According to the White house, the economy is entering a short-lived, controllable period of temporary inflation. However, everyone is employed, the stock market is soaring, and a “new American century” is starting under the bright military leadership of President Biden. Russia is going to collapse any day now, as the Ukraine war is ending. And China’s electronic industry has been set back 100 years or more.
According to the American mainstream news media, things appear to be worse than they really are. The stock market is climbing. The GDP of America is growing. People have tons of disposable money to watch Hollywood movies, and while there are some rumblings of discontent, it’s really overblown. Inflation isn’t really that bad.
According to American bloggers, a civil war is on the horizon. Prepper sites are all the rage and a nuclear war is a real concern. Inflation is far worse than what is reported. President Biden has dementia, and the government is run behind the scenes by a cabal of neocons.
According to both Russia and China, the world is in a state of change. The uni-polar global governance (led by the USA) is ending. The Untied States is collapsing, and the rest of the world needs to step up and try to manage the collapse of the United States so that only the West hurts itself.
I am going to “throw in my two cents”. It’s only my opinion as an American living OUTSIDE the USA, peering through the veil.
According to myself, it appears that the United States is unraveling. It appears that Strauss and Howe’s “Fourth Turning” is really manifesting and coming true right on schedule. It appears that the CIA remote viewing of 2025 (back in 2008) and reported in the Deagal Report, is right spot on , and on target.
Typically, for the last 100 years, the United States has bounced back and forth from one extreme to the other, but lately the period of bounce has been accelerated. The blatant store robberies, the in-you-face murders, the hate-hate-hate narrative in most social media, and the suppression of voices of all types are signs of a collapse of society. Car jackings. Closed malls and main-street store-fronts. Police activity and inactivity. It’s all worrisome symptoms.
I can only conclude…
- The USA government functions on a trivial level. It appears to work, but it’s completely broken.
- Society has collapsed, people realize this, but do not realize the extent of it.
- The military as powerful as it appears, is not up for the many conflicts that President Biden is initiating.
- Most Americans are pessimistic of the future, and they have good reason to be concerned.
What can be done?
It’s not my place any longer. But I would advise that everyone let the scenarios fester, and allow the old to rot and decay. Then allow a new, in what ever form is best for the participants, to grow and nurture for the good of all Americans, as well as for the good of the world.
But that’s just my opinion.
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Mini Meatball and Vegetable Soup
This soup is hearty and delicious. Mixed vegetables and mini beef meatballs make for a perfect casual dinner.
Cook’s Tip: Cooking times are for fresh or thoroughly thawed ground beef. Ground beef should be cooked to an internal temperature of 160 degrees F. Color is not a reliable indicator of ground beef doneness.
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef (80% to 85% lean)
- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can Italian-style diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 (14 to 14 1/2 ounce) can ready-to-serve beef broth
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup Italian-style dry bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoons water
- 3 cups frozen vegetable blend (such as green beans, corn and peas)
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Combine tomatoes, broth and 1/2 cup water in large saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile combine ground beef, bread crumbs and 2 tablespoons water in medium bowl, mixing lightly but thoroughly. Shape into 48 small meatballs.
- Add meatballs and vegetables to broth mixture; bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 5 to 7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, as desired.
Yield: 4 servings
The World of the Wild (and Not-so-Wild) West: A Paintings by Morgan Weistling
Morgan Weistling is an American painter who paints the everyday life and characters of the Wild West. An accomplished painter, Weistling is skilled in both paint and printmaking, creating truly inspiring paintings of beauty and danger. Weistling’s paintings have won multiple awards and been purchased for permanent display by major museums.
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Artist Imitators Thrive in China’s Famous Oil Painting Village
An artist working on his painting outside a gallery at the artist village on June 12, 2014 in Shenzhen, China. The Dafen Artist Village in Guangdong province, China, is home to thousands of artists who reproduce some of the world’s most iconic paintings as well as create their own works. The village, on the outskirts of Shenzhen, is becoming a major center for original Chinese art.
Chicken Soup Mexicana
All of your favorite Mexican flavors mix together in this soup while the canola oil and avocado supply healthy fats. ¡Muy delicioso!
