Badlands News Brief

Biden Does Ukraine, Vax Data & Veritas Shakeup

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 Monday, February 20 …

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Putin set for major Ukraine war speech after Biden walks streets of Kyiv

Russian President Vladimir Putin was due to make a speech on Tuesday setting out aims for the second year of his invasion of Ukraine, a day after U.S. President Joe Biden walked the streets of Kyiv promising to stand with Ukraine as long as it takes.

Following his surprise visit to Kyiv, Biden flew to Poland and on Tuesday will give a speech on how the United States has helped rally the world to support Ukraine and stress American support for NATO's eastern flank.

Biden, in his trademark aviator sunglasses, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in green battle fatigues, walked side-by-side to a gold-domed cathedral in Kyiv on a bright winter Monday morning pierced by the sound of air raid sirens. — Reuters

Our Take: “What’s the most boneheaded, tone deaf, ill-conceived, infuriating, and embarrassing thing that President Biden could do on President’s Day?

Visit Kyiv to meet Zelenskyy. To the din of unnecessary air raid sirens. While Trump heads to Ohio.

The contrast of America Last versus America First could not be more stark.

And some of y'all think Patriots are not in control. Ha!” — Just Human

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East Palestine “Residents May Already Be Undergoing DNA Mutations,” Class Action Lawsuit Alleges

Norfolk Southern Railway CEO Alan Shaw published a letter Thursday that read, “We will not walk away, East Palestine.” 

But already, officials from Norfolk Southern ditched a meeting last night with worried East Palestine, Ohio, residents who were only searching for answers after a freight train with 150 cars (20 of which were carrying hazardous materials) derailed in the small town, resulting in a chemical disaster. 

Norfolk Southern is not off to a great start. There are increasing reports that residents are experiencing short-term health impacts after the derailment and controlled burn of toxic chemical vinyl chloride. Residents as far away as Pittsburgh are wondering about potential health impacts, according to local media, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. — Summit News

Our Take: “The East Palestine situation is an excellent place to learn about how events like this are intentionally curated and used to advance the NWO agenda.

The fact the railroad industry changed its policies to essentially guarantee a number of derailments and issues is the first red flag, which should have been addressed by a vigilant populous—but wasn't.

Second, the clean up wasn't a clean up at all, much like the 2010 DeepWater Horizon situation; it was an intentional and planned eco-terrorist event with multiple benefits, one being the toxification of the environment so as to force citizens into mega cities (to be rolled out in the years to come).

This should have been addressed by a vigilant populous—but wasn't. Third, the almost total lack of media coverage and lack of alarm on the part of so-called environmentalists confirmed the fact that these environmentalists are incapable of doing anything but following the dictates of officialdom—therefore, they are merely foot soldiers of the globalist elite.

Lastly, the toll that this event had and is having on local communities, wildlife, and people is also unparalleled, such as the likelihood of DNA mutation. The question is, what will these mutations do? And how will this benefit the agenda of the globalists?

If this was a pre-planned event, which seems increasingly likely, then we will no doubt see a roll out of an agenda to take advantage of this crisis at some point in the future. Hopefully, WE THE PEOPLE will learn from this so as to provide a better defense.” — Justin Deschamps

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"The Trials Should Have Been Halted": Rate Of 'Serious Adverse Events' Closely Tracks Spike In Post-Vax Disabilities

Over the past 18 months, skeptics of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines and those pointing out high rates of adverse reactions have been subject to ostracism, deplatforming, and flawed 'fact checks' to shut down opinions and analysis which conflicted with official narratives.

Now, the data has begun to speak for itself, thanks to people like former Blackrock portfolio manager Ed Dowd, who has devoted the last several years to deep-dive research and analysis of pandemic-related data (in fact, he's written an excellent book on the topic). Dowd, along with partners Carlos Alegria and Yuri Nunes, launched Phinance Technologies - where, aside from traditional macroeconomic analysis, they have produced comprehensive reports on pandemic-related disabilities and excess deaths using official data.

Their latest analysis reveals that the rate of Serious Adverse Events in the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine clinical trials closely tracks a spike in disabilities reported after the vaccine rollout. — ZeroHedge, citing Phinance Technologies

Our Take: “I am very public and honest about the fact that I DO NOT know where the truth lies when it comes to adverse effects resultant from the COVID vaccine rollout, though I did not choose to get vaxxed and vehemently opposed mandates and lockdowns.

