Badlands News Brief
Everyone's Got a Plan ... Until They Get Trump'd
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 pick news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community with some Badlands flavoring to help wash it down.
Now, onto the news from Tuesday, June 25 …
Hunter Biden's law license suspended in D.C.
The D.C. Court of Appeals on Tuesday suspended Hunter Biden's law license after he was convicted earlier this month of three federal gun charges.
Why it matters: It's the latest fallout from the president's son's conviction and trial, which aired some of the Biden family's darkest moments.
Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison, although as a first-time offender it's unlikely he will receive the maximum sentence.
Driving the news: The court order stated that Hunter Biden is "suspended immediately from the practice of law" in D.C., after considering the indictment and jury verdict in his federal gun trial.
The appeals court also directed D.C.'s Board on Professional Responsibility to "institute a formal proceeding to determine the nature of the offense and whether it involves moral turpitude."
State of play: The D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel wrote in an order earlier this month that Hunter Biden's offenses in his federal gun case amount to a "serious crime," which constitutes automatic suspension under the counsel's rules. — Axios
Our Take: First, the subtle gaslighting to reinforce the regime narrative is prevalent in this Axios piece:
‘…aired some of the Biden family's darkest moments.’
No, actually, this case barely scratched the dark moments of the First Family. It was a diversion to neutralize the sex crimes, business crimes, and influence peddling at the hands of the First Crackhead and Uncle Jim.
‘Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison, although as a first-time offender it's unlikely he will receive the maximum sentence.’
It’s unlikely he will receive any material consequences because his father runs the DOJ and they have repeatedly determined that scrotus and his family are above the law.
‘The court order stated that Hunter Biden is suspended immediately from the practice of law in D.C. … also directed D.C.'s Board on Professional Responsibility to institute a formal proceeding’ and ‘determine…whether [the offense] involves moral turpitude.’
Turpitude is a synonym for depravity. After the Marco Polo Biden Laptop Report was admitted in this trial, do we really need a hearing to determine if Biden’s actions are depraved?
Sentencing has not yet been scheduled, and the younger Biden motioned for a new trial Monday, arguing the federal Delaware court that tried the case lacked jurisdiction. I’m not a lawyer, but I believe that motion that should have been brought before the trial commenced. Let’s see what happens.
Finally, Hunter Biden will be back in court in California in September, as Special Counsel David Weiss also brought a tax crimes case against the son of scrotus.
No one is above the law. Also, gun registries and federal taxation are both unconstitutional. — Ashe in America
It’s All Catching Up to Bibi Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is showing all the signs of heading for an early election, probably next spring. The leaders of coalition parties are already openly campaigning, Netanyahu’s Likud party is beginning to crack, senior military and civil-service figures are clashing openly with the prime minister, and Netanyahu remains broadly unpopular, despite overall public support for the war.
Ratcheting up the pressure even more, an old scandal returned to haunt the beleaguered leader yesterday: A state commission of inquiry accused him of putting Israel’s security at risk and harming the country’s foreign relations and economy by mishandling a submarine-procurement deal from 2009 to 2016. Netanyahu seemed to shrug off the commission as politically biased against him, but he has still to respond to the accusation.
Finally, earlier today, Israel’s supreme court declared the long-held draft exemption of ultra-Orthodox men as illegal and called on the government to either recruit them or enact a law relieving them from conscription. The ruling strains Netanyahu’s coalition of nationalist and religious parties, leaving the prime minister with a host of bad options. — The Atlantic
Our Take: This article does a fine job of framing the doomed situation in which Bibi Netanyahu finds himself.
I should start by sharing that today it was reported that Netanyahu's wife, Sarah, recently told the families of the hostages taken by Hamas that IDF leadership is "staging a coup" against her husband. This bizarre turn of events led to one of the fathers publicly responding by stating,
"Instead of doing everything to save lives, [Netanyahu] is spreading delusional conspiracies and is busy inciting and sowing division. If this is what the Netanyahu family thinks and this is how things are handled, what wonder is it that there's no [hostage] deal and that the country is going up in flames? Today it's already clear that there will be no deal and there will be no revival [for Israel] as long as Netanyahu is in power."
