By George Eliason, an American journalist living in Ukraine.
We’ve looked at what makes up the top level of the deep state. When you peel back a few layers, it’s the same 1% that own the wealth of the country. In part 2, we looked at how the 1% deep state interact with smaller companies and individual actors.
Let’s look at the Unimaginable
This is the reality the government knows the predators it helped create and sustains through contract work has become. After, we’ll look at unthinkable real-life situations where spies for hire show their true colors. By employing a lot of screenshots showing their own words, you can judge for yourself whether or not they are a clear and present danger to democracy, National Security, freedom, and press freedoms.
More than 80% of the NSA budget goes to spies for hire.
Unlawful Combatants in the Hybrid War
Unmasking Propornot was a small part of showing how immoral people are using gray areas in the law to victimize law-abiding citizens and strip them of their rights, dignity, income, and right to a free press through terror tactics. Because they haven’t been challenged, they have no problem stepping over the line into criminality.
What you don’t know that is a source of frustration for alternative media who have been attacked by criminal groups like propornot, is there are laws and policy in place that protect civilians, journalists, and publications.
I was very serious when I noted the only thing needed to stop these criminal actions is to demand that current laws are enforced and that Congress closes up the remaining gray areas of law and policy that are being exploited to destroy lives.
That part will be up to you. You need to call or email your Congressman and demand this is done. You need to demand the enforcement of civil protections for all citizens. You do.
As you read this, understand there are no caveats. What’s needed is for people that are willing to stand up for themselves and each other to do so. Legal action is what’s needed. If Congress won’t provide protections or they won’t be upheld, tarring and feathering might be in order later. Violence will only insulate the criminals from responsibility for their crimes.
Why do I call the spies for hire unlawful combatants?
That’s what they are when they are attacking civilians, pushing propaganda, or mounting Information Operations. And according to law and policy, they have all the rights of the unlawful combatants held at Guantanamo Bay.
In part 2, inherently governmental actions were defined as governing, policing, policy, military activity, and intelligence work. This was further defined as activities requiring government personnel to be legitimate. When any of these activities are done extra-legally, the protections given civilians and government authorities under the law are stripped too.
According to the Federal Register (2006) 34826, at 34826 – 34827( ‘ [i]t is the responsibility of the combatant commander to ensure that the private security contract mission statements do not authorize the performance of any inherently Governmental military functions, such as preemptive attacks, or any other types of attacks. Otherwise, civilians who accompany the U.S. Armed Forces lose their law of war protections from direct attack if and for such time as they take a direct part in hostilities ’ : quoted in Matter of Brian X. Scott (US Government Accountability Office, 18 Aug. 2006) B-298370 and B-298490, available at: www.gao.gov/decisions/bidpro/298370.htm . We Can’t Spy … If We Can’t Buy! ’ : The Privatization of Intelligence and the Limits of Outsourcing ‘ Inherently Governmental Functions ’ Simon Chesterman- The European Journal of International Law Vol. 19 no. 5 © EJIL 2008;
“DECADES BEFORE SMARTPHONES, the internet, and social media, philosopher Marshall McLuhan, who worked on media theory, predicted a future world war fought using information. While World War I and World War II were waged using armies and mobilized economies, “World War III [will be] a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation,” McLuhan said, a prophecy included in his 1970 book of reflections, “Culture Is Our Business.”- The Intercept, The New Information Warfare- Murtaza Hussein
So, now we see calling spies for hire unlawful combatants is set squarely inside US law and policy. It is updated by simply defining hybrid war and information war. In America and the West, the most common term used to describe unlawful combatants is the word TERRORIST. And using that word, we are still set squarely within the frame of law. But for the moment, let’s leave off of inciting vitriolic.
Although damning, the definitions don’t go far enough to cover cyber and online operations yet. The Tallinn Manual on The International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare- Prepared by the International Group of Experts at the Invitation of The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence spells out:
- Cyber and Online operations responsibility
- Cyber and Online Authority
- Cyber and Online Restrictions
- Legalities, legal limits, and defines Terrorist operations by laying the groundwork for legal action
It is important to note cyber and online operations are both parts of this in the definitions of legal and illegal target choices. The manual defines lawful and unlawful combatants by what they are doing or attempting to do as well as their official authority to do so or lack of.
