Since The New York Times published a story on Tuesday that cited US officials who claimed the bombings of the Nord Stream pipelines were conducted by a “pro-Ukrainian group,” articles have appeared across Western media making similar allegations.
The deluge of stories came almost one month after investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report that said President Biden ordered the attack on the natural gas pipelines, which connect Russia to Germany. The New York Times report only mentioned Hersh’s report to say US officials denied its allegations.
Since The New York Times reported on the pipeline sabotage, articles reinforcing the narrative have appeared in the German newspaper Die Zeit, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, and many other outlets.
Piecing the stories together, the general narrative is that a group of private individuals with ties to Ukraine, but not the government, carried out the attack using a yacht owned by a Ukrainian. Before these new allegations, the theory among Western investigators was that the sabotage was likely carried out by state actors due to the amount of explosives and sophisticated operations that would be required to plant them.
Hersh’s report said US Navy divers planted explosives on the pipelines during NATO exercises in the Baltic Sea in June 2022. It said Norway cooperated with the US, and a Norwegian Navy P8 surveillance plane dropped a sonar buoy that detonated the explosives on September 26, 2022.
Even without Hersh’s report, the US is a prime suspect since it had the motive to destroy the pipelines. The US had for years tried to block the construction of Nord Stream 2, and President Biden threatened to “bring an end” to the pipeline if Russia invaded Ukraine. After the blasts, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called it a “tremendous opportunity” to get Europe off Russian gas.
This is exactly what selling your soul to Satan looks like.
https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI
Please note: Democrats blame this clip on conservative media outlets, but that makes it even more funny. It’s the exact message we’re hearing more from hardcore democrats right now. After mentioning Satan above, I’m sorry to tell you Wasserman Schultz is baaaack! If you want to empty your stomach, you don’t need a finger down your throat. Just search for her attacking Taibbi for being a …journalist. God help me.
(Sarcasm alert)
My representative voted against the resolution to get out of Syria. He is a Democrat. Pete Aguilar.
It’s so crazy. When they say war authorization from congress, it reminds me of the “loan officer” with the “approved” rubber stamp in the used car dealership commercial.
“Western Media Dumps Stories on Nord Stream Sabotage Shifting Blame from US. The narrative is that people with ties to Ukraine, but not the government, carried out the attack”
Breaking news from the CIA via the New York Times!
Yes, the crew of the SS Minnow set sail one day on a three hour tour just to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline!
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin’ man,
The Skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour,
A three hour tour.
The weather started getting rough,
the tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
The Minnow would be lost,
The Minnow would be lost.
The ship set ground on the shore of this
Uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan,
The Skipper too,
The Millionaire and his Wife,
The Movie Star,
The Professor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligan’s Isle.
Now, this is the tale of our castaways,
They’re here for a long, long time.
They’ll have to make the best of things,
It’s an uphill climb.
The first mate and his Skipper too
Will do their very best
To make the others comfortable
In their tropic island nest.
No phone, no lights, no motor car,
not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
It’s primitive as can be.
So join us here each week my friends,
You’re sure to get a smile,
From seven stranded castaways
Here on Gilligan’s Isle!
Hahaha. I like what you did here. Do you think Gilligan did it? …Or the millionaire?
The Professor had the know-how. I mean the dude could make explosives out of sh*t that even MacGyver couldn’t.
I’m lucky that at my old age, my sh*t is already explosive. …Sorry, Wars. I couldn’t help myself. The older I get, the more I like to talk about my bowel movements.
That and the weather.
The professor could come up amazing gadgets considering the lack of ready materials on the island but just couldn’t figure out how to repair the hole in the Minnow.
Man, you really put a lot of effort into this.
I always thought it was Ukrainians but with us giving the go ahead. If not that then us knew what was,about to take place but did nothing to prevent it( even better for us to claim lack of knowledge while achieving a core objective). But seeing the coordination of all western msm and seeing the small boat which was supposedly used by people to carry this out I m not so sure, now I m thinking it is possible us did it itself.
Dave, do the sundry news sources repeat exactly the same info?
Or are intelligence sources doling out more unsourced, supposed details to different papers – to keep media attention and the appearance of an ‘unfolding,’ hersh-debunking story?
The crap migrated from US to Europe to keep it alive and deflecting from truth….!
Put aside the timing, the implausibility, etc., you still get a BS story. They don’t know who did it, but they do know who they are not affiliated with. LOL
Exactly how do they know that they had no ties to the US government or Ukraine? Did they interview them and ask if they were paid by anyone? Did they check their bank accounts or investigate who they had meetings with in the months before the blast. Oh wait, no they didn’t, because they claim not to know who they are.
