Hossam Bahgat - The US-funded journalist to push for Human Rights and Democracy in Egypt

Hossam Bahgat, a name that has been mentioned quite a few times over the past month or so. The Egyptian journalist who has been detained by Egyptian authorities and claimed to have suffered detention and torture. Although it is horrendous for anyone to have suffered such, we need to look deeper into why the media is focusing on a single journalist in Egypt that has suffered when hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members have not only been tortured but murdered.

It doesn't take long to find that Hossam Bahgat is funded by the terrorist sponsor George Soros Foundation, Open Society. He sits neatly on the advisory board under the Open Society Justice Initiative. Soros has built a global empire of networked nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) allegedly promoting "human rights," "freedom," "democracy," and "transparency." His Open Society Institute funds amongst many others, Amnesty International (page 10), Global Voices, and Human Rights Watch. In reality these NGOs constitute a modern day network of imperial administrators, undermining national governments around the world and replacing them with a homogeneous "civil society" that interlocks with "international institutions" run from and on behalf of Wall Street and London. And contrary to popular belief, Soros has built this empire, not against "conservative" ambitions, but with their full cooperation.

It is difficult to find a cause Soros' Open Society Institute supports that is not also funded, directed, and backed by the US State Department-funded, Neo-Conservative lined National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its various subsidiaries including Freedom House, the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

It would be almost four months after the beginning of the so-called "Arab Spring" before the corporate-media would admit that the US had been behind the uprisings and that they were anything but "spontaneous," or "indigenous." In an April 2011 article published by the New York Times titled, "U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings," it was stated:

"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 the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED):

"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. "

George Soros and his Open Society Institute also played a leading role in the unfolding unrest. Soros, in addition to fully supporting many of the NGOs in tandem with NED and the US State Department, also funded opposition groups working well in advance to produce new "constitutions" for collapsed nations.

In "George Soros & Egypt's New Constitution," it was reported:


"It turns out that the new Egyptian Constitution has already been drafted, not by the Egyptian people, but by the very US-backed protesters who brought about regime change in the first place. A Reuters report quoted an opposition judge, who had been hiding-out in Kuwait until Mubarak's ousting, as having said civil society groups had already produced several drafts and a new constitution could be ready in a month.

These "civil society" groups include the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information openly funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute and the Neo-Con lined NED fundedEgyptian Organization for Human Rights. It appears that while the International Crisis Group may be turning out the strategy, and their trustee ElBaradei leading the mobs into the streets, it is the vast array of NGOs their membership, including Soros, fund that are working out and implementing the details on the ground."

So why all this commotion regarding Hossam Bahgat's detention? It would seem as though the Americans are trying to gain Hossam some credibility amongst the public. Preparing him for a key role in further democratising Egypt in the future? He's certainly gaining credibility amongst the Muslim Brotherhood.

I'll let you join the dots... 

Sources:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/africa/22217-what-happened-during-my-detention
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/surpise-soros-is-convicted-criminal.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/09/egyptian-journalist-hossam-bahgat-charged-military-prosecutor
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/people/hossam-bahgat

Aung San Suu Kyi the American project for democratising Burma

Aung San Suu Kyi

-          Leader of the National League for Democracy political party

-          Under house-arrest for 15 years and gaining prominence as world’s most prominent political prisoner.

-          Presented with the Congressional Gold Medal, which is, along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the United States.

-          Religion: Buddhist

Events that prove that San Suu Kyi has western backing

In 1996 San Suu Kyi was first detained and imprisoned and shortly after in the same year the U.S. created a broadcasting media under the name of ‘Radio Free Asia’ to broadcast in East Asia, a part of the Broadcasting Board of Governors that is a United States government agency and receives full funding from U.S budget. This radio station is seen as a staunch supporter of San Suu Kyi and helped build her reputation throughout her 15 years in prison to become the world’s most famous political prisoner. It is funded by U.S. and located in Washington – one of many ways America uses the media to push its political aims.

Her arrest and subsequent trial received worldwide condemnation by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Security Council and Western governments.

In 2006 a Washington based organisation called ‘Freedom Now’ which mainly focuses on releasing democratic activists, i.e. those activists that America has placed in certain countries to push reforms and democracy, had enlisted San Suu Kyi as their goal to release from prison.

