Dear friends,
In a week or so I plan to record my second podcast. So now is the time for you to post your questions right here, in the comments section under this post.
Please do not email or post these questions elsewhere, only here, okay?
If you have emailed me before or if you have posted a question elsewhere, please do repost it again here.
If it ain’t here by Friday 1800UTC I will not answer it.
This time the podcast page (which I will announce here) will include show notes.
Please keep ’em questions coming!
Cheers,
The Saker
PS: none of the “here” above are URLs. They just mean “here, on the comments section under this post”. I will post the podcast URLs when the podcast is ready.
Thank you Saker for your reply.
Here is my statement:
1. Sorry „Homosexuass“ was a mistypo on my side. I meant of course „homosexual“.
2. No doubt gay rights are used as a weapon. Same w/ freedom rights. Same time: the fact that one is using it in this battle against Russia does not make them invalid. It is more pointing to an error on the Russian side which the West is happily exploiting. Same time: Not to go to bars because you get attacked cannot be a solution. Why? Imagine females would get attacked when they go shopping for foods on markets or for cloths. Would you say to them: don’t leave your appartment? What happened to ppl being protected by police when they get attacked? Is that not ones right?
3. My question was more: do you think that the problem w/ gays in the eastern part of Europe is a sign of less development? I know this sounds provocative. However: if you look at the map 30 years ago and now: many more countries, incl. Germany, have removed laws that penalized sex between guys or between females. I still find it likely that in another 30 years Russia might have a very different idea about it too. Homosexuality as a sexual disorder? Wow, have not heard that the last 20 years. I fully disagree. I could make str8 lifestyle and all it harm it did to others also a sexual disorder…^^.
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5. I read your link about „Greeks and gay marriage“. No doubt that there was no idea about „gay marriage“ back then. My point was more: homosexuality always existed. It is a fact of life! Besides: I am not pro gay marriage. I am against the benefits that it has for str8 ppl. From my pov ppl as in single individuals need to be protected by the state. Hence it makes no difference if you are male, a kid, female or whatever you be or do. What really irked me in this article was to equal to an extend pederasty and being homosexual. We had this discussion for 30 years in the west and it finally stopped because it is non-sense. Sexual child abuse – by numbers and in % – is WAY more common in str8 relationships.
6. I think love is not an empty word. I think – if I would be religious – it is a gift by god that people can love each other and that they can form a lasting relationship and that includes love, caring, being close between man and man.
7. Good point. My definition would be: caring, protecting, supporting, making the other one feeling good (incl. but not necessarily physically).
8. I think you are making it too easy w/ this answer. My point is: there is no right or wrong answer to that. There is no valid definition.
9. Yes those are no questions but comments
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12. The need for protection: from physical harm. Like being attacked by some morons.
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14. Check the bible and how many statements are there about being homosexual and what you should not do – and how many are about str8 relationships and what you should not do. Obviously – by numbers – str8 people are much worse^^
cont
part 2
Now reading your previous posts….
1. There is a reason why it makes perfect sense to not allow pedophile sex and that is the reason why your argument is wrong. Kids need protection. The power imbalance between an adult and a child – the ability to abuse the kid – makes it necessary to protect the young one. That is the reason why in the West sexual child abuse is a crime but not sex between adults. Same time: sure there was political pressure by gays to remove the criminal code! So what? The only problem – and now we pay for that – is that those folks deciding to make it legal did not really learn anything because their previous opinion in making it a mental disorder was wrong in the 1st place. Our “gay friendly” politicians could under pressure – change their ideas quickly – aka backlash.
2. Look at gays in the military in the US. They changed their stands just after they needed more cannon fodder. I am fully aware what it means when Obama demands gay rights in other countries. To him it is a tool. We can discuss gay-marriage – which btw. by numbers is a joke!
3. Berlin (3.5 mill ppl) has approximately 200-300000 homosexuals. Many more did have sex with the same sex at least once in their lifetimes. Out of those there are only a bit more then 10000 (!) “registered partnerships between men”.
4. What is needed much more then the right to marry are social, financial and legal rights for ppl that are single. That explicitly includes str8, gay, lesbian ppl.
