Badlands News Brief
Middle Eastern Powder Kegs & Crisis Cascades Abound
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.
Many items feature original (and subjective) commentary. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see our writers’ Substack accounts and check out their other work.
Now, onto the news from the Weekend that Was …
Israel warns of consequences to any attack from Iran
Israel told the U.S. if Iran launches an attack from its soil against Israel in retaliation for its deadly strike in Syria earlier this week, it would draw a strong response from Israel and take the current conflict to another level, Israeli officials tell Axios.
Why it matters: Iranian officials have publicly threatened to retaliate against Israel for the attack that killed a top Iranian official. The Biden administration and the Israeli government are highly concerned Iran is preparing for an imminent attack, U.S. and Israeli officials said.
Iranian proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Gaza have attacked Israel but there hasn't been an attack from Iranian soil.
A direct Iranian strike on Israel would be unprecedented and could lead to a regional war in the Middle East.
The latest: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the top of an Israeli security cabinet meeting on Thursday that Iran has been operating against Israel for years "both directly and via its proxies, and therefore Israel is operating against Iran and its proxies, both defensively and offensively." — Axios
And …
At this point Israel's ties with key Gulf countries like the UAE are near breaking point, after only a few short years ago diplomatic normalization was hailed through Trump's Abraham accords. But international and Israeli press reports are confirming the UAE has announced it is halting all coordination on humanitarian aid with Israel.
Further, as Israeli media reports: "The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced a suspension of diplomatic coordination with Israel in the wake of the death of seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers in Gaza." Simultaneously, Israel is busy putting its embassies across the world on high security alert due to the "heightened Iranian response threat" in wake of Monday's Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus. All of this served to send Brent soaring in the last two hours, with Brent spiking above $90 for the first time since October.... — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “There's a lot to unpack here, and this is The Brief, so we'll try our best to honor the name. *(Editor’s Note: He failed.)*
I view this development in the same way I view the announcement/warning of a possible terrorist attack on US soil in the near future. It is so painfully obvious that this is all being coordinated by bad actors in the CIA and their global partners that I'll probably need some of the Agency's ‘Chinese’ fentanyl to get me through the rest of this take.
The CIA wants us to go to war with Iran, as I've been saying for the past year, and Israel is what they see as their ticket to the dance. While Israel prepares to slaughter a bunch of red cows and sacrifice them to [God?] in order to incite Jewish prophecy, the pedophile crime syndicate that rules this world prepares to sacrifice Israel in order to incite globalist prophecy. (World War 3)
The fact remains that even the MSM has been reporting that in recent months, Iranian militias have avoided attacking US bases in the region, in an attempt to de-escalate tensions.
You also have Russia—a key ally of Iran—in Syria already engaged in combat with Israel. Russia announced months ago that it was beginning helicopter patrols along the Golan Heights and would engage any aerial vehicle or object that dared cross into Syria. The Russian military is protecting President Assad, his government, and the Syrian people from, basically, NATO. (Make no mistake, friends, the combat occurring in Syria is an extension of the Ukraine-Russia war.)
But this article is originally about the UAE, and the dissolution of diplomacy between it and Israel.
The UAE is a good ally for the US. I like Saudi Arabia the best, because MBS will likely reign for the next 50 years, and that is a promising constant of longterm honor and greatness that we will not find anywhere else in the world. So while we should focus all of our diplomatic energy on making Saudi Arabia our closest ally, the UAE is Saudi's closest ally, so they should also remain high on our list of besties.
The UAE has long had strong influence in Washington, thanks to key figures like Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE Ambassador to the US, who was described as ‘the most powerful and charming ambassador in DC’ by the CIA, Muslim Brotherhood, and the Huffington Post. (That's a pretty dynamic list of admirers.)
I recently said that I believe that Al Otaiba was the intended target of Operation Endgame—the CIA/Muslim Brotherhood/Qatari partnership whose documents were leaked to the press back in January. (Ghosts in the Machine?) I believe this operation, which appears to have been implemented in late 2017/2018, is part of the psyop surrounding the Jamaal Khashoggi murder, but I'll save those musings for its own substack article.
