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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.

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 the Weekend that Was …

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Ukrainian oligarch and Zelensky supporter Ihor Kolomoisky arrested in fraud investigation

One of Ukraine’s most powerful oligarchs has been arrested in a fraud investigation, state media in the country are reporting.

A Kyiv court on Saturday ordered Ihor Kolomoisky, a key supporter of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2019 presidential campaign, to 60 days in pre-trial detention while authorities investigate fraud charges against him, reported Ukrinform.

Kolomoisky’s media and banking businesses have made him one of the richest men in Ukraine.

However, the US State Department has previously accused him of using his “political influence and power for personal benefit.”

The State Department sanctioned Kolomoisky in March 2021 for his alleged involvement in “corrupt acts that undermined rule of law and the Ukrainian public’s faith in their government’s democratic institutions and public processes.” — CNN

Our Take: “It will be interesting if we start to get some Info layers peeled back that start to lead to the REAL backers of Kolomoisky and his 'operations' stretching back until ... say, 2014 or so, when certain US intel agencies became highly active in the region.

I know my boy

Just Human

is salivating at the thought of some Actuals that begin to tie one of the most fascinating potential threads together.

Zelensky is a puppet, and Ukraine is a proxy state ... but whose?

Was Trump’s ‘perfect phone call’ with the Prussian Proxy President something more than most Anons and citizen researchers have allowed themselves to believe?

Did the Deep State lose one of their prized puppets some time ago?

Either way, it’s a great year for the clowns.” —

Burning Bright

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Time To Name The Clients: JPMorgan Flagged Over $1 Billion In Suspicious Epstein Transfers

JPMorgan flagged over $1 billion in suspicious transactions linked to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, which the bank reported to the US government, the US Virgin Islands has claimed in its lawsuit against the bank.

"JPMorgan was a full-service bank for Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking," said Mimi Liu, an attorney for the USVI, which says the enormous sum bolsters key allegations in their legal action against the bank, which they say knowingly benefited from Epstein's wrongdoing, Bloomberg reports, noting that this is the first time in the case that the 'sheer volume of Epstein's financial activity at JPMorgan over a 16-year period has been disclosed.'

The suspicious activity was detailed in a 2019 filing to the US Department of Treasury, a USVI attorney told a federal court in Manhattan on Thursday. The filing was made after Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell a month after his arrest on sex trafficking charges. Epstein had been with the bank from the late 1990s through 2013, when they finally cut ties with him.

Epstein notoriously trafficked some of his victims to a private island in the USVI.

JPMorgan denies that it let Epstein's activities slide, and says it reported around 150 cash transactions to a federal regulator between 2002 and 2013.

Last month, the USVI told the judge in the case that the bank facilitated over $1.1 million in payments from Jeffrey Epstein to "girls or women," many of whom had Eastern European surnames. — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “I’ve referred to the Crimes Against Children narratives as the ‘darkest path’ in the Info War; ironically, it’s the first path many of us began walking, first alone, and then together, shepherded by the Q Op and by our fellow Anons and citizen journalists as we came to grips with the dark truths that nest at the heart of the Info War.

While this subject matter is the most difficult to engage with, it’s also the one we must not lose sight of in the midst of the engineered chaos of political scandal, cultural warfare and psychological operations on all sides on the Game Theory Game Board.

As for a white pill, how about the fact that the name most ubiquitous with child trafficking and unspeakable crimes among the ‘elites’ of the world can’t seem to surface without a major financial institution tied to it?

Drip. Drip. Flood.” —

Burning Bright

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Trump Was Right: Sweden Finally Cracks Down On Illegals With Mandatory Reporting

Sweden's woke government clearly wants to keep their jobs.

After encouraging a hoard of migrants to flood the country, some of whom are rapey and violent, they're now cracking down, and have introduced a mandatory requirement for public institutions to report illegals.

