JohnM has just posted an interesting commentary about the current events in Syria which, I think, deserves to be fully quoted. Here is what he wrote: What I’m thinking is that as part of an Assad/Russia deal with the “non-Islamic rebels” (label is arbitrary and largely inaccurate) is this current battle between generally (this is a VERY fluid and fuzzy dividing line) the foreign fighters versus the local fighters. This
First, thanks to gallier2 for pointing out this rather surprisingly reasonable video about Dieudonne and the “quenelle” gesture; this report even features a short interview of Alain Soral who explains what is really going on. I never would have thought that the BBC could still produce such a more or less well balanced and reasonable report. Second, as I have mentioned in a previous report, Minister of the Interior Manuel
The warfare around the quenelle gesture is reaching a new new heights in France were representatives of the plutocratic elites are now seriously considering the following options:a) banning the latest show of Dieudonneb) closing down his theatre in Parisc) jailing Dieudonne d) making the quenelle gesture a criminal offenceand, I kid you not,e) create a special cell with representatives of the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Internal Affairs and the
Beautiful documentary about young women in the Syrian NDF:
In my recent post about the bombings in Volgograd I wrote the following: The Dagestani terrorists have learned the lessons of Chechnia well, and they are never trying to hold on to any territory or to create some kind of Wahabi statelet in Dagestan: quite to the contrary, day after day after day, the security forces engage the Dagestani terrorists who each time end up either captured or dead (mostly
I have recently written about the amazing (and hilarious) scandal taking place in France, and slowly in the rest of Europe, around the “quenelle” (For those of you who missed it, you can get the background info here). I will spare you all the recent political developments, but let’s just say that the anti-quenelle hysteria and that the French Minister of Internal Affairs is considering making the gesture illegal (he
The recent double bombing in Volgograd (ex-Stalingrad) represent a definitive escalation in the low-level but constant war which has opposed Wahabi insurgents to not only the Kremlin, but also to all the traditional Muslim authorities in Russia. Before looking into what these latest attacks could mean for Russia in general and for the upcoming Sochi Olympic games, it would be helpful here to go over some basic fact.Chechnia:First, it would
The BBC reports that a new and “virulent form of ransomware has now infected about quarter of a million Windows computers (…) Cryptolocker scrambles users’ data and then demands a fee to unencrypt it alongside a countdown clock“. The article then goes on to describe a few general things about Cryptolocker and ends by providing a list of measures Dell and, by implication, the BBC recommend to protect computers from
Yes, I know, this “man of the year” business is silly. But then, when I see at the pathetic choices made for man of the year by the corporate media, I feel that if they can’t even do a halfway decent job in that rather easy task, why should I not indulge myself and choose my own man, or woman, of the year. So anyway, here is my choice.Runner up:
Last week, HRH Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Britain and a member of the House of Saud, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times entitled “Saudi Arabia Will Go It Alone“. Besides the usual ideological propaganda statements and a predictable litany of Saudi complaints about the West not doing enough, the piece contains a definite though vague threat: The foreign policy
Dear friends,Thanks for your interesting comments! I will reply to some of the questions which you have put to me: ——- alizard said…“Another way to achieve a consensus and keeping the neutrality of paragraph 13.2, could be considered by looking at the example given lately by Croatia: Hold a referendum and introduce one or several new constitutional articles as safeguards from ‘the plot against civilization’.“The Saker replies:Yes, very good idea.
IN 2011, European Court of Human Rights ruled that while some of his right were violated, fundamentally Khodorkovsky had not been condemned unfairly. In other words, if he was not sentenced for political reasons, he was sentenced for a crime and that, last time I checked, makes Khodorkovsky a convicted criminal. Why is it then that from the White House, to Baroness Ashton, to nearly all the European and US
Ok, this is a *long* press conference: over four hours and thirty minutes. And some of the questions might not be of interest to you. But, for those of you who are interested in getting a sense of Putin’s personality, what kind of a guy he really is, this is invaluable: the event is 100% unscripted, the people asking the questions come from a huge pool of 1300 invited journalists
Daniel Bushell does a stellar job of delivering a blunt expose of the real nature of the “Jewish state of Israel” and interviews plenty of very good people to make his point. Absolutely brilliant show – MUST WATCH!The SakerPS: does anybody know who Daniel Bushell is and were he comes from? I am hugely impressed by this short report and I want to know more about the guy who did
Today I am going to look into the topic of Orthodox and Muslim cooperation, suggest one possible approach to this issue and give a practical example were this could be done immediately and with great benefit for all the parties involved. I consider this post today as the eighth installment of my “Russia and Islam” series and I suggest that those who have not read it take a look at
President Putin announced that Russia will buy the equivalent of 15 billion US dollars worth of Ukrainian government bonds and that it will slash the price of Russian gas sold to the Ukraine from $400 to $268.5 per 1,000 cubic meters. The most amazing part of that offer is that it is made “unconditionally“. In other words – Russia will single-handedly prevent the Ukrainian economy from collapsing and declaring a
I don’t know if this particular guy is real or not, but he does remind me of some folks I have seen down here in Florida. Now, let me stress that only a small minority of Americans are like that – but they are out there, I have seen them myself.Enjoy!The Saker
