Site Announcement: recent DDoS attacks
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We’ve been experiencing small attacks like this for weeks, but since midweek they have become much worse. Consequently we’ve had to switch on our Cloudflare security shields.
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Probably just Tugendhat’s chums at 77 Brigade. But it’s a good sign – my old RAF grandad said when you got a lot of flak you knew you were over the target. First they ignore you……….. Repression and censorship are becoming ever more rigid and extreme, but this is a sign of weakness, not strength. Andrew Bridgen has just been kicked out of the Tory Party. But would you really expect any different from the Tory branch of the Uniparty? You can brazenly lie through your teeth, get caught with your hand in the till and your trousers down umpteen times, and you lead a charmed life and go from strength to strength in today’s Tory party.. But woe betide anybody like Bridgen who dares to tell the truth and upset our exalted masters, those who really rule over us, those who cannot on any account be criticised. Meanwhile, Diane… Read more »
Sounds like the same retaliation tactics used in big tech lawsuits against witnesses, medical professionals that don’t comply with the narrative, politicians that aren’t globalist aligned, etc.
In our terrifying totalitarian global fascist dictatorship, dissenting voices domains get down ranked, email gets classified as spam, and social media reach gets crushed. They will also harass you with strange collection notices and questionable tax violations, put you on a secret unemployable list, and so on.
Just came back to see if there had been more relevant talk about OffG’s network travails, DDoS attacks, Cloudflare etc. Instead, after the first couple of posts (thx Roger Lewis and wardropper), I only find >1800 words/>10,000 characters of…, well, let me find a courteous expression, … OK: soul searching without any relevance whatsoever to what’s being discussed. Apparently, trolls v.2.0, or whatever they call themselves, seem to think that OffG’s admins have nothing else to keep themselves busy with.
But, black clouds and silver linings, I’m duly reminded of why I never-ever read the comments sections — any comments section.
So you never read the comment sections but like to count the words?
Korrekt. I’d thought of using ChatGPT, but found it faster with my fingers. And my toes.
Were you true to your word count and comment, you would never have read George’s words, nor bother to comment in reply, as ‘Evidence’ of your reading Btl : unless, that is ‘The’ geo-engineered cloud with a silver-iodide lining, you speak of… ? Does this mean we can count on your counting & commenting more vociferously, in future ? Never ever say never-ending neverland in the land of never make believe, btl, That you never read, below the line, for better context. See? ChatGPT may well prove more reliable than your own thought processing: consider. Were you lonely ? Did you feel a sudden wave & sense of compulsion to comment & contradict yourself ? Or, is this a long-standing beef 🥩 of yours that spilled over… ausnahmsweise ? Simply, riddle ChatGPT what constitutes OT & logical responses. Clouds ⛅ flaring & fluffing up lovely, is my Forecast. But, then… Read more »
I was on a plane the other day and thought I’d try my Bluetooth detector app.
I believe aeroplane mode turns off Bluetooth by default but you can bypass if you want?
Anyway, it detected 67 Bluetooth devices. Mostly unknown.
If anyone can correct me on the science I would be grateful but if I am correct, 67 people on a 737 chose to bypass aeroplane mode or there where a lot of people carrying Bluetooth devices they knew nothing about!
Just landed on return flight.
115 devices. 20 recognised.
And yes, I had to bypass aeroplane mode to activate Bluetooth.
The only sure way to stop these attacks is to stop what you’re doing and comply. Most ‘journalism’ already has done this and in doing so have tuned journalism into a totalitarian journal of intent and errors. A source for future ‘historians’ to tap, no doubt.
DDOS is an acronym only the IT Crowd could invent.
In my miswired brain I read Dodd, as in the British comic Ken Dodd.
He has a message to the spooks: “You think you can get away, but you can’t. I’ll follow you home and I’ll shout jokes through your letterbox.”
Ken Dodd was a vaudeville comic silly., give Tony Hancock a go Benny Hill is probably beyond you mem Schwabie book readers.
Oh hang on – isn’t this the day we get a nuclear warning on our phones? Can’t wait!
Stumbled upon these paragraphs from a review of Barbara Kingsolver’s latest book in the WSWS. (It’s about four months old).
