Dear friends,
The 3rd Saker Podcast is now available for download and/or streaming from Soundcloud, Mediafire, YouTube and the Internet Archive. Since corporate America prevents me from posting even 30 seconds of copyrighted music, I recommend you download/stream the podcast from the Internet Archive.
I also remind you that the main purpose of these podcasts is to serve as a reminder that my work depends on your donations, so if you can, please help.
Here is the link to the 3rd Saker Podcast download page:
https://sites.google.com/site/sakerpodcast/home/home-saker-podcast-3
Here is the link to the main Saker Podcast page where you can find the previous two podcasts and the transcript of the first one:
https://sites.google.com/site/sakerpodcast/home
Enjoy!
Kind regards,
The Saker
PS: note about the Podcast: In the podcast I say that the Israeli could not take Bint Jbeil for 33 days. I should have used a more accurate term than “take” because the Israelis did enter Bint Jbeil, they just never succeeded in getting the Resistance out of it. So it would be more accurate to say that the Israelis failed to control or pacify Bint Jbeil.
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20141207/1015592170.html
quote “Records from Israel’s Ministry of Health have revealed that so far about 1,000 Syrians have been treated at four hospitals in the north of Israel, among them fighters from the Free Syrian Army, Israeli news site i24news.tv reported.
i24 further noted that last month, Israel’s Druze minority staged a protest against the hospitalization of wounded fighters with links to the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State in Israel “
nato getting to their sense?
http://rt.com/news/212259-nato-russia-policy-ukraine/
Zaporozhiya NOV 28, yet near zero news on it.
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/12/fuel-crisis-forced-shut-down-of-biggest-nuclear-power-plant-in-ukraine/
Also, the Kiev authorities did not report the shutdown until at least five days after it occurred. Such maverick incompetence is typical of this regime. After all, it took a bizarre unprecedented step this of appointing three foreign nationals, including an American citizen, to its ministerial cabinet. But why the apparent secrecy over the nuclear accident? What are they hiding?
Recall too that this is the country that inflicted the world’s worst nuclear accident when the reactor at Chernobyl exploded in April 1986. That disaster resulted in thousands of cancer deaths, radioactive contamination of large parts of Russia and Western Europe, and an estimated $18 billion in damage control.
Off topic, but also very important
http://action.sumofus.org/a/tpp-video-canada/?akid=8392.1009690.2W0HZ_&modal=false&rd=1&t=1
Hi Saker
so… listening to the podcast and you are speaking on how to take back our power
and I thought I heard myself speaking and writing
In fact my husband said “Sounds like you”
Toss the tv- check!
Tell-a-vision serves one purpose and it’s right there in the name
Don’t look to a leader
Don’t organize- because yes it will be infiltrated just make the changes you want to see
Do it yourself
Want to eat better food- grow it
Don’t want your spending tracked- use cash
Read. For god’s sake read a book
I can’t tell you the people I come across who do not read.
Spend less time on facebook and other antisocial media and get out in the real world
Talk to real people- After all you’re human
Drop memes- I do it all the time, everywhere
And get out in nature- reconnect with your real roots- The earth
Biophilia is good for you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilia
It’s real
Shun all NGO’s- Don’t give a dime to them- they feed the system that needs to be taken down
Act locally- think globally
support your local farmers
and so forth and so on
Enjoyed and appreciate the podcast. Many, many thanks from Cape Town.
Pseki gets caught with her microphone at press conference admitting that her statement on Egyptian was ridiculous
@Saker Re: Turkey untrustworthy
Although I do agree, let’s also not forget that Turkey has been played by Europe/the EU for many decades. The US seems to have been as unreliable towards Turkey as well. So Turkey is the poor girl badly and regularly beaten by the (Western) guy it so loved and adored and tried to win. Although totally different, it coincides a bit with Russia’s recent ‘pivot to the East’.
So no wonder Turkey is untrustworthy, when her partners whose favor she’s trying to win, are treating her badly, flipping and flopping. Turkey was America’s bitch, just as Europe still is.
Now that Turkey has entered a more strategic relationship with a new partner who means what she says (Putin’s Russia), it could finally turn into a more reliable country with a stable and predictable (especially) foreign policy. It’s still too early to tell, Turkey and Russia still need to learn to trust each other, but that’s my hope. And it’s obvious that Erdogan has been pretty pissed for quite a few months with US and EU politicking.
