The political analysis blog moonofalabama.org is under multiple DDOS, targeting both server availability and name services and cannot be resolved through DNS. The attackers are presumably suppressing the top-level entry, exposing violence by Ukrainian right-wing militia against civilian targets in Eastern Ukraine. As of this writing, a google cache of the page is available.
Hosted on Typepad, Moon of Alabama has a reputation for accurate and unconventional insight consistently brought to emerging stories. Bernhardt, the site owner has extracted the subtext of stories and exposed official disinformation on Iranian nuclear development, Wall Street corruption, African incursion and Syrian jihadists often to the embarrassment of US and European governments.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday April 24 2014, @04:02AM
Wouldn't that be left wing militias?
They want to move back into. Soviet style relationship with Russia.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 24 2014, @06:44AM
No, geographically Russia is to the right of the map.
(grin... with a hint of seriousness: who the hell can tell nowadays left wing from right wings? They seem to be towards the extreme anyway)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by threedigits on Thursday April 24 2014, @07:27AM
I sincerely doubt that a blog that attaches tags like "right-wing fascists" so light-heartedly can be seriously considered a source of "information" instead of "propaganda".
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday April 24 2014, @03:00PM
The significance isn't the story in the blog, whether or not it's credible. It's the fact that someone is effectively censoring his speech.
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(Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Thursday April 24 2014, @04:41PM
> The significance isn't the story in the blog, whether or not it's credible.
> It's the fact that someone is effectively censoring his speech.
The blog itself says, "This was not an attack against MoonofAlabama.org but on all blogs hosted by Typepad"
So, not really much of a story. I read it myself while it was in the submission queue and was kind of surprised to see it end up getting posted.
(Score: -1) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 24 2014, @09:33AM
The Left edge of the political spectrum is Marxism. They were never that.
They liked to call themselves "communist", but they were never a bottom-up society.
Russia, before their revolution and now after the collapse of the Soviet system, was/is Crony Capitalist (the right edge).
The USSR was a State Capitalist system and, where the dictator could gain from it, Crony Capitalist.
That part of the world has always had a top-down system.
Now, a militia probably doesn't give a fig about what economic system is in place.
Their concerns are on a completely different axis of the political spectrum. [politicalcompass.org]
The top edge is totalitarianism and the bottom is anarchy (aka "without rulers").
Wanna find out where you fall politically? Take the test. [politicalcompass.org]
-- gewg_
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Geotti on Thursday April 24 2014, @11:47AM
Wouldn't that be the logical thing to do, since that's who they're mostly dealing with? Why should they let subsidized crap from the EU flood their market and destroy their economy? Why should they accept austerity measures, for someone else's mistakes (i.e. Kiev)? Why should they sell their products for less than what they could be sold?
Why shouldn't they allowed to decide for themselves, who they want to do business with (because that's what it's about)?
(Score: 1) by NullPtr on Thursday April 24 2014, @12:07PM
I understand that countries are free to pursue protectionist agendas but that in this case they're restricted from selling their products in other markets, and this restriction is usually undesirable.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Professr on Thursday April 24 2014, @04:41AM
From the linked Google Cache: "This was not an attack against MoonofAlabama.org but on all blogs hosted by Typepad."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 24 2014, @08:41AM
i concur, the amount of spin on this article is dizzying.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 24 2014, @04:51AM
Just a little perspective for you. [louisproyect.org] Moon of Alabama is not an innocent victim here.
(Score: 2) by zim on Thursday April 24 2014, @08:27AM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Angry Jesus on Thursday April 24 2014, @11:02AM
> Damm, he talks like a nazi and even looks like hitler... wtf...
Based on the URL of that image, here's http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/new-german-age ncy-set-up-to-combat-neo-nazi-propaganda-1.409091 [soylentnews.org]" >the actual article that goes with the picture. There does not seem to be any reference to Moon of Alabama there. I'm thinking it is a stock photo because a quick scan with google images finds at least one web page as old as 2007 [blogspot.com] which uses it.
I've never heard of the Moon of Alabama blog before, but this whole story has the stink of multiple levels of propaganda on it. I'm doubting if "Jeremiah Cornelius" is even the same person who uses that name on slashdot or someone trying to joe-job him.
(Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Thursday April 24 2014, @11:05AM
Crap.
Here a working URL for the first link. [haaretz.com]
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 24 2014, @01:08PM
So it's only okay to "Jew-bait" when Jewish people and/or Jewish publications do it? Because they do an awful lot of gratuitous invoking of their race/religion even in contexts where it is not necessary.
And anybody who goes out of their way to be that reactionary when dealing with the blogosphere is being like a retard fighting other retards: no matter who wins, they all lose.
I expect this comment to be modded down and reported for "racism."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 24 2014, @01:51PM
Eh? A link to a blog post of someone who admits to trolling and then being dissatisfied with the response to his trolling attempt is proof that they are guilty of what exactly?
He also seems to have misidentified the blog owner and have posted a very provocative picture that has nothing to do with the blog he mentions, also from his posts he seems to be quite anti-free speech.
I have no horse in this race and I'd never even heard of either blog until now, but for my money MoA seems to be more factual while the blog you linked to seems more like the ramblings of a mentally unstable person.
(Score: 2) by crutchy on Thursday April 24 2014, @07:43AM
...in 5 years this will be soylent, with the exception that the headline will be about soylent beating up ddos botnets with a fucking huge pipe
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 24 2014, @09:54AM
Note to Jeremiah (and others): .org/.com part of the address of the target page.
To get the cleanest URLs, you can strip any occurrences of http or https after the one that starts the address.
www is also unnecessary.
Unless you want to highlight text on the page, you can strip anything after the
If the page contains no significant images, JavaScript, stylesheets, iframes, or swf objects, you can append &strip=1 to the url (before any #content suffix).
Note that Google does NOT strip out background images.
-- gewg_