Dear friends,
What is happening right now is huge, we are dealing with nothing less than a full-scale “French September 11th“, no less. At this point, I am not saying that the French state did it, or even let it happen. But what is certain is that at the very least the French state and the corporate media are making maximal use of the various terrorist murders in France to promote their agenda. We all know what happened the last time around (click here if you forgot).
The house is burning!
For many months now Alain Soral and others have been warning that the French regime is pushing towards a civil war between the Muslim and non-Muslim communities in France and this is exactly what we are seeing, but it is even bigger than France – this is reaching all of Europe now. Considering how my editorial “I am NOT Charlie” was completely misunderstood (or deliberately misinterpreted) I feel the need to specify a few things very clearly and for the record:
First, it does not really matter at this point in time if what we saw in France is a false flag or a case of blow-back just as when a house is burning it matters little who set it on fire, the owner or the neighbor. What matters now is to prevent people from dying in the burning house, only then does it make sense to open an investigation into “who done it”. What matters now is that the house is burning.
Second, there is absolutely zero doubt, none whatsoever, that the AngloZionist Empire is behind the “transnational Takfiri infection” of our planet. It all began during the Cold War and the “brilliant” Brzezinski/CIA plan to unleash the crazies against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. This is when the US literally financed, organized, trained, equipped and, most importantly, federated the Wahabi freaks for the first time. Since, we saw them in action in Chechina, Bosnia, Kosovo, Libya, Syria, Iraq, and many other places and now we see them “in action” in Paris. Hollande, Sarko and his “unofficial Foreign Minister” Bernard Henri-Levi played a key role in unleashing these monsters against Libya and Syria just as the French “New (pseudo-) Philosophers” like Alain Finkelkraut played a key role in unleashing these monsters against Bosnia. So here is the key point I will stress in bold: the Takfiri maniacs who committed all the murders in France are NOT “children” of the “Islamic Umma” but of the French deep-state and the Anglo-Zionist Empire. They “own” these freaks, not Hassan Nasrallah or Ramzan Kadyrov!
Third, the propaganda machine of the AngloZionist Empire is telling us that “Islam is the enemy” or that “Islam is not compatible with western values”. But to prove their point they use examples which prove nothing: the example of the Takfiri crazies unleashed, I will never cease to repeat it, by the AngloZionists. The merits and faults of Islam as a religion have nothing to do with the events of Paris. Nothing. Takfirism is to Islam what Nazism is to the Western civilization: a vicious and pathological expression of demonic hatred masquerading as the defense of a culture/civilization/religion. Nazism does not “prove” that the West is inherently evil and Takfirism does not prove that about Islam. Now, please pay attention, it *might* be that there is something really wrong (or not) with western civilization or Islam, but you cannot prove that by using the example of Nazism or Takfirism.
[Sidebar: contrary to what a lot of dishonest or plain stupid people accused me of doing, I am NOT an apologist for Islam. As a matter of fact, one of my biggest problems with Islam is its support for the death penalty (which I oppose) and especially its support of the death penalty for blasphemers and apostates (which I find absurd). All I said was that when you deeply offend 1.6 billion people – regardless of who these 1.6 billion people are or what they believe in – you will always and inevitably find 1-5 willing to kill you for doing so. I was not condoning anything, I was explaining it!! How friggin stupid (or dishonest!) not to be able to tell the difference between the two…]
Fourth, just as in 9/11 the very predictable reaction of the French authorities and the rest of the imperial media is to crack down on civil liberties, to create “minutes of hate”, to stir up a bellicose hysteria fed by fear and anger all of which very conveniently take away the public’s attention from the dying EU, the crumbling economy, the exploitation of the poor by the rich 1%ers and the fact that we all live in a society which wants us to become serfs in a planetary empire. I even get the strong feeling that since the AngloZionist plan for the Ukraine is falling apart, they have ‘switched’ from the “Invading Russian Bear” to the “Crazy Muslim Terrorist” narrative to terrify the general population.
[Sidebar: I have been absolutely appalled at RT’s coverage of these events. Somebody at the top of RT clearly has taken the decision to fully endorse this nonsensical “Muslim terrorist threat” narrative and that is a clear sign that the 5th column of “Atlantic Integrationists” has its fingers reaching deep inside the RT top management]
So what does it mean for our community?
It means that we are in for some exceptionally hard times. I have never received as much hate mail than over the past 24 hours. I am accused of being a religious fanatic, a bigot, an unconditional supporter of Islam, of approving of executions, of being a fascist and, of course, an anti-Semite. Second, I have to report that the entire infrastructure of the Saker Community is now at risk due to the resignation of some absolutely crucial persons who have decided to cut all ties with the Saker community due to profound disagreements with my opinions. I am currently scrambling to try to find a solution and the people who resigned have promised me that they will help me in making the transition. Still, it is undeniable that in two crucial aspects we, our entire community, is now extremely vulnerable:
a) the registration of various vineyardsaker.* domain names
b) the IT backup arrangement in case of a technical problem with our servers (whether due to an attack or to a technical issue)
Furthermore, I have had to take the decision to hire a lawyer to help me protect the various vineyardsaker.* websites and myself from potential abusive lawsuits and this will cost me a lot of money and will take some time. Right now, not only is my “thin anonymity” directly threatened, but the very existence of our various blogs is threatened too.
[Sidebar: just as a reminder, I cherish what I call my “thin anonymity” (lots of folks know who I am, as do all the interested governments) because it helps stay focused on issues rather then on persons. Not only am I not interested in any personal recognition, I don’t want to be a topic at all. And I want to keep the inevitable crazies from harassing me with their insanity. So it is very important for me, but if I have to lose it over this crisis then so be it. I rather not, but if there is no other way, I will.]
I will try to cope with all of this, but this will severely disrupt my ability to follow events, analyze the situation, deal with the various community related issues or iron our kinks on the new website. So for the next couple of days/weeks I ask for your understanding and forgiveness.
Furthermore, I think that our community will suffer from a lot of attacks, defections and personal attacks. What the AngloZionists are trying to organize right now is an anti-Muslim lynchmob, their famous “clash of civilizations” and I cannot stand for that. I will not be a bystander to that abomination and I will try as hard as I can to denounce it for the immoral, stupid fraud it is. Not because I am a “closet Islamist” or because I support murdering reporters, but because I categorically refuse to join any lynch mob and because I categorically reject the notion of a clash of civilizations.
[Sidebar: “the clash of civilizations” right? In these difficult times, do you know which two groups of friends came out in my support? Serbs and Muslims who, at least according to the official Imperial narrative are supposed to be enemies, right? So much for the supposed hatred between these people; but then again, Chechens and Russians are also supposed to hate each other while in realty, and much to the AngloZionist’s chagrin, they are fighting the Ukrainian Nazis side by side in the Donbass]
And make no mistake, things are about to get much, much worse. Here is already a link to a photo of a half-naked “Femen” with “f**k the xxx” (here xxx stands for the Quran whose name I did not want to print next to the profanity) written on her chest while she burns and steps on the Quran (please only click to see for yourself if you are not Muslim) here. I fully except that this kind of “exercises in freedom of speech” will multiply and become widespread as will the reactions from Muslims ranging from true ones to false flags.
==>>The current polarization will become worse and more intense<<==
For our community this means that we will lose readers, friends and even collaborators. Make no mistake, those who follow the news on the idiot box are now in a state of total hysteria and they will perceive anybody not joining in as a evil, crazy “Islamofascist“. We will all pay a price for not joining in the general hysteria.
Be prepared and accept that as the price to pay for doing the right thing.
How you can help
Oh boy, know I sure do need your help more then ever before. Please remember that I am ONE GUY and that I cannot do it all alone. So here is what you can do to help:
Problem one: computers and backup/security issues.
Until today we had a system setup in which all the various Saker blogs were automatically backed up into a third-party server. In case of technical crash, or DDoS attack, or cracking-defacing all it would have taken is to switch the attacked domain name to a different IP and the original blog would have been back up again. We lost that yesterday.
So, if you own and run servers and if you are willing to take over this “emergency backup” function please contact me ASAP.
Second, I am now in dire need of backend/server specialists to help with any technical issues related to keeping all the Saker Blogs up and running. If you have that type of skills, please email me ASAP.
Third, I am very concerned that I will further lose webmasters and backend/server specialists. If you have that type of skills, please email me ASAP.
Fourth, my main webmaster (Gevorg in Armenia) has done a stellar job preparing the new blog and he is now most generously donating his time to help me weather this crisis (right now he is literally running the new blog alone with the help of only one pre-moderator for comments). I would ask our community to pitch in and help me collect donations for Gevorg to help him for his dedication. So please send me whatever donation you can for Gevorg and please indicate “for Gevorg” on your PayPal donation.
Problem two: legal expenditures
As I have mentioned, I am going to incur some serious legal costs to try to set up some kind of LLC+trust to find a permanent solution for all the domain names and to protect everybody from abusive legal attacks. So, if you happen to be reasonably well off (sorry, but a small donation will just not help in this case) and if you can help me pay the lawyers to protect the entire community, please help me raise the funds needed to cover the legal costs. If you do send me a contribution for this purpose, please clearly indicate “for legal matters” on your donation or, better, please email me.
Also, if you are a lawyer in the USA and you are willing to work pro bono to help, please contact me.
Now, I think that I will add something which I have been thinking about for a while but never dared to do. But since the house is burning, I might as well I suppose, it ain’t gonna make things worse…
My special appeal to those with big means (financial or other)
I don’t know if you exist, but I will assume that you do. I see you as a person who has been reading the Saker Blog for a while already, and who has seen this community grow in response to the dramatic developments in the Ukraine. Though you are a person with big means (financial or other), you have very much been on “our side” and you have seen how day after day we all – our entire community – have been making a difference. Even though what was originally just a “one anonymous guy’s blog” has turned into a worldwide community of 8 blogs, written in 5 languages on 4 continents it has done so entirely through the time, efforts and dedication of volunteers who did that on their so-called “free time”. And yet we are fighting a huge EMPIRE, with a multi-billion dollars planetary corporate media, backed by a network of plutocrats and financiers which can cough up literally millions of dollars without even a tiny crease in their net worth of bottom line. Some of us are unemployed, or make minimal wage. Most of us, I know that for a fact, live from paycheck to paycheck. Alternatively, some of us have two full-time jobs (like myself, and we still live from paycheck to paycheck). Lenin spoke of the need for “professional revolutionaries”. Well, I sure wish he was alive today to help us. But then, he had rich bankers supporting him (and Trotsky). We don’t. And yet, it is still true that “Pecunia nervus belli” (money forms the sinews/nerve of war). So how can we fight this war when we are struggling to pay our bills, nevermind investing into this war?
So if you do exist and if you are reading these words of mine you can do one of two things to really help us all:
a) help us pay our bills
b) help us pay for our “war effort” (we have no communication budget, no travel budget, our IT is staffed by volunteers, our translators don’t even get a waitress’ tip, many of us are grossly under-equipped or have a terrible Internet access. One of the founding members of one of our blogs has had to stop helping us because he could not pay for his Internet connection!).
Right now, there is one very generous person who has covered all the server costs for the entire community and one other generous person who has quite literally helped my family from sinking further into debt. And yet I am quite sure that neither of them is truly wealthy. Without these two men our entire community would disappear. And yet we are touching many hundred of thousand of people out there, including you.
Of course, it would be nice if you could simply pay our bills, but I dare not hope for that kind of help. But maybe you have the skills and expertise to help us finance our efforts by setting up a foundation, or by establishing a trust fund? Or maybe you can get together with a few friends and together find a way to keep our community from struggle so hard against “petty” but painful daily problems?
The stakes are sky high. Not only is there a real risk of civil war in France and in other parts of Europe, there is not a real possibility of a continental war in the Ukraine and even a total intercontinental nuclear war between the USA and Russia is not impossible any more.
Just last week I received a very concerned email from a former (now retired) Primate of an Autocephalus Orthodox Church (one of the biggest ones!) telling me that he and his very well connected friends and sources were truly worried about a war breaking out between Russia and the USA. Former top level politicians like Paul Craig Roberts are now only warning about the risks of war. I have friends in Germany who tell me that the German military is preparing for war. I know for a fact that Russia has been preparing for a US/NATO attack for months already. This is not paranoia, this is were this accursed Empire has taken us: to the brink of war. We in the Saker community are doing all we can to prevent that and to not be a bystander, but we need all the help we can get as things are clearly becoming very ugly right now.
So, my unknown “supporter of real means” – now is the time to really help. If you can, do it. If you wait any further, it might be too late.
I don’t expect Bill Gates or Vladimir Putin to read these words. But if you are somebody with means and/or power and if you can help us in this struggle, then please consider that these words are addressed personally to you.
A few final words for now
Okay, I said all I had to say for the time being. I will be hard to reach in the next couple of days as I will be scrambling to try to keep together what it took so much time to built. If you hate my guts for “supporting religious murders” and despise me for speaking about money, please be sure that I am already quite aware of your views. If you insist, you can post them here, but you will be wasting everybody’s time (and if you sincerely want to understand what I stand for, get rid of your idiot-box and re-read what I wrote in a couple of days and it will probably make sense again).
To the many of you who did email me with words of support and encouragement, a big thank you! You have no idea how much a friendly voice can help a person who is vilified and abandoned by friends.
To all I say this: if we really are a COMMUNITY then it makes sense for me to reach out to all of you to help us all survive this AS A COMMUNITY, together. There is enough of us, but now we have to pull together if we want to survive and continue the struggle. I won’t be able to do it all alone.
Kind regards and thanks,
The Saker
Thank you Saker for not apologizing, recanting or otherwise placating the children who have allowed themselves to be manipulated and operated by this blatant PR campaign. Anyone who would abandon the Saker team over Saker’s very appropriate comments on Hebdo was never part of the team to begin with. Theoretically, Saker, how much space in terms of gigabytes would your server-space needs require?
Thanks for your passionate call to commitment from this community. I send my love, and money as my means allows. The world is burning, and we along with others of a similar persuasion, are all that stands in the way of devastation and desolation. Take heart. In a cause like this, the cause itself will meet us more than half-way.
I found the posts of the last few months (especially re effect of sanctions and economic situation) more wishful thinking than anything else.
Now this weird conspirationist posts re events in France.
Yes it’s sad people can’t see what’s going on in Ukraine and Russia, but it is not a reason to say such weird stuff about these terrorist attacks in France.
I had slowed down on checking this site, now I think I’m gonna stop it.
Bye
Good, enjoy watching cnn
Have fun on Pluto.
Oh no! Anonymous is leaving? But s/he is a major contributor with hundreds of comments a month.
Seriously, you should search out Michael Parenti’s talk about conspiracies. They have always been quite common, and should almost always be suspected in these sorts of situations.
Mr. Saker,
You have hit a nerve. In the Movie “Conspiracy Theory,” there is a fine scene, where the hero, portrayed by Mel Gibson, is tied up to a chair, his eyes taped open, and being tortured. He is exclaiming, “What do I know?” “What did I get right?”
You have hit a nerve. Your essay is right on the spot.
For the VISION!
Je ne suis pas Charlie.
If they attack him, he must be doing something important…
Je ne suis pas Charlie.
Saker, it was exactly your impassioned yet logical and courageous response to the Paris shootings and the whole’ I am Charlie’ revolution masquerade that fully opened my eyes to something that we surely knew was coming.
When I read your article I was deeply impressed by your strength of honesty – who else has done this?
