“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
How about Vimeo? They’re getting weird and insular, but I found this:
Note that BitChute is being deplatformed!
“BitChute needs your help! We have been deplatformed by service providers and we are in the process of moving providers. If you experience an issue this is likely the cause. Please consider helping at this critical time.“
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As much as I utterly DESPISE “process over people”, I always found MEETINGS OF ACTUAL GEEKS WITH MINIMAL MANAGEMENT useful when there were too many people to look over one person’s shoulder comfortably in a GEEK CUBICLE. So – “declared meetings” have their uses. Here, if only to consolidate suggestions so I can find them later.
My mission in moving us to a WOKE-FREE SITE was so I could quickly get back to WAR in the immediate future. That is where my next posts will be going – back to POLITICS and away from I.T.
*** WAR ***
However, right now, we do have a lot of good geeky thoughts flying around. I want to capture them, even if I am going to INFO-GUNS right away (because THE BUSINESS is ultimately WHY WE ARE HERE).
Thoughts can go here. Including:
whether we want to STICK WITH THE NEW COMMENTING SYSTEM
whether I should get the tweet and video plugin extensions NOW (answer to above being YES)
features that we absolutely need NOW to FIGHT
features we need to add – but which will probably be LATER
tips and tricks for others to get online and FIGHTING
anything GEEKY
OK? GOOD! Have at it! Just remember – we FIGHT FIRST and repair the broken weapons LATER, when there is a break in the fighting.
So we STAND NOW!
W
Actors Henry Fonda and James Coburn on the set of Universal Studios movie ” Midway” in 1976. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
THE Q TREE CALLS ALL ITS TRUTH WARRIORS TO COME HOME AND ASSEMBLE FOR BATTLE!
Come inside!
Relax! Have a seat!
Or sit out on the deck!
Please check in and let your friends know that you FOUND our new home. Lurkers, former members, old friends from CTH, and everybody else – you are welcome to make that first post right here! Introduce yourselves!
UPDATE: The move is complete, and we are now ON THE NEW SITE – RIGHT HERE!!!
At 1:30 AM Eastern Time on December 4, 2020, the old site (wqth.wordpress.com) closed behind a “Coming Soon” banner, and two hours later, the NEW site opened HERE:
Having shut down comments on the old site, I will slowly decommission it, possibly keeping it as an archive and “back-up”, but all activity will shift to the new site.
We were ready WELL before 6 AM.
There will be some minor fixes over the next day or two.
The old site (wqth.wordpress.com) remains up, with a “GO TO THE NEW SITE” message at the top, but has been closed to comments, and will be decommissioned later, at some future date and time.
If this is your first visit to the site, please visit our WELCOME THREAD!!!
If you are interested in understanding our approach to QAnon, please visit out ABOUT PAGE.
NEWS will continue be posted BELOW.
Thank you, God bless you, and God Bless America!
W
JetPack News
You know the little bell at the right end of the black bar from WordPress? The one that gives you notifications about likes and replies to your comments? The one that makes it very easy to have a conversation with somebody – or to check if people have replied to your comments?
That “bell notifier” is powered by a plugin called JetPack, from WordPress.com (DOT COM). While we are moving OFF WP.com, we are still using both WordPress itself, from WordPress.org (DOT ORG), and the JetPack plugin (free version).
If you want those notifications, you have to allow WP.com to link to your account here using JetPack. I have done everything I can in settings to make that simple yet reliable, based on our early testing of the new site.
If you want to get “bell notifications” for posts here, you just need to do the following:
WHITELIST this site, or allow it to use ALL COOKIES, particularly for wordpress.com
Be sure to have your browser remember your login username and password
Find JetPack in your SETTINGS, and LINK TO WORDPRESS.COM
If your first comment gets moderated, wait for approval, then try another comment
Get my attention if you have problems. Others may offer some help.
If you have done all this correctly, you will start seeing “bell notifications” of replies to any comments on this site.
Right now, 23 of our 56 registered users have JetPack notifications working!
There is another notifier on any page with comments – the “green circle with orange numbers”. That is a “new comment” notifier in wpDiscuz, the commenting plugin. That plugin is separate from JetPack, even though the two plugins both handle the same comment data. Likes in JetPack are not reflected in the “+1 / -1”, like / dislike system in wpDiscuz.
I will discuss the wpDiscuz plugin more later.
wpDiscuz News
We seem to have settled on a new comment layout manager, known simply as [COUGH] “Number Two”. This one has nice vertical lines to show indentation, but it also has fairly wide text. We were using “Number One” at first.
