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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.
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 Monday, July 31 …
Devon Archer tells Congress Burisma pressured Hunter Biden to deal with Ukrainian prosecutor
Devon Archer delivered bombshell testimony to Congress on Monday, telling lawmakers that Burisma Holdings pressured Hunter Biden in December 2015 to deal with a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating the firm for corruption shortly before the then-vice president took steps to force the prosecutor's firing, according to lawmakers familiar with the transcribed interview.
Archer told the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that Hunter Biden was added to Burisma's board in 2014 because his family's "brand" brought value at a time when the firm was facing corruption allegations from the United States, Great Britain and Ukraine's own prosecutor general office, the lawmakers said.
"Devon Archer testified that the value of adding Hunter Biden to Burisma’s board was 'the brand' and confirmed that then-Vice President Joe Biden brought the most value to 'the brand,'" the committee said in a statement issued by Chairman James Comer. "Archer also stated that Burisma would have gone under if not for 'the brand."
Archer also directly contradicted Joe Biden's long held claims he never met with Hunter Biden's foreign business associates, telling the committee America's current president got on speakerphone more than 20 times with his son's business clients. — Just the News
Our Take: “In closed door testimony Monday, Devon Archer confirmed what we’ve known for years: The Biden Crime Family is engaged in a racketeering operation. Archer also connected some dots that, in any just system, would mean the end of the Biden presidency.
According to House Oversight, Archer testified that Burisma was pressuring the Bidens to fire Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor investigating Burisma, prior to Joe Biden’s infamous, ‘son of a bitch’ comments at a Council of Foreign Relations event.
During the 2018 event, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 — while he was sitting VP — that he would pull $1 billion in US loan guarantees if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
‘I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’ Biden bragged to the CFR audience. ‘Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.’
Up to this point, Biden and his many surrogates have claimed this was a strategic US foreign policy decision that had nothing to do with his son’s overseas business dealings. CNN went so far as to say that Shokin wasn’t investigating Burisma, though their fact check debunked itself. But Archer’s testimony reveals that not only was the investigation happening, but that the Ukrainian gas company — that was paying Hunter Biden $83,000 per month — was pressuring Biden to get rid of Shokin.
Archer’s testimony further revealed that the purpose of Hunter Biden’s board position was ‘the brand’ — and the value of that brand appears to be favorable US foreign policy decisions and paid favors to foreign oligarchs. In any other reality, Biden would be arrested.
Predictably, in this reality, Democrats have now moved the goal posts and are suggesting that Biden speaking to Hunter’s foreign business associates isn’t out of the ordinary, but expected. This is, of course, after years of denials that this was happening. It’s unclear if there is anyone left who believes them.” — Ashe in America
Shots Fired: Twitter Explores Lawsuit Against Pro-Censorship Operatives
Twitter parent company X corp is exploring a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK-based dark money nonprofit run by a far-left British Labour Party operative named Imran Ahmed.
Earlier this month, journalist Paul Thacker dropped a Twitter files exposé via The Disinformation Chronicle in which we learn that pre-Musk Twitter employees took action against several conservative accounts after the CCDH released a report alleging that just 12 accounts produced the majority of anti-vaccine disinformation on social media.
Facebook, meanwhile, rejected the report, saying in a statement that "There isn’t any evidence to support this claim."
A similar lack of evidence underpins a July 20 letter from "X" attorneys to CCDH and its CEO, Ahmed, which it accused of targeting Twitter with multiple unfounded accusations in an attempt to hurt the company financially.
The letter cites a June CCDH report titled "Twitter Fails To Act On 99% Of Twitter Blue Accounts Tweeting Hate," which X says was "false, misleading or both." — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “There are few public figures more enigmatic than Elon Musk, which is why he’s also one of the most fascinating to track as the Info War continues wending its merry ways through the Collective Mind on the pathway to awakening.
I’ve been public about the fact that I believe I had Musk pegged wrong, in that I had him pretty firmly marked as a Deep State asset several years ago; however, revelations regarding his role with the Trump Department of Defense, StarLink digs and his massive takeover of the largest public communication platform in the world flipped me 180 degrees on the matter, and I am now quite confident that, whatever role Musk is playing will ultimately net out with FAR more American minds awakened than before.
