FAKE NEWSFLOW: Are The NY Times, Guardian, And WaPo Buying Clicks? China Jumps From Trickle To Half Of All Traffic In Two Months

Last week the Failing New York Times published an article crediting Donald Trump and the controversial election for “more subscribers in three months than all of 2015,” claiming the addition of 276,000 new “digital-only” customers. The beleaguered publication owned by Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim is doing so well in fact that they are vacating 8 floors of their New York headquarters to generate “significant rental revenue,” as well as pushing lame Twitter ads offering 40% off subscriptions which state things like “Truth. It’s vital to democracy” and “The best independent journalism.”

While subscriber count may have allegedly increased, website traffic really didn’t start picking up until the first week in December. The Washington Post and The Guardian (UK) saw similar traffic trends around the same time, in stark contrast to most of their peers. A quick before-and-after illustrates the dramatic pickup in visitors:

Rankings at the beginning of December, 2016:

Rankings as of February 8th, 2017:

Traffic begins to pick up significantly around the middle of December for all three. Here’s a look at the overall picture compared to various other news outlets:

That’s odd. Now let’s take a look at each outlet’s traffic by country for the NYT, which shows significant increases in visitors from China, jumping from 5.1% to 49.2% of all site traffic in two months:

What’s most interesting is that The NY Times has been completely blocked in China since 2012, and just last month Apple was ordered to pull two NYT apps from the App store despite users being unable to view content since the original 2012 ban. Per the NY Times:

“When the Chinese government began blocking the Times websites in 2012, it also prevented users with Times apps from downloading new content.“

People seeking to bypass internet filters have traditionally used VPN’s (Virtual Private Networks) which tunnel through China’s highly restrictive firewall, however China has been cracking down on VPN use for several years.

Now let’s take a look at the Washington Post and The Guardian, which are not blocked in China – jumping from virtually no traffic to 58.9% and 57% of site-wide visitors respectively.

 

These dramatic increases in traffic have significantly bumped each site’s Alexa ranking by as much as 38%, a key metric used in website valuation. Of note, BBC.com experienced a similar boost, and others may have as well.

Not to overstate the obvious, but considering the URL ban on the New York Times, one might conclude that this massive increase which now accounts for nearly half of all website traffic is some type of high volume traffic generating bot server unimpeded by China’s restrictive firewall, synthetically inflating visitor counts for affected sites.

All three news outlets spent much of 2016 trying to influence the election in favor of Hillary Clinton with biased coverage and regular hit pieces against Donald Trump. Since winning the election, President Trump has declared war on much of the mainstream media – branding it the “opposition party,” while remaining under heavily biased attack. China is no fan of the US President either; between the threat of tariffs and Trump’s disregard for the long held “One China” policy over Taiwanese recognition, China has both economic and political reasons to try and mitigate the US President’s tough talk.

In fact, Chinese state-owned JAC Motor and Mexican auto manufacturer Giant Motors, co-owned by NYT owner Carlos Slim, are jointly investing over $200 Million dollars to build SUV’s in Hidalgo, Mexico after President Trump’s continued spats with Mexico over the proposed border wall, as well as the demand-killing tariffs he claims will pay for it. Amazon, which shares an owner with the Washington Post, was recently granted permission by China to begin forwarding freight from Chinese merchants selling on its site, and they have also been allowed to operate Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the highly restrictive country.

While not much else is known at this point, the list of entities with the capability of pushing half the traffic to several major websites from Chinese domains seems rather short.

UPDATE: A user on 8chan found this: http://adage.com/article/media/washington-post-continues-debut-ad-produc…

Related??

