The whole world (i.e., the USA) was stunned this week as a Chinese high-altitude balloon dared traverse the USA before being shot down in a stunning and brave military move by an air-to-air missile fired from an F-22 fighter jet over US waters in the Atlantic.
Bullet dodged?
Er, no. As Joe and Niall explain in this NewsReal, such balloons (Chinese, research, 'spy' or otherwise) traverse the US and elsewhere on a regular basis. What's different this time is that 'someone' overruled the Pentagon's initial assessment that this balloon posed no threat to US national security to instead make a REALLY big deal out of it...
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- Footage of F-22 shooting down Chinese research balloon, to whoops of American delight
- "That's my Air Force right there, buddy!"
- Up-close footage of balloon-missile 'impact'
- Pentagon media hack: "What if this thing contains bioweapons from Wuhan?"
- US MSM: "What You Need to Know About the Alleged Chinese Spy Balloon Shot Down by the US"
- Second Chinese balloon spotted over Colombia and Venezuela
- Turkish minister lashes out at US Ambassador for 'political interference'
- Hungarian minister lashes out at US Ambassador for 'political interference'
- Turkey and UAE 'ordered' by USA to cut trade with Russia
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- Dollar's demise: Central banks are hoarding gold, purchases at 55-year high
- Putin delivers speech commemorating 80th anniversary of Red Army victory at Stalingrad
- Multi-colored UFO 'buzzes Putin', spotted above Volgograd during president's speech warning West against direct war with Russia
- Senior British Tory says 'we' are in 'direct war' with Russia
- Boris Johnson flagrantly lies about 'Putin missile threat to London'
- German chancellor: 'No, Putin didn't threaten to fire a missile at me or Berlin'
- Irish govt arrests mass migration protest organizer
- Global warming still not happening, 'pause' now extends to 8 years and 5 months
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- Spectacular meteor fireball lights up Krasnoyarsk, southern Siberia
Reader Comments
The Pentagon D0D launched a counter attack to the Chinese Balloon [Link]
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Still, I don't think a helium balloon could get into the stratosphere so easy, but maybe that might be worth study?
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I mean the DoD just pissed away about more than $1 million for this show of "power" to all the people in the land that if you fly a balloon over the whole country while we sit idly by, we will eventually blow that effing balloon up cause we got the missiles to do this because our boys can shoot down a big ass bus like balloon 8 days of the week.
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Wow - what a pathetic situation this all is......speaks to the end of hegemony.....
So, I'm 12 minutes and 20 seconds into this video, and I reckon I'll watch the rest before I comment again, but I feel like......I mean I feel like.....I mean I feel like as a balloon lover, a lover of balloons.....I feel like I have been violated.
That don't sit well with me.
Bunch of effing dimwits.
Moreover, if intelligence was really worth a shit, they would have simply shot the balloon with some machine gun like bullets to cause pressure release within the balloon and then a steady descent in order to study the contents of said balloon....and what is was holding aloft?
so, like I said, and have said so many times - dimwits are abounding.
Fuck me...my country tis of thee.....is in the hand of dimwits and dimwits are all around - clueless hapless loser dimwits.
Blinking stupid.
I'm glad I'm ready for new times.
I myself identify as a Patriot and I play to win and I don't care about balloons after they have already traversed the whole land because I know by then it would have been better to let them go on their way, but I know there are dimwits in DC and I await the day when they are dismissed permanently.
Nonetheless, if I can get to Canada via dirigible I will assuming you give me your word you won't shoot me down on the way!
If balloons of harmful intent can cross all over Canada and then go to Montana on the way to North Carolina and then literally be about 10 miles or so away from me (how high did the balloon get? - maybe 12 miles high), then it just goes to show - North America is a land with dimwit elitist who need to learn a hard lesson about survival.
Most Americans don't/wont believe their arses were handed to them by a group of peasant Rice farmers armed with nothing but RPGs and AKs in Vietnam. I must digress, Now that was self satisfying. Actually something very similar in Afghanistan. Beaten by a group of cave dwelling warriors, But lets forgive the USA for losing in Afghanistan as No invader has ever got out of that country in one piece. But then again you shouldnt have been there in the first place. I actually feel a bit sorry for you guys. The system is too deeply ingrained and is set up to never let Joe Citizen get a leg up. That's the way its going to be until the whole shit show collapses or we all go up in an atomic flash. I sadly feel the latter rather than the former is in our not to distant future.
