Dear friends,
Today will be another day on the road for me as I need to drive across the Ocala National Forest to bring my daughter back to college. We have a few heated exchanges going on in the comments section and I have 15 emails that need answering. I apologize to all and ask you to wait until Monday.
Cheers and hugs,
The Saker
PS: I might try to do a podcast while on the road.
That road looks inviting Saker, perhaps you will like this to accompany your journey with your daughter back to college. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6CrzLXUHx4 It is the french composer Delius, Florida Suite.
Forget about heated discussions, were there any – I did not notice – and do not bother to respond to emails concerning them or anything else, people will either go away and leave you in peace, or wait.
How lucky you are to be on that road.
Here is a sappy story to while the time away..
Love and longing in Yarmouk Life under siege for a Palestinian couple in Syria’s war
“I’ll call you,” he said, as he turned his back to leave for Yarmouk refugee camp, almost certain that they won’t speak. That they can’t speak. Years of war have turned Syria inside out, left the cell phone towers upside down. It’s a country of rubble connected through weak, broken strands of mobile phone network that seldom work.
She’ll wait by the telephone in the neighbouring town of Yalda, where armed fighters have agreed upon a shaky reconciliation with the government of Bashar al-Assad.
This is Yarmouk today: a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus that has been under siege for almost three years, deprived of food, water and electricity; its starving people terrorised by the Islamic State (IS or ISIS), forced to witness public beheadings outside a butchery known as The Millions.
He will keep calling her. When he hears her voice, broken into pieces because of static, he will rejoice. The siege, he says, brought them together. A notorious jaggal, a smooth-talker, with black gelled hair and a packet of cigarettes tucked into the back pocket of his tight jeans, he was the type a man wanted his young daughter away from.
A player who would never change, is what friends told her just before the uprising in Syria began in 2011.
“For you I would,” he had told her, and she had believed him.
He rushed to the Palestine Hospital when his wife went into labour. The hospital had no doctors, no nurses, no medicines, and no electricity. The night of delivery was bitingly cold, so the only midwife in Yarmouk, a celebrity, instructed him to burn wood that filled the room with smoke. When the contractions got violent, the midwife ordered him to rush to Yalda to buy a painkiller injection at three times its price.
“They think we are terrorists, that all Palestinian are terrorists,” she says.
“The siege has also cemented our love,” he says as he teases death walking back and forth between Yarmouk and Yalda to see his wife and their young child.
(Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moualem arrives in Delhi on Monday. The Syrian war has claimed at least 240,000 lives and made four million people refugees. At least 400,000 people live under siege in the country. This is the first part of a Fountain Ink series on the humanitarian crisis.)
http://series.fountainink.in/love-and-longing-in-yarmouk/
Perhaps you meant soppy and not sappy? sarcasm will be removed.ModTR. Apart from which, the story is not soppy, but truthful, genuine and beautiful, and further more, Saker is not the sentimental type, so he would not read it if it was. no attacking other commenters.
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Saker, do have a wonderful trip, come back soon – the show must go on!
https://youtu.be/SND3v0i9uhE
I enjoy your podcasts, no matter what you talk about. I’d be interested in your thoughts about Fr. Seraphim Rose, but I understand if you would rather discuss other subjects. Thanks.
Really anything spiritual as it relates to Russia and the AZ empire, would be interesting. Theosophy, for example, appears to be a tool (preoccupation) of certain western elites. I mentioned Fr. Rose because I read a couple of his books.
Sorry, today I could not record.
But discussing Father Seraphim is a very good idea.
I would love to do that, though I wonder how many people know about him.
I will try to do a podcast soon.
Thanks,
The Saker
The Saker,
I have never been to the USA, though I have travelled a lot with my girlfriend (now wife). My son has traveled to the USA, and South America without us (organised by the local school, scout group etc we used to do jumble sales etc to pay for it)
My sister travels to the USA at least once a year..and stays with her daughter and family ..and my niece flies back to Manchester (UK) – that’s England…My niece lives in New England,USA.
