Biden Administration Personnel Chief, Reportedly Worked for Chinese Communist Intelligence Agency
Zimmerman, pictured here, will serve as a special assistant for personnel in the Biden administration.
Thomas Zimmerman, who will serve as special assistant to the next President Joe Biden, was a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in China, which the FBI calls a front-line organization for Chinese Communist intelligence gathering and overseas spy recruitment, conservative U.S. media outlet National Pulse revealed on Dec. 12. Zimmerman was also the deputy leader of Biden’s transition team for national security personnel, but the transition website’s bio makes no mention of his ties to the Chinese Communist Party think tank.
The FBI believes the agency has close ties to the Ministry of State Security, the Communist Party’s top spy agency, and that senior Communist officials often use the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences to conceal their identities and use its employees to recruit spies overseas, according to a report cited by the Free Times.
In 2019, SHS was also involved in the criminal case of Kevin Mallory, a retired U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) cadre member who sold classified U.S. defense documents to China in 2107, and Mallory was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a U.S. federal court in 2019. His court documents show that he was recruited as a spy by a Chinese intelligence officer at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
An article on the website of the U.S. nonprofit Homeland Security Today described Zimmerman’s ties to the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, where he was a “visiting scholar” focusing on “Afghanistan, Somalia and Chinese regional policy.
Zimmerman also “led an academic salon” at the Shanghai Institute for American Studies (SIAS) with Chinese Communist advisor Li Lifan on “counterterrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, security issues in Central Asia, U.S. views on the Belt and Road Initiative, and security issues in South Asia.
The Shanghai Institute for American Studies is funded by the Chinese Communist Party and provides “advisory services to central government and local policymakers” in China.
Last August, the FBI targeted and investigated the Brookings Institution, a leading Washington think tank, because of its partnership with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. The Brookings Institution employs many former U.S. government officials and more than 20 foreign policy advisers to the Biden campaign. It is therefore questionable that China is likely to use its partnership with the think tank to spy on the United States.
CNN to Shut Down 30-Year-Old Airport Radio Network
The Los Angeles Times reports that advertising revenue from the 30-year-old CNN airport network is no longer a profitable business, and about 20 employees at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters will lose their jobs as a result. Even in November of last year, there was news that AT&T was interested in selling CNN.
CNN’s recent controversy, last October, CNN TV conference, President Zhuk ordered to scandalize Trump‘s recordings exposed, he also had instructed the editorial team, not to follow up on the Biden family scandal.
Biden’s public relations team, a number of CNN work background, Biden White House press secretary Shaki (Jen Psaki), was a State Department spokesman during the Obama administration, a long time in CNN as a political commentator, CNN another political commentator Sanders, will become Biden’s deputy He Jinli’s chief spokesman.
Last December, the National Pulse website reported that CNN host Zaria and Biden adviser Lawrence Summers attended a meeting with top Communist Party officials. Summers attended a meeting hosted by top Chinese Communist Party officials. The pro-Communist position, which aims to expand cooperation between the Communist Party and other countries, was again questioned.
Poland to impose new law to counter censorship of social media giants’ speech, violators can be fined 1.8 million euros
According to U.S. media outlet Breitbart News, Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro announced a draft bill called the “Act for the Free Expression of Personal Views and Free Access to and Dissemination of Information on the Internet. The Act for the Freedom to Express One’s Views and Obtain and Disseminate Information on the Internet. The bill would give social media users the legal right to appeal bans and content removals imposed by technology giants such as Twitter and Facebook on their platforms. Users would be able to file complaints with the courts that deal with “speech protection” through a simplified, all-electronic method.
If the court rules that the tech company’s censors deleted accounts or deleted speech that was legal under Polish law, they must restore the deleted content or accounts, the paper said. Otherwise, the social media companies involved in the case will face fines of up to 1.8 million euros.
Polish Justice Minister Points to German Censorship, Suppression of Right Sector
In Germany, the Minister of Justice is free to decide what content needs to be removed from the Internet,” said Polish Justice Minister Jawbrev. This is censorship. We want to balance the freedom of public debate.”
Deputy Justice Minister Sebastian Kaleta said, “The left tries to define any fundamental criticism of its views or ideology as ‘hate speech’ and then expects this content to be censored or even punished… The left tries to to consistently enforce its anti-democratic aspirations.” “This law is a response to the legal norms they [the left] are trying to impose on us.”
Scholars: Biggest Crisis Since U.S. Founding, Democracy on Path to Collapse
U.S. social media giant Twitter, after permanently shutting down President Trump’s account, then blocked more than 70,000 pro-Trump related users. This is a criticism of digital hegemony and a concern that the U.S. democratic system will collapse. Taiwan writer Yan Zeya also thinks it’s unfair for Twitter to shut down Trump’s account from the perspective of advertising revenue and celebrity users on social media platforms.
Watch China reports that Taiwanese economist Wu Jialong said the U.S. democratic elections have cast a major shadow, and the censorship and speech blocking of mainstream media and social media have also hurt freedom of speech, “In the future, if the U.S. advocates democracy and freedom to other countries, people will ask, do we have to learn to cheat well?”
If the U.S. can allow large-scale organized election cheating and then just muddle through, that will have many serious consequences, Wu said. “Will there be credibility in future U.S. elections?”
He believes that the moral high ground in the United States is now in serious trouble, and that the main elements of “democracy, freedom, human rights and the rule of law” are losing their persuasive power. “A democratic system that has no way to deal with election fraud will lead to the greatest crisis in American values and ideology since the country’s independence in 1776.”
Wu Jialong stressed that if the fundamental problem of election fraud in the U.S. is not solved and the system is not guarded, it is estimated that there will be no more truly democratic elections in the U.S. Without fair and free elections, the U.S. as a federation will be on the path of collapse.
Taiwanese writer Yan Zeya said in an article that Twitter and Facebook are private companies with the freedom to do business, and closing Trump’s account “does not violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (which only governs the government but not private companies),” but from the perspective of celebrity users and social platform advertising revenue analysis, it is not fair.
She explained that Trump, like the public, is a platform user, not a buyer, “We use these platforms for free because we give them eyeballs for free and they package our eyeballs to sell ads.
Yan Zeya said, “advertising is their source of profit, what is sold is our eyeballs”, users are all upstream suppliers of community platforms, “like Trump, who brought millions of trackers, is a super supplier, so suppliers give supplies community platforms continue to enjoy, “but one-sidedly suspend his right to use the platform, of course, is not fair”.
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