Badlands News Brief
Badlands News Brief
J6 Returns to Headlines as Fear Mars AI and Airplanes
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 pick news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community.
Many items feature original (and subjective) commentary. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see our writers’ Substack accounts and check out their other work.
Now, onto the news from Monday, March 11 …
Liz Cheney, January 6 Committee Suppressed Exonerating Evidence Of Trump’s Push For National Guard
(Editor’s Note: We included this item as a bonus on Monday, but with Trump pushing the J6 Narrative out into the public, we felt it deserved some added attention.)
Former Rep. Liz Cheney’s January 6 Committee suppressed evidence that President Donald Trump pushed for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the nation’s capital, a previously hidden transcript obtained by The Federalist shows.
Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had “no evidence” to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now.
Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato’s first transcribed interview with the committee was conducted on January 28, 2022. In it, he told Cheney and her investigators that he overheard White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows push Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to request as many National Guard troops as she needed to protect the city.
He also testified President Trump had suggested 10,000 would be needed to keep the peace at the public rallies and protests scheduled for January 6, 2021. Ornato also described White House frustration with Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller’s slow deployment of assistance on the afternoon of January 6, 2021.
Not only did the committee not accurately characterize the interview, they suppressed the transcript from public review. On top of that, committee allies began publishing critical stories and even conspiracy theories about Ornato ahead of follow-up interviews with him. Ornato was a career Secret Service official who had been detailed to the security position in the White House. — The Federalist
Our Take: “You cannot suppress the truth indefinitely — it will find a way. On Monday, the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight released their preliminary findings on the J6 Committee.
Its damning.
The key findings include:
The committee hired Hollywood producers to assist with their primetime hearings.
They refused to adopt rules, allowing them to operate without limits.
Cheney was not the minority ranking member but served as Vice Chair, a position reserved for the majority under House Rules; in fact, Pelosi appointed Cheney as one of her eight majority appointments.
The minority party was, therefore, not meaningfully represented in the committee.
The effort’s leadership, including Cheney, failed to turn over evidence used in the prime time hearings.
They also hid multiple transcribed interviews and other evidence that contradicted their narrative.
They promoted Cassidy Hutchinson‘s sensational testimony despite the fact that it was directly contradicted by the Secret Service agent
driving the SUV.They colluded with Fani Willis on her prosecution of President Trump.
And that’s just the preliminary findings.
As I’ve repeatedly said here and elsewhere, November 3 was a coup, J6 was a cover-up of the coup, and the J6 Committee was the cover-up of the cover-up.
This is abundantly clear at this point, and we must demand accountability. Start with Pelosi, Thompson, and Pittman as well as Cheney and Kinzinger. ‘Bipartisan’ due process seems most appropriate.” —
U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says
The U.S. government must move “quickly and decisively” to avert substantial national security risks stemming from artificial intelligence (AI) which could, in the worst case, cause an “extinction-level threat to the human species,” says a report commissioned by the U.S. government published on Monday.
“Current frontier AI development poses urgent and growing risks to national security,” the report, which TIME obtained ahead of its publication, says. “The rise of advanced AI and AGI [artificial general intelligence] has the potential to destabilize global security in ways reminiscent of the introduction of nuclear weapons.” AGI is a hypothetical technology that could perform most tasks at or above the level of a human. Such systems do not currently exist, but the leading AI labs are working toward them and many expect AGI to arrive within the next five years or less.
The three authors of the report worked on it for more than a year, speaking with more than 200 government employees, experts, and workers at frontier AI companies—like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Meta— as part of their research. Accounts from some of those conversations paint a disturbing picture, suggesting that many AI safety workers inside cutting-edge labs are concerned about perverse incentives driving decisionmaking by the executives who control their companies. — TIME
Our Take: “I just finished attending the Patriotic Podcasters conference in Tulsa, and one of General Michael Flynn’s major messages revolved around AI tech, it’s dangers, but also the importance of leveraging it.
I find it fascinating that this report comes out on the heels of General Flynn publishing an article on AI as a nuclear level threat, and focusing on it at the conference.
A comparison between his narrative and what’s being presented through this report/Time magazine is particularly informative.
