US Now Admits it is Funding "Occupy Central"
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       October 1, 2014 (Tony  Cartalucci - LD) - Just as the US admitted shortly after the so-called  "Arab Spring" began spreading chaos across the Middle East  that it had fully funded, trained, and equipped both mob leaders  and heavily armed terrorists years in advance, it is now admitted that  the US State Department through a myriad of organizations and NGOs  is behind the so-called "Occupy Central" protests in Hong Kong.    The Washington Post would report in an article titled, " Hong Kong erupts even as China tightens screws on civil society," that:    Chinese leaders unnerved by  protests elsewhere this year have been steadily tightening controls over  civic organizations on the mainland suspected of carrying out the work  of foreign powers.    The campaign aims to insulate  China from subversive Western ideas such as democracy and freedom of  expression, and from the influence, specifically, of U.S. groups that  may be trying to promote those values here, experts say. That campaign  is long-standing, but it has been prosecuted with renewed vigor under  President Xi Jinping, especially after the overthrow of Ukrainian  President Viktor Yanukovych following months of street demonstrations in  Kiev that were viewed here as explicitly backed by the West.  The Washington Post would also report (emphasis added):    One foreign policy expert, who  spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive subject, said  Putin had called Xi to share his concern about the West’s role in  Ukraine. Those concerns appear to have filtered down into conversations  held over cups of tea in China, according to civil society group  members.    “They are very concerned about  Color Revolutions, they are very concerned about what is going on in  Ukraine,” said the international NGO manager, whose organization is  partly financed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), blamed  here for supporting the protests in Kiev’s central Maidan square. “They  say, ‘Your money is coming from the same people. Clearly you want to  overthrow China.’ ”     Congressionally funded with  the explicit goal of promoting democracy abroad, NED has long been  viewed with suspicion or hostility by the authorities here. But the net  of suspicion has widened to encompass such U.S. groups as the Ford  Foundation, the International Republican Institute, the Carter Center  and the Asia Foundation.   Of course, NED and its many subsidiaries including the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute  do no such thing as "promoting democracy," and instead are in the business of constructing a global network of  neo-imperial administration  termed "civil society" that interlocks with the West's many so-called  "international institutions" which in turn  are completely controlled by  interests in Washington, upon Wall Street, and in the cities of London  and Brussels.              |   | Image:  While the Washington Post would have readers believe NED is in the  business of promoting "freedom of expression" and "democracy" the  corporate-financier interests represented on NED's board of directors  are anything but champions of such principles, and are instead notorious  for principles precisely the opposite.  |       The very concept of the United States "promoting democracy" is scandalous when considering it is embroiled in an invasive global surveillance scandal, guilty of prosecuting one  unpopular war after another around the planet against the will of its  own people and based on verified lies, and brutalizing and abusing its  own citizens at home with militarized police cracking down on civilians  in towns like Ferguson, Missouri - making China's police actions against  "Occupy Central" protesters pale in comparison. "Promoting democracy"  is clearly cover for simply expanding its hegemonic agenda far beyond  its borders and at the expense of national sovereignty for all subjected  to it, including Americans themselves.      In 2011, similar revelations were  made public of the US' meddling in the so-called "Arab Spring" when the  New York Times would report in an article titled, " U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings," that:    A number of the groups and  individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the  region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain  Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a  youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like  the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic  Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based  in Washington. The article would also add, regarding NED specifically, that:   The Republican and Democratic  institutes are loosely affiliated with the Republican and Democratic  Parties. They were created by Congress and are financed through the  National Endowment for Democracy, which was set up in 1983 to channel  grants for promoting democracy in developing nations. The National  Endowment receives about $100 million annually from Congress. Freedom  House also gets the bulk of its money from the American government,  mainly from the State Department.      |   Image: US Senator John McCain on stage in Kiev, Ukraine cheerleading US funded sedition in Eastern Europe. In 2011, McCain would famously taunt both Russia and China that US-funded subversion was coming their way. "Occupy Central" is one of many waves that have hit China's shores since. |     Pro-war and interventionist US  Senator John McCain had famously taunted both Russia's President  Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping's predecessor in 2011 that the  US subversion sweeping the Middle East was soon headed toward Moscow and  Beijing. The Atlantic in a 2011 article titled, " The Arab Spring: 'A Virus That Will Attack Moscow and Beijing'," would report that:   He [McCain] said, "A year ago, Ben-Ali and Gaddafi were not in power.   Assad won't be in power this time next year.  This Arab Spring is a  virus that will attack Moscow and Beijing." McCain then walked off the  stage. Considering the overt foreign-funded nature of not only the "Arab  Spring," but now "Occupy Central," and considering the chaos, death,  destabilization, and collapse suffered by victims of previous US  subversion, "Occupy Central" can be painted in a new light - a mob of  dupes being used to destroy their own home - all while abusing the  principles of "democracy" behind which is couched an insidious,  diametrically opposed foreign imposed tyranny driven by immense,  global spanning corporate-financier interests  that fear and actively destroy competition. In particular, this global  hegemon seeks to suppress the reemergence of Russia as a global power,  and prevent the rise of China itself upon the world's stage.    The regressive agenda of "Occupy Central's"  US-backed leadership,  and their shameless exploitation of the good intentions of the many  young people ensnared by their gimmicks, poses a threat in reality every  bit as dangerous as the "threat" they claim Beijing poses to the island  of Hong Kong and its people. Hopefully the people of China, and the  many people around the world looking on as "Occupy Central" unfolds,  will realize this foreign-driven gambit and stop it before it exacts the  heavy toll it has on nations that have fallen victim to it before -  Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Egypt, and many others. |