Badlands News Brief
Obama Leaves the Basement as Maduro Enters the Play
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 Monday, July 29 …
It All Tracks – Hersch Reports Barack Obama Threatened Biden with 25th Amendment Removal
In popular lingo young people simply say, “that tracks.” It’s a quick way of saying, new information makes sense with pre-existing information.
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersch writes on his substack [SEE HERE], an article outlying how his sources in Washington DC and the White House have confirmed to him that former President Barack Obama was the impetus to push Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race.
Seymour Hersh says President Obama was “deeply involved” with the alleged coup and called Joe Biden after his “incident” in Las Vegas, which, from all outward appearances, looks like a major slip and fall – with a significant hit to the head.
“I went over [reports] this week with a senior official in Washington who helped me fashion an account of a White House in complete disarray,” Hersh said.
“Obama called Biden after breakfast [on July 20] and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment,'” a senior Washington official told Hersh. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries were reportedly directly involved.
Obama’s plan was to not to immediately endorse Kamala, but it was clear that she would “get the nod.” “[Obama] had an agenda and he wanted to seek it through to the end, and he wanted to have control over who would be elected.” (Hersch article encapsulated)
Not only does this outline track with every datapoint known about events leading up to the Biden announcement, it also aligns with the entire background of the Obama team operating inside the Biden administration. Team Obama have always been in control. Heck, the Obamas never even left Washington DC after their term in office.
The bigger understanding is in the final quote cited. “[Team Obama] had an agenda and he wanted to seek it through to the end, and he wanted to have control over who would be elected.” This is the part where people forget the risk to Team Obama that has never gone away. — Conservative Treehouse
Our Take: This article clearly outlines the regime’s motives and, more importantly, the stakes underlying the orchestrated chaos.
While many still believe Obama’s presidency to be a celebration of diversity and inclusion, a clear-eyed reading of history reveals that Obama’s eight years in office are more accurately characterized as a expansion of equity, also known as Marxism.
‘The NSA…was weaponized to conduct political surveillance.
The [DOJ] was weaponized to target their political opposition.
The [FBI] was weaponized to act as the police investigative units for those targets.
[DHS] was weaponized to control the evidence and information…
The IRS was weaponized against Obama’s political opposition...
The [CIA] was weaponized allowing and permitting their “foreign surveillance” mandate…‘
And there are several other items on this list. As the author of this piece appropriately asserts:
‘…their defenses are weak and shallow, fraught with vulnerability and the endless need to avoid sunlight…’
Why do beneficiaries of insider trading insist on dying in office?
Why is there never accountability for massive scandals?
Why are all of these standards and traditions abandoned when it comes to President Trump?
Speaking of President Trump, this throwback seems appropriate right now:
‘I caught them all. Let's see what happens.’ —
Venezuela's Maduro, opposition each claim presidential victory
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival Edmundo Gonzalez were each claiming victory in a presidential election on Monday morning, after a vote marked by accusations of underhand tactics and isolated incidents of violence.
The country's electoral authority said just after midnight on Monday that Maduro had won a third term with 51% of the vote, despite multiple exit polls which pointed to an opposition win.
The authority said opposition candidate Gonzalez won 44% of the vote, though the opposition had earlier said it had "reasons to celebrate" and asked supporters to continue monitoring vote counts.
Maduro, appearing at the presidential palace before cheering supporters, said his reelection is a triumph of peace and stability and reiterated his campaign trail assertion that Venezuela's electoral system is transparent.
He will sign a decree on Monday to hold a "great national dialogue," Maduro added.
Fireworks sounded over Caracas, as lighted drones formed a brightly-colored image of Maduro in the sky above the presidential palace.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said Gonzalez had won 70% of the vote and that multiple independent exit polls and quick counts decisively showed his victory.
"Venezuela has a new president-elect and it is Edmundo Gonzalez. We won and the whole world knows it," she said in a joint statement with Gonzalez.
Gonzalez said he was not calling for supporters to take to the streets or commit any acts of violence. — Reuters
Our Take: It’s strange to hear everyone proclaiming that the Venezuelan contested election is a sign of things to come in America, because obviously the Venezuelan contested election is a marathon of reruns.
The public square erupted Sunday night, with shock that an election could be so obviously stolen. This led to cries about US democracy, with both sides of the aisle claiming that Venezuela is a signal for what would happen if (1) we don’t fix our elections systems before November, or (2) we don’t stop super duper dictator Donald Trump from reclaiming the White House.
But the claims were attached to historical reminders of our democratic hero’s journey — or, reruns — which are much more important to consider in this current moment. From this article alone:
(1) Venezuela reinforces the 50/50 nation lie as a predicate for narrow victory margins.
