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letsdothis3 ago

I believe this is all related ...

Dealing With Saudi Arabia Requires Lessons From Iran’s Global Assassination Campaign

Gruesome details of the possible premeditated killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi state actors are gradually being revealed. This has invited inevitable comparisons between the brutality of Saudi Arabia to its regional rival, Iran.

While there is evidence to show that Iran is beginning to extend its brutal long arm yet again—with the murky circumstances surrounding the killings of Iranian television executive Saeed Karimian in Istanbul in April 2017 and Ahvazi activist Ahmad Mola Nissi in The Hague in November 2017—up until recently the program was on a “hiatus” of sorts since the late 1990s.

Saeed Karimian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Karimian

Saeed Karimian (8 August 1972[1] – 29 April 2017) was an Iranian television executive, the founder, chairman, and owner of Dubai-based GEM TV

GEM TV chairman Saeed Karimian killed in Istanbul - https://www.rapidtvnews.com/2017050247068/gem-tv-chairman-saeed-karimian-killed-in-istanbul.html

GEM TV, initially established in 2001 in London, is now headquartered in Dubai and uses the Hotbird and Yahsat satellites to reach audiences across the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and Europe. 

Gem TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_TV

GEM's current programming consists of movies, documentaries and acquired programs and shows like America's Got Talent and The X Factor. [i.e. Simon Cowell]

Yahsat takes us straight back to the Hampstead case: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3141061/17856656

One of the directors of 47 HOLLYCROFT AVENUE MANAGEMENT LTD [address of Ella Draper and children] works for Yahsat

Interesting company from an IT professional : And here's an interesting comment on that latter post: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1664944/8154269

Recently, through my own investigations of the Hampstead case, I was alerted to a United Arab Emirates satellite broadcasting company Yahlive . The Hampstead angle is another chapter of this book, so I won’t go into that here. Yahlive is a very important broadcasting company for the Arab world. Saudi TV channels use this company exclusively.

Several years ago I performed data recovery for a US based satellite TV company owned by a middle eastern man (clearly an arabic name and accent). This recovery was on an 8TB RAID array. Most cases someone removed a wrong disk or did something to crash the array and it just needs to be reassembled, mounted and fsck it. So the first part of recovery is examining the system logs for different things like disk/power/filesystem events. Well this system had a slew of file system errors all which showed there were video files with names that all had ages in them like "8 yo" all the way to "16 yo" and some with pornographic titles. I was able to recover the RAID part with the data on it and I checked the folder these files were in and there were thousands of these videos. I checked the folder size and it was obviously the purpose of this storage device since it over 80% of the storage space being used.

I was told I would likely find CP after enough time doing DR, so I documented what I did, per our SOP, reported it to my director and he reported it to the FBI.

I had this feeling at the time that the whole satellite thing was being used as a front to distribute CP but I just told myself it was being handed off to better people and that was all I could do to help. I'm dumbfounded the guy just acted so casual about it and didn't think anyone would notice what the dataset consisted of. I don't poke around in people's data, but couldn't justify to not do anything in this case.

I don't recall the company name but I do remember it was on the east coast since I had to coordinate between timezone differences.

I'm still in shock at the emergence of the "streaming" industry. Look at twitch, all it does is host people streaming games and it sold for a billion dollars. The hardware and internet bandwidth needed to host streaming services is readily available to the public, anyone can go rent a server these days, and you can even purchase "anonymous hosting" with bitcoin through TOR. Hell you can even rent a server hosted in a raid proof bomb bunker. For the handling of the video, there is open source software for encoding/streaming/encryption. The whole streaming thing seems to of started with "camgirls" and this idea has been around for a while now.