Really long article by Sundance “Why John Brennan, Peter Strzok and DOJ Needed Julian Assange Arrested – And Why UK Officials Obliged”

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican who is friendly to Russia and chairs an important House subcommittee on Eurasia policy, became the first American congressman to meet with Assange during a three-hour private gathering at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been holed up for years.

••••Rohrabacher recounted his conversation with Assange to The Hill.

••••“Our three-hour meeting covered a wide array of issues, including the WikiLeaks exposure of the DNC [Democratic National Committee] emails during last year’s presidential election,” Rohrabacher said, “Julian emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the hacking or disclosure of those emails.”

••••Pressed for more detail on the source of the documents, Rohrabacher said he had information to share privately with President Trump. (read more)

••••Knowing how much effort the CIA and FBI put into the Russia collusion-conspiracy narrative, it would make sense for the FBI to take keen interest after this August 2017 meeting between Rohrabacher and Assange; and why the FBI would quickly gather specific evidence (related to Wikileaks and Bradley Manning) for a grand jury by December 2017.

••••Within three months of the grand jury the DOJ generated an indictment and sealed it in March 2018. The EDVA sat on the indictment while the Mueller probe was ongoing.

••••As soon as the Mueller probe ended, on April 11th, 2019, a planned and coordinated effort between the U.K. and U.S. was executed; Julian Assange was forcibly arrested and removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and the EDVA indictment was unsealed (link).

••••As a person who has researched this three year fiasco; including the ridiculously false 2016 Russian hacking/interference narrative: “17 intelligence agencies”, Joint Analysis Report (JAR) needed for Obama’s anti-Russia narrative in December ’16; and then a month later the ridiculously political Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) in January ’17; this timing against Assange is too coincidental.

••••It doesn’t take a deep researcher to see the aligned Deep State motive to control Julian Assange because the Mueller report was dependent on Russia cybercrimes, and that narrative is contingent on the Russia DNC hack story which Julian Assange disputes.

••••This is critical. The Weissmann/Mueller report contains claims that Russia hacked the DNC servers as the central element to the Russia interference narrative in the U.S. election. This claim is directly disputed by WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, as outlined during the Dana Rohrabacher interview, and by Julian Assange on-the-record statements.

••••The predicate for Robert Mueller’s investigation was specifically due to Russian interference in the 2016 election. The fulcrum for this Russia interference claim is the intelligence community assessment; and the only factual evidence claimed within the ICA is that Russia hacked the DNC servers; a claim only made possible by relying on forensic computer analysis from Crowdstrike, a DNC contractor.

••••The CIA holds a massive conflict of self-interest in upholding the Russian hacking claim. The FBI holds a massive interest in maintaining that claim. All of those foreign countries whose intelligence apparatus participated with Brennan and Strzok also have a vested self-interest in maintaining that Russia hacking and interference narrative.

••••Julian Assange is the only person with direct knowledge of how Wikileaks gained custody of the DNC emails; and Assange has claimed he has evidence it was not from a hack.

••••This Russian “hacking” claim is ultimately so important to the CIA, FBI, DOJ, ODNI and U.K intelligence apparatus…. Well, right there is the obvious motive to shut Assange down as soon intelligence officials knew the Mueller report was going to be public.

••••Now, if we know this, and you know this; and everything is cited and factual… well, then certainly AG Bill Barr knows this.

The $64,000 dollar question is: will they say so publicly?

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/08/18/why-john-brennan-peter-strzok-and-doj-needed-julian-assange-arrested-and-why-uk-officials-obliged-2/

Trump to pardon women's suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony posthumously

President Trump will posthumously pardon woman's suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested for voting in 1872 in violation of laws allowing only men to vote.

The president made the announcement during the White House's celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment's ratification, which guaranteed women the right to vote, on Tuesday.

“She was guilty for voting, and we are going to be signing a full and complete pardon, and I think that’s really fantastic,” the president said to applause from participants in the event from women’s and voting organizations. “She deserves it.”

"She got a pardon for a lot of other women," he said. "And she didn't put her name on the list."

Days earlier, the president signaled his support for the creation of a monument in Washington, D.C. honoring suffragists and the 19th Amendment.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-to-posthumously-pardon-womens-suffrage-leader-susan-b-anthony

Hawaii home where Obama reportedly plans to retire bypassed coastal protection laws: Report

A beach property in Hawaii where former President Barack Obama reportedly plans to retire bypassed coastal protection laws for a century-old seawall that is likely causing beach loss, according to a report from ProPublica.

