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A giant balloon floating over the United States from China, initial reports were that it was a

spy balloon, then it became a weather balloon, and now they're kind of back to thinking it might be a

spy balloon. Nobody really knows for sure, apparently. But of course, over on the right wing

media, they're going, oh my god, did it take off from Wuhan? Is it bringing biological agents

on the coming to destroy America? We got to do this? Oh my god, take a deep breath.

One Chinese source says that this is actually coming from a private Chinese organization that's

mapping weather around the world. I mean, who knows? Who knows? It's hard to imagine that any

private corporation in China could do such a thing without the permission of the of the military

there. So we'll see what we'll leads to. But let's not get all bad out of shape about these things.

My op-ed today over at HarbinReport.com. And by the way, at the very end of my op-ed,

the op-ed is titled Groid Fashes of In America's In An Arms Race for those who aspire to lead

kind of kind of long probably should have just headlined it. At the very bottom of it is a link

to a piece that I published in mid-December or toward the end of December about how global warming

leads to cold weather. For those of you, I mean, I get it. We've had just insane cold here in

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