Do not despair, gain some altitude with the thermals and keep the faith, I will send modest donation now!
dear saker,
please do not apologise when said what you mean…especially becouse you talking the true, and those who dont understand you they newer do…
thank you for your work, especially when most people in the world dont understand what are you doing.
and keep your work, greetings from croatia!
Please add an alternative form of payment! bitcoin, swift, something.
btw, must rss only give a preview of the article?
I’m also finding it hard to get to new content on the website.
Otherwise, the view from sunny Saudi Arabia is surpisingly boring on the Hebdo issue. My colleagues don’t support the killers but they have a degree of understanding.
I’m taking weekly classes on islamic jurisprudence and history from a south-asian-british scholar. We go through Hanafi, Hanbali, Shaafi, Maliki *and* Jafiri. It’s clear that the Umayyids hijacked the religion from the Ahl al-Bayt and the Hashemites. The early Caliphs tried to kill off the prophet’s descendents. Imam Jafir is the prophet’s descendant, so to treat him as weird or non-islamic like most sunni do is insane. Shia is based on love for the Prophet, Quran and Ahl al-Bayt/12 Imams. Sunnism is based on legalism and fear of going to hell for not holding your hands right during prayer. Usually the Jafiri fiqh is common sense while the sunnis have to come up with some bizarre justifications for rulings based on one limited account of what the prophet did once. Instead of actually getting anything done like Iran or Hezbollah, sunnis waste all their time stressing about minutae based on weak hadith. Shia’s pray at the times the prophet did on the first hajj, sunnis make up nonsense about the length of your shadow based on nothing. They can’t even agree on the length, because haters always hate and schismatics always schiz.
Dear Ingrian, have you tried to click on the orange “Blog” button at the very top to get to the blog section of this website? There you may find the new articles more easily.
UPDATE: “Blog” is now called “Latest Articles“.
Here I go again. The orange “Blog” marker can be confusing because it creates impression that one is already on the Blog page (so there is no incentive to click it “again”). I think this feature should be redesigned.
I could make it blink for you. Would that help? ;-)
Let us deal with the current problems that have come up and we’ll think about this issue also.
UPDATE: “Blog” is now called “Latest Articles“.
Hi Saker, just reading your article now, and wanted to comment to you….my impression of your own readers here at your blog was that most were in agreement with you…I certainly was. I didn’t misunderstand anything in your fantastic article yesterday. Sometimes people misunderstand ‘on purpose’… and some of the commenters did that right away. In the final analysis of this purposeful misunderstanding, they, not you are to blame. Your article went right to the quick of this whole dreadful problem…infestation….of the globe today. And whether or not Islam has old, usually un-enforced laws that contain the death penalty….I did not misunderstand YOU.
And Saker, I am also, a friend of Islam…I stand by Islam. Its the fee choice of human beings, which religion they believe in. Christ wouldn’t want it any other way.
Saker, this is a purging process for your blog….the people who have quit … needed to. You’ll be stronger without that drag of ‘not-friends’ and, as everyone I noticed, agreed with that article, those are really your people.
Yes, this ‘gift’ from a substantial financial person, is part of Steiner’ economic view too. Its really part of the needed world economy….to make a ‘gift’ to a cultural enterprise, which is definitely what the Saker Blog is.
Hi Ingrian, that sounds so interesting. Yes, since being connected with Saker’s blog I have become interested in Islam too. thanks for the information.
Hello Saker,
I just made a donation, I wish it could be more.
Rudyard Kipling said it in “If” —
“If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools”…
You are on the side of the angels in a world war against Satan and his demons. There is much anguish ahead, but we know for certain that in the end the side of the angels is triumphant.
Kind regards, and complete support,
Michael
Seriously, i wish i could help somehow with this site, if i knew how >.>
As for the first part, i do think it is important to clearify that this was a staged event in Paris, i mean everyone watching the police man video can see that, you can´t bend the law of physics, that guy was not shot end of story. Not to mention all the mismatches/discrepancy in the other videos (guy with bullet proof vest on the roof etc, clear video editing blabla), or the report on the national channel where the slip that they just used fake blood on scene.
You can´t make this up. But yes, people are stupid, living in Austria i always thought we were a “good” open minded country and that our national channel and its news were objectiv. Generaly speaking this is true if people follow what our president stands for. But god damn was i wrong about some politicans and the news in general.
However if you are older and get fed your whole life with this kind of “propaganda” its different to change your view, i see this in my father, though, he is able to see the logic behind my reasoning on why every evidence screams fals flag or what kind of bullshit the whole ukrain affair is and still was.
Sadly i don´t see a way to reach the general public if no important persons stand up for it and actualy report the truth. THe propaganda machine in WWII from germany was nothing compared to todays western media.
But i don´t believe that (especialy today..and greatly thanks to the internet) the everyone falls for this culture-war mongering. Conflicts in France are on the table yes, but civil war? I just doubt it. Before that would happen, i would expect a civil war in greece breaking out. This year will be a down crack in the EU.
Also a war in Europe, lets say against Russia (which would be beyond stupid) would end the EU, and likely also the NATO. The EU countries are not in the same boat. It is clearly split in different camps when it comes to a thing like this.
I´m not surprised that France was the target, even Hollande himself said that further “actions” against russia are not in the books, that they want to deliever the ships and end the sanctions, not mentioning that chances are good La Pen would win the next elections and she is clearly against EU/NATO. Hungary is against it, the Chech people are sick of it, Greece is sick of it, Austria is kinda split in the politics but hell do we have a rising from the so called “euro sceptics”.
Living here i can tell you that in general people don´t want the EU, we have seen the results, and lets say we are not pleased. Though what could we do, even in a war scenario, they butcherd and robbed us in the “treaty” of versailles.
Anyway i do doubt a war is coming, but i bet people also said this in WWI and 2. You can never be sure but that also should not be a reason to panic. But what i can tell is you this, it is a surprise for me that germany is “preparing” for war, thats the first time i hear of that. BUT i can tell, living in a part of Austria that has a lot of training grounds for military, that there is indeed a much higher training going on and a lot more air traffic (which bothers me because i didn´t knew the reason before). That could mean nothing though, but it is a fact.
However, the biggest problem with a war scenario in europe, or at last west europe, would be an unwillinges from the general public to support that, i highly doubt that this wannabe “terrorist act” or even some of them would change the course of the public, its more likely that a shooting war in europe would turn the people against the goverments. And as history shows that means the END of the war. (look at WWI)
SO far, so good, lets hope :x
I am incredulous and disgusted that so-called members of this community, who have been participating in discussion threads and generally acting (I thought) like independent-thinking individuals and truth seekers, would now turn against The Saker personally, and the blog. I just cannot comprehend it. It is the very last thing I would expect. That people who have been attracted to the information and analysis on this blog can be so easily manipulated into suddenly doing a one-eighty. Have we learned nothing from the Boston Marathon episode, with all of its questionable aspects, not to mention 9/11?
Regarding the consequences of the Charlie Hebdo attack: I once lived in an apartment building in NYC, where there was a fire. I lost my apartment. But the whole building was not destroyed. The fire looked pretty suspicious—arson by the owners? This was on the fifties on the WEst Side, in the co-op boom of the mid-eighties. Whether the owners set the fire or not, they certainly took advantage of it to evict tenants and destroy apartments that were still habitable—to empty the building. In other words, they might as well have set the fire themselves. I called this de facto arson. Same with the Charlie Hebdo thing. As for who is “to blame,” the question Cui Bono should be uppermost in all readers’ minds as we try to figure out the truth behind the hysteria and theatrics and grandstanding. We should be pooling intellectual resources to try to understand the events that are swirling around us. Not marching off in orchestrated huffs of various sorts. Where else can we turn for info and nuanced analysis, plus links to many other valuable sources? For many of us, these macro-developments will have major effects on our own lives—for example, perhaps our ability to retire (i.e., in case of economic collapse, or collapse of the dollar—not to mention war).
I am not one who has the detailed knowledge to offer brilliant insights on much of anything. But I do read this blog every day and I shall continue to do so. Courage! to The Saker and his colleagues. I don’t have much money but will send something. And see if this post gets through . . . I’m not sure I understand how the new system is working. Is clicking on “Post a Comment” all there is to it?? Here goes.
Saker, I guess people cutting ties w you would mean that they can’t bear any space between their own beliefs and those flooding the idiot box. Has it occurred to you that they are endorsing the free speech of boorish, immoral banal, immature and intentionally hurtful individuals– while denying yours?
This whole maudlin, grandiose manipulation is nauseatingly obvious. What is the MATTER with people that they are so easily filled with emotion cynically manufactured by others? You’re surrounded by ants, Saker.
I hope there will be enough people with resources to help.
Keep on the great work Saker, I have huge respect for you for your undying honesty to yourself and your believes. Your article on charlie hebdo only strenghtened this respect. I send you my warmest well wishes and hope you’ll be able to ride out this storm in one piece!
We have a Kurdish saying: Everytime u throw a stone at a barking dog, there will be no more stones left on earth and there will always be a dog barking at u. of course u must not take it literally but i am sure that u will understand what it means.
May God give u and the people that help and support u the strength and keep up the great work.
Please take my words as a small gesture of support for everyone at the various Saker blogs. Having “discovered” your work only in the last six months I have become a dedicated follower and find myself in agreement with much of your commentary.
To those whose false umbrage and bitter rhetoric would dissuade you from your good work, threaten or harass you I hope my support provides some meager solace. Were I the benefactor you seek I would gladly bring truckloads of money to you. However, I’m just getting by myself. Despite that, I’ll be sending some cold hard cash your way and fuck ’em anyway.
cheers!
Saker, may you find the strenght to withstand this attack!
Sharing your thoughts with the world helped you gain some friends, but because of that, on this particular ocassion, you lost some. Don’t worry, keep walking on your path, the ones who really understand you and what you want to do with this blog will stay with you, your number of readers might get decimated, but that shouldn’t worry you, because it’s more important to stay truthfull to yourself and what you believe and are doing, not to please other people (who now at the moment turn out to be not as supporting as they said they were).
As for the blogs on other languages, don’t allow them be a burden for you. Yes, it would be nice if they exist, but at the end, as you said yourself, this is a one man blog runned by a man who just wanted to write what he meant and not what other people wanted to read!
Let time run it’s course, things will sort themselves out.
Hang in there, guy! You’re not alone. What you do is important and it is right. Ne v sile Bog, a v pravde!
As a Serb, I really have no idea where you got the idea that we love the Muslims. Where? We do not love them, and we never will — neither Bosnians (how they call themselves nowdays), nor Albanians. Never. Ever. That’s a fact.
And there is no such internatonally recognized country as you refer to “Bosnia.” There is a Western, EU, colony called Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that colony is made of 3 parts, each one belonging to one of 3 nations which contitute that abomination and product of the Western rape.
Here we go again.
Vuk, read what Saker wrote, which was: “So much for the supposed hatred between these people” How do you make this into Serbians “love the Muslims”?
It seems that your personal hatred is so intense that it is affecting your reading skills.
Why don’t you make the quote in its entirety, hm? Here it is: “Serbs and Muslims who, at least according to the official Imperial narrative are supposed to be enemies, right? So much for the supposed hatred between these people.” Neither of those 2 parts are right. And their implications are not thruthful.
Now what is so difficult for you to understand here? Are you a Dawn syndrome sufferer? Do you need help translating my meaning?
It is the very epitome of prejudice to apply a blanket statement across a demographic. To assert that Serbs will never love Muslims because you won’t is, in my opinion, childish. Does your lack of character make all Serbs childish? I rather doubt it.
Than you don’t know much about us, Anglosaxon. You Anglozionist Empire can, and indeed they do, assemble some mercenaries in various NGOs, political parties and media houses who goes as “Serbs” but they never are. You understand that, Anglosaxon? You will never change our culture. Get that sink into your head. There will never be love for Muslems here, on our side. Not ever.
You sound like an zionist settler from Israel rather than the Serb, that you’re posing as. Anyway, you’re entitled to your opinion, and I’m pretty sure not all Serbs agree with you.
from Scandinavia…with love and cold
Vuk Micunovic
Ti si veliki glupan, nije ni cudo jer si Srbin.
Saker je genijalan i ja kao Hrvat ga podrzavam u svemu 100%.
Kao prvo ti pokusavas naci dlaku u jajetu a drugo ti ne vidis siru sliku, to je zalosno.
Prestani biti opsjednut s srbstvom ja sam s mojim hrvatstvom otrao guzicu i povukao vodu.
Dogadjaji idu u tom pravcu da su Hrvati i Srbi Anglo-Saxonska kanta za smece koje ce se koristiti za napadaj i unistenje Rusije i uspostavljanja Anglo-Saxonske kontrole svijeta.
U takvom svijetu mi Hrvati i Srbi cemo prestati postojati, vec smo prestali postojati.
Mi Hrvati i Srbi bi se morali identificirati s Rusijom.
People can lose perspective quickly at times like this, I suppose. I’m surprised that anyone here at this point wouldn’t be able to see the pattern by now, though.
I’ve been reading since the war in Donbass, but this is my first post here. I’m glad you’re doing what you’re doing – your writing has filled in a lot of the gaps, so to speak. All I can offer is thanks for your hard work, and I hope the situation works out for you and the team.
To any readers in France, stay safe.
With all due respect Saker, literally, so don’t take offense at this. I am genuinely curious how you expect to fight the American system/empire, with the support and sponsorship of the very same American system. You live, work, and support your family on American resources, how is it that you can simultaneously make war against America. You give definition to the phrase “biting the hand that feeds you”. Unless you’re attempting to overthrow the empire on a shoe string, live off the land, guerrilla budget. Isn’t the Russian state the biggest beneficiary of your efforts at fighting America? How come it doesn’t care enough for your welfare, knowing you have a family to feed, to assist you with even a small stipend? Does Russia always expect her defenders to live on faith alone? I was listening to Strelkov’s latest interview with a former FSB major general, and they both swore they live on a minuscule pension and a shoe string budget. How can you keep faith in a state that leaves her defenders so destitute and impoverished, when the same state supposedly possesses enough wealth to be the envy of both Europe and The American empire. I suppose it explains why America’s survival is rarely threatened and Russia remains under constant threat. America’s defenders are very well fed, sheltered and well secured socially, at least those proven and distinguished ones. Maybe you’re fighting for the wrong side.
“America’s survival is rarely threatened” – I guess you don’t understand what all of the desperate behavior of the Washington regime over the last few years has been all about, do you? Strong nations do not need to wage wars; strong nations make deals. War, even (or especially) pre-emptive war, is the last resort of weakness. What can we infer about the stability of the Washington empire from that?
Flawed assumption Ezra, it’s the strong that pepertually engage in foreign wars. You mistake foreign wars of aggression, which powerful states from Rome, Macedonia, Persia, Britain to today’s America, engage in, with defensive wars, which the victims of those empires engaged in and continue to engage in to this day. The defensive wars are for survival, and result from weakness, which invited the foreign aggression in the first place. Aggressive wars emanate from strength and the resulting need to expand an entity’s power base. America’s constant wars are a manifestation of her hegemonic quest for full spectrum dominance. It isn’t defensive as opposition propagandists constantly point out whether knowingly or cynically. If America was truly fighting for survival, they would be doing so in much more efficient and cost effective ways like through diplomacy and alliances, not ultra costly warfare with states who even go out of their way to seek a negotiated settlement and avoid war. Thus misreading of the evidence before us is what leads many well meaning but misguided folks to disillusion when the causes they thought were righteous fall apart when confronted with reality. And no, America’s elites aren’t just ignorant and blinded into waging all these wars as we’re often told. No organized entity makes this many errors accidentally, or because they fail to understand their self interest. It is illogical to assume such a naive notion. They keep waging these wars consistently in a concerted and labor intensive fashion, it always results in the paralysis or elimination of their competition and they end up expanding their power base. Therefore they aren’t doing so out of desperation or a need to survive, they are pursuing a full spectrum dominance strategy.
for sure they are feeding the military industrial complex appetite, and in a very primitive way, backing the inefficient american big business… and spreading the chaos around the world..
