A remarkable operation is revealed today. Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe informs CNN President Jeff Zucker they have been listening-in on CNN operations and strategy planning calls for the past 90-days. O’Keefe plans to start releasing the content of those calls at 7:00pm ET this evening. WATCH:
It appears we have a workable solution achieved. Excellent….
Run it hard, use this thread to try out the stuff you are familiar doing. Let’s see what we need to tweek modify or adjust to get back to peak operational condition. Share your issues and ideas in comments.
We are no longer on Automattic/WordPress servers and despite the extremely tight forced eviction timeline we have achieved a safe rebuild ten hours ahead of deadline. Quite an accomplishment considering the scale of the task at hand, and a holiday in the middle of it.
There are a few random reports of regional DNS issues and here’s a few tips we are discovering from users:
Make sure you are using the latest version of your browser software. Reports of Mac not reaching through to new site, but when OS “Big Sur” is added things improve.
Make sure your cookies and cache are not returning you to old site activity. I apologize for this issue because clearing your browsing history is always a mess and can often require you to re-enter all saved passwords, but that’s one of the unavoidable issues with an entirely new set of servers and new DNS targeting.
All regional Internet Service Providers (ISP’s), responses for queries and bookmarks launched by users, should be aimed toward our new servers now. Some of them took a long time to update, and there is a familiar pattern to it (discussion for another day).
Remember, while we are using WordPress open source code/software, we are not operating inside the WordPress/Automattic platform. Some proprietary functions of WP/Automattic will not be available. I think the notification bell is one of those functions.
There will be a new email-notification program initiated later today that will allow you to sign up for email notifications of new articles and updates. [In the works] In the interim Twitter users can use the notification function and all articles will cross-post to Twitter.
There are going to be features and site enhancements to come along later. Right now the priority was to keep everything as identical and familiar as possible. We will likely be doing some cool site changes now that we have full proprietary control and ownership of the site.
Thanks again for bearing with us as we work through some technical issues, search for optimal solutions, and fiercely retain the original values and mission priority of the Treehouse. The Truth Has No Agenda
Please be patient if you get hung up in a moderation cue. It may take time to release some comments if they are hung up in moderation. The site admins do a great job with comment moderation and release so it shouldn’t be too much of an issue; and quite frankly, there are likely to be benefits from not having WordPress/Automattic software filtering through the comments as they post. Spam removal will be a priority.
Thank you for your support and fellowship. We will always work diligently to deserve it.
As word spreads… the voices of the rebel alliance are arriving now. The best open-source researchers in the world are firing up their laptops and preparing for the most critical moments in the battle to save our nation. The CTH printing presses are rebuilt, oiled, and the deep rumble of the machinery is slowly building to a deafening roar.
We are extraordinarily thankful… and itching to get FREE VOICES back into this fight.
Love to all,
~ Sundance
The pressing question that requires resolution is this. Do we have, or do we not have, an honest Supreme Court from which we have nothing to fear?
Excerpt from Federalist Papers No. 78, likely written by Alexander Hamilton:
“Though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter; I mean so long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the Executive. For I agree, that ‘there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.’ And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.”
The line of dominos that represent America’s foundational institutions related to law and order have fallen, except one.
It alone stands to be tested. The integrity of the Supreme Court.
Time is not on the side of those working to fully expose the corruption of the Presidential voting in several states. The scale of fraud now appears to be unprecedented in American election history.
We Americans can no longer claim to be a shining example of free, fair and open elections. That claim, if left unsubstantiated, becomes a lie.
The task of making the President’s case against widespread voter fraud is in the hands of a small cadre of Trump attorneys, and other lawyers working in his interests. The Department of Justice and its Federal Bureau of Investigation are not in the frame, and haven’t been for the last five years.
Their collective negligence has been reprehensible. And, in response to their dereliction of duty, there are no apparent consequences. So much for the integrity of those government employees. Servants of the people, not.
