Badlands News Brief
Trump-a-Mania Rages On, Brother!
The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.
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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 Tuesday, September 10 …
Badlands Media Special Coverage - The First Trump/Harris Presidential Debate
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Our Take: So, Kamala Harris & company have chosen ... death. At least, in the public mind, and they've done so by doubling down on Orange Man Bad!
That's no surprise, but her angles of attack (meaning the System's angles,) beggar belief for those paying attention, as she attacked Trump not on his perceived weaknesses, but on his overwhelming strengths throughout.
For his part, Trump went through the greatest hits of the 2024 campaign, which mirror the greatest hits of 2020 & 2016.
That doesn't win voters with TDS, unfortunately, but it does present the one thing the Establishment cannot: consistency.
Consistency of presence, of vision ... of principles.
It's all about the story, and Trump has been telling the same one since his ascension in the American Zeitgeist, and yes, even BEFORE he came down that golden escalator.
Ultimately, you can't win a War of Stories with a story AGAINST ... you must have a story FOR.
Americans know what Trump is fighting FOR.
What are [they] fighting for? — Burning Bright
Kamala Harris vows to grant amnesty to migrants who illegally cross border: ‘Earned pathway to citizenship’
Vice President Kamala Harris vows on her long-awaited new campaign website to establish an “earned pathway to citizenship” for migrants who cross the border illegally.
“She knows that our immigration system is broken and needs comprehensive reform that includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship,” says the website — which only went online Sunday, a month and a half into her campaign, and has already been criticized as too vague.
Former President Donald Trump, who Harris is going up against for the White House, has claimed he will enact a large deportation initiative to expel illegal migrants from the US.
Harris’ website policies on the border, which voters rank as a high-priority issue, don’t add anything beyond harking back to a related bipartisan Senate bill.
“As President, she will bring back the bipartisan border security bill and sign it into law,” her website states without offering any other proposals on the crisis. — NY Post
Our Take: There are two bits of news in this story.
First, Kamala has a new website. It’s much delayed and written in the third person — a lazy but effective way to inform people that your Presidential platform isn’t actually your own intellectual property.
Second, the citizenship thing for millions of criminal invaders. She’s also promising new entitlements and, when you consider the totality of her platform, effectively admitting her intentions to murder our nation.
‘She knows that our immigration system is broken and needs comprehensive reform that includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship,’ says the website — which only went online Sunday, a month and a half into her campaign, and has already been criticized as too vague.’
This delayed and vague admission of her national homicide intentions is dead on brand for Harris.
That the destruction of our nation is being positioned as a ‘promise’ really emphasizes the Orwell of it all.
MAGA — Ashe in America
US accuses China of giving ‘very substantial’ help to Russia’s war machine
Beijing is giving Moscow "very substantial" help to beef up its war machine, and in return Russia is handing over its closely guarded military tech on submarines and missiles, the United States' Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said Tuesday.
Speaking with a group of journalists, including POLITICO, after meetings with European Union and NATO counterparts in Brussels, Campbell upped the ante on Beijing. The U.S. previously focused on Beijing's supply of what's known as dual-use technologies — which can be applied for military or civilian purposes.
Now Washington is unambiguously saying that China is aiding the Russian military. With Moscow facing international sanctions, it desperately needs technology to boost its military production to be able to continue its war against Ukraine.
"These are not dual-use capabilities," Campbell said, referring to the latest materials China is giving Russia. "These are basically being applied directly to the Russian war machine." — Politico
Our Take: History is yesterday's fake news with time to metastasize.
If you've ever used the terms "Axis and Allies," you've already fallen into its controlled opposition dynamic.
This isn't an appeal to the "Hitler GUD" refrain, which is itself an even more cartoonish Op meant to trap Low IQ chuds.
The reason this is relevant today, in 2024, is that the entirety of the Media Industrial Complex (including the Con Inc. charlatans who were recently exposed,) are going to attempt to convince you that the emergent MIL triumvirate of Russia-China-Iran represent the "New Axis," and pose an existential threat to the Globalist West.
