The British ambassador to Lebanon is 'very excited' to hand over some useless, half armored patrol vehicles to the Lebanese army:
Martin Longden @MlongdenUK - 12:25 UTC · Feb 1, 2021
Very excited to witness the arrival in Beirut of 100 armoured patrol vehicles, a donation from ???????? to @LebarmyOfficial. This is a great practical example of the ???????? ???????? partnership, and of our longstanding support for the LAF's vital role in keeping the Syria border safe and secure.
Keeping the Syrian border safe and secure is certainly not a British priority. Let's not forget that it was Britain which hired various companies, led by 'former' British intelligence officers, who then organized and ran the propaganda campaigns for the Jihadi onslaught on Syria.
The same companies were hired to secretly create 'civil society' groups in Lebanon that were then used to demonstrate for 'regime change' and to pressure the Lebanese government. It was also Her Majesties Government which hired such intelligence cutouts to embed into and undermine Lebanon's justice and security services.
Lebanon's army was another target of British intelligence efforts to gain control over Lebanon's policies.
'Anonymous' hackers have recovered and published a third batch of documents which show how Britain infiltrated Lebanon's Armed Forces Military Intelligence Department. Other documents show that Britain supplied spying equipment to the intelligence services it had infiltrated. Another secret program was designed to infiltrate Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and to manipulate Palestinian youths.
For all this the British government is using company cutouts. A government's Terms of Reference document for the penetration of Lebanon's military intelligence describes how the vendor is supposed to proceed. The 'excuse' is to provide training and support for counter terrorism (emphasis added):
The objective of [British Embassy Beirut] is to increase the capacity, capability and Human Rights compliance of the LAF and Military Tribunal within the CT arrest to trial process. A compliant pathway through the Lebanese CT system is sought that could be used by UK law enforcement in the case of terrorism cases with UK links in Lebanon.
Requirement
An external supplier is required to deliver a two year programme on behalf of the British Embassy Beirut working primarily with the Lebanese Armed Forces Department of Military Intelligence, but with scope to engage with a broader range of security services here, to develop their investigative processes and evidential standards.
Working primarily via a embedded CT adviser, the successful supplier will also be expected to demonstrate a broad range of areas of expertise available on call down as necessary, to effectively project manage the programme while reporting into BE Beirut, and to demonstrate that they have built in rigorous and independent M&E processes throughout the programming timeline.
The British government offered £600,000 for the two year project which ran from July 2018 to March 2020 but has been extended to 2022. Importantly the 'supplier' had been told to keep the project secret:
CONFIDENTIALITY AND PUBLICITY
The implementer is not permitted to speak publicly (to the media, companies unrelated to any HMG audits or at conferences) about their work without the explicit permission of HMG.
Torchlight, a British company that was involved in previous spying projects in Lebanon and elsewhere, made a bid for the contract. It delivered a number of documents that describe its plans, people and methodology for the project. Here is how it plans to gain access to the Department of Military Intelligence (emphasis added):
Gaining Access to Premises / Organisations. The intricate and complex political and sectarian affiliations and loyalties of the primary security agencies makes them ‘courteous but cautious’ and reserved hosts, both between agencies and external partners. Each organisation exists within a silo, with little evidence of inter or intra-agency coordination. Within the GSD, for example, investigative processes appear to operate under a strict need-to-know basis which, from our observations, seems to stifle internal partnership working and information sharing. We will astutely and sensitively navigate these complexities during the first deployment to further build trust and assurances around our ongoing and persistent presence in their facilities while respecting the sensitivities of the work involved. Since no formal process exists for securing access to LAF DMI facilities, our Mentor worked hard during the initial phase of this programme to develop and leverage trusted personal relationships to successfully secure clearance and admittance through stringent security checks. Based on this experience, and the robust and enduring nature of the relationships we have established, we are entirely confident of being able to secure ongoing access and office space within the LAF DMI compound for the duration of the programme. This will be further enabled by engaging senior LAF DMI leadership at the outset of the project, ensuring their buy-in to the programme, highlighting how the approach and strategic objectives are fully aligned with their own vision of change as articulated to us during a meeting in March.
