Badlands News Brief

Drones in Russia, J6 Footage & Socialist Policies

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 28 …

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Mass Drone Attack Unleashes Chaos, Air Raid Sirens Inside Russia

Russia has come under attack by multiple drones on Tuesday, with one of those drones reportedly causing a fire at an oil depot in the southern part of the country, and another hitting outside Moscow.

The attack on the oil facility happened in Tuapse, which lies about 150 miles southeast of the Crimean peninsula, with Reuters citing local media to report, "Emergency services put out a fire at an oil depot in southern Russia overnight after a drone was spotted flying overhead, the RIA news agency said on Tuesday." Crucially, Tuapse is about 500 kilometers from the nearest Ukrainian-held territory, which exhibits significant reach assuming the UAV was launched by the Ukrainians.

The fires which started at the facility at about 2:30am were extinguished after they spread to an area of some 200 square meters. "The oil tanks were not affected. There was no spill of oil products. No injuries," a local official, Sergei Boyko, described.

Another drone crashed in the Moscow region on the same day, with Governor Andrei Vorobyov saying it was likely an operation to target civilian infrastructure. — ZeroHedge, sourcing Reuters and others

Our Take: “The attack's timing suggests that the recent call for peace talks by China in its 12-point plan are being thwarted.

Ukraine conflict, on the part of Ukraine, appears to be a money-laundering operation for Western-aligned allies, whereby funds funneled to Ukraine will be laundered in some way to service the agenda of the globalists.

If true, which it certainly appears to be, then peace talks would be a threat.

Who better to head the Kyiv regime than a globalist stooge like Zelensky, a man who is just like his American partner, Joe Biden? The longer the war rages, the more money can be milked from it, just like we saw in other proxy wars all throughout the 20th century.” — Justin Deschamps

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House Republicans Permit January 6 Defendants to Use Capitol Footage in Legal Defense

House Republicans will permit January 6 defendants to use Capitol security footage in their legal defense, a decision that could impact ongoing prosecutions from the 2021 riot.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) said Tuesday that House Speaker McCarthy (R-CA) has granted the footage to defendants on a “case-by-case basis.”

“Everyone accused of a crime in this country deserves due process, which includes access to evidence which may be used to prove their guilt or innocence,” Loudermilk told Politico. “It is our intention to make available any relevant documents or videos, on a case-by-case basis, as requested by attorneys representing defendants.” — Breitbart

Our Take: “After years of being held without charges and being denied due process, the J6ers in the DC GITMO are now being allowed to use the footage that could have potentially exonerated them well before their lives were completely destroyed.

The loss of their livelihoods and erosion of their families aside, think of the unmitigated psychological torture these individuals have had to endure while those repeat offenders who fire bomb pregnancy centers and burn local businesses to the ground go free.

It is not outside the realm of possibility that J6 was always intended to entice peaceful Trump supporters in so they could be accused of "insurrection," made an example of, and thereby stymie any Trump re-election.

If anyone should be serving time for January 6, it should be Nancy Pelosi, the Capitol Police—who facilitated the breach—and the FBI.

My question is this: If you are charged with trespassing, and the video shows that you were not only allowed to enter but encouraged to do so, then did you really trespass?

ALL of the footage needs to be released to the general public, immediately.” — Ryan DeLarme

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Another Take: “Finally, in a moment of sanity, McCarthy has allowed some J6'ers access to footage that could exonerate those charged.

However, this will likely not cause all of the wrongfully-incarcerated defendants to gain their freedom. Perhaps some will.

This is partially due to the fact that J6 is not a genuine criminal investigation (despite the fact a range of charges have been levied); it's a political witch hunt. By invoking some of the most grievous allegations, the DS has kept innocent-until-proven guilty Americans in the DC Gulag.

To accelerate the process of securing their release, some defendants agreed to plea deals. These guilty pleas build up a case against the other defendants by making the bogus allegations of sedition and insurrection seem more valid.

‘Surely, if someone admits to insurrection, then this proves there was indeed an insurrection.’

This same effect works on the general population. Once one person succumbs, it becomes a fact-in-law that the system can argue proves the existence of the event in the first place. But it's all an illusion. None of the defendants likely ever planned on committing a crime that day. And yet, the already thoroughly unlawful justice system can make cases against innocent people by coercing other innocent people to admit to intents they never had.

