Brian Sussman

Latest Podcast – A Look Back: Obama’s Impeachable Middle East Dealings (and Biblical End Times)

While all eyes in Washington DC are focused on the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Trump, I ask the question: How did the past president get away with all he did in the Middle East without even a hint of impeachment?

Obama’s offenses? Try one-point-eight billion dollars in cash delivered on a wooden pallets to the radical Islamist leadership of Iran for starters. Then there was Obama’s unauthorized war on Libya, which was unprovoked by any attack (or threatened attack) on the US, and unwanted by a vast majority of Americans. He also aided and abetted in the murder of Libya’s leader and in the process destabilized the country, leading to a bloodbath.  And then there was selecting the horrific Muslim Brotherhood as a partner for peace in Egypt (didn’t work), and Obama’s gross miscalculation in Syria that internal conflict could be contained within that country’s borders (it wasn’t).

The Democrats, establishment media, and even a heckuva lot of Republicans were totally silent.

This is our subject for this episode of Hidden Headlines; and my guest is investigative journalist Bill Wilson, author of the very popular Daily Jot news article.

Not only does Bill discuss Obama’s offenses in the Middle East, but he ties those shady decisions into Bible prophecy, specifically the end times prophecies found in the Jewish scriptures  of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. Bill’s jot is entitled, Prophetic Truth and Consequences (January 13).  In it he says,

The foreign policy of the immediate past US president engineered a destabilization in the Middle East that has resulted in great suffering of humankind as well as advancing the march of end time prophecy. Strategically, that president locked in an irreversible pathway that accelerated world events toward the Ezekiel 38 prophecy where Magog, Mesech, and Tubal (Turkey) leads Persia (Iran), Ethiopia (Sudan) and Libya (Libya) against Israel in the end of times “To take a spoil, and to take a prey (Ezekiel 38:12).” Think about the truth in Arab Spring, assassinating Libya’s head of state, promoting the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign policy partner, and sending Iran billions of dollars in cash. Also think about the consequences.

I hope you enjoy (and share) this episode, which you can listen to here.

Farewell to Morning Radio: The Rest of The Story

It’s a new year, a new decade, and a new chapter in my life’s sojourn.

It’s also time for a long overdue personal update.  The irony of it all–I’m penning this as I just discovered that I’ve again been named as one of the most-streamed radio programs in the country (pretty incredible, considering The KSFO Morning Show is not syndicated).

In a recent post I shared about the many highlights I’ve experienced during my lengthy media career in both television and (for the past nearly twenty-years) in radio on San Francisco’s KSFO.  I hope you’ll read that article, which proves I’ve had more fun while earning a living than a guy could ever ask for.  Yes, I avoided telling you of the crappy moments (and there have been more than a few doozies), but those will make for some hilarious stories and beneficial life lessons in future posts.

Now however, it’s time for the rest of the current story.  Certainly many of you have correctly surmised there is more to say regarding my absence from our beloved KSFO airwaves (recall from the last post, I was a listener before I ever became a part of the lineup).

If for the sake of no one else’s emotions but my own, I’ll keep this brief.

Last spring, my contract with Cumulus Media (the corporation that owns KSFO) was set to expire. Unbeknownst to our listeners, the company and I were unable to come to a financial agreement and on April 1st I resigned.

At the urging of management I returned to the bargaining table a couple days later and a temporary deal was struck for me to return to KSFO with a four-day-a-week schedule through the end of 2019.  My brother Brad was the designated fill-in for me each Monday. What was to happen in 2020 was unsure, but I was prepared to say goodbye to my KSFO family and go my own way if no agreement with the company could be reached.

Then, in early October, I was blindsided by some bizarre health issues. After some time in the hospital, a myriad of tests and a slew of doctors, it was determined that that I was beset with a serious condition that was likely triggered by long-term lack of sleep, unorthodox working hours, and stress.

Lack of sleep?  Unorthodox hours? Stress? Me?

Ever since I graduated college I’ve worked either late nights or super early mornings. After taking the reigns of The KSFO Morning Show in 2009, I’ve awakened each workday before 3AM and normally get only five or six hours sleep a night.

As for stress, as our producer Sheri Yee and my cohost Katie Green will attest, I thrive on it. Arguments, debates, deadlines, ratings–that’s what  I’ve always loved about media, especially talk radio.  And for me, the show prep never ends.  I overdo everything.  I can’t cut corners. To my detriment, I’m a perfectionist. Personal friends and family will also assert that the non-broadcast side of my life is busy as well.

According to my medical team, it all caught up to me.

Fortunately, I’m feeling great. In fact, my wife, family and close friends say I look revived; I guess 8-10 hours of sleep each night for this first time in my adult life is proving beneficial.  That said, my doctors are not recommending I return to morning radio.

Brother Brad has done a fantastic job filling-in for the past three months, and I think he’d do a great job going forward.  By the way, I hold no ill will toward Cumulus–they have been especially classy throughout all of this.

While my well-being will not miss the grind of showing up for duty each day at 3AM, I will miss the best producer I have ever worked with, Sheri , as well as my faithful sidekick, the lovely (and hilarious) Katie Green.  Words are not adequate to describe my affectionate feelings for these two.

I also miss our incredibly faithful listeners and their, “I will now hang-up on myself,” routine.

As I take a deep breathe, allow me to humbly say that these past nearly two decades on KSFO have made for an exhilarating chapter in my wonderful life.

Meantime, I’ll keep bringing you my brand of “right-thinking from the left coast,” via both my blog and Hidden Headlines Podcast.  I’ll also continue producing the inspirational Another Chance podcasts which have gained an audience world-wide.

Thanks for your steadfast support, kinds words, and thoughtful prayers.

