source: https://christopher-black.com/the-war-on-the-people-silencing-the-truth/
New Eastern Outlook has been subjected to a series of DDOS attacks, denial of service attacks, for the past week and are attempting to restore their site. They issued a statement today, March 25th, but service is still being interrupted and so people may not be able to see it so I have decided to publish it here. People should be spreading the word on what has happened to New Eastern Outlook, one of the important journals that allows western and eastern writers to express their points of view and counter western propaganda. I am one of them. This attack is an attack on all of us, on freedom of expression, freedom of association, of our rights to know the truth about the world. We do not live in a democracy or free society in the west. We live in a prison we have to break out of, a prison of the mind that they are building around us. If this can happen to NEO, it will happen to Global Research, Counterpunch, Off-Guardian, and many other journals that deserve mention. Here is their statement:
Dear readers,
We deeply regret the fact that readers have been unable to access NEO articles since March 19. This unpleasant fact was a direct result of a massive DDoS attack on our site, likely launched by Washington and its political allies in the West.
On one hand, it’s a truly regretful incident that demonstrates the true face of “American-style democracy” when thinking individuals are prevented access to alternative media through criminal means, illustrating the true state of affairs in the West and around the world as well.
On the other hand, this recent DDoS attack is a testament to the fact that the articles we present to readers leaves certain Western special interests sleepless. Such articles have helped expose their violations of international law in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other countries where their agenda is being pushed forward by so-called soft power and armed aggression, while bringing bitter misery and death to hundreds of thousands of people.
We express our sincere gratitude to our authors who have been subjected to all sorts of discrimination over the years in various regions of the world for their efforts and contributions to NEO, exposing the troubled times of various nations, but nevertheless continue their humanitarian and educational activities.
However, it’s likely to get worse, as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Heather Nauert has stated that the State Department believes that fighting Russia, Iran and China-based media sources to be its top priority. To bring down Russia-based media sources alone, US Congress is going to allocate 250 million dollars this year.
But it is highly unlikely that such measures will silence the alternative media, the family of which New Eastern Outlook has been a proud member. We are confident in your support and assistance in exposing the word of truth to more readers.
We would be grateful if those of you who also recently encountered similar oppressive measures of Western intelligence and government agencies, whether it was blocking of social media accounts or blogs for publishing truthful reports to share this information with us via our email – info@journal-neo.org. We are confident that by joining our efforts we can overcome the onslaught of the Western propaganda as the alternative media is prepared to overcame any obstacle to provide people of all countries with truthful and insightful reports.
We are also welcoming you to our social media pages, if you are willing to engage in discussions of our publications.
The New Eastern Outlook editorial board.
https://journal-neo.org/2018/…/25/neo-has-come-under-attack/
No matter what they do, we know what they are and their agenda. Take the sermon the british Foreign Minister gave regarding Russia and the alleged Skribal poisening. What he tells is exactly to the point what they are doing all along. So it’s relatively simple, first every line out of their channels has the same Headline: LIE ! Second any accusations and reasonings about the alleged enemy is EXACTLY their own default modus operandi. If you read ‘for the people of this country’ then the real message is ‘for the few outside this country’. It’s difficult and tiring to create coherent stories constructed out of truth and lies, it only works to a point when dealing with facts, otherwise it becomes very difficult, the more that in order to lie effectively, you need to know the truth ! This last faculty however has gone a long time ago, at the latest when the mother of a lies was presented, 9/11 THAT LIE now poisons everything to it’s very roots in the Empire EVERYTHING !!!!
1) I noticed 30 years ago that the President of the United States would give a 45 minute speech, and then every corporate news outlet would show the exact same set of soundbites from it. You’d think that somewhere an editor might find something else as an important sound bite and deviate a bit. Or that just in the name of competition someone would try to be a little different. But no, every corporate news source picked exactly the same sound bites.
2) The Clintons made it obvious. Whatever lies they told were exactly what they were doing themselves. A rather recent example was when Hillary called Trump a fascist and said that Trump was threatening to have riots in the streets to overturn an election loss. It was of course Hillary who was already organized to call out riots in the streets when it turned out she lost.