What you should know about the UAE is that it is ruled by the emir (ruler) of Abu Dhabi and president of the UAE, Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ). MBZ was the leading advocate to the Saudi royal family to make MBS the Saudi Crown Prince—promising to help him achieve his goals and vision. When MBS did come to power, it was MBZ who stood with him and Donald Trump as MBS and Trump took on Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood (and by extension, the CIA).
This is all part of why I think the Khashoggi psyop was initiated against MBS, and Operation Endgame was initiated against Al Otaiba.
The point is, the UAE and Saudi have a special partnership with the Trump administration, and that partnership is all about ending radical Islamic terrorism in the Middle East, once and for all.” —
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' Former Bodyguard Claims Music Mogul Had Tapes Of "Politicians" And "Princes"
The former bodyguard of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ claims the music mogul had blackmail tapes of politicians, princes and other prominent individuals who were involved in his sex parties.
Combs, who has been hit with a barrage of physical abuse, rape and sexual trafficking allegations, had his homes in Miami and Los Angeles raided by the Department of Homeland Security last month, during which federal agents seized computers and other electronic devices.
Gene Deal, who was present the night when Notorious B.I.G. was fatally shot in 1997, made the sensational comments during an interview with ‘The Art of Dialogue’ YouTube channel.
“I don’t think it’s only celebrities gonna be shook. He had politicians in there, he had princes in there. He also had a couple of preachers in there,” said Deal.
“Can you imagine, he had every room bugged,” he added.
When asked why Combs’ media department had stayed silent on the allegations against him, Deal responded, “Either they took part in some of the stuff that happened, or they’re scared that it may mess up their brand.” — Modernity News
Our Take: “And so the pressure mounts for the normie collective to understand the role of sex trafficking, child abuse and sextortion in upholding the matrix.
The combination of the Epstein narrative and the Diddy narrative, along with that which remains hidden in both cases, is creating the necessary curiosity in those that never questioned said matrix.
This is arguably one of the most precise means of getting a psychologically manipulated public to arrive upon some of the darkest truths imaginable.
Two tiers are being inferred with both narratives.
The first is that which the public is made aware of: the common abuse of minors among the elite and the sextortion that maintains the current hegemony.
The second tier is the awareness that these operations involve an elite class that continue to remain unnamed.
The result is a public asking the right questions and demanding the right disclosures. The result is a public thirsty for the truth, despite the generations of conditioning that used to farm their ignorance to keep these very operations alive.” —
New Trouble for Fani Willis: Now Accused of Illegally Recording Phone Call by Trump Co-Defendant
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may not have been disqualified from the Georgia election case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, but she's still facing multiple probes or complaints from the Georgia state Senate, the House Judiciary Committee and involving the state bar.
On top of that, now there's a new accusation by one of the lawyers for one of the co-defendants in the case.
During an interview with Townhall columnist and legal analyst Phil Holloway, Christopher Kachouroff, the attorney for Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd alleged that Willis recorded a phone call between herself and one of his Maryland colleagues.
"She did reach out to us, one of my colleagues in Maryland, and was rude, abrupt with him on the phone, and he was dealing with the Maryland case and I was dealing with the Georgia case, and she ended up recording him," Kachouroff said.
He noted that Maryland is a "two party state," meaning both parties had to consent to the recording. When asked by Holloway if he was saying that Willis illegally recorded the phone call, he said, "Oh, yes" and noted it was a felony in Maryland. — RedState
Our Take: “Serious question: After witnessing District Attorney Fani Willis’ conduct during her disqualification hearing, does anyone actually believe she wouldn’t unlawfully record conversations with counsel for the accused? Regardless of the case, this conduct is on brand for the embattled DA.
Harrison Floyd has been mistreated and discriminated against by Willis, and the government broadly, since before he turned himself in. He is treating his defense as a patriotic mission, and Ms. Willis may be in (more) trouble if the judge will hear Floyd’s latest motion.
Harrison is tentatively joining Brian and I on Friday’s Why We Vote — don’t miss it.” —
US intel warns of potential terrorist threat at gatherings after Moscow attack
Law enforcement officials expressed concern that radicals in the U.S. might respond to ISIS calls for similar attacks in the wake of last month's deadly terrorist attack at a concert hall in Moscow.
The U.S. intelligence bulletin warns that ISIS operatives worldwide and so-called "lone wolves" might respond to recent statements from the terrorist group touting the attack in Russia and encouraging more attacks on public venues -- even if the individuals are not members of ISIS.