Update II 02/17/2017: Looks like Alexa removed the country-specific data for the affected sites:

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After a Democrat filibuster of Rand Paul’s “Audit the Fed” bill – reintroduced in January along with 8 co-sponsors and passed by 53 Senators including Bernie Sanders, the Senator from Kentucky believes he may find a friend in President Trump, who has previously endorsed the idea. Opponents to the audit, also known as establishment shills, suggest that transparency might lead to scrutiny. You don’t say?  On Tucker Carlson Tonight, Paul explained how the Fed hurts people:

The reason I want oversight is people get hurt in the downturn,” Paul said. “So in 2008, when the housing market went bust, I blamed that on the Federal Reserve. We’re right in the middle of another boom. Anybody seen the stock market lately? It is a boom, just like the real estate boom of 2008, and it will come to an end. I wish I knew exactly when, so I could give your viewers some investment advice, but it will end. There will be a correction.” –RealClearPolitics

Given the Trump’s rollback of Dodd-Frank, which included provisions to audit dark money emergency lending facilities (yet harmed small businesses and community banks) – Auditing the Fed is perhaps more important than ever.

Just as interesting: Carlson, a patriot, brought up another issue which Rand Paul and many others feel strongly about; rumors of Neoconservative Never-Trumper Elliott Abrams imminent appointment as second in command at the State Department. As Paul writes in a Rare op-ed yesterday:

Crack the door to admit Elliott Abrams and the neocons will scurry in by the hundreds.

Neoconservative interventionists have had us at perpetual war for 25 years. While President Trump has repeatedly stated his belief that the Iraq War was a mistake, the neocons (all of them Never-Trumpers) continue to maintain that the Iraq and Libyan Wars were brilliant ideas. These are the same people who think we must blow up half the Middle East, then rebuild it and police it for decades.

As Think Progress writes of Abrams:

Abrams was one of the defendants in the Iran-Contra Affair, and he pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress. He was appointed Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs during Bush’s first term, where he served as Bush’s chief advisor on the Middle East.

That’s about as swampy as it gets, and contrary to just about everything Trump campaigned on.

Paul had the following to say on Tucker about Abrams:

Someone who was a never-Trumper should never be in a Trump state department – for goodness sakes!

President Trump has been different than many. He said that Nation building hasn’t worked. When he said that, Elliot Abrams said “He’s absolutely wrong, Nation building is exactly what we need to do.”

Regime change, Iraq War; Elliot Abrams was one of the key architects of the Iraq War. We don’t need people with a failed policy back in. Donald Trump represents something new and different, and is I think, a welcome relief from the Neocons.

Tucker: “I’m baffled by it, to be honest.”

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Stanford University started the week off with two elite liberal inspirationalists to help the tender psyches of turtleneck wearing “compliant and unawares” climb back from the depths of despair. I imagine that miserable couple on the plane to Portland were in attendance – both wearing jeans and faux-buckle loafers with no socks. In a sermon to the fractured cult of Jobs on Monday, Justice Ginsburg put down her antique ivory ear-trumpet to let the world know she wants to eradicate the electoral college, and people need to be more charitable. Credible sources within earshot say many tears of inspiration were shed.

In stark contrast to Ginsburg’s feel-good appearance, however, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel took a big check to show up on the Palo Alto campus, where he effectively called tantruming democrats whiny bitches, telling them to put on their big boy/girl/it pants and move on.

Our party likes to be right, even if we lose. If you win, you then have the power to go do what you need to get done. If you lose, you can write a book about what happened. Great. That’s really exciting [Sarcastic Rahm eye roll].

He then went all Harkonen apprentice, talking about plans within plans and biding time:

You also gotta know, you can’t beat something with nothin’ – that was Bill Clinton’s always lesson. You have to have an alternative. You have to give people your vision. And I would also be honest, it took us a long time to get this low – it ain’t gonna happen in 2018. Take a chill pill, man. You gotta be in this for the long haul. If you think it’s gonna be a quick turnaround, like that – it’s not.

Of course while waiting to regain power, the most effective thing congressional Democrats can do for the country is divide, divide, divide!

“We don’t have the power to swing at everything, so you have to pick what is essential.”

B: Wedge. Wherever there is a disagreement among Republicans, I’m for one of those disagreements. President wants Russia, I’m for John McCain and Lindsey Graham, I’m for NATO. Why? Wedge. Schisms have to be wedges, wedges have to be divides.”