3) At this point, I don’t pay attention to anyone who fails to provide evidence supporting their cases. There is way too much fake stuff and propaganda out there that almost always comes as a series of fake statements that are not supported by any evidence.
4) Remember that Bush stole the election a year before 9-11. If we want to talk about the “Mother of All Lies”, we might begin with “Bush won.”
Well, let’s see. Every single thing the west has tried to do to hold onto its power has failed and usually created the opposite result.
So I like NEO’s optimism here, encouraging and predicting the banding together and the standing strong of the non-MSM sources of news and analysis.
Some commentators have been saying for some time that the alt-stream today has more readership than the main-stream. Perhaps it’s true, and perhaps the enemy is forcing the acceleration of its own demise. Again.
MSM seems to be in financial difficulties. That alternative media outlets depend on monetary support of its readers isn’t anything new, but that publications like The Guardian joined the club of those asking for donations seems to indicate that their business practices don’t work anymore.
This was precisely my comment to my son, after I saw Guardian asking for money after I looked at an article forwarded to me by him. Mind you the article was a pathetic piece of …
Turn them off!
Turning them off has two powerful effects. The first being that it costs them money. Their ratings or their website hits fall. They live on advertising. Advertising revenues fall if fewer people watch or visit their sites or buy their papers. By turning them off, we can drive them out of business. Or at least make their lives more difficult.
The second benefit is that their lies don’t even get a chance to get into your head. If you are not listening, if you are not reading them, if you are not watching them, then they lose the power to lie to you.
We saw the power of what you call ‘the alt-stream’ in the last US elections.
Most of the US media supported Hillary Clinton. Even rightwing FOXnews was backing Bush or Rubio or generally the Never-Trumpers.
Both the outsider campaigns ran strong, the Bernie Sanders campaign and the Donald Trump campaign. Both did so in environments where the ‘main-stream’ was incredibly hostile to them. They obviously found other ways to communicate.
The cold grip of censorship and totalitarianism is all that the Zionists have left. They will learn to their dismay that it isn’t enough.
“However, it’s likely to get worse, as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Heather Nauert has stated that the State Department believes that fighting Russia, Iran and China-based media sources to be its top priority. To bring down Russia-based media sources alone, US Congress is going to allocate 250 million dollars this year.”
The pindo regime has a full set of fanatical zionazi quislings in place. It will get a lot worse, with leftwing media shut down, mccarthy like persecution and hysteria enforcing the zionazi, and only the zionazi propaganda line, fema camps filling up, disappearances, death squads, etc. Look at what went on internally in nazi germany. That was a mere trial run in comparison to what zionazi, inc. has in store for resistance in their prima colony.
I think we are close to ending this era of communications. I think that needs to be said. I think at some stage soon the clamp will tighten everywhere. So it will come down to whether you have a compass and bearings. You will largely be by yourself. Free only within. How long from the communication blackout until judgement day I don’t know but the pace of expansion of evil is not going to be linear, it will be exponential. A certain group has parasitized itself into the CNS of a superpower. The superpower thinks it fights for it’s own hegemony whilst in reality it is being deliberately blinded and simultaneously led to its demise. The last gentile empire with its feet of clay must for eschatological reasons take on the role of the king of the south of Daniel 8. Try and understand that for a certain group it is of critical importance that Daniel 8 is manifested exactly as written. The authority they envisage wielding must be based on acceptance by others that that prophecy has been fulfilled because with that acceptance of primacy for the certain group the gate is opened for the great apostacy. Christians will be forced en masse abandon Christ by the false argument of Daniel 8’s outcomes.
So while time us left to share do so.
People can always find ways to communicate.
The best is to talk face to face somewhere there are no cameras and where its difficult to aim a directional mic at you.
It was over a decade ago, but I was sitting by a fire-side deep in a national forest. A friend of mine started to talk about politics. My first reaction was to self-censor my replies. That was what I did normally living in a city and communicating on the internet.
