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Kabuki Congress & Closing Walls ...
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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. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work. (LOTS of BB today!)
Now, onto the news from Thursday, September 14 …
"File The F*cking Motion": McCarthy Melts Down After Gaetz Threatens Removal
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has McFucking had it with GOP threats to remove him for failing to perform on a laundry list of demands from his party's Freedom Caucus members.
"If you want to file the motion, file the fucking motion," McCarthy told GOP colleagues Thursday, after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) criticized him earlier in the week - giving him a list of demands while threatening to bring a motion to vacate McCarthy's chair.
Gaetz and other Republicans have slammed McCarthy for dragging his feet on a Biden impeachment inquiry, which the Speaker finally announced earlier in the week. Gaetz, however, says this isn't enough.
McCarthy also faces another episode of shutdown theater, where Republicans pretend they won't budge unless Democrats cut spending, or separate Ukraine funding from the stopgap bill, only to cave at the 11th hour in dramatic fashion.
"I showed frustration in here because I am frustrated," McCarthy told reporters following the GOP meeting. "Frustrated with some people in the conference."
Gaetz fired back after McCarthy's outburst.
"Instead of emotionally cursing, maybe the Speaker should just keep his word from January on balanced budgets, term limits and single-subject spending bills," he told The Hill.
That said, other GOP members are getting a little tired of Gaetz's threats.
"We don’t try to air our laundry but again, you know, to that point, if somebody wants to file a motion to vacate, then file the f—ing motion to vacate, and that’s it," said Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL). "And stop holding up everybody’s work, stop holding it, you know, over people’s head like it’s, you know, like, it’s this noose that you’re going to try to get somebody to walk into." — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “It’s rare to see House Speaker Kevin McCarthy abandon decorum and, if it means he is feeling the pressure from the Freedom Caucus, it’s a good thing. McCarthy has yet to make good on his promises to balance budgets, impose term limits and require single-subject spending bills. It’s time the Speaker delivers.
Given the split on the speaker vote, the Freedom Caucus doesn’t have the votes to vacate the chair unless Democrats join, and that’s unlikely since McCarthy has been good for Democrats. That said, the public pressure on McCarthy to deliver on his promises is good, and Gaetz continues to be the single member of Congress who unapologetically stands with the people.” —
Another Take: “On this week’s Power Hour, we discussed the ongoing kabuki theater in Congress.
While McCarthy is seen by many as representative of the Uniparty Establishment, he was Trump's pick for Speaker; the fact ALSO remains Gaetz and the Freedom Caucus are Trump's de facto representatives.
Instead of seeing this as contradictory, consider the Net Effects.
America First is seen as a rising power for the people, while the controlled demolition of the Uniparty continues in the Collective Mind.
Win-win.” —
Rothschild Admits ESG Failure As Globalists Shift To "Inclusive Capitalism" Agenda
In July of last year as the hype surrounding the covid pandemic was finally dying out I published an article about a barely publicized project called the “Council For Inclusive Capitalism.”
The group, headed by Lynn Forester de Rothschild who now seems to be the public face of the notorious Rothschild dynasty, is the culmination of decades of various globalist agendas combined to represent the ultimate proof of “New World Order” conspiracy.
Remember when people used to say that global governance by elitists was a paranoid fantasy? Well, now the plan is an openly admitted reality.
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The exposure of ESG is perhaps one of the greatest triumphs of the alternative media. It was proof that the “wokification” of our economy and society was not the result of some grassroots activist movement or the natural evolution of civilization. No, everything woke was a rigged agenda, an astroturf movement forced into existence by corporations and globalists using ESG as the vehicle.
It is with some disappointment I’m sure that Lynn Forester de Rothschild recently admitted the defeat of ESG at the B20 Summit in India. Though, Rothschild also suggests that the goal will be to replace the term “ESG” with something else that the public is not as privy to. In other words, the globalists have been forced to abandon ESG but will continue to look for other methods to trap companies into the far-left hive. — Alt. Market
Our Take: “A scion of the Rothschilds admits there's a need to rebrand ESG terminology with a new form of collectivist stakeholder capitalism.
Translated, the public has been made aware that wokeism is an engineered Marxist assault on true free market dynamics.
The good news is, the fact that Globalists are being forced to rebrand their world-saving deployments is proof positive that the Great Awakening is in full swing, and is FAR more widespread than some believe.
