Well, this is interesting. It seems our Monday Exclusive on “gagged” FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has disappeared from Google News. Sort of.
A simple news search for “Sibel Edmonds” at Google no longer offers the rather blockbuster story, in which it’s announced that she is now challenging American mainstream media television outlets to allow her to tell her story, uncensored and in violation of the ridiculous years-long “State Secrets Privilege” that the DoJ has been using to keep her quiet.
The story can be found via Google News, but it requires a search for both “Sibel Edmonds” and “Brad Blog,” or drilling by date, etc. We’ve got no idea why the story fails to show up otherwise.
That’s particularly odd since it’s been incredibly popular since we first blogged it, having made it’s way to #3 at Digg.com and #4 at Reddit.com, as well as becoming the #1 “recommended” diary at DailyKos.com for most of the day it first ran. (Those rankings alone translate to big traffic on the Internets, for those not familiar with how these things work.) We also ran a version of the report over at Huffington Post. That one doesn’t show up either.
Oddly, our much older story from two weeks ago, in which we referred to and quoted Edmonds — in relation to the recent House resolution declaring “genocide” in Turkey, and her damning allegations concerning former Speaker Dennis Hastert’s corrupt bargain while pushing the same legislation in 2000 — does show up via the Google News search for “Sibel Edmonds.” Even though that one, unlike this week’s, doesn’t even have her name in the headline and was far less popular and infrequently linked to.
No idea what all of that is about, of course, but it seems noteworthy.
In related news, we’ll have an exclusive follow-up soon on Edmonds, and the interesting response (or lack thereof), she’s so-far received from the American mainstream media in the wake of the blockbuster Monday report. Here’s a hint, she’s called it “disgusting.”
In the meantime, the blogger who pointed out the above anomaly suggests the “Stephen Colbert Effect” might be useful in Edmonds’ matter as well.
UPDATE 11/1/07 12:02pm PT: The original story that wouldn’t appear via simple Google News search for “Sibel Edmonds” now does show up as a result of that search. We have no idea what, if anything, has changed, but since we ran this report (which also shows up on the same search) 24 hours ago or so, the story now shows up as expected, when it did not previously. No clue what to make of it all still, of course, but noting it nonetheless.
As I also noted on your Democratic Underground thread on this, I’d seen some earlier “suspicious” Google actions early last year that one wonders if they might be connected to what’s happening here too. Perhaps we should revisit the circumstances of what happened then too. Here’s the earlier thread I posted on Democratic Underground last year on that topic…Democratic Underground: Coincidence or another sign of a Sibel Edmonds/AIPAC coverup (by Google?)
GOOGLE Stock is soaring. Perhaps that will change if Google’s just another big corporation playing politics.
Hummm… Something’s rotten in Denmark . . . I almost couldn’t get here
from there (google). . . . . In that, after googling S.E. (News) to see this article
I took several tries to get here with some strange screen in between.
This story about a “missing story” made Google news. I diaried my side of it @ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2...1/1/03810/4051
Thanks for the newfound authority Brad.
http://technorati.com/blogs/wec....com?reactions
I’ll try not to abuse my power too much.
Muahahaha!!!
Happy Hallowe’en.
Someone just let me know about this interesting Privacy ranking study of Internet Service companies:
http://www.privacyinternational...D=x-347-553961 Google is at the bottom of their interim rankings.
http://www.privacyinternational...imrankings.pdf
And that person also mentioned that a possibly relevant term in this situation might be “Link Relevance Suppression”
http://search.yahoo.com/search;...h&fr=moz2
With “authority granted” such as mine, you are now in for a world of pain, WCCTW 😉
Good catch on the Sibel/Google “anomaly”!
…or, hmm, maybe they’re just not that into you. *ahem*
Good catch! I know Google does this. I noticed a while ago, for all the drag pictures and articles about Giuliani, it was hard to find them starting at one point in time. Try and find the SNL skit with Giuliani in drag! Not the one with Trump.
What’s a better search than Google? Anyone know?
What about H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 by pro-AIPAC Dem. Jane Harman that just passed the House and is on the way to the Senate? Which contains the clause:
`(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.