5. In Berlin 1/3 of all kids are raised by single parents!!
6. I really would recommend that for one day you just assume you “would be unfortunate and ill” aka “gay” – and just with this idea in your mind walk the streets of your city. It might give you an idea that there is a problem! Then imagine it would be Russia, then – hardcore – Saudi Arabia or Iran. Btw: I did the same thing pretending I would be str8 for a day. Things look really different depending what side you are at.
With all the major differences in our views: thanks for your input!
gayguy
ps. not sure if russia is aware how many unnecessary enemies they have created in the western gay “community” – and Obama and the elites must be laughing about it.
Is it not time for Putin to follow the example of Nasrallah and call the Anglo-Zionist bluff?
Have the Atlanticist collaborationists won the argument with common Russians who are now reduced to blurting out nonsense about Stalingrad at the most critical moment.
The Anglo-Zionists have gathered their heavily armoured knights and put them on the thin ice of Iraq. Westerners are furious with their so called leaders and a meaningful threat by Putin will immediately reveal the untenable position the AZ’s have put themselves into.
Can Putin continue to ask Novorussians to sacrifice for their nation while doing everything he can to avoid a similar decision in Great Russia?
It is time for Putin to queen his Novorussian pawn or admit he is as weak and pathetic as the opposition. Even Hamas has recently taken the lesson of how to deal with these lunatics.
You know I am not a basher. My question is sincere. I see the window is open but it is definitely closing fast.
Finally, as someone who understands the necessity of firm resistance in the face of these goons, are you prepared to put Russia in the position of Serbia for the next 5 or 20 years and are you prepared to cover for Putin’s hestitation with reams and reams of bullshit about Stalingrad or pretend Zaitsev’s who kill their enemies at 1000 yards?
Wake up man. All of you!
Is there a book you recommend for helping to understand the last 25 years or so in the USSR and Russia?
Dear The Saker,
In “Y”‘s current Sitrep they mention:
“Transcarpathia was recently honoured with a visit by the the Elena Vasilieva, Russian human rights activist behind the NGO(?) “Cargo 200…”. ‘Cargo 200’ refers lorries full of dead (code 200, code 300 is wounded) Russian soldiers supposedly transferred to Russia to hide the ‘true’ numbers of NAF dead. She told a rapt audience that 4000 Russian troops are missing”
How will Russia deal with people like Elena Vasilieva? She has now gone outside Russia to spread her filth.
Regards,
Veritas
@gayguy:With all the major differences in our views: thanks for your input!
Same to you!! And thanks for hearing me out even though my views would definitely be seen as offensive by many homosexuals. For me the important thing here is not whether you or I are right – we both are human and thus fallible – but that we can discuss our ideas, values and beliefs in an friendly but direct and open matter. I think that the biggest difference between us is that for you your homosexuality is a central part of your identity whereas for me your homosexuality is a very minor part of your identity, at least in my mind. Truly, for me, whether a person is homosexual or not makes no difference if only even the expression “is a homosexual” can me very different things. The reason why I felt the need to write a few articles about that is that I revolted against what I perceived was a) an insidious attack on Russia and b) because I refuse to bow down and obey an order to not discuss a topic or to discuss it in a specific way. I guess that I have a strong oppositional-defiant streak to my personality (which clearly came out in this post: http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-homos-want-to-boycott-russian-vodka.html). But in a perfect world or, should I say, a sane world, my view of homosexuals would be simple: live and let live. It is not my business to judge others and, besides, I have better things to do. Personally, I have had homosexual friends and in my entire life I never had a single hostile interaction with homosexuals. As long as homosexuals grant me the right to politely disagree when they say that “normal and positive variations of human sexuality” I see no reason at all why we would not be best friends (after all, even best friends can disagree on certain issues).
Anyway, I got to run.
Thanks for everything and kindest regards,
The Saker
@gaygay: one more minor for funny thing. You know the kind of men I REALLY hate? The machos. The kind that has his brains totally intoxicated by testosterone and who feels like constantly acting on a desire to be loud, in your face, to mark his territory. I live in Florida and we have literally hundred of thousands of these macho apes down here. You know the kind: sunglasses, swagger, tattoos, ridiculously huge wheels on their trucks, “terrorist hunting permits” on their rear mirror, guns, beer, etc. etc. etc.
The great Floridian author Hiassen calls them “Neanderthals”. Correctly. Except for these guys have de-evloved back into some kind of primordial condition much worse. After all, Neanderthals had skills, including artistic ones. These guys have none.