Flynn made a point of articulating that there are ways the Patriot movement can and should be leveraging AI to make a greater impact.
But surrounding this, he was emphatic about something that this report fails to mention: that the rapid and head spinning changes currently occurring in our society are a result of real-time, AI based psychological warfare.
He made it very clear that foreign enemies are successfully running these operations now.
I would argue that Tik Tok being used to modify behaviour of the youth towards gender ideology and radical leftism is likely an example of one of these ops.
So my question is: Why doesn’t this report or article point to the fact that foreign, weaponized AI is a part of the current theatre of war?
I find it unlikely that Flynn would make such statements without having intel on the matter.
Why keep the public eye away from the true horizon of this war?
And why promote policies that cripple the US AI industry, as our enemies are using the same tech to attack?” —
Rand Paul Teases Senate GOP Leader Run - Musk Says "I Would Support"
Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on Friday hinted that he may jump into the race to become the next Senate GOP leader, and Elon Musk was quick to support the idea. Republicans must find a successor for periodically malfunctioning Mitch McConnell, who recently announced he'll step down in November, though intending to keep his Senate seat until his term ends in January 2027, when he'd be within weeks of turning 86.
So far, the announced field consists of two quintessential establishment types: John Cornyn of Texas and John Thune of South Dakota. While John Barrasso's name had been thrown around as one of "The Three Johns" considered top contenders, the Wyoming senator on Tuesday said he'll instead seek the number two slot as party whip.
Paul used X to tease his potential bid for the position which -- if the GOP takes back the upper chamber in November -- could graduate from Minority Leader to Majority Leader. He started by telling his 5.1 million followers he'd had lots of people asking him about his interest in running...
...then followed up with a poll in which he predictably annihilated Cornyn and Thune, taking a 96% share as of Friday night, with the other two below 2% each.
Elon Musk was quick to back the idea of Paul as GOP leader, while daring Cornyn and Thune to follow Paul's lead by throwing their names out for consideration by the
Twitter-verseX-verse.
Paul has been a stalwart opponent of security-state mass surveillance, foreign interventionism -- to include shoveling billions of dollars into the proxy war in Ukraine -- and out-of-control spending in general. He demonstrated the latter passion on the Senate floor this week as he ridiculed the latest kick-the-can spending package. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “Most in the Truth Community keep career politicians at arm's length when it comes to trust, and Rand Paul should be no different.
That said, while his Actual success rate in terms of blocking Deep State communist agendas or advancing America First bills is lacking, to say the least, he's been operating on the same log-jammed battlefield as the rest of our (good) representatives.
Thus, when examining the Net Effects of Paul, I tend to look at his Narrative Deployments and their effects on the Collective Mind.
Over the last few years, Paul has become rather infamous for standing against two major institutions: Big Pharma, as evidenced by his public war with Anthony Fauci, and the Central Banking Cartel in keeping with the legacy of his father, Ron Paul.
Wringing direct endorsements out of two of the biggest Mind-Movers on the game board outside of the GOP in Elon Musk and RFK Jr. is no small thing, and may signal that Paul is about to take center stage in a big way in 2024-25.” —
US military airlifts nonessential staff from embassy in Haiti, bolsters security amid ongoing gang violence
The U.S. military has sent forces to Haiti to airlift nonessential staff from the U.S. embassy and help bolster security amid gang violence plaguing the Caribbean nation.
U.S. Southern Command told Fox News Digital that U.S. Military forces conducted an operation at the request of the State Department to bolster the security of the U.S. Embassy at Port-au-Prince.
U.S. Southern Command said non-essential personnel were airlifted, and no Haitians were on board the aircraft. Nonessential personnel can include the families of diplomats, but the embassy had already ordered departure for nonessential staff and all family members in July.
The neighborhood around the embassy in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is largely controlled by gangs. — FOX News
Our Take: “It was a strange time on X Sunday, as ‘cannibalism’ was trending due to reports of cannibal gangs roving the streets of Haiti and eating those who crossed their paths.