“it always results in the paralysis or elimination of their competition and they end up expanding their power base” you said :
It did not happen with :
Vietnam, Iran, Afghanistan, Irak…
Vietnam is a trading partner to the U.S and other U.S proxies in the region, they pose no threat to American influence in SE Asia. Better yet, they are serving as one of the breakwater points against the rising tide of Chinese influence in the region, which further benefits the Americans.(i.e eliminated as a threat), Iran is nearly isolated and struggling to survive the sanctions regime they’ve been placed under for so long. They are constantly attempting to engage the Americans in a negotiated settlement of the situation and have been unable to reach their full potential as a great power in the Middle East. The rise of both ISIS and the America’s terror proxies creating chaos in Iraq, in conjunction with the same chaos in Syria and Afghanistan, serves to both neutralize and paralyze all three states in their pursuit of progress and their full potential. They are all kept on the defensive, constantly battling internal turmoil and external restrictions which combined, deny them the right to even exist as normal progressive nations. What if anything, are the Americans losing in exchange for paralyzing this region? They’re simply transferring dollars from one part of the American system, their tax base, to another sector of the same system, their military industrial complex. But those trillions remain within this same system. Trillions denominated in American dollars in the first place, which means the only real price they paid, were the 5000 or so lives of their soldiers and the 30,000 or so maimed. From a population of nearly 400million Americans, that is a fraction cost-wise, for a return on investment of paralyzing and neutralizing America’s potential competitors across the globe. To put things in better perspective, look how far back in development those countries you’ve mentioned, Vietnam, Iran,Iraq, Afghanistan, have been degraded. If you lived in those states, considering the level of devastation they’ve endured, when would normal life resume, let alone the ability to catch up with the rest of the developed world and compete on the global markets? Try to see the human element in all these wars and compare the results, it helps to understand and to put in better perspective the winners and losers. I have a feeling they’re trying to employ the same strategy with Russia. That is to paralyze economic and political development and neutralize her as a viable competitor to the American hegemon. The strategy might vary, but the result is almost always the same, eliminating potential competitors.
Russia however is a different animal than the states mentioned above, there is an inherent unity to the Russian people, even now including Chechnya. Russia also has the means internally to self sustain, something none of the states mentioned above could accomplish. Russia will however spend ever greater resources in a defensive stance, which I think is the goal of the Money Power, to slowly grind her down, to injure her by a million cuts. Russia now faces the difficult task of evolving new strategies to deal with the aggression against her, and only time will tell, though I do believe that Russia will hold out, and become the stronger for it.
The United States for all its strength will continue to face serious social decay in the coming decades, where the economic divide between regions will grow tremendously, and where demographic shifts will change the face of the nation forever. America will still wield great wealth into the future, but it will be much more centralized, a trend which can be seen quite clearly already. Let us not be deceived, for America itself is under attack from within, which is why I say that Americans must wake up, or they will find themselves not much better off than those who now endure sanctions.
As David Rockefeller wrote in his memoir, “Some even believe we (Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
Pre-emptive war is not a sign of weakness, nor is it necessarily a sign of strength, it needn’t be a black and white issue for it does not reveal much in itself. The armies of Alexander conquered with consecutive pre-emptive campaigns, as did the Romans, and Huns, the Ottomans, etc.. Were these powers in decline during their campaigns? Were they in ascension?
I kind of cringe inside when people call America weak, I think it’s an oversimplification, and counter-productive. America has many people, with many views, it also has in all likelihood the most advanced intelligence apparatus in the world, and the dearth of evidence suggests they also have access to some very deep black advanced technologies. Suggestions of America’s decline have been apparent since the 70’s, this does not change the fact that it still wields more power than any other country on earth ever has, especially when you consider the cultural realm, where the duplication of American branding has crossed the world over. In Russia, nightly talk shows look like rip-off’s of typical American sets, and almost every country which has broadcast tv now has an American Idol duplicate, and so on. The culture of America is seductive, its marketers the most prolific, its businesses the most competitive, its economic power unrivalled, its innovators always pushing the envelope. Yet we decry America’s weakness….its materialism, it’s social apathy, it’s aggressiveness, and so on. America is many things, and we should not be so quick to oversimplify the world, paint black and white all things according to some childish view of the world.
The world needs the American people to wake-up, because an America that finds itself on the right side of history would open the doors to a new era of human potential. America and Russia should be allies, it is a natural alliance.
P.S
You have a valid point on the error of trying to oversimplify the American system. Furthermore,
Given all the above conflicts and their aftermath, it becomes obvious that the American military is employed differently than perhaps previous powers employed their military machines. It isn’t just used as an instrument of conquest and retribution on the battlefield, but as a means to a end. It is a tool, a mere component of a highly complex and integrated system of exploitation.It creates the conditions for exploitation, post conflict, by the other equally potent subversive arm of American imperialism, the American corporate predator. As in the case of Vietnam, the pentagon destroys on the one hand and creates the conditions for favorable business deals during the reconstruction phase of the victim state. Same with Iraq, Afghanistan etc. The commercial relationship is of course consummated in dollars, which further enhances the power base of American imperialism. It’s akin to the complex way in which American businesses exploit a market product from its primary stage as a raw material, to the value added stage of a finished product. They are favorably pre-positioned to milk the market from all angles, complete with insurance scams in the event of the collapse/death of that particular market. It is a much more complex operation than waging war on the battlefield in the conventional sense, so trying to determine winners and losers through that outdated paradigm will result in an incomplete and erroneous analysis to put it mildly.
Hi Angelo, good post… except that the American people are the hardest of all, to wake up…that also is an indication of something….which is materialism for sure….as long as they’re comfortable, they defend it. So your point is somewhat compromised by this fact in my (maybe not so) humble opinion.
Europe is waking up way faster than America. And Canada? Same as the States. Super strong magnetic forces inhibiting free activity…
The nation is not the government, the nation is the people.
Ann, you say Europe is waking up faster than America, based on what do you suggest this? What does waking up entail?
In general I think too many people equate the U.S. government with the American people, herein lies a great deal of the confusion, for the two are not nearly the same. As Steiner said Ann, the North American continent by nature has a very strong Luciferic presence, which is why information of North America was hidden from Europe by the religious authorities during the middle ages, such that Christianity could develop to a certain degree without this influence from the western landmass.
The people of America live within the belly of the Beast, and it is only from within that the Beast can be conquered. The American may be the hardest to wake up, but it is in America where waking up will prove the most decisive. You’ve given up on America far too early, the human spirit is powerful, thus I don’t discount its power to manifest truth in the very heart of tyranny.
Karl Marx used the library of the British Museum in London (the then heart of capitalism) to write his great work Das Kapital, which was a critique of the capitalist mode of production. Frederick Engels, Marx’s collaborator and friend, was a small-scale capitalist and owned one or two cotton/weaving mills in Manchester. He used his earnings to support Marx and his family who lived in London, without which Das Kapital would not have been possible. The world works in a non-linear fashion, my friend. Also remember that the imperialist countries suck out huge amounts of surplus value and resources from Asia, Africa and Latin America, which makes possible their high standard of living. To use a part of these resources, which ultimately comes from the oppressed, on their behalf is a very noble act, no matter where the person lives, for ultimately we strive for a one world (but one with diverse cultures), a world that has been fragmented into pieces by imperialism for its own benefit.
May I remind you that life can be very paradoxical. I am daily concerned about this loyalty issue you bring up, I’m probably not the only one. The other side of the coin is the idea that if I lived in a village, and owned a large dog; and one day I am informed that the dog is rabid. It is not only a danger to those in my village, but other villages as well. Whose responsibility is it?
As for America’s alleged financial well being, surely you jest. If the US had to stop living on money stolen from the grandchildren, there would be chaos tomorrow. What ever happened to “No taxation without representation”? Long ago, America could have stopped living on “borrowed” money; and asked “Where did we go wrong?” I think that we didn’t merely turn away from God, but we grievously offended Him. Now though, I think it’s too late. Even if it’s not, one of the first tasks will be to stop regarding our country-government as God.
‘biting the hand that feeds you’?
Saker works — he earns the money from that — it’s not a gift. In fact, in a capitalist system the worker produces more wealth than he takes home.
So in effect you’re telling Saker to shut up and know his place. And you’ve made your point eloquently, this is why it used to be called “the land of the free” although as Saker routinely proves, it is still “the home of the brave”, at least for him and perhaps a few precious others.
Saker, I came to your site indirectly via another humble blog of Canadian origins.
We here to your north are firmly in the grip of the AngloZionist manipulators. You could call us Neo Con lite. Our Prime Minister is loathed by most of my fellow Canadians and only enjoys the support of the duped and close minded.
It is clear to me that he is either being blackmailed or is bucking for some cushy appointment to NATO or the BIS or whatever passes for PNAC these days after he’s shown the door here later this year. In the meantime, I encourage your followers to investigate the Macro of all the current Micro’s being played out as I type here. These well informed essays are free of opinion and conspiracy theory. http://www.philosophyofmetrics.com
Best wishes as you align with those who can help. They are out there anonymously reading for now, but tipping towards helping as this charade unfolds.
A bit of cash coming your way, Saker. Don’t cave to stupidity, it’s everywhere. Work like you do is the planet’s hope that a few light bulbs come on in time. Thanks. dth
Dear Saker, I have been on your blog since February 2014. I am too old to work and I and my wife still have an expensive teenage unemployed daughter at home in Europe. Right now we are living off the money I saved for my funeral and my time is short. I am trying to do what _all_ my ancestors could do in the past. They could do it and the pension funds were not looted when they were alive. This generation is not as successful.
I can not give you money, but I can continue commenting and that is also a contribution. Saker, take a look at the spiritual support you get. It is worth more than money. Do you think the Lord cares about money? He does not.
Saker, you understand the situation in Russia, but you do not understand the situation in Western Europe. Where I live, young Muslims burn cars while living off welfare and local girls are called bitches. This is a reality you do not see from Florida. You need to see it. When we have different opinions, it is often a function of different sources of information.
I am Muslim, I work in Western Europe, I don’t take welfare, nor do I burn cars, nor do I use the word “bitches”. I don’t know what kind of company you keep Mr. Anonymous
Hi Pronimo…good for you, to say that.. !!!
Hi Anon…are you also the anon that has read some Steiner? I thought I recognized your “voice”…
Dear Saker and readers of this blog.
I thank you Saker for your call towards your readers to support my work for your website but it is not necessary under these circumstances. Let those who wish to send you money donate it directly to you to solve the other problems mentioned in your article.
We will keep this website running as long as the means allow it. We will stand our ground.
Do not worry about the assistance at all.
Yours sincerely,
Gevorg, Armenia
I wish the comments have space at each paragraph. Makes reading much quicker and facile.
This spaceless compacting is bad form.
Use this special character encoding in between your paragraphs:
Then you can have spacing between paragraphs.
UPDATE: It’s no longer necessary to use the mentioned special character. Just write as you like and separate the paragraphs as you normally would.
Thanks for your excellent work, and also thanks for being so helpful to us comment writers.
Your welcome.
Gevorg if you can delete my previous response to Mats please do so. I never noticed yesterday the issue with the single-spaced paragraphs, just now seeing it. Hopefully the Enter is configurable in this platform. Good luck with that, thanks for everything you’re doing, and I’ll try your suggested non-breaking space…
…right here…
to see how it works…
…compared with extra Enter clicks.
Mats, I think you just have to hit “Enter” twice, like you would in any text program anywhere. For example…
…here I hit Enter a second time and it added the extra line of space. But here –
I didn’t so it’s on the next line. In my world (I’m a writer), this is normal.
In older days I guess we used to write a new paragraph on the next line, but usually there was an indent to mark a new paragraph. Somewhere over the years that indent either went away or started not to look so good on the screen (it looks fine in a printed book, but somehow not so good on the screen).
Anyway, I got in the habit of spacing my paragraphs out by making an extra “Enter” carriage return.
And come to look around, it seems that many others do this too.
My point is that nothing is broken or abnormal in this Comments platform, it’s the way all text editors work. I personally don’t think you need to add that non-breaking space special character between paragraphs, I think you just need to hit Enter again.
But bless that Gevorg guy for trying to help, he is a saint :)
ps.. let’s hope when this gets approved it shows up with spaces between paragraphs. If it doesn’t, ignore everything I said while I eat some crow ;)
WordPress removes your “Enter” carriage return in comments. That’s why the paragraphs stick together and are more difficult to read.
Simply use this special character in between paragraphs
and you’ll have your paragraphs spaced out.
It may look alright while you are writing it in the comment box, but once it is processed by WordPress those “Enter” carriage return-s are removed.
UPDATE: It’s no longer necessary to use the mentioned special character. Just write as you like and separate the paragraphs as you normally would.
Gevorg, you must be very tired, with the work you’ve been doing lately – but at the risk of putting one more burden on your shoulders, when did WordPress code ever not honor the carriage-return spaces between paragraphs?
I’ve never seen this in 10-15 years of developing sites with this platform. Let’s not blame WordPress, it’s not a WordPress issue, it’s in this theme, or the customization of this theme.
It’s not a deal breaker to me. Personally, I’ll take this site over the old one because of the threaded comments, and many other improvements. But this a configuration or coding issue – and I’m sure that it’s on your list to explore. Get some sleep. I wouldn’t have even brought it up but I couldn’t see WordPress get blame it doesn’t deserve. Sorry.
I was not sure if other people would understand what a theme is. But of course it is true that WordPress itself has no problems at all with “Enter” carriage return-s.
If developing websites is your specialty then you may also be able to help us in finding an alternative solution for the hosting problems that have arisen since the sudden and unexpected cancellation from certain supporters.
You can find the contact information on the
Contact page of this website.
Moderator…Geovrge ? Sorry still haven’t got the spelling right….I don’t quite understand the &+++
do you mean that I just type those characters individually and it makes another paragraph ?
Dear Gevorg,
This “We will stand our ground”… is gold !
Thank YOU ! and all my warmest respects from France…
Gevorg, you’re a hero. Sticking together in difficult times is what we all must do. Thank you for all the time and work and effort to make this important site going.
Gevorg, you are a DUDE, man. Greetings from across the world, but maybe not so far apart ;)
By the way, I don’t have trouble making a space between paragraphs. I just hit enter twice, like I would in any piece of writing anywhere. No carriage return makes a double space by default. We always have to do that ourselves, no problem.
Also, thank you for the blockquote!
dear friend of Saker, thanks for those great words…I too feel that way. Yes, Saker maybe those legal things will go away, but use all the money for that dear Saker.
To Gevrog
Thank YOU ! and all my warmest respects from the American vassal Croatia
May God bless you.
Nek vas Bog blagosovi, pozdrav iz americkog vazala Croatia
Ah, forgot to mention 3 land which make that Western colony, that abomination. That Western colony is made of our land Republic of Serbska (unwillingly, we are forced into that abomination against our will) and Federation of Bosnia (land of Bosnian people *they call themselves Bosnians from 1993., prior to that they were known as Muslims (the name communists chose for them), Serbs and Croats of Muhamedan (Muslim) faith, and prior to being Serbs and Croats again, they had roamed these parts of world as Turks for 500 years) and Herzegovina (land of Croat people).
