Did he get in trouble with his immigration officer? I remember him saying he was going to have to self censor over the Ukraine war for fear of being deported, but doesn't seem like that lasted long...
Important message about the blog from Andrei 9299 Views January 30, 2023 40 Comments
Dear friends,
While I did not reply to any comments, I have read them very carefully. I have also received a lot of emails and, again, I read all of them very carefully. I also consulted with my family, a few very trusted friends and advisors and I have prayed for God to allow me to discern His will and I have taken the following decisions:
First, I will shut down the blog no later than at the end of February.
Second, for a host of reasons, I cannot transfer the blog to any one person or group of trusted people. This sounds like a great idea until you look at tons of details and it becomes an impossible one.
Third, yes, I would like to keep the entire archive of the blog available somewhere on the Internet.
However,
I do not want to maintain any association with either the archive itself or the people who would be hosting it. Simply put, I don’t want to be involved in maintaining it.
Finally, I will keep paying and owning the domain name thesaker.is but this will be the only financial commitment I am willing to make. However, I am willing to point this domain name to any IP address hosting the archive of the blog should one be made available (that would be my only personal involvement in the maintenance of this archive).
These are my main conclusions and decisions so far.
Now a few points and questions to all of you, my dear Saker community:
First, while I don’t have the energy to seek out a possible archive, I am open to suggestions. Ideally, I would prefer an archive with the following characteristics:
It would be preferable to have it hosted on servers located in Zone B (outside the Empire) It would be preferable if the blog’s archive could be hosted by groups/entity/corporation/etc. with some disposable money (as opposed to a single well-intentioned individual). Simply put: hosting a large archive on a server and maintaining it requires both 1) skilled personnel and 2) money to pay for the costs.
If anybody reading these words has any suggestions or wants to offer to host the archive, please contact me at either vineyardsaker@gmail.com (preferred) or TheSaker@protonmail.ch (backup if needed).
By the way, I will keep these two emails even after I close down the blog, so if you need to contact me, you will have these two emails as options.
Next, the issue of my guest authors:
I will still post some articles until the final shutdown at the end of February, however, I will only post articles by former contributors giving them a last chance to share something with the rest of us (my apologies to new authors!!!) I am thinking about one possible solution for our guest authors, but I won’t mention it until I have all the facts aligned and it seems viable to me. Please give me some time to sort through a few options :-)
Finally,
I will not write any analyses of the current events. However, I will do two things:
I will keep you all informed by posting updates here. I will make a few more personal posts in which I will share with you some things I feel like addressing before shutting down the blog forever (at least until some semblance of sanity has returned to our poor planet, and I am not holding my breath…). I also have a few messages I want to direct to some specific groups and that will be the chance for me to do so. In fact, there are a few things I never addressed on the blog which I want to address before bowing out and leaving the stage.
That’s it for me now.
Well, one more request: please post as many comments as you want, but please only email me if your email is related to the shutdown of the blog (I am swamped with emails and they take a lot of time to read, nevermind reply to).
And, I almost forgot: IF you are interested in this, I would be willing to record one video replying to any questions you might have about geopolitics, the war, music and even personal questions. I would, of course, chose the questions and only reply to those which I find appropriate, but that would be something I could do during the next few weeks if there is an interest in it. So, if you are interested, please do EMAIL me (do not ask in the comments section please) and please make SURE to include “Q&A with Andrei” in the subject line of your email.
One of New Zealand's leading "liberal" bloggers, or one of his supporters, has succeeded in getting Google to take steps against me for transcribing from the radio his contemptuous dismissal of Julian Assange, and his support for the jury that acquitted the murderer of Trayvon Martin.
I don't believe that 'bourgeois democracy' along with 'freedom of speech' can survive the war against Russia and China. The stakes are too high. Dissent has virtually been illiminated from the mainstream media and this appears to be the fate of alternative platforms too, eventually. It's as if the Assange Affair was a test case. If he could be cancelled, than anyone could. Liberals and the soft left failed him and ultimately failed themselves.
not sure what I'd do without the (relative ) sanity of LBN; an oasis of truth in a desert of bollocks and bullshit....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Seconded ..
Posted by Shyaku on January 31, 2023, 6:20 pm, in reply to "On a serious note"
This site is really exceptional: People here have some exceptional insights in what they select to post - and the postings are very timely - ahead of the curve. It is possible to get on top of the nuts-and-bolts of a topic at break-neck speed if necessary.
on January 30, 2023, 11:58 pm
) sanity of LBN; an oasis of truth in a desert of bollocks and bullshit.