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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 Thursday, June 22 …
IRS Whistleblowers Release New Bombshell Evidence Against Bidens, DOJ And AG Garland
Several bombshells dropped by two IRS whistleblowers on Thursday reveal, among other things, that Joe Biden's DOJ buried evidence of Hunter Biden's tax crimes - and stopped US Attorney David Weiss from bringing charges against Hunter in two different jurisdictions last year.
According to Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), Weiss sought to be appointed as a special counsel in the case last year but was denied as well.
What's more, the IRS sought felony charges against Hunter, send their recommendations to the Biden DOJ, and they 'came out as two misdemeanors,' Byron York tweets.
According to the whistleblowers, one of whom is Gary Shipley - who came forward weeks ago to reveal his identity, the IRS was notified of potential evidence "in the guest house of former Vice President Biden," but were rebuffed by US Attorney Lesley Wolf, who said there was "no way," as search warrant "would ever get approved." — Zerohedge
Our Take: “Sometimes, there are so many converging and congruent Narrative Deployments spilling out of the Info War at the same time that it can be difficult to pick a direction to dig on for any length of time.
That said, the Actual Events to emerge out of this wild week—namely, the news that Hunter Biden is being charged with Tax & Gun crimes and Donald Trump is being put on trial in the MAL documents case in August—have created a perfect, and perfectly intentional, mirrored deployment.
On the one hand, Patriots are highlighting what they want the Collective Mind to see as clear evidence of a two-tier justice system, with Hunter getting what they refer to as a ‘slap on the wrist,’ while Trump preps to get raked over the coals.
And yet, this IRS whistleblower story comes out a few days later, demonstrating that the Biden Admin proper obviously didn’t want ANY of these charges to come down on Hunter. And in that charge, they failed.
From where I’m sitting, there are two highly encouraging implications regarding Hunter alone that spin out of the week that was:
The son of the sitting President of the United States—and a representative of a ‘royal’ family within the Globalist Deep State—is currently embroiled in headlines linking him to Tax & Gun crimes, which said family couldn’t stop from getting out.
The fact that more serious charges have not been handed down on Hunter, as well as other material evidence that
and are pouring over as we speak strongly supports long-held theories on this network that Hunter could very easily be a Cooperating Human Source who turned evidence over on the Biden Crime Family—and MANY more—in return for such a slap.
Stay comfy. Stay cozy. And watch Badlands for all the latest as these stories develop.” —
Mark Zuckerberg agrees to fight Elon Musk in cage match: "Send me location"
Mark Zuckerberg has apparently agreed to fight Elon Musk in a cage match that would feature the billionaire leaders of two giant tech companies. Whether the two tech moguls are joking remains to be seen.
While replying to a user discussing Meta's plans to build a Twitter rival, Musk challenged the company's founder on Wednesday to a "cage match" if he's up for it. Zuckerberg responded to a screenshot of the tweet and said, "Send me location" in a story on Instagram, which is owned by Meta.
Musk, Twitter's executive chair and chief technology officer, suggested the "Vegas Octagon" – possibly referring to the UFC Apex in Las Vegas – as the site for their billionaire brawl. He also jokingly added that he has a "move" called the "Walrus" where he lays on top of an opponent and does nothing.
Still, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla wrote that he will do it "if this is for real." When asked about the fight, a Meta spokesperson told CBS News: "The story speaks for itself." — CBS News
Our Take: “Where are we? In bizarro world, that's where.
No longer do we rally behind men who have the ability to inspire a crowd, mobilizing them into battle. Instead, we rally behind iconized digital avatars that we interact with on our portable radiation devices, applying digital hearts and smiley faces to digital posts and digital messages—all of which have about as much substance as the ones and zeros used to transmit these things into our increasingly weakened hands.
In a competition between Musk and Zuckerberg, it seems like a no-brainer. Musk will destroy Zuck, no questions asked. But is that really true?
Well, there's plenty of information out there on both of them. Zuckerberg, the story goes, didn't actually develop Facebook; he had it handed to him because he's the bastard son of a Rockefeller. He is, apparently, a mediocre programmer, who, like most emperors without clothes, doesn’t like to be seen as anything other than god-like—which must be an insufferable situation for anyone around him that has to feed into the illusion of his success.