Freedom Campaign, which is a joint venture between the Human Rights Action Center and U.S. Campaign for Burma have events planned to stage huge concerts with well-known talents such as Black-Eyed Peas and Damien Rice to raise awareness about San Suu Kyi as well as gain more popularity for democratic alternatives to military rule. They have also released a documentary film ‘Freedom from Fear’ that will be secretly filmed in Burma via satellite – this movie is focusing on the life of San Suu Kyi.

U.S. Campaign for Burma is a democracy movement in Burma that evolved out of the ‘Free Burma Coalition’ that also was established in the U.S. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Its aims changed slightly in 2008 to be primarily focused on ending military rule in Burma for a democratic rule under San Suu Kyi. Yet another movement directly funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and Open Society George Soros Foundation. One of its few missions states “To strengthen the position of the rightful leaders of Burma, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the democratically elected National League for Democracy, by cutting the political and economic lifelines of the ruling military junta”

Burma Campaign UK is a UK based NGO that has similar aims to the U.S. Campaign for Burma and has been vocal in the issue of Rohingyan Muslims persecution. It seems from the apparent that they are using the pretext of inequality to push an all-inclusive democratic Burma representing the people, i.e. participatory democracy. However San Suu Kyi has remained silent on the issue of Burmese Muslims genocide and ethnic cleansing – mainly due to the credibility the party would lose from the Buddhist majority.

U.S. President Barack Obama personally advocated the release of all political prisoners, especially Aung San Suu Kyi, during the US-ASEAN Summit of 2009.

In a personal letter to Suu Kyi, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown cautioned the Burmese government of the potential consequences of rigging elections as "condemning Burma to more years of diplomatic isolation and economic stagnation"

On 21 December 2011, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (a known U.S. agent backed and funded by the West) met Suu Kyi in Yangoon. Shinawatra regime have been known to have conducted mass murder and genocide in Thailand but the U.S. have never bat an eyelid on the issue, but rather they have expressed concern o Shinawatra leader Yingluck’s removal from power in 2014.

The link between U.S. National Endowment for Democracy, George Soros’ Open Society and Burma

In the DFID (Department for International Development) policy review of Burma titled ‘Failing the People of Burma’[1] it states:

“The restoration of democracy in Burma is a priority U.S. policy objective in Southeast Asia. To achieve this objective, the United States has consistently supported democracy activists and their efforts both inside and outside Burma…Addressing these needs requires flexibility and creativity. Despite the challenges that have arisen, United States Embassies Rangoon and Bangkok as well as Consulate General Chiang Mai are fully engaged in pro-democracy efforts. The United States also supports organizations, such as the National Endowment for Democracy, the Open Society Institute and Internews, working inside and outside the region on a broad range of democracy promotion activities. U.S.-based broadcasters supply news and information to the Burmese people (i.e. Radio Free Asia), who lack a free press. U.S. programs also fund scholarships for Burmese who represent the future of Burma”

It goes on to specifically state San Suu Kyi as a specific aim for these broadcasting services:

“RFA/VOA In addition to programs supported by Burma earmark funding, the United States also continues to fund multimedia broadcasting services for the Burmese people independent of the influence of the military junta in Rangoon. Both Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) have Burmese services. VOA broadcasts a 30-minute mix of international news and information three times a day. RFA broadcasts news and information about Burma two hours a day. VOA and RFA websites also contain audio and text material in Burmese and English. For example, VOA's October 10, 2003 editorial, "Release Aung San Suu Kyi" is prominently featured in the Burmese section of VOAnews.com. RFA's website makes available audio versions of 16 Aung San Suu Kyi's speeches from May 27 and 29, 2003. U.S. international broadcasting provides crucial information to a population denied the benefits of freedom of information by its government. Broadcasts reach a broad spectrum of society and a broad swathe of the country, influencing Burmese decision-makers and offering support to future democratic leaders. Anecdotal evidence indicates that government officials listen to these broadcasts frequently…The State Department provided $150,000 in FY 2001/02 funds to provide scholarships to young Burmese through Prospect Burma, a partner organization with close ties to Aung San Suu Kyi”

Link between San Suu Kyi and Ashin Wirathu, the lead Buddhist that is ordering the genocide of Muslims in Burma

The “Saffron Revolution” movements in Burma were historically aimed at calling for greater freedom from the oppressive military junta regimes in both Thailand and Burma with San Suu Kyi being the figurehead for the movement. However the most recent rally called for the expulsion of Muslims, often referred to as ‘Kalars’ (Blacks) or ‘Bengali’. The fact they came to the streets to deny thousands of Muslims to be represented as Burmese is quite obvious that the aim of the “Saffron” movements is aimed at harming the Muslims and not for the greater ‘freedom’, which is a flawed ideal in itself.

