. Not just coherent but authoritative. Radio producers would be fawning over you if they believed they could control you — or if you had the ‘right’ opinions.’
I can’t easily listen to or consume traditional media anymore so l’ve searched hard for quality podcasts; in an attempt to program my own kind of radio. Moments ago I found what I was looking for.
I can’t tell you how excited I am.
Congratulations Saker!
I know you can’t hear yourself but let me tell you brother:
You have the voice.
Wow.
Get ready for blast off.
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Many thanks to these members of the “vineyard” community.
As for the excess, take your wife to dinner. She puts up with a lot :-)
Take your wife for dinner! WIth $25!
A nice sentiment, but that would barely cover a meal at McDonald’s!
Your site is good and you have good commentators. However, there is a problem. I sometimes have to wait 24 hours before my comment is published and before I get a response. This is not good. I understand you only have two hands and not much time, but please understand this is a problem. Perhaps one of the young Saker friends can take over the moderation. I am too old to do it, butI can contribute with what little I know and I do, as best as I can, before I meet my Creator. Alles gute. Some say you were born in the Netherlands and if that is true you understand alles gute, though it is not High German. All the best to you.
On the start of each podcast, list the questions you are answering. Maybe, if not too hard, list the times each one starts.
Later you can combine some into topics, eg The Saker on Putin, The Saker on Ukraine and so on, a digest of earlier answers for people with more specific interests. A few images, eg there are some wonderful ones around of Putin showing different emotions.
Always write what the music if,in case people like it enough to want to hear the full tune.
The BBC is reporting that two teenage children were killed and four more grievously injured when an artillery shell landed in the playground of a school near Donetsk airport.
Given the accuracy with which artillery can be targeted, I doubt that this was a case of a DPR-fired shell missing the airport. It seems much more likely that it was a wanton act of provocation by the Ukrainian army.
Does anybody have any reliable information about what really happened?
Putin Tops Forbes’ 2014 List of World’s Most Powerful People
Russia’s role in Ukraine’s ongoing civil strife has secured President Vladimir Putin’s position atop Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s most powerful people for the second year straight.
“After a year when Putin annexed Crimea, staged a proxy war in the Ukraine and inked a deal to build a more than $70 billion gas pipeline with China — the planet’s largest construction project — our choice simply seems prescient,” Forbes said in the list, released Wednesday.
Putin beat U.S. President Barack Obama, The top five was rounded up by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Pope Francis and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
thank you Larchmonter 445 and Palmtoptiger!+++
Soundcloud looks good. You Tube worked ok as well — although perhaps your voice slowed down a tad. I would not worry too much about sound quality — does not need to be perfect. Save quality ‘home time’ — get yourself a good head/mic set etc and just multi-task while you are in work/drive mode. Record on the run (so to speak) and upload later.
sincere thanks Palmtoptiger and Larchmonter !
“The Vineyard” could also be called “The Lighthouse”
Hi Saker
Totally OT but..
Have you considered adding a proper forum area to you website?
I ask as it is really difficult to find a quality forum to be able to discuss
a) Geopolitical issues period
b) Issues which are not wholly biased against the Eurasian perspective.
I know of many of your readers that are also members of others sites and who flock here in droves if you opened one.
Thanks