A for Kosovo, Western intel agencies trained, funded and armed a terorrist organization called OVK (they call it “Kosovo Liberation Army,” but even Western government labeled OVK or that “liberation army” as a terorrist group) which waged a war against us, and after they got defeated, much bigger terrorist organization called North Atlantic Terorrist Organization, came to aid their creation, just like they did in Lybia later on.
p.s.
Bosnian army did have Wahhabis in their formation. Some battalions were made of Wahhabis just like they were 70 years earlier when they were serving Hitler (notorious ustashe legion called the Black Legion *Crna Legija* which was mixed Bosnian-Croat division for example). Albanians also had them 70 years ago: 21 Waffen or Skanderbeg division. Nothing new under the Sun really.
@ Vuk Micunovic:
I am German (from DDR), living in Switzerland, and I have many Serbian friends here, daily talking with them and not-daily, but often watching RTS (news) and reading vesti (newspaper), having spend one month of holidays last year in Belgrade (I liked it very very much there! also been in Holy Christmas Mass in Sveti Sava).
Your are right that Ustasha and Territorial Defense-units, as well as three “volunteer Geb.Inf.Div. / mountain-infantry Divisions of the Weapon-SS”
(“Handschar” – Bosnian/Bosniaks/Bosanski plus some Croats (?) / Hrvatski; Skanderbeg – Albanians / Shkiptars and the 3rd one’s “name” I don’t remember)
were formed in Jugoslavia and collaborated with the Hitler-fascists.
No Serbian Division (though Cetnik units fought sometimes against and at times together-with the Fascists (against communist partisans).
But it’s also a fact that Marshall Jozip Broz “Ti-To” was a Croat himself and gave the German Fascists the biggest “pain in the ass” (and later made Belgrade the capital of the SFRJ).
And his Tito-Partisan unit(s) consisted of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians/Bosniaks, Albanians, (Dunav/Donau-Swabians aka ethnic) Germans (that settled mostly in Vojvodina, northern Serbia) and Italians
(remember just the movie “most” or “bridge” “bambino” and the Italian explosive-specialist and the very commonly known in former SFRJ italian partisan song and movie-song-theme “Bella Ciao”).
In Albania there was also partisan activity from Albanians as (later dictator/president) Enver Hoxha.
Later all different religions and nations (catholic, orthodox, muslim, non-religious/non-believers) lived peacefully together and having all the same chances (education, career) and rights.
And last but not least, after the fall of the eastern-blog Socialism, the Sowjet Union and the Warschau-Pact and the breaking-up of the CSSR, the socialist blog-free independent but politically, military and economically important multi-ethnic-state of SFRJ didn’t suit the interests of U$A, NATO, EU and western big-money plunder-corporations, also the important strategic axes/trade-routes.
Thus, by selling off their over-stocks of cold-war weapons and fostering the ethnic and religious differences and exploring the power-ambitions the civil war was launched and the Serbs as the biggest and strongest side had to be weakened (and I still am ashame of the German Gvnmt. playing airforce for Mujaheddin/Green beret-terrorists and KLA/UCK-terrorists!).
But I don’t agree with you about the absolute “hate between” (exaggerating) or “impossible living-together” between Serbs and islamic Bosnians, islamic Serbs (mostly Novi Pazar, Santschak and Prijepolje regions) or between Serbs and Albanian-Serbians (Bujanovac), nor Serbs v.s. Kosovo-Albanians (there are also Christian Albanians!) “as such”.
Off course, personal losses, traumas, injustice plus propaganda have left deep and bad sentiments.
But in my opinion as the example of France-German post 1870/1-war, WWI and WWII has shown, it can (could) be normalized (though U$A, NATO, EU, anglozionists don’t want this to happen).
Kosovo- and Republica Srbska-Questions are big and unsolved problems and further conflict-potentials.
But the Serbian-Bosnian famous film-maker Emir Kosturica (the name alone speaks for itself), his films, and the mokra gora (?) resp. “Kustendorf” show that “normal-or-even-good-relations” and peaceful neighborhood with each other is possible.
I hope you understand my point (sorry for the length of my posting!).
Most importantly I would be very interested to have YOUR opinion about the FUTURE-COURSE of Serbia EU-U$A-NATO, block-free or pro-RUSSIA, especially as Gay Parade, de-facto (political) (!) acceptance of independent Kosovo, stop of South-Stream (mainly due to Bulgarian and EU), the acceptance of the “third-energy law” from the EU, public conferences like in early 2014 “NATO loves SRB, SRB loves NATO” in General Stuff in BG, or the new SRB law prohibiting and punishing mil. service abroad (like in Donbass / NovoRossjia)…
Volker, if you want to space out paragraphs then simply write:
You don’t have to write:
&nbsp;
I’ll correct it for you where necessary. And maybe using a bit less “make-up” concerning the <strong> tag would be better too. You can use <blockquote> for that or simply the bold tag ( <b> ).
@ Vineyard Moderator:
Thanks! It’s the first time that I commented and didn’t know how to space-out or how to highlight correctly. Mea culpa.
Won’t happen again!
Thanks for your time and dedication and with best regards
Volker
Your welcome.
Of which Bosnian units partisan army consisted? There weere no Bosnians there. We had something called “narodni heroji” (perhaps you what I speak of) and amongst them there was only one Bosnian (Alija Sirotanovic), most of them were Serbs with few Croats. Croats massively satted joining partisans when they saw Nazis are going to lose the war, 1943. First partisans units were all Serbian. but I have no desire to speak of partisans and sommunists. Those who are from these parts know fully well who they were (we call them “kokosari” *hard to find the translation for that one, but trust me when I say that partisans and communists are nothing to be proud of*).
There was only one example when the Chetnicks fought with fashists against communists, and that was in Dalmatia under the leadership of Chetnick Vojvoda Momcilo Djujic and he fough with the Italians against communists. But that is of no importance at all. They were cut off and did what they did to survive. In the ’90s war, we often fought on various battlefields with different allies; everyone did what the situation required him to do; there is no love there, only necessity).
Forgot about handjar division. As for “Islamic Serbs” in Sandjak, they are no Serbs but Bosnians. kusturica is not a Bosnian, he’s a Serb. Very proud Serb. He tells so himself. You do know the history of Bosnia, I hope? They were Serbs (exceopt that part called “Autonomna Pokrajina Zapadna Bosna” – they are of Croat origins. Part of today Croatian people were Serbs too. Everything south of river Cetina is ethnically Serbia. Here, you can scroll down and see for youself:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_Serbia
Start with 7th century, the time when we got to the Balkans. Here it is:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Migration_of_Serbs_pl.png
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_and_Eastern_Europe_around_950_AD.png
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serb_lands_in_the_9th_century_%28en%29.png
Those are ethnic boundaries. You see how much we lost to Croats? All our lands south of Cetina. Dubrovnik became Croatische first in 1939. Never before that year had they ever been Croats. That’s when they became Croats.
And Republika Srpska is very much resolved. What is not resolved are the borders between Croats and Bosnians, between Herzegovina and Bosnia. That part is left unresolved. Kosovo will get resolved when Anglo-American empire dies. When it dies, we get back what they stole from us. There are many parts of your post left… not right lets say, but you open too many topics for such a short, comment discussion. Have to go to sleep now, maybe tomorrow if I find the time shall I make some broader view touching most topics you opened up, kk? Enjoy in Belgrad next time you get there.
Vuk Micunovic January 09, 2015
Dosadan si kao prolijev, samo vidis Srbiju, jebala te Srbija.
Vi Srbi bi prvom prilikom zabili noz u ledja Rusiji kad bi vas Naci-Nato nagradili.
Bonjour Saker !
Encore merci pour tout ce que vous faites ! Respect !
There it is for you Saker : a song to get “strengh” in difficult moments… seems to me you’ll like it ;) ==> Омела – Дыхание Зимы
May the All-Holy Mother of God watch upon you !
And may we all, as a community, dare TO BE ONE !
Saker… brother… all the best for you, and THANK YOU !
You are not alone…
Dear The Saker,
I was very sad to come back to your blog for a read and see this post by you. I am completely dumb founded that any genuine person (not trolls) in this community with any common sense would misconstrue what you wrote? And anyone who has read your work would know how you express yourself; you try to get to the truth; show different opinions and sides to an event. In this sea of controlled MSM/propoganda we desperately need people like you Saker.
These individuals who have abandoned you should look deep inside themselves if they leave you over that post :(. This hatred that the MSM is promoting is wrong and prehaps they have shown their true colours sadly. This is exactly what the AZ’s are striving for getting us to turn on each other rather than them.
Keep strong – and thanks Gevorg for helping Saker – we all appreciate it.
And to all those fake annonymouses who claim they are leaving – goodbye and to all those haters who send trash by emails to The Saker – what kind of people are you? Does it make you feel good? What makes you any better than the terrorists who thrive on hatred aswell? Shame on you all for writing such unkind, nasty trash by email to The Saker.
Freedom of speech – for who?
Saker, stay strong we cannot loose your insights and wisdom.
Rgds,
A very saddened Veritas
And always remember Saker: “You know you’re over the target when you start taking flak.” God Bless You and Yours Saker, and everyone who stands firm behind the Saker.
Via RT I found your site last December. I find it informative, honest, and very helpful. Actually, most of the analysis of events only confirm, in the main, my thoughts about them. As a traditional Roman Catholic and “closet” Orthodox, I do believe that, since we live in the post Christian era, society everywhere is rushing headlong into a bottomless pit of darkness. Evil seems to have the upper hand just about everywhere. So it is imperative that “good men stand together and fight”. I am retired and not at all computer savvy so I cannot help you there. However, I just sent you a donation, it is all I can do under the circumstances. However, you will have my prayers! Remember, in the bitter end what counts most….Christos Anesti!
Pax et bonum!
Ah, about the topic. That’s the fuss all about? It’s only a few casulties. Rothschilds and co. kill millions each year. Only USA, one state run by the Cabal, has killed more than 30 million people since WW2, and where are the others! But a few Westerns die in a scripted drama show, and you start being hysteric. If you want to do something good for humanity, then …
[Note from Moderator: Dear commenter, given the troubles in which the Saker currently is, I decided to remove your call to kill certain members of the elite families. We do not want to attract more flack than already is being aimed at us.]
… and the rest of the Cabal. There can be only one winner: either the people, or them. Let that sink into your thoughts.
At least don’t refer to them as “elites.” Everywhere in the world such type of people is referred as oligarchs. You can’t call them elites in the West, but oligarchs elsewhere. That’s not very… honest. But Westerners have always been known as hypocrites. Westerners are false, tricksy people. They don’t believe in anything, they stand for nothing, unless of course, their skin becomes threatened, then they become hysterical. I think Westerns today can be best described as those wicked creatures Nietzsche wrote about over a century ago: nihilist degenerates. Now let us have that civil war in the West ffs.
And I truly hope Russia will arm those freedom fighters from Afghanistan. For 14 yrs their land has been occupied by the West, time has come to repel the occupiers. Besides the West is arming Nazis in Ukraine, so it would only be natural that Russia should do the same with Empires’ enemies. I know I would. Someone also ought to show them how to make those “dirty bombs,” you know, the ones containing radioactive particles. Now imagine that detonating over a big city like London. Wouldn’t that be a sight! Enemy of our enemy managed to destroy the Empire’s heart, and thus freed us from the cancer in the process. We the free people of Earth would praise them for eternity, and Muslims all over the world would respected and honoured forevermore. If Westerners cannot fight the plague alone, then someone must do it for them. Bring the war to the West ffs!
I don’t think that you can kill this cancer with a dirty bomb because it sits in the heart of men.
“Lies in the heart of man,” hm? Do you think it’s a blood clot? Go easy with the weed.
Thing is, Russia refuses to act like the U.S.
i.e. Some in the past have wondered or encouraged Russia to stop gas to Europe. But Russia won’t do that due to the fact there is a contract and they will abide by their word.
Stop and think what is being said about France: They can’t be trusted.
Fair enough. As for Frence, I don’t really care for France. France bombed us, and sanctioned us (even went so far as to demand other nations around us introduce full embargo on us). But I do so enjoy listening about Western plight. It’s such a joy watching West crumble and wither. It brings such a warmth to my heart, let me tell you. I can only hope there will be more of it. :)
I suggest oliporks.
It’s hard for me to understand Westerners. What do you mean? You have to be more specific or explicit than that.
where is the upvote button?
Saker:
I read you post “I am not Charlie” and I am almost agree with it, not totally, but almostly yes. I could not see nothing scandalous on it.
Your work in fantastical an necessary (and again, I am not 100% agree with all tyour analysis, but your voice is necesssary).
You have my support. Is not a big support, because I cannot be part of your community, but at least I want to express that this modest Basque person is backing you.
Keep up the resistance!
Dear Mr. Saker,
please do not give up,
thank you.
I wish I was rich…
From Europe with love.
Paulo Coelho wrote in his book “O Monte Cinco” something like; we all watch the same mountain from different side. everybody see different picture, but, it is allways the same mountain we look at.
those who read your post Saker, they respect you even if they not agree on some topics or misunderstand. they just watch the mountain from other side.
Maybe people should just re-read Saker’s Charlie post. Really all he was doing was pointing out a little hypocrisy; hypocrisy being something that sophisticated Frenchmen happen to specialize in, that’s all. They love it. It’s part of the high culture of farce. The French are also very good at setting up straw men. Not talking about country French, who are very down to earth people, but the city French who are very sophisticated. Sophistication is like a fancy fake veneer. That’s why the vast majority of the city French see through the Charlie Hebdo charade. They know it’s not a real French magazine.
Hi Saker,
Do you think it might be best if you go back to your blogger platform (one anonymous guy’s blog) as this new initiative is causing more problems for you, the fact that you now have to throw money at this new platform and rely on third parties to keep it running should be a cause for concern.
Much respect for your hard work! Keep strong! Thank you!
But he has more influence–i.e., is more effective at fighting the good fight this way. (if it’s possible)
It is interesting that this blog is being vilified for exercising free speech by those who were offended by the article ‘I am not charlie’.
Fuzzy thinking methinks ……..
You either support free speech or you do not. If you decry the attack on ‘charlie’ as an attack on free speech, how can you then turn around and attack ‘The Vineyard of the Saker’ for exercising free speech?
He is not asking you to agree with everything he says. Indeed this is a Blog, so you can freely express your disagreement.
My thinking is that the attack on ‘charlie’ was an attack on free speech by a couple or morons. For what reason and whether they were part of a larger picture is not relevant to the issue of free speech.
As Pepe Escobar wrote, (paraphrased), ‘the barbarians proving they are indeed barbarians’
I do think the International Muslim Community has to take ownership of this problem. It besmirches your religion and it is causing hatred towards Islam, which is unjustified.
Hatred towards the extremists, whether Islamic or not, is justified. Hatred towards Islam is not.
Just as the revelations of pedophilia besmirched the Christian Church. Now the Church is being dragged, kicking and screaming, to acknowledge the problem and deal with it. So. the Muslim community must deal the problem of extremists using Islam to justify their actions.
Both are by a tiny minority, however a drop of ink into clear water spreads a long way.
I will send my pittance of support because I passionately believe in free speech.
