[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #582 : De beerput gaat open

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Op donderdag 6 december 2018 11:06 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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Niettemin hebben Amerikaanse bedrijven en verkopers van Amerikaanse technologie zich daar aan te houden. De 5g standaard is er al en wordt volop uitgerold komend jaar. Daar heeft het weinig mee van doen. Mocht ze het echt dwars zitten dan ontwikkelen de VS zelf een standaard. Ten tijde van GSM hadden ze dat ook.

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Op donderdag 6 december 2018 11:42 schreef Jellereppe het volgende:

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Ik heb het over de 5G standaard internationaal niet in de Amerikaanse markt.

https://www.wired.com/sto(...)-build-a-5g-network/

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Huawei chief financial officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested in Canada and is facing a US extradition request, had told employees in an internal talk on compliance that there are scenarios where the company can weigh the costs and accept the risks of not meeting the requirements of the law.

Meng took part in an internal question-and-answer session on October 29 with her father, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, where father and daughter shared their views on compliance.

Both executives made references to the need to control the costs of compliance and not to exceed what is legally required in individual jurisdictions, according to a transcript of their remarks distributed to employees and obtained by the Post.

Huawei declined to comment or verify the contents of the memo.

Huawei CFO arrested in Canada at US request ‘for violating Iran sanctions’

Meng spoke of the different types of external regulatory compliance, dividing them into “red” and “yellow” lines. The former referred to rules where there is “no bargaining and must be strictly complied with,” she said. The latter is where strict compliance is not operationally feasible and the company can build in the costs of flouting the rules as “sunk costs,” she said, citing examples such as labour risks.

“Of course, beyond the yellow and red lines, there may still be another scenario, and that is where the external rules are clear-cut and there’s no contention, but the company is totally unable to comply with in actual operations. In such cases, after a reasonable decision-making process, one may accept the risk of temporary non-compliance,” she said.

At the October talk, Ren told those gathered that compliance management in "sensitive countries" must also take into account the relevant laws of the US and European Union, without naming the countries.

"We must not bind ourselves up just because the US is attacking us," Ren said in response to a question. "If our hands and feet are bound, then we will not be able to continue producing, then what's the point of compliance?"

"The US has very strict compliance policies, but American companies are used to it," Ren said. "Nobody dares to flout the law, it has become a habit, and they can still achieve high speeds. Our company has not yet formed this habit, that is why communication costs are too high."

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Op donderdag 6 december 2018 13:23 schreef Jellereppe het volgende:
Ze verzinnen wel een excuses. Dat is het probleem niet. De Amerikanen worden zenuwachtig van het land en de steeds sterkere bedrijven die daaruit ontspringen. Dat is waar het om draait. En dus tijd voor een handelsoorlog en als dat niet slaagt een koude oorlog zodat ze de topdog kunnen blijven. Foei, waarom blijf jullie niet kleding naaien en speelgoed produceren voor de Walmart zoals het geval was in de jaren 80 en 90. Hoe durven jullie spleetogen opmars te maken naar hogere technologie en zelfs serieus geld beginnen te steken in wetenschap/onderzoek en daarmee onze positie als '''City on the Hill'', Exceptionalisme, technologische leiderschap en hegemonie te bedreigen.

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Eric Harwit, an Asian studies professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who has written extensively on Chinese telecoms, said the arrest was not just about sanctions violations but the bigger picture of the US worrying about Chinese hi-tech firms becoming rivals to American companies in the future.

“It’s just an extension of American suspicions about the Chinese technology ambitions to spread around the world. Huawei of course is a global player, and has made major inroads in developing countries, and even developed countries,” Harwit said.

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sahilkapur twitterde op donderdag 06-12-2018 om 16:51:57 Dem leaders had been open to a DACA-for-wall deal earlier this year. It sounds like their price of negotiation is going up after the 2018 election. https://t.co/ZC08Dr0Ydd reageer retweet

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stevebenen twitterde op donderdag 06-12-2018 om 17:09:30 Trump last month: "I have answered [Mueller's questions] very easily."Giuliani this month: "Answering those questions was a nightmare." https://t.co/gTQwVAHGm5 reageer retweet

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Giuliani said it’s been difficult in the last few months to even consider drafting response plans, or devote time to the “counter-report” he claimed they were working on this summer, as he and Trump confronted Mueller’s written questions about the 2016 campaign.

“Answering those questions was a nightmare,” he told me. “It took him about three weeks to do what would normally take two days.”

