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 with some Badlands flavoring to help wash it down.
Now, onto the news from Monday, June 24 …
Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge this week as part of a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will allow him to go free after having spent five years in a British prison, according to court documents.
Assange was charged by criminal information — which typically signifies a plea deal — with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, the court documents say. A letter from Justice Department official Matthew McKenzie to U.S. District Judge Ramona Manglona of the Northern Mariana Islands District said that Assange would appear in court at 9 a.m. local time Wednesday (7 p.m. ET Tuesday) to plead guilty and that the Justice Department expects Assange will return to Australia, his country of citizenship, after the proceedings.
U.S. charges against Assange stem from one of the largest publications of classified information in American history, which took place during President Barack Obama's first term. Starting in late 2009, according to the government, Assange conspired with Chelsea Manning, a military intelligence analyst, to use his WikiLeaks website to disclose tens of thousands of activity reports about the war in Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of reports about the war in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of State Department cables and assessment briefs of detainees at the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Court documents revealing Assange's plea deal were filed Monday evening in U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean. Assange was expected to appear in that court and to be sentenced to 62 months, with credit for time served in British prison, meaning he would be free to return to Australia, where he was born.
“This was an independent decision made by the Department of Justice and there was no White House involvement in the plea deal decision,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement Monday evening. — NBC News
Our Take: Convergence.
Mileage varies in the truth community regarding Julian Assange, and whether or not he's been acting on behalf of patriots in a clandestine manner, or if he simply got tangled up in a self-serving web that resulted in him being caught between an ancient criminal cabal and the most intricate MIL INT operation ever devised.
Here's the thing: Assange's intent doesn't matter. All that matters is what he knows. More so, what the Narrative CLAIMS he knows.
Whatever Assange knows re: Seth Rich, the Clinton Foundation, the DNC and MUCH, much more, patriots already know. Guess what? Patriots also know the 2020 election was stolen, that Covid was a hoax and that Vladimir Putin is NOT going to nuke anyone.
All of which is comforting, but secondary to the War of Stories, in which core truths are being translated and then delivered to the American people through Mind-Movers and cyphers, also known as characters.
For long-time Anons, it's feeling VERY 2017 lately.
How's Hillary? — Burning Bright
Exasperated Democrats try to stamp out talk of replacing Biden
Senate Democrats are feeling exasperated by their inability to stamp out persistent speculation that party leaders have a plan B to replace President Biden atop the Democratic ticket due to concerns about his age and weak poll numbers.
They’re tired of hearing about the hand-wringing of Democratic voters and donors over Biden’s age and electability and sick of reading about Rube Goldberg-like schemes, some of them pushed by Republicans or conservative media, to shake up the Democratic ticket.
One Democratic senator feigned putting a make-believe pistol to their temple when asked about the prospect of yanking Biden off the ticket before the Democratic National Convention in August or the general election in November.
The senator, who requested anonymity, said stories about replacing Biden on the ticket sound “juicy” but are nothing more than a sign that political pundits have “too much time on their hands.”
“There’s no way in hell that’s true. Not a chance in hell that’s true,” the lawmaker insisted. “I don’t know what to say.”
The senator said Biden has seen a small bump in the polls since a Manhattan jury convicted former President Trump on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records.
“The latest national [poll] has him at 50 [percent]. I think that’s real,” the senator added. — The Hill
Our Take: The donkey in the room is impossible to ignore, and the narrative makers are anxious to regain control of the storyline. The Hill’s Alexander Bolton does quite a bit of heavy lifting for Democrats in this piece. Let’s break it down.
Bolton uses the term ‘Democratic’ to refer to democrats 16 times, subconsciously reinforcing the nonsense contention that ‘Democracy is on the Ballot in November.’
The polling on Democrat voter angst is now undeniable and, as any first year PR associate would advise, the right play is to hit it head on. The message, however, needs work. The key takeaway of Democrats’ response, as reported by Bolton, is that the Democrat establishment knows that Democrat voters don’t want Biden — they just don’t care.