More Information: https://wpdiscuz.com/docs/wpdiscuz-7/customization/comment-layouts/
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
We have CHANGED the voting method from “up/down” to “standard likes”. That was a fairly easy decision by our members!
We have also ENLARGED THE FONT and MADE IT BLACK – this got almost entirely POSITIVE response.
There will be more technical discussions – stay tuned!
OK – here is an update on the new site. I’m putting it here ON the new site, so people can start getting used to commenting over here.
I have decided to go for SMOOTHNESS OF TRANSITION rather than CLEAN FAST BREAK.
PATIENCE. It’s a virtue.
Most of the posts transferred. We only have about a week at the end of November, plus whatever days in December before we move, to be moved later. Almost all our images have transferred. If we’re not OCD and/or perfectionist about things, the copying of the sites has been 99.9% successful.
On the PLUS side, we can use more modern commenting systems that use modern technologies like REST and AJAX to avoid reloading entire pages for EVERY SINGLE COMMENT. In particular, we are now using the wpDiscuz plugin, which is a bit like Discus for WordPress.
The main NEGATIVE, however, is that we are having a LOT of trouble getting comments to integrate with the WordPress-dot-com notification system which is part of their “JetPack” – what most of us refer to as “The Bell” or “The Bell Icon”, located in the “WordPress.com Menu Bar” – a.k.a. “The Black Band”.
While I was able to get SOME notifications about replies on the new site to propagate in the “bell notification system”, most people saw either spotty or no performance this way. This may be a function of whether individuals have properly identified themselves to JetPack on the new site – something that is frankly too tenuous to be trusted. We cannot count on this to communicate.
Bottom line – we no longer have “bell icon notifications” on this site. I will keep trying to get them, but they’re not likely to happen soon.
I do have some good workarounds that I’ve been using. The WordPress-dot-com comment page is actually a pretty good ticker of posts as they are happening. I’m not sure if everybody can see it, or how much they can see, but it may be a start.
I did get the “Home” and “Contact” links to appear in the top menu. See above!
I will have the sidebar updated to match – ROUGHLY – the sidebar on the old site, very soon.
All our categories and key words transferred. All our old comments. I *MAY* lock the older posts, but not yet committed to this. WordPress has a setting for closing commenting after 14 days. It’s something I plan to consider.
During testing, we ran into some interesting capacity for EDITING OF COMMENTS that looked like a bug. Turns out that this capability has always been there for AUTHORS on their own posts. Daughn actually found and used this capability to deal with a flame war on one of her posts, once, in the early days of this blog. Otherwise, she followed my preferred practice of NOT editing things, but rather letting the record stand – 100% sunlight – no deletions except under extreme circumstances – KEEP THE EVIDENCE – DON’T DESTROY IT.
This is why we count on authors to show EXTREME integrity, and not everybody is an author here!
Now – one more point.
What would you think about actually becoming a FORUM? Or just ADDING ONE?
I found a plugin that we may REALLY like. It is a plugin for WordPress that creates a FORUM.
SO – if we wanted to actually become a FORUM – we could do it. We could even ease into it, by keeping our current model, but creating a “forum next door” with a link on our main page.
Something to think about.
Bottom line – there are MANY possibilities awaiting us. My first step is simply to get the new house ready for occupancy! From there – who knows?
Have a great week!
W
American actor James Coburn (1928 – 2002) smoking a cigarette. (Photo by Harry Benson/Getty Images)
A link to my previous statement: https://wqth.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/dear-kmag-20201130-open-topic/comment-page-1/#comment-680960
That Statement:
OK – quick announcement. I will put up an article later, but I want to get people started a.s.a.p.
If you’ve ever authored on the old site, you have an Author account on the new site, under your old author credentials, which were imported along with everything else.
I’m asking people to go over and just try to do a fake article as a test. You can entitle it “Author Test – myhandle” if you want, or whatever you want to call it. Just see if your authorship WORKS.
Also, I took a step to make logins easier. I checked two boxes to let “JetPack” handle logins:
WordPress.com login
Learn more
Add an extra layer of security to your website by enabling WordPress.com login and secure authentication. If you have multiple sites with this option enabled, you will be able to log in to every one of them with the same credentials.
[ENABLED] Allow users to log in to this site using WordPress.com accounts
[ENABLED] Match accounts using email addresses [DISABLED] Require accounts to use WordPress.com Two-Step Authentication
We can always turn this back off, but hopefully this will make sign-ins by authors smoother.
