Dear friends,
I am rather exhausted (not COVID10-related) and I will take a couple of days off to recuperate and think about a number of issues.
I will let you know all the details in a couple of days.
Finally, for the next couple of days, the moderator’s decisions will be final and I will not be involved.
I ask for your understanding and patience.
Kind regards to all,
The Saker
What we can do to help is donate to such a hard worker running such an indispensable website!
Rest well comrade
Podcasts. Less stressful than writing a coherent article.
Every other week.
Make sure that you transcribe the podcast to characters some of us just don’t want to listen, or watch a youtube(Google-nsa) video on our computer
Saker’s site is fairly safe, but most ‘podcast’ servers have links to 1,000’s of spyware bots. Almost every audio/video server in the universe is linked to facebook ( which pays servers to link to them – this is the revenue ), which tracks more non-customers, than customers.
i agree with just say no on the podcast question, i prefer reading and only listen/watch podcasts if there is no other alternative.
You’re a good man Saker.
If you get bored while accepting a bit of time off, I’m inspired to suggest you consider having a look at/consideration of the Chasity in San Francisco website.
It’s what an Orthodox Roman Catholic CAN still be.
I have the highest respect for you and literally pray for you (His will alone) and I share your work with everyone I know who is even remotely in a spiritual state of health sufficient to benifit.
I am exhausted too, my own insanity drives me crazy.
You must rest and come back stronger.
Get well soon friend and comrade, the world needs you.
Saker, take as much time as you need to recover, relax, spend a lot of time in the Sun with as little amount of clothes on as possible, 💤 a lot take Zinc supplements and drink 3 cups of Tonic water and 1/4th of a lime a day. You deserve the rest.
Local pharmacy (Aust) advice included keeping the fluids up and getting good relaxing sleep.
Stay relaxed and let your body’s natural resilience perform its function.
Add some electrolytes to your water to improve absorption etc.
Your commentary is valued and important but not critical.
The main task is providing a useful information and opinion sharing space.
And that you have achieved.
Dear Saker, be well !
In a strange moment of synchronicity, I read your announcement followed by the comments, and then received an email from a friend with a link to Action and Contemplation, based in New Mexico and founded by Richard Rohr, who is a Catholic Franciscan monk.
It looks interesting, what a wonderful journey life is . . .
6.64 million filed for unemployment this week. 8x the worst ever unemployment rate.
And this is just the beginning of the economy shriveling.
The sins of the past, plus the shock of the present crisis, are pushing the economy into a forced recession.
While COVID-19 is a health crisis, it also has caused an economic crisis that touches everyone.
The government and FED have only one tool to use to mitigate the economic impact—debt.
This could result in hyperinflation.
The pandemic is waging its own form of hybrid war on the Hegemon. Quite ironic.
The US Dollar Titanic is sinking. Question is, where are the lifeboats?
On March 18, there was an SCO finance minister meeting in Moscow. On the agenda: abandonment of the dollar & settlement of trade and issuing of debt in local currency.
https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2020/03/18/shanghai-cooperation-organisation-introduce-mutual-settlement-national-currencies-ditch-us-dollar/
https://www.brecorder.com/2020/03/17/580793/pakistan-china-and-russia-decide-to-conduct-trade-in-local-currencies-skip-dollars/
I have found very little info about this meeting…not sure if this was due to lack of liquidity of the USD or if this was a planned geopolitical move..?
Let us hope they can usher in a new financial system before the old one sinks completely.
Serbian girl
This is huge news!
We are seeing the ever-increasing abandonment of what I predict will be the last single sovereign reserve currency of the world. As a corollary, the petro-dollar is in its death throws too.
The Hegemon’s belligerent habit has been to increasingly weaponize everything it can lay its hands on…it made the fatal and stupid mistake of doing this with its reserve currency status too…in so doing it necessitated any country with even a semblance of sovereignty or independence to abandon it. Talk about kill the goose!