Responding to voters concerns with gaslighting is a fatal approach here.
In an unexpected twist, the media, aside from Bolton, appears to be reinforcing the concerns of Democrat voters. Bolton lays out multiple analyses from mainstream media outlets reinforcing the problem with the donkey in the room and proposing alternative candidates.
When combined with the defiant dismissiveness of Democrat leadership, this becomes very interesting. That is, this piece appears to reveal that Democrat leadership has lost control of the op, if they ever had it to begin with.
They can’t replace Biden, and they can’t pacify their base about it. Better, they can’t rely on the media to help navigate that problem.
In case you need further proof that we’re in a false reality, despite this absolute panic from the regime, Bolton wants you to believe scrotus and 45 are ‘still’ in a dead heat.
It’s all very silly, but one thing is clear for Democrats in this moment: The donkey in the room is a massive pain in the ass. — Ashe in America
Washington’s role in Sevastopol terror attack indisputable — MFA
Moscow has no doubt that Washington was involved in the attack on Sevastopol, and a response to this crime is coming, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"The US’ involvement in this horrible crime is beyond any doubt," the ministry pointed out. "A response to this crime will certainly follow," it said.
"On June 23, the Kiev regime, with the support of the United States and its satellites, committed another heinous terrorist crime against the civilian population of Russia. Sevastopol came under attack," the statement said. "One of the most important Orthodox holidays - the day of the Holy Trinity - was intentionally chosen for the terrorist attack."
"Four people died, among them a two-year-old playing on the city beach and a nine-year-old girl. As many as 151 people sought medical help, 82 of them were hospitalized - 55 adults and 27 children, many are in serious condition. Everyone is receiving quality medical care," the ministry said. "According to the Russian Defense Ministry, American ATACMS tactical missiles were used, equipped with cluster warheads to inflict maximum damage. All flight paths were entered by US specialists based on their own satellite reconnaissance data. An American Global Hawk reconnaissance drone was on duty in the skies near Crimea."
Russia's Investigative Committee "has launched a probe into the crime." "All those responsible for this and other terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation will be brought to justice," the Foreign Ministry emphasized. "Washington and its satellites have created and fostered the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, actively nurturing and supporting their Ukrainian puppets, waging war against Russia with their hands and encouraging them to commit acts of international terrorism, to kill Russian civilians, including with the use of one of the most terrible types of inhumane weapons - cluster munitions," it stressed. — TASS
Our Take: "On June 23, the Kiev regime, with the support of the United States and its satellites, committed another heinous terrorist crime against the civilian population of Russia. Sevastopol came under attack," the statement said. "One of the most important Orthodox holidays - the day of the Holy Trinity - was intentionally chosen for the terrorist attack."
Well, it finally happened. The invalids in DC finally crossed the line.
It's not that this was the first act of brutal terrorism ever committed by the US State Department—that list is quite extensive—it's that it has finally happened in clear view of the entire world, in a repugnant display of belligerent hubris and groundless sociopathy.
One thing that I think is lost on most Americans—something that I have picked up on, studying the foreign press and social media accounts—is that the perception of "American Exceptionalism" is completely dead overseas. It's not just that the world no longer equates American culture as the high-water-mark of greatness, it's that they view us with a palpable contempt, and frankly, a rational fear.
Based on the behavior of our government and its foreign policy, America appears to be ruled by radicalized psychopaths and violent degenerates. I imagine this is the way that many of you viewed places like Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and North Korea, just ten short years ago. We have been trained like seals by our State Department to adopt radical views of these places, so that when they bomb them into dust—murdering innocent people by the thousands—we will celebrate as if something divine has transpired. (Donald Trump's presidency was a short reprieve from this doctrine, which goes back generations.)
So now our government is potentially implicated in murdering white Christians vacationing on a Crimean beach—a far cry from the demographics typically found in the places named above—and they are flippantly proud of it. This is just another day at the office for the violent animals at the State Department. (I will remind you of the history lesson Putin gave Tucker: that the Baptism of Russia, conducted by Vladimir the Great in 988 AD, was performed on a beach in Sevastopol, and led to the immediate conversion of the Russian people to Christianity.)
