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, February 14 …
Trump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White House
“WHAT DO YOU think of firing squads?”
That’s the question Donald Trump repeatedly asked some close associates in the run-up to the 2024 presidential campaign, three people familiar with the situation tell Rolling Stone.
It’s not an idle inquiry: The former president, if re-elected, is still committed to expanding the use of the federal death penalty and bringing back banned methods of execution, the sources say. He has even, one of the sources recounts, mused about televising footage of executions, including showing condemned prisoners in the final moments of their lives.
Specifically, Trump has talked about bringing back death by firing squad, by hanging, and, according to two of the sources, possibly even by guillotine. He has also, sources say, discussed group executions. Trump has floated these ideas while discussing planned campaign rhetoric and policy desires, as well as his disdain for President Biden’s approach to crime. — Rolling Stone
Our Take: “Panic.
As the other side watches their lies and narratives wither away, they are beginning to realize that when Trump, and other benevolent leaders were speaking of Crimes Against Humanity, that their game would be over soon.
With so much truth coming to light, and a Trump return to Office in 2024 seeming inevitable, they truly are beginning to panic over the thought of what justice Trump will bring down on them once he is President again.” — AbsoluteTruth1776
Republicans Renew Demands for Interviews With Ex-Intel Officials Who Discredited Hunter Biden Laptop as ‘Disinformation’
Pressure is ratcheting up on signers of a controversial October 2020 statement alleging that the Hunter Biden laptop bore “all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation'“ to agree to on-the-record transcribed interviews with investigators for the House Judiciary Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The Committee on the Judiciary and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence are conducting oversight of federal law-enforcement and intelligence matters within our respective jurisdictions.
The judiciary committee made a prior request to you for documents and information about the public statement you signed in October 2020 that falsely implied the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden was the product of Russian disinformation,” Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said in Feb. 13 letters obtained by The Epoch Times.
This request, to include a request for a transcribed interview before the committees, remains outstanding. These documents and your testimony are necessary to further our oversight.
[…]
“You have been on notice about our oversight request—and aware the request is outstanding—for months. For your convenience, we have attached the letter from the Judiciary Committee dated April 6, 2022. To date, you have not complied with this request. Accordingly, we reiterate our requests and ask that you comply promptly,” Jordan and Turner wrote. — The Epoch Times
Our Take: “Requests were made to these former officials by GOP committee members previously and were ignored; however, that was when the House was run by the Democrats.
So far, the GOP-run House and these committees are on offense and I expect the recipients will comply or face subpoenas.
The J6 Committee set a precedent for enforcing such things, didn’t they?” — Just Human
Saudi Aramco: Biased ESG Policies Will Undermine Energy Security
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment, if outright biased against the oil and gas industry, is a threat to energy affordability and energy security, the chief executive of the world’s largest oil firm, Saudi Aramco, said this weekend.
“As far as the future of capital markets is concerned, ESG is clearly a rising trend. And in my view, an increased emphasis on ESG is a move in the right direction,” the Saudi oil giant’s president and CEO Amin Nasser said at the Saudi Capital Markets Forum 2023 on Sunday.
“However, if ESG-driven policies are implemented with an automatic bias against any and all conventional energy projects, the resulting underinvestment will have serious implications. For the global economy. For energy affordability. And for energy security,” Aramco’s top executive added.
The cost of capital for the oil and gas sector has increased due to higher perceived risks, which in turn are driven by ESG policies, Nasser said. — OilPrice.com
Our Take: “Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is one of the latest measurement standards that is being used as a hammer to force various globalist/woke agendas down our throats under the guise of protection and safety.
Where implemented, this standard is being used to track and score individuals, corporations, and nations against behaviors desired by entities such as the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. Once measured, ESG scores are used to determine rewards (e.g. carbon credits to sell) and punishment (e.g. shareholder divestment) to incentivize compliance.
While ESG may be obtaining some increasing amount of nonbeneficial compliance, it is also causing untold damage and hardship around the world, such as energy shortages, supply chain disruptions, and price increases.
Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil firm, recently expressed concerns with current ESG practices. With Saudi Arabia likely to join BRICS in 2023, which will further threaten the petrodollar’s global reserve status, these statements are all the more intriguing.” — Patriots in Progress
Idris Elba Defends Saying He No Longer Identifies as a Black Actor: Being an Actor ‘Not Defined by Race’
British star Idris Elba ran afoul the woke police when he recently declared that he no longer calls himself a black actor, saying people have become overly obsessed with race. Now the actor is standing firm and refusing to back down from his comments that have angered some on the left.
Idris Elba defended himself in a tweet on Saturday, saying that his work as an actor shouldn’t be defined by race.
“There isn’t a soul on this earth that can question whether I consider myself a BLACK MAN or not,” he wrote. “Being an ‘actor’ is a profession, like being an ‘architect,’ they are not defined by race. However, if YOU define your work by your race, that is your Perogative [sic]. Ah lie?” — Breitbart
Our Take: “It can be shocking to hear an intelligent statement coming out of Hollywood. It's no wonder the diversity-supremacist hive mind is bugging out over this, though I must say, I never get tired of watching white SJWs screech about a black man who doesn't wish to be defined by the color of his skin.
To be fair, Idris Alba did contribute to the problem by feeding the woke monster for several years. I've heard people say, ‘He helped make the bed, he should have to lay in it!’ But this line of thinking suggests that somebody's past is more important than where they are presently, and I personally can't get behind that stance.
I'm sure many of us had liberal leanings at some point in our youth, especially if you were a young person during the Bush Jr. administration, but came around to conservatism after a series of revelations. By this logic, we should never be forgiven for the high crime of ever being wrong about something.
I for one applaud Idris Alba, but as Matt Gaetz said of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, trust is earned. We'll have to see if this change of heart is sincere or just another Hollywood degenerate pandering to a new demographic.” — Ryan DeLarme
‘World’s First’ Unvaccinated Dating Service Launches in Hawaii
However, soon after the app’s launch, Thomson and Pyle started receiving hate emails, then negative publicity in the media. Apple decided to remove “Unjected” from the app store, claiming it provided medical disinformation.
“We tailored everything and played this chess game until it [met] Apple standards,” Thomson recalled. But it still wasn’t enough.
“It took us until July 31 to get banned.”
When Google threatened to follow suit, Thomson and Pyle pulled the plug on both media giants, and Unjected.com went live using the web domain host GoDaddy in August 2021.
“We decided—OK—the big-tech world is not our friend. They don’t want us to exist in this realm. They’ll always go out of their way to ensure we’re censored or taken down.”
Thomson said “Unjected” is more than a dating service for the unvaccinated. It’s also a blood bank database and a fertility bank for the unvaccinated.
The dating service alone boasts 110,000 subscriptions in 85 countries and 3,000 to 5,000 new clientele every month, Thomson said. — The Epoch Times
Our Take: “For most of human history, tribalism divided people along various lines, generally in terms of what they believed and what they valued.
While we regard tribalism today as bigoted, it served a valid purpose. Human beings are social creatures. Social psychology tells us, ultimately, we experience connection through common ideas and values, of which, physical proximity and emotional charge enable us to feel this conceptually-based connection. All of these factors undoubtedly are influencing the formation of this unvaccinated dating service.
Moreover, there is a clear and present danger to mRNA vaccination. The changes to one's biome, some believe, will be passed on to one's progeny.
Is it possible that unvaxxed blood and people will be a hot commodity in the decades to come? Or will the globalists label such people enemies of the state? Regardless, the fight for sovereignty rages on.” — Justin Deschamps
Sen. Dianne Feinstein announces she will retire from Congress
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will retire from Congress at the end of 2024 after three decades in the Senate and over 50 years in public office, she announced in a statement Tuesday.
“I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024 but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends,” Feinstein said.
Feinstein, 89, is currently the oldest sitting member of the upper chamber and the longest-serving senator from her state, first elected to the Senate in 1992.
A number of House Democrats have either announced a 2024 campaign bid for her job, including Reps. Katie Porter and Adam Schiff. Rep. Barbara Lee has also expressed interest in the race. — NBC News
Our Take: “Many people are celebrating the departure of this dusty bag of bones, but 50 years of damage is already done, and those who seek to replace her might prove themselves to be far worse than Feinstein ever was.
