Badlands News Brief

Musk's World Tour & Irish Strife Prompt Reactions

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 Monday, November 27 …

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Musk Says He’d Like to Help Rebuild Gaza in Chat With Netanyahu

Billionaire Elon Musk said that he’d like to help rebuild Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war in a conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his social-media platform X. 

It’s important to first “deradicalize” the Palestinian territories, similar to how other Arab states have become more moderate in recent years, including Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu said in a live discussion broadcast on the site formerly known as Twitter on Monday.

Musk, who is under fire for amplifying antisemitic content on X, is meeting with Israeli officials and toured the Kfar Aza kibbutz where some of the worst violence occurred on Oct. 7, when Hamas militants broke through the country’s border barriers and attacked civilians. Musk described seeing bullet shell casings in cribs on the tour. 

After watching footage of the attack by Hamas, designated a terrorist group by the US and European Union, Musk called the apparent joy expressed by the killers “evil” and “jarring.” Israel has been showing footage of the attack by Hamas in screenings around the world.

Still, Netanyahu didn’t address the latest antisemitism row on X in the approximately 20-minute broadcast. Musk has defended himself from what he labeled “bogus media stories” after he endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory earlier this month on X. Major brands including Apple Inc. and Walt Disney Co. have stopped advertising on his social media platform over concerns of increasing antisemitism and hate speech since he took over Twitter last year.

Musk’s trip to Israel will also include meetings with Benny Gantz, an opposition leader and member of the three-man war cabinet and President Isaac Herzog. — TIME

Our Take: “To say that Elon Musk qualifies as one of the prime Mind-Movers at work in the Info War would be quite the understatement these days, and I don’t think I’ll get much argument from anyone in the Truth Community when I say it.

What’s a more important—and difficult—question to answer is exactly where he is attempting to move the Collective Mind with his various—and frequent—Narrative Deployments of late.

There are still plenty who question Musk’s true loyalties, and while I think it’s important to assign ruthless skepticism to any figures who hold such sway over the cultural and global zeitgeist, the Net Effects of Musk’s statements and deployments seem to be coming up sovereign more often than anything else, and that’s before taking into account his much-discussed DOD contracts with the Trump Administration.

Donald Trump is a mass psychological power unto himself, but he isn’t the only major cypher at work in the Mind War, and he isn’t the only one on our side.

The Collective Mind is captivated with Musk of late. Let’s see where he leads them.” — Burning Bright

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Clueless Or A Liar? WH Press Sec. Touts 'Bidenomics' While Working Poor Suffer

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday told Fox News's Peter Doocy that prices of all sorts of basic items for American consumers "are going down" under President Biden. 

"This holiday season, families are seeing lower prices on everyday items from gas to groceries," Jean-Pierre said. 

Jean-Pierre is correct about prices for some items moderating. However, she purposefully leaves out prices have significantly risen over the last several years. 

Bloomberg data shows typical household items are up double digits from January 2020 to October 2023. 

It now requires $119.27 to buy the same goods and services a family could afford with $100 before the pandemic. Since early 2020, prices have risen about as much as they had in the full 10 years preceding the health emergency.

It's hard to find an area of a household budget that's been spared: Groceries are up 25% since January 2020. Same with electricity. Used-car prices have climbed 35%, auto insurance 33% and rents roughly 20%.

While Jean-Pierre continues to tout 'Bidenomics,' Washington Post's Leigh Ann-Caldwell explained on Sunday it [Bidenomics] had become a negative word" within the Democratic Party.

"'Bidenomics" has really become a negative word, especially among Democrats because it's not working," Ann-Caldwell told NBC's Meet The Press. — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “On Meet the Press Sunday, the panel discussed how Bidenomics has become a negative word among Democrats. That means the Democrat strategists are fully aware that ‘Bidenomics’ is not a viable message, even with their base. And everything in KJP’s binder is, in my opinion, vetted by Democrat strategists. She’s definitely clueless, but she’s cluelessly spouting lies.

I don’t trust their data or that our current economic dystopia is a result of free market exchange. We have the economy that the regime allows, and the regime is all in on ‘Bidenomics.’ KJP telling Americans that they can thank Biden for the economy is borderline incitement and, according to Meet the Press, not just for ‘the far right.’

Democrat voters are not as homogeneous as the regime wants us to believe, and Bidenomics may be the trigger for their mass awakening. Gaslighting is emotional abuse — but it can also be a hell of a red pill.” — Ashe in America

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Conor McGregor Brands Irish Leader "A Disgrace" For Claiming Hamas Child Hostage Was "Lost"

UFC star Conor McGregor has continued his flurry of offence against the Irish government, branding the Prime Minster Leo Varadkar “a disgrace” over comments made about a child who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists.

The five time world champion responded to a post on X made by Varadkar about Emily Hand who was returned to her family over the weekend.

Varadkar described the child as being “lost” and claimed she “has now been found and returned.”

McGregor noted that the 8-year-old child was “abducted by an evil terrorist organisation,” adding “What is with you and your government and your paid for media affiliates constantly down playing / attempting to repress horrific acts that happen to children.”

The MMA legend continued, “You are a disgrace. The day after a stabbing of children in Ireland, NOT ONE PAPER HAD IT ON THEIR FRONT COVER. We will not forget.” — Modernity News

Our Take: “I know there are a lot of members of the Truth Community who've completely defected from all mainstream entertainment, including sports, in keeping with the truism that [they] have always used the Bread & Circus approach to keeping otherwise discerning minds mollified and zombified so they can continue their dark work in the shadows.

That said, athletes occupy a different role in the Collective Mind than most of the Mind-Movers we tend to track in the Info War, and UFC fighters are undoubtedly the most heterodox and difficult to control of the bunch.