Either they are lying about the whole thing, (most likely) or they are lying about what they know about this crew because you can’t both know they are not affiliated with anyone AND not know who they are.
It’s improbably this crew ever existed, it’s impossible that they both don’t know who they are And Know all about their connections at the same time.
It’s right there on the TV, Mr. “rational analysis”. Most Americans know all of humanity started with two naked white people 6000 years ago. You might as well bark at them.
Brilliant! I admire how your logic turned those fake articles into “a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.”
You forgot all of our modern moral arbiters, the priesthood of social media, telling you to believe what you are told. Or you have a poster of Trump over your bed and hate everything good and light in the world.
Western mainstream media – aka the US war propaganda department masquerading as “free”’ media. I can’t even post an antiwar comment on the Times site these days without getting censored.
Next they’ll be reporting Lee Harvey Oswald blew up Nord Stream, acting alone.
I think that particularly with the rise of the internet the MSM is financially dependent on government and is de facto an arm of it. There is essentially nothing too ludicrous for them to parrot. They say what they are told to.
Good one! LOL. Since they’re looking for people to demonize, how about Xi? Or Iran? Or maybe Assad? Or the Palestinians? Dude! You really nailed it with, “There is essentially nothing too ludicrous for them to parrot.”
Next they’ll be reporting Lee Harvey Oswald blew up Nord Stream, acting alone.
I think that particularly with the rise of the internet the MSM is financially dependent on government and is de facto an arm of it. There is essentially nothing too ludicrous for them to parrot. They say what they are told to.
Oh, so it wasn’t the USA that committed this incredible act of terrorism against our allies, it was just the nation we have funded and enabled and told we will support unconditionally.
One full month after investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published his devastating report, on Tuesday February 8, i.e. that the Biden administration secretly planned and executed the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines running from Russia to Germany, then came this CIA make-believe plot, released on Tuesday March 7, that a small private pro-Ukrainian group of terrorists had the capabilities to blow up one-and-a-half inch thick pipelines, nearly 300 feet below the Baltic Sea, while dozens of NATO ships were holding a military exercise in the area.
This also came after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Joe Biden met in a head-to-head private meeting, in Washington DC, on Friday March 3rd, to coordinate their presentations. Then, on Tues. March 7, major news outlets in both Germany and in the US published the CIA narrative.
Is this the best scenario they could invent to dig themselves up from the political hole they find themselves in?
However, for Ukraine, the writing is now on the wall.
Believable narratives aren’t how modern states craft or politics works anymore. They could have said the Blue Man Group blew it up with Mentos and Pepsi, and YOU ARE EXPECTED TO BELIEVE. Not because it’s in any way believable, but because there will be repurcussions.
Just throw it on the massive pile of impossibilities we are expected to believe on a daily basis. Giving rich people all the money will help poor people. There are no differences between genders if you believe. Celebrities are sucking fluids out of fetuses.
“Mentos and Pepsi”
One of those laugh out loud moments. Thank you.
It’s frightening how much like the Soviet Union we have become, down to backing Nazis in a global war like Stalin did before “the stab in the back.” I wonder when the stab comes for U.S. empire, collapse of the pterodollar, total banking collapse?
I really like your share. If this really results in less support for Ukraine, then it was most likely an unintended consequence. Emil Cosman, who has a Youtube channel, coined it by comparing the Neocons to chess players who can only think of “their first moves.”
It’s frightening to think that this kind of thing actually works on some people. Why would an independent pro-Ukrainian group think that such an act would help their cause? If it weren’t for American pressure such an anti-European act might have had the result of alienating Europe and especially Germany from the Ukrainians. To believe this story is to demonstrate a complete inability to think.
“To believe this story is to demonstrate a complete inability to think.”
Which is why the American sheeple, educated by the government, could well buy it.
I agree and it’s truly unsettling when you realize that many already believe it and repeat it. Not only they can’t think for themselves but they have holes in the back of their heads for frequent brain washing. (Sarcasm alert)
One of our most decorated journalists breaks the story the USA was responsible.
The response?
“We know exactly how they did it, where they came from, how they got there, but we can’t identify them, except to say for sure Zelenskyy wasn’t involved…”
It’s like accusing a three year old of stealing a cookie. Just because social media has given them the tools to enforce credulity, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t put some effort into their lies.
Like accusing a 3yr old of stealing a refrigerator or a nuclear weapon. Sorry it is beyond their capability.
