{"id":193680,"date":"2019-08-23T07:06:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193680"},"modified":"2019-12-04T22:37:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:37:15","slug":"us-now-admits-it-is-funding-occupy-central-in-hong-kong-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193680","title":{"rendered":"US Now Admits it is Funding \u201cOccupy Central\u201d in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tony Cartalucci \u2013 Global Research Aug 22, 2019 from Oct 2014<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This article first published almost five years ago on October 1, 2014 is of particular relevance to an understanding of recent developments in Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_193440\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/US-politicians-meet-Hong-Kong-protest-leaders.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193440\" class=\"wp-image-193440 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/US-politicians-meet-Hong-Kong-protest-leaders-300x215.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/US-politicians-meet-Hong-Kong-protest-leaders-300x215.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/US-politicians-meet-Hong-Kong-protest-leaders.jpeg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-193440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US diplomats meet Hong Kong protest leaders. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Just as the US admitted shortly after the so-called \u201cArab Spring\u201d began spreading chaos across the Middle East\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/2011-year-of-dupe.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>that it had fully funded, trained, and equipped both mob leaders<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and heavily armed terrorists years in advance, it is now admitted that the US State Department through a myriad of organizations and NGOs\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/journal-neo.org\/2014\/10\/01\/hong-kong-s-occupy-central-is-us-backed-sedition\/\">is behind the so-called \u201cOccupy Central\u201d protests<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Washington Post would report in an article titled, \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/hong-kong-erupts-even-as-china-tightens-screws-on-civil-society\/2014\/09\/30\/f2c874aa-4586-11e4-8042-aaff1640082e_story.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Hong Kong erupts even as China tightens screws on civil society<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u201d that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Washington Post would also report (emphasis added):<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThey are very concerned about Color Revolutions, they are very concerned about what is going on in Ukraine,\u201d 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\u2019s central Maidan square. \u201cThey say, \u2018Your money is coming from the same people. Clearly you want to overthrow China.\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>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.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Of course, NED and its many subsidiaries including the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/ned-freedom-house-are-run-by.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>do no such thing as \u201cpromoting democracy<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u201d and instead are in the business of constructing a global network of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/empires-double-edged-sword-global.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>neo-imperial administration<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0termed \u201ccivil society\u201d that interlocks with the West\u2019s many so-called \u201cinternational institutions\u201d which in turn \u00a0are completely controlled by interests in Washington, upon Wall Street, and in the cities of London and Brussels.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-C-pCgLGKO68\/VCw6mVTkHmI\/AAAAAAAAJ-M\/4a9dUunQ-l0\/s1600\/NEDcorporateInterests_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"452\" border=\"0\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">While the Washington Post would have readers believe NED is in the business of promoting \u201cfreedom of expression\u201d and \u201cdemocracy\u201d the corporate-financier interests represented on NED\u2019s board of directors are anything but champions of such principles, and are instead notorious for principles precisely the opposite.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The very concept of the United States\u00a0\u201cpromoting democracy\u201d is scandalous when considering it is\u00a0embroiled in an invasive global surveillance scandal, guilty of persecuting 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 \u2013 making China\u2019s police actions against \u201cOccupy Central\u201d protesters pale in comparison. \u201cPromoting democracy\u201d 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 2011, similar revelations were made public of the US\u2019 meddling in the so-called \u201cArab Spring\u201d when the New York Times would report in an article titled, \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/15\/world\/15aid.html?_r=3&amp;pagewanted=1&amp;emc=eta1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u201d that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The article would also add, regarding NED specifically, that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_104848\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-McCain-in-Kiev.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104848\" class=\"wp-image-104848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-McCain-in-Kiev.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-McCain-in-Kiev.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-McCain-in-Kiev-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Senator John McCain on stage in Kiev, Ukraine cheerleading US<br \/>funded sedition in Eastern Europe. In 2011, McCain would famously taunt<br \/>both Russia and China that US-funded subversion was coming their way.<br \/>&#8220;Occupy Central&#8221; is one of many waves that have hit China&#8217;s shores since. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Pro-war and interventionist US Senator John McCain had famously taunted both Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin and\u00a0President Xi Jinping\u2019s predecessor in 2011 that the US subversion sweeping the Middle East was soon headed toward Moscow and Beijing. The\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0in a 2011 article titled, \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/11\/the-arab-spring-a-virus-that-will-attack-moscow-and-beijing\/248762\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Arab Spring: \u2018A Virus That Will Attack Moscow and Beijing<\/strong><\/span>\u2019<\/a>,\u201d would report that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He [McCain] said, \u201cA year ago, Ben-Ali and Gaddafi were not in power. Assad won\u2019t be in power this time next year. This Arab Spring is a virus that will attack Moscow and Beijing.\u201d McCain then walked off the stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Considering the overt foreign-funded nature of not only the \u201cArab Spring,\u201d but now \u201cOccupy Central,\u201d and considering the chaos, death, destabilization, and collapse suffered by victims of previous US subversion, \u201cOccupy Central\u201d can be painted in a new light \u2013 a mob of dupes being used to destroy their own home \u2013 all while abusing the principles of \u201cdemocracy\u201d behind which is couched an insidious, diametrically opposed foreign imposed tyranny driven by immense,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/naming-names-your-real-government.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>global spanning corporate-financier interests<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0that 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\u2019s stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The regressive agenda of \u201cOccupy Central\u2019s\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/us-openly-approves-hong-kong-chaos-it.html\">US-backed leadership<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, 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 \u201cthreat\u201d 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 \u201cOccupy Central\u201d 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 \u2013 Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Egypt, and many others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-now-admits-funding-occupy-central-hong-kong\/5405680\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First published almost five years ago, Tony Cartalucci&#8217;s article provides insight into recent developments in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":193439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193680"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198852,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193680\/revisions\/198852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}