Posted on 09/17/2008 10:28:43 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
This is what the Nut Roots are doing to WGN-AM in Chicago:
Obama vs. WGN-AMIf you guys in the Robinson family don't get your act together, and get it together soon, then the Nut Roots are going to take down this site, and take it down hard, for the next two months.
The station is coming under attack for offering airtime to controversial author.
by John McCormick and Steven Schmadeke | Tribune staff reporters
September 16, 2008
chicagotribune.comChicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author. It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat.
Monday night's target was David Freddoso, who the campaign said was scheduled to be on the station from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Chicago time.
Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web
Campaign targets media when attacks aired By John McCormick | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:32 AM CDT, September 17, 2008
chicagotribune.comMuch of Barack Obama's political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network.
Now Obama's presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows.
It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago when the radio station hosted author David Freddoso, who has written a controversial book about the Illinois Democrat.
You need to do several things to the Free Republic infrastructure and have them in place no later than about October 1; among them:
1) Mirror Free Republic to at least two other physical locations around the country - one on the east coast [Washington/NYC/Atlanta], and the other maybe more central [Texas has some large colo's with backbone connectivity].
Right now, I am seeing only two IP resolutions for "www.freerepublic.com" - 209.147.64.200 & 209.147.64.201 - and traceroutes have them [predictably] on the same physical network [I imagine that they are sitting right next to one another in the same server rack]:
2) Turn off as much of the relational structure at Free Republic as is possible, and return to a strictly flat file structure for as much of the content at Free Republic as is possible.[n - 2] mg-1.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net [n - 1] 128.242.105.82 [n] 209.147.64.200 The current relational structure is hopelessly broken, and the negotiations between the caching frontend and the relational backend are breaking down multiple times a day.
Again: THE RELATION STRUCTURE MUST BE DISCARDED - THIS IS IMPERATIVE.
[Furthermore, it is vastly easier to propagate a flat file structure to multiple physical sites around the country; trying to propagate a relational structure, in real time, with relatively limited funds for bandwidth, is essentially impossible.]
3) As things really heat up in October & November, I'd consider banning [temporarily] all non-political content, and instituting an aggressive policy of putting on probation the accounts of users who post lengthy, inane, unfocused, meandering, off-topic soliloquies - concentrating instead on promoting the work of people [like Kristinn] who are doing original investigative reporting and who are presenting their results in simple, straightforward, declarative arguments.
Along those lines, I'd move aggressively to upgrade the quality of the moderators who are policing the content at Free Republic - the quality of the moderation is utterly unpredictable from hour to hour - one hour there will seem to be a moderator who "gets it", and the next hour, it's as if that moderator's shift suddenly ended, and we have an utterly clueless moderator in charge of things.
I don't care if you're worried about hurting Granny's feelings if you tell her that she can't moderate for the next two months - we have to get some moderators in here who are up-to-date on current events and who understand the difference between original investigative reporting [regarding e.g. DEM/Obama treason & Bolshevik/Gramscian subterfuge] and the kinds of "Pray for my Kitty who is having feline leukemia chemotherapy tomorrow morning" threads which seem to waste so much CPU time & bandwidth at this site.
FR runs the Apache web server on Linux.
Of course, you can run Linux on an Apple server. But you can also run it on any good quality server. So, no reason to shell out any extra $$ on hardware if all you're going to do is wipe the disk and install Linux.
As for resistance to hacking attacks, that would depend on Linux, Apache, and John and Jim's attention to the details and not on Mac OS, since it's not running in either case.
Even that's not foolproof, since TCP sessions can be hijacked and IP headers can be spoofed.
I couldn’t get on for hours the other day, and after that, it has been very slow. Also when I try to go to the next page in a thread, I get an error message and have to do it again.
I figured it was because FR was getting new servers and all the bugs were being worked out. But what do I know? LOL.
This is the only site that this has happened with, so I know it’s not my computer. This time. ;^)
[God willing, we will persevere.]
Thank you JimRob
Continuing prayers for your health and for Free Republic!
Enslaved, eh? It's already happened. It's called the income tax.
And, someone is going to get stuck with the tab for all those bailouts, and I doubt that it will be anyone in Washington or in New York.
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if that was what i implied than I apologize. What I meant every-time we are FReeped to a poll, the radical muckdivers then manipulate that poll.
We are voting one one one and they ....well...are skewing the polls.
Thanks for posting that FR2 link. Bookmarked.
It had no effect on my observation, so I left it out.
If John and Jim made the changes suggested, I’d be outta here.
Yeah. It’s been a recent thing with me, too.
And only on FR.
Same thing has been happening to me every since I upgraded to Opera 9.5
It seldom happens with Firefox, Explorer or my old version of Opera, so I just presumed it was the upgrade.
It's not the upgrade. It's happened I calculate 40% of the time on FR (both 2.0 and 3.0). Quix has had it happen on IE. It's a recent phenomenon, the last few weeks. It's not your browser or the upgrade.
Oh, and it just happened when I tried to post this...
It’s still a SHOCKING THING to me
just how much THE EVIDENTLY AVERAGE FREEPER
is UNAWARE or unbelieving
of just
HOW MUCH the globalists have ALREADY SHREDDED
our beloved Constitution and our Beloved Republic.
And they are far from finished.
I don’t mean to unnecessarily offend anyone, just some resurfaced critical posts that have me scratching my head wondering if they really feel at home here at my beloved FR. However, even in jest I never suggested we ban anyone, either before or after a certain date.
My bad. When I typed “FR (both 2.0 and 3.0) I meant FIREFOX, not FR.
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Yup. A little hint for one and all... Install two or three different browsers on your PC, such as Internet Explorer, FireFox, and Opera. Use one such Internet Explorer as your main browser with standard privacy and cookie retention settings. When you go to the idiot or unknown sites, use your second browser, in which you have the security settings high, no permanent cookie retention, etc. This way they can't buy "double-click" marketing type info and attempt to identify you, among other things. Have the second browser settings set to clean/wipe everything on exit.
I've been having lots of problems with my internet connection in general, but it doesn't appear related to FF-3, because the same things happen when I'm using IE-7. I have both browsers set up and ready to use.
Dittos here.
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