While Twitter, rebranded as ‘X’ in a move that told us a LOT in itself regarding just how far back this particular movie’s planning goes, is still an imperfect platform with inconsistent rule enforcement, the very prospect that the internet’s largest public square is being contested on constitutional grounds in a series of dramatic back-and-forths is significant … and in my view, significantly encouraging.” — Burning Bright
‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Illegal medical lab discovered in Reedley
An investigation into a Reedley warehouse uncovered a large-scale illegal medical lab complete with bioengineered mice, infectious agents, nearly 30 refrigerators and freezers some of which were non-operational, incubators, and more leaving officials shocked and the public worried.
Local, state, and federal agencies are all involved and what prompted this investigation was a simple garden hose that was illegally attached and coming out of a wall in the back of the building.
It was inside an ordinary warehouse located on “I” and Ninth Streets in the City of Reedley that a disturbing and shocking discovery was made back in April.
“This is an unusual situation. I’ve been in government for 25 years. I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba.
Even county health officials were left in shock.
“I’ve never seen this in my 26-year career with the County of Fresno,” said Assistant Director of the Fresno County Department of Public Health Joe Prado.
What was supposed to be an empty building used only for storage was home to a black-market type of lab testing facility. — YourCentralValley.com
Our Take: “So a local code enforcement officer stops to check on a hose sticking out of an abandoned building, and discovers our worst nightmare: A Chinese bio lab with deadly pathogens operating in a California neighborhood. This as US legislators beat their chests about bio labs in China and Ukraine.
It would be naive to think this is the only illegal Chinese biolab on US soil, and hopefully the bust reveals intelligence of any larger operation. But the discovery begs questions about the extent of China’s infiltration in the US.
Earlier this year, illegal Chinese police stations were discovered in New York, and now an illegal Chinese biolab is discovered in California. What’s the end game for these illegal Chinese operations on US soil? And what’s the US response?
With our border wide open, these discoveries are not surprising. There are no preventative security measures and no way for us to understand who is in our country and what they’re up to. And this story is a sobering look at what they might be up to.
Unfortunately, expecting the Biden administration to take on the Chinese in defense of the American people and our interests is about as likely as Biden delivering a gaffe-less speech or Harris putting together a coherent sentence. That is, it’s not likely at all.” — Ashe in America
Another Take: “How easy is it to manufacture disease events?
What benefit does foisting pathogens, toxins and other disease vectors on to society provide?
We know for a fact that biowarfare is nothing new.
Here are 5 examples:
Siege of Caffa (1346-1347): During the Mongol siege of the Crimean city of Caffa (present-day Feodosia, Ukraine), the Mongol forces were struck by a plague outbreak. The Mongols decided to use the bodies of plague victims as a form of biological warfare by catapulting them into the city. This tactic is believed to have contributed to the spread of the Black Death, which eventually reached Europe.
Smallpox Blankets (1763): During the French and Indian War (1754-1763) in North America, British forces are reported to have used smallpox-infected blankets as a form of biological warfare against Native American tribes allied with the French. It was an early example of intentional germ warfare.
Siege of Fort Pitt (1763): In the same conflict, during the Pontiac's War (1763-1766), an outbreak of smallpox occurred among Native American tribes besieging Fort Pitt (present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). British military personnel reportedly gave blankets from the smallpox-infected hospital to the Native Americans, intending to spread the disease.
Siege of Antioch (1097-1098): During the First Crusade, the Crusaders laid siege to the city of Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey). It is alleged that they catapulted plague-infected corpses into the city in an attempt to weaken the defenders. The plague outbreak that followed was disastrous for both sides.
Hittite Plague Attack (circa 1320 BCE): There are ancient records from the Hittite Empire describing a plague attack they conducted against the city of Hatti. The Hittites used infected rams to spread disease among their enemies.
These examples prove the concept.
Now consider how pervasive the manipulation of society is in the current age.
Does it really seem that unlikely that cells where pathogens can be manufactured and quietly disbursed into the general population, so that medicines, vaccines, and policy changes can take effect? What about keep people in fear about various epidemics that received a lot of media attention?
What this lab in CA might represent is a glimpse into the state/globalist sponsored disease machine, of which, food, technology, and biological pathogens seem to be a staple. If true, these cells are likely everywhere, and possibly the past 200 years of epidemiological history could be rendered highly suspect.
In other words, what epidemics were real verse not?” — Justin Deschamps
Rand Paul Files CRIMINAL Referral Against ‘Absolute Liar’ Fauci
Senator Rand Paul has filed a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, asserting that Anthony Fauci lied while under oath concerning gain of function research in Wuhan being funded by Fauci’s NIH.
Paul forwarded copies of 2020 email exchanges that show Fauci confirming that he knew “scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments.”
