Bolivia: de staatsgreep in 2019 werd uitgevoerd door de CIA, Groot-Brittannië en de OAS met hulp van grote bedrijven

De
staatsgreep in 2019 tegen de democratisch gekozen regering Morales in Bolivia
was vooral ingegeven door de ‘wereldhonger’ naar lithium, de
belangrijkste grondstof voor accu’s, niet voor niets wordt lithium
witgoud genoemd.

Declassified UK heeft een uitvoerig schrijven van Matt Kennard gepubliceerd
(door mij overgenomen van Information Clearing House) waarin
hij beschrijft welke rol Groot-Brittannië heeft gespeeld in deze
smerige coup, die zoals zo vaak werd georganiseerd en geregisseerd
door de CIA……

Overigens
stond het hele westen inclusief de reguliere media achter deze coup,
met grote graagte werden in november 2019 de leugens overgenomen van
de Organisatie van Amerikaanse Staten (OAS) als zouden de zojuist
gehouden verkiezingen in Bolivia zijn gestoken door de partij van Evo
Morales…..(zo heeft Trouw en VPRO correspondent, zijne kwaadaardigheid Edwin Koopman, fiks lopen liegen over wat er wel en niet zou zijn gebeurd in Bolivia*) Die media en politici in het westen
durfden zelfs te stellen dat er geen sprake was van een staatsgreep,
maar dat Morales zelf was opgestapt na ‘massale protesten’ (waar het
overgrote deel van het Boliviaanse volk niet aan meedeed…..),
terwijl het leger hem heeft ontvoerd en met een militair vliegtuig
deporteerde naar Mexico…..

Deze
gang van zaken geeft ten overvloede nog eens aan dat de zogenaamde
onafhankelijke (massa-) media, in handen van oligarchen en steenrijke
investeringsmaatschappijen, de neoliberale status quo propageren en
daar maar al te graag voor liegen (dat het gedrukt staat…)…..
Schande overigens dat westerse regeringen (inclusief het
disfunctionerende kabinet Rutte 3) zich achter deze coup schaarden,
immers zij moeten via hun eigen geheime diensten hebben geweten dat
e.e.a. op grove leugens was gebaseerd….. (zo niet zijn die geheime diensten geen knip voor de neus waard… oh wacht even, dat zijn ze ‘ook niet…’)

Evo
Morales was de eerste president van de oorspronkelijke bewoners nadat
witte psychopaten een paar eeuwen geleden het land innamen….. Hij
was uiterst succesvol en heeft de arme oorspronkelijke bevolking (de
meerderheid in Bolivia, dit in tegenstelling tot andere
Latijns-Amerikaanse landen) uit de armoede getrokken, heeft deze
bevolking verder onderwijs, medische zorg en zoveel mogelijk goede
behuizing gegeven. De economie draaide prima, ondanks het
nationaliseren van een aantal bedrijven door Morales, bedrijven die
tegen een appel en ei de grondstoffen van Bolivia hebben
gestolen…… (die nationalisaties waren mede een reden voor de staatsgreep)

Oké het
was voor de mensen die verder nadenken dan de neus van de westerse
media lang is al duidelijk dat hier een heel smerige staatsgreep werd
uitgevoerd en waarbij schandelijk genoeg ook nog eens een aantal
mensen van de oorspronkelijke bevolking werden vermoord door politie
en leger, echter dat in feite de regering Johnson en de geheime
dienst van Groot-Brittannië zo’n grote rol hebben gespeeld was
althans voor mij een openbaring, wat een geteisem!!

Gelukkig
heeft de partij van Morales de verkiezingen van 2020 ruimschoots
gewonnen, echter het leed wat er werd aangericht met de coup is
daarmee niet weggewist…..

Lees het
artikel van Kennard en zegt het voort, daar men in het westen nog
steeds volhoudt dat de coup van 2019 wettig was…… (hoe zot in je
kop moet je zijn om dat te beweren…..)

Revealed:
The UK supported the coup in Bolivia to gain access to its ‘white
gold’
By
Matt Kennard

After
a coup in the South American country of Bolivia in November 2019,
democratically elected president Evo Morales was forced to flee.
Foreign Office documents obtained by Declassified show Britain saw
the new military-backed regime, which killed 18 protesters, as an
opportunity to open up Bolivia’s lithium deposits to UK firms.

  • Lithium
    – known as ‘white gold’ – is a key metal used in batteries
    and increasingly important to the world car industry

  • Britain’s
    Foreign Office appears to have paid Oxford-based company to optimise
    ‘exploitation’ of Bolivia’s lithium deposits the month after
    Morales fled country

  • UK
    embassy acted as ‘strategic partner’ to coup regime and
    organised international mining event in Bolivia four months after
    democracy overthrown

  • UK
    firm founded by British Army veteran was ‘now in line to offer its
    services’ to mining companies, Foreign Office noted after event

  • UK
    embassy provided data for the now discredited international report
    which was used to justify 2019 coup

  • UK embassy
    brought cybersecurity company with close links to the CIA to Bolivia
    in March 2019, eight months before the military takeover

March 09, 2021
Information
Clearing House

– On 10 November 2019, after the head of the army called
for his resignation, Bolivia’s socialist president, Evo Morales,
stepped down. It followed weeks of protests after the release of a
report by the Organisation of American States (OAS) alleging
irregularities in the election Morales had won the previous month.

Persecution from the
new regime forced Morales to flee
the country and an “interim president”, Jeanine Áñez, was
installed.
Widely condemned
as a coup, resulting protests were met with lethal force.

Days after taking
power, on 14 November, the Áñez regime forced through Decree
4078
which gave immunity to the military for any actions taken in
“the defence of society and maintenance of public order”.

The following day, on
15 November, Bolivian military forces shot and killed eight
protesters
in the city of Sacaba. On 21 November, regime forces
killed another 10
protesters
in the neighbourhood of Senkata just outside the
capital La Paz.

Despite the deadly
violence, which was condemned
by human rights groups, the British embassy in La Paz moved quickly
to support Bolivia’s new regime,
Declassified
can reveal from documents we have obtained.

We have seen a project
list for a Foreign Office programme in Bolivia called “Frontline
Diplomatic Enabling Activity”, which the UK government describes as
a “small pot of money that [embassies] receive and have authority
over to spend on projects supporting [embassy] activity”.

Interim
President’ of Bolivia Jeanine Añez speaks during a press
conference at the presidential palace on 15 November 2019 in La Paz,
Bolivia. (Photo: Gaston Brito Miserocchi / Getty Images)

The deposits

Bolivia has the
world’s second-largest
reserves of lithium, a metal that is used to make batteries and which
has become increasingly important due to the burgeoning electric car
industry.

The UK government has
stated that lithium battery technology is a priority for its
“industrial strategy”. In June 2019, it announced
it was investing £23-million in “electric car battery
development”.

The government has
further noted: “It’s estimated that South America holds 54% of
the world’s lithium resources, which are increasingly in demand to
manufacture batteries for electric vehicles and energy
diversification programmes.”

It added: “The UK
aims to have a thriving, sustainable battery industry, which would
translate to a £2.7 billion opportunity … and our bilateral
partnerships are essential to ensure this.”

In February 2019, Evo
Morales’ government had chosen
a Chinese consortium to be its strategic partner on a new
$2.3-billion lithium project which would focus on production from the
Coipasa and Pastos Grandes salars (salt flats under which the lithium
is deposited).

But after the coup,
the regime’s new minister for mining cast doubt
on whether the deal would be honoured by the new government.

These particular salt
flats were of interest to the UK embassy.

One project it
co-funded from 2019-20 sought to “optimise Bolivia’s lithium
exploration and production (in the Coipasa and Pastos Grandes salars)
using British technology”.

After the coup, this
project was quickly moved forward.

The abstract for the
project was authorised
by its main funder – the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) –
on 25 November 2019, two weeks after the coup and days after the
Senkata massacre.

The project gained
full approval
for funding of $100,000 weeks later, in mid-December 2019.

The IADB told
Declassified:
“The implementation of [grant] activities are conducted in close
coordination with designated government authorities and their
technical teams.” At that point its “close coordination” would
have been with the Áñez regime.

A
woman shouts anti-regime slogans in front of a police line during a
funeral procession of the victims killed during clashes with police
at the Senkata fuel plant on 21 November 2019 in La Paz, Bolivia.
(Photo: Gaston Brito Miserocchi / Getty Images)

Satellite
Applications Catapult

The British embassy in
La Paz provided £5,000 towards this lithium project in 2019-20, but
the Foreign Office refused to tell
Declassified
if these funds were disbursed after the coup in November 2019.

The goal was to
“design and implement a satellite data-based application that can
optimise exploration and exploitation of large/best lithium sources
in the Coipasa and Pastos Grandes salars in Bolivia”, the documents
outlined.

The Foreign Office
noted that the project was to be implemented by Satellite
Applications Catapult, an Oxford-based organisation “helping
organisations harness the power of satellite-based services”.

The company receives
about a third
of its funding from the UK government but it did not respond to
Declassified’s
questions about the Bolivia project.

However, we found that
on 19 December 2019 – two days after the IABD gave final approval
to the project – the UK Foreign Office transferred
£33,220 to Satellite Applications Catapult, in a payment listed as
“programme spend”.

The department refused
to tell
Declassified
if this funding was for the lithium exploitation project in Bolivia.
The IADB told us: “Coordination with the British Embassy has been
particularly cooperative in search for synergies”.