I appreciate you guys have got a lot of space in the USA…..
But the fact of the matter is that everyone wants to move to England…and we get such appalling PR from our British Government
We are full…we’ve only a little island….go to the USA
Personally I want to visit Russia and China before I die…but I ain’t going without my wife…
If no other country in the world, Iceland, USA, Russia, China, New Zealand , Australia, Ecuador wants to host The Saker’s websites….
We will in England. We will even do it for Free.
Tony
The internet was designed by the US military to maintain communications within the US military in the event of a nuclear war. Their design was completely awesome it works brilliantly….
Meanwhile I did a year of physics and maths at university as recommended by my older brother Richard – the best electronics designer and builder I have ever met
He nicked my metal globe of the Earth that my Dad gave me in 1963 (I could already play chess)
I said why do you want my metal globe….???
he made it spin in stably in free air
he thought about the problem…and this was before computers…he designed it in hardware in his bedroom and soldered and built it and did the software in hardware
i look at him and think how did you do that?
He did proximity detectors too before he went to Manchester University
Meanwhile I found myself working at ICL, West Gorton Manchester at the age of 19 with Conway Berners-Lee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_Berners-Lee
He is alive and well and 94 years old.
His son Tim about the same age as me working at CERN..saw the potential – and gave the internet to the world for free
Is the US military going to argue with history?
Who are these people?
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/mu5/
Tony
So here’s a request…
In your future work could you address some of the following:
(1). The state of the fifth-column in Russia and predictions of the future;
(2) Your connections with US academic institutions;
(3). You’re response to claims of being controlled opposition;
I think all three would serve as ample substanc for any podcast. And perhaps you could build my trust as an added benefit.
Much thanks.
Nils
I can reply right here:
(1). The state of the fifth-column in Russia and predictions of the future;
Nothing new to report. They are still roughly 50% of the elites. They still are controlling the financial banking sector. They hate and fear Putin who is backed by the military, the security services and, most importantly, 90% or so of the people.
(2) Your connections with US academic institutions;
None.
(3). You’re response to claims of being controlled opposition;
Nothing. How can I prove a negative? “Judge a tree by its fruits” is my advice.
Cheers,
The Saker
Well, there are some news concerning “(1)”, not good at all, I am afraid.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-12-29/kudrin-said-in-talks-with-putin-for-senior-post
says that Putin is considering recruiting the notorious fifth-columnist Kudrin into the government. It took ages to get rid of him, and now this… What is going on? Is the fifth column having Putin in the corner, or … is Putin vacillating all on his own?… Bad news either way.
Lazarus, from David Bowie
https://youtu.be/y-JqH1M4Ya8
Look up here, I’m in heaven I’ve got scars that can’t be seen
I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen
Everybody knows me now
Look up here, man, I’m in danger
I’ve got nothing left to lose
I’m so high it makes my brain whirl
Dropped my cell phone down below
Ain’t that just like me?
By the time I got to New York
I was living like a king
Then I used up all my money
I was looking for your ass
This way or no way
You know, I’ll be free
Just like that bluebird
Now ain’t that just like me?
Oh I’ll be free
Just like that bluebird
Oh I’ll be free
Ain’t that just like me?
Have a nice time saker..
But please do not give all persianal details or itenerary.no use.
Incidently this russian govt. Grant supported RT channel has gobe completely racist ob behalf of english agenda.about the korn new year disturbance it is inflaming and spicing up the news on behalf of so called right party but the spokesman there has defi ite englisgh accent who says that merkel has to go as if german politics wpuld be determined by the english hooligans.
Many disturbances on gwrmany too like lije englush spo sored.
Rusdia and germany have a common enemy the english parasites who create chaos in pther natipns. They shpuld be visuted by chaos in their own cpuntry .