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GART, 9/11 & Deep State Billionaires

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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.

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 Weekend that Was …

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Anheuser-Busch Transitions Into Damage Control Mode - And People Aren't Buying It

After rolling out a Bud Light ad campaign featuring flamboyant transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney - whose ditzy caricature of a woman mocks decades of actual progress by feminists (who have apparently been wokeshamed into silence), Anheuser-Busch's damage control team kicked into action on Friday after the Mulvaney ad sparked a massive backlash.

"We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people," said Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Brendan Whitworth in a carefully crafted, heavily focus-grouped press release which failed to mention Mulvaney, Bud Light, or transgender issues. "We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer."

"I care deeply about this country, this company, our brands and our partners. I spend much of my time traveling across America, listening to and learning from our customers, distributors and others," the statement continued. "Moving forward, I will continue to work tirelessly to bring great beers to consumers across our nation."

Translation: Let's all forget about this over a beer. — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “Anheuser-Busch is as American as Barack Obama. It's owned by a multinational conglomerate based in Belgium.

Re: Mulvaney Marketing Crisis, execs are being quoted as saying this campaign was NOT approved by senior management. Do we have ghosts in the machine in more places than we know?

Either they're lying, in which case they're woke idiots, or they're telling the truth, and someone went rogue, making a move that has cost the company billions in stock valuation and MUCH more in brand damage.” — Burning Bright

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Fusion GPS-Linked Democrat Mega-Donor Bankrolls Trump’s ‘Rape’ Accuser, Considers Backing DeSantis in GOP Primaries

Democrat mega-donor Reid Hoffman – who became a billionaire by founding business networking website LinkedIn – is bankrolling the former Elle magazine advice columnist who accuses Donald Trump of raping her in a New York department store nearly 30 years ago.

Hoffman, 55, has told New York Magazine‘s Kara Swisher: “The short answer is I will spend as much as I possibly can and it takes and is effective [to beat Trump].”

This could involve aiding other GOP primary candidates, reports Puck News, to the point where Hoffman and his cohorts are investigating state primary rules, as well as the idea of supporting anti-Trump, right-leaning media. The issue was discussed at length in a late March podcast by the new, D.C.-based news site.

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Carroll has previously denied receiving outside funding for her litigation, but her attorney Roberta Kaplan has now conceded to Trump lawyer Alina Habba that the fired agony aunt “remembered just recently that she had been told at some point about outside funding by a nonprofit and that it was irrelevant to her claim anyway”.

Consequently, Habba wrote to the judge overseeing the lawsuit, Lewis Kaplan, raising significant concerns as to “the plaintiff’s bias and motive in commencing the [litigation]”.

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“Hoffman is one of the largest donors to the Democratic party—reportedly ‘one of the most influential Democratic donors of the Trump era’ — and a vocal critic of Defendant and his political policies,” Habba argued.

“In fact, Hoffman is on record stating that he would ‘spend as much as [he] possibly can’ to avoid another Trump presidency, saying it would be ‘destructive to our society,’ and, since 2017, has reportedly been ‘funding groups to create a bulwark against Mr. Trump’s agenda.’

“Previously, Hoffman contributed more than $600,000 to the legal defense fund of Bean LLC — otherwise known as Fusion GPS, the company responsible for the creation of the Steele Dossier — and was the primary source of funding for an organization that launched an ‘elaborate false flag’ operation which involved spreading misinformation about a Republican senatorial candidate in the hopes that it would cost him the senatorial election,” Habba noted. — The National Pulse

But wait … there’s more … from January 10, 2020:

A new MIT report on Jeffrey Epstein raises questions about how much to blame billionaires like Bill Gates

That brings us to another Silicon Valley luminary who has apologized over Epstein: Reid Hoffman. The LinkedIn founder and political powerbroker has his own ties to Epstein through the Media Lab, where he sits on the advisory board. Hoffman helped raise money for the Media Lab, which involved fundraising solicitation meetings with the sex offender.

“By agreeing to participate in any fundraising activity where Epstein was present, I helped to repair his reputation and perpetuate injustice. For this, I am deeply regretful,” Hoffman said.

Hoffman has said that he vouched for Epstein because Ito told him Epstein had cleared MIT’s vetting process. He even went so far as to bring Epstein out to Palo Alto in 2015 for a dinner with people like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel. (Reminder: Epstein had been convicted on child prostitution charges for seven years by this point.)