(2) Edison is being heralded as an authoritative source of reliable election night reporting. Notably, Edison did not go down on election night in Venezuela as it did in US 2020. #EdisonZero
‘A poll from Edison Research, known for its polling of U.S. elections, had predicted in an exit poll that Gonzalez would win 65% of the vote, while Maduro would win 31%.’
(3) Venezuela is the birthplace of Dominion, arguably the most important rerun of this story. I wrote a brief and high level thread on X if you’re unfamiliar with this bit of history.
(4) The role of the media in calling the Venezuelan elections.
(5) The weaponization of government to lock up your political opposition.
(6) Preventing your political opposition from accessing the ballot through weaponizing the judiciary. Cc: Jena Griswold
Every detail of this story invokes reruns of actuals in the US. And while BlueAnons want to paint all these details as hypothetical and unfounded indications of a second Trump presidency, thinking people are able to recognize the parallels of Venezuela to US democracy in 2020. These parallels are impossible to ignore.
Now consider that the Council on Foreign Relations called this outcome two weeks ago, with important context to aid your discernment:
‘The opposition has been virtually absent from elections since 2015, with the government banning most serious candidates, intimidating others, and rigging votes. In October 2023, Maduro agreed with the opposition to hold a competitive, internationally monitored presidential race in the second half of 2024. In exchange, the United States lifted sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector—its main export and revenue source—for six months with provisions to reimpose them if Maduro faltered on his democratic commitments.’
That is the same timing of Anderson v. Griswold, the 14th Amendment case where leftists attempted to do exactly the same thing (election interference).
You really can’t make this up.
There is much more to unpack, and Friday’s Why We Vote will be must-see as we break down all of it. Tune in at 7:30pET. —
Another Take: We're in an Info War, which, by definition, means we're operating in a battlespace defined by the control and manipulation of that information, which is best accomplished through narrative deployments.
I don't end my Info War analysis with reverse indicators, but I absolutely do often START there.
To wit, when all of the worst people, world leaders, globalists and the entirety of the western Media Industrial Complex call something a "threat to our Democracy," while Russia and China (two legs of the Sovereign Alliance trinity in the modern age, in my personal view,) state just the opposite, it's worth examining your preexisting biases when it comes to what you've been told about leaders and nations they're commenting on.
I don't know whether or not Maduro won a real election, and I don't know if it's a good thing if he did ... but I DO know exactly what the establishment WANTS me to believe about it. That's not nothing.
Narrative seeding abounds, and both sides are doing it here. —
Kamala Harris fends off claims of antisemitism from GOP — while nodding to suffering in Gaza
Republicans are accusing Kamala Harris of embracing antisemitic protesters. Progressives are urging her to challenge Israel’s actions in its war with Hamas.
That dichotomy is making Israel an early — and volatile — test of Harris’ ability to navigate a fraught foreign policy issue that’s stumped U.S. leaders for decades.
On the GOP side, Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post has lambasted Harris over her positioning on the matter, in screaming headlines and a string of negative stories following her decision to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before the U.S. Congress Wednesday.
“ISRAEL LEFT BEHIND,” the tabloid cover blared that morning, above a photo of Harris.
At the same time, left-flank Democrats are strategizing how best to use their leverage over an issue that resonates deeply among coveted voting blocs.
“Every time we’ve talked in the past six months about the genocide and who’s responsible and who’s complicit and who has blood on their hands, we say ‘Genocide Joe’ and ‘Killer Kamala,’” Hatem Abudayyeh, chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and spokesperson for March on the DNC, told POLITICO.
In the span of five days, Harris has found herself embroiled in an intractable issue — one that would ensnare any Democratic candidate. A person of color who has voiced measured support for pro-Palestinian demonstrators, Harris is particularly vulnerable to charges of antisemitism from Republicans. She has sought to strike a compromising tone, delivering remarks Thursday that affirmed her defense of Israel while condemning the treatment of civilians in Gaza.
But the middleground is a gamble. — Politico
Our Take: “She’s running away from Israel,” former President Donald Trump told a booing crowd at a campaign rally Wednesday in North Carolina. “Even if you’re against Israel or you’re against the Jewish people, show up and listen to the concept. But she’s totally against the Jewish people.”
This article is the perfect encapsulation of why Trump is the Infinite Player, and the current gameboard is of his making.
"But the middleground is a gamble."
Indeed. Because Trump made it that way. He polarized this issue, by going hard against Radical Islam in the 2016 campaign. That drove the Democrat base—which was already sympathetic toward the native populations of the Middle East, due to their traditional anti-war position—further into the "pro-Muslim" camp.