A
picture of the Coipasa salt flats in Bolivia, photographed by an
Expedition 33 crew member on the International Space Station. (Photo:
Nasa)

International
seminar

Then, in March 2020,
four months after the coup, the British embassy in La Paz partnered
with the regime’s Ministry of Mining to organise an “international
seminar” for more than 300 officials from the global extractives
sector.

A British company,
Watchman, was brought in by the UK embassy to give the keynote
presentation and outline the “creative solutions” it had enacted
in Africa to bring local communities onside with mining projects.

The Foreign Office
documents note: “Watchman UK and other consultancies are now in
line to offer services in this important field to a number of Bolivia
mining companies who wish to achieve win-win solutions to their
controversies with indigenous inhabitants and towns located in the
area of influence of their activities”.

Watchman is a risk
management
company set up in 2016 by Christopher Goodwin-Hudson,
a nine-year veteran
of the British Army who was later executive director of global
security for the investment bank Goldman Sachs.

The company supports
corporate clients “across the extractive, agribusiness and capital
project sectors” who are having trouble operating because of local
resistance. Watchman’s website carries
the logo of the UK Foreign Office.

The firm’s associate
director, Gabriel Carter, has held a number of senior
roles
in the private security industry and in 2012 founded an
Afghanistan-focused security company that “supported numerous
British and US development projects”.

Carter, also a veteran
of risk management at Goldman Sachs, is a member
of the Special Forces Club, an exclusive and secretive private
members’ club for senior intelligence and special forces veterans
in Knightsbridge, London.

Watchman did not
respond to
Declassified’s
questions about the event and the UK Foreign Office refused to answer
questions related to it.

Voor deze documenten waar ik vreemd genoeg geen werkende link kan maken naar het PDF zie het origineel op Declassified UK. (en veiligheidsgordels vast voor je gaat lezen!!)

UK Foreign Office
documents from 2015-20 documenting a range of programmes run by the
British embassy in Bolivia.

A long courtship 

The quick moves of the
British embassy on the lithium project followed years of trying to
court Bolivia’s socialist government over the country’s reserves
of the metal, the new documents show.

Morales had moved
Bolivia away from the country’s traditional reliance on Western
corporations since taking power in 2006. His government was widely
praised for reducing
poverty and increasing investment in schools, hospitals and
infrastructure.

The Foreign Office
notes that its “first engagement with the Bolivian Lithium
Company”, known by its Spanish acronym YLB, was in 2017-18 when it
paid £31,500 to organise a scientific UK mission. It focused on
training the YLB on new technologies to explore and produce lithium
in a “sustainable” way.

The documents note
this project “allowed British organisations … to carry over
projects on lithium in Bolivia with [Inter-American Development Bank]
and [UK government] funding in the following years”.

The UK government
noted: “Relationship with the Bolivian Lithium Company might also
prove relevant as Bolivia becomes a supplier of lithium (a critical
material) to the UK”, and referenced its “effort to connect
Bolivia, Chile and Argentina (ie the Lithium Triangle) with the
London Metal Exchange”.

The following year’s
programme notes that “stronger links” developed between the YLB
and the British embassy in Bolivia.

The documents also
outline how in April 2019, the British embassy in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, hosted a “high-level technical meeting” with the
mining and lithium authorities of Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, as
well as senior representatives of the London Metal Exchange.

Those three countries
together share ownership of the “lithium triangle”, the region of
the Andes rich in lithium reserves. At the time Argentina and Chile
had right-wing governments friendly with the UK.

Also in attendance was
Bolivia’s vice-minister of lithium and the chief executive of YLB.
“The project from the British Embassy in Bolivia … consisted in
securing and facilitating the presence of the Bolivian authorities in
the meeting”, the Foreign Office documents note.

It added that, after
the meeting, the Bolivian government was now “aware of the
relevance of the London Metal Exchange” and particularly “its
interest to establish a lithium standard” which was to be based
upon the lithium triangle production. Such standards serve
“to promote understanding and communication between metal producers
and users”.

The following sections
in this passage are redacted under two exemptions related to
“international relations” and “commercial interests”. These
are the only redactions made on the programme documentation for the
five years of operations seen by
Declassified.

The
London Metal Exchange, the world centre for industrial metals
trading. (Photo: UK government)

Darktrace

There is further
evidence Britain was always priming the country for a change in
government. In the year before the coup, the British embassy was
promoting the UK cyber sector, bringing a company to Bolivia founded
by the UK intelligence community, and with close links to America’s
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

In 2009, Morales had
expelled
a US diplomat who he claimed was a CIA asset heading an operation to
infiltrate Bolivia’s state-owned oil company.

Eight months before
the coup, the UK embassy spent more than £4,500 organising a “major
event” in Laz Paz on cybersecurity for financial institutions,
attended by 150 executives and senior officials from the Bolivian
financial sector, according to the Foreign Office documents.

Delivered in
coordination with the Bolivian Stock Exchange, Bolivian banks were
said to “now be acquiring specialised services to protect their
systems from cybercrime”. Further, the bankers were now aware that
fighting cybercrime had to be “based upon adequate and
state-of-the-art technology”.

Presentations were
delivered by British company Darktrace, a cybersecurity firm set
up
by Britain’s domestic security service, MI5, and its signals
intelligence agency, GCHQ. The company was incorporated
the day after the first of whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s
exposures was published in
The
Guardian
.

Since its founding,
Darktrace has hired personnel from the US intelligence community,
including directly
from the CIA and the National Security Agency, where Snowden used to
work.

Recruits from
the CIA

Alan Wade, who sits on
Darktrace’s advisory council, is a 35-year veteran
of the CIA and its former chief information officer.

Darktrace also
recruited
Marcus Fowler, a former US Marine and 15-year veteran
of the CIA, as its “director of strategic threat”. At the CIA,
Fowler worked on “developing global cyber operations and technical
strategies” and “conducted nearly weekly briefings for senior US
officials”, he
says
.

In July 2013, Evo
Morales’ presidential plane was grounded
in Austria after US intelligence agencies suspected it had Snowden on
board.

Bolivian
President Evo Morales (C) speaks to the media at the airport in
Vienna, Austria, 3 July 2013. Morales’ plane landed in Vienna after
the aircraft was denied access to French and Portuguese airspace over
suspicions that US whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board. (Photo:
Helmut Fohringer/EPA)

Morales blamed
the US and other international actors for the November 2019 coup. “It
was a national and international coup d’état,” he said soon
after. “Industrialised countries don’t want competition.” He
added: “I’m absolutely convinced it’s a coup against
lithium.”  

The WikiLeaks
diplomatic cables show
that the US embassy in La Paz worked closely with the political
opposition in Bolivia to remove the Morales government after it took
power in 2006.

Morales expelled the
US Drug Enforcement Agency in 2008
and the US Agency for International Development in 2013,
accusing them of “conspiring” against his government.

For the March 2019
event, the UK embassy also brought an expert from the London-based
think tank Chatham House, whose co-president is Eliza
Manningham-Buller, a former director-general of MI5.

Its funders include
the US State Department, UK Foreign Office, the British Army, and the
oil companies BP and Chevron.

After the event,
Britain’s Foreign Office noted that “several companies in the
field [are] now being hired and consulted”. It is not known if
Darktrace was one of them.

The embassy kept up
the engagement soon after. “New dialogue with the Bolivian
government on cyber”, notes the Foreign Office in its 2019-2020
programme. It is unclear if this referred to the coup regime.

Important
input’

The day after the
Bolivian election on 20 October 2019, the Washington-based
Organisation of American States – the grouping of countries in
North and South America – released a report
on the vote which Morales had marginally won. It cited “an
inexplicable change” that “drastically modifies the fate of the
election”.

It also raised doubts
about the fairness of the vote and fuelled a chain of events that led
to the November coup.

However, a subsequent
study by independent
researchers
using data obtained by
The
New York Times

from the Bolivian electoral authorities found that the OAS
statistical analysis was flawed.

Its conclusion that
Morales’ share of the vote jumped inexplicably in the final ballots
relied on incorrect data and inappropriate statistical techniques,
the researchers found.

Declassified
can now reveal that the British embassy provided data for the OAS’s
discredited report.

The British embassy
spent £8,000 putting together an alliance of civil society
organisations which “coordinated an operation for citizens’
observation of the elections in 2019”.

This alliance carried
out a survey on voting intentions before the elections, which “was
an important input for the OAS mission report, which identified
irregularities in the process”, the Foreign Office notes.

The OAS failed to
respond to
Declassified’s
questions about the UK embassy’s role in its discredited report and
the Foreign Office refused to answer any questions about it.

The British embassy’s
projects to prepare for the election went even further. In February
2019, it spent £9,981 to bring the Thomson Reuters Foundation to the
country to train 30 Bolivian journalists on “verification
techniques and pre-planning an election on coverage that is balanced,
accurate and free of polarisation”. 

The Foundation said
that “ahead of the elections in Bolivia” it was teaching
“practical skills and tools to recognise fake news and attempts to
influence the electorate with false information”.
 

Declassified
previously
revealed
how the British government is using journalism as an influencing tool
in Latin America. Also recently revealed
was that the British government secretly funded Reuters in the 1960s
and 1970s at the behest of an anti-Soviet propaganda unit linked to
British intelligence.

Marxist
solidarity’

Days after the
November coup in Bolivia, the UK Foreign Office released a statement
saying: “The United Kingdom congratulates Jeanine Áñez on taking
on her new responsibilities as interim President of Bolivia.” It
added: “We welcome Ms Áñez’ appointment and her declared
intention to hold elections soon.”