But, then it occurred to me that I was in a place where nobody could possibly be listening, the cell phones didn’t even have a signal, and I trusted the friend not to be an informant. I thus realized that I could say exactly what I was thinking and it would never be played back to me in an interrogation room. I enjoyed that conversation.
It also made me realize just how ‘not-free’ I normally was when I lived in ‘the land of the free.’.
There are many ways to communicate. Hard to believe in today’s world of Facebook and text messages, but they are there. The internet makes them easier than they were before. But spies and dissidents in places like the Soviet Union still found ways to communicate. Many of these methods can be moved to the internet and still be hard for authorities to connect. Read a good old spy novel for inspiration, but not the James Bond style junk.
this happens and has happened over at Solari for years – Catherine Austin Fitt’s website – The Solari Report – has also been down for a month – but has just launched her new website – The Solari Report – even more jammed full of important interviews and articles – than the old site –
But she’s been a victim of what NEO has been through this week – for years and years –
But she never used Facebook – or Youtube – she uses Vimeo – so the recent attacks on all the alternative media people – demonetized – did not affect Catherine. She’s one smart cookie –
I realise there are some who won’t read Russia Insider but I find every now and again useful info on that site. I am not sure what exact agenda they have over there and there are times that I feel it is subversive and runs content meant to harm the authority vertical in Russia. I also don’t agree with everything David Icke thinks and says either.
However somethings he says in the video linked to the following article are of considerable importance when analysing your long term survival options in this coming Great War:
https://russia-insider.com/en/coming-war-russia-david-icke-video/ri22885
Does the domain Russia Insider still work? Recently they had to re-brand their news outlet into Russia Insight (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/416804-anti-semitic-russian-insider/).
It should be possible to identify the culprits, although the task might be lengthy and expensive. As forensic scientists say, “every contact leaves a trace”. The first step leads to the bots that are carrying out a DDOS attack. Some of them should be examined, and the malware they run analyzed. The trail will lead… somewhere.
Maybe investigators will find code with comments in the Latin alphabet and English language. That would certainly prove that the perpetrators are American or British.
Comments in code may (or may not) give some hints as to who could’ve been behind some malware. Everybody can change language settings on her/his computer or setup the operating system with a different language. I’m no native English speaker. Grammar and spelling mistakes may give hints as to my country of origin, but that’s basically all you can figure out (except some assumptions about the educational background).
I happened upon an article on NEO around a week 10 days ago, ‘Gibraltar the real reason for Brexit’ by Seth Ferris, after reading it i went a bit crazy sharing it on facebook, to get it out there as it seemed a very pertinent point of view. Next thing it was off fb and the site was down, for me i think that article touched a nerve.
Espina
This letter by the Editorial Board of the NEO says it all. We all know that we are dealing with anti-Russian propaganda. What is shocking is how cheap and infantile that propaganda is and that it’s promoters can fall so low. The elites in the West are getting desperate by the rise of China and Russia, and are resorting to colonial style methods, which says plenty about the mentality of those people. The latest news is that China has introduced the petro-yuan. Now I wonder how Washington and Wall Street are going o respond to this, bearing in mind the US dollar is printed in huge amounts backed by nothing.
Either the “elites” of the past were smarter than the new (dumbed down) ones or they don’t bother with sophisticated tales for the masses anymore.
Anonymous
I can only agree with you.
They don’t bother with sophsitication any more. Since they’ve succeeded in destroying real education and a general dumbing down of the population, its now a waste of time and money. Actually, I suppose Goebbels reached the same point of view eventually. These days, all it takes is a room full of people in a room with computers to post some nonsense on the internet and its amazing how many people believe it.
Some non-political examples from recent years.
1) Remember when turning on the new particle accelerator at CERN was going to form a black hole? The end of the world is here!
2) Remember when a inbound comment was supposed to be some combination of a mystery planet and the core of a neutron star? The end of the world is here!
The last was a personal favorite, because anyone with who had any science education should be able to see that it was obvously nonsense just from what the articles themselves said. But wow, I had a lot of people forward and share me that nonsense. I could point out a few political examples that I see regularly amongst comments on this site, but I’m trying to be nice today.
