My server company informed me twice in the last week that TBP had been hacked. I don’t know who or what successfully broke into my site. The server company was able to seal off the intrusion temporarily. This was somewhat annoying to me because I’ve been paying a company aptly named – Stop Hacker – to protect my website from being hacked. After asking them why I was paying them, they offered to patch my site’s weaknesses for a couple hundred bucks. They have supposedly fixed the site. I’m doubtful.
They also made a bunch of recommendations that I should implement, including restricting the crap you people copy into the comments. They say that is why Norton keeps warning everyone about the site. I don’t understand most of their suggestions. I’m not technically savvy and have no interest in becoming so. I now spend way too much of my life monitoring load times and trying to figure out why the site will operate perfectly for hours and then go down or take 20 seconds to load. I can’t stand running a website. My enjoyment level drops by the day. I just wanted to write articles and now I deal with IT glitches, trolls, spam, and assholes.
If these technical issues continue to get worse and more expensive to address, I’ll eventually have to pull the plug. In the meantime, I’ll continue to post articles I find interesting with a brief commentary when I feel it is appropriate. The long articles that I tried to write every week or two will be few and far between. Trying to keep the blog interesting on a daily basis and dealing with the daily technical crap wears me down by the time I reach the weekend. Throw in days like yesterday when I spend three and a half hours commuting to and from work and I’m completely burnt out.
I no longer have the time or stamina to spend 10 hours on my weekend writing an article. I prefer reading to writing, and I have piles of books waiting to be read. I’d rather go for a long walk or workout at the YMCA. I’d rather go to a movie or watch a football game. Life is too short to spend worrying about what might happen 24/7. I am responsible for preparing my family for an uncertain future and trying to find some enjoyment in my daily life. It ain’t easy.
TBP has become more of a chat room of doom, than my personal blog. We’ll keep it going as long as technically possible, but something had to give and that is the in-depth articles. I’m not looking for recommendations on how to better manage my time. So don’t make any. Life is full of choices and this is a minor one in the big picture. I can’t find all the good articles, so post anything that will make readers think or get pissed off.
The goal of this site is to provide an alternative to the propaganda you get on the MSM. My personal goal is to discredit the establishment and contribute to their downfall. I hope to see our efforts come to fruition.
“I’m not looking for recommendations on how to better manage my time. So don’t make any.”
Fuck you! Don’t tell me how to not tell you how to live your life!
If you would just take epsom salt baths by candlelight with organic cucumbers over your eyes you would feel much better. I recommend 3 times a week.
Some things that would make this experience better(mix and match as needed):
1) Porn
2) Sex with avalon (no particular order here, didn’t I mention that)
3) watch a movie
4) music
5) all of the above, all at the same time
I’ve never understood how you manage to research/produce the prodigious amounts of superb material that you do, run an exemplary blog, hold down a demanding job, being a remarkable family man and standard-bearer of a contemporary extraordinary patriot – in spite of your tortuous commute back-and-forth to work.
I literally thought you were a real-life Superman.
Yep… something had to give.
I no longer believe in organized religion, but if there is in fact a real deity, may God bless you richly.
You’ve carried the torch for so long; perhaps it’s time to pass it on.
Enjoy your wonderful family.
5) all of the above, all at the same time – TPC:
If you knew WHO (overwhelmingly if not almost exclusively) the (usual culprits) subversives behind the corrosive effects of porn on Western civilization and families are and the hatred that lurks in their hearts for the lowly “Goyim” (one of their “professors” is on the record as boasting of it’s being used “as a weapon to destroy Western civilization and Christianity”), you’d rightly despise it as I do. I don’t have to paste the staggering numbers of links I’ve collected in my own records of their triumph over their “inferiors,” the damning juggernaut it has proven and who the perps are of this crime; you can google it for yourself.
But our dumbass White men have walked right into their deadly trap. They’ve won. Enjoy your cultural debasement.
TBP has been running for long.
I bet the “hackers” goal was to piss you off, and not necessary wrecking the site. it worked, so far.
I can also bet one of my ball that they got a bunch of IP’s in the process, if they aren’t currently collecting them.
to the government drones, I would say: too late, you’re all fucked. all TBP readers have been piling up gold, silver, ammos and guns worldwide. they spread the news you try to hide. YOU ARE FUCKED
to admin, I would say thank you regarding the personal investment that we all benefited of. I still think he’s an asshole at 25% regarding some easy juvenile bashing on nationality I witnessed, but overall hat down for the awesome flow of news that have been the norm for years.