UK
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives at 10 Downing Street on 3
February 2021 in London. (Photo: Hollie Adams / Getty Images)

Foreign Secretary
Dominic Raab stated:
“We hope that the current crisis in Bolivia can now be resolved
swiftly, peacefully and in a democratic way. The Bolivian people
deserve to have the opportunity to vote in free and fair elections.”

Then Labour leader
Jeremy Corbyn offered a completely different view, saying:
“I condemn this coup against the Bolivian people and stand with
them for democracy, social justice and independence.”

Raab proceeded to
attack Corbyn, quote-tweeting him and stating:
“Unbelievable. The Organisation of American States refused to
certify the Bolivian election because of systemic flaws. The people
are protesting and striking on an unprecedented scale. But
@jeremycorbyn puts Marxist solidarity ahead of democracy.”

But Raab and the
Foreign Office made no further comments as the new regime’s forces
carried out the Sacaba and Senkata massacres the following week.

Jeff
Glekin, Britain’s ambassador to Bolivia since January 2019. (Photo:
UK government)

In March 2020, four
months after Morales was overthrown, the new regime was organising a
series of new initiatives “with the UK as a strategic partner”,
the documents note.

That same month,
Britain’s ambassador during the coup, Jeff Glekin, offered a
glimpse of the UK interests involved in backing the new regime.

Glekin spoke
to the Bolivian media about British Week, which was bringing 12
British companies to the country for the first time.

Many are looking
for new markets in the world and Bolivia can be an opportunity to
grow,” he said. “Due to the political changes in Bolivia, a more
open environment for foreign investment is perceived and I believe
that this will open new doors to companies that want to share their
technology, their products and make alliances with different
companies.”

Glekin, who remains in
post, added: “We are working with the Santa Cruz Mayor’s Office …
and we invite Santa Cruz corporations to participate in the event.”

In the documents seen
by
Declassified,
a disproportionately high number of UK embassy projects have focused
on the eastern city of Santa Cruz, which was the centre of opposition
to Evo Morales’ government.

Glekin continued: “The
previous government was not very in favour of foreign investment. So,
with the changes that we are going to see, it will be easier to enter
the market and do business. The companies to come are from different
parts of Great Britain and from various sectors. They are modern
firms that are doing innovative things and want to enter the market
and share their services and products in Bolivia.”

Glekin added: “The
demand for lithium is growing and Bolivia must take advantage of that
opportunity.”

When new elections
took place in October 2020, Evo Morales’
Movimiento
al Socialismo

won 55%
of the votes against six rivals on the ballot, easily avoiding the
need for a runoff. The runner-up was former President Carlos Mesa
with just under 29%.

A Foreign Office
spokesperson told
Declassified:
“Presidential elections held in Bolivia in October 2020 were free
and fair. There was no coup. The UK has a strong and constructive
relationship with current and former Bolivian administrations.”
DM

Matt Kennard is
head of investigations at Declassified UK, an investigative
journalism organisation that covers the UK’s role in the world. 

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* Zie ook wat Edwin
Koopman heeft durven zeggen over deze
coup:
Bolivia: een jaar na de coup wint de socialistische partij alsnog de verkiezingen‘ Met daarin hetvolgende plus link naar een bericht van Trouw met daarin een voorbeeld van foute berichtgeving over Bolivia,
geschreven door de neoliberale fantast Edwin Koopman (werkt ook voor de
VPRO) die een uiterst gekleurd verslag
gaf over de situatie voorafgaand aan de verkiezingen in Bolivia, waarbij
hij verzweeg dat de OAS de coup van 2019 organiseerde op
basis van de uitslagen (waarbij Koopman de overwinning van Morales als
dubieus durfde neer te zetten) Zie ook andere fratsen van Koopman door
op het label met zijn naam te klikken, direct onder dit bericht….): ‘Bij de verkiezingen in Bolivia worden de kandidaten met stenen bekogeld en gaan aanhangers met elkaar op de vuist

 Zie verder ‘Bolivia: de coup is voorbij, tijd om secretaris-generaal Almagro van de OAS af te zetten en te berechten

Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, en massamedia doodstil over moord op journalisten in Bolivia‘ 

Bolivia: CIA en OAS hebben op valse gronden een coup tegen de Boliviaanse president Morales opgezet

Bolivia: OAS heeft gelogen over verkiezingen: Evo Morales onterecht afgezet middels staatsgreep!

Bolivia: de coup heeft alles te maken met grondstoffen‘ 

NOS liegt weer over Evo Morales (Boliviaanse president) die met coup werd afgezet

Bolivia coup een ‘CIA job’, aldus anonieme Duitse veiligheidsanalist, met lessen voor de toekomst

Bolivia: misdadigers die vechten voor het kapitalisme

The US EMBASSY in Bolivia continues carrying out covert actions to support the coup d’état against President Evo Morales. 

NOS met fake news over Bolivia

Bolivianen eisen hun president terug

Bolivia: staatsgreep maakt eind aan succesvol presidentschap Evo Morales

Bolivia: bewijs op tafel dat VS aanstuurt op een coup

Bolivia’s Evo Morales ‘unhurt’ after helicopter emergency landing



Bolivia Closes 2018 Among The Highest Economic Growth Rates



Bolivia’s Remarkable Socialist Success Story: President Evo Morales has transformed his country’s economy with an unapologetically left-wing agenda.

 

NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO……..

VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen‘ 

Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij ‘regime change’ in Venezuela‘ (zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over Venezuela)

9 ‘ex-FARC rebellen’ vermoord door leger Colombia: FARC-EP opgericht

Mensenrechten-
en milieuactivisten worden massaal vermoord in Brazilië en Colombia,
waar het laatste land NAVO bases heeft…….

Koenders heeft vrijlating gegijzelde Spoorloos makers in Colombia bewerkstelligt……. AUW!!!

Paus Franciscus in Colombia om vrede te prediken……

People of Brazil: my sincere condolences with ‘your’ fascistic, psychopathic president Bolsonaro……

VS commando’s vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog………

NAVO naar Zuid-Amerika? Weg met dit agressieve, terroristische bondgenootschap, NU!!!

Bolton geeft toe dat de VS een fascistisch beleid voert……

Bolsonaro,
de fascistische nieuwe president van Brazilië, werd volgens Avaaz en
fake news brengers als de NYT gekozen door manipulatie via WhatsApp

Bolsonaro wint Braziliaanse verkiezingen >> weer zijn we een fascistisch geleid land ‘rijker…’

Braziliaanse verkiezingen: democratie versus (neo-) fascisme, ook een groot gevaar in Europa

Katy Sherriff (Radio1 correspondent Z-Amerika) brandt socialistische partij Brazilië af……‘ (Sherriff was destijds correspondent voor de zogenaamd onafhankelijke NOS (!!), ze beschuldigde o.a. Lula da Silva, de voormalige socialistische president van Brazilie af als corrupt, toevallig werd afgelopen week, het is nu 13 maart 2021, bekend gemaakt dat Lula is vrijgesproken door het Hooggerechtshof in Brazilie!! Sherriff is nu werkzaam voor…: Amnesty International >> hoe is het gvd mogelijk..??!!!)

Britse leger bezig met o.a. cyber-operaties in burgerleven met het Coronavirus als ‘legitimatie’

Naar
aanleiding van een Brasscheck TV artikel, waarvan de video in
Nederland weer eens werd gecensureerd, kwam ik middels een link op de
site Declassified UK. In dit artikel van 30 september 2020
wordt uitvoerig beschreven hoe het Britse leger zich bezig houdt met
het beïnvloeden van de Britse bevolking door ‘misinformatie’ op de
sociale media te tackelen, maar ook door het tegengaan van
‘desinformatie…..’ (zie niet wat het verschil is tussen
desinformatie en misinformatie, ‘maar goed….’) Eén en ander wordt
gedaan door de geheime 77ste Brigade……. Uiteraard zijn begrippen als misinformatie en desinformatie onderhevig aan wat het leger daaronder verstaat, niet wat het grootste deel van het volk daaronder verstaat, laat staan wat critici daaronder verstaan……. 

Uitermate schandalig zeker daar het hier gaat om het Britse leger >> op grond van wat o.a. de reguliere media (fake news en smerige propaganda) en de geheime diensten, waaronder die van dat leger zelf, bij elkaar durfden te liegen voorafgaand aan de illegale oorlogen van de VS, telkens weer met deelname van het Britse leger, oorlogen waarbij alleen deze eeuw al meer dan 5 miljoen mensen werden vermoord…….. (nogmaals: massamoorden ‘gelegitimeerd’ door smerige leugens en vuile propaganda….)