A video of a dude named ‘Barbeque’ eating a human arm caused many of us to log off for the evening. But as Stormy Joe pointed out, the video is over two years old and shows a battle between the Gran Grif and Ti Mepri gangs in the Artibonite Valley, a region that covers parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
The cannibal fake news was likely meant to distract from the very real questions Americans should be asking about the collapse of Haiti, considering the volume of US ‘aid’ dollars that were sent to the country over the last couple decades. It’s looking more and more like that money was laundered through NGOs, like the Clinton Foundation and others.
‘Others’ includes celebrities’ alleged crimes in the country. Pras Michel of the Fugees was found guilty on 10 counts last year, in a conspiracy case that links Haiti, China, and the US together through an illegal foreign lobbying scheme. He’s also been accused of straight up stealing charitable funds from his native homeland.
Less than one year after that verdict, as the rats flee yet another crime scene, the nation has collapsed. How much did this outcome cost taxpayers? And did any of that aid money ever reach its intended recipients? I don’t know, but I have a feeling we might get to find out.” —
Biden Agrees To Sign Bill That Could Ban TikTok If Congress Passes It
President Joe Biden is expressing support for a bipartisan proposal that could ban the video-sharing app TikTok from the United States on national security grounds.
The president told reporters outside Air Force One that he would sign the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act if Congress approves the bill.
“If they pass it, I’ll sign it,” President Biden said.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce unanimously approved the measure on a 50–0 vote on March 7.
Should it become law, it would grant the president the authority to force the divestiture of social media companies operating in the United States that are more than 20 percent controlled by one of four covered nations or their related entities.
Those nations are China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
Foremost among those companies, and named explicitly in the bill, is TikTok, which is owned by the China-based ByteDance.
Security experts have long warned that TikTok is a weaponized application that could be used to promote Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda or feed Americans’ data directly to the regime.
Notably, TikTok officials previously acknowledged suppressing and “heating” content at the regime’s request, but claim that is no longer the company’s practice. Meanwhile, the U.S. government is investigating ByteDance for allegedly using TikTok geolocation data to stalk and harass U.S. journalists who reported about the company’s links to the CCP. — The Epoch Times
Our Take: “This is an odd situation brewing. Biden has been overtly using TikTok as a platform, and TikTok users as a pretend voter demographic.
On the one hand, it seems reasonable that Biden would not give up this particular campaign tactic by banning TikTok. A lot of time and effort is being put into TikTok marketing within his campaign. So I agree that it’s possible that he will simply flip-flop on the issue.
Since Biden’s entire campaign is theatrical, this would be a set up for a new narrative surrounding TikTok, one that potentially enables the CCP even deeper access to our culture.
The other interpretation of this narrative is the pretext to be able to legally shut down social media companies deemed dangerous by the Biden administration.
Consider what’s happening with Biden and TikTok from the perspective of the DoD Northwoods Memorandum and the language used around false flag operations.
The Problem: Lack of pretext to provide justification for intervention through both overt and covert operations.
The Solution: Generated Instances which become pretext for intervention, leading to a political decision allowing for the advancement of desired operations.
I’m holding these two possibilities lightly.” —
Boeing whistleblower found dead in apparent suicide
A prominent Boeing whistleblower who reported on safety and quality control concerns in the company’s production line was found dead Saturday, according to South Carolina authorities.
John Barnett, 62, died of an apparent self-inflicted wound on Friday, the Charleston County Coroner’s office said. He was found in his truck at his hotel’s parking lot.
A 32-year veteran of Boeing, Barnett’s 2019 whistleblower allegations claimed that overworked employees at its South Carolina plant frequently fitted substandard parts on planes and reported faulty oxygen systems that could result in as many as 1 in 4 oxygen masks not operating properly.
Boeing denied Barnett’s claims, but a follow-up investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration lent credence to some aspects of his allegations. A report found that more than 50 “non-conforming” parts were unable to be traced and were lost in the company’s system.
Barnett was in Charleston to be questioned for a long-running retaliation suit against the company. — The Hill
Our Take: “The most memetic stories tend to have a mix of dark humor, trepidation and oddity mixed in. I’m not quite sure where the humor comes in here, but if I want to stretch, I can say that the reaction not just of the Truth Community, but of a good portion of the Collective Mind to these headlines on Monday was a sardonic, disbelieving snort.
