Badlands News Brief
Badlands News Brief
Markets Crash as Tensions Rise Abroad
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.
Now, onto the news from Monday, August 5 …
Dow tumbles 1,000 points, S&P 500 posts worst day since 2022 in global market sell-off
Stocks fell sharply on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting its worst day in nearly two years, as worries over the health of the U.S. economy sparked a global market sell-off.
The Dow dropped 1,033.99 points, or 2.6%, to end at 38,703.27. The Nasdaq Composite lost 3.43% and closed at 16,200.08, while the S&P 500 slid 3% to end at 5,186.33. The blue-chip Dow and S&P 500 registered their biggest daily losses since September 2022.
Japan’s stock market posted its worst drop since Wall Street’s Black Monday in 1987, contributing to fears of global turmoil in the markets.
Fears of a U.S. recession were the main culprit for the global market meltdown after Friday’s disappointing July jobs report. Investors are also concerned that the Federal Reserve is behind in cutting interest rates to bolster an economic slowdown, with the central bank choosing instead to keep rates at the highest in two decades last week. — CNBC
And …
The Fed is trying to ‘fight a ghost’ as recession fears mount, investor says
As a global market sell-off continues amid fears of a looming U.S. recession, the Federal Reserve may have little room for manoeuvre, investor Cole Smead warned Monday.
Smead, who is CEO of Smead Capital Management, told CNBC that the Fed is still attempting to combat the after effects of bumper fiscal stimulus, which have made it difficult to accurately gauge the state of the economy.
“The Fed is trying to fight a ghost in some respects. The ghost is a massive amount of federal spending on deficit, 7% of U.S. GDP, and it’s very hard to counteract a problem like that, that you didn’t create,” Smead told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe.”
“I think Jay Powell is doing all he can to understand that problem and counteract it with monetary policy. But it’s a fiscal problem, and that fiscal problem’s not ending,” he said.
The market rout extended on Monday, with U.S. futures mirroring losses in Europe and Asia after a weaker-than-anticipated jobs report for July and a higher unemployment rate ignited worries that the U.S. economy could be falling into a recession. — CNBC
And …
Trump brands stock market tumble ‘the Kamala Crash’
Former President Donald Trump on Monday labeled a sharp drop in the stock market “the Kamala Crash,” linking to the ascension of Vice President Harris as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
“Of course there is a massive market downturn. Kamala is even worse than Crooked Joe,” Trump, 78, wrote on social media Monday morning — after the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 1,000 points in morning trading after closing down more than 600 points on Friday.
“Markets will NEVER accept the Radical Left Lunatic that DESTROYED San Francisco and California, as a whole. Next move, THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024! You can’t play games with MARKETS. KAMALA CRASH!!!” Trump added. — NY Post
Our Take: The Dow dropped more than 1,000 points Monday, after Japan’s and other markets surpassed Wall Street’s Black Monday in 1987. The hysteria began Friday, after a disappointing July jobs report had all major analysts openly saying the R word. “Recession!”
Of course, we’ve been in a recession for a long time, they just changed the definition. As we discuss often in The Badlands News Brief, the regime loves to game metrics for narrative benefit.
Most of the public ire is being lobbed at the Fed, as critics blasted the central bank for waiting too long to cut interest rates. Last week, the Fed opted to keep rates at their highest level in two decades.
Trump is branding this disaster as “Kamala’s Crash,” and he has a point. Kamala is responsible for confirming to the American People that the President of the United States isn’t a drooling moron, and she is completely derelict in that duty. Also, she’s the AI Czar and the Border Czar, and both issues are contributing factors to US economic woes.
There are looming questions about how far this sell-off will go. CNBC is reporting a slight after hours rally as I write this. That being said, Jim Cramer, of “Do not move your money from Bear… Bear Stearns is not in trouble” fame, on Friday told everyone not to panic, so it could go all the way.
He also implied you should buy gold instead of crypto, so it’s a good thing BTC is on sale. —
Another Take: The Micro is the Macro and the Macro is the Micro.
One of the great lies of the False Reality is that a system built on leverage and usury is not only entirely sensible, but vital for the survival of the many.
From credit card debt to mortgages whose interest/taxes alone now dwarf entire loan balances from the past, generational brain washing has occurred over a period of decades, itself codified through an increasingly accelerated cycle of wars and their ensuing resets.
A cycle Donald Trump and the Sovereign Alliance have stopped in its tracks.
Just as the Systemic Individual is beholden to the System itself (as the one who borrows is as compromised as the System he borrows from,) so too is unleashing the power of the Sovereign Individual the pathway to a Sovereign System, a paradox that can only be rectified through decentralization.
