First, something’s definitely up. Check out those to headlines:
I won’t go into a discussion of these articles today (but please do read them). I will just say that I am confident that the evacuation of civilians is not, repeat NOT, the sign of a planned withdrawal (which, since Kherson is now Russian under the Russian Constitution), but the sign that Russia is preparing for all contingencies which protecting her own citizens. Stalin moved the entire Soviet industry to the Urals and beyond, and that was not because he intended to leave any land or people to the Nazis, and the Soviet army ended the war in Berlin. Right now it makes no sense to play prophet and make predictions since we simply don’t have the data (except for 6th columnists and “allislosters” who don’t need data to make predictions), we just need to prepare ourselves for something big happening in the near future (just look how freaked out NATO clearly is)
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I also want to use this time to mention a few things about the blog.
The Saker app for Android:
Since many of you are (relatively) new readers, I want to mention here that there is a free (no cost, no ads!) “Saker app” on the Google App store which you can download from here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=is.thesaker.reader&gl=us
The app has one drawback which is also its big quality: it only has articles, no comments. So it really depends on what you are looking for. The app syncs and loads articles, so that allows you to later read them without any need for an Internet connection. And, frankly, I very much like the app’s simple and very pleasant interface. A new version (1.5) is now out, and I want to really urge you all to give it a test run (neither I nor the developer make any money off that app, but if you want to thank/contact the developer, Zapek, you can do that by clicking here. You can also visit his site here (please keep that in mind if you ever need somebody very capable and trustworthy to develop something for you!).
Note: there is no version for iPhone or any other Apple product and there won’t be one.
How most of you got here
Check out this graph:
What this graph shows is that the Saker blog does not care that it has been deranked by search engines and that it does not need referrals from other websites. 97% of you have either clicked on a bookmark or entered the URL by hand, which is very good as it makes us much less dependent on the Hegemony controlled corporate world!
Speaking of which: I have a small, rarely used, YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCImSHzeWdmNmDAEXo2N4D0w. Frankly, I hate YouTube with a passion and I don’t want to give them *any* traffic, no matter how small. Plus YouTube is a “copywrong enforcer” which is another reason to ditch it.
In the past few weeks I have been experimenting with BitChute and Rumble, both are okay I think, even if they both sometimes take a lot of time to process a video. I tried Parler, but did not like it very much.
I also have an Rutube account but, alas, Rutube still needs a lot of work and is still very buggy.
But none of these solutions are what we need. What we need, at least in my personal opinion, is a video hosting service with the following characteristics:
- Legally and physically located in the Multipolar Free World (aka ‘Zone B’)
- With convenient technical capabilities similar to what YouTube is offering today
- Zero copywrong enforcement
- Quick upload, processing and publishing
- Offering quick and easy download of any and all videos without the need to resort to any external websites, plugins, addons or specialized software (like youtube-dl or loader.to).
- Free to use (free as in free beer, no costs and NO ADS!)
- Free to use, study, share and improve – meaning that it would be based on free (as in “freedom”) software.
- Community based and supported, that is to say that that video hosting service would need to be either run by a special non-profit (like the EFF or the FSF) or by a community like the Saker community or, say, the Debian community.
To be honest, I am not holding my breath. The truth is that video hosting requires a lot of resources and money. So until that magic day happens (if it ever does), I shall continue to place my eggs into different baskets, so far mostly BitChute and Rumble. But if anyone of you has some good suggestions, please share them with the rest of us!
That’s it for today for me. I wish you all a great Sunday!
Andrei
The Geopolitics & Empire guy always mentions at the end of his podcast that his videos can be found at:
BitChute
Rumble
Odysee
Rockfin
Brighteon
Ever considered any of those last three? I am not familiar with Rockfin myself, but have seen quite a few videos on Odysee and Brighteon.
Also, what about Vimeo?
Great
It’s a shame RT is still censored in my country. I can’t read those articles there.
Circumventing these DNS level blocks is not that difficult.. You can for instance put in other DNS addresses via the network adapter properties in network center in windows configuration screen. In the properties of the network adapter you are using to access the internet select ‘internet protocol version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and then select properties. In the windows that opens on the bottom you can give in DNS IP addresses.