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon canola oil 15 mL
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 medium onion, sliced (about 1 cup/250 mL)
- 4 celery stalks, sliced (about 1 cup/250 mL)
- 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper 0.5 mL
- 2 teaspoons cumin 10 mL
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes 5 mL
- 8 cups low-sodium chicken stock 2 L
- 2/3 cup lentils 150 mL
- 1 (19 ounce) can tomatoes, chopped 540 mL
- 3 medium carrots, thinly sliced (about 1 cup/ 250 mL)
- 2 pounds cooked chicken, cubed 1 kg (about 7 cups/1.75 L)
- 1 small zucchini, thinly sliced (about 1/3 cup/75 mL)
- 1 cup frozen peas 250 mL
- 1 small avocado, peeled and sliced (about 1/2 cup/125 mL)
Instructions
- In Dutch oven, heat canola oil. Add garlic, onion and celery. Sauté until vegetables are tender.
- Season with black pepper, cumin and red pepper flakes.
- Add chicken stock, lentils, tomatoes and carrots. Simmer, covered, for 30 minutes, or until carrots are tender.
- Add chicken, zucchini and peas. Cover and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes longer, or until vegetables are tender.
- Garnish with avocado slices.
Prep: 10 min | Cook: 50 min | Yield: 10 (2 cup) servings
LiDAR Reveals Massive Mobilization of Labor Needed to Build Maya Site
Scientists have uncovered a massive 2,000-year-old Maya site hidden under a Guatemalan rainforest, comprising of nearly 1,000 urban settlements interconnected by 160 km (100 miles) of causeways across 1,700 square kilometers (650 square miles). LiDAR technology is revealing unknown details about the history of the Maya, long believed to be one of human history’s most sophisticated cultures.
LiDAR technology of Maya site has revealed nearly 1,000 settlements hidden beneath the rainforest in Guatemala. (Hansen et. al – Cambridge University Press / CC BY 4.0 )
Evidence of Advanced Society Revealed by LiDAR Technology at Maya Site
Light detection and ranging aerial scanning technology, with its remote sensing pulsed-laser mechanism, is able to penetrate through the densest of ecosystems and vegetation. The laser light bounces off surfaces to create a digitally reconstructed map, based on the time taken by the pulses to return to a receiver. Some of these LiDAR finds in the Central American rainforests have revealed vital details and information about the sheer sophistication of urban Maya society.
These finds, published in the December 2022 edition of the research journal Ancient Mesoamerica , reveal a site hidden below a rainforest which dates to the Middle (1000 to 400 BC) and Late (400 BC to 250 AD) Preclassic period. This time frame is contemporaneous with the sack of the ancient Elamite capital of Susa by Assyria, the destruction of the Temple of Solomon by the Babylonians, and the Greco-Persian Wars .
Several large platforms and pyramids, along with canals and reservoirs used for water collection, are part of the discovery by renowned historians and geologists, including those from the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala. “Many of these settlements demonstrate a political/social/geographical relationship with other nearby settlements, which has resulted in the consolidation into at least 417 ancient cities, towns, and villages with identifiable site boundaries,” write the researchers in the paper.
Photographs of MCKB inter-site causeways revealed thanks to LiDAR scans of the Maya site in Guatemala. (Hansen et. al – Cambridge University Press / CC BY 4.0 )
Why the Did Maya Settle Here?
The densely packed Maya settlements in and around the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin (MCKB) has shown that some of these buildings packed residential homes, sports courts, religious, ceremonial and civic centers, along with the aforementioned networks of causeways and canals that linked these together.
The MCKB had the ideal balance of uplands for settlement, as well as lowlands for agriculture. The uplands contained limestone, the primary core of the building material, and enough dry land to live on. The lowlands, seasonal swamps called bajos, were spaces where wetland agriculture and terraced agriculture could be practiced, owing to the sheer fertility of the soil.
These settlements were built for the proverbial rainy day, as the Maya were believed to be experts in mitigating times of drought and flood and their architecture and constructional ideology displayed this. In all probability this is indication of a centralized kingdom-like state, revealing a sense of shared common identity and socio-political ideology. “When I generated the first bare-earth models of the ancient city of El Mirador, I was blown away,” explained Morales-Aguilar when discussing the Maya site. “It was fascinating to observe for the first time the large number of reservoirs, monumental pyramids, terraces, residential areas and small mounds.”
