Several of you have reported to me that this blog has been taken off-line. I had no access to it for about 15 minutes. I have just removed links to the movie I mentioned in my previous post to make sure they are not the cause of this. From my end everything appears to be in order now.
Can you please confirm to me that this blog is visible to you all, especially those who wrote to let me know that there was a problem.
Thank you very much and sorry about this!
The Saker
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UPDATE: everybody is reporting the blog back online, and I see no problems on my end. Still, this scared me and I think that I should probably considering mirroring this blog somewhere else. If anybody has any ideas/suggestions they would be warmly welcomed!
Thanks to all for your concern and reporting, kind regards,
The Saker
still here
It is working once again.
The blog is now viewable.
Hi Saker,
It was down for about 30mins with the message that the blog has been removed and at the same time forwarding to blogspot.ca address in my case. Looks normal now.
Working OK. I wasn’t around when it wasn’t, though.
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It was a message that said “This blog has been removed.” Then, when I clicked on whatever-it-was for more information, it seemed to be for blog owners. Not sure it was 30 minutes for us though; more like maybe (a very long, worrisome) 10 min, max.
Glad to have you back, Saker! Even my husband was worried, and he doesn’t worry easily.
I had that problem also. But it seems to be back up. Though I have yet to see my last comment on the thread below.
Well everything did not come back on the thread below. When I first read it there was this Malcolm X video but now it is a video of Nasrallah. It might seem confusing when someone tries to connect Nasrallah’s speech to the “field negroe” concept.
@Theodore Svedberg: can you try again?! I have the X video in its proper place, and the Nasrallah one too.
The weird thing is that google is not reporting any service disruption on blogger, see for yourself: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en
I wonder if the folks are Fort Meade are taking DDSing blogger by mistake.
Though, seriously, looks like a DNS problem to me. I will see if some major DNS attack just happened and affected Google…
Weird.
Cheers,
The Saker
Whew, I’m glad to see you’re back.
I can confirm with the others that your blog disappeard (“was removed” according to the message displayed by blogspot.com) when I visited at about 8:30 pm EST.
(20,000 tons)
As for keeping a reserve against disaster, I think that’s a good idea.
I don’t know how blogspot works, so I’ve no advice to give about mirroring the actual site.
However, you could set up a web page somewhere else, as far as possible from Blogspot and Google. Only one page is needed to direct us to your emergency new site. Then regularly announce the location of that page. This way, if Blogspot cuts you off again, we would all know where you’ll be.
(20,000 tons)
Syrian Perspective were attacked not too long ago. They used to use blogger, but decided to create their own site after that, and drop blogger. I’m sure they had good reasons, considering blogger is owned by zoogle.
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Just a thought, Saker…….. LOL
The three-part “Chinese Curse.” The three are, in increasing severity:
“May you live in interesting times.”
“May you come to the attention of important people.”
“May you find what you are looking for” sometimes stated as “may you get your wish”.
Blogger is notoriously unreliable and, based on past experience, Google mostly doesn’t seem to give a damn. Most of the blogs I have ever followed started there and later migrated away in frustration over the malfunctions and total lack of support.
It is working
EU/NATO is a prison of nations
USA wants to wipe Russia off the map.From Italy
you come through loud and clear… thank God!
Would you please comment on the idea of “Russia” that is developed in the following post http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/03/23/crimea-putin-triumph-now-confrontation-moves-east-new-russia.html
thanks
Saker, as of now instead of the Malcolm X video it is the Nasrallah one in the thread below.
Saker
good morning!
for what it is worth this same thing has happened to me previously
I notified blogger and the blog returned
I am not sure why this happened, but, just know that it did
I hope you keep all your postings elsewhere?
I have mine in a file on my own pc
I didn’t initially but… trolls, disappearing blogs and copyright warnings have made me much more cautious about keeping the work…
I haven’t done any mirroring…
Blogger/google is not a big fan of newsy type blogs
they like fluff, with pictures of peoples houses, children and other personal details
better for building the slave grid, I guess?
btw-off topic
the NATO backed mercs in Syria have claimed Syrian Army used chems against them?
Don’t know if this one has legs….
hope not
@ The Saker
Your site works fine for me in Sweden.
Found something interesting today that seems to be related to your post March 01 2014:
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/some-kind-of-attack-on-crimea.html
You wrote: “Some kind of attack on Crimea definitely happened yesterday and it was repelled.”.
Read this article and compare it to what led Russia to act as quickly in the Crimea:
http://www.aftershock.su/?q=node/221083
Perhaps this is the truth?
Best regards/
Erik
@Erik: Read this article and compare it to what led Russia to act as quickly in the Crimea: http://www.aftershock.su/?q=node/221083 Perhaps this is the truth?
Erik – this is very very interesting stuff. I think that I will make a post about it since it sounds *exactly* like the kind of situation which could have lead to the Russian decision to send in the “polite armed men in green”. Let me chew on this for a day or so and I will probably make a post about this.
Thank you *very much* for this most interesting link!!
Kind regards,
The Saker
I must have missed the whole outage – was busy studying. All working fine.
You should definitely always store a copy of your posts locally on your machine. The comments are nice as well, but the more relevant ones trickle down into further posts anyway, and mirroring them would probably be a pain.
Honk
I was away when this happened; the page is working fine for me except for the “donate” button. I clicked it today and it takes me to the Paypal login page, NOT the page that traditionally appears to complete a donation (it only asks for my pwd as other data is already registered, i.e., the name of the entity receiving the donation).
Yvonne: sorry for the PP thing, it appears that this also happens to others. Can you email me the donation? PP offers that option? If yes, email it to vineyardsaker@gmail.com.
Thanks!!
The Saker
@Yvonne: thanks a lot!! I just got your donation. You are very kind, thank you so much!!
The Saker
Saker:
Here in Brazil I have no problems with the site.
You talked about NASA, said nothing about my comment that it was a joke about what should be done there in space (and a plebiscite taken the Space Station or stop the gringos there, each of their care).
Right now, I just read that the Mac D’Onalds closed three restaurants in the Crimea.
I would like to make another joke about it but apparently, the space is too intellectual for that.
Sincerely.
Alexandre.
it’s weird. “view comments” buttons are wrongly added to my blog’s sidebar. Hope Google will fix it soon.
Alexandre 04 April, 2014 20:27
“Right now, I just read that the Mac D’Onalds closed three restaurants in the Crimea. I would like to make another joke about it but apparently, the space is too intellectual for that.”
Come on, how could any place be that? McD is the lowest of the low, the lowest common denominator multiplied, in every aspect.
Joke away.
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Anonymous, in the propaganda sewer of the Western MSM, eastern European cities were always called ‘dull and grey’, during the hey-day of hate propaganda in the 1950s to 1980s. If, however, you visited these cities, you discovered that the greyness disappeared entirely when the sun shone, and the ‘colour’ that was supposedly missing was simply the ubiquitous advertising visual pollution that blights our ‘Free’ lives every day. The sheer ubiquity of advertising lies and manipulations cover more and more of the surface areas of every structure. You cannot look away, but to be met by another intrusion. And the aural sphere is colonised by this metastasising menace, peace and quiet being intolerable, when profits are at stake. Give me grey, and gloomy every day, rather than multi-coloured moroncy and madness.