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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 (but usually Ashe and BB,) whose stated opinions are their own. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work.

Now, onto the news from Wednesday, November 8 …

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Senate Democrats Block GOP Bill To Aid Israel Over Lack Of Money For Ukraine

Senate Democrats on Nov. 7 blocked a Republican-led bill that would provide standalone aid to Israel.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Ky.) and other Republican senators called for quick passage of legislation recently approved in a bipartisan U.S. House of Representatives vote. The bill would give Israel $14 billion in the wake of it being invaded by the Hamas terrorist group.

"A timely military aid package with a unified voice from Congress showing support for Israel will not only add to Israel’s stability, it will slow down and hopefully stop the evil plots of Hamas, Iran, and its proxies," Dr. Marshall said on the Senate floor.

He emphasized that the level of funding is the same level in President Joe Biden's October funding request.

President Biden's request, though, also included additional money for Ukraine.

"Our allies in Ukraine can no more afford a delay than our allies in Israel," Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said on the floor in Washington.

"There is strong support here in Congress to address these urgent priorities in one package—and that is exactly what I am working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to do now," she added later. — The Epoch Times

Our Take: “While there was much (understandable) gnashing of teeth when newly-elected Speaker Mike Johnson promised to send US aid to Israel, I posited at the time that America First Narrative Shielding COULD continue unabated if Johnson's promise to bifurcate aid packages to Ukraine and Israel (both of the Establishment's Proxy Wars,) resulted in said Establishment blocking aid altogether.

Well ... enter Congressional Paralysis.

From an Actual perspective, no fresh aid packages have actually been deployed to either Israel or Ukraine following Johnson's election, while the Narrative Whiplash is firmly on the Establishment on two distinct levels:

1. War Hawks in both parties are furious over a lack of aid to Israel, as they hunger for a new Forever War to kick off in the Middle East with US involvement (and profits.)

2. The American people see said Establishment blocking foreign aid because they're not sending ENOUGH of their hard-earned tax dollars to foreign wars.

Wins all around.” — Burning Bright

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House passes resolution to censure Tlaib over Israel comments

The House passed a GOP-led resolution on Tuesday to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over comments critical of Israel and in support of Palestinians amid Israel’s war against Hamas.

The move amounts to a rare and significant rebuke of the Michigan Democrat, who is the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress. The vote was 234 to 188 with four Republicans voting against and 22 Democrats voting in support of the censure resolution.

The resolution, which was introduced by Georgia GOP Rep. Rich McCormick, advanced earlier in the day after a Democratic-led effort to block the measure failed.

Tlaib has defended herself against the censure attempts, arguing that they are an effort to silence her and saying that her “colleagues have resorted to distorting my positions in resolutions filled with obvious lies.”

Following the vote to advance the censure resolution, Tlaib delivered an emotional speech on the House floor and argued that her criticism of the Israeli government should not be conflated with antisemitism.

“It is important to separate people and governments. No government is beyond criticism. The idea that criticizing the government of Israel is antisemitic sets a very dangerous precedent, and it’s been used to silence diverse voices speaking up for human rights across our nation,” she said.

She grew emotional and had trouble speaking after she said, “I can’t believe I have to say this, but Palestinian people are not disposable.” — CNN

Our Take: “Another day, another meaningless virtue signal that doesn’t move the needle. Tlaib was censured, but she retains her committee assignments and, among her supporters, her support will only increase.

And Tlaib should be able to speak her mind anyway. As Tyrion Lannister said in Game of Thrones, ‘When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.’

The truth of the conflict speaks loudly. I believe Tlaib is on the wrong side of it, but I don’t believe she should be silenced.

‘From the river to the sea’ has always meant the eradication of the Jewish people from the land. Silencing Tlaib, rather than pointing a spotlight at her words and framing them in their historical context, gives those words more weight.

In other words, this entire spectacle is a fail for House Republicans, a meaningless ceremony that prolongs the current narrative deployment. Maybe that’s the point.” — Ashe in America

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Trump likens prosecutions to Cuba regime while courting Hispanic vote

Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, likened the criminal cases against him to political prosecutions in Cuba and other repressive nations as he sought to court Hispanic voters at a rally in Florida on Wednesday.

Trump, who is defending himself in four criminal and at least three civil trials, made the comments in the heavily Hispanic city of Hialeah, as his party rivals debated again without him just a short drive away in Miami.