Brian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of Biblical Proportions: Obama’s Sinister Dealings in the Middle East

A blog I read regularly is The Daily Jot, by Bill Wilson.  The articles are short and sweet and appeal to those of us who often view world news through a Biblical lens.

Today’s article is especially insightful.  It deals with the shady deals done in the Middle East, concocted during the Obama years, that could well play into Biblical end-times prophecies.

Without directly naming Barack Obama,  Wilson explains how his administration engineered a destabilization in the Middle East that has resulted in great suffering of humankind as well as advancing the march of end time prophecy. Specifically, Obama’s actions accelerated world events toward the Ezekiel 38 prophecy where Magog, Mesech, and Tubal (Turkey) leads Persia (Iran), Ethiopia (Sudan) and Libya (Libya) against Israel in the end of times “To take a spoil, and to take a prey (Ezekiel 38:12).”

Arab Spring, the assassination of Libya’s head of state, declaring the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign policy partner, sending Iran billions of dollars in cash on pallets. And his administration got off scotfree.

Writes Wilson:

In March 2011, the president ordered the bombing of Libya, and he did not seek approval of Congress to conduct this act of war. Over six months later, on October 24, 2011, The Daily Jot reported that the “man who occupies the Oval Office has claimed victory in Libya, spending about a billion dollars of taxpayer money to topple the Gadhafi regime and replace it with Islamic fundamentalism.” Indeed, the US had approved the assassination of Libya’s head of state and supported a Muslim Brotherhood-, al Qaeda- and Islamic State-backed military group to do the dirty deed. These actions were not met with outrage by Democrats in Congress or the mainstream media as they are with the current president ordering the assassination of an Iranian terrorist leader. Now Turkey has sent military to Libya to ”ensure a legitimate government.”

Wilson goes on to note,

On November 25, 2013, the White House announced that it was entering into a deal with Iran to “stop” its nuclear program. The pact was ratified by the Senate in September 2015, empowering the president to complete a deal with Iran that would allow the terrorist state to build a nuclear bomb over the next ten years and pay them over $300 billion to do it—some $1.8 billion in cash arrived in Tehran on a pallet. Iran then ignored the deal, advanced its nuclear development, attacked oil tankers, embassies, killed Americans in Iraq, and fomented terrorism around the world.

Wilson also reminds us that President Trump responded to these acts on January, saying,

 “Iran’s hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013, and they were given $150 billion, not to mention $1.8 billion in cash. Instead of saying “thank you” to the United States, they chanted “death to America.” In fact, they chanted “death to America” the day the agreement was signed. Then, Iran went on a terror spree, funded by the money from the deal, and created hell in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq.”

You can read the entire article here: The Daily Jot

Hidden Headlines Podcast #50: Shadow-Banned: How Facebook and Twitter Limit Free Speech

One of the many ways to pacify social media users deemed problematic by platforms like Facebook and Twitter is to employ a tool called a “shadow ban.” The term originates from a time where internet communities primarily existed in individual, isolated web forums.  Rather than outright ban a user, a forum moderator would “shadow ban” them.  Those banned would never know it.  They could read the posts of others, and even create their own posts as usual.  However, nobody else in their community could see their posts, or even know that they tried to say something.

This garbage is going on today, primarily aimed at conservatives on major outlets like Facebook and Twitter.  This practice is dangerously un-American.  Yet tragically, an entire generation has been raised to believe such banning is appropriate.

Indeed, as I illustrate in this podcast, I have been a target. In fact, I’m so sick of these leftist corporate policies that I recent posted my last Tweets.

This is another podcast loaded with FACTS.

Please share this with episode with others: listen here (or wherever you love to listen to podcasts).

Brian

Why I Am Done With Twitter

“Up yours, Twitter.” 
I know that doesn’t sound kind and gracious.  But Twitter is not kind and gracious and does not deserve to be treated as such.
 
Twitter exists to make money for its founders and shareholders, AND to shape the culture of the world into the image of their board of directors. As such, they see certain users of their platform as problematic and employ a tool to marginalize those users’ influence. It’s called “shadow banning.”
 
Twitter is based in San Francisco. My radio career and the books I’ve written pulling the rug out from under the climate change crowd were all birthed in ultra-liberal San Francisco.  During the run-up to the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, my radio program drew the rabid ire of the left (both locally and nationally) because I dared question Obama’s place of birth. I am convinced I was shadow banned by Twitter soon after joining their platform in 2009, as I will explain.
 
The term shadow ban originates from a time where internet communities primarily existed in individual, isolated web forums. Rather than outright ban a user, a forum moderator would “shadow” ban them. Those banned could read posts and even make their own as usual. But unbeknownst to them, nobody else in the community could see their posts or even know that they tried to say something.
For what it’s worth, Wikipedia’s definition is an especially good one: “The act of blocking a user or their content from an online community such that it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned.”
 
I joined Twitter in 2009, concurrent with both my promotion to the helm of the popular KSFO Morning Show and the release of my book, Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam (which instantly became a national bestseller). Within short order I had over 5,000 followers. Ten years later I barely have 6,000. Such puny growth makes no sense. In addition to my books (which also include, Eco-Tyranny: How the Left’s Green Agenda Will Dismantle America), for the past couple of years my radio program has been one of the most-streamed local shows in America. Could it be someone at the Twitter HQ here in San Francisco doesn’t like my message?
 
Over the years I’ve been contacted by Twitter employees who say my suspicions are spot on, but I realize the snakes in the Twitter nest will never allow any of this to be known,
 
In either case, as Pete Franklin (a guy who I loved listening to on the radio in San Francisco in the Nineties) might have said: “Up yours, Twitter. Up yours where the sun don’t shine!”
 
And with that, you’ll never see me on Twitter again.