Badlands News Brief

The France Dance, Crime & J6 Reveals

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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.

Some items feature original commentary from members of our growing team of citizen journalists. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work.

Now, onto the news from Tuesday, April 11 …

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France Has Already Surrendered To The Coming Conflict

President Macron’s red-carpet visit to China, where VDL was ushered in via the tradesman’s entrance, saw another big meeting at a big table --with ‘random’ Chinese citizens cheering Macron, not burning down his favorite restaurant-- but mocked by national-security experts as “one of the greatest blunders by a major European power since the end of the Cold War,” because “flattery works”; and ‘to Macron’ is now defined as “to deliberately increase one’s dependency on China whilst lecturing European partners about naivety and the need to boost EU strategic autonomy.”

Indeed, Macron signed many China investment deals, a new Airbus plant, promised Huawei fair treatment, and snubbed VDL’s call for China supply-chain ‘de-risking.’ In doing so, despite saying the use of force to change the Taiwan status quo was “unacceptable,” Macron implied no French economic consequences for China, even adding, “I am neither Taiwan nor the US.” While he was there, Beijing said it would inspect cargo vessels entering Taiwan and stepped up major military exercises encircling it, seen as a warm-up for a potential blockade by some in uniform.

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National-security experts stress Macron sent the wrong signal to China, as with Russia in 2022, with whom he is still keen to make a deal: imagine if the US had said Ukraine was “a faraway country of which we know nothing,” leaving the EU on their own – which some Americans wish they had. Equally, the EU is divided. France, Germany, and Spain want to deepen relations with China, while those east of Austria and north of Germany (and the Dutch) are looking to the US. This could threaten a schism given national-security nerves now transcend economics. Moreover, Macron is far too late in his warnings. As we argued in ‘Balance of payments --and power-- crises’, Europe is already in a structurally weak, EM-like position in a raw ‘geopolitical’ world. — Michael Every of Rabobank

Our Take: “Over the course of the last few days, France, one of the lynchpins of NATO and the New Globalist West, has made two moves on the Info War game board that show how porked [their] System really is:

1) Agreed to settle energy trades in Yuan for the first time.

2) Called for Europe to stay on the sidelines in potential 'crisis' between America and China, saying Europe had to stop being 'America's Followers.'

I don’t know if this means Macron is working with us via direct control, leverage or the machinations of Fifth-Gen Warfare and Game Theory, but I do know that, overall, this is what control looks like in the war between the forces of Globalism and Sovereignty.

Friends become enemies. Enemies become friends. And sometimes, enemies are forced to work against their own self interest.

Keep all possibilities in mind.” — Burning Bright

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Democrats Fume over GOP Setting Crime Hearing in Manhattan: NYC Is ‘Safest Big City in America’

New York Democrats raged over House Judiciary Committee Republicans announcing Monday that they had scheduled an official committee hearing next week in New York City focused on “victims of violent crime in Manhattan.”

The committee’s hearing notice specifically named Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose investigation of former President Donald Trump led to a historic indictment of the former president at the end of last month.

The hearing, according to the notice, “will examine how Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s pro-crime, anti-victim policies have led to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous community for New York City residents.”

A Bragg spokesperson blasted the hearing as a “political stunt” that would not “engage in actual efforts to increase public safety, such as supporting national gun legislation and shutting down the iron pipeline.”

The spokesperson also touted that some types of violent crime in Manhattan have improved since Bragg took office. — Breitbart

Our Take: “The Left's superpower is repeating a lie enough times until people just believe it without question, and you can see it on full display with, ‘New York is the safest big city in America,’ a quip made by Alvin Bragg and repeated ad nauseam by the various talking heads in the media.

NYC is ‘safer’ because Bragg drops felonies to misdemeanors for violent crimes. Basically, if it doesn't involve Trump, it's not a felony.

I suppose it's not a surprise that Jerry Nadler would take shots at Jordan for rightfully wanting to defund their fully weaponized Federal Bureau of Investigation. It's also not surprising that he would play down the crime rates in NYC; this is the same guy who claimed that ANTIFA was a myth while small businesses were burning to the ground.” — Ryan DeLarme

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‘Buckle up': DeSantis escalates Disney dispute, eyes hotel taxes and road tolls

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday promised a new round of action against Disney in his ongoing dispute with the entertainment giant, including looking at the taxes on Disney’s hotels and imposing tolls on roads that serve its theme parks.

The DeSantis administration is also examining if a recent agreement approved between a Central Florida board that had been controlled by Disney and the company runs afoul of the state’s growth laws, according to senior administration officials. One of those laws explicitly states that development agreements must be modified or revoked to comply with laws even if the law is passed after the agreement was executed.