From The Privatized NSA Army is Attacking YOU!– Tallinn Manual rules that are applicable to the spies for hire attacking civilians were designed to set rules for official military actions. The reason why they are applicable in this situation is simple. When illegal combatants attack civilians, civilians have the right to defend themselves and their properties with vigor. Civilians also have a right to restitution for damages.
“Rule 26.9 –Virtual Online communities and people expressing opinions do not qualify as combatants.”
As you can see right away, propornot, the people behind propornot and those infiltrating and attacking online communities, or people expressing opinions do so ILLEGALLY. They ARE engaged in hybrid war as ILLEGAL COMBATANTS, and unless they ARE acting within the confines of a state’s legal structure, are in fact, terrorists.
“Rule 30 defines a cyber attack as a non-kinetic attack reasonably expected to cause damage or death to persons resulting from the attack. If attacker mistakenly calls civilians lawful targets, the attack on civilians still occurred. It is a crime. This is an important consideration considering how interconnected the internet has made people.”
The only part that requires further definition is the word damage. People’s ability to make income can be damaged. Reputations can be irrevocably damaged.
“Rule 33 If there is doubt to the status of a person, that person is to be considered a civilian and not targetable.”
This is very important going forward. It shifts the burden of responsibility to the attacker for any damages done to people. If the attacker cannot meet the legal definition of status and show governmental authorization.
“Rule 35.5 Gathering information for the military makes you a combatant. Journalists are prohibited targets. Once an attack is made, the retribution is legal and does not necessarily need to be in kind. A cyber attack can be met with conventional weapons.”
Rule 35.5 labels all the corporations, companies, and “one man intel operations” working outside the direct oversight of Blue Badge ODNI agency supervisors against civilians as TERRORISTS. @webradius @bellingcat @selectedwisdom
Rule 41 Means and Methods describes cyber weapons broadly as the means to carry out cyber war by use, or intended use of cyber “munitions” designed to cause damage, destruction, or death to its targets. The breadth of the rule is required because of the wide array of possible attacks through cyber means.
Spies for Hire can use the software on US citizens that may have to be labeled munitions when they export it to client states that also use it on US citizens labeled “Russian trolls.” Pentagon Contractors are developing lethal CYBER (READ ONLINE) WEAPONS. Do you think only the military will have access to it under the current laws?
“I was in a discussion today about information being used in social media as a possible weapon. The people I was talking with have a tool which scrapes social media sites, gauges their sentiment and gives the user the opportunity to automatically generate a persuasive response. Their tool is called a “Social Networking Influence Engine”. No, not related to the SMISC BAA from a few years ago. Better. ..Can this be categorized as a munition? I looked through and it does not seem to apply. The implications seem to be profound for the information environment.
The implications may have far-reaching impact beyond Department of Defense. The people who own this tool are in the civilian world and don’t even remotely touch the defense sector, so getting approval from the US Department of State might not even occur to them. If this does require ITAR approval, the corporate world that deals with information and influence will definitely be affected. ..So… my question is, who at the US Department of State must I coordinate with to get a ruling if this “Social Networking Influence Engine” must receive ITAR approval? “- Joel Harding
Before anyone asks how important the Tallinn Manual definitions are with regard to US law, it is “guiding Congress” in Cyber war/attacks/hacks/ and non-events. Now, if we could only get them to read it.
While I am not going to spend any time with it, the only proposed solution to gray area Online Terrorists and Unlawful Combatants harbor in has been propositions of reinstating Privateering Laws for Cyber. Yes, you read right, matey. It is the most fundamentally flawed idea that could come forward and of course, it has been proposed by the criminals and their supporters. The little bass-turds want to officially be known as pirates!
Here’s the problem. If you are attacked by a Cyber privateer and you feel it was wrong, you have the right to petition for restitution. That sounds good at first blush. It is up to you to prove you were wrongly attacked. This is akin to a rape victim having to prove they didn’t ask for it. It’s immoral.
