Badlands News Brief

Mostly Peaceful Riots and Billionaire Secrets

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 the weekend that was …

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Ohio school districts struggle to rebut undercover video of staffers saying they mislead parents

School districts around Ohio's capital Columbus are reeling from undercover video of their employees discussing how they mislead parents who oppose critical race theory and related concepts into thinking schools aren't exposing their children to versions of those concepts.

Accuracy in Media, led by an alum of undercover journalism nonprofit Project Veritas, released its latest sting of school districts Tuesday, following previous investigations of Idaho, Iowa and Tennessee.

This new batch confirms "parents are playing an endless game of Whac-A-Mole" as schools instill the tenets of CRT under a different name or hide content parents don't like in benign-sounding programs, President Adam Guillette says in narrating the video. — Just the News

Our Take: “The school system might provide a vital service in the current age for many parents and children, but it comes at a terrible price. For most of human history, children were educated by people they knew—people who were, in some respect, capable of appreciating the investment required in the children of today for the civilization of tomorrow. In modern times, the Prussian model of education and work, the 40-hour-work week, has given rise to the absentee parent. Parents, having to work so much they aren't aware of what their children are being indoctrinated into. The parasitic elite know and believe in the aristotelian maxim: "Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” Today, our education system is about indoctrination, and a tad of education, if possible. Parents are a threat to the narrative; they are a threat to the future engineered by the Davos globalists and the like. The footage procured by Project Veritas helps dispel the misplaced trust we should probably not continue to grant the education system that betrays us, and our children, with each passing year.” — Justin Dechamps

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Violent protest in downtown Atlanta over killing of activist

A protest turned violent in downtown Atlanta on Saturday night in the wake of the death of an environmental activist who was killed by authorities this week after officials said the 26-year-old shot a state trooper.

Masked activists dressed in all black threw rocks and lit fireworks in front of a skyscraper that houses the Atlanta Police Foundation, shattering large glass windows. They then lit a police cruiser on fire, smashed more windows and vandalized walls with anti-police graffiti as stunned tourists scattered.

The violent protesters were a subsection of hundreds of demonstrators who had gathered and marched up Atlanta’s famed Peachtree Street to mourn the death of the protester, a nonbinary person who went by the name Tortuguita and used they/it pronouns. — Associated Press

Our Take: “In scenes reminiscent of the 2020 "summer of love," Antifa-led protests in Atlanta spurred by the police killing of a far-left gunman erupted into havoc. A local news reporter, Tyler Fingert of FOX 5, called the protests "mostly peaceful" as a police cruiser was engulfed in flames in the background. Welcome to Clown World, where men are women, dementia-ridden career politicians who can't fill high school gymnasiums somehow get 81 million votes, and violent, fiery protests are "‘mostly peaceful.’” — Jordan Sather

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Justice Department tells Jim Jordan it won’t share information about ongoing investigations

The Justice Department signaled Friday it’s unlikely to share information about ongoing criminal investigations with the new GOP-controlled House, in a move that’s certain to frustrate Republicans in the chamber.

In a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan responding to a flurry of document requests, the DOJ said that “any oversight requests must be weighed against the department’s interests in protecting the integrity of its work.”

The letter added: “The Department’s mission to independently and impartially uphold the rule of law requires us to maintain the integrity of our investigations, prosecutions, and civil actions, and to avoid even a perception that our efforts are influenced by anything but the law and the facts.” — CNN

Our Take: “DOJ refuses to release documents related to President Biden, citing ongoing investigations to supersede the records request. As more and more documents are discovered. Isn't it ironic? The roles were, and in effect, are reversed nevermid the rule of law. The hypocrisy couldn't be a bigger elephant in the room. Trump was berated over his taxes, the Steele Dossier, the perfect phone, call January 6, countless leaks and lies. However, when Biden is involved and investigated while holding documents that may have been from his time as VP during the Obama administration, the documents are being withheld from Jim Jordan. Biden simply should not have been in possession of the documents, yet the double standards will fly like you have never seen. We want to know what the classified documents contain and the dates. Not two-tiered justice.” — Johnny Q

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Son of US Congressman charged with Antifa-related crimes

Jared Dowell, AKA “Riley” Dowell, was arrested in Boston last night for Antifa-related violence. He is the son of Democrat House Minority Whip Katherine M. Clark, who represents Massachusetts’s fifth congressional district.

According to a press release by the Boston police department, Dowell has been charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon, destruction or injury of personal property, and damage of property by graffiti/tagging.