A bit of social engineering (and maybe an occasional bribe) and whoops a British government agent has security clearance and sufficient access to freely roam inside Lebanon's military intelligence service.
As a follow on project to the above infiltration a Investigations and Digital Evidence Assistance (IDEA) program for Lebanon, Maldives, and Morocco was to be implemented. This would give Britain access to 'counter terrorism' data acquired and held by the intelligence services in those countries. It was again Torchlight which made an offer. As part of this it submitted its methodology for the project. From this we can glean that Torchlight will deliver hard and software that the intelligence agencies it has infiltrated will then use to sniff on phones and internet data.
Torchlight is equipment agnostic— we will only recommend equipment options that fit the solution. All potential suppliers undergo rigorous due diligence checks to ensure that we mitigate any risks that may affect delivery of outputs and outcomes. We maintain strong relationships with a wide variety of forensic equipment suppliers so that we can select the right solution for the requirement, and these established relationships also allow us to negotiate discounts, which we will pass on to the Authority to achieve VfM. For example, our market relationships and buying power recently enabled us to include a 10% discount for the purchase of digital forensic software to the British Embassy Amman. We will give due consideration to end user technical capability levels, maintenance requirements and fiscal sustainment needs (e.g. ongoing costs for licences, maintenance, software updates, patches etc) to ensure the equipment will continue to be used in a self‐sustaining manner independent of project support and be supported into the future. This is particularly critical because digital device technology is continuously advancing, and criminal actors are quick to adopt new technology solutions — law enforcement must therefore be equipped with a solution which can keep pace with these advances.
When Torchlight, working for the British government, provides equipment to other intelligence services one must assume that there will be backdoors built in which will give the British GCHQ and other Five-Eyes spy services direct access to it.
So far we have seen that the British government infiltrated Lebanon's civil society, its security services and courts as well as its army intelligence.
An even more sensitive environment in Lebanon are the Palestinian refugee camps. As pretext to infiltrate these HMG asked for offers for a secret counter-ISIS (DAESH) propaganda campaign.
This program had extraordinary secrecy requirements:
You may only speak about the requirement in general terms when seeking local partners to deliver the requirement - you may not mention that the client is HMG.
One wonders why a program to counter ISIS would require such secrecy. But the need becomes obvious when one looks at who its target is.
Torchlight's bid for the project includes a Duty of Care statement:
Around 53% of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (around 450,000) live in the 12 recognised refugee camps. The ongoing conflict in Syria has forced many Palestinian refugees from that country to flee to Lebanon in search of safety. Most Palestinian militancy in Lebanon is confined to these camps.
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Torchlight maintains strong connections into LAF Intelligence – who are officially mandated to administer and police the camps – through our own ongoing security programmes in Lebanon, as well as through the local NGOs with which we are partnering on this project, which operate in all 12 of the PRCs and have excellent relationships with both the LAF and the various militias that have a presence in the camps and have existing access permits in place. We also maintain strong networks within the international NGO community, including with Field Security Officers at UNRWA. While in the camps, we will ensure our project team are accompanied by local NGO staff who are familiar with the camp, its people and protocols, at all times. We are acutely aware of the potential threats of violent backlash towards beneficiaries as a result of perceptions around this programme, and have appropriately mitigated these in the design as described Sections 1.2.1 and 1.5.1.
Section 1.2.1 names seven local NGO's as partners for the project. The devised method for the project is to influence youth in the camps through various workshops and courses without letting them know that the program is part of a British anti-ISIS campaign. Section 1.5.1 is the Risk Assessment. It notes:
This programme will not be overtly branded as a CVE/C-Daesh programme and at no stage will we disclose HMG involvement in this programme.
