{"id":41823,"date":"2023-02-14T13:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T21:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=41823"},"modified":"2023-02-14T19:47:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T03:47:19","slug":"snowden-ufo-balloons-engineered-panic-to-distract-from-nordstream-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/14\/snowden-ufo-balloons-engineered-panic-to-distract-from-nordstream-revelations\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowden: UFO Balloons &#8216;Engineered Panic&#8217; To Distract From Nord Stream Revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Former NSA whistleblower has gone on record accusing the US government of engineering the &#8220;balloon wars&#8221; scare to detract attention away from Seymour Hersh&#8217;s explosive investigative report detailing how the US White House plotted and blew up the Nord Stream pipelines &#8211; an act of terrorism or war against Russia and Germany. Also today: wasting millions to shoot down phantom balloon &#8220;threat.&#8221; And US to send propaganda special forces into Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFtMX7ys1KM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &#038; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Former NSA whistleblower has gone on record accusing the US government of engineering the &#8220;balloon wars&#8221; scare to detract attention away from Seymour Hersh&#8217;s explosive investigative report detailing how the US White House plotted and blew up the Nord Stream pipelines &#8211; an act of terrorism or war against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-41823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41832,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823\/revisions\/41832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41823"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=41823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}