Musk, on the other hand, appears to have developed several successful businesses, rescuing some from the brink. Some out there assert Musk stole some of his success by standing on the shoulders of giants. That might very well be true. But just looking at publicly-available data on the pair, a clear distinction emerges.
Zuckerberg’s body language has all the hallmarks of a trust-fund baby who was told his farts smell like roses and he’ll have the world handed to him on a silver platter no matter how little he accomplishes in life. His interviews, like the one on Joe Rogan recently, were like listening to a man who rarely descends from his well-guarded ivory tower. He can’t meme. He can’t make good jokes. He toes the DS-line on almost every issue. And he uses his platform to push wokeism, trangendersism, and globalism, while suppressing honest speech and opinions.
Musk, on the other hand is a rabble rouser. He spent billions buying Twitter, ostensibly because he’s a ‘free speech absolutist.’ He helped expose the collusion between big tech and the shadow government. He can meme. He can troll. He actually defends freedom of speech, and he’s called out lying fake news media repeatedly. He walked into Twitter with a sink, for Christ-sake, as an F-U to the big tech bullies that were raging because he took their toy away.
All things considered, I can’t know for sure who would win this fight. But I can tell you who I want to win, and it isn’t the feckless, limp-wristed election fraud denier.” —
JPMorgan Chase is fined by SEC after mistakenly deleting 47 million emails
JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) has been fined $4 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after about 47 million emails belonging to its retail banking group were mistakenly and permanently deleted.
The emails dated from Jan. 1 to April 23, 2018, and were deleted in June 2019 from about 8,700 mailboxes, including those belonging to as many as 7,500 employees who regularly worked with customers.
Many of the emails were business records that the largest U.S. bank was required under SEC rules to keep for three years.
The deletions occurred after JPMorgan's corporate compliance technology department, which had been trying unsuccessfully to delete some communications from the 1970s and 1980s, sought help from an outside vendor managing the bank's email storage.
According to a cease-and-desist order, the vendor failed to properly apply the three-year retention setting to "Chase" emails from early 2018. — Reuters
Our Take: “Whoops! Sorry, we accidentally deleted 47 million emails.’
Did I miss the memo where Hillary Clinton assumed the oversight and document retention responsibilities for JP Morgan Chase?
Selective justice.
‘According to the SEC, JPMorgan has been unable in at least 12 civil securities-related regulatory probes to comply with subpoenas and document requests for communications that had been permanently deleted.’
In this, 1 of 12 such instances, they were required to keep these emails for three years … but they didn’t. So now they’re getting a $4M fine. JP Morgan Chase has more than $3T in assets under management, so $4M is a slap in the face of justice and the majority of business owners.
Remember that JP Morgan Chase Chief Jamie Dimon is setting the investigative priorities of the SEC and DOJ, most recently when he presciently suggested the authorities should crack down on investors that short bank stocks. Two weeks after his suggestion, the DOJ announced this as a priority.
Obstructing 12 investigations and getting a slap on the wrist? This outcome is just another example of corrupted institutions that favor global elites over the rule of law.” —
Tucker Calls Out 'Media Hysteria Typhoon' Over RFK Jr.
In his latest episode, Tucker Carlson discussed the media's absolute hatred for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was immediately attacked by the press upon his announcement that he would run against President Joe Biden in 2024.
"CBS News viewers likely were appalled in its coverage of Kennedy's announcement. CBS denounced the candidate's views as 'misleading' and 'dangerous,'" noted Carlson, adding "The LA Times called him a threat to democracy."
"At the offices of National Public Radio in Washington, a full-blown category-5 hysteria typhoon broke out. NPR devoted an entire segment to savaging Kennedy - not just as a candidate, but as a human being," Carlson continued. "NPR described him as someone who, for his own perverse reasons, has made "debunked and false and misleading claims that undermine trust in vaccines. And who, in his spare time, provides moral support to crazed extremists who "rally under the banner of what they call liberty, or freedom.""
"People Magazine didn't even bother to report a single word of anything Kennedy said!" Carlson exclaimed, "and instead wrote an entire story about his relatives hate him."
"Kennedy Jr. faced censorship on Instagram and YouTube for expressing his views," he continued, adding that RFK Jr. raised questions about "the rise in allergies, asthma, autism, and other conditions related to vaccines," while "the media and medical establishment vilified Kennedy Jr. for his views, calling him a lunatic, Nazi, and extremist supporter."
