Badlands News Brief
Peacemakers Come in Many Forms ...
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 the Weekend that Was …
Trump meets with Zelensky, opening new chapter in a fraught relationship
Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday morning, opening a new chapter in a fraught relationship roiled by skepticism from the Republican presidential nominee and his party over U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war.
While Trump said it was an “honor” to meet with Zelensky, Friday’s gathering also illustrated both leaders’ cautious approach to each other, amid their differing views of the United States’ role in the conflict. Before the meeting with Zelensky began, Trump said he had a “very good relationship” with the Ukrainian president and that he also has a “very good relationship” with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Zelensky interjected: “I hope we have more good relations.”
The meeting was their first since 2019 and comes in the final stage of a U.S. presidential race that has put a spotlight on partisan divisions over the war. After the meeting ended, Trump predicted a “very fair and rather rapid deal” to end the war if he wins in November, but did not offer specific details. — WAPO
Our Take: Talk about SIGNAL.
Trump's initial statements alongside Zelenskyy before their "peace meeting" are already hitting on some of the most long-running theories I've held since before the advent of Russia's Special MIL Operation.
For starters, it's yet another masterclass in asides, and is best approached with Bicameral thinking in mind.
What stands out to me is his statement that the Ukrainian president, "Could have played cute and he didn't play cute," in reference to the "perfect phone call" around the impeachment hoax.
Additionally, he says Ukraine has been through "more than almost any country," which, as we've said, could apply to either side of the Narrative. To me, it's a veiled reference to the Maidan Coup and ensuing genocide by the Azov battalion in the Donbas.
And, of course, he brings in his "very good relationship" with Putin, which is where it's all heading.
Peacemakers are on deck.
The rest is a story for public engagement in order to engender the mandate for peace. —
Rudy Giuliani Disbarred In Washington Over 2020 Election Response
Rudy Giuliani, the embattled former adviser to former President Donald Trump, has been disbarred in Washington following a disciplinary board’s criticisms of his reactions to the 2020 presidential election.
A three-judge panel on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ordered Giuliani’s disbarment on Sept. 26. The brief order noted, among other things, Giuliani’s disbarment in the state of New York, where an appeals court similarly accused Giuliani of making “demonstrably false and misleading statements to the courts, lawmakers, and the public at large.”
The case came before Judges Eric T. Washington, Roy McLeese, and Joshua Deahl. In June 2023, the District of Columbia Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility issued a report stating that Giuliani “claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence of it.”
The board added that while it considered Giuliani’s “conduct following the September 11 attacks as well as his prior service in the Justice Department and as Mayor of New York City,” it said “all of that happened long ago.”
His conduct during the 2020 presidential election “transcends all his past accomplishments,” the board said, adding, “It was unparalleled in its destructive purpose and effect.” — The Epoch Times
Our Take: Giuliani is disbarred in Washington now, even as proof of the truth of his efforts is coming to light. Consider the situation here in Colorado, where establishment Republicans are pretending to be horrified to learn that the machines connect to the internet and enabled for remote access.
Colonel Shawn Smith (USAF-Retired), cyber expert Dennis Haugh (RIP), and I gave a detailed presentation on these technical components to Colorado legislators on April 24, 2021. The presentation included pictures, excerpts from the vendor manuals, cyber threat assessment details, and more. You can read it here.
Local news won awards for lying about election activists, put us on lists, and called us terrorists. We lost jobs, received dozens of threats of personal harm, lost two and a half years to frivolous lawfare— then won definitively via direct verdict.
Establishment republicans ignored all of it, stayed silent when we were defamed and dehumanized. They’ve still said nothing about our historic victory.
Now a month before the election, they want people to believe they totally care about the integrity, accuracy, and legality of our elections — and they’re calling remote access to voting machines a “breaking” development.
It is damn near impossible to convince me that this is anything other than a divisive narrative deployment, especially considering that Giuliani just lost his law license for saying it back when fighting it could have made a difference in future elections.
Back then, these same establishment shills were silent. I’m glad new people are talking about election vulnerabilities. I’m highly skeptical of their motives. —
Historic federal indictment against Adams claims he fraudulently got $10M in public funds, $123K in free luxury travel, ritzy perks
Mayor Eric Adams took bribes — including $123,000 in free flights and other ritzy perks — from foreign nationals in exchange for favors, according to a bombshell federal indictment unsealed by Manhattan prosecutors Thursday.
The historic five-count federal indictment — the first against a sitting New York City mayor — details an alleged decade-long pattern of corruption by Adams that includes fraudulently obtaining $10 million in public campaign funds.
