The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.
That’s where we come in.
In the Badlands News Brief, the Badlands Media team is going to take you through a few news items of interest from the previous day in an attempt to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community while introducing you to some brief, original commentary from our growing team of citizen journalists.
(Feel free to follow the corresponding link attached to each Badlands contributor’s name to check them out on other platforms.)
Now, onto the news from the weekend that was …
NBC’s Chuck Todd Blasts Biden Regime For Lack of Transparency Related to ‘High-Altitude Object’ Shot Down Over Alaska
NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday opened his show by blasting the Biden Regime for their lack of transparency surrounding the China spy balloon and the ‘high-altitude object’ shot down over Alaska.
National Security Council spokesman Adm. John Kirby fielded questions from reporters on Friday after another ‘object’ was shot down over Alaska.
Kirby did not voluntarily offer up information about the object.
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Chuck Todd blasted Kirby and the Pentagon for their lack of transparency.
“For some reason, the spokesperson, John Kirby, did not volunteer this information about fighter jets being scrambled to shoot down another object until a reporter in that room asked,” Chuck Todd said on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.” — The Gateway Pundit
Our Take: “Not even a week after what many believe to be a failure of the Biden administration to handle the Chinese Ballon fiasco, two more unidentified objects, which are also apparently balloons, have been downed.
Chuck Todd and other DS media outlets were quick to report these events, highlighting the fact that Biden took "decisive action." The whole situation is strange and wreaks of state-sponsored media stunts.
How prevalent are these fly overs? Was this happening for years without a peep but now, especially as the Biden administration is beset by scandals.
Some contend this is an intentional operation to take down Biden in preparation for whomever is selected as the DNC candidate for 2024. Others argue this is a white hat operation designed to expose intelligence activities that have been quietly taking place for years.
What do you think?
Regardless, whenever the media coordinates, as they are doing now with this story, you can take it to the bank that some agenda is being pushed.” — Justin Deschamps
Jack Smith, Special Counsel for Trump Inquiries, Steps Up the Pace
Did former President Donald J. Trump consume detailed information about foreign countries while in office? How extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered with? Did he indicate he knew he was leaving when his term ended?
Those are among the questions that Justice Department investigators have been directing at witnesses as the special counsel, Jack Smith, takes control of the federal investigations into Mr. Trump’s efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss and his handling of classified documents found in his possession after he left office.
Through witness interviews, subpoenas and other steps, Mr. Smith has been moving aggressively since being named to take over the inquiries nearly three months ago, seeking to make good on his goal of resolving as quickly as possible whether Mr. Trump, still a leading contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, should face charges. — The New York Times
Our Take: “As Special Counsel Smith's investigation intensifies, the media will be hoping that tHe WaLLs aRe FiNaLLy cLoSiNg iN oN tRuMp!
They aren't. The walls are closing in on the Swamp.” — Just Human
Naming the names. Final batch of documents containing 'salacious' allegations related to Jeffrey Epstein associates - including Prince Andrew - will finally be made PUBLIC after dozens of John and Jane Does agree to unsealing
The final batch of court documents containing 'salacious' allegations related to 167 of Jeffrey Epstein's associates, victims, and employees, will finally be unsealed – nearly four years after the disgraced financier's death.
The material will be made public in the coming months and, DailyMail.com can reveal, is expected to include information pertaining to at least one 'public figure.'
The documents refer to 'alleged perpetrators' or individuals accused of 'serious wrongdoing', as well as law enforcement officers and prosecutors, according to a declaration filed on Wednesday.
Prince Andrew, who is accused of having sex with Epstein victim Virginia Roberts when she was 17, and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, are understood to be among the individuals mentioned in the papers. — The Daily Mail
Our Take: “The Epstein client list is suspiciously absent. But this isn't the first time a blackmail operation was exposed by law enforcement only to produce no arrests or prosecutions.
In the run up to the creation of the CIA, the OSS worked hand-in-glove with organized crime to blackmail hundreds, if not thousands of prominent citizens, some of whom were elected officials and members of government institutions. The operation then, like now, was sophisticated, organized, and extremely effective.
