Last Thursday I was just minding my own business and posting my normal subversive material on The Burning Platform. I was again at war with Google, as they forced one of my new advertising partners to terminate me. I left the office at 4:30 to pick up my mother and take her out to Bertuccis for her birthday. After a few hours of hearing about neighbors, friends and relatives that have died, are dying, or want to die, I was mentally exhausted. I didn’t even try to logon to the site that evening. When I tried to logon Friday morning, I immediately got a timeout message.
I logged onto my DreamHost account where I can view the analytics of what is happening on the site. At exactly 4:20 pm on Thursday afternoon the load time for the site spiked from 1 second to 30 seconds and had stayed at that level permanently. I then entered Live Chat IT Help Desk Hell.
It was not immediately apparent to me the site was under attack because I’m a clueless dolt when it comes to the IT aspects of running a website. I had gone six whole months with no website issues, which was a record for TBP. I wasted the next three days on-line with multiple low level drones from DreamHost giving me horrible advice and offering no help in solving my problem. They at least confirmed that I was under attack. Now I was really pissed. My whole weekend was ruined and I was in a foul mood. You should have seen my reaction when some dude honked at me to move my car so he could get out of a Wawa parking lot when I was at a red light with cars in front and behind me. I was ready to go “Walter” on his ass.
I had previously contracted with Stop the Hacker to fix some weaknesses in the site and asked if they could help. They recommended CloudFlare to fend off denial of service attacks. I signed up for their service and followed all their recommendations to stop the attack. It continued unabated. Now I was really frustrated. I had dropped $200 and had nothing to show for it. The IT guys at CloudFlare were much more helpful than the guys at DreamHost. They told me what DreamHost needed to do to make the CloudFlare protection work. My site’s IP address could not be made public. DreamHost refused to do what we asked.
I was ready to try anything. But my methods were highly unlikely to fix the problem.
By Sunday night I was ready to pull the plug on the site and give up. I had been receiving emails from many of the regulars and people I had never had contact with before offering their good wishes and help. When I was at my low point on Sunday I received an email from a fellow liberty minded, truth telling, oligarch hating blogger. He offered to put me in touch with his webmaster and a beautiful friendship was born.
I felt like the townsfolk in one of Clint Eastwood’s Spaghetti westerns who are being beaten, abused and mistreated by the bad guys. And then The Man With No Name arrives in town and takes on the evil doers with his six shooter.
I finally had someone who knew what they were talking about. His advice to DreamHost was spot on, but they were too stupid to understand what he was talking about. Sometime on Monday I realized my only hope was to convince The Man With No Name to take me on as a client. I asked him to save me from the banditos attacking my tiny site. As a retired gunfighter he was reluctant to enter this battle, but he slept on it and decided to do the right thing and help someone he had never met. He did it because he believes in the things I write about. On Tuesday he went to battle against an enemy that was pounding the site with 48.4 million hits over a 24 hour period.
I gave him access to my CloudFlare account and he immediately went to work assessing the situation with the top notch CloudFlare specialists. I can’t say enough about their professionalism and willingness to try new stuff to fight off the attack. I was copied on the email stream, but was completely clueless reading the various query and code banter that was taking place. The Man With No Name did tell me that this was an extremely sophisticated attack undertaken by really smart people. I guess that rules out the NSA and every other government agency.
The CloudFlare guys had to write a special program to fend off the attack. By Wednesday evening the Man With No Name had vanquished the bad guys. In his spare time he had already set up a server, transferred my databases from DreamHost, and upgraded my WordPress, while getting in some tennis, tending his garden, and drinking some beer.
The emails with offers to help continued to pour in. I’ve received a number of generous donations from TBP fans. The support has been very uplifting. Both David Stockman and Jim Kunstler offered help to get the site back up. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Mike Krieger. I’d also like to thank Thinker and RE for keeping people up to date on my plight. A few websites even ran my Under Attack page. Special thanks to Howe Street, Before It’s News, and Steve Quayle. By the end of the day on Wednesday I was optimistic we could be live today. When Clint said it was ready for prime time, I was psyched. I told him to pull the trigger and let’s resume this gunfight with the evil establishment.
So what did I learn from this experience?
First of all, this was a crime. What was done to my site over the last week was against the law. Do you think the authorities give a shit about me and my website? Do you think the police would undertake an investigation into this crime? Not a chance. They are too busy prosecuting farmers for selling fresh milk, ranchers for letting their cattle graze on grass, and tazering little old ladies on the side of the road. The government was either behind the cyber-attack or cheering it on from the sidelines. The rule of law no longer exists in this country. If you are not part of the establishment, you are the enemy.
I learned that TBP is having an impact. This was not an attack carried out by some pimply teenager in the Ukraine. It was an all-out assault on the truth. It was a blatant attempt at censorship. The attacker was attempting to put my website out of commission for good. They do not like what I have to say. They are worried that too many people will start paying attention to what is really happening in this country.
