Badlands News Brief
Badlands News Brief
Biden Bumbles & Narrative Whiplash Abounds
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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, whose stated opinions are their own. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work.
Now, onto the news from Wednesday, October 18 …
Biden drafts $100 billion foreign aid package, including money for Israel and Ukraine
The Biden administration is drafting a $100 billion foreign aid package that includes assistance for Israel as well as other top security priorities, according to two people familiar with the details.
Details on the spending request were still being finalized ahead of an official request sent by the White House to Congress this week.
One person told ABC News that the “bulk” of the assistance will likely go toward Ukraine, while others also said that it included $10 billion for Israel. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss details that hadn't been announced yet by the White House. — ABC News
Our Take: “No.
This is taxation without representation, and we have got to get the criminal regime to stop bankrupting our children. And their children. And their children’s children. The country is bankrupt by every measure, except the magic of fiat and central bank deception.
I believe bankrupting the US is the goal of this administration, as it is a prerequisite to realize the Great Reset to the New World Order. Also, in case you’re thinking the chaos in the Congress will prevent this new deal, let me remind you that NSC Spokesman John Kirby said, ‘Nothing in the halls of Congress will impact our ability to support Ukraine.’
We can assume that goes for Israel as well.” —
"You're Not Alone" - Biden Says Attacks On Israel Like "Fifteen 9/11s"
Biden emphasized during his remarks from Tel Aviv, "I'm the first US president to visit a nation during a time of war." His talk was heavy on religious imagery, while recounting the Oct.7 Hamas terror incursion into Israel and the number of Jewish victims. He only briefly touched on the Gaza hospital bombing, but stressed that the US sees eye to eye with Israel's assessment. "Based on the information we have seen today it seems to have been the result of an errant missile fired from a terrorist group in Gaza," Biden said.
"Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people," he at one point emphasized, while also asserting that Hamas uses civilians an "human shields" and places command centers and tunnels under civilian buildings. Biden, while briefly acknowledging the deep humanitarian crisis and suffering in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, unveiled $100 million in new US assistance for the Palestinians. But he qualified that aid will soon flow from Egypt to Gaza under the close eye of inspectors, and he warned Hamas against thwarting or stealing this aid. "If it happens it will stop the international community from being able to provide this aid," Biden threatened.
He also demanded that the International Red Cross be allowed immediate access into Gaza to be able to visit the hostages and check on their condition. He renewed a call for a two-state solution.
Importantly, he affirmed that he will ask Congress "this week" for "unprecedented" Israel aid, after he early in the speech said that the Hamas attack on Israel resulted in a death toll akin to Israel's population suffering "fifteen 9/11's". — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “I said yesterday that Joe Biden appeared to be caught in a political and narrative pincer akin to the 'no-win' scenario Kobayashi Maru.
Today, on the first public leg of his super serious peace tour, he's managed to reduce what the Collective Mind is being told is the most catastrophic event ... since the last time they said that ... down to sports analogies.
He's doing this while he's also directly converging the narrative templates of Ukraine and Israel into the actual by pledging to tie their foreign aid packages together, directly mapping onto the 'conspiracies' most in the Truth Community (and even much of the 'normie' internet) have advanced regarding western funding of proxy states and proxy wars.
All of this occurs against the backdrop of Donald Trump having pioneered and brokered the signing of the Abraham Accords and the Doha Agreement, demonstrating near mastery of peace talks in a region known for anything but.
We're in a War of Stories, and we have better writers.” —
X Charges New Users $1 To Combat Spam Bots, Making It "1000X Harder To Manipulate Platform"
Elon Musk is ramping up the fight against bots on X as a way to stop 'manipulation on the free-speech platform.' X will begin charging new users in New Zealand and the Philippines $1 per year to post or interact with other users on the platform, a move Musk says "will be 1000X harder to manipulate the platform."
X account "Support" provided more details of the subscription called "Not A Bot" program:
Starting today, we're testing a new program (Not A Bot) in New Zealand and the Philippines. New, unverified accounts will be required to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post & interact with other posts. Within this test, existing users are not affected.
This new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver.
And so far, subscription options have proven to be the main solution that works at scale. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “It makes me giggle how many people are upset about being charged $1 per year. There was some major raging on X when this was announced, and as someone who pays for Blue at $11 a month, the $1 per year price tag is a silly thing to get upset over.
What this move reveals, however, is that the team running X is still struggling with bots. Elon has been promising to get the bots under control for a year now, and the fact that he is looking to charge accounts for the ability to post — even just $1 a year — proves that the bot problem is significantly more impactful than we’ve been led to believe.
X continues to grow as the public square, and Elon’s team is adding features and capabilities like crazy, but the bot problem will continue to hinder adoption until it’s under control.
As an avid X user, a dollar is a small price to pay.” —
Jim Jordan falls short a second time; House speaker vote still looms
Rep. Jim Jordan, of Ohio, failed for a second time to win the speaker's gavel. The House won't hold a third vote Wednesday, he told reporters in the Capitol.
Jordan was nominated last week after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., withdrew from the race. Jordan will most likely need the support of 217 of 221 Republicans to be elected to the position, but he received only 200 votes on the first ballot and 199 on the second.
The House was left leaderless when a group of hard-line conservatives led by Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, of Florida, succeeded in ousting Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as speaker.
Democrats are supporting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, of New York. Jeffries has said Democrats would be open to working with interim Speaker Patrick McHenry, R-N.C. — NBC News
Our Take: “As we’ve been discussing on some recent shows this week, while it would be nice to have an America First Congress imposing or defending the will of the American people, at this stage of the Info War game, it may actually be better if Congress was paralyzed, at least temporarily.