Of course, Sweden's migrant problem could have been nipped in the bud six years ago if they' only listened to Donald Trump - who called out Sweden for failing to address the problem. 

"You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden," Trump said at a rally in response to a Fox News report covering a documentary exposing problems with violent immigrants.

"They’re having problems like they never thought possible," Trump said (which the MSM claimed was in response to a non-existent terrorism incident). — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “The headline should read, ‘Trump was right AGAIN.’

The globalists and their useful idiots in the US have, for decades, used the Nordic countries as an example of how socialism works. The big government ‘social safety net’ of the Nordic Model has been the gold standard for expanding the US welfare state — ignoring the high taxes, high degree of government intervention, and low GDP and worker productivity. The Nordic model redistributes assets, limits the money available for individual spending and consumption, and incentivizes government reliance.

The Nordics were the gold standard of the open society until the great migration — a coordinated global change program to denationalize the world. Now they’re another example of how Trump was right again and globalism has objectively failed, by all metrics, to serve anyone except the global elites.

As a result, Sweden, one of the shining standards of globalism’s success is now a cautionary tale for the impact of open borders. But don’t worry — the globalists have a plan for that, too.

‘In addition to the proposed reporting requirements, the center-right government, propped up by the right-wing Sweden Democrats, plans to extend the use of biometric screening, including the use of fingerprinting and facial recognition, to strengthen checks on people already living in the country.’

Amazing that they always have the solutions ready to go at the moment they start reporting the problems, right?

Unfortunately, the people of Sweden are so dependent upon and conditioned by their government, it’s unclear if they even notice their slow and ongoing descent into digital slavery. Slowly, and then all at once.” —

Ashe in America

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Find the Fed: Here’s Hoping Someone Can Identify the Tattooed “Nazis” at Gathering in Florida …UPDATE: One Nazi Identified – Says He Was Backed by CIA

The “Nazis” were marching in Florida on Saturday.

They had a large following for their rally with every member in new red shirts and face masks.

Most of the protesters hid their faces. But a couple of tattooed Nazis left their masks in the car.

Who’s this guy?
He appears to be one of the only “Nazis” who will show his face.

According to Laura Loomer:

Kent ” Boneface” McLellan was arrested by the FBI in Florida for domestic terrorism in May of 2012. The FBI said he and others were “preparing a terrorist act against national minorities in Florida.”

He then fled to Ukraine to join Right Sector (a creation of the CIA) in 2014. In 2022, he returned to Ukraine and was reportedly deported. Now he’s back in Florida where he’s active in the local Nazi scene. Yesterday he was on I-4 with a group of Nazis who were saying they support Joe Biden while they were waving swastika flags and shouting slurs at me because I am Jewish.

There is no way you get away with all of that after being arrested by the FBI for domestic terrorism, and there’s no way you get away with traveling to Ukraine to fight in a foreign war as an American Citizen defected mercenary unless you are some type of FBI or CIA informant. — The Gateway Pundit

Our Take: “Somehow I've managed to go my entire life, traveling all over this beautiful country, from Michigan to California to the Florida Keys and back again, without ever coming across an actual neo-Nazi, but the media and the left want you to believe that they are lurking around every corner.

I'm not saying that they do not exist, only that most of them are in Ukraine where CIA-created proxy armies are training them to kill and our tax dollars are ensuring that they stay armed.

It's funny, the usual cult-of-personality leftists who've taken to twitter to tweet incessantly about these dweebs seem subconsciously thrilled that this happened; it supports the cartoonish narrative that their comic book minds cling to in the absence of any real understanding. They sincerely believe that these are personal friends of Ron DeSantis and that any day now they will begin their long-planned purge of all nonwhites. These are the same leftists that have no qualms with an endless faucet of tax-payer dollars, with zero oversight, ostensibly going to fund these very same Neo-Nazis in Ukraine.