So there, if I am not a homophobe, I am most definitely a machophobe :-)
Now I really need to run. Cheers,
The Saker
Does anybody in the Kiev govt to your knowledge have any control over the activities of Pravy Sektor and such groups? If so, who, and if not, who does?
Do you know where I can find more information about the 1th and 2nd Chechen war? I am interested in the Russian side of the story because the Zionist side that wants to demonize Russia always tell the propaganda about “Chechen freedom fighters” and “Russian war crimes” (and they ignore the role of CIA and Saudi Arabia).
Please comment on popular monarchy. I’m interested in how it could interact with the ideas of Lev Gumilyov and maybe with descriptive Marxian thought if not prescriptive Marxist thought.
Thanks
1) What do you think about this recent book harassing Putin? It just came across when I was browsing for news. The link is below.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/putin-s-power-path-paved-with-fraud-corruption-dawisha-OAoY5CSXQNmWIPWuE8Pk9Q.html
2) Another question is do you consider Prof. Stephen Cohen’s analysis of Russia accurate.
1) What do you think about this recent book harassing Putin? It just came across when I was browsing for news. The link is below.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/putin-s-power-path-paved-with-fraud-corruption-dawisha-OAoY5CSXQNmWIPWuE8Pk9Q.html
2) Another question is do you consider Prof. Stephen Cohen’s analysis of Russia accurate.
Why did Roskomnadzor censor Sergey Loikos interview (http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/11/07/the-story-of-donetsk-airport-cyborgs-that-was-censored-by-russias-roskomnadzor/) with Radio Echo of Moscow? What are your opinions about his claims that the Commandos at the airport dont shell Donetsk but rather its the infighting between the “people” militias that cause civilian casualties?
Kiev-junta’s new “wonder-weapon”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icyiD4f6fK4
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/2S7
who still believes the MSM propagated fairy tales, that the so called AntiTerroristOperation is an operation against terrorists and that Bandera was a “freedom-fighter” probably also believes that the USA is the true saviour of Democracy …
A country that fights a war against its OWN POPULATION for more than 10 months now and that isn’t afraid of mass-bombing civilian targets, which intentionally fires also at schools – in my eyes has lost ANY credibility, any legitimacy and any right to exists as a big country in its wishful greater borders. This is valid especially also for all the western polititians and presstitudes that continue to “co-operate” with Kiev and even ask for an even bloodier war against Donetsk and Lugansk, let alone an invasion into Russia.
BTW: The pair http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EURUAH=X almost reached 1:20 today for the first time ever, although the EUR itself stands at a 2year-low currently (1EUR only 1.24USD).
At the same time http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=USDUAH=X stands where EURUAH stood only one week ago: 1:15.75.
On the back side, the RUB is also at an all-time low against major currencies and some commodities, lets see if Russia’s central bank’s new floating policy helps to get ground again, today it doesn’t look that bad:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=USDRUB=X
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ukraine-2nd-Day-of-Heavy-F-by-George-Eliason-Atrocities_Congress_Genocide_Holocaust-141107-203.html Here is how the great American war reporter George Eliason, who now lives in that region (i.e. Eastern Ukraine), describes that particular scene:
“When these groups, or some of the Ukrainian National Guard forces, take prisoners, torture and murder has generally followed. … When murdered prisoners are found, their pants as shown in this photo are at their ankles. It has been confirmed that the Ukrainians are sodomizing war prisoners with spray foam. This causes their lower intestine to burst and the abdominal cavity to be filled with hardening foam. The pain is extreme.” Eliason adds that they use other tortures, too: “War prisoners are still being dragged behind vehicles until there is little left to recognize [whom or even what] they were.”
Möge die Menschheit aufwachen und vor Angst schreien!
My questions concern 3 areas 1. The Putin succession 2. Russia’s national political will 3. Russia’s economic capability and how you assess them.
1. Is there any political figure, now, who can succeed Putin, unite Russians and carry on the resistance, in the event of, God forbid! an “accident” or a “random” cancer befalling Putin?
2.They say wars are won in the will. How do you assess Russia’s political will to see the resistance through, both at the political level and at the popular level? If the West goes to a policy of the carrot rather than the stick, will either the leadership or the people want to jump right back in bed with the West?
3. How do you assess Russia’s capability to weather the economic warfare being waged against it? Especially with oil prices under attack.
