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Ukraine Bursts, Tucker Returns & Trump Promises

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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 Tuesday, June 6 …

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1000s Evacuated As Massive Wall Of Water Surges Through Ukraine After Major Dam 'Blown Up'

Images and videos posted on social media show a major dam and hydroelectric power plant in the Russian-occupied region of Kherson, located in southern Ukrainian, destroyed early Tuesday. Water rushed through the dam into the Dnieper River, which separates Ukrainian and Russian forces. Both sides accuse each other of the attack that puts tens of thousands of homes at risk and might even threaten the safety of Europe's largest nuclear power plant.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible for blowing up the Nova Kakhovka dam. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a drone video showing the damaged dam as water gushed downriver. Zelenskyy blamed "Russian terrorists." 

Meanwhile, Russia denied the attack. Russian-installed head of the Kherson administration, Vladimir Saldo, said Kyiv was behind the attack:

"The destruction led to a large, but not critical amount of water flowing down the Dnieper. It will not prevent our military from defending the left bank," Saldo. He accused Kyiv of the attack to "divert attention" from failed counteroffensives. 

The Russian-installed mayor of Nova Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontiev, said the "night attacks" on the dam had "led to the destruction of the valves" and that "water from the Kakhovka reservoir began to uncontrollably be discharged downstream." 

Washington Post revealed satellite imagery of the damage. — ZeroHedge

U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline

Three months before saboteurs bombed the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the Biden administration learned from a close ally that the Ukrainian military had planned a covert attack on the undersea network, using a small team of divers who reported directly to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Details about the plan, which have not been previously reported, were collected by a European intelligence service and shared with the CIA in June 2022. They provide some of the most specific evidence to date linking the government of Ukraine to the eventual attack in the Baltic Sea, which U.S. and Western officials have called a brazen and dangerous act of sabotage on Europe’s energy infrastructure.

The European intelligence reporting was shared on the chat platform Discord, allegedly by Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira. The Washington Post obtained a copy from one of Teixeira’s online friends.

The intelligence report was based on information obtained from an individual in Ukraine. The source’s information could not immediately be corroborated, but the CIA shared the report with Germany and other European countries last June, according to multiple officials familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence operations and diplomatic discussions. — The Washington Post

Our Take: “If you’ve been following the Info War for any length of time, the fact that I decided to put these headlines back-to-back without commentary in between should tell you about as much as the two headlines emerging on the same day in the Media zeitgeist tells you.

The Info War—Fifth-Generation Warfare in general—relies on the obfuscation of information itself. This is why I often refer to it as the ‘War of Stories,’ which I wrote about at length for Badlands Media some time ago. That said, while it can be frustrating to know that MOST of what we’re told by the Legacy Media Industrial Complex is meant to confuse, provoke or misguide us, you should also take confidence in the prospect that OUR side has ghosts in the machine, as well.

Or did you think it was a coincidence that the very same Media that has been defending Ukraine, Zelensky and all aspects of their Prussian Proxy State for over a year has suddenly been guided … or forced into the sheepish admission to their dwindling audience that a good number of the brave Ukrainians fighting against Putin’s forces do so proudly adorned in Nazi insignia, AND that Ukrainians were behind the attack on Nord Stream 2?

I refer to this ‘admission’ phase as Overton’s Goalpost, and while it doesn’t tell us the WHOLE truth—for example, Pulitzer Prize-winning LIBERAL journalist Seymour Hersh has publicly blamed the CIA for the Nord Stream 2 sabotage—it marks a retreat from the collectivists’ previously-approved public stance.

The enemy only does this when they’re forced to.

The truth marches in one direction, single-minded. It will not be deterred.

And neither will we.” — Burning Bright

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Tucker Carlson Returns With New Show: ‘Tucker On Twitter’

Tucker Carlson inaugurated the return of his popular show on Tuesday, dropping the first episode of “Tucker on Twitter” after being taken off the air at Fox News in April.