On the chance you can figure out who attacked you and hacked your bank acct, PayPal acct, damaged web properties, or got you fired; according to the proposed policy, you still have to petition to them directly (after finding them- attributions are damn near impossible) and prove to them that you are not guilty of being a Putin troll (example). If you have reposted any of the sites on social media listed with…oh, I don’t know..let’s say…propornot, you’re out of luck. You lose.
The proposal was designed by terrorists, for terrorists, to reward terrorists.
Let’s Look into the Unthinkable
First, let’s establish that it’s common for spies for hire’ to assume they can take on inherently government authority and powers. Aaron Weisburd started working with the Ukrainian government publically in January 2015, just as they announced their IO army and Myrotvorets (PeaceKeeper) which bore his signature Russian troll hunter methodology early on. Myrotvorets will become important later in the article.
According to Weisburd‘s February 26, 2015, definition of what he is doing- “I‘m just trying to do my
part to help make bad things happen to bad people who are in the service of the Kremlin. And for the
record, I’m not an army of one. I’m more like a one-man intelligence service.”
Aaron Weisburd’s statement and his actions over the last 2 decades put him squarely in the realm of unlawful combatant and terrorist. But, does he know what he is doing is illegal?
Good for you Aaron! He’s on the attack! Honesty won’t help when you are SUED or sentenced because of legally definable terrorist acts against AMERICANs. I think I’ve made my point with ALL CAPS. I find it distracting.
How about Bellingcat’s principal, Eliot Higgins?
Harding developed Ukraine’s official Information Policy in 2015. He developed a cyber containment strategy for Russian media that has to be the most effective ever mounted. Crowd the Russian media out of the world’s mainstream and keep them talking amongst themselves while social media, internet, and TV news barriers were being erected to control the news and information Ukrainians see and think about.
Because of this Russians have been kept from influencing Ukrainian media, news, or people through social media this entire time.”
What do people like Joel Harding, Aaron Weisburd, Clint Watts, or Eliot Higgins think about your rights? Your worth?
“Nonsense, I say, Brigitte Gabriel was spot on. As she said, and I am paraphrasing for my purposes, the vast majority of peaceful people are irrelevant because they did not influence or stop those who committed those acts of atrocity. -Harding
What we have established in this article series is these people are assuming authority that falls under inherently government responsibilities. They consider most of the population to be irrelevant, which is why they have no problems turning Americans into Russian agents and line items on their invoice.
If you’ve made the “A” list, I’ll assume you received your notice too. What does a threat look like from the spies for hire?
“Hello, George Eliason,
Joel Harding (F-off@email.ru) has sent you a message via your contact form (http://russia-insider.com/en/user/1193/contact) at Russia Insider News.
If you don’t want to receive such e-mails, you can change your settings at http://russia-insider.com/en/user/1193/edit.
Message:
It’s been fun following you! I hope you’re having fun in Donbas. So sorry NovoRossiya is being dissolved. http://toinformistoinfluence.com/2014/10/12/novorossiya-fail/
I’ve been looking forward to you publishing some more articles. But I’m curious, two months and nothing? Did you change names?
I know your bandwidth there is limited, this is probably costing you many Russian rubles. Oh yeah, I hear they don’t take Ukrainian Hryvnia. The good news is that Luhansk and Donetsk will both remain with Ukraine, Russia can’t afford it.
By the time you return to the West, I should be in Kyiv, waiting for you. You have a date with the SBU.”- Joel Harding
Harding, like every other person working for the Ukrainian government that is attacking US and western journalists, websites, and readers (readers spread articles on social media) are NOT the VOLUNTEERS they claim to be.
This is important to establish because according to the Tallinn Manual, being volunteers excludes you from responsibility for some aspects of an illegal combatant activity.
If Harding never received a penny from the Ukrainian government directly (he was hired), he was still paid through the company he advertises on his website. He used to have a contact form that bragged about how they would destroy your corporate competition using these means and that they were State to State capable.