Another bizarre claim tumbles out of the UK Skripal Hoax machine. The Sun reports that police sources have informed that the whereabouts of the Skripals for 4 hours on the day of the so called incident because father and daughter had turned off GPS tracking function in their mobile telephones.
Why would turning off GPS tracking effect the authorities ability to track the location of a mobile phone WHEN it is general practice for authorities to locate mobile phone whereabouts by way of mobile antenna tower triangulation.?
It looks are the gloves are coming off:
– Scandinavia will likely introduce Browder-Magnitsky laws.
https://euobserver.com/foreign/141414
– the US and the EU will likely expel diplomats in the Skripal case:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-may-expel-russian-diplomats-in-response-to-nerve-agent-attack-in-britain-officials-say/2018/03/24/128be568-2f91-11e8-911f-ca7f68bff0fc_story.html
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/23/theresa-may-welcomes-eu-backing-russia-spy-attack-response
For Info – Russia Today, RT, was taken off TV in France one afternoon in early March. It had been broadcasting over the Canal Sat network, on channel 474, for over 10 years. Channel 474 no longer exists.
I mailed RT in Moscow to find out what they knew. They said they knew the channel was off the air but had no info as to why.
The new president never allowed RT journalists into his rallies during the campaign. Since the election he has on several occasions referred to RT as only propaganda.
There has been no discussion in any press or even web sites about this cut off.
Israel Shamir: It’s Start Calling Jews ‘Jews’ , and Not Silly Euphemisms Like ‘ Globalists’.
Absolutely right. Also, Not ‘AngloZionists’ but AngloJew or rather JewishAnglo Mafia.
If this mascarade continue without exposing true perpetrators of violence by they true name the war will come to that theatre near you for sure and is getting closer and closer. Your scribing won’t stop it if you don’t tell the truth in plain, true language. Otherwise, forget it and look for shelter. Bolton is coming. The noose is tightening around
Ruskis neck rapidly.
Lee
It what way is “the noose tightening around Ruskis neck rapidly” ? What is Bolton going to do ? Start a war with Russia ? With Iran ? The neocons in the US have done a fine job in turning Europe towards Russia, although this cannot be seen openly. Trump expels 60 Russian diplomats and 14 EU countries follow with symbolic anti-Russian gestures. The response in Europe to this London/Washington anti-Russian initiative was anything but enthusiastic. Only symbolism backed by unconvincing rhetoric. Bolton better worry about the fact that China has introduced the petro-yuan, sending the US dollar into history.
Today (2018.03.26), I believe the petroyuan really takes flight?!
If we think the empire’s neurotic control collective has been hysterical so far, well….
…it’s about to start to get really interesting.
Isn’t this the real reason behind the impending war?
The only thing that the empire can really do, is: a. make war, b. take their little dirty secret tax off all transactions on the planet by way of the petro-dollar/world reserve currency.
The other thing that the empire’s elite is world-class at is fleecing the citizens by systemic institutional theft/graft at the highest levels, siphoning off all of the money, leaving so little to actual development, i.e. F-35 (the perfect example).
Alas, this systemic negative-sum-gain gaming of the system(s) of the subordinated nation states has hollowed them (us) out.
At the same time, the Russian MIC has a lesser expertise at siphoning off the money to their oligarchs (though still undoubtedly substantial), and has subsequently developed new weapons systems technology rendering the huge and inefficient ‘investments in weapons under the empire, useless, if not liabilities.
If they go to war they would loose already now ! China and Russia stand as one and with them Iran, Syria and possibly Pakistan or India. Their fleet will be sunk in short order conventionally WHEREVER they might operate, thus is the new order of things. If they put a feet on Russian or China soil they will be TOTALLY wiped out conventionally !
