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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.
The pedo-loving propagandists at the once-great Rolling Stone are at it again, this time seemingly defending child traffickers with a scathing review of Jim Caviezel's anti-child-trafficking film, Sound of Freedom - which they described as a "QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking" which is "designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer."
Authored by pothead journalist Miles Klee, the review attacks Caviezel as "a prominent figure on the conspiracist right," and slams the actor's past claims over elite pedophile rings that kidnap, rape and murder children to harvest adrenochrome, a compound produced in the brain that reportedly contains psychedelic effects, as featured in the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Apparently Caviezel's beliefs invalidate the premise of the film, which was inspired by the very real work of Tim Ballard, founder of Operation Underground Railroad.
Klee writes of the film;
"It’s a stomach-turning experience, fetishizing the torture of its child victims and lingering over lush preludes to their sexual abuse. At times I had the uncomfortable sense that I might be arrested myself just for sitting through it..." [ZH: and why would that be, Miles?]
Back to reality, the Sound of Freedom currently enjoys a 99% user rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and 75% from 'Hollywood type' professional reviewers (if ya know what we mean). — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “While the audience has made Sound of Freedom the top picture in America, critics are aligned in disparaging and dismissing the film. From labeling the film ‘QAnon’ to calling its substance the stuff of conspiracy theories to suggesting that anyone who sees the film is a ‘boomer,’ the mockingbirds’ movie critics are pulling no punches. Their bottom line: Don’t see this film.
It’s not surprising that the megaphones of an American establishment that enables the trafficking and exploitation of children don’t want Americans to see a film about their most enterprising industry. Despite all their best efforts, people ARE awakening to the realities of trafficking, and Sound of Freedom is hastening the process.
Protecting children is not a partisan issue. The fact that media is attempting to paint a verifiably true story about the exploitation and rape of children as unimportant right wing propaganda says much more about the journalists and their publications than it does about the film. In fact, it speaks volumes.” —
Another Take: The release of the Angel Studios film the Sound of Freedom is acting like a perfect storm to expose the media, child sex trafficking, and may play a role in the eventual overthrow of the globalists.
The film has grossed over 2 million in ticket sales, and is being regarded as an unlikely hit of the summer, overtaking the new Indian Jones movie. Granted, that’s not saying much, considering the new Jones movie is yet another woke anthem of trash sequels from an industry that has been on life support for decades.
Tim Ballard’s work through Operation Underground Railroad is, without a doubt, exemplary.
He is humble, serves a higher power, sacrificed his ambition for wealth to pursue justice and do right by our neglected children, he knows about the insidious nature of the child trafficking network and has receipts to back it up, along with his accounts of some of the most horrific tragedies we can imagine, and some we can’t.
The film was apparently in the works for years, but no Hollywood studios would touch it. Serendipitously, if it did come out years ago, in say, 2018, the people of the world wouldn’t have been ready like they are now.
Since then, the Epstein scandal, the border crisis, and the trans agenda against our children have all emerged and have been thrust upon the world stage. The people were less aware of horrific institutional and industrial-scale child abuse back then. But it’s been exposed on a grand scale, making the premise of the Sound of Freedom seem a lot more believable to the average Joe.
The child abuse industry undeniably exists, evidenced by the sex-grooming nature of the education system, the complicit medical and psychology industries in supporting the mutilation of children, and the support of Big Tech that supplies the hand-held technologies that bypass parental gatekeepers to foist porn, propaganda, grooming, and fake news on our children.
For years, people have been asleep at the wheel regarding the lack of safety and care for our children. But something changed earlier this year. Bud Light pushback has made it clear that a line was crossed, and there’s no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.
Could the conditions insofar as the Overton Window be any better to expose industrial-scale child trafficking and abuse networks through a film like the Sound of Freedom? What will the people think of the MSM now that they trash a man who’s devoted his life to saving forgotten and kidnapped children?
If you’re familiar with the idea of white hats and Trump-aligned patriots tacking out the deep state via a careful exposition of corruption at a pace people can digest, then you might be thinking that there’s a case to be made for the fact the film might have been released to coordinate with the political warfare efforts of these same white hats. Is Ballard in on it? Or, is this just yet another mathematically-questionable coincidence?
I’ll let you think about that on your own.
Ballard has been attacked before, via the Atlantic, in a piece entitled: The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic. In it, they dubiously attempt to debunk child-sex trafficking as a QAnon conspiracy theory. Of course, they fail, utterly to provide facts or evidence, but that doesn’t stop them from convincing people of the lie.
Sound of Freedom has garnered similar MSM scorn. But this time, people are calling them out on it.
Here are some great examples:
The reaction is typical. And, odd as it may sound, a boon for the patriots and those who want to help children.
Why?
Because the media has been weaponized as propaganda machines—think the hands that make the shadow puppets in Plato’s cave.
The media has become a reality gatekeeper; most people are totally dependent on the media to tell them what is real and what is good and valuable.
The media is controlled by criminals of the highest order, who engage in sin for sin’s sake (Sabbateanism & Frankism), believing that the more sin they partake of, the faster the apocalypse and Luciferian sublunary redemption of the world will occur. Therefore, the elite must, at all costs, prevent the general population from becoming aware of their insidious appetites.