From their LinkedIn profile– IOTA Global are the world’s experts in providing Information Operations (IO), Influence, Strategic Communications (StratCom) and Information Warfare (IW) capabilities to national governments. We offer specialist training and capability transfer, combining the very latest behavioral science with the world’s foremost military IO expertise to provide a full spectrum influence based solution. Our group’s expertise covers all specialist elements of IO such as PsyOps, Media Operations, Key Leader Engagement and CIMIC as well as Operational Planning, Target Audience Analysis and Measurement of Effect. We cater for the full range of clients: from those with little or no familiarity with IO and Influence through to already well developed capabilities and we offer a range of services, from basic exercise design, to validate and enhance already established organic IO capabilities, through to complete knowledge transfer solutions including personnel selection and infrastructure procurement and advice. Our start-point in any project is understanding, through in-country visits, our client’s exact requirements and offering cost-effective solutions to meet those specific needs.
Harding helped NATO STRATCOM COE LATVIA off the ground at the same time he was helping set up the Ukrainian Information Ministry. Harding wrote Ukraine’s Information Policy in 2015,2016. Harding’s IOTA Global announced they were working with both STRATCOM COE and the Ukrainian government. If you look at the comments, the COE leadership appear to be gushing emotion.
“We are delighted to have been working with the NATO Centre of Excellence for Strategic Communication, Latvia, (2015) in delivering capacity building training, in Kiev, to representatives from the Ukrainian government. Ukraine is faced with a number of challenging issues, not least the ongoing territorial dispute with Russia. IOTA Global and its partner company, SCL Ltd, were contracted by the Canadian Government earlier this year to assist the NATO COE in its vital work. This included the delivery of a 9-week intensive Target Audience Analysis course, using the Behavioural Dynamics Institute (BDi) advanced TAA methodology (TAA), to train 20 students from 11 NATO nations.”
This is important because, for the last 3 years, Harding has been working to destroy news and websites that disturb his narrative building and information operations. GlobalResearch.ca has been an ongoing focus for him and the other Illegal Combatants named here the entire time.
GlobalResearch.ca. You are unprofessional for doing this, you do not deserve any association with the proud profession of journalism and you should be shut down. GlobalResearch.ca Remember that name, put it on your “bad” list and spread the word. They are despicable, vile, the opposite of journalists. GlobalResearch.ca- Harding
According to the Globe and Mail, NATO Center of Excellence for Strategic Communication, Latvia is going after GlobalResearch.ca and their reasoning parrots Joel Harding.”At its headquarters in Riga, StratCom researchers consider globalresearch.ca to be a link in a network that reposts such stories. “That way, they increase the Google ranking of the story and create the illusion of multisource verification,” said Donara Barojan, who does digital forensic research for the center. But she said she did not yet have proof that Global Research is connected to any government.”
This focus and constant barrage have taken its toll on www.globalresearch.ca because the same people that are attacking them are trusted fact check sources for Google.
This is a very clear-cut case of Illegal Combatants steering the ship at NATO. Spies for hire committing illegal actions are teaching NATO, DOD, ODNI agencies, and foreign counterparts how to go about their business. They are giving them the criteria to find enemies and engage them.
On its own or with other websites, GlobalResearch has the ability to counter this with a cigarette company sized lawsuit. The apparent attack by NATO COE, Latvia is at the instigation of Joel Harding. A lawsuit could include him, Aaron Weisburd, Clint Watts, Hamilton 68 Dashboard (etc), Bellingcat, the Canadian government, as well as others involved including NATO and every country with a part in the COE (Center of Excellence).
Professor Chossudovsky should also consider including the people that hired the cyber terrorists. This is under the umbrella of the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), and the Ukrainian Congressional Committee of America(UCCA).
Are terrorists allowed to put American kids on their kill lists? If they are, watch out! Are your kids are next?
Joel Harding wrote the Information policy. This is what it led to right away. This is Ukraine’s infamous kill site. Ukraine maintains the right to kill anyone on it, anywhere in the world that they choose to. And the Ukrainians use this to find and murder people that talk, post article links in social, or write articles they don’t like.
Aaron Weisburd started his kremlintrolls.com website at the same time Myrotvorets came online. He taught the Ukrainians how to catch entire networks so they could be put on the list.
Eliot Higgins and Aric Toler of Bellingcat taught the Ukrainians to find the people in the networks that are on the kill list at Myrotvorets.
Ronnie Miller was 17 years old when he was put on this list. He’s never been to Ukraine before. Three out of four of these Illegal Combatants are Americans working for a foreign country that is attacking Americans in AMERICA!
