For the concept to have value, it needs three features:

— Topics/Categories will be needed to group links in a meaningful way.
— Posting to the correct category needs to be enforced so all of the vile agitprop is contained away from real news.
— “Blocked Topics” should be supported like “Blocked Commenters”.

This would allow the gibbering hate freaks to have their own section that is normally invisible to rational, civilized adults.
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As an interim measure, immediate gains could be made by using the existing “Blocked Commenters” functionality to suppress NewsLinks from uncivilized TROLL posters.
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An alternate concept that might be almost as useful and possibly much less work. Harvest links from posted comments to generate the NewsLink resource.

Limiting the roll-up to the first 2 or 3 citations/links would avoid accidental list flooding.

PEACE 😇

Ron – Thanks for adding. Is there an RSS feed specific to the new section?

I think this is a great idea, but I do wonder why submissions are limited to those by frequent commenters only. I’m a frequent reader of Unz Review, but I really don’t have much to say, and I’d rather spend time reading than posting comments.
Nonetheless, I often come across news items not widely covered that I think are worth letting others know about. For example:
https://decisionmagazine.com/marine-corps-cancels-seminar-because-atheist-group-objects-to-speakers-christian-bio/
Isn’t there some way that we lurkers could contribute to your aggregator?

This is a nice addition.

One suggestion is to display the name of the website linked to along with the headline.

Naturally, you’ll be named as Commissar of Hate Freak Identification.

Bravo.

Thank you for the citation, Mr. Unz.

I hope this turns out to be a great success.

And with your skills and website’s growing popularity, (and more importantly, your integrity), I’m confident it will.

I’ve already posted news stories, in part, to support this effort. But also because I think this is a great way to bypass, (and further frustrate ; ) the arrogant gatekeepers of American Pravda.

Another great service, thank you. As Freddo suggested, please make an RSS feed specific to this section, if possible.

Great addition to unz.com!
Thanks for the work to set it up, Ron.
And thank you, Rurik, for providing the inspiration.

I recently started frequenting revolver.news and I like it. I like the idea of the unz.com community having their own. Interesting reading ahead.

Naturally, you’ll be named as Commissar of Hate Freak Identification.

Thank you for your vote of confidence. However, I was not volunteering.

Having a topic for “Anti-Zionism (PLO/Hamas/Fatah)” would attract most of the conspiracy hate freaks speaking in tongues about the Protocols of The Elder of Zion, non-existent Yinion plans, etc…

If done right, the nutters will self isolate. After all, they are very low-IQ and highly inolerant. They want a “safe space” away from everyone else, where they can be totally detached and isolated from real world facts.

PEACE 😇

Ron,

Good Work !

Please add an RSS feed to this page.

Thank you,

Ron,

Perfecto !

If “you” are using FireFox – consider the light weight addon – rsspreview
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/

Which will allow easy inspection of the page:
https://www.unz.com/xfeed/rss/news/

Also, consider the addon – mPage:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mpage/

Which is a: “Simple dashboard-like RSS feed reader.”

Thank You Ron !

Drudge succeeded in large part because (besides being a workaholic) he was the first, and thus had the greatest number of news connections, who usually provided news tips gratis. One aggregator with good connections is worth any number of those without.

Just remember: A “racist” is someone who talks back to a Liberal.

Harvest links from posted comments to generate the NewsLink resource.

Good suggestion, this would also help seed this new link aggregator if commenters stick to their established pattern of posting in the comments in the beginning.

It is trivial to build these link aggregation services, but to provide any value, you have to provide some sort of filter to users on which links might be most worthwhile to them. That might mean “vetted by Ron,” as suggested above but doesn’t scale if a lot of links come in, or letting readers vote, either by which links they click on or click a “like” button most, which is what most such sites do and is prone to all the problems with mob voting.

Ideally, the user would customize a filter for themselves, along with algorithms that help that filter operate, but then you get into complex tech that I doubt Ron wants to get into (no, not AI snake oil).

At the very least, it might be worth adding a like/trash button for links at some point, so we don’t just get a gush of links with no info on what others found worth clicking.

(Optional) Description of Newslink on Later Lines

This does not work for me. Below is the raw text for the second link of mine that now appears. Note how the description I had added is nowhere to be found.

https://apnews.com/article/michigan-couple-14-sons-first-daughter-f56bf8685d8ae21f664b874526b86867

Michigan couple with 14 sons welcome their first daughter

It’s Okay to Be White! No Shame, No Hate in White Founding Core Populations Not Wishing to Become Minorities in Their Own Lands!

Why reinvent the wheel? Learn how to use an RSS reader Rurik. I recommend Inoreader.

You subscribe to feeds, which could be from a name website or an aggregator. I have about 50 feeds that generate hundreds of article links daily, including from UNZ.

Inoreader works on cellphones and desktop. If you like cellphones, you can also add apps. Reuters, APand virtually everyone offers an app that will push all the stuff you could want at you. You can choose the political left, center right or whatever. You can even bury your head in the sand and remain in your comfortable echo chamber.

When you find an article you’d like to read later or save, I recommend another app called Pocket. Again, there are desktop and cellphone (Android/Apple) apps.

I just visited the new “Aggregated Newslinks” for the first time and it is GREAT!

Very good idea and thanks to Ron Unz’s programing genius the idea has become a reality.

you sound like a trained parrot who likes to repeats itself for treats. Can you enlighten the reader the origin of Hamas? You lumped Hamas and PLO and Fatah in one word. An old trick. 911 bin Laden and Sadam. Remember those days?