The System itself is the enemy. Adherence to it is the sin the people need absolution from.
The System is dying.
Do not mourn its death throes. —
Putin's Top Defense Officials Are In Tehran Amid Countdown To Zero Hour
On Monday as the Middle East approaches zero hour of Iran's expected major retaliation attack on Israel, there is a Russian defense delegation in Tehran, and a US defense delegation in Tel Aviv. How is that for symmetry among enemies?
Sergei Shoigu, Russia's ex-Defense Minister and current national Security Council secretary, is meeting with senior Iranian military and security officials, as well as newly sworn-in president Masoud Pezeshkian.
Russia's RIA Novosti news agency described the focus of the talks as "strengthening bilateral cooperation in a wide range of spheres including security" - and the meetings come amid growing speculation that Russia is actively helping the Islamic Republic to thwart potential Israeli attacks.
Russia has "strongly condemned" the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last Wednesday. Iran considered the brazen act as tantamount to assassinating an official head of state while on an official visit. President Pezeshkian has meanwhile hailed Moscow as a "valued strategic ally."
There has of late been much speculation that President Putin is ready to give greater support to America's rivals and enemies in the Middle East as 'payback' for Washington's support to Ukraine over the past more than two years.
Also on Monday, the Israeli military confirmed that head of US Central Command, General Michael Kurilla, is in the country to assess the security situation against the backdrop of the potential attack from Iran. — ZeroHedge
And …
Turkey to join South Africa's ICJ genocide case against Israel, minister says
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday that Turkey would formally submit its declaration of intervention in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Wednesday.
Turkey had announced in May that it had decided to join the case launched by South Africa as it stepped up measures against Israel over its war in Gaza and that it would submit a bid after the necessary legal preparations.
Fidan was speaking at a news conference in Cairo. — The Jerusalem Post
Our Take: The "scare event" is upon us, as the hours creep by, and the promise of annihilation fills the airwaves.
It is worth noting that Sergei Shoigu served as Putin's Defense Minister for twelve years—and was only replaced back in May. I suspect the main reason he was replaced was not out of incompetence, but because Putin was shifting strategies, bringing in an economist to wage irregular warfare against NATO. That would explain why Shoigu is still playing a major role in the Sovereign Alliance's ongoing operations against NATO.
Now that we have Shoigu in Tehran advising the Iranians and General Michael Kurilla of CENTCOM in Tel Aviv advising the Israelis, I think we can definitely say that the Ukrainian War and the Israeli War are one-in-the-same. (Finally)
With recent reports of a drone attack against a US-occupied base in Iraq, I find it hard to believe that Shoigu would be encouraging Iran to directly engage US forces. It's also worth noting that the Kremlin has released videos of ISIS recruiters being arrested inside of Russia, purportedly having recruited at least 19 Russians to go fight in Syria. I wonder whether these two events are connected.
There is more at play here than just Iran. As I wrote about in yesterday's Brief, Turkey's President Erdogan has been getting mouthy about invading Israel. This isn't exactly a new development; it is posturing we have seen from him since October 7. While Turkey continues supplying Israel with oil. Erdogan knows that Netanyahu won't touch Turkey, being that they are an important member of NATO... but that's also likely why Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has been calling for NATO to expel Turkey, so the IDF can engage in operations against Turkish military bases on the island of Cyprus. (without fear of retribution from the rest of NATO.)
Now a new twist: Turkey has filed the paperwork to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel in the UN's International Court of Justice. Their intent to join South Africa was first announced back in May, but they stipulated that they needed time to prepare "the necessary legal preparations." It was unclear whether this was just more posturing, or maybe Erdogan was ready to pivot away from NATO and the EU and toward the Sovereign Alliance.
I think now we have our answer.
We also have South Africa publicly endorsing the Ukrainian Peace Plan that was orchestrated by the "shuttle diplomacy" of China and Brazil. So it seems that while the world comes unraveled, and the "scare event" that has long been promised unfolds, it will be the bros from the Sovereign Alliance that keep the world from tipping over the precipice, and into the abyss.
President Putin has done a fantastic job forming the geopolitical anvil underneath the globalist hegemony. All we need now is President Trump to come swing the hammer. —
Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules
A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation, a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies.
The highly anticipated decision issued by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta comes nearly a year after the start of a trial pitting the U.S. Justice Department against Google in the country’s biggest antitrust showdown in a quarter century.