False flags fly higher and higher as they reproduce like rabbits…i pledge my alliegence…arghh…
Psssst…WE DON”T BELIEVE YOU
Now Western German intel services want us to believe that there were two boats like the SS Minnow, from Gilligans Island, involved in the terrorist attack on Nord Stream Two.
The more lies that the West makes up about Nord Stream the more that the attack by Joey Biden and his government is corroborated.
If populations even considered the nonsensical rambling of the NYT etc they show how poor is the education they allegedly receive in “democracy, human rights” etc. in the “free world” of hatred and chaos.
The MSM is complete and total garbage.
All of it – left, middle, right.
Yep without antiwar.com and a few reporters like Aaron Matte, Matt Tabbibi, Tucker Carlson, and Clayton Morris we’d be totally fucked. In fact we are probably totally fucked anyway.
Anyone with a brain can see through the Western PROPAGANDA we all know who carried out the act of war that`s why the Western Media is desperate to shift the blame from the Americans , if damming evidence is found the US will be liable for billions in compensation to the owners of the pipe line , actually there is evidence being held by the Swedes who have refused to share what they found , because the explosive charges on the one pipe failed to detonate , if they release the evidence i have no doubt it will put the blame squarely on the Americans , but that won`t happen because the swedes are just another LACKEY of the US.
Reading is fundamental: So, I will place a disclaimer here so that my post cannot be interpreted as support for one side or another in Eastern Ukraine. As a “student” of history I find the first industrial war in Europe since 1945 of great interest. This post is about current affairs in Eastern Europe along with Worldwide Blowback and lack of truth in reporting on the part of Americas mainstream media.
Vietnam devolved into a lie that saw many in my generation turned to cannon fodder. It wasn’t until the Tet Offensive and reporting by Walter Cronkite from the field that truth was brought home to each and every American.
Mainstream Media Censorship:
So, when did truth die? Was it in the Wokeism and darkness of the twilight of the American Century?
I do not always agree with Chris Hedges, however on this topic he is amazingly accurate. The disinformation and propaganda spewed by Ukraine is worse than Pravda propaganda in Soviet Russia. The government in America now uses social media and social engineering to manipulate and control the ignorant citizens of a once free nation. In addition, mainstream news media supports the suppression of facts by the government that they work for; indirectly and at times directly.
Mainstream Western “War Correspondents” hide in hotels in Kiev and go on tours sponsored by the Ukrainian propaganda bureau. At times the area toured is a stage
set with props including dead bodies prearranged by the Ukrainian government.
American war reporters in Ukraine are reticent to go into the field and the press pool managers take great pains to keep the press pool in lockstep mandating that they hide in their hotels.
From time immemorial to the late 1980s True Giants Reported on Warfare
A few of the Greatest:
Rudyard Kipling and Winston Churchill Late 1800s and Early 1900s
“From 1883 to 1889, Rudyard Kipling worked in British India for local newspapers such as the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore and The Pioneer in Allahabad.”
Kipling would ride into the field with the British Army in India and write his reports from the army’s daily encampments.
“CMG sent Kipling as a special correspondent to Rawalpindi in 1885 to report the new Viceroy’s ceremonial reception of the Amir of Afghanistan – and was shot at by a tribesman while visiting the Khyber Pass. His salary was
raised from British Pound 360 to 420 per year”
“Rudyard Kipling and Winston Churchill both covered the Boer War as newspaper correspondents, working respectively for the Friend of the Free State and the Morning Post, and in later days, both authors looked
back on the Boer War in their autobiographies. Kipling devoted a chapter of his autobiography Something of Myself to his experience of the war”.
Kipling and Churchill witnessed the war in fairly similar conditions, observing the fighting at close range and enjoying friendly contact with British soldiers.
Joe Galloway and Michael Herr 1960s and 1970s
As a 24-year-old UPI correspondent, Galloway was at the first major battle of the Vietnam War. He was the only civilian to be awarded the medal of valor in the Vietnam War. Joe Galloway later co-authored We Were Soldiers Once … and Young.
The book became a major motion picture We Were Soldiers starring Mel Gibson, Sam Elliott, and Barry Pepper as Joe Galloway.
“During 1960s and 1970s Vietnam War Correspondents were in the field with the American and South Vietnamese troops daily and in combat. Michael Herr was one of
those brave war reporters who went into the field. In fact, Michael Herr was the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. It is reputedly the best Vietnam War book ever written.”