This fake peace BS you tend to put after your comments do you really mean it.

Hey Ron,

Thanks for this feature. I’m already enjoying it.

Thanks for sharing.

virtually everyone offers an app that will push all the stuff you could want at you.

I prefer to use as few apps and other gizmos of Big Tech as possible. I don’t need anyone pushing anything at me. I’ll decide what stories I find interesting or salient.

That’s why I prefer to go to websites like WRH, and peruse the aggregated news for what I consider worth my time to read. But WRH has so many ads now, that the site has become obnoxious.

You can choose the political left, center right or whatever. You can even bury your head in the sand and remain in your comfortable echo chamber.

Hmm..

Your impertinence is telling, I hope you know.

The reason I, (like many others) enjoy the Unz Review so much, is because it doesn’t manacle its perspective to any ideological straight jacket. It welcomes views from the left and right and wherever, and then subjects them all to the crucible of free speech as the gladiatorial arena of ideas.

As such, it is the consummate website for understanding our world, and the trends and trajectories there of.

What better place then, for people to use as their go-to website for breaking news and intellectual fodder for the mind, not having anything pushed at us from any ideological agenda, but rather all there from a very wide-ranging swath of the world’s more thoughtful readers (and writers)- all contributing, and there for the clicking, if you’re so inclined.

Great idea! One thing I have noticed is that many once free websites are now moving their content behind a pay wall and even more are now restricting access for using ad-blockers.

A case in point is Asia Times, which now has an A+ section for their premium content.

Another issue is the the headline descriptor. Simply repeating the article headline without any quips or puns takes some of the juice out of it.

Self proclaimed intellectual.
I bet you dont know where the word anti-semitism came from and how it started. LLLLLOOOL

Do my eyes deceive me? A Ron Unz article under 50,000 words!

Thanks Ron, we couldn’t get enough tools to take some control back.

The RSS feed is a nice touch, instantly making my RSS Page richer and more diverse, with very little effort.
Did I say thank you?

What are your entryist / SJW shields? They are GOOD at organizing hostile crowds.

It’s a great idea. Most of the black on White crime news on Amren comes from local news sent in by the readers. Such news never reaches beyond the local level. I know freerepublic is a joint effort of the government of Israel, Republican Party anti abortionists and bible quoters

. But the articles are from members commenters who post the local news. It really is a great source of real news. Often there will be posts from people who live in the area and are more knowledgeable than AP CNN

Plus we have many people fluent in foreign languages and residents of other countries.

Let’s go for it.

I like his long articles. They are easy to read because he hasn’t forgotten his 4th grade teacher’s lessons on paragraphs!!!!

Paragraphs make long articles and comments much easier to read.

Thank you for posting the article today in Asia Times about cosmology and the overlooked role of plasma and electromagnetic forces, an interview with Eric Lerner:

https://asiatimes.com/2020/11/the-big-bang-never-happened-but-fusion-will-part-3/

FABulous idea, do it!

I have wanted the U.R. to have “breaking” news, rather than only having commentary on events which are usually a day or two old, for a long time. Now I’ve gotten my wish.

I think Rurik is right. I find https://sputniknews.com/ very good, up to date and global. It is Russian and it is less impartial, but compared with Mainstream Newslinks, it is Great.

The links can of course be no better than the stories to which they point. In recent years, there has been a falloff (I wonder why) in reporters’ logical ability and writing skills, as well as their sense for the informational needs of their audience.

Please give a few examples, you say. For example, it is a commonplace for a Wall Street Journal article, rather than being quantitative, to use far-less-helpful adjectives; usually, many, often, mostly, some, and so on. Or, for example, staying with the linkable, one would think, WSJ: Writing that Covid has caused air travel to sustain a “slump.� Or, in selecting an expert to interview, selecting someone who, unbeknownst to us, is not a superior choice.

Oh well, as the senior doctor or lawyer said to the excellence-seeking junior, “You can only work with what you have.�

Re: The Newslinks Aggregator

Thank you, Rurik, for the excellent idea and suggestion and thank you Ron Unz for making it happen.

It’s a great public service.

A very valuable addition to the UR. Thank you Ron, and thank you Rurik.
I’m certain the newsfeed links shared by some of you will be most beneficial. Looking forward to reading what you have to share!

I like your attitude

“I don’t need anyone pushing anything at me. I’ll decide what stories I find interesting or salient.”

Stay away from the herd or from so called self proclaimed intellectuals for that matter.

Great work. The only possible downside is the potential to increase traffic to the point where Unz.com is regarded as even more worthy of censorship, official or otherwise. I’m impressed that the site has lasted so long and been so successful; hopefully this won’t push it over the edge.

Ron, buddy, you may want to check the spelling on your title. You’re welcome.

It’s charmingly naive to think that the “international news� is less influenced by corporate power than our own msm. On a wide spectrum of policies, you will find that the msm throughout western countries hums a similar tune. To find a deeper and broader understanding of any issue takes time, effort and the desire to do so, none of which are possessed by the average citizen and all of which separate the knowing from the majority of a society which rewards or rejects.

Thank you.