Third: We gotta lower the President, why? Because they are strong enough to get him in [against?] us. We’re not strong enough.

How about “don’t cheat in the primaries with a candidate whose fake charity has taken Millions of dollars from our enemies?”

Video here:

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While reports are rolling in about Twitter censoring or curating President Trump’s tweets (at least some of which Trump is aware of), outrage is building over the increasingly Orwellian suspensions of conservatives- the latest being a 2 week old account which was apparently way too honest about Social Justice Warriors (activist idiots). “He He Silly Comics” (@sillyfunnycomic) set up shop over at Twitter on January 20th and began tweeting hilarious comics which immediately began picking up steam.

BAN UPDATE:

Here are a few examples:

And a few more (click to expand):

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was THIS comic, however, which apparently sent Twitter off the deep end:

SUSPENDED!

4chan takes notice, @SillyFunnyComic stops by:

Here’s a screenshot of the Hijab comic tweet  before account suspension.

This sums it up nicely:

Where can we find you Silly Funny Comic??

Since being banned on Twitter, you can find Silly Funny Comic over at gab.ai

https://gab.ai/HeHeSillyComics

So Twitter decides to suspend the account of an artist trying to make a name for herself for no other reason than her opinions, while a bunch of pedos and the NY Antifa chapter get to keep their accounts.

I’m sure their fans are happy.

#HeilAntifa #Antifa #ISIS #Bronies @ChateauEmissary @Cernovich @AnarchistsBTFO pic.twitter.com/4kC085Bcwz

— MaximumTacos (@TerrorTacos) February 6, 2017

 

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When Audi/Volkswagen isn’t using software to cheat emissions tests so they can lie about the degree to which they’re poisoning the environment, their PR department – in it’s infinite wisdom, is cooking up stupid campaigns, like their new wage gap ad. In it, a white male father is wrought with shame over the oppressive patriarchy’s threat to his precious daughter.

What do I tell my daughter? Do I tell her that her grandpa’s worth more than her grandma, that her dad is worth more than her mom? Do I tell her that despite her education, her drive, her skills, her intelligence, she will automatically be valued less than any man she ever meets? Or maybe I’ll be able to tell her something different. 

See this marketing disaster for yourself. Note the “Top Gun” maneuver when she hits the brakes and sends a fat patriarchy kid into a spin.

Oh my God. Just tell her you’re a huge cuck.

Hilariously, people aren’t buying Audi’s shit:

Perhaps it’s because the “wage gap” is easily explained by lifestyle choices? This isn’t some issue of discrimination or “equal work for equal pay” whatsoever. Per Pew Research:

And as D.C. McAllister of PJ Media writes:

Surprise, surprise. The wage gap is caused by women’s choices. Progressives are all about a woman’s right to choose, aren’t they? Well, women, more than men, choose to interrupt their careers to take care of their families.

•42% of women choose to reduce their hours worked to care for family members compared to 28% of men
•39% of women choose to take significant amount of time off compared to 24% of men
•27% of women choose to quit their jobs compared to 10% of men
•13% of women choose to turn down a promotion compared to 10% of men

Additionally, research shows that women will never make up half of the U.S. workforce because of their personal choices, not because of discrimination.

It’s obvious that Audi’s PR department is full of morons who didn’t think to google that shit before basing an entire advertising campaign around a falsehood.

They are getting LIT UP in their twitter feed. Click here and scroll through the comments if so inclined

Reactions around the web have been entertaining per usual:

.@Audi the champion of women, has no women on their board. pic.twitter.com/HAqDPb5UM2

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 6, 2017

@Audi Selling my Audi tomorrow! Last one!! #nomoreaudi #audisucks #boycottaudi #volvonewcustomer

— Jennifer Baker (@JenniferQBaker) February 6, 2017

And Mark Dice is hilarious:

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If ever one needed better evidence of failed liberal ideology, look no further than the complete mental breakdown and kneejerk arrogance programmed into a nation of tantruming pseudo-intellectual children of all ages. I’ve never seen so many overly-dramatic sore losers who can’t manage to look inward and move on with their lives.

