Badlands News Brief

Another One Tries ... Another One Fails

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 with some Badlands flavoring to help wash it down.

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Now, onto the news from the Weekend that Was …

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Trump safe after potential assassination attempt at golf course

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was unharmed Sunday in what authorities are investigating as another potential assassination attempt, after a man pointed a rifle into a Florida golf course where the former president was playing.

Police arrested Ryan Wesley Routh, a 58-year-old man most recently living in Hawaii who spent recent years trying to join the war in Ukraine, according to online posts and law enforcement officials. Routh has a criminal history including barricading himself inside a building with a machine gun in 2002, according to public records and news reports. On Sunday the FBI searched his car as officers looked for clues to a possible motive.

Sunday’s incident occurred while Trump was golfing at his course in West Palm Beach, Fla. Following the usual security procedure, a Secret Service agent moved one or two holes ahead of the former president, 300 to 500 yards away, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.

Around 1:30 p.m., between the fifth and seventh holes, the agent noticed a rifle muzzle poking through the tree-lined chain-link fence surrounding the golf course, Bradshaw said. The agent opened fire and Trump’s detail rushed him to a holding room. The gunman fled in a black Nissan, leaving behind an AK-47-style rifle, two bags and a camera mounted to the fence to record, according to Bradshaw.

“With a rifle and a scope like that, that’s not a long distance,” Bradshaw said.

It was the second time in just over two months that a man had a high-powered rifle within range of Trump, renewing concerns about Trump’s safety in the height of the campaign leading up to Election Day on Nov. 5. The Secret Service has long viewed golf courses as especially challenging because they are open to parts of the public and near heavily trafficked areas. The agency repeatedly denied requests from the Trump campaign for additional security measures at his public events, with officials citing limited resources. — The Washington Post

Our Take: Bicameral Awakening pathways are opening up in the wake of a repeated assassination storyline ...

First up, the timing of the narrative coincides with the Establishment's panic pattern in the aftermath of Kamala's ascent.

The first time Trump debated, he ended the current fake president's political career. An assassination attempt followed before the media cycle had cooled following said debate.

Now, we're told Kamala "totally won" muh debate, and yet ... one of her supporters felt it necessary to try to take out the king ... again.

The second path to awakening, however, lies in the surreal and entirely welcome development of the conspiracy Marxists, who are getting less shy about calling said attempts on Trump's life "fake," likening them to political game theory.

As I said in the wake of J14 ... we don't want to stop them from going down this path.

Either normies think it's real, and indicative of a pattern.

Or they think it's fake, causing them to question the central narrative. —

Burning Bright

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From Carolina Roofer To Ukraine Activist: Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh Gave Many Interviews With MSM 

Fox News confirmed earlier that the suspect in the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has been identified as Ryan Wesley Routh. 

Using public records, Routh appears to be from Greensboro, North Carolina (some reports say he now lives in Hawaii) and was or still is part owner of United Roofing and Construction Inc. 

[…]

In the days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, corporate media ran their propaganda machine, and it was possibly at that point that turned Routh into a NATO activist.

What's startling is that corporate media, such as NYTimes, Financial Times, Semafor, and others, paraded the shooter around with a number of quotes about Ukraine and Taiwan. — ZeroHedge

Our Take: A roofer, huh?

Before we get to the part where this doofus turns into the Winter Soldier, can we just point out the obvious irony that the prior assassination attempt in Butler took place on a… roof. (And that roof became a major part of the story.)

Now let’s talk about how this guy is quite obviously an MKUltra candidate. As the article mentions, his socials are being scrubbed as I type this, but the anons have been well trained and conditioned to immediately archive this kind of information offline, which many have already done. (Sorry, Langley, but the internet is forever. Better luck next time.)

I can’t help but laugh at this little dig by

Andrew Korybko

that was shared by our buddy

The AlphaWarrior Show

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Pakistan, huh? The same place where the CIA recruited those ISIS-K cockroaches who bombed the Abbey Gate, who were then hunted down and avenged not by the US government, but by the Taliban— who were keeping their word to President Trump they made in the Doha Agreement. (The State Department could learn a thing or two about integrity from those guys.)

Our friend,

Brian Lupo

, was kind enough to make a video showcasing Routh’s followers.

The one that stands out, to me as well as other anons, is the very last name on that list: Soo Kim.

She has protected her tweets. (Some anon out there has them, be sure of that.) But we can still see her bio.

