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Durham's Dance, Putin's Warning and Xi's Rebuke

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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 hand picks news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community.

Some items feature original commentary from members of our growing team of citizen journalists. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work.

Now, onto the news from Wednesday, June 21 …

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Durham Goes Off On FBI, CIA, Schiff During Wednesday Testimony

More bombshells from Durham on Wednesday, where he told the House Judiciary Committee that the CIA knew that Hillary Clinton approved a plan to smear then-candidate Donald Trump with Russia allegations in order to distract from her classified email scandal, and that the FBI did not "sufficiently scrutinize information it received," nor "apply the same standards to allegations it received about the Clinton and Trump campaigns."

"The FBI was too willing to accept and use politically funded and uncorroborated opposition research, such as the Steele dossier," said Durham, adding "The FBI relied on the dossier and FISA applications, knowing there was likely material originating from a political campaign or political opponent."

Durham said that it's "going to take time to rebuild the public's confidence in the institution," referring to the FBI following its mishandling of the Russia collusion probe.

Under questioning from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Durham said former FBI Director Jim Comey withheld a referral memorandum from the agents working the Crossfire Hurricane case.

The memo contained intelligence from a high-level briefing with Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan related to then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's attempts to tie Trump to Russia.

'“They kept key intelligence from the investigators. This is how bad this investigation was but here's the scary part: I don't think anything has changed," Jordan said. -Just the News — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “Durham was fighting an uphill battle from the get go. People wanted to see charges, how well did that work with Sussmann and Danchenko?

I've been looking at this from three separate angles:

The first is the ‘John Durham is just more rotten, spineless fruit from Bill Barr tree’, and seems to be the going theory for the likes of Matt Gaetz, Steve Navarro and Steven Bannon. Second is the possibility that John Durham and his team tried to the best of their ability to see justice done, but found that the system was too corrupt and so they threw in the towel. And third, the military is the only way; everything we are watching is kayfabe meant to push the people to the point where they welcome military intervention. If this is the case, it is likely that the findings from the Durham investigation, the report etc. will be used in the future.

I can't say that I am in a position to confidently suggest that any of these scenarios are more likely than the other. I can say that this movie is getting old; it follows the same repeating formula:

1. Dems fight dirty

2. There are no consequences

3. Republicans have no spine

4. Lindsay graham sits down to pee

But I still hold out that we might be witnessing the greatest sting operation of all time, and that what looks like a nothingbuger today (Durham's report) might prove to be instrumental tomorrow. In his opening remarks the special counsel said that accountability is required, but who will provide that accountability? I can't say for sure, but I've heard that Durham isn't the only game in town.” —

Ryan DeLarme

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Another Take: “The Durham hearing was simultaneously encouraging and disappointing.

The encouraging bits were that the Dems in defense of the Russia Hoax look more and more like idiots (acolytes of an ideology, the increasingly reality-detached progressive ideology).

Nadler’s delusional opening remarks were a testament to the ‘reality is what I want it to be’ MO of the progressive DS left. Adam Schiff, the king of misdirection and diversion, continued to point to the alleged legitimacy of the Mueller report and the Russia Collusion hoax, despite the fact that the Durham Report unambiguously destroys any validity the Steel Dossier ever had.

A parade of Schiff-inspired buffoons used their time to ask Durham why his investigation cost $6 million plus and didn’t produce as many indictments as the Mueller investigation. They asked about things Durham continually said he was not tasked to investigate and therefore were not appropriate for the Durham Report hearing as if they were so totally out of touch with the situation, they couldn’t even ask relevant questions.

The delightful part was that Durham got a few rounds of applause, laughs, and was pretty witty when the time was right.

What was surprising was Matt Gaetz ripping into Durham in what seemed like an uncharacteristic and unfair assault. Take a look.

(CLICK IMAGE TO WATCH ON TWITTER)

While it’s possible that Gaetz is himself a Con, Inc. asset, there’s a benefit to Gaetz’s performance in the narrative war.

In my opinion, the Durham investigation likely turned up a lot of very damning information on the DS. However, the patriots likely knew that DS congressmen and women, along with the DS media, were going to attempt to delegitimize Durham’s investigation when it finally comes out into the public light. Therefore, the patriots had to let a first impression of the Durham investigation occur via the hearing, while keeping the damning information close to the vest. The DS, through the left congressmen and women and the media, can’t let this opportunity go to waste. They have to attempt to delegitimize the Durham findings.

So what did the patriots do? They let the initial Durham hearing, where nothing big was revealed, be the punching bag where the left expends all its ammo and clout.

The campaign against the investigation is in full swing, as we saw today from the left during the hearing. What better way to get ahead of the seeming ‘nothingburger’ of what we’ve seen thus far than to have Gaetz rip into Durham?

