As promised, I am sharing some big news with you, but don’t tell anybody yet :-)
My first book, “The Essential Saker: from the trenches of the emerging multipolar world” will be published before the end of the month!! I will give you all the details in a week or so, but I can tell you that this will be a pretty big book, over 550 pages + index, and that it will contain what I consider to be the “Essential Saker” i.e, a wide array of articles and writings which will “cover” my views/ideas/philosophy on all the topics which I consider most important. I cannot reveal it all yet, but I can promise you that it will be plenty controversial with a lot of vocal minority groups incensed by what I wrote (my publisher is a real hero for daring to publish this stuff!). Please stay tuned for more details as we approach the publication date!
Until then, and in the meantime,
As per your request, I am reminding you that you can support my work by sending me the “fuel” or “ammo” which makes it possible for me to offer it all for free, with no paywall or advertisements. It’s been a while since I asked for your support and, as a result, the latter is come to a full standstill.
So, friends, please help me fight the Empire and do what you can to support my work. Do your part and I will do mine.
Thanks in advance!
The Saker
“but I can promise you that it will be plenty controversial with a lot of vocal minority groups incensed by what I wrote”
Sounds like a lot of fun. ;D
On earlier threads commenters left links in Russian.
I tried from the UK…….
https://translate.yandex.com/.
I have been using this since 2014, never a problem !.
Now from the UK, it no longer works !, it is a dead link !
A dropdown menu allowed 50 languages…. eng – russian default.
Now…… nothing !!….if it smells like sh*t, it usually is !!
A search on ‘Startpage’ or other ‘search engines’ produced the same link !
Really ? it works from here, Switzerland.
Enjoy your dictatorship.
Jack, still works for me in London.
Thanks Ralph, I’m in the west country so it might be an ISP problem.
Stephen over in Oz is probably right….just temporary.
I loved Yandex…sooo easy and better than Google IMHO.
cheers
A book by the Saker is excellent news! I’m looking forward to that.
Jack: You can download and install an English Yandex browser here:
https://browser.yandex.com/
It will auto – translate unless you tell it not to.
Probably just a temporary glitch. It’s working in Australia, and if any of the “five eyes” is going to censor the internet – it’ll be us.
Thanks guys ! Stephen,Lee and Ralph.
I downloaded the browser Lee linked to, but before installing it I checked the old link again …………aha !
it is now a login affair…enable cookies etc. registered name + password & the login is off my screen !
thanks.
re. login ID.
Surveillance bill includes internet records storage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34715872
“The legislation brings together a variety of existing powers that cover how the home secretary and other ministers can authorise operations to intercept communications – such as telephone taps and other surveillance.
‘Itemised phone bill’
But it also proposes to order communications companies, such as broadband firms, to hold basic details of the services that someone has accessed online – something that has been repeatedly proposed but never enacted.
This duty would include forcing firms to hold a schedule of which websites someone visits and the apps they connect to through computers, smartphones, tablets and other devices. ”
All this and more from the ‘mother of all parliaments’……..Democracy…
“And it’s gone !”
Congratulations! This is gonna be on a lot of people’s holiday lists… if you do a pre-order let us know.
Thanks Saker, for luring me away from exclusively anarcho-libertarian websites. Hope you had a nice break. Do publishers still exist?
(Excuse the state of my blissful ignorance, but what is an anarcho-libertarian?)
Publishing is a successful global industry but small is beautiful and the best, quality publishers, and readers thereof, are even sometimes found here..
Well done Saker, are you emerging from the trenches now?
Me, too. It would appear that messy humanity can’t be worked into any coherent framework. I am a plumb-line Rothbardian, but I’ve lost the belief that humans will behave if left unmolested. A government should do a few things well, rather than everything, poorly. Russia has already gone where we are heading, so we can watch in real time how they deal with gangster-capitalism, especially in regards to their central bank, the magic black-box of free money/corruption fertilizer.
In about five years I’ve gone from ancap>nrx>monarchist>duganist and I’m teetering on Stalinist at this point, but human nature can’t be stamped out without stamping out a lot of humans, so I’m sorry to say that only a benignly neglectful authoritarian regime is likely to fit, especially in a multi-polar world. Fascism in effect, with a humanistic, democratic veneer, but a clear expectation of personal responsibility in return for a single legal standard that is a least perceived to be universally applied.