Jared Dowell was allegedly participating in rioting that was meant to show solidarity with Antifa rioting in Atlanta. — National-Conservative.com

Our Take: “The family members, wives, husbands and children of subversive bureaucrats are often subversive operatives as well. We are reminded of the daughter of the Mayor of NYC being arrested at "protests" and the daughter of Fauci working at Twitter while he suppressed real experts and facts about COVID-19 and the "vaccines.” — Sean Morgan

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‘There will be no Cars’ – Saudi Arabian Diplomat Celebrates Utopian Development that Eliminates Ownership Of Private Vehicles

Adel Bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Climate Envoy for Saudi Arabia, said at a recent meeting in Switzerland, “There will be no cars.”

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During a panel session titled ‘The Evolution of Urban Life,’ Jubeir said, “[The Line] will revolutionize the way people look at cities and urban planning. NEOM is an attempt to create a city that is environmentally friendly, sustainable, that has a very high quality of life, that has virtually no traffic.”

“There will be virtually no traffic. You could go to different places very efficiently without using cars. There are no cars. There are going to be different types of transportation that are environmentally friendly and based on renewable energy,” Jubeir said during a meeting in Davos. — The Gateway Pundit

Our Take: “A Diplomat from oil-rich Saudi Arabia is claiming that the "sustainable" smart-city hell-scape called "NEOM" will feature "no cars." He presented this to the billionaire mafia climate-centric circle-jerk in Davos this last week. This Diplomat elaborated further saying that private vehicle ownership is "wasteful." Removing private vehicles goes hand in hand with the removal of our rights and other private property, and feels like an unsurprising statement given everything we've heard from the WEF in the last half decade. The city in question—which is being built with slave labor—exists in one of the most arid and uninhabitable places on earth, and without a car or access to some form of long distance transportation, it's not a stretch to say that if something goes wrong, this city could end being a literal death trap.” — Ryan DeLarme

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Sam Bankman-Fried Allegedly Paid Bill Clinton $250,000 For Speech At Crypto Bahamas Conference

Disgraced crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried allegedly paid former President Bill Clinton roughly $250,000 to give a speech at his Crypto Bahamas Conference in April 2022, according to a Thursday report from the New York Post (NYP).

Bankman-Fried’s conference featured Clinton alongside other world leaders and top crypto executives. Not long after, Bill and Hillary Clinton invited Bankman-Fried to speak at the 2022 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in September, the NYP reported. — The Daily Caller

Our Take: “SBF and the FTX scandal might reveal how the Clinton machine works. SBF was invited to the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2022. Just five months earlier, he invited Bill Clinton to the Crypto Bahamas Conference. Did Bill learn about and vet SBF as a future money laundering stooge during that conference? Is this why he was invited to CGI five months later? What happened in the Bahamas, a short five hour flight from Epstein's island, where more high level deals and globalist networking took place? One thing is certain: in 2022 SBF would act as a bagman for the globalists in Ukraine and the Biden Administration, not to mention the DNC in general (e.g. the FTX scandal,) all of which appear to be subsidiaries, or at least partners of the Clinton crime syndicate.” — Justin Deschamps

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Ex-Barclays boss saw Jeffrey Epstein abuse young women, US lawsuit claims

Jes Staley, the former boss of Barclays, has been accused in documents lodged at a US court of “personally observ[ing] the sexual abuse of young women” by Jeffrey Epstein.

Staley, 66, who resigned as chief executive of Barclays in November 2021 after a preliminary investigation by the UK regulators into his relationship with Epstein is named in a lawsuit filed by one of Epstein’s victims. — The Guardian

Our Take: This lawsuit also names JP Morgan bank, where Staley worked in 2013 when Epstein was a private clients for the company. In 2021, it was reported that U.S. financial regulators had examined Epstein and Staley’s emails, some of which included the cryptic words “snow white.” It appears that the "crazy conspiracy theorists" who have been reporting on coded language that pedophile networks use to communicate with each other are continuing to be proven right all along.” — Jordan Sather

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Pay Attention to the Illicit Business That's Booming Around Davos

They may be called the “new world order” by some, but they’re apparently still very fond of the world’s oldest profession.

According to multiple reports in European media, sex traffic around the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, is booming, with demand for prostitutes reportedly being very high.

As German outlet Bild noted, 2,700 of the world’s luminaries met in Davos for the WEF Annual Meeting 2023 this week. The theme was “Cooperation in a Fragmented World.” — The Western Journal

Our Take: “Apparently the transhumanist globalists haven't figured out a way to use mRNA vaccines to remove the desire for illicit sex. The globalists aren't gods, or even demi-gods. They are, in many cases, the products of opulence and debauchery that would give the early Roman emperors a run for their money. The question is: how much do these ladies, and gentlemen, of the night know? Are they privy to secret whisperings and manic confessions? Are there any moles for the white-hats embedded in these groups? And how many of these prostitutes are victims of human trafficking?” — Justin Deschamps

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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.

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