After reviewing reams of evidence that included testimony from top executives at Google, Microsoft and Apple during last year’s 10-week trial, Mehta issued his potentially market-shifting decision three months after the two sides presented their closing arguments in early May.
“After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Mehta wrote in his 277-page ruling. He said Google’s dominance in the search market is evidence of its monopoly.
Google “enjoys an 89.2% share of the market for general search services, which increases to 94.9% on mobile devices,” the ruling said. — AP News
Our Take: Forgive me for devolving into a Q-ism (see what I did there?) but this one REEKS of, “Lawsuits can be very effective.”
The major takeaway of today’s brief—aside from the saber rattling-turned warmongering in the Middle East—is the flash crash of global financial markets, which Ashe and I took a stab at, well … stabbing. That said, I don’t call it the Deep State’s “System of Systems” for nothing, and while the financial system is perhaps THE key foundation of the entire temple, it isn’t the only aspect of the Deep State.
In the modern age, control over the digital realm begets control over a good portion of the minds engaging with reality on that layer, which is to say, control over information—Google’s forte—provides such a disproportionate advantage over control of the direction the Collective Mind takes that I don’t know if there’s a precedent in human history, aside from, perhaps, the Roman Catholic Church at various periods of time.
Google may not be a religion publicly, but it has a sycophantic following of true believers, and wields asymmetric power in a war defined by the control of information itself, so much so that the vast majority of the normie hivemind has no idea many of their opinions are either directly planted or—at the very least—influenced by algorithms coming out of Silicon Valley think tanks.
This ruling may not take down the tech giant overnight, but it is MUCH more than simply a shot across the bow.
So, tell me again … which side is in control, here? —
UK prime minister talks of ‘standing army’ of police to deal with rioting across Britain
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that a “standing army” of specialist police would be set up to deal with rioting and that the justice system would be ramped up to handle hundreds of arrests after violent disorder rocked cities across the nation over the past week.
Starmer convened an urgent meeting after lawlessness he blamed on “far-right thuggery” that was driven in part by misinformation on social media that whipped up anger over a stabbing rampage at a dance class that killed three girls and wounded 10 people. False rumors spread online that the suspect was a Muslim asylum-seeker led to attacks on immigrants and mosques.
“Whatever the apparent motivation, this is not protest. It is pure violence and we will not tolerate attacks on mosques or our Muslim communities,” Starmer said. “The full force of the law will be visited on all those who are identified as having taken part in these activities.”
On Sunday, angry mobs attacked two hotels used to house asylum-seekers, breaking windows and lighting fires before police dispersed the crowds and residents were evacuated. Dozens of police officers have been hospitalized for injuries in the past six days after being struck with bricks, bottles and large wooden posts. — AP News
Our Take: It would appear that the chickens have come home to roost.
As we have widely discussed on Badlands, Britain has been one of the chief architects of the globalist hegemony, and there is little reason to believe that the British Empire ever ceased to exist.
I have asserted in the past that I believe the British East India Company—which was formally dissolved by an act of Parliament in 1873, the same year that the War Office created what would become known as British Intelligence— transformed itself into MI6. The reasoning for this is pretty simple: The EIC was the most powerful corporation of all time, with an army that was twice the size of the British Army in 1873. Corporate espionage has been around for centuries, probably even longer, with the concept of a government intelligence agency being rather new, in the grand scheme of history.
Not only did the EIC master the art of espionage, it also cultivated the concept of proxy wars and color revolutions during the 1730's, when it was competing with the French East India Company for influence in India. It was actually the French who first came up with the idea of "buying" the support of local warlords, and using their armies against the British. But the British had more cunning diplomats, and deeper pockets, so it wasn't long before they out-maneuvered the French and took control of over half of India.
I say all of this to help explain why there are so many British-speaking Indians in London. Unlike the rest of Europe, there are actually historic circumstances to explain all of this. However, it isn't the Indians—many of whom have assimilated to British culture, when you look at conservative figures like Raheem Kassam— who are instigating this civil war. It is the migrants from Africa and Syria, who have been imported by the Open Society Foundation (George Soros) and other nefarious NGO's over the past decade.
NATO's 2011 operation to murder Muammar Gaddafi was the pivotal event that caused this, since Gaddafi was the one guy in Africa holding back the would-be invaders, and his private armory was posthumously used to create and arm ISIS in Syria, which started a war against Assad that displaced millions. (Estimates currently are at nearly 14 million displaced.)
All of this is part of a very evil plan to destroy Western Civilization and enslave humanity. The violent reprobates we see in this videos patrolling the streets of Britain, seeking conflict, are the same people President Trump has warned us about when he said that these third-world countries "weren't sending their best."
