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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, whose stated opinions are their own. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work.
Now, onto the news from Thursday, November 2 …
House approves GOP’s $14.3 billion Israel aid package
House Republicans on Thursday approved a $14.3 billion aid package for Israel, setting the stage for a fierce showdown with Democrats in the Senate and White House who have savaged the GOP bill for excluding Ukraine funds and cutting IRS coffers.
The 226-196 vote fell almost entirely along party lines, with 12 Democrats joining all but two Republicans to move the bill through the lower chamber.
The Democratic opposition extends to the Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced earlier Thursday that his chamber would not take up the “deeply flawed proposal.” Instead, he’s vowing to work with senators in both parties on a package that includes funding for Israel, Ukraine, competition with the Chinese government and humanitarian aid for Gaza.
The Biden administration has threatened to veto the House’s legislation, arguing in a statement that it is “bad for Israel, for the Middle East region, and for our own national security.”
The vote, nonetheless, marks an early victory for newly installed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who is seeking to unify a warring GOP conference in the wake of last month’s bitter vote to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and the three-week battle to replace him. — The Hill
Our Take: “With news that the House has "passed" a $14.3 Billion Aid Package for Israel, many in the America First base are pretty pissed off, and rightly so, as we're not interested in even financial involvement in any new Forever Wars.
BUT ... as I speculated a few days ago, if Mike Johnson really is a MAGA-endorsed Speaker, at least for the time being, it's likely that he's taking a page out of Matt Gaetz' playbook and adding poison pills to any new Congressional spending packages that also serve a dual purpose as massive redpills.
First, Johnson maintained a firm stance on bifurcating aid to Israel and Ukraine, which the Uniparty responded to in typical reptilian fashion.
And today, he follows it up by taking a Narrative hammer to the IRS, pushing back on one of the most controversial domestic financial deployments of the Biden Admin.
Of course, this bill has no chance of passing the Senate, meaning:
Uniparty takes the blame from the public, making them ... antisemitic IRS apologists?” —
Large migrant caravan sets off for US from southern Mexico
A large migrant caravan comprising many Central Americans and Venezuelans left southern Mexico on Monday for the United States, organizers and officials said, as Washington grapples with renewed pressure on its southern border.
Officials in the southern state of Chiapas said some 3,500 people set off on foot from the city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border, while one of the caravan's organizers, Irineo Mujica, said there were around 5,000 in the group.
U.S. President Joe Biden, who is seeking reelection next year, is under pressure to curb the number of people crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico.
Most of the latest caravan are from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela, according to Mujica.
Escorted by civil protection officials and ambulances, the migrants were walking on a coastal highway around midday, planning to spend the night in the municipality of Huehuetan, about 16 miles (25 km) north of where they started. — Reuters
Our Take: “This is what the purposeful destruction of a country looks like. Might I add - Biden and his cronies are doing a fine job of abiding by Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules For Radicals’.
It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to realize that the far left and Biden wanted the wall gone and have done nothing to prop up border security in an effort to help aide in a very nefarious purpose, that being to flood America with millions of fighting age males and to stress our system to the point of complete implosion.
Yes - Give us your hungry, your sick, and your poor. We welcome it. Legally, and done through the legal avenues presented to attain citizenship in the United States, of course.
With calls across the world from Radical Muslim leaders for attacks on the West - you have to wonder why Biden hasn’t shut the borders and cut off access to untold numbers of terrorists entering our country. Oh wait - no, you don’t. He is allowing it on purpose as part of the deep state’s mission to destroy America. —
"Tailor-Made For Terrorism": Republicans Raise Alarm After Illegal Immigrants Caught With Explosive Devices
Republican senators have sounded the alarm on the Biden administration's border policies after Border Patrol agents caught illegal border crossers who were carrying explosive devices that Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said were "tailor-made for terrorism."
Mr. Barrasso, who is the Senate Republican Conference Chairman, made the startling revelation at a press conference on Oct. 31, alongside Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), following their recent visit to the U.S.–Mexico border.
