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"Don't Talk About Nord Stream": WaPo Report Further Demolishes Official Narrative

MONDAY, APR 03, 2023 - 07:20 PM

German investigators are now expressing severe doubts about the official Nord Stream sabotage narrative that was pushed hard in the aftermath the bombshell Seymour Hersh report which pointed the finger at a joint CIA-US Navy covert operation, with help from Norway. Last month, Hersh published an article on Substack that said the CIA planted a cover story for the Nord Stream bombings that was fed to The New York Times and the German newspaper Die Zeit. Likely this was in direct reaction to Hersh's findings. A source within the US intelligence community told the famed Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, "It was a total fabrication by American intelligence that was passed along to the Germans, and aimed at discrediting your story."
The favored narrative became one that said pro-Ukraine partisans did it in a rogue op. Hersh has maintained this was by design concocted in order to shield the US and Biden administration for ordering the operation. The Die Zeit report cited German officials to assert that the pipeline sabotage bombings were carried out by six people using a yacht rented in Poland that was owned by two Ukrainians. In the days that followed, several Western media outlets seized on that narrative and published similar articles reinforcing the cover story.
But now a fresh, lengthy investigative Washington Post story published Monday is actually confirming many of Hersh's conclusions. Indeed the 'cover story' is already fast unraveling. What's more is that the WaPo article bluntly states Western officials are not at all eager to talk about the Nord Stream sabotage, suggesting a continued cover-up in progress, or in effect a limited hangout. Also very telling is that Western accusations directed at Russia have long ago quieted down.


The 50-foot-long charter yacht Andromeda at the center of the 'pro-Ukraine' partisans narrative. Image source: RTL/ntvBelow are some surprising and damning excerpts from the WaPo report - again which reveal a dramatic narrative shift once again in progress... [emphasis ours]
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Doubts about the suspicious sailboat and the ability of any entity without the direct backing of a government (which has the resources and means) to be able to pull it off:

But after months of investigation, law enforcement officials now suspect that the 50-foot yacht, the Andromeda, was probably not the only vessel used in the audacious attack. They also say the boat may have been a decoy, put to sea to distract from the true perpetrators, who remain at large, according to officials with knowledge of an investigation led by Germany’s attorney general.

...Experts noted that while it was theoretically possible to place the explosives on the pipeline by hand, even skilled divers would be challenged submerging more than 200 feet to the seabed and slowly rising to the surface to allow time for their bodies to decompress.

More on the sailboat as "decoy" - and 'evidence' which seems planted and overly obvious:

The German investigation has determined that traces of "military-grade" explosives found on a table inside the boat’s cabin match the batch of explosives used on the pipeline. Several officials doubted that skilled saboteurs would leave such glaring evidence of their guilt behind. They wonder if the explosive traces — collected months after the rented boat was returned to its owners — were meant to falsely lead investigators to the Andromeda as the vessel used in the attack.
"The question is whether the story with the sailboat is something to distract or only part of the picture," said one person with knowledge of the investigation.

Polish and Ukrainian state connections?

The German investigation has linked the yacht rental to a Polish company, which is in turn owned by a European company that’s connected to a prominent Ukrainian, fueling speculation from Berlin to Warsaw to Kyiv that a deep-pocketed partisan may have financed the operation. The identity of the Polish company and the Ukrainian individual, as well as his potential motive, remains unclear.
Based on the initial German findings, officials have been whispering about the potential involvement of the Polish or Ukrainian government in the attack.

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#BREAKING German officials believe that Poland and Ukraine were behind the Nord Stream bombing: Washington Post

2:33 PM · Apr 3, 2023
Secretive "tips" given to German investigators which were suspiciously concrete:

As the Nord Stream mystery has turned into an international game of Clue, German investigators have scoured the Andromeda for leads. Officials first became interested in the vessel after the country’s domestic intelligence agency [Germany] received a "very concrete tip" from a Western intelligence service that the boat may have been involved in the sabotage, according to a German security official, who declined to name the country that shared the information.

