Badlands News Brief
Crisis Cascades, Nordstream 3 & Bidenomics
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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 Tuesday, October 10 …
Syria Launches Missiles On Golan Heights As US Begins 'Surging' Defense Aid To Israel
The Syrian Army has fired missiles toward the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights Tuesday evening (local), breaking reports indicate. The Israeli Defense Force have confirmed the attack:
This raises the risk of a broader conflict which spirals, given the earlier exchange of fire in northern Lebanon between Israel and likely Hezbollah positions. Al Jazeera senior correspondent Zeina Khodr writes on the significance of the Golan mortar fire from Syria:
Rocket from Syria lands in Israel occupied Golan Heights- it was a matter of time before a message is sent to Israel from this front … "multi front assault possible".
This came within an hour of President Biden in a speech confirming that the US will begin 'surging' defense aid to Israel.
And the Pentagon too confirmed:
A senior defense official said the Pentagon was “surging support” to its closest Middle Eastern ally in response to what U.S. officials have said are the brutal new tactics that characterized the weekend assault by Hamas militants into southern Israel. With the combined death toll exceeding 1,500, Israel’s government on Monday ordered a full-scale siege of the Gaza Strip, setting the stage for what could be a prolonged and bloody offensive in the small, densely populated Palestinian enclave.
This has already begun, says Boeing. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “All False Flags in the modern world are a mix of Actual & Narrative.
It should not be controversial to suggest that the burden of proof for the Actual component (if there is an Actual component,) falls on those making the claims and, perhaps more importantly, attempting to guide the Collective Mind into the endorsement of a new worldwide conflict in order to address said claims.
As for why patriots would use the same 'events' to forward their own rhetoric?
Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself. The more the enemy matrix thrashes, the more it exposes itself for the world to see.
Wherever the truth lies amidst the Middle Eastern chaos, it's revealing the bloodthirsty, unified warmongering of the Establishment Uniparty, who just so happens to be more embattled both domestically and internationally than they ever have before, and on the heels of collapsing bipartisan support for their most recent Forever War attempt in Ukraine.
We're in a War of Stories.” —
Finland says 'outside activity' likely damaged gas pipeline, telecoms cable
A subsea gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea have been damaged in what may have been a deliberate act, the Finnish government said on Tuesday.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said NATO was sharing its information over the damage and stands ready to support the allies concerned. Finland joined the military alliance in April, while Estonia has been a member since 2004.
The Balticconnector gas pipeline was shut early on Sunday on concerns that gas was leaking from a hole in the 77-km (48-mile) pipeline. Finnish operator Gasgrid said it could take months or more to repair.
"It is likely that damage to both the gas pipeline and the communication cable is the result of outside activity. The cause of the damage is not yet clear, the investigation continues in cooperation between Finland and Estonia," Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said in a statement on Tuesday.
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said the damage to the pipeline was "worrying", but that Finland's energy supply remained stable and that the damage to the telecommunications cable did not affect Finland's overall connectivity.
"It is too early to draw conclusions on who or what caused the damage," Orpo told a press conference.
Gas accounts for 5% of Finland's energy supply, he added.
Finnish telecommunications operator Elisa, which operates the damaged cable, told Reuters the distance from the cable to the Balticconnector pipeline was "significant", but declined to comment on the exact length between them.
The damage to the gas pipeline was believed to have taken place in Finnish waters, while the telecoms cable breach was in Estonian waters, Finnish authorities said. — Reuters
Our Take: “Another attack on Russian energy, as sabotage is being blamed for the Balticconnector pipeline attack. And, as the alternative media speculates, the party that benefits most is the US establishment.
Nonetheless, as news broke of the pipeline sabotage Tuesday afternoon, ‘inside sources’ took to Reddit and Twitter/X to claim that Russia attacked the pipeline.
This appears to be a repeat of the events surrounding Nordstream2. If so, then we can expect to find out it was ‘pro-Ukrainian’ militants who have no official ties to the country. Give it a couple weeks.” —
US Scrambles to Get More Arms to Israel, Ukraine
As Israel has declared a “complete siege” on Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on southern Israel, the US is scrambling to get more weapons in the hands of the Israelis.
According to The Washington Post, the Biden administration is considering combining its request for more spending on the war in Ukraine with new aid for Israel. The idea would be to “jam the far right,” referring to Republicans in Congress who oppose the proxy war in Ukraine but are staunch Israel supporters. No final decision has been made, and in the mean time, the US is already shipping new arms to Israel using existing authorities.