That said, I have long argued that, whatever the truth is will NOT reflect kindly on Big Pharma, one of the key cogs in the Deep State’s System of Systems, and one whose exposure could and likely will result in a paradigm shift in western—perhaps even global—culture when it comes to the trust society has placed into the ‘men in white coats’ and other perceived authority figures for generations.

As the publicly-available data begins to map onto what this community has argued for literal years, expect a slow groundswell of simmering anger in the American public, and spare an ounce of pity for those who will be on the receiving end of the righteous fury it portends.” — Burning Bright

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Ghislaine Maxwell mounts $10M appeal against 20-year sex trafficking sentence

Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly mounting a $10 million appeal against her 20-year prison sentence, drawing from funds secured through a recent divorce settlement. 

The Daily Mail exclusively reported, citing an unnamed source close to the family, that Maxwell reached a divorce settlement with her ex-husband Scott Borgerson, who previously refused to release money from Maxwell’s $20 million trust. Maxwell sought the funds to pay an outstanding $878,302 legal fee and hire Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers to work on her own appeal.

After reaching the divorce settlement, the source remarked that 60-year-old Maxwell is "ready to fight back," and that "her lawyers are confident that she has a strong case for appeal."

Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison last June "for her role in a scheme to sexual [sic] exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of a decade," the Justice Department said. She is serving time at Florida’s low security federal prison, FCI Tallahassee. — Fox News, sourcing The Daily Mail

Our Take: “Excellent.

More Maxwell in the news means more exposure of her crimes and [theirs]. Plus, it gives us an opportunity to make up for the black pills ConInc peddled over her conviction and instead celebrate the incarceration of this monster.” — Just Human

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How The Metaverse Is Making Money

Statista’s Advertising & Media Markets Insights estimates that worldwide metaverse revenue will stand at $490 billion in 2030...

As Statista's Katharina Buchholz notes, this is a comparatively conservative forecast. Other analyst companies assume a market volume of between approximately 750 and 1,700 billion U.S. dollars.

For the Statista outlook, the term metaverse is defined as a virtual world or a collection of virtual worlds that exist in a common digital space and that users can access over the internet. 

Metaverses include applications of virtual reality, augmented reality and other immersive technologies. — ZeroHedge, sourcing Statista

Our Take: “The use of gaming is a more recent innovation for the powers that should not be. Frankly, it's a brilliant weapon to use on the unwitting masses.

Increasingly, games provide people things they should be getting from real life, but can't, due to the intentionally toxic culture we inhabit today. The success of this advance is unparalleled. Millions of men, who would otherwise be driven to gain mastery of their lives, social circles, and become principled contributors to society, are instead, confused, sexually frustrated, and wasting their lives away becoming better at unreal fantasies.

This is just one example.

While games are fun and enjoyable, and arguably do provide some benefit outside of the game, the vast majority of long-term effects are deleterious. But, like many soft-weapons of this type, the damage is hard to measure because the baseline of what men should do has shifted in addition to the fact the potential of the individual boy or man, who doesn't develop himself, isn't clear.

The projections of the metaverse and the massive use of online gaming is a major concern. Once the bulk of society begins using virtual reality solutions for life, a positive feedback loop will (and arguably already is) pushing humanity toward degrees of self imposed slavery that would make regaining freedom almost impossible.

The good news is that people are not buying it. Instead, it seems, a growing counter-culture focused on restoring traditional and objectively superior ways of living has and is continuing to gain momentum.” — Justin Deschamps

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James O’Keefe Removed From Project Veritas Board, Stripped As CEO

“Project Veritas” founder and CEO James O’Keefe has left the company he founded after a group of his staff reportedly tried to oust him.

O’Keefe was put on paid leave as the organization’s board considered whether they would oust him. Employees had been dissatisfied by O’Keefe’s management and alleged he wasted money and was “outright cruel” to his staff, according to the The Daily Beast.

O’Keefe announced to his staff Monday that he was ousted as CEO and from the board in an emotional 15-minute video.

“As a former board member told me years ago, Project Veritas will never be stopped from the outside, it will only be because we stopped ourselves,” O’Keefe said. “Prophetic as it may be, that is exactly where we find ourselves in the situation today. A situation where I have been stripped of my authority as CEO and removed from the board of directors…”

“Nothing about how I conducted myself over the past 13 years has fundamentally changed, until now, so what has changed in the last 3 weeks? What has changed? The only thing that has changed is that we broke the biggest story in our organization’s history,” he continued, referencing the Pfizer exposé.’

— The Daily Caller

Our Take: “Well, that’s the end of Project Veritas.

But certainly not the end of James O’Keefe.” — 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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