Today, the President’s political party is largely either silent, or encourages him to concede the election. They cannot see it now, but they are sacrificing their political futures by their tepid, at best, support of Trump.
His supporters will not forget, whatever the outcome, that when the battle was waged, many Republican pols deserted their Commander in Chief. Or, in the case of some, they worked against him from Day 1.
Take for example, Paul Ryan. A committed NeverTrumper from the get-go.
In retirement, Paul skipped over the relatively meager salary of a K Street lobbyist, and went straight to the FOX Corporate Board, the parent company of FOX News (whose viewership is sinking like the Titanic). Paul is on his way to cashing in big for his years as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
As the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in 2012, his performance was…uninspiring
Paul is but one example of many GOP pols prone to surrender rather than contest.
Here’s how one anti-Trump “news” outlets touts the current valor of Paul:
“Former Speaker Paul Ryan is calling for President Trump to accept the election results and move forward with a peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden…
The Wisconsin Republican then called for the Trump campaign to end its legal challenges in multiple swing states, noting they have failed to produce evidence of voter fraud.”
”‘I think maybe even more important is that these legal challenges to the outcome and the attacks on our voting system really need to stop, in my opinion,’ he said…‘The outcome will not be changed, and it will only serve to undermine our faith in our system of government, our faith in our democracy,’ he added…Trump’s legal team are ‘doing damage to our country, to our democratic institutions and norms.’”
Now, listen carefully to this statement:
“So, the election is over. The outcome is certain, and I really think the orderly transfer of power—that is one of the most uniquely fundamental American components of our political system,’ he added.”
Paul’s wrong about the “orderly transfer of power” being such a unique and fundamentally American component of our political system”. It happens all over Europe, for example, and in Canada – to name a few democracies.
An inquiry into possible election fraud will not damage the integrity of the American democracy. Nor would proof of actual fraud have that outcome.
In would, in fact, certify and strengthen the image of election integrity if the fraud is surfaced.
But, on the other hand, suppressing an inquiry into the election will seriously damage the legitimacy of American democracy by implying that the truth must remain hidden. And that reduces the nation to a faux democracy.
In Chicago, my home town, the classic short version of what Paul says is: “Nothing to see here. Move along.”
The pressing question that requires resolution is this. Do we have, or do we not have, an honest Supreme Court from which we have nothing to fear?
Or, is there no such institution left in America?
Democrats are like zebra, they change their stripes according to self-interest whereas the Republicans can become white elephants when required. In this case, the mainstream media and governors swear the vote was real. However, Biden received more votes in only the swing states, beating Obama and Hillary, which is really astonishing. But the truth has been that people have been warning for a very long time that the American voting machines have been vulnerable and nobody has addressed the issue. In fact, the American voting system VIOLATES the Equal Protection Clause because there is absolutely no standard nationally for a federal election. In some states, anyone charged with any crime loses their right to vote and the governor has to restore it while in other states they can vote. This is no different than saying people of color are not allowed to vote in some states or anyone who belongs to a particular religion. Then not all states allocate electoral votes on a winner takes all method. Two states allocate electors according to the popular vote.
Can the election be a do-over? No, there is no time. The only solution is that the election should be ruled null and void by the Supreme Court and it should be thrown into the House of Representatives. The allegations of fraud are massive. I seriously doubt that 25% of the people voted for Biden because they really thought he was competent. The rest voted for Biden because they hated Trump. The computer has been correct far beyond what even I suspected was possible. Yes, it forecast that this would end in the most violent election since the ’60s. We have Antifa sill protesting and they want to overthrow the United States, capitalism, and colonialism. Besides tearing down whatever they can get their hands on, what is their solution? If the land was stolen from the Indians, then the right thing to do is not tear down statues of Columbus, but get on the next plane and go back to their original country. You can’t have it both ways.
Interesting take on what happened on 11-3-& 11-4.