As I wrote in another comment after ‘Turk Stream’ – Turk Stream and the new Turkish role in international gas might just be what Erdogan needed to stop supporting terrorists in Syria, if ‘Qatari gas via Syria through Turkey’ is indeed what’s underlying the Syrian conflict, as far as Turkey is concerned.
Honk
Hi Saker and Honk
regarding Turkey?
And drug running and generally distrusting..
One problem I find, when you are speaking of Turkey- what is Turkey and what is NATO?
I mean the number of NATO bases in Turkey tells us that all drug running can run through the NATO bases- think of Afganistan and Kosovo
Turkey’s military is so compromised
So embedded with CIA/NATO how can one separate what is Turkish and what is NATO? It’s difficult
Then as Honk said the EU has been pulling their string for so long…
Then there is the Kurdish issue which is not so cut and dry either
Have the Kurds terrorized the Turks? Yes
And has the other way around occured? Yes
The Kurds are no angels they are deeply embedded with Israel/US/NATO and have been for so very long now
And the msm has certainly turned on Erdogan as of late
embedded in this post (below) is a map of NATO bases in Turkey
http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.ca/2013/05/the-geneva-talks-exercise-in-futility.html
The sheer number of bases is highly suggestive that Turkey is occupied territory- nence the ease of drug running under the NAtO infrastructure
N-V
American PMC in Kiev: Labor Disput
After the death of former “sea lion” Michael Warner from Wichita Falls and Andrew Denton Kostyshin not far from Donetsk airport, the events take a dramatic turn.
As it turned out, the circumstances of the death of these people from “friendly fire” is briefly described as follows: Several groups, a total of more than 30 mercenaries posing as Russian soldiers, were outfitted and equipped accordingly, and given the task to move to Donetsk airport
Two Texans were directed to coordinate interaction with the unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine located there. Time and place of the meeting were agreed, but when Warner and Kostyshin approached, the Ukrainian side without a warning opened fire. As a result, unsuspecting Texans were killed on the spot.
Suspecting infidelity, their colleagues immediately left the Donetsk airport and retreated. Upon arrival in Kiev, they discussed the incident with their colleagues. As I have previously reported, the number of Russian-speaking American mercenaries in Ukraine is many thousand
Two main versions of what happened spread in their midst. A minority believes that the colleagues killed by Ukrainians in exchange for money from the Russian. The majority is inclined to think that they were given Russian uniforms in order to kill all of them and show the public as a dead Russian soldiers.
More likely options, in my view, are not considered. For example, someone shot the “allies” of fright, drunk, or say, from stupidity. For example, imagining that Donetsk is full of the Russian soldiers in full uniform with distinction marks. Or believing that Ukraine is at war with Russia.
Anyway, the American mercenaries believe that an employer has violated the terms of the employment agreement. They are not from the territory of a friendly state, constantly retaining the ability to retreat to the location of the APU units, and now have to treat every armed man as a potential enemy. Such operations must be organized quite differently, and participating in them should be paid much more.
The demands of the labor dispute amount to the demands of payment for the entire period of the contract, and for the immediate evacuation of Ukraine. Excitement gripped much of the contingent of American mercenaries in the country. They mostly resent the fact that not locals but Americans are used as target “meat”. Anyway, that is the way they understand what happened.
Everyone who told me about what was happening, described the event in terms of “rebellion”. Still, for now I prefer to talk about the labor conflict. “The price issue” for employers – hundreds of millions of dollars, but if the question will not be resolved in the near future, employees can take action. For example, to make a revolution in Kiev. They have enough power and skills, and the idea could pop up very quickly. In particular, if the employer fails to offer an acceptable solution. Although the employer will offer, he has no choice.
http://pravosudija.net/
12/08/2014
Podcast: Your analysis of Putin is appreciated–hopefully you will continue this and deepen it in the future as events change and he changes.
Saker, what is the name of that piece of music by Bill Evans?
on topic of latest “incursion” in grozny/chechnya a few days ago, something well predicted (but on a far bigger event) just weeks ago in an article on NEO site where they claimed the neocons would while russia is occupied with uke set up a second brushfire here, this entire caucasus is a geopol nightmare!