What’s the benefit for the ‘plan,’ so to speak? The left is arguing that the Durham report actually exonerates all those bad actors Trump has been condemning with the Russiagate Hoax rhetoric because there were only 2 trials and no major convictions. Gaetz raging against Durham for not producing anything with meat suggests that the real crimes are still unexposed, waiting in the wings. The general sentiment at this stage seems to match that contention.

Many of us believe the real crimes are far greater than what Durham presented in his report. The normies that are more open to the idea that the DS spied on Trump’s campaign, and much more, also believe there’s more corruption that hasn’t come to light. Gaetz’s performance keeps this idea alive, even as the MSM and the left attempt to spin up the narrative that the Durham report was a nothing burger because there were no crimes to expose.

The Durham angle, in my view, is just getting started. Enjoy the show.” —

Justin Deschamps

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Putin warns his terrifying new Satan II missiles capable of carrying TEN nukes will be deployed for combat duty 'in the near future'

Vladimir Putin today warned that his terrifying new Satan II missiles - which are capable of carrying ten nuclear weapons - will be deployed for combat duty in the 'near future'. 

The Russian leader threatened the West with his new Satan-II big-beast 208-ton nuclear apocalypse rocket while speaking to military graduates in the Grand Kremlin Palace.

The giant missile - which can allegedly reach the UK in just three minutes and is known as Sarmat to Russians - has experienced embarrassing development delays.

But Putin said launch pads for the 'unstoppable' 15,880mph rocket - the size of a 14-storey tower block - will be put on 'combat duty'. 

It is said to be the world's longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile, capable of striking a target 11,200 miles away. Carrying ten or more nuclear warheads is enough to wipe out territories the size of England or France in a single strike. — The Daily Mail

Our Take: “Remember when Romney talked about Russia during the 2012 campaign and then candidate Obama said, ‘1980s called and want their foreign policy back’? Well, welcome back to the Cold War.

According to this reporting, Putin is posturing that he is ready to engage in nuclear war. He’s also claiming to have nuclear missiles that are capable of reaching the US homeland, and with enough firepower to destroy the United Kingdom. ‘Russia has claimed its most potent nuclear missile, the 16,000mph hypersonic 'Satan-2', can destroy the UK.’

Ukraine and those backing the blue and yellow have been escalating tensions with Russia for months, so Putin’s moves, if true, are not surprising. Still, nothing is as it seems, and I’m not shopping for fall out shelters anytime soon. Either way, true or not, the warmongers just got their talking points for the next multibillion dollar aid package.” —

Ashe in America

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Ex-CNN producer sentenced to more than 19 years for luring 9-year-old into sex acts

A former CNN television producer who had pleaded guilty to luring a 9-year-old girl into illegal sexual acts was sentenced Tuesday to more than 19 years in prison and an additional 15 years of supervised release during a U.S. District Court hearing in Vermont.

John Griffin of Stamford, Connecticut, pleaded guilty in federal court in December to using interstate commerce to entice and coerce the girl to engage in sexual activity at his Vermont ski house.

As part of the 2022 plea deal, the government dropped two remaining counts of enticement of a minor against Griffin, then 45 year old.

Griffin had initially pleaded not guilty in 2021. He has been ordered to pay restitution to the victims.

According to the plea deal, Griffin met a woman on a website during the summer of 2020 and persuaded the woman to bring her daughter to his Ludlow, Vermont, ski home for sexual activity.

Griffin paid the woman and girl to fly from Nevada to Boston, picked them up and drove them to his Vermont home where the girl said Griffin sexually assaulted her, court records say. — ABC News

Our Take: “Unfortunately, there's an epidemic of abnormal sexual habits. This isn't an accident; it's engineered. The agenda is simple, ‘get the general population to carry out as much iniquity as possible.’ There’s a religious benefit for the cabal in this regard. But there’s also a psyop benefit—iniquitous people are far more likely to subscribe to malevolent agendas and they’re a lot easier to control in general.

The Frankists were 18th-century pioneers of this idea. The nobility at the time became enamored with it because their already debouched practices could now be justified spiritually.

The belief is that in order to redeem the fallen sublunary world, so as to restore humanity to a pre-adamic state, the messiah must come either by manifestations of great virtue or great vice. They chose the latter.

Prior to the secularization of the West, most cultures were highly resistant to sinful and vice-prone behavior. Blaspheming was usually relegated to the elite, who reveled in the practice under Neoplatonic and gnostic magical rites conducted in the halls of the aristocracies of the world. But now, what used to get you burned at the stake is now just a fun pastime, enjoyable for the young, old, and everyone in between.

