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The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.
That’s where we come in.
In the Badlands News Brief, the Badlands Media team hand picks news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community.
Items feature original commentary from members of our growing team of citizen journalists. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work.
Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of the board of both Fox Corp. and News Corp., the companies said Thursday. The move will be official in November.
Murdoch, 92, will be appointed chairman emeritus of each company. Lachlan Murdoch, one of his sons, will become sole chairman of News Corp. and will continue as Fox Corp.’s executive chair and CEO.
“Our companies are in robust health, as am I,” the elder Murdoch said in a note to employees. “We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years – I certainly am, and plan to be here to participate in them. But the battle for the freedom of speech and, ultimately, the freedom of thought, has never been more intense.”
Murdoch is stepping away from the boards after a tumultuous year at Fox’s TV network, soon after the company agreed to pay a $787.5 million settlement in the Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit over false claims that the company’s machines swayed the 2020 election between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Murdoch’s continued role behind the scenes at Fox News was highlighted in the months leading up the Dominion settlement. In his deposition for the lawsuit, Murdoch said some of the network’s anchors parroted false claims in the months following the election. — NBC News
Our Take: “What this means for Fox, in particular: Fox News, remains to be seen.
A change at the top of Fox’s totem pole is something to take note of, especially given the timing, with impending trials involving President Trump and the 2020 Election, which of course Fox News called early for Biden before going on to refute any claims that the 2020 Election was, in fact, fraudulent … so much so, that they were willing to let go of the top-rated anchor in all of news (Tucker Carlson) as part of a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.
In a world of ever-changing narratives and narrative control, a change at the top of one of the world’s biggest news networks is something to keep an eye on.” —
The dam is breaking on unified Western support for Ukraine, and the timing couldn't be worse for Zelensky, given tomorrow he's expected to meet with President Biden at the White House. On Wednesday evening there is monumental news out of Poland which could potentially change the entire course of the war.
"Poland will no longer arm Ukraine to focus on its own defense," Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced just hours after Warsaw summoned Ukraine's ambassador related to a fresh war of words and spat over blocked grain, according to the AFP. Warsaw has throughout more than a year-and-a-half of the Ukraine-Russia war been Kiev's staunchest and most outspoken supporter.
Will this massive and hugely significant about-face mark the beginning of the end? Are peace negotiations and ceding of territory in the Donbas inevitable at this point?
Within the last 48 hours relations between Poland and Ukraine quickly spiraled to their lowest point since the Russian invasion, and it is directly related to Warsaw leading a handful of EU countries to extend a grain export ban on Ukraine, amid continuing anger and outrage from Polish farmers who are suffering due to their country being flooded with cheap Ukrainian wheat. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “It's impossible to see the timing of the turn on Ukraine by the Globalist West as coincidental in light of Zelensky's appearance at the White House on Thursday.
Ukraine is now being shunned by its staunchest supporter within the EU bloc, as Poland has not only subtly threatened Belarus and Russia throughout the year, but pledged the most steadfast support for Ukrainian refugees and exports (particularly grains,) throughout the engineered conflict.
That said, parliamentary elections are just a few weeks away in Poland, and a nationalist turn is already being effected, with rising leaders referring to Ukraine as a 'drowning man' and Poland as the de facto and weary life raft.
Polish citizens grew tired of the influx of migrants a year ago; and now, Polish farmers are seeing their own incomes threatened due to competition with cheap Ukrainian wheat.
And this a day after the NYT did an about-face on its own pro-Ukraine propaganda.
The Deep State call went out: strings cut. Act accordingly.” —
The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the privacy and security of U.K. residents, but internet users worldwide.
A clause of the bill allows Ofcom, the British telecom regulator, to serve a notice requiring tech companies to scan their users–all of them–for child abuse content. This would affect even messages and files that are end-to-end encrypted to protect user privacy. As enacted, the OSB allows the government to force companies to build technology that can scan regardless of encryption–in other words, build a backdoor.
It’s a basic human right to have a private conversation. This right is even more important for the most vulnerable people. If the U.K. uses its new powers to scan people’s data, lawmakers will damage the security people need to protect themselves from harassers, data thieves, authoritarian governments, and others. Paradoxically, U.K. lawmakers have created these new risks in the name of online safety. — Activist Post
Our Take: “The long-awaited Online Safety Bill that the British Government has been drooling over will soon become law. The bill sets “tougher standards” for social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok.