The work of Unz is heroic, but it the medium / long run winning the internet information battle against the tech giant seems close to impossible. Nevertheless, the indignation gives us the force to boycott now with an extreme extreme unprecedented rigor the MSM.
So go to Unz, RT, and others platform out of the oligarchic orbit….talk physically with your friends . Of course the MSM shall lie and say they still have big audiences, or even channel directly unlegitimate funds from god knows where to counter balance the lack of customers. I don’t know… But it in the end make no mistake, it’s not a matter of money. They want your soul . And that, if you quit, they shall not have…

The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet and Slate’s The Slatest are two examples of this. Both have changed the concept since their respective launches years ago, but Cheat Sheet is closest to the original idea.

My company had a site like this programmed and hired several writers who could log into a CMS to post. We paid $5.00 a story, which considering the number of fields they had to fill in was embarassingly cheap. We programmed in some auto-editing like capitalization rules for the title. We had a tweet field that automatically posted to our Twitter account. There was a strict character limit on the length of every field, since writers always go long, even for $5.00.

On thing we did was to require the entry of keywords upon login to the CMS. These were pattern matched against recent posts and, importantly, against in-progress posts from others, to prevent duplication.

We allowed for up to two URLs, one to the best source, and one to a “hat tip” source.

The timing of the great new addition to UR could not be better. Within all the fall-out of the 2020 election debacle, one very tangible benefit to the public has been the realization that virtually all of American media ( that’s MSM and Alternative) is utterly co-opted and can no longer be trusted nor respected.

The existing respectability of UR applied to the addition of the news section will likely see a vast increase in readership and hopefully begin to re-set the bar of bi-partisan/ objective journalism to a renewed professional level.

Ron, what are the chances of Facebook letting UR out of the woodshed? The fact that UR has done so well in weathering this FB censorship is a compliment to UR’s holding to a higher standard.

Regardless, it is easy to predict great things to come for UR…

Pandemic is a Gods hand to decrease useless eaters in the cities. Mostly colored welfare recipients.
All natural laws are Gods hand. Conflict between cities and rural areas will only increase particularly in US because jobs exported by Democrats to far East were taken not from rural areas. They were taken from cities.

I’m already seeing opinion pieces being posted on the news aggregator. Is it the intent to include them as well?

There is nothing like using your customers, or I should say, readership, to add value to the value of the website because you never know who may come courting with a pocketful of shekels… got to be ready just in case.

Ron has speculated that “the Streisand effect” is in play here. The SJWs don’t want people coming to this site because they’re afraid of what they may find out, so they try to ignore UR and hope it goes away.

I think it works, but since I don’t use RSS Feeds myself, let me know if there’s any problem.

So you “built” a page using other people’s code and didn’t test it??? Gotcha.

So you “built� a page using other people’s code and didn’t test it??? Gotcha.

You can have a full refund if you do not like like the outcome. How much did you pay?

PEACE 😇

If you have links to anything else on this subject that is similarly non-crackpot, feel free to share in a reply.

It was nice to find the one you gave us here. Thanks.

This is a great idea and I appreciate the execution so far. Given the rate at which helpful new features are being added, I’m sure that in the coming days and weeks it will get even better. I have no specific suggestions, but I’d like to say what I think made the early Drudge so popular and so important to all of us.

1. He had a nose for news. You knew that 90 per cent of the links would go to some jolt of amusement, incitement or amazement. I hope that the community of commenters here will develop some equivalent sense of electricity.

2. He wasn’t afraid to surprise his readers with articles that resisted their pre-conceived notions of truth. I was never convinced that he was a “conservative”, but that he wasn’t averse to broadcasting ideas that were common to conservatives or were simply politically incorrect.

3. He boldly resisted the standard MSM narrative. He could always find a source that twisted the pravda approach into something meaningful and he did so courageously.

4. The site couldn’t be pigeonholed. Maybe that’s what the three previous points add up to. His top headline was the topic of discussion at every watercooler in the universe that day. It wasn’t always a comfortable topic.

Composing these points is a sad exercise, given the awfulness that the Drudge Report currently embraces.

You have to hand it to the Israelis – they are professionals. A123 is already spamming the new site with anti-Palestinian Zionist propaganda.

Go to Breitbart, read right-wing news plus pro-Israel, pro-Jewish propaganda.

Go to Salon, read left-wing news plus pro-Israel, pro-Jewish propaganda.

Organization – which includes fundraising to hire the Hasbara students to spam the Internet for twelve dollars an hour – works.

I disagree with you about some issues. You have my utmost respect.

Might be worth allowing comments on each story. If that’s technically feasible.

Drudge’s greatest strength in the early days was _courage_.

Once he folded on courage he was useless.

Without courage we all are useless.

Is it possible to add a comments section under each news story? I suppose there could be a problem with moderation seeing as there will be a high volume of articles published, but at the same time I don’t think each article submitted by Unz readers would garner more than a couple of comments each, unlike the featured articles which gain anywhere from a few dozen to hundreds of comments.

This would be a good feature as many news websites nowadays are very heavy handed in moderating their comments section, and in some cases (like Yahoo News), have suspended user commenting all together as the people replying were engaging in too much crimethink and punching holes in the controlled media narrative left, right and centre. Other news aggregators like Reddit face the same problem in that the moderators of news forums like r/news or r/worldnews are anything but neutral and are very partisan in their moderation.

Such a feature would be great in my opinion and would increase engagement a lot.

Displaying the optional description was taking up too much vertical space, so I’d hidden it. However, if it’s present, I’ve now added a clickable “Show Details� link that displays it.

Thank you.
(I hit mistakenly hit “THANKS” on my inquiry instead of this reply of yours.)

Go for it. I hope my measly 10 dollars a month to your site helps. But I am just another aging American who grew up in the lower class income groups and later became middle class. Now I am back in the lower class but can live comfortably.
I recently asked this question on the Unz Review about where to go for daily news!