Then Trump juked them out of their cleats by heading to Saudi Arabia and receiving the Sword Dance.
The campaign issue in 2016 was really about ISIS and the Syrian Civil War—the displacement of [Muslim] migrants—not Palestine and Israel. But Trump brilliantly hyper-polarized the paradigm, through his cheeky rhetoric, then pivoted the entire axis so that it landed on the one thing that seems to have the unanimous support of Congress, based on the standing ovations received by Bibi Netanyahu.
Like Atlas moving the heavens, President Trump has up-ended the balance of power in DC, and the Uniparty Establishment has no idea how to handle the hot potato.
Now by sheer fate—or perhaps phantoms of a more secular nature—the Democrats now have the dumbest presidential candidate they've ever elevated, to deal with this impossible task.
And there is Donald Trump, pushing her around the ring at WrestleMania TrumpaMania, riling up the crowd with his taunting.
“Every time we’ve talked in the past six months about the genocide and who’s responsible and who’s complicit and who has blood on their hands, we say ‘Genocide Joe’ and ‘Killer Kamala,’” Hatem Abudayyeh, chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and spokesperson for March on the DNC, told POLITICO.
Accelerate. —
Biden unveils Supreme Court reforms to limit presidential power, justice term limits
Biden officially revealed his planned Supreme Court reforms on Monday, aiming to curb the powers of President Trump if he returns to office. Biden outlined his major policy proposals in a Washington Post op-ed, which the paper identified as written by the President of the United States.
Biden proposed three key changes to the Supreme Court, which he described as being in an “ethical crisis.” These changes include imposing term limits and establishing a binding code of conduct for justices.
The primary focus of Biden’s proposal was the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that grants presidents broad immunity for crimes committed while in office. Biden expressed his disapproval of this decision, stating, “This nation was founded on a simple yet profound principle: No one is above the law. Not the president of the United States. Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. No one.”
He emphasized his concern over the court’s 6-3 decision on July 1, which he believes effectively removes constraints on presidential actions. Biden warned, “If a future president incites a violent mob to storm the Capitol and stop the peaceful transfer of power — like we saw on Jan. 6, 2021 — there may be no legal consequences.”
Biden's reforms include the “No One Is Above The Law Amendment” and term limits for Supreme Court justices, suggesting that a new justice should be appointed every two years to serve an 18-year term. He also called for a binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court, arguing that the current voluntary ethics code is inadequate. — Badlands News
Our Take: Our Boy Blue isn't quite done yet.
The husk of Joe Biden isn't going quietly into the night, and is instead about to deploy a series of narratives leading up to the election that are sure to simultaneously garner more support for Donald Trump while driving his own party insane.
There isn't a single soul in America who believes Joe Biden is penning Op Eds in the Washington Post, but who is doing so on his behalf?
First up ... Joe is taking aim at the Supreme Court, proposing further limits on presidential immunity, term limits and a code of conduct.
On the surface, none of these seem shocking, but, with a Devolution and "Plan" framing in mind, the "No One is Above the Law Amendment," aside from being crass branding, feels like the sort of amendment that is bound to boomerang with force.
So ... are these actual Regime proposals, or warnings to the very same?
I guess it depends on whether or not you believe Biden has willingly (or just accidentally) been forwarding the awakening. —
Russia, Iran, China All Seek to Shape US Election, Officials Say
Russia, China and Iran are all recruiting Americans to spread propaganda advancing their interests ahead of the US presidential election, American intelligence officials said Monday.
Some US citizens have been knowingly helping foreign governments “seed, promote and add credibility to narratives that serve the foreign actors’ interests,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Monday in its latest update on election security. Others in the US have been duped into aiding the foreign actors, according to the report.
Although intelligence officials, who briefed reporters largely on condition of anonymity Monday, didn’t invoke the names of US presidential candidates, their comments made clear that they believe Russia is trying to help Republican nominee Donald Trump while Iran is seeking to undermine his candidacy.
Russian operatives, in particular, have undertaken efforts to build and use networks of US and Western “personalities” to create and disseminate Russian-friendly narratives,” according to the report.
“These actors are seeking to back a presidential candidate in addition to influencing congressional electoral outcomes, undermine public confidence in the electoral process and exacerbate sociopolitical division,” the intelligence office said. US intelligence agencies found that Russia sought to bolster Trump in 2016 and 2020. — Bloomberg
Our Take: Umm...
Some US citizens are knowingly helping foreign governments 'seed, promote, and add credibility to narratives that serve the foreign actors’ interests,' according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's latest election security update. Others are being unwittingly drawn into assisting these efforts.