Mensen de haren rijzen je te berge als je leest hoe men doet alsof het
de normaalste zaak van de wereld is dat het leger de vrije
meningsuiting van burgers denkt te kunnen manipuleren……. Op een
gegeven moment wordt in dit uitvoerige artikel zelfs gesteld dat
mensen niet begrijpen hoe ernstig de ‘Coronapandemie’ is en dat men
daarom de mensen bewust angst moet aanjagen…… 

In
Nederland werd in november bekend gemaakt dat het LIMC,
een legeronderdeel, bezig is geweest om hetzelfde in Nederland te
doen, volkomen illegaal wel te verstaan, waarbij Patrick
Dekkers, de commandant van dit onderdeel, gvd nog pissig was
ook dat er ophef was ontstaan over zijn illegaal handelen, pas ruim
een week later heeft de zwaar disfunctionerende CDA minister van
Defensie Bijleveld ingegrepen, echter het zal me niet verbazen als
dit onderdeel stiekem gewoon doorgaat met de illegale
praktijken….*

Toevallig
was er op WDR 5 een ‘journalist’ te horen, terwijl ik het artikel
las, die in feite bepleitte dat er ingegrepen moet worden op de sociale
media….. Volgens hem moeten meningen bestreden worden die niet
gebaseerd zijn op feiten (m.i. zijn meningen nooit gebaseerd op
feiten, ‘maar goed…’). Al grinnikend en lachend liet deze kwezel weten dat men zich
terugtrekt in de eigen kring en alleen wil lezen/horen wat men al
denkt en dat is volgens deze ‘journalist’ gevaarlijk, het veroorzaakt
agressie, zo liet hij weten…… Alsof dat geen mening is, immers
‘gedragswetenschappen’ zijn allesbehalve wetenschappelijk te
bewijzen……

Door het
Coronavirus naderen we steeds dichter een maatschappij zoals
beschreven in het boek 1984 van George Orwell ‘Vreemd genoeg’ heb ik
de laatste weken al 2 keer gehoord dat men het boek 1984 maar een
matig boek vindt, wars van de werkelijkheid…… ha! ha! ha! >>
Duidelijk figuren die er niets van begrijpen, of schoften die willen maskeren dat we inderdaad in zo’n maatschappij belanden als het zo doorgaat…….)

Lees het
volgende artikel en geeft het door, we moeten ons voorbereiden op een
tijd waarin de democratie wordt omgevormd tot een politiestaat,
wellicht met voor de vorm nog verkiezingen, die echter niets
veranderen aan wie er werkelijk aan de touwen trekt…. Met
manipulatie van de bevolking door de media, politiek en het leger (in GB), zal men proberen
duidelijk te maken dat veiligheid een prijs heeft: totale
afhankelijkheid van een dictatoriale staat………

UK
information operations in the time of coronavirus

By Chris King and
Professor David Miller• 30 September 2020

General Sir Nick Carter, UK chief of the defence staff, speaks at a
government press briefing during the coronavirus crisis, 22 April 2020
(Photo: Crown Copyright)

At
a Downing Street briefing
in
April, UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab paid a lengthy tribute to
the “amazing work” of the British army during the coronavirus
pandemic. His praise was likely well-received by the individual
standing two metres to his left – General Nick Carter, the UK’s
most senior military officer, who appeared at the briefing for the
first time. 

In
a speech afterwards, General Carter outlined
various
ways in which the military was supporting the government and,
crucially, noted that the highly secretive 77th Brigade was “helping
to quash rumours from misinformation, but also counter
disinformation”.

Carter
did not elaborate, but two weeks later armed forces minister James
Heappey – himself a former army officer – confirmed
that
the 77th Brigade was playing a key role in Whitehall’s battle
against coronavirus. 

Among
other things, the Brigade was said to be “supporting the
government’s Rapid Response Unit in the Cabinet Office”– a body
set up in 2018 “to identify and rebut disinformation and
misinformation”, according
to
the government.

Little
is known about the role or rationale of the British army’s 77th
Brigade, which is based at Denison Barracks in Berkshire, southern
England.
In
a 2018 speech,
however, General Carter dubbed it an “information warfare”
initiative, affording the military “the capability to compete in
the war of narratives at the tactical level”.

Prior
to Carter’s April speech, the government’s long-held position was
that propaganda operations by the British military are never waged
domestically. But less than a year after this was last publicly
affirmed
in
August 2019, the policy has been avowedly reversed. 

This
compromises the vital dividing line between military and civil power
which has endured as long as British parliamentary democracy. But not
a single voice in the mainstream, as far as we know, has mentioned
this disturbing shift, much less questioned it.

Carter
has some cause to know about the 77th Brigade. We can reveal that in
2012, he was appointed

Honorary
Colonel Commandant” in the British army’s “Media Operations
Group” – one of the four units which were merged to form the
Brigade in 2015, which was called its ‘Number
5 Column
.

For
reasons that are unclear, Carter’s official
biography
makes
no mention of his tenure in the unit. In November 2019, he was
succeeded
in
this role by Alexander Aiken, the executive director for government
communications, the most senior spin doctor in Whitehall. Aiken’s
position with the Brigade is, again, unmentioned in his official
biography, although it does note he oversaw the creation of the Rapid
Response Unit.

In
a recently deleted article
on
the government’s website, Aiken acknowledged “alternative news
sources” were one of the unit’s key targets, on the basis that
such outlets were “biased” and focused on “sensationalism
rather than facts”.

(Credit:
UK Army)

Shaping behaviour

Some
indications of the Brigade’s operations can be found in the media
coverage of its launch in 2015. A Channel 4 article
referred
to “Twitter troops… shaping behaviours through the use of dynamic
narratives” and the army was said to be specifically
recruiting
individuals
with “journalism skills and familiarity with social media”.

There
has been virtually no serious reporting on the Brigade since,
although in 2018 the publication
Wiredwas
granted exclusive access to its Denison Barracks headquarters.

While a
textbook example of ‘embedded journalism’, Wired’s article did
highlight soldiers using advertising industry phrases such as “key
influencers”, “reach” and “traction”, as well as a sign on
the wall declaring “behavioural change is our USP [unique selling
point]”.

One
room was focused on understanding audiences: the makeup, demographics
and habits of the people they wanted to reach. Another was more
analytical, focusing on creating ‘attitude and sentiment awareness’
from large sets of social media data”, the article continued.
“Another was full of officers producing video and audio content.
Elsewhere, teams of intelligence specialists were closely analysing
how messages were being received and discussing how to make them more
resonant.”

The
77th Brigade shrouds
its
activities in neutral language to describe its operations. While the
15th
Psychological
Operations Group was among the four units merged to form the Brigade,
it does not publicly acknowledge that “psyops” form part of its
remit.

Instead,
the Brigade is said
to
employ “non-lethal engagement and legitimate non-military levers”,
while the term “information warfare”, referenced by General
Carter in 2018, is absent from its listing on the Ministry of Defence
(MOD) website.

More
forthcoming UK military doctrine is, however, regularly published by
the MOD. A 2018 document
updatedin
January 2020 reveals that “deception” is a core practice for the
armed forces, stating “it’s critical we develop mindsets and
capabilities that deny information to our adversaries – to degrade
their understanding – … incorporating both passive and active
measures”. 

Deception
is defined as “measures designed to mislead adversaries” with
information “used to create deception or as ‘camouflage and
concealment’ to support deception”.

The
document adds this can “range from encouraging the responsible use
of social media by our own personnel through promoting and developing
and continuous reinforcing of a security culture, to camouflage,
concealment and deception techniques”.

The
77th Brigade has no admitted social media presence, but indications
the unit is widely active on such networks were boosted in September
2019 when senior Twitter staffer Gordon MacMillan was exposed
by
Middle
East Eye
as
a lieutenant in the Brigade.
 

MacMillan’s
promotion
of
puff pieces reporting on the Brigade’s creation, and interactions
with its now-dormant Twitter account the next year, strongly suggest
he has been involved with the unit – which seeks to weaponise the
platform for which he works – for quite some time.

Twitter
has made much of its commitment to ridding the platform of networks
of “coordinated accounts” engaged in state-backed “information
operations” and “platform manipulation”, and has conducted
regular mass purges of such accounts since October 2018. However, not
once have the purged users been based in the UK.

The
(now deleted) LinkedIn page of Gordon MacMillan, a senior Twitter
staffer who was exposed by Middle East Eye as a lieutenant in the
77th Brigade. (Screengrab / Middle East Eye)

Highly organised’

The
77th Brigade has been accused by a member of parliament of targeting
the Scottish independence movement and its supporters. In 2019,
Scottish National Party (SNP) MP Douglas Chapman repeatedly
claimedon
Twitter that the Brigade was “working against elected MPs and
parties” in a “highly organised” manner, “attacking and
undermining our democratic choices”. 

Chapman’s
tweets prompted such a deluge of abuse from other users that he
deleted some of the postings.

Opposition
to Scottish independence is a viewpoint shared by some of the
Brigade’s known members who serve as reservists in the unit. These
include former Conservative MP and armed forces minister Mark
Lancaster (the unit’s Deputy
Commander
) and current Conservative MP and chair of the House of
Commons
defence
committee, Tobias Ellwood (a Lieutenant
Colonel
in
the unit). 

Both
Lancaster and Ellwood have voted
consistently
against
all legislation transferring further powers of any kind to the
Scottish parliament.

Also
reported
to
be part of the Brigade is Kate Watson, Labour’s unsuccessful
candidate for Glasgow East in the 2017 and 2019 general elections.
She was formerly the operations director of Better Together, the
principal “No” vote campaign group in the 2014 Scottish
independence referendum.

The
MOD website states
the
Brigade is involved in “collecting, creating and disseminating
digital and wider media content”. Could this entail managing real,
fake and automated social media accounts disseminating pro-government
messages and discrediting those critical of Downing Street’s
handling of the pandemic?

Apparent
attempts to “game” social media platforms by using covert and
fake social media accounts in these ways have been repeatedly
documented
in
the UK in recent months. A significant example occurred in May when a
brief statement
adapted
from a post on an obscure blog circulated far and wide on both
Facebook and Twitter.

It
read: “Journalism is missing the ‘mood’ in this great country
of ours – the United Kingdom. We do not want or need blame. We do
not want constant criticism of our Government who are doing their
very best in a very difficult and unprecedented global emergency.”

This
was shared without attribution by, among others, prominent
businessman Sir Alan Sugar, although many users posting the message
had only recently registered, or had little to no followers or
‘friends’ – key potential hallmarks of inauthenticity. Several
users were subsequently “restricted” by Twitter due to “unusual
activity”, meaning the accounts were either automated or suspected
of being so – or run from the same IP address. 

