Voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, start here at the office of Small Business. Thank you. Please call item 1. Item 1, call to order and roll call. [roll call vote] commission dooly is absent. Commission huie is running late. [roll call] you have a quorum. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 2, general Public Comment. Allows member of the public to comment on matters that are within the Small Business commissions jurisdiction but not on todays calendar and to suggest new agenda items for the commissions future consideration. Discussion item. I presentedd to on your binders a Public Comment that was received before the start of the meeting. That would be applicable under general Public Comment. Great. Do we have to do anything to recognize that comment . Nope okay. So are there any members of the public who wish to speak on any matter that is not on toda
Address that range of topics. To begin, i have a senior counsel and director of the Freedom Technology and security project. It is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting America First. Surveillance states, this often creates some friction with our allies. Our goals may conflict with their desire to protect their own citizens. [cheering and applause] thank you. Hello, everyone. Www. Cdt. Org. I want to talk about the Global Implications of what i call America First surveillance policies. U. S. Surveillance policy, particularly on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates against foreigners in a fairly dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States inside the United States it is relatively even between americans and foreigners. When they want to survey out a person in the United States and collect their Communications Content for intelligence purposes, it has to show they are in agent of a foreign power. A Foreign Terrorist Organi
Relations and with the center for strategic studies here in washington, he says that military force against the regime has to be an option and believes that kim jongun will quote, do whatever he can to keep up the Nuclear Capability, his comments are about 45 minutes. applause well thank you very much john i appreciate the kind words of introduction and i want to thank the center for Strategic International studies and the host of todays forum for their invitation to speak, i think this is the ninth or tenth such forum and it is a great opportunity, very timely to discuss very critical issues, i also want to congratulate csis and john and victor cha, for this is also the tenth anniversary of a korea chair at csis, so it marks a decade of contributions that the chairs nonpartisan objective research has made to the Public Policy to debate on korean issues that are so important to the American People and to the korean people, its really been a significant accomplishment for all of us csis
Nuclear issue still stuck in a stalemate. An optimistic prevail for some time after the collapse of socialism and during the post cold war period. But the stability of the world is now being seriously challenged. We have gathered here today in an effort to pull the business wisdom that would lead to peace and the world at large, including northeast asia and the Korean Peninsula. For starters, we hope the rivalry and conflict between the two superpowers, the United States and china will get resolved. The clash between these two powers by trade and customs conflicts, has spread to the fields of i. T. , military and diplomacy and is now working up to a competition to control Global Standards and global supremacy. Needless to say, this is very troubling and some have already cast a pessimistic outlook, saying that will follow the germany rivalry. But if you close your eyes and take a long good look back on history, you will gain a valuable insight that the United States and china have toge
You need the wall. I would love not to build the wall. But you need the wall. I will tell you this, the i. C. E. Officers and Border Patrol agents say if you dont have the wall in certain areas that arent protected by nature, if you dont have the wall, you cannot have security. You just cant have it. It doesnt work. Charles the white house released a statement saying that strum and the senators reach a decision on chain migration, and daca. Vince, an extraordinary meeting today. The stakes are very high. Everybody knows President Trump wants the wall. The democrats want daca. Can they finds a place in the middle . President trump has all of the leverage here. This daca thing he promised that i want to see legislatively solved hes placing in the hands of democrats. Hes saying you can have this thing. Visa lottery and chain immigration. Border security should include wall, the president saying that today. And look out for how they want to phase this thing. I dont think in any way the whi