A Pentagon official told POLITICO on Monday that planes carrying new military aid for Israel have “already taken off.” The US is sending air defense and munitions. According to media reports, Israel has requested precision-guided munitions, small-diameter bombs, and interceptors for its Iron Dome missile defense system.
Israel receives $3.8 billion in military aid each year from the US, including $500 million to fund air defense development and $3.3 billion for Foreign Military Financing, which gives foreign governments money to buy US arms. Neither type of aid allows direct weapons shipments from US military stockpiles, but according to POLITICO, the US has $100 million available for the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which does.
The Pentagon is working to determine what arms in the US stockpile could be made available and is also pressing the arms industry to expedite deliveries of weapons Israel has already purchased. The effort comes as the US is expecting Israel to launch a ground invasion of Gaza, which will incur a huge amount of civilian casualties.
Israel could start to compete with Ukraine for the types of weapons it needs from the US. Right now, it’s focusing on pounding Gaza with airstrikes, which requires munitions Ukraine doesn’t use, but a ground assault would require 155mm artillery rounds, which are in short supply since the US has poured millions of shells into Ukraine. — AntiWar.com
Our Take: “Narrative Convergence is becoming Actual Convergence.
Anons and citizen journalists have been remarking on the congruent exposures of the Ukrainian Proxy War and the one just kicking off in Israel.
Now, the Biden White House is confirming just about any conspiracy you'd like to pick out of the line-up, openly suggesting they'll simply tie aid packages to BOTH proxy wars together.
This acknowledges two things:
1) The Western Regime knows Ukraine Fatigue has reached an all-time high, which means support for the Prussian Proxy has reached an all-time low.
2) They're not seizing the initiative to fund Israel because they believe in the mission; they're doing so because emotional momentum is clearly on the side of Israel vs. Hamas as opposed to Ukraine vs. Russia, tacitly admitting that foreign aid is much more about PR campaigns and social media trends than justice.
"When you know the way broadly, you can see it in all things." - Miyamoto Musashi.
Americans are being shown the way.” —
NY Fed Survey Finds Surge In Household Delinquency Expectations, Worst Since April 2020 Covid Crash
After several months of declines in the 1-Year inflation expectation as tracked by the NY Fed's monthly consumer survey, September saw the second consecutive increase in this series which traditionally is also a proxy for the price of oil (which recently hit a 2023 high before tumbling, before spiking again on the latest war in Israel), however this was offset by a small decline in 5 year inflation expectations, which traded places with the 3 year which in turn rose modestly. However, the most concerning observations was that despite a modest improvement in household income growth expectations, there was an unexpected spike in delinquency expectations as US household appear to have hit a brick wall on how much debt they can pay down in the immediate future
Here are the details: as shown in the chart below, inflation expectations at the one-year horizon were every so slightly higher at 3.67% in Sept. from the previous month’s 3.63%; three-year-ahead inflation expectations also reversed higher and after falling from 2.91% in July to 2.79% in August, they then bounced all the way to 3.00% in September. Finally, 5-year-ahead inflation expectations declined from 3.00% to 2.84%, the lowest since May 2023.
The report also noted that median inflation uncertainty (the uncertainty expressed regarding future inflation outcomes) increased slightly across all three horizons. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “People that expect to not be able to pay their bills increased 12.5% in September. This is notably before the latest war in the Middle East, which is expected to raise energy prices, and thus inflation, even higher in the coming months.
The Biden administration keeps trying to convince the American people that the economy is working from ‘bottom up and the middle out,’ but if you ask the American people, it’s not working at all.
As the Executive continues to make it rain for defense contractors — with $2B for Israel and unlimited support for Palestine both being promised — Americans are demoralized and disillusioned with the current state of domestic affairs. And with the current state of their bank accounts. And, let’s be honest, mental health.
In other news, according to America First Legal, ‘Our FOIA lawsuit against the National Archives has now revealed that then-Vice President Biden's Office had:
19,335 emails with Rosemont Seneca
4,243 emails with Hunter Biden
1,751 emails with Jim Biden
3,738 emails with Jim’s Lion Hall
Didn’t they claim there was a wall of separation between Joe and his family’s enrichment schemes? That’s a lot of comms that made it through the wall.
Expect the war narrative to pick up even more as the entire establishment works overtime to ensure you don’t notice that these are official records in the National Archives. Remove and prosecute.” —
‘His Odds Get Better’: Trump Trending Ahead Of Biden In Key Battleground States, Nationwide
Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in a series of recent swing state and national polls.
Polling analysts argued that Trump’s current lead in the polls is attributable to voters’ concern over the Biden administration’s policies, but some cautioned that it’s still early for these surveys to be predictive of the 2024 election.