LiDAR scans of the Maya site have revealed a complex network of settlements and causeways hidden under the Guatemalan rainforest. (Hansen et. al – Cambridge University Press / CC BY 4.0 )
Maya Site Reveals Massive Mobilization of Labor
The LiDAR analysis showed “for the first time an area that was integrated politically and economically, and never seen before in other places in the Western Hemisphere,” study co-author Carlos Morales-Aguilar, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin, told Live Science by email. “We can now see the entire landscape of the Maya region” in this section of Guatemala, he added.
The vastness of the Maya site and the sophistication of its architecture would have required the mass mobilization of labor and workers, including specialists. Specialists would include those in the pre-industrial assembly line of production, such as lime producers, mortar and quarry specialists, lithic technicians, architects, and legal enforcement and religious officials, according to a press release published on Science Alert .
This is also corroborated by the consistency in architectural forms and patterns, ceramic ware, sculptures, apart from the unified causeway constructions. Analysis of the Maya site reveals that centralized political, social, and economic solidarity existed among the occupants. The researchers wrote that this likely culminated into the coalescing of 417 ancient cities, towns, and villages, which had “identifiable site boundaries.”
Over the past four decades, traditional excavations revealed 56 sites in the MCKB, including the lost city of El Mirador , which contains the largest stone pyramid in the history of the Maya, La Danta , discovered to date. Larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza , it likely required anything between 6 and 10 million days of labor and was built using 205,506 limestone blocks.
“Collectively, we argue that the development of infrastructure demonstrates the presence of complex societies with strong levels of socio-economic organization and political power during the Middle and Late Preclassic periods,” conclude the researchers when discussing the Maya site .
Top image: Complex of pyramids identified at Maya site using LiDAR technology. Source: Hansen et. al – Cambridge University Press / CC BY 4.0
By Sahir Pandey
Croque Monsieur Soup
A twist on the classic French bistro sandwich – creamy cheese soup with ham, topped with a thick slice of cheesy French bread – Ooh la la! Croque Monsieur roughly translates to “Mister Crispy,” a traditional French ham and cheese sandwich with toasted bread, covered with a béchamel sauce and more cheese, baked or fried.
The long, slow cooking of the onions gives this soup its rich caramelized-onion flavor and color.
Gruyère cheese is a rich, nutty, buttery-tasting form of Swiss, without the holes.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 large sweet onions, cut in half and thickly sliced (4 cups)
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped garlic
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 cups Progresso™ unsalted chicken stock (from 32 ounce carton)
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, cut in cubes
- 2 cups Half-and-Half
- 2 1/2 cups shredded Swiss cheese or Gruyère cheese (10 ounces)
- 2 cups chopped cooked ham (about 10 ounces)
- 3 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 8 (1 inch thick) slices French bread
- Cornichons, if desired
Instructions
- In 5 quart Dutch oven, melt butter over medium-high heat until sizzling. Cook onions in butter for 13 to 15 minutes, stirring frequently, until onions are light golden brown.
- Stir in garlic; cook for 30 seconds. Sprinkle flour on onion mixture; cook and stir constantly 1 minute.
- Slowly stir in chicken stock. Heat to boiling; reduce heat to low. Cook uncovered 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in cream cheese; stirring constantly with whisk until smooth.
- Stir in Half-and-Half until blended. Slowly add 2 cups of the cheese, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring constantly until cheese is melted.
- Stir in ham, 2 teaspoons of the Dijon mustard and the salt; cook for 3 to 5 minutes or until heated through.
- Meanwhile, set oven control to broil. Place French bread slices on ungreased cookie sheet. Spread remaining 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard evenly on cut sides of bread. Sprinkle evenly with remaining 1/2 cup cheese. Broil with tops 5 inches from heat for 1 to 2 minutes or just until cheese is melted and golden brown. Watch carefully so cheese does not burn.
- Serve soup topped with bread slices and cornichons, if using.