The operation was eventually declassified decades later. It revealed what many have suspected but weren't able to confirm: Many of the actors within the Deep State and Shadow Government are themselves victims of blackmail and coercion.
If we ever have a full disclosure of all the insidious activities taking place in our world, we may discover that many of the bad guys we raged against were themselves coerced to commit their crimes. It is doubtful that any meaningful disclosure will come about from the upcoming release of documents related to the Epstein client list.
Nevertheless, the work of restoring freedom to our corruption-stained world is at hand.” — Justin Deschamps
House Republicans Block DC Law That Would Allow Illegal Residents To Vote
In a win for election integrity, the House of Representatives voted to overturn a D.C. law that would give noncitizens a right to vote in municipal elections Thursday.
“I applaud the House for acting to ensure that foreign spies and illegal immigrants are not voting in the nation’s capital,” Jason Snead, executive director of Honest Elections Project Action (HEPA), said in a statement regarding the vote. “Thanks to a Constitutional right and since the District is not a state, the House acted as it should have and has moved to stop this extreme and antidemocratic measure.”
According to the Constitution, Congress has the ability to block laws passed in the District. The GOP-led House voted 260-173 to overturn the new law, with 42 Democrats joining Republicans. For the law to be overturned, it must also be voted against in the Democratic-led Senate and signed by the President. While President Biden has said he opposes the law, he has not stated whether or not he will veto it. — The Federalist
Our Take: “Of course the republicans blocked this law; they just want to see all minorities suffer.
In actuality, it shouldn't take an Ivy League history professor to deduce why this is a bad policy.
Some might recall the Roman Empire, which fell for a multitude of reasons—chief among them being the mass migration caused by the Huns’ invasion of Europe in the late fourth century.
Naturally, the Democrats will instruct these migrants how to vote after they've given them free money, increasing the population of sanctuary cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles and thereby increasing the federal funding allotted to these cities.
Speaking of Rome, what other conditions lead to it's fall?
Economic troubles, military overspending, government corruption, political instability, loss of traditional values, weakening of the legions, and the rise of a competing empire in the East.
Do any of these sound familiar? Is the United States the perfect modern mirror to the situation in Rome before it's fall?
Time will tell, but patriots aren't letting it happen without a fight.” — Ryan DeLarme
F-22 Shoots Down Another Object, This Time Over Canada
F-22s Raptors under the control of NORAD have now shot down two objects in North American airspace within a day, three in the last week.
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor has shot down an object over Canada's Yukon Territory, per a Tweet from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The shootdown is the second such incident in two days and the F-22's third 'kill' ever, after the shooting down of a Chinese high-altitude balloon a week ago. Trudeau tweeted he spoke with President Joe Biden on Saturday afternoon about the incident, and that Canadian forces will recover the object's wreckage. — The Drive
F-16 Shoots Down “Octagonal Object” Over Lake Huron
Another unknown object was shot down, this time over Lake Huron, according to U.S. Reps. Elissa Slotkin and Jack Bergman of Michigan.
"The object has been downed by pilots from the US Air Force and National Guard," Slotkin tweeted Sunday afternoon. "Great work by all who carried out this mission both in the air and back at headquarters. We’re all interested in exactly what this object was and it’s purpose." — The Drive
Our Take: “We agree with Flynn.” — Just Human
Bill Gates: AI Can Help Solve ‘Digital Misinformation’ Problem
Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates said AI should be considered as a tool to combat “digital misinformation” and “political polarization” in an interview published on Thursday with Handelsblatt, a German news media outlet.
In response to a question about the spreading of “misinformation” via AI, Gates referred to the events of January 6, 2021, as an “attack on the Capitol. He said:
“I’m certainly concerned about political polarization, and I know the U.S. situation best of all. I wouldn’t have expected people to attack the Capitol, or people to deny the validity of election results. I‘m in a state of shock about that.