What's so shameful is not that our State Department just murdered a bunch of innocent white Christians on a foreign beach, it's that it has taken us this long—reaching this moment—to finally look in the mirror and ask ourselves very difficult questions.
Have we actually surrendered our government to the service of Satan? Have we really stood by and allowed Satan to corrupt the soul of our nation, turning it into the very thing that it was created to defeat? How can we possibly call ourselves "Christians" while tacitly submitting to a government in service to Satan?
There was also a terrorist attack in Dagestan that was obviously, in my opinion, the handywork of the CIA; but frankly, I am too disgusted at the moment with the self-indulgent petulance of DC to give that situation the attention it deserves. So I will save it for tomorrow. Putin has demonstrated the patience of a saint, but he also has the fiduciary duty and moral obligation to protect his people from bloodthirsty psychopaths. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
"This Proved Our Point": CNN Anchor Slammed Over Mic-Cut Exposing Jake Tapper Lies
In case you needed a preview of what to expect during this week's presidential election debate - hosted by CNN - we present the following...
Just seconds after Trump 2024 National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt began to discuss CNN's historical bias against her candidate - most specifically that of debate moderator Jake Tapper's history of anti-Trump lies - CNN anchor Kasie Hunt "ma'am'd" her and immediately cut her mic and ended the interview...
Hunt attempted to defend her position in a post on X:
Which as one might expect was greeted with even more derision on social media...
Meanwhile, JustTheNews reports that Hunt's "colleague" who must be "respected" - Jake Tapper - is at the center of a defamation suit brought by a consulting company which alleges that the network and one of its reporters lied about the company’s work.
The network’s defense: CNN did not intend to harm and its language was “opinion or ambiguous.” — ZeroHedge
Our Take: I love debates. Presidential debates in particular — and in 2024 certainly in theory — are an excellent opportunity for voters to see the candidates side-by-side and discern who better aligns with their values.
I also love debate week. This is a week of endless coverage and speculation and, for institutional journalists during the age of Joe Biden, a losing internal struggle to suppress their biases and angst.
Obviously, Kasie Hunt failed in the latter endeavor, embarrassing herself when confronted with the long accepted truth that Jake Tapper is a political hack.
Tapper’s anti-Trump bias is relevant to the story, as the story was about the debate. Tapper is moderating the debate, and will have a mute button. The fact that Hunt couldn’t have that conversation, and instead muted and dismissed her guest, simply means she’s terrible at her job.
The saddest part is that no one watches CNN, so Hunt’s exposure is far too limited. — Ashe in America
Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war
Last November, just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amichai Chikli, a brash, 42-year-old Likud minister in the Israeli government, was called into the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to brief lawmakers on what could be done about rising anti-war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite universities.
“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again now, that I think we should, especially in the United States, be on the offensive,” argued Chikli.
Chikli has since led a targeted push to counter critics of Israel. The Guardian has uncovered evidence showing how Israel has relaunched a controversial entity as part of a broader public relations campaign to target US college campuses and redefine antisemitism in US law.
Seconds after a smoke alarm subsided during the hearing, Chikli assured the lawmakers that there was new money in the budget for a pushback campaign, which was separate from more traditional public relations and paid advertising content produced by the government. It included 80 programs already under way for advocacy efforts “to be done in the ‘Concert’ way”, he said.
The “Concert” remark referred to a sprawling relaunch of a controversial Israeli government program initially known as Kela Shlomo, designed to carry out what Israel called “mass consciousness activities” targeted largely at the US and Europe. Concert, now known as Voices of Israel, previously worked with groups spearheading a campaign to pass so-called “anti-BDS” state laws that penalize Americans for engaging in boycotts or other non-violent protests of Israel.