So far even thee Google and cloudflare DNS servers don’t block RT (yet). I.P. Addresses are 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 for Google or 1.1.1.1 for the Cloudflare DNS server.
Or use Tor and use an exit node from a location that doesn’t block those URLs. Or a free online proxy server.
https://yandex.com/
(click on EN in upper right hand corner if y’all search page comes up some weird chicken scratch language! :-O)
You can use Yandex as a primary DNS server by following the helpful guide provided ‘Govern the mente’!
In network settings –> DHCP –> set manual DNS –> for primary DNS set 77.88.8.8
Strangely they don’t US diktats and censor Russian content and/or sites for some odd reason ;-)
(remember you change it back to the default after you’ve read the OTHER point of view like how Putin! allows convicted non violent drug offenders to suspend their sentences and agree to do five years in the military or offering citizenship to foreign nationals after completing a 5 year military contract or how people in Donetsk are eating paint chips and babies….”hmmm babies” (in the manner of Homer Simpson)
…oh wait a minute?
Thank you!
The four nines: 9.9.9.9 and 9.9.9.11 also seem a good choice.
in that case use a VPN
Yesterday, Russia attacked Ukraine energy facilities to a greater extant than they did on October 10.
The next big move may be by Russia and not Ukraine.
I think that the reason Russia is relocating citizens from Kherson is that they intend to make Kherson City the headquarters of their upcoming offensive toward Nikolaev and Odessa, and they want the citizens out of harms way. They also need housing for their troops.
I installed ProtonVPN but then I couldn’t access this website because of Wordfence (iirc).
If ProtonVPN is from the same degenerates as ProtonMail, then that is likely to be the reason you can’t read Saker. Try a VPN that does not censor (easier said than done – most of them are set up by or linked to western spook mafias – I’m still looking!)
Win7 , Win 10, Win 11 all have VPN settings with NO added software needed. It is simply standard.
Trivially easy. Android and Linux also. 5-min video’s :
Check YT channel Britec. I cannot post the URL without WordPress error.
Try https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/kiev_claim_2310:d
until they cut the cable….
I cannot find the two articles in odysee. Maybe I’m doing something wrong?
I know – at least that is a starter. VPN’s are easy – the entire internet is an Emmenthaler cheese. How do you think COVID home-office bored tunnels?
And turn off IPv6.
Do you know of any VPN that is not controlled by or linked to western spooks? If so, please recommend.
Niccos, you can use this free VPN that has been recommended by RT.com itself. It is very easy to install and it works perfectly, so you can connect to RT.
https://psiphon.ca/en/download.html
Psiphon – sponsored by MI6, is what I heard (like most of them). Not surprisingly, all the most promoted ones are the highest risk. Surprising that RT would recommend an MI6 tool – but then that’s RT, so par for the course!
To all, an update on the VPN. I can use ProtonVPN now on RT, but then cannot enter this Saker site. Still, when I disconnect the VPN I can enter Saker again. So I have to switch a bit and it works good enough since I won’t be as much on RT as I am on the Saker site. Thanks for all your nice comments.
Looks like you are right , this is the calm before the storm.
Shoigu called the US/UK/French and Turkish defense ministers, the UK came out with a deescalation statement. I suspect the call was in part to warn that any foreign direct interference or any big acts such as the blowing up of the dams would be responded to by the Russian military during the upcoming Russian offensive against said foreign actor assets. I suspect we will see the public downing of the unmanned western ISR assets first as a forceful warning. Despite Putin and the political class in Russia being extremely hesitant to strike Western military assets I suspect they will be forced to in the Black Sea, and I suspect that will the exit ramp Biden/US will take and say they don’t want nuclear war and use the opportunity for diplomacy. The are already rumblings about US forces coming under attack in Syria, the US is extremely vulnerable to any Russian proxy attacks in Iraq/Syria, that is one of the reasons why Saudi Arabia is either supporting Russia or others such as Israel are keeping their mouths shut and hoping this ends soon, they are extremely vulnerable if Russia starts supplying their enemies/proxy with any decent weapons such as Man-pads/Anti Tank, etc.