Retreat is Defeat in the Mind War.” —
Musk: ADL Is Pushing Activist Politics, Not Actually Fighting Hate Speech
During an interview with the host of the "All-In Podcast," Elon Musk commented on his feud with the Anti-Defamation League, a group organizing a boycott of Twitter over alleged "anti-semitic" content.
ELON MUSK: I think we'll see about [a lawsuit against the ADL]. The fact of the matter is the ADL did initiate a boycott. They don't call it a boycott, they call it a pause. But, you know, a pause that is never ending is a boycott. It's the same thing.
We saw a massive drop in U.S. advertising, [Twitter] saw basically no change in advertising in Asia, but domestically where the ADL is strong, we saw a 60% drop in advertising. That's pretty intense. This is despite repeated analyses and assessments, including third-party analysis of the system, that actually showed that the number of views of hateful content declined. Third parties have all the data, analyze them, and say actually there is less hate speech.
The issue with the ADL is not a question of hate speech, it is not a question of anti-Semitism, obviously. It's that the ADL and a lot of other organizations have become activist organizations which are acting far beyond their stated mandate, or their original mandate, and far beyond what donors to those organizations think they are doing. — Real Clear Politics
Our Take: “It is no great secret that the liberal establishment’s hatred of Elon Musk is only surpassed by the roiling animosity they harbor toward Donald Trump. I suppose now, in retrospect, it seems inevitable that the ADL would be engaged in a very public confrontation with Musk; he did buy up one of the primary tools used to weed out dissenting voices and turned it into a (mostly) free-speech platform.
The ADL/Musk beef made headlines earlier this month because it all but demanded the power to dictate to Twitter (now known as ‘X’) what political views should and should not be allowed to be expressed on the platform. Naturally, Musk pushed back, hence the current drama.
Historically, the ADL was seen as a noble organization committed to the honorable goal of opposing genuine antisemitism and speaking for the interests of the Jewish community as a whole. In recent years, however, under the leadership of former Obama administration staffer Jonathan Greenblatt, the group has come under criticism for acting more as a left-leaning pressure group than a non-partisan anti-Semitism watchdog.
Since the advent of Greenblatt, the ADL has radically transformed into one of the primary enforcers of the modern censorship regime that has become so built out in the wake of both Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency, two historic events that showcased how the deep political establishment in the west is losing its grip on the population. The ADL’s current work has very little to do with combating antisemitism; as Glenn Greenwald recently put it, ‘that is only the marketing costume or pretext it uses to wield power.’
In 2023, the true objective of the ADL could not be any clearer: to advance the interests of the Democratic Party, ensure the success of party leaders, and protect the dominant ideology that the establishment wings of both parties are devoted to, namely protecting the status quo and eliminating populist dissent by continuously labeling dissenters as either ‘anti-Semitic’, or using more amorphous descriptors like ‘extremist’.
In the deep political establishment mind, dissent equals defamation.
Whether it’s dissent from their policy views on the war in Ukraine or from dubious practices at the local elementary school, it doesn’t matter; the regime must stomp it out through character assassination, and the ADL is one of the primary tools used to do so.” —
Ukraine Plays Key Role In Biden Impeachment Inquiry, Just As It Did With Trump
Both the newly announced impeachment of President Joe Biden and that of President Donald Trump center on the same incident in Ukraine, but from different sides.
The impeachment inquiry announced by House Republicans against President Joe Biden centers on his involvement with Ukraine, just as the Eastern European country figured prominently in the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. In fact, both impeachments touch upon the same incident, but from opposite sides.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced the impeachment inquiry on Sept. 12, summarizing the results of the investigations to date, including nearly $20 million in alleged payments from foreign sources to the Biden family and associates, the president’s past communications with his son Hunter Biden about his overseas business dealings, as well as whistleblower allegations that the Department of Justice extended special treatment to the Biden family.
“These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction, and corruption and they warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives,” Mr. McCarthy said.
The centerpiece of the allegations goes back to 2016, when then-Vice President Biden used a $1 billion loan guarantee as leverage to have Ukraine fire prosecutor Victor Shokin, who was investigating Ukrainian energy company Burisma. At the time, the vice president's son Hunter Biden was collecting $1 million a year to sit on the company’s board and Burisma associates were pressuring him to ensure any investigations into the company’s owner were quashed.