The irony should not be lost:
‘The social crisis emerged when giant US pharmaceutical companies pumped billions of opioids into the populations of some of the poorest, deindustrialised regions of the country, deliberately campaigning for doctors to prescribe them. Many an addict began with a prescription from a doctor.
Between 2006 and 2012, 76 billion prescription pain pills were pumped out, fuelling an epidemic to which the companies responded by pumping more pills into the hardest hit regions, above all Appalachia. Former coal mining centres in Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee were targeted in particular.
By 2021 US deaths from overdose of synthetic opioids rose to 71,000, up from 58,000 in 2020.’
Are they the Walking Dead-Heads or not?
This might tickle your fancy:
https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/it-was-a-science-fiction-level-event?utm_medium=email
It tickled mine. Especially this bit: “Opposing views were ruthlessly culled and those who questioned things subjected to outrageous smears” with footnote: “It wasn’t just people who were slandered in this way. Ivermectin, a very, very safe drug that has had great benefits for humanity, was derided in the media as horse paste. There was simply no way this closing of ranks on things like Ivermectin were the result of independent news organizations just all, miraculously, coming to the same conclusion and using the same terminology. The same could be said for many covid ‘policies’. In a miraculous synchronised convergence of will and understanding, almost the whole world adopted the same batshit bonkers measures. It was like something from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” Yes indeed. From the BBC to the WSWS to the … well, you name it. Apart of course from a few designated two-minute-hate figures with “Evil… Read more »
Ivermectin was a psyop because there was no covid. There doesn’t need to be a drug to treat an imaginary illness that’s only derived through a fake “test”.
Your news is all fake, no matter where you are getting it from. And substack is yet another alphabet agency front selling useless subscriptions to the brainwashed masses.
On a related point Mathew Crawford was questioning what Steve Kirsch is doing with a million email addresses of substack dissenters?
I apologise in advance for going off topic and so soon in a new article. Furthermore, readers of OffG will know that I have issues that probably seem tedious because I am hung up on old loyalties. I am hampered by fixating on the old Left circles who have shown themselves to be worse than useless since covid began. And I appreciate that your site here offers me the opportunity to vent my spleen in matters that may bore you. But I got so infuriated by this: http://steelcityscribblings.uk/wp/2023/04/21/trivialising-capitalisms-rape-of-nature/ More intransigent posturing in a plastic starry eyed mode. Though I have noticed that the poster Dave Hansel has been breaking out of this duped Left mold and this is a hopeful sign. But Philip is uneasy and just won’t go there. When Dave queries the utterly plastic XR movement, Philip tells us, “Many of its rank and file have made sacrifices… Read more »
On re-examination: “while I’ve no doubt they will be infiltrated by state agencies including Special Branch and MI5 – possibly with a brief not only to spy but incite excesses and so discredit the cause – I’m not aware of any evidence of a motive other than keeping tabs on and drawing into disrepute a movement the state fears. Do you know of any such evidence? You can see the problem here, Dave.” How do you obtain “evidence of a motive”? It seems an odd phrase in that it obviously sets up a very high demand for the evidence. And note how Philip clearly things he does have evidence of some motive: “keeping tabs on and drawing into disrepute a movement the state fears” i.e. the motive that he wishes to read into any such infiltration. And it’s a very reassuring motive since he has to convince himself that the… Read more »
And this is the paradigm that the “official Left” must believe in: that the state fears these organisations (Insulate Britain, Just Stop Oil, XR). It is the paradigm pushed by the mainstream. Three years into Planet Covid and there’s no change to that curious schizophrenia whereby the establishment jubilantly tells us how the establishment is crumbling.
to the observant its clear that the blues have now acheived what was required by their masters and with recent bombshells like “starmer landslide” being touted around its clear that the next rig, sorry i mean election will take us down a very dark road. absurdly many will welcome this new “phase” of “governance” as a cure to their post “covid” mallaise and confusion (which is endemic) many in the uk farming community of which i am a microscopic cog, but also an ex ag college lecturer in poultry science are aware that a red governance in the uk will potentialy develop into a state land grab. whilst spending several decades having shown how to and encouraging others to bust the monopoly imposed by the “planning system” on land use, ownership and right to live, i should in theory wecome such moves by a “labour” government? in truth such a… Read more »
Perhaps we are on the verge of a new Holodomor?
