by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
Like with any dictatorship, America’s is based upon censorship (as a consequence of which my articles are virtually banned in the U.S.-and-‘allied’ — or vassal — countries). In a democracy, there is no censorship, because censorship kills even the possibility of democracy. It enables mass-mind-control, which any dictatorship needs in order to exist and to survive. On April 6th, I headlined “How the U.S. Government Is Now Secretly Instituting Martial Law”, and linked to the text of what will be, if it becomes passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the President as is expected to happen, martial law over all publication, broadcasting, and Websites — all media — in the United States. This expected-to-become law bill in the U.S. Congress states explicitly that it is needed in order to protect America (especially its children) against “foreign adversaries” that explicitly include (but are not limited to) six supposed enemies: China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela. (If you already know all of that, then you probably learned about it on a Website that is already banned.)
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In other words: it’s about America going to war against at least those countries, which especially means against Russia and China, because President Biden’s National Security Strategy names Russia and China as being America’s main enemies.
Most of the news-reports that have referred, at all, to this proposed legislation, which is titled the “Restrict Act,” focus upon its supposedly being against the TikTok app and Website, though it’s about lots more than that: it’s about instituting in America martial law over all media, and laying the groundwork for a full-fledged U.S. congressional declaration-of-war against China. On April 13th, Alan MacLeod at Mint Press (which is a banned Website) headlined “TIKTOK: CHINESE ‘TROJAN HORSE’ IS RUN BY STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS”, and he opened:
Amid a national hysteria claiming the popular video-sharing app is a Chinese Trojan Horse, a MintPress News investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok. Many more individuals with backgrounds in the FBI, CIA and other departments of the national security state also hold influential posts at the social media giant, affecting the content that over one billion users see.
While American politicians demand the app be banned on national security grounds, try to force through an internet surveillance act that would turn the country into an Orwellian state, make clueless statements about how TikTok is dangerous because it connects to your Wi-Fi, it is possible that TikTok is already much closer to Washington than it is to Beijing.
One may reasonably presume that former employees of the U.S. State Department, FBI, CIA, and other agencies of the U.S. national-‘security’ state, hold the values of the U.S. empire and are pro-U.S.-imperialism, but why would they be hired now by this Chinese corporation, a subsidiary of China’s ByteDance Corporation, that is supposedly the focus of the proposed Restrict Act (which actually deals with far more than that)?
One possibility is that the TikTok corporation is operating under the assumption that those hires are actually psychopaths and care only about their pay. Alternatively, they are thrill-seeking psychopaths, and, in addition, are (as an added inducement to that thrill) getting higher pay from TikTok than in their former Government-employment. A third alternative is that TikTok corporation is being managed by extraordinarily stupid people. A fourth alternative is what MacLeod hypothesizes: that America and China are just two different parts of “state censorship on a global level”; i,.e., that all billionaires throughout the world are just one team working together to become a global dictatorship, and that the U.S. Government’s propaganda against ‘foreign adversaries’ is merely theater for all of the world’s masses, to control them so as to serve better the interests of all billionaires. (Is China’s Government really participating in, or even tolerating, such treachery, on the part of its billionaires?) MacLeod says:
The influx of State Department officials into TikTok’s upper ranks is a consequence of “Project Texas,” an initiative the company began in 2020 in the hopes of avoiding being banned altogether in the United States. During his time in office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led the charge to shut the platform down, frequently labeling it a “spying app” and a “propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party.”
It was widely reported that the U.S. government had forced the sale of TikTok to Walmart and then Microsoft. But in late 2020, as Project Texas began, those deals mysteriously fell through, and the rhetoric about the dangers of TikTok from officials evaporated. [HOWEVER: At least as-of 24 March 2023, the Project Texas proposal, for Texas’s Oracle Corporation to handle TikTok’s cloud computing, which proposal came from Oracle’s owner Larry Ellison, was still being considered in the U.S. Congress. Furthermore, under the proposal, TikTok would “store its U.S. users’ information without its Chinese parent ByteDance having access to it, hoping to address U.S. regulatory concerns,” but Ellison’s proposal would then destroy the TikTok cover story for the Restrict Act’s actual purpose, which is to institute martial law. Unfortunately, MacLeod missed some of the important context here.]
Project Texas is a $1.5 billion security operation to move the company’s data to Austin. In doing so, it announced that it was partnering with tech giant Oracle, a corporation that, as MintPress has reported on, is the CIA in all but name.
