Badlands News Brief
The Peacemaker, Disney & the Deep State
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 the Tuesday, March 28 …
Trump says he would ‘solve’ war in Ukraine in 24 hours if reelected
Former President Trump in a new interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity claimed he would “solve” Russia’s yearlong war in Ukraine in 24 hours if he’s reelected to the White House, but he didn’t offer details.
“If it’s not solved, I will have it solved in 24 hours with Zelensky and with Putin,” Trump told Hannity, referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“And there’s a very easy negotiation to take place. But I don’t want to tell you what it is because then I can’t use that negotiation; it’ll never work. But it’s a very easy negotiation to take place. I will have it solved within one day, a peace between them. Now that’s a year and a half. That’s a long time. I can’t imagine something not happening,” Trump added.
“The key is the war has to stop now because Ukraine is being obliterated.” — The Hill
Our Take: “When you reframe Trump's solutions from things he would be proposing TO uncooperative parties to things he would be revealing WITH cooperative parties ... things make a lot more sense, and you get comfy cozy knowing Trump the Peacemaker is not an IF ... but a WHEN.” — Burning Bright
Many Americans Likely In for Tax Refund Disappointment: Survey
A recent survey of taxpayers shows a large number of Americans anticipated a tax refund that is either the same size or larger than last year’s.
The survey, released by tax-preparing software firm TaxAct this month, showed that only about 30 percent of Americans anticipated “receiving less of a refund on their 2022 returns” despite recent warnings from the Internal Revenue Service and other tax experts. Another 24 percent said in the survey that they “don’t know what to expect.”
The smaller refunds come as many Americans are saving less and are increasingly expressing worry about decades-high inflation, according to a TaxAct release. Tax experts have said that federal government pandemic programs as well as tax credits have ended for many. — The Epoch Times
Our Take: “The international banking cabal has triggered its bust phase of the boom and bust cycle—an artificial cycle produced by the inflationary nature of the monetary system as designed by the same international bankers. Think: Monetary Musical chairs.
The fact that the IRS can arbitrarily decide whether or not refunds are high or low, to a certain extent, is itself a sobering thing to consider. The tax system was designed, as it almost always is within oligarch controlled nations, to be vague enough to allow the benefactors (the globalists) to benefit therefrom. The system can't be simple, or it would be hard to hide cheating.
The benefit, or purpose of a tax system, is to drain wealth from the general population (the slaves), and provide advantages to the oligarchs (the elite masters). By slaves, I don't mean in a woke sense. I mean that the wealth we produce with our labor is disproportionately re-distributed to an elite, which comparatively contributes little to the system they derive so much benefit from.
Hopefully, the pain normies feel in their wallets due to the reduction in refunds will have the effect of activating citizens.” — Justin Deschamps
SBF Charged With Funneling $40M In Crypto To Bribe CCP Officials
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have hit FTX founder Sam Bankman Fried ("SBF") with a new 13-count indictment accusing him of funneling $40 million in cryptocurrency to 'one or more' Chinese government officials, in order to "influence and induce them" to unfreeze Alameda Research trading accounts holding over $1 billion in crypto.
He is accused of conspiring to violate anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “The framing of this is pretty dasting when you consider the order of events/flow of money.
Most financial scandals involving China that have been reported on in the last few years have seen the Chinese party as the alleged criminal origin point.
Bribes go both ways, and the Deep State is everywhere.” — Burning Bright
Disney layoffs will begin this week, CEO Bob Iger says in memo
Disney will begin layoffs this week, the first of three rounds before the beginning of the summer that result in about 7,000 job cuts, according to a memo sent by Chief Executive Bob Iger.
The cuts are part of a broader effort to reduce corporate spending and boost free cash flow. Disney said last month it plans to cut $5.5 billion in costs, including $3 billion in content spend.
“This week, we begin notifying employees whose positions are impacted by the company’s workforce reductions,” Iger wrote in the memo, which was obtained by CNBC. “Leaders will be communicating the news directly to the first group of impacted employees over the next four days. A second, larger round of notifications will happen in April with several thousand more staff reductions, and we expect to commence the final round of notifications before the beginning of the summer to reach our 7,000-job target.”
The layoffs were initially announced in February. The job cuts will be cross-company, hitting Disney’s media and distribution division, parks and resorts, and ESPN.
Disney is following the lead of Warner Bros. Discovery and other legacy media companies that are cutting jobs and spending. Disney has said its streaming business, led by Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+, will stop losing money in 2024. Disney shares are up about 8% this year after falling 44% last year. — NBC News
Our Take: “Some time ago, I speculated that the overriding WHY of Operation Warp Speed as it concerns the Patriots' economic plans was to usher in an era that inverted the Deep State's financial Hegelian Dialectic.
I believe we're transitioning from an era of 'Too Big to Fail' to its opposite.
And I believe we're starting to see that in the form of both financial and corporate consolidation.
Consolidation comes before Collapse.” — Burning Bright
Bombshell Vax Analysis Finds $147 Billion In Economic Damage, Tens Of Millions Injured Or Disabled
A new report estimates that 26.6 million people were injured, 1.36 million disabled, and 300,000 excess deaths can be attributed to COVID-19 vaccine damages in 2022 alone, which cost the economy nearly $150 billion.
Research firm Phinance Technologies, founded and operated by former Blackrock portfolio manager Ed Dowd, Yuri Nunes (PhD Physics, MSc Mathematics) and Carlos Alegria (PhD Physics, Finance), split the impact of the vaccines into four broad categories to estimate the human costs associated with the Covid-19 vaccine; no effect or asymptomatic, those who sustained injuries (mild-to-moderate outcome), those who became disabled (severe outcome), and death (extreme outcome). Data on vaccine disabilities and injuries comes directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), while the excess death figures are derived from official figures on deaths in the US via two different methods (methodology here).
It's important to note that people in one category (injured, for example) can move into latter categories of severity - which this analysis does not take into consideration. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “I’ve asserted for quite some time that, while it may pale in comparison to the Crimes Against Children truths that many of us believe/know nest at the heart of the war against the Globalist Deep State, the COVID-19 Scamdemic is one of the greatest and most coordinated—and damaging—PsyActs ever perpetrated on the American—and worldwide—populations.
While this is hardly a good thing, the fact that every man, woman and child you know was either directly or indirectly affected by vaccine mandates, government overreach or social brainwashing and strife as a result of said brainwashing means the resultant Narrative Whiplash will hit that much hard—and be that much more effective—when it comes around, providing fertile psychological ground to push the throttle down on the Great Awakening.” — Burning Bright
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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Another sad outcome from the Covid Plandemic was the suicide's that occurred! My family had a nephew's 18 year old son commit suicide and a close family friend's brother! I remember articles that mentioned the percentage of suicides was up!
I really enjoy your synopsis of events. Thank you.