Aside from the actual Ukrainian trained Neo-Nazis we see the very same middle aged fedbois with the signature ski masks and NASCAR-Dad sunglasses as made popular by the Patriot Front. My two-cents is that ‘Blood Tribe’ is yet another glaringly, or should I say glowingly, obvious front for whatever three-letter agency is currently running COINTELPRO ops.” —

Ryan DeLarme

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Trump returns favor after receiving endorsement from Hungary's Viktor Orban

Former President Donald Trump acknowledged an overseas endorsement in his favor as he continues his 2024 presidential bid.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban appeared on Tucker Carlson's show on X, formerly known as Twitter, earlier this week to offer his endorsement. During the interview, Orban suggested that reelecting Trump would be “the only way out” of the war between Russia and Ukraine.

“Call back Trump," Orban said. "Trump is the man who can save the Western world.”

Trump would go on to share a graphic of Orban along with his quote on his own social media platform Truth Social late Friday. By Saturday, he returned the favor and offered an endorsement of his own for Orban. — The Washington Examiner

Our Take: “Narrative Convergence:

• Tucker speaks in Hungary, extolling the virtues of sovereignty and criticizing Marxist trends in the United States and the EU.

• Viktor Orban sits down with Tucker to warn about the dangers of Russophobia, calling for calm as Western Globalists (including the Biden Admin) escalate tensions with Russia.

• Trump boosts Orban's messaging about 'The Peacemaker.'

Coordination = Control.

‘When you know the way broadly, you can see it in all things.’ - Miyamoto Musashi” —

Burning Bright

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Burkina Faso and Russia discuss possible military cooperation

With the aim of further strengthening bilateral relations, a Russian delegation recently travelled to Burkina Faso to meet with the nation's military leader, Ibrahim Traoré. During the meeting, the two sides discussed possible military cooperation, the Burkina Faso presidency announced in a statement.

According to Ouagadougou, the meeting with the Russian delegation, led by Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, was a follow-up to talks between Traoré and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg last July. 

The recent meeting in Burkina Faso addressed "areas of cooperation that mainly concern the military sphere, including the training of Burkinabe cadet officers and officers at all levels, including pilots in Russia," according to the presidency communiqué.

Ties between Burkina Faso and Russia have deepened since the September 2022 Traoré-led coup against Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who in turn orchestrated a military uprising against President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré in January of the same year. — Atalayar

Our Take: “As western credibility in West Africa rapidly erodes, Russia is moving to solidify their influence in the region.

Leadership of Burkina Faso changed hands in September 2022 in a reported ‘coup,’ and now, a year later, ruling forces in that country are reportedly further aligning with Russia. Prior to this meeting in Ouagadougou, the Russian delegation, headlined by Wagner, was in Mali Capitol Bamako, where Reuters reports that Wagner militants are helping the army fight Islamist militants. Mali ‘fell to a coup’ in August 2020, when a group of Malian colonels ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita following anti-government protests, corruption allegations, and contested legislative elections.

Russia went to Mali, then to Burkina Faso, and after that, they landed in Bangui in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Friday. The purpose of this visit was not immediately clear, but speculation that this meeting was also about military cooperation is in the mainstream.

As Russia solidifies their alliances, their influence in Africa now stretches as a land bridge across the continent, from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. This as western nations, led by the French, are facing the music for decades of exploitation and modernized colonialism.

I continue to stand with the people of Africa. I pray they can reclaim their sovereignty and reject all who seek to subjugate them.” —

Ashe in America

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'Mudpocalypse' Hits Burning Man, 73,000 Trapped In 'Toxic' Lake Bed In Nevada Desert

Our Take: “I thought long and hard about putting together a take for this one.

Scratch that.

Sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words. Sometimes, the memes make themselves.

Sometimes, it’s okay to poke fun at 73,000 trendy intellectuals constantly bloviating about the dangers of Climate Change trapped in a mug pit due to a fundamental lack of understanding of how the world works.” —

Burning Bright

(no relation to Burning Man.)

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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.