State officials and other sources told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica that Obama plans to one day reside at an $8.7 million property on Oahu's Waimanalo Beach. The property was purchased by a friend of Obama’s, Marty Nesbitt, in 2015.

“The property had one major problem though: a century-old seawall. While the concrete structure had long protected the estate from the sea, it now stood at odds with modern laws designed to preserve Hawaii’s natural coastlines. Scientists and environmental experts say seawalls are the primary cause of beach loss throughout the state. Such structures interrupt the natural flow of the ocean, preventing beaches from migrating inland,” the investigation found.

“But the sellers of the Waimanalo property found a way to ensure the seawall remained in place for another generation. They asked state officials for something called an easement, a real estate tool that allows private property owners to essentially lease the public land that sits under the seawall. The cost: a one-time payment of $61,400. Officials with the state Department of Land and Natural Resources approved the permit, which authorized the wall for another 55 years, and Nesbitt purchased the property,” the report continued.

The property was made famous by the 1980s TV show Magnum P.I., which starred Tom Selleck. Developers have since leveled the mansion on the property, and ProPublica reviewed permits to build three homes, two pools, and a guard post on the land.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hawaii-home-where-obama-reportedly-plans-to-retire-bypassed-coastal-protection-laws-report

Arizona Child Welfare Workers Caught Wearing 'Professional Kidnapper' T-Shirts

The Prescott Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) is down to only one child-abuse investigator after having to fire at least eight others for wearing t-shirts that say “Professional Kidnapper” on them and posting the photos on Facebook. The terminated child-welfare employees had these shirts made up with the phrase “Do you know where your children are?” in bright pink as a “joke” that no one who has battled DCS for custody of their children thought was funny.

The agency has not released the exact number of investigators who were fired—news reports say “multiple” individuals were canned.

Parents in Arizona and across the country have regularly accused government agencies tasked with child welfare of illegally kidnapping their children and denying them their due process rights. It is devastatingly traumatic for a family when DCS or Child Protective Services (CPS) gets involved and removes children — a whopping 62% in 2018 for vague accusations of “neglect.”

That means the parents accused of neglect are generally no charged with criminal abuse and cannot defend themselves in a real court with real due process. Instead, they are shuffled through family courts with low standards of evidence, where they must prove they are innocent instead of the other way around. The process bankrupts almost everyone it ensnares, as public defenders are not available to people who aren’t accused of crimes. Many of the families mixed up with child welfare lose everything trying to pay legal bills to get their children returned. The average time child welfare holds children away from their parents is twelve to fifteen months.

Families are put through this legal and mental hell by people like the women pictured above, who think it’s funny that they have so much power over the lives of families and brag about it on social media. Families like the Thompsons, who have been tied up in court by the Prescott, Ariz., DCS office for years, are the ones left without justice.

Ashley Thompson, a recovering addict who had her children removed by the Prescott office contacted PJM after the investigators were caught in the despicable shirts. “It was completely disheartening to know these are the people who have control over my children’s needs and well-being right now,” she said.

Thompson has been in treatment for her drug addiction and says she’s done everything in her power to get her children back, yet they won’t return them. “I completed treatment, all services, still testing and I have my youngest son back,” she said. Four of her other children are still separated from her. “DCS has my children separated, in two different foster care homes, over two months later.”

Worse, Thompson says the original complaint to DCS was against the father of the children, who is not a part of their lives and is incarcerated. “Maricopa County DCS says I’m fit to parent. Prescott says I’m not, with NO new allegations against me,” said Thompson. The photographs of the caseworkers in the t-shirts upset Thompson deeply.

“Changes need to be made. It just shows that the attitudes of the caseworkers are so disempowering toward parents,” she said as she described her experience with the Prescott DCS employees who she felt did nothing to help her get her kids back. ” Thompson wrote an emotional letter to the court when the Prescott DCS removed her children.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/08/17/arizona-child-welfare-workers-caught-wearing-professional-kidnapper-t-shirts-n800365

Now They're Throwing Huge Concerts in a Packed Water Park in Wuhan, China

WTF is China doing, sending people to get taken by the three gorges dam?

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2020/08/17/now-theyre-throwing-huge-concerts-in-a-packed-water-park-in-wuhan-china-n800341