The secret project, budgeted with £1.5 million, was to be led by Alicia Kearns, a public relation figure who previously worked for the British Ministry of Defense and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. There she was the top cheerleader for the 'moderate' Jihadis who attacked Syria: Her CV notes:
2014 - 2016
Cross-Government lead for Syria and Iraq Communications, and Senior Advisor for Counter Daesh Communications, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Devised Prime Minister-approved communications strategy to defeat Daesh and support Syria. Led communications at UN-led Syria Peace Talks and supported Moderate Opposition. Led UK Government strategic communications/PR response to Russian military activity in Syria. Represented the UK Government at one-to-one meetings with Foreign Ministers, the most senior religious leaders of countries, NGOs, and foreign militaries for 15 countries. Member of Rapid Deployment Unit, assisting with crisis response to Sousse and Greece. Managed a team devising and delivering overt and discreet communications campaigns in the UK and Middle East. Also oversaw @UKAgainstDaesh twitter channel, taking it from 104th to 2nd most influential FCO Twitter account. Three bonuses for ‘exceptional’ delivery and nominated for exceptional policy delivery award. Security Awareness in Fragile Environments plus (SAFE+) training, including additional Hostile Environment Awareness Day course. Also Rapid Deployment trained for managing crises including evacuations.
All the British programs described in this series are designed to help the British government to achieve British aims. Britain is not creating loud youth groups demanding 'regime change' on Beirut's streets for the benefit of Lebanon. It does not infiltrate Lebanon's justice, security and military intelligence services out of pure generosity. When it secretly abuses NGO's to indoctrinate Palestinian youth it does not have the Palestinian's wellbeing in mind.
The money spent on all these secret infiltration programs is a multiple of the money spent to deliver those 100 useless patrol cars.
The described projects are dangerous for Lebanon and all its inhabitants. They open the country to extensive British spying and to manipulation from the inside.
The people of Lebanon should demand that their government end all such programs.
Posted by b on February 1, 2021 at 18:57 UTC | Permalink
ADDENDUM
(Originally posted on Dec. 12, 2020)
New Documents Show How The British Government Secretly Created 'Regime Change' Protests In Lebanon
Three month ago we reported on documents obtained from of 'Her Majesties Government' in Britain which revealed the intense involvement of the UK government in organizing, financing and propagandizing 'Syrian rebels' since the start of the war on Syria. These programs were coordinated with the CIA's and the Gulf Arab's arming of the various Jihadis:
Most of the documents are detailed company responses to several solicitations from the Foreign Office for global and local campaigns in support of the 'moderate rebels' who are fighting against the Syrian government and people.
The documents lay out large scale campaigns which have on-the-ground elements in Syria, training and arming efforts in neighboring countries, command and control elements in Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, as well as global propaganda efforts. These operations were wide spread.
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Most of the documents are from 2016 to 2019. They detail the organization of such operations and also portray persons involved in these projects. They often refer back to previous campaigns that have been run from 2011/2012 onward. This is where the documents are probably the most interesting. They reveal what an immense effort was and is waged to fill the information space with pro-rebel/pro-Islamist propaganda.
For any informed person who had watched the development of the war on Syria it was no surprise that such programs existed. But the immense extend of these was really astonishing. Consider what ARK, one of the involved companies run by 'former' British spies, organized as part of a British government 'Strategic Communication' program:
ARK,as a company that has specialised in Syria programming for more than three years, has access to a wide-range of networks in Syria. ARK has trained over 1,400 beneficiaries representing over 210 beneficiary organisations in more than 130 workshops, and disbursed more than 53,000 individual pieces of equipment. This network reaches into all of Syria’s 14 governorates (see map below), including liberated, regime-and extremist-controlled areas, and ranges from the most senior Syrian opposition politicians, to armed groups, civil society organisations and ordinary Syrians. This includes but is not limited to:
- 61 stringers; 17 teams of distributors;
- 14 FM radio stations; 11 community magazines; two local TV stations;
- 17 Civil Defence teams in Aleppo; 16 in Idlib;
- 58 police stations in Aleppo; 32 in Idlib; eight in Latakia;
- 10 Syrian field researchers; 60 Syrian researchers who can conduct broad-based population surveys (a survey study in May 2014 reached 1,300 individuals); a focus group database of over 800 individuals; Dozens of Local Councils; judicial courts; documentation centres; and
- A variety of other organisations.