It looks like Putin has finally gotten out of the way and has turned this over to the military. The “legalism” can finally be dispensed with and this event can be prosecuted as the reality of what it is , a war and increasingly a proxy turning into a direct conflict with NATO/US. This war if it is not ended by a strong Russian blow soon has the potential of increasingly drawing in the US/UK into it military due to unstable domestic situations in both countries and drifting into direct participation.
I will give Putin this, he has played the timing perfectly to deliver the knock out punch, Biden and the deep state are going to be very loath to get the US involved directly just prior to the elections which are about 2 weeks away, it would be a disaster electorally for the democrats and in an extreme case could topple the government. The American public is in no mood for any direct intervention by US military boots on the ground in Ukraine, that is probably one of the few things the American people agree on due to the Iraq and Afghanistan experiences.
Nice analysis.
US is deploying National Guard unit to Ethiopia (?)
Since most manpower in the world is BRICS manpower, US deployment can be neutralized by BRICS states (add North Korea)
If this Ukraine conflict does not lead to a WW3 as I expect it won’t, the US is going to face a very difficult time deploying troops to semi active/active war zones such as Somalia, Ethiopia, Syria, Iraq, etc and keeping casualties/equipment losses levels low.
Fact is, American direct weapons/contractor support has directly caused the loss of thousands of Russian military personal, this is not an act which will be forgotten anytime soon by the Russian military even if Putin/Kremlin wants to play nice with the US once the Ukraine situation is over. I expect Iran/China/Russia will increase deadly arms(Manpads, AntiTank, etc) exports to proxy groups in Syria/Iraq/Africa and perhaps even Latin America as the US has now opened that door via billions in direct weapons to Ukraine to kill Russian service members as well as civilians.
Russia will prevail in Ukraine but there is no doubt in my mind that the world is going to become a much more violent place after this is over, the US has escalated and broken many norms that even the Soviet Union in its heyday was unwilling to break, the horse is out of the barn on this one.
Good analyses Silverfox.
Let me add.
Iranian is now conducting large military maneuvers along the Aras River, separating Iran and Azerbaijan.
Iran has also warned Israel and Azerbaijan that if Israeli jets attacks Iran form Azerbaijani airbases, then both Israel and Azerbaijan will suffer consequences.
The cause of the tension is that Azerbaijan is demanding a territorial corridor from Azerbaijan into the enclave Nagorno Karabakh. In effect, the corridor will land-lock Armenia from its friendly neighbor Iran and create a corridor for transport of Caspian oil directly to NATO member Turkey, and on to the EU.
Europe has sent 40 military staff into Armenia, and more could follow according to the OSCE.
Earlier this year, skirmishes broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia, where both Israel and Turkey supported Azerbaijan with drones. The Armenia government first sought support from western Nations, but to no avail. Thus Russia was asked to mediate, and brokered a ceasefire in the region. When the ceasefire was brokered, the US immediately dispatched Nancy Pelosi for a photo-op in Yerevan.
For years Armenia have been courting the US and NATO, and today, the US have a large embassy staff in Yerevan, including several Bio-Labs accused of spreading bio weapons material in the region.
The tension in the Caucasus is created by the US, as a flashpoint for war south of Russia, and now involving Russia´s de facto ally Iran.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-conducting-massive-military-drills-azerbaijan-border
I enjoy the articles here and the comments. I like others opinions it causes me to think and gain knowledge. I read RT News as well as a variety of news articles and papers on the world events. I some time use Google or Rumble but not much.
I should add that i too see a major event happen very soon in the Ukraine conflict, the 101 Airborne Division put troops into Europe.
Moving US airborne forces (which are light infantry, unlike the fully mechanized Russian airborne forces) is really a wet firecarcker, see what Martyanov has to say about this here: https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/10/and-they-huff-and-they-puff.html
Cheers
Force rotation is more likely, but plays well to lemmings. Bit of a Hollywood plot….The Five Thousand….Russia has already warned NATO off, the US knows no matter where they were to deploy in the Ukraine they are instant collateral.