Prep: 30 min | Servings: 8
Archaeological Treasure Trove! 21 Royal Han Tombs Unearthed in China
Archeologists exploring a mountainside in China have discovered 21 tombs dating back 2,000 years. The presence of luxury artifacts and a rare “couple’s grave” suggests this was an ancient royal burial site.
The discovery of the 2,000-year-old royal tombs was made at the Changsha archaeological site, which is located just over 665 miles (1,000 kilometers) southwest of Shanghai. Located in the present-day Hunan district, the ancient Changsha Kingdom was founded in 203 or 202 BC and represented the largest and longest-lasting kingdom of the Han Empire of China.
The discovery of the 21 tombs was announced earlier this week by a team of archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology , at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. Located along a remote mountainside, the researchers said the tombs have laid buried for two millennia and that they “potentially held regal past, but not anymore”.
21 Vertical Pits Loaded with Ancient Artifacts
The imperial Han dynasty of ancient China was established by Liu Bang around 200 BC and was subsequently ruled by the House of Liu. This dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty , and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms period from 220 to 280 AD, which represented the tripartite division of China among the dynastic states of Cao Wei , Shu Han, and Eastern Wu.
On Tuesday this week, via China’s state-affiliated news outlet, Xinhua, the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences announced that a team of archaeologists have excavated “21 vertical pit tombs containing over 200 artifacts.” One particular tomb was filled with pottery grave goods that dated back 2,000 years to the Western Han Dynasty, which the team of researchers said flourished during the earlier half of the Han dynasty, from about 200 BC to 25 AD.
Photo of the ancient Han tomb after the fill was removed. The Chinese burial tomb contained numerous luxury artifacts. ( Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences via Xinhua )
Rows of Tombs Whispering Ancient Royal Secrets
The archaeologists said they grouped the 21 tombs into two types: “tombs with passageways and tombs without.” Many of the tombs were found side-by-side; at one end of the site, three tombs were found in a row, while at the other end four further tombs were lined up together. One of the 21 tombs unearthed in Changsha held the remains of five decaying pillars and outer coffins shaped like “Ⅱ” or like double ‘I’s, according to the press release.
The researchers said this type of double layered tomb “is rarely found in the Hunan province.” In this tomb, excavators recovered “two iron relics, walls covered in glaze and a mineral known as talc and a tan-colored talc disk (or bi) with a rhombus and circle pattern.” Furthermore, it is thought that the rare “pair of tombs” may have accommodated the joint burials of a husband and wife.
The picture shows the unearthed talc bi, decorated with lozenge pattern + dotted pattern, recovered from the ancient Han dynasty tomb ( Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences via Xinhua )
After studying the assemblage of 21 tombs, which are all of a similar age, the archaeologists concluded they likely belonged to “a royal family buried together in an ancient mausoleum”.
Looking To Ancient Chinese Texts for Answers
The Lunheng is a wide-ranging classical Chinese classic text written by Wang Chong around 27-100 AD, containing detailed essays about ancient Chinese mythology , natural science, philosophy, and literature. These texts describe Western Han imperial burial practices as having involved “sacrificial offerings” at ancestral temples, which accounts for the amount of pottery vessels and grave goods discovered among the 21 tombs.
Well-known examples of Western Han tombs have been excavated in the past, including Mawangdui and the tombs of Liu Sheng , prince of Zhongshan and his wife, Dou Wan. The tomb at Mawangdui was a nested tomb and the “paired tombs” of Liu Sheng and his wife, Dou Wan were cave tombs . It is known that “couple burials” emerged as the standard form of royal burial during the late Han period, along with the pairing of male/female motifs in the styling of the tombs. This is why the archaeologists point towards their discovery of a rare “paired tomb” as the smoking gun for this being the burial site of a Han “royal” family.
The ornate jade burial suit of Liu Sheng and his wife Dou Wan, the first undisturbed Western Han tomb ever discovered ( Public Domain )
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Top Image: 21 ancient Han tombs have been discovered, including a rare 2,000-year-old double-layer burial tomb. Source: Xinhua
By Ashley Cowie
Budweiser Adapts Its Sexist Ads From The 50s And 60s To 2019
In honor of the International Women’s Day, Budweiser, in collaboration with VaynerMedia, decided to revisit some of their some of their advertisements from the past era, that had some rather sexist remarks. The ads implied that anything women did was supposed to please men, with little attention to themselves. However, thanks to the efforts of feminists everywhere, that is no longer the case and women are free to be themselves without looking for male approval – and Budweiser decided to showcase just that.