“They are not superior to the people of Florida,” DeSantis said during an evening appearance at Hillsdale College, the conservative liberal arts college in Michigan. “So come hell or high water we’re going to make sure that policy of Florida carries the day. And so they can keep trying to do things. But ultimately we’re going to win on every single issue involving Disney I can tell you that.”

Disney “tried to pull a fast one on the way out the door,” DeSantis said earlier in the day during a breakfast hosted by the Midland County Republican Party of Michigan. “That story’s not over yet. Buckle up. There’s more coming down the pike,” he added. — Politico

Our Take: “Like many in this community, I go back and forth on the Net Effects of Ron DeSantis’s Deployments. That said, moves against Disney further significant goals in the Information War.

We're in a War of Stories.

Many have grabbed onto that line of thinking as this community's understanding of 5GW has evolved over time.

That said, the cultural 'Right' has long ignored or underestimated the prevalence and power of subversive ideology in the heart of American myth-making.

Hollywood has been the bane of Republican, Constitutional and Sovereign ideals for decades. But some cracks are beginning to form in its foundation.” — Burning Bright

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FBI Now Admits to 40 Undercover Agents Infiltrated the Crowds on Jan. 6 #Fedsurrection

Previously The Gateway Pundit identified 20 different confirmed incidents and operations involving federal, state and local government operatives who infiltrated the massive Trump crowds on January 6, 2021.

Each one of these incidents has been confirmed by the far-left press or the government in court documents.

We currently have no idea how many federal, state and local government operatives were working undercover on January 6 but it looks like it is close to 100 operatives leading the charge on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

And now this.

Recent court documents reveal the Biden Department of Justice admitting to at least 40 undercover operatives with the Proud Boys on January 6. — The Gateway Pundit

Our Take: “In today's edition of ‘we told you so,’ the DOJ is now admitting to 40 government CHS agents being undercover on January 6th, in addition to 40 undercover operatives and 8 informants inside the Proud Boys and more still within the Oath Keepers. TGP is saying somewhere around 100 assets have been confirmed so far, but that does not include non-fed anarchist provocateurs.

Suppose some of these local chapters of these militant left groups like ANTIFA or Insurrection USA have an agent/informant or two per chapter, and each agent is able to influence, say, an additional dozen of these oblivious, non-fed anarchists or socialists per agent to participate in J6, then we are looking at well over a hundred assets involved.

And remember, these 100 or so are only the ones that we know about. There were also Ukrainian militants in the crowds and operatives from who knows how many other countries. It seems like an impossible mess to sort through, and we may never know the full truth of what really happened that day, but I believe that ANTIFA mapping began long ago. With the intel-gathering capabilities we have today, it isn't an impossible task to get to the bottom of things. I hope and pray for those still suffering in the DC Gulag that justice is served, and soon.” — Ryan DeLarme

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Macron 'Kissing Xi's Ass': Trump

French President Emmanuel Macron has been in China meeting with Xi Jinping and "kissing his ass," Donald Trump said Tuesday.

The former US president sat down with Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson for his first mainstream media appearance since being indicted in New York.

In a rambling interview, the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee said the United States had lost influence in the world since he left office.

"You got this crazy world, it's blowing up and the United States has absolutely no say," he told Carlson.

"And Macron, who's a friend of mine, is over with China, kissing his ass. Okay, in China! I said, 'France is now going to China.'"

Macron caused a storm after a state visit to China last week in which he cautioned Europeans should not chain themselves to US foreign policy.

In remarks to journalists Macron said European countries should not get caught in the tense standoff between Beijing and Washington over the fate of Taiwan.

China has vowed to regain control of Taiwan, while the US government pledges to help Taiwan defend itself.

Macron, who discussed Taiwan with Xi on Friday, warned against Europe being "caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy." — Agence France Presse

Our Take: “The Media Industrial Complex can’t figure out whether to condemn or defend Macron, which is reason enough to double dip on different aspects of this ongoing and escalating narrative in today’s Brief.

Now, I want to focus on Trump:

He's really just laying it all out there, these days.

BRICS is being set up as a parallel economy, built on the Real rather than the unReal of the fiat Central Banking System.

Interesting, that these moves are made while Trump off center stage.

Macron helping to push the multi-polar world order is certainly something.

Make you wonder just who's pulling the strings, eh?

Taken under that framework or lens, the Media might want to be careful which actors on the world stage they condemn and which they support and defend.” —Burning Bright

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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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