(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: What you need to know this Monday – February 13, 2023

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U.S. military shoots down another unidentified object over Lake Huron – The U.S. military shot down an unidentified object over Lake Huron Sunday, a congressional source briefed on the matter and two U.S. officials told NBC News — the fourth flying object in less than two weeks to be downed over North American airspace.

The officials all said there are no indications of any collateral damage and that the object went down in the lake and officials expect to recover it. – READ MORE

Now China Claims It’s Tracking Unidentified Object Over Port City – Now China is jumping in on the trend, apparently, as authorities in China say they have spotted and are tracking an unidentified object over waters near the port city of Qingdao.

Scant details have been given, but the claim was briefly detailed in Bloomberg on Sunday, with the publication saying authorities are preparing to down the object. – READ MORE

What’s Known So Far About The “Cylindrical & Silverish Gray” Object Downed Over Alaska – Recovery efforts utilizing military planes and helicopters in the far northeast arctic region of Alaska continue, where on Friday an unidentified object was shot down by F-22 jets.

Still, little definitive is known, including who owns the object or where it came from; however, in media and US official reports the ‘high-altitude’ object is increasingly being referenced as a another balloon. – READ MORE

NORAD Temporarily Shuts Down Airspace in Central Montana After ‘Radar Anomaly’ – North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) temporarily shut down the airspace in central Montana after detecting a “radar anomaly,” the command said in a statement late Saturday evening.

With the cooperation of the Federal Aviation Administration, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) implemented a temporary flight restriction airspace in central Montana on Feb. 11, 2023, to ensure the safety of air traffic in the area during NORAD operations. The restriction has been lifted. NORAD detected a radar anomaly and sent fighter aircraft to investigate. Those aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits. NORAD will continue to monitor the situation. – READ MORE

Experts Believe Chinese Satellite Fired Green Lasers Over Hawaii – Late last month, mysterious green laser beams were spotted from Hawaii’s tallest peak. Experts initially said the burst of laser beams was emitted by a NASA spacecraft though that was proven incorrect this week — with evidence pointing to a Chinese satellite.

Space experts at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) initially tweeted on Jan. 30 that the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera “captured green laser lights in the cloudy sky over Maunakea, Hawai’i. The lights are thought to be from a remote-sensing altimeter satellite ICESAT-2/43613.” – READ MORE

Administration Denies Claims US Blew Up Nord Stream Pipelines; Kremlin Says Take Them Seriously – The White House has dismissed as “complete fiction” a report by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh alleging that the U.S. was responsible for the sabotaging of the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea last September, but the Kremlin said Thursday it must be taken seriously.

“It would be unfair not to give it attention,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “Unfortunately, the article was not widely disseminated in the Western media, which cannot but cause our surprise.” – READ MORE

Klaus Schwab to (Again) Address Elites as He Joins the World Government Summit – From the snowy peaks of Davos to the desert sands of the United Arab Emirates, unelected globalist elites like nothing better than to meet and discuss their plans for a future world – designed, built and administered by them as part of the “4th industrial revolution.”

The latest example begins Monday when World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab joins the annual World Government Summit (WGS) 2023 in Dubai to deliver the keynote address. – READ MORE

Fetterman Likens Post-Stroke Symptoms to Hearing Teacher from ‘Peanuts’ Cartoon – Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has described his post-stroke auditory processing disorder symptoms, when they are their worst, as trying to listen to and interpret the teacher from the “Peanuts” cartoon, the New York Times reported Friday.

The freshman Senator from Pennsylvania suffered a stroke just days before the Democrat primary last year, though he still handily won the nomination. In the months that followed, Fetterman stayed out of the public eye while a general election race with Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz approached, and public scrutiny ensued. – READ MORE

After The Worst January Job Cuts ‘Since The Great Recession’, Here Are 12 Major Layoffs That Have Already Been Announced In February – It appears that the tsunami of layoffs that started late last year is starting to accelerate. January was a horrible month for job losses, and major layoff announcements are coming fast and furious here in February. But of course the Biden administration would have us believe that everything is just fine. Last week, the government told us that the U.S. economy “added 517,000 jobs” in January. But as I discussed in a previous article, that wasn’t what actually happened. The raw, unadjusted number showed that the U.S. economy actually lost 2.5 million jobs last month. That is a terrible number, but after the bureaucrats in Washington were done with their “adjustments” it magically became a gain of 517,000 jobs. If you want to have faith that their “adjustments” are appropriate, good for you. But other sources also confirm that things have really taken a turn for the worse. – READ MORE

Biden Administration Ready To Unleash A $27 Billion Green Slush Fund – The US government is getting ready to unleash $27 billion to fund projects in disadvantaged communities that cut greenhouse gas emissions and boost clean energy. The cash infusion from last year’s sweeping climate and tax law is meant to drive the deployment of solar panels, heat pumps and electric vehicles in underserved places around the nation.

But even before the government formally seeks funding applications, hundreds of potential recipients are jockeying for the money. The competition pits credit unions and community development institutions against a national not-for-profit organization that says it should collect much of the haul and be a clearinghouse for the taxpayer dollars, making it the first-ever US-government-minted green bank. – READ MORE

Millions Of Americans Face “Hunger Cliff” As 32 States Set To Slash Emergency Food Stamp Benefits – More than 30 million Americans face a “hunger cliff,” as 32 states are set to slash food-stamp benefits beginning in March. By number, California and Texas have the most people on food stamps, at 5.1 million and 3.6 million respectively.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program notably exploded from $60.3 billion in 2019 to $119.5 billion in 2022 thanks to the Agriculture Department expanding food-stamp benefits by evading the normal process for determining eligibility and end-running Congressional review. – READ MORE