I never considered that my dinky little blog would ever draw the attention of anyone other than a few libertarian minded people. We draw about 15,000 visitors per day, which is tiny in comparison to hundreds of popular sites. I do consider my site to be anti-status quo, pro-Constitution, pro-liberty, pro-freedom, anti-neocon, anti-liberal, pro-common sense website.
I believe our country has been captured by a small cadre of powerful, wealthy, psychotic, evil men. I believe we have reached a point of no return. Our system cannot be reformed through the democratic process because the system has been corrupted by the wealth of those in control. True capitalism hasn’t existed since 1913. The masses are controlled through propaganda and entitlements.
We’ve descended into a Brave New World/1984 dystopian nightmare. Developments over the last few weeks have veered heavily towards the Orwellian fascist surveillance state. I’ve never been a big conspiracy theory kind of guy, until this week.
There is no doubt in my mind that TBP is now on the radar screen of the Federal Thugs within the DHS spy complex. From the moment I posted articles in support of a true patriot – Edward Snowden, my site has been under assault. I’ve received multiple emails from people and read dozens of comments on the site describing what has happened.
People with McAfee security now get this message when they try to go to my site:
WARNING: DANGEROUS SITE
Whoa!
Are you sure you want to go there?
People have been accessing my site for four years and have never gotten this message. Suddenly, this week it is dangerous.
Multiple people have told me that their companies suddenly starting blocking my site this week with the message that it is a POLITICAL/ACTIVIST website. The State University of New York blocks my site. The only way this could have happened is if some agency or organization put my website onto some sort of list that corporations and universities could access to decide whether it could be displayed on their servers. Clearly, this was an act of the government. In the world we live in today, a website that criticizes the government is a dangerous entity and must be silenced. This government is not a big fan of free speech.
My own security software gives me a Security Alert every time I try to go onto my own website. Here is the warning:
WEB ATTACK MALICIOUS EXPLOIT KIT WEBSITE
The IP Address of the attacking computer is 188.138.115.108. When I searched this address it is supposedly in Germany. I’ve also gotten messages of attacks from the Ukraine. Is there an entity attacking anyone who tries to access my site or are they trying to scare people away from accessing my site? My site sits on a mainstream American based server company. It is not infected with malware. I can check the diagnostics on the server company’s website. There are no problems, viruses or malware. These warnings are false.
My site has not been throttled by my server company in the last week. My IT guy has taken the site down for maintenance and he says there are no database issues. But, in the last week the number of database error messages and no connection messages have quadrupled versus what was happening prior to this week. I’m sure this is just a coincidence.
I doubt that my website will be accessible within the next year. The government will either force my server company to pull the plug or they will use some legal means to bully me into submission. I had a long discussion with my Computer Science Major son as we drove into work this morning. He has been tasked with figuring out a way for his old man to keep up the fight after the government shuts down my mainstream method of exercising my freedom of speech.
We are clearly descending into a fascist surveillance state. TBP is an enemy of this state.
Shit is fucked up and bullshit.
The picture at the top of this article of Edward Snowden was there last night when I posted this article around 9:00 pm. Neither I nor Avalon edited the article after that point.
When I pulled up the site this morning, that picture was gone from the article. It had been removed by someone other than the two people who have access to do so.
I am not some paranoid nutjob.
Can someone provide a logical explanation of how this could have happened by accident?
“I am not some paranoid nutjob”…
Lol they all say that.
After my post of half an hour ago, I lost internet connection despite showing 5 bars on HSDPA and then got two 504’s.
Where did I put that tin hat?
I noted with interest that most of the problems commented on here were using PC’s with the Windows OS.
I use a Mac with a pretty recent OS (not the new one) and Safari, have set Safari up to accept no cookies or plug-ins without permission and am very careful who I let stuff things on my HD. As long as Mac’s “File sharing” is off (a preference setting), there is, at the moment, no way that I know of to penetrate the security of either the OS or the browser.
Emphasis on “at the moment”. I used to use IE for the Mac until MS stopped supporting it and I just gave up on all MS products.
Good luck guys – somehow I wonder if the Feds are really involved in these attacks or not. It seems to subtle for their style . They like to hit you with a swat team, trucks and paddy wagons.
This looks more like some hackers with way too much time (or corporate sponsorship – known or not) and do this stuff for fun and games.
SSS: Any comments?
MA
That’s an utter disgrace to have Obama with a picture of Ben Franklin. Obama is destroying this country as quickly as possible, and we’ll be in WW3 pretty quick also.