The beginning of the govt controlling the internet???
http://www.americanfreepress.ne...ing_probe.html
http://www.govtrack.us/congress...bill=h110-1955
There’s clearly a war on our Constitution and BradBlog is on the front lines (or almost) to protect it. Good job Brad!
AIPAC? Sure. Take your meds. Ziophobes are amazing.
The fate for whistle blowers? hmmmm… I am in the middle of reading an article entitled “The war on whistle-blowers” by James Sandler on Salon.com. There is a reason the information on Edmonds has disappeared from the public’s view.
http://www.salon.com/
Maybe to add a dash of sensationalism to this vital story, we should add that Sibel Edmonds is hot.
She is hot, in my opinion, anyway.
Maybe the story would stay in the headlines better if it were accompanied by a pic of Ms. Edmonds looking really, uh…appealing. Like in a slinky dress or something like that.
Maybe we could even get it on Drudge?
OK, I’ll go back to my padded cell now.
Che: What’s a Ziophobe?
Google does this crap all the time. That’s why they’re at the bottom of the privacy ratings as WCCTW noted above. They’re adding to the “layers” information has to pass through to reach the average reader.
To everyone clicking on this Sibel Edmonds thread first instead of the other longer one farther down the page, please check that one out also, as on that thread myself and others have been examining why people interested in the truth about 9/11 shouldn’t get their hopes up about Sibel, as she is almost definitely part of the cover-up, her role being to facilitate a limited hangout for a regime apparantly getting more and more nervous as more people are waking up to how false and impossible the official myth of 9/11 really is.
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1354
Don’t abdicate critical thinking just because someone says things you want to hear and has a pretty face.
Lev: I mentioned that Zogby poll on a local talk radio show where I live, and they said they never heard of it. I hung up, and kept listening, and the talk show host said, “Hey! That guy was right!”
So, the CMSM did NOT cover that Zogby poll…not many people know about that poll.
He said he had a laptop/internet to look up things callers say, and about 15 minutes after I hung up, he said, “Here it is, that guy was right!” And he started talking about the Zogby poll, and said no matter what he thought, the issue has to be addressed because so many people question the govt’s story…according to that Zogby poll.
Well you and I both do. And there’s a reason why not many people know about it. If it was a Zogby poll saying 51% of respondents believe in reincarnation then it would be in the Washington Post and other newspapers. 51% of respondents wanting a REAL investigation into 9/11, one that investigates Cheney and his hand puppet for complicity, well that’s something that the controlled media doesn’t want the masses to know about so they would rather talk about Britney Spears’s crotch or Lindsay Lohan’s DWI. They suck. It’s Volkischer Beobachter with better pictures.
And Big Dan, did you notice what happened the day after the Zogby poll came out? We were then treated to the latest installment in the fake Osama theater, complete with all-black beard and all mentioning of current events inserted in the lengthy stretch of the tape where the video is frozen but the audio isn’t.
http://www.boomantribune.com/st.../9/61032/95401
Subtlety is not something this regime is known for.
BIG Dan
I think he must have meant “xenophobe”.
Lev: YES! I DID notice that!
99: What’s a “xenophobe”? 😆
(I did that on purpose, 99…wink wink)
Nikto #15:
She is pretty cute, huh? I’ll meet you at the cell and I’ll bring the cookies. I must be insane ’cause I think Ann Coulter is hot. Looking into a full lobotomy. 🙂
I just looked up Sibel Edmonds on the Yahoo search engine. This story was number 14 and the missing story on Google was #38.
I also did a Google search. The original story was #12, and the Huffington Post version from 10/30 was #25. This story was #44.
Big Dan #9 – Just found out through poking around about a meta engine which so far I’m very pleased with. Currently 40-41 news results for Sibel Edmonds. I havent seen another search engine or meta that can come close to that.
http://www.polymeta.com/search/...p?un=anonymous
Search Engine Central.
http://searchlores.org
Bookmarked those search engines! Thanks!
Don’t forget, there was no Google at one time, and we were perfectly happy…I remember a few years ago, seeing someone using Google, and I said, “What’s that?”
Yeah, Yahoo used to be the big search engine when I first got a computer. There was no Google then.
Thanks WCCTW and Phil, I will try these other engines.