The revelations came after the mayor was indicted by a grand jury on conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery charges amid the long-running federal probe.
“In 2014, Eric Adams, the defendant, became Brooklyn Borough President. Thereafter, for nearly a decade, Adams sought and accepted improper valuable benefits, such as luxury international travel, including from wealthy foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official seeking to gain influence over him,” the 57-page indictment charges. — NY Post
Our Take: Paul Sperry does a nice job of summarizing the unsealed indictment:
So now we are getting Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood (MI6) into the mix. Turkey absolutely has past ties to the Muslim Brotherhood—Erdogan publicly backed the MB's Arab Spring in 2011, which is why so many Middle Eastern countries haven't gotten along with Turkey in years.
But those hatchets have been recently buried, and Turkey—a critical NATO member, due to its geography—is now being courted by Russia, China, and Iran to join BRICS, and maybe even the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Back in 2022, during the Danchenko trial,
said that it was actually the FBI on trial, as the revelations that came out during the trial were a much bigger deal than the effort to prosecute Danchenko. I get a sense that similar developments may be underway here with Adams, when we consider the recent indictments against Bob Menendez, which involved payments from Egypt with connections to Qatar.Those three places—Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar—represent the three main Muslim Brotherhood (MI6) enclaves, being founded in Cairo in 1928 (by MI6), and now based in Qatar, along with Hamas.
See the pattern? I think we are about to learn how proxy groups are used to infiltrate and subvert governments. —
Let's not convict Eric Adams before trial: Rudy Giuliani | Newsline
Our Take: Giuliani's first narrative deployment regarding Adams' indictment puts the spotlight firmly on the SDNY, focusing on PAST over PRESENT.
Wherever the truth lies regarding Adams, Giuliani knows where the bodies are buried in the SDNY better than anyone. More importantly, he knows who buried them.
District Attorneys. Commissioners. Mayors.
Governors.
Some of the most gravitational cases in the Info War have orbited this small patch of corrupt concrete in the US's most infamous city, from Ghislaine Maxwell to P Diddy ... but the oldest Info War Narrative emanating from the SDNY concerns Anthony Weiner and an infamous laptop, as well as the good/bad of the NYPD.
In The Dark Knight, Commissioner Gordon fakes his own death in order to go underground and, with the help of Bruce Wayne, maps the criminal syndicate that has infiltrated Gotham all the way up to the Governor's office.
Stories act as templates, making for easy mapping in the Collective Mind.
This one's just getting started. —
Data Dump Shows 650,000 Migrant Criminals, Suspects Free in Biden-Harris’s America
President Joe Biden’s administration is allowing up to 650,000 criminal migrants and suspects — including at least 13,099 migrant murderers and 222,141 migrants facing criminal charges — to roam through American communities, according to a dramatic data dump by a House Republican.
“The data says that, among those not in detention, there are 425,431 convicted criminals,” reported Fox News, which got the information from Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX). The letter from ICE to Gonzalez says:
Your letter requests the number of noncitizens on ICE’s docket convicted or charged with a crime. As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket, which includes those detained by ICE, and on the agency’s non-detained docket. Of those, 435,719 are convicted criminals [including 13,099 murders], and 226,847 have pending criminal charges.
The data shows that there are 13,099 migrants convicted of homicide who are not detained, Fox noted.
The report says an additional 222,141 undetained migrants are facing criminal charges, including 1,845 homicide charges, even though the agency is choosing not to use all of its 41,000 detention beds.
The data also shows an additional 15,000 migrant criminals in jail. The jailed population includes 277 migrant murderers and 51 migrants who are facing murder charges.
The data also shows 17,000 migrants found guilty, or charged with, sexual offenses.
The “noncitizens” term in the data refers to illegal migrants, overstay migrants, and green card holders, all of whom can be deported if administration officials assign resources to do the job. — Breitbart
Our Take: “They’re emptying their prisons into our country.”
For this statement, President Trump was demonized, labeled racist and xenophobic, dehumanized, and had the authorities in our nation advocate to remove him from his rights.
He was correct, of course.
In February 2021, I wrote about the instant change at the border on November 7, 2020 when Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election. Active sources in CBP and ICE told me that the change impacted the volume of migrants coming as well as their treatment by the government when they arrived. The bureaucracy shifted to support the Biden Harris criminal invasion agenda even before Trump left office.
The most horrifying part of the situation at the southern border is not the criminals. It’s the children. The unaccompanied children are represented as part of a family unit to get them into the country, then it’s discovered that they are not, in fact, part of a family unit. At that point, they’re handed to NGOs subcontracted by HHS. The government is not allowed to fingerprint or photograph them. The NGOs do that bit, allegedly. I’ll leave the “photographing” actuals to your imagination.
