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Originally posted by Trancer-X If it had actually been funny it wouldn't have bothered me in the least.

wasn't mean to be funny, and that ain't my job lol but sure brain-fart comments are G R E A T

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Originally posted by Lepanto wasn't mean to be funny, and that ain't my job lol but sure brain-fart comments are G R E A T

I must have missed something, but I thought the whole point of a joke was to be funny.

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Originally posted by Trancer-X I must have missed something, but I thought the whole point of a joke was to be funny.

LMAO that was real good REAL GOOD TX

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Originally posted by castlevania LMAO that was real good REAL GOOD TX

thank you, thank you very much!

A friend of mine who listens to Alex Jones radioshow was over yesterday and was telling me that Timewarner and Roadrunner have blocked out his websites www.infowars.com and www.prisonplanet.com. Well, I have Timewarner cable and I tried it for kicks. And guess what, he's right.

EDIT: Here's an article I found to verify what he said:

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AOL Time-Warner Censors Alex Jones Websites Nationwide blackout a clear attempt to shut down free speech Time Warner's ISP, Road Runner, has blocked access to all of Alex Jones' flagship websites across the entire United States. We were first alerted to this problem early this morning when several locals in Austin reported that they were unable to access Infowars.com, PrisonPlanet.com or Prison Planet.tv. Austin Time Warner had previously shut down access to our websites on a whim, claiming they were 'hate material' but in all cases had quickly restored them after receiving complaints. However, this latest attack on free speech is occurring nationwide, with Time Warner subscribers from New York to California reporting that their access to the websites is being blocked. The last attempt to shut us down came shortly after the London Bombings, which saw our traffic go through the roof after we released a plethora of articles exposing government involvement. The consequence of this is that Prison Planet.com alone on some days gets more hits than the Britney Spears website or Rush Limbaugh. Previously we reported that UK ISPs like Tiscali were blocking their subscribers from accessing the website after the 7/7 bombings. It is obvious that those in high places are showing their disapproval. This only vindicates all the information we have been putting out. How can a website that merely reports and comments on mainstream media articles be described as 'hate' unless there's a different agenda afoot? How can Bill O'Reilly get on Fox News and call for assassinating Prime Ministers and Pat Robertson on the 700 Club do the same and yet we get censored for being hateful? We have never called for violence against anyone and actively encourage peaceful exchange of information. This is part of a growing trend of authoritarian censorship of the Internet in preparation for the emergence of Internet 2, where only government approved websites will be allowed to exist and the old Internet will be shut down. Monolithic corporations in lock-step with government are following the Chinese model, where any website mildly anti-establishment is immediately shut down and its owners arrested. The vast majority of Internet cafes in China were shut down in 2002 after the government started a fire in one Beijing cafe and then demanded all the rest be shut down for 'safety reasons'. Under anti-terrorism laws in Italy, Internet cafe owners are forced to take photo ID's of all their customers and install key-logging and filter software which blocks any websites the government chooses. Today's actions by Time Warner fall into the same category. The First Amendment is under siege by jack-booted totalitarians in suits that graciously lick the boots and follow the orders of the establishment lackeys. In 2002 Dell Computers cancelled an order placed by Weigand Combat Handguns because the company name triggered a security alert. The word 'combat' was not accepted by Dell's post-9/11 security alert system. This is an example of the inane and sweeping nature of these filtrations systems and the blanket idiocy applied to these cases. We are urging all our readers (not that you will even be able to read this if you subscribe to Time Warner!) to boycott any Time Warner/Road Runner ISP service and cancel your subscription with them. They have proven themselves time and time again to be an anti-American freedom hating tool of the establishment. We urge you to double your efforts in spreading the truth. Copy and distribute our artcles more than ever. We are under a direct assault, the only response needs to be a massive and powerful counter-offensive. To all alternative media websites, please post this article as we are all in the same boat, we are all under enemy fire. If Time Warner do not immediately restore subscribers' access to our websites we will initiate a wider boycott campaign. They are already receiving a deluge of complaints and according to some are now claiming that this is an 'error' that they are looking into and citing other websites that have also been affected, even though these websites are having no problems. We will update this article as and when Time Warner restores access to Alex Jones' websites. If they fail to do so we will carry telephone numbers and e mail addresses for people to make their complaints.

EDIT: It works again.

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Would a web proxy have redirected the traffic?

I know that Norton Internet blocks the addresses in question when you use the Parental Control feature. Of course no one has to use it.

One way to block truly offending websites that is at no cost is to use your hosts file.

For example if you loopback to your pc it will not let you connect to it:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.time.com
127.0.0.1 www.cnn.com
127.0.0.1 www.ebay.com

A good hosts file will certainly cut down on popups and ads. Firefox has a good extension called adblock that works very good.

Here's good example of ad free browsing in IE6 using Norton and hosts file that I've cropped the pictures to show that there is nothing beyond that cropped border like flash animations:

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in other alex jones' news...the illuminati are running our country...in all seriousness there was an essay by him i read on the matter in my poli sci class.