Give it a try! I will put up a thread for comments back and forth with me by people testing.
Please keep comments here so that I can keep track of helping people get logged in, etc..
This discussion is PRIMARILY for the GEEKS, but not exclusively. Non-geeks are welcome to comment, but I ask that you keep your comments 100% on topic – the features, functions, content and security of the new website. Our migration per se – not the long train of abuses which led to it.
This discussion will get long, and I don’t want to sort through ANY news about the election, The Steal, etc. Words of encouragement, prayer, blessing and spiritual protection are welcome, but keep them lean and mean.
This thread is 100% business.
If you’ve made prior comments on tech on other threads, that you feel are still relevant, feel free to REPOST THEM HERE. I don’t have time to do this myself.
NOW – down to business.
I have obviously rescinded my prior request that we not upload new header images – and as the first to violate that request, I invite other authors to follow suit.
Not only that, I am going to let authors begin following Flep’s latest posts, and just post all their images in the site media bucket. We have 50% left. I think that gives us plenty of time to move the site.
I REPEAT. Authors no longer need to store their images elsewhere. Use this site’s media bucket, as much as you want. This applies to ALL images – header and non-header.
I will reimpose the moratorium on new pictures when we do the final transition to the new site – not before then.
This process will be longer than expected, so I’m giving up on a SHARP transition, in favor of a SMOOTH transition.
The header image I have used on this post is a screen capture of the new site, which is actually functional right now. Here is a bigger picture of the home page.
Our new site is a WordPress site much like here, except none of YOU ALL are members yet, because I have not yet approved your first comments.
If you – as a currently approved commenter on this blog – want to spin the wheels, please feel free to visit, leave a comment, and let me approve it.
There are technical reasons why I’m limiting this to currently approved posters for the moment.
I am not guaranteeing that this test site will remain, but we will see. I am hoping that what I have there now is sufficient. Obviously I haven’t even modified the “Sample Page” stuff in the corner, but no biggie.
Don’t leave any “essential information of historical import” on the new site – it may not be saved. Better to leave it on THIS THREAD, which will be saved if at all possible.
Our current theme here is called Independent Publisher 2. I ended up using this theme for The U Tree, too, because it is a great theme and people HERE love it. Sadly, that theme was “deprecated” even back then, and now it appears to be GONE from what is available to me on our new host, which is very close to or exactly “latest version” WordPress.
Instead, the new site is currently using something called Draftly.
We will deal with THEME stuff later. Right now, we need to get MIGRATION and IMPORT to work.
It is important to understand that a WordPress administrator on WordPress.com is only an ADMIN inside the WordPress framework. On this site, I have NO POWERS outside the WordPress API. I can even delete the site, as part of the API, and I can create new sites, but I have no powers outside what WordPress.com allocates to me though THEIR IMPLEMENTATION of the WordPress software.
Now – that is still a LOT of power, but it gives me only one choice in terms of exporting the old website.
Exporting our site from WordPress.com creates XML files of data – in our case an astounding 1.5 GB of XML data, broken into 8 huge XML files, between 67 MB and 388 MB. All of this was received in a ZIP archive of about 167 MB.
Note that the unpacked XML data is about the same size as our media bucket – roughly 1.5 GB.
The exported XML files include a lot of private data from our users – they will not be shared. HOWEVER, the beginning of the first one is interesting:
I am still working on importing this data via the new WordPress API – which is not exactly as described in the XML above. Things are thus not working exactly as specified in the XML above. I will be more specific in comments below – it’s an active mess.
BUT – bottom line – we have a new site up, and it will be wickedly hard for us to be deplatformed from it. Our first boats are on the shore of the New World.
Prepare to defend “conspiracy theories” until the globo-nazis have no choice but to close this blog.
Because there’s nobody better at defending “conspiracy theories” to their proof than US.
When Sundance was kicked off WordPress, and more precisely WordPress.com – the .com part being a subtle distinction – I decided to leave WordPress, too, in some kind of “solidarity”.
We don’t actually HAVE to leave yet – we are not being threatened by the WordPress.com parent company, Automattik – or as I like to call them, AutomattiKKK.
Indeed, leaving at our convenience seemed like a bit of a blessing.
The trouble was, even though I had an excellent plan to leave and move to a censorship-proof home, I simply didn’t have the motivation I needed.
Ah, but Sidney Powell has solved this problem for me.
Sidney Powell is obviously going to cause the other side IMMENSE GRIEF. She is about to drop accusations which the other side will RIDICULE, MOCK and DENY, but which will SCARE THEM TO THEIR BONES.