Most people still believe “they can’t be worse” than what we’ve got.
Ignoring the fact that they’re two cheeks of the same arse
Steele city scribe is another fake controlled opposition website that in the end demands you vote labour. The end.
Yeah that about sums it up.
‘It’s a private club and you ain’t in it’
(George Carlin, soothsayer, social satirist and brave bloke).
“It is A Racket and we are not in it. We are its marks/targets (victims).”
Thanks S.
OG must be doing something right.
Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2023-04-22. 600k Americans p.a. Are Dying From COVID Shots Says Top Insurance Analyst. 71% ARs from 4% of batches (blog, gab, tweet).
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/NET/holders?p=NET. Usual suspects. All dissenting voices are tolerated until they are not. Big tech is never your friend.
Most likely a ‘script kiddie’ disgruntled former user at work, but then … did anyone actually complain of site slowness?
If not, then might it not be one of those insidiously fake binaries at work … ?
Human or AI? You decide (must confess, I didn’t get 100%):
https://www.humanornot.ai/
Personally wouldn’t have said anything, it’s like walking past a news stand a person thinking you’ll be back but what’s this needing a tick, ok. It’s the times we live in so who cares they must have my normie anyway.
Cloudflare is stupid, or browser-racist, or both. It never lets me in with my “different” browsers, unless it’s my just-as-different operative system it’s prejudiced against. It’s been like that for ever, so when Cloudflare shows up, it’s bye-bye site as far as I’m concerned. Now, how about using something simple and intelligent — just like this site, which also seems to have been under attack the last few days:
https://www.controinformazione.info/.well-known/captcha/?r=%2F2023%2F0%2F
After my first contact with Cloudflare a couple of years ago, I got the impression there was something cancerously invasive about it – little footnotes about Cloudflare this and Cloudflare that – rather like Google and Microsoft at their worst…
For all I know, it’s a crawly bot thing which collects info for Voldemort.
All I want it to do is stop invasion, not add its own little variant to it.
After all, somebody designed Cloudflare, and somebody makes money from it, which means somebody can also be bribed to subvert it.
But I haven’t done any serious research into the matter, so I’ll reserve judgement for now.
Generally, my faith in any organized system couldn’t be less these days, because I know what I would do myself if I was an unscrupulous bastard, and because people like that are no longer held in check by adequate oversight.
A good point. Every ‘organized system’ seeks to self-preserve and prosper (itself primarily) … there are few exceptions
DDoS is so moronic, so 77th Brigade.
Not really sure what you mean here 🤔 A2
If you’re taking flak, you’re over the target 😀
DDOS attacks by whom for what reason?
It’s good to hear Cloudflare is willing to protect you.
Yes it’s all so strange and mysterious considering how we live in such a free world with no one attempting to control the lines of communication.
Jacob Siegel: “The first phase of the information war was marked by distinctively human displays of incompetence and brute-force intimidation. But the next stage, already underway, is being carried out through both scalable processes of artificial intelligence and algorithmic pre-censorship that are invisibly encoded into the infrastructure of the internet, where they can alter the perceptions of billions of people. Something monstrous is taking shape in America. Formally, it exhibits the synergy of state and corporate power in service of a tribal zeal that is the hallmark of fascism. Yet anyone who spends time in America and is not a brainwashed zealot can tell that it is not a fascist country. What is coming into being is a new form of government and social organization that is as different from mid-twentieth century liberal democracy as the early American republic was from the British monarchism that it grew out of and eventually supplanted.… Read more »
When I read that kind of thing, I’m glad I’ll be dead soon.
I know how you feel.
Hang in there. We might yet live to see a few stupid heads on pikes…
‘8+billion’ of us – all singing the same song.
I can’t wait. Baby. Nu Shooz.