Wayne Root is a Vegas legend.
By Wayne Allyn Root
I’ve been a Las Vegas oddsmaker and sports gaming expert for four decades-long before I became known as a nationally syndicated conservative talk show host. I understand odds and gambling in a way that no other conservative media personality, host, or politician in this country could.
And I can tell you something is very wrong with this presidential election. It reminds me of a fixed football game. Remember the famous fixed 1978 game between the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles. The Giants quarterback handed the ball off. The running back didn’t want it. It fell on the ground. Herm Edwards of the Eagles picked it up and ran it into the end zone with seconds left for a last second victory. Every bettor in the world knows that game was fixed. It doesn’t matter if you can prove it. We all know.
Gamblers also feel the same way about this presidential election. This presidential election is rancid. It feels as fixed as that Giants-Eagles NFL football game. Let me give you the details of this election- from a gambler’s perspective.
Trump entered the night a 2 to 1 underdog. As soon as the polls started to close, and the picture became clear, Trump’s odds quickly moved to even money. Then Trump became the slight favorite. Then a moderate favorite. Then a 2-to-1 favorite. Then 3 to 1. 4 to 1. 5 to 1. 6 to 1. 7 to 1. Finally, Trump moved to 8 to 1 favorite.
What does all this mean? Bettors putting their money on the line during Election Night have always proven to be deadly accurate. Smart bettors can clearly see what direction a race is taking. Bettors around the world clearly saw what I saw when they stared at the electoral map- Trump was headed for an electoral landslide. But something wasn’t quite right. Fox News wouldn’t call Florida for Trump- even though he was ahead by a mile. They wouldn’t call Ohio- even though Trump was ahead by a mile. They wouldn’t call Texas- even though Trump was ahead by a mile. I sat there, screaming at my television.
More strange calls. Fox News had called Virginia for Biden at the start of the night- with Trump well ahead in Virginia. Trump would remain ahead in Virginia for three long hours after Fox awarded the electoral votes to Biden. Why would they do that? What was the rush? It made no sense.
Biden was awarded Virginia with Trump ahead. But Trump was ahead by a mile in Florida, Ohio, and Texas, yet Fox News refused to award him the electoral votes. I knew at that moment, something was wrong. Something smelled fishy. Something was rotten in the DC Swamp.Bettors witnessed Trump dominating. He clearly won not only those key states of Florida, Ohio, and Texas, but Trump also enjoyed large leads in the entire Midwest- Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. It was all but over. Trump had an electoral landslide. Hence the massive 8 to 1 odds in favor of Trump.
And then it happened. It was the most bizarre call in Election Night history. Fox News called Arizona for Biden. Why? It wasn’t even close to over. There was no reason on earth to make that call. Arizona is STILL not over 8 days later. CNN still hasn’t awarded Arizona. ABC pulled it back from Biden only 24 hours ago.
Why would Fox News be in such a rush to call Arizona for Biden? At that moment, Trump’s odds crashed almost instantly from 8 to 1, back down to 2 to 1. That drop set off alarm bells. My friend, who is one of the biggest bookmakers in the country, called me to say, “Wayne, something is wrong. I’ve never seen a drop like that, let alone a drop that fast. How can Trump go from 8 to 1 to 2 to 1? Someone knows something. We’ve got a problem.”
It was as if someone had decided in advance to give Arizona to Biden- whether he won it or not. It was as if the secret code was known to only a few billionaire gamblers, “Fox News awards Arizona to Biden.” Six magic words. Someone was ready for that call. Someone waited until Trump was a prohibitive 8 to 1 favorite, then knew to bet millions of dollars on Biden at the longest odds of the night. Someone knew the fix was in. Someone made a fortune.