Carlson is still reportedly negotiating his exit with Fox News, where he led ratings with his primetime show “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” The network took him off the air suddenly after his last show on April 21, but he promised to bring it back in some form on Twitter.

Carlson opened the first episode of his new show talking about the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine, calling it an “act of terrorism.”

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He then launched into a critique of the “American media” who “wasted no time this morning in accusing the Russians of sabotaging their own infrastructure.” He also took shots at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is running in the GOP primary for president, over their staunch support for Ukraine. — The Daily Wire

Our Take: “We got our first full taste of Tucker Carlson on Twitter Tuesday evening, when the former Fox News juggernaut tweeted his first episode, a 10 1/2 minute video with the message, ‘Ep. 1.’

The episode was a classic Carlson monologue, except instead of sitting in a suit in his flashy studio, he was sitting in a suit in what appears to be a club house with wood paneling and pool cues hung up and out of focus. I’d vote for ditching the suit, for what it’s worth.

From a content standpoint, Carlson talked about the Nova Khakovka dam and the legacy media’s failure in reporting anything resembling the truth about this new development in the Ukraine War production. The apex of Ep. 1 came when Carlson spoke about the former Soviet Union, and how truth seeking dissidents used short wave radio to find real information amid the propaganda of the state.

Tucker plans to use Twitter in exactly that way, and he said he expects no interference as he’s been promised there are no censorial gatekeepers on the platform. (Shots fired, Elon!) He also said he’d leave Twitter if those promises prove false.

While many of us are still censored, Tucker is a prize for Twitter. In just one hour, Ep. 1 has 4.6M views, which is more than his Live + SD average with Tucker Carlson Tonight. Elon is betting Carlson will bring more people to Twitter, so I’d be surprised if he gets censored.

Oh also, he confirmed that aliens were real and bashed the legacy media for ignoring the story. Tucker on Twitter is going to be fun.” — Ashe in America

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Trump Promises Commission to Address Childhood Illness

Former President Donald Trump, in an "Agenda47" video for his presidential campaign, promised to address the sharp rise in the nation's chronic illnesses and health problems, particularly among children, as part of his plans for a return to the Oval Office.

Trump plans to establish a special presidential commission "of independent minds who are not bought and paid for by Big Pharma, and I will charge them with investigating what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic illnesses."

"I understand Big Pharma, I believe better than anyone else," he added. "I know where they're coming from."

The commission will then be asked "to publish recommendations for how every American child can have a safe and healthy childhood." — NewsMax

Our Take: “There are several very old and very effective malevolent weapons of subtle war that have been used by the globalist elite for most of human history, such as:

1) gun-running to terrorists and criminals within an established nation or kingdom,

2) vice peddling through drug running,

3) vice peddling through human trafficking (slavery, sex work, child trafficking, and wage-slavery), and …

4) financial warfare in the form of usury, loan sharking, and other destabilizing influences.

When you see banking, drugs (pharmaceuticals), legal corruption, and financial corruption, be sure to acknowledge the elite players in this game, the Dutch/British East and West Indian Companies, who were, in effect, the forebears of today’s globalists. These entities successfully subdued the planet over the course of several hundred years of subtle and overt warfare operations.

The pharmaceutical industry—the brainchild of the same globalists that gave us the aforementioned companies—represents an entrenched and pervasive parasitic influence in the US and all modern nation-states, designed to hijack health at nearly every level, by:

a) weaponizing food and environmental influences to subtly, yet effectively generate disease in an otherwise healthy population,

b) weaponizing of medicines by banning all non-pharmaceutically toxic yet marginally effective treatments,

c) hijacking healthcare education, services, and research to ensure only the hijacked treatments and knowledge are available for use, and;

d) hijacking general educational institutions, the media, and legal systems to ensure only the pharmaceutical industry’s agenda makes it into the public mind for review and ultimate acceptance as ‘the best option’—a sophisticated deception.