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Keep in mind that these were not social programs for the benefit of Syrians but part of a number of clandestine support measure for a violent international Jihadi movement organized to overthrow the Syrian government.
While such a program may be rationalized as part of a war it is astonishing to find that very similar measures are also used against 'friendly' governments.
New documents obtained from the British government and published here and here (complete download here also by right-click "Save link as ..." here) reveal an intense British 'Strategic Communications' program that is directed against the government of Lebanon.
Those who obtained the files, they use the 'Anonymous' label, introduce the new cache:
Let's begin.
How to push people to overthrow their government if they are basically content with its work? Well, your first step is to hire experienced specialists who know how to interfere in internal affairs of other countries and overthrow governments. Which of the British intelligence cutouts created networks of independent journalists, established independent CSOs and used black propaganda to simulate chemical attacks and pave the way for launching missile strikes against an unsuitable country? You've got it right. It's ARK.
On behalf of The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Lebanon in March 2019 ARK updated its 2016 Target Audience Analysis on Understanding the Communications Landscape in Lebanon.
We suggest you closely examine the file as Target Audience Analysis is only its title, while its content is nothing but a manual on nonviolent overthrow of a government in a sovereign state. And the FCO used it as its road map.
ARK's Target Audience Analyses investigated which parts of the Lebanese population could be most easily incited into a revolt against the Lebanese government:
This analysis defined the segment of the population, a Potential Target Audience (PTA), that saw the greatest potential for reform, or to affect positive social change through their own actions. Of all Lebanese, this segment was amongst the most likely to engage if positive forms of civic action, if given the opportunity to do so.
The ARK paper also analyses the 'potential messages' which 'Strategic Communication' could use to incite the target group.
The result of the quite sophisticated analysis points to people who are Christian and Shia, moderately well of, about 30 years of age as the 'Target Audience' which 'Strategic Communication' could push into action by emphasizing their specific grievances, for example lack of jobs, that the group has. It estimates that the thus defined Target Audience includes some 12% of Lebanon's population.
ARK recommended that a British 'Strategic Communication' program to incite a revolt in Lebanon should be kept secret because the Lebanese people hate foreign interference in their affairs.
The British government took up the advice:
Right after ARK prepared the TAA in March 2019, the British Embassy Beirut held a private Stakeholder Event on 11 April 2019. It was dedicated to Lebanon Political Reform Programme.
A presentation from the event explains in very nice language that the British government's objective is "to improve political and economic governance" in Lebanon. It wanted to do this by secretly inciting the 'Target Audience' ARK had defined to protest against the government of Lebanon.
Three projects for 'political reform' were defined: - Female Political Participation; - Strengthening Democratic Mechanisms for Reform, Accountability and Dialogue; - Youth Political Engagement.
The British government then invited certain private companies to make bids for executing these 'Strategic Communication' projects. The Foreign Office formally did this by issuing an 'Expression of Interests' which included a 'Statement of Requirements.' The companies were to deliver detailed offers by early May 2019 and the contracts awards were to come into effect in July 2019. They would run for 21 month. Each project had a defined maximum budget. The Female Political Participation project would for example have a maximum of 1.2 million British Pounds to waste.
ARK made an offer to execute the youth project as did International Alert in cooperation with Westminster Foundation for Democracy. WYG, a company that supposedly does 'infrastructure development' also made on offer.
ARK and the British Council made an offer on the women engagement project that intends to nurture future female politicians in Lebanon (who will then be under British control).
The offers all include detailed descriptions how the planned projects will be executed. These interesting lectures in social manipulation techniques are available here and here.
Another 'Statement of Requirements' by the British government is for a program titled 'Fostering Social Stability through Strategic Communications'. Its objective is to prevent Syrian refugees in Lebanon from returning home by minimizing the conflicts between the refugees and the local population in Lebanon.
The foreseen tasks include the "selection and day to day management of social media champions" who produce and amplify propaganda content. The contract is again for 21 month and has a maximum value of £2.1 million.