There’s more to the story. First, by awarding both Virginia and Arizona to Biden way too early in the evening and also going super slow awarding states to Trump where he led by a mile, Fox News made sure Biden had the electoral lead all night. That’s another big part of the story. Just like the fake pollsters suppressed Trump voters for months in advance of the election with polls falsely showing Trump losing by a landslide, fake “news desk” employees sure appeared to be suppressing Trump votes on Election Night. And also creating an air of invincibility for Biden. If Biden led in every poll before the election and led all night in electoral votes, then it wouldn’t look like a fix was in when Biden suddenly wound up the winner the morning after. Right?
One more piece of the puzzle. From almost the moment that secret code “Fox News awards Arizona to Biden” was spoken, three key Midwest battleground states with Democrat Governors all decided to stop counting votes for the night, with Trump way ahead. Why? Why all three, at the same time? Like they were coordinated in advance. Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania all mysteriously quit counting around midnight.
To add to the idea of a fix, these states merely claimed they were stopping counting for the night. After TV cameras and Republican poll watchers were all sent home, these Democrat states all resumed counting, suddenly finding all the ballots they needed to overcome large Trump leads.
I actually took screenshots before I went to bed. Trump was winning Michigan by over 300,000 votes when they stopped counting. He was up in Wisconsin by over 100,000. In Pennsylvania, he was up almost 700,000 votes. But in the wee hours of the morning, I took a new screenshot. Suddenly Biden was up by 9,000 in Wisconsin and 30,000 in Michigan. How’d that happen? I thought they stopped counting?
It all started with that bizarre Arizona call by Fox News.
Folks, someone knew. The fix was in. A few key people made millions betting on this election. They knew the exact minute to jump in. They knew exactly when a Trump landslide would turn to a Biden victory, with the help of a fake TV network call and fake ballots.
They knew Arizona was going to be called way too early. They knew that fake Arizona call would trigger vote counting to stop and massive ballot fraud to begin.
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will decide. But bettors all over the world know in our guts exactly what happened. The fix was in, no different than that famous NY Giants-Philadelphia Eagle fix in 1978 at the Meadowlands.
Trump was robbed. This election was stolen.
President Donald Trump calls-in to deliver remarks during a hearing about 2020 election day fraud in Arizona. The campaign legal counsel Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis were present to deliver witnesses and evidence of the documented fraud that took place.
Attorney Sidney Powell appears for an interview with Lou Dobbs to discuss the latest developments in several lawsuits against election contests. Both Powell and Dobbs outline how some unknown state officials travelled to Fulton County, Georgia, and removed the servers from the county election offices. WATCH:
“Glitches” seems like an easy catch-phrase to explain encountered problems in the world of technology; but “glitches” doesn’t reconcile the real human frustration people encounter when they engage with a system that is experiencing a rather unique challenge.
I won’t say we are experiencing a glitch…. CTH 2.0 is experiencing a challenge that has actual emotional consequences… Here’s the issue in as much non-technical wording as I can muster.
SIDEBAR: For other websites with considerable scale, and considering the deplatforming issue underway, this might also serve as a guide. Additionally, for site users in any website this might explain some background decision-making on commenting functions that is often left unsaid outside of closed-door meetings.
First, my sincere apologies for the trouble everyone had, and is having, as we launched CTH 2.0 with new host servers. As you know, our commenting community is our #1 priority and we have years of relationship and trust together. The challenge before us today is considerable.
When we were told we had to leave WordPress/Automattic platform it was important to us to retain the entire site library that includes over 56,000 published articles and over 7.2 million comments.
Some articles carry up to several hundred citations and the average amount of content within the 7.2 million comment file alone exceeds 40 million lines of metadata.
All of that CTH data took approximately 60 hours to export and transfer (import) to a new site and eventually new host servers. The data was first uploaded to a test site to gauge the scale of data and time. After that initial transfer timeline was determined the data was then imported to new host servers, CTH and CTH 2.0 were mirrored, and fully migrated away from WordPress/Automattic servers.
The CTH 2.0 site was reviewed, some adjustments made to ensure user friendly systems were carried over, and we were ready to switch the site. That is called a DNS switchover.
