Australia's ABC News shocking failure to report Seymour Hersh on US and Norway blowing up Nordstream 2

Editor's comment: The original title given to this comment was "Little Miss Breathless in Australia?" I changed the title so that readers are more likely to understand the purpose of this comment. As for this post's effort to dismiss Seymour Hersh, please also see the 29 minute Video discussion How America Blew Up The Nord Stream Pipeline | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris. Otherwise, for now, I will just point out that no sources are given for the claims made below. I expect that if they had been cited, we would find that they are the same sources that lied about Iraqi WMDs, supposed Syrian and Libyan governments murder of their own peoples, 'North' Vietnamese 'aggression' against 'South' Vietnam, Oswald's 'magic bullet', etc., etc.

 

I checked out the link that you would have us believe proves former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss sent a text message to the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, saying, "It is done." moments after the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline explosion. Your link is to some obscure Pakistani website that advertises samosas (which I quite enjoy) and the "evidence" consists of nothing apart from a tweet by the notorious troll, serial liar and convicted fraud Kim Dotcom. Kim Dotcom claims to have personally seen the alleged phone comment on hacked intel. It is beyond me why anyone would take this unsupported claim seriously as Kim Dotcom furnished no evidence and repeatedly makes outrageous claims.  At least when Kim Dotcom dishonestly accused  Lt Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi of wearing a Nazi bracelet, he provided a blurry image! But such are the standards of your citizen journalism that random unsubstantiated tweets from known frauds constitutes breathtaking evidence, so long as it fits in with your conspiratorial, Russia Today approved worldview.

One imagines Kim Dotcom is rather unhappy with the US government, which seeks his extradition from NZ for several hundred million dollars worth of copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering. Also of interest is how Kim Dotcom, who dropped out of high school without a penny in his pocket, has somehow been able to accumulate the wealth to have almost 20 luxury cars, a mansion and 10 million dollars in the bank. Not being a conspiracy theorist myself, I shall not speculate.

As to the 85 year old Mr Seymour Hersh, about whom you claim to be breathless, his claims about the US and Norway being behind the blowing up of Nordstream2 have about as much hard and verifiable evidence as the litany of other conspiracy theories he has pushed in his dotage, such as his James Bond like claim about the killing of Osama Bin Laden. That is to say, nothing whatsoever.  

Accordingly the ABC, which you breathlessly criticise and accuse without evidence of lying, is likely not reporting Seymour Hersh's latest tale for the same reason it doesn't report most of the millions of other grubby claims and conspiracy theories that flood the internet each day of the week and lure in the gullible, the immature and the weird. Any claim that the ABC is beholden to the government is obviously false given the ABC's habit over many decades of running stories that shame the Government of the day, such as those on Robodebt,  war crimes in Afghanistan, corruption in politics and policing and so on. How many time has just one program, 4 Corners, shone a light in dark corners that have embarrassed governments over the years? It must be dozens.  You will not get that in your preferred Ilyinist-Putinist  (Nazi) Russia, which controls most of the media and has caused independent journalists to flee the country.  

Editors' comment: How Andriy, an ethnic Ukrainian, could not hate Zilenskyy, who has sent tens of thousands of his brothers to their deaths in his war of choice in the East, is beyond me. Is Andriy aware that Zilenskyy, whether through stupidity or criminal intent, attempted to cause the Zaporozhye nuclear plant to melt down with rocket attacks and artillery bombardment? Has he seen films of Ukrainians, including ethnic Hungarians being hunted down to be conscripted by Zilenskyy to fight and die in the East?

Re the editor's comment, all my claims are from the mainstream media and you may easily google them. It takes less than 10 seconds to find literally thousands of links about Kim Dotcom's wealth and legal issues, for instance. This is also common knowledge as it has been well reported, so the author of this article is obviously aware of them but made a deliberate decision to conceal this information from the readership.  I did not bother providing links as this website dismisses mainstream reporting and will not allow links or even paragraph breaks, although I note paragraph breaks, for the first time ever, are in my above reply. - I edited the comment to make it more readable - Ed.

 

As an aside-  I now see that this website is running a claim by the convicted pedophile and notorious chatroom child groomer, Scott Ritter, that the Ukrainians are using chemical weapons against the Russian Ilynist-Putinist invaders. (Editors' comment: As we know from the Jeffrey Epstein saga, large numbers of the US political elite were also guilty of pedophilia. If Ritter, himself, has been found guilty of some counts of pedophilia, the fact remains, we owe our lives to Scott Ritter, who achieved agreements to control the nuclear arms race in 1988, following the US deployment of cruise missile and the Soviet response. Had this not occurred, nuclear war would almost certainly have occurred.) Without hard evidence, verified by neutral sources, I see this as just another racist attack on my fellow Ukrainians. For whatever reason, this website is determined to see all Ukrainians exterminated in a Second Holodomor.