The US has never had to fight a peer army, the last time they did, they had to shoot all the buffalo……today, they resort to grain theft.
Cheers M
The US has never had to fight a peer army, the last time they did, they had to shoot all the buffalo
Nice one Sean!
My wife got the android app and I was very impressed. It really is quite elegant.
pretty sure I read that Russia would help any businesses with(presumably light?????) machinery if they wanted to move… so looks fairly serious.
What about Lbry? The Programm and the App seems to be working on a decentralised network structure and stuff on that protocol can’t be really deleted as long at least one peer in that network has that file and publishing it.
/€: Odysee is the Webbrowser pendat to that.
due to the3 fact that it seems truly decentralised, it has no “legal” or physicalised central system. the monetization seems to work over blockchain/bitcoin and is on full voluntary base.
I recently came across this on Odysee:
“lbry://@Truth_will_set_You_Free#0/Dr.-Judy-Wood-WTC#6
This content violates the terms and conditions of Odysee and has been filtered.”
Raised some concerns regarding their terms and conditions. Although there are other uploads of the same video still available.
The video file is still there but just not accessible. Also when searching in the lbry windows app it is filtered. But if you paste the url in a browser it asks if you want to open that link in the lbry app and when I confirm that it does load the otherwise filtered file in the lbry app.
There’s a lot of chatter about the American 101st airborne being in Romania. I will note this that the 82nd airborne when in eastern Europe was in Poland. The 101st is just a rotation as the 82nd left some time ago. However there placement in Romania gives me pause. Much closer to the western part of Ukraine and especially Odessa. If things got dicey would they make a dash for Odessa and attempt to keep a Ukrainian seaport? I believe it would be a mad gamble as I’m sure they would be destroyed quickly. The airborne is a light infantry unit with limited armor. The US is used to fighting with air superiority which won’t be the case here. That’s just the tactical aspect, the strategic aspect of going into Ukraine ( after some FF) I don’t want to contemplate. But the west needs to distract the masses before they start rioting, because that’s coming in Europe real soon.
see here: https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/10/and-they-huff-and-they-puff.html
Given 101st ORBAT (at least the data, available from public sources), they’re probably positioned there as trip-wire force. They’re barely a match to Donbass militias or the Wagner operators. They most definitely won’t survive hard contact with regular russian VDV regiment, much less anything heavier than that.
raven6,
The 101st would get wiped out if used. The USA is used to near zero losses attacking 3rd world.
Losing that many of “America’s Finest” would be politically unacceptable and nobody would be willing to take the blame for it. “Died for our freedoms” would not fly. A self-created day of incompetence that would live in infamy.
At best, it is a supposed threat to be used for negotiation purposes. This is probably an administration gambit to get a peace deal before the election. May be being used in conjunction with the dirty bomb threat to gain leverage.
I think Russia will see it for what it is and act accordingly.
@TheSaker: your list of requirements for the video service is almost impossible to fulfil. Free-as-in-beer AND also able to deliver tons of video? Very unlikely. But there are options:
LBRY
This is a blockchain-based distribted system for publishing, storing and retrieving content, such as video, audio and documents. Odysee is a web frontend for LBRY. I used to be big on LBRY, even thinking about porting it to Etherium. But then I cooled off on this entire blockchain thing. Now I expect blockchain to go extinct in a decade or two and I consequently expect LBRY to also go extinct. One thing you should note is that while LBRY itself doesn’t have censorship or ads, Odysee has both and more. Keep in mind.
PeerTube
This isn’t a video-hosting service, this is video-hosting software. You put it onto your server and then put video into it. You can also open it to other people so then you can build a video-sharing community. PeerTube uses some kind of web torrents to handle surges in traffic – in plain English it’s able to handle videos going viral. However if you have a lot of viewers looking each at a completely different video it can’t optimize that. PeerTube is like a website – every website is different regarding censorship and the like.
Le Torrentz
You can always torrent videos. I mean it requires your viewers to chip in hardware resources to the community but so do the other two options I mentioned above. The main drawback of torrents is that videos historically have a short halflife on them. Unless there is at least on node seeding the video might as well never even existed.
