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 is going to take you through a few news items of interest from the previous day in an attempt to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community while introducing you to some brief, original commentary from our growing team of citizen journalists.
(Feel free to follow the corresponding link attached to each Badlands contributor’s name to check them out on other platforms.)
Now, onto the news from Thursday, March 9 …
Dems Blast "Threat" Of "So-Called Journalists" As Taibbi, Shellenberger Expose "State-Sponsored Thought-Policing"
Well, that escalated quickly...
As one might expect, the Judiciary hearing on the "weaponization" of federal agencies, featuring Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger as witnesses was full of fireworks, facts, and ad hominem friction.
Out of the gate, Ranking Member Democratic Del. Stacey E. Plaskett labeled the two "so-called journalists" as dangerous and a "threat" to former Twitter employees.
She claimed that Republicans brought "two of Elon Musk's ‘public scribes'" in "to release cherry-picked out-of-context emails and screenshots designed to promote his chosen narrative - Elon Musk’s chosen narrative - that is now being parroted by the Republicans" for political gain. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “Another day. Another Congressional Committee.
A couple of years ago, that prospect would have induced groans in a good portion of the America First movement; after all, when have Congressional Committees gotten anything done?
But that’s not the way I read this 2023 Committees. I see these Committees as more than kangaroo courts. I see them as massive exposure and disclosure operations designed to blitz the Media Industrial Complex every week into a constant reactive and defensive posture that traps them in their own contradictions to an increasingly-awake national population.
The subject matter on deck in this particular hearing?
Weaponization of Censorship against the American people.
As Matt Taibbi explains:
“What we found in the Files was a sweeping effort to reverse that promise, and use machine learning and other tools to turn the internet into an instrument of censorship and social control. Unfortunately, our own government appears to be playing a lead role … effectively, news media became an arm of a state-sponsored thought-policing system."
To borrow a refrain from Chris Paul, everything is happening. All the time. — Burning Bright
Gaetz resolution to withdraw US troops from Syria fails in House vote
A resolution to force the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria within six months failed to pass the House on Wednesday.
The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and emphatically backed by several more conservative lawmakers, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), was rejected on a 103-321 vote.
The resolution was supported by 56 Democrats and 47 Republicans, while 150 Democrats and 171 Republicans voted against the resolution.
Roughly 900 U.S. troops remain in Syria, where they carry out operations to counter ISIS. Although the U.S.-designated terrorist group has lost much of its territory, it still has a presence in Syria and maintains sleeper cells.
On the House floor, Gaetz said American troops in Syria were trapped in a “hellscape” of war and meddling from various foreign nations and the American counter-terrorism operations in the country have no end in sight.
The Florida lawmaker also argued the ISIS forces in Syria do not represent a serious threat to the U.S., and so the soldiers should be withdrawn. — The Hill
Our Take: “Matt Gaetz has once again exposed those in our Congress who are beholden to the establishment, specifically the war machine.
Write these names down Badlads and Badlasses; these individuals do not care how much of our money or our soldiers lives are spent on Syria. This endless war cash grab is something that scumbags on both sides of the aisle can agree on; forget about housing homeless veterans or fixing an obviously defective rail system.
I wonder: Is the point of keeping these soldiers deployed less about Syria and more about bigger cash-generating conflicts down the line? After all, Zelensky did say that "American sons and daughters will have to join the fight soon". All of our troops should be brought home to patrol our borders against infiltrators and our streets from the enemy within. Secure America First.” — Ryan DeLarme
Prosecutors Signal Criminal Charges for Trump Are Likely
The former president was told that he could appear before a Manhattan grand jury next week if he wishes to testify, a strong indication that an indictment could soon follow. — The New York Times
Our Take: “If America earned a nickel every time the “mainstream media” hinted that Trump was definitely facing an indictment, America just might be out of debt.
From the day he came down the escalator, Trump represented the greatest threat the establishment ever faced. They couldn’t and still can’t beat him directly or with the truth so they do their best to delegitimize him with propaganda. The establishment is all in on the narrative that Trump’s a coup plotting, Russian criminal unfit for office so you can expect more stories just like this for the foreseeable future.
Just remember, if they actually had anything on him, it would have been leaked and plastered all over prime time 24/7 and they would have found it during their 1st investigation into him. This is another nothing-burger.” — Jon Herold
Here We Go: Great Britain Government Requires Home-Grown Chickens to be Registered to Tackle Bird Flu
It’s all about control.
People in Great Britain who keep chickens in their yards are forced to register them with the government under a new proposed law to stop the spread of bird flu.
As part of the ongoing efforts to combat avian influenza, the government of England, Wales, and Scotland introduced a proposal on Wednesday that would make it mandatory for all poultry keepers to formally register their birds.
The new rules would apply to all bird keepers, no matter how many birds they own. Currently, only people who keep 50 birds or more are required by law to do so.
Under the rule, people who keep birds as pets or for food production (i.e., eggs) will be forced to register as well. Failure to do so is a violation of the law. They would also be required to update their information every year.
The owners are required to provide information, which includes their contact information, the location where the birds are kept, as well as information regarding the species, quantity, and purpose of the birds.