P.S Do you have any info that the recent hydrogen sulfide gas leak over Moscow may have been as a result of sabotage. Venezuela suffered many similar incidents towards the end of Chavez’s time i.e explosions and leaks at power generation and refining facilities. Some of these were said to be sabotage/economic warfare.
In Petras’s assessment detailed in “Russia’s Vulnerability to EU – US Sanctions” Putin needs to rid Russia of the economic oligarchs he has tolerated to date (as he rid himself of the political oligarchs) arguing that the bulk of what passes for the Russian industrial capitalist class are not entrepreneurs, they are more like rent collectors and cronies – oriented to the West – and of little competence to drive the diversification of the Russian economy.
Do you agree with him?
Mike Dobson
UK
Russia’s Vulnerability to EU – US Sanctions and Military Encroachments
http://www.globalresearch.ca/russias-vulnerability-to-eu-us-sanctions-and-military-encroachments/5412884
if one’s questions were submitted several days ago and have not appeared should they be re-submitted ? or ?? with apologies, writer’s computer skills are very,very poor – perhaps (probably) error mine. Euxharisto.
Dear Saker,
I would like you to explain to me, a westerner, how Russia is democratic. As far as I’ve read demonstrations are banned and the private media is kept on a very tight leash – but then it’s difficult to know what to believe since all accounts tend to be biased one way or another. How is Russia the “leader of the free world”?
Z
Saker, do you think it’s a good idea to read “Gulag Archipelago” without having read some of the works of Lenin and Stalin? (One could also read later).
Stalin I have not read anything yet.
If someone read “Gulag Archipelago” and nothing else, it would not be just listening version of one of the parties? ( Mind you, with this I am not denying anything but I hate that anything or anybody predisposes me against something, I prefer to make my own idea ).
I have not read “Gulag Archipelago” ( unforgivable? ), but I am about to do. I found the first volume available online for free. They say it’s a version of a French translation. Do you think will be a good translation, Saker?
Saker,
This question is coming to you from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This country likes to think of itself as one of the founding fathers of the BeNeLux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg) in 1944 in London. The Benelux was a customs agreement that later joined West-Germany, France and Italy to form the European Coal and Steel Community, a predecessor of the Economic Community which, as you know, later became the current European Union.
I am telling you all this as an introduction to the ideas of Soviet dissident Valdimir Bukovsky, who claimed in an interview “In 1992 I had unprecedented access to Politburo and Central Committee secret documents which have been classified, and still are even now, for 30 years. These documents show very clearly that the whole idea of turning the European common market into a federal state was agreed between the left-wing parties of Europe and Moscow as a joint project which Gorbachev in 1988-89 called our ‘common European home’.” (interview by The Brussels Journal, February 23, 2006)
[quoted from Wikipedia]
I am pretty sure you know all this and you have read said interview with the Brussels Journal in which Bukovsky warns for EU Dictatorship. If not, you can find it here:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
I would be delighted to hear your thoughts on this. Thank you!
Saker, I recall Putin’s brilliant initiative early in 2012 — shortly before the Presidential Election — where he issued an International Arrest Warrant for George Soros. Given Putin’s rock solid popular support and international prestige as a very able and just statesman, what is the present legal status of this initiative?
Thanks for a great blog.
Granted, this question is broad but I would be grateful if you could say something about the Russian youth with regard to taking sides between Eurasianism and Anglo-Zionism, a.k.a. Atlanticism. Is there much indifference? Which camp would you say has the upper hand?
Dear Saker,
Heartfelt thanks for the ‘Submarines in the desert’ posting.
In this post you gave some of your disillusioning experiences in Bosnia. And from your first podcast I have the impression that you do not support the present situation (ie the independence) of the Albanians in Kosovo. Is my impression wrong?
For me, the fight for an independent Novorussia and the fight for an independent Kosovo have the same moral justification.
The two obvious differences are that the Novorussians are militarily backed by Russia and the Kosavars were backed by US/NATO;and the role of ultra nationalist Ukrainians in Novorussia was played by ultra nationalist Serbs in Kosovo/Bosnia. Recall the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, and the mortar shelling of crowded market places, the sniper killing of civilians and the massacre of Muslim boys and men in Bosnia.
Do you consider this to be a simplistic and uninformed point of view? Deeply appreciate your work.