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 Tuesday, January 17 …
‘God Complex’: Klaus Schwab Will Run Wef Like a Pope Until Death, Associates Claim
Klaus Schwab, the founder and head of the World Economic Forum, is said to have a “god complex”, and aims to run the organisation until his death like a pope or monarch, current and former staffers have reportedly claimed.
A number of individuals involved with the World Economic Forum are reportedly discussing the NGO’s post-Klaus Schwab future as the organisation’s annual conference once again kicks off in Davos this week.
It comes as Schwab himself will turn 85 years old in March this year, prompting some close to the organisation to seek clarification on who will succeed the arch-globalist at the top of his organisation. — Breitbart
Our Take: “Klaus Schwab, who was groomed by the likes of Herman Kahn and Henry Kissinger, could be seen as the living, breathing incarnation of globalism in our times. Though it certainly appears that his infatuation with transhumanism could be rooted in a desire to live forever, chances are that he will be passing the torch eventually, whether he wants to or not, but to whom? Potential candidates range from European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde to a member of Schwab's own family. Either way, it's a safe assumption that business will continue as usual in Davos.” — Ryan DeLarme
Bill Gates Says Nuclear Can Be “Super Safe” and Fake Meat Will Eventually Be “Very Good”
Question: Are you making any progress recently with your molten salt Thorium reactors? Or at least help destigmatise use of nuclear power that could so much help the world now and in the coming years.
Bill Gates: The Terrapower reactor designs (there are 2) both use liquid sodium as the coolant and uranium as the fuel. We are making excellent progress although the Ukranian war meant our uranium fuel is delayed. The first reactor is being built in Wyoming and should be running by 2030. This can make a huge contribution to climate challenges since it will be low cost and super safe. I was just in West Virginia learning about their energy economy and hearing about projects there like the FORM battery factory (a BEV company) that was just committed. — Reddit AMA, Source by The Gateway Pundit
Our Take: “Bill Gates conducted another Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session, and in between sips of his super healthy diet soda and avoiding any question related to Jeffrey Epstein, he took the time to promote plant-based fake meat and Nuclear Fusion technologies. Why? Probably because he has massive investments in both of these "green" initiatives. While Nuclear Fusion is touted as the future of electricity, unfortunately it's still a centralized energy source requiring a meter and a grid, exactly what the Powers that Be would want. You'll never find them promoting decentralized zero-point energy technologies. And as for plant-based fake meat? Probably genetically engineered, just how Gates wants YOU.” — Jordan Sather
Ex-top Intel Official Douglas Wise Knew Hunter Biden Laptop ‘Had to Be Real’ but Signed ‘Disinfo’ Letter Anyway
A former top intelligence official who signed on to a letter attacking The Post’s bombshell 2020 reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation has now admitted he knew a “significant portion” of the recovered files “had to be real” – but doesn’t regret dismissing the exposé.
Douglas Wise, a former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, was one of 51 erstwhile intelligence brass who issued the public letter on Oct. 19, 2020 — five days after The Post began a series of reports on the now-first son’s shady overseas business dealings.
“All of us figured that a significant portion of that content had to be real to make any Russian disinformation credible,” said Wise — who didn’t respond when The Post reached out for an explanation in March of last year, but found his tongue when he spoke to The Australian. — The NY Post
Our Take: “I often talk about Narrative Warfare at Badlands Media, and this is exactly why. All of us in this community have been following the various ‘Laptops’ that are percolating and now resurfacing in the Collective Mind of American Society. While the Hunter Biden laptop is likely one of the LEAST damaging of those this community has been aware of for years, it is also the one most ready for public consumption in terms of the corruption it allegedly reveals in the nation’s would-be ‘First Family.’ What timing for this admission out of the FBI, wouldn’t you say?” — Burning Bright
Dad Says FEMA Tried to Bribe Him After Teen Son's Post-Vaccine Death: He Refused and Went Public
Ernest Ramirez says he wanted to do the right thing for his son, so he decided to have 16-year-old Ernesto take the COVID-19 vaccine.
After all, what was the harm? Ramirez was told the vaccine was 100 percent safe.