Wew, lad.
It is rather strange for Mrs. Netanyahu to say such things to bereaved families who are desperately seeking information regarding the well-being of their loved ones, hoping that they are still alive.
Netanyahu's son, Yair—who has been criticized across the internet for hiding out in Miami, evading his expected service in the IDF—took to social media to lay blame on the IDF brass, calling out individuals by name and demanding investigations into their perceived failures.
You then also have this major Supreme Court ruling, which reverses the decades-old practice of exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews from IDF conscription, allowing their rabbinic studies to satisfy their service to the Jewish State. (The secular liberals have always been okay with this, as they didn't want to intermix with the "religious kooks" in the barracks.)
The problem for Netanyahu, who must now decide whether to extend the draft to include the ultra-Orthodox, is that he has already been threatened on multiple occasions by the Radical Zionist ministers in his cabinet, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who have threatened to resign if the ultra-Orthodox are conscripted. Their resignations would trigger a legal dissolving of the government, forcing new elections for all positions, including Prime Minister.
Further exacerbating Netanyahu's gambit with Ben-Gvir are recent spats between the two over the latter's duplicitous ambition. After War Cabinet minister Benny Gantz resigned from the government two weeks ago, compelling Netanyahu to dissolve the specially-formed war cabinet, Ben-Gvir confronted the PM and demanded that he form a new war cabinet that would include Ben-Gvir. Netanyahu responded by accusing Ben-Gvir of leaking information to the press, stating that he needed to prove his loyalty to Netanyahu before such ambitions could be satisfied.
Me-ow.
Looming in the background of all of this madness is centrist Benny Gantz, who has remained publicly active since resigning from Netanyahu's war cabinet, appearing at the protest in downtown Tel Aviv, where an estimated 100,000 Israeli citizens have amassed demanding that Netanyahu resign and new elections be held. Remember: Trump publicly endorsed Gantz on Israeli media after Gantz lost the 2021 election to Bibi.
If Gantz can convince Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to join his protest of Netanyahu, and resign, then Gantz has a decent chance of defeating Netanyahu in a new election, and Trump has telegraphed that Gantz will be the peacemaker for Israel. Meanwhile, the MSM is reporting that Gallant is Biden's "inside man," and it is widely speculated that the Biden regime is also pushing him to revolt against Netanyahu. Almost as if Biden was working for Trump ...
It's a political pincer move, which may coincide with a 9/11 disclosure that (I think) will implicate Bibi Netanyahu as a co-conspirator.
Can you see The Plan? — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
Trump handed plan to halt US military aid to Kyiv unless it talks peace with Moscow
Two key advisers to Donald Trump have presented him with a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine - if he wins the Nov. 5 presidential election - that involves telling Ukraine it will only get more U.S. weapons if it enters peace talks.
The United States would at the same time warn Moscow that any refusal to negotiate would result in increased U.S. support for Ukraine, retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, one of Trump's national security advisers, said in an interview.
Under the plan drawn up by Kellogg and Fred Fleitz, who both served as chiefs of staff in Trump's National Security Council during his 2017-2021 presidency, there would be a ceasefire based on prevailing battle lines during peace talks, Fleitz said.
They have presented their strategy to Trump, and the Republican presidential candidate responded favorably, Fleitz added. "I'm not claiming he agreed with it or agreed with every word of it, but we were pleased to get the feedback we did," he said.
Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said only statements made by Trump or authorized members of his campaign should be deemed official.
The strategy outlined by Kellogg and Fleitz is the most detailed plan yet by associates of Trump, who has said he could quickly settle the war in Ukraine if he beats President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election, though he has not said how he would do that. — Reuters
Our Take: The framing of this report suggest Donald Trump doesn't know exactly how and when peace between Ukraine and Russia is going to occur, which is a fantasy.