We never fought Vietnam to win. It was impossible without directly confronting China, which we could have done but chose not to.
One would think lessons would eventually be learned, but old farts (yourself excepted in my book based upon our discourse) seem to be full of ego and unable to learn. I reckon death beckons for them. For other old farts, maybe they will be helpful because wisdom is called for.
Good riddance to old ideas wrong - it is time for something better and patience wears thin and then old ideas die. Let them die. Old ideas of harm have no pathway other than the path of nowhere.
So, friend, I hope you are ready, and when I ride the train I'll be thinking about old farts who have wisdom because lately, they seem in short supply. That is why I am glad I have gotten to meet you even if only online, because not all old farts are married to their ego, but many are, and they seem to think war is the only solution - oh how wrong they are. I intend on proving this without doubt - one way or the other....and think about it, if I'm wrong, who will tell me my proof was incorrect?
Ken
Ha ha
I am not a bot
Ha ha
I should give credit, where credit is due, because this was not my idea - it was somebody who suggested it over at another place, and really, it must have been balloons made him fall on his ass on the bike for the sake of smelling up a little kid.
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Truly
ourthe country is in the hands of dimwits. The rest of the world already knows.[Link]
Had a friends healthy/thin/athletic 72 year old mother drop dead "suddenly" in Saturday. Quad shanked.
Buy yeah, that balloon man.... what a balloon eh?
A high percentage of my coworkers had a visit to a cardiologist, I know because each said it inadvertently to me individually. Each thinks only they have a problem and are not aware that they are not alone.
I mean if you try to harm something inviolate do you not realize that the harm will reflect back upon you with will fearsome?
Even though they are not family, they are people with lives and family. We only read/hear about the ones that have reached a media presence.
But many more unnamed. unheard voices are suffering everyday. babies, toddlers, children, teens, preteens, and adults.
All suffering from this travesty committed against humanity, for the most diabolical reason...Pure Unadulterated Greed. It is a disease, of the mind body and soul.
Take care of yourself and family in these troubled times.
Israel was never a democracy: So why is the West lamenting end of 'liberal' Israel?
Even before the new Israeli government was officially sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging, not only among Palestinians and other Middle Eastern governments, but also among...I recall on another sott.net article the supposition that old elitist will be replaced when better ideas contrary to their way of thinking get some resonance, and that made good sense to me.
So, I think this balloon incidence, a shame that it is, a dishonor upon america, and disrespect directed towards China, marks the turning when old elitist die the way they have lived. Good riddance all you old ones founded upon war and nothing but war for the sake of war being that is all you ever have known. Good riddance to you - your ideas need to die for the sake of those of us still around who care about our families and the families of others.
So, die a graceful death if you can, and on your death bed perhaps it would be advisable if you expressed good wishes for those who have to figure out how to fix the shit-hole you and your generation and a few prior have created for all of us who just want peace and harmony.
Take pride in the puzzle you have created and maybe in your next lifetime you will do better.
Wish well upon those of us trying to find solutions to all you have fucked up for no good reason.
You get what you deserve and there is no escaping Karma.
Some things are simple and some are not and some are a mystery, but if you cause harm be prepared for Justified Retribution.
It is on the way.
You can count on it.
There is some kind of great evil that exists to periodically exploit and murder humanity en masse. These purges require a kind of buy-in or acceptance from those culled for some reason I can't quite figure out. Soldiers, even if drafted, are still killing and being killed out of a certain degree of free will.
The only difference is Big Harma used a needle this time instead dropping bombs. The sheep lined up, often under terrible coercive threats, they still stuck out their arms... Doctors who knew better remained silent and often murdered patients themselves...
There are better ideas out there and stop crying.
For example, did you know that if you plant a seed it might grow into something to feed your family.......just because harm and war was all that many have known, and delicious tears of sadness this all created, doesn't mean it has to be this way forever and that seems to be the biggest flaw of those in the generation preceded me - they seem determined to be fateful in harm and war, but little do they know about better ideas, so get a clue for your own sake, but if that is beyond your ken, then get out of the way because better ideas, ideas with merit, been around a long time, are demanding attention now being there are some who want to depopulate us all because they evidently don't have a clue about what it means to love one another.
[Link] Monty Python Communist Quiz sketch
A satire on the intellectual ability of those in power to lead.