Its latest incarnation is part of a hardline and sometimes covert operation by the Israeli government to strike back at student protests, human rights organizations and other voices of dissent. — The Guardian
Our Take: I have been reporting on this since last September, so it's great to see this story finally get blown wide open.
I would implore all of you to go read this article in its entirety. I think you have a responsibility, as a participant in this movement, to ingest this kind of data. Whether everything reported here is accurate is a separate exercise of discernment and analysis; however, as someone who has been studying this exact issue for nearly a year, I can say with some certainty that the macro concepts being reported are truthful. (The paper trail of evidence speaks for itself.)
For many years, most people in the MAGA movement have recognized and accepted the notion that our government is controlled by foreign entities. Most of us assumed those culprits included China, Russia, Iran, the World Economic Forum, among others. There are still too many who are reluctant to even consider including Israel in that list, and they justify that blind spot with their faith in Jesus Christ—a dogma that is categorically rejected by the entire Israeli government, for obvious reasons.
But this isn't about religion, and never has been. That's exactly why I advised everybody on October 7th to defect from that dogmatic tar pit, because it would only be used to cloud your judgement and subvert your ability to think critically.
We always knew they (globalists/tyrants) would come for our free speech. But very few of us thought that it would be the Republican Party wearing the executioner's mask.
There's a reason that I've long said that the Republican Party is our greatest adversary. They have whispered sweet lies in our ear, while slipping us proverbial poison in our food. We were so fixated on the impending threat of Democrat communism, that we didn't notice the big gay elephant in the room with the hammer-and-sickle branded on his chest. (Matthew Ehret has explained on Breaking History that the origins of neo-conservatism are traced back to the followers of Leon Trotsky—the Bolshevik leader who was ex-communicated from Soviet Russia by Lenin and Stalin, forced to live out his final years in Mexico. So when Chris Paul calls those losers in the GOP "communists," he's more right than he probably even realizes.)
I hope all of you understand the gravity of these revelations. There is a trans-national effort to enslave the American People, and the Israeli Deep State is a major component of that coalition. We must now decide whether we will remain loyal to the MAGA movement, or remain loyal to Israel. The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that those two things—at least, at the moment—are not congruent. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
US Supreme Court Still Has 6 Blockbuster Rulings To Issue
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to release a number of significant rulings in the coming week, including ones relating to whether former President Donald Trump enjoys broad immunity for his activities as president; obstruction charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach; social media laws; and the power of federal agencies.
The high court tends to release all of its decisions for a term by the end of June, and only several days remain in the month. The justices have yet to release 14 cases for the term, which started in October 2023. — The Epoch Times
Federal Agency Power
Trump Immunity Case
Social Media Contacts
Abortion
Other Social Media Issues
Jan. 6 Obstruction Clause
Our Take: The Court announced Monday that they may announce opinions on Wednesday (June 26), Thursday (June 27), and Friday (June 28) of this week.
The past two weeks they’ve released opinions on Thursdays and Fridays, but they’re running out of time. There are still 14 cases — six of them high profile — outstanding before the court, which traditionally releases all opinions in a session by the end of June.
That means there is a chance that the SCOTUS decision on Presidential Immunity may drop on debate day.
Can you imagine?
I hope Justice Thomas delivers the opinion for extra impact. — Ashe in America
Israel Is on the Verge of Fascism. Will It Cross the Threshold?
The sound of thugs' shoes in the alleys of the Old City on Jerusalem Day last week recalled the sound of the SA marches and the 1920s and 30s in Germany. As it was then, when brown-shirted militants violently swooped on any passing Jewish- or communist-owned store, so it is now, as yellow-shirted ones – the dumb disciples of their bully leader with a criminal past who now has a whole police force under his control – beat, kicked and swore at Arabs and journalists.
It was hard to distinguish between the thugs and the representatives of the state in the form of the Border Police; each of them had a well-defined role in imposing terror and fear on Old City residents in the annual fascistic ritual. Teenagers from the religious Zionist sector, who believe in the supremacy of the Jewish race and the "Jewish land," brought to mind, in their violence, European right-wingers and fascists who hunted down socialists, communists and Jews.
