{"id":23671,"date":"2025-06-19T18:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T22:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=23671"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:41:13","slug":"sotn-status-report-june-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=23671","title":{"rendered":"

SOTN Site Status Report (Updated 6\/22)<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, the SOTN team wants to thanks everyone who contacted us to convey their tremendous support and often overwhelming feedback.\u00a0 Virtually every person who wrote expressed that State of the Nation is their number 1 website and\/or it’s the very first news platform they visit every day.\u00a0 What can we say to that?!\u00a0 But “Thank You!!!”<\/p>\n

Over the past 17 years, we have never really heard from you folks as we did when our future was recently put in serious jeopardy.\u00a0 Now that we know how so many people feel we do have much more incentive to, at the very least, keep the 6 websites up as libraries\/archives.<\/p>\n

Most SOTN followers do not know, but we made a point over the past 13 years of posting very important articles from other excellent truth websites which are no longer on the Internet.\u00a0 In other words, our websites, such as The Millennium Report<\/a><\/span>, are the only sites that have copies of valuable archival material and historical records.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to our first and last donation campaign of June 2025 which will be ending on June 30th.\u00a0 While we have received a number of contributions, the total amount received is not nearly enough to fund our major website expenses coming due this year.\u00a0 Therefore, we ask that anyone who plans on giving to this cause, please consider doing so by the end of June.<\/p>\n

Our intuitive assessment as to why donation receipts clearly have not matched the authentically expressed enthusiasm is as follows: Most of our followers are simple humble people searching for the truth; they’re not company slaves making big bucks on the plantation of Corporate America<\/em>.\u00a0 Secondly, we are all living through the unreported “Second Great Depression” since 2008, and also during the greatest inflationary period in U.S. history, so cash flow is very tight for many.\u00a0 Thirdly, there are more Alt Media platforms than ever out there and the vast majority of them are forever soliciting funds from their readerships\/viewerships so there is clearly donation fatigue setting in, especially after so many desperate sites have been demonetized and\/or deplatformed over the years.<\/p>\n

One last major reason is this: the SOTN team assembled over the past several years to, first and foremost, perform a public service and not to function as a business entity or profit center.\u00a0 Hence, we have no advertising and never will (who would ever advertise at SOTN anyway); we sell no stuff and never will (we’re not businessmen, we’re investigative journalists and conspiracy realists, geopolitical analysts and political strategists); we have no donation button and never will (it would get hacked and abused by every inimical cyber crackerjack out there).\u00a0 Therefore, this will be our only donation campaign to raise the funds necessary to either archive the sites or maintain them as libraries.\u00a0 All of our sites are heavily interlinked with each other so it’s essential for them all to be saved in a manner that maintains their active interfacing.<\/p>\n

That’s it, SOTNers.<\/p>\n

We’re continuing our donation campaign for the next 11 days so let’s see where this takes us.\u00a0 Currently these are the ways to contribute to SOTN:<\/p>\n

\n

We receive donations via Zelle, PayPal as well as other
\npayment methods provided by both the Square and
\nPayPal credit card platforms (credit card payments are
\nhighly secure and privately input by the donor).
\nFor those who want to contribute by either check or
\ncash, we are working on that and will inform asap.<\/h3>\n
\n

Prospective donors can also email us at either of the two email addresses below to discuss any special arrangement needed to make a completely private and\/or large donation.<\/p>\n

SOTNeditor@protonmail.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 &\u00a0 SOTNeditor1@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to all concerned!\u00a0 The outpouring of support and sincere gratitude has been very much appreciated.<\/p>\n

Michael Thomas, Editor
\nfor the SOTN Team<\/p>\n

Special Note: What follows is just one example of the kinds of obstacles that SOTN is confronted with on a regular basis.\u00a0 The “Access Denied”<\/strong> screenshot dated today and posted below indicates that our ISP will not permit us to even get into our GoDaddy hosting service account.\u00a0 In other words, for days now, not only are we unable to get into our dashboard, no variation of any url with GoDaddy.com in it will come up for us, which essentially blocks us from using our own hosting service. tracking security threats, etc.\u00a0 Talk about stealthy institutional cyber censorship and digital sabotage!<\/p>\n

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The upshot of this ongoing predicament for 17 years is that we are forced to spend hours upon hours upon hours with all sorts of tech people both diagnosing and resolving these never-ending problems.\u00a0 And, by the way, we have no webmaster or SEO expert, no developer or coder to fix these issues as those techies all require serious funding.\u00a0 This is not a gripe session, just a reality check so folks understand what a little truth-telling site like SOTN has to deal with.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE\u00a0 (6\/22)<\/h3>\n

Just an FYI that this SOTN donation campaign is the first one
\never in 17 years, and will be last one ending on June 30.<\/p>\n

We are receiving donations to cover all of the 2025 renewals
\nfor 6 websites—all SOTN libraries and directly affiliated and
\ninterlinked Alt Media sites. The renewals include all hosting
\nservice fees on 2 different servers, domain names and privacy,
\nas well as a comprehensive, top-tier, security package for each
\nsite.<\/p>\n

Because of the various problems with viruses and malware,
\nwe also require the services of a cyber-security tech, software
\ndeveloper and\/or coder to clean up a lot of damage inflicted
\nover the years when we could not afford those services.
\nJust getting the site search engines to work properly is going
\nto be a big job, so we are told because of how those functions
\nhave been sabotaged over the years.<\/p>\n

As a result of all SOTN social media accounts being either
\ndeplatformed and\/or demonetized everywhere, we are also
\nlooking for an SEO crackerjack who can be trusted.\u00a0 Even our
\nsearch engine traffic has been pushed down to practically zero;
\nand that referral source used to be the primary way that new
\nvisitors found us.<\/p>\n

Lastly, we are looking into the possibility of setting up an
\narchive(s) for all the sites for reasons previously stated. We
\nare still receiving ideas about how to best to perform that task
\nas well as estimates.\u00a0 The costs of conducting the multi-site
\nclean-up job is also a big unknown as quotes will be forth-
\ncoming.<\/p>\n

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