It changed the way I see America. still the empire of evil, but with with iron particules inside such as TBP readers. I’m confident that at some point people will stop this shit. the Russians did it with USSR. if they did it, Americans can do it.
before TBP, I had poor reserves and no protection. now I can support my familly during 5 years if need be, even if employment is wiped from the face of earth. I can also re-create Monte-Cassino live for those who want to fuck with it. and I’m far to be alone in this case locally.
thank you admin
It does seem like you have two full-time jobs, which anybody can handle for a season, but as an ongoing lifestyle? I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. Your patient wife must be getting a little tired too. Do what you need to do to get your life in balance, because it’s too short to be spent as a burned out blogging accountant.
Adminstrator, yours is one of the best political/economic blogs on the internet.
Best are 1) your introductory comments to your posts, and 2) the quality of and variety of articles you post.
Suggestions: 1) Repost some of your older main articles. Some of yours from a few years ago are worth trotting out every two or three years; 2) Don’t write such long articles. Too much grey matter and too many charts are too hard to focus on; 3) Ask some of your commentors to step in and post articles with introductions, just as you’ve done. If you pick the right TBP people, describe what you want and don’t, and set the length of the contributions, I think you’d get lots of help.
Does this blog cost you anything out of pocket? If so how much? I’m going to send a few bucks back to Kulpsville. I bet more of us would add 5, 10, 20, 50 or more if we knew what expenses and income were.
Jackson
If you run into Irak, can you kick his government loving ass?
I go through ups and downs with my energy level needed to keep this sucker going. Posting old articles doesn’t usually generate much discussion.
Money is not an issue. I’m not running the blog as a business. Those horrible ads on the right cover all my expenses and many readers have been very generous with donations.
If I could just blog while I was commuting, all would be well.
Jim, thanks for all you do. My eyes have certainly been opened by your efforts.
sonsabitches!!!!! (hackers)
Do what makes you happy Admin. We only get one go-around here.
I read that food stamp cards aren’t working in 17 states?!?
And does anyone know how that trucker strike is going?
I had to explain to a sister of mine – still sound asleep – that it takes a fair bit of discernment when choosing what blogs to read and I am so glad I found my way to your site.
So while we disagree on 9/11 we do agree on so much more and I have always appreciated both your own writings and your commentary on the posted articles. I appreciate that your other “lives” as husband/father/home owner/employee take precedent and the hacking episode – while something to be proud off – is not what you signed up for when starting the blog.
I doubt any of us are surprised that the very instrument of awakening – private citizens sharing information via the internet – has become the object to be controlled.
Should you find the time and inclination (doubtful) you might find “Another Nineteen” an interesting read.
Kevin Ryan is a very like-minded individual – an insider trained and working in his field who witnessed firsthand how the data was being manipulated – became motivated enough to take to the internet in an attempt to educate and inform the sheep and potentially put an end to the corruption.
Some weeks are rougher than others in the Collapse Blogging Biz.
Don’t give up the ship quite yet though Jimbo, things are just starting to get good. It’s not a good week to quit sniffing glue.
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T4C –And now back to the shitfest happening @ Walmart
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-12/foodstamp-nation-turmoil-ebt-system-goes-dark-glitch-blamed
Foodstamp Nation In Turmoil: EBT System Goes Dark, “Glitch” Blamed
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/12/2013 17:03
Earlier at my local big box food mart, I saw a sign saying the EBT system is down..didn’t know it was nationwide.
The reason you are being hacked is because you are doing very important work.
Don’t give up.
I wonder if it was just a coincidence that my site just went down for 30 minutes for no valid reason.
While I have disagreed with you vehemently on the Catholic Church, I agree with you on most other issues, Godspeed.
@ Admin
Thanks for all you do, I”ll hang around as long as TBP stands.
Several times in the past month when I tried going to your website at work (during lunch of course – smile!), we had security software immediately start running with an assortment of viruses/malware detected including “child porn.” Doubtless, your website is under attack. This had never happened before in the 2+ years I’ve been reading your invaluable website. We use the latest version of Windows at work. I’m a technical retard, but I know subversion when I see it being a long-time student of our cementing police state by the Bolsheviks’ within. At home, I use Safari and have never encountered any problems.
You are a powerful weapon in the alternative media; never underestimate the vast power and control of our enemies and their infinite monetary resources.