For those of us who are computer ignorant we don’t know what your link means but thanks

Maybe give it some main website prominence? It would be a almost dead feature in a few months otherwise.

Excellent idea! I was wondering where to read about the elections. Thank you.

Thanks very much for adding this feature!

You mention foreign language story links: will these need an accompanying translation?

This is interesting,
But perhaps a ranking system determined by comments(interaction) or likes might be a good way of sorting for the really good articles, with one list being non-ranked and ranked depending on preference.
Since most of these links are by commentators, many of whom are ideological in nature, the links may not link to valid sites, and finding a way to sift through them might help. Though I have no idea how that might be implemented or the difficulty it might require.

Also Ron, somewhat off-topic, but a friend is moving to NYC for an job and he has to commute to Manhattan. I remember reading that you once lived in Queens, in Jackson Heights. Did you live in an apartment there? How was the experience? Bloomberg indicates it is cheap, and NYPD has it as low crime, so it seems really good. However, I am a little curious why a low crime area so close to Manhattan has relatively lower home values.
I figured you would have a more honest perspective than someone who raves about “diversity” and sings the praises of run-down neighborhoods…

That would be a nice feature, if practicable. Currently I am using this comment section to engage with the commenter who brought us an article I find particularly interesting, because it’s the only way.

Here’s an idea that might scale the moderation work down to size: Enlist the commenter who sourced the article as the moderator for comments under that article.

Write a subroutine that sends comments directly to that commenter’s personal comment list, and provide him with a button or way of approving or disapproving. That way, the Unz reader who recommended the article would serve as monitor.

Make this optional for him, of course, not required, so as not to scare away crowdsources who don’t want that responsibility.

It would be fun to see how it goes…

Excellent suggestion and justification, Rurik!

As a footnote, I would only recommend listing the source with the headline, the reason this is important, is that often times an article in the WaPo or the NYT might sound interesting but if I know it’s one of these, or similar sources, I usually skip it, since I already know what they’re going to say 🙂

Ron, someday, I would like to shake your hand.
The minds you have helped to open to critical thinking, including mine, must be legion.
Live long and prosper.

He’s one of a kind, and we’re lucky to have him.

Thank you, Ron Unz and congratulations. It should be a go—over time. No need for haste in analyzing the efficacy. Also, of course, kudos to Rurik for doing his due diligence in calling the concept to the attention of the site engineer.

https://www.whatfinger.com/ is a pro_Trump collector of news, commentary, podcasts, videos and other links.

FYI.

Our Ha$bara/$ayianim troll–Easy as 123–is doing its due Zioni$t diligence and claiming that BannedHipster is a troll. Lolololol.

Ancipient is another good aggregation service.

http://ancipient.com

PEACE 😇

Good idea: except you’ve let Zionists post.

‘From A123 / palwatch.org5h
PA Pays Over $371,000 for Murder of Israeli Infants
Show Details’

‘…If at all possible, the person might just want to try walking around the area for a few hours and get the sense of whether they liked it.’

Maybe in the afternoon.

I used to do interstate moving jobs in my truck, and my family would come along — back then, my wife and daughter.

So I was moving a rather pleasant black woman back from California to New York or vice versa or some damned thing. Anyway, the point was one of the stops was a Brooklyn housing project of exactly the sort famed in song and story.

Well, we start working at 9:00 am and I’m thinking ‘this isn’t so bad.’

But as the day wears on, the local fauna coming to life keeps getting wilder and woolier. Around noon I told my wife and daughter to get back in the truck, roll up the windows, and lock the doors.

Don’t decide on what you see in the morning. Give folks a chance to get up and show themselves on the street.

True. Here in Cuckstain the rats think TYR is leas news items – from 1960s, whilst ignoring current TNB!!!

Two problems with that, there is of course the issue of time commitment, I think most people will not want to engage in moderation activities, currently Ron Unz does the moderating but this is his full time job. This would also result in inconsistent moderating between users. Could you imagine someone like A123 moderating comments on Israel-Palestine? Or even someone of the opposite school of thought who would only allow anti-Zionist comments through?

Obviously Ron Unz is going to be the most knowledgeable about this as this is his website, and adding a comments section to each user posted article may not even be technically feasible, but if it is feasible, one possible solution would be to just allow unmoderated comments (with the spam filter still in place of course) like is the case in Anatoly Karlin’s blog, where your comment is published as soon as you hit the send button and you have a 5 minute window to edit things.

This unmoderated method would work if the comments on different articles is low, which I suspect it will be in most cases. But in the case a certain user article does “blow up”, then standards moderation could be applies by a real human (Unz himself)

But as I said earlier, this might not even be technically feasible and one would have to put out a trial run to see if the unmoderated comments section method will work and be conducive to a good commenting environment, Anatoly Katlin does moderate his blog comments, but he doesn’t pre-moderate them meaning he takes down off-topic comments if he wants to.

This is all for Mr. Unz to decide I suppose, but this proposed feature would be very cool.

It might be time for people to abandon their present browsers to make these efforts a little bit more successful. Every single major browser was used to seriously hinder Trump’s presidential reelection efforts.

Just one browser resisted these efforts: Gab. Our opponents hate the folks in charge of the Gab browser with a passion that rivals the scorn that they heap on the much more radical Andrew Anglin.