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AFP twitterde op donderdag 06-12-2018 om 17:45:23 #BREAKING: Conditions met for Assange to leave Ecuador embassy in London: Ecuador president https://t.co/Kl1yjK2MBV reageer retweet

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Trump’s 2020 Campaign Has Reportedly Funneled Over $1 Million Into His Own Businesses

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Per Forbes:

Leading up to the 2016 election, the president’s campaign paid an average of $2,700 in monthly Trump Tower rent for every person listed in campaign filings as receiving a “payroll” payment. The 2020 operation, by contrast, is shelling out an average of $6,300 in monthly rent for every such person.

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The report goes on to speculate that it’s “unlikely” Trump’s 2020 campaign would simply hand cash over to the president for “nothing in return,” and cites an unnamed Trump 2016 staffer who said that Trump Plaza apartments would occasionally serve as crash pads for Trump campaign staff. If that’s the case, of course, it would be a lot cheaper to occasionally rent hotel rooms, but, Alexander notes, “that would not guarantee a steady stream of rent for the president.”

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https://lawandcrime.com/h(...)inesses-report-says/

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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Thursday morning managed to turn a Fox Business Network discussion about Google and China into a bizarre attack on the right’s favorite bogeyman George Soros.

Fox Business later apologized for the congressman’s comments.

“You mention Orwell, it also reminds me of another George—George Soros,” Gohmert said, making a clumsy transition during his segment. “Because Google is born in a free country and then they go over and help oppress another country.”

“George Soros is supposed to be Jewish, but you wouldn’t know it from the damage he’s inflicted on Israel and the fact that he turned on fellow Jews and helped take the property that they own.”

That wild accusation—or as Gohmert put it “fact”—went unchallenged by host Stuart Varney, who helped steer the conversation back to China.

Gohmert’s comments echo a common right-wing conspiracy theory that Soros—a liberal, billionaire philanthropist—was a Nazi sympathizer or worse during World War II.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 06-12-2018 om 21:35:17 Trump and the NRA used the same consultants to spearhead TV ad blitzes during the '16 election, possibly in violation of federal law, MoJo reports."This is very strong evidence, if not proof, of illegal coordination," said an ex-FEC general counsel. https://t.co/dIXBqiWuQX reageer retweet

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Lobbyists representing the Saudi government reserved blocks of rooms at President Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel within a month of Trump’s election in 2016 — paying for an estimated 500 nights at the luxury hotel in just three months, according to organizers of the trips and documents obtained by The Washington Post.

At the time, these lobbyists were reserving large numbers of D.C.-area hotel rooms as part of an unorthodox campaign that offered U.S. military veterans a free trip to Washington — then sent them to Capitol Hill to lobby against a law the Saudis opposed, according to veterans and organizers.

At first, lobbyists for the Saudis put the veterans up in Northern Virginia. Then, in December 2016, they switched most of their business to the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington. In all, the lobbyists spent more than $270,000 to house six groups of visiting veterans at the Trump hotel, which Trump still owns.

Those bookings have fueled a pair of federal lawsuits alleging Trump violated the Constitution by taking improper payments from foreign governments.

During this period, records show, the average nightly rate at the hotel was $768. The lobbyists who ran the trips say they chose Trump’s hotel strictly because it offered a discount from that rate and had rooms available, not to curry favor with Trump.

“Absolutely not. It had nothing to do with that. Not one bit,” said Michael Gibson, a Maryland-based political operative who helped organize the trips.

Some of the veterans who stayed at Trump’s hotel say they were kept in the dark about the Saudis’ role in the trips. Now, they wonder if they were used twice over: not just to deliver someone else’s message to Congress, but also to deliver business to the Trump Organization.

“It made all the sense in the world, when we found out that the Saudis had paid for it,” said Henry Garcia, a Navy veteran from San Antonio who went on three trips. He said the organizers never said anything about Saudi Arabia when they invited him.

He believed the trips were organized by other veterans, but that puzzled him, because this group spent money like no veterans group he had ever worked with. There were private hotel rooms, open bars, free dinners. Then, Garcia said, one of the organizers who had been drinking minibar champagne mentioned a Saudi prince.

“I said, ‘Oh, we were just used to give Trump money,’ ” Garcia said.