Very briefly, to pull this off, normal human behaviors that satisfy our primal urges have to be suppressed, along with healthy cultural systems that enable it. Once done, people experience deprivation of primal needs, needs hardwired into the body, the flesh. As the deprivation continues, introduce debouched practices. Initially, people resist. Eventually, they slowly begin to imbibe the debauchery, eventually, it’s ‘the new normal.’

What we’re witnessing now is a run-up to the open declaration that all forms of sexual expression are acceptable, including—you guessed it—pedophilia.

The good news is that we have effective methods of curing people of their abnormalities. But before we get to that, we need to start addressing the fact that a great many of our seemingly harmless cultural practices, especially the ones introduced over the past 500 years, might not be as wholesome as we might think. As a clue, look into the origin of Romanticism, and how it affected relationships all the way up to the present.” —

Justin Deschamps

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Biden calls Xi dictator, China says his comments are 'extremely absurd and irresponsible'

President Joe Biden referred to Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a dictator, and China's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called his comments "extremely absurd and irresponsible."

"It is a blatant political provocation. China expresses strong dissatisfaction and opposition," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said about Biden's comments during a daily press briefing in Beijing, according to The Associated Press. "The U.S. remarks are extremely absurd and irresponsible."

Ning's quick response came after Biden said Tuesday evening at a California fundraiser that Xi was upset when the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon in February.

"China is real — has real economic difficulties. And the reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it is he didn’t know it was there. No, I’m serious. That’s what’s a great embarrassment for dictators, when they didn’t know what happened," Biden said, according to the official White House transcript.

"That wasn’t supposed to be going where it was," added Biden. "It was blown off course up through Alaska and then down through the United States. And he didn’t know about it. When it got shot down, he was very embarrassed. He denied it was even there."

The clash over Biden's remarks comes one day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken finished his visit to Beijing, where he met with Xi amid mounting tensions between the two nations. — Just the News

Our Take: “They’re not bad folks, folks!’ If you only read the headline of this story, you might think that Biden was intending to insult Xi. In context, these reads more like a dementia moment. ‘I shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it is he didn’t know it was there. No, I’m serious. That’s what’s a great embarrassment for dictators, when they didn’t know what happened.’

I think he meant it as a term of endearment.

Biden’s remarks were made at a campaign reception at a private residence in Kentfield, California, and the speech is a rambling, muddled mess. In the beginning, he appears to be romanticizing his relationship with the Chinese leader: ‘You know, I’ve met a lot of world leaders.  And I — I come at this reelection thinking about what I was as — I was asked by Xi Jinping — I’ve spent a lot of hours with him over the last 12 years.  I mean, in over — they keep mec- — meticulous records — 82 hours’ worth just he and I, 60-some of it in person. And we were in the Tibetan Plateau, and he said, ‘Can you define America for me?’ And I said, ‘Yes, I can.  In one word … — the Gov has heard me say this before — ‘In one word: possibilities.  Possibilities.’

In addition to talking about Xi, Biden talked about the Ukraine imperative, repeated the Charlottesville ‘very fine people’ lie — but says ‘really good people’ because he’s Biden — and claims 63% of Americans are concerned about their civil liberties being violated, but ironically appears to believe those people aren’t pointing the finger at him.

Seriously, this speech was bizarre: ‘My generic point is: There’s enormous opportunity. Enormous opportunity. And the world is looking to the United States. I mean, they really are. They’re looking to the United States. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was right when she said America is the essential nation. Because who else will organize it?  Who else can lead it, any other nation in the world be able to do it by themselves?’ Um, what?

Bottom line: Tension between Biden and Xi is a fabricated cover for the fact that Biden is a CCP puppet; but I am starting to wonder when Xi realized his puppet belongs in a memory care ward.” —

Ashe in America

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Another Take: “The escalatory stance of the Biden Admin on the world stage is finally seeping into the mainstream:

• Sec State Blinken's meeting with China was followed by sharp rebukes by Xi, warning that the Admin must choose between ‘cooperation and conflict.’

• China is following a similar MIL infrastructure strategy in Cuba as the US has in Taiwan.

• Biden Admin will not recognize Taiwan as an independent state.

• Biden Admin cozying up to Iranian regime, further stressing relationship with Saudis. The US is trying to form deals with Iran, whom its own State Dep has designated a ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism.’

The international press is acknowledging that these policy missteps on the part of the Biden Admin are an inverted mirror of the Trump policies with the same nations.

Additionally:

• US-supplied missiles are being used in Ukraine's failure of a counter-offensive, prompting increasing rhetoric from the Kremlin.

• US is being called a State Sponsor of Naziism by Russia.

In other words, things are going pretty well from an Exposure perspective.” —

Burning Bright

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We hope you enjoyed this brief look back at the major news items you might have missed in this ever-escalating and ever-accelerating news cycle as the Information War continues to rage on around us.

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