Ashin Wirathu, also known as the "Buddhist Bin Laden," led Aung San Suu Kyi's "Saffron Revolution" in 2007 and his followers regularly fill the ranks of street mobs organized in support of her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). Both Suu Kyi's NLD and her "Saffron" mobs, are fully funded, backed, protected by, and in absolute servile obedience to both US and British special interests.

San Suu Kyi remains silent on her links with the Buddhist extremist Wirathu but their alliance is quite clear. Washington Post[2] reported on the state of Sittwe where the Muslims have been persecuted the most:

“Often these attacks have been spearheaded by the same orange-robed monks who led a series of demonstrations against the junta in 2007, known as the "Saffron Revolution". A warped and violent version of Buddhism has grasped hold of many monasteries in Burma, with hate-speech directed against Muslims across the country, and particularly the Rohingya. Mosques have been attacked, villages set on fire and thousands chased from their homes. Massacres have leapt from village to village in Rakhine State, with machetes the weapon of choice.”

A video that proves that the authorities in Burma are allowing the ethnic cleansing of Muslims is viral, it shows “Burmese police officers stand by as an already bruised and bleeding middle-aged Muslim man is tied by his ankles behind a motorbike by Buddhist youths. There is cheering as the bike roars off down the rock-strewn road, flaying skin from the bouncing body as it goes.” Now almost a quarter of a million Rohingya have been rounded up into concentration camps along Rakhine's low-lying coastline.

Wirathu wears a deep-blue tattoo of a peacock on his inner arm - symbol of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League For Democracy party.

Summary

Events in Burma may not be directly in line with the Greater Middle East Initiative but it is still important in terms of the persecution of Muslims and the shedding of the Ummah’s blood. This written piece aims to provide tangible facts to the situation in Burma and how Western NGO’s that the Muslims consider as ‘support’ are in fact funding the downfall of Islam. National Endowment for Democracy and Open Society are the biggest players in this field and has funded huge pro-democratic developments within the Middle East, such as the April 6^th movement and other movements during the Arab spring. These are hard facts and by understanding how Western democracy funding organisations distribute its ‘support’ we can ultimately understand its venom as well as identify those groups, movements and parties that are Western led.

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[1] http://burmacampaign.org.uk/images/uploads/DFIDReview.pdf

[2] http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2015-02/12/ashin-wirathu-audience-with-the-buddhist-bin-laden-burma

Who is Ashin Wirathu?

"By all appearances, Wirathu seems an unlikely leader of sectarian violence. He speaks in soft, measured tones, clasping his hands thoughtfully. Like all Burmese Buddhist monks, his head is shaved and he is draped in a simple saffron robe. He teaches at a quiet and dimly lit monastery in Mandalay where monks kneel in study or prayer and flowers and images of religious figures decorate the walls. It’s every bit the Western stereotype of Buddhist tranquility." - Washington Post

He is the leader of the attacks upon the Muslims of Burma with his 'Saffron' mobs that regularly take to the streets to persecute the Muslims or organise events that are only aimed to foment violence.

“If we do not protect our own people we will become weak, and we will face more mass killings of this kind when they (the Muslims) grow to outnumber us.” - Wirathu speaking to BBC.

“Muslims are only well behaved when they are weak,” he adds, contemplating another poster. “When they are strong they are like a wolf or a jackal, in large packs they hunt down other animals.”