This scandal is so much bigger than Venezuelans taking over apartment buildings or Haitians eating pets. It’s government sponsored child trafficking, and the blood and terror of these children is on all our hands if we don’t end it.
Trump has promised to end it and prosecute those responsible. Harris and the establishment deny it’s happening.
The choice between accountability or complicity is yours. Choose wisely. —
The War That Would Not End
(Editor’s Note: This is from an Atlantic Op Ed about the year-long American effort to release the hostages, end the fighting in Gaza, and bring peace to the Middle East.)
January 8
Al-Ula was the realization of Mohammed bin Salman’s dreams—a remote oasis that had come to represent the young monarch’s theory of modernization, how he would turn his country into the spear tip of the 21st century. In the middle of the desert, he had erected a destination brimming with five-star resorts and luxurious spas. There was even a plan to build a satellite branch of the Centre Pompidou.
The Saudi crown prince, known as MBS, maintained winter quarters at al-Ula. He took meetings in a tent lined with thick rugs and plush cushions. This is where he greeted Blinken, who arrived at dusk in pursuit of his own dream, a vision that traced back to the earliest days of the Biden presidency, when McGurk had traveled to the kingdom. — The Atlantic
Our Take: Al-Ula, eh?
You know who else was "wintering" at Al-Ula? At a resort owned by MBS?
What was he doing in Al-Ula? Recording an album—entitled Vultures—with cover art featuring a double-headed eagle. Here's the origin story on that emblem:
Yes. The Rothschild's emblem.
However, there is another notable use of this iconography.
Have you read Prussiagate?
Let's get back to the article, and the insane lies it weaves.
As they settled in the tent, MBS shocked Blinken. A hardened piece of Washington conventional wisdom held that MBS felt a kinship, born of shared authoritarian tendencies, with Donald Trump. But after the 2018 murder of the Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi, MBS had become a voracious student of American politics. He spoke frequently with Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Trump’s, and those conversations helped lead him to a fresh analysis of Saudi interests. (In the capitals of the Middle East, Graham is viewed as a potential secretary of state in a second Trump administration, so his opinions are given weight.)
Holy delusion, Batman. Secretary of State Lindsay Graham? Hah!
Here's what Lindsay Graham said about MBS in October 2018, when MBS was framed by the CIA for the murder of Jamaal Khashoggi.
Lady Lindsay introduced a Senate Resolution (a strongly worded letter) officially holding MBS responsible for the murder of Khashoggi, despite a complete lack of evidence, outside of anonymous sources at the CIA claiming it was MBS. (The CIA hates MBS because he usurped Mohammed bin Nayef, the former Crown Prince who has been a lifelong CIA shill and was arrested as part of the Saudi corruption crackdown.)
“Saudi Arabia, if you’re listening, there are a lot of good people you can choose,” Graham said. “But MBS has tainted your country and tainted yourself.”
Wow. What a dumbass.
For context, here's what Trump said about the allegations.
More from the Atlantic article:
MBS told Blinken that the Biden administration represented his best chance for realizing his plans: Two-thirds of the Senate needed to ratify any Saudi-U.S. defense pact, and he believed that could happen only in a Democratic administration, which could help deliver progressives’ votes by building a Palestinian state into the deal. He had to move quickly, before the November election risked returning Trump to power.
I don't know what Franklin Foer has been smoking, but this is some of the most asinine, crackpot nonsense I've ever read. Does he even know that the Sword Dance happened? Does he know that two days after the Sword Dance, this happened in Israel:
However, I do think that most of the intellectual invalids in DC likely believe this fanfiction drivel.
“Seventy percent of my population is younger than me,” the 38-year-old ruler explained. “For most of them, they never really knew much about the Palestinian issue. And so they’re being introduced to it for the first time through this conflict. It’s a huge problem. Do I care personally about the Palestinian issue? I don’t, but my people do, so I need to make sure this is meaningful.” (A Saudi official described this account of the conversation as “incorrect.”)
That parenthetical last line is important.
For what it's worth, Scott Ritter told Judge Napolitano a similar account, but Scott also says his information comes from spooks in the intelligence community, so this account could be coming from the same [false] source.