Free speech is a thing of the past. i always wondered what it would be like to live in Nazi Germany, now I’ll get to find out.
People aren’t paranoid enough, if they were, somebody would have found out about the spying long before now. They would have figured out everything they are doing is being tracked.
Do you really want to use browsers from Google or Microsoft? They work hand in hand with the government, especially Google. Mozilla Firefox was made by internet people, free internet people, and the government doesn’t get anything out of Mozilla. If you use internet explorer or chrome, you’re a fucking idiot and supporting the fascist machine. End of story.
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Guilt by association will prevail. Snowden gave money to Ron Paul’s campaign, so RP and Rand will get a double dose of scrutiny. I’m sure Casey Team is being watch more closely, as he has invited Dr. Paul to some of his events.
I do not think the Admin. is paranoid after the Snowden affair. JQ change in attitude that there might not be a grand reset, and the US empire decline might be something so dire that it changes the course of history.
I do know that I stand with good company here on TBP.
Why am I not surprised? My YOUTUBE channel got some very strange “subscribers” one of which is a scary looking government site, and my videos are about making ceramic pots, playing guitar, and oh yes.. almost forgot, a few advocating active protest against the government and voting for Ron Paul. I wonder which ones caught their eye?
I do believe we are living a fascist corporate oligarchy, so don’t get me wrong here. For me, what brings the bacon home is computer security. There are many perimeter defense systems setup around the internal networks of a company. Its a requirement, and its also failing due to the level of attackers these days. You have antispyware, antiphishing, antispam, intrusion detection, DOS, DDOS, and content filtering. These are necessary these days, believe me. If the sheeple knew what I know, they would flee on-line anything. In any case, a company has to protect itself for its own brand name and legality purposes. I suspect what most of you are experiencing is the content filtering piece. In its simplist form, it is a list of url’s, like http://www.burinigplatform.com, that are put on a list that are prohibited. Its that simple. Who maintains that list might be interesting. I am sure it is both manually maintained and automatically maintained by web crawlers looking for key words. Key words, for example, the swear words so often used here. To me, that’s what makes me feel at home, to a parent or business man running a company, its a no-no.
I could go on for quite a while, but will leave it here. You might be over-reacting a bit. As far as the government monitoring this site, its possible given the content which any web crawler could extract and analyze automatically.
As I logged in this morning, I noticed my computer had restarted because of Microsoft updating my computer patching the never ending security holes. Imagine if Microsoft and the government got together on what they put on your computer in these patches. That’s food for thought for you with the tin foil hats.
Cheers!
Admin
Don’t feel bad, my picture got taken down also. Fucking liberal fascists
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Being a member of the BP community is one of the overtly patriotic things I do. I can only hope I am counted among the crazed dissidents here.
Whatever is going on with the site presently, even if only from technological glitches (which I doubt), is a glimpse of our future. Relish every day of the time we have left before the Crash, the War, and the rest of the evil that awaits mankind.
Now have a glorious Saturday.
Who Said It: “This Administration Acts Like Violating Civil Liberties Is The Way To Enhance Our Security”
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/15/2013 11:02 -0400
Who said it?
This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.
That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient.
That is not who we are. It’s not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists. The FISA court works. The separation of powers works.
Our constitution works. We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers and that justice is not arbitrary.
This administration acts like violating civil liberties is the way to enhance our security. It is not.
There are no shortcuts to protecting America.
– August, 2007
Confused? It is the same guy who said this back in 2006:
“Mr. President, I rise today to talk about America’s debt problem. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills. Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally.
Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’
Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
Americans deserve better.
I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.”
Still confused?
No more waiting for the shit to hit the fan. It doesn’t need to anymore. Everything is already covered in shit. Behind every door is Doom. The Doom is here today right now. We are truly fucked.
Embrace the Doom.
Time for a strategic vacation.
You’re the anti Joseph Goebbels. I was only an 11 year old kid living in Amsterdam. Five years of brutal occupation and the Dutch nazis (NSB) had everyone spying on each other and reporting to the Nazi authorities only to be locked up and sent on a cattle rail road car to concentration camps.
Keep up the good work you’re doing!
Admin, you have balls. I hope you are able to keep your job, when they go after that as well, which they will. Someone should put up the url to some messageboard that is hard to hack as a place to maintain contact in an emergency. Maybe Anonymous has one.
Zara- The best outlet I found so far is to write through 4chan. Same philosophies as TBP and of course being anonymous. Once a crack down on the internet happens that is the first place I will send my writing.