ARK makes a bid on that which reveals that the company had received more than £25 million over the previous years for 'Strategic Communication' black propaganda projects in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.
Another program is for 'Strategic Communication' activities against Palestinians in Lebanon. Several companies outline in their bids how they would run these projects.
Consider that none of these manipulation programs and project are run under the label of the British government. They are secret. There is no public reporting about them.
But the projects can, at least in part, be seen by their effects:
The 2019–20 Lebanese protests, also known locally as the October Revolution are a series of civil protests that have been taking place in Lebanon. These national protests were triggered by planned taxes on gasoline, tobacco, and VoIP calls on applications such as WhatsApp, but quickly expanding into a country-wide condemnation of sectarian rule, stagnant economy, unemployment that reached 46% in 2018, endemic corruption in the public sector, legislation that was perceived to shield the ruling class from accountability (such as banking secrecy) and failures of the government to provide basic services such as electricity, water, and sanitation.
The protests created a political crisis in Lebanon, with Prime Minister Saad Hariri tendering his resignation and echoing protesters' demands for a government of independent specialists. However, other politicians, who were targeted by the protests, remained in power.
The people in those protests were those defined in the ARK 'Target Analysis'. The messages were exactly those which the various documents and company offers discussed above had planned to use.
It was the British government and the companies run by 'former' spies on Foreign Office money who incited those people to 'regime change' Lebanon.
Some people in Lebanon recognized the protests for what they were. In October 2019 Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah commented on the protests and told his followers not to take part in them:
We will talk about to the objectivity of the current movement. On Saturday, I said that this movement could be used as a basis. I would like to modify that. What started out as a popular, spontaneous, non-partisan movement made up of hardworking poor people and that was not exploited by embassies, is to a great percentage not like that anymore. I am not saying 100%. Today this movement with its daily activities, slogans and positions is no longer a popular and spontaneous movement. Let the young people who are going to the squares and arenas and taking part in the protests. I do not want to ask anything from them. As for the supporters of the resistance, I will talk to them in the end.
Today the movement is led by certain well-known parties, and I do not want to name them. The movement is being led by well-known political forces, different and well-known groups and figures. There are also certain people and institutions leading it. I will talk about this point in details in a bit. There is management, coordination and funding. No one should pretend that there is no funding. ...
So, go tell the people clearly that we have a funder X from country X or from embassy X or this rich person X or this institution X to see whether these people and embassies of countries who are spending money care for the interests of the Lebanese people.
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I want to warn. This happened in other countries. God willing, this is not being planned for in Lebanon. At the very least, I would like to tell the people to be aware that it might be a possibility. I think it's more than a possibility. I think now it's a lot more than a possibility. Don't believe what the embassies say. Today the American ambassador and the embassies say no, we don't want the overthrow of the government or for it to resign. What they say is not important. What they do is what is important. It is not important what they promise. What is important is what the CIA and the intelligence agencies are doing.
Nasrallah should rethink how the protests really started out.
As for the CIA - we do not know what it did in those protests. But we do know that the CIA had outsourced the propaganda groundwork in Syria to the Brits and their shady 'Strategic Communication' companies.
It is quite possible that it has done the same in Lebanon.
Posted by b on December 12, 2020 at 18:02 UTC | Permalink
location, location. israel wants lebanese water & oil & gas, america wants to block the bri. britain works for israel interests rather than britian's. location location. lebanon, myanmar & syria have the great misfortune of having caught the eye desirous eyes of predators.
Posted by: emersonreturn | Feb 1 2021 20:09 utc | 2
Again, why would the Brits be so interested in undermining Lebanon?
Not saying it isn't happening, but what's the reasoning behind these British operations?
And no, "all in support of Israeli efforts to destabilize neighboring Arab states" would not be a complete answer.
What does Britain want in Lebanon?
Posted by: Jay | Feb 1 2021 20:31 utc | 3
It’s really touching how the Brits and Americans give their crappy under-armored vehicles to their “allies” in the Middle East. The Iraqis got Humvees and the Lebanese got these Land Rovers. These vehicles were not very effective against IED blasts or RPG fire.