That said, it's pretty funny to see the establishment getting ahold of Trump's proposed peace plan without recognizing immediately that it's a DIRECT MIRROR of Vladimir Putin's peace plan that Ukraine (and its Globalist handlers) have reportedly rejected at every turn.
Putin's stated goals for piece with Kiev include the denazification of the Donbas (done,) the annexation of the Donbas into the Russian Federation (basically done,) and a commitment from Kiev that Ukraine will not seek to join NATO.
The latter point may seem like the ONLY point of contention remaining where it concerns Trump and the sovereign, America First version of the United States ... and yet, even THAT is not a contradiction, as Trump has publicly forwarded his desire for the US to withdraw from NATO as well.
The deal is already made. The rest is awakening. — Burning Bright
Gunmen kill police, priest and civilians in attacks on places of worship in Russia’s Dagestan
Gunmen opened fire on places of worship in two cities of Russia’s southernmost Dagestan province on Sunday, killing at least 15 police officers and four civilians, including an Orthodox priest, in what appeared to be a coordinated attack.
Sergey Melikov, head of the Dagestan Republic, said at least six “militants” were also killed following the attacks on churches, synagogues and police posts in the cities of Derbent and the regional capital Makhachkala, which are about 120 kilometers (75 miles) apart.
The attacks took place in the republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus, a predominantly Muslim region on the Caspian Sea that has a history of separatist and militant violence. The turbulence in the region has been further fanned by Russia’s war in Ukraine, where ethnic minorities have been disproportionately mobilized to fight.
Video and photos showed large flames and plumes of smoke billowing heavily out of a synagogue in Derbent, while footage filmed from the window of a building in Makhachkala shows black-clad unidentified people shooting at a police car in a street.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, which come three months after ISIS affiliate ISIS-K said it carried out an assault at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow that claimed more than 140 lives in one of Russia’s deadliest terrorist atrocities in years.
Russian law enforcement agencies told state-run news agency TASS on Sunday that the gunmen in Dagestan were “adherents of an international terrorist organization.” — CNN
And …
Russian plane carrying Ukrainian POWs was downed by US-made missile – investigators
Senior military officials in Kiev were responsible for shooting down a Russian transport plane that was carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war for an exchange earlier this year, Russia’s Investigative Committee said on Tuesday.
The Ilyushin Il-76M aircraft was downed by a US-made Patriot interceptor missile on January 24, according to Russian investigators. All those on board, including 65 POWs, three Russian guards, and six crew members, were killed in the crash.
The committee said it had collected enough evidence to accuse Ukrainian military commanders and the leadership of the country’s military intelligence directorate, the GUR. They “knew for certain” that a prisoner swap was due to happen and “ordered the destruction of the plane” nevertheless, officials claimed. — RT
Our Take: So, as promised, I go to write my take on the Dagestan terrorist attack, and—son of a b***h—there is yet another story of the US government committing war crimes against Russia.
Can the State Department go a day—just one day—without murdering people?
Let's start with Dagestan.
This is a place that has been heavily featured in the Russia-comms, as I've pointed out before on the Brief. (Burning Bright also has a soft-spot for the Daggers, as they are big into MMA.) Dagestan is, historically, a Muslim region of southern Russia. However, it also has a fairly large Jewish, as well as Orthodox Christian population.
On the same day that the State Department decided to drop cluster bombs (an illegal munition) on innocent families playing on the beach—which killed a bunch of children—ISIS suddenly decided to make its dramatic return, attacking an Orthodox church and two synagogues, killing 20 people and injuring another 25.
ISIS. As in the mercenary group created by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, under President Obama, that was completely destroyed in a joint effort by President Trump and President Putin back in 2019.
And these shameless liars want us to believe that this re-emerged ISIS cell isn't in any way connected to the former Obama administration or the CIA?