As the domain name shifts from WordPress/Automattic to our new platform host the worldwide system of interconnected data networks needs to identify and promulgate searches for “TheConservativeTreehouse.Com” with the new site destination, the new servers. This process takes place in every country around the world, each with a different refresh rate for DNS activation.
At approximately 7:30pm ET last evening that process was initiated. CTH search results switched from final destinations at WordPress/Automattic servers to our new server host.
Regionally as each Internet Service Provider (ISP) updated it’s DNS mapping, users were directed to new CTH servers. CTH 2.0 slowly showed up in every city, state and town as the regions came on-line with updated directories. The process executed as expected.
We anticipated a significant data pull from initial users that would hit the server network, so we purchased a secondary “cache” service, Cloudfare, to help offset the scale of the data load by hosting the static or older library files. It’s a weird system but the data starts to promulgate two data-systems simultaneously. The load on the servers is offset by the ability of CloudFare to host and direct users to older content.
However, in the change to new servers there is no pre-existing room of old “cached” files that don’t need to be responsive to the user. The entire CTH archive library is essentially being pulled from the Host Servers as the promulgation continues and a new set of cache files is being created that will eventually take some of the load away.
Depending on the library size – for the first 24 hours the new servers are carrying all the load and the data capacity is stressed. The server host anticipates this heavy load and has a system in place called “autoscale” that activates to allow more server capacity during the DNS switch.
That is one initial load on the servers that improves in time. Time allows the servers to fully promulgate and get better at working with secondary cache services who take some of the burden. But in the first hours all of the data load is on the host server.
The secondary issue is where our problem rests. As each provider gained access to and directed customers to the new servers, many of the inbound users, our community, started commenting. The scale of our community is significant, we are proud of it.
The CTH 2.0 site content was promulgating new pathways (the DNS changeover) at the same time users started to engage with it. The cache service was also promulgating. However, the commenting function is a live-time engagement, so the secondary “cache” host doesn’t interact at all with the commenting data-load.
When you write a comment it creates a metadata file. Each comment is a unique url. Your unique id is part of that metadata, your gravatar or avatar is part of that metadata, the content of your comment (what you write) is part of that metadata and any article links, citations, pictures, gifs, or tweets -each carrying a unique url- is part of that metadata.
The average number of lines of unique metadata in one comment is six to ten lines of code, regardless of the length of your comment. Your comment creates a mini data-file with its own unique id (the url). The library of pre-existing comments is 7.2 million. Multiply that by the lines of metadata and you get well over 40 million lines of code in the pre-existing comment file alone.
♦ Here’s the issue. Whenever you write a unique comment the pre-existing library is searched by a software program to match you to your commenting history. This avoids duplication (if you hit send/submit more than once), and it also looks for spam or bot signatures.
Because we are using new servers the library of 7.2 million comments (each with 6 to 10 lines of metadata) has to be searched by the same software built into the system to avoid comment duplication. In essence as you hit submit/send the search goes through the entire library of 40 million lines of metadata looking for your unique id and then responds back to allow the comment to go through.
With only a few people reaching the site it’s not a problem. However as more and more people are both drawing from the host library of posted content; and simultaneously writing comments that have to go through searching 40 million lines of metadata; the servers get overloaded.
Put 1,000 people on the site at the same time and you get 1,000 x 40,000,000 lines of metadata being searched and queried at the same time.
With one thousand users the servers are trying to: (1) return library results on 11 years of archived posts; and (2) search through 40 billion lines of comment metadata and respond simultaneously. That’s the data load for 1,000 users.
[On an average day at CTH we hold 25k users/hr simultaneously and a peak avg around 35k to 50 thousand around 9pm ET.]
Last night, typical for CTH, as word spread we had 30,000 simultaneous users return to the website. Do the math: 30,000 users x 40 million lines of metadata in the comment library search and the servers overloaded…. “504” and “524” notifications were the result on your browser searches.