Russia has already announced its "Ocean 2024" global MIL exercises, and China is going to join them, while the two back Iran publicly amidst the spiraling Israel chaos.
Trump will allow this for narrative reasons before codifying peace and trade deals that are already done through public narrative.
You were born into a Mind War, as were your parents.
Act accordingly. — Burning Bright
‘I’ve never seen the depth of moral corruption’: controversial Netanyahu doc screens at Toronto
Audiences got a look at Benjamin Netanyahu’s leaked police interrogation videos for the first time at last night’s world premiere of The Bibi Files. The urgent and incendiary documentary played at the Toronto film festival despite the Israeli prime minister’s attempts to block its screening.
Israeli courts rejected Netanyahu’s request before the film – in which he is seen furiously denying allegations of bribery and corruption – was unveiled to a tense and vocal audience, many of whom were carrying signs reading “Bring Them Home” and “Deal Now”, referring to hostages held in Gaza.
The film, directed by Alexis Bloom and produced by Alex Gibney, builds a rigorous and damning case, posing an argument close observers may already be familiar with: Netanyahu is prolonging the devastating war in Gaza – which has amassed more than 40,000 casualties – to avoid possible prison time stemming from corruption charges. A humanitarian crisis flouting international law is all about his self-preservation.
According to the documentary – which Bloom began working on before 7 October, when a source provided Gibney with the leaked videos – Netanyahu’s lawyer filed a motion to delay the trial currently scheduled for December. The lawyer cites the ongoing war as the reason. — The Guardian
Our Take:
"Insiders like the Israeli journalist Raviv Drucker, former Shin Bet head Ami Ayalon, a childhood friend and more are on hand as talking heads. They connect the dots and reveal the long-running pattern of Netanyahu serving his own interests while clinging to power – from deliberate ploys to sabotage an alliance between the West Bank and Gaza by enabling Hamas, to his alliance with the violent far right and attempted overhaul of the supreme court to save himself from prosecution."
Hm. That all sounds familiar. Probably because we've been covering all of that, ad nauseum, on the Brief for months.
For context, the guy who produced this film, Alex Gibney, directed the 2005 documentary, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which exposed the depths of criminality surrounding that scandal. Of Netanyahu, he said, “I’ve never seen the depth of moral corruption as I’ve seen in this man.”
More from the article:
"The interrogation videos shown in the film were recorded by police between 2016 and 2018 before they formally brought charges of corruption against Netanyahu. The footage includes the prime minister addressing allegations that he and his wife accepted expensive champagne, Cuban cigars and jewelry from the Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan. Netanyahu is heard minimizing the champagne and cigars as simply gifts from a friend, while denying knowledge of the jewelry.
Several witnesses who worked for Milchan and Netanyahu are also shown speaking to police. They paint a picture of regular gifts expected by Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, in exchange for favours. One such favour includes a marginal tax break extension that benefited Milchan. Netanyahu argues his unusual interference regarding the tax break was for the good of the state, not Milchan. Meanwhile, the LA Confidential producer corroborated much of the witness testimony, though, in one excerpt, he gently asks police not to use the word “bribery” because it would make him look bad."
If that name, Arnon Milchan, sounds familiar, it's because he was discussed by Chris Paul and Burning Bright on their Badlands Story Hour episode on Oliver Stone's JFK. (Milchan produced the film, which explicitly blames the CIA—and only the CIA—for the assassination of JFK.)
Milchan is a former Israeli intelligence officer. Check out this section from his Wikipedia page:
So Milchan was responsible for procuring materials to advance the illegal Israel nuclear weapons program. We know from the declassified JFK files that the day before he was inaugurated, during his meeting with outgoing President Eisenhower, the departing president warned JFK that his biggest challenge would be stopping Israel from obtaining a nuclear weapon. (Sound familiar? Everything with Iran is pure projection.)
So you can see Milchan's conflict of interest—or motivation—in producing the JFK film, and totally throwing the CIA under the bus as the culprits.