Russian investigators said the March 22 attack in Moscow's Crocus City Hall killed at least 144 people, including three children, and injured at least 550 others. Nine suspects -- identified as citizens of Tajikistan -- were arrested after gunmen opened fire on concertgoers with automatic weapons and then set a fire that engulfed the complex, according to Russian authorities. — ABC News
Our Take: “We have reached the point where I think it has become necessary to codify into law that all ‘intelligence’ officials be required to dress as circus clowns at all hours of the day. (Many of them already dress as trannies, so I suppose we are already halfway there?)
I'm not even kidding, either. These scoundrels deserve to be treated as filthy lepers; pelted with rotten fruit and ruthlessly heckled whenever they dare show their face in public.
For starters, ‘ISIS’ is a creation of the Central ‘Intelligence’ Agency. There is extensive research and data to support this claim, two of the best examples being that ISIS refuses to attack Israel (the one time they did attack the IDF in November 2016, they apologized and said they had mistaken them for somebody else) and the other being that the US ‘Intelligence’ Community successfully recruited ISIS fighters to deploy to Ukraine to fight the Russians. (There's also the public allegations made by Putin that all ISIS fighters are well-paid mercenaries, not radical zealots as the CIA breathlessly claims.)
At this point, even normies with room-temperature IQ's understand that the invasion occurring at the southern border is being facilitated by bad actors within the federal government. The CIA's ‘Operation Gladio’ is a subject that has been widely showcased in recent months, both here on Badlands and elsewhere in the truth community, and everything that we have been witnessing in America since Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election—from the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax to the 2020 Summer of Love—have been textbook moves from the Gladio field manual.
The fact that the Clowns are specifically fearmongering about a rogue Iranian terrorist is just further proof that this is all a psyop aimed at destabilizing the United States and pushing us into WW3 with Iran and the East.
Let's be clear: if any kind of attack happens on US soil, it could be an operation directly coordinated by the CIA and their partners.” —
Pelosi joins call to halt U.S. weapons transfers to Israel
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signed onto a call by progressive members of Congress for the U.S. to stop transferring weapons to Israel over a strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza.
Why it matters: It's a significant break with Israel by a long-standing supporter that underscores growing fissures between Democrats and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
Driving the news: The letter, led by Reps. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), was released on Friday with 37 signatures from 37 other Democrats, including Pelosi.
"In light of the recent strike against aid workers and the ever-worsening humanitarian crisis, we believe it is unjustifiable to approve these weapons transfers," the lawmakers wrote to President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Zoom in: The letter, which was released after the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) announced the initial findings of its investigation into the attack, includes a call for an independent probe. — Axios
Our Take: “Disinformation is necessary.
That's one of the statements most synonymous with the infamous Q drops, and while it makes sense in that more asymmetric context, it also makes sense when applied in a direct-path manner to any sort of information war.
This is why Macro pattern recognition is such a boon to Info Warriors, and it's something Anons tend to be blessed (or cursed) with.
Lately, you don't need to be some sort of autist to gather that, while the MSM continues to deal in FUD about the Trump campaign, the scions of the establishment it exists to protect are entering a full-blown panic pattern.
From the State Department to NATO, [they] certainly seem to be prepping for Trump Admin 2.0 not just as a possibility ... but an inevitability.
Additionally, there are fractures forming within the once-unified Uniparty, as the old guard has realized with increasing dread that Joe Biden is no more their president than he is ours, and our seeking to corral him.
Proxies go both ways ...” —
Mexico cuts diplomatic ties with Ecuador after Jorge Glas arrest
Mexico is cutting ties with Ecuador after police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice-President Jorge Glas.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said they had "forcibly entered" the embassy in a "flagrant violation of international law".
Glas took refuge in the embassy last December after Ecuador issued an arrest warrant against him for alleged corruption.
Glas's lawyer said he was innocent.
He has now been flown under police guard to the city of Guayaquil, and is expected to await trial in a maximum security prison.
Glas served as Ecuador's vice-president between 2013 and 2017. He was relieved of his duties because of mounting corruption allegations against him.
Later that year he was sentenced to six years in jail in connection with corruption at the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. Prosecutors said he took $13.5m (£10.2m) in bribes.
