Badlands News Brief
A Proxy President Manages His Proxy 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.
Some items feature original (and subjective) commentary. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see our writers’ corresponding Substack accounts and check out their other work.
Now, onto the news from Tuesday, December 12 …
Biden warns Netanyahu that Israel is losing support worldwide and its government must 'change'
President Joe Biden appeared Tuesday to offer his harshest criticism yet of the Israeli government since Hamas' terrorist attack on Oct. 7, saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a "tough decision to make."
Biden made the remarks at an off-camera campaign reception in Washington on Tuesday afternoon, suggesting that Netanyahu's government is hindering a long-term solution.
“I think he has to change, and with this government, this government in Israel is making it very difficult for him to move," he said.
The president said that far-right members of the Israeli government, like National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, don’t want a two-state solution with the Palestinians and that changes must be made to the government.
"And, folks, look, if you think about it, one of the things that Bibi understands, I think, now — but I’m not sure Ben-Gvir and his war Cabinet do, who I’ve spoken to several times — is that Israel’s security can rest on the United States, but right now it has more than the United States. It has the European Union, it has Europe, it has most of the world supporting it," Biden said. "But they’re starting to lose that support by the indiscriminate bombing that takes place."
Biden warned that Israel is beginning to lose support in Europe and around the world because of its military offensive against Hamas in Gaza and the rising number of civilian deaths. The president reiterated that Israel can learn from the mistakes that the U.S. made after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
At the same time, Biden said that Hamas must be held accountable for Oct. 7. — NBC News
Our Take: “Overton's Goalpost is accelerating.
Over the course of the last few weeks, I've been arguing that one of the major Macro concepts the Collective Mind is being carpet bombed into the recognition of is that of 'Proxies' in all forms.
Starting with the kick-off of Ukraine clown world in February 2022, the exposure of Proxy Presidents, Proxy States and Proxy Wars has accelerated on an exponential scale.
If you need evidence of that, all you have to do is look at the general persuasion of the Collective Mind (the Normie Layers, anyway) re: Ukraine in February 2022 to today; in short, it took over 18 months for bipartisan sentiment to crystalize over the rejection of funding and US power projection in Ukraine.
Now consider Israel, which has already been coded much more deeply into said Collective Mind: it has taken less than two months for the same Mass Psychological Spiral to occur, to the point where the current Proxy President of the US is now warning the others on the game board.” —
Rumble Hit With "Unprecedented" Cyber Attack After Posting J6 Security Cam Footage
Free speech video hosting platform Rumble was hit with an “unprecedented” cyber attack shortly after new security camera footage from January 6 was posted on the platform.
Last week it was revealed that the GOP-controlled Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight had created a new Rumble channel to post hours of security footage from Capitol Police taken on January 6, 2021.
“The first few videos were posted to the Rumble channel on Dec. 5. By the next day, the collection grew to 135 clips—each about 10 minutes long. The channel had nearly 700 followers on Dec. 7,” reported the Epoch Times.
Apparently, that upset some people. — Modernity News
Our Take: “The attacks on Rumble have been intense the past few days, and it’s no surprise, as free speech is under unprecedented attack across multiple domains.
Rumble has taken a stand for the First Amendment, from releasing the J6 footage to allowing creators like us at Badlands to speak truth without compromise. If the truth wasn’t a powerful weapon in the culture wars, censorship would be unnecessary.
Change happens one conversation at a time, so be brave and speak the truth.” —
West’s ‘500-year dominance’ ending – Lavrov
The 500-year-long dominance of the West is coming to an end, being replaced by “a new polycentric world,” Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said Sunday in a video address to the Doha Forum.
The minister expressed regret that certain “circumstances” prevented him from coming to the Qatari capital in person and hearing the discussions at the annual high-profile event.
“But I assume that you were discussing the multipolar world, which is emerging after 500 years of domination of what we call the ‘collective West,’” Lavrov said.
This hegemony of the US and its allies had been “based on a diverse history, including ruthless exploitation of peoples and territories of other countries,” he said.
According to the minister, the West suggested that it could use the model of globalization, which it had been building for centuries, to maintain its dominance. “However, other countries, using exactly the principles and instruments of the Western globalization, managed to beat the West on its own turf, building the economies on the basis of national sovereignty, on the basis of balance of interests with other countries.”