The senators said that over 8 million illegal border crossings have taken place under President Joe Biden's watch, while asserting that explosive devices found on some border crossers in recent days represent an elevated risk of terror acts against the homeland.
"We have just returned from our southern border, and it is painfully clear that with Joe Biden's open border policy, our country is really at an increased threat for a terrorist attack," Mr. Barrasso said at Tuesday's press conference. — The Epoch Times
Our Take: “Actuals aside, according to the observing Collective Mind, the Biden Regime has opened up a de facto three-front war in order to enrich the Military Industrial Complex and at the potential expense (and much worse) of the American people.
The big storyline over the course of the last few weeks has been the Admin's stated desire to continue funding the now-stale Proxy War in Ukraine, while attempting to spin up a fresh round of laundering ... err, 'humanitarian aid,' to the latest crisis point in Israel.
But the third front, according to a growing Narrative and some of the most influential patriot Mind-Movers on the game board, including Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and others, is our own southern border.
I've been either naively or logically of the opinion that Devolution will protect National Essential Functions in light of any potential threats coming over our own borders, and that mapping began long ago ... but the STORY of that threat is effective.
In the end, Globalism is dead.” —
Bridgeport Election Overturned After City Official Pleads 5th To Ballot Harvesting
A Bridgeport, Connecticut judge ruled on Wednesday to overturn the city's Democratic primary election after video emerged of a woman who appears to be the city's vice chair of the Democratic Town Committee, Wanda Geter-Pataky, committing ballot fraud.
In a 37-page ruling, Judge William Clark ordered a new Democratic primary based on 180 pieces of evidence presented by legal council for mayoral candidate John Gomes - who posted the following video to Facebook on September 16, and was seen by the court.
"Mr. Ganim was also correct to be ‘shocked’ at what he saw on the video clips in evidence that were shown to him while he was on the witness stand," wrote Judge Clark, referring to incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim. "The videos are shocking to the court and should be shocking to all the parties." — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “The 2024 election is going to be interesting because, as we are seeing now, the fraud only works when the people don’t know about it. The people are aware of the fake voters, fake ballots, and fake counts that comprise our ‘elections results,’ which means the fraudsters have to improvise. When criminals improvise, they get caught. Just ask the people of Bridgeport.
It is interesting that overturned cases largely involve Democrat primaries, as in the case of Dekalb County, Georgia. There in 2022, Michele Longspears came in last — until a hand recount showed she actually came in first and the result was overturned.
This time next week, we will be beyond the off year election, and that means 2024 will head into overdrive. While it’s tempting to throw in on candidates, restoring public trust through free and fair elections must be the primary objective for America First. Don’t get distracted.” —
Putin signs a bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban, a move that Moscow said was needed to establish parity with the United States.
Putin has said that rescinding the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, also known as the CTBT, would “mirror” the stand taken by the U.S., which has signed but not ratified the nuclear test ban.
Both houses of the Russian parliament voted last month to revoke Moscow’s ratification of the bill.
The CTBT, adopted in 1996, bans all nuclear explosions anywhere in the world, but the treaty was never fully implemented. In addition to the U.S., it has yet to be ratified by China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran and Egypt. — AP News
Our Take: “When it comes to theories that first originated in the infamous Q drops, it’s difficult to know which ones are meant to be taken literally and which are more figurative/directional.
It’s long been speculated by Anons and Truthers that a grand, unifying ‘Scare Event’ could be reverse engineered by patriots in order to provoke the Collective Mind into the recognition of just how close the Deep State warmongers brought them to the precipice of the war to end all wars, and while mileage varies, I’ve always forwarded a nuclear scare/threat as fitting the bill for that mass psychological template most snugly.
The Nuclear rhetoric has cooled some in recent months, but it’s also following the Shark Fin Template and resurfacing every so often, with various members of the world leaders the Media would dub the ‘New Axis’ playing their parts to perfection.
Y’all got any potential US Peacemakers laying around …?” —
BONUS ITEMS
White House Announces 'National Strategy To Counter Islamophobia' As Antisemitism Soars
The Biden administration is set to develop the "National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia," the first of its kind, Vice President Kamala Harris announced Wednesday.
