{"id":8250,"date":"2023-02-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2023-05-21T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:25:42","slug":"pirate-news-balloons-ufos-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/13\/pirate-news-balloons-ufos-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate News: Balloons, UFOs, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steve , Joe and James discuss our upcoming Winter conference, what else is going on with the Pirate Party, and the recent spate of balloon incursions and UFO sightings. We also discussed the train derailment and environmental disaster in Ohio and the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j8Kgu9SA2Sc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/conference\/\">Join our Feb 18th Winter conference<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/profile\/create?gid=16&amp;reset=1\">Sign up to our newsletter to get notified of new events<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">volunteer<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Join us on Mastodon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Links we discussed: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/09\/china\/china-balloon-near-space-development-intl-hnk\/index.html\">China\u2019s balloons are part of a strategy to beat the US on a new battlefield: \u2018near space\u2019<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/f-22-downs-another-unidentified-object-over-canada\">F-22 Shoots Down Another Object, This Time Over Canada<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90848025\/ohio-train-derailment-toxic-chemicals-pvc-spill-fire-disaster\">A horrific environmental disaster is happening in Ohio, and you may not even have heard about it<\/a>; &#8211; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/amp\/news\/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-toxic-chemicals-evacuations-mike-dewine-national-guard-activated\/\">Crews release toxic chemicals from derailed train cars in Ohio<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Image Credit: James O&#8217;Keefe CC-BY-SA\/4.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve , Joe and James discuss our upcoming Winter conference, what else is going on with the Pirate Party, and the recent spate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,32,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-slider","category-piratecon","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-294","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}