A few Site Notices & Fund Raiser
Dear friends,
First, it is a huge pleasure to be making these comments.
I love all the commentators. And AHH who is my best hand-in-hand collegue and we live on different continents. I know when his kids have hair nits and he knows when I break out in a heat allergy. Its like China and Russia, the relationship.
Some Changes: This is a change that we can expect. We will be posting a few more international relations issues from the US. Usually we ignored them, but with the advent of Trump, it is too comical to ignore. And of course, the empire is flailing and falling but we have a war or two to go until that great day. I do hope that they fall on their feet and become a normal country. In the mean time, Trump will preside over a good part of the fall of the empire. See the two short pieces that I posted today. Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico takes Trump to School, and Trump’s rage at the abandonment of the dollar. Hop on the Bus Gus, Make a new plan Stan – there are 50 ways to leave your lover.
Another change: Over the next while, Daily Chronicles will become much shorter. I will try and focus more on posts instead of being full of energy in the mornings and filling up those Chronicles. It will be easier for others as well to link to chronicles in post or article form on our site.
We will see BRICS and SCO and the other new world organizations grow. The frustration will be quite terrible, yet, if I look back today, there is BRICS growth. See the piece posted today on BRICS Partner States.
The reason for these extra site comments is that I am going to run a fundraiser for December and for January. We need to do some work on the site to keep up with its growth. A few pieces of software is needed and a tech that will need to get paid for small development jobs.
We’ve become more clever and have the easiest way now to donate on our donation page. Take a look at the new widget and I hope it is as easy as pie. On my side, it is a dream and they do all the work. I do so love good software design. https://sovereignista.com/donate/
Thank you very much and blessings to the first very kind person that used the new widget today, with a wonderful donation. What a complete and unexpected surprise to see this all in action. It was Hey! Did I do that?
If you can donate to us over these two months, I will not be a nag. The donation link is on my emails as well and the word will go out, as I will nag weekly on the Telegram Channel.
I want to get in a financially secure enough position to do what was part of my duties at the old Saker site. We had a tithing principle, and as the donations came in, I was lucky enough to be able to decide who I could tithe to from our side, at the time of closing the month-end books. So each month this was an excitement to choose someone in our milieu to donate to according to a tithing principle. I felt 10 feet tall and again understood that it is wonderful to receive but double wonderful to give. I hope we will very soon be in that secure space.
Once this new method settles, there are methods on Telegram to raise funding. That is next on my list. Our telegram is very boring and I should make that a little more interesting. If you have not done so, go and click the join button as Telegram works on number of members to do anything.
Please use this thread for comments, gripes, complaints and suggestions. This will be very welcome. We never mentioned globalsouth.co’s birthday. For interest, I wrote the very first post, a Daily Chronicles on August 19, 2022 and it is here: https://sovereignista.com/2022/08/10/hello-world/
The next serious one was called: What is multi-polarity? An epochal transition. Take a look back: https://sovereignista.com/2022/08/17/what-is-multi-polarity-an-epochal-transition/
I told only five people that I’m going to do this and have done no promotion since then. In fact, in our setup here, search engines are discouraged. During all this time, only two people were kicked out, we had about five site attacks and we still fight one off every now and again. A very good decision that I made right up front was to spend a slight bit more in monthly payments for the hosting of the site and this means I have a sliding scale for Denial of Service attacks. More I don’t want to say, but we pay extra only when I have to slide the scale up. Yes yes, it has happened. This principle literally saved us a big bunch of money. The second good decision that I made was to select a site host out of Hong Kong. This is outside of the China Fire Wall and their laws are not so that the raiders can come in and force us off-line easily. But, there are ways, so we are careful. The host is still to today enormously helpful. They were fairly new at the time, and if I have to send in a service ticket, the boss’s son, who was the only tech at the time, still takes care of any serverside tech problems that we may have. Just very recently we had to kick upwards some physical RAM and in the next few months we will have to add on some disk as half our disk space is utilized.
As we grow, the cost grows as well. For similar sized sites were are however still on a shoestring budget.
So, I hope you can donate to us over these two months. On my side you will not believe it, but sometimes I cry. When our previous paypal supporter quickly set up for us through her office because every single account or ability that I had to do anything was stolen when I was in hospital, brought in the first donations, I was crying and sobbing saying .. Oh these wonderful people! She is a fundraiser and just laughed at me, and then saw my awe, and just hugged me.
Be sure I send a prayer of thanks to you, big blessings of honor into the skies, and namaste bows to the earth.
Blessings
Amarynth
Just tried to donate by card, ran into problems, hope the Buy Me A Coffee option is as simple as it used to be.
Cheers
It should be just as easy. I must just buy a new phone and re-invent myself. A few days for the phone to arrive, then a few days for Buy Me A Coffee to turn around paperwork and then I’ll turn it on again.