Badlands News Brief

Leak Shenanigans, Trump Seeds & Woke Broke

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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 Thursday, April 13 …

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Air Guardsman Arrested in Connection With Leaked Documents

21-year-old National Guardsman Jack Teixeira has been arrested in connection with the leak of hundreds of classified documents, according to the Washington Examiner and several other outlets.

Teixeira was identified by the NY Times ahead of his arrest at his home in Dighton, Mass Thursday afternoon. Television footage appeared to show armed personnel leading a male wearing red shorts and a green short with his hands cuffed behind his back, the WSJ reports.

“Two police cruisers from the town of Dighton were blocking the road near a residence associated with Mr. Teixeira. They declined to speak about why they had blocked the road. A row of people who say they lived on the street were waiting to pass.

One neighbor said the police began blocking off the street around noon. At least one vehicle outside the police blockade had U.S. government license plates." — ZeroHedge, sourcing the Wall Street Journal

Our Take: “Symbolism matters.

The details surrounding the Pentagon leak, and the reaction by the government and media, suggest, in my mind, that this could be a white hat operation. Or, at the very least, the leak is indicative of the sentiment within the young population of military-minded citizens. 

First point: Jack Teixeira was arrested as a suspect in the leak. Teixeira is a last name that refers to ‘a derivative of Portuguese and Galician teixo 'yew tree'.’ A Yew Tree is a sacred tree of the Druids, traditionally growing in the British Isles.

Second point: ‘Yew trees were used as symbols of immortality, but also seen as omens of doom. For many centuries, it was the custom for yew branches to be carried on Palm Sunday and at funerals. In Ireland, it was said that yew was ‘the coffin of the vine’, as wine barrels were made of yew staves.’ (Source)

Third point: Jack is a British name meaning, ‘God is gracious.’

Together, the leaker's name implies some interesting meanings. The media coverage of the story has shifted several times, which is usually indicative of an evolving narrative situation. Organic events require spin, which forces the meaning of the event to fit into a narrative for use in the globalist agenda.

Conversely, manufactured events are usually presented singularly by the media—the story is set quickly after it happens. Case in point: within days of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, Islamic Terrorists were named, new legislation was brought forward and lock-step media, government, and institutional reactions were advanced. 

Whether or not the leak was a white hat op, it did deal a blow to the false media coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.” — Justin Deschamps

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Trump 'Laying Groundwork' for Deal on Ukraine, Russian State TV Claims

Russian state television has claimed Donald Trump is "laying the groundwork" for the U.S. to make a deal to help end the war in Ukraine.

During an episode of the 60 Minutes program, host Evgeny Popov discussed the former president's recent interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson.

During the interview, Trump suggested that Ukraine "cannot win" the war with Russia, while also appearing to suggest the U.S. should stop sending military aid to Kyiv.

"Putin, very smart. Now, he's had, probably a bad year," Trump said. "If he took over all of Ukraine what are we going to do because Biden is so committed to Ukraine. What happens if it's not a winnable war?

"There are people that say Ukraine cannot win. You can't beat Russia…Russia right now is making massive amounts of ammunition, beyond anything they've ever made before. We don't have any ammunition. We've given it to Ukraine."

While playing segments of Trump's interview, Popov said the former president had proposed that the U.S. "surrender" and stop assisting Ukraine's fight against Russia.

"According to Trump, America is tired of fighting Russia," Popov said. "Western politicians imposed more sanctions on Russia than they did against Iran and North Korea put together.

"They promised everyone a quick victory and the crash of Russia's economy. Instead, the bank system in the U.S. is falling apart and the European economy is falling into recession.

"According to Trump, Moscow has already won the economic war. Republicans understand they will have to make a deal, and Donald is laying the groundwork." — Newsweek

Our Take: “Some of you folks probably wonder why we often select known MSM shill sites as ‘sources’ for the Badlands News Brief.

For me, I think it’s often more valuable to take a look at the current Game Theory Game Board through the lens of the obfuscation and control network of the Media Industrial Complex. For those of us writing about and reading about the Info War in an active manner, we can often learn more from reading false Narrative Deployments than we can in reading those who agree with us.