This means that they consider the Gab browser to be THE MAJOR THREAT in their efforts to silence us. In fact, their attempts to harass, de-fund, de-platform and silence Gab founder Andrew Torba and his website are so extreme and fanatical that they almost defy description. The VISA credit card company even blacklisted members of Torba’s family.

https://reclaimthenet.org/gab-andrew-torba-visa-blacklisted-family-hate-speech/

I find it curious that that our foes don’t also seem feel the same way about the just as notorious TOR browser. Apparently the TOR browser, unlike Gab, isn’t considered much of a threat. This might be reflected by the fact that a present day board member of very Neocon-ish and decidedly pro_Zionist The National Review Magazine is (or was until an recent intervention by an outside party) actually being seriously considered for a position on the TOR board of directors.

Gab will import your bookmarks. Download the browser here:

https://gab.com/home

Good idea.

Pandemic is a Gods hand to decrease useless eaters in the cities

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If only! If there was an honest to goodness pandemic, you’d be tripping over dead bodies in the street every day. Workers in haz mat suits would be collecting these corpses 24/7. The people dying are mostly old and chronically ill – mainly from poisoning by prescription drugs, harmful unnatural medical treatments over a lifetime, and yearly flu shots. Indeed, I heard (FWIW) years ago that after the old folks in the homes got their flu shots (administered to all of them at the same time) death rates went up pretty quick thereafter.

It is a fallen world.

Thanks Chris,

recommend listing the source with the headline

As I’m sure you’ve noticed, Mr. Unz has done this.

I usually skip it, since I already know what they’re going to say

It’s amazing how they all lie, as with one voice.

‘Russian aggression in Ukraine’

‘Russian hacking of the election’

‘Bashar Assad’s blah, blah..’

‘Iranian blah, blah..

It really is as Unz calls it; American Pravda, because we all know before they even speak, that they’re going to spew agenda-driven lies.

Newslink Aggregator Based on Crowdsourcing

This Rurik idea works really well as implemented by Ron. Lots of very interesting stuff there. It’s the kind of thing that you check every day.

As usual, A123 will have to be ignored!!!

I think the new Newslinks feature will be very useful. In fact, it will probably be my first stop each day after I turn on my computer.

This UR Newslinks is a great feature – I hope that it does not take attention away from standard UR.

One nice feature of Drudge was that it was fast. It loaded fast and you could see it all, in a matter of a few scrolls. (Its endless refreshing was a distraction.)

The articles so far are great. The UR readers will be the most informed people on the internet.

Kudos and thanks — Art

Agree totally. And more international FOREIGN news links (in English of course) please. It might break that Americano ethnocentrism a bit. Thanks.
Another foreign lurker.

Why feed the Beast? Promote MINDS.com instead.

If you follow WRH format WITHOUT all the clickbait, I won’t have to go there anymore. Great.

This is great.

When I started using Reddit, I slowly started to rely on it for news. It was very organic, more upvotes = front page. Before the holistic change(controlled narrative) to it’s sub Reddits n front page, it basically became as bad as MSM.

This is great.

I think that the “Agree” button should instead be an “Endorse” button, for clarity’s sake. The word “Agree” seems to imply an agreement with an opinion.

Mr. Unz. It would be great if you would put 5 pertinent breaking news headlines on your home/front page, even with cool graphics & links to the news aggregate news page. That’s the way http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk does it, and some other alternative news sites as well.
If you don’t want it too big for fear it would take away from the main opinion articles, you could put 5 of them in a small box on top of your upper most right column with small pics.
Also please include the date of the article in the link, please.

I tried to post a News item, but am not qualified yet. But this is pertinent news that is not or hardly covered in Western Media. So please post it your self.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2020/11/119_299076.html

101 suspected flu shot deaths reported in South Korea, not covered in Western MS Media

Korean authorities downplay deaths by saying they are not related to the flu shots, but to “old age”. Right!

The idea of Reddit was excellent. But–it turns out that the moderators quickly turned from impartial referees to fascist dictators.

That even happened in the cigar groups (cigar and cuban cigar). The moderators tend to attack folks who disagree with their cigar preferences–crazy stuff.

Homo sapiens just can’t seem to get the “fairness” stuff right.

Thanks Ron, a very timely addition as I find neither Revolver nor Bongino offer the eclectic news I seek.

Hopefully I am within the edit window.

It would be helpful to have categories for the items (ie US, EU, Orient, politics, crime, culture, etc).

Thanks again!

Thanks.

If this is implemented well, it would be an indispensable news site for sure.

But when we aggregate international news links, we have to make sure it’s all free of CIA, NGO strings.

Here’s how things go.

1. NGO funded local news (eg, Venezuela)
2. A fair election happened in Venezuela but local news papers stomped on “fair” election and pushed the idea of “coup”, string attached by NGO.
3. The aggregator, instead of giving a fair point of view, now is amplifying the NGO-funded world wide pressitude point of view.

The big subreddits like r/news and r/worldnews are most likely controlled by intelligence agencies as a potent psyop tool. Reddit has become no different to the MSM but in many ways it is more dangerous as people are lulled into thinking what they are seeing on the front page is a result of digital populism (i.e. net upvotes) when it reality the stories that make it to the top are just the same CNN garbage. They also added this extremely cringe feature of giving each post awards, which you have to buy with real currency.

I’d like to make three comments, two of which are a little off topic for this thread.

Comment 1: My on-topic comment is that while I find the Aggregated Newslinks to be a nice addition to the Unz Review, I find that the typography of this new feature to be somewhat jarring and inconsistent with the style of the rest of the Review. The intense blue headlines in an unnecessarily large font verge on the garish typography of the early web, circa 1995. (I thank God that at least the headlines aren’t flashing!)

