Badlands News Brief

The Hersh Report, Exposure & Disclosure

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 is going to take you through a few news items of interest from the previous day in an attempt to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community while introducing you to some brief, original commentary from our growing team of citizen journalists.

(Feel free to follow the corresponding link attached to each Badlands contributor’s name to check them out on other platforms.)

Now, onto the news from Wednesday, February 8 …

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How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

In December of 2021, two months before the first Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jake Sullivan convened a meeting of a newly formed task force—men and women from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the State and Treasury Departments—and asked for recommendations about how to respond to Putin’s impending invasion.

It would be the first of a series of top-secret meetings, in a secure room on a top floor of the Old Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, that was also the home of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). There was the usual back and forth chatter that eventually led to a crucial preliminary question: Would the recommendation forwarded by the group to the President be reversible—such as another layer of sanctions and currency restrictions—or irreversible—that is, kinetic actions, which could not be undone?

What became clear to participants, according to the source with direct knowledge of the process, is that Sullivan intended for the group to come up with a plan for the destruction of the two Nord Stream pipelines—and that he was delivering on the desires of the President. — Seymour Hersh

First Take: “In an age dominated by fake and fraudulent ‘Steele Dossier’s’ and other wrap-up smears used by the Media Industrial Complex to demonize enemies of the Deep State, the ‘Hersh Report’ stands as a beacon of hope for the future of free and independent journalism. It just happens to emanate from one of the original trailblazers of investigative reporting.

The implications of the Hersh Report cannot be overstated.

What it suggests is what many in this community have been writing about for months, if not years: that the Biden Administration, at the behest of Globalist allies (ie: Controllers,) and using U.S. Intel Agencies while circumventing the U.S. Military’s Chain of Command attempted to kick off World War 3 by sabotaging a Russian-European energy pipeline in the most brazen and blatant false flag attack in some time.

And they got caught.

The Net Effects of this bombshell report will shake the Collective Mind to its core, and begin to pave the way for escalation toward a perceived World War 3 precipice while seeding Donald Trump as a potential mediating figure and Vladimir Putin as a sympathetic one attempting to stave off Western aggression.” — Burning Bright

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Second Take: “Sy Hersh is a LEGENDARY journalist. A rare one, whose word and work commands respect and attention wherever it is offered. He uncovered the My Lai massacre, reported on Watergate, Abu Graib, accused the Obama Admin of lying about the killing of Osama bin Laden, called baloney on the Russia Russia Russia Hoax, and got access to information on the Seth Rich murder that no one else could, direct from a source in the FBI.

So, when he drops a report such as this, it makes an impact.

And this may be his most explosive, yet.

The President of the United States of America, Joseph R. Biden, along with his National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Victoria Nuland, the Joint Chiefs, and the CIA secretly conspired to and did attack Russia. They circumvented the US Military and Congress.

Scandalous and criminal is putting it mildly.

This is a war crime. Against Russia and against Europe.

It is a crime against the US Constitution and We The People.

Impeachment and removal is demanded.” — Just Human

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U.S. Navy Divers Recover Spy Balloon Debris as Beijing Warns It ‘Belongs to China’

Piece by piece the scattered elements of the downed Chinese spy balloon emerged from the ocean depths Tuesday, with U.S. Navy divers using sophisticated reconnaissance drones dubbed the Kingfish and the Swordfish to hasten the job.

The balloon debris is lying in waters some 50 feet deep but stretch across an area 15 football fields long and 15 football fields across.

It was retrieved even as an indignant China Foreign Ministry spokesperson warned, “The airship does not belong to the U.S. It belongs to China” and chided Washington for not being “professional” in its handling of the matter. — Breitbart

Our Take: “The PSYOP continues.

Are we witnessing the public deterioration of this administrations relationship with China?

We can only assume that this is all theatre, General Milley Vanilli is probably having it all properly boxed up so he can FedEx it back to Beijing (I kid, sort of).

What's in our future?

The hope around here is that Xi is working with Trump, Putin, and company to take down a deeply embedded international criminal cabal. Imagine the normie perspective: China appears to be entering the last stages as the challenger for the Alpha male crown. At this stage it must exhaust an already exhausted Alpha; the final battle appears to be just on the horizon.

The theater of fear is pumping out the bad vibes and is carefully observing and recording each target groups reactions. What do the readers think is going on here? It's somebodies PSYOP, but whos? The CCP at the behest of Xi? Bad actors within the CCP acting independent of Xi? Is it the patriots? Or is the whole thing being carried out by a mysterious fourth party?

Let us know what you think.” — Ryan DeLarme

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Bill Gates Says It’s OK For Him To Use Private Jets Because He’s “The Solution” To Climate Change

In a cringe inducing interview with a BBC reporter, Bill Gates argued that it’s perfectly fine for him to fly around the world on private jets because he’s doing much more than anyone else to combat climate change.