The U.K. Parliament claims that the bill will make the U.K. ‘the safest place’ in the world to be online. To translate—because I’ve become quite fluent in globalist b-ll sh-t—what they meant to convey is that the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users, it will also establish a precedent for other nations that have been infected by the Western hegemon.
Of course, it's all happening as Russell Brand is being targeted by State Media and the British Government. They even tried to get Rumble to deplatform Brand, which they have emphatically rejected. It also comes as our censorship regime here at home is ramping up its efforts in the lead up to the 2024 election season. This is only the beginning.” —
With Zelensky in Capitol Hill, and with Ukraine aid hanging in the balance, Kevin McCarthy has failed for a second time to advance a bill funding the Defense Department, which keeps the government on a path toward a shutdown on Oct. 1. This tweet by Mitch McConnell captures the essence of the raging disagreement and debate...
Politico has reported secret, urgent cross-aisle talks as follows: "Small groups of centrist Democrats are holding secret talks with several of McCarthy’s close GOP allies about a last-ditch deal to fund the government, according to more than a half-dozen people familiar with the discussions."
A small group of conservative holdouts are harping on the key controversial issues of Ukraine and the US border:
Generally, the bipartisan group is focusing on two major ideas: a procedural maneuver to force a vote on a compromise spending plan — or somehow crafting a bill so popular that McCarthy can pass it and survive any challenge from the right. That bill would likely be a bipartisan short-term patch with some disaster money, Ukraine aid and small-scale border policies, according to multiple people briefed on the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity.
On the prospect of $24 billion for Ukraine, some vocal Republicans have grown bolder in highlighting Ukraine's problems, urging that America must first fix its own pressing crises at home. McCarthy is also trying to appease the hardliners by appealing to Biden. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “The ongoing Kabuki theater in the House this week is fun when you consider the fact that Kevin McCarthy was literally Donald Trump's pick for Speaker and that Matt Gaetz and the Freedom Caucus are his de facto representation.
McCarthy vs. Gaetz is about drawing the eye of the Collective Mind onto the 'process' Congressional deal-making has become in the modern era.
While McCarthy continues to make public statements in favor of sovereign, America First rhetoric and philosophy, Gaetz and company are holding his feet to the Narrative fire by refusing to budge; they hold to the stance that any aid to a Nazi Proxy State is contrary to the will of the American people, and said people are going to see the Uniparty Establishment work to circumvent the Freedom Caucus in order to come to a bipartisan agreement on just how strongly to endorse said Nazis.
OR ... McCarthy is granted Narrative Shielding by Gaetz, allowing him to actually start forwarding America First policy.
Read another way, perhaps the most magical bit of Narrative Convergence to date occurred over the course of the last 24 hours, with the following Macros merging in front of the Collective Mind with startling clarity:
A) Congress tearing itself apart, partly over the continued right to fund a Proxy War in Ukraine with taxpayer dollars.
B) Said Proxy State escalating rhetoric against the Globalist West over its failure to support them MORE.
C) The leader of said Proxy state asking Trump about his peace plan on the doorstep of his meeting with Biden, who ostensibly sits in the seat that could actually bring such a plan to fruition ... if he wasn't a patriot-controlled awakening puppet.
General Motors said Wednesday it idled a manufacturing plant in Kansas, and laid off almost all of the approximately 2,000 people working there.
The automaker said in its announcement that there is no work available for most of the people at the Fairfax assembly plant because workers at another GM facility went on strike last Friday.
Additionally, the company said, it cannot provide supplemental unemployment benefits "due to the specific circumstances of this situation."
Also Wednesday, Stellantis, the maker of Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles, said it is laying off 68 workers in Ohio, and another 300 layoffs in Indiana could soon follow.
The automaker said it was laying off employees at its Toledo machining plant in Perrysburg, Ohio, because of "storage constraints." It said it expects to do the same at its transmission and casting facilities in Kokomo, Indiana.
The United Auto Workers union went on strike Friday after its previous contract with Stellantis, Ford and GM expired. Some 12,700 workers walked off the job.
The layoffs are another sign that both sides are digging in as the first week of the strike soon comes to a close. — NBC News
The Supreme Court may take steps to roll back the administrative state in its approaching term that begins next month, according to lawyers who frequently appear before the nation’s highest court.