Moving on to this other murderous event conducted by the State Department, back on January 24, an Ilyushin Il-76M aircraft carrying Ukrainian prisoners-of-war back to Russia was shot down, killing all 65 POW's and 9 Russians on board. Russian authorities have compiled the pieces of both the airplane and two missiles, and using forensic analysis have determined that the two projectiles were MIM-104 Patriot missiles—an American munition.
Is the State Department going to suggest that the Ukrainian military shot down a prisoner plane carrying their own troops?
The bloodlust of the State Department is simply breathtaking. That despicable agency is America's greatest liability, because they are giving the world's powers every reason to go to war with the United States.
Perhaps that is exactly their intent? — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
Justin Trudeau gets a wakeup call
The heat just cranked up on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, following a surprise defeat to his party’s candidate in a special election for a seat long considered safe.
The staggering loss that comes amid Canada’s affordability crisis and swelling desire for political change will only amp up the pressure on Trudeau to resign for the good of his party.
The Liberals suffered a major blow to the Conservatives in the one-off race, losing the urban stronghold seat in Toronto — St. Paul’s that it had held since 1993.
Trudeau’s agony places him in the company of a long list of sinking incumbent governments around the world who left the global pandemic with one foot in the political grave, from U.K. Tory PM Rishi Sunak on track to get obliterated next week, to France’s Emmanuel Macron scrambling for survival and President Joe Biden in a dogfight against Donald Trump. — Politico
Our Take: Justin Trudeau is being pressured to leave, by the end of summer, to allow enough time for syrup-eating leftists to pick a different candidate for Mountie in Chief before next year’s election.
Sounds familiar.
It’s so bad up in America’s hat, that David Cochrane, a CBC host, pressed Trudeau on whether he ‘accepts that he is the main reason his party is struggling so badly.’
Trudeau’s response is detached from reality, affirms the rise of global populism, and laughably clout-hypes the G7.
‘I was talking about this with other leaders at the G7 and in Switzerland at the peace conference for Ukraine,’ he said. ‘Everywhere, people are struggling with high inflation, cost of living issues, interest rates, housing challenges, childcare challenges — all these things. We are doing better than many countries. [That] doesn’t make a difference to someone who can’t pay for their groceries, but people everywhere are facing a certain amount of frustration.’
Read the room, eh?
All those things are the fault of the G7, Justin Trudeau, and the global handlers, but Trudeau wants prospective Canadian voters to believe those things just happened. Inexplicably, he wants his electorate to believe that the super serious world leaders — statesmen like himself and Joe Biden — are totally going to fix the world they broke.
I don’t think the regime can replace Biden. I’m very curious as to whether they can replace Trudeau. — Ashe in America
Saudi Arabia Set to Become World’s Biggest Construction Market
Saudi Arabia is set to become the world’s largest construction market as the kingdom pours vast amounts of money into projects aimed at overhauling and diversifying the economy, according to real estate consultancy group Knight Frank.
The country’s total construction output value is forecast to reach $181.5 billion by the end of 2028, up almost 30% from 2023 levels, the London-based firm said in a research report published Monday.
Much of that is likely to come from residential property and so-called giga projects, alongside other developments that form part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s mission to transform the oil-dependent economy. The plan, known as Vision 2030, will need to cater for a growing population to succeed, as well as an expected influx of foreign tourists.
“We are currently witnessing a historical transformation unfolding in Saudi Arabia with construction projects standing out in their design scale and value,” said Mohamed Nabil, regional partner and head of project and development services for the Middle East and North Africa at Knight Frank.
Since the Vision 2030 initiative was introduced eight years ago, Saudi Arabia has launched projects with a value of more than $1.25 trillion, according to Knight Frank’s research. — Bloomberg
Our Take: If you build it, they will come.
The first time MBS visited the White House was in September 2015, accompanying his father, King Salman. At that point, Salman had been king for less than eight months, and MBS was merely the Defense Minister—a role that is not necessarily seen as important by DC warmongers, considering Saudi's reliance on US military aid.