Ex-CIA? (As if there were such a thing.) RAND Corporation? (We’ll get to that in a minute.) Yale? (NeoCon haven) Then there are these lettered organizations that require context. Allow me to provide that for you.

The first is LMI, a self-described consulting firm “dedicated to improving the management of government,” whose pinned post mentions running a training program across the Department of Defense. (The post got one measly like. Sad.)

Sounds like another NGO based out of Tyson, Virginia that simultaneously extorts our tax dollars while implementing its will onto our government in the most nefarious ways, while wrapping itself in a blanket of self-indulgent altruism, like some kind of a wannabe superhero cape. What a joke.

The other letters are also interesting, and seemingly relevant: the Philip Merrill for Strategic Studies from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, which claims to “explore politics and the use of force in international relations.”

Interesting language. I wonder what kind of “force” they mean? Could they mean the kind of force NATO has implemented in places like Africa? Where they brutally murdered Muammar Gaddafi? Or Syria? Where they tried to do the same to Assad? Or America? Where they have tried to do the same to President Donald Trump? Twice, now?

That brings us to the RAND Corporation— one of the great villains of the modern era. Let’s take a look at some of their recent posts on X:

You think they heard my rant on Kursk? I doubt it, but if they did, maybe they’d delete that post.

Then there was this one:

Do you think that maybe there is some bizarro-world Badlands Media Brief, where some dummy pontificates ad nauseam about Bidenmania and how super based and redpilled Zelensky and Dick Cheney are, and how the Globalist Alliance is saving the world from Putin and his legion of supervillains?

You know what the real problem is with these kind of organizations? They have no real interest in changing the world for the better. They don’t like progress. They like the status quo. They are merchants of death; a cartel built on the blood and bones of millions, whose vapid greed has fueled some of the most twisted and depraved machinations this world has ever known.

We’ve had a lot of laughs here on this newsletter, some cool history lessons, and some serious discussions, too. (I really appreciate the appetite this audience has maintained for all of it.)

But if there is only one lesson— one idea— from the myriad long-winded musings I’ve espoused that stays with you, let it be that We The People have a moral obligation to [peacefully] eradicate these kind of organizations from existence. For they are vehicles of modern tyranny— the ones that the original [based] Patrick Henry warned us all about during the Constitutional Conventions of the 1780’s.

Go back and read what he wrote and said, because he really knew what he was talking about— far more than I do.

If we fail to achieve this objective— which I’ll admit is an enormous undertaking of incomprehensible proportion— then we are damning our children and grandchildren to live under the same despotism that we have all come to know. As Thomas Paine (the original anon) said:

“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.” —

GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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Urgent warning in Colorado as Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua 'arms itself' to take on gangs already in Aurora

Terrifying footage obtained by DailyMail.com shows a shooting in one of the Colorado apartments controlled by Venezuelan super gang Tren de Aragua - as law enforcement officials warn about a coming gang war.

The July 28 clip recorded on the cell phone of a resident shows two people fighting in the courtyard of the Aspen Grove apartments in Aurora - one of three rental properties under gangster rule. 

As the courtyard brawl played out, other residents watching the commotion ducked and screamed when shots rang out. 

Members of TdA, as the South American mob is known to federal authorities, seeped into the US in recent years, hidden among the 1 million Venezuelans who have arrived in the US under the Biden Administration.

Now in major American cities, Tren de Aragua has unleashed a crime wave from Miami to New York, but for the first time, law enforcement officials are revealing what TdA's future plans are.

‘There’s about to be a big gang war,' John Fabbricatore, the former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for Colorado told DailyMail.com. — Daily Mail

Our Take: The level of government gaslighting over Tren de Aragua activity in Colorado cannot be overstated.

The Aurora Police Department claimed no knowledge for months. The mayor denied it was happening. The local Colorado media apparatus shamed anyone asking questions and, eventually, we were all labeled racist (yawn) here in the Centennial State.

John Fabbricatore (John Fabbs), the source in the Daily Mail story, has been warning about TdA and other cartel sponsored activity for over a year. I interviewed him on The Colorado Show back in February, as he was warning that American cities were becoming overrun and the cartels were exploiting sanctuary policies. He was right. Now he’s warning of a gang war, and we should listen. John Fabbs spent decades in immigration-related government service, and he knows what he’s talking about.