“The synergy of state and corporate power in service of a tribal zeal that is the hallmark of fascism” is a perfect and succinct definition of fascism … and of religion and modern medicine, the football institution, … This apparent human need to belong to one fanatic tribe or another is what’s holding humanity back. You mention the mythical “state organized on the principle that it exists to protect the sovereign rights of individuals”. Has it ever existed anywhere in history? That’s the other belief we must give up in order to see clearly a path towards freedom (you can’t vote yourself out of authoritarianism). In the West people thought they were free but that’s an illusion; so long as we remained obedient little debt slaves we were largely left in peace; only those with virtually nothing had to fear the state. That’s why the majority of western people got the C-shots… Read more »
No harm belonging to “one fanatic tribe or another” if you respect outsiders. Those who resisted the jabs belonged to such a trube.
Ours is a defensive ‘fanaticism’ that protects our own lives while harming no one else. Their fanaticism, on the other hand, destroys both them and others. Two very different animals!
Nope, my family went against all the tribes we know of within our circle. Only dead fish go with the flow.
The US of As is just a few years from disintegration, luckily for humanity.
The local elites will need powerful tools if they are going to be able to oppress an enormously reduced population of wage slaves and useless eaters.
Why aren’t Americans welcoming this?They tried so very hard to impose in on the rest of the world …
How does that medicine taste, Yankee?
Unfortunately for the world, the controlled demolition of the US that is underway will not lead to the liberation of humanity, but rather to the erection of globalist quasi-state to fill the proverbial void. Look here: they’re already preparing to roll out the new global CBDC to replace the dollar …
https://www.activistpost.com/2023/04/the-imf-has-just-unveiled-a-new-global-currency-known-as-the-universal-monetary-unit-that-is-supposed-to-revolutionize-the-world-economy.html
If you thought Fedcoin and Eurocoin were bad, say hello to Mondocoin!
[Note to Off-G: you all might want to look into this, as I see that so few alt-media sources are reporting on it. Is it a hoax? Let’s hope it is!]
Nope sorry, your a gobshiting corograted dustbin in need of a lid rolling around in a back ally imo. If I came along you’d off to recycling if it was numberless.
Oh it’s free alright, your Rubbish.
Was ist das?
Here we have one of the few instances where we can definitely exclude Mossad. And we all know why …
While the Cloudflare shield was running, I could not get past the ‘human checking’ test screen. It kept looping back to ‘just checking’. Probably clashing with some of my security software. Just to let you know that the Cloudflare screen may reduce your visitor count a bit.
“I could not get past the ‘human checking’ test screen. It kept looping back to ‘just checking’.”
Hmm, are you sure you’re human though? Get some dogs near you and see if their behaviour changes to furious barking at you… Like in the movie Terminator.
Only joking. 😉👍
I am no longer able to edit posts, because the edit option does not display the text for editing.
Anyone else?
Yep, in my main browser. Had to use my secondary one to poste the above, and this.
Piss off clown,.. hang on I’ll ask a couple of million others ya great fanny mushroom cloud.
Happened to me.
5 Stars off-G! Give’em hell!
Thanks for letting us know.
Wait, didn’t ‘rubberheid’ predict this a few days ago…???!!!
I believe ‘rubberheid’ did post a screed slating Offg, calling it a ‘fraud’ like the ‘graud’ (I see what they did there, lol) etc.
Other comments in reply tied into Sophie-Admin1’s later announcement that Offg is being subjected to DDoS attacks, to which ‘rubberheid’ denouced his/her fellow commenters as ’77 or pro-troll’ and inquired as to whether Offg is a psyop.
This is pretty standard, non-specific stuff.
Actually, the only prescient person seems to have been Howard, who mentioned that the recent negative vibes BTL reminded him of Truthdig before it closed down.
So, who knows…. Maybe psychic points go to Howard? Or maybe we’ll be here to bother you all for some time to come. Who knows!?
[Unfortunately, the OP comment became corrupted, please claim if it’s yours (Kevin Craig??) and accept our apologies, prob just a Cloudflare glitch- admin].
A2
Rubberheid is good to go .. not the type … a bit far out maybe … but no dice …
There has been a lot of, what looked to me, phoney posters recently.
Especially on the RFK jr thread.
Stick around. Things are about to get interesting.
Perhaps the bbc took the hump when OffG gave Richard Hall a platform? The bbc absolutely hate truth tellers with a vengeance.
No inclusion there. Just good old suspresion and smearing of an honest reporter.