MBS was a young man of 30, likely closer in age to the pages and aides than any of the decision-makers in the room. (Surely, the Deep State cronies viewed him as a product of nepotism, dismissing him as too young to be consequential.) He caught everybody by surprise when he spoke out of turn, expressing his frustration over the Iran Nuclear Deal that had just been signed two months earlier.
The King had traveled to DC to discuss this specific issue, but nobody expected his young son to play lead negotiator.
Obama retorted with a criticism of Wahhabism, pivoting to his favorite talking points, accusing the Saudis of exporting the radical ideology across the world. MBS told the president that he did not know what he was talking about, offering to provide a Saudi scholar to tutor Obama, so he could be more informed the next time he discussed the issue in public.
The room was reportedly silent, as everybody's jaw was on the floor.
That evening, Secretary of State John Kerry hosted an elegant dinner party at his Georgetown home. By then, people had asked around and learned that the king's son was a bit of a homebody, refusing all offers to attend prestigious schools in Europe and the US, like all of his cousins and older half-brothers. The DC elites likely wrote him off as a desert savage, lacking refinement and pedigree.
Without asking permission, MBS calmly approached Kerry's baby grand piano, sat down, and performed a rendition of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata that was so moving, it left the socialites speechless. The young prince explained that he could play a number of classical compositions, and was entirely self-taught.
Lacking refinement, indeed.
As CIA-shill Ben Hubbard explains in his hatchet-piece-biography of MBS, during that same meeting the young prince broke into a long-winded rant about his Vision 2030, a pet project destined to transform Arabia into the cultural capital of the world. Obama was unimpressed, dismissing the diatribe as nothing more than a filibuster intended to distract from more nefarious schemes. (Obama is an idiot.)
MBS broke into a similar rant when he met with President Trump on March 20, 2018, in a televised press conference to announce an enhanced Saudi-US partnership.
Trump loved the rant. (I imagine it took him back to the days of dreaming up the first Trump Tower.)
During the Royal Purge, MBS seized control of both Alwaleed bin Talal's Kingdom Holdings—a $12B investment fund—and the Bin Laden Group, the largest construction firm in Arabia. He recruited an accomplished Dubai-based developer, Faisal bin Farhan, to serve as his Foreign Minister, and help sell his Vision to the world's investors. He also made contact with Jared Kushner, using back-channels, before Trump was even inaugurated, making sure that the ascending President would receive a king's welcome when he visited Riyadh in the months ahead.
These are all signs that MBS was not merely filibustering to Obama. The morons in the State Department wrote this guy off as a hot-headed nepo baby, and boy has he proven them wrong. They never saw him coming, and that's probably why he has been so successful. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
Cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure predicted to increase
Mark Edwards, chief information security officer at Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) has predicted that cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure are likely to increase due to global conflict.
Speaking at the NHS Confed Expo in Manchester on 12 June 2024, Edwards said that it was “widely acknowledged” that “the first thing that’s going happen is there’s going to be an increase in cyber attacks”.
He added that the attacks “won’t be to just ransom or extort money,” but will be aimed at causing disruption and bringing systems down.
His comments followed the ransomware attack on Synnovis, which has caused disruption to pathology systems in south east London and led to thousands of appointments being cancelled.
Edwards told the conference that it was important to be “not only mindful of our own security but supply chain security”. — Digital Health
Our Take: For the last few years and change, the establishment has been seeding the idea of cyber attacks on critical American infrastructure not just as a possibility, but as an inevitability.
What's more, they already seem to know exactly who's going to commit such attacks, with recent headlines pointing the preemptive finger at China and Russia, whom the Deep State have clearly seeded into the Collective Mind as the "New Axis," drawing into their orbit such hives of villainy as North Korea and Saudi Arabia.
Kash Patel recently answered a Continuity of Government/Devolution question at an open panel by redirecting the question toward the Biden Administration, wondering aloud what they might try along that track to interfere with the 2024 election.
From where I'm sitting, patriots are giving us hints as to where the Story is going: the regime is beta testing the Palpatine Paradigm, in which they refuse to cede power under the guise of foreign interference.