The end result is it will no longer able to sell its debt internationally. It will finally have to learn to live within its means and will no longer be in a position to dominate, terrorize and rape the rest of the world.
The days of extraordinarily farcical hubris and belligerence are drawing to a close. Trump and Fatboy’s legacy to the world will be in the truly remarkable way they sped up this process. The MAGA plan may still happen but it will probably be at least a generation away with a period of unprecedented social and financial devastation in between.
Just think, the rest of the world will no longer be financing the Hegemon’s habit…now there’s a novel idea!
Of course, one of the truly sad parts in of all of this will be that these two moronic clowns will be blissfully unaware of their ‘accomplishment’.
Cheers
Col
PS Rest well Saker!!
Maybe this a little OT, but I understand the anger.
To add a few words: this is simply satanic, genocidal and defies any human understanding.
Are we surprised? The first that comes to mind who is steering this, is that fat mother of Howard Wolowitz in the tv-series of The Big Bang Theory, who is never on screen but is always yelling orders through the house.
I’m not a muslim, but I like the words in the Qu’ran: Everybody plans, but Allah is the best planner of all. I do hope that I formulated it correctly.
Be safe.
Cheers, Rob
Just an additional remark.
Maybe something went awry, but my comment was meant as answer to the angry, but meanted comment of L445 below about the blocking of humanitarian aid to Cuba.
Sorry for the confusion.
But I’m still angry. And hopeful.
Be safe and healthy.
Cheers, Rob
In an abject display of Hegemonic Criminality, the US has blocked a charitable donation of medical supplies from Jack Ma/Alibaba to the people of Cuba.
Since 1959 the US has helped kill Cuban citizens using every form of murder, including many forms of biological weapons like Dengue Fever, Swine Flu, and various poisons used to kill the food supply the Cubans depend on.
Now, no medicine or supplies for Cuba!
The US has declared the Cuban people sub-human, unworthy of charitable help.
This isn’t hypocrisy. This is crimes against humanity. State Dept and Treasury Dept officials should be taken to the Hague, tried in the ICC and hung in public.
This isn’t just disgraceful and a shame on America. It is bestial. Worthy of the worst fascist state.
All because the Cubans refuse to kneel and kiss the jackboot of the Hegemon.
Nothing is below the low of US sanctioning regime. The purpose of sanctions is to kill the innocent citizens of the nations the Hegemon sanctions. We saw this with Iraq, with North Korea, and we’ve seen it for decades with Cuba.
Bloodthirsty. Deviant. Criminal.
Here’s the link to the RT story:
https://www.rt.com/news/484743-cuba-covid19-us-blockade/
A few days ago I found myself starting to plumb run out of words to describe this inhumanity. Glad to see that you still have some words. I sit ‘dumbified’ and in silence watching the grossness of these that are most certainly endowed with non-human genes. Crass, common, vulgar brutality.
A few more words:
Loathsome, brutish, vulgar, depraved, ghoulish, soulless, satanic…
amarynth/Larchmonter
And I look for all the world like a gasping goldfish that has just jumped out of its water tank!
YCHMTSU
Checked out RT already, Hitler would be proud.
Yeah. I am not surprised that zionazis blocked it, but why on earth he rest of the world stay silent about it?
Sad world.
Take care of yourself. Your work and contributions are immensely appreciated.
Stay well.
It is not healthy to be running a site constantly, or to be indoors so much. Enjoy the sunshine, fresh fruit, and rest.
I do look forward to your return, maybe some analysis of current affairs that have been eclipsed by you-know-what.
[for example, w-t-h is going on in Iraq? Troop shuffling, Patriots deployed, and with a Prime Minister nominee a dual (US) citizen.
https://ejmagnier.com/2020/03/18/iraqi-politics-in-a-storm-heading-towards-instability-and-chaos/
The Donald has been trumpeting about impending Iranian attack – the Patriots apparently need a week or so to get operational]
God bless you and keep you, Saker.