It
is not possible to connect the 77th Brigade with this potentially
coordinated effort. However, academic Marc
Owen Jones
who
conducts detailed analysis of social media posts – told us that it
is “plausible” the unit is “adapting legitimate content seeking
to diminish blame directed at the government during the crisis”.

He
explains: “It would certainly make sense to adopt, adapt, or
appropriate legitimate sentiments expressed by real people that
appear popular and boost them in order to ensure maximum reach.

As
that tweet was popular, and also sought to deflect blame from the
government, it would be a prime choice to adapt for an information
operation that had a veneer of authenticity. This way, whoever is
amplifying this content can claim it was grassroots, as opposed to
top down.”

In
other words, even if this was not the 77th Brigade’s work, it is
likely other content circulated during the pandemic has been. Given
Twitter staffer Gordon MacMillan’s role in the unit, the
weaponisation of the platform by the military is surely a matter for
future investigations into Whitehall’s handling of the pandemic.

It may
also be significant that in February this year, Whitehall convened a
behavioural scientist collective, the Scientific Pandemic Influenza
group on Behaviour (SPI-B), to advise its Scientific Advisory Group
for Emergencies (SAGE) on how to, among other things, increase public
adherence to social distancing measures.

One
solution
offered
by the group was to increase the “perceived level of personal
threat” among British citizens. One document states: “A
substantial number of people still don’t feel sufficiently
personally threatened… The perceived level of personal threat needs
to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting
emotional messaging.”

It went
on to recommend that such messaging be circulated via “targeted
media campaigns, social media, apps and websites”.

Conservative
MP Tobias Ellwood during a reception at No 10 Downing Street in
London, 23 May 2018. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Will Oliver)

Civilian army’

The
MOD is not a designated lead department for responding to emergencies
such as pandemics. However, government policy since the 2015
Strategic Defence and Security Review

which
placed military planners in key government ministries – has given
the army a “wider and more formal role in supporting national
resilience contingency planning”.

The
then vice chief of the UK Defence Staff, General Sir Gordon
Messenger, wrote
in
2017: “Defence has a key role to play, supporting lead government
departments, devolved administrations and civil authorities as they
prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptive challenges and
major national events.”

He
explained: “Defence is now no longer seen as the ‘last resort’
option; rather, it must now be ready and configured to play an early
role in providing civil resilience.”

But
more recent attempts to use the coronavirus pandemic in order to blur
the distinction between military and civil power have surprisingly
provoked no alarm. 

For
example, SNP
MP and defence
spokesperson Stewart McDonald has proposed establishing a “national
resilience force”, which he describes as “a civilian army that
would be deployed at times of national crisis”.

Under
the plans, which McDonald intends to have adopted as party policy,
school leavers, graduates, retirees and those taking career breaks
would be offered incentives to enlist. School leavers would receive a
year’s training in responding to a range of crises.

In
an interview
with
the
Times,
McDonald suggested the scheme could be further expanded
post-independence or even adopted by the UK government on a “larger
scale”. He also dismissed obvious comparisons with national
military service, suggesting the scheme was merely a way of engaging
citizens “to deliver the resilience needed to meet modern threats
and challenges”. 

However,
McDonald acknowledged his thinking was “heavily influenced” by
the Modern
Deterrence Project
of
the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), an influential think tank
with close ties to the British defence establishment.

The
proposal was greeted warmly in the
New
Statesman
which
noted that the project’s director, Elisabeth Braw, was liaising
directly with McDonald on the issue. Braw called for all government
agencies linked to national security, including the National Health
Service, to be able to select 18-year-olds for training in a variety
of disciplines.

Integrity and statecraft

Before
joining RUSI, Braw was a “non-resident senior fellow” at
NATO-connected think tank, the Atlantic
Council
. During this period, she also became involved
with
the Integrity Initiative, a covert Foreign
Office-funded
military
intelligence operation. 

The
extent of Braw’s relationship with the Integrity Initiative is
unclear, but a leaked document dated 2018 indicates she was listed
as
one of 14 members of its North American “cluster” – a
clandestine network of journalists, academics, and military and
intelligence operatives maintained by the organisation to spread
pro-Western
propaganda and encourage more assertive government policies towards
Russia.

Earlier
this year, Braw was a panellist at an event convened by New
Bletchley
, a shadowy “network of thinkers, leaders, and
stakeholders” co-founded by Paddy Nicoll, a former officer
in
the Black Watch army battalion and member
of the Integrity Initiative’s UK cluster
whose
name appears in a number of its internal
files
.

Fellow
speakers at the meeting, which was held in London’s Churchill War
Rooms under the banner of ‘UK Defence Priorities’, included a
host of current and former senior US and UK military veterans, among
them 77th Brigade Lieutenant Colonel Tobias Ellwood. 

The
need for the UK government to “find ways of building national
resilience, especially in young people” was one of the panel’s
“key findings”. Strikingly, in 2009 Ellwood authored
a
paper on “bridging the gap between military and civilian affairs on
the modern battlefield”, indicating the lengthy history of these
concerns in elite security circles. 

Despite
Integrity Initiative files
making
clear the organisation is no friend of Scottish independence, that
Stewart McDonald’s thinking has been guided by one of its cluster
members is unsurprising. McDonald denies
having
any connection with the organisation, but his political adviser and
close friend Neal Stewart has given secret briefings
at
the offices of its parent “charity”, the Institute for
Statecraft. 

The
Institute for Statecraft has proposed a number of plans to increase
the armed forces’ role and presence in Britain, and instil a
military ethos
at
every level of British society.

Scottish
National Party MP and defence spokesperson Stewart McDonald. (Photo:
UK Parliament)

One
such clandestine endeavour, called
CyberGuardian,
was an information technology education initiative targeted at
“initially 12-18-year-olds, but spreading to younger children as
the programme evolves”. The project’s executive
summary
had
clear echoes of McDonald’s “national resilience” plan,
including similar phraseology.

CyberGuardian
seemingly never came to pass, but other Institute for Statecraft
militarisation endeavours have – and received Whitehall funding. In
response to a parliamentary
question
in
2018, Tobias Ellwood, then a defence minister, confirmed that in
2016-18 the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust’s Local Grants
Programme awarded £177,650 to 12 separate projects run by the
organisation. 

One
of the projects was called “Shared Outcomes”. Ellwood
painted
an idyllic picture of the endeavour, stating
that
its programmes “enable young people to take part in challenging
activities such as assault courses, night navigation exercises and
camping while visiting an Army base, and other activities designed to
improve community cohesion”. 

However,
a leaked Institute for Statecraft internal file authored by the
organisation’s co-founder Dan Lafayeedney reveals that its real
aims were “counter-radicalisation”, with a pernicious focus on a
so-called “Muslim mindset”. 

He
wrote:
We
have a programme exploring the fundamental cause of radicalisation,
i.e., the Muslim mindset
and
how we tackle that in our Muslim communities in the UK and elsewhere

We
engage directly with the various UK Muslim communities, using
adventurous training laid on by the Army to teach young people
leadership, life skills, other skills and encouraging them to
undertake the national Duke of Edinburgh Award challenge.”

Lafayeedney
added: “This helps build trust and confidence in the communities
and to integrate their young people into mainstream British society.
But we… make no mention of deradicalisation… If it were badged
counter-radicalisation,
no
one would participate in it
[emphasis
added].”

The
same document shows that the Institute for Statecraft also played a
role in the formation of the 77th Brigade.

Lafayeedney
continued: “[We] help the Forces become more competent to fight
modern war with all kinds of weapons and do so on the budget the
state provides. To that end we’ve supported the creation of special
Army reserve units – 77th Brigade and Specialist Group Military
Intelligence –
with
which we now have a close, informal relationship
[emphasis
added]. 

These
bring in, as reservists with special status, individuals who are very
senior civilian experts in some relevant area, such as hedge fund
managers, senior bankers, heads of public affairs companies… people
whom the Army could never afford to hire, but who donate their time
and expertise as patriots.”

Specialist Group Military
Intelligence

The
Specialist Group Military Intelligence (SGMI) was founded the same
year as the 77th Brigade and is also based at Denison Barracks in
Berkshire.

But
even less information on this unit is available than its neighbour at
the base. It has not been mentioned in a single UK mainstream media
article as of September 2020 and even lacks an official British army
website listing. 

An
MOD recruitment
page
for
the SGMI, however, makes reference to it conducting “intelligence
focused activity for not only military but also civil contingency
operations”.

The
‘hacktivist’ collective, Anonymous, has published a list of over
50 alleged SGMI operatives, some who are full-time in the military,
others who are reservists working day jobs in various sectors
including banking, tech industry, lobbying, consulting, and secondary
and university education.

The
Institute for Statecraft’s co-director Chris Donnelly is an
honorary
colonel
in
the SGMI. Leaked recruitment
slides
shown
to prospective SGMI operatives – who are allegedly
selected
and interviewed by Donnelly at his organisation’s offices – make
frequent mention of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). This was
the secret army created by Winston Churchill in July 1940 to carry
out espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in Nazi-occupied Europe,
and which also served as a “stay-behind
 military
force in the event of a Nazi invasion of Britain.

Other
leaked documents shed light on the “intelligence focused activity”
of SGMI reservists. For instance, while serving as Global Head Market
Structure & Execution Strategy at HSBC Global Asset Management
(and also chair
of
the HSBC Military Network), Ian
Cohen
was
a captain in the SGMI’s financial intelligence (‘FININT’)
division. 

