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Former Google employee Zachary Vorhies told Project Veritas that he spent a year collecting documents that prove Google uses a politically biased "fringe ranking" system and maintains a "blacklist" of undesirable websites.
Surprise, surprise! Our Silicon Valley overlords have "deboosted and deranked" websites that fall foul of its own agenda.
Coverage of Vorhies' leaks has been minimal, with the exception of right wing websites, many of which found themselves banished to the "blacklist." Liberal media has mostly ignored the leaks. This is primarily because Project Veritas is led by arch-conservative James O'Keefe and they are naturally loathe to cover any information he brings to light, regardless of how legitimate it might be.
The group has uncovered some enlightening information in the past; most embarrassingly, it caught a CNN reporter admitting that the Russiagate story, which consumed American media for the better part of three years, was "mostly bullsh*t" but that it had been "incredible" for ratings.
Close to 200 others were wounded.
Ghani's statement came as Afghanistan on August 19 celebrates the 100th anniversary of independence from the British.
"We will take revenge for every civilian drop of blood," Ghani declared. "Our struggle will continue against [IS], we will take revenge and will root them out." He urged the international community to join those efforts.
However, several blasts struck restaurants and public squares on August 19 in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, wounding at least 34 people, officials said.
No group claimed responsibility for the 10 explosions but both IS and Taliban militants operate in the region.

Turkish soldiers stand on a watchtower at the Atmeh crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border.
According to the report, the Syrian army targeted al-Nusra fortifications in the direction of Kafridon and al-Sabbaghiya, in the suburbs of Khan-Sheikhun, killing many of the terrorists, while other gunmen fled the area.
Earlier this week, the Syrian military liberated two villages in the south of Idlib Province after clashing with terrorists.
A brigadier general of the Syrian Armed Forces said that liberation followed violent clashes between the military and the terrorists from the Jabhat Nusra group, during which several fighters were killed and military equipment was seized.
China has enough cutting-edge ballistic missile technology to destroy the United States' Western Pacific Navy fleets and military bases in a matter of "hours", a report from the University of Sydney said on Monday.
The US no longer "enjoys military primacy" in the Indo-Pacific and has an "uncertain" capacity to keep a "favourable balance of power", the report from the University's United States Studies Centre said.
Beijing could quickly topple US forces "particularly around Taiwan, the Japanese archipelago or maritime Southeast Asia" before Washington could respond, authors Ashley Townshend, Matilda Steward and Brendan Thomas-Noone warned.
Comment: And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why 'pro-democracy' riots have been taking place in HK for the last couple of months.
If you can't beat your enemy this way, come at him that way...

Russian coat of arms on the facade of the parliament building in Moscow.
On Monday, the council of the State Duma, the lower house of the nation's parliament, created a 12-person commission tasked with investigating foreign meddling in Russia's domestic affairs.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang on Monday said the sale of Lockheed Martin F-16V jets was a serious violation of the one-China principle.
"China has made numerous solemn representations to the US on the sale of F-16V jets to Taiwan," Geng said in a press conference, adding that the United States should halt the sale.
"The US has to bear all the consequences triggered by the sale," Geng said. "China will take necessary measures to defend its self-interest based on the development of the situation."
The UK is reaching out to its "Five Eyes" security allies to enlist their help in building an alternative to the EU's Global Navigation Satellite System Galileo, reported The Telegraph.
According to the publication, Space Agency officials have conferred with representatives from the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, the nations that make up the security pact.
The decision permits Huawei to continue buying products from American companies to support its existing customers. It was made in part to minimize disruption in parts of rural America that rely on relatively inexpensive Huawei equipment to carry wireless service in remote areas, Commerce officials said.
"It is another 90 days for the U.S. telecom companies," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Fox Business Network. "Some of the rural companies are dependent on Huawei. So we're giving them a little more time to wean themselves off."
At the same time, the Trump administration is continuing to apply pressure to Huawei. Forty-six Huawei subsidiaries are being added to what is known as the Commerce Department's "Entity List," a kind of blacklist that bans U.S. companies from doing business because of national security concerns, Commerce officials said Monday.
In July, the French Senate approved a 3% levy that will apply to revenue from digital services earned in France by companies with more than 25 million euros in French revenue and 750 million euros ($838 million) worldwide.
The U.S. Trade Representative's Office in July opened a probe into the new tax it called "unreasonable." The office could issue new tariffs on French goods or other trade restrictions after the public comment period closes on Aug. 26.
Amazon's international tax policy director Peter Hiltz said in written testimony for the USTR hearing that more than 10,000 French-based small- and medium-size businesses are selling on Amazon's online stores and notified them that certain fees will increase by 3% for sales made on Amazon.fr starting Oct. 1.
The first reform is the most obvious, given the unraveling of the Russia collusion narrative: a new set of rules governing when the FBI can investigate or spy on a First Amendment-protected political campaign during an election.
The FBI never should have been allowed to sustain a counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump's campaign based on hearsay from Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, who helped to arrange a $25 million Australian government donation to the Clinton Foundation, and on a "minimally" verified dossier written by British spy Christopher Steele, who was working on the Hillary Clinton opposition-research team.













Comment: The Syrians say they have established control over the entire city and are encircling the hills around the city in order to eliminate the snipers there: "Turkish armoured vehicles with munitions have violated the Syrian border and have entered the city of Saraqib, they are moving in the direction of Khan Sheikhoun...", according to the Syrian Foreign Ministry.
According to the Turkish Defense Ministry, the Syrian forces launched an airstrike on the convoy, killing 3 civilians and injuring 12: The taking of Khan-Sheikhun almost completes the encirclement of al-Nusra in the southern terrorist-held region of Idlib:
The situation in Idlib just prior to the taking of Khan-Sheikhun.