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Google/YouTube axed RSBNetwork live-streaming just before Trump election, censored views without cause

Right Side Broadcasting Network
© RSBN
RSBN is a popular pro-Trump publisher that live-streams Trump public appearances and rallies.

On November 2, 2016
one week before the national election Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) confirmed they had their live stream disabled by YouTube, after having their live stream camera sabotaged that morning.

In February 2017 Google-YouTube began censoring and preventing views to RSBN. The company lost up to 90% of its traffic.

In February 2018 RSBN reporter Margaret Howell joined The Gateway Pundit at the Newseum in Washington DC to discuss how tech giants such as Facebook, Google, and Youtube were taking direct orders from far left groups like Media Matters to censor conservative voices. In multiple examples, Howell discussed how if you are branded as a conservative on social media, these companies will go as far as to remove live videos and videos with no actual political context because they want to prevent any potential message from getting through their gates.

Brick Wall

Justice Department suing Snowden for any profits from publication of his new memoir

Edward Snowden
© MSNBC
Edward Snowden in Moscow speaking with Brian Williams on Sept. 16, 2019.
The Department of Justice has sued Edward Snowden over the publication of his new memoir, arguing the book violates the nondisclosure agreements it says he signed with the CIA and National Security Agency. Snowden is a former NSA contractor who leaked secret documents about the government's secret intelligence collection programs.

"The lawsuit alleges that Snowden published his book without submitting it to the agencies for pre-publication review, in violation of his express obligations under the agreements he signed," the Justice Department said in a news release Tuesday.

Top Secret

US government files lawsuit against Snowden over book, 'violates CIA & NSA non-disclosure agreements'

Edward Snowden speaking about his book
© Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch
Edward Snowden speaks via videolink as he takes part in a discussion about his book "Permanent Record", Berlin, September 17.
The US government has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, alleging that his newly-published memoir 'Permanent Record' violates nondisclosure agreements he signed with the CIA and NSA.

The civil lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, claims that Snowden violated these agreements by not sending a draft of the book to the spy agencies for review - and presumably redaction - before publication. It also alleges that the whistleblower's public speeches on "intelligence-related matters" violated the agreements.

Rather than pull the book from the shelves, the government wants to pocket all the earnings from its sale.

"Intelligence information should protect our nation, not provide personal profit," said Zachary Terwilliger, US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. "This lawsuit will ensure that Edward Snowden receives no monetary benefits from breaching the trust placed in him."

Network

Turkey, Russia, Iran vow to take on greater responsibilities for peace in Syria's Idlib

Iran Turkey Russia presidents
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted the leaders of Russia and Iran in Ankara on September 16 for talks aimed at finding a lasting truce in the ruinous eight-year Syrian civil war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Hassan Rohani, and Erdogan each met separately before meeting for their fifth summit. They discussed Idlib, a region in northwestern Syria that is the last rebel stronghold.

They vowed to prevent a worse humanitarian crisis in the region and agreed to ease tensions there.

Last year, Russia and Turkey signed a buffer-zone agreement that is supposed to protect Idlib from a government offensive. Ankara mans 12 observation posts in the area to help enforce it, however it fears Syrian forces, who enjoy Russian air-power support, will advance on Idlib.

Jet4

Oops: 'We've all accidentally sold weapons': UK trade secretary mocked for 'inadvertent' illegal arms sales approval

Uk arms sales Liz Truss
© Reuters / Faisal Al Nasser ; Reuters / Toby Melville
(Main) Saudi Arabian F-15SA fighter jets (Top right) UK International Trade Secretary Liz Truss
UK International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has been ridiculed online after claiming the government had accidentally granted two military export licenses for Saudi Arabia, despite pledging to freeze weapons sales to Riyadh.

Truss was forced to apologize to the Court of Appeal on Monday for the "two inadvertent breaches," revealing that she had launched an urgent departmental inquiry into the "errors."

The UK suspended arms sales to the Kingdom in June after the court ruled that ministers had acted unlawfully by not determining whether weapons could be used against civilians in the war in Yemen. As a result, the government stated that no new licenses would be issued to Saudi Arabia while a review is conducted.

Comment: Profits above all. Wonder how many MPs have connections to Britain's arms industry?


Stock Up

Oil at $100 per barrel? Attack on Saudi refineries could shake oil market further

oil money dollars
© Global Look Press / Daniel Radicevic
The drone strike on key Saudi oil facilities could stoke already-flaring tensions in the Middle East, driving crude prices higher amid growing fears of supply shortages, market and industry experts believe.

The devastating attack on major Saudi oil refineries at Abqaiq and Khurais slashed the kingdom's output by 50 percent and knocked out more than five percent of global daily production. The consequences of the strikes led to uncertainty in the oil market as it's unclear when the oil giant can restore operations to normal.