The email Fauci sent to then-Inspector General of the Health and Human Services Department Garrett Grisby, cites a conversation Fauci had with, “highly credible scientists,” who, “were concerned about the fact that upon viewing the sequences of several isolates of the nCov there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted.”
“Upon considerable discussion, some of the scientists felt more strongly about this possibility, but two others felt differently. They felt that it was entirely conceivable that this could have evolved naturally even though these mutations have never been seen in a bat virus before,” Fauci wrote.
“The reasons for each side of the argument are too complicated to bother you with,” Fauci wrote.
The Senator has repeatedly vowed to expose Fauci’s role in a cover up of the origins of COVID. — Summit News
Our Take: “I don’t personally think Paul’s criminal referral of Fauci is going to have much in the way of teeth, but don’t take that as some sort of doom talk, which I’m generally opposed to.
The Covid Scamdemic and lockdowns affected the world in a way few PsyOps and PsyActs have in recorded history, and that psychological trauma is so fresh in the Collective Mind of society—and so pervasive—that I believe it could be one of THE cognitive keystones to give people a major jolt en route to embracing the Great Awakening in earnest.
My friend and co-host Just Human often says that there’s a major difference between what we BELIEVE and what we KNOW. There are a lot of things this community BELIEVES about the Covid lockdowns, the NIH and Fauci himself, but what we’re waiting on is for both us and the rest of American society to KNOW these things for themselves, which marks the key difference between Exposure and Disclosure.
Rest assured, I believe Disclosure is coming, and I believe it will be part of the Crisis Cascade that spells the beginning of the end for the Deep State’s System of Systems.” — Burning Bright
Niger Suspends Uranium & Gold Exports Amid Rumors Of Imminent French Military Intervention
Last week's coup in Niger is already fast becoming an internationalized conflict situation, as the West African nation's former colonial ruler France has denounced and condemned the junta—while urging that ousted President Mohamed Bazoum be immediately reinstated. Coup supporters are now attacking diplomatic locations and French interests, including the French embassy in the capital of Niamey.
Bazoum is reportedly in good health following the harrowing events days ago when he was taken captive by his own presidential guard. Interestingly, the very rationale of those who overthrew his democratically elected government (merely two years in) centers on geopolitical matters: growing jihadi violence has become a major issue and he's been severely criticized for failing to secure the nation and the safety of the population. But others say that's just a pretext for what was an internal power struggle and military machinations. Currently, there are emerging reports in Mideast-Africa regional sources that Niger (under the junta) has suspended all exports of uranium and gold to France. FT is confirming:
The junta has continued to step up anti-French rhetoric. It announced it was suspending the export of uranium to France with immediate effect. Niger is the world’s seventh-largest producer of Uranium and France, which relies on nuclear energy for 75 per cent of its power, is a significant importer. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “A coup led by US-trained assets is underway in Niger, opening up yet another proxy war and further exposing the System of Systems.
What's more, France is under fire for publicly condemning the coup using language that implies they have the authority to endorse 'legitimate' coups that align with their national interests.
What's more, prolonged instability in Niger will have massive impact on the already-strained EU energy markets.
As far as lead-ins to 'hot August' goes, this isn't nothing.” — 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.
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.
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The percentage of people around the world who are awakening is slowly, but surely increasing as the investigations in the US is revealing more evidence, albeit a small part at a time. Yes, in the US, we are definitely under a 2-tier system of justice. All doomers who constantly state that the proven guilty will never face justice, apparently haven’t studied how organized criminal groups are destroyed. We are facing the largest ‘mafia-styled’ criminal organization ever created and in order to follow the law, evidence must be obtained to prove in court, including evidence collected from Congressional investigations. Typically, the process begins with the ‘low hanging fruit’ testifying against the next level up and so on. This is a methodical process that takes time. The only way to ensure justice is served, and more importantly, to ensure that the very top level cannot start again.
It is absolutely NO surprise that there are bio labs here. Interesting this is the Chinese are credited with doing this as typically the CIA and DARPA are involved. Wonder if our own government traitors colluded with China to do this? Of course when a conqueror wants to destroy the conquered history shows using biological agents has been the key to success....seems like cheating to me.....
Musk is definitely a major influence and we need to keep reminding ourselves that misinformation is required on both sides of a war.
Things in Africa are continuing to ramp up. China has been investing heavily there for years. I’m thinking this is an area of incoming major surprises....for the EU and our own deep state.
The more we ‘know’ just reveals how very, very much we absolutely do NOT know. We have to thank our digging for truth journalists for a significant amount of information we do know. God bless each one.🙏