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Originally posted by ogvh5150 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 www.time.com 127.0.0.1 www.cnn.com 127.0.0.1 www.ebay.com A good hosts file will certainly cut down on popups and ads. Firefox has a good extension called adblock that works very good.

I <3 Firefox's adblock!

BTW - did you change your adblock extension so that it works with Firefox 1.0.7? I wound up changing all of mine so that they'd work with the updated version. I use the Filterset-G updater for adblock, but yeah I also mess with my host file for whatever reason.

Here's a cool prog that makes it easier to edit and/or merge host files:



I don't remember where I got it but it comes in quite handy.

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Originally posted by Lepanto in other alex jones' news...the illuminati are running our country...in all seriousness there was an essay by him i read on the matter in my poli sci class.

I have his Bohemian Grove video where he infiltrates the club and records parts of the Cremation of Care ceremony. It's kind of wild, if you ask me.

Hey, at least he's adamant about wanting to know the truth, which is more than I can say for the great majority of journalists in the mainstream media.

He's not an idiot because he gets the point across, unfortunatly for him it is nonsense and therefore no one cares. Don't know a better way ot saying this.

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z A friend of mine who listens to Alex Jones radioshow was over yesterday and was telling me that Timewarner and Roadrunner have blocked out his websites www.infowars.com and www.prisonplanet.com. Well, I have Timewarner cable and I tried it for kicks. And guess what, he's right. EDIT: Here's an article I found to verify what he said: EDIT: It works again.

What was the date of that article?

BTW...

maybe they're wrong on this conspiracy theory (this time around)





http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5889592.html

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Originally posted by Lepanto He's not an idiot because he gets the point across, unfortunatly for him it is nonsense and therefore no one cares. Don't know a better way ot saying this.

I'll admit that he does play much looser than most conspiracy buffs, but I wouldn't call all his subject matter nonsense. That being said, he does have many valid points which are definitely shared by a considerable portion of our country's population. Subject matter aside, I think that it's the overwhelming enthusiasm in his delivery that makes him seem out there. Otherwise he would appear to be a rather normal person to me. He definitely has a large set of cojones to be doing even half of the shit that he does.

Anyway, I think Greg Palast said it better than I did...

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Greg Palast -- In praise of Alex Jones: A lot of my friends and colleagues may be surprised to read this: after all, BBC Television is considered "left wing" by Americans and the Alex Jones considered "right wing." But the truth is neither left nor right, and I applaud Alex Jones for standing alone among major syndicated radio hosts for broadcasting hard realities too unpleasant for the mainstream US media. Jones is fearless and thoughtful. Do I agree with everything the man says? Heck, no. But then, he probably wouldn't accept all my views either. This isn't about opinions, this is about the dissemination of crucial news otherwise denied the American public by the mainstream media propaganda machinery. Let me give you three examples from my experience. I've broadcast three stories for BBC Television Newsnight London which have received international attention, but have suffered a virtual blackout on US commercial radio and TV ... except the Alex Jones show. They are 1. The IMF/World Bank documents. In early 2000, BBC TV and the Guardian newspapers of London released sections of a large cache of confidential documents from inside these agencies, the financial arm of the new globalization order. They reveal secretive plans for a virtual financial coup d'etat in several nations, from Argentina to Tanzania. The documents reveal the IMF and World Bank's knowing destruction of economies and cruel hidden demands on these nations. The information was top of the news in Europe, Latin American and page one in Turkey. Yet in the USA, editors ignored this damning information on the New World Order, in part because US news editors believe the information is far too sophisticated for Americans to understand. Not Jones, he explained the information, gave it a lengthy hearing for his listeners, showing a respect for their intellect not common to US commercial broadcasting. 2. The Bush Administration's hindering FBI and CIA investigations of the bin Ladin family and Saudi Arabian funding of terror prior to September 11, 2001. US broadcasters were scared to death of airing this report shown on BBC Television's Newsnight on November 6, 2001. Dan Rather of CBS news, who appeared on Newsnight, said that to report stories asking such questions would get him lynched ... he was to fearful to do it. Not Jones. He gave the BBC and Guardian story (which won a California State University journalism award) a full airing. A year later, the US media is beginning to cover the story, timidly, where Jones took it on without hesitation. 3. Theft of the US presidential election. No one could accuse Alex Jones of being a Democratic Party partisan, yet he reported what other mainstream US media delayed reporting for six months: the BBC story that the Bush family and allies had fixed the vote in Florida by illegally removing tens of the thousands of legal Black voters from the state's voter rolls in the months before the November 2000 election. The Washington Post did run the story ... six months after Jones gave the information to his listeners. You don't have to agree with everything Alex Jones says or reports to say, this guy is a national treasure, a light breaking through the electronic Berlin Wall of the US media establishment. Greg Palast London/ New York Greg Palast, the author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Penguin Plume 2003), reports for BBC Television's Newsnight.