Files
released by Anonymous indicate that Cohen’s role included advising
the
unit on optimal ways of identifying Russian state or corporate
funding of UK organisations such as “a university with an
anti-fracking agenda”. 

Cohen
also wrote an extensive report
on
a Moscow Exchange Forum event
in
London he attended in December 2017, and personally hosted
a
conference at the Institute for Statecraft’s offices in January
2018 on “China’s strategy for achieving a competitive advantage
over the West”.

We
emailed Cohen, and his former employer HSBC, to ask whether this dual
position led to other HSBC staff knowingly or unknowingly assisting
him in his military intelligence responsibilities, or if the bank’s
commercial activities were in any way influenced by the role. 

No
reply was received from Cohen, and HSBC said he had now left the
organisation, ignoring subsequent requests for clarification. 

A leaked recruitment slide shown to
prospective Specialist Group Military Intelligence operatives.

Zie voor het vervolg het originele artikel.

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* Zie: ‘LIMC
(leger) nu pas door minister van Defensie Bijleveld op non actief
gesteld, na ernstige inbreuk op privacy en schending mensenrechten

LIMC (landmacht) gaat haar boek wel heel ver te buiten, misdadig en mensenrechtenschendend ver!!

Zie ook: Coronacrisis: de grootste internationale oefening ooit van politie, geheime diensten en de landstrijdkrachten‘ 

Jan Paternotte (D66 Tweede Kamer) maakt zich druk om Chinese spionage, terwijl de VS alweer door de mand valt als spion

Nijntje populair in China, pas op Trump!!

Trumps kruistocht tegen Huawei waar GB in de G5 val van de VS is getrapt‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Coronavirus spionage door Rusland: een beschuldiging zoals gewoonlijk zonder enig bewijs

Vodafone wil voor Groot-Brittannië G5-netwerk Huawei, een netwerk waarmee niet kan worden gespioneerd

Duitsland roept Russische ambassadeur op ‘het matje’ vanwege vermeend hacken van Duits parlement

Het meest gecensureerde nieuws van deze eeuw: het proces tegen journalist Julian Assange
(en zie de links in dat bericht met meer artikelen over Assange en
Chelsea Manning, die o.a. met info kwamen dat de VS op grote schaal
spioneert)

Geheime diensten in westen geven toe dat spioneren via het G5 netwerk praktisch onmogelijk is……..‘ (!!!!

Israël houdt 24 uur per dag Palestijnen in de gaten met gezichtsherkenningsapparatuur en hulp Microsoft’ (!!!!)

Epstein was een agent van de Mossad en werd gebruikt om politici te chanteren

Remdesivir, het middel tegen Ebola en ook tegen COVID-19 opgekocht door de Trump administratie: een zware misdaad‘   

Spanje,
Italië en anderen: EU ‘solidariteit’ i.v.m. de Coronacrisis alleen als
het land zich tot de nek in de schulden wil steken: ‘DASLIEF’ of…..

Kabinet
en regeringspartijen hebben geen behoefte om zorgverleners vanwege hun
inzet op de Coronacrisis structureel meer te waarderen
‘ 

KLM
krijgt 3,4 milard euro voor vliegtuigoverlast, terwijl zorgmedewerkers
kunnen barsten, een applausje vindt men in Rutte 3 voldoende
‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht over de politieke leugens aangaande Schiphol, KLM en Lelystad Airport)

Pandemieën zijn het resultaat van natuurvernietiging, een waarschuwing van de VN, de WHO en het WWF

Corona-angst: psychologische oorlogsvoering tegen de bevolking

Coronavirus: de sanitaire voorzieningen van campings per vandaag open: het hapsnapbeleid van de ‘Coronataskforce’‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht, anders dan de hierboven en -onder getoonde)

Hier
een paar links naar voorbeelden waaruit blijkt dat het met het inperken
van burgerrechten allesbehalve gaat over ‘samenzweringstheorieën’: ‘Psst.nl, oplichters uit het leger die het volk proberen op te jutten meer geld voor Defensie te eisen‘ (o.a. voor ‘extra taken…..’)

De VS oorlog tegen ‘landelijk terrorisme’ is een definitieve stap naar een volledige politiestaat…….‘ 

Coronavirus lockdown, avondklok en andere burgerrechten inperkende maatregelen, terwijl je met vakantie kan gaan en de tv reclames toont voor verkoudheidsmedicijnen……

Anti-Coronamaatregelen ‘activisten’ worden vergeleken met neonazi’s

Rellen naar aanleiding van de avondklok gevolg van falend regeringsbeleid

Trumpisme en fascisme eindig je niet met censuur en andere autoritaire maatregelen, maar door de condities te veranderen die e.e.a. mogelijk hebben gemaakt

Ausweis bitte! COVI-PASS ‘noodzakelijk’ bij aantonen ‘immuniteit’ voor Coronavirus‘ 

Zeg nee tegen de Corona spoedwet!

Rutte 3 wil ongrondwettelijke noodmaatregelen legitimeren met spoedwet‘ 

The Science of Fear: How The Elitists Use it to Control Us & How to Break Free

Transport nucleair afval via Amsterdam naar uitermate gevaarlijke opslag
(met aandacht voor de aantasting van burgerrechten tijdens de
Coronacrisis, zo mochten in Duitsland maar 35 mensen protesteren tegen
dit transport….)

Coronavirus: we worden behandeld als een kind met een tere ziel dat niet te veel mag weten

Coronavirus: vluchtelingen zonder verblijfsvergunning blijven opgesloten ondanks grote kans op besmetting  

Privacy en vrijheid van meningsuiting slachtoffer van het Coronavirus: neem de verplichte volg-app

Trump vraagt om absolute macht tijdens de Coronacrisis‘ 

 

Wereldbevolking moet afhankelijk worden gemaakt van vaccins in combinatie met een ‘vaccinatiepaspoort’‘ (zie ook de video’s in dat bericht)

Navalny wordt geprezen terwijl Assange wordt gemarteld

Ongelofelijk
hoe Navalny wordt geprezen in het westen, waarbij men stelt dat hij
bewust het risico heeft genomen te worden vermoord in Rusland, door
terug te keren naar dat land….. Niemand, dus geen westerse
politicus of ‘journalist’, die aangeeft dat Navalny werd veroordeeld
voor fraude en verduistering en zich niet heeft gehouden aan de
voorwaarden waaraan hij zich had onderworpen bij zijn vrijlating…..
Anders gezegd: Navalny misbruikt zijn verplichting om zich te melden
bij de autoriteiten voor eigen gewin als politicus, die overigens
maar heel weinig succes had als zodanig, 2% van de stemmen is het
hoogste dat hij heeft behaald……. Oh bijna vergeten: uiteraard staat er in Rusland
niet de doodstraf op het niet nakomen van de voorwaarden tot
invrijheidstelling…..

Men misbruikt de arrestatie van Navalny als het zoveelste instrument om Rusland te demoniseren en dit in de hersenen van de westerse
bevolking te spoelen……. Alleen het feit al dat men in het westen durft te beweren dat Navalny werd vergiftigd met novitsjok is een leugen van fomraat, immers zelfs een heel kleine hoeveelheid van dit chemische wapen is zonder meer dodelijk!!! (terwijl men een paar weken geleden in Duitsland zelfs met de fantasie kwam dat Navalny 2 keer is vergifitgd met novitsjok…. ha! ha! ha! ha!) Niet vreemd dan ook dat Duitsland weigerde Rusland de beschikking te geven over de onderzoeksgegevens die tot de conclusie hebben geleid dat Navalny zou zijn vergiftigd met novitsjok……

Hoe
anders gaat men om met Julian Assange, de gelauwerde
onderzoeksjournalist die sinds zijn arrestatie in Engeland in
isolatiefolter wordt gehouden, alleen omdat hij oorlogsmisdaden van de
VS aan de grote klok heeft gehangen, waarbij de meest bekende openbaring, het beschieten van
weerloze mensen in Irak waarbij zelfs 2 journalisten werden vermoord door VS militairen vanuit een helikopter…… Zonder enig onderzoek
hebben zelfs zijn collega ‘journalisten’ Assange besmeurt als
verrader, spion en charlatan, een schande die wat betreft zogenaamde
onafhankelijke journalistiek niet eerder werd gezien (althans als je
de journalistiek in nazi-Duitsland of andere dictaturen niet als
zodanig ziet) De huidige reguliere westerse massamedia zijn dan ook
in handen van spuugrijke figuren die maar één belang hebben: de
hedendaagse neoliberale status quo bestendigen……

Finian
Cunningham heeft volkomen terecht de ophef over de duidelijk te
verklaren arrestatie van Navalny vergeleken met het geïsoleerd
gevangen houden (isolatiefolter) van Assange…. Vergeet daarnaast niet dat Navalny de
Russische regering en Putin in het bijzonder op zo’n manier heeft
gedemoniseerd dat men in het westen alweer schreeuwt om sancties
tegen Rusland….. Als Navalny een VS burger was geweest en hij was
na terug te zijn gekeerd gearresteerd zou er amper ophef zijn geweest
in de westerse media en politiek! Hoe is het dan in godsnaam mogelijk
dat men Assange kwalijk neemt dat hij oorlogsmisdaden van de VS heeft
geopenbaard…….

Vandaag
vinden er demonstraties plaats in Rusland vanwege de arrestatie van
Navalny. Radio1`meldde vanmorgen dat er in diverse steden honderden
mensen de straat op zijn gegaan om te demonstreren, waar eerdere berichten over dit
soort demo’s werden gelogenstraft door de beelden waar je op z’n best
een mens of vijftig op straat ziet, maar ja het gaat om Rusland en
dan schijnt elke leugen geoorloofd te zijn…..