It was President Trump’s requesting assistance from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in investigating this matter during a 2019 phone call that prompted House Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry of him and later voting to impeach him. President Trump was acquitted by the GOP-led Senate at the time.
Ukraine has long been a crucible of geopolitical tensions, culminating in Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022. Hunter Biden was given the Burisma position in 2014, three months after Vice President Biden was designated by President Barack Obama as “point-man” for Ukraine. — The Epoch Times
Our Take: “Templates.
Everything we're seeing in the current chapter of the Info War where it concerns the Biden Crime Family appears to be a direct mirror of the Deep State's deployments against the Trump Presidency.
How serendipitous, that these mirrored deployments have Actuals at the end of them.
Ukraine isn't just a vector through which Biden corruption is being revealed to the Collective Mind; it's a cypher through which the very concept of Globalist corruption & Western Hegemony is being exposed.” —
Judge blocks suspension of right to carry firearms in public, siding against New Mexico governor
A federal judge has blocked part of a public health order that suspended the right to carry guns in public across New Mexico’s largest metro area, with criticism mounting and political divides widening over the Democratic governor’s action.
The ruling Wednesday by U.S. District Judge David Urias marks a setback for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
The second-term governor imposed an emergency public health order Friday that suspended the right to openly carry or conceal guns in public places based on a statistical threshold for violent crime that applied only to Albuquerque and the surrounding area. She cited recent shootings around the state that left children dead, saying something needed to be done.
Urias, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Joe Biden, agreed Wednesday with plaintiffs who have accused Lujan Grisham of trampling on constitutional rights. Urias granted a temporary restraining order to block the governor’s suspension of gun rights until another hearing is held in early October.
Urias said he doesn’t blame Lujan Grisham for trying to do something “in the face of these terrible deaths,” but his duty is to decide a much more narrow question regarding the rights afforded under the U.S. Constitution.
The governor in a statement issued Wednesday said she would not be resigned to the status quo. — AP News
Our Take: “Shall not be infringed. It is not surprising that Governor Lujan Grisham is getting smacked down on her unconstitutional disarmament play. It’s refreshing that it happened so quickly.
What continues to be surprising is that the left supports the judge’s ruling. It is not believable that the left is suddenly backing off their gun hysteria in favor of the constitution. So what is going on?
One thing I’ve noticed is that the left’s commentary focuses on the state level ability to effect this change. And they also frequently bring up abortion in their discussions about this gun battle. We know the left abhors states rights as it pertains to abortion. They reject states rights generally. And they’re rejecting states rights on guns.
They’re not defending the constitution. They’re laying the groundwork to change it. Shall not be infringed.” —
Taiwan Lashes Out At Elon Musk Over Hawaii Comparison
Ukraine is not the only country currently outraged at Elon Musk, as Taiwan has added itself to the list aggrieved countries due to his 'politically incorrect' speech. Musk this week addressed the "All-in Summit" held in Los Angeles.
Speaking to the conference remotely, Musk at one point used language suggesting Taiwan is still "part of China". In the wide-ranging remarks, the billionaire owner of X, Tesla, SpaceX and other companies began that particular section of the talk by saying he possesses a "pretty good understanding, at least as an outsider, of China."
And that's when he issued the 'controversial remarks' as follows: "From their standpoint, you know, maybe it’s analogous to like Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China mostly because … the U.S. Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification by force," he said.
Naturally this didn't sit well with Taipei (or some Hawaiians for that matter). Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu hit back at Musk in Thursday comments, saying on X:
"Listen up, Taiwan is not part of the [People’s Republic of China] & certainly not for sale!" Wu posted on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs account.
The Taiwanese foreign minister added that he hopes Musk can also ask the Chinese Communist Party to allow its people to use X — which the Tesla CEO purchased in October 2022. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “Elon Musk is one of the most powerful Mind-Movers at work in the Info War.
Lately, he's guided the Collective Mind regarding 2 of the Deep State's most key and ubiquitous proxy States in Ukraine and Taiwan; while the former has been exposed as a vector of everything from bioweapons projection to Nazi battalions, the latter's exposure has yet to begin in earnest.
Taiwan has long been held up as a jewel of Democracy in the shadow of the Chinese empire.