Yeah, nah. The Kim Dotcom observations have been widely reported and Kim's record is not so black and white. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAFWsSnxsI) Doesn't seem likely that he made it up, but, even if he did, his is not the only sign pointing to the  US.

Motivation, opportunity, and threats put the US (and anyone found loitering with them) as prime suspects.

Seymour Hersh's very detailed account is probably true for the simple reason that the bad guys (the United States and NATO) have failed to argue it point by point. Instead, they have just tried to smear the author, whose credentials are so good that this just makes them look like liars incapable of defending their lies, despite enormous budgets just to do that.

You are also trying to smear him, rather than argue motive, opportunity, intention, and all the points that Hersh makes.

ABC Australia mirrors Australian cabinet policies and consistently reports whatever the Whitehouse gives as reasons to go to war. The US always find mad dictators wherever they want to invade and pillage, and weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons, babies thrown out of incubators, etc etc.  How could anyone not born yesterday believe them, unless thoroughly brainwashed from childhood?  Four Corners also does terrible reports sometimes, such as perpetuating the Russian interference nonsense in US elections. With anything important that affects foreign relations, they pull their punches.

Unfortunately Australia is one of the bad guys and it is friends with a whole gang of them.

We have a government that has allowed Julian Assange, who exposed countless US and other war-crimes to be locked up illegally for years, on behalf of the United States. What further proof do you need to indicate that Australia's media and governments are built on lies, war, propaganda, and defending criminals?

The ABC has almost nothing to say about Julian Assange.  None of the mainstream journalists stand up for him - because they are too scared of their bosses or so ignorant that they actually cannot question what they are telling the general public.

All our news is censored since the beginning of the war, at a time when everyone could and should be able to read what the other side(s) have to say.  But that would prevent the war, so we have censorship.

It amazes me that you get so riled up.  Ours is one of very few sites that doesn't swallow the pro-Ukraine message hook, line and sinker.  Do you expect every single journalist in the world to agree with your ideologically stuck view of the world?

I see that my above comments have been edited (the titles have been changed) and have editorial insertions put in them without my consent. Am I right in assuming this has been done by James Sinnamon rather than Sheila Newman? I ask because Sinnamon's peculiar idées fixes appear in the editorial comments. I have never had this happen on the mainstream media sites where I have commented over the years. Such behaviour is unethical but it certainly confirms my priors. As to the new batch of factual claims made above by Sinnamon (I assume), I would need to see data from neutral sources before I assess them. In any event, it is well reported that Russia is killing its own soldiers with sledgehammer blows to the head- the Putin approved Wagner terrorist group has a long history of using this tactic and Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin appears to be quite proud of it. He no longer even denies it. Why do facts like that not appear on this site? Why is there no mention of Russia using thousands of convicted criminals as cannon fodder? Why is there no mention of Russia's few remaining independent journalists having mostly fled the country? Or the journalists who have been jailed or died in suspicious circumstances? Or citizens being punished for even calling the war a war instead of the ridiculous euphemism, "special military operation"? But most importantly, why have you concealed Putin's open embrace of Nazism, for instance his continued crackdown on LGBTI people, anti-Satanist witch hunts and lionization of the Hitler loving madman Ivan Ilyich? Are you denying that Putin had Ilyich's grave moved to Russia from Switzerland and laid a wreath on it? Having said all that, I note that in the last French Presidential election Sheila Newman expressly called for French voters to vote for Marin Le Pen, whose party is the continuation of her father's anti-semitic, holocaust denying National Front. One could be forgiven for thinking that an openly anti-LGBTI, pro-Putin, pro-Ilyinist and pro-Le Pen war-loving website such as this could itself be designated far right, if not outright fascist. Would you be comfortable with such a designation?   And as to me being riled up, well no, I gather your readership is so small that it is irrelevant. 

Sheila, you have no way of knowing if I read what Hersh wrote. You also say I turned up on a "on a population discussion list." I know nothing about any population discussion lists- you just made that up. My only previous encounter with you was correcting your numerous mistakes in regard to industrial law on this website. You even conceded most of your mistakes.   Having looked over the past 12 months's worth of encounters with critical guests on this site, I note that every single one of them has copped abuse and been shown the door or otherwise treated poorly. There isn't even a single exception. As such, I bid you farewell and shall travel to more fructuous pastures. Enjoy talking amongst yourselves.