Badlands News Brief
Fake News Attempts to Provoke Real Wars
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 pick news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community with some Badlands flavoring to help wash it down.
Now, onto the news from Tuesday, September 24 …
Lebanon calls Biden's remarks on conflict with Israel 'not promising'
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib voiced disappointment with U.S. President Joe Biden's remarks about the escalating crisis between Israel and Lebanon on Tuesday, but said he still hoped Washington could intervene to help.
"It was not strong. It is not promising and it would not solve this problem," Bou Habib said of Biden's speech at the United Nations earlier in the day.
"I (am) still hoping. The United States is the only country that can really make a difference in the Middle East and with regard to Lebanon," Bou Habib said in New York during a virtual event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Half a million people are estimated to have been displaced in Lebanon, he said. He said Lebanon's prime minister hoped to meet with U.S. officials over the next two days.
After almost a year of war against Hamas in Gaza, Israel is shifting its focus to its northern frontier with Lebanon, where Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel in support of its ally Hamas.
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In his address, Biden sought to calm tensions, saying full-scale war was not in anyone's interest. He told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly a diplomatic solution was still possible. — Reuters
And …
Russia strongly condemns Israel's large-scale attacks on Lebanon — Foreign Ministry
Moscow strongly condemns Israel's large-scale military attacks against Lebanon, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a commentary.
The diplomat emphasized that the latest escalation in Lebanon is deeply worrying. "On September 23, the Israeli leadership announced that the IDF (Israel Defense Forces - TASS) had launched an offensive operation, dubbed ‘Northern Arrows,’ aimed at undermining the military infrastructure of the Hezbollah movement." The Israeli Air Force carried out massive airstrikes across Lebanon, with dozens of settlements in the south and east of the country being targeted. "Hezbollah, in turn, intensified its rocket attacks on military facilities in Israel," she added.
"We strongly condemn the large-scale military attacks against Lebanon. We would especially like to emphasize our principled position on the inadmissibility of indiscriminate attacks that target civilians," the diplomat stressed. — TASS
Our Take: So Biden says that Israel has the right and responsibility to make sure that the attack on October 7th by Hamas, who are located in Gaza, never happens again... by attacking (and invading?) a completely different faction—Hezbollah—who are located in a completely different country? Which happens to be in the opposite direction, in relation to Tel Aviv, from Gaza?
That logic sounds about right for a senile old pervert like Joe Biden.
It seems that Russia is the adult in the room, and I agree with Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
"We call for an immediate cessation of hostilities, which would prevent further bloodshed and create conditions for moving the situation toward a political and diplomatic settlement," she added. "We must do everything possible to prevent the Middle East from plunging into a full-scale armed conflict, the devastating consequences of which will inevitably affect everyone - both in the region and beyond," Zakharova stressed.
According to the diplomat, Russia is ready "to coordinate efforts with international and regional partners in order to prevent such a catastrophic scenario." "We proceed from the fact that the security of any state in the region should not be ensured at the expense of others," the spokeswoman added.
I stand by my speculation that we may see Russia take the lead on any offensive action that the Sovereign Alliance executes against Israel. Netanyahu is a cornered animal, and that is always when things are most dangerous. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
Son of Trump suspect Ryan Routh arrested, accused of child pornography
The son of Ryan Routh, the suspect in custody in connection with the second apparent assassination attempt against former President Trump, has been arrested on federal charges of possessing child pornography.
Oran Alexander Routh was taken into custody Tuesday, according to court documents.
Investigators say they found “hundreds” of child pornography files when they were searching the younger Routh’s Guilford County, N.C., residence on Saturday in connection with an investigation “unrelated” to child exploitation. He faces two charges, including receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
His father, Ryan Routh, is being investigated over the apparent assassination attempt against Trump. He was charged last week and remains in custody over two federal gun crimes: possessing a firearm despite being a convicted felon and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. — The Hill
Our Take: The Info War is comprised primarily of stories, which is to say, as I've been arguing for years, it is of far lesser importance what is ACTUALLY happening as it is what the Collective Mind BELIEVES is happening.
So, if you were to tell me the second Trump Assassination attempt was 100% a Narrative Deployment by patriots seeking to translate the collected corruption of the apparatus arrayed against him (and us,) then you might expect to see the following narratives translated in the form of one character:
The extremism inherent in those with media-induced Trump Derangement Syndrome, the ubiquity of mental illness among Ukraine simps, and for the kicker, the venn diagram convergence of the above afflictions with those with a predilection for pedophelia.
It's all too easy & too cartoonish.
The time is quickly approaching where NONE in normieville will want to be associated with establishment talking points, as they will and are being conflated increasingly with communist pedophiles. — Burning Bright
Donald Trump Looks to Revive Racketeering Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump is taking a racketeering case against Hillary Clinton to a federal appeal court.
On Friday, a federal judge gave Trump until September 27 to file a brief of up to 10,000 words on why the case would be heard.
Trump took a civil Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations [RICO] against Clinton for allegedly trying to rig the 2016 election against him.