“These proposals will enable us to have a full picture of the number and location of birds kept across Great Britain and make it easier to track and manage the spread of avian disease,” according to a joint statement by the chief veterinary officers from England, Scotland, and Wales. — The Gateway Pundit
Our Take: “Centralization of information has utility. It's extremely valuable in a progressively advancing society with increasingly sophisticated enterprises, technologies, and cooperative efforts. But in a society where information is weaponized, where we can't trust other people and authorities with the truth, centralization of information then becomes a tool for suppressing freedoms and coercion of the people.
Freedom has to be matched with trust and responsibility, and with these, the eternal vigilance of the free, who are constantly on guard for the inevitable outliers that embrace malevolence and criminality.
Case in point—the registration of homesteaders that raise chickens is itself an effort to re-secure the economic warfare methods of the globalists. The weapon of issue is the intentional destabilization of aspects of society, such as food security, driving up the cost of living, which in turn forces economically autonomous people (homesteaders) to go work in the plantation of society to secure their food. This same method has been used all throughout history in many areas of the economy—the partnership between tyrannical government and the underworld of organized crime.
The industrial revolution was, in part, a plot to entice economically autonomous people away from their sources of autonomy—their land and communities—to work for the cabal for a living instead of working for themselves. It was fabulously successful, as the vast majority of "modernized" people now spend most of the productive time working to buy trinkets and other modern forms of bread and circus while their communities and children are twisted by the globalist propagandists (entertainers). The destabilization of food security is just one aspect of this economic warfare agenda.
WE THE PEOPLE could end it fairly quickly if we rediscovered the wisdom the founding fathers knew and fought so hard to protect.” — Justin Deschamps
Another Take: “As a new Chicken Owner, I couldn't agree more with this assessment. The allure of raising chickens is having an avenue to completely un-polluted food. Chickens without hormones or steroids that are roaming free and laying fresh eggs every day. It's freedom from the system. A dozen chickens will provide a few dozen eggs every week.
Of course the government would want to monitor you, as this is a major detachment from the system. Also, if they decide to require poison shots to "protect them from the evil bird flu," they can force you and/or harass you to comply.
Will a shot stop them from laying eggs? Will it mess with the healthiness of their meat (if meat chickens)? Who knows what the powers that be are capable of. One things for certain: having to register your chickens is government overreach and suspicious.” — Brad Getz
Venture firms are advising portfolio companies to move money out of SVB
Some venture capital firms, including some of the biggest names in the game, are advising their portfolio companies to remove money out of Silicon Valley Bank after the storied bank announced this morning that it intended to sell shares in pursuit of more capital.
A number of investors fear a bank run — meaning that enough startups will withdraw their capital at SVB, a situation in which the financial institution could wind up upside-down in terms of deposits versus demand for those funds. (Bank runs are often ironic in that they can become self-fulfilling prophecies.)
To give you a sense of what’s on the table, founders who raise millions of dollars in venture capital financings often park their capital in an SVB account. To have any semblance of that precious capital under threat could set off a domino effect more based on fear than reality. Well-known venture investor Mark Suster spoke out on Twitter in defense of the bank, saying that he believes its CEO “when he says they are solvent and not in violation of any banking ratios [and that their] goal was to raise [and] strengthen [their] balance sheet.” Others have also spoken up to support SVB, including Rob Go from NextView and Bryce Roberts. — Tech Crunch
Our Take: “If the global banking system was a dam, some major holes are starting to form and gush water.
Across the globe, banks are encountering bank run scenarios and are being faced with default. The fiat currencies around the world are literally on the ropes due to massive currency creation during Covid. All financial metrics indicate they are boxes of tinder, just waiting for a spark to ignite the chaos.
Unfortunately, banks are significantly more leveraged than the 2008 crisis and the ramifications of the poor fiscal policies will be much worse. Customers across the world are scrambling to get their currency out of these at-risk banks before there is none left (reference historical bank run scenarios).
Note, as of 3/15/2020, in the United States, while banks may happen to have a reserve currency balance, the reserve requirement is 0.0%. There is no guarantee the bank will have your currency when you request a withdrawal. Therefore, without governments and/or central banks injecting massive amounts of currency into the system to save these at-risk banks, they will fail, unfortunate customers will undergo hardships, and the effects will most likely cascade to other creditors who's debts will no longer be serviced by the banks that fail.
However, while governments and/or central banks can temporarily stop the pain, they are faced with the consequences of exacerbating future inflation metrics through increased currency supply.
Ultimately, virtually all currencies are at the end of their life-cycle, meaning we are at the end phases of exponential growth, a concept foreign to the average citizen. This means, while governments and central bankers used to be able to more easily hide the shortcomings of their system (i.e. smaller debts = smaller interest payments), the magnitude of the problem can no longer be hidden (i.e. massive debts = massive interest payments).” — Patriots in Progress
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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We know Purina chicken feed has some how managed to stop egg production in chickens. Our sister in law now buys feed from a seed store and mixes her own feed. After doing so, her chickens began laying eggs again. We know here in the states they may require we register our birds. At what point do we let the government know, they work for us. Stay out of our yards!!
I hope the Brit Citizens GATHER AND PROTEST THIS FLAGRANT BS!