As you can see, every option on this list has a big drawback to it. Generally, PeerTube might be the nicest of the bunch but I fear your server bill will explode if you start using it. :)
I don’t see anyone mentioning the “dirty bomb” story. Shoigu has called defense ministers of France, US, UK, and others with intelligence that Ukrainian forces are preparing an event. I can provide a link, but the news is all over the Internet.
I hope the preemptive calls from Shoigu will derail this, but it is worrisome. In some ways a dirty bomb is worse than an actual nuke: nuclear bombs emit neutrons, which create isotopes of surrounding elements. In most environments, there is not a lot if strontium, cesium, and other elements that form long-lived isotopes around. But a dirty bomb can contain any type of nasty stuff they decide to out into it and make an area unlivable for centuries or more.
Martyanov : My congratulations to KGB Colonel Elizaveta Trasova, a humble girl from Altai region, on her amazing accomplishments. I wonder in what discipline Liz Truss got her Master of Sports of USSR title (the left-most pendant)?
https://yt3.ggpht.com/yx4DpZK_rVfQK4wMjyhLh1epm-Y4a1vitVlh9EDxi0aW_DJxKWJM9SEyO_Aa3uts0Fcl9puy7dSJ6g=s922-v1-nd
Spilt the coffee, nearly fell of the chair! LOL!!!!!
Andrei,
Please, what’s your reason for the first requirement – “Legally and physically located in the Multipolar Free World”)?
I strongly agree with that requirement – any site physically hosted in Zone A can be censored more easily.
(But but but … is there a TheSaker.ru backup site?)
Very good. Doing so makes it a harder to sever access to it through the name servers, the routers, and the cables.
I suspect it does not make it impossible to sever, but it does remove the trivial embargoes (like “Return 404 for all .ru queries”). This makes the dark lords work harder.
Ukrainian terrorists attacking civilians in pre-2022 areas of Russia:
Ukraine Shells School, Church, Kindergarten & Cultural center Russia & the Western Media Ignores It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPCJky8YBSk&ab_channel=PatrickLancaster
Ukraine Shells Russian Orphan Housing Project In Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N88q38eeTfg&ab_channel=PatrickLancaster
Ukie nazi talks:
https://t.me/defensepoliticsasia/3114
Reminiscent of Stalin moving the entire Soviet industry to the Urals and beyond we find Russia’s first rocket launch from Vostochny in 2022.
VOSTOCHNY COSMODROME /Amur Region/, October 22. /TASS/. A Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle carrying three Gonets-M satellites and a Skif-D module, launched under the Sfera program, has lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, TASS correspondent reported from the site on Saturday.
Vostochny looks to be prioritized and no wonder.
The Russian press carried publications alleging that Kazakhstan exported arms and ammunition to Ukraine via proxies, by order from the UK. Russia has been renting the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for $115 million annually. Hopefully they can negotiate better terms.
https://www.universetoday.com/128640/new-vostochny-cosmodrome-brings-launches-back-russian-soil/
The New Vostochny Cosmodrome Brings Launches Back To Russian Soil
Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, has been renting the Baikonur cosmodrome for $115 million annually. But this dependence on a foreign launch site has been a thorn in the side of Russia for decades. Russia is a fiercely independent and proud nation, so it surprised no one when construction of a new spaceport was announced. In 2010, Vladimir Putin emphasized the importance of the new facility, saying “The creation of a new space center … is one of modern Russia’s biggest and most ambitious projects.”
The new facility, called the Vostochny Cosmodrome, will eventually be home to multiple launch pads, though only one is functional for now. It’s located at 51 degrees north, whereas the Baikonur site is located at 46 degrees North. Though further north, it will still be able to launch almost the same payloads as Baikonur.
Russia has other spaceports on its own territory. The Svobodny Cosmodrome is also located in Russia’s far east, and at the same 51 degrees north as Vostochny. But Svobodny was originally an ICBM launch site, and couldn’t handle the launching of crewed missions. All crewed missions had to be launched from Baikonur. Russia has another cosmodrome, the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, where satellites can be launched into geostationary orbit.