Onder het volgende artikel van Cunningham kan je klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’, het artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd op Sputnik en door mij overgenomen van Information Clearing House.

Navalny
Touted, Assange Tortured

By
Finian Cunningham

January 19, 2021
Information
Clearing House

–  Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was detained on
returning to Russia from Germany for good, legal reason. He had made
a mockery of his parole license.

Navalny is a convicted
felon, found guilty of fraud and embezzlement by a Russian court in
2014. But his jail sentence had been suspended with the condition
that he report regularly to Russia’s prison authorities. A normal
condition.

For nearly five
months, however, he had sojourned out of the country as a de facto
guest
of German authorities
. That’s a brazen breach of his parole
conditions. And the Russian prison service was right in issuing him a
warning at the end of last month that violation of his suspended jail
term risked the sentence being converted into detention behind bars.

It’s a sovereign
matter of Russian laws that on returning to Russia at the weekend
Navalny was arrested and is now in custody awaiting court proceedings
in coming weeks on whether to revoke his suspended sentence.

The hue and cry from
Western politicians and human rights groups over his arrest Sunday at
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport is predictable.

High level officials
from the United States, Britain, Germany and France, among others,
have all made strident statements demanding Navalny’s release.

Britain’s Foreign
Minister Dominic Raab called the dissident figure’s arrest
“appalling”.

For all these
supposedly concerned advocates of human rights there are only two
words: Julian Assange.

Assange is languishing
in a British torture-dungeon, persecuted
by the American and British governments
for the “crime” of
revealing to the world the truth about illegal wars and war crimes
committed by the United States and Britain.

In all of the years of
Assange’s barbaric detention, there has never been a fraction of
the official Western public outcry that has been expressed for
Navalny.

That’s because
Navalny, unlike Assange, is a political asset for a Western agenda to
undermine Russia.

Alexei Navalny and his wife Yuliastand in line at the passport control after arriving at Sheremetyevo airport, outside Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. Russia's prison service says opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained at a Moscow airport after returning from Germany. ©
AP Photo / Mstyslav Chernov

Alexei
Navalny and his wife Yuliastand in line at the passport control after
arriving at Sheremetyevo airport, outside Moscow, Russia, Sunday,
Jan. 17, 2021. Russia’s prison service says opposition leader Alexei
Navalny has been detained at a Moscow airport after returning from
Germany. 
   

 

There are good grounds
to believe the Russian blogger-cum-media-activist is funded and
directed by Western intelligence services. Everything about his
gadfly campaigning smacks of orchestration as an agent provocateur.

The way that Navalny
has coordinated closely with Western media and intelligence outfits
like Bellingcat to peddle the story that he was allegedly poisoned
with Soviet nerve agent Novichok is strong evidence of his
provocateur function. And the way that Western media routinely
“report” the alleged poisoning as if it is fact is demonstration
of how such media are totally dominated
by propaganda service to geopolitical agenda
.

When Navalny was
treated in a Russian hospital after apparently becoming suddenly ill
on August 20 onboard a flight to Moscow from Siberia, the doctors
found no poisons in his system. The medics said the apparent illness
was due to metabolic shock from possible misuse of his own medicines
for diabetes, depression and perhaps excess alcohol.

Conspicuously, days
later after he was airlifted for further hospital treatment in
Berlin, then the German authorities announced they had detected
poisoning
with nerve agent
.

No evidence has ever
been presented by the German authorities or other NATO laboratories
in such a way that is independently verifiable.

Russia has been denied
access to any of their alleged data in order to verify, yet Moscow is
condemned for not carrying out a criminal investigation into the
alleged poisoning.

Not only that but
while Navalny was supposedly recuperating in Germany from a super
lethal toxin he somehow had the media resources to purportedly set up
prank calls to trick a Russian secret service member to confess to an
assassination plot, a plot which the artful activist claimed was
ordered by the highest Kremlin authorities. Russia has dismissed that
media stunt as a fake.

Clearly, there was
something inordinately irregular going on – and it wasn’t from
the Russian side. How was it that a dubious figure with foreign
sponsors could get away with making sensational accusations against
the Russian government based on no verifiable evidence?

Accusations which were
amplified without question by Western
media and politicians
.

And all the while this
dodgy character Navalny is making a mockery of his parole for a
suspended jail sentence. Not only that but there is patently supreme
arrogance from him and his foreign allies that Russian sovereign laws
can be mocked with impunity.

The Western
overreaction to his rightful arrest on returning to Russia after five
months of orchestrating a hostile foreign media campaign is proof of
their arrogance.

And while Julian
Assange is languishing in prison that is damning proof of Western
deceit, duplicity and hypocrisy.

Finian
Cunningham
has written extensively on international affairs, with
articles published in several languages. He is a Master’s graduate
in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the
Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a
career in newspaper journalism. He is also a musician and songwriter.
For nearly 20 years, he worked as an editor and writer in major news
media organisations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and
Independent.

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Zie ook: ‘Russia
Did Not Receive Results of Navalny’s Toxicological Study From
Germany, Prosecution S
‘ 

WikiLeaks
is Reaching Out for Help to Secure Trump’s Pardon for Assange

Duitsland in de ban van de 2 keer (!) met dodelijk novitsjok vergiftigde Navalny, NS2 en dreigementen uit VS‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over Navalny, anders dan de laatste hieronder getoonde link)

Assange (nog) niet uitgeleverd aan de VS tegen een hoge prijs: het verpletteren van de persvrijheid

Aanslag
op Navalny wekt (zonder bewijs) woede in westen, terwijl door Trump
toegegeven moorden stilte opleveren in datzelfde westen

Navalny werd niet vergiftigd maar raakte in coma door een hypo‘ 

Navalny: een nieuwe ‘giftige stok’ om Rusland en Putin mee te slaan

ING too big in crime: misdadig handelen ING Bank Slaski, gecombineerd met de leugens over de vergiftiging van Navalny‘ 

Navalny: de novitsjok wonderen zijn de wereld nog niet uit‘ (lezen mensen)

‘Russen
zijn de domste idioten op de wereld’: Navalny als breekijzer voor de
VS en de EU

Novitsjok
onzin: de feiten doen er niet meer toe als Rusland maar hangt voor de
‘vergiftiging van Navalny’

Navalny:
zonder enig bewijs worden in de westerse media en politiek Rusland en
m.n. Putin aangewezen als de hoofdschuldigen voor
vergiftiging

Duitse
regering stelt dat Navalny is vergiftigd met novitsjok
 

Skripal
scenario van GB volledig onderuit gehaald door Israëlische expert

(
zeker
lezen mensen!
)

Novitsjok Skripal sprookje? Lees dit bericht!‘  (!!!!)

Joël
Voordewind (ChristenUnie, Tweede Kamer) eist actie n.a.v. false flag
actie Skripal
‘ (en
zie dat bericht o.a. voor meer artikelen met christen hypocriet en
oorlogshitser Voordewind)

—————————————————————-

Meer berichten over Julian Assange: ‘Julian Assange (brekend nieuws) moet vast blijven zitten in isolatiefolter‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over Assange, anders dan de laatst hieronder weegegeven link)

Julian Assange (brekend nieuws) mag niet worden uitgeleverd aan de VS!!!

The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice

Een uitlevering van Julian Assange aan de VS zal een definitief einde maken aan de persvrijheid en dat wereldwijd

Never Forget How The MSM Smeared Assange: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

TheKafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths AboutFreedom and Tyranny

Trump: pardon voor oorlogsmisdadigers maar niet voor Julian Assange of Edward Snowden

Pardon Julian Assange Now!‘ 

Censuur in Nederland rukt op: de weg naar een nieuwe fascistische wereldorde

Aanval op alternatieve media ‘succesvol’: meer en meer sites worden van het net geweerd………‘ (bericht uit 2018….)

Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……

Facebook en NAVO werken samen in censuur op niet welgevallig nieuws……

10
jaar geleden werden de Irak oorlogs-logboeken van de VS vrijgegeven,
voor de oorlogsmisdaden daarin vermeld moeten niet de daders Bush en
Blair boeten, maar journalist Julian Assange
‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar artikelen over het o.a. bevoorraden van ISIS door de VS!!)

Niet
alleen Assange staat terecht, maar ook echte journalistiek en degenen
die de klok luiden over oorlogsmisdaden, corruptie en andere smerige
zaken

Prosecution
of Julian Assange part of Donald Trump’s ‘war on journalism’, court
hears

Assange
hearing adjourned as prosecution lawyer is tested for COVID-19
 

Het proces tegen Assange: een verslag van de voormalige Britse ambassadeur Craig Murray

Hackers leggen anti-Syrische propaganda van Britten bloot

Het is
hackers gelukt om de servers van het Britse ministerie van
buitenlandse zaken te hacken en wat ze daar vonden was niet
mis……….. Honderden geheime pagina’s die aangeven dat de Britse overheid anti-Syrische propaganda leugens heeft gebracht in dit o.a. door illegale Britse
oorlogsvoering verscheurd land…..

De
hackers waren vooral uit op bewijzen van een verbintenis tussen het
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO),
‘zeg maar’ het kantoor van het ministerie van buitenlandse zaken dat gaat over
ontwikkelingssamenwerking en een netwerk van gecontracteerde privé
organisaties die
in het geheim media platforms hebben opgezet en geleid
tijdens de in 2011 begonnen oorlog tegen het Syrische bewind van
Assad, een oorlog die al 9 jaar voortsleept….. 