New centers of economic growth and political influence have been emerging, “changing the balance of power in the world, and not to the West’s liking,” he said. — RT
Our Take: “It's not overly shocking to anyone who's been paying attention that Russia's public posture to the rest of the world reflects the growing anti-western hegemon sentiment that is exploding across the global south and east.
That said, I find tracking of the specific terminology used to be fascinating.
In his latest address of foreign leaders at the Doha Forum (which is plenty dasting in and of itself,) Sergey Lavrov switched from use of 'multi-polar world' to 'polycentric' order, in which 'power' players with sovereign power projection ability will be able to wield dominance over nations in their orbits that attempt to destabilize international relations and free trade.
This reading of the game board (or 'threat' to the Globalists,) mirrors theories of the Sovereign Alliance we've advanced, and the Regions of Responsibility Macro
discusses frequently.One need not look any further than the current stance of the Saudis toward their neighbors for evidence of it in action.” —
Oh Look, It's A Satanic Goat Skull And Pentagram In The Iowa State Capitol
Residents of Iowa have expressed disbelief after the Governor allowed a Satantic Christmas display featuring a Baphomet skull and blood red pentagram to be placed inside the State Capitol.
Governor Kim Reynolds is under pressure to remove the display, placed there by the Satanic Temple, with Iowa State Representative Brad Sherman leading the charge, labelling it ‘evil’ and ‘disgusting’.
“I am calling for our governor to have this blasphemous display removed immediately based on the grounds that it is unconstitutional and offends God upon whom the State of Iowa depends for blessings,” Sherman wrote in a statement, adding “I am calling for clarifying legislation to be adopted in accordance with our State Constitution that prohibits Satanic displays in our Capitol building and on all state owned property.” — Modernity News
Our Take: “Wait just a second here. Weren’t these folks all about tearing down statues and displays they didn’t like just a couple short years ago?
Kim Reynolds should be ashamed of herself for allowing this nonsense in her State Capitol. For one, these are the same folks who screech about ‘separation of Church & State’ all day long, despite the fact that our very country was founded on Judea-Christian values. What they really mean is: ‘Separation of Church & State unless it is Satan, who we really worship, in which case Church & State can be in bed together all they want.’
But that’s what this really is. [They] have become so backed into a corner that they must resort to gregarious posturing like this to try and assert a winning stance.
Too bad nothing can stop what’s coming.” —
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Another Take: They have a permit, though.
Freedom of speech is most important for speech you find detestable. Don’t misunderstand me — I am repulsed by this. But it also feels like a trap to yield our own first amendment rights.
Instead of being upset that the governor of Iowa allowed a satanic altar in a state building, perhaps the people of Iowa should consider why their society has degraded to such a point where open Satanists are brazen enough to practice in the state house.
Good people have tolerated evil for too long, and evil is taking its profits. The cultural battlefield is where this war will be won. Get up and get loud.” —
Ford's "Test For EV Adoption" Fails: Carmaker Slashes Production Plans For Electric F-150 In Half
Less than a week after Elon Musk unveiled his apocalypse-surviving, Porsche-out-accelerating, bulletproof CyberTruck, Ford's EV effort is crashing on the Biden-administration ignited fire of unaffordability and high costs.
Having signaled in October during its Q3 earnings call plans to “adjust” production of its all-electric vehicles and delay about $12 billion in investments due to softening demand for higher-priced premium electric vehicles; a memo to suppliers - which was viewed and reported first tonight by Automotive News - indicated plans beginning in January to produce an average of about 1,600 Lightning trucks a week at its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan.
Ford had planned for an annual production capacity of 150,000 Lightnings a year, or about 3,200 a week.
That means its production target for 2024 has been halved.
“We’ll continue to match production with customer demand,” a Ford spokeswoman said Monday.
In May 2021, during a flashy introduction, Ford CEO Jim Farley told reporters that the electric F-150 could serve as a proxy for how mainstream buyers will accept battery power.
“I am looking at this vehicle as a test for adoption for electric vehicles,” Farley said.
“We should all watch very carefully how this does in the market.”
It would appear Ford failed that test.” — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “Ford has announced to investors that it plans to halve its production of the F-150 Lightning EV throughout 2024, which comes directly on the heels of the highly memetic (and polarizing) launch of Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertruck.