Almost 100 years later, the roles are reversed: Now, violent Jews on their way to the Western Wall hunt down people of other ethnicities. Paralleling the growth of the radical right and the populist wave currently underway in Europe, proto-fascist groups are on the rise in Israel. — Haaretz
Our Take: This article is an op-ed from an Israeli newspaper. I chose to showcase it because it echoes sentiments that I have been recently highlighting in my writings and on stream. However, like so many other mainstream pieces, it skews the framework so that the overall message contorts to the current political spectrum as it is presented in the global corporate press.
What I mean by that is that they present Fascism as a "right-wing" doctrine, which is offensive to anybody with a high school education.
The term "Fascism" was first coined in 1922 by Giovanni Gentile, who served as Benito Mussolini's chief political philosopher and Minister of Public Education. It was Gentile who said, "Fascism should rightly be called 'Corporatism,' as it is the merger of corporate and government power," a statement that is wrongfully attributed to Mussolini across the entire internet.
There are glaring omissions in this op-ed, missing keywords such as Irgun, Lehi, Revisionism, Stern Gang, Jabotinksy, and The Jerusalem Agreement, to name a few.
The Irgun was a Jewish paramilitary group that operated in Mandate Palestine in the 1930's and 40's, and was described as a "terrorist organization" by Albert Einstein, the UN, British and American authorities, as well as JFK, among others. The group was founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the leader of the very radical Revisionist Zionist movement, which explicitly stated that violence was a legitimate form of political expression. Jabotinsky's personal secretary was a man named Benzion Netanyahu, father of the current Israeli Prime Minister.
The Irgun were armed by Mussolini's regime, receiving combat training in Italy, particularly in the art of explosives. The Italians noted how naturally gifted the Polish-Russian Jews were in the art of terrorism; These people came out of the Pale of Settlement, where they lived under extreme hardship and poverty for over 125 years, which helped form their ruthless disposition. (Matt and I covered this region on last week's episode of Breaking History.)
The Bolsheviks also came from the Pale of Settlement, and it was the Bolsheviks who liberated their brethren from the Pale after seizing power in Moscow in 1917. This is why every single Israeli political activist of the 1930's identified as a socialist—many actually identified as Bolsheviks.
In the latter 1930's, there was a disagreement among the Irgun, who had been engaging in acts of terrorism and assassination against the ruling British colonial government in Palestine. Jabotinsky wanted to make peace with the British, so they could negotiate the creation of their own government. But a faction led by Avraham Stern insisted that National Socialism was Israel's natural political ideology, proposing an alliance with the Axis Powers. This division led to the Stern Gang breaking away from the Irgun, forming the Lehi militia.
In 1940, Stern and the Lehi sent Mussolini the Jerusalem Agreement, a document that swore allegiance to Italian Fascism, offering to make the deep-water port of Haifa an Italian port, in exchange for Mussolini recognizing Palestine as a Jewish State, under a Jewish government. The same proposal was sent to Hitler a year later, and then sent to him a second time in 1942.
(From Stern's perspective, Hitler had helped the World Zionist Organization settle Israel under the Haavara Transfer Agreement of 1933, so he was viewed favorably. Hitler's correspondence with Mussolini acknowledged receiving the alliance proposal, stating that, if they were to accept it, Israel would become a valuable satellite of the Axis Powers and Nazi war machine. They ultimately declined the offer.)
The Irgun and Lehi would reunite in 1948— along with a few other paramilitary groups— to form the Israeli Defense Force, more commonly referred to as the IDF. One of the Lehi militants, Yitzhak Shamir, would become Prime Minister in the 1980's and appoint Bibi Netanyahu as his Foreign Minister in 1990.
