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Dear friends,
I have the delight to inform you of the officially 'birth' of the latest member of our Saker Community - the Italian Saker Blog which you can now visit by clicking on the following link:
http://www.vineyardsaker.it/
I think that Italian speakers will be delighted by this event. The folks working on this blog are truly very interesting and good people, and I am sure that a top-quality community will now coalesce around this blog.
[Sidebar: I remind everybody that each Saker Blog is 100% independent in its editorial policy and internal organization. This is also why our community grows by what I call "spontaneous self-organization" rather then from a top-down model. Of course, our community has some core values in common such as a categorical opposition to imperialism,
no matter which country engages in it, opposition to the "New World
Order" and its financial, social, cultural and economic oppression, a
quest for the "truth" in facts, of course, but also in a higher sense of justice,
morality and ethics. We reject a unipolar world with a World Hegemon
in charge, and we seek a diverse and multi-polar world ruled by
international law and in each the sovereignty of each member is recognized and accepted. We also all cherish real pluralism and an open and intelligent exchange of different ideas. But we do not share a single ideology. Some of us are religious, others are not. Some of us are rather liberal/progressive, others are more conservative in outlook. But we all want to offer an alternative to the brainwashing, propaganda and zombification of the official media and we want to empower people to make a different in the current "informational war" taking place between the Empire and the rest of the world.]
I would like to add a very important request:
Just like all the other members of our community, the Italian Saker Blog is in dire need of translators, in particular Russian->Italian and English->Italian. If you can help us, even for a few hours per week, please get in touch with the Italian Saker Blog at the following address: editor@vineyardsaker.it.
If you can, please help the Italian Saker Blog!!
Kind regards and thanks to all,
The Saker
Dear friends,
I have the pleasure to inform our community that the Serbian Saker Blog is now officially online at the following address:
http://www.thesakersrpski.rs/
This blog also contains a large archives of my previous articles all translated into Serbian.
I am especially honored and delighted to welcome the entire Serbian Saker Blog Team to the Saker community because of the obvious (and frightening) similarities between the events of the US/NATO war against Serbia in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo with what is taking place today in the Ukraine. In fact, there were Serbian "Krajinas" in Croatia (and Bosnia) and the Serbian language toponym krajina (meaning "frontier" from krai "region/border") has exactly the same root and usage as the Russian ukraina (u meaning "by the" or "near the" and kraina meaning border/edge/region). Finally, US officials have now admitted that the real purpose of the AngloZionist war on Serbia was to send a message to Russia "disobey us and we will do the same to you", which is what they are doing now, of course. The war against Serbia was just a rehearsal for the current war against Russia.
Russians, Ukrainians and all those who truly care for the truth and who reject the Empire's lies-filled narrative about the wars against Serbia and Russia have a lot to learn form the Serbian experience and I hope that thanks to the Serbian Saker Blog a lot of Serbs will join the Saker community and the rest of the anti-imperialist movement.
I consider restoring the historical truth about the AngloZionist wars against the Serbian people as a personal life mission of mine and an integral part of this blog's purpose.
The Saker
Dear friends,
It is with a huge pleasure that I can announce some very good and long waited news: the new Saker blog is now up and running and you can use either of the two following links to access it:
and
My wonderful IT team (A, F and MB - thanks guys!!) put a lot of work into importing seven years worth of posts and comments and to add a host of improvements. For example, from now on you will be able to sign on using a host of different social media networks. Anonymous comments will still allowed.
Please pay careful attention to the "ABOUT" menu and its submenus including, most importantly, the new moderation policy. FYI - I will be doing all the moderation myself, but these rules will be very strictly enforced. I consider these rules to be both very minimalistic, vitally important and very permissible. I have put up with a amazing amount of arrogant and nasty trolling here because of my naivete and because originally this blog had a full "anything goes/zero censorship" policy. Now I know better and I have learned it the hard way.
Please look around the site and please take a look at the different pages and let me know what you think, preferable by posting your likes/dislikes as comments on the new blog (please no private emails or comments here, okay?).
I will continue double-posting here and on the new blog for at least one more month until all the kinks problems and other bugs and issues are resolved. However,
Next Monday, October 13 I will close all comments on this blog (I mean the original vineyardsaker.blogspot.com) and you will only be able to post comments on the new blog.
After the new blog's minor issues will be solved (in a month or so) I will "freeze" this blog (again, I mean the original vineyardsaker.blogspot.com) and thus stop double-posting. This means that I will not delete it and I will keep it as a repository of old articles and, if needed, as a well known fallback option should an attack (of any nature) be successful on the new blog.
So if suddenly all the Saker blogs including http://www.thesaker.net/ and http://vineyardsaker.net/ all go off-line and you can always try to come back here to get an update about the situation.
Also, in preparation for the worst be hoping for the best, the following mirrors do currently exist. I will maintain the ones I own, but the three others do not depend on me and while I hope that they will remain up and running I cannot guarantee that:
run by me:
http://thesaker.ucoz.com/blog
https://thesaker.wordpress.com/
run by friends:
https://wikispooks.com/VS/
http://info.scoop.co.nz/Saker_Analytics
https://vineyardsaker.wordpress.com/
Finally, please write down the following email addresses you can reach me at:
vineyardsaker@gmail.com (primary)
vineyardsaker@mail.ru (main backup)
thesaker@unseen.is (only for secure communications)
You might wonder why I am so paranoid. Well, first, I am paranoid by nature, nurture, training, education, professional inclination and experience. But most importantly, I know that we are really making a difference. Not only does this blog - according to Google - get anywhere between 20'000+ visitors per day (on a very quiet day) to an incredible 70'000 visitors in one day on August 31st (when events accelerated in the Ukraine), but the other four Saker Blogs - Russian, French, German and Oceania - are also doing very well, as are their associated YouTube channels. Even better, I can already make the following pre-announcement:
We are working on two more Saker Blogs: Spanish and Serbian! There also appears to be interest in creating a Dutch Saker Blog.
Add to this a very good collaboration with the great Russia Insider community of contributors and you will see that my paranoia is well-founded. The recent Saker-bashing campaign - they are still at it - has convinced me that there are interests out there which are extremely annoyed by what the Saker community is doing. Their attempts at smearing and discrediting me ended up backfiring at them (they lost a lot of credibility in the process) but I don't think that they will stop at that. I expect both legal and technical challenges next, hence the time it took to prepare and secure the new blog in legal and technical terms. Without going into any details, let's just say that we have put a great deal of redundancy and survivability into the new blog.
Finally, I apologize for the little time I have had to write for this blog. I can promise you that all that time was spent in developing and strengthening our Saker community and that, God willing, things should return to some degree of normalcy soon.
Okay - your turn now: what do you think about all that?
Please let us all know what does not work and is still buggy (the CAPTCHAs for anonymous posting are not working for me, I think that I will completely remove the CAPTCHAs) and then please be patient while we fix it.
Again - please post your replies on the NEW blog's (http://www.thesaker.net/ ) Open Thread created for that purpose! But if you *cannot* post there due to a technical reasons like some bug or mis-configured option, then please do post here.
Kind regards and many thanks to all,
The Saker