Armenia is key to russia here, a christian country in predom muslim lands, & both sides know it and have been sowing intrigue here since forever (small sub-plot in ‘The Great Game’)
excellent map shows the problems, & remember this doesn’t even show the transiting roads, canals, rail, & pipelines):
geocurrents.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LanguageMap_Caucasus-01.png
Long read article, but detailed & very good, even discusses all the contingency plans by both sides ongoing, & specifically during that short 08/08/08 georgia-russia war. also what would go on there in event of neocons attacking iran. sidebar article notes armenia is a founding member of the new Eurasia Union.:
theriseofrussia.blogspot.com.tr/2012/04/can-armenia-exploit-russias-action-plan.html
The key here is of course to use our national assets throughout the world to convince Russians that the only way to pacify the Caucasus region is to partition parts of Georgia and/or Azerbaijan between Russia and Armenia. At the very least, Moscow must be convinced that Armenia needs to be given the opportunity to establish a common border with the Russian Federation through Georgia and/or Azerbaijan. The best time to implement this is when a major war breaks-out in the region. Russian officials must be made to understand that geostrategically speaking a stronger and larger Armenia in the Caucasus means a stronger Russia. A powerful Armenia is the only effective way to solve the Caucasus region’s many pressing problems – including but not limited to Islamic insurgency, pan-Turkism and Western expansionism.
Podcast critique – schizophrenic sovereignty
You say “during the Yeltsin years Russia was a complete colony” and continue with explaining the result of this fact, namely the dependence of the current elite on the US. Yet you don’t seem to think that Russia at this point in time is a colony, at least you don’t elaborate this intriguing phenomenon, at all.
Either you admit that Russia is a colony since the Yeltsin years or you better elaborate the time and place of the process of her liberation – which, of course, you can’t do, because this would crush your and Mr. Khazin’s very sane argument about the dependence of the Russian elite on the US.
Please tell me you read the constitution of the RF!
Very interesting speech – John Pilger at the Logan Symposium, London, 5 Dec 2014
“War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAGyXF80u2g
“The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an “invisible government”. It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
The information age is actually a media age. We have war by media; censorship by media; demonology by media; retribution by media; diversion by media – a surreal assembly line of obedient clichés and false assumptions.”
Full transcript here:
http://johnpilger.com/articles/war-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda
@Anonymous:Saker, what is the name of that piece of music by Bill Evans?
It says on the download page:
“The music if of Bill Evans, B Minor Waltz (For Ellaine) and We Will Meet Again (For Harry) from his heavenly album You Must Believe in Spring.” (links on the podcast page)
Cheers,
The Saker
New U.S. oil and gas well November permits tumble nearly 40 percent
(Reuters) – Plunging oil prices sparked a drop of almost 40 percent in new well permits issued across the United States in November, in a sudden pause in the growth of the U.S. shale oil and gas boom that started around 2007.
Data provided exclusively to Reuters on Tuesday by industry data firm Drilling Info Inc showed 4,520 new well permits were approved last month, down from 7,227 in October.
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-12-05/oil-and-the-global-slowdown#
Israel never really beat Hezbollah either, did it?
Superb overview. Deja vu writ large.
“The Rise of German Imperialism and the Phony Russian Threat” posted at Global Research.
Just listen to this pompous condescending swill from Harper’s newspaper:
https://ask.theglobeandmail.com/what-is-putins-ultimate-goal-in-ukraine-is-the-west-responding-appropriately/
Nice.
Why is everything you say to the Serbians so depressing ?
:-)
Btw, I agree with you on almost everything you speak, except on Marxism. It is useless. Completely. I am not a left-wing, but if I would have to choose, I would always prefer Bakunin to Marx.
Make your next podcast longer.
Cheers.
The Wend.
dear the wend:
marxism was a devilish system of ideas.
The came the hell of the bottom european crisis. Banksterity for everybody.
Now even for germans.
So suddenly academics and politicians start to draw marx out of his tomb.Finally conceding he was flatly right in so many ways.
That s not the worst thing for you
neolibelists.