One question out of Ronnie Miller’s interview with Donbass News Agency.
DONi: Do you feel safe in your own nation expressing your views about Donbass?
Ronnie Miller: This nation of mine preaches for freedom of the press, information, and the ability to formulate an opinion. What I support isn’t a threat to National Security. What Islamic extremists preach, is. I don’t feel safe, nor threatened. It is most definite that I am being watched or on a list of some sort. However, I am in no threat of being taken away or bribed to stay quiet.”
It sounds like Ronnie Miller didn’t skip civics class and is expecting his government to honor Constitutional protections.
Instead of protecting its citizens, the US government is sending weapons and instructors to the government that is putting American citizens on kill lists.
Ron Miller should consider a lawsuit against the Illegal spies for hire that put him directly/indirectly on a kill list with a foreign government.
Here’s the fun fact. If you are out driving a car without insurance in a state that requires it and you get hit- it is still your fault. You weren’t supposed to be there. The spies for hire are not supposed to be able to call American kids- terrorists. Since the UWC and UCCA both fund Myrotvorets through donations and supplied the nationalist ideology that wants to kill 17-year-old Americans, they should be sued too.
Previously, we discussed the method of operation that is used, which is staying within the developed narrative of Russia will attack! Russia is attacking! Russia has attacked!
What happens when spies for hire fall out of the narrative or need to get rid of each other? There is only so much of the pie to go around.
The images above and below are the proof that the people behind the Hamilton 68 Dashboard have no Intel Mojo. This is a clear example of information fratricide by Bellingcat principals against Aaron Weisburd, Clint Watts, JM Berger, and Michael Chertoff etc.
Weisburd knows he needs to clear it up, try to get the egg off his face now that he’s been exposed publicly, and get the story back on point.
In case you are wondering who Eliot Higgins is, before becoming a world-renowned Intel service that’s always wrong, he was an underwear salesman- not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s just that it provides a different type of security.
Higgins claim to fame was pronouncing Syria’s president Assad guilty of gassing his own people. The US government that wants to oust Assad can’t use his story because it has no facts in it. The US government’s position is that there is no proof.
The screenshot above is mindblowing to me. Aaron Weisburd once again admitting that his Russians aren’t Russian at all. He’s trying to cover up for his Hamilton 68 Dashboard only set on catching tweets from a few accounts that aren’t even trolls.
Both Weisburd and Higgins (UK national) agree that award-winning journalist Vannessa Beeley, who reports from Syria for 21st Century Wire must be stopped before:
- She destroys their narrative. They cannot prove Assad used gas on the Syrian people. But if she is allowed to continue, the proofs from Syria that she is providing might go mainstream soon. Beeley has been at the forefront of the story showing the ties between the White Hats and ISIS.
- She might influence policy people around American president Donald Trump and change Syria policy.
What is clear is that Aaron Weisburd will try to bring this up to Congressional Reps that listen to him and further destroy civil rights and the 1st amendment. Eliot Higgins cannot survive being wrong about the on the ground realities in regions he is supposed to be an expert on for too much longer.
What is clear is they are purposing an Information Operation to rope in US policy at the Executive level. And left to their own, they may succeed.
Vannessa Beeley hasn’t been slandered by no name people on twitter. Her reputation as a journalist and ability to gain access to do her work and disseminate the reports she does depends on her credibility. People who are trying to take the authority of government are declaring her to be an Information Operations agent. This is beyond slander.
This is something that a government like the US federal government cannot get away with doing. They are literally working to get this journalist censored.
Clint Watts, Aaron Weisburd, Jonathon Morgan, JM Berger, the Hamilton 68 Dashboard, the German Marshall Fund of the USA, The Alliance for Securing Democracy, Michael Chertoff, Eliot Higgins, Aric Toler, Bellingcat, The DFR Lab, Atlantic Council, UWC, and the UCCA are branding Vanessa Beeley as a traitor to the UK (foreign agent) trying to destroy Democracy in America.
If the UK or US government made the same accusations without facts, the lawsuit Ms. Beeley could file would be a no-brainer.
