The decision to grant the U.S. access to more bases — announced during the U.S. defense secretary’s visit — was decried by peace advocates as part of the Pentagon’s push into the Indo-Pacific, with an intent to encircle China.
Filipinos Protest US Military Deal Eying China
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Another ‘fact-check’: Did Zelensky Order Destruction of Docs Linked to Hunter Biden?
If I have the energy, I might do more research into this later.
Google Translate:
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, with the participation of specialists of the Security Service of Ukraine, organized the destruction of the personal belongings of servicemen, collaborators and staff of the Public Health Center from 24 March 2022. Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, DU “Ukrainian nuclear research anti-plague institute” I.I. Menkikova of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, Zhytomyr regional and at the transport centers of the laboratory centers of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, which jointly planned
Member of Metabiota Inc., Battelle.
TVO of the head of the party
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Another ‘fact-check’:
Fact Check: Did Zelensky Order Destruction of Docs Linked to Hunter Biden?
As such, the link between Metabiota, Hunter Biden, and Ukraine here is tenuous. While the firm associated with Rosemont Seneca invested and raised money for Metabiota, there is no link here between the president’s son, Zelensky, and the destruction of documents.
Related:
The truth about Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian ‘bio labs’
Newsweek, claiming that the translation is dubious, goes on to cite The Insider, an ‘independent’ website that conducts “joint investigations” with Bellingcat. Last year, they were declared “undesirable” by Russia.
Spycraft or Not, Shootdown of Chinese Weather Balloon Using 5th-Gen Jet Looks ‘Silly’
By Ilya Tsukanov – Sputnik – 05.02.2023
A US jet destroyed a Chinese weather balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, with US officials saying the balloon had engaged in espionage as it flew over US airspace over the past several days. Beijing insists the dirigible was just a meteorological research balloon that drifted off course.
Spycraft or Not, Shootdown of Chinese Weather Balloon Using 5th-Gen Jet Looks ‘Silly’
China is laughing at the Biden Admin! FYI, they’re launching more spy ballons! 😉
The Pentagon’s Balloon Floats On
It is just as well that Antony “Guardrails” Blinken has called off his long-scheduled visit to Beijing, which was due to begin Tuesday. It would have been his first since taking over at State and the first by a secretary of state in four years. But Blinken would not have got any guardrails in place or built any exit ramps, which he seems to consider his highest calling. Let us wonder, parenthetically, if our Tony wasn’t meant to be a transportation engineer.
Patrick Lawrence: The Pentagon’s Balloon Floats On
[2019] US military begins testing flying surveillance balloons across the country to TRACK people’s movements
The tests were carried out by U.S. Southern Command, or Southcom, which is part of the Department of Defense and is responsible for intelligence operations, security cooperation and disaster response in Central and South America. It’s a joint effort by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Army and other forces whose main task is finding and intercepting drug shipments that are destined for the U.S. According to the Guardian, as many as 25 unmanned solar powered balloons were launched from rural South Dakota and made their way 250 miles across the neighboring states in tests.
Related:
Stratollites can maintain position over specific areas of interest for days, weeks, and eventually months on end. This allows for more sustained measurements and monitoring capabilities over a targeted area. Stratollites can carry a wide variety of commercial payloads (sensors, telescopes, communications arrays, etc.), launch rapidly on demand, and safely return payloads back to earth after mission completion.
Some interesting ‘coincidences’:
Read More »Montana’s 150 missile sites in line for replacement as Chinese spy balloon questions remain
Montana’s 150 missile sites in line for replacement as Chinese spy balloon questions remain
Bartel is a state senator representing a district in Fergus County, an area with some of Malmstrom’s missile sites.
The Department of Defense has referenced these critical zones in its media briefings on the balloon in recent days. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense has been making plans for a massive overhaul of the nuclear missiles scattered across the state.
The upgrades are something Bartel is familiar with because 50 of those missile locations are in Fergus County.
He says the upgrades were set to start in 2025. Now that’s been pushed back, and talks about upgrades with the Air Force suddenly became radio silent.
“We’ve been told that the project has been pushed out. It’s been pushed out two years,” he said. “They are having some redesign issues with the missiles themselves.”
Updated: US downs Chinese balloon over ocean, moves to recover debris
When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it and couldn’t bring it down
Almost 25 years ago, a large runaway weather balloon proved to be quite challenge a for a pair of fighter jets trying to shoot it down, staying in the air even after more than 1,000 rounds were fired at it.
When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it and couldn’t bring it down
Wondering how Canada missed it?! Nothing was publicly said until it entered the US?!
Amid Concerns Over a Balloon, US Cancels High-Level Meeting with China
Beijing said it regrets that one of its weather balloons drifted into American skies.
Amid Concerns Over a Balloon, US Cancels High-Level Meeting with China
If China hadn’t said anything, I would have thought that the Pentagon was spying on us!
Ukraine can’t retake Crimea soon, Pentagon tells lawmakers in classified briefing
Ukrainian forces are unlikely to be able to recapture Crimea from Russian troops in the near future, four senior Defense Department officials told House Armed Services Committee lawmakers in a classified briefing. The assessment is sure to frustrate leaders in Kyiv who consider taking the peninsula back one of their signature goals.
Ukraine can’t retake Crimea soon, Pentagon tells lawmakers in classified briefing
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