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Nord Stream mystery: the tanker Minerva Julie spent 7 days idling near the attack site
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | March 11th, 2023 | Mattathias Schwartz

Posted on 03/11/2023 6:49:24 PM PST by Mariner

The question of who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines is likely to remain an unsolved mystery for some time.

Even as new details surface from European investigators, one of the most intriguing clues to recently emerge comes not from official probes but via a 29-year-old open-source analyst based in Denmark. Oliver Alexander spent months analyzing data from the maritime Automatic Identification System, or AIS, from vessels that passed near the site of three out of the four pipeline ruptures shortly before the damage. He noticed that the Minerva Julie, a 600-foot Greek-flagged tanker, was headed east from Rotterdam when, on September 6, it came to an abrupt stop in the middle of the Baltic Sea.

The Minerva Julie stayed there, alternately idling and crossing a roughly 200-square-nautical-mile area above the two natural-gas pipelines, for seven days, from September 6 until September 12. From there, the Julie traveled on to Tallinn, Estonia before anchoring at Saint Petersburg, Russia on September 18. Then, on September 26, the two pipelines burst.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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To: Kazan

Hersh interviewed a couple of the divers...


21 posted on 03/11/2023 7:06:31 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: canuck_conservative
No, those REALLY hate America will cover up for crimes of the Biden regime. That is what you and your ilk are doing because neocons are just as corrupt.

The whole war in Ukraine is because we wanted a proxy war with Russia. It Victoria Nuland's brilliant idea to go through with it and it has failed miserable and it endangered this nation and the Western world.

Yet, you keep covering up and doubling down.

22 posted on 03/11/2023 7:07:26 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Mariner

“… The Julie’s owners told Insider that the tanker had stopped “while awaiting her next voyage instructions…”
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Which is what seagoing commercial vessels do…most ESPECIALLY TANKERS DURING AN OIL EMBARGO.

Business Insider? They’re blowing smoke to distract….IMHO.


24 posted on 03/11/2023 7:09:09 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://youtu.be/NSZyKYitC3M

It is amazing this is not on front page news.


25 posted on 03/11/2023 7:10:31 PM PST by Rural_Michigan
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To: Mariner; Kazan; kiryandil; E. Pluribus Unum

so you still got no actual proof, right?

just more guesswork?


26 posted on 03/11/2023 7:12:00 PM PST by canuck_conservative (if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors, we wouldn't need NATO anymore)
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To: escapefromboston

The U.S. blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline.

If Business Insider and Yahoo are still confused, I’m giving them a heads-up, for two Fake News entities whose previous heads-ups involved having their cranial areas lodged up their anal openings.

Why wait 2-3 years for making the final declarations that it was a U.S. operation ? You’re being provided the scoop immediately by a simple fella’ from flyover country.


27 posted on 03/11/2023 7:13:09 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: canuck_conservative

Stating obvious facts is America hatred? For years American politicians have been loudly threatening to destroy Nord Stream 2. But it’s suddenly hatred to point it out?


28 posted on 03/11/2023 7:13:22 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Eat the Rich)
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To: freeandfreezing

“Actually you can’t say that. For certain Russian entities facing contractual penalties for withholding gas supplies having an external event potentially saved them billions of dollars.”

A good conspiracy theory, but then why did Sweden say they knew who did it, but disclosing the culprit was “too Sensitive”?


29 posted on 03/11/2023 7:14:03 PM PST by BobL
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To: Mariner

I’m 32 so you joined FR IN 1998 at age seven or less? Suuuuuuuuuure you did.


30 posted on 03/11/2023 7:14:47 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: canuck_conservative

Bro.

Based on all the utterances of US officials stating intent to “end” the Nordstream, it’s on YOU to provide proof.

Do it. Or please stfu.

https://youtu.be/NSZyKYitC3M


31 posted on 03/11/2023 7:16:25 PM PST by Rural_Michigan
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To: Mariner
It was a major Act of War against Germany and Russia.

We would not have done it without German approval. I am sure we agreed in advance to rebuild it at taxpayer expense once all this gets sorted out.

33 posted on 03/11/2023 7:22:57 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: Rural_Michigan

nope, you guys are pushing this wacky theory, so it’s up to you to provide the proof

and you still got no definite proof, just a Sy Hersh book full of guesses ... that’s hardly a smoking gun


34 posted on 03/11/2023 7:23:57 PM PST by canuck_conservative (if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors, we wouldn't need NATO anymore)
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To: canuck_conservative

POTUS literally said it.

You are mind controlled.


35 posted on 03/11/2023 7:25:41 PM PST by Rural_Michigan
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To: canuck_conservative

So you don’t believe Brandon means what he says?


36 posted on 03/11/2023 7:29:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Brandon has been known to blurt out facts about his criminal activity on open mikes


37 posted on 03/11/2023 7:31:48 PM PST by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: usurper
We would not have done it without German approval.

According to the Hersh article, the Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes all had knowledge of the operation. He doesn't say if the Germans knew or not. I think they did not know. Germany alone conducted the bombing investigation, while Norway, Sweden, and Denmark all said, "We're good, thanks."

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
38 posted on 03/11/2023 7:34:48 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: thinden

39 posted on 03/11/2023 7:41:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Mariner

“We can safely say the only country outside suspicion is Russia.”

Putin has his enemies defenestrated or poisoned. This mentality means Russia might have blown up Nord Stream pipelines. Russia does not own NordStream. Russia is a part owner along with Germany and others. Some private companies too.

Russia blowing up Nord Stream goes along with the cold European winter they were hoping for. Putin’s TV and media clowns and stooges were always laughing about Europeans freezing last winter.


40 posted on 03/11/2023 7:48:01 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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