{"id":265406,"date":"2023-02-22T08:34:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265406"},"modified":"2023-02-23T08:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T08:06:35","slug":"nordstream-2-seymour-hersh-feeds-the-fake-binary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265406","title":{"rendered":"Nordstream 2: Seymour Hersh feeds the fake binary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kit Knightly &#8212; Off-Gaurdian.org Feb 21, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Back in October 2022, when the Nordstream 2 sabotage was first hitting the headlines, <a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2022\/10\/01\/nordstream-sabotage-deeper-dive\/\">I predicted the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The \u201cofficial story\u201d will never prove who bombed the pipeline one way or the other and is not intended to. Resolution is not desired. Instead, Team A will encourage us to blame Team B, and vice versa. The MSM will report evidence implicating Russia, while other evidence suggesting NATO were responsible will be \u201cleaked\u201d. Both narratives will be fed just enough to keep the argument going for as long as required and in any direction chosen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to now, and the big story over the last couple of days \u2013 at least in alternate media circles \u2013 has been Seymour Hersh\u2019s publication of a new article for the first time in quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>The article, based entirely on \u201cleaked\u201d information from one anonymous \u201cinsider\u201d source, claims that the United States military <a href=\"https:\/\/seymourhersh.substack.com\/p\/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream\">sabotaged the Nordstream 2 pipeline<\/a>, and had been planning to do it since before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me but, how is this news?<\/p>\n<p>After all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/if-russia-invades-ukraine-there-will-be-no-nord-stream-2-biden-says-2022-02-07\/\">Joe Biden said<\/a> <em>\u201cif Russia invades, there will be no Nordstream 2\u201d<\/em>. Victoria Nuland, speaking more plainly, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/1486818088016355336?lang=en\">stated on January 27th<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201cone way or another\u201d is barely ambiguous there. Obviously, if the pipe was sabotaged, the Americans did it. That was never in question, really.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s the real question isn\u2019t? <em>Was the pipe sabotaged?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sure, both sides <em>say<\/em> the pipe was sabotaged. But both sides <em>said<\/em> Covid was a real threat, and both sides <em>said<\/em> masks worked, and both sides<em> said<\/em> their vaccines were safe.<\/p>\n<p>All they\u2019ve done, for the past 3 years, is lie. About everything. Most importantly, both sides have told<em> the exact same lies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, why should we go back to reporting the news on their terms?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s have a reality check, shall we? Here\u2019s what we actually <em>know<\/em> about the Nordstream 2 situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is not currently transporting gas.<\/li>\n<li>The \u201csabotage\u201d has driven up the cost of energy all across Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Reducing the use and increasing the cost of fossil fuels is a major part of the \u201cGreat Reset\u201d agenda.<\/li>\n<li>Both NATO and Russia are willful participants in that agenda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That\u2019s it. That\u2019s all we know. Based on that, we can\u2019t rule out the possibility Nordstream 2 was \u201csabotaged\u201d in full agreement from both sides.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t even know it was \u201csabotaged\u201d at all. Because all we\u2019ve been allowed to see is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/n_360_212\/public\/main-image\/2022\/11\/18\/3547636-1352863381.jpg?itok=rMkOnmfs\">some bubbles<\/a>. An image you could create in a few seconds by going to OpenArt and typing <em>\u201cbubbles on surface of ocean\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever actually happened, all we know is that it\u2019s off, and our gas is more expensive. Again.<\/p>\n<p>Hersh\u2019s story seems to be an exercise in a special kind of journalism \u2013 telling people what they already know, or suspect, under the guise of providing new information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRevelations\u201d from \u201cformer\u201d insiders that actually reinforce the underlying assumptions of the mainstream narrative by supplying a controlled \u201calternative\u201d point of view.<\/p>\n<p>The official mainstream position is that Russia blew up their own pipeline. There is no evidence to support this, it is simply stated.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Hersh has supplied the official <em>alternative<\/em> position \u2013 that the US did it \u2013 with a narrative of their own. There is no evidence to support this counter-narrative either, it is likewise simply stated.<\/p>\n<p>Say it with me: It\u2019s a fake binary. One I actually exactly predicted back in October.<\/p>\n<p>Two apparently conflicting faith-based positions, both built on scant drip-fed evidence and both selling the same line: That the \u201csabotage\u201d of Nordstream 2 was the result of international conflicts which <em>accidentally<\/em> furthered the great reset agenda.<\/p>\n<p>But given what we\u2019ve all seen over the last three years, isn\u2019t the alternative more likely? That it was an act designed to further the great reset, camouflaged behind potentially performative international conflict?<\/p>\n<p>Arguing over whether Putin or Biden blew up Nordstream 2 is living in a fake reality built on false assumptions supplied by proven liars.<\/p>\n<p>The one silver lining of Covid is that it forced so many people to wake up and live in the real world. Let\u2019s go back there, shall we?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian.org on:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/support-us\/#bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liberapay.com\/OffGuardian\/donate\">Liberapay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2023\/02\/21\/nordstream-2-seymour-hersh-feeds-the-fake-binary\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kit Knightly explains how falling into the us\/them dynamic is willfully forgetting the lessons Covid taught us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":265408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265407,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265406\/revisions\/265407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}