Monday, February 13, 2023

Seymour Hersh Nord Stream Bombshell Report Attacked By USA and Zelensky Fan Club

posted by Quis Custodiat, 13 February 2023

 

 Veteran  investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a bombshell report on Wednesday (8 February,) in which he alleged that the United States was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline system last year, citing a single unnamed source "with direct knowledge of the operational planning."This is not news to  most of us as people from a industrial, political, or economic backgrounds, applying the principle of 'cui bono' (who benefits,) quickly identified the USA as the prime suspected, probably aided and abetted by one of their NATO allies in the region.

According to Hersh's report published on his new Substack, the September, 2022 attack on the Russian - owned gas pipelines which carried around 30% of the gas Germany needed to keep the home fires burning and the wheels of industry turning was effected by the U.S. Navy "under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22" and with assistance from the Norwegian navy and secret service.

Last June, with the authorization of President Joe Biden, U.S. Navy divers planted "remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines," Hersh reported.

White House security spokesman Adrienne Watson,quickly denied U.S. involvement, telling the Russian state-owned news agency TASS that Hersh's reporting was "false and complete fiction." The White House gave the same statement to Reuters and to Hersh himself, who over the course of his career has famously exposed U.S. forces' massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians exposed the torture of detainees at the U.S-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.The reporter stood by his story however, and asserted that his source is totally reliable, hinting that there is more to be revealed about US involvement in European affairs.

It does not matter whether Hersh knows more than he is telling. In any story like this, whether deliberately leaked or actively researched, there will be a grain (actually a very, very large slice) of the truth. So here's how we Boggart Bloggers think things stand:

It seems everyone knows that the USA was behind the action, whether practically or only by instigation. Were it otherwise how could American gas suppliers have had a fleet of Liquid Natural Gas tankers ready to start shipping gas to Europe to replace the lost Russian imports. Most well informed people in Germany, including many business leaders have accepted this and it is likely the Russians or someone in Germany has evidence to prove it.

So as readers we need to think rationally to try to sort out which parts of Hersh's story are the red herrings. I think that it is reasonable to assume that 75% is true, but the issue is sorting out which 25% is not.

Our guess is that the US sources would be anxious to protect their anonymity, and if it was a US plane that triggered the explosion to protect U.S. interests by throwing Norway to the lions. They would also probably be keen to protect the UK, since if they shit on the Brits there are a lot of secrets regarding covert operations known to MI6 and any serious rift could lead to all sorts of embarrassing leaks. So Norway is sacrificed instead of the UK, and perhaps because it is felt that Russia is less likely to retaliate against Norway.

One serious issue for the USA, that nobody is discussing, is just how reliable is the UK these days. The huge social shifts that has seen Rishi Sunak elected as PM indicates that the Angloshpere connection is weakening. Yes Sunak is probably in the pocket of the USA as is Starmer, but what about the nation as a whole. Economically the UK is in a bad place and it would be expedient to dump on weak Norway, than risk further destabilisation in UK.

All of this might seem idiotically convoluted, but compared to the usual machinations of governments, diplomatic staff and state security agencies it is comparatively straightforward, and in the light of  the initial response of the USA and NATO members to the sabotage of the pipelines, which was you may remember, to accuse the Russians of sabotaging their own pipeline, an asset via which a highly significant slice of their export revenue was earned, it starts to look quite feasible.

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Main News Stories - 13 February 2023

Two Top Climate Scientists Find Further Evidence That Global Warming Has Been Exaggerated

by Chris Morrison
Daily Sceptic,12 February 2023 11:00 AM

Up to one fifth of all warming reported across the planet by around 20,000 weather stations is invalid due to corruption from non-climatic data. This finding is the latest revelation from two atmospheric scientists seeking to measure the effect of human-caused urban heat on global surface temperature measurements. [... ]

The latest finding arises from the ongoing work of Dr. Roy Spencer and Professor John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The two scientists looked at the 19,885 temperature stations in the Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN) distributed around the world from latitudes 20N to 82.5N. They found that over the last 40 years, virtually all of them had experienced growth associated with human settlement. The global work is said to be at an early stage, but “very preliminary calculations” are said to suggest that urban heat averaged across all stations is about 10-20% of GHCN trends.




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by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog,, Feb 13, 2023

Ramping up wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles can’t solve our energy problem

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  • Increasingly complex energy solutions are undoubtedly powerful and promising, but in practice, they often result in more fuel use rather than less.

Many people believe that installing more wind turbines and solar panels and manufacturing more electric vehicles can solve our energy problem, but I don’t agree with them. These devices, plus the batteries, charging stations, transmission lines and many other structures necessary to make them work represent a high level of complexity.

A relatively low level of complexity, such as the complexity embodied in a new hydroelectric dam, can sometimes be used to solve energy problems, but we cannot expect ever-higher levels of complexity to always be achievable.

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UK Polling Report

Sturgeon Still Scotland's Most Popular Politician Despite 12% Margin Against Independence

13 Feb @ 15:35
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The Failure of Net Zero In One Graphic

 This blog has consistently over the past decade asserted that the folly of 'Net Zero' policies embraced by governments in the liberal democracies, in pursuit of making the developed world carbon neutral by 2050 is doomed to fail because the only methods of generating electricity or providing the energy needed to drive industry and commerce, heat (or cool,) our homes, cook our food, and drive all forms of transport are intermitteny and unreliable.

As the arguments in support from politicians and scientists have become more untenable and more hilariously comical when not viewed in the context of the expense and misery these whako policied dreamed up by green ideologues, the Boggart Bloggers have, for the past few months, embarked on a project to monior the performance of wind and solar power generators against established technologies like gas and nuclear (which actually is CO2 free as well as being reliable, but is hated by the Green Blob anyway.)

We don't intend to publish results obtained via www.gridwatch.co.uk every day, people may acuse us of cherry picking results and only reporting when low wind or cloudy skies affect sustainables, but as our point is that 'sustainables' are unreliable and on windless days (in Britain solar makes only a small contribution at best,) we would be left with a huge shortfall in energy were to completely stop use of fossil fuel now.

The picture below is for today, 13 February 2023, time as shown. Gridwatch updates its page regularly so statistics are always relevant. The grey bar at the top is nuclear, Orange is gas, Blue, wind;Yellow, solar; Brown, biomass; Black, coal; everything from the short pinl bar and below are overseas sources from which we import electricity.



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