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Bakhmut Kaput, Legal Lake & Elitist Exposure

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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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Wagner Declares Full Capture Of Bakhmut After 224 Days Of Fighting

Head of the Russian private military group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has announced Saturday that after months of grinding warfare and heavy casualties, Russia has now taken full control of the strategic city of Bakhmut. 

Prigozhin is announcing final victory and that Bakhmut has finally fallen. "The operation to capture Bakhmut lasted 224 days" he said in a video posted to Wagner's Telegram channel. "Today at noon, Bakhmut was fully captured," he declared.

Russian state media is also declaring "The key Donbass city of Artyomovsk, known as Bakhmut in Ukraine, has been fully liberated by the Russian forces...". 

Prigozhin described that full capture of the city finally came when an area containing high-rise buildings where the final Ukrainian defensive holdout had a presence was conquered. 

Western media reports have said they can't verify the claims, but headlines in Reuters and the Associated Press are widely reporting the Wagner chief's declaration of victory. — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “On Bakhmut ...

- After weeks of Kayfabe between Prigozhin's Wagner Group and the Kremlin, in which Prigozhin alleged they were taking heavy losses in Bakhmut, Wagner announces victory.

- Narrative Whiplash on NATO Simps.

- Even the MSM is admitting that the Actual (kinetic situation on the ground) is virtually impossible to verify, and that Ukrainian leadership has been misleading with recent reports.

- Paves the way for a fresh wave of NATO escalation & desperation.

- Peacemaker on Deck.

When you understand that this movie only ends with the Peacemaker Theory, all of the escalation and acceleration, from Bakhmut to Taiwan makes perfect sense.” — Burning Bright

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World’s Elites Scheme At Secretive Annual Bilderberg Meeting: Stacy Abrams, ChatGPT & Microsoft Chiefs Join Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla For Closed Door Meetings On ‘US Leadership’

Key leadership from companies like Microsoft, ChatGPT, and Google are convening with prime ministers, royalty, bank governors, army generals, and top US officials at the 2023 Bilderberg Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal to strategize about global affairs.

Artificial intelligence is the focus of the 69th annual secretive Bilderberg meeting.

Over 130 individuals from 23 countries will participate in the private, closed-door deliberations. The three-day event runs this year from May 18 to 21.

The Bildergs operate under the Chatham House Rules, which state participants are “free to use the information received but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speakers or participants can be revealed,” according to the Bilderberg website.

The three-day event “is shrouded in mystery, with clandestine talks held behind closed doors and subject to Chatham House rules,” CNBC reports. “That has sparked conspiracy theories, similar to those leveled against high-level meetings like the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, by those who claim attendees are seeking to establish a “new world order.” However, the event’s organizers say that the discrete nature of it is to allow for greater freedom of discussion.”

The private nature of the meeting “gives elite participants the freedom to take part as individuals who ‘are not bound by conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions’, meaning more candid discussions can be had,” Daily Mail notes. “But the secrecy surrounding the events has led conspiracy theorists to suggest that Bilderberg is a group of rich and powerful kingmakers seeking to impose a one-world government and mold the future of humanity to their benefit.

“So clandestine are the gatherings that no minutes are taken, no press conferences given and no reports published.” — The Gateway Pundit

Our Take: “The Bilderbergers are yet another group of extremely powerful men and women—many of them historically belonging to or working for royal European bloodlines—who convene annually in semisecret to discuss the ‘issues of the day.’

Naturally, the more conspiracy-minded observers claim that the group conspires to manufacture and manage world events; they may not be wrong. [If you're interested in learning more about this group, check out Men Behind the Curtain part 4, part of an ongoing series here on Badlands Media]

The list of subjects at this year's meeting is very telling.

Of course, you have A.I., which has been a recurring topic at the Bilderberg meetings for the last decade. I would love to be a fly on the wall for THAT conversation. What's most interesting to me is the presence of Stacy Abrams at this year's gathering, who is attending ‘closed-door meetings’ on ‘US leadership’.

I'm sorry, but I thought Stacy Abrams lost her election. Something about a bunch of international elites having closed-door meetings about leadership with somebody who's been rejected repeatedly by the American people just doesn't sit well with me. This could be confirmation that Abrams is a globalist puppet, or maybe she was just there for the food.” — Ryan DeLarme

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Lake Attorney’s Closing Argument: At Least 70K Votes Not Verified, Election Must Be Set Aside

Kari Lake attorney Kurt Olsen argued in his closing argument in her election challenge case Friday that at least 70,000 mail-in ballots were not properly verified in accordance with Arizona law, and therefore the election must be set aside.