We can’t blame AI for that. That happened. It may have been magnified by digital channels that allow various conspiracy theories like QAnon or whatever to be blasted out by people who wanted to believe those things. So, the digital tools may have played an auxiliary role.” — Breitbart
Our Take: “Bill Gates says AI will solve the "digital misinformation" problem, but who will be programming this AI? The same folks who programmed ChatGPT to be biased against Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Green?
How does Joe Biden feel about outsourcing the jobs of organic lifeforms to AI? If artificial intelligence was actually intelligent, and not just some low-tier software, it would probably become a staunch republican within hours of becoming sentient.
All jokes aside, it might be safe to say that this hypothetical AI will search for, find, and block competing ideas. The elites want to control the narrative. They want people to stay inside the bubble of awareness they've curated for us, dependent on their vices, and consuming their echo chamber of propaganda.
Fortunately, even the normies get irked by this guy. Gates is the clown prince of disinformation, and this stupid idea will never come to fruition; the people are waking up. — Ryan DeLarme
Systemic Racism Makes Animals Abandon Black Neighborhoods, Researchers Say
White neighborhoods have greater abundance and diversity of animal life, and Canadian researchers say racism is to blame.
"Systemic racism alters the demography of urban wildlife populations in ways that generally limit population sizes and negatively affect their chances of persistence," write the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg's Chloé Schmidt and Colin J. Garroway in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In a study that examined 39 terrestrial vertebrate species in 268 urban locations across the United States, the researchers found "generally consistent patterns of reduced genetic diversity and decreased connectivity in neighborhoods with fewer White residents." — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “The complete insanity of the radical left agenda is no accident; it's by design. It is one of the most coordinated and insidious operations pushed to humanity, but it is hardly the first of its kind. The harm it inflicts on those who subscribe to these anti-truth ideologies is horrific and it spreads like a contagion.
As a hint, thousands, if not millions of transgenders, who are victims of this agenda, have destroyed their lives and bodies. The constant and persistent attempt to twist everything to conform to an overly simplified, illogical, and palpably false view is the point—the "everything is racist" agenda.
It isn't supposed to make sense; this way, as one believes in it, they slowly begin to destroy their connection to reality—they go insane. The esoteric or surface level objective of "diversity, equity and inclusion" is meant to appeal to those who have an irrational and emotionally disturbed sense of right and wrong, in addition to lacking intellectual honesty and humility.
The types of people who subscribe to these ideologies are, unfortunately, truth blind. They are not capable of admitting they are wrong due to the emotional upheaval it would cause them.
As a result, the mind, which naturally seeks to reinforce any belief it declares to be true—no matter how untrue it might be—doubles down, requiring true beliefs and views to be sacrificed to maintain false ones. In other words, the more a person buys into lies, the more they have to reject the truth to do it.
But here's the problem: You can't navigate life wisely and effectively without the truth—true information. Normally, such truth-starved people would, tragically, come to their own demise due to constant error and mistake, or—and this is one of the esoteric or hidden objectives—they will become dependent on experts and ideologues to tell them what to think, feel, and do.
In other words, this is one of the many forms of mass mind control that exist in our world. The point is to deprive one of all of their wits, total and complete self-inflicted stupefaction. Once done, the person will inevitably become more irrational, immoral, and cult-like social habits emerge to engender a false sense of stability through the ingroup, which is now dependent on the one's pushing the agenda: the cultural warfare artists and their shadowmen ilk, the globalists.” — Justin Deschamps
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If you all haven’t watched Defected on Badlands Media aired Sunday night, the last 40 minutes is worth watching. I hope you all discuss this on Devolution Power Hour Wednesday night.
Badlands Media, I hope one of you intend to cover the Ohio toxic train story. Interesting media were arrested trying to cover the story, dead fish in the water. I’d love your take!!
The shit is about to hit the fan right onto the faces of the Globalists and their cronies. Life is full of wonderful surprises ,and the shit show is what makes the world go around. Keep up the great work you guys, and as always, stay Bright!