“As Biden’s likeability has waned, we’re seeing a real trend of voters being drawn back in by Trump’s policies,” Nathan Klein, pollster for OnMessage Inc., told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “As Trump now sits on a small put persistent lead in national polls, if he continues to win back a few thousand of the voters he lost in 2020 the path to victory certainly exists.” — The Daily Caller
Our Take: “Winning.
Leaving aside the fact that polling itself is rife with fraud & represents Narrative Warfare on the part of the Media Industrial Complex, I find the framing of recent polling surges by Donald Trump to be ironic, even by the alternative media.
Here, ZeroHedge says recent trends showcase Trump's "astonishing and perhaps unforeseen political resilience."
While saying Trump's resilience is 'unforeseen' itself represents a misread on the one true POTUS (and perhaps even the GOATUS,) the statement also betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the 'point' of Trump's 'Second Term,' as he recently called it, also known as the Biden Administration.
Donald Trump isn't surging in the polls DESPITE the politicized 'Witch Hunt' the Deep State has launched against him; he's leading BECAUSE of it.
As I've said many times this year, the Trial(s) of Donald Trump isn't standing in the way of his campaign.
It IS his campaign.
The Crisis Cascade is exposing [them] for the world to see.” —
Germany: Fresh call to ban AfD comes from CDU politician
While the left is well known for calling for a ban on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), often described as a conservative party, also has a variety of politicians calling for the party to be banned. This time, CDU MP Marco Wanderwitz, who was personally defeated by an AfD candidate, plans to introduce a motion in the Bundestag to ban the party.
Wanderwitz made the call to ban the party during the state-run ARD television program “Panorama,” saying, “We are dealing with a party that seriously endangers our free democratic basic order and the state as a whole,” which is why “it is high time to ban them.”
Wanderwitz says he is searching out other MPs to back his vote; however, the ultimate authority on whether such a ban is possible is the German Constitutional Court. Not only are the legal hurdles for such a ban very high, but the political implications of banning the AfD would be enormous.
The AfD is the second most popular party in the country, and currently sits at 21 percent in Politico’s poll of polls, only behind the CDU. However, some polls have placed it as high as 23 percent, indicating that nearly one out of four German voters in the country could back the party. Approximately 30 percent of German voters say they could imagine voting for the party. — Remix News
Our Take: “In your weekly reminder that the Awakening is worldwide ...
In Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is attaining record voting results, challenging the leftist Uniparty/NATO regime represented by Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The AfD party was only founded in 2013 and has surged every year since 2018 as the German people have dealt with surging immigration, the resultant crime and a more intense version of the Western-induced inflation Americans have as a result of unwise sanctions placed on Russia since 2022.
The nationalist party is becoming so popular and powerful that, this week, rival party MPs have (this is NOT a joke,) called for the party to be 'banned in order to protect Democracy.'
It's not 'Clown Country;' it's 'Clown World,' and it's being exposed for the entire world to see.
When we look back at this time in history, we'll see that the populist, sovereign rise was much more rapid than it felt.
The awakening happens very slowly ... and then all at once.” —
BONUS ITEMS
Vivek Blasts Nikki Haley's "Childish Tantrum" Over Israeli Attacks; Warns Carlson "That's A Formula For World War III"
(Click the image below to watch on ‘X’)
Zelensky Bizarrely Blames The Israel-Gaza Conflict On Putin
Clearly, Ukraine's war effort will suffer even further setback given that the attention of international media coverage has seemingly in an instant switched from the Russia-Ukraine war to the shocking scenes to have emerged from Israel. The world has pivoted from the battlefields of the Donbas to beholding scenes of southern Israel and the Gaza Strip.
On social media for example, masses of Americans have switched their Facebook profiles from Ukrainian flags to Israeli flags, or on the other side of it... to Palestinian flags. Perhaps trying to regain some of the lost spotlight and media focus, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has bizarrely laid blame on Russia for the outbreak of fresh conflict in the Middle East.
Zelensky said in Monday statements that Moscow stoke war in the region in an effort to weaken global unity and spread destabilization.
"Based on available information -- very clear information -- it is in Russia’s interests to inflame war in the Middle East to create a new source of pain and suffering that would weaken global unity, create divisions and help Russia in undermining freedom in Europe," Zelensky said in a nightly video address.
Of course, he cited no evidence for the claims. The new talking point seems a desperate attempt to link 'the current thing' to the Russian invasion and the plight of Ukrainians. Zelensky in a series of messages has expressed solidarity with Israeli victims of Hamas terror. — ZeroHedge
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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