During a press briefing, Pentagon press secretary Pat Ryder, says a massive surveillance balloon believed to be from China is being tracked as it continues t...

:smedly-exhausted: They basically admit in the first minute the balloon fiasco posed no threat and was a psyop to manufacture AUKUS Warbuck$

"Secretary Austin will host a bilateral meeting today in the Pentagon with Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Richard Marles.

The secretary looks forward to billateral 'defense' cooperation and our mutral 'security efforts' within the indo-pacific region....blah blah

:obama-drone: :joker-amerikkklap: :amerikkka:

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Language is important here.

    At no point does he confirm it has anything to do with the Chinese government.

    He says it is "Chinese controlled", that does not mean the government, it can also mean private/civilian.

    He does not call it a spy balloon, he calls it a "surveillance balloon".

    A weather balloon surveils the weather.

    If they reject that it's a weather balloon, then what kind of surveillance are they claiming it is doing?

    • dom [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      “Chinese controlled”

      US military confirms that China has mastered weather control technology

        • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
          ·
          2 years ago

          https://www.aliexpress.com/i/2255799998816368.html?gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt

          This is a clone of the Electro Harmonix BassBalls pedal, which is how Mick Thomson gets that tripped-out auto-wah sound at the beginning of "Disasterpiece." This deviates from the EHX version by adding a fuzz mode, and is in a mini-pedal type enclosure.

    • AHopeOnceMore [he/him]B
      ·
      2 years ago

      Just watch it turn out to be a balloon that monitors a single chemical or something. "That's not weather!"

      • Awoo [she/her]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Fucking carbon data surveillance balloon.