One sentence says it all…
“I have never been a conspiracy theorist”
As long as the numb, braindead, depending-on-social-welfare, ignorant, government-admiring, propaanda-sawllwing, criminal banksters-trusting sheeple in the West stop watching American Idol and Eurosong Contest and wake up to how sick the world and its psychopath warmongering political whores are, then nothing will change…
Any outrage seen re. all the recent scandals?
The sheeple will get what they deserve and I won’t feel sorry for them.
Calamity – I am so dumb, how does 4chan work? I thought it was just a website for porn.
Bruce says:
“No more waiting for the shit to hit the fan. It doesn’t need to anymore.”
the fan is jammed. airport screenings, traffic swab stops. cops vag checking. irs political leaning review, journalistic no-fly zones,
when we pass each other in handcuffs, if you say shit is fucked up, i’ll understand
Careful Jim….soon you be donning a tin foil hat and singing with DP. Welcome to the matrix!
Admin,
Thank you for this site! TBP IS A LIGHT IN A DARK PLACE. I have learned much from you and the monkeys.
As has been stated,………You sir are a true Patriot.
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Thank You
Tim- I am going to write a story about 4chan to show up in the next day or two. It may be the information of last resort soon enough. I think it would be beneficial for everybody to know about how it works. And you are correct, it does have a lot of porn lol.
Admin
To the depth of your bones, you knew this would come but you never really believed.
Welcome to the society of believers.
I have often had trouble accessing this site–database cannot connect, connection timed out, slow loading of pages–and two years ago I picked up some kind of virus here that killed my computer and I had to buy another one.
I now have Firefox No Script and Ad Block which seems to keep most of the virus meanies out.
As far as internet censorship goes, I expect it. I have met blatant censorship in China and south America and other places, sometimes just particular articles and sometimes entire websites. This crap goes on everywhere. I have a couple of kickass proxies that will get me into anything. It’s a learning curve.
For search engines I use Ixquick:
https://www.ixquick.com/
Startpage:
https://www.startpage.com/
Yandex:
http://www.yandex.com/
None of them are hosted in the US.
I have half a dozen email addresses, none of which are attached to my real name. I do not allow myself to be knowingly photographed, and if I’m in a group where some nitwit is phone camera clicking, I turn my face away. Unsurprisingly, I detest Facebook.
It is interesting though to see how they are surreptitiously censoring your website, not by going after you directly, but by bugging your server address. Nice sideways move really, and apparently very effective. Clever people.
At the moment they seem to be winning, but there is world of very smart and angry script kiddies who are capable of out-manipulating the powers that be. The battle is far from over.
marissa says:
“At the moment they seem to be winning, but there is world of very smart and angry script kiddies who are cable of out-manipulating the powers that be. The battle is far from over.”
There are a few who will resist. But it will take more than jacking with computers to have an effect. It will take some real action if people want liberty and freedom. If that resistance comes I would not count on it from the American sheeple, it will come from somewhere else.
To get an idea ……………..Here’s the headlines over at Drudge in the following order.
Protesters confront tight security in Belfast G8 rally
Hundreds in Hong Kong protest NSA surveillance
Ayatollah Khamenei to US government…..“To hell with you
Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home
Poll: Most Americans Cheering For Spurs In Finals
We are Doomed
The time is coming to take a stand agains these murderers, spies, thieves, and thugs.
Man I wish the children of today were not having their brains washed but the government/medical complex.
TBP = the canary in the government mine?
admin
Maybe you’re in good company. I put this list on a Robert Higgs article comment:
Seymour Hersh, Eric Margolis, John Pilger, Jim Chanos, Thomas Drake, William Binney, Harry Markopolos, Jesselyn Radack, Sibel Edmonds, Coleen Rowley, Ray McGovern, Col. Ann Wright, Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, John M. Cole, David ‘Mark’ Conrad, Jeffrey Black, Bogdan Dzakovic, Russ Tice, Sandalio Gonzalez, John Vincent, Bill Bergman, Steve Jenkins, Linda Lewis, David MacMichael, William Savich, Julia Davis, Tom Maertens, Joseph Carson, Gabe Bruno, Dr. Jeffrey Fuelin, Thomas Tamm
The U.S. Department of Disinformation must have a very large staff!
All the above, speaking truth to power were castigated. I just remembered two people called paranoid that actually were being spied on Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick. A complete list would be Very Long.
@Admin You are not paranoid. The Burning Platform has been on a list for at least 6 months – but they were only blocking occasionally. It is now a full-on assault.
The Who’s Your Lender thread has been eerily quiet for over a month. I think they are hiding the thread in Google search results. Only long-time posters are jumping on – no newbies.
