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OPINION

Drone on

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The drone story gives a detailed look at what is wrong in today’s society.

I don’t pretend to know what is going on with the drones flying over New Jersey and elsewhere. I have actually stopped looking at or reading stories on the subject. There is so much material that would appear to be either fake, refer to unrelated events from the past or involve wild theories.  So, I have just given up trying to wade through the avalanche of articles, videos and armchair theorizing. That said, something is going on, and there would appear to be some reliable and reproducible facts:

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*For an extended period of time, “drones” have appeared at night over areas of New York and New Jersey. Local and federal officials (such as the US Coast Guard) have confirmed the same.

*The drones in the NY area would appear to come from the ocean and return the same way.

*Other places supposedly have begun to see drone swarms, whether they are located deeper in the U.S. or in other countries.

*The objects filmed and described would appear to be of various shapes and sizes. People have reported “SUV sized” drones with lights. Others, including pilots, have described orbs not showing any clear propulsion systems or control surfaces normally needed to guide a flying object.

*Attempts to approach the drones have led to civilian and police drones losing battery power quickly. The drones don’t appear to have much of a heat signature.

So we would appear to have nightly drone visits in a very specific area of the U.S., with potentially other locations nationally or internationally also being visited by flying objects. We can track anything that flies, and we can even pick up a rocket launch on the other side of the world when the projectile is barely off of the Earth’s surface. But here we are weeks into this event and nobody can tell the U.S. public where these drones come from. On the one hand, the feds say that it is all harmless but they can’t provide any details. They claim that there is no Iranian or Chinese “mothership” out there running the operation, but they will not provide a flight trace as one can get for any flight in the world via flight tracking radar. They claim that new rules allowing drones to fly at night are the cause of fuss along with normal manned flights and stars, but administration officials held a three hour briefing with members of Congress this week. That does not sound like something so simple.

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There are times when a country’s leadership needs to keep a secret for some period of time. The problem we have is that governments tend to hide and censor material not due to its sensitivity but rather due to potential embarrassment. In Israel, there is a very strict censorship system and oftentimes stories are temporarily quashed while officials are actively working on some hot issue. The system has been abused when, for example, Ehud Barak used the censor to hide his presence at a military drill that went south and a soldier was killed by an errant missile. What we have with the drone story is that the feds are telling us that everything is OK but they won’t tell us where the drones come from, who owns them, why they fly only at night, why they appear only in certain areas, and what is being done about their nocturnal presence. They claim that the drones are no biggie, but they have been seen over military bases as well as nuclear power plants. Additionally, their presence has caused two air bases to suspend flight operations temporarily. If I flew my drone over the runways at Nellis AFB, I would be arrested, and the government would be more than happy to identify me and claim that I was involved in illegal activity.

So like the Chinese balloons, Covid, the flight from Afghanistan and so many other stories, the drone caper is a microcosm of everything wrong with the government, the press, and the supposed “experts.” Everyone agrees that something is going on. The government claims that it’s a nothing burger but won’t tell the American people who is flying the drones and for what purpose. The media either mimics the government line that it is just recreational stuff, though nobody seems able to explain how an orb can fly without an engine or some type of control surface. The expert opinions range from the drones being some type of living plasma to their looking for a loose nuclear warhead, whose radiation signature is best seen in the cold of night. As President-elect Trump said, the government knows what’s going on and should level with the American people. For reasons of embarrassment of an adversary flying hardware over the U.S. or something else, they won’t tell us the simple truth, so our imaginations run wild.

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Neill deGrasse Tyson, who merits an article every time he opens his mouth, recently said that people must rely on experts. He said that just following things on the Internet could get a person killed. On the one hand, for once he might be right: there is a lot of quackery and gimmickry on the Internet, from cancer cures to sure ways to beat the market. The problem is that our “experts” are oftentimes lying losers who have put their political ideology and group identification ahead of their expertise. Tyson is an astrophysicist but first and foremost he is a card-carrying member of the left. He, like Tony Fauci and others at NIH and the CDC, will always put the truth or honest results behind the advancement of their goals. Fauci was there when Barack Obama forbade gain-of-function work in the U.S. Rather than respect the order and its intent to prevent harm, he farmed out the work to Wuhan and apparently Ukraine. The Wuhan group created the Covid frankenvirus, which escaped due to Chinese third-world incompetence. The rest is history that is not yet over. My throat has been hurting of late, and I have concluded without any evidence that I have the late 2024 version of the virus.

There are drones over New York and New Jersey. Normal people have recorded them and described their behavior and patterns. As is typical, our government will not level with its citizens. They know more than they are telling but do not feel any responsibility to the people who pay their salaries to give details that are needed to understand what is going on. Our experts first decide on which side to be and then bend all of their data and conclusions to fit their preferred narrative. Six foot separation and masks were demanded by the experts, with punishment of fines and imprisonment. When the gig was up, they said that they were just making the stuff up as they went along. And not one of them was punished for their behavior and patterns of lies.

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If those drones are from outer space and come from a highly intelligent people, maybe they can loan us a few of their members to replace the people we have running the country and providing its news.

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