They know I’m a one man operation with limited financial resources and no technical resources to fight such a major attack. They came close to making me throw in the towel. But what they didn’t realize is that words matter. I’ve written hundreds of articles over the last five years. And people with certain skills I do not have, agree with my point of view. They felt compelled to help me fight this battle. This episode proves to me that the little people can stand up to the oligarchs and win.
The TBP community has lost lots of battles against Google, the MSM, and the government, but we will win the war. This country is headed down the wrong path. The accumulation of debt, suicidal monetary policies, and unsustainable fiscal policies, combined with a totally corrupt political system, and a financial system designed by evil men to benefit evil men, will lead to the destruction of our society. I see it as my duty to my children and the other rational thinking people in this country to tear down the existing establishment at every opportunity. The existing social order must be swept away before progress has a chance.
The oligarchs will not go down without a fight. This past week was the opening volley in this battle for liberty. I fear it will get much worse than a cyber-attack on my website. The mass surveillance of all Americans, military training exercises in American cities, and the trashing of the 4th Amendment are all warning signals not being heeded by the general population.
The coming years will require fortitude, courage to stand up to the establishment, sacrifice, and a will to create a better tomorrow for our children and grandchildren. I will keep fighting until some government thugs kick in my front door and haul me off to some FEMA camp. In the meantime, I’m proud to be associated with all the TBP contributors, commenters, and readers. We have a choice between tyranny and liberty. I choose liberty.
Well, if the man with no name hasn’t already – I think his avatar should be “Clint” with a special super-cool avatar/logo thingy.
Welcome back and well done. I am sure you are sick to death of tech stuff, but since you never know when the next attack will occur, I should like to make a recommendation. http://meowbit.com/what-is-dot-bit/ — you can set up a mirror on the .bit domain for less than a dollar. .bit is not controlled by any country in particular and the project is run by an independent liberty guy. you would then have to post simple instructions for people to access the site before another attack occurs. if you want to get your story out as well i suggest freetalklive.com. they will take your call and have a large liberty base that is also tech-inclined.
Admin
As one of the minority around the country who tell the truth about our charade of a economy and all the corruption, I’m very glad you’ve got your site back up so we can all continue “the good fight” as others have mentioned – plus keep encouraging others to visit,comment, and bring ever more people to this site so they too can understand the truth – and make every effort to replace the corrupt establishment to rescue themselves and their future.
Way to go JQ! Pretending to be busy at work was not nearly as fulfilling for the last couple days. Good to have you back brother.
Absolutely nothing like a bunch of Rednceks drinking beer, eatin BBQ, and participating in mud festivities. It takes very little production to start a party here in the Ozarks. You know you had a kick ass time when wake in the yard.
http://youtu.be/Rb9m2IU46Tc
Hope this works. Best rebel song. Ever.
Tiocfaidh Ár Lá – Our Day Will Come
HZK said:
“But, again, what a wonderful way for the fed.gov to come right behind such a show of support and take some names, hmmm, how many of your supporters now are in a file at NSA called “Domestic Terrorists”, as Dirty Harry so aptly put it????”
Fuck ’em! They can gather all the names they want. At this point the only people they do not consider to be terrorists are the scum sucking lap hounds known as Congress and the Supreme Court.
They are genuinely fearful of the free flow of information and that is a good thing. I’ve said for years that “they” pulled the trigger on this collapse a bit too soon and that single mistake will bite them in the ass one day.
You can bet Admin will get the thumbs buttons working ASAP.
Without the ability to game the thumb votes, he knows he will never again be able to claim victory in a flamefest against me – he always loses, of course, but attempts to claim victory based on the votes, which we all know he rigs.
Someone is spending some moola sending out those denial of service attacks, or they have bots at work. Sounds like someone or thing with deep pockets.
I shall get thumbs working. We have a few options. I’ll put it to a shit throwing monkey vote tomorrow. I’m sure we’ll reach a 100% consensus, like always. 🙂
I checked the site every night hoping it would again work… So happy you are back.
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Forgot to plug in my gravatar..that was me above.
Quite frankly, I think TBP deserves a hearty kick in the ass for the stupidity of endorsing and promoting racist commentary and sentiment.
A genuine libertarian perspective does not accommodate ANY ‘ism’ – doing so plays into the hands of the state and TPTB. Why would a so-called libertarian site promote an ideology which helps the state divide and conquer?
Karalan the fucking moron shows up. How nice.
TBP promotes no such thing, asshole. However, it does not dodge the issue of rampant crime, total disintegration of the family structure, enormous cost of social welfare systems, illiteracy, drug addiction, etc. among the black population of the US.
The black society in the US is a fucking disgrace. And it is not all the fault of whitey.
But lets all bury our head in the sand and pretend all those problems do not exist.
What a maroon Karalan is.
Karalan is exhibit number one why we need a middle finger button in addition to thumbs up and down.
Lots of old names popping up. You have many supporters, Admin. When you find the entity responsible… If you do…. You have your own army.
