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Robin Whittle's avatar

The smaller unidentified flying object shot down by an F-22 armed with a sidewinder missile was almost certainly a small mylar balloon launched by that that august recreational institution, the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1158048921/pico-balloon-k9yo and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11764757/White-House-admits-three-shot-UFOs-STAY-mystery-debris-never-recovered.html . A few days later, the military gave up the search for the remains of this due to the vast area to be searched being subject to snowfall.

The total cost of the balloon was apparently less than $100. Its payload totaled 16.4 grams and consisted of paper-thin solar cells driving a computer board with GPS receiver and a transmitter which occasionally - subject to sufficient sunlight - transmitted its location to a global amateur network of tracking stations.

It has been argued (I forget where) that this balloon security flap, or at least the way it was extended after the big Chinese balloon was downed, was deliberate distraction by the US government to draw attention away from the much more serious matter of Seymour Hersch's story in which he reports an informant's revelations that the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage was the work of the US government, without congressional approval, in cahoots with the UK and Norway - and with Germany surely knowing all this, probably before the bombs were detonated.

It was later revealed that the US military tracked the big Chinese balloon from the time it was launched from Hainan Island, which is not surprising or undesirable: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/14/china-spy-balloon-path-tracking-weather/ . "With propellers and a rudder, it has the capability to be maneuvered." Yet this was not made known when the balloon first became such a prominent news item - I mean, distraction. Why then didn't they shoot it down before it passed over Alaska on 28th January?

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T Reid's avatar

Good comment. Agreed. The smaller "car sized" objects were not consistent with Chinese balloons that have been reported on.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

Does not generate confidence does it?

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DeniCam's avatar

No it doesn't. I have a lot of years to look back upon and it hurts to watch this. But I am hopeful; and I pray and I vote. Take care.

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DeniCam's avatar

Your theory holds a lot of water as well. We have come to the point that we view anything, anything... coming from the Biden administration with cynicism and suspicion. I know a lot of us view anything that comes from the government as suspect; regardless of what party holds the WH, and we are justified. Nonetheless, at this point in my life (retirement age) it makes me sick and angry that we have been forced to this position. We are/were the most exceptional country on earth; some bright shining star for the rest of the world. And look at us today.

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Tucker Chisholm's avatar

The American Peoples regime has been eroded and replaced by a Hostile Regime that wants us to be weak, stupid, and divided, for much easier enslavement. Its not the american government its a globalist agenda. We’re just the biggest battleground

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DeniCam's avatar

You're absolutely right; and THIS particular Administration is ALL IN for this crap. We shall see what happens in the 24 election. Assuming it isn't stolen as well. Take care.

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Sherry 1's avatar

I agree with you. Some of the biggest clues that this Admin is aiming for the annihilation of Capitalism and Nationalism in order to be sucked into the WEF/Klaus Schwab ‘Great Reset’ is Biden’s oft repeated slogan to Build Back Better and to give power over America’s public health to the World Health Organization. They did such a bang-up job last time.

I find it hard to believe that 194 countries, including mine, Canada, are seriously considering handing total decision making control over us in the event of another PLANdemic to the idiot Tedros of the WHO. All orders regarding vaccine mandates, lockdowns, quarantines, masks, travel restrictions through vaccine passports and Digital ID’s and any other little tool they devise will be commanded by the WHO. The WHO is working with American Constitutional lawyers right now to ensure a ‘go-around clause’ that takes the Senate rule of 65 votes to approve an international treaty out of play. Like they did with the Iran deal under Obama. This deal with the WHO is the first move to One Word Government. I do not want an un-elected body of twits having anything to do with my personal healthcare and I believe no-one else does, either. They are diverting our attention with fluff news and spy balloons. This move to the WHO is dangerous and it must be stopped.

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DeniCam's avatar

You're over the target my Friend. The thing is, we don't have to play. The push back will be horrendous.

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Sherry 1's avatar

...mean One WORLD Government.

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Madjack's avatar

Great point. Nordstrom story much more important, and completely ignored.

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Gray's avatar

You mean Nord Stream. You had me worried - I thought I was losing Nordstrom...

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Scuba Cat's avatar

Darn autocorrect

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Jeff Cunningham's avatar

I hear you. Sometimes it's slow. I'll proofread something I've written and hit "Post" then see that what got posted has significantly different words. Very maddening.

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Gray's avatar

Just giving you a hard time. No worries. Everyone knew what you meant.

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Jeff Cunningham's avatar

This one wasn't my typo (lucked out - Madjack was the lucky wiener this time). I was trying to come up with something funny to say also but failed.

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Gray's avatar

Oh - sorry - too lazy to go back and look. 🥴

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Jeff Cunningham's avatar

No worries. It could easily have been. I have my share.

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Carol Frazier's avatar

As I’ve been saying for weeks - it’s all Kabuki Theater.

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Jeff Cunningham's avatar

Great analogy.

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Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

Isn’t it fascinating that Joey is all in on stomping out global warming yet is presiding over events like East Palestine and the blowing up of the pipeline which are adding huge amounts of carbon to the atmosphere. Why it’s almost like they are lying to us about their carbon commitments also.

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Shirley G's avatar

I was just wondering if the balloon was flying over the Ukraine, would he have taken 6 days to shoot it down? Their airspace and borders are sacrosanct.

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sc_out's avatar

Add off-shore wind farm killing off the whales.

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Anthony Davidson's avatar

You’re referring to the flying whales I assume

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Robin Whittle's avatar

Indeed. There are a few other things the US government (or whoever really controls them) are trying to distract attention from too. Firstly, that they led the global COVID-19 pandemic response by prioritizing profitable quasi-vaccines, despite them being untested and much less safe and effective than promised, when proper vitamin D3 supplementation would have quelled the pandemic and ensured that few people died: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ - especially with the growing number of inexpensive, safe, effective early treatments, which remain banned and/or disparaged to this day: https://c19early.org .

The mRNA and adenovirus vector gene therapy quasi-vaccines and the likewise expensive (profitable) and not very effective of safe monoclonal antibodies, Remdesivir, Molnupririvir etc. are part of the cluster of crimes against humanity which makes the pandemic response, if viewed as one, "the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust", as was stated by UK MP Andrew Tridgen. This is not an insult to those who died in the Holocaust, or their ethnic groups. He didn't state that the crime was of the same nature. The UN definition of "crime against humanity" does not require that there be specific intent. I compared the death tolls: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/the-covid-19-pandemic-response-killed .

Probably the most pressing spear of potential popular attention they are attempting to distract from is the evidence, such as presented by PhD epidemiologist Andrew Huff and https://usrtk.org/category/covid-19-origins/, that the US government funded gain of function research in the University of North Carolina and the Wuhan Institute of Virology which lead to the creation of a human-adapted SARS-like virus which escaped confinement in mid- to late-2019 as what we now know as SARS-CoV-2. Even without a knowledge of the biochemistry we can reliably determine this to be the case, since there is a complete lack of evidence for a zoonotic origin of this virus, while this was rapidly found and fully documented for SARS, which really did originate from zoonotic transfer . Furthermore, the logic of Sherlock Holmes' "dog which does not bark" sleuthing (https://brieflywriting.com/2012/07/25/the-dog-that-didnt-bark-what-we-can-learn-from-sir-arthur-conan-doyle-about-using-the-absence-of-expected-facts/) applies to this supposed mystery of the origins of COVID-19, with Check-Mate! force and clarity: Both the Chinese and the US governments are hiding information about this research and doing nothing to seriously pursue the numerous lines of evidence for them both being responsible for engineering the virus.

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Carol Frazier's avatar

Almost?

🤪😜🤪😜

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