Analysts warn that it will take longer than had initially been thought to reopen the refineries, which were shut down after the strikes triggered massive fires there. Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, believes several months will pass before the entire plants are back to normal, but production may actually be resumed earlier than that.

Bad Guys

US defense failure... Why Washington is blaming Iran over Saudi attacks

Saudi oil attack
© AFP
Smoke billows from an Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq
The devastating blitz on Saudi Arabia's oil industry has led to a flurry of accusations from US officials blaming Iran. The reason for the finger-pointing is simple: Washington's spectacular failure to protect its Saudi ally.

The Trump administration needs to scapegoat Iran for the latest military assault on Saudi Arabia because to acknowledge that the Houthi rebels mounted such an audacious assault on the oil kingdom's heartland would be an admission of American inadequacy.

Saudi Arabia has spent billions of dollars in recent years purchasing US Patriot missile defense systems and supposedly cutting-edge radar technology from the Pentagon. If the Yemeni rebels can fly combat drones up to 1,000 kilometers into Saudi territory and knock out the linchpin production sites in the kingdom's oil industry, then that should be a matter of huge embarrassment for US "protectors."

Quenelle

Tulsi Gabbard to Trump: 'We are not your prostitutes - you are not our pimp'

Tulsi
© Joel Pollak / Breitbart News
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) launched a profane attack on President Donald Trump's foreign policy on Monday evening, denouncing the idea of defending Saudi Arabia: "We are not your prostitutes. You are not our pimp."

Gabbard was responding to President Trump's statements about a potential U.S. response to a recent attack by Houthi rebels on oilfields in Saudi Arabia that threatened global oil supplies and the security of a key American ally.
Yesterday President Trump offered to place our military, my brothers and sisters in uniform, under the command [sic] of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the dictator of the Islamist Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [sic]. Trump said, "[We] are locked and loaded, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!" Mr. President, as you know, I have never engaged in hateful rhetoric against you [sic], or your family, and I never will, but your offering our military assets to the dictator of Saudi Arabia to use as he sees fit, is a betrayal of my brothers and sisters in uniform who are ready to give our lives for our country, not for the Islamist dictator of Saudi Arabia.

For you to think that you can pimp out our proud servicemen and women to the Prince of Saudi Arabia is disgraceful, and it once again shows that you are unfit to serve as our commander in chief. As a member of Congress, and as a soldier, I and all of my brothers and sisters in uniform have taken an oath to protect and defend the American people and the Constitution of the United States of America. There is nothing in our Constitution that gives you the power to go to war without the express consent of Congress [sic], but to speak of giving you the power to offer our military to a foreign power like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to use as they wish — President Trump, your words and actions are a betrayal of my brothers and sisters in uniform, the American people, and our Constitution. My fellow servicemembers and I — we are not your prostitutes. You are not our pimp.

Comment: The author seems to be entirely missing the point here. What the US has been doing in supporting Saudi Arabia - in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere - with the use of Americans as cannon fodder no less - is despicable. And only promises for more carnage and chaos throughout the Middle East. But in his blind support for Trump, the author is either unable, or refuses to see, these facts on the ground.


Light Saber

Trump calls for resignation of 'everyone' at the New York Times involved In Kavanaugh smear

Brett Kavanaugh and President Donald Trump
© Jim Bourg / Reuters
US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump called for everyone at The New York Times who was involved in the smear of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to resign on Monday, saying that the newspaper can never recover from the countless things that it has done that have damaged its reputation.

Trump's demand comes after The New York Times published a highly deceptive report based on a new book that alleged that Kavanaugh was potentially involved in a sexual assault. The New York Times' report excluded key information about the alleged incident that cast serious doubt about whether it even happened. The most explosive piece of information left out of The New York Times' report was the fact that the victim allegedly has no memory of the event even happening.

Comment: Judge Kavanaugh is one of the unfortunate lightning rods for the deranged Left. He is to be commended for his courage in standing against them.



Broom

Kavanaugh smears unravel: Original accuser's 'witness' now doubts Ford's story

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Christine Blasey Ford
As the left-wing smear against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh continues to unravel amid a journalistic malpractice scandal at the New York Times, original Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford's "lifelong friend" and alleged witness now doubts her story.

Leland Keyser, who Ford claimed was one of five people at a party in the 1980s where she says Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, told New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly "I don't have any confidence in the story."

Keyser - who said she was pressured by Ford's ex-FBI buddy to lie and say that she didn't remember the party instead of saying that it never happened - originally said through her attorney that she "does not refute Dr. Ford's account," however "the simple and unchangeable truth is that she is unable to corroborate it because she has no recollection of the incident in question."