Europe has nothing, nil (Germany has NINE Leppard tanks operational, no joke, they use and pay Abrams Tanks up in the Baltics !) thus the US has to ship everything over, which will be sunk at a prize tag smaller than 200’000 $ per sunken unit. They can fly stuff over, but only support 1-2 Divisions (up to 20’000 Combat Troops). They are toast, and they know it ! Thus now starts the more evil carnage within the Empire in a very real brain eater style fashion !
UNLESS, unless somebody has the finger on the big red ‘Don’t touch !’ button which ‘nobody’ expects……
Voltairenet.org/en has joined the list.
Steps to take ….
1) bookmark sites you like for future reference. Do not rely on search engines such as google to send you back to the site again. One of the subtle ways censorship is being implemented is by having Google and the other big search engines either refuse to return a link or to push the link down several pages into the results.
2) You might want to write down the actual IP address of the site as well. So far, they’ve only used it against sites like PirateBay, but the DNS servers can be used to break the connection between the name you know and the actual IP address of the site. Its a DNS server that converst “thesaker.is” to the IP address of 23.111.129.34 that computers understand. That’s a weak point that can be tampered with.
3) Find search engines you think you can trust. You don’t have to use Google. In fact Google is about the last people you should use or trust. There are other search engines out there. Find them, and preferably find several of them. The one I’m currently using advertises itself as being ‘european’ and ‘uncensored’. In other words, supposedly its the exact opposite of Google.
4) There are also “public DNS” servers out there.
5) Go backwards a bit in technology and do things like using email or making your own websites. In other words, take a step back from the facebook part of the web and get to areas that are more under your control. For instance, I knew one activist who for years had regularly sent out emails to a mailing list of links to interesting news and other articles. Find people who think the way you do and share links on the internet via email. Then try to grow that group. If someone publishes their own website, a format like the original Drudge report which is simply a daily set of links to news articles is easy to accomplish. Again, the advantage is you avoid the censorship of Facebook who might not share your links and pages.
Using tools like email and websites, its possible for a group of people to stay in touch and to share information even when Google, Facebook and the other big tech giants are trying to censor everything.
6) Using a VPN service can help hide your home IP. This can be useful. For awhile, right-wing internet thugs would trace the IP addresses of people who posted on lefty message boards and then launch campaigns of harrasment against them. And most VPN services let you choose from a range of countries to use as your apparent home. Handy if national governments start blocking sites or feeds in their area.
Do not treat this as a magical cloak of invisibility. You can still be spied on. I’m non-violent anyways, but don’t assume you are invisible and plot acts of violence. You can be spied on, and acts of violence are usually stupid and play into the establishment’s hands anyways.
7) Consider using TOR browser and its services. Yes, it was largely developed by the west to let dissendents in anti-west contries to use the internet. So, it can be spied on as well. But these things make it harder for you to be tracked and followed on the internet. They are not magic cloaks of invisibility, but the people who want to spy on someone who uses them have to expend more resources to do so. Stacking TOR on top of a VPN should at the least make it more difficult to track you on the internet.
8) Organize. Both on the internet and locally. The biggest problem that appears to face any people who want to oppose what appears to be a coming war is disorganization. A famous Joe Hill quote, “Don’t Get Mad, Organize!”
For the righties who don’t know who Joe Hill is, a study of a century or more of leftist organizing and how to succeed and survive against a corporate state with police powers might be a useful introduction.
I have personally witnessed that information system privateers are hired as hitmen on estates or properties with self-motivated owners which are desired by…let’s say interests of a non-transparent nature. The psywar techniques are some of the most heinous torture methodogies ever conceived…if conception is even a thing where such ideas originate.
The ability to erase a persons history completely already exists for those most exposed…and is probably commanding a pretty price on the blackest markets…limiting one”a exposure becomes imperative because they seek to make self sufficiency impossible for independently minded groups…and use Pavlovian techniques to enhance submissive response conditioning where they play “Lucy ball” with you until you back off with expressions of nonconformity.
This is just the opinion of an animal wrangler and trainer with a background as an ecosystems analyst…take from it what you find feasible and use your imagination…but yes I also have been approached probably to see if recruiting was an option after undergrad work was complete back in 93.
ISGb