Back in the middle of the last century, women were expected to conform to certain gender roles when growing up. And these types of sexist advertisements only helped reinforce them. Even though nowadays these gender roles are implied less and less, there’s still a long way to go to fully get rid of them.
The perfect woman back in the 1950s was expected to be a great mother that took care of the household and dedicated all of her time to please her husband. Many advertisements of the day reinforced this stereotype – especially beer and cigarette ads.
Budweiser decided to distance themselves from this type of behavior and with the help of illustrators Heather Landis, Nicole Evans and Dena Cooper redesigned the ads to show a family where both parts are equal, free of the assigned gender roles.
Sexist slogans like “She found she married two men” were replaced with more empowering ones, like “She found she has it all”. Also, the ads no longer imply there being a ‘man of the house’ – it’s a family that solves their problems together, as a team.
Blinken’s Travel Canceling Adds To China Hate
In 1964 Richard Hofstadter wrote about The Paranoid Style in American Politics:
Events since 1939 have given the contemporary right-wing paranoid a vast theatre for his imagination, full of rich and proliferating detail, replete with realistic cues and undeniable proofs of the validity of his suspicions. The theatre of action is now the entire world, and he can draw not only on the events of World War II, but also on those of the Korean War and the Cold War. Any historian of warfare knows it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence; but if for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination. In the end, the real mystery, for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarship, is not how the United States has been brought to its present dangerous position but how it has managed to survive at all.
The paranoid style is not only used on the right-wing side of policies. Adam Schiff’s action during ‘Russiagate’ applied plenty of it. The paranoid style applies to internal U.S. politics as well as to foreign policies against this or that favorite enemy of that time.
It makes the story below, which otherwise just laughable, somewhat dangerous.
Furor Over Chinese Spy Balloon Leads to a Diplomatic Crisis
The Pentagon called the object, which has flown from Montana to Kansas, an “intelligence gathering” balloon. Beijing said it was used mainly for weather research and had strayed off course.
As some 80+% of all Pentagon intelligence comes from open sources the ‘intelligence gathering’ statement may well include a weather research system. Weather research and weather prediction are important for all kinds of military operations. But they are also important for many civil operations from agriculture, food availability prediction to drainage planning in cities.
The story’s opener:
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Friday canceled a weekend trip to Beijing after a Chinese spy balloon was sighted above the Rocky Mountain state of Montana, igniting a frenzy of media coverage and political commentary over a machine that the Pentagon said posed no threat to the United States.Mr. Blinken called the Chinese surveillance an “irresponsible act” and a “clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law.”
China’s “decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have,” he said at a news conference on Friday afternoon.
Blinken is of course wrong. Balloon drift planning is difficult if not impossible. There was likely no Chinese intent behind this.
The NYT also writes that this is not the first time that such a balloon is passing over the United States. The difference now the addition of paranoid panic. Balloon similar to those one sighted over the U.S. have been seen over Japan and India in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
These balloon have cross like arms hanging below them with the two horizontal arms carrying solar panels. There are three gondolas at the ends of the horizontal and vertical structure. The gondolas could carry instruments, motors or both.
For instance, flying from London to New York takes just over eight hours, while the reverse journey is often under seven.
A few electrical motors depending on solar power are unlikely to be for propulsion propellers that would make this balloon steerable. But a Google company once used a machine learning system that found out how to tack a balloon like a sail ship which enabled it to follow its planned course faster than previously predicted. But it did not make it steerable. The Goggle balloon were ‘steering’ by changing their flight levels just like low fling hot air balloon do:
A solar-powered pump adds or subtracts air from the balloon. That air makes the balloon heavier or lighter, allowing it to ascend or descend in altitude. Rather than fight against the wind at one altitude, the balloon moves up or down until it finds a favorable wind current. By repeating this thousands of times over the lifespan of a balloon, we can drift on the winds to get to locations around the world.