We are in that scary place. Dissent is being silenced – or at least they are trying to shut us down.
May be time to print those pamphlets – just like Thomas Paine.
A Free, Quick and Easy Way to Protest Government Spying
Submitted by George Washington on 06/15/2013 15:08 -0400
c/o Zero Hedge
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While it’s obvious to everyone that the government is spying on virtually all of the digital communications of Americans – phone, email, Internet, credit card, etc. – the government is pretending that it only spies on foreigners and collecting our metadata (which can actually tell a lot about us).
Indeed, the government is instructing Senate staffers to stick cover their eyes and pretend that the spying documents found all over the Internet don’t exist.
One free and easy way to protest mass surveillance, educate others, and yank Big Brother’s chain is simply to add a sentence to the end of your emails and web posts.
To give you the idea: you’ve seen the disclaimers at the end of emails from lawyers, investment advisers, and similar professionals. You know, the ones that say stuff like “This is a confidential communication and can’t be used by anyone but the intended recipient”. They put the same disclaimer at the end of every single email.
Why don’t we put our own disclaimer at the end of our emails and web comments, saying:
WARNING: The National Security Agency is likely recording and storing this communication as part of its unlawful spying programs on all Americans … and people worldwide. The people who created the NSA spying program say that this communication – and any responses – can and will be used against the American people at any time in the future should folks in government decide to go after us for political reasons. And private information in digital communications may be given to big companies by the government.
Mass surveillance doesn’t keep us safe, and even the top national security experts say that we don’t need it. (They also say we should get a grip.)
This may help keep the issue alive even as the government desperately tries to sweep it under the rug.
Note: All modern browsers allow you to highlight, copy and then paste text with links in it into your email or web comment. If you prefer, you can copy just the text and delete the links.
With imbeded links – http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-06-15/free-quick-and-easy-way-protest-government-spying
@ Mary Malone
I just did a search for Who’s Your Lender on Ixquick, Yandex, and Startpage and Google. Your thread here on TBP turned up as the first search result on all of them. Ixquick and Startpage use Google assist.
Maybe people have just given up on fighting the banksters to rescue their mortgages?
http://www.theburningplatform.com
69.195.76.21
ping statistics —
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 221.284/221.627/221.918/0.526 ms
Faster than the last check, but it’s Sunday in the land of oz, 22.8C, 33% humidity, some cloud.
And where does Bluehost live? Not that it matters …
From the files of the NSA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVYt12Kzmk0
You have to be over the target to get flak.
Oh the hypocrisy….
Admin, and others, do us a favor and run a command from the shell
tracert http://www.burningplatform.com
—— output start ——-
Tracing route to theburningplatform.com [69.195.76.21]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.1.1
2 8 ms 7 ms 9 ms 96.132.240.1
3 10 ms 19 ms 8 ms te-0-1-0-6-ur09.beaverton.or.bverton.comcast.net [68.85.149.113]
4 8 ms 9 ms 7 ms be-1-ur10.beaverton.or.bverton.comcast.net [68.85.243.162]
5 8 ms 13 ms 8 ms ae-3-0-ar03.troutdale.or.bverton.comcast.net [68.85.243.165]
6 21 ms 14 ms 15 ms pos-2-4-0-0-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.91.197]
7 12 ms 11 ms 15 ms 4.79.104.105
8 51 ms 49 ms 49 ms ae-32-52.ebr2.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.69.147.182]
9 61 ms 54 ms 49 ms ae-2-2.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.54]
10 52 ms 68 ms 56 ms ae-1-100.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.151.181]
11 50 ms 53 ms 49 ms ae-5-5.car2.SaltLakeCity1.Level3.net [4.69.133.125]
12 68 ms 206 ms 207 ms ae-11-11.car1.SaltLakeCity1.Level3.net [4.69.133.121]
13 57 ms 59 ms 98 ms BETTERSERVE.car1.SaltLakeCity1.Level3.net [4.59.78.210]
14 159 ms 122 ms 54 ms 199.58.199.114
15 51 ms 52 ms 52 ms 69-195-76-21.unifiedlayer.com [69.195.76.21]
—– output end —–
This tells me from my computer how my packets get to your server. Not your home computer, but the host serving up the blog.
Why it ends up in Salt Lake City and to a site called BETTERSERVE can probably be answered by you, since your the one doing business with some hosting company. If your hosting company is not in Salt Lake City, get your tin foil hats out again!!