I urge those who have ‘spat the dummy’ to re-consider. Argue with this Blog, rail and shout if you do not agree with it, but if you walk away, then you show you really do not care about free speech at all. Surely you are better than that.
Bring here my post in the old blog.
elsi said…
Dear Saker, I just got home, I’ve been out all day.
I do not know whether to post here or in the new blog. For your comment I understand that yesterday was something wrong with the new?
I’m sorry this happened, Saker, and I must say that I sensed that something was going to happen, at least with the French Saker, when I saw their post in black and then your post yesterday.
I am with you, Saker, and all the guys to stay, nothing has happened to change my mind, I’ve only seen more of the same of what you say, we walked towards war and fascism.
Yesterday, viewing the news coverage, I felt, and so I said in my post, that something serious will happen. Actually I feel it since they started the events in The Ukraine, so serious it is and how people have accepted it.
I can not help with computer issues, I just defend myself, and economically, it is not much I can add …
I hope we can remain united.
I can only recommend temperance and send you a big hug.
09 January, 2015 22:52
It is entirely possible those who have departed in feigned ‘disgust’ intended to do so from the very beginning of their involvement.
By waiting until the Saker network had become reasonably complex (more so than a simple Google blog – which could of course have been disabled at any time) then it is a somewhat simple task to disrupt the Saker by having key people remove themselves at critical times and on a half-baked pretense.
Whether they honestly hold their views is not relevant, what the behaviour by those formerly connected with the Saker community demonstrates is that their mettle is so devoid of substance that they simply cannot be trusted.
They evidently do not possess either the personal strength to challenge their own preconceived thoughts or the integrity and commitment necessary to be part of a movement that is a real threat to those manipulating the doltish western populations of the world into a catastrophy.
It is quite clear the threat to the establishment is real as the incredible array of propaganda leveled at the public, the constant war gaming and mind gaming against the citizenry, the endless hailstorm of legal maneuvering designed to erase our sense of connection with our natural rights and liberties, the tidal wave of fearmongering, and all the manipulations and scapegoats and elaborate theatrical displays, all reek of fear. For if the globalists were truly as omnipotent as they pretend to be — if they really were all-knowing philosopher kings born to rule — then they would already have their New World Order. They would not need lies. They would not need the threat of force. The undeniable power of their ideology would be enough if their ideology actually had any validity. Lies are designed to hide lack of validity and lack of strength. The globalists are, at bottom, a hollow shell desperately clamoring for substance. (per Brandon Smith 7/1/15 Alt-Market Blog)
It is time to step up to the plate everyone.
Saker, I thought that post (“I Am Not Charlie”) was one of your best ever. I don’t know why it provoked the reaction it did. You made it crystal clear that you were not condoning any violence or in any sense taking the side of the jihadists. Nor were you in any way seeking to exculpate the perpetrators or make light of their crime. It was all crystal clear to anyone with half a mind, but invisible to your detractors. I guess that, when these atrocities occur, hysteria seizes hold of people, even many intelligent and well-informed people. They become unhinged, and if you’re not unhinged along with them, well, you must be one of THEM! What a lot of nonsense, and how unfortunate. Don’t be discouraged, though. You are behaving honorably and wisely and are needed now more than ever. I’ll send more financial support your way.
Saker
Sounds like the ones who demanded you to not use the word zionist in Anglo-zionist have expanded their attacks as part of the latest Israeli asset anti-Muslim demonisation push. The hysteria around the CH job also might mean the ZPC/NWO is soon to increase their aggression against Syria directly. While these ziofascists/fascists do run their domination games in multiple countries and regions at a time, their media can only seriously hype one or two demonisations at a time and make them stick well enough to brainwash.
Bot Tak, that’s what I am thinking: maybe this is the run-up to attacking ISIS in Syria (really attacking Syria). RT has an article that says al qaeda in Yemen has claimed credit for Paris. Not difficult to arrange their comment since US and allies maintain them.
 
I would think they will do one more, larger provocation first.
 
Something bothers me about the demonstrations in Gerrmany & France: There are hardly any signs. How do we know what they’re demonstrating for?
Penelope ! Nice work with the &nsbp….
Wow. Saker, you really struck a nerve with your #JeNeSuisPasCharlie post! KUDOS!
I can’t help financially right now, but if you need some help for moderating the comments you could count on me to provide such a service as you know a little bit about me and where I am coming from.
All I need are the guidelines and I can help you there if needed.
EVERYONE: We are on the Cusp of the Greatest Inflection Point in history right now. 2015 IS when the shit hits the fan. Hang in there everyone! Make plans for your escape to places of safety.
Hello Saker, I discovered your blog ~5 months ago and since that moment I’ve not felt alone anymore. Even if I do not completely agree with all of your opinions (we are in agreement ~80% of the time) I deeply respect your honesty, dedication and most of all your openness of mind. I’ve just sent a small donation your way because as my family in Germany says “Kleinvieh macht auch Mist” (litteral translation “small livestock also makes manure” i.e. every little thing helps :-) )
I hope that you will find some donors of consequent means to help you weather this crisis (and I do agree with you that this is a sort of 9-11). And if you have to take losses then your old 1-man blog should be the absolutely last to go – because you personally are the driving force of this Vineyard.
Sincere regards
The Saker,
You have upset the BEAST !
Your uncompromising respect for the truth and your empathy for others is in direct opposistion to their evil plans. This makes you a powerful enemy. With God and his angels on our side your sacrafices will be rewarded.
For me, I find a spiritual essence here in our Saker community that is missing in the world. Truth and compassion will continue to light our way.
It is darkest before the dawn.
So get some rest and we’ll fight on.
I am proud of you.
I agrée that something stinks here and that something really big is in the cards.
By the way, did you see that Poroshenko is going to Paris on Sunday for the big ddmonstration? This is pure provocation and would submit that this whole thing in France (I am French by the way) is somehow also related to the the war against Russia that’s brewing.
That being said I wholeheartedly disagree with this whole notion of demonization of Muslims.
It is quite the opposite actually, with all politicians falling all over themselves to say that this is not Islam, Muslims are victims and so on and so forth. Everybody is rushing to protect “multiculturalism” all such nonsense (50 years France was extremely homogenous and counted virtually no Muslims) while attacking Marine Le Pen (virtually the only French politician defending Vladimir Putin by the way) for crying out loud.
Now, how in the hell can you spend your time bashing Marine Le Pen after what just happened while Muslim youths were taunting French police in the last couple days?
Now I agree that they were “imported” for a very specific reason, but don’t say there is this growing anti Muslim bias.
Oh and I must be reading a different kind of RT: all articles seem to be about the evil French people versus the poor little Muslims.
To conclude, I would agree with the other poster up on this thread: your analyses have been wide off the mark for quite a few moths now.
I think the result of the Charlie Hebdo (which I despise by the way) is going to be more multiculturalis, more immigration to Europe and the final nail in the coffin of my civilization, my culture.
And let’s face it here, I would never have the gall, the chutzpah to relocate 30 million blond, blue-eyed Scandinavians to Japan or Turkey and tell the world: see they are as Japanese and as Turk as the legitimate owners of those lands that have been there for centuries.
Yet, this is what has been done to Europe.
Anyway… something tells me this whole thing somehow (I don’t know how yet) is not good for Russia.
Chaban, you said, “Oh and I must be reading a different kind of RT: all articles seem to be about the evil French people versus the poor little Muslims.”
 
So we know you’re a fibber and a troll.
Yeah, i remember being called a troll quite a few times on this blog when I was pointing out that Saker and Orlov were way off mark on the tremendous economic pressure Russia was under.
We all remember those two saying the west’s sanctions had no effect on Russia.
Anyone can go to RT right now and confirm what I’m talking about.
The truth is that Saker is a fairly poor analyst. He got a following due to the early sitreps and that’s it.
He’s been basically wrong about everything else.
That being said I agree with one thing he said: I am NOT Charlie, either.
Chaban…a troll is a person no one likes, who is nasty, bad-tempered and grouchy…and negative…
If the shoe fits ???
Dear saker,
Thank you very much for what you are doing. Those who quit because you spoke the truth are two faced. A single bribe will get them to stay you in the back.
I believe we were better off using the blogger for a site as it will be very hard for the haters to hack us! Oh well…
Seeing the propaganda against Muslims are worrying me. I feel like we will be a target on the streets pretty soon. Soon we will have to start changing our names and start faking our religion.
Anyways, If there is a need for a moderator for the comment section, I would be more than happy to help out.
-PS how come there aren’t any social icons added to the blog? I would like to share your posts on Facebook.
The social media icons are on the to-do list. Lets first see how the current problems can be solved and how the website is going to continue.
We’ll add it when we are out of “troubled waters”.
the text on “I am NOT Charlie” don’t give a reason at all to such a extreme reaction. Oposite, is absolutely clear to show not only the risks that the journalists had assumed, but also to point the media hypocrisy… maybe the term “caviar-lefties” had upset some people, am I wrong?
anyway, I’ll try to give you my modest support, and please don’t allow this event let you down… and thank you for your brilliant work!
Keep up the good work Saker. Your real ‘wealth’ is your ability to analyse rationally, something you still have in abundance, and it will see you through.
Get lots of sleep and hold your course. In you I have found someone who seems to easily make sense of much I struggle to piece together, but I’m sure you must put a great deal of work into everything you post. I just made two donations, not much, but what I could afford.
Can I take this opportunity to recommend a few slightly dated books some of your readers may not be familiar with which I have found very helpful, evidence based, and essential reading:
(*) NATO’s Secret Armies by Daniele Ganser – Gladio, the strategy of tension, and utterly depraved false flag CIA/NATO political violence across Western Europe
(*) The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski – Dated and dull description from the horses mouth of plans for world-wide American hegemony over ‘vassal states’
(*) Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders – Detailed analysis of how the CIA have owned and manipulated the western media for several decades.
It seems to me the current American motivation is very simple, and something I have not seen spelled out simply anywhere so far. Is it not the case that American economic collapse is only a matter of time (2015 or 2016?), and they are desperately trying to ensure no state actor who could hold them to account afterwards remains anywhere in the world? What I see from America is the behaviour of desperate people who know time is not on their side. Not so much aspiring to Brzezinski’s fully fledged Hegemony any more but to the much more dangerous and diminished goal of last man standing by fast-forwarding the Brzezinski plan…
I am Charlie. Not only because they made us laugh; but because they were sacrificial lambs in a much nastier, gruesome, never-ending shadowplay.
Made who laugh? Nobody read it. okay, except for the faux “muslim” crisis actor commandos with the AKs who pretended to read it.
yeah, its a beautiful piece from Pepe Escobar, but is just another approach…
To the saker: Hmmm…
Do not panic; you just celebratred Christmas – remember that even Jesus and his parents had to flee the wrath of those that hated a candle of light sent into our darkness – so pick a wise refuge and do not despair.
There is wisdom in the timing of things…. but hindsight is always 20-20!
Then there is the kurdish saying that is so insightful! If you throw a stone at every barking dog, You will soon run out of stones and the dogs iwll still be barking!
As for what you said – well, their cartoons were a flame-thrower compared to the candle you lit in a very dark, twisted and hate-filled witch hunt.
Again – Do not panic; you just celebratred Christmas – remember that even Jesus and his parents had to flee the wrath of those that hated a candle of light sent into our darkness – so pick a wise refuge and do not despair.
a fellow servant.
Well, Saker, for all the insightful posts you have made (many), diligent research you have done (a lot) and all the “followers” you have cultivated and who have followed you to this juncture, you must surely realize (if not now, then later) that all your efforts amount to nothing more than a snowflake in Hell – in the greater scheme of things.
The real enemy of humanity, realize it or not, is SATAN and his Zionist demons in humanoid, reptilian form. If your blog and website disappear, it means nothing, despite what you may wish or dream. There is only ONE Who can defeat the satanic EMPIRE! Only those worthy of and wearing “the full armor of God” and empowered to wield the sword of the Word, will be granted exousia and dunamis – and make any difference in the Final Battle between the Sons of Darkness and the Sons of Light, already in progress. Russian Orthodoxy, like Greek and Roman Catholic Orthodoxy, is just another flavor of satanic DECEPTION (of the “Elect”). Just look at the glitz and glamor in which the Russian Primates, like the Pope, parade. Then look at the Christ on the Cross. “A servant is not greater than his master. If THEY persecuted Me, THEY will also persecute you.” Who is persecuted for His Name’s sake?
Money is NEVER the solution when it comes to spiritual matters! Did Jesus have (or use) money? Everything that is not of God will be burned in the fire. Read Luke 21. Examine Russian Orthodoxy in the light of Jesus the Christ. Look after your family. Take out the trash. Do the dishes.
Yes Saker, listen to this bloke — do absolutely nothing, dump your religion, and hide.
On the other hand, you could keep taking God’s advice:
“The warhorse is prepared for battle, but victory belongs to the Lord.”
You and I know that victory is certain. Thank you for helping prepare the warhorse.
Kind regards,
Michael
The elite 1%ers hate free speech. Not too surprising, since they are most often the object of ridicule and scathing criticism all over the internet. No wonder they want to crack down. If you were the royal family, wouldn’t you want to shut it down? Or a Bilderberger? Or the CFR or the Illuminati, etc. Just look at all the snarky comments from ordinary sheeple all over alternative news websites! How dare they, the unwashed peons. Nobody was supposed to mock The Elite, that’s not what the internet was created for. Shut it down!
Dear Saker,
I appreciate your work and will in the future, but you’re clearly off the mark on this one. The aim of european puppet governments and the UE is to bring as many (muslim) immigrants as possible in order to eradicate Europe’s roots and create a big multicutural market with cheap labour.
The insane politically correct comments in France for two days are : ”islam is a religion of peace… bla bla… nothing to worry about… bla bla… one should not discriminate the poor peacefull muslims… bla bla…” That’s why they bar Le Pen to take part to sunday’s big march.
If you think the french government tries to stir a civil war between muslims and non-muslims, you frankly don’t know much about France’s situation. The contrary happens : the 1%ers try and try again to bring as much muslims possible in Europe in order to get cheap workers and to eradicate Europe’s specificity and submit it to the US.
Despite your blatant error on this one (you should stop reading Soral’s nonsensical pieces) I’ll still read your blog because it mostly brings a fresh and intelligent view on the world.
Cheers
I have wondered about some of what you said as well.In the US and the other “settler” countries it makes it easier to control and keep the masses divided because of the huge diversity.In Europe until the last few decades in most countries almost the entire population was local.There where in most countries a minority population or two.But they had their own region,and are also of Christian background and have been associated with the countries they are in for hundreds of years.Even in Russia, 80+ are Russian ethnically.And the others until recently, native to the country and all a part of the “Russian World”.
Today because of the wars the West has sponsored causing masses to flee.And the policies of the industrial elite in Europe bringing in labor,you see large numbers of non-Europeans immigrating to the EU.Some Europeans talk of a flood (but depending on the country that might be an overstatement).What that is doing, is making Europe into another “settler” society.Breaking the bonds between the population and dividing them like the US and other settler states.Is it by accident or deliberate,I don’t know.But as to the results,they are clear to see.
Uncle Bob
Keep up the good work, Saker! Don’t let idiots and people zombified by the pervasive propaganda discourage you. While I admire your courage, dedication and energy, I would also understand if you gave up, if it all became too much. Hoping that you won’t,
Best Regards
Dears
We shall overcome!