Carlson then goes into a defense of Kennedy's right to raise questions over vaccines, and the response one gets for doing so.
"Bobby Kennedy won't stop asking, and that's why they hate him," Carlson said. — ZeroHedge
(WATCH THE FULL EPISODE BY CLICKING THE IMAGE BELOW)
Our Take: “I don't pretend to know which 'side' RFK Jr. is on.
I do examine the Net Effects he is currently visiting on the Mind War.
To the unawakened cool kids table represented by Intellectual Dark Web types, the Establishment only strongly opposed 'MAGA extremists' in the past.
Now, in the calm after that storm and before another, that subset of unawakened, but reachable minds is being shown that questions themselves are what the enemy fears most.
Keep asking them.” —
Snopes Self-Immolates Taking A Shot At Musk
The folks at Snopes, whose whore mongering (and allegedly rapey) co-founder was fired for mass plagiarism, have once again illustrated why the world of 'fact checkers' are nothing more than otherwise-unemployable partisan hacks.
On Tuesday, Snopes took a shot at Elon Musk in a hit-piece titled "Was the Missing Titanic Submersible Using Satellites from Elon Musk’s Company?"
The article is of course meant to imply that the OceanGate Titanic exploration submersible, which lost contact with its surface support vessel on Sunday, went missing due to a Starlink failure.
After Snopes' account tweeted the article, a scorching Twitter community note tore the article to shreds - noting that while OceanGate has used StarLink services, they're used for their surface vessels, not their submersibles. Idiots. The note also clarifies that radio frequencies such as StarLink's do not work underwater.
Snopes then scrambled to edit their article, adding an update at the bottom which reads: "This fact check was amended to address the legitimacy of claims that the submersible itself used Starlink during the exhibition, not whether its company did. While it was true that Oceangate and Starlink worked together during the expedition, it was unknown if, or to what extent, the submersible itself relied on Starlink’s technology."
The article was then amended to "Unproven."
Now, Snopes rates their own claim as "False," and have added yet another Editor's Note which reads: "Since the original publication of this fact check on June 20, 2023, Snopes clarified its rating and text to make clear that — while OceanGate, the company overseeing the submersible's expedition, said it was using Starlink satellites for the trip — the submersible itself was not using the technology to communicate. How, or to what extent, the vessel's mothership was using Starlink to communicate remained unknown." — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “Anytime someone tries to fact check you using Snopes, send them this article.
In an effort to demean Elon Musk, the leftist fact-checking site claimed that Musk’s Starlink was responsible for the OceanGate submarine disappearance. They marked the claim as ‘True,’ though hedged on the level to which Starlink was responsible for losing communication with the missing sub.
Then, after tweeting the claim, Twitter Community Notes tagged the Snopes account with a fact check that ‘while OceanGate has used StarLink services, they're used for their surface vessels, not their submersibles.’ At that point, they updated their article and the rating to ‘Unproven.’ They had to further amend following community fact checking of their false reporting, and now the claim is rated as wholly ‘False.’
Those with time logged in the info war know that Snopes’ fact checks always need to be fact checked.
Snopes is a source for smooth-brained, narrative peddlers. Keep this article in your bookmarks for easy access to send any fool who sends you Snopes as a source — and after you send it, mock them relentlessly.” —
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.
The Badlands Media team will continue to combine our cognitive powers in order to slow things down and find the signal amidst the noise as this series expands.
As always, if you have any thoughts on these news items or the MANY others swirling in the digital ether, drop into the comments below to share them with your fellow Badlanders.
It’s amazing how the main stream media called Robert Kennedy JR a Nazi 😂😂, with the amount of SIDS , autism, and other issues people have with there children after the kids are given more than many series of vaccines! These issues weren’t blown up back then, like they are in today’s society! Just like the increase in kids dying due to guns , it’s seems somehow the government is playing a role in this narrative! I guess the mainstream media is a lot confused when it comes to the term Nazi! To attack someone who is questioning vaccines and it’s role in these conditions you would think because children are involved we would want to figure these things out , just like true issues surrounding guns! Instead of attacking law abiding citizens or people that question the drug companies products! Nope the real nazi’s don’t want to look into because it’s doing it’s job by controlling population! They are sick individuals!
So was JP Morgan coached by Killary on how to delete emails???