I've spent most of my career working adjacent to or in the combat sports world, and fought myself for almost 10 years, albeit never at the UFC level.

Combat Sports represent an engineered psycho-physical crucible through which authenticity is honed and falsity is stripped away, with some of its most driven athletes becoming true paragons of direct-path living.

Conor McGregor is a mass cultural Mind-Mover, and the global mind is moving.” — Burning Bright

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"It's A Powder Keg": Steve Bannon Warns Tucker Ireland's Post-Stabbing Anti-Immigration Crisis Is "Coming Here, At Scale"

Click to Watch the Full Episode on X

Our Take: “Everyone keeps talking about Ireland’s stabber being ‘an immigrant,’ but Tucker and Bannon hit on the bigger issue with the great migration.

As a reminder, the great migration is a coordinated change effort that the globalists have taken from strategy through execution over the past two decades.

The Ireland child stabber is a migrant that, after 23 years, remains incompatible with Irish, or even just Western, culture. He hasn’t assimilated, and that is a data point that requires critical examination by all of us — because the great migration is coming for all of our communities.

Forget about the public cost, the strain on local infrastructure, the obvious inability to absorb the sheer volume of people, and all the other very real and critical issues with the great migration. Assimilation has always been treated as a long game, but does the math change when we accept that it’s not likely and may not even be possible?” — Ashe in America

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Biden expected to miss global climate summit opening as young voters question his progress on climate change

President Joe Biden is not expected to attend the opening of the global climate summit in Dubai this week, according to a White House schedule of the president’s events.

Instead, top US officials, including special envoy John Kerry and White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi, will go to the gathering, which will be attended by nearly 200 countries.

Biden has made tackling climate change a cornerstone of his policy agenda and his reelection bid as young voters continue to point to it as a key issue going into 2024. Since taking office, Biden has attended the annual UN climate summit in person in 2021 and 2022. It’s unclear whether Biden may participate virtually this year.

The White House declined Monday to specifically say whether Biden would participate in the climate summit with world leaders, but National Security Council spokesman John Kirby pushed back on the notion that he was not traveling due to the Israel-Hamas conflict, saying he was “more than capable” of handling his “global responsibilities.”

Although US presidents historically haven’t attended every international climate summit, Biden skipping would be notable, said Tom Evans, a policy adviser for international climate think tank E3G.

“It’s definitely a shame that he won’t be there. When he’s not part of the conversation, that shows the US that’s not fully at the table at the highest level,” Evans said, adding that not attending in person is a “missed opportunity” ahead of the 2024 election.

“This will be the final COP before the US election – the US election might happen during the next COP,” he told CNN. — CNN

Our Take: “Is this a 'China Joe' headline we can all actually get behind?

That's mostly a joke, but the rapid, agonizing death of what I call the 'Green Beast,' that being the Globalist Climate Change agenda that's folded in everything from carbon credits to ESG investment scores into its WEFian, dystopian view of a future where we'll all own nothing and be happy is accelerating.

When times are good for the Deep State Controllers, they're able to devote a sizable portion of the Media Industrial Complex into the constant fear-mongering about the existential threat that is the imaginary Climate Change boogie man.

Thing is, when the Crisis Cascade (from Ukraine to Gaza and Trump 2024) has them boxed in on the game board, it seems like the immediate, totally real, definitely very serious climate issues take a back seat to more pressing matters, like how to steal the next election.

You may not think the Collective Mind is watching the hypocrisy on display, but they see the goalposts moving.” — Burning Bright

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BONUS ITEMS

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Deal reached to extend Israel-Hamas truce by two days, Qatar says

The truce that saw the return of 50 Israeli women and children from captivity in Gaza, as well as dozens of other nationals, has been extended for two more days, officials said Monday, as the hard-negotiated initial four-day pause concluded successfully following a late-night release of captives.

Eleven Israelis were freed by Hamas on Monday, the Red Cross and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said, bringing the total number of freed hostages to 69. Thirty-three Palestinian prisoners were also freed, bringing the total number of Palestinian women and children released from Israeli prisons over the course of the truce to 150. Several dozen truckloads of aid were also able to reach the besieged enclave in what had been the first respite for Palestinians in the nearly two months of war.

Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari confirmed the extension of the truce in a statement posted on X, with leaders in Israel and the US quickly welcoming the news.

Hamas said it agreed with Qatar and Egypt to extend the truce for an additional two days “under the same conditions reached before.” — CNN

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Brace Yourself For What's Coming In 2024: Victor Davis Hanson Warns The Left Knows They're "Cooked" If "Vampire" Trump Wins

In his ubiquitously calm, reasoned, non-ad-hominem, and ruthlessly fact-driven few minutes, Victor Davis Hanson dives into the left's apparent hysteria at the looming shadow of Donald Trump's potential return.

Hanson articulates a sense of deep-rooted fear among Trump's opponents, summed up perfectly as follows:

"they look at Trump as a vampire and they put a stake in his heart but they're afraid that that stake could come out any time."

This vivid imagery sets the stage for a discussion about the intense paranoia and strategic maneuvering in the political arena, particularly among those who view Trump not just as a political rival, but as an existential threat to their vision of America.

Hanson argues that there is a perception among Trump's adversaries that he is now more formidable and justified in his anger due to perceived injustices against him:

"They are terrified of him because they think he's smarter this time and he has just cause to really get angry because of what they did to him."

They rightly fear that Trump's potential comeback would be fueled not just by political ambition, but by a personal vendetta, which could make him a more unpredictable and determined opponent.

"...if a MAGA candidate wins and they win the house and the Senate, we're cooked."

They are likely right! And Hanson posits a political landscape where power dynamics could shift dramatically, leading to aggressive investigations and possibly even retribution against figures in the current administration. — ZeroHedge

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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.

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