Lots of Love
When I read your post “I am not Charlie”, a light lit up in my mind. Your analogy to statistical sampling was so beautiful that it became literally impossible for me not to agree with the gist of the argument: you had achieved a perfect syllogism and illustrated it perfectly.
However, because of the emotional density of the situation, I suspect most of your detractors have enter an anti-Arendtian state of non-cognition. They have abdicated of their ability to think.
But analogies can be reproduced in non-emotional contexts, so I suggest to you this modest rendering of your argument in a non-denominational, non-political context. I cannot do anything to help you, but maybe one or two people may be sobered by seeing this:
i. Suppose a man sits in busy traffic crossing every day and starts looking at random drivers straight in the eye while he opens a big sign where it is written:
[Note from Moderator: I took out the cursing and the all-capital screaming, which is not allowed according to policy. The content was mentioning a Mum in a derogatory way and some bad things that she wasn’t even worth being done unto.]
ii. He does that for months, years on end, but other than some insults being hurled back at him, he garners some sympathy of free-speech defenders, and some local reporters who want to score a scoop in national broadcasters try to construe him into a 4th Amendment defender or something of the kind. He becomes part of the local landscape and a minor celebrity. Over time, though, people get bored of him.
iii. One day, a random driver stops, pulls out a pistol and shoots the man dead.
It should be clear that:
a. While the murderer deserves to be brought under the full weight of the law, his guilt does not excuse, or explain, or atone, or is in any sort of nexus with the man’s stupidity. The two states – the murderer’s guilt and the man’s folly – are independent of each other.
b. Humans are the quintessential random population and their behaviour is extraordinarily vulnerable. Just as if you mass vaccinate a population you will find a few very weird reactions to the vaccine, if you insult people randomly, you are sampling a random population and should expect reactions to fall over a Gaussian distribution – centered on indifference, I would say of this case. In one extreme of the distribution, the man would maybe find a crazy fan who would fall in love with him for his boldness to speak the truth or something. In the other extreme, he would find people who will kill to protect their mother’s honour.
c. Most people would say of the case that the man had it coming. Freedom of expression is a metaphorical descriptor of a society. It merely means that society has reached a state in which a higher percentage of opinions can be voiced freely without fear of retribution than a repressive society. It also means that no opinion will be persecuted by the state; it doesn’t, and cannot, say anything about individual agents. But it is not a shield. Freedom of expression cannot protect a person from bullets, and while in very liberal societies the number of people who might react violently to an opinion is vanishingly small, it cannot be determined to be zero because of statistical noise. And because no court of law can revive someone who has been murdered, the best course of action in a society is… don’t aim gratuitous insults or blanket contempt on big groups of people. It is folly, and not too long ago saying insults in public was seen as proof of idiocy.
d. If we find out that the man had been an orphan or abandoned by his own mother during childhood, his behaviour could never be used to describe all orphans or abandoned children in existence – there are so many of each that their behaviour will also fall all over a spectrum, with most of them probably very close to the centre of the distribution of people raised by both parents.
Intellectually I have added nothing to your exposition. I just fleshed out and made impersonal what shouldn’t need explanation. But I wanted to write it, so now I am satisfied.
Good luck, and a Happy New Year.
I see you are being censored for cursing and mentioning someone’s mother in a “derogatory way.” Now, that’s not very nice of the moderator; where is a freedom of speech there? You claim to be different than corporate media, but you act just like them. They too under the veil of courtesy and politeness erase everything which is not to their liking, but they don’t seem to have any problem at all when it comes to mock and insult the Muslims as we have all too well seen in this French example (they even have a special kind of media for that: strictly cartoonish one). Don’t do that. If someone who curse and spits have nothing of content to their say, then only one such person is insulting or mocking is himself alone. On the other hand, if someone who curses and spits do so does so with a content backing those curses, than those at which the curses are aimed deserve so, and such person(s) should be cursed. If someone acts as retard and degenerate, than you are within your right to call on that person (s). In a natural society there is no need for censors or regulators — society itself is self-regulating. Let the nature run its course.
And I see that one of mine comments are missing. That’s very kind of you, censor. Is it because I mentioned those libtards, hm? I hope I haven’t insulted you or anyone else for who read it. Or perhaps it got lost somewhere and you didn’t see it. I’ll repeat it. Hopefully it gets through this time.
The editing out of cursing and screaming is in line with the Moderation policies described here.
Concerning your other point…
It may be that your other comment was lost in the flood of comments. It’s hard to tell which one it was given that you post as “Anonymous”.
Kk. Fair enough. It got through the 2nd time around. The comment.
However, I do hope you see that you can pretty much erase apsolutely any comment under those rules. Just the 3rd rule alone empowers you to erase basically anything which is not to your liking. Like I said, you are not far off the corporate media. They only have one rule: erase everything which does not go with their narative. Unnatural stuff always goes aground. Hopefully you notice it.
What you describe is the process of judging. To judge whether something is acceptable or not. The corporate media which you mention has agendas which it follows for the judging of the content it allows to be published. These agendas are often hidden.
We on the other hand have the rules outlined in the “Moderation policies” by the Saker. It’s published for everyone to see. It’s simply a framework which describes what kind of a blog he wants to have and run. Allowing too many curse words and ad hominems attacks runs contrary to those principles and puts the blog out of it’s framework.
The number of criticizing comments has not been few in the past days. Your assumption that we “delete what we don’t like” is not true.
p.s.
Also notice how on Zerohedge one can freely comment. How is it that they can do it, and you not?
I guess everyone has his own set of judgment rules.
Okay. You are livable with. Most administarators are not. Take it as a compliment. We are scarce with praises, but also don’t forget to pay the respect where its deserved. :)
re: Anonymous posters – Saker you should have people register who want to make comments, like Zero Hedge. I am too financially clueless to post there, but it would go a long way to weeding out and identifying a-holes who want to hijack the thread with their bullsh!t…
[Note from Moderator: Writing curse words with replaced characters doesn’t skip the attention of the moderation on this site, but it helps to approve them. Try bull***t next time ;-)]
…and not add anything worthwhile.
How hard is it to think of a handle for these people?
You can see who creates an account under multiple names and makes only one or two asinine comments and then disappears forever. Having a register and a legit email to go along with it could help also. And when the account is not used after X amount of time, it is deleted.
Just a thought on better control of your site…or am I anti-free speech too? LOL.
I have been reading you since 2013 and you should not change or give in.
Another note…
Handling “all those spamers” isn’t that difficult as it may seem. But every once in a while a few legitimate comments might get lost, which we try to avoid.
Keeping commenting free helps to encourage more people to participate and the discussions are more lively and spontaneous.
Besides, we have a new member now on board to help moderation. You’ll see his replies under the name “Vineyard Moderation – D.C.”
@ Anonymous
Libtard, I have been posting on Zerohedge for a couple of years now. Yes, you need to have an account there, you don’s go as Anonymous; and yes you get some economic insights and learn a lot, but economic knowledge is not necessary, not a requirement, for making a commernt or rasing an argument. You will find many clueless libtards such as yourself there.
I think this guy, with the cursing is using a double identity of anonymous…they’re trying to get you Geovrge !!!
The one category of citizens that receives the vast majority of insults in the French media are Catholics.
As a matter of fact, over two decades Charlie Hebdo must have published half a dozens cartoons mocking Islam. Meanwhile they published hundreds of cartoons absolutely trashing Christians, essentially Catholics.
Stay Strong, you are a warrior, you are leading a movement of awareness. You must keep sane, dont overreach your limits. Dont waste you energy fighting something you cant manage, focus in the little things you can do and use the power of your voice to construct a real network of “sakers”. I dont agree with you in a LOT of topics, but i find you a really sincere person whos knowledgement and integrity are superb and convince me about the sad state of the world and how it is a disaster for everyone. The people who spread the word,knows the truth and are not afraid will prevail. Like someone said, the truth comes with powers from the gods. Karma is a powerful thing and the events indicate that clearly. We hope this is not going to become a huge hot war, but surely many little ones will appear. Do no despair, do not hesitate, do not grow weak. You must concentrate in maintaining a info backup and look for alternatives. If those friends left you now it was because of they were naive, arrogant, foolish or bad intenioned. Murder has no justification, and hypocrisy neither. Human beings must accept itself, and in the most individualistic society the world has seen, that appears to be missing. Saker be strong, care your family and look from shelter, when you can regain strength come back, but dont make unnecessary sacrifices
You are strong
From your comment:
You can read the quote of that “someone” here on this website. It’s right at the top of the “Blog’s Philosophy” section.
1) Fully support “I am not Charlie”. Those fair weather friends who left in a huff you are better off without. Those polite helpful people might have been moles from the start.
2) Agree that the best – and least stressful – course for The Saker is to consider reverting to a blogspot format. A lot easier than trying to create a corporate structure and raise funds in your spare time.
3) Moscow spent a lot of money helping pro Russian people in the US in the 1960s. The lack of financial support from the people whose cause you champion is curious to say the least.
4) Yes, RT is AZ to the core, the ethnicity of many of the on screen personalities is a giveaway
5) The 2015 cover of The Economist is a revelation. The Nazgul of the dark lord of private central banking are in grey. Their hapless victims are in full colour. Obama, Hillary, Cameron, Renzi, Hollande, Merkel, and the late Winston Churchill are in grey as one would expect. Also in grey are 3rd world AZ puppets Goodluck Jonathan and Aung San Suu Kyi. Now the bad news, Xi, Modi, and Putin are in grey. Sorry, but that is how it is. The Eurasian group might be foes of the old AZ unipolar dollar world, but they support debt money created by private central banks, usury. Putin and Xi are not on the side of the angels, they just want shares of the SDR system and are willing to bring down the dollar system to get them.
6) I do not share the same religious system as GodSend above, yet there is great wisdom in his words. Blogging can’t really make a difference in the real world. As Ambassador Kosh said, “The avalanche has already begun, it is too late for the pebbles to vote” Blogging is a source of self therapy which brings insight and comfort to your readers, nothing more. I am most grateful for your efforts. Thank you very much.
Your words are hard to bear, so far down this dusty road but I think they are the truth, all but the last part about blogging being only self-therapy.
Blogging is that certainly, but not only that. How we think, speak and act has a deep impact on this world, since its inner effect is about quality, not quantity. The avalanche and pebble analogy is false because of its narrow, materialistic premise. Even in this realm there would be nothing here without atomistic pebbles.
Religion has its shadow side due to patriarchy but its common impulse is toward the light in this tunnel of dark. We community of sakers hold the light for generations to come. Viewed from the depths of height, we are the avalanche and patrix empires are the pebbles.
Your name caught my eye. For me, joy proceeds from the application of reason up to the point of no return where it becomes a pebble in a vast vineyard of boundless love. We of the vineyard planet here may look like pebbles but without us there is nothing.
Pebble that I am, I offend by saying “we.” I can only speak for myself but that begs the question: “Who am I?” I apologize if I took your name in vain. Joy speaks for herself.
personally Joy, I think the last part of your comment is hogwash. Why don’t you just hang out and do nothing and be God-like ? Why are you on this blog reading ? Are you nobody and nothing important ?
Saker blogs for people who think its important to learn the truth…people….people….people are important….
Saker,
I was fortunate enough to get turned on to this site about 6 months ago (probably through ZeroHedge) and discovered a man that was true to his convictions, humble enough to admit that he doesn’t have all the answers, and yet delivered a message that has always originated in his heart. I’m honored to be able to come here daily and read solid well-written articles and watch interviews with people that are truly involved in the situations discussed. It would be a great loss not to have this site to come to for a part of my “education”. I’ve been a student ever since the day I was born and I’ll be a student till the day they plant me. I want to thank you for becoming one of my teachers. It’s not required that I believe or agree with everything you say, but I respect what you say and the way you deliver the message. You are a master of your convictions and deserve the utmost respect for that. God bless you and all the helpers that make this possible. I am basically computer illiterate, but I can and will send some monetary aid to try to ease the pressure a bit. You’re a good man and “This Too Shall Pass”. Also really looking forward to your book. Hopefully this bump in the road will not delay its’ release.
Saker, In the years I’ve been reading your blog, I have never found anything I disagreed with, which makes you one smart cookie in my book!
I have noticed repeatedly however that you tend to hysteria from time to time. To contrast: You and Paul Craig Roberts will state the same apprehensions from time to time, apprehensions of real concerns over real events in the real world. Craig, however, will present the apprehensions in clear declarative, yet emphatic, terms. You on the other hand will have a hissy-fit over your apprehensions. (You live in Florida. If the term “hissy-fit” is not yet in your English vocabulary ask some of your native southern neighbors what it means.)
What I have just said is a criticism. Yet it is not a criticism of your substantive ideas, only of your emotional reaction to them. You and Craig and I are still the smartest guys in town (though I live in Malaysia).
Last year when you began to create the Saker Internet Empire I was very concerned. It was obvious to me that by involving others in matters other than translation, etc., you would lose control over what you were creating. It was obvious also that you were exposing yourself to fair-weather “friends”, black ops “friends”, false flag “friends” and all the dangers inherent in delegation and in over-expansion. You proceeded with this empire building and are now reaping the whirlwind.
I remember when the comments section of The Vineyard of the Saker was as alive and as interesting as your articles were. That has not been the case for some time now. The fools, trolls, dim-wits and hard-of-thinking control the comments section of your posts. I no longer bother to read them. How sad for me! How sad for you!
With all humility and with all respect for your intellect, experience and wisdom, I suggest that you let this empire collapse. I suggest study the history of the persistent failure of empires. I suggest you contrast what you have done this past year (the American empire experience) with what you had only a year or two ago (an analogue of the current Russian non-empire retrenchment). Let this thing collapse. Return to being The Vineyard of the Saker. You cannot and should not want to change the thinking of the hard-of-thinking. You cannot and should not expect the evil-hearted to ignore you, to not seek revenge, to not target you with their empire of chaos.
Only one thing is important to your real project: to present your ideas and your analyses of events. Everything else is confetti.
I hope you will contemplate what I write here. I hope you will see my good will and will heed my cry to retrench. No one–NO ONE–who appreciates what you do will think less of you. Instead, they and I will be very relieved. We will tell our grandchildren about our hero, The Saker. We will sing your songs around our campfires.
Saker, let it go! Retrench! Speak to us! Speak to us again! The rest is like the chafe which the wind drives away.
Macon
I should add to this comment that renting a few servers and publishing websites on them which are maintained by volunteers does hardly resemble to what people would consider as:
“proceeding with this empire building”
I have to agree with this Post when suggesting going back to the VineYard of the Saker. This web site is truly awesome, but is it worth all the issues that you now have to fight?
I know it’s disappointing for you, but you really need to consider what’s best for you personally and your family.
Much Love sent you way and God Bless!
Macon said,
“It was obvious also that you were exposing yourself to fair-weather “friends”, black ops “friends”, false flag “friends” and all the dangers inherent in delegation and in over-expansion. ”
I agree in this point, and if this all is so expensive to maintain (economically, technically and legally), I would recommend also return to the one blog format, unless someone really powerful (economically, technically and legally) within range.
Most here, I guess, we are just simple people gripped by debt and family problems. Some even have not a support network on friends and family level in this fight and we have only ourselves.
I have long since learned to count only on myself, specially economically and emotionally, to any other thing is nothing more than an illusion and reckless. I also learned a while I have my limitations, that I can not do everything and that if I exceed my limits only leads to stress, which leads to inefficiency and then to collapse.
Good advice except I suggest ” I have long since learned to count only on myself” which is accepting the aims of the opponents and hence is integrationist and self-defeating. The lateral option is sharing for perceived shared purpose and utility, trust not necessarily being a pre-requisite.
