By Jo Nova
Four weeks before the biggest election in history, the The Wayback Machine, was hacked in a major DDOS attack. The site was restored partially, but for the moment operates as “read only”. It is not possible to ask the archive to save a page. In a strange coincidence, Google caching stopped earlier this year and officially ended in September. So there is suddenly no recognised source of common shared truth about the history of the internet at the moment. Officially, supposedly, they will be back in action, sometime, one day, and theoretically they are copying the same pages they normally copy, they just can’t update yet, or archive new pages…
Imagine how convenient that might be if someone were planning to lie, cheat, or change their story after the election?
So please, everyone, “keep a copy”, and tell your friends to keep copies too. Capture the screenshots. Save the page. Download the youtubes and save them. You never know when an election promise, a counting tally, a prediction, or a gaffe might disappear down a memory hole.
Is it just a coincidence or was this the deep state blob at work? As Jeffrey Tucker says, the timing is perfect, but we just do not know.
Deleting history helps people who want to cheat:
They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now
By Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute
Incredibly, the service Archive.org which has been around since 1994 has stopped taking images of content on all platforms. For the first time in 30 years, we have gone a long swath of time – since October 8-10 – since this service has chronicled the life of the Internet in real time.
As of this writing, we have no way to verify content that has been posted for three weeks of October leading to the days of the most contentious and consequential election of our lifetimes.
Crucially, this is not about partisanship or ideological discrimination. No websites on the Internet are being archived in ways that are available to users. In effect, the whole memory of our main information system is just a big black hole right now.
What this means is the following: Any website can post anything today and take it down tomorrow and leave no record of what they posted unless some user somewhere happened to take a screenshot. Even then there is no way to verify its authenticity. The standard approach to know who said what and when is now gone. That is to say that the whole Internet is already being censored in real time so that during these crucial weeks, when vast swaths of the public fully expect foul play, anyone in the information industry can get away with anything and not get caught.
Without the Wayback Machine Chris Gillham couldn’t have shown how the second round of adjustments in our national climate database wiped out even more historic hot days. (See the graph changes below).
Sweeping changes in record hot days? The Bureau of Meteorology adjusted raw data to make ACORN 1 and has adjusted that further to make ACORN 2!
Without the Wayback Machine we might not have a copy of the Victorian Government paper pushing for offshore wind power which accidentally admitted that all the onshore wind and solar plants they needed would require up to 70% of all agricultural land in the state.
Without the Wayback Machine we wouldn’t have a link to the original government report that listed the climate models biggest prediction and the results that showed it was a complete failure. The missing hot spot is probably the most important feedback within the climate models. All the models predicted the most rapid heating would happen 10km over the tropics, but 28 million weather balloons hunted for that signal and found it never happened. This shows water vapor doesn’t amplify the warming, and there was no catastrophe coming. After skeptics pointed out the failure, the large 6 Chapter Report from 2005 quietly disappeared. All my links to references broke, but there was a full copy on the WaybackMachine so I could update that post.
Every time government agencies screw up they want to hide the evidence. That’s why we need the Wayback Machine, and it’s why they need to shut it down.
h/t Bally, Skepticynic, and Simon Thompson.
George Orwell would be updating 1984 if he was alive today!
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Nineteen Eighty Four wouldn’t need updating.
He prophesied nearly exactly our present situation.
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Ooh My second Hat Tip evah. Yeah something big is going down and they are playing with us right now. To go from hundreds of millions of bots capturing every web page to nothing from “Denial of service attacks” is ludicrous. The green curtain has been pulled back by Toto, but we have been ordered to studiously ignore the wizard behind it. I find it interesting that AI can “fill in the information gaps” with ideological purity that would make a Kommissar blush. Sit back and enjoy the ride!
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The biggest show on Earth just got even bigger, or, the biggest dodge on Earth just got more dodgier.
If it weren’t for sites like Jo’s or Tony Heller’s and a few others, I too could possibly maybe might believe the planet was on fire – or drowning – and that lovely kind caring coloured woman VP was the world’s last chance for, um, what’s it called, oh yeah, climate justice and equity and freedom for all.
™️Turn the page™️??? Puke. 🤮
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For USA readers, ‘puke’ is the same as your Ralph, Chuck, and Barf, ie. stomach churning.
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I like the word “chunder”. From a land Down Under.
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Hi Jo; you mention the lack of a hotspot as one of the most major predictitive fails of the CAGW narrative. No argument but there is one even more serious. CAGW is entirely based on the claim that rising CO2 reduces thermal emmission to space – acting like an additional blanket over the Earth – and this reduction in energy loss is what causes the warming. Its not just a prediction, its the entire CAGW thesis.
That a testable claim, NASA has been monitoring Earth’s thermal energy loss to space for nearly 50 years. Its called outgoing longave radiation or OLR for short. Measured OLR has been steadily rising for the entire measurement period. Rising not falling even though CO2 levels are supposedly rising!!! According to basic principles of science that means the thesis is falsified.
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Thats Richard Lizden’s (Lindzen? – I can never recall his last name) point is it not? He was the first scientist I came across when I began to investigate this CC stuff and he change my mind from being an agnostic “believer” to thinking ‘ah its not as we are told”.
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Falsifiable?
Falsified?
Are you a scientist?
It goes against my feelings so I’m going to insist “Everyone knows” trumps the scientific argument.
This is LITERALLY killing people.
And you do not have to be a scientist to recognise fallacy.
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The trouble is that today a lot of the Party’s are all Left.
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Seen on a baseball cap: Make 1984 fiction again!
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I’ve noticed that the polarization is so great that facts no longer matter.
Cold comfort, but it’s not like we can change minds anymore.
In the first Reformation, common possession of books posed a threat to the powerful.
Have we come full circle?
Must we now start secretly saving and hoarding books in hope of preserving the past?
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Hete is a video about how we can preserve digital information and distribute it with ad hoc wireless networks when the grid goes down or the Internet becomes even more heavily censored.
Years ago before the Internet I knew of a data hoarder who did it with Microfiche.
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IIRC it worked for about 1500 years
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As Greg in NZ pointed out, Tony Heller was onto this years ago. As a long time computer programmer he was able to devise his own way back machine and archive the NOAA weather database. He can do all the before and after comparisons quite easily. Before = raw data, after= manipulated data. Hopefully, someone has done the same for the Australian BOM data.
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Plus his research via old newspapers and other reports of the time put paid to the mind-narrowing (and mind-numbing) preachers of consensus, high-priests of mumbo jumbo, and invisible investment banksters making more than a pretty penny out of their [old/new] religion.
‘Fool me once…’ as ye olde saying goes.
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The Australian Parliament frequently “disappears” past submissions to various enquiries from “we the people”, especially when they don’t conform to the Official Narrative.
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How will the AI systems give ‘correct’ answers if even they cannot reference the Wayback Machine?
Will they only spout the currently available sites/papers/’experts’ then give a different response in following days after changes are made (but not recorded)?
Will AI prognostications be archived?
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Huxley vs Orwell interpretation of what’s going on.
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YUP!! 😁
…and, hinting again, maybe Jo could/should do a siterip here for posterity.
Maybe archive every month as a PDF…
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