A couple of days ago, I mentioned that WUWT was being deplatformed by our current hosting provider.
We are moving again, after 2+ years on this hosting provider, we are headed back to where we originally were on wordpress.com where their cloud servers can handle the load, the DDoS attacks, and other issues that come with running a world-class website.
To that end, so we don’t lose comments and content, I’m putting new posts on hold for at least a day. I’ll have one “Friday Funny” tomorrow that will appear below this one, and then that’s it until we get settled again.
I wish to thank everyone who has donated towards covering the cost of the move (it wasn’t insignificant, and I had to hire a consultant). I didn’t even ask for donations, and yet, there they were, rolling in.
It is a testament to the kindness and character of our readers. I’ll let you know when we are back up on the new site, and what sort of things you might have to do (like clearing cache etc) to access it right away.
Sincere thanks for your patience. – Anthony
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Ask for a modest membership fee Anthony. I’d be more than happy to pay. Make it voluntary, I think you will be surprised and I think it will work better than your “tip jar”.
I couldn’t stop the mouse 🙂
Sorry to hear you are being deplatformed. There is a ton of censorship happening. COVID, the coin shortage, the riots – it has all been either engineered or exploited. Check out this article: https://ramblingsofasociologystudent.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-social-revolutions-begin-and-end.html
On a different note, we have to fight the stupid idea that we all have to be “safe.”
Nothing is safe. Getting out of bed in the morning is a risk, as is the rest of the day. You cannot protect against an infectious virus, and masks and social distancing simply do not work, particularly for the healthy.
The government recommended massk in the UK even specifically says on the box that it is not suitable for Covid-19. This means that masks are a power, control, and political tool. The Face Burka. One politician thinks people should also wear masks at home! Why? It’s patently unhealthy. Hypercapnia anyone?
Social distancing might work if it was 25 feet. There is no science indicating that 6 feet does anything. They simply chose a distance to impose on the public. Again, another tool for teaching people to comply to government edicts.
Flattening the curve morphed into stopping the virus, which is impossible without putting people in permanent isolation. Now, they have decided that we and the children, who are least threatened by this virus, must be safe, which is the height of stupidity in this scamdemic.
This virus is no worse and likely much weaker than influenza. The flu season is over and so is the virus that was killing the elderly, which BTW happens every year during the flu season with its salad of viruses. However, they have tests that are NOT specific for C-19 but only for coronaviruses in general and they can pretend they are finding lots of “cases.” Lots of coronaviruses are environmental and essentially harmless, constantly moving around all year—a slight sniffle in a morning and it’s gone. The crappy tests provide lots of positive “cases” for the government to act upon.
You are not a case unless you are sick or admitted to the hospital. Positive tests, particularly from a test that is estimated to be 80% false positive, are not cases and testing, either PCR or antibody, means nothing in particular about what someone has.
Again, it is not possible to be safe in this world and we all eventually die. Herd immunity is a goal in a population regarding an infections virus. The powers that be want to use vaccinations to do this,, but even vaccinations have not been able to create true herd immunity in other diseases and have questionable results. They know that the flu vaccine tends to suppress immune systems and they saw a lot of people in Italy who had gotten the flu vaccine this year become very sick with this coronavirus.
The scary part is that people like Bill Gates want to use gene therapy-based vaccines to alter our DNA to make us immune. No thanks.
There is good reason why there has not been a coronavirus vaccine to date. They mutate too quickly for a vaccine to be effective; even the flu vaccine is iffy most years because the influenza virus recombines so easily. So, as no one actually has a pure culture of C-19, it is impossible that a vaccine will be C-19 specific. This means that they must be targeting coronaviruses in general, which is not the goal and might have other health effects as our exosomes, which we use to detoxify, are very similar to coronaviruses.
“Stay safe” is such a joke and misleading as life is NOT safe.
Exactly, Charles. Oldies like me are part of the Dying Generation. If you’re over 80, all your friends are now dying. Parkinsons, cancer, heart attacks. It’s the natural order of things, so why panic about it?
We oldies die WITH Corovinus, not because of it. It’s the comorbidities, stupid. These weaken the immune system and make us more vulnerable to viruses.
So what? Get your will sorted and your tax paid. Leave things tidy for your executors, but stay safe?
Bollocks.
It’s all about being safe and what Govn’t says you need to do, and sacrifice, to be “safe”. What is happening in the UK is criminal IMO. I was glad to read many thousands of people, on a recent nice, warm sunny day, a rare thing even during the height of summer in the UK, defied social distancing guidelines (Which are being enforced as if they are laws), and went to the beach. A nice warm day, above 30c, exposed to sunlight and fresh air. I have not heard on the news here in Australia about spikes of COVID-19 cases nor have I seen any reported in UK media just condemnation.