On your points I suggest they are amplified in
Why America Can’t Stop 291214 comment 39
Open Letter to the Saker Community and all our friends
starts 090115 starting –
“Wise strategy never loses sight of purpose, never posits categorical imperatives or follows linear “solutions”. ”
Lateral solutions were proposed in various blogs when the design/launch of the new blog was proposed, the relevant references not immediately to hand.
Dear friend senior strategist, I wondered if you would show up on the new blog. For me it was easier to locate you on the old blog for your style with many spaces.
Look, when I say “I have long since learned to count only on myself” I mean about my life in Western society today. I mean learn that my life does not depend on whether such a friend, or perhaps a couple, comes into or out of my life. I do not know where do you live, (not loose garment) but here, things are like this. This is not to say that when I meet people who with share something my spirit does not explode with joy and satisfaction as I happened to find this blog. But in my real life, foot walk life, just have not found people who share my vision of the world. They, friends and family, are abducted by the lies spared by MSM and trying to make as clear as we share here vision has led to heated discussions in some meetings. At times, like these days after the events in Paris, I feel terribly alone, but is something to which I am accustomed, l accept , I understand, and not suffer too much, do not worry.
Loneliness is not a problem for me, sometimes I enjoy it tremendously.
The old blog was/is better for myriad reasons most of which I will not elaborate upon since that doesn’t have present utility.
I realise that your coping strategy of “depending on youself” is not only prevalent in some “societies” but also central to the ideologies, and hence a useful tool in underpinning the continuance of these “societies”. Marx refers to alienation in various publications.
As to heated discussions, this reflects other aspects of the ideological underpinnings of some “societies”, that “everyone” has an opinion, and has the “right” to express it. On a previous blog an ex Black Panther suggested a practice to undermine these notions.
Instead of discussions why not say that is interesting what do you base your ideas on and how do you test them? You gain the datastream without confrontation, and the correspondent a possible smattering of doubt – a lateral strategic option.
As to MSM try to formulate and test the following questions –
Is the propaganda effort wider and/or more intense than before?
If so why?
The if so why is the start of focused hypothesis formulation and testing, affording opportunities for lateral challenge.
A useful addition to this hypothesis is the caution – what is the aggregate audience and what is the critical mass?
The design of the present blog facilitates investigating these questions for this blog, and since it is a broadcast medium affords extra opportunity to the opponents.
To roughly paraphrase a contributer to this blog – a blog is a way of dissipating frustration.
However the lateral questions are:
1. What are the potential uses of a blog ?
2. How can these potential uses be achieved ?
Perceiving a blog as a way of dissipating frustration potentially limits transcendance, and hence becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy.
Correlation of some contributions may have utility, and the process of evaluation and implementation catalyse transcendance.
Well I would not say much as I am alienated, with whom I can, I organize amyself and fight, as I do in my work environment and my union.
As for the heated discussions, do not think, I do not go so wrong and think, even, by the faces I see after, some influence remains. The problem in my environment is crass ignorance and gross negligence in political affairs, though some considere themselves very knowledgeable by television and some conservative media. However, on occasion I managed to change the meaning of a vote on my mother (she is a tough one), and I wonder as younger members (too young to be interested, at least in modern Western society) are arranged to listen and then understand the arguments, which gives me much hope.
About that of that the blog is a mean of dissipate the frustration, of course, and what is wrong if it is dispelled? I assume you mean someone could settle do and forget to go further.
What are the potential uses of a blog? alternative information dissemination, training others, exchange ideas with people who would otherwise be impossible, exchange ideas with people with different ideas to yours facilitating the understanding and acceptance of different which with can gather forces to achieve a common goal, provide a platform / connection for an organization to another level ….( Sometimes frustrates me that everything only remains here ).
Friend, you can use this secuence for to put spaces in your writing as you like.
Warning: maximun 10 replies to a comment ( this would be 7th from initial )
This is my last comment giving possibility of response.
“The problem in my environment is crass ignorance and gross negligence in political affairs” – why is this necessarily a “problem”, rather than say a frustration of your expectation?
“However, on occasion I managed to change the meaning of a vote on my mother” – what is the purpose of voting ?
“what is wrong if it is dispelled? ” – “I assume you mean someone could settle do and forget to go further.”
Evaluation is always context specific, so if your opponent is subject to dispelling this should be encouraged and used.
“What are the potential uses of a blog? alternative information dissemination, training others, exchange ideas with people who would otherwise be impossible, exchange ideas with people with different ideas to yours facilitating the understanding and acceptance of different which with can gather forces to achieve a common goal, provide a platform / connection for an organization to another level ”
You have cited some uses reflecting present perception and practice. Perhaps if you investigate previous blogs on blog design/implementation your views may be widened.
“( Sometimes frustrates me that everything only remains here ).” Making assuptions is a dangerous practice as illustrated by a previous example.
Friend you said,
Could you give an example of this? I do not know what you mean.
Man, for me, that people do not get involved in politics and stop brainwashing is always a problem. Of course those who suits them is to opponents (at least mine, to yours do not know).
Finally, I wish that you’ll develop more all that of that doubt is always better than certainty. I just do not understand. If you could put examples, clear, better.
You can answer here, I think there is still a chance. If not, using a new own comment to this end, I will find you.
Now, as the sun shines, I’m better of stomach and finally the other day I did not break anything, I’m going out for a while to have coffee with “donut of kings”, and skate. I hope I feel (the donut) good and not kill myself with the skates (God willing).
Gero arte!
“Perhaps if you investigate previous blogs on blog design/implementation your views may be widened”
Could you give an example of this? I do not know what you mean.”
If you read the blogs regarding new blog design/implementation of circa 4 months ago you will see that several correspondents not only forecast the problems which gave rise to the creation of the present open letter, but on the bases of possible uses of blogs put forward some strategic options. Some correspondents made similar points in this comments section including on the 10th of January 2015.
“Man, for me, that people do not get involved in politics and stop brainwashing is always a problem.”
This has had and presently has practical application so I will not comment on it, except repeating above caution on the difference between mass and critical mass.
Waiting for mass is waiting for Godot.
“doubt is always better than certainty.”
Certainty posits omniscience – your objection about not trusting the writing of man – and precludes further investigation ideologically re-enforcing the status quo; doubt is a potential catalyst to further investigation.
I agree that in some ways the old blog was better,for example,
I recognize your style of writing and could immediately close up the comment by giving it the ‘Finger’.
You’re a troll for sure
Making assuptions is a dangerous practice as illustrated by a previous example Queen of 1964
but then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJe1iUuAW4M
I AM THE SAKER!!!
We support you Saker.
dear the saker,
we are very sad about the ill informed people that are attacking you & the community,
we dont have the idiot box, best way to not be caught up in mass hysteria,
read a little bit about current issue in paris, coming from oz it is hard to understand why 4 hostages were killed, recently we had a hostage drama, it was settled with long negotiation & little loss of human life & many rallied afterwards in support of the moderate muslim community,
please know that we actually agree with 99.9% of your analysis & we support you morally 100%,
next thing we will do today is contact our palestinian friend & give him moral support, he told us once that his life changed forever on 9/11,
many blessings to you, your family & those that care,
jg
Hi Saker.I am a daily visitor of your site.
I am from Greece.
48 hours ago when i saw the events in Paris developing and saw the media coverage i made the same thoughts with your posted article I am not Charlie before you post the article.
Try to hold on.You are a logical voice in this crazy world and this world needs you and everyone else who is trying to see things logical.
.I have a server which i host some friends sites .
I am not home now when i will come back i ll try to contact you to see if i can help you with the server stuff.
Hello George.
You can find his contact details on the Contact page of this website.
Thank you.
Saker,you do a tremendous job of informing people.I’m very glad your blog is here for us all.It appears to me that anyone that condemned you or left the blog because of your views was a troll who didn’t belong here to begin with.I do believe there is a “clash of civilizations”,but not between the West and Islam.But instead between right and wrong.
For a thousand years and more,there has been wars or at least hostility between Islam and Christianity (mostly secular rulers on both sides using religion as a cover to grab power) I don’t see this period as different.Except with modern media and communications its more widespread in coverage,and the propaganda is so extreme today.Lets say at the ultimate most, 1 million Muslims buy into this Jihadist belief.That leaves almost a billion and a half that don’t.Those people are the same as most non-Muslims.They want to live in peace,untroubled.To go to work,and raise families,and live their lives without trouble.The same is true of almost all non-Muslims in the World as well.
Some people on both sides gain from causing these wars.And some are just so stupid they don’t understand the trouble they cause and refuse to.Those among the Muslims who are like that,gain power by stoking the fires of hatred.They get wealth and followers and sometimes can gain control over whole regions.But all in all,they are a small number of people.The real gainers from these wars and the fear of terrorism are Western leaders and their stooges.In the US they used 9/11 to break down the peoples freedoms under the cover of “security”.They used the stupid phrase “they hate us because of our freedoms”.Then started to strip us of those freedoms like they thought we couldn’t see the lunacy of that.And they were right,most people didn’t.I remember hearing back then we needed to be more like the Israelis.With tight security imprisoning the people in a web of fear of being attacked.They talked about the “lessons of 9/11.Not seeing that the real lesson of 9/11,was not that we needed to have more security.But that we needed to not interfere in other countries.And so they doubled-down on stupid and bankrupted the US financially and morally under the guise of patriotism.
This year looks to be a horrible year for the world.Nine days into it and the Empire is already going strong to create chaos.I don’t know (and probably may never know) if the Paris attack was a false flag or not.I have no doubt its possible.But whether it is are not, the Empire intends to strongly benefit from it.It seems they want to imprison Europe even more in fear.Turn them even more pro-Israeli (the enemy of Muslims,can’t be bad,is their theory).And use events like Paris to involve Europe even more in the Empires plans for ME conquest.And they haven’t forgotten Russia in all this.Now they are trying to spread Christian-Muslim hatred there as well.Using the 5th column stooges to help them.
Let us never forget that ALL these terrorist Jihadi groups can be traced back to either the West or their ME allies.Some of them have created off-shoots.And some of them have turned on their sponsors.But the reason we have them today at all, is because of the West’s meddling and causing trouble in the ME.Letting the West use these groups,that they created,to sow fear in our society only helps the West to pose as our protectors,and makes a mockery of our intelligence.None of these groups on their own are a true threat to us.Without the funding,training,and arms the West or Western stooge regimes provide them. They are only gangs of criminals.The Syrian,Iraqi,and Iranian military could crush them themselves,if the terrorists didn’t have the support they have from the outside.If western countries wanted to stop the flow of recruits to them they could.If they wanted the funding and arming of the terrorists to stop,they could stop it.They gain by keeping the wars going.And that’s why they are kept going.
Uncle Bob
Well, Saker, I’ve just sent you a small donation from Oz. It’s my 3-4th time. I appreciate your efforts and you work needs to carry on in some form or another. However, I have some observations to make:
(1) Your ‘value-add’ is qualitative — indeed, it is ‘cybernetic’ as it was originally defined/described, for example, by Margaret Mead: “I specifically want to consider the significance of the set of cross-disciplinary ideas which we first called ‘feed-back’ and then called ‘teleological mechanisms’ and then called ‘cybernetics’ — a form of cross-disciplinary thought which made it possible for members of many disciplines to communicate with each other easily in a language which all could understand.” (Heinz von Foerster, http://web.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/foerster.html).
(2) However, your expansion into publishing infrastructure is clearly beyond your economics. It is clearly not sustainable in this format. You end up begging for ‘donations’ which largely seem to go on packaging and defending the subsidiary activities of others who, under your franchised theme, are exercising their own agenda which may or may not align with your own ‘mission’. You are experiencing organizational growth pains — as did Assange in Wikileaks — and this is secondary to the analytical analysis (and synthesis) which is the core value of your work efforts.
(3) And all this while located in the belly of the beast you so despise — not, as you clearly point out, America as its culture and people largely blind and unaware of the impact of their actions — but rather of the cynical and corrupt criminal 1% power-elite who serve nothing of the public good except their own self interest.
(4) This is a complex arrangement. And you are clearly a complex fellow. Bravo! But look, whatever mission you have been ‘given’ (or assumed) is clearly one more aligned with the people of ‘wild honey and locusts’ in the desert than corporate captains of industry you wishfully hope have some small remaining compassion and sense of responsibility to become your ‘big’ patron — a choice, if any were to undertake would have, if outed, major ramifications on club memberships and other intangible benefits of being wealthy and no doubt part of the establishment behind much of what you rightly criticize. They’ll pass you a chipped mug of hemlock any day, but a flute of champagne? — never! (…. unless, you agreed with …..)
(5) I admire your resilience and respect your work but your obstinate naivety irritates me. By admission of your domestic affairs, your are a ‘householder’ with responsibilities and must therefore put that as your priority. You have hinted at ‘PhD’ work and that surely must be second or sacrificed if you are to take on the world etc.
(6) Apart from your fears of being ‘un-plugged’ into silence (not entirely high, imo) the humble and somewhat primitive ‘blogger’ platform is entirely adequate for your core ‘value-add’. All this other expansion into new infrastructure, features and multiple language domains is publication effort worthy of Rupert Murdoch and his ‘evil’ empire. And now it’s adding to your personal stress, depleting your energies and financial resources, and distracting you and others from focusing on the fundamental ego-political shifts now increasing underway.
(7) I say, take a step back and get some new perspective on your situation. Re-group and re-focus on your cybernetic ‘feedback’ mission — in the viable systems model (VSM) (see wikipedia) your main function (as I see it) is one of the 3* audit/feedback — observations on the domain of action to the global corporate executive (system 3) with perhaps a touch of system 4 fore-sighting and intel etc. If your ‘patron’ does not show up, then just stay in that place and provide quality timely audit reports — and note, that auditors do not participate in the operations themselves — they witness and report. [early 15c., from Latin auditus “a hearing,” past participle of audire “hear” (see audience). Official examination of accounts, which originally was an oral procedure. [see – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=audit&searchmode=none ]
(8) Now, lastly, back to the belly of the beast. Here is my ‘cybernetic’ suggestion, seeing as you have raised the issue of needing ‘pro-bono’ legal services. Give to G-d (above/within) what is due (truth, witness), and take from Caesar what is his (below/without). Apply to your blog site the powers given to you and all citizens under copyright laws (which by virtue of the globalized beast, within whose belly we are all suffering), so that the money you need can be channeled legitimately into accounts under your control.
(9) For example, following on, clearly this site is being used by two types of people: (a) naive dreamers such as yourself, myself and other of what we might call amateur pundits — those who are trying to come to some clear witness of events on earth as a possible conduit to other ‘higher/deeper’ governance functions; and (b) those of various agencies – government and private such as Stratfor (http://www.stratfor.com/ ) who are undoubtedly following your blog and using you IP and works to either plagiarism or inform their own commercial or government policy/intel activities.
(10) Then apply “Divide and Conquer” (the sheep from the goats) stratgies: Suggestion — Ask for some smart IP lawyers to suggest how you/they might attach copyright conditions to this Blog such that Creative Commons license “CC: By” applies to non-commercial Type-A user use; while a suitable fee$$$ applies to others including commercial and government employee/contractor use. You may need an “Enter” conditions button as a front end (I’m sure no one of good intent would disagree if they realize it is necessary to trap the revenue stream of B-Types.).