Here, Newsweek is adopting a mocking tone toward what they call, ‘Russian State TV,’ which is advancing the same talking points as … Donald Trump.

Trump has told us there will need to be a peacemaker to deal with this period of escalation and acceleration. And myself and others at Badlands have been arguing for over a year that he will do just that, when the time is right, because we’re watching a plan unfold.” — Burning Bright

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Tucker Carlson raged against Trump in private. But in interview with the former president he took a very different tone

Tucker Carlson plays a straight-shooter on television.

From his prime time perch on Fox News, Carlson portrays himself to his loyal audience of millions as a truth-teller, someone who tells it like it is and calls out BS from whoever peddles it.

But it is all an act, as evidenced by his weak excuse for an interview with former President Donald Trump that aired on Tuesday night, Trump’s first since being indicted on dozens of felony counts of business fraud.

Carlson sat silent as Trump rambled and ranted his way through the sit-down, making a number of eyebrow-raising comments on a host of topics that were never challenged by the right-wing talk host. Carlson made no effort to press the disgraced president on any of the issues that an actual news anchor would.

Instead, Carlson sang Trump’s praises. — CNN

Our Take: “I've been and will continue to be highly critical and suspicious of FOX News and all MSM platforms.

That said, Tucker's been on fire of late, his show opens and editorialized rants are trending closer and closer to the current timeline Anons are on rather than following us 18 months back, and Trump is clearly leveraging the platform he's built to reach a massive segment of 'Normie MAGA,' who need to be educated on the nuances of foreign policy almost as much as the Left.

Net Effects are the name of the game, and what I tend to pay attention to most.

That said, it IS pretty fun watching MSM rags self destruct as they attempt to cancel one another while the new media and new era of citizen journalism rises to replace them.” — Burning Bright

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Lula Backs BRICS Currency to Replace Dollar in Foreign Trade

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called on BRICS nations to come up with an alternative to replace the dollar in foreign trade, supporting China’s crusade against US global dominance just as he prepares to meet with President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Lula’s remarks were made on Thursday during a visit to the Shanghai-based New Development Bank, an institution created by BRICS countries, which, along with Brazil and China, include Russia, India and South Africa. Former Brazil President Dilma Rousseff is the bank’s new chief executive. — Bloomberg

Our Take: “Paradigms (even those contrived and enforced by the Military Industrial Complex of the zombified Deep State version of the Globalist West) shift very slowly ... and then all at once.

For any who've been underestimating the growing power of the BRICS economies in relation to the G7 (us,) the inflection point occurred during the engineered COVID Scamdemic.

The idea that this economic transition is a planned demolition of the Petrodollar & Globalist West isn't hopium or conspiracy.

Chart from Whiteboard Finance on YouTube

It's math.” — Burning Bright

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Anheuser-Busch Loses $6BN In Six Days After Trans Ad Campaign That Top Execs Never Approved

After reaching a three-year high of $66.73 per share, Bud Light parent company Anheuser Busch Inbev lost more than $6 billion in market cap since announcing its partnership with 26-year-old transgender 'influencer' Dylan Mulvaney on April 2, as bar owners and distributors report a sharp decline in Bud Light sales over the past week.

The company's market cap fell as low as $125.7 billion, down from $132.8 billion six days ago, a drop of more than five-percent.

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Bud Light's partnership with Mulvaney included custom cans featuring his face and pro-LGBTQ language to commemorate the biological male's 'being a woman' for over a year. The ad campaign kicked off with naked Mulvaney drinking Bud Light in a bathtub.

And while Anheuser-Busch issued a statement in support of Mulvaney, saying it "works with hundreds of influencers across our brands as one of many ways to authentically connect with audiences across various demographics," the Daily Wire reports that company executives had no idea about the ad campaign. — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “While I think some of the Trans magnification is low-hanging fruit (make your jokes ... I'll approve,) I do think one of the significant Net Effects to emerge from the Bud Lite backlash isn't so much about the Trans Agenda, but more so Joe Six Pack beginning to understand that he and his buddies can have a massive impact on a major Fortune 500 company not by taking action ... but by NOT taking action.

In order to destroy [their] System of Systems, all you have to do is not take part in it.” — Burning Bright

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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.