Andromeda's whereabouts and past stopovers left a virtual "trail of breadcrumbs" that were a bit too obvious:

Mola Yachting rented out the boat on Sept. 6 from Hohe Düne harbor in Warnemünde, a German port town on the Baltic, near Rostock, which is about 145 miles north of Berlin. The rental location is in plain sight of a huge vacation complex, home to a five-star hotel, seven restaurants and a high-end shopping area, with views across the harbor.
Investigators said the boat then traveled in a northeasterly direction, stopping in Hafendorf Wiek, or “Wiek harbor village,” on the northernmost part of Rügen island.

...A stop in Hafendork Wiek may have offered the Andromeda’s crew a final chance to stock up on supplies before heading to the explosion site.
“Lots of things are loaded on the boats … including groceries,” Redmann said. “Some people stop to tank up on fuel.” Redmann would not confirm that the Andromeda stopped there, citing the continuing law enforcement investigation.

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This blowout is hard to watch. Seymour Hersh keeps running up the score:

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Crucially, the WaPo report features a very telling subheading: 'Don’t talk about Nord Stream':

For all the intrigue around who bombed the pipeline, some Western officials are not so eager to find out.
At gatherings of European and NATO policymakers, officials have settled into a rhythm, said one senior European diplomat: "Don’t talk about Nord Stream." Leaders see little benefit from digging too deeply and finding an uncomfortable answer, the diplomat said, echoing sentiments of several peers in other countries who said they would rather not have to deal with the possibility that Ukraine or allies were involved.

Incentives not to "talk" as well as self-willed ignorance:

Since no country is yet ruled out from having carried out the attack, officials said they were loath to share suspicions that could accidentally anger a friendly government that might have had a hand in bombing Nord Stream.
In the absence of concrete clues, an awkward silence has prevailed.
"It’s like a corpse at a family gathering," the European diplomat said, reaching for a grim analogy. Everyone can see there’s a body lying there, but pretends things are normal. "It’s better not to know."

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Once again, all of the above is more in line with what Hersh has reported from the beginning - and yet his detractors have remained just as fierce in their attacks and denunciations, despite his legendary track record of getting things right, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib to Syria.
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Retired general insinuates in leaked footage that US is behind Nord Stream pipeline BOMBING

07/26/2023 // Ramon Tomey // 30 Views

Tags: big government, bombing, Collapse, conspiracy, corruption, deception, Joe Biden, LNG pipelines, national security, Nord Stream, Russia, Russia-Ukraine war, sabotage, Seymour Hersh, Stanley McChrystal, terrorism, traitors, US involvement, White House, WWIII


The U.S., not Russia or Ukraine, is allegedly responsible for the bombing of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines – according to a retired general.
Retired Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal made this disclosure in a secretly recorded conversation obtained by Valuetainment Media. The four-star general led the Joint Special Operations Command in the mid-2000s, and was later known as the commanding officer of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. However, McChrystal was relieved of his duties as ISAF commander after his comments critical of the Obama administration came to light.
The conversation began with McChrystal discussing Russia and its President Vladimir Putin. He remarked: "There's no obvious better solution than Russia. I think Putin ought to go, but there's nobody that I'm aware of standing on the wings."
A man then asked the four-star general about his opinion of the bombing of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. The pipelines supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia to the rest of Europe were destroyed in September 2022. Multiple nations – including Russia, Ukraine, the U.S., the U.K. and Poland – were accused of orchestrating the attack.
McChrystal answered that he and his son, who worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), believe neither Moscow nor Kyiv was responsible for the attack as many had initially suspected. Instead, he proposed that the sabotage may have been orchestrated by nations with interest in LNG – Washington foremost among them.
"My son is the leader of the energy team at DIA," the general remarked. "He didn't think that the Russians did it. He didn't think that the Ukrainians did it either. There are people who benefited from it, and that was people who produced natural gas around the world."

