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 the Monday, December 4 …
Israel risks ‘strategic defeat’ if civilians aren’t protected, Pentagon chief says
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Israel risks a “strategic defeat” if it does not work to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza amid its war on militant group Hamas in the region.
“The center of gravity is the civilian population and if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat,” Austin said in a speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, Calif., on Saturday.
The secretary added that he has personally pushed Israeli leaders to avoid civilian casualties, prevent violence to settlers in the West Bank.
“We will continue to press Israel to protect civilians and to ensure the robust flow of humanitarian aid,” he added.
His comments come as U.S. leaders become more vocal in warnings to Israel about the next phase of military operations in Gaza, after a temporary truce expired Friday. The Biden administration has issued caution that a campaign in southern Gaza must be carried out more precisely than Israel did in the first leg of the war.
The Pentagon chief emphasized that Israel has the duty to respond
Austin emphasized that Israel has the duty to respond to terrorist attacks, like the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel by Hamas that left at least 1,200 Israelis dead. But, he argued, it is crucial for allies to work together to prevent civilian casualties — especially when the conflict is over. — The Hill
Our Take: “Acceleration.
I see it as the key attack vector on the enemy's System of Systems, whether you're talking about the Financial, the Cultural, the Kinetic and Clandestine, or the Political.
Acceleration favors the Infinite Player in Game Theory framing, and in the context of an Info War, truth is, by definition the infinite side, as the game doesn't have to be forwarded in order to win, only survived until the foundation is laid bare.
When looking for signs of the enemy's defeat in a war in which disinformation isn't so much a method of communication, but THE method, acceleration and escalation are the markers to look out for.
On the Kinetic front, the 'Current Crisis' the powers that would be want the Collective Mind paralyzed by is the Israel-Gaza situation, and yet, we're seeing Overton's Goalpost play out in a mirrored framing of the Ukraine Proxy War, albeit on a MUCH faster timeline, as it took them 18 months to spin these sorts of headlines about the Prussian Proxy.
Tick tock.” —
NY GOP pols claim ‘smoking gun’ in alleged migrant voter fraud scam
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) on Sunday accused New York City of trying to stack voter rolls by trying to illegally register migrants housed at a Staten Island shelter to cast ballots in the upcoming elections.
Malliotakis, joined by four other Staten Island Republicans, claimed a city contract with a nonprofit hired to run the shelter includes a stipulation that voter registration forms are to be distributed to asylum seekers staying there — which they called both unlawful and underhanded.
“On page 50 of this contract, there is an entire section dedicated to voter registration,” the congresswoman said at a press conference near the former Island Shores Senior Residences, now a migrant shelter.
“We believe this is the smoking gun that proves what we’ve been saying all along — that the city intends to register non-citizens to vote.”
At issue is the city’s contract with the organization Homes for the Homeless to operate the shelter at the site of the shuttered nursing home on Father Capodanno Boulevard in Midland Beach.
The contract, which Malliotakis said was obtained via a state Freedom of Information Law request, includes a stipulation that the nonprofit, in accordance with the New York City charter, “shall provide and distribute voter registration forms to all persons,” with the forms to be made available in Spanish and Chinese. — NY Post
Our Take: “The contract includes a stipulation that asylum seekers — who by definition are not citizens eligible to vote — must receive voter registrations. That indeed sounds like a smoking gun.
You will recall that NYC voted in 2021 to allow non-residents to vote in city elections — and that the decision was struck down by a judge and a permanent injunction was issued on the matter. But, as we know, the prize is getting the illegal voters on the rolls. Padding the voting rolls is foundational to the fraud machine.
The fact that NYC is still registering illegals despite a permanent injunction is just more proof of what we already know: The system is built for fraud, and padding the rolls is critical path for the fraud machine to function.
Fake voters. Fake ballots. Fake counts.” —
Federal Agencies Report Breaches by Iranian Hackers, Numerous U.S. States Affected
According to U.S. and Israeli authorities, numerous organizations in the United States were compromised by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted an Israeli-made industrial control device. A minor water authority in western Pennsylvania was among the many organizations compromised.
“The victims span multiple U.S. states,” an advisory emailed to The Associated Press late Friday by the FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Israel’s National Cyber Directorate.