I share all of this to provide some context to the op-ed. There is truth in what the writer is stating, even if they wrongly conflate fascism with right-wing conservatism. But the fact remains that Israel is a fascist government, and has always been a fascist government. That is easily verifiable history, and can be seen in the modern age with how the Israeli government interacts with its corporate partners. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
BONUS ITEMS
Biden's Latest DEI Hire Deletes Past Anti-White And Anti-Police Tweets
In the latest clownworld development, the Biden Administration hired a man in a dress to be its new Associate Communications Director and it quickly emerged that the guy had a history of spicy tweets hating on white people, comparing police officers to ‘slave patrols’ and ‘lynch mobs’, and calling for ICE to be abolished.
Here is who they hired. Tyler Cherry (left).
He has a degree in gender studies. Of course he does.
He used to work for Media Matters. Of course he did.
He also thinks there are too many white people. — Modernity News
Louisiana Governor Signs Bill Authorizing Surgical Castration For Child Sex Offenders
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed into law a bill that would allow state judges to sentence those convicted of sex crimes against victims under the age of 13 to undergo surgical castration.
Senate Bill 371, sponsored by state Sen. Regina Ashford Barrow, is expected to take effect on Aug. 1 following the Republican governor’s signature on June 18.
The law allows Louisiana judges to punish offenders aged 17 and older with surgical castration if they are convicted of aggravated sex crimes against a victim under the age of 13.
The Department of Public Safety and Corrections will oversee the procedure, but it will not be performed if “not medically appropriate,” according to the bill.
Under the law, a court-appointed medical expert will need to determine whether the offender is “an appropriate candidate” for surgical castration within 60 days from the imposition of sentence.
“In all cases involving an offender sentenced to a period of incarceration or confinement in institution, the procedure shall be performed not later than one week prior to the offender’s release from the institution,” the legislation reads.
If an offender “fails to appear” as required by court order for surgical castration, the offender may be charged and sentenced to three to five years in prison without the “benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence,” according to the new law. — The Epoch Times
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Ever since Donna Brazil admitted giving the questions to Hillary in advance of the Hillary/Trump debate I wouldn't watch if they paid me. It will be three against Trump not counting CNN...a farce. And I want to add I understand the Democrats problem in replacing Biden. THe only way they could do that is if they found a complete puppet similar to Biden. Hillary and Obama intend on running the country for this last term and finishing the job. Obama needs his fourth term to completely demolish America in order to rebuild in the Communist vision.
Having known that Israel is not our friend but rather an abuser which Americans at large suffer mass delusional Stockholm syndrome over after 7 decades of coordinated psychological assault by media, GBPH is my based brother in this info war. Almost inspires me to join Social Media again.
As for those who continously insist this means "ANTISEMITE JEW HATER" the response is simple:
Turn off your GOD DAMNED TV.
Thou shalt not create any graven image,
Thou shalt not make any idols,
Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Thou shalt not worship any gods before [I Am].
Why do you still not understand the role of these psychopath rulers? Even being readers here, some still cling to what is obviously false because it goes against lifelong psychological entrainment. "Wake up, Neo. The Matrix has you."
The criminal network was embedded in EVERY power center. 9/11 was coordinated through several governments, INCLUDING ISRAEL. Does that mean ALL Israelis and ALL Jews are "gonna get us goyim?" No, clearly not. But there's a reason Israel has escaped scrutiny for decades (well before 9/11 Israel has murdered our military), there's a REASON so many congress critters have dual Israeli/USA citizenship: WHOM DO YOU SERVE CONGRESSMAN?
I understand that this is painful stuff, revelations that you've believed lies your entire life, but that's OK - yes we all were deceived. Now it is time to see with clarity. No one gets a free pass where mass deception is involved. Turn ALL stones, follow ALL money, SEE THE NATURE OF POWER.
Thank you God for this gracious gift of enlightenment. Thank you for opening our minds and hearts so we can perceive the nature of Satan embodied by those in positions of trust and power. Help your people understand that only sociopaths actively seek power and control over others of your creation, and help all to comprehend a different path to herald your divine governance.
God does not violate free will. That is the nature of love. The nature of control is fear. Remember that.