"Despite the fact that many Rohingya have been in the country for generations, the Burmese government considers them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh — sectarians like Wirathu often refer to them derogatorily as “Bengalis.” The Rohingya have been denied Burmese citizenship since 1982." - Washington Post

The most interesting point to note is that pro-American democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi has offered only muted criticism of the violence perpetrated by the Saffron mobs

Wirathu, also known as the "Buddhist Bin Laden," led Aung San Suu Kyi's "Saffron Revolution" in 2007 and his followers regularly fill the ranks of street mobs organized in support of her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). Both Suu Kyi's NLD and her "Saffron" mobs, are fully funded, backed, protected by, and in absolute servile obedience to both US and British special interests.

A 2006 36-page document out of the "Burma Campaign UK" explicitly details the enormous amount of money and resources both the US government and its corporate-funded foundations have poured into Suu Kyi's image and her "movement."

The most telling information begins on page 14 of 36 of the report's PDF file. Titled, "Failing the People of Burma?" the report enumerates the vast resources the West has invested in building a "pro-democracy" movement, and argues that even more support be given to initiate a "transition" in Myanmar. - LandDestroyer

The report details the specifics of each organisation involved including the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), US State Department-run Radio Free Asia (RFA),Voice of America (VOA), George Soros Foundation 'Open Society' and many more US funded and led organisations.

Documents:
http://burmacampaign.org.uk/media/DFIDReview.pdf

Sources:
1) http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/the-burmese-bin-laden-fue…/…
2) http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/…/myanmar-meet-aung-san…

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US supporting despot ousted regime of Shinawatra in Thailand

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/urgent-terrorism-strikes-thailand.html

Once again, the ousted regime of Yingluck Shinawatra, along with her deposed brother Thaksin Shinawatra, has promised and now carried through with acts of terrorism and violence aimed at destabilizing, dividing, and destroying the nation. 

Thaksin Shinawatra, a convicted criminal living abroad to evade a two-year jail sentence for corruption and a long list of pending court cases has for the past decade led brutal campaigns of mass murder, terrorism, and targeted assassinations against his opponents and the people of Thailand, all with enthusiastic Western backing.  

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/us-state-department-collaborating-with.html

Comments made by Daniel Russel, a representative of the US State Department, condemned the current Thai government's legal proceedings against deposed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the nepotist proxy of her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, also deposed in a military coup in 2006, and guilty of mass murder, serial corruption and abuse of power, terrorism, and backing armed insurrection in 2009 and 2010.

Russel's comments were verbatim the talking points used for years by the Shinawatra regime to fend off attempts to check its autocratic despotism, and were again repeated by the remnants of Shinawatra's political front in Thailand after Russel's comments, prompting Thai authorities to summon 3 senior members of Shinawatra' political party.

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/us-embassy-mute-over-bangkok-bombings.html

Imagine a bomb going off in New York City's Times Square and the US government making an announcement about the Super Bowl instead.

That's just what happened in Thailand Sunday evening when a double bombing took place in the very heart of downtown Bangkok. While there were no injuries, it is a dangerous sign sent by incredibly dangerous terrorists who have killed hundreds of people in the past 10 years as part of deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's bid to claw his way back into power. In the wake of the bombing, the US Embassy in Thailand neither warned people about the violence, nor condemned it.

If you visit the US Embassy's website, the first link is to information about the "roles of civil society and political institutions on democratization in Thailand," or in plain English, US-backed subversion aimed at overwriting Thailand's indigenous institutions with foreign-backed NGOs that serve foreign interests. The story features a publication titled, "Democratic Regression in Thailand (.pdf)," referring to the ousting of US-backed dictator and mass murderer, Thaksin Shianwatra.

Reuters, BBC, CNN, and others who were last year were hysterical over protests aimed at ousting the Shinawatra family, claiming they were "anti-democratic militants," brushed off the bombing as a non-event - with some even inferring the current government may have staged it - a tempting theory if Shinawatra's political party didn't openly threaten to bomb Bangkok just days ago, as reported by the Nation.

The bombing is most likely a trial balloon to see how the government reacts, with more likely to follow if the US believes it can sufficiently destabilize Thailand and the popularity of the current government in order to either stage large protests or execute a US-backed "counter-coup" or a combination of both. The bombing may have been small, but the implications are large.

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/us-meddling-in-asia-backfiring.html

The latest row comes after US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel made comments condemning the recent coup that first deposed, then saw the impeachment of ex-Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra over a vast array of corruption and abuse of power charges.