He is seeking over $70 million dollars in compensation from Clinton and over two dozen other defendants. He claims that he had to spend over $24 million dollars defending himself from false accusations of Russian collusion in the 2016 election. — Newsweek
Our Take: From Hunter Biden to P. Diddy to NYC Mayor Eric Adams, RICO is coming into crystal clear focus lately. That’s in addition to Fulton County Attorney General Fani Willis’ failing RICO case in Georgia against Trump and others.
Maybe this story is why there’s a heightened focus.
The Racketeered and Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act was signed into law in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, and it is the primary vehicle through which organized crime is prosecuted in our great nation.
It stands to reason that, if the government were engaging in organized crime, that RICO would be the legal mechanism to seek accountability.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton was the Democrat nominee for the Presidency. More importantly, she was the sitting United States Secretary of State, with all the power and resources that office bestows.
(Correction: Wednesday’s Brief incorrectly stated that Hillary Clinton was the sitting Secretary of State during Obama’s second term. It was actually John Kerry. Ashe in America will be flogged for this error.)
Now consider that the appeals court could have declined to hear this case outright. But a federal appeals judge allowed Trump to file a brief and gave him until Friday. That’s notable.
It will be much easier for ambivalent, and even anti-Trump normies to process political organized crime charges when they’re learning the RICO ropes from Diddy and other pop culture figures.
It’s almost as if that symmetry and audience training is by design. — Ashe in America
US is sending more troops to the Middle East as violence rises between Israel and Hezbollah
The U.S. is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East in response to a sharp spike in violence between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon that has raised the risk of a greater regional war, the Pentagon said Monday.
Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, would not say how many more forces would be deployed or what they would be tasked to do. The U.S. now has about 40,000 troops in the region.
On Monday, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, two Navy destroyers and a cruiser set sail from Norfolk, Virginia, headed to the Sixth Fleet area in Europe on a regularly scheduled deployment. The ships’ departure opens up the possibility that the U.S. could keep both the Truman and the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is in the Arabian Gulf, in the region in case more violence breaks out.
“In light of increased tension in the Middle East and out of an abundance of caution, we are sending a small number of additional U.S. military personnel forward to augment our forces that are already in the region,” Ryder said. “But for operational security reasons, I’m not going to comment on or provide specifics.” — AP News
Our Take: Given the recent video of Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson's interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano—-where Wilkerson says that Pentagon officials, namely General Michael Kurilla, Combatant Commander of CENTCOM, has usurped the authority of the White House and State Department and is now conducting US foreign policy—I've been tagged by a lot of folks concerning this new narrative deployment from the lying corporate media about US troops being deployed to the Middle East, and wanted to address it directly, without tying in other narratives or analysis.
This headline is complete and utter bulls***. It is yet another deceptive media lie.
All you have to do is look at the text of the article above.
You see?
This is simply an aircraft carrier battle group departing from Norfolk—which happens all the time—to embark on a regularly scheduled deployment, meaning this trip to the Mediterranean has been long planned. Yet the lying media crafts their headlines to imply that this is due to recent events, and even says it is "in response" in the opening line of the article, only to correct itself a few paragraph.
(These people are such parasites.)
Let also take the opportunity to address another viral deception regarding the deployment of the 101st Airborne.
You may have seen posts like this trending on X.
As announced by the Army nearly two weeks ago, the 101st Airborne Division ('Wings of Destiny' brigade) is being rotated from their home base at Fort Campbell (Kentucky) to various parts of the Middle East as part of a "regular rotation of forces," per the language from the Army's website.
They are replacing the 10th Mountain Division’s Combat Aviation Brigade.
This is all corroborated by the reporting of both military journalists and local media in Fort Campbell, KY.
There is no escalation from the Pentagon, nor any contradiction of reports from Colonel Wilkerson that Combatant Commanders have usurped the White House and State Department, and are now conducting US foreign policy.
(I posted about it yesterday here, please amplify to help counter the spread of disinformation.) — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
Trump threatens John Deere with 200 percent tariff if it outsources manufacturing
Former President Trump threatened Illinois-based John Deere on Monday with massive tariffs on its products if it outsources some of its manufacturing to Mexico as it had previously announced, the latest indicator he would use tariffs aggressively if he wins in November.
“I just noticed behind me John Deere tractors. I know a lot about John Deere, I love the company,” Trump said at an event with farmers in Pennsylvania.
“But as you know, they’ve announced a few days ago that they’re going to move a lot of their manufacturing business to Mexico,” he continued. “I’m just notifying John Deere right now, if you do that, we’re putting a 200 percent tariff on everything you want to sell into the United States, so that if I win John Deere is going to be paying a 200 percent — they haven’t started it yet. Maybe they haven’t even made the final decision yet. But I think they have.”
Fox Business Network reported in June that John Deere, which sells tractors, crop harvesters and other large equipment, was laying off roughly 600 staff members at plants in Illinois and Iowa. — The Hill
Our Take: Carrots and sticks are foundational to behavioral change. A tax incentive to build your business in a specific locale is an example of the carrot.
Trump’s coming tariffs are an example of the stick.
