Dear friends,Blog migration to new servers First I would like to update you on the migration of this blog to dedicated servers in Iceland. The short version is this: it is happening, we have already backed up the data, the server is up, WordPress has been installed, and the very kind IT specialists who are helping me are working on a few more matters. It might take a little longer,
Dear friends,I will spend most of the day tomorrow on the road. God willing, I will be back tomorrow evening. In the meantime, please feel free to discuss anything except the topic of global warming which (by popular demand) I am banning just because it would really burden this blog. I will try to moderate the comments as often as possible from my van.Also, one reader told me that the
Dear friends,It is with all the pride of a proud father looking a a new baby that I am happy to officially announce the creation of the Vineyard Saker in Oceania! The folks who launched this new franchise of our community had been working with the various Saker Language Teams for a while already and I can say with great confidence that their work is nothing short of stellar. Yet, there
Dear friends,I am getting a lot of comments and emails asking me to clarify the situation with the joint Russia-ICRC convoy for Novorussia. The reason I am not posting anything about this is that all the information I see about this is completely contradictory. The situation is so confused as to make even an educated guess impossible. All I can say that that the convoy apparently left form the city
Dear friends,[This is yet again a post which 90% of you can ignore and which is directed at a most annoying 10% who mistake this blog for a kindergarten. No need to point finger – we all know who is who. Anyway, here goes:]Over the past couple of days, when I looked at the comments section I have felt quite dismayed by the level of hostility which some of you
Dear friends,A couple of item to bring to your attention today.Short Absence I will be gone all day tomorrow (my wife and I are celebrating our 20th anniversary!) and then busy for most of Thursday and Friday. I will leave an open thread, as usual, which I will do my best to moderate.Trolls Trolls have been a royal pain in the rear recently. Some post their nonsense 3 or 4
Dear friends,I have to admit with a great deal of embarrassment that I simply have not found the time to thank those of you who have sent donations to support this blog in person. I realize that this is rude, but my choice was stark: every minute spent on sending out personal thank you notes is one I did not spent working on this blog and maintaining contacts with the
Dear friends, I decided to remove the post about the DDoS attack on RT because while the outage appears to be real, the claim from AntiLeaks I mentioned was old. Since the post was written with that claim assumed to be current there was no way to only correct the post. I will keep you posted if I find out more details about what happened yesterday. My apologies for the screw-up. The Saker
First, Alexander Borodai has made an important press conference. I hope to have the subtitled video available soon.Second, the main story is not MH17 but the murderous attack of the Nazis on Lugansk which, contrary to BBC claims, has not been taken. However, scores of civilians have been killed in repeated volleys of MLRS rocket strikes by the Nazi forces.Third, the Nazis in Israel are also using the MH17 as
Dear friends,Over the past 24 hours I have run into something of an “organizational cataclysm” (the reality that a day has 24 hours and not 36) and I am late on everything. Still, God willing, I will post something of a preliminary analysis of the MH17 downing in a couple of hours. Stay tuned and sorry for the delay.The Saker
Dear friends,I just hate PayPal. For many reasons, but one of them is this recurrent problem: the “donate” button I created following the exact instructions given by PP (the one posted on the left side of this page) seems to redirect to a page to join PP and not directly to the page to enter the donation amount. I tried several times to re-create that button, but each time I
Dear friends,I have finally found a few minutes in this totally hectic time to give you a short update about the future of this blog.1) Thanks to the most generous help of a donor (‘A’) and the help of some very skilled IT specialists a dedicated server has been selected in Iceland to host this blog.2) The migration will probably begin in mid-August and it will take some time to
Dear friends,I feel that I have to post the following few basic reminders:1) If I post somebody else’s article, it does not mean that I agree with it. All it means is that I find it an interesting contribution to the analysis and discussion of the topic.2) I never said that a disaster had happened, only that the fall of Slaviansk means that Russia must take action now.3) I also
Okay, I heard you and you were right.Effective immediately, I will tighten the “Nazi-control policies” even further and more of their posts will go to the trash bin in even grater numbers than before.For the record, while I have seen a few Ziotrolls popping up on a regular basis (and, for the record, I also consider Zionism as a clear form of racism and Jewish supremacism which I categorically oppose),
1. From tomorrow afternoon until Sat late morning (all US Eastern time) I will be gone and I will have only sporadic access to the Internet (I will be enjoying some badly needed time off with my wife on the Suwannee River: photographing wildlife, freediving in springs, exploring various wildlife refuges, swamps and conservation areas). Before I leave I will post an “empty post” which I will leave as an