Russel was quoted by an official US State Department transcript of a speech he gave in Thailand as saying:

...a narrow, restricted process -- carries the risk of leaving many Thai citizens feeling that they've been excluded from the political process.

That's the reason why we continue to advocate for a broader and more inclusive political process that allows all sectors of society to feel represented, to feel that their voices are being heard. I'd add that the perception of fairness is also extremely important and although this is being pretty blunt, when an elected leader is removed from office, is deposed, then impeached by the authorities -- the same authorities that conducted the coup -- and then when a political leader is targeted with criminal charges at a time when the basic democratic processes and institutions in the country are interrupted, the international community is going to be left with the impression that these steps could in fact be politically driven.

Russel's comments about "Thai citizens feeling that they've been excluded" is the preamble Shinawatra's own political front often uses to justify acts of terrorism and armed insurrection that have left hundreds of people dead. It is also a familiar line used to justify engineered US-backed violence in other nations aimed at regime change. 

Russel's claims that Shinawatra's criminal charges were "politically driven" beg belief. For the US to defend a prime minister openly serving as a proxy for a convicted criminal hiding abroad, and who presided over a regime that recklessly destroyed the economy while literally murdering its political opponents in the streets, is a clear breach of diplomatic protocol and unbecoming of the alleged purpose of the US State Department itself. 

Indeed, the US State Department exists to represent the will of the American people abroad, not to impose it upon others. 

The Thai government quickly condemned the comments, and a large public backlash followed, aimed at what is now increasingly seen as direct US meddling in Thailand's internal affairs. 

What the US Sees in the Shinawatras 
To explain why the US has breached diplomatic protocol, and is targeting Thailand's national sovereignty by meddling in its internal affairs, it must be noted that Thaksin Shinawatra himself has been a long-time family friend of the Bush political dynasty, was a member of the Carlyle Group, and since being ousted from power himself in a similar military coup in 2006, has been openly represented by some of the largest corporate lobbying firms on Earth, including, Kenneth Adelman of theEdelman PR firm (Freedom House,International Crisis Group,PNAC), James Baker of Baker Botts (CFR, Carlyle Group), Robert Blackwill (CFR) of Barbour Griffith & Rogers (BGR),Kobre & Kim, Bell Pottinger (and here) and currently Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Partners(Chatham House).

While in office Shinawatra took up a decidedly pro-US stance, economically and geopolitically. To the protest of the Royal Thai Army and the Thai people themselves, Shinawatra sent Thai troops to aid in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. He also authorized the US CIA to use Thai territory to carry out their abhorrent "rendition" program. Shinawatra also attempted to ram-rod through an unpopular and quite illegal free trade agreement with America's Fortune 500. 

Also during his time in office, Shinawatra committed a series of atrocities against the Thai people themselves. First, in 2003 he initiated what he called a "war on drugs." Nearly 3,000 were extrajudicially murdered in the streets over the course of just 90 days. It would later turn out that more than half of those killed had nothing at all to do with the drug trade. In this act alone, Thaksin became the single worst human rights offender in Thai history. The following year, he would violently put down protests in Thailand's troubled southern provinces killing 85 people in a single day, now known as the "Tak Bai incident." 

For those familiar with the true nature of US foreign policy, the US buttressing a brutal but obedient dictator is an all too familiar tale, one that continues today with the US State Department openly working to undermine the legitimacy of the current Thai government and its efforts to fully uproot the Shinawatra regime along with the US-backed networks of sedition that helped Shinawatra retain its tight grip on the levers of Thai political power for over a decade.

That this grip appears to have been loosened, indicates that America's ability to interfere with impunity has diminished. 

The myth that the military overthrew a "popularly elected democratic government" could not be any further from the truth - and such myths have only gained traction thanks to the enormous and continuing support Shinawatra and the networks supporting his political power receive from the West's immense media monopolies. 

Despite these monopolies, the backlash Russel's comments have earned both himself and the United States' agenda in Thailand is disastrous. No longer do many Thais see the current political crisis as merely a battle between Thaksin Shinawatra and Thailand's traditional political order, but instead, as an existential battle against a foreign agenda that has created and to this day continues to prop up Shinawatra and a vast network aimed at overturning both Thailand's existing political order, and its sovereignty in the process.