With this aspect of a control system in place, the people’s capacity for health and strength of mind to guard against tyranny can be slowly destroyed, ensuring an increasingly globalist-dependent population.

Eventually, genetic manipulation is rolled out as a final solution. The purpose is to cause a bifurcation of the human population, creating a lower class that is dependent on a genetically-superior elite, creating two biologically different populations. Once done, the elite argues genetic superiority as a facet of their draconian control, their ‘divine right to rule.’ This agenda can be mixed with transhumanism to accelerate the bifurcation process.

Finally, organic procreation is replaced with birth chambers and artificial evolutionary genetic manipulations, propagandized as ‘genetic corrections’ to the broken human genome, which is, in reality, intentionally designed to cripple the original god-knowing capabilities (VMAT2 Gene removal,) and to create a perfect biological component to a cyborg-slave of the future, where the AI god replaces any possibility of making contact with the True God of creation.

YOU WILL BE HERE in 2030.

Trump, as part of his total dismantling of the globalist plantation and agenda, is now going to go after the pharmaceutical industry and the agenda it serves. No doubt, the ultimate endgame is a world free of these influences, and a return to actual health.

In this regard, we can barely imagine the benefits of this future state of true health in society. It will likely mean profoundly longer and healthier life spans, higher intelligence, and a slow and progressive activation and cultivation of previously untapped genetic potential through healthy environmental conditions, both socially and ecologically.

Disease will become a thing of the past, including the enormous toll of poor childrearing conditions that have reduced the productivity and well-being of humanity for nearly all of human history.

Finally, the Trumpian exposition of the weaponization of health will, if done right, forever make immune future populations from snake oil pushers and societal destroyers of the future, but only if WE THE PEOPLE are willing and able to accept the full and disturbing truth and pass this on to future generations.” — Justin Deschamps

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House conservatives block GOP bills, voice frustration in response to last week’s debt ceiling vote

House conservatives staged a mini-revolt Tuesday in retaliation for Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s leadership on last week’s vote to raise the debt ceiling, the right wing banding together to block progress on a mixture of bills and vent their frustration.

Led by outspoken members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of 11 Republicans broke with their party on an otherwise routine procedural vote that threw the day’s schedule — and the rest of the week — into disarray. It’s the first such procedural rule vote to fail in nearly two decades.

The group is among some of the same conservative Republicans who tried to stop the debt ceiling bill from advancing last week and who then threatened to try to oust McCarthy after passage of the debt ceiling package that President Joe Biden signed into law. Short of taking that step, they have demanded a meeting with McCarthy, leaving it unclear how the standoff will be resolved.

“We’re frustrated with the way this place is operating,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., one of the more outspoken members of the group. “We’re not going to live in the era of the imperial speaker anymore.” — The Star

Our Take: “The House Freedom Caucus is frustrated with Washington, but it’s hard to feel sympathy for them given they caved and elected McCarthy Speaker. This is what we all expected would happen. McCarthy is exactly the Speaker we thought he’d be.

McCarthy has repeatedly lied and reneged on the concessions he made during the Speaker negotiation, from releasing all the J6 footage to fiscal responsibility, to the many ‘rules’ concessions that HFC members touted as wins. The footage is still being withheld, the debt ceiling bill eliminated any possibility of fiscal responsibility, and the House has repeatedly — as recently as Monday for a series of finance-related bills — suspended the rules to pass legislation this session.

The latest move by the HFC has resulted in a standoff over the rules (again,) which is holding up the next round of laws from being voted upon. This tactic only works if the Democrats continue to vote against and, as we saw with the debt ceiling bill, McCarthy has the coalition he needs to pass whatever he wants.

‘We’re not going to live in the era of the imperial speaker anymore,’ Rep Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said.

Again, I’m really struggling to have sympathy here. It’s been exactly five months since McCarthy became Speaker. Is five months enough to qualify as an era? It’s really more of a quicker-than-expected ‘I told you so.’” — Ashe in America

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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.