Five days later, on April 24, 2021, his son died from complications related to an enlarged heart, Ramirez told LifeSiteNews.
Soon after his son’s death, Ramirez says, he received a call from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. According to him, agency officials asked him to change the cause of death for his son to “COVID.”
Ramirez says they offered to help him financially in exchange for doing so. — The Western Journal
Our Take: “There is likely no greater red pill for a parent than the untimely death of their child, all because the government, corporate media, regulatory agencies and medical professionals lied about an experimental drug that made them all rich. The cherry on top is FEMA offering hush money to a grieving father. As we see this trend continue into 2023, loved ones of the deceased may become more galvanized to speak out and get involved as the situation becomes more obvious. At some point, the dam will burst.” — Ryan DeLarme
Moderna Begins Trialing Mrna Shot That Is Injected Directly Into the Heart to Treat Heart Attack Patients
Moderna is developing an mRNA shot that is injected directly into the hearts of heart attack and heart failure patients.
The 'vaccine' uses the same technology as the company's flagship Covid jab and is designed for people weeks or months after a heart attack to help them recover.
It works by instructing human heart cells to generate a hormone that is known to improve blood flow, helping restore damaged heart muscles. — The Daily Mail
Our Take: “In a news story that echoes scenes from the movie Pulp Fiction, Moderna announced that they are developing an mRNA shot designed to be jabbed directly into the heart to treat heart attacks. Ask yourself why the companies that made mRNA COVID vaccines—the vaccines now being implicated in cardiac arrests and blood disorders—are also making treatments for heart attacks and blood disorders? Pfizer buys a blood therapeutics firm, Moderna makes an mRNA shot for heart attacks, and Johnson & Johnson recently acquired a company that makes heart pumps. Problem, reaction, solution at it's finest. When it comes to Big Pharma, it's not more money more problems; it's more problems, more money!” — Jordan Sather
Justice Department Considered but Rejected Role in Biden Documents Search
The Justice Department considered having FBI agents monitor a search by President Biden’s lawyers for classified documents at his homes but decided against it, both to avoid complicating later stages of the investigation and because Mr. Biden’s attorneys had quickly turned over a first batch and were cooperating, according to people familiar with the matter.
After Mr. Biden’s lawyers discovered documents marked as classified dating from his term as vice president at an office he used at a Washington-based think tank on Nov. 2, the Justice Department opened an inquiry into why and how they got there. Mr. Biden’s legal team prepared to search his other properties for any similar documents, and discussed with the Justice Department the prospect of having FBI agents present while Mr. Biden’s lawyers conducted the additional searches.
Instead, the two sides agreed that Mr. Biden’s personal attorneys would inspect the homes, notify the Justice Department as soon as they identified any other potentially classified records, and arrange for law-enforcement authorities to take them. — The Wall Street Journal
Our Take: “Well, well, well. If it isn’t another nice little bit of seeding to add some added spice into the ongoing and merging Hunter Laptop and Biden Documents storylines. While this one ALSO features the FBI, the fact that a highly-respected (take that for what it’s worth,) media rag is the one reporting on it makes sure there’s a copious amount of egg on the face of the U.S. Administrative State this week, represented most clearly by the FBI. The public is being told that the DOJ seems to be covering for the Bidens, whether or not that’s entirely true. How the public comes to view the US intel agencies throughout this saga bears watching.” — Burning Bright
CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: Former CNN Mouthpiece Brian Stelter Leads Panel on “Disinformation” at World Economic Forum
Brian Stelter, who had a show on CNN but no longer works at the once renowned “Fake News” outlet, led a panel discussion today at the World Economic Forum on “Disinformation”.
This is absurd.