The typography of the rest of the Review is much more tasteful and easier on the eyes, and I’d suggest that the headlines of the Aggregated Newslinks be rendered in the black text and smaller font that’s used for most of the rest of the Review. If you must use blue, please tone it down.

Comment 2: One problem that a lot of news sites have is that they display dozens and dozens of stories at any given time, but many, if not most of those stories are left up for days, even weeks in some cases. For a daily reader, it’s tiresome to see so many stale links every day. For example, the New York Times and SFGate both have this problem. The WSJ also has this problem, but to a lesser degree. My solution for the Times is to just use their “Today’s Paper” link each day. For the WSJ, I just read the paper edition and ignore their website.

I see this stale-link problem at the Unz Review as well. The colorful “NEW” labels are quite helpful in sorting the new from the old, but I’d like to suggest another option that might be helpful in addition to the “NEW” labels.

At the top of each Unz Review page, beneath the masthead, is a gray “topic” bar with lots of links that sort the Review’s content into various helpful categories (ie. foreign policy, science, newslinks, etc.). I think it would be nice if there was a “NEW” category on that topic bar that linked to a listing of all Review posts that had been posted within the previous few days, or perhaps within one week. Such a “NEW” category would be especially helpful to regular visitors. A new or an occasional visitor would still see the Review’s full offering via the home page, but a regular visitor would know that the “NEW” link offers a quick way to see what’s new at the Review.

Comment 3: Tyler Cowen has a nice daily feature on his Marginal Revolution blog where he posts a short list of interesting links that he’s recently come upon, along with a sentence or two commenting on each link. At the Unz Review I mostly read Sailer, Karlin, Unz and Thompson, and I’d enjoy it if each of those bloggers posted a daily or weekly list of links that they found interesting. I’d note that Cowen’s daily links often attract a large number of comments and that this would be an easy way for Review bloggers to similarly generate interest and engagement with a minimal amount of effort.

Good! Maybe Ron will one day buy a cable news station, if they don’t kill him first

Sounds like a good idea. Why re-invent the wheel though instead of just creating a sub-Reddit? Doesn’t Reddit provide 99% of the required functionality?

Thanks for adding the Blocked Commenter feature.

It makes the news link page much more useful.
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I just used the submit news link function and received a blank PHP page as a result.

To avoid possible dupes and consumption of the daily limit, I did not retry the post. Thus, it could be a one-off fail rather than a system issue.

PEACE 😇

This is a very useful addition to your website, Ron Unz. Good stuff!

Two minor points..

I think putting the relevant category link on each item listing would be an improvement. Each category link could be clickable and link to a list of all items of the same category. You may have decided not to do that for a good reason, but I’m not sure what it is.

Similarly, using WordPress TAGS would improve searchability. Perhaps each poster could be asked to supply up to three tags per news story. Tags can be user generated, but with a text-prompt or some other device so people are encouraged to use existing tags. Just as category links can (and IMO should) be clickable, tag links should generate a list of all news items identically tagged.

But–it turns out that the moderators quickly turned from impartial referees to fascist dictators.

You are so right. Same with craigslist.org, same with history.stackexchange.com, same with economics.stackexchange.com… some unsuspecting newbie will wander into their domain and innocently post something the rest of the world would see as perfectly reasonable, but which violates some picayune rule the moderators have just spent six months debating, and they descend like a swarm of man-eating locusts on the poor sap. I always imagine them as a snapshot into the faculty politics of the English Department.

Mr. Unz,

Given that WordPress de-platformed Conservative Treehouse, I hope you have a good back-up plan. UR could easily be next, and your site design is much more dependant on WP functionality.

PEACE 😇
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/15/the-treehouse-is-deplatformed/

blue is the link-color here. This Newslinks page really is very distinct from the rest of the website, so a difference in layout is reasonable, but color-schemes are very easy to change if others also agree with you.

Mr. Unz,

With Submitters above the headline and Endorsers below, there is a bit of “blue smear” impacting clarity. Perhaps you could make usernames (Submitters and Endorsers) gold/brown like the border of comment editing box. That would match the existing scheme colors and provide good contrast to white background.
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In a separate note — Does anyone else want a 5 minute edit window? Auto correct somehow changed:

TRUMP Set a Trap for the DNC
–to–
TRUMP Set at Trap for the DNC

Or, do I simply need to be more cautious when posting?

PEACE 😇

Thanks.

One last clarification:

— Are there separate counters for posting and endorsement?
— Or, does offering endorsement restrict your ability to share links?

If the latter, I suspect the endorsement system will see little use as people do not want to unnecessarily restrict their ability to contribute future content.

PEACE 😇

That’s a reasonable point. Someone had argued that since the Newslinks being in blue is too garish, so I might just change them to black. Since they’re large font, probably the blue is overkill.

IMHO, the garish blue usernames are now over powering the black Newslinks.

Perhaps make the:
— Newslinks a less garish, darker blue
— Usernames black or brown/gold

PEACE 😇

Your comment made some sense till you singled out CNN only. You got divided n conquered.

Buying Reddit gold has no affect actually. Just shows how popular your comment or post is. When it got too popular it had to be controlled. That killed it. And it serves no purpose on the Current state of Reddit.

There are 3 constants on the current Reddit.

Attack on the right of the political spectrum. If only it attack all sides. As that is the right thing to do. Keep the politicians on both sides on their toes.