As for Vostochny itself, it will allow Russia to conduct much more of its space launches on its own soil. By 2020, Vostochny will conduct 45% of Russia’s space launches. Baikonur will still be used, but much more sparingly. It currently is responsible for 65% of Russian launches, but that will drop to 11%. The Plesetsk Cosmodrome will account for the other 44%
https://vz.ru/news/2022/10/23/1183393.html
The base spaceport for the Russian orbital station has been named
October 23, 2022, 10:18Text: Dmitry Zubarev
The base spaceport during the deployment of the promising Russian Orbital Station (ROS) will be Vostochny, Deputy Prime Minister – Head of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said.
🇺🇦 OSINT investigators shocked the world by naming the real losses of Ukraine.
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on October 20 amounted to 402,000 people, of which 387,000 were killed. Losses among mercenaries and volunteers from Poland, the Baltic states, and Romania amounted to 54,000 of them, 31,240 people were killed.
this seems to be about double the figures we have seen reasonably or reservedly estimated from couple months ago …..
via telegram z news flash collating zsputniknews as that channel seems shut down but cannot see this on the sputnik app ….personally I feel the new commander Surovikin seems to make a real real difference… front line intelligence seems spot on and cohesive and extensive… so many reports seem to indicate various attempts by Ukr forces that are instantly dealt with comprehensively.
Surprisingly, these guys https://odysee.com/ have a site that plays well with ‘blocker’ extensions.
Protip: Before pulling your hair out trying to access any site (like my computer illiterate Elder neighbour who almost wrecked his system), check to see if turning off and on ‘extensions’ like adblocker, noscript, ghostery, ublock, etc helps with access. Also a lot of sites rather than refusing will only give you ‘limited access’ if you are using adblock/ublock (IE: pictures don’t load, videos won’t play, no logins forms, you’re seeing ads! …those are ‘hardcoded’ which is what they should be doing, lazy buggers)
As an IT guy, it NOT always Them…it might be you ;-)
Most problems are between the keyboard and screen.
Now, where is that PWRONOFF button again?
Right now the top two video platforms rated only in terms of true freedom and commitment to no censorship are Gab TV and Odysee.
Fairly likely in my opinion that Russia is going to unleash hell on the nazis in Kherson, quite likely followed by a thrust to Nikolayev and Odessa, and removing civilians frees the military from having to safeguard them and also removes potential spies and saboteurs in the rear. It is a sign, which may put may not worry some people, that the SMO is over and now it is a real war that Russia is waging. (And from my point of view a good thing too.)
Figured, that a nuclear false flag, followed by NATO intervention would be inevitable, as the territorial defense morale is so bad from so many losses in the last couple of days.
Some videos for today.
DPR tanks destroy Kiev regime military vehicles:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wxxDPEsK2Ezp/
Russian Su-25s conduct strikes on enemy positions:
https://rutube.ru/video/ac744b254e1bb321a4bf144564a98785/
The DPR’s Sparta battalion continues droning enemy positions:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RUjKJb5OKFP1/
More Kiev regime troops were taken prisoner near the DPR’s Marinka:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/vsxtmA7SEHb2/
Another group of Kiev regime troops recently taken prisoner:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/S2IPimxYDRK3/
Video showing departing mobilized Russian troops from Kamchatka, in the Far East:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VuK1yIf4J5D3/
Les Patriotes party supporters rally in Paris against NATO and the anti-Russia sanctions war:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Paris_rally_2_2310:b
Over 90,000 Moldovans protest against US puppet government ruling Moldova:
https://rutube.ru/video/aeb6040272b0afe6212e1cf86f35b4e3/
It’s just an idea to discuss with your IT people but how about using torrents to share video files? This is the primary way Linux distributions, and copyrighted movies and music, are shared over the internet.
Have a question concerning the Android app – would it be possible to provide a direct download link to the APK? People like me may have a gmail account, but we don’t associate it with our mobiles – we use it mostly to mislead the Big Tech ;-)
Great article
Hi Andrei – omg I thought the CIA had unplugged me from the internet for the past week – but it was just a plug in my own house….they tech found it in a minute. – sigh – so glad to be back – such interesting times we’re living in. Love Ann