Milchan was connected to what is known as the "Apollo Affair," where another Mossad agent, Rafi Eitan, was effectively caught stealing materials to construct a nuclear weapon from a facility in Pennsylvania, including hundreds of kilograms of weapons grade uranium.
Eitan was working with Milchan to ship the materials back to Israel.
You want to know something really bizarre? The stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, where President Trump was shot in the head, is less than 30 miles from the facility where the Apollo Affair took place.
Are you sure we aren't watching a movie? — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
Variety Attempts to Shame Taylor Swift Into Endorsing Kamala Harris
Hollywood trade publication Variety is attempting to shame Taylor Swift into endorsing Kamala Harris, publishing a column on Monday saying Swift’s decision to thus far remain silent on the 2024 election is “regrettable” in light of her past political support for Democrats, including Joe Biden.
The publication even called out Swift for having the audacity to socialize with Brittany Mahomes, whom former President Donald Trump has thanked for her support.
Variety’s column comes on the heels of two major polls trusted by leftists showing former President Donald Trump pulling slightly ahead of Kamala Harris with voters nationwide — a major setback for the Harris campaign, which has received endless free hype from the establishment media since Democrat elites installed her as their nominee. — Breitbart
Our Take: You know the Harris campaign is going well when regime shills are politi-shaming Taylor Swift into endorsing their candidate. Polls are fabricated for narrative, and even the fabricated polls can’t overcome Harris’ lack of support.
If you need a pop star to pretend you’re popular, you’re not popular.
It’s so much worse for Harris than they’re telling us.
Related: My bestie is a Swift fan, which means I’ve heard her most recent album in its entirety no less than four times this past week.
‘I’m miserable, and nobody knows’ … ‘I put narcotics into all of my songs’ … ‘I love you, it’s ruining my life’ … ‘Your wife waters flowers, I want to kill her’ … ‘I leap from the gallows.’
Seriously, someone check on Tay-Tay. This shit is pretty dark. — Ashe in America
KSA reopens embassy in Damascus after 12 years of strained ties
The embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has reopened its doors in the capital of the Syrian Arab Republic, Damascus, after 12 years of severed ties, as the two seek to restore bilateral relations.
Speaking at a ceremony held by the embassy in Damascus on Monday, the Saudi Charge d’affaires, Abdullah al-Haris, vowed to promote Damascus-Riyadh ties and considered the reopening of the embassy in Damascus a significant moment in the history of ties between the two countries.
Syria’s Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Raad told SANA that the reopening of the Saudi embassy in Damascus and the Syrian embassy in Riyadh last October will help the two countries bolster their bilateral relations and improve joint Arab initiatives for the benefit of the region's people.
The two countries severed ties at the start of the war on Syria as the West sought, through regional proxies, to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. However, for over a year now, regional Arab states have sought to mend ties with Syria after the government succeeded in maintaining legitimacy and regained the majority of its territories. — Almayadeen
Our Take: This is a big deal for a number of reasons.
For one, it marks the reconciliation of Syria with the House of Saud, which has been a strained relationship for decades, especially the past 12 years, after then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her clout to have Syria expelled from the Arab League.
Last year, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reversed that malevolent action, welcoming Syrian President Assad to the Arab League meeting with a big hug.
It also completely rebukes the Deep State's talking point that the Saudis still oppose Syrian President Assad— the corrupt Saudi cousins, such as Alwaleed bin Talal, once funded the ISIS insurgency against Assad.
The disgusting and very evil corporate media—which lies about literally every aspect of our lived reality—said over and over again that the Saudis created and funded ISIS.
This, of course, is a lie. It was President Obama and Hillary Clinton who created ISIS, by overthrowing and murdering Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, raided his private armory, and sent those weapons to the "freedom fighters" in Syria.
Those freedom fighters, of course, became ISIS.
The reconciliation of Damascus and Riyadh demonstrates, definitively, something that I've been saying for quite a while: The Middle East is healing. Generations of tribal strife and infighting, which were exploited and exacerbated by western oligarchs, are being resolved, and hatchets are being buried.