Gates claimed that because he continues to “spend billions of dollars” on climate change activism, his carbon footprint isn’t an issue.

“Should I stay at home and not come to Kenya and learn about farming and malaria?” Gates said in the interview with Amol Rajan.

“I’m comfortable with the idea that not only am I not part of the problem by paying for the offsets, but also through the billions that my Breakthrough Energy Group is spending, that I’m part of the solution,” Gates added. — Summit News

Our Take: “Ba-al at the Gates, aka, Bill Gates’ responses are quite revealing. He argues for a carbon swap system, where those who work to end climate change can put more carbon into the atmosphere than regular people.

Translation: Gates and his globalist pals can enjoy real freedom, while everyone else is slowly entrapped by the carbon plantation. It's a two-tiered system, which betrays a much bigger and more malevolent two-tiered financial system and two-tiered justice system.

If you notice, Gates doesn't refute or provide a counter argument for the accusation that he is a globalist pushing a NWO agenda; he merely chalks it up to ‘conspiracy theories’—as if the label automatically debunks the claims.

The good news is that enough people must take these claims seriously for him to make an attempt to discredit them. On this point, it suggests that—as we've heard before—the public-facing side of the globalists are merely henchman; they're not the top of the power structure.

Gates et al, are fall-guys, meant to take the heat that invariably bubbles up as people realize what these psychopaths have been up to.

Lastly, Gates also makes light of the fact that philanthropy is the main tool for pushing their agenda to society, which it most certainly does. Of course, not all philanthropy is insidious, but to be sure, some of the biggest names you've heard before, like the Rockefellers, Warren Buffett, and others dump money into organizations they control, who are tasked with carrying out their will.

So, did they really give up their money?” — Justin Deschamps

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State of the Union: Biden Hails Economic Gains and Challenges the G.O.P.

The president’s speech unveiled no big new proposals, but he offered to work with Republicans even as he parried hecklers and sought to allay Democratic concerns about his vigor heading into 2024. — The New York Times

Our Take: “The New York Times and every other media outlet can spin that speech any way they want to. Everyone knows that Biden spent the first 30-45 minutes of the SOTU championing America First policies to the applause of the Democrats. It was fantastic.

Of course, he did drift into social issues of the left, pander, say some dumb things, get angry, and be the Biden that we expect him to be; however, there is no getting around the fact that he lead with Trumpian ideas and accomplishments as he strongly indicated he wants another four years.” — Just Human

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Rep. Matt Gaetz quietly appointed to committee investigating government 'weaponization'

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has quietly appointed Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who led the unsuccessful push to derail McCarthy’s bid for speaker, to the select committee investigating the so-called weaponization of the federal government.

There was no announcement of Gaetz’s appointment by either McCarthy, R-Calif., or Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who chairs both the Judiciary Committee and the weaponization subcommittee.

Instead, McCarthy’s appointments to the special committee, including Gaetz, were read into the Congressional Record a week ago and only noticed by reporters on Tuesday.

Gaetz, who had been under FBI investigation of allegations of underage sex trafficking, was not part of the original slate of names McCarthy rolled out for the panel two weeks ago. — NBC News

Our Take: “This is the committee that was born out of a desire within the movement to see a modern iteration of the storied Church Committee of the 1970s. Through that committee, the public was clued in on some of the nefarious things our intelligence community had been engaging in against United States citizens.

A lot of people are tired of all these committees and show trials before Congress and are looking for accountability and claim that these committees are just for publicity.

I would argue that publicity is an effective weapon in 5GW. Helping the general public know what has happened in this country is more than PR.

A lot of disgruntled and reactionary people want to see indictments and bloodshed, but it's important to stay rooted in reality here. Congress cannot indict. You cannot hold Gaetz, Jordan and company to an impossible standard.

Congress can not go beyond criminal referrals, subpoenas, hearings, reports, funding threats. If the subpoenas are ignored there are avenues to arrests, but we'll have to cross that bridge if and when we get there.” — Ryan DeLarme

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Two Key Highlights from the House Oversight Hearing on Twitter Censorship

First … Rep Jim Jordan confronts ex-Twitter execs: Why'd you take the Hunter Biden story down?

Our Take: “These moments, this work right here is why Rep Jordan didn't want to be Speaker and instead wanted to be on these committees. This is where he is needed and where his skillset is best applied. This is just one of many from the hearing.” — Just Human

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Next … Rep Higgins Enters Evidence Into Congressional Record, Puts Former Twitter Employees on Notice That Arrest Are Coming.

Our Take: “Rep Higgins entering these records as evidence and putting these former Twitter employees on notice that arrest or coming is what these committees are all about.

The reps have the evidence, they have the Twitter Files (THANK YOU ELON MUSK!), and now they have these key employees from Twitter who made consequential decisions to influence the 2020 Election and censor Americans for protected political speech under oath.

This is the Exposure and Disclosure that precedes Justice.” — Just Human

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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.

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.

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