I interviewed John again on September 1, and it was an excellent discussion about the extent of the issue and how to solve it, which will require federal government intervention. He’s running to replace Jason Crow — the ignorant and arrogant Ukraine activist currently representing Colorado’s sixth congressional district. If we want the Congress to be functional and committed to the interests of the American people, we need to send people to Congress that know how to do things.

Unfortunately, the government gaslighting in Colorado is so effective that weaponized empathy has people voting for their actual demise in solidarity with someone else’s feelings, so John has an uphill battle.

The design of the House allows us to toss terrible representatives every two years. It’s a design feature that has never been more relevant than right now. —

Ashe in America

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US can’t hide from nuclear war – Moscow

Washington will be unable to hide from a nuclear conflict if it starts across the ocean, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov has said. Fears of a potential escalation between Russia and NATO over Ukraine have been intensifying in recent days, as Western powers reportedly mull the possibility of allowing Kiev to conduct missile strikes deep in Russian territory.

Speaking with Rossiya 24 channel on Friday, Ambassador Antonov said that he is surprised at the “illusion” that “if there is a conflict, it will not spread to the territory of the United States of America.”

“I am constantly trying to convey to them one thesis that the Americans will not be able to sit it out behind the waters of this ocean. This war will affect everyone, so we constantly say – do not play with this rhetoric,” Antonov stated.

He also mentioned that while Western countries accuse Russia of “sabre-rattling,” the US wants to investigate the consequences a nuclear strike would have for Eastern Europe. Antonov was apparently referring to a study ordered by the US Defense Department to simulate the impact of a nuclear conflict on global agriculture. According to a solicitation notice posted on a government procurement platform, the study will focus on regions “beyond Eastern Europe and Western Russia,” which in the simulation is the epicenter of the hypothetical nuclear attack. — RT

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U.K. Prime Minister and Biden Discuss Allowing Ukraine’s Use of Long-Range Missiles Inside Russia

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Biden on Friday discussed allowing Ukraine to use long-range European-made cruise missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia, according to U.S. and Western officials.

Until now, Western countries supporting Ukraine have balked at allowing Kyiv to use long-range weapons, such as the British-French Storm Shadow, inside Russian territory for fear of escalating the conflict. Officials are concerned in particular that Russian President Vladimir Putin could retaliate by arming the Yemen-based Houthi rebels, who are engaged in a long-running campaign to attack ships in the Red Sea.

Putin has warned the U.S. and its allies that permitting Ukraine to use Western-made long-range missiles against Russia would mean the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s countries were “at war” with Russia.

Asked about that concern just prior to his White House meeting with Starmer, Biden said, “I don’t think much about Vladimir Putin.” — WSJ

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Canada fully backs Ukraine using long-range weaponry, says Trudeau

Canada fully supports Ukraine using long-range weaponry to "prevent and interdict Russia's continued ability to degrade Ukrainian civilian infrastructure", Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday.

Trudeau told reporters that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to deeply destabilize the international rules-based order and added: "That's why Canada and others are unequivocal that Ukraine must win this war against Russia." — Reuters

Our Take: Do you see it?

The "Scare Event" was never going to be just one thing; it's going to resemble a Crisis Cascade all occurring under the Establishment's watch, and with Donald Trump, the tribune of the people commenting on the sidelines as the System buckles and sways.

Russia will soon be mobilizing most of its nuclear submarines as part of their "OCEAN 2024" global exercise, which they have ALREADY TOLD the US MIL they're doing, but the media will spin it as MUH NUKES!

China will begin strafing the Taiwan Straight in October, and I believe we're going to get a Narrative rerun of the Gulf of Tonkin in the form of a "standoff" between Chinese & Western War Ships.

All the while, the FED will be caught in the economic pincer Trump set for them, unable to significantly cut rates without sparking runaway inflation, and unable to maintain them as stagflation settles in like a suffocating weight.

Americans will look up an shout, "SAVE US!"

And Kamala will look down and whisper, "Joy ..." —

Burning Bright

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Venezuela says it arrested 6 foreigners allegedly involved in a plot to kill Maduro

Three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen were arrested Saturday after Venezuelan officials accused them of coming to the South American country to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro.

The arrests were announced on state television by Diosdado Cabello, the nation's powerful interior minister. Cabello said the foreign citizens were part of a CIA-led plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government and kill several members of its leadership. In the television program, Cabello showed images of rifles that he said were confiscated from some of the plotters of the alleged plan.

The arrest of the American citizens included a member of the Navy, who Cabello identified as Wilbert Joseph Castañeda Gomez. Cabello said that Gomez was a navy seal who had served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Colombia. Spain's embassy in Venezuela did not reply to a request for comment on the arrests of its citizens.

