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Donald Trump signs order banning transactions with 8 Chinese apps, including Alipay
On a call with reporters shortly after the order was announced, senior administration officials declined to offer any specific evidence tying the blacklisted entities with alleged efforts by the Chinese government to obtain users’ personal data.
“The executive order is based on risk,” said one senior administration official, citing the large user base and high download numbers of the targeted applications. “We’re talking tens of millions of devices.”
Blacklisting of China’s DJI in US threatens to scramble drone industry
Both Skydio and Impossible Aerospace use Brownstein, Hyatt et al,to lobby Congress (Source: OpenSecrets). 🤔💭
The author fails to look into the Pentagon’s biolabs and EcoHealth’s Western Asia Bat Research Network, which didn’t even do research in China!
Other related sources:
Project G-2101: Pentagon biolab discovered MERS and SARS-like coronaviruses in bats (Archived)
New data leak from the Pentagon biolaboratory in Georgia (Archived)
Commerce Department Has Been Quietly Investigating Wilbur Ross’ Finances For Years
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, one of President Trump’s longest-serving cabinet members, has been under investigation for most of his tenure in office, according to a report issued Thursday by the inspector general of the commerce department.
Trump administration ordered to postpone TikTok ban or defend it by Friday
The report says that the Trump administration has until 2:30 pm local time, either to agree to delay the ban or to file court papers in opposition to the filing for an injunction. The report further notes that if the ban is not delayed, a hearing will be held Sunday morning in order to decide on the matter.
Explosives used on 9/11 say commissioners
Commissioners from the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District, located near Queens, New York, unanimously passed a historic resolution on July 24 that calls for a new investigation into all aspects of 9/11 and which cites “overwhelming evidence” that explosives were planted in all three towers prior to 9/11. The resolution states that the district’s Board of Fire Commissioners “fully supports a comprehensive federal grand jury investigation and prosecution of every crime related to the attacks of September 11…”