The number of compromised organizations was not specified, and no other details were provided.
Federal officials informed Matthew Mottes, chairman of the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, which discovered it had been infiltrated on November 25, that the same group also compromised four other utilities and an aquarium, on Thursday.
Even though there is no evidence linking Iran to the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, which instigated the conflict in Gaza, cybersecurity experts anticipate that pro-Palestinian hacktivists and Iranian-backed hackers will intensify cyberattacks against Israel and its allies in the wake of the incident. Indeed, that has occurred. — Vigilant News
Our Take: “This is the perfect case study in narrative seeding.
Maybe it’s true that this is some sort of naturally-occurring cyber attack, but I’m a natural doubter … in particular, I am a doubter of the mainstream narrative on just about anything.
Consider that this seeding began last year when our friend Klaus Schwab reminded the world leaders and heads of industry that the cyber attack card is still on the table should the ruling class of the Western hegemon start to lose the information war.
In the same fashion that these globalist interests gamed out a global pandemic scenario just months before COVID-19 was unleashed on the world, the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2020 hosted a global cyberattack simulation. The WEF would then host a second simulation in 2021, and then just this year, the Forum predicted that a ‘cyber storm’ was brewing on the horizon.
At first, the Russians were shopped as the potential culprits for this cyber-attack gambit, but the conflict in Gaza has produced the perfect villain: Iranian hackers.
Not many people follow the maneuverings of the Davos crowd, so these cyberattack simulations went largely unnoticed, as did Event 201 before the pandemic. The more mainstream seeding of these ideas started less than a month after the WEF proclaimed a ‘digital storm’ was brewing.
I contend that this ‘cyber storm’ is one of several responses that the Deep State's holding onto in case things don’t go their way in 2024.” —
Opinion: A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.
Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. In 13 weeks, Donald Trump will have locked up the Republican nomination. In the RealClearPolitics poll average (for the period from Nov. 9 to 20), Trump leads his nearest competitor by 47 points and leads the rest of the field combined by 27 points. The idea that he is unelectable in the general election is nonsense — he is tied or ahead of President Biden in all the latest polls — stripping other Republican challengers of their own stated reasons for existence. The fact that many Americans might prefer other candidates, much ballyhooed by such political sages as Karl Rove, will soon become irrelevant when millions of Republican voters turn out to choose the person whom no one allegedly wants.
For many months now, we have been living in a world of self-delusion, rich with imagined possibilities. Maybe it will be Ron DeSantis, or maybe Nikki Haley. Maybe the myriad indictments of Trump will doom him with Republican suburbanites. Such hopeful speculation has allowed us to drift along passively, conducting business as usual, taking no dramatic action to change course, in the hope and expectation that something will happen. Like people on a riverboat, we have long known there is a waterfall ahead but assume we will somehow find our way to shore before we go over the edge. But now the actions required to get us to shore are looking harder and harder, if not downright impossible.
The magical-thinking phase is ending. Barring some miracle, Trump will soon be the presumptive Republican nominee for president. — The Washington Post
Our Take: “Narrative Convergence.
The 'take' that Trump is highlighting here is your run of the mill America First jargon, which is all fine and good, but I think it's MORE telling that Trump is indirectly boosting the WAPO Opinion piece referring to him as a dictator.
This is big for a few reasons:
For starters, the enemy's framing has now moved far enough along Overton's Goalpost that their public communications (read: programming) has shifted from a stance of Denial to Qualify-Distract-Admit, all wrapped into one.
With this headline, the enemy matrix is already programming its audience with the inevitability of Trump and MAGA's 2024 victory, which signals at the very least that they have no confidence in their ability to effect a successful steal this time around, or that, even if they do, a legal remedy is inevitable.
This public stance of 'Trump the Dictator' is being deployed earlier than I thought it would be, suggesting [they] know something we don't, and that we're going to like it.” —
Hillary Clinton Claims "Extreme Heat" Has Killed Half A Million People
Hillary Clinton told the Cop28 conference that “extreme heat” has killed half a billion people, most of them women and girls, but failed to cite any actual source.
“We’re seeing and beginning to pay attention and to count and record the deaths that are related to climate and by far the biggest killer is “extreme heat.”
The two time failed presidential candidate went on to claim that “extreme heat” had killed 61,000 people in Europe last summer.