The U.S. State Department late Saturday confirmed the detention of a U.S. military member and said it was aware of “unconfirmed reports of two additional U.S. citizens detained in Venezuela.”

“Any claims of U.S. involvement in a plot to overthrow Maduro are categorically false. The United States continues to support a democratic solution to the political crisis in Venezuela,” the statement said. — NPR

From ZeroHedge:

However, the statement emphasized that "Any claims of U.S. involvement in a plot to overthrow Maduro are categorically false. The United States continues to support a democratic solution to the political crisis in Venezuela."

And yet the whole bizarre saga is eerily familiar. In 2020 a former US Green Beret who ran a private security firm in Florida assembled a team for what ended up being a failed amphibious raid by a ragtag group of soldiers out of Colombia on Venezuela's shores.

The former Beret, Jordan Goudreau, later faced federal charges for failing to have an export license for assault rifles, ammunition, silencers, night vision goggles, and other military items which had been sent to Colombia.

The Associated Press had summarized of that 2020 incident:

Despite the setbacks, the coup plotters went forward in a comical if tragic way in what was widely ridiculed as the “Bay of Piglets,” in reference to the 1961 Cuban fiasco. The group was easily mopped up by Venezuela’s security forces, which had already infiltrated the group. Two of Goudreau’s former Green Beret colleagues spent years in Venezuela’s prisons until a prisoner swap last year with other jailed Americans for a Maduro ally held in the U.S. on money laundering charges.

Our Take: First of all, credit where credit is due: the AP calling that failed 2020 coup the "Bay of Piglets" is pretty funny. And I'm not being a smartass when I say that. (See guys? Maybe just try a little more humor and a little less feminism, and you would be more endearing...)

Matthew Ehret

’s wife, Cynthia, joined us on Breaking History a while back and shared her deep research into the topic of Operation Condor— the South American wing of Operation Gladio— and how the instrument of those coups was almost always the Green Berets, so this story tracks.

The timing of this is pretty suspect, with Trump being shot at, again. And if Maduro is such a bad guy, then why are all the other bad guys trying to kill him? It wouldn't have anything to do with those civil action lawsuits he brought against those 40 oil executives in US court back in 2018, which seem to have resulted in materials used by the Trump administration to go after more oligarchs worldwide, and was also likely tied to the very recent indictments brought against former Glencore CEO Alex Beard? (I don't want to be accused of being a conspiracy theorist, or anything.)

By the way, Beard appeared in court last week and pled "not guilty" to the charges, meaning we are going to trial... meaning we will get all the juicy details in open court.

It is rather interesting that the State Department would come out and make that assertion. They just can't let it go. They really want to get Maduro.

This little nugget was also interesting:

This summer Maduro has been cracking down hard on "far right" opposition movements which he says have the backing of the CIA and other external agitators.

Gotta wonder if those groups look anything like this:

I love how out in the open these discussions are becoming. Everybody is waking up to the reality that the State Department and their partners/masters (hello, MI6 + Mossad) control the world in the same manner that the mafia once controlled businesses in urban neighborhoods: with threats of violence and coercion. —

GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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How Trump is relying on a racist conspiracy theory to question election results

When former President Donald Trump told millions of Americans during Tuesday's presidential debate that "our elections are bad, and a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they're trying to get them to vote," he was not just repeating a baseless claim intended to undermine the results of the upcoming 2024 election.

He was also echoing the latest iteration of a once-fringe racist conspiracy theory that has now become mainstream in the Republican Party. The conspiracy — known as the "great replacement" — claims there is a plan to bring nonwhite immigrants into the United States and other Western countries to replace white voters to achieve a political agenda.

Throughout this presidential campaign season, Trump and his allies have repeatedly claimed that Democrats allowed migrants to enter the country so they would vote in the 2024 election — despite the fact that no evidence has surfaced of a mass scheme to register undocumented immigrants. Noncitizen voting in federal elections is illegal and rare, and there are checks in place to deter and prevent it. (A small number of localities permit noncitizens to vote in municipal elections for positions such as school board member using separate ballots from those used for state and national elections. The number of noncitizens who ultimately cast ballots is very small.) — NPR

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Federal Data: Thousands Of Illegals Are Registered To Vote, But In 21 Years DOJ Has Only Prosecuted 35

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the federal government decided to only go after 35 criminal cases of aliens voting in American elections from 2001 to 2021 — the latest year for which data is available.

