Badlands News Brief
January 6 and Nord Stream Whiplash
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, March 7 …
Trump Reacts to Tucker Carlson Releasing January 6 Footage: ‘Free at Last’
Former President Donald Trump reacted to Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson releasing new and unseen footage from the Capitol Hill riot that unfolded on January 6, 2021, which appears to portray a different picture than the one that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) painted.
Throughout Tucker Carlson’s segment on Monday, footage showed scenes that ran contrary to some of the narratives put forth by the likes of former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and the January 6 committee by claiming that rioters had participated in an “insurrection.” One particularly jarring piece of footage actually appeared to show Jacob Chansley, a.k.a. the “Qanon Shaman,” being calmly escorted through the Capitol by police officers. — Breitbart
Our Take: “From the beginning, it was fairly obvious that Democrats and RINOs were hiding the footage because it completely destroyed their J6 narrative. Don't get me wrong; Fox News is a bunch of partisan hacks just as much as the other networks. Tucker Carlson should have immediately made everything he was given public. Everyone whose lives have been ruined while they've wasted away in the DC GITMO for the last two years should be freed immediately.
The evidence shows that they were admitted and escorted by Capitol Police, that they were peaceful, the police escorted the Qanon Shaman around the capitol for photo ops, there were indeed imposters, and that the protesters simply wanted their Congress to confront election fraud.” — Ryan DeLarme
Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say
New intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, a step toward determining responsibility for an act of sabotage that has confounded investigators on both sides of the Atlantic for months.
U.S. officials said that they had no evidence President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine or his top lieutenants were involved in the operation, or that the perpetrators were acting at the direction of any Ukrainian government officials.
The brazen attack on the natural gas pipelines, which link Russia to Western Europe, fueled public speculation about who was to blame, from Moscow to Kyiv and London to Washington, and it has remained one of the most consequential unsolved mysteries of Russia’s year-old war in Ukraine. — The New York Times
Nord Stream investigations: traces lead to Ukraine
According to information from ARD-Hauptststudio, the SWR and the ZEIT managed to identify the boat that was allegedly used for the secret operation. It's supposed to be a yacht rented by a company based in Poland, that apparently belongs to two Ukrainians. According to an investigation, a team of six people carried the operation out. It is said to have been five men and one woman. Accordingly, the group consisted of a captain, two divers, two diving assistants and a doctor who transports the explosives to the crime scenes and placed them. The nationality of the perpetrators is obviously unclear. The Assassins used professionally fake passports, including for the rental of the boat.
According to the investigation, the command was given in September 2022 by Rostock. The equipment for the secret operation was transported to the port by a van. According to the researchers, the boat was seen on the following day again in Wieck ( Darß ) and later on the Danish island of Christiansø, northeast of Bornholm. The yacht was returned to the owner in an uncleaned state. On the table in the cabin, the investigators have found traces of explosives. According to information from ARD-Hauptststudio, the SWR and a western secret service is scheduled to start in autumn, shortly after Destruction, have sent a note to European partner services, according to which a Ukrainian command is responsible for the destruction. — Zeit Online (roughly translated)
Our Take: “It's remarkable the the New York Times is reporting this, that they are getting leaks from intel officials and shifting from "Russia and Putin did it!" to "Intel officials suggest it may have been Ukrainians and Russians ..."
That shift on it's own is just incredible. Additionally, deeper into the article, they mention Sy Hersch's Substack.
The article is actually ripe with factoids and indicators of note. One must don their fake news filter to find them, however. But if you do, you will notice that, according to the reporting, no Americans or Brits were involved; it is unconfirmed whether a State actor was involved; explosives were planted without help of military or agencies but that it is "possible the perpetrators received specialize government training in the past," Ukrainian involvement "could upset the delicate relationship between Ukraine and Germany," there is "limited visibility into Ukrainian decision-making," and European authorities are investigating as well …
Which brings us to the second article from Germany, which relies on an investigation by several entities and countries both in and outside of Europe. That article offers VERY specific details of how the operation was carried out: from where, when, what boat, who it was rented from, that explosive residue was left on a table, etc.
Could it be false? Of course.
