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A Secret British ‘Strategic Communication’ Campaign Aims To Fracture The Balkans
In late 2018 we learned about the secret British government campaign to smear Russia. The campaign was run by the 'Integrity Initiative' – A Military Intelligence Operation, Disguised As Charity, To Create The "Russian Threat".
A year later the release of a number of British documents revealed systematic 'Strategic Communication' propaganda campaigns against Syria and in Iraq run by contractors who were working for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).
A similar campaign, run by the same companies, created 'regime change' protests in Lebanon. This included infiltrating Lebanon's military intelligence as well as indoctrination of young Palestinian refugees. The recent campaign to regime change Belarus was likewise secretly supported by British government contractors. It is thus not astonishing to learn that the British government is running similar secret influence campaign in other regions of the world.
The release of a new batch of documents show that one of those campaigns has the aim of fracturing the Balkans.
An extensive narrative around those documents is available in three parts. All relevant documents – solicitations, company offers, contracts etc. – can be downloaded here.
After describing the secret British manipulation campaigns in detail the author(s) conclude:
The documents we have published reveal a large-scale neocolonial HMG operation in the region. The British employ various methods to achieve their goals: they support friendly regimes at the same time undermining those regimes they consider hostile. They strengthen or weaken governments as they deem necessary. And everything is done as part of a global plan.
However the essence of the operations has not changed. They are still HMG Trojan Horses.
We believe the people have the right to know both the perpetrators and their accomplices (local politicians or organisations).
I agree with that. But as I am not well versed in the Balkans, and have few readers from there, I will study the documents and leave it at that.
If you have contacts in the area please make sure that they learn about the British campaign.
It turns EVERYTHING upside down and inside out.
I was ruminating on a good example to highlight this process. I thought again about my post on the “Rules-based world order” as critiqued by FM Lavrov
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/06/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2021-049.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02788033e0f1200d#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02788033e0f1200d
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/06/warmongering-british-actions-in-the-black-sea/comment-page-4/#comment-995065
(with links intact)
A story related to me was that every year Buxton, the Duke of Edinburgh and others would carve through the North Norfolk nature reserve waters blasting everything in sight.
Because they could.
And only they.
There is nobody to control these people, and they can’t help themselves.
And here is about as much corroboration as you will find in the British media. The marvelous Steve Bell.
https://belltoons.co.uk/bellworks/index.php/if/1983/0638_P096-SHOOTINGDUKE1
A look at Buxton’s wiki page is quite interesting.
Baron Buxton of Alsa KCVO MC DL
In 1964, he was Extra Equerry to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and in 1972 High Sheriff of Essex. He became Deputy Lieutenant of Essex in 1975 and held this office until 1985.
On 11 May 1978, he was created a life peer as Baron Buxton of Alsa, of Stiffkey in the County of Norfolk.[6] In 1996, Buxton, was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).[7]
The DL is interesting, as it represents the pinacle of the county court system in Essex – he is the monarch’s representative so his word is law.
More interesting is the KCVO.
Let’s go to wiki again
The Royal Victorian Order (French: Ordre royal de Victoria)[note 1] is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria. It recognises distinguished personal service to the monarch of the Commonwealth realms,[1] members of the monarch’s family, or to any viceroy or senior representative of the monarch.[2][3] The present monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, is the sovereign of the order, the order’s motto is Victoria, and its official day is 20 June.[note 2] The order’s chapel is the Savoy Chapel in London.
“Distinguished personal service to …. members of the monarch’s family …”
So Buxton received his KCVO for facilitating the murder of thousands of protected and scarce wildlife by the Duke of Edinburgh. How’s that for upside down and inside out?
There is other information of interest, most particularly for karlof1 if you are reading, for example
Prior to the close of the 19th century, most general honours within the British Empire were bestowed by the sovereign on the advice of her British ministers, who sometimes forwarded advice from ministers of the Crown in the Dominions and colonies (appointments to the then most senior orders of chivalry, the Most Noble Order of the Garter and the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, had been made on ministerial advice since the 18th century and were not restored to the personal gift of the sovereign until 1946 and 1947, respectively[4]). Queen Victoria thus established on 21 April 1896 the Royal Victorian Order as a junior and personal order of knighthood that allowed her to bestow directly to an empire-wide community honours for personal services
This provides a sort of answer to your question about how the crown regained supremacy over parliament following the English civil war. It was done very carefully, very slowly, as only a dynasty is capable.
In 1848 came the Treason Felony Act.
In 1877 she became Empress of India.
In 1896 she had become powerful enough to establish a personal sovereign order outwith the control of parliament.
In 1931 came the Statute of Westminster which reduced the UK to just one of her many realms
“After 1931, when the Statute of Westminster came into being and the Dominions of the British Empire became independent states, equal in status to Britain,[8][9]” (wiki)
In 1946 and 1947 they took back sole control over the Order of the Garter and the Order of the Thistle.
And in the 21st Century it is these personal sovereign orders, primarily the Garter and the Victorian, which are the lynchpins of the Windsor assault on the post war settlement.
Posted by: John Cleary | Jul 15 2021 13:28 utc | 70
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