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Illinois hobby club fears its balloon was shot down by the USAF
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Posted on 2/16/2023, 4:51:13 PM by navysealdad

In the days since the U.S. Air Force shot down three unidentified objects out of the sky, questions linger about just what these objects actually were. On Thursday, a report by Aviation Week offered an intriguing hypothesis about what one of those three objects could be: a “missing in action” globe-trotting balloon belonging to an Illinois-based hobbyist club. The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s (NIBBB) silver-coated, party-style “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. 10 at nearly 40,000 ft. off the west coast of Alaska.

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https://briancates.substack.com/p/merrick-garland-is-damned-if-he-does

Merrick Garland Is Damned If He Does & Damned If He Doesn’t
And He’s Got Nobody But Himself To Blame For The Fix He’ll Soon Find Himself In

Unlike the sham January 6 Committee, which was never able to find a real crime to refer Trump or his close associates for and ended up making a shallow and pretty much worthless referral of the former President to Attorney General Merrick Garland on it’s way out of power and into the dustbin of history, these new House Committees are investigating real and actual crimes.

Understand: these new House Committees don’t have to do months of investigations to determine whether chargeable crimes occurred or not; they’ve already been HANDED the documentary evidence of the crimes thanks to whoever ‘let that sink in!’ when Elon Musk purchased Twitter.

And then promptly embarked on a spree of documentary revelations via the Twitter Files, revelations that led **directly** to these hearings in this new House by these new Committees. As well as directly strengthening the case of the plaintiffs in Missouri vs. Biden.

I cannot stress how **unusual it is** for a serious Congressional investigation into real and actual malfeasance by government agencies and officials to **begin** already having in its possession damning documentary evidence. Usually most of the investigation is spent trying to **pry** the evidence from uncooperative government witnesses who are doing their enthusiastic best to HIDE the key evidence from the committees.

Many people are watching a vast sea change that’s been started by the most unusual events surrounding the launch of this new House. The 15 rounds of voting for new Speaker Kevin McCarthy was followed by a radical new rules package that is already causing ripples across the fruited plain of these United States.

Is Garland really about to engineer for himself a national scandal in which he gets called out for having very publicly refused to prosecute Democrats for the exact same crimes for which he very ENTHUSIASTICALLY prosecuted two key Republicans?

Of course, I’m talking about the recent trials of Trump associates Steven Bannon and Peter Navarro. Bannon’s already been to trial while Navarro’s has been delayed indefinitely.

Both men very publicly defied subpoenas for documents and for their testimony under oath before Rep. Bennie Thompson & Liz Cheney’s January 6 investigative House Committee. After months of court wrangling, the DC court confirmed that the J6 House Committee’s subpoenas carried legal force and that defying them was a criminal act. Attorney General Merrick Garland then agreed with that finding and had both Bannon & Navarro indicted & arrested and sent to trial.

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