This is classic gulag-style political intimidation used by tyrannical governments. History will likely mark these events as proof of the fall of America.

And hopefully, history will also mark these events as the time when the people rose from their slumber to take back their freedoms from the parasites who've gained control over civilization.” — Justin Deschamps

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CDC says it's in a 'posture of readiness' amid fears H5N1 bird flu is poised to jump to humans — and reveals there are several vaccines and drugs in the works

US health officials are ramping up their pandemic preparedness plans after a bird flu scare in Cambodia.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it is in a 'posture of readiness' with several vaccine and drug candidates in the works.

National testing capacity is also being built-up in case the H5N1 strain that has devastated bird populations around the world spills over into people.

'Flu fighter' John Barnes told a CDC webinar Monday: 'Our priorities at this point are really to be in a posture of readiness. So we're continuing our pandemic planning activities and should the situation change, we've got surveillance activities and monitoring of exposed individuals.'

Fears of a flu pandemic were ramped up last week after a Cambodian father and daughter were diagnosed with H5N1, raising fears it was spreading between people for the first time in decades. — The Daily Mail

Our Take: “Never fear, folks! The CDC is on the case! What with their stellar handling of the Covid Plandemic, surely we can trust their word here, right?

If you’re a fan of narrative seeding, then one could say it isn’t a leap to suggest that perhaps this is a course of action the bad guys want—another Pandemic through which we can be controlled.

With the known existence of biolabs in Ukraine, as well as the ties between the NIH, and the CCP/Wuhan coming to the surface, it is no longer a conspiracy theory to suggest that these people are willing to biologically attack humanity in order to keep control.

How do we stop that from happening?

With awareness and by spreading the word.” — AbsoluteTruth1776

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Loses Re-Election, Comes In Third-Place

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot - who claimed last year to have the biggest dick in the city, lost her bid for re-election Tuesday after failing to advance to a runoff in the Chicago mayoral race, according to AP.

The loss makes her the first Chicago mayor to lose re-election since 1983.

Lightfoot finished third with 16.4% of the vote, while former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas finished at 35.02%, and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson at 20.25%. The two will now advance to the April 4 runoff as the two candidates who got the most votes.

"Obviously, we didn’t win the election. But, I stand here with my head held high and my heart full of thanks," Lightfoot told supporters right before 9 p.m., the Chicago Sun Times reports. — ZeroHedge, citing the AP and Chicago Sun Times

Our Take: “I’ll be honest … I don’t really care about Lori Lightfoot, her re-election, nor do I know or care who is replacing her, since it’s relatively Micro.

That said, what I find significant about this headline is the very fact that I, as a New Englander who was not prone to following the specific politics of States half a nation away, know EXACTLY who Lightfoot is, and exactly what system she represented.

To me, this recognition of our domestic enemies from the Deep State’s System of Systems is one of the great, unwitting gifts the COVID Scamdemic era has provided to the American people … at least, to those with the eyes to see it.

While the COVID Scamdemic visited untold damage onto American society in the form of lockdowns, potential vaccine damages and immeasurable psychological impacts on the young, the old and everyone in between, it also put the Deep State puppets ostensibly in charge of each piece of our union of states front and center, forcing them into the light.

And we didn’t forget those faces.” — Burning Bright

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Oregon bill would pay homeless people $1,000 a month

The state of Oregon is weighing a bill to give homeless and low-income people $1,000 a month in universal basic income.

The Oregon legislature is considering a bill to establish a People's Housing Assistance Fund Demonstration Program through the state's Department of Human Services.

Oregon's bill is the latest in blue states looking to give handouts to people in universal basic income (UBI) programs.

According to Bill Track 50, the legislation would "provide 12 monthly payments of $1,000 to individuals who are experiencing homelessness, are at risk of homelessness, are severely rent burdened or earn at or below 60 percent of area median income."

The bill would require a study on who is receiving the money broken down among a few demographics, including race, veteran status and risk of domestic violence. — FOX News

Our Take: “The Communists in charge in Oregon would rather incentivize homelessness instead of making an honest attempt at correcting the problems causing it, or helping these citizens to find sustainable ways to correct their station in life.

$1,000 per month is just enough to make sure these people can continue supplying themselves with a substance of their choice.

It is a terrible gesture that could only come from the minds of people who want to see this country burn.

Offer these people jobs, housing … a new start, not $1,000 a month.” — AbsoluteTruth1776

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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.

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