Holocaust reminders at least 3 times a day on the front page. Gotta brainwashed the new and young users.

And finally attack on China. If you search for China in any news or political subreddit, be ready for the bombardment of negativity. It is weird how much redditors are supposed to hate this country half way around the world.

Mr. Unz,

The color change is appreciated. I find the less garish blue to be a much more visually pleasing choice.
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Additional troubleshooting — The error page for exceeding 3 per 24 has a problem. The button for “Return to Commenting Section” links to:

https://www.unz.com/news/newslink-placeholder/#respond

We’re sorry. That page could not be found.

PEACE 😇

I’d really like to see all the descriptions by default, rather than having to click on “Show Details”. I think this would not be obtrusive as long as the descriptions are limited to two lines.

Hello, Mr. Unz.

Off-topic, but I was hoping you could give me your assessment of the likelihood of the Democratic party, I suppose with Deep State support/cover, having stolen the presidential election, as PCR and others claim.

One thing that amazes me is the lack of discussion in the US, of the need to reform a political system which is completely corrupt and obsolete on so many different levels.
It’s like doing the exact same thing that does not work over and over and expecting better results… while at the same time no discussion about a meaningful reform…

I’d appreciate your assessment, I would even hope you could write an article on it.

Best regards.

Only Upper East Side Liberals such as Ivanka and Consort Jared could be delusional enough to believe in and convince Daddy of the black Republican chimera. Another factoid. Most have heard of South Texan Mexican-Americans voting for Trump. But not as well known is that South Bronx Hispanics also voted for Trump!

I just attempted to add a newslink and got the msg that I must select a category. I planned to select All because the report is about media, and none of the categories are correct for my link. Please add a Media category and change my link to that if it’s an acceptable report. Eliminating the All option might be okay, but I’ve found that many reports should appear in multiple categories. Pertinent reports may not show up when filtered.

BTW, I liked the blue better than the black type on the report headings. There’s just too much black now, IMO. Thanks for the new feature.

But Trump also stole the election from himself by his total political incompetence. His base had been white males, and because of his policies and his campaign strategy, the polls show that he hemorrhaged their support, which cost him reelection. Meanwhile, he directed much of his campaigning effort toward winning black votes, even though they’re only a tiny portion of the electorate, and about 90% anyway voted for Biden, just like they had for Hillary Clinton.

Also, Trump could’ve sent out another stimulus check. Given the widespread economic misery that has engulfed much of America (especially the hardscrabble rust belt), it’s not inconceivable that many of his supporters saw no reason to vote for him if he was going to abandon them.

Meanwhile, in California Trump lost by 40 points, but Republicans did surprisingly well, unexpectedly picking up several Congressional seats

Southern California is pretty different from SF and Silicon Valley. People there aren’t into social activism. So I think the Republicans still have some potential down there, but they need Hispanic and Asian votes.

Ron,
Who do you think had the better immigration policies in the campaign, Trump or Biden?

I used CNN as an archetype for all mainstream news channels.

I remember seeing that post about the Uighurs being loaded up onto trains on the front page of Reddit a few months ago, the guy who posted it, did so under the title of “As a German, this video really makes me fearful” or something to that effect.

Reddit banned r/TheDonald a while ago, that alone should have been indicative of its bias, as that sub was very milquetoast.

Mr Unz,

I guess you didn’t like my idea for a Media category. Or may be you’re just not paying much attention to the Newslink feature right now.

I posted a link this morning and just noticed that someone else posted the exact same link several hours later. I had been checking to make sure any links I would post were not posted already because that just seems like common courtesy to me. Repetition is no fun. But I also got the impression that links were being monitored because they don’t show up right away so I figured duplicates would be caught. Are links being approved before they post? Can you prevent duplicates?

Also, if a Media category doesn’t work for you, how about a Miscellaneous category for reports that don’t seem to fit any of the categories listed? Thanks again.

News`This site is full of news. Nearly 90% is nothing more then meddling with something the stupid mass medias has puk.. . Now it will become another useless site, brings exactly the same sh… than any other.

I’d look forward to hearing your perspectives and suggestions.

Here you have.

Well, I changed the usernames to a much duller blue-gray, so they’re no longer overpowering the large black Newslinks. These sorts of adjustments are easy to make, and I’ll see what if anything people say in response.

Mr. Unz,

It seems like a bit of a black smear to me after looking at it for a few days. I was looking for a previous headline and had difficulty spotting it.

There are black headlines, with black categories, black source sites, black show details hotspots, black dividing lines, and black/grey Thanks buttons.

Adding a 3rd color to the mix seems like the easiest option. Perhaps making:
— Headlines the dark blue currently used for usernames.
— Usernames could be a brown or dark gold.

Thanks again.

PEACE 😇

Sorry to reply to my own post but I just noticed this faux pas:

thesun.co.uk / A123 • Foreign Policy
VE DAY #2 — Axis Powers Defeated — Hungary and Poland Save Europe from Führer Merkel’s Attempt to Resurrect 1930’s Fascism

rt.com / Miro23 • Foreign Policy
By Vetoing €1.8tn Budget and Comparing Brussels Enslavement to Life Under Communism, Poles Could Blow Up the Whole EU Project

The black smear failed to register. I posted effectively the same fact set, though with better interpretive guidance.