If you should throw in the towel or merely require a hiatus from the unfurling nightmare, ALL the best to you, Jim. I wish you and your fortunate family well.
I hope everyone has preserved the invaluable information to be found here. It’s like drinking fresh water from a discovered oasis in a barren desert for those who are starved and thirst for truth every time I visit. And I especially enjoy AWD’s sharp commentaries too even though I’m seldom able to respond, but kudos to ALL who were smart enough to stumble upon or ferret you out. They’re unique in being amongst the smartest ones in this fast-crumbling civilization.
Cheerio,
Stephanie
Admin, looks like you need some help from a knowledgeable person with no dog in the fight. Depending on the volume of traffic to TBP you might need “load balancing”. Probably need to screen out the IP’s that are hacking your site or displaying suspicious behavior. Let me know if I can help.
I am being selfish but as the village idiot where I am going to go ? I will be homeless all lonely and lost.Might as well put a gun to my head.Damn ,I never dreamed it would end like this.I am sad…….nothing left but doomsday.
At the grocery store today, I saw a family of five get their EBT card rejected, so they ate the cashier.
Jim, you absolutely need help. Sounds like I am not the only one offering technical advice/help. If you are not running a VM, then you aren’t running a proper website. And the anti-hacking/IP filtering should be done on the ISP end, not at your server.
I do understand the technical details involved, but would likely need to reach out to my contacts depending on what you need done. One of my old friends from high school literally helps admin the internet backbone for this part of the world.
I also have friends all over the world.
TheOilDrum wasn’t run by one person, even they ended up needing behind the scenes IT help (the IT guy never posted articles ever).
You should have access to my email. I’m sure its required for a reason, even if it isn’t published. You must have records of those.
Willing to offer any advice/suggestions you might need (but details are required).
“They also made a bunch of recommendations that I should implement, including restricting the crap you people copy into the comments.”
perhaps the videos (doubtful), but definitely the gifs slow my computer down.
juan: its more the ads (esp the flash ones) that are the culprit in slowing your PC down. I tend to keep 50+ tabs open in the “nightly” version of Firefox, run addons to block most flash/ads. This on a 2007/2008 vintage PC with 4gb of mem.
On a 64 bit version of Win7 atm, but next time I go to reinstall, switching back to linux. Concerned about the NSA.
Hey Jim,
Please take the advice of your IT Guys, I know some will be all butt-hurt about not being able to post pics…..so my advice to them is to start their own site to post all of their “original content” they’ve taken from other people.
I could never figure out how you found the time in the day to make this site as up to the minute relevant as you have. I’m very grateful for everything you’ve done so far for all of us, and will continue to be so even if your posts drop down to one or two every one or two weeks.
Thanks for everything!
PS…..please, just don’t stop the Friday Fail…….
The good thing about Admin’s hissy fits is that after a while he regroups and comes back stronger than ever.
If everyone will just ignore his pleas for release from bondage, he will ramp up again. It usually takes a bit, but the man is a little quirky.
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Jim needs IT advice, and not from someone who is trying to make a buck from him. If his fanbase can’t pull this together, then yes, he should shut down.
Admin, we both know what the problem is. Since I have been on vacation, you have not had a worthy adversary, and so your blood has ceased to boil.
Who but me is brave enough to tell you that you have your head up your ass re Ron Paul winning the presidency? Of OWS being a game changer? Or an of your other saviors du jour (Pope whatizname ain’t gonna cut it either).
You are a true optimist, and I admire that. But you need an asshole like me to keep the fire in your belly alight. Nothing pisses you off more than someone disagreeing with you. And you need that.
I will be back in a few weeks. Rest, recharge, and we will carry the torch again then. Just do not expect to ever win!
Thanks for everything! You are indeed the man.
Varnelius – what part of him not wanting advice do you not understand? Dipshit.
Admin,
You are probably pissed off right now and would love to kick the shit out of the servers and/or technical support staff, so of course I strongly advise you do so. After you have done that, and should you decide to try again in your Sisyphean task to educated the Great Unwashed, I strongly recommend two ideas that could offload some of your security and any performance / capacity issues at little or no cost:
1) To prevent any attacks via comments, move the discussion threads to Disqus
2) To prevent any more sophisticated attacks via cross-site scripting or WP vulnerabilities, you can try Cloudflare — performance and load capacity could actually improve as they perform a lot of caching of the content at their CDN endpoints, ie. more page views at less cost
If you’ve already considered these options and found them unworkable for some reason, then no worries, I will promptly STFU now. In any case, thank you for all your efforts with the blog.