To me, the question of whether the Palestinian issue is important to MBS is not the right framing to understand his interest in this conflict. When asked why he selected MBS to become Crown Prince, usurping Mohammed bin Nayef, MBS's father, King Salman, said that it was important to him that the future leader of Saudi Arabia be a true Saudi national. One that could win the devotion of the people, and work to make Saudi Arabia great by making its people great— through prosperity. (An idea expressed to Salman's late brother, King Faisal, by President Kennedy in 1961, when Faisal was Crown Prince. When Faisal became King in 1964, just months after JFK was assassinated, he implemented the advice JFK had given. He, too, was assassinated in 1975.)
Salman said, "To deal with a Bedouin, I need a Bedouin," referring to the 2.5 million nomads who still live in the deserts of Arabia. Under western (CIA) influence, the Saudi government sought to marginalize and ultimately domesticate the Bedouin; much like the federal government seeks to domesticate free-minded, patriotic, and self-reliant Americans.
MBS—who forwent the offers to attend boarding school and college in Europe, like all of his older half-brothers and relatives—has always had a strong bond with the Bedouin.
From a biography on MBS by [CIA shill] Ben Hubbard:
(Note: do not conflate the Bedouin with the migrants flooding Europe and the US. They have no interest in ever leaving the desert, or becoming "sedentary," as they call it.)
You know what I think motivates MBS in this Israel/Gaza/Hezbollah situation? Two things.
1) Revenge/Justice — MBS seeks retribution for those responsible for 9/11, framing the Saudi royal family, and bringing the US military to the Middle East and completely destabilizing the region. It was a big factor in the Saudi Royal Purge.
2) Stability/Prosperity — MBS has big dreams and big plans to completely transform the Middle East into "the next Europe," as he describes it, referring to the profound prosperity Europe achieved in the development of culture and the impact it had on human history. None of this can be achieved as long as the Middle East is subjected to the whims of warmongers and terrorist cells.
While we can point the finger at groups like Hamas, Al Qaeda, and ISIS all day, most of us now understand how those groups became so powerful in the first place. They were backed by western intelligence agencies... as well as the State of Israel.
MBS has been perfectly clear for many years now that there is space for Israel in the future Middle East. But no region can find peace if there are belligerents in power. So I read the "enabling" of Israel that Saudi has provided since October 7th differently than these other analysts. I don't think MBS is doing Netanyahu any favors by giving him the space and time to indulge his deepest desires, holding back the entire Muslim world so that Netanyahu could show his true colors, and providing logistics for food and supplies for the Israeli people when the shipping industry is threatened by the Houthis.
March 5
Every time Antony Blinken visited Israel, he found himself in endless meetings with politicians who delivered posturing soliloquies, which reporters who hadn’t been in the room somehow managed to quote later in the day. He began arranging private conversations with Benny Gantz and Yoav Gallant.
Gantz, a former IDF chief of staff turned leader of the centrist opposition, was the great hope for a politically viable alternative to Netanyahu. And in the late winter, he privately indicated to the State Department that the premiership might be within his reach.
This passage directly mirrors what Trump said about Benny Gantz in December 2021.
While Netanyahu does everything he can to get the US into a hot war with Iran, both Biden and Trump seem to be signaling that they are backing Netanyahu's rivals to overtake Netanyahu, politically, and seize control to end the bloodshed.
Honestly, I don't think this could have happened any other way. The onus is now on the Israel people to demand an end to the war. Otherwise, they may soon find themselves encircled by far more than just Arabs and Iranians...
PS - MBS took Abe to Al-Ula. Really warms the heart. —
Deep intelligence penetration enabled Israel to kill Hassan Nasrallah
A hundred munitions – including, it is believed, US-made 2,000lb bombs – were used by the Israeli air force in Friday evening’s overwhelming air raid that killed the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an underground complex hidden in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh.
Nasrallah, who was careful to the point of paranoia about his security arrangements and only rarely appeared in public, would have given little notice of his plan to undertake the fateful trip to the meeting.
But the intelligence penetration of Hezbollah was so deep that Israel knew Nasrallah and other surviving members of Hezbollah’s already decimated leadership would be meeting at the supposedly secret location – and that an order to bomb them could be given.
Benjamin Netanyahu was required to give permission to undertake the attack from New York, where the Israeli prime minister had given a bellicose speech at the UN general assembly. There was, presumably, felt to be little time to wait.
According to an unsubstantiated report in the French newspaper Le Parisien, the mole who informed the Israelis that Nasrallah was on his way to the bunker was Iranian. If true, it would be eye-catching, given that Iran is Hezbollah’s principal backer. — The Guardian
Our Take: Here's a chart posted by Ezra Cohen Watnick that illustrates how many Hezbollah leaders Israel has killed in the past few weeks.
I think it is safe to say that Israel crossed the threshold of no return. Meaning that war with Iran now seems almost inevitable. However, I think the real goal has always been to get the United States into a war with Iran.