(11) Then, to make your own life easier and simple (and focused as an analytics researcher/publisher) do a deal with said legal entities to authorize them to track IP addressed using your blog and go ‘bounty hunt’ the said commercial/government users for a cut of the action etc. Even a 20:80 proportion (you:them) would leave you, I suggest, with an income stream that may help the blog venture become more economically sustainable and financially self-sufficient.
I look forward to your future non-naive “Conditions of Use” statement — properly done, it, in itself, will be a policy/identity (system 5) statement/manifesto.
Myself, I’d suggest (with some obvious later refinements :-) something like: “Conditions of use and comment include granting copyright ownership to the blog/owner. The blog/owner will permit free and unrestricted access creative commons access to Type-A users and charge the shit out of Type-B users (see fee conditions) and prosecute to fullest legal extent possible under US law and laws of your native country of incorporation and domicile. Bottom-line: If you are not Type-A, and you do not agree to these terms of entry, then e-Off!”
Keep breathing — but my capacity to ‘donate’ is decreasing with your incapacity to make the ’empire’ pay its dues for sucking off your good works for the public good! Work smart as well as hard!
dear Saker,
we have entered a violent time of hysteria .A time where people are revealing their true soul hence all the ones who have screamed at you for your Je ne suis pas CH.They are blinded by their vile emotions(obfuscating the genuine emotions) .
Yes the same people who were sustaining you on the Donbass but could not stand your views as soon as the fire ,set by their own governments ,started to lit their own houses.They live in a double standard hole.Has any of them decried the horrible war waged on Syria by their own leaders for geopolitical purposes?Where exactly were they when their government armed ,trained and provided the logistic and background to the thousand of europeans ,most of muslim descent but not all who went to destroy Syria with unspeakable violence(30000 of them)?Weren’t they hiding behind the narrative of a poor revolution against a “dictatorial “state that wasn’t respecting their cherished “human rights”?
We have entered turbulent times and things are bound to deteriorate.The empire doesn’t want to give up.He is desperate…
My thoughts got to the Muslims of Europe who have been misused by our criminal elites who from the beginning ,by encouraging their immigration to a continent that never accepted the others and then by relegating them into ghettos were they were subjected to a policy of neglect coupled with the introduction to them by force of gulfie’s money ,a sect that was not part of their Islam,wahabism to use them as mercenaries in wars of dominations around the world.
My thoughts goes to all the ones who are misused in Europe,even to the ones who are joining the orchestra directed by their oligarchies lashing their hatred without understanding that they are abused and are running head on into the inferno of violence.Les dindons de la farce as they say in french.
My thoughts goes to the Islam of my childhood,the one that wasn’t tarnished by western meddling.
Dear Saker Thank You from my heart for all your work even the analyses with which I disagree !
Hi Saker, well you have alot of support with words. I hope your money comes through, because, although some people here seem to think money is not important…it is important….changing stones into bread is really something that will continue to plague the earth until the end.
Dear Saker, i liked the comment “this too shall pass” I have these ups and downs in my life too…although not quite like this one. Dear Saker.
Anyway, here’s a little bit of money. I hope Mr (or Ms) Big Stuff comes your way.
And Gevorg … I love your comments too and thanks for being there at the totally right time.
God Bless you over there in Armenia !!! Amazing….
Thank you and God bless you too Ann.
Gevorg. there I got the spelling right…
The Abrahamic religions are all at each others’ throats. There has to be a big war between them so they can knock each other out and make way for the New World Order one world religion. isn’t that the plan?
Dear Saker,
The drive for donations and deep-pocketed patrons (for many reasons) seems to be an increasingly recurring theme. Reliance on volunteers for critical functions, who may have shifting (if not shifty) loyalties and priorities is rarely if ever a good idea – similar to building a house on shifting sand. Try to not bite off more than you can chew, swallow and digest!
A much safer strategy is to secure financial stability and wherewithal for normal operations and well-planned expansion through regular subscriptions to your blog. If you have true and loyal “followers” in the numbers you quoted, even nominal monthly subscriptions should keep the blog afloat, allow for modest expansion of your activities – and even help to support your family.
It’s real easy to slip subconsciously into Empire-building mode. The Devil is extremely CUNNING and DECEPTIVE and will provide you with all sorts of great-sounding rationale to make you fall into his traps. Once you’re trapped (over-committed), you will be pleading and/or screaming for help – sooner or later!
I think your ideas and blog posts deserve and should produce regular and adequate financial support. If you present a quantified plan and attainable targets (on-line) along those lines, you can count on my support (paid-for, nominal subscription).
Good Luck!
Yes Saker Mr Godsend said it, put a thermometer gauge up at the top of your site with a $ goal and let’s go for it
Well, there are points I do not agree with Saker, some I find too emotional, some I firmly reject, but still I’m here getting part of my information, at least on Ukraine crisis. I cannot support “I Am Not Charlie” opinion piece the way it is written – far too rough so it obviously had to be loosened at some major knots – but still, here I am, even commenting, what I rarely do.
Sorry to hear about difficulties that “I Am Not Charlie” caused to you and community, but there is a lesson to be learned: a blog do not need to be faster than breaking news. Take your time, events big or small won’t run away.
So, my agreement or not on whatever presented here has nothing to do with your to right to publish it. (And that is the main complaint to your “I Am Not Charlie” article.) Insults are to be settled in court of law, at least sunni states and individuals have money enough to pay even A. Dershowitz’s services to present and represent their case wherever on this planet. (Maybe trials in courts of law are the best way to find kind of solution between established – for better or worse – freedoms of world grown from Christianity and Moslem ideas/practice on blasphemy?)
Maybe I’ll manage to find time to contribute an article on your ideas and definitions that I doubt or disagree, since I have no other means to contribute to this brave effort. Just maybe: free thinking people in Serbia usually work hard on several parallel jobs to barely make ends meet.
And please, Saker, please keep in mind: this blog and its links are incredible source on Ukraine crisis and, as you have said it yourself commenting on traffic graphs, it got wide appreciation reporting on that particular issue. So please do not undermine your reputation as trustworthy source, since we all fear, just as you do, that there’ll be next round over there this spring. You have deep insight based on your intelligence work in former Yugoslavia, fine nose for information, bravery to speak out your disagreement on so serious issues of your (obviously beloved in finest patriotic sense) homeland and its foreign policies: you did marvelous job, and that’s why I am here this morning, trying to stress it. So I beg you, mon ami, do nothing in rush. Save yourself of need for legal support, new tech people, new comments editors and moderators, more money to cover ever growing costs. It has already gone too far, and I’m not sure that it is the right direction. That is your weak side, you are not hiding it. Well, do not let your enemies who can pull out as much cash as they need, to explore that. Friends are always few, right?
Hoping that you and your exceptional Russian news team will not have to work your socks out on Novorossia this spring.
Mир Божји, Христос се роди! And happy new year.
I see that my earlier comment didn’t come through, so I post this to thank Gevorg and the rest of the team for all the hard work on the new blog, it came out great. I wish I could help you regarding the most pressing technical matters but I’m completely ignorant in these things. Thank you also for holding the fort and giving your support to the Saker project. Greetings from Mexico.
To the Saker, do not despair! In this “you are with us or against us ” unreal world, what happened to you was inevitable. No matter how balanced and reasonable your position is (totally agree with you) fear and hysteria are in the ascendancy and it is on a very big wheel. Most the people I know here in Australia are being sucked into the BIG LIE through one issue or another, and by degrees. I have seen this process in people very close and dear to me. Stay safe and God bless you! the world is about to flip and reverse and not everyone will experience it in full consciousness.
I remember reading a single reference about 8 months ago that the plutoporks were going to use a new ruse to invade Syria. It was that al qaeda was going to attack Wetern interests, and so they had to invade Syria to destroy them.
 
So that drama of head-cutting got them into Syria just to bomb. Now this & perhaps another really big incident to make people accept worse action against Syria (always pretending that it’s against al qaeda & ISIS)
Saker, your analysis and views are often challenging – but always well reasoned and rational.
I’m sorry to hear that some of the key tech people are pulling out, they really need to take the time to understand fully – what you have said.
Our “Masters” are expert at manipulating emotions and empathy of the masses – that is the key function of the MSM. This is Huxley’s Brave New World, where our senses and “needs” are “gratified” – the act of public mourning is the shell of religion in this consumerist world – it makes us participants!!
So your commentary has challenged that reality and shattered (for some) the apparent solidarity of our Globalized existence. I can only hope that some will use the confrontation to see the reality, that you have so clearly described, but it will be a long fight, unless the financial system itself implodes – which is quite possible.
Hang in there we need you and your thoughts.
Charlie Hebdo is a magazine I have been superficially interested in (read it like ten times, five years ago, often was flabbergasted by their highly corrosive humour).
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Yesterday, after Saker’s post — with which I disagreed without thinking one second to stop reading the blog by the way — I searched more information about Charlie and did find articles that showed it as collaborating with the power, being purely offensive and not a bit funny (remember, you CAN make the worse things funny, but it takes a gift, and you can’t expect everybody to laugh, either).
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So, I have been uncomfortable with the Saker’s « I am not Charlie » stance. The reason, briefly put, is that Charlie Hebdo is made of caricaturists who are well-known. Especially Cabu and Wolinsky (76 and 80 year old) who are known and loved for a number of things. They are part of our « familiar surroundings ».
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Take the movie Team America : World Police… A piece of shit thrown at Saddam Hussein’s face — to justify an illegal war, maybe. Disgustingly not funny (the worst offence !). But hey, I still love South Park which is made by the same Trey Parker.
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If the director of the movie was shot by an iraki agent, I would find it ou of sync to say that « he should have taken responsibility after offending the powerful leader of a foreign state, not saying it’s good of course, but he should have seen it coming ».
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Maybe that is because I know his previous work and I have a more nuanced view of who he is. I know Cabu and Wolinski are not only and strictly jerks that have issued horribly offensive comics, if at all. Their main subjects were the french racist extreme-right, catholicism, romance for Cabu, and (just) sex for Wolinski. Charb was harsher, but did know what funny meant. Philippe Val, who has been the magazine director, is another story… From what I understand he transformed the publication into a tool for the state and gave it a definite anti-islam turn (he has since left Charlie Hebdo and been gratified with the direction of France Radios).
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I tried to explain why we feel a loss. Not that we are Charlie because we agree with everything in the magazine, but because we have a history with these people. And it had its share of good times, before it turned ugly.
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This being said, I wish you, Saker, good fortune and, although I am not THE crazy rich mogul needed in these times, I will help financially.
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I am a Syrian catholic.. Guess who is at the front of supporting terrorists who are chopping off heads and raping nuns..
So I should be I am not French.. Even though my cousin is French and lives in Paris.. Should I disown him and his family? He is also a Syrian catholic.. Don’t he realize his friends are the supporters of the terrorists doing such untold harm to his brethren and roots?
Well I am not French, I don’t support what they are trying to become again. Redemption is fleeting.. What happened could have hurt my own family.. Which does not mean I want to hurt the French, it is only I don’t support what they are doing. Lots of bad Muslims, lot of bad Christians, lot of bad atheists and lots of bad people.. I am not any of them.. But I am also not for belittling them for a laugh because I believe other wise. Saying well they can belittle me all they want.. As we can see, that’s not going to cut it..
The word is collateral damage.. And I am collateral damage and I try the hardest to make sure people notice it. If anything, Charlie was part of that. But even knowing that they decided to accept being part of the events.
Alien Tech, I did not know you were Syrian, I was fortunate to know your wonderful country 10 years ago, in times of peace. I have an excellent memory, very friendly and polite lovely people. I found a tolerant society where all religions lived together in peace and harmony, a society that worked, where education was free and compulsory. One thing that surprised me and gave me a measure of the tolerance of that society was to see that perhaps the biggest tourist restaurant in Krak des Chevaliers was run by a kind of transvestite very friendly (so funny asking with his sacrce Spanish if we had enough). When I see the damage in Aleppo, this wonderful ancient city with all its historical richness, my heart hurts.
Well its like saying I am a Jew.. Or a Roman catholic or Greek orthodox.. But we bow to the pope.. But until recently we were separate like the Russian orthodox church. In fact the religious empire has been subjugating the Catholics under its wing. After we were spread far and wide we have been reconquered by Rome again. And like jews we exist in many parts of the world and followed those who led us to freedom.. But alas no more.. still we relate to those we left behind.. more so than to the ones who conquered and subjugated us again. I think by now even the Russian church is subject to the pope considering Russian orthodox bishops have the same power over us that the romans do. The Syrians and others never did have much power. And Syria is not my country.. Though I had Syrian Sunni friends.. We never had problems.. They knew we were Christians and we knew what they were.. We were kids but the adults never seemed to have a problem either and helped us. So what is happening inside Syria now is artificial brought on by the imperial countries. The muslims wanted peace because they wanted the Christians to stay and not run off. Once the conquests ended it was only recently that the chasm has spread so wide to suit an agenda. Even Saddam had Christians in this cabinet.
Interesting. I posted a short comment on this forum a day or so ago and referred to my blog for more details; greencrowasthecrowflies.blogspot.ca.
I checked back later and my post was deleted. I thought it was because at the time I posted my comment, you seemed to have accepted the official version of what happened in Paris…i.e., that some muslim fanatics did the deed. This was contrary to the conclusion I have drawn about the event. Then I checked back again and you seemed to have changed your opinion to believing it was a false flag with the “usual suspects” doing their “usual False Flag terrorism”.
Now, after reading your “open letter” I don’t know where you stand on this issue. As far as I am concerned, the issue of muslims, whether extremist or no, is totally separate from the issue of what happened in Paris. To mix the two is to do exactly what they (the perps of this event, 9/11 and all the other false flags) want us to do. We need to keep the two issues separate and simply look at the evidence, forensic, political and other…to see who was responsible for this event. Interestingly, one of the biggest telltale that it is the “usual suspects” is the reaction of the mainstream media…which is a malleable tool totally at their disposal. If it goes into frenzy 24/7 mode….it is a false flag by the usual suspects…who own the media. I posted on my blog a few months ago my theory about “Killing the Messenger and Drilling the Message” You can check my blog for this post. I theorize that one of the sidebar purposes of these False Flags is to ‘cleanse the media” of any errant truthers who might be working in the mainstream media.
The International Business magazine posted a report about “conspiracy theories” just today that was scrubbed shortly thereafter, according to Aangirfan. This is an example of what they are trying to eliminate before the next “big wedding” (as I believe they code named 9/11). Yes, Saker, it is the Anglo-Zionists who are responsible for this mayhem and we need to keep our eyes on the goal of defusing them….like a soldier carefully defuses a landmine.
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I don’t think it was deleted on purpose.. I have had trouble the last 3 days. All of a sudden my comments stopped showing up and some earlier comments went away. I think its bugs in the system. Since I never had trouble in the other blog and my comments were sort of similar, I don’t think they have changed policy. I seen many comments from anonymous attacked the saker and those showed up. So I think only messages that are only attacks ill be moderated and some of them even show up. A lot of messages with venom in it the last few days. Selective enrage.. Just like selective memory and selective rights.. It is one of the main reasons I stay away from most places. Because some people are special.. I refuse to go alone with that just because I am included in their special group as long as I support their superiority.
It may be that the spam prevention system put it into the spam folder. It can take some time until someone from the moderation team gets to the sorting out of comments and fishes legitimate comments out of the spam folder. In some cases a comment may get lost and land in the trash bin. We do not intend to trash legitimate comments. It’s just the sheer amount of it.
On page 2 of the comments for the “I Am Not Charlie” article.