On an Actual level, we don’t really want most of these cretins having the ability to declare war on our behalf; on a Narrative level, the American people are being shown that, in the midst of one of the most contentious and tense political and international environments in decades, the U.S. is completely rudderless, putting even more focus onto the Biden Admin.
Sometimes, bad news is good news in the Mind War.” —
BONUS ITEMS
Putin touts solidarity with China in Xi’s pitch for new world order as crisis grips Middle East
Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed the conflict in the Middle East during a meeting on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing Wednesday, according to the Russian leader – who said “common threats” brought the two countries closer.
The international gathering, which saw leaders and representatives from countries mostly in the Global South congregate in the Chinese capital, took place under the shadow of war between Israel and militant group Hamas that threatens to escalate into broader regional conflict.
“We discussed in detail the situation in the Middle East,” Putin said in a press conference. “I informed Chairman (Xi) about the situation that is developing on the Ukrainian track, also quite in detail.”
“All these external factors are common threats, and they strengthen Russian-Chinese interaction,” Putin added.
A readout published by Chinese state media said Xi had conducted an “in-depth exchange of views” on the situation of Israel and the Palestinians with his Russian counterpart, but did not provide any further details of what was discussed. Beijing has yet to name or condemn Hamas in its statements.
Neither Putin nor Xi mentioned the conflict in addresses earlier Wednesday at the start of the gathering, where the Chinese leader welcomed two dozen world leaders and more than a hundred delegations to an event marking the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative – an ambitious yet controversial undertaking to boost connectivity and trade across the world with Chinese infrastructure projects. — CNN
Insurrection? Pro-Palestinian Protesters Occupy Capitol Building
The far-left pro-Palestinian protests continue in the US with activists now occupying the Capitol, accusing lawmakers of having Palestinian blood on their hands.
As with most leftist efforts, the first goal is a narrative shift in which the people who triggered the conflict are painted as victims. The Hamas soldiers who launched terrorist attacks killing thousands of civilians in Israel are dismissed down the memory hole, and now the focus is only on Palestinian tragedy.
The most logical decision is for America to stay out of the conflict completely. However, rabid involvement by leftists on the side of Hamas may actually push a majority of Americans to throw full support behind Israel simply because any cause backed by woke organizations is a cause worth obstructing. The public will ask themselves: "When have these people ever been right?"
The DC event adds insult to injury, considering Democrats have been accusing conservatives of insurrection for the past few years after occupying the Capitol. — ZeroHedge
US vetoes UN Security Council action on Israel, Gaza
The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants to allow humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip.
The vote on the Brazilian-drafted text was twice delayed in the last couple of days as the United States tries to broker aid access to Gaza. Twelve members voted in favor of the draft text on Wednesday, while Russia and Britain abstained.
"We are on the ground doing the hard work of diplomacy," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told the 15-member council after the vote. "We believe we need to let that diplomacy play out."
"Yes, resolutions are important. And yes, this council must speak out. But the actions we take must be informed by the facts on the ground and support direct diplomacy efforts. That can save lives. The council needs to get this right," she said.
Washington traditionally shields its ally Israel from any Security Council action. — Reuters
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.
To say we want peace in the world we must first recognize the hidden trap of the orchestrated emotional matrix: choose a side. Every war has been orchestrated by decades of division between sides and then the weapon of atrocities wielded to intensify identity with the victim side. The dark forces of the world (Khazarian Mafia aka Zionists aka global cartel deepstate invasion undermining sovereignty of nations) have no compassion for humanity but they definitely understand the human response of compassion and use it to mire our minds in the emotional matrix, eclipsing our rational thought processes of questioning the narrative of sides.
I find it to be the strangest thing that our politicians can rarely agree on anything but suddenly they’re all on the same page of supporting Israel? The first response isn’t to immediately intervene with a diplomatic intervention…it is to side with Israel’s right to retaliate.
I am thankful to BurningBright’s ongoing discourse on “The War of Stories”. Where did this story begin? This current story began a long time ago when a Dark Force of Consciousness decided to use the Jewish people and their religion as the “side” they would hide behind, that will always be convenient for use in creating conflict…to keep humanity bound in the emotional matrix of hate and outrage. A few decades ago, Israel created Hamas. But who really created the whole concept of terrorism as a strategy of ongoing wars that only ever benefit the military-industrial complex?
We question how weird it was that Hamas could invade right through the superior defense intelligence of Israel. So quickly, the ensuing counter attack on Gaza…one of the most densely populated places on earth - 2.5 million people packed into 140 sq miles. Half of that population is children!!
What is really going on?!
I can not take sides in this. Our true enemy is the same enemy that has started every war. We need to free ourselves from the emotion of hatred and expose the real enemy of Humanity. I hope this is an awakening and what Q meant by “saving Israel for last”
What we’re told by the ‘news’ is being debunked in rapid time (and accelerating). That’s a good thing for the world patriots as the World War III narrative continues to increase and expand!
The House delay is preventing 1) a budget for the cabal via Ukraine and Israel, and 2) declaration of another forever war in the Middle East. 👍 Unconstitutionally (per the Obama’ bosses’ puppets’ standard operations) the bumbling idiot is somehow going to put together a $100 billion laundering package. (Oh, aid, I mean). Oh, and another insurrection? Talk about highlighting the 2-tier system and the hypocrisy!!🤪
Elon’s trying. Got to give him credit for that and the whining about a dollar per year???? Pray he’s successful with the enemy bots!
CNN: where in the article did Xi and Putin discuss a New World Order.
Clown show 🤡🤡🤡