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, April 6 …
Fauci Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: “There Will Absolutely be an Outbreak of Another Pandemic…It May be Next Year…”
On April 3, 2023, the now retired Dr. Fauci made an appearance at a townhall discussion with Jim Acosta at James Madison University. In the discussion, Dr. Fauci states that “there will absolutely be an outbreak of another pandemic.” He then suggests it could be “next year” or it could be in our “grandchildren’s lifetimes.” Given his track record on predicting outbreaks, this “absolutism” should not be taken lightly. I can already hear the mail-in ballot printers firing up! — CannCon at The Gateway Pundit
Our Take: “They didn't spend years building up this Pandemic Industrial Complex to blow it all on one measly global pandemic.
Marion Koopmans, a Dutch Virologist with the World Health Organization, had claimed that the WHO was preparing for ‘10 years of viruses’ with 2020 being year 1, so I suppose it's not too surprising to have Fauci making this statement publicly; in fact, it seems right on cue.
It's interesting how all of these individuals, who regularly war-game pandemic scenarios and have invested considerable amounts of wealth into this burgeoning pandemic industry, can always just sort of predict when nature is supposedly going to unleash a pandemic on the world.
Of course, they never really explain how they arrive at these conclusions, but they don't really have to, do they? After all, you are a useless eater who probably couldn't understand, so it's better that you just comply or face the wrath of the legions.” — Ryan DeLarme
"The Last War We Can Afford To Fight": Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over De-Dollarization, Slams Biden Admin For Pissing Off World
As we've noted several times of late, a growing number of countries are threatening the US dollar's status as the global reserve currency by conducting global trade without it - you know, the thing Saddam and Gaddafi threatened to do before they were 'liberated' from their mortal coils for other stated reasons.
Some recent headlines;
"No Reason" For Malaysia To Rely On US Dollar, PM Warns As Yuan Influence Grows
De-Dollarization Just Got Real
Here Are 7 Signs That Global De-Dollarization Has Just Shifted Into Overdrive
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has picked up on this, big time, noting that the process began after the Biden administration started wielding the dollar as a political weapon by freezing US dollars held by Russians.
Carlson cites an article from the Daily Caller, in which authors E.J. Antoni and Peter St. Onge write:
“A second critical feature of a reserve currency is its apolitical nature. Which Biden is now gutting. After both parties in Washington destroyed the dollar’s stability with inflation, now the Biden administration has chosen to wield the dollar as a weapon. Together, the message to foreigners they should get out while they still can.
In response to Russia’s war with the Ukraine, the US froze the dollar reserves of Russia’s central bank. To be clear, these were not American assets, but were dollars owned by the Russian central bank and the Russian people. The seizure was intended to cause bank runs and collapse Russia’s credit system. It didn’t work.
Instead, it exposed the Biden administration’s willingness to violate the trillions of dollars foreigners rightfully own. The danger of this precedent is difficult to overstate.” — ZeroHedge, sourcing FOX News
Our Take: “How I see things playing out:
Economic Contagion/Collapse and Petrodollar demolition, paving the way both Actually and Psychologically (public mandate) for a change in valuation.
Threat of Kinetic War with Russia-China Alliance, with NATO and the New West appearing on a world stage to be the New Axis, affording Peacemaker Donald Trump the chance to ‘step in.’
Biden Admin not being overtly destructive, but incompetent and impotent to Collective Mind, leading to bipartisan mandate for change in leadership.
Continued Fallout of Lake Election Fraud Revelations + Trump Legal Saga = Seeding for the ‘rigging’ of both the US electoral and justice systems.
There is a Crisis Cascade going on. But it’s for [them,] not us.” — Burning Bright
Central Bank Gold Buying Shows No Sign of Slowing Down
There’s no sign of a slowdown in central bank gold buying.
In February, central bank gold reserves rose by another 52 tons, according to the latest data compiled by the World Gold Council.
It was the 11th straight month of central bank net gold purchases.
Through the first two months of 2023, net central bank gold purchases came in at 125 tons. This is the strongest start to a year since 2010.
China was the biggest buyer in February. The Peoples Bank of China increased gold holdings by a reported 24.9 tons. It was the fourth consecutive month of reported Chinese gold purchases. In that time, China’s official gold reserves have grown by 102 tons. — SchiffGold.com
Badlands Sponsor and Financial Advisor Kirk Elliott Weighs in: “Although disingenuous Fed Chairs will claim that central banks buy gold because of "tradition". We all know that the "Wizards of OZ" know better than anyone that Gold represents the true value on their balance sheets, which is why for the last 11 months most of them have been buying it!