To do this, the very notion of a global child-sex trafficking network must be destroyed; this way, even if they came out themselves to the people of the world, the people wouldn’t believe them.
But the Sound of Freedom is exposing the sheer insanity of the establishment that claims it’s conspiracy theory. The people became aware of the magnitude of the trans-LGBTQ agenda, just enough so that most of the population is very distrusting of the MSM as a result. This response might be the nail in the coffin for the globalist-owned media machine.” —
And Another Take: “Can you tell this issue is important to the Badlands team?
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Sound of Freedom's success at the box office has to do with the backend connections to Disney.
Originally, the film was financed by a FOX subsidiary. After Disney bought 20th Century Fox, they reportedly 'shelved' the film indefinitely, prompting a years-long battle to reacquire the distribution rights by Angel Studios.
Now, it's supplanting recent Disney-produced tentpoles, including Indiana Jones.
And that's BEFORE you start thinking about the WHY of it all.
When you see the Media Industrial Complex going out of its way to flame a movie chronicling real-life child trafficking busts as Alt Right and QAnon-adjacent, just sit back and enjoy the show.
Guardians of the Pedophiles isn't some conspiracy-addled fever dream.
They've been in the shadows, and now they're being forced into the light.
We're not here to spread the truth to the sleepers. The enemy will do that for us with their attempts to obscure it.
To put it mildly, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no fan of Anthony Fauci.
The Democratic presidential candidate was asked in a recent interview about his criticism of Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, who became a national hero to some during the COVID pandemic.
“I think he was a genuinely bad human being,” Kennedy told podcaster Lex Fridman.
Fridman is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies machine learning, according to his website.
Fridman’s two-and-a-half-hour conversation with Kennedy covered a broad range of topics, including diet and exercise, God and religion, and Kennedy’s 14-year struggle with addiction, starting a year after his father’s death. — The Gateway Pundit
Our Take: “I've said from the beginning that, if nothing else, the RFK Jr. campaign will be worth all the time, effort, and money it requires to maintain if it provides a platform to raise awareness about vaccines, the health industry, and especially the truth about Anthony Fauci.
Strategically, it's genius.
General Michael Flynn warned that there will soon be a reset of both the financial system and the health system, what better time for RFK Jr., a man who can competently speak to shortcomings of the healthcare system, front and center as the primary challenger to Joe Biden in the 2024 primaries? This is why they are trying to make it seem like he isn't even running; this is why they are refusing to hold any debates.
It's going to be even more obvious and egregious than what the Democrat machine did to Bernie Sanders, and they have far more incentive because unlike Sanders, RFK Jr is a real threat, he actually posses a spine, and he has a major ax to grind with some big institutions.
Calling Fauci ‘A genuinely bad human being’ is certainly a nice way to put it. A criminal, having funded illegal gain of function research, and likely partly responsible for untold suffering and death. We remember the Nazi's Dr. Mengele as pure evil, but at least he was honest about what he was; Fauci has adversely affected more lives than Mengele by several orders of magnitude, and the left still treats him like a folk hero.” —
A DoJ official says the department is discussing delaying Hunter Biden's plea hearing – following a firestorm of 'sweetheart deal' allegations by whistleblowers and claims that the Attorney General lied to Congress about the Biden criminal probe.
On July 26 a Delaware federal judge is set to decide whether to accept the First Son's plea deal with prosecutors over two tax misdemeanors.
Republican lawmakers are calling for Judge Maryellen Noreika to toss out the 'slap on the wrist' and 'sweetheart' deal entirely, after whistleblowers from the IRS who investigated Hunter for five years say that he could instead have been charged with a raft of more serious tax and corruption crimes.
Now, a legal filing reveals the DoJ is considering delaying the finalizing of the plea deal amid the opprobrium. — The Daily Mail
Our Take: “The details of this story come from an anonymous DOJ official, so we need to consider that before getting too excited. Still, the idea that a federal judge is considering rejecting the laughable Hunter Biden plea deal feels like good news. Better news is that AG Garland may be in the hot seat for lying about the Biden criminal tax probe.
Could the tide be turning on justice in America?
Add to this ongoing claims from House Republicans that they are planning impeachment proceedings against Garland, and we may have ourselves a ball game. The criminal, weaponized Department of Justice needs a reckoning, Garland needs to be far removed from any center of power, and Hunter Biden belongs in prison.
The reporting credits Republican outcry for these new developments. Will that outcry continue? That largely depends on us.
Call your legislators today and tell them to be relentless in demanding blind justice.” —
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.
The crap that Rolling Stone and others have said about The Sound of Freedom is why my fast asleep friend will not go see it. I told her - just because you don’t believe it, doesn’t mean it’s not true.
The crap that Rolling Stone and others have said about The Sound of Freedom is why my fast asleep friend will not go see it. I told her - just because you don’t believe it, doesn’t mean it’s not true.
Man the was a GREAT read to go with my coffee on the Glorious Monday Morning!!!
The Sound of Freedom Takes were all spot on! Timing is everything... the Train is Rolling!!!
Loved the Fauci Take, I would add: Read JFK jr's book "The Real Anthony Fauci" and your will see RFK jr UNLEASE on Fauci and provide LOTS of sauce!!!
Keep it coming, more and more are getting on board!
God Wins!
God Bless!!!