General Flynn responded to Elon Musk over the weekend, saying that civil war in Britain was already underway.
What Britain needs is Nigel Farage; just like America needs President Donald Trump. —
U.S. pauses migrant sponsorship program due to fraud concerns
The Biden administration has paused a migrant sponsorship policy it set up to discourage illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border due to concerns about fraud among sponsors, officials said Friday.
The policy allows up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to fly to the U.S. legally each month if American sponsors agree to support them financially. The administration first started the program in late 2022 and expanded it in early 2023 to dissuade migrants from those crisis-stricken countries from traveling to the U.S. southern border.
The Department of Homeland Security said it stopped issuing travel documents to people applying for the program while it investigates applications filed by U.S.-based sponsors.
"Out of an abundance of caution, DHS has temporarily paused the issuance of advanced travel authorizations for new beneficiaries while it undertakes a review of supporter applications," the department said in a statement Friday. "DHS will restart application processing as quickly as possible, with appropriate safeguards." — CBS News
Our Take: In February 2023, in the middle of the State of the Union, Joe Biden declared, ‘Since we launched our new border plan last month, unlawful migration from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela has come down 97%.’
Like most Biden accomplishments, this one is derived from redefining metrics. They made lawful the otherwise unlawful migration, and the negative metric disappeared. (See jobs and inflation numbers for additional examples of how the Biden administration games metrics to claim imaginary policy wins.)
This program was only announced about a year and a half ago, and it is now being ‘paused’ because of fraud concerns. From the contemporaneous reporting:
‘They also announced the expansion of a parole program that will allow some Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans who can obtain a US-based financial sponsor, hold a valid passport, and afford plane tickets, to apply for permission to travel to the US by plane.’
That was January 2023 and, now in August 2024, the program is being paused due to fraud with the ‘Sponsors.’
From Fox News:
‘The internal report found that forms from those applying for the program included social security numbers, addresses and phone numbers being used hundreds of times in some cases.’
Importantly, this is a Biden-Harris program that was never passed/approved by Congress. Meaning Harris owns this fraud. She is, after all, the Border Czar, and she admits to focusing on the root causes of migration in that role.
Her role in the root causes of immigration fraud should be an important factor in November. —
Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich: Starving Gazans 'To Death' May Be Moral, but World Won't Let Us
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday that starving two million Gazans "to death" may be the "right and moral" to do until Israeli hostages held in Gaza are released, but that the "world won't let us."
Speaking about Israel's decision to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza at the Katif Annual Conference, the far-right lawmaker said that a deal with Hamas would endanger Israel and see the return of few hostages.
"We have a responsibility, we want to bring back the hostages, but a deal would only return a few captives and seal the fate of most of them to stay in captivity in Gaza," Smotrich said. — Times of Israel
And …
Billboard in Tehran: 'Indeed, the Messiah, Jesus Christ, Son of Mary, is a messenger of God.'
Our Take:
A tale of two civilizations.
If you were to forget everything you think you know about these two places— Iran and Israel—which one would seem more aligned with the Christian values of the West?
Welcome to 2024, where nothing is as it seems.
In a column published on Sunday by Israeli outlet Haaretz, entitled "If Israelis Don't Rise Up Now, We'll Have Nothing Left to Fight For," Zehava Galon writes:
"Israel is steadily becoming a pariah state. The trickle of international sanctions has become a daily occurrence. A few settlers here, an organization there; one day it's from Spain, the next day it's from Japan. Rather than noticing the trend, we've gotten used to it. We've forgotten that these sanctions are a privilege. They are a warning signal. They're what was once called an "intervention" – Israel's friends are taking it aside and explaining that the days when they were ready to pay for it are over. And since there is no tantrum like the tantrum of the privileged, Israel's government cries "antisemitism!"
Benzi Gopstein isn't some strange creature dragged by its beard out of a cave in Hebron. He freely comes and goes at the Knesset, the same Knesset that bars entry to relatives of the hostages. Tzav 9 is not just a radical organization composed of pimply youths from the hilltops – its members are afforded protection by the police and the minister responsible for the police. How many times do we need to see a truck driver being beaten while police officers stand aside before this sinks in?"
The name Benzi Gopstein should ring a bell with this audience. He is the spiritual successor to the Jewish Supremacy movement ("Kahanism") started by Meir Kahane, who was arrested by the Shin Bet in 1980 for conspiring to blow up the Al-Asqa Mosque in Jerusalem in order to start a holy war between Israel and Islam. Kahane won a seat in the Knesset in 1984, but was boycotted by all Knesset members. The parliament later passed a law prohibiting racial supremacy platforms from holding office—a law that Bibi Netanyahu effectively repealed in 2022.
