Here's another look at the Bornholm Blasts:
Rixstep here shows that Sweden had "warships" in both leak areas in the days prior to the blasts on Monday. This information is also corroborated in this bare bones forwarding on msn.com. I see a xinhua link when I search, but I didn't go to it. Looking around on the Samnytt website, I found this article, which I machine translated (using DeepL Translate) to confirm is the Swedish source. Blockquote:
1 October 2022 at 07.40
The Swedish Armed Forces confirm that the Swedish Navy patrolled the area of the suspected sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines days before the leaks were discovered. However, no answers are given as to what they did and why, citing heightened secrecy.
The navy ship left Karlskrona shortly before noon on Thursday. Less than two hours later, they are in the area where Swedish and Danish measuring stations recorded strong underwater explosions the following Monday. This can be deduced from data from the commercial service Marine Traffic, which monitors ship traffic at sea.
The signals from so-called AIS transmitters allow ships to be tracked in the seas, which is done to increase traffic safety. AIS stands for Automatic Identification System and the transmitter indicates the identity, position, course and speed of the vessel. This allows the movements of ships to be tracked in real time.
Once in the area, at 13:00, the signals from the Swedish Navy ship, which is reported on AIS as "Swedish warship", cease. According to DN, the AIS transmitter was probably switched off to hide the ship's movements. It remains switched off for a full 22 hours. During this period, no data is available on the vessel's movement patterns.
At 11:03 the following day, the signal is picked up again. This time slightly west of the location where three of the gas leaks will later be found. The vessel is heading towards Simrishamn, where it arrives at 13:42. After a short stop, the vessel returns to the vicinity of the next leak. At 18:10, the AIS transmitter stops sending data again. This time the transmitter is switched off for about five hours.
When the position data begins to be recorded again, it is 23:56 and the vessel is southeast of Bornholm, in the area where the second underwater explosion is later recorded. The vessel then rounds Bornholm on its western side before returning to the first area of interest. Once there, at 12:13 on Saturday, the AIS transmitter is switched off again. Two days later, the Swedish national seismic network records two powerful explosions followed by four large gas leaks.
The Navy's press officer, Jimmie Adamsson, confirms that defence vessels were in the area at these times but does not want to answer why, citing "enhanced confidentiality".
- Our activities at sea are subject to extra secrecy due to various events and the external situation. So we don't tell you very much about what we do," says Jimmie Adamsson.
The first explosion was recorded at 2.03 a.m. on Monday night and the second at 7.04 p.m. on Monday evening, SVT reports. The gas leaks were detected at 13.52 and 20.41 on Monday, after ships noticed bubbles on the surface and subsequently alerted the Swedish Maritime Administration.
Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist (S) says that the Swedish Armed Forces are now making "readiness adjustments" as a result of the incident, which is confirmed by Jimmie Adamsson.
- We are constantly adapting our readiness depending on what happens in the Baltic Sea. Exactly what we are doing in this case I will not comment on, but we are constantly monitoring what is happening in our territorial waters, says Jimmie Adamsson to SVT.
According to DN, Danish and German naval vessels are also reported to have manoeuvred east of Bornholm during the period. There is no recorded data from Swedish naval vessels in the areas in question at the time of the explosions. On the other hand, German media report that an American military helicopter of the type MH-60R Seahawk circled over the area on Monday night, as previously reported by Samnytt.
Rixstep provides a helpful graphic:
Tracking Swedish warships in the Bornholm Blasts area
Going back to the monkeywerx information, I notice that Monkey specifically points out not only that the hexcode for the P-8 he's analyzing does not exist in the Skyglass database, but that the transponder shuts off soon after the bump over the southern leak area and during its exfiltration. Monkey also says that the explosions occurred "at that same time":
"9. Datapoint, there were recorded 2.3 magnitude shakes in the area at that same time."