In my opinion, overlapping the Hersch story, the New York Times article, the Zeit Online article, and OSINT information, with some decent deduction and reasoning, will lead one closer towards the truth of the matter. Together, these things help form a constellation of facts, information and possibilities, as Burning Bright might refer to them.” — Just Human
Never before seen footage from Tucker Carlson proves J6 committee was a sham
Our Take: “The final report released by the J6 committee totaled 845 pages. After the first release of footage by Tucker Carlson, the entirety of that document can be thrown in the trash.
One paragraph of the report gives detail of Jacob Chansley (Q-shaman) entering the Capitol and giving a prayer in the Senate Chambers. When this paragraph is compared to the newly released footage, two important details are noticeably missing …” — Patel Patriot
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell both argue against Tucker Carlson releasing J6 footage
Our Take: “The events of January 6th, 2022 have been the primary weapon of the establishment in their attempts to destroy Trump’s political future.
Trump and his loyal supporters have been labeled insurrectionists and worse. The MSM and the J6 committee used selective imagery to paint us in the worst light possible. So naturally, when Tucker Carlson released his first series of the never before seen footage of what actually took place that day, which completely destroyed their narrative, the establishment came out in full force against Carlson and Fox News.
Both McConnell and Schumer have promoted transparency while in government, but only when it benefits their own political agendas.
What are they afraid of?” — Patel Patriot
CNN Uses Misleading Data to Claim over 100 Mass Shootings in 2023
CNN used misleading data from the Gun Violence Archive to claim Monday “the U.S. has surpassed 100 mass shootings in 2023.”
CNN noted, “America reached the grim number by the first week of March.”
Both CNN and the Gun Violence Archive departed from the standard definition for mass shootings, which the Rand Corporation observed as being derived from the FBI’s 1980s definition of a “mass murderer” of an individual who “kills four or more people in a single incident (not including himself).”
But for CNN and the Gun Violence Archive, an incident with no fatalities is still a mass shooting. This means labels like drive-by shootings, gang hits, homicides, double homicides, are renamed mass shootings and counted as such. This enables CNN to claim over 100 mass shootings already in 2023. — Breitbart
Our Take: “CNN and their friends at the CIA and CCP would rather you have busloads of fentanyl in your community instead of a gun in your home. It makes sense; you having a firearm to defend yourself and your family is more of a nuisance whereas an endless, unabated flow of drugs and criminals over the border serves multiple agendas, including but not limited to: depopulation, launderable federal funding for sanctuary cities, endless drug war, and feeding an insatiable prison industrial complex.
Anti 2A groups have always lied about and manipulated crime statistics; the most clever tactic is including suicides and accidents in with homicides (which some claim has more than tripled the numbers).
Of course, what doesn't CNN lie about?” — Ryan DeLarme
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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re Ukrainian sabotage: " it has remained one of the most consequential unsolved mysteries of Russia’s year-old war in Ukraine." That is a standard line of the IC when they want to obscure the origin of one of their clandestine ops. Clearly written by an intel community hack to deflect from Sy Hersch's article and US involvement. Does the NYT think the public is that stupid? Yes they do, and they are desperate because their narratives are collapsing one-by-one.. We're supposed to believe that the Ukrainians have the expertise to dive hundreds of feet into the ocean, locate the pipes, and set explosives. It's absurd. Can you spell C-I-A? CIA are running the show in Ukraine, just like it did in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the color revolution in Ukraine in 2014.
For those who want a deluge of footage released all at once, I disagree. Many in this country drank deeply of the media kool-aid for years. especially concerning Donald Trump. What I have observed is the genius of dripping it out slowly with time for the public to digest each offering. Those of us who have been "in the know" to some degree from the beginning are anxious for it to come crashing down, but we must have the majority on board. The impact is much greater when it is slowly parceled out. Think what Elon Musk is doing, giving access topic by topic to journalists who cannot be considered "right wing" and now Tucker Carlson who carries a lot of respect. They are educating a huge audience, dose by dose. The left has joined in to help: East Palestine, OH train derailment, the Southern border, Covid & pharmaceutical industry, silencing and censoring.......It is all coming to a head and backed up with the Twitter and J6 releases. And, oh, what we have all learned during the past several years. The drips are starting to become a deluge, but "steady as she goes".