He was released from prison in November but Ecuadorian authorities then issued another arrest warrant alleging further allegations of corruption, triggering Glas to seek refuge in the Mexican embassy.
On Friday, Mexico said it had granted Glas political asylum "after a thorough analysis" of the situation - an action Ecuador viewed as illegal.
"Ecuador is a sovereign nation and we are not going to allow any criminal to stay free," Ecuador's Presidency said in a statement. — BBC
Our Take: “The young new President of Ecuador has blown up diplomatic relations with Mexico over the latter harboring Ecuador’s ‘most wanted man’ in their Quito embassy. Ecuadorian special forces went in and retrieved Jorge Glas, the former Ecuadorian Vice President who sought asylum at the Mexican embassy after he was indicted on corruption.
Mexico is big mad, with President Obrador announcing the end of his country’s diplomatic relationship with Ecuador on Friday evening. Noboa was elected in October, just a week after the Hamas attack on Israel which was still dominating international headlines.
The White House announced in January, that ‘This week, the United States is facilitating the delivery of over 20,000 bullet proof vests and more than $1 million worth of critical security and emergency response equipment, including ambulances and defense logistic support vehicles. The United States also announced that, in the coming days, the FBI will increase its personnel in-country to support the Ecuadorian National Police and Attorney General’s Office. In addition, the Department of Homeland Security is deploying personnel to support the ongoing training of the police and prosecutors...’
Oh.
The Biden Administration is training law enforcement and prosecutors under the new Ecuadorian president, which makes this make more sense:
‘Glas, 54, was sentenced to six years in prison in 2017 after he was found guilty of receiving bribes from Brazilian construction firm... He was given a separate eight-year prison sentence in 2020…for using money from contractors to finance campaigns… Though the legislature on Thursday (December 21, 2023) declined to authorize a trial over the Manabi case, the attorney general's office said in a statement it was insisting on charging him.‘
I don’t know if Glas is a corrupt scumbag, a political prisoner, or (likely) a bit of both. What I do know is that this justice department playbook is familiar. And that has me rethinking some things about Mexico.
For example, at the beginning of March 2024, Noboa visited NJ, spoke with Ecuadorian immigrants at New Jersey City University (NJCU), and was given a key to Jersey City by a city councilwoman. From the University’s website:
‘This event was an outcome of NJCU’s historic partnership with the Latino Community that was reinforced with signing a first-of-its-kind memorandum of understanding (MOU) with GLACO — Grupo Latinoamericano de Cónsules en New Jersey— …an alliance made up of 17 Latin American consulates that aim to collaborate when offering consular services as well as migratory, educational and health issues.’
This was Noboa’s first official visit to the US as the Ecuadorian head of state, and that makes this university visit a little weird. The White House sent a diplomatic delegation to Noboa’s inauguration in November 2023, and they sent a delegation to Ecuador in February 2024 to discuss the illicit drug trade — but the White House doesn’t recognize this March 2024 US visit by the Ecuadorian President at all.
While the March trip was Noboa’s first as President, it’s certainly not his first time in the country. In fact, the Ecuadorian president was born in Miami. He is the son of a billionaire, and he studied at NYU’s Stern (BA), Northwestern’s Kellogg (MBA), and George Washington (Masters in Political Communication and Strategic Governance). He also studied at Harvard. Noboa’s wife appears to be an Italian-Ecuadorian socialite and influencer who modeled for Herbal Essences and owns a fitness center in Tampa, FL.
All that to say, Noboa is a bit glowy and appears to be a Biden ally. The White House response to this latest development, specifically their response to Obrador, should be very interesting.” —
Ex-Macron Advisor Warns of Revolt in France over Green Agenda That Will Dwarf The Yellow Vests
A former advisor to President Emmanuel Macron has warned that if France continues down the same path with the green agenda, the country will likely face a “social revolt” far greater than the Yellow Vest movement or the recent bout of farmer protests.
“It’s going to end very badly,” warned David Djaïz in an interview this week with the Paris-based conservative news magazine Le Point.
The left-wing public intellectual and Emmanuel Macron’s former rapporteur for the government’s National Council for Refoundation (CNR) accused the government and political elites in France of being “content to manage the decline”.