The weaklings in the Establishment GOP are not up for this fight.
Indeed, I actually believe that the GOP are now WILTING in Georgia, scamming it for MONEY, but perfectly ready to give the Senate to the Demonic Democrats, should Trump manage to win.
What I’m seeing from the GOPe is a lot of FEAR-MONGERING FOR MONEY on Georgia. I’m not seeing people calling for KEMP’S HEAD. I’m not seeing anybody ready for a SHERMAN’S MARCH against Stacy Abrams, COMMUNIST RAT.
I’m seeing the same old same old – monetization of a crisis held in a balance.
And it gets WORSE.
Nobody wants to admit that our elections have been a FRAUD. Not just here, but across this PLANET.
Sidney’s gonna drop bombshells. I already believe her. Why? Because I have not told you stuff – damn near TREASON – that I witnessed during my decades in the shallow end of the swamp.
CHINA. NORMALIZED. CORRUPTION. AND. BETRAYAL.
They had a great, even scientific way of doing this, and it worked.
Communists corrupted America to jaw-dropping extents. On behalf of other interests, yes – and those interests need to pay for THEIR crimes, too. But it is SMART to understand who is who in the fight. We deal with both a corrupt opponent, and their SATANIC ringmaster.
Back to THIS fight.
Sidney is not going to get a break here. The WEAK and the SCARED are going to turn and run.
NOT ME.
The moneybags in the UNIPARTY are going to DENY, DENOUNCE, and DISPARAGE. The QUISLINGS and the COWARDS are going to run.
We’ve been in this fight before. We can win THIS ONE, TOO. But it’s going to be rough.
I am going to back this woman until the Three Gorges Dam of their LIES breaks, and the world is forever changed.
FAKE ELECTIONS are going to be a thing of the past.
How I was led from prayer at a patriotic rally to resolution that we must NEVER concede to either the stolen re-election of President Trump, or the deplatforming of The Last Refuge, and that NOW is the time to send in the troops. The key is WHERE.
The order in which this happened should be noted for the historical record.
Late this morning, in the aftermath of a wonderful RALLY yesterday, and after sleeping on the thoughts of a wonderful YouTube video about the TWELFTH AMENDMENT…..
…..I had a kind of revelation, and decided that we must, and I personally will, NEVER concede to this fraudulent cheat coup.
All we have to do is NOT CONCEDE, knowing TRUTH is on our side, and this election becomes the SWORD that turns into a PLOW that digs up the DIRT in FREEDOM’S FIELD and the HARVEST is OURS.
Stay PEACEFUL – we turn NANCY’S ARROWS into the blades of AMERICA’S PLOW.
The symbolism of the SEAL where a group of patriots prayed the day before should not be lost on the reader, for it was indeed inspirational.
Immediately after that, I learned that The Conservative Treehouse is/was going to be deplatformed by WordPress.
Look HERE for the full context, including my comment at 13:40…..
He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more! https://t.co/Exb3C1mAPg
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
I will cover this later. I told people here to prepare. Bad stuff. This is what CIA is doing through Stelter and CNN – putting out that “alternative social media” is dangerous.
They are TRYING to make peaceful revolution impossible. It’s quite EVIL.
POTUS may have to intervene. They are trying to FORCE VIOLENCE on America.
Now – let me make an argument which falls out of BOTH my revelation about concession, AND what is now happening to Sundance and The Conservative Treehouse.
One of the most important points is this, made by President John F. Kennedy:
Guess what? It is now my contention that the forces arrayed against President Trump are attempting to FORCE his supporters into violent rebellion. They WANT it. They understand the TRUTH of John F. Kennedy’s wonderful quote. They are attempting to FORCE President Trump to concede the election, so that his supporters are not forced into violent rebellion, but rather into submission. And yet, I am not so certain that even a concession by President Trump would – or more importantly SHOULD – work to quell the thirst for Precious Liberty in America.
Once you see the control of the media – the HIDING of our words – the SILENCING of our voice – it is quite clear that the Bolsheviks are using EVERY tool they can to force us to accept socialism, or rebel violently. The deplatforming of voices of BITTER TRUTHS, like The Conservative Treehouse, will, in my opinion, ENSURE that there is either war or concession, but more likely WAR.
Must there be war?
I bring your attention to a small, pacifist, monotheistic religion – highly persecuted – which prides itself on befriending all other godly / heavenly religions. This is the Baha’i Faith.
They have two specific beliefs which I think are highly relevant here.