"The strategy will be a comprehensive and detailed plan to protect Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim from hate, bigotry, and violence," Vice President Harris said in a video address.
"And to address the concern that some government policies may discriminate against Muslims."
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement that the strategy will be led by the Domestic Policy Council and the National Security Council, and the White House will work with community leaders, advocates, members of Congress, and more, to develop the strategy.
"For too long, Muslims in America, and those perceived to be Muslim, such as Arabs and Sikhs, have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory incidents," Ms. Jean-Pierre said.
“We all mourn the recent barbaric killing of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian American Muslim boy, and the brutal attack on his mother in their home outside Chicago," she said, referring to the fatal stabbing that took place on Oct. 14.
The Department of Justice is investigating the attack as a hate crime. The suspect, Joseph Czuba, pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of murder, attempted murder, and hate crimes.
Ms. Jean-Pierre said that the latest strategy is "part of President Biden’s directive last year to establish an interagency group to increase and better coordinate U.S. Government efforts to counter Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and related forms of bias and discrimination within the United States." — The Epoch Times
Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty On All Counts, Faces Over 100 Years In Prison
After 15 days of testimony and about four and a half hours of deliberations, jurors found FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty on all seven counts related to fraud and money laundering, in a lower Manhattan courtroom.
He is scheduled to be sentenced March 28, when he faces more than 100 years in prison if he receives the maximum on all counts.
Bankman-Fried has indicated that he will appeal the verdict.
The case was handed to the jury at approximately 3:15 p.m. on Thursday after US District Judge Lewis Kaplan read the jury roughly 60 pages of instructions.
Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, founded FTX in 2019, two years after forming sister hedge fund Alameda Research. He was charged with seven counts, including wire fraud, money laundering, and securities fraud in connection with FTX's spectacular implosion last year.
The trial, which progressed far more quickly than the anticipated run through Thanksgiving, has presented a stark transformation of the FTX founder from a "crypto genius" to an alleged criminal mastermind, as prosecutors and defense attorneys spar over the truth behind FTX's collapse.
The 31-year-old MIT graduate and son of two Stanford legal scholars had pleaded not guilty to all charges. — ZeroHedge
U.S. discussing peacekeeping force for Gaza after Hamas falls, senators say
Talks are underway to establish a multinational force in Gaza after Israel uproots Hamas, two senators confirmed Wednesday, the clearest sign yet that the U.S. and its partners are seriously weighing deploying foreign troops to the enclave.
Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told POLITICO that there’s early, closed-door diplomacy over establishing a peacekeeping force in Gaza, though it was not likely to include American troops.
“There are ongoing conversations regarding the possible composition of an international force,” Van Hollen said, refusing to go into specific detail. “They are very preliminary and fragile.”
“I do think it’d be important to have some kind of multinational force in Gaza as a transition to whatever comes next,” he continued.
Hamas, the militant group that killed 1,400 people in Israel on Oct. 7, has ruled Gaza for more than 15 years. Israel launched a retaliatory military operation after the attack to end Hamas’ rule, including a massive bombing campaign, ground invasion and siege that has killed more than 8,000 people. — Politico
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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I live 2 towns up from Bridgeport which at one time was a great city. Now it is a cesspool of crime and corruption. The crime has been weeping into our town. It is a huge Democrat city and I am absolutely amazed that this happened there! Gives a bit of hope.
My great respect for the work this team does not withstanding (and at the risk of being stubborn):
Burning Bright says: "In the end Globalism is dead." Actually - in the end the satanic, globalist philosophy referred to as Babylon in the Revelation will be finally and completely destroyed...that will not happen for a bit and will be accompanied by both a great harvest and a great persecution. This truth does not in any way prevent those of Faith from confronting wickedness today and everyday...it does require that we remember with whom our real battle resides, who our true enemy is.
PS - on a totally different note: I have been without work after my role was eliminated for over 14 months; I have an interview today that looks very promising. If any of you are so inclined - prayers are appreciated. God has and will provide!