Trump's claims, however unsubstantiated, appear to be helping boost his standing with Hispanic voters, many of whom fled repressive regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The Trump campaign views Hispanics, the fastest-growing ethnic and racial group in the U.S. electorate, as a key demographic for gains in a likely rematch with Democrat Joe Biden in 2024.

"Just like the Cuban regime, the Biden regime is trying to put their political opponent in jail," Trump said to thousands of supporters assembled in a local sports stadium. "We are not the ones endangering American democracy, we are the ones saving American democracy."

Trump made no mention of victories by abortion rights campaigners and Democrats in U.S. elections a day earlier. The Supreme Court's conservative majority, secured via the nominations of justices by Trump, overturned the nationwide right to abortion last year. — Reuters

Our Take: “All of which has me leaning more along the lines of the 2024 election being stolen again, but this time, in full view of a much more awakened bipartisan electorate than the last time around, prompting the public mandate for wholesale changes to our systems, especially on the heels of Trump's election trial.

Public mandate is the key to any sort of reform, and while Trump's base represented the majority of the country in 2020, it's become clear that the awakening had MUCH further to progress in the ensuing years before a true sociopolitical and cultural sea change was possible.

I believe we're getting closer and closer to that inflection point, which will be a shatterpoint for the Deep State, every day, every scandal, every crisis.

Onward is the only way forward. The only way out is through.” — Burning Bright

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Speaking of Speeches …

Our Take: “Be honest.

Almost none of us knew this was happening last night ...

It's the end of the Uniparty as we know it, and I feel fine.” — Burning Bright

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"Bank Records Don't Lie": Biden Imbroglio Deepens As Hunter, James Slapped With Subpoenas

Following weeks of bombshell evidence showing cash transfers between Biden family members - which are either laundered payments from foreign governments, or at best, years-worth of unreported income disguised as loans, House Republicans slapped first son Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's brother, James, with subpoenas.

Other Biden family members have also been asked to appear for transcribed interviews, including Sara Biden, Hallie Biden, Elizabeth Secundy, Melissa Cohen, and associate-turned-whistleblower Tony Bobulinski.

"The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes. Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence," Comer said in a statement.

"Unlike the many lies President Biden told the American people about his family’s business schemes, bank records don’t lie. These records reveal how the Bidens sold Joe Biden around to the world to benefit the Biden family, including Joe Biden himself, to the detriment of U.S. interests. The House Oversight Committee, along with the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, will continue to follow the facts and deliver the transparency and accountability that the American people demand and deserve."

Prior to issuing the subpoenas, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told Just the News that his investigation will start by interviewing Biden family members, and that the president himself will be t he final person interviewed.

"We're still a long way from talking to Joe Biden, but we're, we're ready to talk to the family members now," he said, adding that if anyone tries to defy the subpoenas, they will be held in contempt of Congress. — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “Photo ops in DC are a dime a dozen, and House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) signing the Hunter and James Biden subpoenas is a silly made-for-TV moment. This is a time for action, not political advertising, and it’s clear the Republican priority since obtaining the gavel is to politically posture for party fundraising. How disappointing.

The one thing these show hearings, and the photo ops that they’ve yielded, prove is that the federal legislative branch is largely ceremonial and meaningless.

What is the cost? What is the return on investment? And not that I care — but we’re told it’s important — what is the carbon footprint?

The bloated federal establishment no longer serves the interests of the American people — if it ever did — and we the people need to re-evaluate the union’s institutions of governance. We are at a precipice, and the ongoing disclosure operations are building to a moment of action. As Benjamin Franklin said, we are ‘A republic. If you can keep it.’ — Ashe in America

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France Investigates Possible Russian Link to Star of David Graffiti in Paris

Prosecutors are investigating a possible Russian connection to more than 200 Jewish stars spray painted on buildings in France, where antisemitic acts have been sharply rising.

The mysterious appearance of the blue stars on a seemingly random assortment of buildings last week sent a fresh bolt of concern through France, where tensions have mounted since Hamas’s attack on Israel. France is home to some of Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish populations.

French prosecutors said Tuesday they are probing whether a person based abroad may be behind the graffiti, after police detained a man and a woman, born in Moldova, who were seen painting a blue Star of David on a building in Paris late last month. Prosecutors said they found a conversation, apparently in Russian, on the couple’s phone in which they were instructed to tag the star in exchange for a payment.