Forget about the special prosecutor he promised, forget about the False Flags he went along with, forget about the Red Flag Gun Laws ‘get the weapons first then due process’, forget about the Operation Warp Speed, forget his past rape et al charges, forget about Epstein. Forget it all into the memory hole of BS.
i think the world has been fooled again, people ought to wonder about not what the media is telling us, but about " who " is telling us.
there is an article published by the Guardian three years ago that outlines the pentagon's plans to mass test high altitude surveillance balloons. (i don't have the link, sorry)
what happens to balloons in REALLY cold air - this guy tells us [Link]
the US DoD will make sure it's not found / shown, or they'll show bs wreckage like they did at the pentagon on nine one one.
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You know in the stratosphere, the upper atmosphere, all sorts of weird shit is happening, but whether it is weird or "man-made" remains to be determined I reckon. As evidence of that, consider this image above the Antartica just now.
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[Link] - From earth.nullschool.net
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Said with both humor and seriousness.
High Regards to life ,
Ken
really i can not be 100% accurate as i don't have the remains of the balloon to analyze but i can sort through all the little pieces of the puzzle including visual, technical, social, political, psychological - and observe who says what, why, where etc... and i also listen to my intuition - then mentally spread this mess out onto the kitchen table and see what fits where.
humour set aside you're absolutely correct about "all sort of weird shit happening" up there and down here and separating the shit from the shinola isn't easy.
a buddy of mine sent me an email with a photo from the Guardian paper written three years ago; it mentioned high altitude surveillance balloons that were being tested by the DoD, and we know the WEFfers are keen on gathering every bit of intel from inside and outside of a person's body.
another thing people have perhaps forgotten about is the number of times the msm showed aircraft smashing into the buildings on 911.
what is the media doing here with the balloons? same thing ? are they programming people with visual, audible, electronic, and psychological stimulation over and over and over so that the sheep believe without question ?
thank you for that interesting link; zooming in and rotating the globe really gives a neat perspective on wind currents, wow !
looking at that i imagined for several moments that the link wasn't showing wind movement but rather people's conscious perceptions of present reality - i wondered if the number of people, following whatever "suggestions - eg news, education, social network, various dogma, etc " as presented to them by the "programmers of society - gov't, corp's, church, msm, tech ", would create a similar graphical representation illustrating flow density, direction, and velocity - the majority of wind currents appeared to have massive flow, following the same path. hmmm.
cheers Ken, hoping you and family are healthy and warm !
Now let me tell you something real. I used to post comments at the " Consortium News " website, but I gave up on that a couple years ago. But, just presently, the headline there is Roger Waters speaking to a group of delegates and it touched me, so I figured - hells-bells I'll post again.....but sadly, apparently my posts are not allowed there....that is the choice of the editors I reckon, but I refuse to be a 2nd class citizen, so I took the hard copy books they sent me after a non-trivial contribution financially that I made.....and they are burning presently in the fire pit. Not out of spite, but rather out of indignation for anybody tries to tell me I got nothing to contribute.
If you don't want me to contribute I think, why should I want any books you sent me after a contribution made fairly.
I think the whole balloon incident is a big huge pathetic joke on all of america, but just now folks in Turkey are suffering by supposedly an act of God.
Moreover, I'm gonna go back and check the data from previous years regarding the wind flows up in the stratosphere around the Antartica place (the "south" pole), and see if this is a repeating phenomena or just something different happening now.
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Yours Truly,
Ken
ps - come to think of it, just lately they only started advertising to me their articles, and to think, they would do that and still not let me comment. Eff them and let the books or Robert Parry burn for all I care - nothing new to learn there I reckon.
i feel it's time for a break, to step back from commenting; the super cold weather from the previous weeks has passed so i'll spend more time outdoors to recharge my batteries.
that shinola thing, nah nothing hidden there, was just a comparison and a phrase my dad used to use; i have eluded to things in other comments or replies to people - usually to ignite curiosity and nothing unfriendly.
however, i understand about burning those books - have done it too, and have, after a short period, noticed the light from the fire shone on some new corner inside my ol knoggin; funny how introspection works, eh. 😊
cheers !
Your friend,
Ken
thank you Ken, i appreciate the opportunity to converse with like minded people such as yourself; i don't know about wise, though my wife occasionally comments i'm a wise-ass.
cheers friend !