Stelter was the king of “Fake News” at CNN and the laughing stock of those on the right who knew the facts that he was constantly trying to label disinformation. Whether it was about the Mueller sham, COVID or whatever, Stelter was always on the side of Fake News. — The Gateway Pundit
Our Take: “Just in case you needed any further proof that we are living in the age of the clown, Brian "Fake News" Stelter led a discussion today at the World Economic Forum on "Disinformation." This is impressive coming from someone who has spent the majority of his career spreading misinformation and obscuring the truth, whether it was in relation to COVID, the Mueller investigation, Hunter Biden's emails and so on.When it comes to fired CNN personnel, nobody manages to be a more contemptible potato head than Brian Stelter.” — Ryan DeLarme
Tennessee Congressman Alleges 'Huge' UFO Cover-Up in U.S. Government
Speaking in the wake of [an unclassified report on UFO sightings] publication, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said "we've been covering this up since the 40s," adding to NewsNation on Saturday that he doesn't "trust [the] government, [and] there's an arrogance about it, and I think the American public can handle it."
He called for the government to "release everything," following up by adding that "we need to find out what's going on."
And that includes "a craft which I believe at some point [...] we have obtained some materials that are not of this world that are being studied by different members of industry I've been told," he said.
Later on in the segment, the Tennessee Republican alleged there was a "huge cover-up, for whatever reason," adding that "America is ready to know, and stop with all the shenanigans." — Newsweek
Our Take: “In a bombshell media segment, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said "we've been covering this up since the 40s" and called on the government to "release everything" they know pertaining to UFOs. It goes to note that this mainstream media UFO disclosure we've been seeing for the last 5 years is a limited hangout, watered down "disclosure" designed to distract the public and admit only a fraction of the truth while brushing the rest under the rug. Good evidence shows that the military-industrial-complex has had electrogravitic propulsion systems and working levitation craft in their possession for decades, but it's a pipe dream to think they'll admit the full truth to the public. The Powers that Be would lose a lot of money and control if they gave up their hidden and suppressed black project technologies. That being said, humanity does deserve the truth.” — Jordan Sather
CNN Admits Ukraine War Is A 'Weapons Lab' For Western Arms
Ukraine has turned into a "lab" for Western arms as the war has given the US and its allies an opportunity to see how their weapons fare in a conflict with a major military power like Russia, CNN reported on Monday.
A source familiar with Western intelligence on the war told CNN that Ukraine is "absolutely a weapons lab in every sense because none of this equipment has ever actually been used in a war between two industrially developed nations." The source described it as "real-world battle testing." — Dave DeCamp, Sourced by ZeroHedge
Our Take: “While the CNN spin on this rote admission to us—and shocking one to the general public—would have us believe that Ukraine is fending off an unprecedented act of aggression by a corrupt, evil establishment in Russia bent on world domination, the American public is growing restless at the continued appearance of collusion between the Media and Military Industrial Complexes to keep the whole machine running. In fact, I believe the entire Ukraine saga is beginning to remind Joe on the couch of the Forever War in the Middle East—one it took Donald Trump to bring to an end.” — Burning Bright
What Happens to Vaccine Clinical Trial Participants?
Another common abuser of society is the pharmaceutical industry. Nowadays, I am often asked how I was able to accurately predict the course of the pandemic, and my answer each time is: “all of this was just an escalation of what the industry had done previously.” As the years have gone by, the industry has become more and more brazen in pushing unsafe and ineffective medications onto the market and paying off the government to gaslight the injured parties, rather than fulfilling its obligation to investigate and pull the harmful medications. — Dr. Robert Malone via Substack
Our Take: “We've been led to believe that the FDA and other regulatory agencies double and triple check drugs and vaccines. But the past few years have taught us an invaluable lesson: blind trust NEVER works or should be used. Trust requires follow up, verification, validation and evaluation. You can't really trust something you haven't checked up on. And yet, we've lost sight of this fundamental truth that has been true for all of human history. Perhaps now, after discovering yet another vaccine was a dumpster fire of proper processes, we'll get the message. We need to retake our role as WE THE PEOPLE, keeping all the institutions and branches of government we appoint to represent us on the straight and narrow.” — Justin Deschamps
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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I like this format, a news source cited then a Badlands critique. Thanks for doing this! 👍
This Badlands News Brief is a great idea. Sometimes reading through all the news is exhausting, and it is nice to have a quick recap of the major points. I am a mom with a 29 year old daughter, and a 30 year old son, and I just love watching your shows when I get the chance.