Badlands News Brief
The DOJ's Hypocrisy, Zelensky's Failure and DeSantis' Decline
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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 Tuesday, July 11 …
Not Weaponized? Biden DOJ Indicts Whistleblower Prepared To Testify Against Biden Family
An Israeli whistleblower was indicted by the Biden administration days after detailing extraordinary allegations against the Biden family.
Dr. Gal Luft, the "missing witness" from the Biden corruption investigation, told the NY Post last week that he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying in front of the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals linked to Chinese military intelligence, and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with the Biden benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.
“I told the DOJ that Hunter was associated with a very senior retired FBI official who had a distinct physical characteristic—he had one eye,” Luft said.
That FBI official is widely believed to be former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who gave $100,000 to a trust for two of then-Vice President Joe Biden’s grandchildren in 2016 shortly before telling Hunter, “I would be delighted to do future work with you.”
Now, Biden's DOJ has charged Luft with failing to register under the Foreign Agents Act (FARA), as well as Iranian sanctions violations. He's alleged to have conspired with others to act in China’s interest, including recruiting and paying a former high ranking U.S. government official to support policies beneficial to China. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “Blame others for what you yourself are doing.
The charges are laughable, as Gal Luft himself asserts in a Tweet:
‘... The US, claiming I'm an arms dealer. It would be funny if it weren't tragic.’
Like other laws, the language Luft is being charged under is so ambiguous it could be used for almost anything. And that might be the point.
Part of the problem with the fact the general population has lost touch with what the true rule of law looks like is that we allow bogus and poorly written laws to stay on the books.
A law has to be precise, clear, and definable, as much as possible. If it’s too ambiguous, it can be abused by corrupt actors and the government. This is what has happened.
Of course, the good news is that the situation is so laughable, so clearly an attempt to cover up Biden crime family activity, that anyone who comes across the story with enough detail will see it for what it is.
Perhaps, this is the point.
Kayfabe, anyone?” —
Zelensky Throws Tantrum Over 'Weak, Absurd' NATO Stance On Ukraine Membership
It's become a familiar enough pattern by now: NATO countries make 'pledges', give billions in arms and other aid to Ukraine, commit to F-16 jets and training programs for Ukrainian pilots, and chart new military build-ups along NATO's eastern flank... but like the hit song from The Greatest Showman, it's actually "Never Enough".
Despite AFP reporting Monday that NATO is set to drop its long-standing Membership Action Plan (MAP) in the case of Ukraine, President Zelensky is lashing out at the alliance's 'soft language' on membership. The Ukrainian leader scolded NATO, and by implicit extension the Biden administration, for refusing to lay out a clear timeline on Ukraine's future membership in the alliance.
This even after Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has promised to push for a fast-tracked process to be implemented at that future point in time when the alliance is ready to seriously mull Ukraine's application, hence dropping the MAP requirement, a major hurdle which all other members had to endure between 1999 and 2020. A statement is now being carefully crafted by NATO heads of state in Vilnius on Ukraine's "path to membership," Reuters has confirmed. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “I’ve been saying for well over a year that Zelensky is playing his own role in the Narrative destruction of both Ukraine as a Prussian Proxy State and the NATO alliance, helping to tear down Western Globalist Hegemony in the process.
Whether he is doing so knowingly or otherwise, I’ll leave for other discussions; suffice to say, if patriots wanted someone to pilot the dummy Titanic that is Ukraine straight into a strategic iceberg, Zelensky is the perfect man for the job.
More to the point, Zelensky’s rhetoric in the public Narrative has been so escalatory and indefensible of late—not to mention insulting and demeaning to the very Western Hegemony he ostensibly seeks to ingratiate his ‘country’ to—that those same powers have backpedaled from the idea of admitting his nation into the fold of the ‘New Allies’ of their would-be World War 3.
In the end, Zelensky isn’t going to get his NATO membership, Ukraine isn’t going to get its victory over Russia.
And the Globalists aren’t going to get their war.” —
Ron DeSantis Catches Heat After He ‘Declined’ to Speak at Turning Point Action
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is said to have turned down an invitation to speak at Turning Point Action (TPA) in West Palm Beach, Florida, this weekend — a move that has conservatives perplexed.
Journalist and Turning Point USA contributor Jack Posobiec broke the report in a tweet Monday, stating DeSantis “declined the invitation” from TPA to speak this weekend.
During a Human Events broadcast on Real America’s Voice on Tuesday, he reaffirmed DeSantis “declined” the invitation, noting Turning Point invited every presidential candidate to speak. Notably, DeSantis has spoken at Turning Point events in the past.
Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, shared Posobiec’s tweet, writing, “Too bad!” TPA Chief Operating Officer Tyler Bowyer also retweeted Posobiec and questioned the DeSantis campaign’s strategy. — Breitbart
Our Take: “The Republican primary feels like a public job interview for cabinet positions. I guess it always sort of is, but particularly so in the run up to 2024, with Trump many lengths ahead of the nearest challenger. No matter what the establishment throws at Trump, his poll numbers appear to only go one way: Up.
If DeSantis was a serious candidate, he would be campaigning in over drive. Instead, he is declining a friendly appearance at Turning Point USA — in his own state. Maybe DeSantis has a prior engagement in another state and feels he has already done enough in Florida. Or maybe DeSantis realized that Florida will go to Trump. That’s not debatable in a free and fair election system, but it’s anyone’s guess in our current reality.