This is where the purported anecdotes by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson of CENTCOM Commander, General Michael Kurilla, become so important. If Colonel Wilkerson is accurate, then this kind of provocation cannot be rewarded with US troops. It seems that—assuming Wilkerson is right—Netanyahu has called Kurilla's bluff.
I expect the narrative to continue to be that the US is helping Netanyahu, but we'll have to see how the actuals line up.
As the likelihood of Iran getting directly involved looms, I'll maintain that the best optics for the BRICS alliance is for a military from outside the region to engage with the IDF, and pursue Netanyahu to force his surrender. —
BONUS ITEMS
Justice Dept. charges three men in alleged Iran hack of Trump campaign
The Justice Department has charged three men with carrying out Iran’s alleged hack-and-leak attack against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, describing a far-reaching effort to steal data from current and former government officials and to sow distrust in the presidential election.
At Justice Department headquarters on Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland warned the public that Iran was just one of several foreign countries trying to wreak havoc in a presidential election year. He called out Iran, Russia and China for repeatedly trying to interfere with U.S. politics and elections through hacking, disinformation and surreptitious influence campaigns.
“These authoritarian regimes, which violate the human rights of their own citizens, do not get a say in our country’s democratic process,” Garland said. “The American people, and the American people alone, will decide the outcome of our country’s elections.”
The indictment charges that Iranian nationals Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri and Yasar Balaghi “prepared for and engaged in a wide-ranging hacking campaign” targeting current and former U.S. officials, political campaigns, members of the media and others. The Washington Post previously reported the Justice Department was preparing to bring charges in the case — part of a broader effort by U.S. officials to act quickly when foreign governments seek to tamper with U.S. politics. — WAPO
Musk Warns "If Trump Is Not Elected, This Will Be The Last Election"
Elon Musk has argued that the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States, "something that the Democrats are expediting as fast as humanly possible," will effectively establish a 'one-party state and Democracy is over.'
Responding to a thread on X in which Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) pointed out that the DOJ is suing Alabama for trying to remove noncitizens from its voting lists, and blocked the SAVE Act - Musk noted that "Everywhere in America will be like the nightmare that is downtown San Francisco.:
Read Musk's entire post below (emphasis ours),
Very few Americans realize that, if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election. Far from being a threat to democracy, he is the only way to save it!
Let me explain: if even 1 in 20 illegals become citizens per year, something that the Democrats are expediting as fast as humanly possible, that would be about 2 million new legal voters in 4 years.
The voting margin in the swing states is often less than 20 thousand votes. That means if the “Democratic” Party succeeds, there will be no more swing states!!
Moreover, the Biden/Harris administration has been flying “asylum seekers”, who are fast-tracked to citizenship, directly into swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Arizona. It is a surefire way to win every election.
America then becomes a one-party state and Democracy is over. The only “elections” will be the Democratic Party primaries. This already happened in California many years ago, following the 1986 amnesty.
The only thing holding California back from extreme socialism and suffocating government policies is that people can leave California and still remain in America. Once the whole country is controlled by one party, there will be no escape.
Everywhere in America will be like the nightmare that is downtown San Francisco. — ZeroHedge
Brazilian UFC Fighter Renato Moicano Just Directly Called Out Macron and All Globalists
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Whoever created this epic story that we’ve been participating in has put together one hell of a tale. It’s got everything. Plot, story line, characters, all of it. We have villains and heroes and incidents of derring-do. When I was much younger than I am now and I found a good book I would stay up all night trying to get to the end of the story. Now that the election-of-all-elections is almost here I think soon we’ll be able to feel the breath of every participant in the info war being indrawn and held in measured anticipation.
Are we in book 1 of a trilogy? Or book 3?
“They’re emptying their prisons into our country.” The minute anyone walks, drops or drives into the US without permission, they became a felon, NOT a migrant. The idiots-in-charge following Soros open border orders have brought millions of FELONS into the country. No wonder the law enforcement agencies aren’t providing crime data.
These people are sick ( and evil) and Ashe nails it, ‘It’s government sponsored child trafficking, and the blood and terror of these children is on all our hands if we don’t end it.’ Now apply the same philosophy to the slaughter of innocents before (and sometimes after) birth.😔🙏
The intelligence agencies are at the core of many evils….each day more comes to light. Finally! Next, what they are also involved with….the children.
Apparently there has been a tremendous amount of good guys infiltrating the cabal entities around the world. So…what role did Netanyahu actually play in taking out the top of Hezbollah?
God bless those who search for truth instead of lies!🙏🙏