Djaïz, an ardent believer in the need for a green transition of the economy in France and in Europe as a whole, argued that there is a “deficit of strategic thinking” in the halls of power, saying: “I saw from the inside how intellectually and operationally the state was exhausted.”
“This is going to end very badly. France could experience a huge public finance crisis, or a social revolt compared to which the Yellow Vests and the farmers are appetizers,” he warned.
Populist uprisings have been a defining feature of the government of Macron, a former Rothschild banker who has been branded as the “president of the rich“. — Breitbart
Our Take: “So here we have France becoming a real-life charcuterie board of musings that we have explored here on Badlands.
We have
’s ‘Crisis Cascade,’ with multiple crisis narratives converging in a very inopportune way at a very inopportune moment for the powers that be; we have what I have called ‘Horseshoe Theory,’ where the interests of conventional right-wing and left-wing voters are aligning, as are their stated prescriptions to resolve their political vexations; and we have ‘Accelerationism,’ which both and I (and others) have championed as the most logical strategy to protect and save a runaway train that is being targeted by bandits for ambush and takeover.You can't stop or slow-down the train, because that would just make it easier for the bandits to attack it. So, you know, Operation Warp Speed.
The headline here focuses on the 2018 yellow-vest protests, where millions of city-dwelling French people took to the streets for months (years, even) to express their severe contempt for their ruling political class, specifically the elitist Green New Deal agenda. But it also mentions the more recent farmer protests that have manifested all over western Europe, as treasonous governments plot to requisition privately-owned farmland and cease the production of food—orchestrating the starvation of Europe.
This sinister plot is an extension of the Green New Deal Agenda, bringing the [conservative] rural farmers and the [liberal-leaning] city-dwellers together in a beautiful moment of unity. Horseshoe Theory.
You now even have a tree-hugging green activist--David Djaïz, the guy issuing this warning to Macron in this article-- openly advocating that France focus on building up its industrial base so that it can compete with China and deliver on the goals of the Green New Deal agenda at some point in the future.
While we may not agree with Mr. Djaïz's longterm vision, the fact that he is openly advocating to advance agenda items that are typically associated with "right-wing" nationalism is demonstrative of the powerful momentum our movement has generated worldwide. Because Djaïz knows that this messaging is the only way to connect with the common folk, and win the support of the people.
Accelerate, anons.” —
BONUS ITEMS
Container Ship Reportedly "Lost Power" In NYC Harbor, Right Before Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
A massive container ship reportedly lost power on the Upper New York Bay - just before the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connecting the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn.
According to Captain John Konrad, CEO of gCaptain, a New York City tugboat captain informed him that the 354-meter container ship APL QINGDAO "lost power while transiting New York harbor."
"They had 3 escort tugs but 3 more were needed to bring her under control. They regained power & were brought to anchor near the verrazano bridge," the tugboat captain told Konrad.
Konrad said the vessel is registered in Malta and is owned and operated by a major French shipping company. — ZeroHedge
DOJ demands prison time for Ashley Biden diary thief
The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a New York district judge to sentence the woman who stole first daughter Ashley Biden’s diary to four to 10 months in prison for the crime.
Prosecutors for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York had initially sought a sentence of six months of home confinement, followed by three years of supervised release, for Aimee Harris, who pleaded guilty in August of 2022 to conspiring to commit interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with the diary theft.
Harris has requested that her sentencing hearing date be moved 12 times, according to prosecutors, who argue that her excuses are an effort to “improperly delay” her punishment and merit a stiffer sentence. — NY Post
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What a peaceful world it would be without NATO, the CIA and FBI...
When the world’s people finally realize the power and actions of the CIA and the other four ‘intelligence agencies’ are merely tools of the cabal’s minions, the outrage will be immense. Evil reigns there as well as many other places, including the Vatican….
The desires of a world war to enrich the cabal and their minions can be seen daily now and it’s another reminder that our Fearless Tiger mentioned convergence recently. Ghost captured the situation, “We have Burning Bright’s ‘Crisis Cascade,’ with multiple crisis narratives converging in a very inopportune way at a very inopportune moment for the powers that be…”
Another container issue…🧐. This with the surfacing again of the Ashley Biden diary leads me to consider that we are accelerating the release of the cabal’s core….the truth about the children. God bless them.🙏🙏