My own cognitive journey with Musk, Tesla and the EV push in general has been pretty interesting, as I have flagged the same thing most in the Truth Community has -- that being that the Establishment Globalists desperately want to move us into a WEF-ian dystopia masquerading as a utopia, where the 'green' future will see us owning nothing, and being happy about it.
I used to see Tesla's own tech push as running in parallel with this agenda, and yet, reality doesn't bear this out, as Tesla's own 'green' energy projects seem to be consistently undercutting and disrupting the Globalists' push.
Musk's undeniably positive net effects on the Great Awakening go much farther than we've been led to believe, and the more you look, the more I think you'll begin to see it.” —
BONUS ITEMS
Israel Begins Flooding Hamas’ Tunnels in Gaza With Seawater: Report
Israel has started pumping water from the Mediterranean Sea into Hamas’ underground tunnel system in Gaza, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing U.S. officials briefed on the matter. The flooding began sometime last month, according to the Journal. Two U.S. officials confirmed the report to ABC News, but cautioned that only some of the tunnels were being flooded, with the IDF looking to compare the tactic’s effectiveness to other strategies, which have previously included airstrikes and the use of explosives, drones, and robots. Herzi Halevi, the IDF’s chief of staff, said last week that flooding the tunnels was “a good idea, but I won’t comment on its specifics,” according to The Times of Israel. A spokesperson for the Israeli defense minister declined to comment to the Journal on Monday, saying that tunnel operations were classified. — The Daily Beast
Lawmakers introduce bipartisan resolution condemning college presidents' response to antisemitism
A bipartisan group of four high-profile House lawmakers will introduce a resolution Tuesday condemning antisemitism on university campuses and the viral testimony last week of three university presidents who appeared at a House hearing.
The resolution, first obtained by NBC News, is authored by House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.; the three other lead sponsors are Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and two Jewish American Democrats, Problem Solvers Caucus Co-Chair Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey and Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida.
It is expected to get a vote this week, Stefanik's office said.
The resolution comes exactly one week after the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania came under fire after they appeared at a House hearing and dodged questions from Stefanik about whether students calling for the genocide of Jews violated school codes of conduct and should be punished. — NBC News
Zelensky Dubiously Pledges 'Victory' While Biden Says 'Don't Give Up Hope'
Simply judging by the below somewhat chaotic scene of Zelensky at the White House, the Ukrainian leader is no longer the star of the show as he was in the war's first year. Gone are the days of the press pool fawning over him or being in awe at his presence. Instead the press primarily peppered Biden with questions.
Even Biden's words struck a more dour tone than previous meetings with Zelensky: "I don’t want you giving up hope," the US President told Zelensky. "We’re going to stay at your side." This after Zelensky dubiously tried to push a message of "Ukraine can win" - a narrative which as the Financial Times noted Ukrainian citizens themselves are in increasing disbelief of. Biden still gave out another $200 million of what's left before DoD funding runs dry for the year...
Perhaps not having much left that's original to say at this point, as the Russia-Ukraine war grinds on approaching the end of a second full year, Biden said that if Congress fails to approve his defense funding package it would be a "Christmas gift" to Putin. He also said that Russia has failed to subjugate Ukraine. — ZeroHedge
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My applause - standing ovation level - to AiA and her comments regarding the satanic display in the Iowa statehouse. Hard as it might be to accept, this is the bigger picture (IMO)!
(warning - this may be considered by some to be "preachy" - so be it!) If the "church" was living up to the standards set by its Chief Shepherd, we would be more likely to see these things as Paul did in his first letter to the fellowship of those called out in Corinth, "Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols (displays in statehouses - if I may be so bold), we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world (meaning that they have no genuine power), and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are...for us there is one God...from whom are all things and we exist for Him...and we exist through Him. (1Cor.8:4-6).
Thank you for your takes today - and for allowing us to participate in the community!
As I hope is apparent, I am a follower of Jesus Christ. I believe He is the Creator of All Things - and that He did so for it was His desire to have fellowship with His free-will creation (us). For that to be a viable option - we were created in His Image and Likeness AND given the authority to choose - even when that choice was damning. What we need is more True Light - for darkness will always be overcome by Light.
Ashe in America, good take on the satanic display. I would add they should counter with a nativity display. Wonder if they’d get the permit for that.