In the history of time, the US is a child, only digging its toes into diplomacy, and yet they think they have it branded to the world as 'Freedom and Democracy'
And is nothing more than corporate geed morphed into fascism at this time.
China: We know.
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Where the buffalo once roamed...
some buffoons found a place.
They called the place DC and
twas that place where the great minds of the time
in their minds only
got together and decided....
it was time to shoot down a balloon...
traversed the whole country already....it happened yesterday or maybe the day before....
The buffoons thought shooting down a balloon would endear them to the citizens....
little did the buffoons know that the swamp was fixing to be in a storm....
wonder what happens next and
one can wonder will
the delaware dimwit bring the country to its knees.
Maybe some praying is in order.
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BK, Poem of the Day, 2623 1208 started and about 1212 finished - a 4-minute poem if there ever was one..
Wish we'd seen that earlier!
What a maroon.
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imo at some point, sooner or later, any positive information source becomes compromised by whatever or whomever; as above so below.
cheers parz !
you ever read anything written by Matthew Delooze ?
hitaccident like it was yesterday and my gut feeling about the incident, but it didn't know why - so i read this paper and thought hmmm that's an interesting take.this was the other site that has some of the papers he wrote, [Link]
i then read the three books he wrote (you can find on amazon); although he's repetitive he has wit and a style that is all his - he makes no apologies for his grammar and spelling which i thought was interesting as many reviews, unfortunately, dismiss the significance of the material because of reader inflated ego (ie grammar nazi's). overall i have to give him credit for research, interest, material content, and character.
cheers
bookmarked and thanks.
Ken
I particularly appreciated when you said this: Hey - check out this postmodernist conversation here on Substack which seems to be the place all good authors got something to share are gravitating towards - the beauty of the place as even Seymour Hersh acknowledged is it is where folks go to get good info....and better yet, when those participating comment and the author of the article participates in the conversation - this is improvement in communication and if they try to "monetize" it, it will lose its value.
meme attack of the agenda - Rays the alarm (substack.com)
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I know this.....but I"m going to type it one letter off - see if you can figure it out....
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Here is a clue if you care: just one letter off on the keyboard....in one direction excepting typos and such...
i think i may have gone temporarily blind decoding that but yeah and typos weren't a big deal.
if i read between the lines on the meme page i think i understand the gist of your message:
" we must always be willing to truly consider evidence that contradicts our beliefs, and admit the possibility that we may be wrong ".
awesome Ken ! thanks for sharing !!!
I'm glad you interpreted that because I got halfway through and got sort of disgusted with my own typos and then I forgot what I typed one finger off.....typos and all.
For the sake of accuracy and whatnot.
I should add, that I was the one who typed it, but when I knew there were 4 letters/terms/textdigits in the first word, but the translation had but two letters....well, it suggested to me I should go back and try again, but in general I agree with the translation life already made....but again, for the sake of accuracy of a stickler when it comes to translation.
Ken
I don't feel like figuring it out just now, but the evidence is in and...
WE KNOW
thank you for sharing that link !
More Brain Salad Surgery below for those who want truth more than sedation. 🧠
UHM – Naming the Venetian Black Nobility
behind the Rolling Stones [Link]
12. To introduce new cults and continue to boost those already functioning which include rock music gangsters such as the Rolling Stones (a gangster group much favored by European Black Nobility), and all of the Tavistock-created rock groups which began with the Beatles.