This line stands out to me:
‘Experts have warned that tariffs would lead to an increase in inflation, with companies passing on additional costs to consumers.’
This conclusion assumes that these tariffs will have no impact on the behavior of John Deere Green. This is a silly and detached conclusion; the company certainly understands the reality of the market and price thresholds for their customer base. Harris’ inflation recipe has already gotten them close.
While everyone thinks of tractors, etc. when they think of JDG, it’s important to understand that their impact on our food supply is much more far reaching. It’s not just tractors and similar equipment; it’s infrastructure for chemicals and, as it appears on paper, poison.
In March 2022, ‘John Deere will have double-digit units of its green-on-green See & Spray Ultimate targeted spraying system available to order later this year.’
If it’s not clear, they’re automating the poison delivery systems from the beginning, and through the end, of flora growth.
These companies aren’t effectively regulated because JDR is exceptionally good at lobbying, and they spend millions in escalating corporations above people.
Make America healthy again. Even if it means putting certain corporations out of business. — Ashe in America
Microsoft Nuclear Deal Should Be ‘Fast-Tracked’: Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro
Nuclear power has political heavy-hitters lining up behind it, which could allow reactors to skip the line when it comes to connecting to the power grid—an enormous advantage at a time when slow grid-connections are holding back many electricity projects for years.
After Microsoft agreed to buy power from the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant on Friday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro wrote a letter telling regulators that they should allow the reactor to skip the increasingly long line to be connected to the electrical grid. Microsoft wants to start using the power from Three Mile Island by 2028, but a delay in getting connected to the grid could push back the restart—potentially for years.
Microsoft is going to use the reactor’s energy, enough for about 700,000 homes, to power data centers. Every month of delay is costly at a time when tech giants are battling for supremacy in artificial intelligence.
Shapiro wants the reactor to “be allowed to come online as quickly as possible rather than waiting in the queue as if they were an entirely new development,” he wrote to the leaders of PJM Interconnection, the operator of the grid used by residents of Pennsylvania and several other states. PJM said in response to the letter that it’s working on a “fast track” system that would give priority to some electricity projects. — Barron’s
Our Take: 'Switch Theory' signal incoming:
We're seeing major establishment publications and globalist czars suddenly in favor of an American nuclear renaissance, which I feel is both the most fascinating AND encouraging pattern at work in the Shadow War, which is largely obscured by the War of Stories.
I think what's going on here is twofold, and tracks alongside Jon Herold’s Devolution research:
For starters, the Deep State isn't suddenly "onboard" with a nuclear renaissance; they know it's coming, and that the Green New Deal has been circumvented by an American energy plan that is steeped in a combination of MIL disclosure and "organic" advancement through MIL contractors disguised as civilians like Elon Musk.
Second, the enemy has recognized the play, and is trying to front-run patriot energy plans to corner the market before it emerges.
This is what they stole from you. Now, they're trying to steal it back.
It won't work. — Burning Bright
BONUS ITEMS
Trump tells supporters to vote early even as he still criticizes the practice
Donald Trump urged voters Monday in Pennsylvania to vote early in the crucial swing state. Then, he quickly reversed course.
Early voting, the former president said, is “stupid” — even if it might help him as polls show him in a close race with Vice President Kamala Harris.
“We’re here today because early voting begins in Pennsylvania over the next two weeks, and we need each and every one of you to go out,” he told the crowd in Indiana, Penn. “Just don’t take anything for granted.”
Trump’s contradictory statements about what has become a common method of voting throughout the U.S. — and now embraced by many Republicans — reflects his hatred of a practice he says is vulnerable to fraud and helped cost him the 2020 election. — Politico
Visa Faces Justice Department Antitrust Case on Debit Cards
The US Justice Department plans to allege that Visa Inc. illegally monopolized the US debit card market, according to people familiar with the matter.
The antitrust division is set to file a lawsuit as soon as Tuesday accusing the operator of the largest US payments network of a range of anticompetitive conduct, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the case. The government is expected to file the case in federal court.
Antitrust enforcers are preparing to accuse Visa of taking steps to keep rivals from challenging its dominance in the debit card market, said the people. The government’s allegations include that Visa made exclusive agreements to hinder the expansion of competing networks and thwarted efforts by technology companies to enter the market.
Visa shares fell as much as 1.95% in post-market trading in New York on Monday after the news. — Bloomberg
Feds demanded Adams admin’s communications with 5 more countries as Turkey probe expands: sources
Federal prosecutors demanded City Hall cough up all communications between the Adams administration and five more foreign countries — a drastic expansion of the probe into Turkish campaign donations.
The sprawling record requests came in the July slate of subpoenas, providing the first pinhole look into one of the US Attorney’s Office for Southern District of New York’s investigations targeting Adams and his allies since the raids of his top campaign fundraiser last November.
The subpoenas sought details on all interactions between administration officials and Israel, China, Qatar, South Korea and Uzbekistan, sources told The Post. — NY Post
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.
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Very glad to see HRC popping back up recently and in connection to racketeering RICO driven by Trump is just perfect.
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