In light of the fact that so much of America is woefully unequipped with facts, critical thinking skills, or the ability to absorb divergent opinions without having an existential crisis, it’s time to address perhaps the most important swamp of all; the hyper-liberal US educational system and the people responsible for influencing the future of our nation.

Submitted for consideration by an attorney and educator who wishes to remain anonymous [emphasis mine]

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I’d like to submit two proposals concerning what President Trump could do to “drain the swamp.”  The first proposal concerns the flagrant political discrimination that plagues almost all of academia, both k-12 and college level. Virtually all of these institutions have become the sole haunt of left wing ideologues.  Everyone knows this, although some liberals may try to deny it.  The result has rendered most of our colleges and grade schools veritable liberal ghettos where conservatives need not apply and are certainly not welcome if they try.

The proposed solution is to give these institutions one year to balance their teaching staff so that fully half of them are registered Republicans, Libertarians, Independents, or otherwise conservative.  Once that year had elapsed, President Trump could decree by Executive Order that funding for any educational institution receiving federal funds would be cut by a percentage equal to the disparity between liberals and conservatives in their teaching staff.  For example, if only 5% of their teaching staff were Republican or Conservative after a year’s recruitment then the institution would receive only 10% of its prior federal funding. Institutions that raised their Republican representation to 40% would receive up to 80% of their prior federal funding.  This approach would motivate biased liberal institutions to at least abate their political discrimination, and American taxpayers wouldn’t continue to pay for left wing bigotry poisoning the minds of our children.

In America today, Christian bakers can be forced out of business for refusing to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding, but nobody blinks an eye when Spike Lee announces he’s firing a singer simply because she sang at Trump’s inauguration.  This type of selective discrimination, rampant in academia, is as wrong as any arising from race, religion or sexual preference.  The First Amendment rights of speech and association are not a right to discriminate, however the Left continues to do so based purely on political persuasions they disagree with.

By signing an Executive Order defunding politically discriminatory educational institutions, President Trump could at least begin to end this problem.

I’m sure you can anticipate my second proposal.  That is, again by Executive Order, require that two-thirds of all federal employee hires have to be ideologically conservative until similar balance is achieved.  As with the prior proposal, no new laws have to be introduced through Congress, this is something President Trump could do on his own through Executive Order to begin to heal the rampant discrimination that is also demonstrably present in the federal workforce.

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Thoughts?

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A brief weekend public service announcement from DHS / ICE regarding human trafficking:

“The signs are everywhere, sometimes you just have to take a second look”

The “Blue” campaign…

I wonder if David Brock’s “ShareBlue” is going to sue for trademark infringement?

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Today, propagandists on the left attempted to change the narrative over the violent “Antifa” riots, suggesting that Trump supporters were secretly behind the group’s spate of violent terrorist acts since the election:

Earlier today, the ultra-liberal, Armenian Holocaust denying, TalcumX hiring, “better than you” elitists – also known as “The Young Turks,” started furiously parroting these Alisnsky tactics to cast doubt on just who keeps co-opting student protests and turning them violent…

Thursday night, TYT’s Ana Kasparian – a horrible human being, introduced the question of just who IS this Antifa?

Don’t worry Ana – Twitter user Pave Darker (@PaveDarker) has your back, hack.

