Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist

The following took an interesting turn and is well worth a read. This started with a message I front paged for JudgeDredd:

JudgeDredd:

Mercola, at Mercola.com has been ordered to delete his site in 48 hours OR ELSE.

(if you can) Back up Mercola's site and hopefully I will be able to put it on another server from what you get. Make sure it runs locally perfectly before quitting file acquisition, I do not know how you are able to do that when you don't own the site.

Check out the response, and remember what I told EVERYONE about cloudflare MANY TIMES in the past:

"Hi Jim,
I saw your message around 2AM and went to work to see if I could mirror/rip M's site and ater checking and inputting all the parameters I found that it was impossible. The culprit? Cloudflare. It was preventing me from copying files via the program I was using (HTTrack)

So because M does not understand the way things are on the 'net he has screwed himself.

Thanks for the message, that was interesting to read, that's for sure!"

My response: well, that does it then because I cannot spend a month hunting down everything on his site to re-build it. Adios to him (and I cannot blame him) even "experts" don't know about cloudflare and how it totally destroys your survival on the web, yes it can stave off attacks but there's no way Mercola needed that. Alex probably does with the way his site is set up but 99 percent just use it because it is "free" and "cool".

Anything that can stop "attacks" can be rigged to prevent you from being seen by anyone. If you in alt media, I suggest avoiding cloudflare like the plague unless you have a multi million dollar budget and multiple full time web admins like Alex has. Those people will notice any f***ery going on (that said, when they FINALLY flip the switch they WILL on Alex, and cloudflare will be a key item making that happen.) However, when that happens to a site as big as Infowars, Alex will be on the run anyway if he gets a chance to start running. He probably will not, they know when and where he sleeps.

UPDATE: MERCOLA MUST HAVE RECEIVED VERY SERIOUS THREATS, CHECK THIS OUT:

JudgeDredd sent to Mercola's girlfriend:
"Hi. I specialize in saving websites from being censored. Would it be possible that I can speak directly with Mercola about his websites? I would like to first save them and mirror them elsewhere or at least have them archived. My phone number and Email are ________ thank you!

Response: "Hi. Yes, they have already deleted everything so nobody can save anything. It is so sad and I'm pretty upset today as you can imagine. They already deleted everything and you can get nothing from archive.org. Mercola has offices in several nations with hundreds of employees and they have made sure there are no back up copies. It's all gone from the wayback machine.

I have thousands of messages today and CNN top news anchors outside the door so I will be back.

Here is the comment that strongly indicates Mercola got a threat far beyond the usual: He doesn't want them published anywhere ever. Anyone who does will be getting a takedown notice I guess. Very sad times".

My comment: well, I guess we'll all soon find out just how resilient this site is, I cannot believe this happened. First they came for Mercola . . . . he had one of the best sites out there. His site still runs, but it is missing a lot.