It is likely that the Chinese balloon can use similar technics. But it will inevitable still depend on the ever changing and often unpredictable prevalent direction of the wind.
Blinken is also wrong with regards to international law. The space between the highest level jet fighters can fly (18 kilometer or 60,000 feet) and outer space were satellites fly is legally somewhat undefined. There are no treaties, international laws or even rules for that mostly unused space.
In the 1950s the U.S. flew ‘weather balloon’ over the Soviet Union for surveillance. But satellites has since replaced balloon surveillance as they can get more data with way more precision. China has satellites. It does not need balloon to check U.S. air fields or missile sites.
To use the balloon as an excuse for canceling the China visit shows that U.S. claims of wanting to lower tensions with China are not serious.
Brian Tycangco 鄭彥渊 @BrianTycangco – 9:09 UTC · Feb 4, 2023If a wayward balloon is enough to make the US Secretary of State cancel a potentially crucial meeting with China to resolve standing differences & avoid potential armed conflict, it speaks very poorly of how serious he is about doing his job.
Some republicans have used the balloon and the paranoid style to attack the Biden administration. The Biden administration should have staid course by calling the overflight a non-event. Blinken’s reaction only adds to the anti-China hate.
Posted by b on February 4, 2023 at 18:11 UTC | Permalink
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This incident demonstrates that there’s a significant balloon gap between the US and Communist China! Unless congress immediately allocates an additional trillion dollars to the pentagon for balloon research and development, the next CPC balloon won’t just be carrying surveillance equipment, but also a biological or nuclear payload. Clearly, we’re witnessing a watershed moment in armaments history. Hypersonic missiles were clearly just a short-lived fad — whoever achieves balloon superiority, controls the battlefield of the future.
Posted by: Skiffer | Feb 4 2023 19:23 utc | 25
It doesn’t matter whether Blinken canceled his visit, because based on all the previous interactions with China the US was merely going to bullshit the Chinese some more, then do the opposite of what they said would do, especially with regard to Taiwan.
So the whole visit might as well never happened.
The US wants a war with China. It’s that simple. And China will give it to them, eventually. And the US will lose. Hopefully, as with Ukraine, it won’t escalate to WWIII.
Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Feb 4 2023 20:23 utc | 45
Gonzalo Lira has a good analysis of the hysteria. (I am reposting this from the previous Ukraine thread.)
Ukraine … losing … The U.S. knows that Ukraine’s army is not able to hold the current defense line in its east. The fear is that it will run away when the line is breached… The Ukrainian death toll in the city must be extremely high… The result is that the battle is believed to have produced horrific troop losses for … Ukraine … emergency medical units provide urgent care to battlefield casualties… Russia has increased the intensity of the fight… Russia has no lack of artillery ammunition… Russian artillery is firing several times more shells per day than Ukraine’s army can provide… Artillery is the big killer in this war…
Look over there! 👉 A BALLOON!
2023.02.04 About That Chinese Balloon – Gonzalo Lira
Posted by: Petri Krohn | Feb 4 2023 22:36 utc | 93
“China could at least apologize for disrupting Black History Month with their all-white balloon.” Jack Posobiec
Heh heh!
Hi OG. I hope all is well with you mate hey.
Hello Tas. All is well here. Although I must admit that I have never felt more like a stranger in a strange land than I do now here in the “land of the free, home of the controlled”. Very strange times here in the Untied States. Few want to work. Many on the dole. So many can’t think for themselves, are glued to their scrying mirrors or focused on things and substances that harm them. I help where I can and keep on keeping on. Thanks for thinking about me and the kind words!
I am going to get in early, the US military did not shoot down the Chinese balloon over their landmass for they assumed it may contain a counter bio weapon. Biden wished to shoot it down 4 days ago but the military advised against it. Why, the US military thought a retaliatory bio weapon was a real possibility and reacted accordingly, an admission of guilt IMO. It also shows Biden is not in the loop re Covid and China.
Could it be that balloon spy follies are nothing more than a staged event, set into motion to direct public attention: (1) towards China as “our enemy,” and (2) away from “something” else? Just by coincidence recent “news” about Project Veritas’ video of the Pfizer R&D exec’s revelations suddenly disappeared from news coverage.