“We don’t have that kind of number yet from Africa, Asia, Latin America but we know and estimate that we probably could measure about 500,000 deaths and the majority of those are women and girls and particularly pregnant women,” she added. — Modernity News
Our Take: “Get ready for climate lockdowns. The narrative is shifting hard.
Last night while we were decorating our tree, my husband had Denver 7 on TV, and Bill Nye was on. I guess he’s doing an event up in Boulder, and he revealed the plot. He claimed that the most important thing you can do to combat climate change is to vote. Ostensibly, he meant to vote for more communism, but he didn’t finish the thought.
Now we’ve got Hillary making bold claims about the death toll of ‘extreme heat,’ and it’s clear to me that the new regime talking points have dropped. I expect the climate narrative to heat up — pun intended — in a big way as we head into the election season in earnest.
Also, there are rumors circulating that Hillz may make another run for the presidency when Biden is inevitably neutralized by his own party.
Was Bill Nye foreshadowing?” —
BONUS ITEMS
Hunter Biden Sent Direct Monthly Payments To Joe Biden From Bank Account For Chinese Money, Comer Reveals
Hunter Biden sent his father, President Joe Biden, monthly payments from the bank account he used to receive money from Chinese business associates, newly released bank records show.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer shared a video Monday on Twitter revealing redacted bank records containing direct payments to Joe Biden from Hunter Biden’s Owasco P.C. bank account.
“Today, the House Oversight Committee is releasing subpoenaed bank records that show Hunter Biden’s business entity, Owasco PC, made direct monthly payments to Joe Biden. This wasn’t a payment from Hunter Biden’s personal account but an account for his corporation that received payments from China and other shady corners of the world,” Comer says in the video. The payments appear to have taken place beginning in September 2018, the bank records show.
“Payments from Hunter’s business entity to Joe Biden are now part of a pattern revealing Joe Biden knew about, participated in and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes.” — The Daily Caller
US funding for Ukraine set to run out by end of the year, White House warns
The White House has issued a blunt warning that the US is set to run out of funds to aid Ukraine by the end of the year, saying that a failure by Congress to approve new support would “kneecap” Kyiv.
The alert from Shalanda Young, the White House budget director, in a letter to congressional leaders on Monday, represented the most specific assessment yet of Washington’s waning financial and military support for Ukraine.
“Without congressional action, by the end of the year we will run out of resources to procure more weapons and equipment for Ukraine and to provide equipment from US military stocks,” Young wrote to political leaders of both parties.
“There is no magical pot of funding available to meet this moment. We are out of money — and nearly out of time,” she said.
President Joe Biden’s request for $106bn in emergency funding for his biggest foreign policy priorities, including Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, remains mired in stalemate on Capitol Hill, driven by mounting Republican opposition to helping Kyiv. — Financial Times
Parents Of Native American 'Blackface' Kid Hire Dominion Lawyers, Demand Deadspin, Journalist Retract Accusations
The parents of a 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan falsely accused of wearing blackface by a race-baiting Deadspin reporter have lawyered up and have threatened to sue the outlet, publishers G/O Media and Great Hill Partners, and the reporter, Carron Phillips - who wrote that the child, Holden Armenta, had "found a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time."
Shannon and Raul Armenta have hired Clare Locke LLP to demand a retraction, and have threatened further legal action. The firm previously won a $787.5 million settlement against Fox News for Dominion Voting Systems (resulting in Tucker Carlson's ouster). — ZeroHedge
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"The fact that NYC is still registering illegals despite a permanent injunction is just more proof of what we already know: The system is built for fraud, and padding the rolls is critical path for the fraud machine to function". That and every other story in today's Badlands Media only leads to the actual registered voter to say" why bother to vote, they are doing everything in their power to NOT let Trump win and he most likely won't AGAIN! It's so disgusting and foreboding and this is why I was never interested in politics because it's one big disgusting cesspool of corruption, always has been!!
I see the ‘heatwave deaths’ narrative as simply stuffing to hide some of the numbers of staggering millions that have and are slowly dying from the death jab. Hence the complete lack of stats to back it up.
Hard to hide a human culling operation that big when the ground is being cut out from under you and the smoke projectors are malfunctioning. 😌