Besides, the Lebanese military is a sad joke that couldn’t fight its way out of a wet paper bag. It needs Hezbollah’s help for anything that requires more than dealing with small arms fire. These vehicles will hardly change that.
As for the covert ops, the US and UK do stuff in their overseas embassies that they’d never allow in foreign embassies on their own soil. Their hypocrisy knows no limits.
Posted by: Temporarily Sane | Feb 1 2021 20:48 utc | 4
Maybe the deep state gave the Lebanon franchise of the "seven countries in seven years" project to the Brits. Let the poodle pull some weight.
Posted by: NoOneYouKnow | Feb 1 2021 20:59 utc | 5
Now what makes you think our "intelligence" organizations haven't done this in their home countries? Seems to be the case to me.
Posted by: Mr. House | Feb 1 2021 20:59 utc | 6
@ Jay #3
What does Britain want in Lebanon?
The same that Cameron /Blair wanted from Qaddafi back in 2010/2011 - oil!
Jacob Rothschild must be working in the background for Block 8 and 9 should these go to Israel !
Posted by: Yul | Feb 1 2021 21:17 utc | 7
Temporarily Sane, 4:
Technically, neither Land Rovers nor Humvees were ever designed to be armored cars of any type.
They're supposed to be easy to drive general purpose vehicles. Of course, Humvees weigh at least 6000 pounds, so can't cross a makeshift bridge or readily be loaded on a cargo plane. Land Rovers just fail because of quality control problems, not the inherent engineering.
There's a reason that the basic Toyota pickup is popular in war zones, it doesn't break down, and 8-10 men can right one that's rolled on its side. No, not an armored car either.
Also IEDs based on anti-tank rounds--a very common type of IED--basically can't be stopped by anything short of exotic, extremely heavy, tank armor. Some times they can be deflected, and networks of added bars can be used to safely detonate them a couple feet away from the side of the vehicles. But only very heavy trucks or armored cars can carry such grids.
Posted by: Jay | Feb 1 2021 21:44 utc | 8
Again, why would the Brits be so interested in undermining Lebanon?
Not saying it isn't happening, but what's the reasoning behind these British operations?
And no, "all in support of Israeli efforts to destabilize neighboring Arab states" would not be a complete answer.
What does Britain want in Lebanon?
Posted by: Jay | Feb 1 2021 20:31 utc | 3
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Acting as a ZioNazi-proxy is more than sufficient to explain this.
Overt and covert ZioNazi infiltration of British political-parties and power-structures is common knowledge at this stage. Theres evidence aplenty for both.
[Likely MI5 agent] Keir Starmer, UK Labour party leader, recently employed a spy from Isreal's notorious military intelligence Unit 8200.Former Israeli army spy recruited by Labour will feel right at home
When ZioSpys are now being openly and shamelessly employed by political parties in the UK, why wouldn't the answer to your question be "all in support of Israeli efforts to destabilize neighboring Arab states" ?
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Indeed, s.o.p. subversion ops via financial institutions, telecomm, mass media could well be used on nearly any population (including domestic), if their activities would be sheltered, mostly undetected, and ongoing. Much like the coordinated media disinfo campaigns employed on nearly all civilian populations in western countries, almost all the time. The same types of ops and same types of agencies could quite easily 'flip the switch' to kick off violence and protests throughout a domestic population as well, blm/antifa riots and such, for example. Transnational 'agencies' might well be extremely vulnerable to the temptation of gaining rewards for such actions while being able to escape domestic juridictions via well established international networks which they already use and are familiar with.
Posted by: Josh | Dec 12 2020 18:49 utc | 1
Thanks b! informative... this ARK is not noahs or boris's... who is behind this grand scheme?? it seems the idea of keeping lebannon and syria in a state of tension is the goal.. whose purpose does this serve? it seems like an agenda written in tel aviv, or is it washington?? who is behind all this?? it seems clear enough that the goal is to coddle israel... take this money and make sure israel continues to dominate in the middle east and all other countries are destabilized basket cases... these are sick people behind all this.. that much is very clear... who would spend money like this??