"Think Mirror."
What a movie. — Burning Bright
BONUS ITEMS
Trump Can Now Criticize Witnesses Who Testified Against Him, Judge Rules
A judge on Tuesday loosened a gag order on Donald J. Trump in his Manhattan criminal case, allowing the former president to criticize witnesses who took the stand against him as well as others involved in the trial that led to his conviction.
The judge, Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Mr. Trump’s seven-week trial this spring, ruled that Mr. Trump is now free to complain about the prosecution’s witnesses, including his former fixer, Michael D. Cohen. Once Mr. Trump is sentenced on July 11, the judge ruled, he can publicly assail others who are currently covered by the gag order, including prosecutors and their relatives.
Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is still subject to a different order prohibiting him from releasing the identities of jurors, or publicly attacking them by name.
But under Justice Merchan’s ruling, Mr. Trump can now complain broadly about the jury that convicted him. The judge appeared conflicted about his decision involving the jury on Tuesday, writing that “it would be this court’s strong preference to extend those protections,” but he said that he felt the law required him to drop the restrictions. — The New York Times
Kenya Protesters Storm Parliament, Police Fire Live Rounds, After Lawmakers Unleash Eco-Austerity
The Kenyan capital of Nairobi has descended into violence and mayhem as large street protests by Kenyans outraged at new tax policies and a harsh 'Eco-Austerity' program imposed by the government have resulted in the parliament building being set on fire.
Legislators are evacuating after the anti-tax protesters initially breached parliament. They quickly overwhelmed police soon after the lawmakers voted to pass a bill which introduces new nationwide taxes, including an eco-levy which raises the price of basic goods such as diapers, as part of efforts to curb waste management and be more environmentally friendly.
The new taxes were tucked away in Kenya’s Finance Bill 2024, and directly impacts imports, prices, and sales of diapers, batteries/dry cells, smartphones, earphones, clocks, radios, TV sets, cameras... staplers, printers, calculators, photocopying machines, keyboards, mice, projectors and LCD monitors.
The stringent Eco Levy especially impacts those who intend to import plastics into the Kenyan market, imposing a hefty fee per kilo on the products.
Protesters have been shouting while entering parliament, "We’re coming for every politician." There are widespread reports that police have begun utilizing live fire against the throngs, also amid riot control measures such as tear-gas.
Currently, President William Ruto is outside the capital attending an African Union event, but he's tried to strike a conciliatory tone, praising the enthusiasm of the youth - who are by and large the backbone of the demonstrations. — ZeroHedge
Hillary Clinton: ‘Waste of time’ to try to refute Trump arguments in debate
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it would be a “waste of time” to attempt to debunk former President Trump’s arguments in a debate.
Clinton explained in an opinion piece, published Tuesday in The New York Times, that she is the only person to have debated both President Biden and Trump, adding that she knows “the excruciating pressure of walking onto that stage.” She debated Biden when he was a senator during the 2008 Democratic primary and debated Trump three times during the 2016 presidential election.
“It is a waste of time to try to refute Mr. Trump’s arguments like in a normal debate,” she wrote. “It’s nearly impossible to identify what his arguments even are. He starts with nonsense and then digresses into blather This has gotten only worse in the years since we debated.”
“I was not surprised that after a recent meeting, several chief executives said that Mr. Trump, as one journalist described it, ‘could not keep a straight thought’ and was ‘all over the map,'” Clinton continued. “Yet expectations for him are so low that if he doesn’t literally light himself on fire on Thursday evening, some will say he was downright presidential.” — The Hill
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“The bloodlust of the State Department is simply breathtaking. That despicable agency is America's greatest liability, because they are giving the world's powers every reason to go to war with the United States.
Perhaps that is exactly their intent?” — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
Working hand in hand with the CIA
Did Hunter Biden ever “practice” law anyway?????? I think he only practiced breaking the law!! Along with his dad and other criminal minions👹