Is she stepping down willingly? She is quite ancient. Is she being told to step down by the puppet masters to make way for Adam Schiff? Who knows.
Did the CCP end her contract? The Left and the media will treat her as some kind of saint, when in reality, her legacy should show that she was just another congressional stooge, and a leaker, who employed a Chinese spy and swindled the public for decades.
Let's not forget her trying to take down Brett Kavanaugh with the Christine Blasey Ford wrap up smear that wasted time and failed miserably.
Additionally, she makes $174,000 a year as a senator. Not a bad salary at all, but just like Nancy Pelosi, she missed her calling as an investment banker since she was able to parlay that into a nice $110 Million fortune. Good riddance.” — Ryan DeLarme
A Shocking 30% Of High School Girls 'Seriously Considered' Suicide Last Year
A staggering 30% of high school girls in the United States who were surveyed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they had "seriously considered attempting suicide" in 2021, up from (a still shocking) 19% in 2011.
Panning back, almost 60% of high school girls surveyed said they felt 'persistent sadness or hopelessness' in 2021, an increase of roughly 60% over the same time period.
Though both high-school girls and boys reported experiencing mental-health challenges, girls reported record high levels of violence, sadness and suicide risk, the CDC said. In 2021, 57% of high-school girls reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year, compared with 36% in 2011. Thirty percent reported they seriously considered attempting suicide in 2021, up from 19% in 2011. -Wall Street Journal
When it comes to boys in high school, 29% reported persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness in 2021 vs. 21% in 2011, while 14% reported seriously considering a suicide attempt, up from 13% in 2011. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “Cultural warfare comes at a price. While globalists like Yoval Noah Harari suggest we know almost everything there is to know about human nature, in truth, modernity makes people mentally ill.
The fact that so many young girls are contemplating suicide or are sad and depressed (60% of those surveyed said the latter) is a canary in the coal mine. The hard truth that will require the suffering of millions, if not billions to make clear to modern people is this: the health of the individual is directly related to the health of their social groups and culture.
Unlike animals, human beings need social influences to develop properly. If those social influences are toxic, as they are in modernity, mental illness is the sure result.
Being a woman in the industrial age is already difficult, with the false promises of third-wave feminism pitting a women's drive for family and procreation against her socially-reinforced need to establish herself in the professional world. Combined with incessant onslaughts of diluted and incoherent social norms (the LGBTQ+ agenda) along with fashion choices influenced by overly sexualized icons (Madonna, Cardi B, and dozens of others) a young girl looking out into society for guidance as to how she should act to conform to her cultural mores and values is receiving a million mixed messages.
Social media made an already problematic situation much worse.
One day, we'll rediscover that maintaining healthy culture is critical to raising healthy children into adulthood. Until we are take back our culture mechanisms from the sociopathic globalists, problems like this, which are just one out of a multitude, will continue to emerge.” — 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 for one am not a huge fan of using the firing squad all wily nily, unless some these folks become like rabid dogs or maybe reserve it for the worst of the worst. It's just one of those things that if we set a precedent it could boomerang. And just like the wounded teens talked about above, these are damaged people, and if healed can still find their way back home, and maybe atone.... way behind bars.
For some reason It's hard for me to imagine Jesus being like "Yeeehaww!, load 'em up boys! It's murderin time!"
Death Penalty is an absolute necessity for Crimes against Humanity (hellos Khazarian Child Traffickers, Organ Harvesters, AdrenoChrome Dealers, Big Ag (Monsanto), C19 Police: Big Pharma, docs, nurses, admin, pols, big tech, 3-letter agency officials). Do it, 45! Do it!
I gotta check out Unjected! Great service 4 humanity. TY 4 mentioining it.
Re: Teen Girls contemplating Suicide: All of us NEED to get right with GOD. During this 5GW WW3 the existential threat is planetary for every sentient being. Those whose hearts and souls are closed to the Divine will suffer with little to no shelter from the Storm. The Good News is GOD is never more 1 breath away & redemption is an open door for all but the truly evil (I can't speak for those Satanic F*cktards ... that's beyond my pay grade).