Yes, I still love Rothbard, expounder of the ontological argument of the existence of The Market a semi-mythical entity not to be confused with mercantilism or crony capitalism, but closest in my thinking to the tale of stone soup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup. Anyhow, that my not too precise thinking on the subject.
Random errors are more interesting than the methodologies of precision which lead mostly to the Land of Yawn (from which one awakens gratefully to the eternally refreshing land of stone soup;)
“In about five years I’ve gone from ancap>nrx>monarchist>duganist and I’m teetering on Stalinist at this point, but human nature can’t be stamped out without stamping out a lot of humans,”
You sure sound like fun Jeff – life and soul of every party this side of Paradise –
I hope you own a bulletproof vest.
I did not know this before, but Putin in his talk show said, Gadhafi was bombed by drones and then captured by special forces who were not supposed to be there, who called in the militia. I knew they were there because of an article on Australian special forces operating in Libya and UK SAS being used to direct operations.. Putin says the US is proud their proxies were able to execute a person democratically.. which is quick, does not require a trial or get in the way to slow down the hegemon.. Also If you had to live in a cage for years, you leave your mind behind when you leave.. Referring to McCain..
Just a suggestion, Saker. At the end of every single post or article you should have a link that says something like:
“Support the Saker. Please donate today to help keep this site free”
I know there is a PayPal donate button on the sidebar. But a constant friendly reminder with every post should increase the donations, without being too distracting. Just my two cents.
Hope you do a Kindle/ebook version. Perfect to read on a long series of flights.
Well done Saker! I agree that an ebook /kindle version would be great for those of us on the other side of the world. I’m also glad to hear that your book plans to offend people. Juicy!!!
yes, there will be both a paper version and an ebook version :-)
I am looking forward to read your book. Congratulation.
Any plans to translate the book to other languages?
Looking forward to reading your labour of love.
PS (this is said with a big grin and wink)
‘Autumn fundraiser’ count me in … but can you wait till March/April 2016 when ‘autumn’ begins for us in the other half of the globe?
Congratulations Saker !!! :-))))
I am looking forward to read your book. The man of your intellectual capacity absolutely must publish books.
I myself published several books and I can tell you that the feeling is always great.
5 stars article, a must read
Russian campaign in Syria exposes gas war reality behind “war on terror”.
http://joequinn.net/2015/10/09/russian-campaign-in-syria-exposes-gas-war-reality-behind-war-on-terror/#more-1126
Congratulations, Saker, for your new book, sound like much work…. more than 500 pages…
I probably will need till retire to finish it as I do not read in English so fast than in Spanish…..
Glad to hear.
Cheers.
Dear The Saker,
Congratulations on your book – I look forward to buying it shortly.
Noted about the fund raising.
Rgds,
Veritas
Dear Saker,
So pleased for you!
Any chance of us Vineyard denizens getting a signed copy of your opus via the blog?
Ps. Apologies for failing to contribute to your efforts so far. The last year and half included both a house fire and a flood, and an op – I am only grateful ISIS hasn’t shown up (though I did see off a gang of four last week who attempted – a bit feebly, admittedly – to extort monies from me. I even got the old ‘we know where you live’ line! I sent them packing by asking them to ‘smile for t.e camera ‘ – my phone – and they beat it. Funny, how unexpected confrontation works, isn’t it?:)
Hopefully, will make up for it in approx two months, when all the ‘drama’ – and insurance/legal costs – settle.
We’d be lost without your fantastic work.
Go n’eirigh an t’ath leat!
where did all these terrible things occur Eimar ? You’re a mystery !
Ann
They occured in my home.
The fire caused mostly smoke damage – not structural. But a lot of stuff was ruined. I am still trying to replace stuff – and I have never been a big ‘stuff’ person in the first place. I often give stuff away to friends, relatives even strangers if they like something. I get a lot of scolding over it.
The flood – which came through the attic as a results of a faulty water tank – wrecked two rooms about three months ago. The attic isn’t fully dried out yet.
The gang was just a local group of ass-hats who were checking out my home to see if it was worth robbing (not really :)
But they needed to be confronted or I would have been continually hassled. They werent armed and dangerous – though one of them is definitely heading in that direction. My neighbourhood is generally safe. We intend to keep it that way.
There you go – no big mystery. But it sure has been an ‘*expensive* two years.
Hi Mr. Saker !! That’s fantastic…what a great book it will be.