Once again the spies for hire have taken on the mantle of government illegally. This time they will probably go to lawmakers and make sure people like Beeley are shut down for good.
That is unless news sites and websites band together and sue the illegal combatants that are threatening democracy in 2018.
If you look at Weisburd’s @webradius entire Russian Influence Spy Ring, it is populated y by tens of thousands of people living in the USA that voted against Hillary Clinton.
“When I say ‘engaged’ I mean really engaged. The link to this site is the word ‘here’ in the paragraph above. Nevertheless I collected a sample of 50+- IP addresses. Thank you Mr. Justin, you are an eminently useful idiot…Also, many (most?) of the US readers were at work when they visited antiwar.com. Those US readers are concentrated in New York metro, Washington DC, greater Boston, the Bay Area, and Illinois (Chicago and main campus, U of I). Meanwhile, the Russian readers (there are only two in the dataset) are split between Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.”- Andrew Aaron Weisburd @webradius
This is what spies for hire do for partisan politics, money, or the company they work for. For some, nothing more than their own warped sense of satisfaction watching another human beings life twist in the wind. Many are ultra-nationalist and if you don’t agree with them, you will be made an enemy of the state. Malignant parts of the deep state getting out of hand.
I’ve given people that play in the private sector, government, and policy a lot of exposure because they attack innocent people, journalists, and news and opinion websites..
From 2015, “Peppy Escobar and Steven Lendman are both “active measures” agents for writing about John Kerry, the State Department, RT bashing, and of course Ukraine. Blog Talk Radio host Dr. Rick Staggenborg both a veteran an d peace activist is labeled a Russian propagandist. Professor Michel Chossudovsky and every journalist and activist that publishes at GlobalResearch.ca which is a large list including Paul Craig Roberts and Robert Parry are Russian active measures agents in the Ukraine war and every “agendized news event they write on. Tyler Durden, connected writers and journalists are Russian propagandists. Deena Stryker, an editor at OpEdNews is noted because of her PressTV interview for saying the US is engaged in a propaganda war.
All conspiracies aside it wouldn’t feel right without adding Alex Jones and Michael Rivero. Harding developed what seems to be a fixation about Jones and company a few years back. It’s not that he hates Jones’ news sites any more than the others, but it is personal. Joel Harding’s favorite nephew rates Jones take on international events as more credible than what Harding has to say.
George Eliason – As for those documents, Eliason must have contacted the cyber-militia directly, because they haven’t made any public posts online since December. All of this was unusual enough to warrant further investigation into George Eliason’s online identity.”
After writing my 5th or 6th article about what Weisburd, Watts, and Harding were doing, Harding and his growing work group were considering what to do about me. The friend he mentions is Aaron Weisburd who I had just exposed planning to attack a major opinion site.
” I still engage with Pro-Russian Trolls on a daily basis. I’ve had reporters write bad stories about me on Russian Proxy “News” sites. I currently have a vehemently rabid anti-Western, especially anti-American, troll trying to smear a group of Russian troll chasers I work with. He also published several stories blaming us for all his woes.
The difference is I have been professionally trained on how to mess up somebody’s life, permanently and forever. Yeah, we were trained in Special Forces more on weapons, explosives, communications, intelligence, operations, tactics, and medicine, but being trained in Unconventional Warfare does give one an advantage when one desires to get nasty… Just last week a friend wrote “You’re evil…” when he asked for suggestions on how to deal with this one particular troll.- Joel Harding
Imagine being so brazen you could publish that threat. Andreas Umland, who is supposed to be a leading academic, didn’t think it was wrong to republish that threat on my life on his own blog.
My goal is and has always been to ensure that the facts get out from Donbass. I think I’ve done that and will continue to do so. I am a firm believer that only the facts and realities of a situation can help. If you know the facts about what is going on in Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR) and Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) you won’t support the deviant and murderous Ukrainian Nationalist politic that Andreas Umland does. Unless of course, you think it’s ok to murder 17-year-old Americans, destroy freedom, justice, and the free press. And perhaps like Umland, you think it’s ok to murder me.
My goal is to do my part and help America re-establish her commitment to justice for all the people, law, and civility. I hope I’m doing that. But don’t get up and react for me. If you don’t do it for you, there is no future left to worry about.