As I write, (9-19-20, 5:35 EDT), a banner across the bottom on the Home page says this:
“Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Expound by Konstantin Kovshenin”
Has the transition back been completed?
WordPress is the software that runs some web sites. WordPress is also an organization where you can get web hosting.
When I do a traceroute wattsupwiththat.com, it ends up at 199.16.172.80. When I do whois 199.16.172.80 it shows Pressable, which, as far as I can tell, is the main WordPress host.
So, I suspect WUWT is off its old host and onto the new. That said, there could still be a lot of work to do.
I think it has always said “Proudly powered by WordPress” though perhaps with a different theme several years ago, whether hosted at WordPress or at Pressable.
A PayPal donation from Down Under as well, Anthony.
Well done, mate. You’ve been a beacon of hope in the storm, and the light can’t be cancelled out now.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the Fall with Covid-19. I’ve seen a couple of analyses (one here) that posit that HVAC is an important vector for infections, hence the pickup in states in the southern US. The Europeans are congratulating themselves on getting things under control with social distancing and mask wearing, but it also occurs to me that air conditioning is much less common in most of Europe than in the US and the weather isn’t so hot that you can’t enjoy your latte al fresco. The hottest places also tend to be the poorest so likely have even less AC unlike the US, where the southern cities have a lot of wealth.
I think that October will be an interesting month across the northern hemisphere.
While Oz looked like we’d go the way of NZ with eradication early on it now appears all the costly lockdown and Gummint spending have been futile with Victoria leading a breakout and NSW to follow by the looks. The belief that Big Gummint and experts can solve every problem is under siege.
Here’s the latest with untraceable community transmission having grown when originally it was overseas arrivals they were getting on top of-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/victorian-coronavirus-cases-rise-by-374-as-state-s-death-toll-increases-by-three/ar-BB16Zbb3
Matter of interest:
Check out earthquakes in Iceland.
https://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/
Now check out planetary alignments
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar/action?sys=-Sf
I have also been watching this interesting set of planetary alignments. Look up some of the great quakes which have occurred in history, and planetary alignments at the time of those quakes. One obvious feature of note which I have seen for some of these great quakes is that they occur when multiple planets line up with each other. especially when the inner planets are grouped together.
I still think that the main trigger of import is the phases of the moon. The next several days could be of interest as the new moon is in place as of yesterday. I have been watching China in respect to this. Waterlogged China has been relatively quiet for quakes over the last several months. With water in the Three Gorges dam at peak heights a strong quake in that area could have significant consequences.
The new moon may be the most important as you say.
So look at what just happened on the last night of the New Moon, a 7.8 quake struck in the Aleutian Islands close to the Alaskan mainland. Plus there were 4 strong quakes in Qamdo China over the previous 3 days of the New Moon. … https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22satellite%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B-83.40004205976699%2C-350.859375%5D%2C%5B83.35951133035452%2C166.2890625%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%22plates%22%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3A%5B%22restrictListToMap%22%5D%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22list%22%2C%22map%22%5D%2C%22event%22%3Anull%7D
And a 6.2 just struck on the west coast of Canada at Tofino. The last 36 hours of the New Moon along with the current planetary alignment seems to have triggered some strong quake activity, … https://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/
The 6.2 was downgraded to a 5.4.
The Epoch Times just posted their daily China news on You Tube. They spoke of the grouping of quakes around Qamdo, western China over the last several days. One of those quakes has caused a large landslide on one of the tributary rivers into the Yangtze. Warnings have been sent out that the slide will soon get swept downstream in a massive flood which will severely impact a dam downstream from the slide. All of that could then form a large wave which would head into the Three Gorges dam. Interesting times we live in. The rain is still falling along thousands of miles of the Yangtze river plus onto the many tributary rivers. This is an historic event. yet the msm is ignoring the story.
About one hour ago a very strong 6.3 quake struck in Xizang nearby the Qamdo area where 4 strong quakes had struck over the last several days.
Perfect example of “correlation does not imply causation”. Thanks.
I have never commented here before, but I have been reading the articles and post for what, 10 years or more. Anthony you are doing a great service , Thank You!! I sent in a donation today and encourage others to do the same.
“Science tells us we have nine years before the damage is irreversible”
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/joe-biden-s-climate-plan-would-blow-up-the-us-economy-alan-jones/ar-BB170gwE
Phew that’s a relief as I thought we were all doomed back in 2000-
https://apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
Thank goodness for internal variability eh?
https://notrickszone.com/2020/07/13/most-of-the-globe-could-experience-no-warming-for-30-years-due-to-temperature-driving-internal-variability/
Gaia works in mysterious ways my son.
Just flung a donation from my Trump cheque, since I cannot get into the US to spend directly, thanks to closed borders. Best wishes with your server move, Anthony!
Restructure His Unhealthy break up
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