The suspiciously low number of prosecutions contrasts with thousands and thousands of aliens having been registered to vote in recent years, and at least hundreds being flagged to the Justice Department as having actually cast a ballot. This calls into question the political motivations of those responsible for upholding federal election laws.

“I spent four years at the Justice Department as a career lawyer, and I can tell you that the career ranks of the Justice Department are filled with left-wing ideologues, and they just had no interest — they have no interest in going after aliens to prosecute them,” Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at The Heritage Foundation, told The Federalist in an interview.

“They think it is unfair that aliens can’t register and vote. Plus, many of them thought, ‘Well, if they’re registering and voting, it will help our side,” von Spakovsky continued. “I think that’s clearly the motivation here. That’s why they weren’t interested in pursuing these cases.” — The Federalist

Our Take: The narrative you’re meant to believe is that millions of migrants came into our country illegally, exploit refugee programs illegally, consume citizen services illegally, but, when it comes to elections, these migrants are honorable and would never break the law by voting.

That’s why we put them on an ‘honor system’ when it comes to voting. If you think this policy is ill-advised, then you’re racist.

In Colorado, voter registration is automatic at the DMV, and those ineligible to vote must opt out of being added to the registration database. Complicating matters, the Secretary of State’s office has repeatedly, ‘accidentally,’ sent post cards encouraging ineligible residents to register to vote.

Here is Deputy Secretary of State Chris Beall confirming this, under oath, during my trial in July:

The honor system doesn’t work with dishonorable people. And while the migrants may be honorable and just confused by our election chaos, the people encouraging them to vote are not honorable. They should be prosecuted.

Now consider that, in 20 years, the government has only actually prosecuted 35 illegals for this crime.

Does it not happen or do they just not prosecute?

Don’t ask these questions, bigot. —

Ashe in America

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Zelenskyy’s power grab is bad for Ukraine

“Moving the chairs around.” That was a senior Ukrainian official’s take on the cabinet shake-up announced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week.

So far, international and domestic media have largely echoed government spin on the matter, claiming this to be the biggest overhaul since Russia invaded Ukraine. But in truth, it isn’t much of a revamp at all. It’s simply a repositioning of some of the dramatis personae that’s been presented as something bigger than it is, the official said, asking to remain anonymous in order to speak more frankly.

“No fresh faces were added from industry, civil society or academia — something that’s been urged on the government for some time,” they noted. And that’s a problem.

The only exceptions to this are the forced departures of Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba and — independent of the cabinet reshuffle — the head of Ukraine’s national power transmission network Ukrenegro, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi. According to the official and other insiders interviewed by POLITICO, Kuleba had irritated Zelenskyy’s powerful chief of staff Andriy Yermak, who wants more control over the ministry.

Ukraine’s leader had been piquing expectations of a major change in government since spring, with Zelenskyy and his aides trying to lift flagging spirits amid declining personal opinion ratings and a fatigued nation more openly questioning his leadership — hence the dramatic cross-border incursion launched into Russia’s Kursk region last month. — Politico EU

Our Take: The Deep State is a bit late in discovering they lost control of the Prussian Proxy of Ukraine some time ago.

The claim I forward that Zelenskyy is no more theirs than Joe Biden is these days was initially inspired by Trump's frequent references to a "perfect phone call," but continues to map onto reality with the actualization of a widespread anti-corruption campaign his admin has carried out over the last 2 years, ousting and even jailing some of the most notorious Globalist gangsters and oligarchs from the fake country.

All the while, the leaders of the Azov battalion (as well as politicians friendly to said Ukrainian Nazis, such as Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko,) have been calling for him to step aside or be moved aside for months as he continues to make unforced error after error in the Donbas, leading to countless Azov losses.

The machine is trying to spin up WW3. It's not going to happen, precisely because they've lost control of the very proxies that might have seen it done. —

Burning Bright

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Madrid meeting urges global participation in two-state solution discussion at UN General Assembly

In a significant gathering held on Friday in Madrid, representatives from the Ministerial Joint Contact Group of the League of Arab States and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), including the Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye, alongside the Foreign Ministers and representatives of Ireland, Norway, Slovenia, and Spain, addressed the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and reaffirmed their commitment to the two-State solution as the path to enduring peace.

In a joint statement issued after the meeting, the participants highlighted the severe humanitarian crisis unfolding since Oct. 7, 2023 and condemned the violence and terrorism affecting both Palestinians and Israelis.