The worst will come soon. You won´t even get aware of it since Marx failed to predict the falling speed of the final phases of capitalism
Russia’s National Card Payment System, Central Bank’s unit, will launch its platform in a test mode in eight banks from December 15, the organization said in a statement on Monday.
http://itar-tass.com/en/economy/765785
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The Russian Central Bank will become the sole center in Russia for settling MasterCard transactions, MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga said on Thursday.
Under the agreement, the international payment systems will act as operators, the National Payment Card System will perform the processing and clearing functions while the Central Bank will make settlements among participating banks, i.e. will act as a settlement bank for international payment systems.
http://itar-tass.com/en/economy/765216
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The payment system will come on line sooner than expected. Don’t give up on Russia yet, much more is going on and I expect to be surprised.
There is hope for the next Minsk meeting and if Minsk is successful Hollande can deliver the ships and Poroshenko can buy coal from Donbass. The EU has already abolished important sanctions against Russian banks. Finland stubbornly builds a Russian nuclear plant despite the political pressure and I wonder if Bulgaria will ever take orders again.
As for the weak rubel, the dollar dependency, SWIFT and the central bank, these are problems that can’t be solved at once. It will take years and a lot of planning. The financial system is like a sevenheaded dragon and you can only chop off one head at a time.
VIDEO–Netanyahu visits hospital
treating Al-Qaeda/Syrian rebels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9MaCBHtyTY
Regards,
Carmel by the Sea
Anonymous said:
“that is not the worst thing for you
neolibelists.”
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I hope this was not meant for me !?
I am not “neolibelist”. :-)
I support traditional Hindu caste system. It has been working for thousands of years.
And I am NOT talking about Dugin’s insane version of it! (The poor man actually said that there will be 3 castes in “the new Eurasian empire” – intelectuals, wariors and workers !??!). He does not even know that there are four castes in India.
The fact is that capitalism is extremely bad because it means the rule of traders, the third caste in Hindu system. Marxism is the only option that is even worse then capitalism beacuse it brings the fourth caste to power, the workers !
All of us who were born in communist countries have no illusions with Marxist concept.
Kindly,
The Wend.
Mikhail Bakunin,
the founder of anarchism,
“December 1871 Letter to the Bologne Members of the International”
” Marx is a Jew and is surrounded by a crowd of little, more or
less intelligent, scheming, agile, speculating Jews, just as
Jews are everywhere, commercial and banking agents,
writers, politicians, correspondents for newspapers of all
shades; in short, literary brokers, just as they are financial
brokers, with one foot in the bank and the other in the
socialist movement, and their arses sitting upon the German
press. They have grabbed hold of all newspapers, and you
can imagine what a nauseating literature is the outcome of it.
Now this entire Jewish world, which constitutes an
exploiting sect, a people of leeches, a voracious parasite,
closely and intimately connected with one another, regardless
not only of frontiers but of political differences as well – this
Jewish world is today largely at the disposal of Marx or
Rothschild. I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds
appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand,
Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for
the Rothschilds. This may seem strange. What could there be
in common between communism and high finance? Ho ho!
The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization,
and where this exists there must inevitably exist a state
central bank, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish
nation, which speculates upon the labor of the people, will
always find the means for its existence…
In reality, this would be for the proletariat a barrack regime,
under which the workingmen and the working women,
converted into a uniform mass, would rise, fall asleep, work
and live at the beat of the drum. “
The Wend
Israel air strikes wiped out Russian hardware for thwarting US no-fly zone plan over Syria
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from debka.com
High-ranking American military sources revealed Monday, Dec. 8, that Israel’s air strikes near Damascus the day before wiped out newly-arrived Russian hardware including missiles that were dispatched post haste to help Syria and Hizballah frustrate a US plan for a no-fly zone over northern Syria.
The advanced weapons were sent over, as debkafile reported exclusively Sunday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin learned that the Obama administration and the Erdogan government were close to a final draft on a joint effort to activate a no-fly zone that would bar Syrian air force traffic over northern Syria.
The Kremlin has repeatedly warned – of late in strong messages through back channels – that the establishment of a no-fly or buffer zone in any part of Syria would be treated as direct American intervention in the Syria war and result in Russian military intervention for defending the Assad regime.
dear Saker,
Please could you place your very goodly podcast’s on the permanent side bar main page so that they are easily findable during the whole week?
I had quite a job finding this just now. Thank you, and kindest regards,
pb