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CHARLIE STADTLANDER, DIRECTOR of external communications for the New York Times, joined the paper directly from the National Security Agency, where he served as head of public affairs.

According to Stadtlander’s LinkedIn page, he’s worked for the Times since January 2022. Before that, he held his position at the NSA starting in 2019. His only listed job in the media before the New York Times is as a journalism teacher for three months in 2010, when he served as an “instructor to gifted children, ages 8-13” at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

The Times corporate website publishes a constant stream of short posts about staffers joining the paper or changing positions, including in its external communications department. However, the news of Stadtlander’s hiring and his background does not appear on the webpage of press releases.

All of this raises obvious questions. Is being the spokesperson for the nation’s most prestigious newspaper a completely different job from being the spokesperson for the NSA? Or are they pretty much the same job? Most importantly, are the perspectives of the two institutions fundamentally different — or are they, in more ways than you might imagine, fundamentally the same?

 

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==== When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway. Citing a source "with direct knowledge of the operational planning," Hersh writes on his Substack blog that planning for the mission began in December of 2021.

 

The White House and the Norwegian government have since denied the claims. Hersh joins us for an in-depth interview to discuss his report and says the U.S. decision to bomb the pipelines was meant to lock allies into support for Ukraine at a time when some were wavering.

"The fear was Europe would walk away from the war," he says. Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his reporting on the My Lai massacre. His reporting on CIA spying on antiwar activists during the Vietnam War era helped lead to the formation of the Church Committee, which led to major reforms of the intelligence community, and in 2004, he exposed the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.

 

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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US campaign to frame Ukraine as the culprit behind the Nord Stream attack may indicate the Biden administration is now ready to abandon Kiev or press it into settlement talks with Russia, analysts told Sputnik.

American media earlier reported that a "pro-Ukrainian group" was behind the Nord Stream bombing. Meanwhile, German outlets reported that the group used a boat rented from a Poland-based firm, apparently owned by two Ukrainians.

Both stories emanated in the wake of a bombshell report by legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh that identified the US government as being behind the bombing. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist said US navy divers during NATO drills in the summer of 2022 planted explosives on the pipelines that were activated three months later.

On Wednesday, it was reported by US media that the CIA, months before the incident, allegedly warned European counterparts that a group was planning the Nord Stream attack, senior Biden advisers suspected Ukraine involvement, and the White House was concerned about it rattling Kiev's ties with Germany and other NATO allies.

 

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Environmental Сatastrophe At Nord Stream

 

Written by  ORIENTAL REVIEW on 03/03/2023

 

According to European scientists, the undermining of the Nord Stream gas pipeline led to an ecological disaster in the Baltic Sea. The consequences of this sabotage vary, but the cumulative damage to nature is enormous.

An immediate consequence of the pipelines’ explosion was the death of marine animals. According to Research Square study, the explosions caused a “chain reaction” in the marine environment that could lead to the extinction of certain species of fish and marine animals, including cod and porpoises.

The harbour porpoise is a small cetacean that is quite widespread in Northern Hemisphere waters, numbering about 700,000 individuals. But their population in the Baltic Sea genetically and externally differs from other representatives of the species. The number of these animals is a little over 500, and they are actually in danger of extinction.

The harbour porpoises usually congregate in May and October around the Goburgs and Midsjöbanken in Swedish territorial waters, which are situated about 40 km east of the blast sites. The explosions may have killed animals within a radius of up to 4 km, or rendered deaf those up to 50 km away. Scientists emphasize that the death or injury of even one of the animals of the Baltic subspecies can significantly affect their entire small population.

Maria Gjerding, the president of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation, noted that the situation causes serious concern for the fate of the Baltic Sea. The report shows: the explosion has worsened the condition of the sea water, which is already in a very serious, critical state.

Bo Øksnebjerg, the Secretary General of WWF Denmark, shares this view. He also believes that the damage was caused by toxic substances that got into the water. The explosions and ensuing water jets stirred up more than 250,000 tonnes of contaminated seabed containing toxic substances. Cod has probably suffered considerable damage due to the effects of toxic substances on the endocrine system of fish in the area of Bornholm Hollow.

Among the toxic substances is tributyl tin (TBT), which is used as a component of paints to prevent fouling of ship hulls and technical structures (piles, poles, etc.). It too has been long accumulated on the seabed, which has been stirred up by explosions. According to Hans Sanderson, a senior researcher at the Department of Environmental Sciences at Aarhus University, who also led the team working on the report, TBT destroys the reproductive capacity of marine animals.

This means that right now the marine environment of the Baltic Sea is already struggling to survive.