That was the last time that Hoffman saw Epstein. But as recently as last August, Hoffman was standing up strongly for Ito and his handling of the Epstein situation. It took Hoffman until Farrow’s story in September to apologize.

And this new report from MIT makes clear that Hoffman and Epstein had other interactions over the years. In July 2013, Epstein visited the MIT campus to meet with Hoffman and others. And Hoffman continued to be consulted on Epstein matters.

“In July 2016, Ito sought advice from Reid Hoffman about whether to allow Epstein to attend a conference (perhaps the announcement of the Media Lab Directors’ Fellows) with “lots of people” who may “see him and maybe know he’s involved,” the authors write.

What they don’t write is what Hoffman actually advised Ito. That’s one of many things we still need to know to fully account for Silicon Valley’s complicity in the Epstein saga. — VOX

Our Take: “Isn't it interesting that so many former Epstein associates are also anti-Trump?

Funny, that.

We should probably keep tabs on who this guy donates to in the upcoming election season, both on the Dem and GOP sides.” — Just Human

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Brazil's president wants to end dollar dominance and backs calls for BRICS nations to use their own currency

Brazil's president urged BRICS countries to develop a new currency and move away from the dollar.

That comes as Brazil and China strengthen ties, recently agreeing to use the yuan in cross-border trade.

However, analysts see de-dollarization as unlikely, given the lack of good replacements. — MSN

Badlands Media Sponsor and Financial Analyst Dr. Kirk Elliott Weighs in: “Within the last 2 years, the news about the shifting from the US dollar to alternative trade agreements has accelerated.

In the past, major headlines regarding this world-changing trend would happen on a monthly basis. Now it's daily. Just this week the president of Brazil has called for the end of USD trade dominance. Now Mexico, one of the United States' biggest trade partners, is considering joining the BRICS.

Check out this infographic to show just how important Mexico is to US trade. It would be wise to anticipate where this is going and get ahead of it with your personal career, finances, and business.”

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Pentagon Leaks: New Twists in a Familiar Plot

In the leaked American intelligence documents, Ukraine’s predicament looks dire.

Missiles for its Soviet-era air defenses are projected to run out by May. Its position in the key city of Bakhmut is “catastrophic.” Its military has taken losses of more than 120,000 dead and wounded — less than Russia’s estimated toll, but enormous for a country with less than one third of Russia’s population.

Yet in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, this past week, there was little palpable alarm about the scores of pages of classified documents that have surfaced in one of the most remarkable disclosures of American secrets in the last decade. In fact, some welcomed the leak, hoping that it would emphasize what President Volodymyr Zelensky has been saying for months — that Ukraine urgently needs more ammunition and weapons to expel the Russian forces.

“From many points of view, this leak is really useful, and good, even I can say good for Ukraine,” said Oleksiy Honcharenko, a member of Parliament in the opposition European Solidarity party.

He said that unless Ukraine’s Western backers rushed to provide more than what he called “incremental’’ support, then “everything can go to waste, because so much is at stake today.” — The New York Times

Our Take: “The Leaks Scandal is the latest in a long line that furthers the idea that examining the Net Effects of deployments (political, legal, military and even economic) leads one to be able to form fairly accurate, or at least useful directional thoughts in the midst of the engineered chaos of the Information War.

BOTH patriots and globalists are using 5GW obfuscation techniques at all times, and for good reason.

White hat-black hat games are stimulating, but of lesser importance than Net Effects.

And while the Media Industrial Complex is attempting to spin these leaks as somehow being GOOD news for the war effort of Ukraine (cough, NATO) against Russia, anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows it can only serve to further anti-war sentiment in the West, and decrease financial and military backing for the ‘resistance’ to Russia’s Special Military Operation.

In the end, Ukraine will come to the table and negotiate peace with Russia, much to the chagrin of their Globalist masters, and these leaks are a part of the path of driving the narrative in that direction.” — Burning Bright

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Ex-FBI agents accuse top CIA, FBI officials of 9/11 coverup; CIA said to use Saudis, others for illegal domestic spy operations

Weeks before 9/11, an angry New York FBI agent nearly “came over the table” at CIA officials who were blocking him from obtaining intelligence about two al Qaeda terrorists who would soon take part in hijacking an American Airlines passenger jet and crashing it into the Pentagon.