China is notorious for withholding key data about their gold holdings. So if they are publicly buying record amounts, you can assume their real gold holdings are even higher. This is a classic example of how it can benefit retail investors to follow the actions of global players, instead of their rhetoric.”
Sweden: Investigation Shows State Actor Behind Nord Stream Blast
In yet more evidence on the side of Seymour Hersh's reporting, Sweden has announced Thursday that amid its ongoing investigation into the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, it has concluded that a state actor is the likeliest culprit.
Swedish Public Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, who heads the ongoing investigation, stated "The clear main scenario" is that a state-sponsored group was behind the explosions.
While not ruling out any scenario at this point, he said the conclusion is based on the explosives used, which are rare and not widely available outside of governments and their militaries.
"We are carrying out a number of concrete investigative precautions... Our hope is to be able to confirm who has committed this crime, but it should be noted that it likely will be difficult given the circumstances," Ljungqvist said. He also acknowledged that the crime is "difficult to investigate," given that it "took place 80 meters [262 feet] under the water."
Denmark is also investigating, but two of the leaks that resulted from the Sept. 26, 2022 explosions underneath the Baltic Sea occurred in Sweden's economic zone.
According to the AP, Sweden hasn't completely ruled out that it could have been an independent group. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “A fair chunk of the world is rightly suspicious of the explosions that destroyed one of the few pipelines Russia uses to send LNG to Europe and beyond. The fact that more people don't find it suspicious is evidence that this same population is in possession of distorted facts supplied by their preferred globalist media propaganda outlet.
Like most frauds, once enough of the evidence has been evaluated critically, once all the facts are on the table and they are examined honestly, most people will see what's really going on. In this case, the Swedish government appears to be more open to non-mainstream narratives. But it isn't clear as of yet that the "state actor" identified as the chief suspect won't be Russia.
Of course, the motive to destroy Russia's own pipeline, the same pipeline Russia likely planned on using to erode Western energy dominance, is as elusive as those signatures on mail-in-ballots from the 2020 US election. Nevertheless, I suspect that the event itself will, and is providing a venue for Europe and the world to see how corrupt the global order truly is.
Unfortunately, the US is likely behind the attack, or at least the Biden administration is behind it. This is unfortunately because, just like a load drunk at a party ruins it for everyone, the bad actors we've let gain control of our government are using the awesome power of the United States for their own personal gain at the cost of Americans and others in the world.
And this reality means other nations, who might want to partner with the free and aware American population cannot do so. In other words, the US has been the bully of the world for decades, causing other nations to unite against us. This fact alone is leading Americans to see these alliances as threatening, which they are, but only because of the aforementioned bad actors within the US government and private sector.
All the more reason for real Americans to take back control of our country, for which, Donald Trump is the most likely candidate to represent the good actor population of the United States.” — Justin Deschamps
Stormy Daniels says she’s ‘absolutely’ willing to testify in Trump hush money trial
Stormy Daniels is “absolutely” willing to testify in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial, she said in an interview with Piers Morgan, her first comments since the former president pleaded not guilty to charges related to a hush-money payment scheme intended to silence the adult film star.
“Having them call me in and put me on the stand legitimizes my story and who I am. And if they don’t, it almost feels like they’re hiding me,” Daniels told TalkTV’s Morgan in an interview that aired Thursday. “And people automatically assume – I would – that, ‘Oh, she must not be a good witness, she’s not credible.’”
“So there’s no doubt, if they ask you to testify, you will testify?” Morgan asked Daniels.
“Oh, absolutely,” she replied. — CNN
Our Take: “Stormy Daniels making 'Redemption' and 'Movie' posts on social media, along with her teasing in the MSM’s favorite liberal rag, could map onto either side of "ours" or [theirs] when it comes to the Game Theory Game Board.
That said, when examining the gravity of events surrounding Daniels-related deployments over the last few years, how many of "our" people have seen convictions in her orbit?
Now ... have any of [theirs?]
Okay, I’ll provide a hint: Spend a few minutes hunting down interviews by disgraced criminal lawyer Michael Avenatti leading up to the last time Stormy Daniels was going to ‘get Trump,’ and let me know how that went for him.
As Just Human has pointed out, Stormy might have been paid by Trump-owned LLCs, but what was she paid for?
Now perform the same exercise with Michael Cohen.
Whose Assets are these people? [Theirs] or ours?” — Burning Bright
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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Fauci is back? What happened to the Twitter Files Dump we were expecting on Fauci? Maybe sitting in the same space as the Epstein client list? I find it odd these stories just disappear (Fauci Twitter files) and our expectations readjust. We’ve gotten so good at being disappointed, distracted, whatever!
Thanks for the news Badlands!
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