Danish Environment Minister Magnus Heunicke of the Social Democrats said, “At first glance, the effects seem to be local, but the Baltic Sea is already under severe pressure, which is why we are, of course very aware of the consequences”. He said that the Danish government will be continuously monitoring and sharing the information with their neighbouring countries around the Baltic Sea, so that they have an overall picture of the consequences and can follow up as appropriate. But Germany, Denmark and Sweden have not yet finished investigating the explosions and are not giving any information to the general public and other states. Therefore, the issue of preservation of biodiversity in the Baltic Sea remains open.

It should be noted that previously, in the context of the environmental consequences of gas pipeline explosions, the media wrote mainly about the emissions of natural gas into the water and the atmosphere. Assessment of their level is not an easy task, especially under the water.

Denmark, Sweden, in whose exclusive economic zones sabotage took place, and Germany published different data on the scale of the leak. But all emphasized emissions to the atmosphere.

To determine the impact of methane on the climate, it is customary to convert it into the equivalent of carbon dioxide (CO2). The global warming potential is calculated either in the perspective of 100 years or 20 years. In the first case, the “warming” effect of methane is 28 times greater than that of CO2, while in the second case, it is 84 times greater.

The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) estimates that explosions at the pipelines laid on the bottom of the Baltic Sea released 300,000 metric tons of methane, the equivalent of 7.5 million tons of CO2 over a century. This corresponds to roughly one percent of Germany’s annual emissions, according to the agency’s report.

The figures from the Danish Energy Agency are slightly different. Two of the four leaks were near the Danish island of Bornholm. The Danes counted 778 million cubic meters of natural gas, equivalent to 14.6 million tons of CO2, or 32 percent of all greenhouse gases produced by the country in 2020.

Sweden considers the 20-year forecast horizon more accurate because methane decays faster than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. “The leaks correspond to 40 million tons of carbon dioxide over a 20-year horizon. This compares to all of Sweden’s total climate emissions last year, which amounted to 48 million tons”, Svt Nyheter wrote, citing an environmental economist at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.

There is another alarming fact associated with the undermining of Nord Stream. After World War II, according to the decision of the Potsdam Conference on the demilitarization of Germany, German chemical weapons were buried on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. A considerable part of them is just in the region of the Bornholm Island, near where the explosions took place. Thirty-two thousand tons of munitions with 11 thousand tons of chemical agents were dumped there. Up to 70 percent was mustard gas, 20 percent was arsenic-containing substances. So far nothing critical has happened to these dangerous burial sites, but according to scientists, any destabilization of the seabed can lead to serious consequences.

 

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Legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on Sunday offered a theory for what he sees as “complete idiocy” in foreign policy from US officials. He told Chinese state television that he believes they’re so consumed by hatred of Russian President Vladimir Putin that they stumble into bad decisions.

Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who reported last month that US President Joe Biden ordered last fall’s sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines, has called the alleged plot one of Washington’s “dumbest” decisions in years. However, the blunder didn’t reflect a lack of intelligence among top officials in Biden’s administration, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Hersh said in an interview with CGTN.

Top administration officials “all have high degrees of, plenty of, intelligence,” Hersh said. “It’s just what they're so driven by, I think, hatred of all things particularly Putin, and also communism per se. They’re so cold warriors, they’re really out of sorts. It makes them do dumb things.”

The White House dismissed Hersh’s bombshell report on the Nord Stream blast as “complete fiction.” The New York Times, where Hersh did award-winning work on the Watergate scandal and other stories as a star reporter in the 1970s, claimed earlier this month that a “pro-Ukraine group”was behind the Nord Stream attack. The story cited unidentified US officials.

 

 

Hersh told CGTN that neither the Ukrainian navy nor a non-state actor had the resources to carry out the sabotage, which involved planting C4 explosives on four concrete-encased steel pipelines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. He said the false claim was made to distract from the fact that US Navy divers planted the remotely detonated explosives under cover of a NATO exercise in the Baltic.

“They’re trying to divert attention from the story that I wrote, which included enormous specifics,” Hersh said. “I was describing a process that began before Christmas of 2021. . . . They had a series of meetings at a secret room in the White House, that I gave clues I know the title of the room.”

The veteran journalist argued that being “antagonistic” with China and Russia is counterproductive for Washington. “They make it personal. They don’t make it professional.” He added that Biden’s foreign policy has alienated governments around the world since Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began last year.

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“Russia has made more friends in the Third World since this began than anybody in this administration seems to appreciate,” Hersh said. “This notion of American hegemony, if you will, just doesn’t work anymore.”

 

 

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