Just for the sake of argument ... if an American citizen wrote an entire series called 'Righteous Russia' about how the Russians are actually kinda sorta the "good guys," at least relative to the Obama, Biden and NATO Regimes, and certainly when compared with the Nazi-aligned Azov Battalion that committed nearly a decade of war crimes in the Donbas following the Maidan Revolution (read: coup,) in 2014 ... does he or she make the cut?
Reverse indicators abound in the Info War.
When the intelligence community follows up generations of illegal psychological operations on American citizens (Trump's words,) with this, they can kindly fu*k off. —
‘Bordering on anarchy’: IDF chief sounds alarm after right-wing mob overruns 2nd base
Far-right activists on Monday evening broke into a military base where soldiers detained on suspicion of abusing a Palestinian detainee were taken for questioning, hours after a separate base was stormed by a right-wing mob fuming over the arrests.
The anarchic scenes of mass break-ins Monday, fomented by several members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, some of whom took part in the forcible entries, sparked angry condemnation from IDF chief Herzi Halevi, who said they harmed the army, Israel’s security and the war effort.
Netanyahu, Halevi, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and President Isaac Herzog all harshly criticized the rioting outside Sde Teiman base and appealed for calm, but their words did little to prevent a mob outside the IDF’s Beit Lid base in central Israel from carrying out a similar break-in.
The protests were sparked by the arrests earlier in the day of nine Israel Defense Forces soldiers suspected of the serious abuse of a Palestinian terror detainee at the Sde Teiman military facility in southern Israel, causing an outcry among far-right politicians.
Right-wing lawmakers including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu and Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot whipped their supporters into an angry frenzy, calling on them to show up outside Sde Teiman to protest the soldiers’ detention. — Times of Israel
Our Take: Speaking of manipulating gameboards, it would appear we have a similar development occurring within the ranks of the IDF.
Yesterday on Badlands Daily, CannCon and I covered the story of Israeli Military Police raiding an IDF detention center, where reports of torture of Palestinian prisoners was reported. They arrested nine IDF soldiers, which provoked supporters of the hyper-radical Otzma Yehudit ("Jewish Power") and the Religious Zionist party—both adherents to the teachings of the [anti-Christian] Jewish terrorist, Meir Kahane—to storm the military base.
Now, a second wave has stormed the base, demanding that the detained soldiers be freed.
“The spectacle of Military Police officers coming to arrest our best heroes at Sde Teiman is nothing less than shameful,” said [National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir], whose ministry controls the Israel Police and Israel Prison Service (IPS).
The problem is that there is one small detail that is not getting nearly enough attention:
(Just so we're clear, the guy on the right in that picture is upset at the military police on the left because they won't let him and his friends sodomize the male prisoners.)
These IDF soldiers, who are presumably sympathetic or perhaps direct associates of Ben-Gvir's [Jewish Power] party, were raping the Palestinian prisoners—who were all men. The "ultra-religious crusaders" are up in arms because their friends were arrested for sodomizing male prisoners.
This may confuse some of you, but if you understand that these radicals do not embrace the Torah as their main religious doctrine, but actually embrace the Kabbalah—along with other documents that were authored in the past millennia, making their faith-based "mysticism" (read: magic) far younger than Christianity. In certain sects of this radical mysticism, such as the ideologies championed by Zevi Sabbatai and Jacob Frank in the Pale of [Jewish] Settlement in Eastern Europe, sex magic using sacred prostitution was increasingly common among the emerging new Jewish sects. In fact, Jacob Frank was arrested by Polish rabbis in 1722 for performing said acts with crucifixes, and convicted of "teaching heresy" by Jewish authorities.
But more importantly, Israel has been taken over by organized crime syndicates—which is a major contributing factor to this degeneracy. A US Department of Justice document from 2002 details how Ukrainian Jews (read: Bolsheviks) serving as Soviet KGB officials in the 1980's formed organized crime syndicates and took over Ukraine in the 1990's.
According to the document, the “the tentacles of Ukrainian organized crime ” had reached Israel [during the 1990's].
Didn't I say that these two places were deeply connected? Stay tuned. We've only just begun to report on this. —
BONUS ITEMS
Google feature omits search results for failed Trump assassination; Big Tech accused of election manipulation
Google users searching for the attempted assassination of former President Trump were miffed when the desired results failed to populate on the search engine.
Instead, the website autocomplete feature omitted the results of the July 13 shooting, drawing criticism from social media users who accused the Big Tech giant of trying to influence the presidential election.