And, it is not just me. The story about the UW Boulder has also duped with two different users.

breitbart.com

/ Haruto Rat • Culture/Society
University of Wisconsin to Remove a ‘Racist’ Boulder

web.archive.org / for-the-record • Race/Ethnicity
UW-Madison Moves Forward on Plan to Move 70-Ton Boulder Seen as Symbol of Racist Past
Endorsed by: Cato

If colors can be easily tweaked, doing something to make the headlines kick more without being garish would be desirable.

PEACE 😇

Mr. Unz,

May I suggest that you add a feature to indicate if the said link is text, audio, or video. It could be a required drop-down menu, and would show up in brackets after the title.

Example from my recent contribution:

Interview with author of Danish Mask Study {video}

Regarding the evolving Newslinks feature:

After submitting a newslink, the page simply refreshes with no indication that one’s submission was received. Contrast this to submitting a comment, where one receives the clear, explicit message, Your comment is awaiting moderation, along with a preview of exactly how the submitted comment will appear if approved.

It would be surprising if this lack of confirmation has not resulted in a considerable number of duplicate submissions.

Are links being approved before they post? Can you prevent duplicates?

I would think that actual duplicate URLs could be detected automatically and fairly easily by algorithm.

how about a Miscellaneous category for reports that don’t seem to fit any of the categories listed?

In the absence of an explicit Miscellaneous category, the existing category of Culture/Society would seem an acceptable substitute.
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Mr. Unz:
I have just become aware that in the URL for the latest newslink I have contributed, I accidentally omitted the critical s from “nytimes.com”.

A means of flagging an entry for an obvious error of this type would be welcome. (Though, admittedly, I do not know how easy it would be to implement.)
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I noticed that individuals’ comment archives no longer include contributed newslinks. I don’t necessarily object to this decision but would be interested in the reasoning behind it.

Agreed. Considering that (from what I understand) you made your fortune writing software, that’s not surprising!

COVID-19 and common sense. With an approaching nationwide lockdown, it’s time for common sense and science to work together. See my blogpost: “Common sense and COVID-19.”

http://tedseastrom.com/covid-19

It would be nice if the font color of the link changed when I click on it. Like at Zero Hedge. It tells me where I started scrolling the previous time through.

Good service. Thanks.

Blogs? They are opinion not news but sometimes important and interesting stuff is stumbled upon there which would then have to be dug for, especially if you want to get a useful compilation of all the stuff in one location.

This morning I read John Baez’ blog post about Biden’s likely environmental moves and thought it was the best thing I have seen on the topic and thought others would like to see it and maybe I could submit it to Newslinks. Except it’s a blog and not a news site.

This is the webpage I did not post on Newslinks:

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2020/11/08/us-environmental-policy/

Mr. Unz,

After using the current color scheme for a while, it is growing on me. My suggested use of gold/brown as an alternate text color would not have been harmonious with the rest of the site.

The Blue title on the Light Blue “new” article background is less than perfect when running a blue “night” shifted screen mode. However, it is easy to clear the new background to white by revisiting the page. No need for further changes.

Many Thanks for this new feature.

PEACE 😇

This seems like a smart idea to me.

Aggregated Newslink is hard to find on the Homepage.

Like other headers, it should be in white letters with blue background.

“Realist” has a broken item in the Newsfeed @ ~ 9:00 Eastern Time today.

PEACE 😇

Hey Ron — can you help publicize something kind of important?

In February and March of 2020, as I read all I could about respiratory infections and watched where COVID-19 was having its worst impact, I realized that the dry indoor air of winter makes viral respiratory infections much worse (this is not the only factor, but it is a very big one). The data have born this out.

Mr Unz,

There is a need for better visibility of submitted comments. I put in three, probably four hours ago. Only one (the last submitted) showed up so far.

Without a way to see submitted but not approved Newslinks, I do not know if I have:

— Had a submission fail so the item was never queued.
— Accidentally created an invalid entry, that will never show for technical reasons.
— Transgressed an editorial rule, thus the article will never show because it has been blocked by ADMIN.
— Is stuck in limbo awaiting processing.

Thanks 😇

OK. I thought the rules of Engagement allowed for clarifying the message.

The Christian students were being punished for being Christian:

The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau took credit for the attack, indicating that the children were being punished for “un-Islamic practices”.

Hard to read the article any way other than than being punished for the “un-Islamic practice” of believing in Jesus. Your adjudication is quite stern. However, As long as you apply the standard equal handly, I cannot complain too much.

I will monitor and report non-compliance by others.

PEACE 😇

Mr. Unz, pardon me for the OT question, but are you in support of either an immigration moratorium or selective immigration that favors European Whites?

Thanks in advance, have a great day!

Dear Ron,

Pardon me for asking but just curious: With the big purge just starting, have you done any homework on what to do when Cloudflare drops you because your web site is evil? Because that’s definitely just a matter of time.

There are gobs of other web sites in the world to choose from.

Mr. Unz,

A news link author:

— Posted the identical headline (linked to the identical source) previously posted by “for-the-record” a few hours ago.
— And, endorsed his own post.

independent.co.uk / AnonStarter • Foreign Policy2h
I’m a Prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and I Have a Message for President Biden
Endorsed by: AnonStarter

independent.co.uk / for-the-record • Foreign Policy9h
I’m a Prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and I Have a Message for President Biden

I do not think either of these behaviours fit within the rules of engagement.

PEACE 😇

Unz, I would like there to be a filtering option that keeps my settings everytime I return to the newslink site.

The filter should allow me to exclude categories I am not interested in, posters I am not interested in, and websites I an not interested in.