“Someone is going to die,” the counterterrorism agent wrote in a bitter email shortly after the 2001 encounter.

That astonishing account, and many others, are contained in a sworn declaration by Donald Canestraro, an investigator for the Office of Military Commissions, part of the Department of Defense’s Military Commissions Defense Organization. It is dated July 20, 2021.

Canestraro said in a brief interview with Florida Bulldog that he is part of the defense team for Guantanamo detainee Ammar al-Baluchi, a Pakistani citizen who is awaiting trial with four other men accused of planning the 9/11 attacks. His declaration includes the results of his interviews with 11 ex-FBI agents, 2 ex-CIA agents, a CNN investigative journalist, former deputy National Security Advisor Richard Clarke and former Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), co-chair of Congress’s Joint Inquiry into 9/11.

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It is nevertheless remarkable for its accounts supporting the veracity of long public, yet highly disturbing allegations that top CIA officials, including Director George Tenet, intentionally withheld vital intelligence from the FBI that might have prevented the Sept. 11, 2001 al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington. Specifically, that known operatives and future hijackers Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar had entered the U.S. in Los Angeles shortly after attending an al Qaeda summit meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in early January 2000.

The new accounts, mostly obtained during interviews in 2016 and 2018, flesh out that narrative. They also support the ominous theory, never fully explored by either the 9/11 Commission or Congress, that the CIA kept silent because it was secretly working hand in glove with its Saudi Arabian counterpart to recruit Hazmi and Mihdhar as informants. — Florida Bulldog

Our Take: “The 22-page report states that the CIA ‘used their liaison relationship with the Saudi Intelligence Services to conduct an operation on U.S. soil’ and that ‘the Saudis were used as a go between as the CIA is forbidden by law to conduct intelligence operations with the U.S.’

It also states that CIA officials hid this information from the FBI and after 9/11 the FBI in San Diego and HQ instructed agents testifying to Congress ‘not to reveal the full extent of Saudi involvement with Al-Qaeda.’

This maps well onto other independent investigations into CIA and Saudi involvement in 9/11, but this time you have a veteran of the DEA who has been hired as an investigator at the Military Commissions Defense Organization, which is under the Department of Defense, doing the investigating. The MCDO provides legal defense to 9/11 conspirators facing tribunals at Guantanamo Bay. Canestraro received discovery as part of his work and also conducted an investigation to try and give his client the best defense possible.

It's not the full story of 9/11, of course, but it does expose a significant strand of it.” — Just Human

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UN Wants to Decriminalize Sex Between Minors and Adults

The United Nations discreetly issued a report in March encouraging members of the UN to decriminalize sex between minors and adults.

The report is titled “The 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex Reproduction, Drug Use, HIV, Homelessness and Poverty.”

On page 22 of the report, the UN states, “With respect to the enforcement of criminal law, any prescribed minimum age of consent to sex must be applied in a non-discriminatory manner. Enforcement may not be linked to the sex/gender of participants or age of consent to marriage.”

The report continues, “Moreover, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law.” — The Gateway Pundit

Our Take: “Should adults be allowed to convince children to perform sex acts with them? The UN says yes.

If you needed further proof that the UN is a Godless institution working to reshape the world in the image of wokeness and sexual predation towards children, look no further; I think this just about seals it.

The aim here is to normalize pedophilia, and the first step has already been taken by pushing the term ‘minor attracted person’ or ‘MAP’ in place of ‘pedophile’ or ‘child molester.’ I don't know about you, but those terms seem pretty apt to me. It is interesting that we don't see the likes of, say, Joe Biden or the Royal Family getting too upset about this.

Next, we will see mandated NAMBLA-sponsored hiring quotas for MAPS and a whole month celebrating ‘child love’.

The bigger question here is this: why is the US still even involved in the UN? Between the UN and NATO, this country shells out an unreasonable amount of money, and for what? Look at where it has gotten us.

It is remarkable to me how fast this nation went from at least having the semblance of morality to swirling swiftly down the spiritual toilet, becoming a modern Sodom and Gomorrah. Protect our children. End US participation in globalist institutions.” — Ryan DeLarme

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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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