That’s what happened.
It’s not an excuse for what happened; that’s just what happened.
As the DNS promulgates more fully the servers will be less taxed on the article data retrieval and older files will shift to the cache service. The weight of the site data will lessen as the cache can step-in, and the servers will be less taxed. That part is not a problem.
The problem is the sheer scale of the comment library. Every comment submitted draws a search amid 40 million lines of metadata. Over time that will also improve, but the comment library is going to take much longer to promulgate; and it doesn’t help that Google search engines are simultaneously crawling through the entire site, including the totality of the comment library, to re-index their search results by pulling data from the new site servers.
One quick solution from the engineering side was to just get rid of every comment older than 90 days so the comment library shrinks to a manageable searchable size.
Another solution to regain the site was to shut down commenting again thereby stopping the search function associated with each unique user posting a comment.
The latter approach would buy time to find another solution that might avoid deleting the comment library. That is the approach we have chosen right now. We didn’t really have an option.
When I was asked “why not just drop the old comments” we run into a conversation that is personal for our CTH community.
There’s a few reasons why I wanted the total import of the comment files, one of them I never wanted to discuss…. but to explain to those here today who might also just say get rid of the older comments… I need to share something very important.
Our comment library holds 11 years of prayer request threads. It was the first function we added to this little hideout. You may not know it but the admins and I spend a lot of time reading those prayer requests; and yes, we pray for those who write.
Those prayer requests and replies are from real people, our people, our CTH community of people and they are the source of our compass heading. More importantly, we have lost friends who asked for prayers for themselves and/or their loved ones. We have held the hands of those people and we have at times had no words other than just to sit still and let them know we are there.
Many of those friends left us and they are in God’s hands now. Additionally, whether you know it or not the families left behind visit those prayer threads, read the words, and remember the voices of those who are no longer with us. If we were to delete old comments we would be losing many of those prayer threads, and that would just be too high a price to pay. It would feel like we were breaking a promise, I cannot do it.
So the tech team has been told deleting comments by date is not an option. If I need to pay a service to host an archive of those prayer threads, so we can put a link to them, then that’s doable. But we are not deleting them, period.
The tech guys are looking at other options for how to turn-on comments while at the same time lessening the burden on comment data by reducing the library. There has to be a way to do it and that’s the challenge.
I apologize unreservedly for this issue.
I apologize that you cannot comment right now.
This issue within the launch of CTH 2.0 is entirely on me.
The tech people who worked on this massive export and import of data have done outstanding work. I am the person who wouldn’t budge on retention and transfer of the entire CTH data library to include every comment by this community. This 11-year labor of love will not be taken apart.
There’s a solution out there and we are sharp enough to figure it out.
Warmest love and deepest appreciation for your understanding,
~ Sundance…
Hello everyone, we made it. Hopefully it looks awfully familiar around here. Pull up a comfy rock, sit back around the campfire…. Lets have a talk, because it’s time to get back to business.
Clear your computer “cache and cookies”, search or use your bookmarks for CTH again, and your browser should redirect you to the correct website on brand new servers.
A total of 69 chronologically distributed files containing massive terabytes of CTH library data (increasing exponentially by date) have been transferred. The library is intact.
Trillions of ‘ones and naughts’ traveled through digital space in electromagnetic time and then landed thousands of miles from their point of origin…. reassembling by falling into the exact and precise sequence needed to re-emerge. Quite remarkable.
The only thing lost was the comments during switchover from November 27 (11pm ET) to now. All other content transferred seamlessly thanks to the incredible people who ran point on the tech transfer for the past week. We are so very thankful.
Love to all, and a big wide smile…. Hello again.
Earlier this morning President Trump called-in to Sunday Morning with Maria Bartiromo to discuss a variety of key issues related to the 2020 election and the previous effort by corrupt institutional officials to remove him from office. WATCH:
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