The lawyers were appearing at a Sept. 20 event hosted by The Heritage Foundation think tank.
Attorney Paul Clement of the law firm of Clement and Murphy in Washington participated. Mr. Clement was U.S. solicitor general under President George W. Bush from July 2004 to June 2008.
Also participating was attorney Lisa Blatt, a partner at the law firm of Williams and Connolly in Washington.
The court agreed on June 30 to hear Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) v. Jarkesy (court file 22-859) at some point in the upcoming term.
The SEC, an independent federal agency, enforces federal securities laws administratively or by filing civil actions in court.
George Jarkesy and his advisory firm, Patriot28, were sued in federal court in the District of Columbia in 2013 for infringing securities laws in managing two hedge funds. Mr. Jarkesy countersued, arguing that the structure of the commission ran afoul of the U.S. Constitution.
The lower court found for the SEC, which continued the proceedings and assigned the case to an administrative law judge who confirmed the violations. The SEC reviewed and ratified the decision and ordered the parties to pay $300,000 in civil penalties.
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit found that the two levels of removal protections applying to administrative law judges unconstitutionally shielded them from presidential oversight. The court also held that SEC proceedings infringed the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial and that Congress had unconstitutionally delegated its lawmaking powers to the commission, according to a Ballotpedia summary. — The Epoch Times
We hope you enjoyed this brief look back at the major news items you might have missed in this ever-escalating and ever-accelerating news cycle as the Information War continues to rage on around us.
The Badlands Media team will continue to combine our cognitive powers in order to slow things down and find the signal amidst the noise as this series expands.
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On Fox's settlement with Dominion: both are largely owned by the same company, I believe it is Blackrock. Murdoch owns stock in both companies and in Blackrock. so the settlement was merely taking money from one pocket and putting it into another pocket and getting rid of Tucker Carlson.
No surprises on Poland no longer arming Ukraine. Poland has realized, although it may have taken them a long tome to wake up, that Ukraine is a cesspool where Poand too would sink if they did not get out. Wait until the world learns of the money laundering with kick backs to the "big guy". the child trafficking Adrenochrome harvesting, and the bio-labs in the portion of Ukraine called Chy-na!
The reason Mitch McConnell was "proud" to welcome Zelenskyy to D.C. is that Mitch gets laundered money from Ukraine-you tax money, laundered by Ukraine and some sent back to dirty Mitch!
We are still 3 months away from 2024 and the acceleration of exposures in the corrupt world cabal and it’s minions, primarily in the west, is increasingly awakening the people in multiple countries that their individual freedoms are at stake if the 2030 agenda is allowed to proceed. Africa is moving rapidly into the light, the corruption revelations in the US are moving up the chain to the next level and the awareness of what actually happened with Covid and the election increases, and as the technology controls being put in place to fully enslave the population are now in almost full light! The people finally are ‘getting’ that we are not wanted except to serve our masters. God bless these truth-tellers.😢😢
On Fox's settlement with Dominion: both are largely owned by the same company, I believe it is Blackrock. Murdoch owns stock in both companies and in Blackrock. so the settlement was merely taking money from one pocket and putting it into another pocket and getting rid of Tucker Carlson.
No surprises on Poland no longer arming Ukraine. Poland has realized, although it may have taken them a long tome to wake up, that Ukraine is a cesspool where Poand too would sink if they did not get out. Wait until the world learns of the money laundering with kick backs to the "big guy". the child trafficking Adrenochrome harvesting, and the bio-labs in the portion of Ukraine called Chy-na!
The reason Mitch McConnell was "proud" to welcome Zelenskyy to D.C. is that Mitch gets laundered money from Ukraine-you tax money, laundered by Ukraine and some sent back to dirty Mitch!
We are still 3 months away from 2024 and the acceleration of exposures in the corrupt world cabal and it’s minions, primarily in the west, is increasingly awakening the people in multiple countries that their individual freedoms are at stake if the 2030 agenda is allowed to proceed. Africa is moving rapidly into the light, the corruption revelations in the US are moving up the chain to the next level and the awareness of what actually happened with Covid and the election increases, and as the technology controls being put in place to fully enslave the population are now in almost full light! The people finally are ‘getting’ that we are not wanted except to serve our masters. God bless these truth-tellers.😢😢