"So if you really want to get conspiracies, the U.S. made more money off that deal than anybody else. That's because we were huge beneficiaries and we changed our policy. We started providing LNG overseas and, you know."
Hersh directly blames Biden for Nord Stream attack

While McChrystal's remarks insinuated Washington's involvement in the attack, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh directly pointed his fingers at U.S. President Joe Biden as the culprit.
Back in March, Hersh told the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that Biden made the decision to blow up the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. According to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the chief executive was of the opinion that doing so would give him a better chance of securing a second term.
"He did it. I'm telling you, he did it," Hersh said. "The Biden game is to wait it out and never say yes." (Related: "I'm telling you, he did it": Seymour Hersh blames Biden for Nord Stream attack.)
According to the journalist, Biden made the decision in January 2022 to "see if we can find a way to blow up … those pipelines and put [the Russians] back in the dark ages." He continued: "I think Biden also saw beating up Russia as a ticket. [John F.] Kennedy is a classic example. Presidents always did well politically in wars."
A month before, Hersh published a report asserting that the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were destroyed by the U.S. as part of a covert operation. According to Hersh's sources for his February report, U.S. Navy divers planted the explosives on the pipelines in June 2022. The explosives, planted under the guise of the BALTOPS 2022 exercise conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), were detonated three months later in September 2022 with a remote signal sent by a sonar buoy.
One source told Hersh that the plotters knew that the covert operation was an "act of war." Some in the Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency even warned: "Don't do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out."
Unfortunately, Biden didn't listen and continued on with his plan. Contrary to his claim, Russia wasn't sent back to the dark ages. Western Europe suffered the consequences instead, being cut off from cheaper and more reliable LNG from Russia.
Visit Conspiracy.news for more stories about the bombing of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines.
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Germany suffers irreversible damage without Russian gas – aftermath of Nord Stream destruction by the U.S.

02/22/2024 // Belle Carter // 1.6K Views

Tags: big government, bombing, Bubble, Collapse, colossal blow, deception, economic powerhouse, economic riot, energy export, energy report, energy supply, fuel supply, Germany, industrial heavyweights, Inflation, LNG, natural gas, Nord Stream pipelines, Olaf Scholz, Putin, Russia, transferring


Back in 2022, bombshell reports surfaced confirming that the U.S. Department of Defense covertly blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, carrying out an act of terrorism against its Western allies in an insanely dangerous effort to harm Russia's energy exports.
It was reportedly carried out with the help of the government of Norway with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of State and the Biden administration all involved in the planning. The planting of explosives used the cover of the BALTOPS 22 U.S. Navy exercise in June 2022, during which U.S. Navy divers planted explosives that were, three months later, remotely detonated by a sonar buoy dropped into the Baltic Sea with a Norwegian Air Force P8 Poseidon patrol plane. The destruction of the offshore natural gas pipelines, which ran under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany to provide Western Europe with natural gas, has caused 'irreversible' damage to Germany and Europe's economy. Related: ACT OF WAR: The U.S. military blew up Nord Stream pipelines, plunging western allies into energy collapse in effort to harm Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that industrial heavyweights are now moving their plants abroad where energy is cheaper, including the United States. Since the pipeline explosion, Berlin decided to switch to more expensive energy sources. He added that Western leaders had hoped that Moscow would fold quickly if shunned by the European market, but they miscalculated. "They were expecting that if they don't take our gas, we will fall apart faster than they face irreversible processes. But irreversible processes are effectively starting to happen," Putin said in an interview with Russian media released on Sunday. "Industries are moving to other countries, including the U.S., where more favorable conditions have been created, and where energy has proven cheaper." He also said that it's absolutely obvious that the policies adopted by Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government are "dealing a colossal blow to the German economy's future."
Europe used to benefit from relatively cheap Russian energy, receiving up to 40 percent of its gas imports from the country. Following the start of Moscow's military operation against Kyiv in February 2022, Berlin also moved to radically reduce its dependence on Russian energy by importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) through European neighbors and boosting pipeline gas flows from Norway and the Netherlands.
Bloomberg News has concluded that Germany's status as an industrial superpower is "coming to an end" after cutting off Russian gas imports. Speaking in the German parliament in mid-January, Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck said the country has "lost its competitive advantage."
Meanwhile, Russia has managed to reroute some of its energy exports elsewhere, Putin said, adding that the situation has proven to be a blessing in disguise, as Russia has been forced to focus more on other industries as opposed to relying solely on gas revenue.
2023 Paper denies dire consequences of the halt of gas flow from Russia to Germany

Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Germany imported a huge percentage of its gas from Moscow and many argued that the embargo would crush Germany's economy but a recent BPEA paper claimed that it found that the effects of this abrupt change were not as dire as many experts feared it would be.
During a podcast, study authors Benjamin Moll and Georg Zachmann talked with Economic Studies Director Ben Harris about how Germany navigated the situation. According to Harris, the key finding in the document was the effect of the Russian gas embargo on German GDP. Those who argued against an embargo cited that it could lead to a severe recession and a six to 12 percent decline in GDP, he cited the paper. "You found that Germany's economy merely suffered a mini-recession with GDP dropping by 0.5 percent during the last winter, which was in line with your prediction of a 1 to 3 percent GDP drop relative to a no-cutoff scenario."
Moll agreed saying this did have substantial costs and obviously, Germany is facing substantial headwinds. "But at the same time, catastrophic scenarios didn't materialize," he insisted. "We saw two key margins of adjustment. The first one was that Germany managed to replace a fair chunk of this Russian gas with imports from other countries. So, in third countries other than Russia, imports from Norway increased a lot but also LNG. So LNG in particular from the United States, was imported not via LNG terminals in Germany originally at least, but through the Netherlands and Belgium. So that was sort of on the supply side."
They also claimed to see a large adjustment on the demand side. German gas demand decreased by a staggering 20 percent, which is a really large number, they said. And in particular for industry, gas demand by industry decreased by more than a quarter, so 26 percent since the gas cutoff in the fall of last year. Households a little less, but still 17 percent, which is a substantial number.
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Delusional German chancellor blames RUSSIA for inflation and high energy prices, ignoring the U.S.’s Nord Stream pipeline destruction

04/16/2024 // Cassie B. // 1.3K Views

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As Germans continue to deal with inflation and high energy prices, politicians are pinning the blame for the situation on Russia while failing to acknowledge the role of the U.S. in blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline and its effect on their gas supplies.In an interview last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz tried to shift the blame away from his own government, saying that Germans should be looking to Moscow rather than Berlin when seeking the cause of high inflation and energy prices. He added that the embargo against Russia was needed in order to defend Europe from imperialism.
He also defended the German government’s unwavering support for Ukraine in the interview with Die Tageszeitung.
“It’s about defending Europe’s peace order. Russia is waging an imperialist war and must not win. Second: Russia stopped its gas deliveries, not us,” he stated.
Russia's Gazprom had been delivering natural gas to Germany through Ukraine, and they also used the Nord Stream pipeline that ran under the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany to supply natural gas to Western Europe. Before the war, Germany had been getting half of its gas from Russia.
Germany blocked the certification of the Nord Stream 2 project, which would double the flow of Russian gas into Germany, shortly before the Ukraine conflict escalated, and their stance did not change after Nord Stream 1 was destroyed by explosions in September 2022.
No one has officially been held accountable for destroying the pipeline, but some reports later indicated that the U.S. Department of Defense was covertly responsible, carrying out the attack under the direction of President Biden in conjunction with the CIA and with help from Norway. The loss of the pipeline has been responsible for much of the damage to the German and European economies.
After losing the pipeline, Germany was forced to move to more expensive sources of energy. Russian President Vladmir Putin has pointed out that the U.S. had a lot to gain from the attack because it bolstered demand for American liquefied natural gas in Europe, so many feel that Scholz’s focus on Russia as the cause of their problems is misguided.
Germany and other European countries enjoyed relatively cheap Russian energy in the past, but since cutting off gas imports from Russia, Germany has seen its international status as an industrial superpower start to fade in the face of higher energy prices. Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck admitted the country had “lost its competitive advantage” in January.
German economy suffering as inflation and energy prices remain high

Scholz also claimed that Germans don’t need to worry about inflation and the economy because green energy and the pharmaceutical industry will turn their fortunes around soon. However, shortly after his comments were released, Germany’s biggest steel maker, Thyssenkrupp, announced that it would be making “a substantial reduction in production” at its facility in Duisburg, which will include laying off 13,000 employees, in light of “high energy costs and tight emission reduction regulations.”
The country is currently poised to plummet into a technical recession following a contraction of its economy of 0.3% last year. This year’s outlook is worrying, with the government slashing its forecast GDP growth from 1.3% to 0.2% for 2024.
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