But whose Democracy are we talking about?” —
BONUS ITEMS
Hunter Biden Sues Former Trump WH Aide Who Published Laptop Contents
Yes, the same laptop that 51 former intelligence officials said had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” and which Antony Blinken (then a top Biden campaign official) had a 'central role' in discrediting after the New York Post reported that Hunter Biden exploited his father's position as then-VP foer personal gain.
According to a Wednesday night filing, Hunter Biden's legal team is suing Garrett Ziegler, who operates the website Marco Polo.
The 13-page lawsuit alleges that Ziegler and others violated federal and California privacy laws by "accessing, tampering with, manipulating, altering, copying and damaging computer data" gathered from Hunter Biden's purported laptop and iPhone cloud storage without consent.
The lawsuit details how Ziegler and unnamed defendants allegedly obtained sensitive materials by hacking into encrypted data on Hunter Biden's devices and uploading them to Ziegler's website, where it remains public. In the lawsuit, Hunter Biden's lawyers assert that the defendants had refused requests to "cease their unlawful activity" and return private data belonging to the president's son. -CBS News
In response, Ziegler told CBS News: "I nor the nonprofit, Marco Polo, have been served with a lawsuit — but the one I read this morning out of the Central District of California should embarrass Winston & Strawn LLP. It's not worth the paper it's written on," adding "Apart from the numerous state and federal laws and regulations which protect authors like me and the publishing that Marco Polo does, it's not lost on us that Joe's son filed this SLAPP one day after a so-called Impeachment Inquiry into his father was announced. The president's son is a disgrace to our great nation."
Hunter Biden is suing a former Trump White House aide for publishing the contents of his infamous 'laptop from hell,' which contains all sorts of evidence against the Biden family, along with private photos, emails and text messages between the first son and his associates. — ZeroHedge
Hunter Biden Indicted for Gun Charges
Today we saw an expected development in the investigation of Hunter Biden.
After the plea deal for the tax charges and the diversion for his false statements relating to a gun purchase fell apart (more on the briefly below), Special Counsel Weiss informed the Delaware federal court that they would seek the return of the gun charge indictment by September 29, 2023.
True to form, the grand jury has returned the indictment. Hunter Biden is charged with three counts relating to false statements in a gun purchase, in violation of federal law, that he was not an unlawful user of illegal drugs or other controlled substance.
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Here’s the issue - with the plea deal falling, through, is the original diversion agreement still valid? Hunter Biden’s attorneys think so. In response to the Weiss’s notice to the court that he would seek the grand jury indictment, Biden’s attorneys responded that the agreement was still in effect and that “Mr. Biden has been and will continue to follow the conditions of that Agreement.” —
Bonus Take: “The Narrative Convergences at work in the Info War at present are beginning to stack up.
We've got the templates set during the Trump Admin coming back around to blitz the Collective Mind with the Actual Scandals at the end of the Potentials launched from 2016-20.
At the same time, we have some of the biggest Mind-Movers in the world drawing attention to the contrast between the Actuals of the Biden Crime Family with the farce that is the Witch Hunt of Trump, from Vladimir Putin to Elon Musk.” —
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.
"Hunter Biden's purported laptop and iPhone"
How in the world can you sue someone for something when you say Its not yours???
Ryan says: "Historically, the ADL was seen as a noble organization committed to the honorable goal of opposing genuine antisemitism and speaking for the interests of the Jewish community as a whole. In recent years, however, under the leadership of former Obama administration staffer Jonathan Greenblatt, the group has come under criticism for acting more as a left-leaning pressure group than a non-partisan anti-Semitism watchdog."
In Revelation 2 - while speaking to those in the fellowship of Christians in Smyrna - and again in Revelation 3 - while speaking to those in the fellowship of Christians in Philadelphia - Jesus (while John is scribing) says some things that I am sure the ADL would find discriminatory. (BTW: The disciples in these two cities are the only ones that were not corrected by the Lord - and that were being attacked by those who had rejected the very One they had been waiting and praying for - for over 1400 years!)
This evening is Rosh Hashanah - the first day of the New Year (the day some believe God began His creative work) and the Feast of Trumpets. In 10 days, the ceremonial Day of Atonement will come. We all need Atonement - and He has made it available to all who are humble enough to ask for it!
The feud between Musk and the ADL is a good catalyst for us to pray! The "Babylon System" has been a part of man's philosophies since Cain killed Abel - but "we do not wrestle against flesh and blood..."
Thanks for all the diligence and perseverance!