Declining to speak at Turning Point is yet another in a long list of missteps by the DeSantis campaign that may impact his favorability for a choice cabinet position. It won’t, however, impact his chances in the primary, because he never had any to begin with.” —
Brown University Is Super Duper Gay
According to a new survey from Brown University's student newspaper, 38% of students say they don't identify as straight - in what the Washington Examiner suggests "provides further evidence that the increase in LGBT identification is driven by social pressures."
Between 2010 and 2023, those identifying as LGBTQ+ at Brown University has nearly tripled.
"The Herald’s Spring 2023 poll found that 38% of students do not identify as straight — over five times the national rate," the Brown Daily Herald reported. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “Gay is the new cool? Well, that’s what we’re being led to believe.
We’re told it’s genetic, that people are born gay, bi, trans, etc. Then again, we’re also told that anyone can decide, by fiat, whatever they want, and then it becomes reality.
It’s all very confusing. And that’s the point.
The truth is, sexuality is one part nature and ten parts nurture.
Unlike our animal cousins, we actually build the internal structures of mind and consciousness that determine our sense of identity and resulting behavior. This internal mind and reality mapping, so to speak, occurs within the womb, all the way up to around 5 or 6 years of age.
The fact that humans can, despite our natural inheritance, choose to be gay, bi, trans, or whatever else, proves that human free will is real and that when it aligns with untruth, it creates problems. It also proves that when our culture, the nurture part of the equation, is sick and toxic, it causes distortions as we see in the LGBTQ community.
As proof of this supposition, we know that nearly all LGBTQ+ types have at least one Adverse Childhood Experience, if not many. If this was just a natural feature of humanity, why does it require a disturbed childhood to come online?
Psychologically, it’s not possible to entertain two mutually exclusive propositions at once. You can’t believe the sky is up and down at the same time—without paying a terrible price, that is.
The price?
Your soul. By this, I mean, the part of a person that has integrity, that is coherent, stable, and able to grow with time, without degrading or losing cohesion. Since the truth lasts forever, when we align with truth, in always possible, we create a stable identity, we nurture ourselves with the proper spiritual food God provided us.
But when we feed untruth to our children and develop minds via culture, we manufacture aberrant conditions in the human organism. This, I argue, is what caused the huge spike in LGBTQ+ identities within universities et al—because these young people grew up and were reared in the toxic cultural soup we’re only now becoming aware of, such as social media, porn, distorted sexual practices, gender-bending trends, and many other soul-bending influences.
That being said, we cannot discard those who were adversely affected. I would argue, we need to treat everyone the same way Jesus did, opening the door to all who are willing to walk through it, opening the truth to all in the hopes it will restore sanity.
When choices are made out of alignment with the truth, chaos, suffering, emotional turmoil and intellectual confusion are the result, visited upon the creature in their life experience. This negative feedback acts as a guide to encourage the creature to align back with the truth. If the creature persists in making choices out of alignment with the truth, the creature becomes increasingly detached from reality, leading to what we call insanity and mental illness. Eventually, they can covet anti-values, such as pedophilia, suppression of the rights of others, and the killing of the most innocent.
Sound familiar?
The culture warfare agenda has been unleashed onto humanity and it has wreaked havoc. This trend with our universities is just one of the warning signals we should pay attention to.
We have, in our good faith, ceded control of our culture to psychopaths and criminals. If we want to avoid the horrors we’re seeing now in the future, I would argue, we must learn to retake our culture, understand how it works precisely, and restore the avenues whereby each of us can play our part in the grand cultural symphony that is human civilization, for the benefit of ourselves and posterity.” —
No Suspect Yet in White House Cocaine Probe: ‘Still Open and Active’
The Secret Service said Monday that its probe into who brought cocaine into the White House is “still open and active.”
“It is still open and active at this time,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told Breitbart News.
There is no suspect yet, he said. “Something like that would come after an investigation is completed,” he added.
The House Oversight Committee has requested a briefing by the Secret Service by this Friday. — Breitbart
Our Take: “They still want us to believe that the coke isn’t Hunter’s. They want us to believe it so hard that KJP lied to the press room about Biden’s whereabouts, an easily-disputed lie. She called the question about whether or not the cocaine in a secure area of the White House belonged to a Biden, “irresponsible.” Lying to reporters and, by extension, the American people is more than irresponsible—it’s impeachable (see: Clinton).
Another interesting claim in this piece is that a suspect would come after an investigation. It’s been more than a week. Every inch of the White House is under surveillance. They definitely know where the coke came from by now, and the fact that they still don’t have a suspect screams coverup. It makes it even more likely that the coke did, in fact, belong to the one known coke head with access to that area: Hunter Biden.
This investigation feels a lot like the laptop investigation; that is, it’s not an investigation at all.” —
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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My own research into vaccines led me to a profound answer I was not expecting to find or hear.
For the last 20+ years the pharmaceutical industry has been putting DNA from men and women in these vaccines.
If you were a male ready to get a set of 10 shots and six of those ten were female DNA, guess what? Yep, the DNA binds with this person and could "confuse" them into thinking they're "gay" or "homosexual"
Honestly this and traumatic events are the cause of this massive movement.
Add to Justin's piece on Brown . . . Psalms 12:7-8 (NIV)
O LORD, you will keep us safe and protect us from such people forever.
The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.