One a very USEFUL belief – that we are duty-bound to always attempt to overcome thoughts of war with greater thoughts of peace.
This should not be that hard for followers of the Prince of Peace, who in fact constitute a majority of believers in America, and have since its founding. The founder of the Baha’is, Baha’u’llah, was in fact himself a big follower and fan of the Prince of Peace, and led an exemplary life, even befriending and winning over his jailers, by loving his enemy.
The SECOND point – much more interesting and a bit mystical – is that the Baha’is believe AMERICA has a special purpose in helping to bring PEACE to the world. They even have a prayer for this.
Abdu’l Baha was the son of the founder, Baha’u’llah, and so while this is not “red letter” Baha’i theology, it’s definitely regarded as canon.
Is there, in fact, a way that this can all work out?
I believe there is. And as the mysterious group behind “Q” reminds us, John F. Kennedy is the KEY.
I urge you to now take a look at all of Q’s posts which reference JFK – it will give you a picture of what is going on.
Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 237dde No.324395 Feb 10 2018 03:33:29 (EST)
“Rest in peace Mr. President (JFK), through your wisdom and strength, since your tragic death, Patriots have planned, installed, and by the grace of God, activated, the beam of LIGHT. We will forever remember your sacrifice. May you look down from above and continue to guide us as we ring the bell of FREEDOM and destroy those who wish to sacrifice our children, our way of life, and our world. We, the PEOPLE.”
Prayer said every single day in the OO. JFK – Secret Socities. Where we go one, we go all. Q
Why is JFK particularly relevant? Because JFK used the military to (1) insure peace, and (2) restore civil rights to a minority being denied those rights.
Tom Cotton was suggesting that the military be sent in to confront rebellious communists (ANTIFA and BLM) directly. These groups are the violent shock troops of not just the left in general, but the leftist TECH TYRANTS in particular.
It is no accident that ANTIFA staked out my house when I first attacked censorship by Big Tech.
It is no accident that BLM, carrying a big “pocket 9”, was used to try to intimidate me into silence when that didn’t work.
However, nobody except TRUMP wants to do anything about the problem.
Chris Wray will not rein in these groups using the FBI. Mark Esper would not rein in these groups using the DoD.
Now, here’s a wild thought. What if Wray and Esper are RIGHT? Or maybe ALMOST RIGHT?
What if WE THE PEOPLE have the primary duty to rein in ANTIFA and BLM – if only we could?
Normal citizens in NORWAY reined in THEIR Antifa problems PEACEFULLY by their VOICES – by their FREE SPEECH – in public and online. They SPOKE Antifa into retreat, and ultimately into nearly vanishing. Interestingly, it involved a lot of argument and even ridicule. Very interesting that Jack Dorsey FORBIDS the social speech which inhibits these violent Bolsheviks.
Wow. You know, we could do that here, too, if our voices weren’t suppressed by the MEDIA and now the SOCIAL MEDIA.
But it gets worse. Voices of reason and peace – remember COLD ANGER? – like Sundance of the Last Refuge, are now being squelched.
This is too far. THIS is directly interfering with those who counsel RESTRAINT. It is a cunning way to pave the way to WAR. WordPress was one of the last bastions of reasoned but unrelenting free speech on the internet. The Last Refuge is indeed one of the LAST refuges of smart and restrained but uncompromisingly free speech without ever descending into hotheaded fury.
Thus, I am suggesting something entirely different. I believe that the TECH TYRANTS – gifted the beauty of the INTERNET by our own military – have ABUSED THEIR PRIVILEGE, and are now choosing to KNOWINGLY disenfranchise a segment of our population for political reasons. They are DENYING IN PRACTICE our civil rights – our equal rights – and particularly our FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS of FREEDOM OF SPEECH and FREEDOM OF RELIGION.
They even push us into SEGREGATION.
They are doing this knowingly, to create conditions for WAR, while pretending to seek PEACE.
PURE BOLSHEVIK. “Make it look like the other guy is at fault.”
Forget Section 230. SEND IN THE TROOPS – not for WAR, but to preserve PEACE.
All we want is free speech and freedom of religion. Nothing more. We can handle PEACE from there.
Restore our ability to seek a PEACEFUL transition to the next administration – and we all know who that will be, if the public is allowed to SPEAK FREELY and demand TRUTH and FAIRNESS.
Restore our VOICE. Prevent the cunning tech Bolsheviks from forcing us into WAR by their removal of our FIRST AMENDMENT OPTION. Stop them from forcing us to the SECOND Amendment.
Send in the troops, and restore TRUE law and order – on the internet.
