The media’s Nord Stream lies just keep coming

Why do billionaires and governments scramble to control the media? Because the power over our minds is the greatest power there is

By Jonathan Cook

November 14, 2023

Want to understand why the media we consume is either owned by billionaires or under the thumb of government? The latest developments in the reporting of who was behind the explosions that destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines that brought Russian gas to Europe provide the answer.

Although largely forgotten now, the blasts in the Baltic Sea in September 2022 had huge and lasting repercussions. The explosion was an act both of unprecedented industrial sabotage and of unparalleled environmental terrorism, releasing untold quantities of the most potent of the greenhouse gases, methane, into the atmosphere.

The blowing up of the pipelines plunged Europe into a prolonged energy crisis, tipping its economies deeper into a recession from which they are yet to recover. Europe was forced to turn to the United States and buy much more expensive liquified gas. And one of the long-term effects will be to accelerate the de-industrialisation of Europe, especially Germany.

There can be almost no one in Europe who did not suffer personal financial harm, in most cases significant harm, from the explosions.

The question that needed urgently answering at the time of the blasts was one no media organisation was in a hurry to investigate: Who did it?

In unison, the media simply recited the White House’s extraordinary claim that Russia had sabotaged its own pipelines.

That required an unprecedented suspension of disbelief. It meant that Moscow had chosen to strip itself both of the lucrative income stream the gas pipelines generated, and of the political and diplomatic leverage it enjoyed over European states from its control of their energy supplies. This was at a time, remember, when the Kremlin, embattled in its war in Ukraine, needed all the diplomatic influence it could muster.

Read more: https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2023-11-14/media-nord-stream-lies/

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See also:

Nordstream – Anatomy of Dante’s Explosion

By Dr Hans-Benjamin Braun (PhD)

December 31, 2022 (very minor corr. April 7, 2023)

This independent analysis of the Nordstream Pipeline Sabotage has been carried out in the spirit of strict Swiss neutrality and is based on objective scientific methodology. It has not been mandated and has not been supported by any public or private funding nor any University.

https://drive.proton.me/urls/HYVJAJ3P5W#D2jSuEOYk3nn

https://www.globalresearch.ca/nord-stream-anatomy-dante-explosion/5828535

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The Poseidon Attack on Nord Stream

By Ola Tunander

September 9, 2023

Part I

https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-poseidon-attack-on-nord-stream

Part II

https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-poseidon-attack-on-nord-stream-ef2

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