Screenshots from Google instead showed recommended search results of the failed assassination of Ronald Reagan and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, whose death sparked World War I, the shooting of Bob Marley and the failed attempt on former President Ford.
Even the keywords "Trump assassination attempt" yielded no additional terms from Google, according to users.
"Big Tech is trying to interfere in the election AGAIN to help Kamala Harris," Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X. "We all know this is intentional election interference from Google. Truly despicable."
A Google spokesperson told FOX Business that there was no "manual action taken on these predictions."
"Our systems have protections against Autocomplete predictions associated with political violence, which were working as intended prior to this horrific event occurring," the spokesperson wrote. "We’re working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up to date." — FOX News
Behind hoopla, Democrats anxious about Harris
Behind the public jubilation over Vice President Harris’s swift rise to become their party’s likely nominee for president, Democratic lawmakers are privately anxious about her prospects of defeating former President Trump, acknowledging she is largely untested as a candidate and faces serious challenges.
The anxiety, for the most part, has been set aside out of a deep sense of relief that President Biden decided to drop his reelection bid. After months of unease over the 81-year-old incumbent, Democratic lawmakers are glad to rally behind Harris in hopes she will rev up Democratic donors along with young and minority voters.
But concerns are already bubbling up over Harris’s ability to connect as well as Biden did in 2020 with white working-class and union voters in three states that were critical to defeating Trump: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
“She wasn’t a great candidate,” one Democratic senator said of Harris’s performance as a presidential candidate in 2020, when she pulled out of Democratic primary before the Iowa caucuses.
“And she may not be as a political campaigner as good as Biden was in his prime,” the senator added. — The Hill
Rebel Archbishop Slams Olympics As "Vile Attack On God", Says Macron Married A Tranny, Obama "Accompanied By Muscular Man In Wig"
As we noted on Sunday, French bishops were outraged at the Olympics' opening ceremony over its blatant mockery of Christianity - in which transgender men and a child reenacted Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" - along with many other sexualized scenes that included a man with his testicles exposed and hanging out of his outfit. The display has led to worldwide outrage, including several corporate sponsors ditching the Olympics.
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Needless to say, Christians are pissed...
...including Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò - the former papal nuncio to the United States who questioned the legitimacy of Pope Francis and the authority of the Second Vatican Council, and was excommunicated three weeks ago for "his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff."
In a scathing rebuke of the Olympics, Viganò called the opening ceremony "the latest in a long series of vile attacks on God, the Catholic Religion and natural Morality by the antichristic elite holds that hostage Western countries."
"We a dystopian dance macabre in Holograms of the horsemen of the Apocalypse alternated with a plump blue Dionysius, served under a bell of various courses; the parody of the LGBTQ+ Last Supper..." the letter continues.
Viganò also pointed to "disconcerting scenes at the 2012 London Olympics, the 2016 of inauguration of the Gotthard Tunnel, and the 2022 Commonwealth Games, featuring infernal figures, goats, and terrifying animals."
The elite who organizes these ceremonies demand not only the right to blasphemy and the obscene display of the foulest vices, but even their mute acceptance by Catholics and decent people, who are forced to suffer the outrage the most sacred symbols of their Faith and the very foundations of the Natural Law desecrated. -Carlo Maria Viganò
According to Viganò, "Satan makes nothing: only he ruins everything. He does not invent: he tampers. And his followers are no different: they humiliate woman’s femininity in order to erase the motherhood that recalls the Virgin Mother; they castrate man’s manhood in order to tear from the image of God’s fatherhood; they corrupt the little ones in order to kill in them and make them victims of the most abject wokeism."
Viganò says it's "no coincidence" that the ceremonies were presided over by French President Emanuel Macron, an 'emissary of the World Economic Forum,' who 'passes off a transvestite as his own wife with impunity, just as Barack Obama is accompanied by a muscular man in a wig.' — ZeroHedge
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As part of my awakening I have had to rethink everything I thought I knew about Israel. As a Christian it’s been one of the more difficult truths to see. Keep it coming Ghost. The truth is the best disinfectant.
Speaking of Russia…
I commend Putin for his restraint during this Ukraine proxy war…and I pray that he can wait til Trump is back, in spite of the fact that some sneaky shit just happened with drones attacking targets in Russia FROM FINLAND, NATO soil (did Finland even realize the implications??) - a RED LINE that Putin warned about! The DeepState is trying their evil best to escalate war with Russia.
Who the F is running our country??
Americans don’t realize that we are no longer militarily invulnerable on the world stage!! GOD Bless Putin as our DeepState edges us closer to the precipice 🙏❤️🇺🇸🕊🌎