They emphasized the urgent need for the implementation of the two-State solution, stressing that it remains the only viable approach to achieve lasting peace and security in the region.

“We call on the parties and all the members of the United Nations to join the broader meeting on ‘The situation in Gaza and the implementation of the two-State solution as the path to a just and comprehensive peace,’ on the margins of the next session of the UN General Assembly on Sep. 26, 2024,” the statement declared.

The statement further condemned unilateral measures, settlements, forced displacement, and extremism, which have obstructed progress toward peace. It underscored the importance of adhering to UN Security Council Resolutions, international law, and the Arab Peace Initiative. — Saudi Gazette

Our Take: Last week, we teased this possible happening, when Turkish President Erdogan called for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation— the 57-nation group composed of the entire Muslim world.

This group came to public prominence in the current zeitgeist last November, when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman summoned them to Riyadh, and effectively told them all to stand down, and allow him the leeway to navigate the situation unfolding in Gaza. MBS knew that the globalists were baiting the Muslims into attacking Israel, which would have provoked escalation and most certainly led to World War 3.

So the Muslims did the one thing that nobody expected them to do: nothing. They stood by and allowed Bibi Netanyahu to show the world his true colors, thus alienating himself from most of the civilized world.

It was at this meeting last fall where MBS formed the "Ministerial Joint Contact Group" of the Arab League and OIC, which then went on a world tour— led by Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan— that ran through Beijing, Moscow, Paris, and London, among other cities of diplomatic importance. I believe that some of the most important groundwork of the Sovereign Alliance was laid at these meetings, and posted about it at the time.

Another critical development from that exact time period was a reconciliation between Iran and Saudi Arabia, who have been at odds since the CIA overthrew the Shah in 1979 and installed the Ayatollah, initiating a theological arms race between the two countries that became a competition to prove who could be the most orthodox, resulting in the radicalization of both cultures. (Something MBS has explicitly asserted, and lamented.)

It was this reconciliation that I believe prevented Iran from striking Israel with a full response back in April, after Israel bombed one of their embassies in Syria. (Again, avoiding WW3.)

Now we have the Ministerial Joint Contact Group (Arab League/OIC) meeting with European leaders to plot the next move in this grand chess match between the Globalists and the Sovereign Alliance. Do you see how the Alliance is growing with every move? First it was just the Arab League, then the OIC, then Africa, then China and Russia, and now, Europe. (South America and the Caribbean also got on board pretty early, as well.)

All systems are a go. The Alliance is getting stronger, as the Globalists are getting more and more desperate. —

GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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BONUS ITEMS

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Harris or Trump? Once Again, Election Results Could Take Awhile.

The hosts of election night parties may want to book a room for more than just one night.

For the second straight presidential election, it is becoming increasingly likely that there will be no clear and immediate winner on election night and that early returns could give a false impression of who will ultimately prevail.

Large swaths of Americans have changed their voting habits in recent years, relying increasingly on mail-in ballots, which take more time to count than those cast in person on Election Day. States with prolonged vote-counting processes, such as Arizona, have become suddenly competitive. And the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump appears extremely close.

If a winner is not declared on election night, it will not necessarily point to failures in the process. More likely, it will be a result of the intense security measures required for counting mail-in ballots.

Election officials across the country are trying to telegraph to voters that waiting long hours or even days for a result is not unexpected in a close election. They are eager to counter conspiracy theorists who may seize on the uncertainty as evidence of fraud or malfeasance. — NYT

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Swift endorsement turns more voters from Harris than it attracts: poll

It might not be such a “Love Story” after all.

Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, may turn more voters away than it attracts.

A new post-debate poll from YouGov released Saturday found that 8% of voters said the pop superstar’s nod is either “somewhat” or “much more likely” to convince them to cast their ballot for the Democrat.

But a whopping 20% said they are “somewhat” or “much less likely” to vote for former President Donald Trump’s opponent now that Swift has spoken.

Most of the respondents, 66%, said Swift’s endorsement made no difference on how they will vote in November.

“I’ve done my research, and I’ve made my choice,” the Grammy-winning artist shared in an Instagram post with her 283 million followers shortly after Tuesday night’s debate.

“Your research is all yours to do, and the choice is yours to make.” — NY Post

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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.

As always, if you have any thoughts on these news items or the MANY others swirling in the digital ether, drop into the comments below to share them with your fellow Badlanders.

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