Groot-Brittannië
is verantwoordelijk voor het opzetten van radiostations in Syrië, dan
wel stations gericht op Syrië, voorts dag en weekbladen, boeken, stripbladen voor kinderen, posters en stickers….. Ook werden
‘oppositiegroepen’ gefinancierd, ‘oppositiegroepen’ ofwel terreurgroepen die in het
westen een paar jaar lang (en sommige media doen dat nog steeds)
werden aangeduid als ‘gematigde rebellen’, terwijl het in
werkelijkheid om moordenaars, verkrachters en martelbeulen ging…..

Eén en
ander zou zijn begonnen met het opleiden van ‘burgerjournalisten’ die
vanaf 2011 berichtten over de strijd in Syrië, velen van hen werden
vermoord door ISIS, toen deze groep zich in de strijd ging mengen
(alweer met behulp van de VS!!)

De schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel spreekt
van een burgeroorlog, echter dat klopt niet immers de oorlog in Syrië
werd georganiseerd en
(en wordt nog steeds) geregisseerd vanuit Washington en
Langley (waar het hoofdkantoor van de CIA is gevestigd)….. 

De VS (CIA) probeerde e.e.a. eerst middels een door die organisatie georganiseerde ‘opstand’ die mislukte, waarna
de VS, Saoedi-Arabië en Egypte op grote schaal terreurgroepen uit
Libië naar Irak transporteerden en hen vandaar over de
grens met Syrië hebben gebracht, waarbij die terreurgroepen tevens van wapens en rollend
oorlogstuig werden voorzien….

De
hackers hebben 200 tot 300 uiterst gevoelige documenten bemachtigd,
waarvan er een aantal al zijn gepubliceerd op het internet en naar
verwachting zullen er de komende week meer worden gepubliceerd, tot
verdriet van hoogwaardigheidsbekleders en ambtenaren van het eerder aangehaalde
ministerie van buitenlandse zaken….

Uiteraard
wijst de FCDO onmiddellijk naar Rusland als dader, dit daar e.e.a
professioneel zou zijn gedaan….. ha! ha! ha! ha! Ja het is intussen
zo’n cliché dat voor alles wat mis gaat in het westen Rusland als
dader wordt aangewezen, op zo’n manier dat ik me afvraag of er buiten degenen die deze
beschuldigingen de wereld in helpen er nog mensen zijn met meer dan 2
hersencellen die deze onzin geloven…… Zie Wikileaks, bepaald
geen door een staat opgezet platform, maar dat wel uiterst
professioneel is opgezet en werkt en waarop een enorm aantal smerige spelletjes, leugens en oorlogsmisdaden zijn geopenbaard en dat uit onverdachte bron: officiële geheime VS dossiers!!
 

Volgens
zeggen zouden medewerkers van de FCDO niet zo in hun maag zitten met het vrijgeven van documenten, op het internet geplaatst door
Anonymous, daar veel van de zaken al bekend waren, het zal dan ook
waarschijnlijk alleen wat onrust geven bij de hooggeplaatsten op het
ministerie van buitenlandse zaken, zeker daar men nog niet weet wat
er allemaal bij elkaar is gegraaid door de hackers…..

Ook het
Britse ministerie van defensie (lees: oorlog) had en heeft
waarschijnlijk nog dergelijke programma’s lopen in Syrië, maar dit
ministerie zou niet zijn gehackt.

Kortom:
nogmaals wordt bewezen dat het westen: de VS, Canada, de EU en
Australië, ofwel een groot deel van de NAVO-lidstaten (en een paar niet westerse landen), een wel heel smerige rol hebben gespeeld in Syrië,
terwijl de oorlog die door het westen is ontketend niet alleen een
enorm aantal dodelijke slachtoffers (vermoord) heeft opgeleverd, maar
ook grote vluchtelingenstromen opgang heeft gebracht….. Mensen die de
meeste EU landen niet wensen op te nemen, hoeveel schuld ze ook
dragen voor de reden waarom die mensen op de vlucht zijn geslagen: niet alleen vanwege de illegale oorlog tegen
Syrië, maar ook de illegale oorlogen van de VS en andere NAVO-lidstaten tegen Afghanistan en Irak,
zie bijvoorbeeld de vluchtelingen in kamp Moria op Lesbos…….. Het is om je dood te schamen!!!

Het
volgende artikel werd geschreven door Ian Cobain en verscheen eerder
op Middle East Eye (MEE) en door mij
overgenomen van Information Clearing House:(uiterst irritant dat je eerst naar een andere pagina wordt geleid, waarna je pas kan doorklikken voor het artikel op Information Clearing House [en die van MEE daarvoor], dit dankzij de nieuwe meer dan waardeloze interface van Blogger):

Exposed:
Hackers uncover details of covert UK Foreign Office propaganda
against Syria

By
Ian Cobain

A Syrian rebel fighter pictured in 2016. British government contractors helped to run media offices for opposition groups, according to leaked documents (AFP)

September
29, 2020 “
Information
Clearing House

– Hackers have penetrated the computer systems of the UK’s foreign
ministry and taken hundreds of files detailing the country’s
controversial propaganda programmes in war-torn Syria.

In
a security breach of enormous proportions, the hackers appear to have
deliberately targeted files that set out the financial and
operational relationships between the Foreign, Commonwealth and
Development Office (FCDO) and a network of private-sector contractors
that have been covertly running media platforms in Syria throughout
the nine-year civil war.

Middle
East Eye understands that between 200 and 300 highly sensitive
documents are thought to have been acquired by the hackers.

Some
of the documents have already been posted on the internet, and
foreign office ministers and officials are bracing themselves for the
possible appearance of more over the coming weeks.

While
the hackers are not thought to have yet been identified, the
sophistication of the cyber-attack has raised concerns at the FCDO
that a state actor could have been responsible, with suspicion
focusing on Russia.

In 2018,
the UK foreign ministry said
 that Russian intelligence
officers had attempted to hack into its computer systems.

The FCDO is refusing
to comment on the hacking that led to the exposure of the Syrian
propaganda material.

In a statement, the
ministry said: “The UK has been clear in our support for
elements of the moderate opposition in Syria to stand up to both the
tyranny of the Assad regime and the brutal ideology of Daesh.”

The
FCDO became aware of the breach last week, after some documents had
been posted by the hacking collective known as Anonymous. Foreign
Secretary Dominic Raab was briefed at the weekend and other ministers
were informed on Monday.

The
documents shed further light on propaganda initiatives known in UK
government circles as “strategic communications”, whose existence
came
to light
four years ago, and which
MEE detailed
earlier this year.

REVEALED:
The UK’s covert propaganda campaign in Syria

In February, a Middle
East Eye investigation revealed details of a British
government propaganda campaign
in Syria which sought to promote
the UK’s strategic interests through support for the “moderate
armed opposition”.

MEE is now publishing
details of an internal
assessment
revealing concerns and divisions within government
about the effectiveness and appropriateness of that campaign. It
reveals the work was being conducted despite concerns that it was
illegal. Many risking their lives as citizen journalists and
activists on the ground were not aware of London’s involvement.


Some Syrian activists
involved in British-backed projects have defended
the work
, saying they were dependent on western support for
funding. Some complain that western countries should have done more
to support the opposition and that support for their work dried up as
the war tilted in Damascus’s favour. Others say the work may have
been counterproductive.

The
programme aimed to promote “attitudinal and behavioural change”
among Syrian audiences by fostering secular values, building
resilience among the civilian population and by promoting what the UK
government described as the Moderate Armed Opposition.

They show that British
government contractors established radio stations, published Arabic-
and English-language magazines, newspapers, books and children’s
comics, designed posters and stickers, and helped to run opposition
groups’ media offices.

One contractor is said
to have distributed more than 660,000 printed items across Syria in
six months.

The hacked documents
also show how the “strategic communications” programme has
influenced the reporting of many major media organisations, with one
contractor claiming to be in contact with 1,600 international
journalists and other individuals able to help influence public
opinion.

Citizen
journalists

At the heart of the
propaganda initiatives was a large network of Syrian citizen
journalists, many of whom began reporting on the uprising against the
government in 2011 and were then provided with training, equipment
and encouragement by UK contractors – without the role of the British
government being made explicit.

A number of citizen
journalists were detained and murdered by the Islamic State group
after it began capturing territory in the country in 2015.

IS frequently
denounced its victims as western “spies”, and some Syrian citizen
journalists were pursued across the border to Turkey and murdered.

The documents posted
on the internet in recent days identify not only private-sector
contractors working for the Foreign Office, but also a number of the
individuals who are running those companies.

However, MEE
understands that senior FCDO officials are less concerned about the
contents of many of the documents – as the existence of the
propaganda programme had already been made public – than they
are about the apparent ease with which the department’s computer
systems were broken into.

Similar programmes
have been run in Syria by the UK’s Ministry of Defence, which does
not appear to have been hacked.

Source

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Zie ook: ‘Idlib: westerse anti-Syrische en -Russische propaganda‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht, die voor een deel afwijken van die behorend tot die in de hieronder opgenomen link)

VS trainingsnetwerk voor terroristen in Syrië……‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Israëlische stafchef spreekt omfloerst over een volledige oorlog tegen Syrië……..‘ Israël werd door Rusland teruggefloten, echter blijft af en aan luchtaanvallen uitvoeren op doelen in Syrië, begrijp niet dat Rusland dit toe blijft staan, al is dat waarschijnlijk uit angst voor de VS…… (en zie de links in dat bericht voor meer artikelen overd de rol van Israël in de oolog tegen het democratisch gekozen Syrische bewind)