Peace in the Middle East is happening, in spite of every effort to thwart it. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
BONUS ITEMS
Trump-backed plan to avoid government shutdown advances to House-wide vote as Republicans defect
House Republicans' plan to avert a partial government shutdown and crack down on election security surpassed a key hurdle Monday evening, though it's headed for an uncertain fate in a chamber-wide vote this week.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is aiming to pass legislation combining a six-month extension of fiscal year 2024's federal funding levels, called a continuing resolution (CR), and a House GOP bill to mandate proof of citizenship in the voter registration process.
The plan passed the House Rules Committee, 9-4, late Monday, bundled with unrelated bills – the final step for legislation before a House floor vote.
House lawmakers are expected to hold a procedural vote allowing for debate on the bill Tuesday, with final passage teed up for Wednesday. — FOX News
America First Legal Launches Investigation Into Biden Admin’s Potential Role In Brazil’s Censorship Of X
The conservative group America First Legal (AFL) launched an investigation into the Biden-Harris administration’s possible knowledge of Brazil’s censorship of Elon Musk’s social media platform X, requesting documents from three U.S. agencies.
Under the directive of Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, Brazil banned the social media site, causing an uproar among free speech advocates. AFL pointed to the Biden-Harris Administration’s novel National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, which promised to tackle “disinformation” and work with governments and technology companies to “[address] terrorist online content,” according to the 2021 document.
The legal group noted in its press release that 10 days prior to Brazil’s 2022 election, Moraes – recently deemed a “dictator” by Elon Musk – gained power to direct tech companies to censor “disinformation,” the New York Times reported. — The Daily Caller
Outgunned and outnumbered, Ukraine’s military is struggling with low morale and desertion
Dima never puts out a cigarette until he smokes it right down to the filter, risking burning his fingers to squeeze out one more drag. He spent years on the Ukrainian front lines. He knows the price of a good smoke.
As a battalion commander, Dima was in charge of around 800 men who fought in some of the fiercest, bloodiest battles of the war – most recently near Pokrovsk, the strategic eastern town that is now on the brink of falling to Russia.
But with most of his troops now dead or severely injured, Dima decided he’d had enough. He quit and took another job with the military – in an office in Kyiv.
Standing outside that office, chain smoking and drinking sweet coffee, he told CNN he just couldn’t handle watching his men die anymore.
Two and half years of Russia’s grinding offensive have decimated many Ukrainian units. Reinforcements are few and far between, leaving some soldiers exhausted and demoralized. The situation is particularly dire among infantry units near Pokrovsk and elsewhere on the eastern front line, where Ukraine is struggling to stop Russia’s creeping advances.
CNN spoke to six commanders and officers who are or were until recently fighting or supervising units in the area. All six said desertion and insubordination are becoming a widespread problem, especially among newly recruited soldiers. — CNN
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“Our immigration system is broken” ?!
Let’s just skip over “who” broke it!!? How many times did Kamala complain about the past, accusing Trump of being stuck in the past? I only watched about 30 min of the debate…seemed like every time the serial liar spoke she managed to accuse Trump of being stuck in the past. Her supporters by now have the shortest memories of anyone on the planet.
Very challenging to listen to her! I finally turned it off and texted Trump a donation.
Harris is absolutely NOTHING more than a convenient and pliable puppet of Obama. That’s her entire role….to remedy the part of Obama’s failed section of the 16 year plan, to remove the guns. Exactly why we’re seeing the MKULTRA lone wolf shootings starting back up. Ashe sums it up perfectly: ‘That the destruction of our nation is being positioned as a ‘promise’ really emphasizes the Orwell of it all.’
Syria and Saudi Arabia. Hmmm… I changed my mind about Assad when the fake news pounced on Putin. It made me rethink everything I thought I knew about Syria. Iran, too.
Israel’s leader has dropped completely from the realm of good intentions. It would be within the evil of the cabal’s minions to start a war and kill thousands (hopefully millions) in order to defect the truth about Netanyahu’s corruption. Par for their course. Not the people. Like us, they are caught with a government composed of cabal minions.
The evil marches on, but the people gifted by God for this long battle will win. God bless each of them acting with His gifts.🙏🙏