However, if you read the information provided at the Samnytt site, the blasts occurred at 0203 and 1903 hours local time: two blasts, and neither of these times corresponds with Monkey's analysis —for the first blast, Monkey has the P-8 arriving on scene over Poland and being refueled by BART12 for the next hour-and-twenty:
"4. The two aircraft, Callsign N/A, and BART12 sync up at 26,400 ft for an extended 1:20 minute refueling, disconnecting at 0328 hrs GMT."
Noting that Bornholm is +2 GMT, then the blasts occurred 0003 and 1703 GMT: both well outside Monkey's window. Monkey has the P-8 leaving much earlier than the second blast: “8. At 0709 hrs GMT the Navy P8 returns back to the United States.” It is difficult to see exactly when the “bump” occurs, especially if you refer to the YouTube video SITREP Monkey provided, because he doesn’t show the P8 on the flight path at the time of the bump in that video. Starting around 12:24 of that video, he shows the separation of the P-8 from BART12 (the video shows a separation around 0228), but then cuts away, comes back, and next when we see the flight path finishing at the P-8’s exfiltration, the time shows 0709 (video time 12:50).
Samnytt gets the blast times from the report provided to the UN Security Council. I found the letter available on twitter (of all places), provided in this case by Ann Linde:
The report was created by Denmark and Sweden. Ann Linde is Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden. I also notice that the language in that letter is actually ambiguous: it reports that the leaks "were discovered ... and occurred at ..." I am always suspicious of the passive voice, especially in bureaucratic statements, but I note ambiguity here in that it's stating the leaks were discovered and occurred here, while the immediate context concerns the detonations. Were the leaks discovered exactly when the detonations occurred? This might be irrelevant, but legalese is where people escape accountability or responsibility . . .
Sweden is not a member of NATO. It was only in February that Sweden began the process of applying to NATO, ostensibly as a response to Russian beginning the SMO.
Pure conjecture: what if certain elements in Sweden, aware of the ultimately self-destructive nature of NATO, did not actually want for it to become part of an imploding military alliance that will get them killed quickly? What better way of avoiding joining NATO than by orchestrating a "false flag" that blames the Most Obvious Culprit in the room? What better opportunity was there to push NATO completely into self-destruction than compelling its most significant participants to turn upon each other, and since everyone is already deeply committed to seeing "the Empire of Lies," the "Whore of Babylon," "&c" as the major antagonist against peace in the world today, they will readily believe on circumstantial evidence that they are to blame and must be? There's no need to look any deeper (the waters around Bornholm are shallow enough, right?)! There's no need to question where the P-8 originated!, when it turned on its transponder!, why it had it on during a somewhat incriminating flight path!, when there's such a need to respond and react quickly and establish one's self as among the righteous who blame the US.
But “Cui bono?” is a heuristic, not a truth.
Stepping back from the conjecture: I'm not a fan of the US, though I was born here. In my heart, my citizenship is elsewhere, and I have no enduring loyalty to any local, state, federal governments, because my own life experiences within and without government reinforce my observation concerning the complete corruption consistently occurring up, down, and laterally throughout these hierarchies. I live on an occupied planet, and so the best approach I can take is to "rise above it" and "crawl beneath it" and remember lives apart from "the state." ("No cops, no priests, no lawyers" is my motto)
Nevertheless, I also do not want to be a pawn or a dupe, and having gone through several phases of deconverting, reconverting, disconcerting changes in my principles, I know how hard it is to open a mind and keep it from clamping down. (Thank you, Col. John Boyd.) I guess you can say I'm a "discordian" or "polemic" in that I recognize there is a struggle to become one's self inherent to the unfolding process of "waking up" to the illusions of one's imprisonment, a constant readjusting of the eyes to the blinding light of the Sun and of the ears to the deafening silence of the Cave. —So, I think it is important to keep looking at "the facts" as they appear, recognizing that correlating perspectives and developing interpretive models requires leaving one's own perspective open while finding and staying committed to the moral and ethical principle most true to your authentic heart. Well, okay, I think this is important to me, but you are free to vary. Diversity is Strength, right? 😉
The US governs with evil intention, but we shouldn't lay the blame for all evils upon it. Some people are going to take advantage of our canalized mistrust to obscure their responsibility for other crimes.