It’s not mentioned here, but the Rolling Stones were created from the same source and with the same purpose. Beatles were supposed to be the “good guys” while the Rolling Stones were the “bad guys”. Also, Rolling Stones were experts in creating repeating “riffs”, meaning a musical phrase that’s looping over and over again (like in “Satisfaction”, “Jumping Jack Flash” etc.). These repeating riffs trigger the mind and make one receptive to whatever sub-message you want to transfer into the minds of the listener. In the case of the Rolling Stones we have satanic messages in their lyrics, and they have repeated that over and over through the years (a more recent example is the ”Bridge To Babylon” album)
“The Rolling Stones were mastered by a Order of Malta member by the name of Prince Rupert Loewenstein who sponsored the ‘ Sympathy for the Devil ‘ track back in 1968. This Prince was also a member of the very powerful Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George which is close in power to the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, both being higher than the Order of Malta. His son is Prince Konrad Loewenstein who is a high level Byzantine Rite priest based at the Roman Catholic church of Chiesa di San Simon Piccolo in Venice. You will notice the House of Loewenstein also has connections to the House of Rosenberg which is an offshoot scion from the powerful House of Orsini. Let’s not forget how I gave you all the connection of the powerful Borghese based house of Aldobrandini who are named after the highly occultic Aldebaran closely connected with the important Pleiades. Now go and listen to the Rolling Stones track called ‘ 2000 Thousand Light Years from Home ‘ from the ‘ Satanic Majesties Request ‘ written by Rupert’s boy Mick Jagger. This song is all about the Aldebaran .“
The Manufactured Invention of the Beatles, Stones, Grateful Dead and the Birth of Rock n’ Roll by the Tavistock Institute; A Jesuit Corporation. [Link]
“It was called the “British Invasion” . The 60’s began a time of “question authority”, grow your hair long, hippies and flower power and morphed in with the Anti War gang of “hell no we won’t go!”All by design, all by planning to mind control and manipulate what the Baby Boomer (Doomer) generation thought, the language and slang used and the behavior control of the masses.Yes, it is interesting to note that the Tavistock Institute of Human Relation, as well as, it’s child organization: The Stanford Research Institute, developed The Grateful Dead, among other things.You can see that Alan Trist, a social engineer for the Tavistock Institute, became the shadow manager of the Dead. His father, Eric Trist, was one of the principle founding members of Tavistock.It was part of the development of a dynamic psychological warfare model to be used on foreign and domestic populations, modeled, ultimately, on the Lord Gordon Riots in London and the Jacobin Terror of the French Revolution. The purpose was to mobilize mobs in ideological opposition to the state, as a mass destabilization operation.”
Namaste’
Yaaaasss, the beat goes on.
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No wonder I was more into Donny n Heintje than the stones n the 🐞🐞🐞
So, it is nice to be in wave circular seeming like the ride of a lifetime, but we all know not all waves are predictable.
All rides come to an end and time moves on endlessly...
like water flowing over a waterfall
SOTT Focus:MindMatters: The Emperor Has New Clothes: Wokism Is a Mask of Sanity
As we continue to observe the ever-encroaching signs of 'woke' thinking, ideology, language, behavior, and political policy in western society we find it necessary to take a step back and ask...Typically, after the coins were acquired, we went to the 5 and dime store to buy some candy!
Ken
Now... 9/11.... there was an elaborate mind phuck!
So, I took it when that dentist pulled the teeth out of my mouth, the baby ones, and I made sure I got them in my possession because even at a young age I knew - if you you don't have the goods, you don't get the coins under the pillow......
So, after the coins were delivered and I'm sure I slept through it all, in the morning the coins were there and then I went and found my good pal - Cricket was his name - and he and I walked a few blocks to the 5 & dime. There were two very old, very, very old kind ladies who worked there and they loved when we came into the store - I suspect they trusted me, but they kept a close eye on Cricket. Anyhow, he and I would go purchase some candy and maybe other things fair and square using the coins the tooth fairy traded me for my teeth - and all I can say is it was an adventure every time!
Ken
it is good I think for kids to feel pain sometimes, and so lesson learned.
And, I'm not kidding, I was in his office the day Elvis died. August 16 I think it was - 1977.
I don't mind a bit of pain if the Tooth Fairy has an award waiting for me.....
I've got good teeth as well - all intact as far as I know - besides the "wisdom teeth" got taken out.....
A couple weeks ago the dentist wanted to do some "exploratory digging" in one of my teeth, and after thinking about, I said - no thanks.
You got good dentist and ones not so talented - I don't mind my dentist, but I didn't understand why instead of figuring out the "root cause" he just wanted to dig out an old cavity to see what he would find....and I ain't got no dental insurance anymore, so after giving it some consideration, I decided - my dentist must not be an engineer knows how to solve problems - rather.....he just is in it for the mullah I reckon....
If the tooth starts hurting again, I might change my tune, but I didn't think his plan of action made any sense, and being I pay for the services I cancelled the appointment, and probably need to find a better dentist.
Best to you - times are getting real serious - do you sense it?
I do.
Ken
ps - here....have a Heath bar...
A good dentist is a golden thing. Smart choice to not have him play around in your mouth. It might be a better choice later to find a new one.
Serious? That's still over the horizon. I don't think we've seen serious yet. There's definitely sumpthin' in the wind as my ole friend Snuffy Smith would say.
You take care too Ken! A beer toast to you and yours!
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