1. You may or may not recall that Reagan Approved a CIA Plan to Sabotage a Siberian pipeline which caused a massive explosion back in 1982.

2. At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas.

washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
3. "The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space,"

4. The sabotage of the gas pipeline has not been previously disclosed, and at the time was a closely guarded secret.

Archived here:

archive.ph/wGBSk
5. The Soviet Gas Pipeline in Perspective (1982)

cia.gov/readingroom/do…
6. Undermining “The Deal of the Century”

The Siberian Natural Gas Pipeline & the Failure of American Economic Pressure on the Soviet Energy Industry

When that didn't work, Reagan approved the CIA pipeline sabotage operation.

scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewconten…
7. An incomplete history of maritime sabotage

Note the usual "perpetrators" of such acts ;)

A BLAST FROM THE PAST?

Role of Maritime Sabotage in Strategic Competition

mwi.usma.edu/a-blast-from-t…
8. 1984 - Nicaragua

The CIA helped lay underwater bottom-lying mines in Nicaraguan ports that damaged 8 ships from various nations, using highly trained Latin American employees of the CIA, operating from CIA-owned speedboats

washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
9. Cuba - Operation MONGOOSE - 1962

The CIA proposed:

1. mining the entrance of harbors with non-United States Government attributable mines

2. Blocking a Harbor by Sinking a Ship in the Entrance Channel.

3. mining and hit-and-run operations
10. Operation Mongoose Continued

4. underwater demolition attack by 2 frogmen against shipping and port facilities

5. the mining of six Cuban harbors

See Documents 16 and 17 here:

nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…
11. Back to Nordstream

You can watch the usual lies and propaganda shows and listen to the accusations and counter accusations in the recent UN meeting here (with English interpretation)



Russia 20:00-32:00
UK 41:40-43:40
USA 44-50
Russia 1:05:00 to end
12. Also, Matrix Gazprom Rep 5-11:45

& Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA 12-20

Not sure why he was invited, but likely thrown in by the French, as a warning, given his comments in 2021

Nord Stream 2: Europe stays quiet while US ‘tramples over EU sovereignty’

ifri.org/en/espace-medi…
13. Shades of SARS-COV-2?

While reading Operation Mongoose Docs, I noted some comments regarding proposed US chemical & biological warfare against Cuba:

"introduction of biological agents which would appear to be of natural origin"

"unless they could be completely covered up"
14. Document 15 (Version B) here:

nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/19644…

All Operation Mongoose Documents & Analysis here:

nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…

Worth reading twice, eh @jhas5 ?
15. Other recent "absurd conspiracy theories" and "malicious fantasies" are linked in this tweet:

16 Unroll Mongoose 2 Nordstream @threadreaderapp
16 (a) I forgot to mention the natural origin theory ;)

The Nord Stream explosions may have been natural

Pipelines are a difficult problem, a lot can go wrong with them, just like viruses, in fact, many things have gone wrong before...

thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordst…
17. BALTOPS 2022

Experiments conducted off coast of Bornholm, with participants from Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, Mine Warfare Readiness & Effectiveness under direction of US 6th Fleet Task Force 68

seapowermagazine.org/baltops-22-a-p…

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We speak with 2 of DRASTIC's prominent members:

@gdemaneuf (a data scientist & engineer)

and @BillyBostickson, longtime activist who was formerly part of opposition networks in China & HK & who operates anonymously for security reasons.
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How did DRASTIC come about?

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23. Neglecting Alternative Hypotheses

No SARS-CoV-like viruses near emergence sites?

They completely overlook non-bat reservoirs, like civets or pangolins, which could explain local circulation (p. 15).

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To show that :

"our inferences of the time of the ancestors of human SARS-CoVs and their closest bat sarbecoviruses are UNBIASED"
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7. Captain Obvious Strikes Again (2)

"Our findings indicate that there would not have been sufficient time for the direct bat virus ancestor to reach the locations of emergence of the human SARS-CoVs via normal dispersal through bat populations alone"
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1. Last sick joke of the Zoonati?

Fragments of human SARS-CoVs share recent common ancestors with bat viruses

SARS-CoV-like viruses have circulated in Asia for millennia

Ancestors of human SARS-CoVs likely circulated in China & Laos

Ancestors traveled unexpectedly fast
2. No Pangolins allowed!

There is insufficient temporal signal when calibrating a molecular clock using tip dating with sarbecoviruses sampled from bats & pangolins, likely as a consequence of limited sampling across space & time.

Therefore, we used SARS-CoV-1 genomes!
3. Definitely no pangolins!

As sampling locations of SARS-CoV-1, 2 & pangolin sarbecoviruses likely do not represent where their direct bat virus ancestors circulated, we EXCLUDED their locations from phylogeographic analyses to avoid the IMPACT of dispersal of non-bat hosts!
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Turning and turning in the petri dish,
The scientists cannot hear the warnings;
Genes recombine; the barriers cannot hold,
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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
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The best lack critical thinking, while the professors
Are full of furious bias.
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Surely the cover up is now banned?
Lab Leak! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Human Folly
Troubles my sight:
3. Somewhere in Wuhan

somewhere in the cell lines of a Chinese laboratory
A shape with pangolin body and the head of a bat,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its long tongue, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant molested bats.
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