Daily review 09/02/2023

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29 comments on “Daily review 09/02/2023”

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    Wow, aren't we dorklanders so so glad we voted in a "Mr Fixit" type mayor to manage our current and potentially another weather dilemma.

    It will be so comforting to observe him applying his self professed expertise.

    But be patient folks it will require his articulate deputy dog to wake him up from his after lunch nap

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    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/russia-ukraine-war-us-dismisses-utterly-false-report-on-nord-stream-pipeline-bombings/7FYJTPQFCNCQHPQM4XLWHV4YBM/

    And the rebuttal. Seymour Hersh is 85 years old, and the end of this article says he has been prone to accept info from hidden sources about conspiracy theories in recent years. Throwing mud, maybe, but he doesn't look embedded in a wider media organisation, or to have done extensive fact checking.

    The Europeans don’t seemed too fussed themselves – it may have saved them complicated wiggling out of commercial contracts with Russia.

    The evidence provided by Hersh seems to be circumstantial (US navy movements, apparent lack of interest in an enquiry by Scandi countries). More likely it's misinformation than not. And it's a small event in the overall mishmash of the war.

    1. 5.1

      Yes it is circumstantial, but there is enough obvious data in the public domain for Hersch's narrative to make sense. Sabotage would have been a particularly cynical move by the US and damaging to the German economy, but the US has form. (And France has done similar stuff to us in the past!)

      Agree with the wider perspective, it's more important to stop Russia's aggression.

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    He also somehow managed to expose some of the biggest stories in the 20th century AND 21st century, all these initially denied by the US govt before fully vindicated as fact, won a Pulitzer and just about all the most prestigious journalistic awards out there.

      1. 6.1.1

        But again, from links cited in that same bio, prone in recent years to depend on a single 'intelligence source'. Also poor on corroborating facts, for which other journalists and media transparancy organisations have challenged him more recently.

          1. 6.1.1.1.1

            Hersh has been proven correct many times over many years. He gets good sources by protecting them. That is how journalism works.

            Same pattern with every story that doesn’t fit The Narrative – the author gets attacked, demonised, anything to destroy credibility.

            Biden is on video less than a year earlier saying they'll get rid of the pipeline. That people don't believe the US (or a European NATO state) did it is ridiculous.

      1. 8.2.1

        It is based underwater and first 24 h parking is free (the Dutch love freebies as much as anybody).

        Noticed how well lit the area is? It has better lighting than my local library!

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