Fuck off Llpoh. For that comment alone I hope Jim shuts this motherfucker down. I was extending a hand, and you tell me I’m the one full of shit.
I always feel better when sumbody rubs my Fukstik. Especially
Llpoh says:
“Varnelius – what part of him not wanting advice do you not understand? Dipshit.”
Varn, (and anyone else) it has been relatively quiet on tbp for a couple of weeks. do not be dismayed when LLPOH comes back, he has been threatening to kick the living shit out of many of us when he comes back. it gets rowdy but it gets fun also. stick around.
There are no words. You are simply the go to site.
I don’t get here as much these days and am much happier for it. Sorry for that.
As you stated, all that gloom just takes too much time. When it is time for
It to be done you will be missed by many.
You should get work closer to home or move closer to work. That’s at least a full day back for JQ to waste all on his own. There’s gotta be a cost benefit to that. Take care.
Breathe in, breathe out.
Last thing I want to see is this site shut down, but Llpoh, don’t piss me off.
Actually, upon reflection, Llpoh is simply a troll.
I refuse to deal with his shit or react to it emotionally.
LLPOH vs Varnelius,
Dang, where do I place my bet, who’s the official bookie here?
Varn, I believe you have struck him lightly on the cheek with your velvet glove, an insult to a gentleman such as LLPOH. Apology greatly recommended. Did I say ‘greatly’? I meant greatly.
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You don’t apologize to a fucking troll.
I like you, varn, don’t forget that I recommended you follow the way of peace and brotherhood.
Thing is, this is either the 3rd or 4th “I’m gonna quit” post by Jim since I started following this website. This particular occasion, I completely understand. He’s being tasked by something that he does not understand; and the people/companies he has reached out to only just want more money to take care of said problem.
This post is more or less a plea for help from those of use who do actually understand the internet.
Now, as far as I know, Llpoh has been around as long as I have been reading comments around here (tho I have been reading Jim’s articles for far longer). If Llpoh has his head so far up his ass that he wants to see Jim struggle, and in the end fail, Then I have no choice but to call him a troll and from henceforth treat him as such.
IIRC, Lloph has posted articles. I have to ask you dipshit… What are you doing to help Jim with this IT issue?
Last sentence was @LLPOH
I should add that before tonight, Llpoh was on the shortlist of people around here that I respected. Just from my lurking. No longer.
Varneliass – I could cook your sorry ass with one sentence. You are a loser, so best keep your trap shut. Your weaknesses are known to me, and I am being kind so far.
Your response was to tell the Admin to shut the site. You are a real asshole.
My one little comment sends v foaming at the mouth. Toughen up, V. That was a love tap. Just meant to stir you up. Chill, baby. Way too sensitive. Plus you really are outgunned.
Juan as always gives good advice. Too bad so few take it! Howz it hanging, juan? Short and to the left?
Llpoh back to his trolling. Cue the Simpsons “ha ha”.
Actually, I want to know what these guns are. Are you quietly packing a .50 cal over there Llpoh? Are you the one shooting up Apple iPhones on youtube? What do you have to bring?
V – don’t you have something childish to do? After you finish watching the Simpsons maybe you can go outside and play with matches or something. Careful you don’t hurt yourself.
I don’t think I’ve watched the Simpsons in 20 years. But reading the shit you spew forth on the internet, I could only think of that bully from the Simpsons, who would say “Ha ha!”
While it was my neighbor, I was already credited with burning 40 acres. I won’t need molotovs when it comes time to resist. Why don’t you go stick your head back in your ass where it came from?
V’s favorite songs :
Come on baby light my fire
Burning down the house
Burning ring of fire
Fire down below
Nothing I like more than a whiny pussy. V has gad it so hard. Poor family. Sick father. He is so smart, with his 140 IQ, but life has dealt him a shit hand. Cannot get laid – now there is a surprise. Not his fault his life sucks, it is just fate. He has an excuse for everything.
Poor V. What a loser.
Trollin, trollin trollin
Keep that baby trollin
Troll hard!
Keep proving the asshole that you are Llpoh. I’ll get out of the shitties when the SHTF, will you?
Unlike you V, I am not considering an exit in a blaze of glory. I am well advanced on my exit plan. Next year will see it fully implemented. Amazing what hard work and planning can accomplish.
Catchy tune.