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Lipoh, you are surely correct about the destruction among black families, and all the social ills that come with that.
But is the color of their skin the real culprit? Have you noticed the same thing is happening among whites? Those millions of non-working EBT-loving Americans ain’t all black, not by a long shot.
For some insight, check out this link.
(This is a black dude who is just as opposed to the destruction of families as you or anyone else – most of what he says is spot on; most honest people will find themselves nodding in agreement).
And really folks, do stories and comments raging against ‘niggers’ help or hinder the libertarian cause? Do they generate real solutions, or lead to greater division and conflict?
Lipoh, a classic tactic of divide and rule politics is to give people a binary choice (you’re either with us or against us, it’s whitey’s fault or the fault of blacks, if you don’t support homeland security then you’re a terrorist, etc.).
The predictable result is that people are led into a false explanation which in fact serves no one but the state in its never-ending war on the people.
The link in my post immediately above offers a third perspective – the perspective of a black man who shares a lot of values with many of the people on this site.
Karalan – there are many issues, and there are many low life whites. It is the percentages that are different. That 75 percent of black children are born out of wedlock is truly shocking. That ten percent of the population sucks up 40 percent of all welfare money is disgusting. That blacks commit murder at what, ten times more frequency than whites is abhorrent. That almost no white on black crime is committed, but black on white crime is in plague proportion is an abomination.
Why do folks rage agains “niggers” (not a term I use)? It is because black society is a disgrace. And people are sick of it. And to even discuss the disgrace gets a person labelled a racist.
A few folks here use the term nigger, but not many. And of those, I suspect that they take each black individual as they come, and treat them fairly and with respect. But fact is, the criminal, drug-addled, anti-social, anti-white, anti-education sub-set of all all blacks is so huge and destructive that it creates a great deal of animosity within a group of hard-working, honest folks that hang out on TBP.
Is it what is being said here that is the problem, or s it the lefty media that screams racism at every turn while ignoring the truth of the message.
If this shit does not get straightened out, there will eventually be blood on the streets, when honest folk can take no more.
Cool! We have voting rights again. Well done. Still need a get fucked button, but thanks, Admin!
Llpoh, a get fucked button ???
This is TBP, a blow me button would be appropriate.
karalan, thank da’ lawd for affirmative action…it’s is the only way peoples of color can achieve da’ gratnuss dey’ deserves..
http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-wrong-stuff-ed-dwight-story-john-f.html
The Wrong Stuff — The Ed Dwight Story: John F. Kennedy’s Crusade to Find and Promote a “Negro Astronaut”…
The Kennedy Administration found their magic flying negro: the only problem was Dwight couldn’t pass the requirements to be an astronaut. From Phelps book, we learn Colonel Chuck Yeager was the one man who dared judge Ed Dwight by the content of his character instead of giving him an immediate, Kennedy Administration approved pass because of the advantageous color of his skin:
Meanwhile, Colonel Yeager’s dim view of Dwight’s abilities grew. Yeager later maintained that Dwight’s abilities were so lacking “we set up a special tutoring program to get him through the academics, as I recall, he lacked the engineering [background] that the other students had.”
Yeager further observes that Dwight worked hard, as did his tutors, but adds that “Dwight just couldn’t hack it… didn’t keep up in flying.” Yeager claims to have worked with Dwight on his flying, but he noted that “our students were flying at levels really beyond his experience. The only prejudice against Dwight,” Yeager recalls, wagging a literary finger,” was the conviction that he was not qualified to be in the school” in the first place. (p. 20)
For his trouble in not placing Dwight high enough in the training program, Yeager was called before multiple Civil Rights inquiries, who hounded him with a tenacity not seen until Eric “My People” Holder’s Department of Justice got a hold of George Zimmerman.
This isn’t a joke.
This happened.
Yes, NASA at its earliest stages had already been infiltrated by the Black-Run America (BRA) virus. Had Kennedy not been assassinated, who knows how many more blacks would have been pushed into NASA? [Where We Were: A portrait of America on November 22, 1963 during the last innocent hours before John F. Kennedy was murdered, People Magazine, 9-28-1988]:
The Old Negro Space Program
Karalan The problem with your argument is that your aim is to shut down and limit debate, much like a child holding their breath until they get their way.
It’s good to see your back up and running. When I could not get on the other day I knew you were under attack for too much truth telling.
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
Jim – I have made a small contribution, wish I could do more, more often.
Thank you sincerely for all you do in this fight.
The RSS feed is now working. I didn’t have to delete and then add back….It started working sometime between yesterday and today.
However, the count is incorrect. It shows one more than the actual number of unread articles. Also, the articles from May 8/9 don’t show up in the feed.
Also, can you please include the entire article in the feed? You can have ads there…would make things much more easier to read…
Thanks alot
Our old Avatars are back ……Cool
Well done Jim! Fighting my local and state oligarchs lately, they can be just as evil!