The November race between Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Gov Katie Hobbs “was decided by 17,117 votes. That, however, is out of 2.59 million votes, a difference between the two candidates of 0.67 percent,” he said.

“The number of ballots at issue whether the court were to set aside for illegality, the 70,000, the 274,000 in a proportional manner … this election should be set aside,” Olsen added.

“Your Honor, the election was unlawful,” Olsen told the judge. “[Arizona statute] 16-550 was not complied with. Defendants don’t dispute our expert. They don’t dispute the evidence,” the attorney said. — The Gateway Pundit

Our Take: “As we await Judge Peter Thompson’s ruling in Lake v Hobbs et al, we expect the decision will come down to how the judge interprets the legal standard and Kari Lake’s burden of proof. Publicly, both sides believe they will be victorious, but Lake and Hobbs have put out very different definitions of what Lake had to prove.

Team Hobbs claims Lake’s burden is that NO signature verification took place during the November 8, 2022 midterms, and they claim that Lake’s own witnesses demonstrated that they verified signatures with great precision. Team Lake’s definition of the burden is that signature verification according to the statute did not take place for a sufficient enough number of ballot packets to have changed the outcome of the election.

During the trial, Team Lake demonstrated this for at least 70k, and possibly 274k signatures. There are less than 17k votes separating the candidates.

We covered every second of this trial on Badlands and, along with reviewing all the pre-trial arguments and trial exhibits, we agree with Lake’s definition of the burden, and we believe she met it. Lake’s witnesses did, in fact, conduct signature verification according to the statute, demonstrating that it takes longer than three seconds to follow the law.

In contrast, 274k signatures were approved in under three seconds — and 70k in under two seconds. Thus, signature verification, according to the statute could not have and did not take place a staggering amount of ballot packets. Again, there are less than 17k votes separating the two candidates. Either way, the ruling is likely to be appealed by the unsuccessful party, so the saga of Lake v Hobbs et al will continue.

Over the weekend, legal analysts speculated that there have been enough missteps in the lower courts for the US Supreme Court to take up the appeal. Judge Thompson took less than three days to issue a ruling the first time around in December, and we expect his ruling in the next few days.

The beauty of this trial is that, for the first time, millions of Americans witnessed the electoral negligence of mail-in balloting, for which signature verification is the single control.

Fun side note: Republicans continue to align with Democrats in encouraging their supporters to embrace mail-in and early voting. The awakening about our elections is one for the history books. Last month, Rasmussen polling showed that 62% of Americans don’t trust elections, a number that has steadily increased since November 2020.

We look forward to seeing Rasmussen’s follow up polling the wake of this trial.” — Ashe in America

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BofA Gave FBI Access To Jan. 6 Bank Records Without Customers' Knowledge: Whistleblowers

Whistleblowers told Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee that gave Jan. 6 connected bank records to the FBI without customers’ knowledge or consent.

In their testimony, whistleblowers claimed that the FBI had become “enveloped in politicization” and made several claims of “serious abuses” over an extended period of time.

Among those abuses, whistleblowers said that Bank of America (BOA) had transferred information to the FBI on transactions that took place in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Customers were not informed of this data transfer. — The Epoch Times

Our Take: “The bankers ratted out their own customers? Say it ain't so! Say it ain't so. 

It's reminiscent of the way the credit rating business and sector came to life back in the mid 20th century. They started off as private companies that, like intelligence services, gathered any and all information they could about a person. They would track travel, money expenditures, sexual encounters, drug and alcohol usage, marriage fidelity, and many other seemingly-unrelated data points. In effect, it was a fiscal version of a spy agency, where data was kept under tight controlled access to mainly large scale financial institutions, governments, and the like. 

Certain privileged entities and actors had access. These entities used it to qualify or disqualify you for credit. But it was discovered that many other things were being decided upon using this system. Now, the same bankers who helped initiate public acceptance of credit scores, which later would lead to social credit scores and the like, also shared private information to the FBI, which it would use to initiate predicates for investigations of law abiding Americans. 

The impact of this isn't well acknowledged. Most people don't get why this is such a problem and how it violates our fundamental freedoms. On this point, I offer this for your consideration: The mere existence of an investigation can, in many arenas in the modern technocratic age, act against a citizen's interests. In effect, you're guilty until proven innocent, in that, your privacy can be violated and your life can be upturned. The FBI could go to your friends, family, business relationships, and so on, poking around. Their presence in and of itself makes the well trained public believe, ‘If there's smoke, there's fire.’