“Based on his experiences, Herr was credited in the film for writing the narration for the 1997 film The Rainmaker. He had previously contributed to the narration for Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film Full Metal Jacket (1987).”
Even Walter Cronkite did a few reports from the field in Vietnam.
What was Walter Cronkite report from Vietnam?
In February 1968 CBS Evening News anchor Walter
Cronkite undertook a two-week fact-finding trip to Vietnam to assess the impact of the Tet Offensive
Then There Was A Sea Change:
Western governments were unhappy with negative press coverage from the battlefields of Vietnam. The solution was to slowly co-opt the press and keep more and more reporters and press pools in luxury hotels far from the real
battlefields and killing.
During the Iraq war, Peter Arnett seemed to be the epitome of the “War Correspondent” who hid in a hotel and spewed second hand reports from the field. His reports on CNN were almost exclusively from his hotel room balcony.
Peter Arnett was not the only bunker bandit hiding in luxury hotels. From New York Times reporters to magazine correspondents the trend was so prevalent that some
reporters wrote stories about the new trend in American war reporting. Spewing second hand stories as facts and quoting unnamed sources was becoming the norm.
A few very astute reporters wrote stories about the lack of field work by mainstream reporters during the Iraq war. They covered the process of indigenous citizens bringing stories and photos in for the press pool to evaluate and then
receiving their cash rewards. However, this did little to stem the growing censorship by editors in the American and European main media news offices.
Ukraine, American reporters, “Talk the Talk, but They Fail to Walk the Walk”:
As in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya; the American press pool in Ukraine stays mainly in the hotel unless the Ukrainian propaganda bureau takes the press people on a field
trip. The Ukrainian government hired the Syrian White Helmets to advise them on manipulating stories and setting up false flag operations. Is it any wonder that when the American press pool is allowed to go on a field trip
the stage is set for them by Ukrainian prop-masters.
Nina Jankowicz the ill-fated US Disinformation Czar advised the Ukrainian government on strategic
communications, propaganda, and disinformation. Her work is evident in manipulating the US press pool in Ukraine.
There are many War Correspondents from India and other Global South countries reporting from the field in Ukraine. They receive no coverage by American mainstream media
news outlets. So far 15 of these War Correspondents have been killed since last February.
A few intrepid Western War Correspondents are still in the field, but in some cases they are ostracized by
governments and mainstream media outlets. Their transgression is not reporting the Ukrainian line as presented in a prepared script by the Ukrainian propaganda bureau.
Eva Bartlett a Canadian, Gonzalo Lira, a Chilean American, and Alina Lipp, a German citizen have had bank accounts seized and they each are on the Ukrainian assassination
list. Along with Henry Kissinger the old diplomat and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, anyone who speaks against sending vast amounts of cash and weapons to Ukraine or advocates for peace talks finds their names quickly on the list
outing them and targeting them for assassination.
The Ukrainian “Hit list” Publishes names and addresses of alleged “Russian propagandists:” It turns out to be based not in Ukraine, but in Langley VA where CIA headquarters is located. Perhaps that is why American reporters find that it is better to hide in a luxury hotel in Kiev than go into the field and act the part of a War Correspondent.
The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the crisis of media censorship
“Throughout the Ukraine war, Western news outlets have mindlessly parroted the opinions of a ruling elite and overseen a public discourse that is often unhinged from the
real world.”
Okay, so let’s assume that this hypothetical ‘pro-Ukraine non-state actor’ took down NS2. What, if anything, has been done to track down the terrorists (this could not be described as anything but a terrorist attack) and bring them to justice? Can anyone in the US government or military produce an investigation in progress? How do they know it was this ‘pro-Ukraine non-state actor’ and when did they know it? If I were a betting man I don’t think it would be much of a risk wagering my right arm that no such investigation has been opened, or that this was even thought of until Hersh’s damning article was released.
What do the following have in common: the USS Maine, a Polish attack on Germany, the Tonkin Gulf, the USS Liberty, and Iraqi WMD’s- and what is the connection between these and the destruction of NS-2?
Well they seem to have given up on the “Russians did it”. So there is that.
Ukraine will obviously emerge enormously damaged on many levels from this crackpot scheme hatched by the old man in the WH and his cronies. But the US will emerge damaged like no other time in recent history, with its press nothing but a bullhorn spewing pure crap at the behest of whoever is in power, with a legislative branch completely emasculated to the point of a rubber stamp for the militarists who will continue to occupy the executive in their desperate efforts to regain its virulent control over the rest of humanity.
End of the empire, end of decency, …