Posted on 05/15/2019 5:49:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Here we go…. President Trump is laying the groundwork to ban telecommunication companies based on identified risk to national security (ie. Huawei). Nations who engage in 5-G technology agreements are on notice they may be cut-off from communication partnerships with the U.S.A.
[I think Wall Street just pee’d their pants a little..]
[Executive Order] By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that foreign adversaries are increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology and services, which store and communicate vast amounts of sensitive information, facilitate the digital economy, and support critical infrastructure and vital emergency services, in order to commit malicious cyber-enabled actions, including economic and industrial espionage against the United States and its people.
I further find that the unrestricted acquisition or use in the United States of information and communications technology or services designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries augments the ability of foreign adversaries to create and exploit vulnerabilities in information and communications technology or services, with potentially catastrophic effects, and thereby constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.
This threat exists both in the case of individual acquisitions or uses of such technology or services, and when acquisitions or uses of such technologies are considered as a class.
Although maintaining an open investment climate in information and communications technology, and in the...
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I am posting from a phone. It is very difficult to copy and paste from a phone. That is why I sometimes excerpt. Have you ever tried it? You can get a screen full easily enough, but an entire article is practically impossible
You think you got it hard?
I’m posting this for my slide rule!
Thanks. It sounds like we have similar impediments. Anyway, I wasn’t trying to be a Humblegunner.
Nice...
Some people forget they are still Communists.
I won’t forget. They murdered tens of millions of their own people, and will do it again if it is necessary to them.
Some people think they have changed...people like you and I know...they haven’t.
“Some people forget they are still Communists. ... Some people think they have changed...people like you and I know...they haven’t.”
My husband and I met at a little church in Hawaii. Our very first conversation was about evil China. It’s our 24th wedding anniversary today. So for us “they” haven’t changed in at least 24 years.
It is the people who think they have changed who are, at this time, most dangerous.
BTW, congratulations on your anniversary...:)
Our President... a MAN of PRINCIPLE and LEADERSHIP.
Yes, we know.
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