The search of their phone helped investigators link the couple to two other individuals, seen tagging similar stars in Paris and its suburbs last week, who were in contact with the same person based abroad, prosecutors said. The second pair, who left the country the following day, were accompanied by a third person, who took pictures, prosecutors added. — The Wall Street Journal

Our Take: “Narrative Convergence is one of the most powerful patterns to recognize in the Info War, and occurs when sources of Narrative projection (the storytellers within the Establishment,) begin to parrot each other's talking points in a manner that conflates them unfavorably in the Collective Mind.

Amist a nonstop blitz of Media Deployments that have assailed the Collective Mind since Trump came down the escalator, the Russia Collusion hoax was perhaps the most exhausted.

This Establishment Russophobia was dialed up beyond belief throughout 2022, when the Media, Political and Military Industrial Complexes banded together to set the narrative that Putin was the second coming of Hitler, and the Russian Federation the Fourth Reich.

Now, with Russia completely on the sidelines in the midst of the most contentious sociopolitical situation (since the last one,) Globalists are once more uniting in order to frame them as the shadowy puppet masters behind all the world's ills.

It's not working.” — Burning Bright

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BONUS ITEMS

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Sharp Divide Between Biden & Bibi Emerges As Blinken Says It's "Clear That Israel Cannot Occupy Gaza" After War

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is currently at a Group of Seven summit in Tokyo, where he told a press briefing on the sidelines that "it is clear that Israel cannot occupy Gaza" on a permanent basis.

The comments affirm that Washington has been intensely involved in talks concerning what happens after the war. "Gaza cannot be continued to be run by Hamas. That simply invites repetition of Oct. 7... It's also clear that Israel cannot occupy Gaza," Blinken said after meeting with G7 foreign ministers.

"Now, the reality is that there may be a need for some transition period at the end of the conflict ... We don't see a reoccupation and what I've heard from Israeli leaders, is that they have no intent to reoccupy Gaza."

Earlier this week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he foresees Israeli troops overseeing the security of Gaza "for an indefinite period" after Hamas is defeated. He appeared to reject headlines suggesting a multinational peacekeeping force would fill the role. 

"I think Israel will for an indefinite period have security responsibility," Netanyahu told ABC News. "We’ve seen what happens when we don’t have that… security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn’t imagine."

The words are being widely interpreted as a sign of growing disagreement between the US and Israel over the crisis. The divide is sharpening and becoming more and more public, also after on Monday Netanyahu rejected Biden's request for a three-day humanitarian 'pause' in a phone call. On top of this remains the growing international pressure over the immense civilian death toll in Gaza, having surpassed 10,000 people by the start of the week. — ZeroHedge

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Ron DeSantis’s biggest donor is considering backing Donald Trump

Ron DeSantis’s biggest donor is considering switching his support to Donald Trump, in a sharp rebuke of the Florida governor’s White House aspirations.

Robert Bigelow, a Nevada real estate investor who has funded space exploration and research into paranormal activities, gave more than $20mn to the DeSantis campaign earlier this year, the largest donation to any 2024 candidate, according to the latest federal filings.

But Bigelow criticised DeSantis for running a weak campaign — and said Hamas’s attack on Israel last month showed the US needed a “streetwise” leader such as Trump.

“I’ve got to look at who would probably be the strongest commander, with the most experience . . . And that’s only one guy,” Bigelow told the Financial Times.

“Who would you want as a commander? I’d want somebody that would be a hell of an ass kicker if he needed to be,” he said. “On the face of it, you lean toward Trump.”

Bigelow also said he thought Trump would now defeat DeSantis to win the Republican presidential primary — provided he stayed out of jail.

“I think Trump is too strong,” Bigelow said. “I think Trump has the momentum, the inertia, to beat him.” Trump was a “bull”, Bigelow added, but DeSantis was “dinner”. — Financial Times

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Republican debate: Ramaswamy calls on GOP chairwoman to resign following 2023 elections

Vivek Ramaswamy used his opening remarks at Wednesday's GOP presidential debate to call for the resignation of Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.

Ramaswamy, like the other candidates on the stage, had been asked to make the case for why he should be selected to be the 2024 GOP nominee, but he instead turned his ire on the debate's own moderators and McDaniel.

"I think there's something deeper going on in the Republican Party here, and I am upset about what happened last night," the entrepreneur said, referring to Tuesday's off-year elections. "We've become a party of losers at the end of the day. Is it cancer in the Republican establishment?"

"I speak the truth. I mean, since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022 — no red wave, that never came. We got trounced last night in 2023," he continued. "And I think that we have to have accountability in our party. For that matter, Ronna, if you want to come onstage tonight, you want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign, I will turn over my — yield my time to you." — The Washington Examiner

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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.

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