And this, in part, is the point.  Until WE THE PEOPLE recognize the full impact of these subtle subversions of our freedoms, we will continue to suffer under the yoke of tyranny.” — Justin Deschamps

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House Report Reveals What FBI Did to Employees Who Spoke Out Against 'Politicized Rot'

The House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government released an interim report Thursday revealing that at least three FBI agents were either suspended or had their security clearances revoked over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion.

The report said the bureau “weaponized the security clearance adjudication process to silence employees who fight against the politicized ‘rot’ within the FBI leadership.”

The interim staff report includes new whistleblower testimony from current and former FBI agents.

“The disclosures from these FBI employees highlight egregious abuse, misallocation of law enforcement resources and misconduct with the leadership ranks of the FBI,” the report said.

It said three agents — Marcus Allen, Stephen Friend and Brett Gloss — had been suspended while their cases were reviewed. — The Western Journal

Our Take: “We knew it. Trump knew it. And now, maybe, the world will know it. 

The FBI might have always been one part trustworthy, one part shady as it gets.  We learned that the FBI was actively persecuting their own agents—those agents who did not toe the line of their DS overlords. 

In typical fashion, the lying, conniving, and manipulative DS Dems spew adhominems against the latest crop of FBI whistleblowers. They argued that the didn't receive the documents properly, that the whistleblowers comments and opinions are icky, and therefore, we shouldn't take what they say seriously, and that the Republicans are mean and they should play nice. 

But what the DEMs didn't say speaks volumes. They did not provide any valid rebuttal for the whistleblower status Jim Jordan affixed to their personage. They are whistleblowers by any reasonable standard. And the mere fact the DS DEMs worked and are working so hard to discredit them means their claims are likely real and the sordid connections between them and the criminal globalists is likely treasonous. 

All said and done, we're watching a fraudster squirm and wriggle knowing their time is short. Drink up the vindication nectar while you can.” — Justin Deschamps

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IS THE UN TRYING TO GROOM OUR KIDS?

Our Take: “They want to sexualize children so that in the future, adults can have sex with kids as if it was all just normal, just another ‘queer’ sexual identity. This isn’t just for perverted reasons. It will radically change our culture, the human psyche, and in doing so, society it self.

Sexualizing kids is itself a weapon for a much more insidious design. We know this. We've heard it before. But how does it work, psychologically?

In brief, sexuality is meant to come online at puberty, which holistically activates accumulated experiences from childhood. The constituent elements for healthy sexual function slowly build up during pre-puberty, when the child should not be sexualizing anything, merely developing an appreciation for people, character, aesthetics, and social impacts of pair-bonding. The pre-relationship skills a person needs as an adult are developed during childhood, in and through watching other people, both parents, and others, in their relationships.

If sexual thoughts, behaviors, and perspectives are pushed on children too soon (think Disney and modern overly sexualized media), their relationship with sex as adults tend to be distorted, hedonistic, and unsatisfying, overly focused on the self, and the somatic sensations of sexual pleasure instead of the social romantic pair-bonding meaning of the sexual expression (the life-giving aspect of sex).

This problem is magnified to the nth degree when actual grooming—’we show love through sex’—takes place, which is a standard methodology for pedophile groomers. If this is done, generations of people will have mental and emotional issues related to sex, unable to properly pair bond, and therefore, unable to properly raise children due to an unstable parental and communal landscape.

This is the goal of the globalists. Destroy the human family 2.0. The first campaign was a wild success—we’ve been living in a post-healthy family world for over 100 years now. The state/globalists swoop in to manage the problem, offering ‘solutions’ that further distort and twist healthy sexual function, away from K-selected mating strategies, to r-selected. Sex becomes more like a biological drug than an act of deep spiritual union that produces life and the opportunity to serve another child of God.

r-Selected strategies are for largescale herd animals and groups, where each infant receives only a small share of the total parental attention, which in humans tends to produce low-IQ, high neuroticism, high ACE adults, with lots of central nervous system problems, mental issues, group-think tendencies, and reliance on extrinsic authorities to manage their lives.

The agenda is not just about sexualizing children—that's just the means to a much darker end—the creation of a totally controlled mentally, emotionally, and sexually deranged population, the perfect pawn for the technocratic slave plantation.

Real family, good parenting, healthy husband and wife relationships, true community, and healthy relationship strategies at all levels counter all of this, hence the relentless assault on objectively beneficial parenting and social systems.” — Justin Deschamps

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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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