In a nutshell: A violent Antifa attacker bragged about beating up a Trump supporter over Twitter. In that user’s profile, @PaveDarker found a link to the attacker’s Facebook account with his real name [Note: This man is a suspect – name withheld from this post pending official investigation]:

 

Witness journalism in action Ana:

Mmmm hmm:

Deeper we go:

And this $69,824K/year Antifa rebel appears to be a “Digital Comm Spec 4” at Berkeley:

The authorities have been notified, and the UC Employee is thought to be in New York right now. Developing…

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11 people were arrested at NYU Thursday night when Anti-fascist fascists tried to organize a second night of protests riots to shut down the free speech of yet another conservative thinker on campus – this time being Canadian writer, actor, comedian and (no longer affiliated) Vice Co-founder Gavin McInnes. The NYPD wasn’t taking any chances after what happened at UC Berkeley Wednesday night, and showed up in force – though it wasn’t enough to prevent mollycoddled trust fund purse-dogs from shutting McInnes’ event down with intense yapping (video below).

Just saw 4 vans of cops unload outside of the NYU Anti-Fa protest of Gavin McInnes' talk pic.twitter.com/aZU5e3abm0

— Jason Miller (@bronco7732) February 2, 2017

If there’s a silver lining to the death of free speech on yet another US college campus, it’s exposing people like this slobbering NYU professor who had a total meltdown over McInnes’ mere presence. Her profanity-laced tirade is a perfect example of  the type of fanatical, ignorant, intolerant, hyper-sensitized liberalism that US educators are steeping future generations in.

She’s shrieking at the cops to assault Gavin McInness “because the students shouldn’t have to.”

These are KIDS who are trying to LEEEEARN about HUMANIDY

McInnes, having been pepper sprayed earlier in the day, was ambushed during his speech by a group of triggered snowflakes. When a NYU student affairs rep intervened to remind the students of NYU’s proud tradition of free speech, the enraged trust fund babies turned on him too! Then, when McInnes called the ringleader down to debate, the future of America just stared back cow-eyed, robotically chanting “who’s campus? Our campus!”

Thanks for asking if I'm OK guys. I was sprayed with pepper spray but being called a Nazi burned way more. ?

— Gavin McInnes (@Gavin_McInnes) February 3, 2017

This isn’t the first time McInnes has dealt with Antifa. Here he is relaying his experience with rioting children at the Deploraball January 19th:

An aside: hacker 4chan pointed out that this guy standing in the background looks like “Bjorn” from the “He Will Not Divide Us” snowflake therapy cam in NY from last week.

What do you think?

 

 

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Last night, domestic terrorists on the UC Berkeley campus successfully barred conservative gay Jew Milo Yinnopoulos from expressing his opinion, after Antifa-incited riots closed down a speaking engagement. CNN – by the way, is in full propaganda damage control mode over this. Check out the CNN app notification popup:

And check out this headline:

 

Are you kidding me? 

As fires raged and Trump supporters were assaulted with shovels and pepper spray by masked anarchists, the mayor of Berkeley, CA, Jesse Arreguin, allegedly ordered SWAT and campus police to stand down.

Here’s a picture from a redditor claiming to be 100 officers hanging out in the student union building while the violence was occurring (post):

A comment in the thread:

In comes the cavalry?

According to Mike Cernovich, Trump’s FBI is investigating:

Civil Rights section of FBI has opened an investigation into mayor @JesseArreguin, for inciting riots and ordering to police to stand down. pic.twitter.com/uy5EbgcvSm

— Mike Cernovich ?? (@Cernovich) February 2, 2017

Mayor Arreguin denies he ordered them to stand down:

We shall see…

Cernovich has put out the call for any victims of violence at last night’s riots:

If you were a victim of violence at the Berkeley riots, DM me. We are reaching out to lawyers for a civil rights lawsuit.

— Mike Cernovich ?? (@Cernovich) February 2, 2017

There are still some heroes left in the world, extinguishing bullshit.

MMA fighter Jake Shields helps man from ‘being jumped by thugs’ in the middle of UC Berkeley violencehttps://t.co/OhXwBPSz7Z

— Mike Cernovich ?? (@Cernovich) February 2, 2017

Meanwhile, the rabid left is calling for a military coup.

You’re being ridiculous Sarah – and you’re a moron if you think the military isn’t with Trump. By the way:

U.S. Code 2385:

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or

Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or

Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

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