Posted on 08/31/2025 9:08:15 PM PDT by ransomnote
Good morning ransomnote! Thanks for all the work you do on this thread. You are the best!
Oh, and in late.
Thanks for laboring so hard, mQd! And I’m IN on this special day.
And happy anniversary to my dear wife, who lurks here. Smartest thing I ever did was to marry her.
What do you call a book on Voyeurism? a Peeping Tome.
Me too! That made me feel good thanks.
Hi! How is your son doing?
Happy Labor Day!
B4ahunnert!
Than Q, O indefatigable and most exalted CHinC!
Good Morning RN and all.
Happy September to all.
Just relax.
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Thanks RN for all you do, you are the G.O.A.T.
Hello!!
I escaped from CA to Nevada....will wait out the winter and maybe move be near him next year.
ThankQ MqD for the new thread!
The Highlander reporting in!
👋🏻 Here
Thanks, mQd!
LadyDoc wrote:
“
I live in the Philippines and today got a routine annual letter from social security to verify my address etc.
Butt when I sent the reply back in the return envelope I was told they are not allowing anything to be sent to the US because of tariffs. Tariffs are for small packages that China sends all over via other countries to cheat tariffs.
Probably a misunderstanding but you see how the left and the stupid are framing tariffs overseas.
“
So that means any expats won’t be able to get their payments because they can’t verify their address?
It’s been 2y, 9m, 3d, 14h, 4m since Q’s last post. Amazing.
4966
Nov 27, 2022 8:06:20 PM EST
Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 000000 No. 17830326
What is coded in your DNA?
Who put it there?
Why?
Mankind is repressed.
We will be repressed no more.Information is knowledge.
Knowledge is power.Information is power.
How do you protect your DNA?
There is a war for your DNA.
Protect your DNA.
Ascension.
Q
Thanks.
I’m in once again! We’re nearing the 8 year mark!
8 years. Woah. IN.
'Things got really crazy.' The shocking untold story of the Chinese spy balloon
Top commanders reveal the extraordinary events from their surprising beginning, months earlier than previously known, to their explosive end
Tom Blackwell Last updated Jan 10, 2025
https://nationalpost.com/feature/untold-story-of-chinese-spy-balloon
(That I could only open in firefox - long read)
"It was a routine flight, one of several Air Canada runs daily between Vancouver and Winnipeg. But as AC292 passed high over the Rockies on Jan. 31, 2023, the pilots made an unusual sighting.
Another 4,000 feet above their Airbus A-320 floated a large balloon “with something hanging from it.” They reported the observation and flew on to their destination uneventfully.
Then, 24 hours later, a former newspaper photographer left his data-processing job at a health-care centre in the Montana city of Billings, looked upward and was surprised by his own discovery.
“Out of the corner of my eye I saw a bright spot in the sky,” Chase Doak recently recalled. “It looked like a big white orb.”
He raced home, fitted his camera with a 500-millimetre telephoto lens and a teleconverter that doubled the focal length, aimed at the “orb” and quickly realized he was peering at a balloon. With something hanging from it.
What happened next was even more unexpected. Photographs of the balloon by Doak and his friend Larry Mayer soon were buzzing around the world. After four days of silence, their images had prompted U.S. military officials to divulge the shocking truth — what those pilots and photographers had spotted was a Chinese surveillance balloon, a massive dirigible hauling an antenna-sprouting container the size of two or three school buses, and twin arrays of solar panels.
And it was now floating across some of the most militarily sensitive sites in America — nuclear-missile silos that would be among an enemy’s earliest targets should atomic war ever break out.
The spy balloon’s slow traverse over Alaska, Western Canada and the continental United States, ending when it was shot down off the coast of South Carolina, riveted the world, sparked heated political debate and touched off a diplomatic uproar. The event continues to reverberate, including with a bizarre criminal trial in Billings itself.
It was quickly followed by the appearance of three more unidentified flying objects over Canada and the United States. That led to the first ever shoot-down by American fighter jets in Canadian airspace, after this country’s aging CF-18 fighters were grounded by freezing rain.
“Things were developing pretty fast,” recalls Gen. Wayne Eyre, who played a key part in handling the episode as Canada’s chief of defence staff, before retiring recently. “Things got really crazy for a while.”
Yet, as often happens, the episode that had saturated news coverage for days soon disappeared from the headlines — along with its crucial lessons.
This is the full inside story of the Chinese spy balloon, its troubling implications for the defence of North America, which relies partly on an early-warning system likened to a gap-filled “picket fence,” and the spotlight it shone on a two-nation military agency that is unique in the world.
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“No change....however he is now in a facility in Utah that is specialist for his case.”
Glad the question was asked!
We here need to concentrate our prayers for him!
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