After all, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely seen the rapid acceleration of anti-Boeing stories littering the media cycle of late, with everything from emergency landings to falling tires cratering the company’s stock and reputation, not to mention reportedly endangering the lives of hundreds of Americans, making many anxious to fly.
I don’t know what the truth is when it comes to Barnett, but I think we need to take a Bicameral approach to the Boeing stories. Either the enemy is trying to get out ahead of something, or their attempts to do so are being thwarted.
Time will tell.” —
BONUS ITEMS
Netanyahu Hits Back at Biden: 'He's Wrong' if He Meant My Policies Are Hurting Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday hit back at U.S. President Joe Biden's assertion that his handling of the Gaza war is hurting Israel, highlighting various measures Biden is proposing that the Israeli public allegedly opposes.
"I don't know exactly what the president meant," Netanyahu told Politico. "But if he meant by that, that I'm pursuing private policies against the wishes of the majority of Israelis and that this is hurting the interests of Israel, then he's wrong on both counts."
"Number one, these are not my private policies only. Their policy is supported by the overwhelming majority of the Israelis," Netanyahu said, noting the Israeli public supports ongoing military action aimed at destroying Hamas' remaining battalions. Biden explicitly drew an Israeli military operation in Rafah that fails to account for the million-plus Palestinians seeking shelter as an explicit redline for the U.S.
"They say that once we destroy them - Hamas - the last thing we should do is put in charge of Gaza the Palestinian Authority that educates children towards terrorism and pays for terrorism, and they also support my position that says that we should resoundingly reject the attempt to ram down our throats a Palestinian state," Netanyahu continued, again attacking stated U.S. policy goals aimed at revitalizing the Palestinian Authority and the eventual creation of an independent Palestinian state and a two-state solution. — Haaretz
Putin axes head of Russia’s navy after string of humiliating Black Sea losses to Ukraine: reports
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ousted the country’s navy chief after a series of humiliating Ukrainian attacks decimated Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet, according to multiple reports.
Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, 61, Russia’s navy commander-in-chief since May 2019, has been replaced by Northern Fleet Cmdr. Alexander Moiseyev, reported several Russian outlets, including the St. Petersburg news service Fontanka and the pro-Putin Izvestia newspaper.
Moiseyev, 61 — who holds the country’s highest honorary title, “Hero of Russia” — was said to have been tapped as acting navy commander-in-chief and will soon be appointed on a permanent basis.
The Russian navy’s rank-and-file have reportedly been notified of Moiseyev’s promotion, and Yevmenov is not expected to be returning to his office at the military arm’s headquarters, the Admiralty, in St. Petersburg, reported Fontanka. — NY Post
Former Trump aide Peter Navarro ordered to report to prison next week
Former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro was ordered to report to prison on March 19 to start his four-month sentence after he was convicted on two counts of congressional contempt.
Navarro's conviction came after he defied a subpoena from the now-dissolved House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.
The former Trump advisor has been attempting to persuade a federal appeals court to stay, or pause, his sentence as he appeals his conviction.
"Dr. Navarro has now been ordered to report to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, FCI Miami, on or before 2:00PM EDT on March 19, 2024," Navarro's attorney stated in a legal filing late Sunday, according to Politico.
"Accordingly, Dr. Navarro respectfully reiterates his request for an administrative stay," the attorney wrote. "Should this Court deny Dr. Navarro’s motion, he respectfully requests an administrative stay so as to permit the Supreme Court review of this Court’s denial." — Just the News
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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After reading Cathy Obriens story about her life as an MK Ultra mind control slave, I'm thinking Liz Cheney could also be a Dick Cheney victim. He is a MONSTER and he brutalized Cathy Obrien, he's very twisted and just plain evil. I feel very sorry for Liz Cheney having him for as father. She's like an unblinking robot from what I've observed. I'm grateful that J6 is being exposed... although even those with half a brain should be able to determine that.
Boeing debacle - why now?
For a half century, Boeing has been the leading US commercial airline manufacturer. For the most part, it's operations we're at or above quality standards for manufacturing and scheduled OEM maintenance.
Following a couple of years of rail disasters, air transport is having the type of problems that are very visible and not the type normally attributable to defects in material or workmanship. A suspicious mind might question whether planned malign intervention was to blame.