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NBCPolitics twitterde op donderdag 06-12-2018 om 22:54:11 JUST IN: TJ Cox (D) is apparent winner of California House 21, @NBCNews projects -- a Democrat gain.The results for the new US House are now Democrats 235 and Republicans 200.This is a net gain of 40 seats for the Democrats. reageer retweet

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JoeBrunoWSOC9 twitterde op donderdag 06-12-2018 om 23:13:32 BREAKING: Dan McCready tells me he is officially withdrawing his concession.In an exclusive interview, he tells me he thinks Mark Harris knew what McCrae Dowless was doing and that Harris bankrolled "criminal activity." #ncpol #NC09 @wsoctv https://t.co/m7LhB2vGnM reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 6 december 2018 23:26 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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JoeBrunoWSOC9 twitterde op donderdag 06-12-2018 om 23:13:32 BREAKING: Dan McCready tells me he is officially withdrawing his concession.In an exclusive interview, he tells me he thinks Mark Harris knew what McCrae Dowless was doing and that Harris bankrolled "criminal activity." #ncpol #NC09 @wsoctv https://t.co/m7LhB2vGnM reageer retweet

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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi cast doubt Thursday on the likelihood that the new North American trade pact could win congressional approval without changes to bolster its labor and environmental protections.

President Donald Trump’s top trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, met with Pelosi for just over 30 minutes Thursday to discuss the new agreement, which will need Democratic support to give Trump a chance to sign it into law. The pact is already expected to face a fiery debate as some Democrats are already coming out in opposition to its labor and environmental provisions.

“While there are positive things in this proposed trade agreement, it is just a list without real enforcement of the labor and environmental protections,” Pelosi, who is expected to become House speaker in the next Congress, said in a statement after the meeting.

The Pelosi-Lighthizer session comes as Trump has stepped up his pressure to get the new agreement turned into law, telling reporters on Saturday that he would formally notify Mexico and Canada of his intention to withdraw from the existing North American Free Trade Agreement in six months. There is debate as to whether Trump has the legal authority to take such a step, but the move could force lawmakers to act on the new deal, which Trump is calling the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA.

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Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson set straight any misinformation concerning his views on President Trump: “I don’t think he’s capable,” he said during an interview on Tuesday.

Urs Gehriger, an editor at “Die Weltwoche,” the country’s leading German-language opinion weekly, noted that Carlson’s new book, “Ship of Fools,” is silent on Trump but comments on his critics. And so, Gehriger jump-started the conversation by asking what Carlson thought of Trump’s first two years in office.

Carlson said he cannot stand Trump’s self-aggrandizement and boasting. Then, when asked whether Trump has kept his promises, the usually quick-witted and long-winded Carlson had just one word: “No.”

Although it has a variety of voices, Fox News Channel has become the outlet often aligned with the current administration.

Hosts such as Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro have taken near-unequivocal positions in support of Trump and against “the liberal left.” Hannity has even joined Trump on the campaign stage.

Though often a measured Trump supporter, Tuesday’s interview was not Carlson’s first verbal-lashing of the president; he called Trump’s attacks on then-attorney general Jeff Sessions, following his recusal from the Russia investigation, a “useless, self-destructive act.”

This week, he continued to disparage the president when Gehriger probed for more.

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During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies. When he visited as president, she was directed to wear a pin in the shape of the American flag adorned with a Secret Service logo.

Because of the “outstanding” support she has provided during Mr. Trump’s visits, Ms. Morales in July was given a certificate from the White House Communications Agency inscribed with her name.

Quite an achievement for an undocumented immigrant housekeeper.

Ms. Morales’s journey from cultivating corn in rural Guatemala to fluffing pillows at an exclusive golf resort took her from the southwest border, where she said she crossed illegally in 1999, to the horse country of New Jersey, where she was hired at the Trump property in 2013 with documents she said were phony.

She said she was not the only worker at the club who was in the country illegally.

Sandra Diaz, 46, a native of Costa Rica who is now a legal resident of the United States, said she, too, was undocumented when she worked at Bedminster between 2010 and 2013. The two women said they worked for years as part of a group of housekeeping, maintenance and landscaping employees at the golf club that included a number of undocumented workers, though they could not say precisely how many. There is no evidence that Mr. Trump or Trump Organization executives knew of their immigration status. But at least two supervisors at the club were aware of it, the women said, and took steps to help workers evade detection and keep their jobs.

“There are many people without papers,” said Ms. Diaz, who said she witnessed several people being hired whom she knew to be undocumented.

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Op donderdag 6 december 2018 23:28 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Wat daar gebeurd is kan echt niet. Gewoon nieuwe verkiezingen uitschrijven.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-12-2018 om 02:05:17 House Democrats are threatening not to seat Mark Harris over the fraud allegations in NC-09.Pelosi said the House "retains the right to decide who is seated" and could take the "extraordinary step" of calling for a new election if the winner isn't clear. https://t.co/7CAQx7k2Ib reageer retweet