Richard
My server company is headquartered in Provo, Utah.
sorry the command should not have http:// in it, just “www.theburningplatform.com”
I could use some help. In the last two days my antivirus software has prevented me from visiting Truthdig (www.truthdig.com). I am using a daily updated free version of Avast. I am also unable to find any references on Das Internet to Truthdig being attacked.
Have any of y’all heard anything?
Thanx for your consideration.
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You’re the true patriot! Had been gone a few days for my grandpa’s funeral so catching up on stuff. Got sick to my stomach when I read this post! 1984 is truly becoming reality…
But you keep trying!!!
Benign
This blog is my personal opinions. It has nothing to do with my job. You worked for criminal scumbags that have fucked the country. Some people still believe in freedom of speech. Perhaps you got fired because you’re an asshole.
Richard Wax – “As I logged in this morning, I noticed my computer had restarted because of Microsoft updating my computer patching the never ending security holes. Imagine if Microsoft and the government got together on what they put on your computer in these patches. That’s food for thought for you with the tin foil hats.”
My computer has been updated two or three times in the last few days, and as it was being done, that’s exactly what I was thinking: what are they putting on my computer in these patches?
George Orwell:
“History consists of a series of swindles, in which the masses are first lured into revolt by the promise of Utopia, and then, when they have done their job, enslaved over again by new masters.”
“The only way to SAVE OUR EMPIRES FROM THE ENCROACHMENT OF THE PEOPLE is to engage in war, and thus substitute national passions for social aspirations.” Catherine II
And Orwell again:
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
You have to rebel first (is what Orwell is saying), but how can you when you’re not conscious yet? That is, conscious of what is REALLY going on. It starts simply, you get an inkling, you get another, you read something that makes you wonder, and on and on it goes until you start to doubt what you’re being told. It’s a process, a difficult one, because you basically have to throw out everything you’ve held dear.
Inside, you know the truth, but your mind keeps resisting, pulling you back to the decades of propaganda you’ve been filled with.
Then you take a leap.
backwardevolution:
I’ve always thought that owning a company that writes anit-virus software is a bona-fide
no brainer.
Half of the programmers write the bugs, and the other half write the fixes.
I really am serious about the Truthdig website. Just checked it again. Avast anit-virus kicks me to blank web page and reports this:
URL: http://www.truthdig.com/fonts/webfonts/274D82_0_0.wolff{gzip}
Process: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
Infection: HTML:Script-inf
So, visit http://www.truthdig.com AT YOU OWN RISK.
Has anyone else seen this? Maybe they will be able to fix it tomorrow.
backwardsevolution
MS updates suck ass. Often my computer runs worse, or something new “breaks”. I have mine turned off. If you want to do the same here are the easy steps;
—- Open Windows Update by clicking the Start button , clicking All Programs, and then clicking Windows Update.
—- In the left pane, click Change settings.
—- Choose the option that you want.
—- Under Recommended updates, select the ‘Include recommended updates when downloading, installing, or notifying me about updates’ and UNCHECK the box, and then click OK
From ZH how to protest the NSA. Add this to the end of all emails an blog posts.
WARNING: The National Security Agency is likely recording and storing this communication as part of its unlawful spying programs on all Americans … and people worldwide. The people who created the NSA spying program say that this communication – and any responses – can and will be used against the American people at any time in the future should folks in government decide to go after us for political reasons. And private information in digital communications may be given to big companies by the government.
Mass surveillance doesn’t keep us safe, and even the top national security experts say that we don’t need it. (They also say we should get a grip.)
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Stucky:
As long, long time computer user, I very strongly recommend that you get your operating system patches religiously; the caveat being when your applications are ready for them. Ya gotta check. This is a good reason to keep your used application list to a minimum. Granted, my Windows computer runs XP (nothing like twelve years to work out the bugs), but I never miss a patch. My security software (firewall, spyware, anti-virus, Ghostery) is updated DAILY, sometimes twice a day.
At this point it’s pretty obvious that you aren’t going to keep the Big Boys out of yer box.
However, you want to put up as many roadblocks as you can for the other assholes.
Still Under the Radar at the Diner, I THINK. Not Popular Enough, too DOOMY. LOL.
Anyhow, if/when they shut you down, long as I am up and running you are welcome to post up. I’m all over the fucking net, I got Doomstead Diner sites on Soundcloud, YouTube, Yahoo Groups, Creat-a-Forum, Facebook…lol.
Just keep on comin at ’em. More sites all the time. GO VIRAL! Copy your whole DB and set up a Mirror server ready to go in Iceland. That’s a tough one even for the NSA to break.
RE