Posted on 01/29/2023 6:14:18 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Georgia Republican Rep. Austin Scott, a new member on the House Intelligence Committee, hopes the panel will investigate efforts by unfriendly foreign powers to insert themselves into U.S. food and technology supply chains.
"One of the things that I expect us to look into, and hopefully look into, is where our adversaries have embedded themselves in the supply chain of basic necessities for Americans," Scott said on the John Solomon Reports podcast.
"I talk about food a lot, because it's one of the things that we have to have to get through the day," Scott explained. "What are our adversaries doing in buying up technology and embedding themselves into areas where you have constraints in seed supply or chemical supply, for example? There's also potential control over transportation and infrastructure."
Some U.S. governors have already taken action. South Dakota passed a law four decades ago banning foreign ownership of most farmland in the state, but Republican Gov. Kristi Noem told Just the News last month that she is searching for ways to block Beijing from making end-runs around that state ban via long-term rentals.
"I'm reexamining that," she said, "and looking to bring legislation that will not only address purchasing of land, but also make sure that those who hate us and other foreign entities can't have long-term leases, that they can't come in and lock up land for an agenda that isn't good for these people that live here in South Dakota, but also our country."
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
No need to study. We have met the enemy and he are us. Our business practices, our misguided social environmental policies. Trump tried with tariffs and tax policies which honestly would have only slowed the trend. The question should be how do you put globalization back in its bottle?
” The question should be how do you put globalization back in its bottle?”
Get rid of California. They are the beta test for all failed global economic, environmental and social policies. Here is how you fix the supply chain. Get rid of California’s environmental policies and tomorrow ships are berthing, trucks are picking up supplies at the dock and shortages are gone.
It really is that simple. To have a California governor tell us how we should control the environment when 7 of the top 10 most polluted cities in the US are in California who happens to have the toughest pollution regulations in the world is ridiculous. And this idiot wants to be President.
None of this was a problem until Newsome got involved. He’s like John Kerry, but with better hair and less personality.
Now they notice?
" Some U.S. governors have already taken action. South Dakota passed a law four decades ago banning foreign ownership of most farmland in the state,
but Republican Gov. Kristi Noem told Just the News last month that she is searching for ways
to block Beijing from making end-runs around that state ban via long-term rentals."
"I'm reexamining that," she said, "and looking to bring legislation that will not only address purchasing of land, but also make sure
that those who hate us and other foreign entities can't have long-term leases,
that they can't come in and lock up land for an agenda that isn't good for these people that live here in South Dakota, but also our country."
(My Comment): Pending legislation should include ownership, long term rental of land, and transportation resources (rail, trucker, warehouse, etc., etc..
Don't forget that many of our adversaries have long-range plans of conquest, over several decades.
Be concerned about complicit legislators who have already been shown to be compromized, or 'bought off', and don't have the best interests of the nation on their mind.
It has become so obvious they have to say something. Let’s see if they do anything.
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