The really shocking thing is the UK gov't is in on it, but don't want it to appear this way.. the people in the UK sure are a weird lot.. i think they are weirder then the people in the USA!
Posted by: james | Dec 12 2020 19:01 utc | 2
First thing to do when 'unrest rears its ugly head' is shut down external communications and kick out any of the Five Eyes operating an embassy in your country. It happnens so often. Kick Out the Five Eyes (I live in one of them). Media Communications (the industry I work in) is the publicly acceptable term for Information Program, Propaganda, Information Warfare. It's all the same thing, with Event Management being the sister of and information program.
I've worked in both areas; external media communications programs and event coordination and management, often dovetailing the two and switching between roles in order to 'maximise stakeholder value' for the benefit of the client. Who is the client..? If the client isn't obvious then Follow the money. It is always the person paying the bill. Follow the money people... follow the money and you will understand the objectives of even the most obtuse communications programs.
As an aside, with all the hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons being pumped into the MENA, 'no one in Government' is able to 'shut down the wars. It's a joke, Government can track your spending down to the last cent and hit you up with a fine for 'incorrect tax return' but they 'can't follow the hundreds of billions of dollars' in weapons that gets flown around the world. Follow the money people. Follow the money and you'll catch the culprit.
Posted by: Trauma2000 | Dec 12 2020 19:09 utc | 3
To think that the British government spent so much money over the years outsourcing and contracting out its regime-change work to greedy private organisations and thinktanks that produce cliche-ridden shiny PR brochures, run the same old, same old workshops and aim at the usual, arbitrarily defined, target groups (women, upwardly mobile middle class youth) - and for all that investment, what have been the results? Bashar al Assad is still President of Syria and still seems quite a popular leader among all levels of society.
The huge scale of investment and waste in companies peddling shallow marketing strategies would be laughable, fit for a situation comedy TV series (anyone remember what that is?) if it weren't true.
Posted by: Jen | Dec 12 2020 19:16 utc | 4
The West has been accused of organizing "color revolution" protests around the world but now we have an actual blueprint. The military coup in Egypt was mostly accomplished using such techniques, which in turn were developed during the American occupation of Iraq. This came up during an interview on Democracy Now about Cambridge Analytica.
Posted by: Edward | Dec 12 2020 19:16 utc | 5
James @ 2:
ARK (Analysis Research Knowledge) has a website and its founder, former British diplomat Alistair Harris has a LinkedIn account you can look up on Google or whatever search engine you normally use. The company is based in Dubai.
Among ARK's various activities in Syria was managing the Facebook page and probably other PR for the White Helmets. The propaganda surrounding Bana Alabed and other Syrian children seems to be of a type similar to White Helmets propaganda - designed to appeal to people's emotions, particularly women's emotions - so there is a possibility all this rubbish was being generated by the same organisation.
In the end the target audience for all this propaganda is us, as our support is needed to justify an eventual US or NATO invasion of Syria and Lebanon.
Posted by: Jen | Dec 12 2020 19:33 utc | 6
I am pleased to see Perfidious Albion exposed again. The UKi government has been at this pernicious caper forever. Just imagine what it has meant in terms of arrested development, nation wide sabotage of social and political engagement. And this UKi goverment writes about the unfortunate failed state of Lebanon, or Yemen, or Africa!
The proof of UKi embassy being brazenly engaged in the entire caper is enough for the Lebanese government to demand its closure.
Workers and citizens of the world be aware that the first step in saving your country is to close the embassies of all enemy states. Then there are the stenographers for the msm that were exposed through the hacking of the Integrity Initiative reports.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 12 2020 19:38 utc | 7
The use of the adjective "perfidious" to describe England has a long history; instances have been found as far back as the 13th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidious_Albion
Instances of this continue to be piled on constantly, eight centuries later ... Is it a cultural tradition?
Posted by: Canadian Cents | Feb 1 2021 19:33 utc | 1