Kahane was arrested over 62 times in Israel for extremist activity, but only served six months in jail for the Mosque plot. He was also arrested multiple times in the United States, once for conspiring to import munitions from Israel to blow up the Iraqi embassy in DC. He was given a five-year suspended prison sentence, and allowed to return to Israel.
Kahane is descended from Rabbi Simcha Rappaport, a famous 17th-century Ukrainian rabbi who became the progenitor of a rabbinic dynasty. Because of his ancestry—his father and grandfather were both rabbis—Kahane demanded that the Soviet government allow the Refuseniks (Soviet Jews) to immigrate to Israel, which was eventually granted in 1989, resulting in an enormous influx of organized crime of Jewish gangsters (Ukrainian and Russian Mafias) to Israel that led to a very violent and public gangland war between the gangsters and Israeli police for over 20 years.
These Refuseniks gained political power in 1995, when they first organized a party and ran for seats in the Knesset, aided by Oxford student Ron Dermer— who went on to become Netanyahu's right-hand man, attending the recent meeting with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago. With the help of Dermer, the Refusenik's party merged with the Likud Party in 2003.
In 2010, Wikileaks posted cables from the US embassy in Israel expressing concern that the Israeli (Ukrainian) Mafia had seized control of [Netanyahu's] Likud Party, after the niece of the main family's crime boss, Inbal Gavrieli, won a seat in the Knesset as a member of the party.
One of Kahane's most devout followers was a physician named Baruch Goldstein, who was outraged by the signing of the Oslo Accords (the promise of a Two-State Solution) in 1993. On February 25, 1994, Goldstein walked into the Cave of the Patriarchs—a mosque in Hebron, Palestine—with an automatic weapon and opened fire on the crowd, killing 29 people. The only reason he didn't kill more was because he was mobbed and beaten to death by the survivors in the mosque.
Netanyahu's National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir—who also served as the defense attorney for Benzi Gopstein this past January, when he faced incitement charges for his 2015 anti-Christian comments—proudly displays a portrait of Baruch Goldstein in his living room; a fact that is widely known and reported in Israel. (Goldstein's gravesite has become a tourist destination for Jewish extremists who are adherents of Kahanism.)
Tzav 9— the group mentioned by Zehava Galon in her column— is a Jewish terrorist organization that has been sanctioned by the US government for attacking and/or blocking the aid caravans sent by Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE to provide food and medicine to Gaza. (Videos of these attacks are all over social media.) The group is reportedly funded by NGO's controlled by Itamar Ben-Gvir.
So with all of this said, I ask: which government is the terrorist state, again? —
BONUS ITEMS
Kamala Harris' Running Mate Due to Be Announced—What We Know
Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate on Monday—here is everything we know about who it might be and why.
The vice president is set to launch a tour of seven key battleground states on Tuesday, by which time she will probably have made her choice public. She will start in Philadelphia, which has done nothing to quell the rumors that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has been tapped.
He was one of six who were interviewed over the weekend, according to "two people with knowledge of Harris' selection process" who spoke to the Associated Press. The others were reportedly Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. — Newsweek
Bangladesh prime minister reportedly flees nation as anti-government protesters storm her residence
The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, resigned and reportedly fled the country on Monday after protesters stormed her official residence after weeks of deadly anti-government demonstrations in the South Asian nation.
Scenes of jubilation erupted on the streets as protesters celebrated the end of her 15 years in power by climbing on tanks and scaling an imposing statue of Hasina’s father, independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in Dhaka, attacking the head with an axe.
In a national address, Bangladesh’s army chief, Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman confirmed Hasina had resigned and said the military would form an interim government.
Addressing protesters, largely young Bangladeshis and students, he said: “Whatever demands you have we will fulfil and bring back peace to the nation, please help us in this, stay away from violence.”
“The military will not fire at anyone, the police will not fire at anyone, I have given orders,” he added.
Images showed flames billowing from vehicles near Hasina’s house, and protesters inside the building, smashing walls and looting its contents.
Earlier in the day, the military and police had attacked demonstrators rallying in the area, according to a journalist working for CNN in Dhaka. — CNN
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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This whole twisted knot covered with blood(Israel/Ukraine/Russia/mafia(s)---Middle East and beyond) certainly seems tricky, which is the understatement of what?, probably our whole lives and all the lives before us!?! Maybe why this is taking awhile(another understatement)! More than appreciate the cliff notes! God Bless!!!