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Unanimous vote: US Congress passes bill that could delist Chinese stocks from US markets

Patricia Zengerle
Fox Business
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a law to kick Chinese companies off U.S. stock exchanges if they do not fully comply with the country's auditing rules, giving President Donald Trump one more tool with which to threaten Beijing before leaving office.

The measure passed the House by unanimous voice vote, after passing the Senate unanimously in May, sending it to Trump, who the White House said is expected to sign it into law.

"The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act" bars securities of foreign companies from being listed on any U.S. exchange if they have failed to comply with the U.S. Public Accounting Oversight Board's audits for three years in a row.

While is applies to companies from any country, the legislation's sponsors intended it to target Chinese companies listed in the United States, such as Alibaba, tech firm Pinduoduo Inc and oil giant PetroChina Co Ltd.
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US Attorney John Durham seeks jail time for ex-FBI lawyer who altered CIA email about Carter Page

Chuck Ross
Daily Caller
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 09:13 UTC
John Durham
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US Attorney John Durham
U.S. Attorney John Durham is seeking a prison sentence of up to six months for Kevin Clinesmith, the former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to altering an email from the CIA regarding former Trump campaign aide Carter Page's past relationship with the spy agency.

Durham asked a federal judge in a court filing on Thursday to sentence Clinesmith to a jail term "between the middle and upper end" of what federal sentencing guidelines recommend for the crime of making false statements in writing.

Clinesmith pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 19. He admitted to adding the phrase "not a 'source'" to a June 2017 email from a CIA employee who had provided information about Page's relationship with the agency.

Page served as an "operational contact" for the CIA from 2008 to 2013.
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China is making super soldiers and is 'national security threat #1,' US spy chief claims in media blitz


RT
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:10 UTC
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China wants to replace the US as master of the world and represents the biggest threat to Washington by far, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe claimed, escalating the Trump administration's rhetoric against Beijing.

The People's Republic of China "poses the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom world-wide since World War II," Ratcliffe wrote in an op-ed published on Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, arguing that the "challenge of our generation" is to resist "Beijing's attempt to reshape and dominate the world."

The former Texas congressman took over the ODNI in May, after being nominated by President Donald Trump and approved by the Senate. Accusing China of intending to dominate the world "economically, militarily and technologically," Ratcliffe rolled out the claims about intellectual property theft and economic espionage, already made by FBI Director Chris Wray and Attorney General Bill Barr earlier this year.

Comment: In Washington, the art of 'accuse and deflect' outstrips facts and reason. The only win-win is partnership, but US politicians will be the last to know.

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Pentagon: Trump orders withdrawal of US troops from Somalia

Ebony Bowden
New York Post
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 06:00 UTC
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US Troops in Somalia
President Trump has ordered the withdrawal of almost all US troops from the African nation of Somalia, The Pentagon announced Friday.

The order will see virtually all 700 soldiers stationed in Somalia — mostly special forces troops charged with pushing back the Islamic State's advance in the Horn of Africa — "repositioned" to Kenya by Jan. 15, a defense official told the New York Times.

Withdrawing the number of US troops overseas and ending America's involvement in foreign wars has been one of the biggest tenants of Trump's presidency and a mission he has continued with despite losing the presidential election to Joe Biden.

American soldiers have been in Somalia for 13 years where they have been fighting against local al Qaeda-aligned group, al-Shabaab and training local forces.

Last week, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller confirmed that Trump would draw down soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq to 1,500 in each country — down from 4,500 in Afghanistan and 3,000 in Iraq.

The troop draw down will also take place by Jan. 15, just days before Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20.
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US blacklists Chinese chipmaker SMIC and oil producer CNOOC over alleged military ties


RT
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 09:10 UTC
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The Pentagon has added China's largest chipmaker, SMIC, and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies. The move is part of broader attempts to reduce Chinese firms' access to the US market.

The US Department of Defense designated four additional companies as being owned or controlled by the Chinese military, the other two being China Construction Technology and China International Engineering Consulting. The four just added bring the total number of blacklisted firms to 35.

The list didn't initially trigger any penalties, but a recent executive order issued by President Donald Trump will prevent US investors from buying securities of the blacklisted firms starting next year. Specifically, the move could make it more difficult for US companies to export technology to the blacklisted Chinese companies.

In September, the Pentagon said it was considering whether SMIC should be added to the Commerce Department's entity list, which essentially restricts those companies from receiving specific goods made in the United States.
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Family

Federal judge orders Trump administration to fully reinstate DACA

Zachary Evans
National Review
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 09:37 UTC
US Supreme Court
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DACA supporters outside U.S. Supreme Court
The Trump administration attempted to end DACA, however the effort was stopped in July by the Supreme Court, which ruled 5-4 that the administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act in attempting to halt the program. The Court did not rule on the legality of DACA itself.

Shortly following the decision, the Department of Homeland Security ceased new applications to the program and mandated that all DACA participants (known as "dreamers") renew their status every year instead of two years.

On Friday, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York ordered the Trump administration to accept new applicants and increase the renewal period to the original two years, vacating a DHS order by acting Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf. Around 300,000 people could now be eligible to apply to DACA, according to lawyers working on the case.
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UK grants Pfizer legal protection from coronavirus vaccine injury lawsuits, UK boss refuses to explain why

Shaun Lintern
Independent
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:16 UTC
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Pfizer's UK boss refuses to explain why the business needs protection from legal action
The UK government has granted pharmaceutical giant Pfizer a legal indemnity protecting it from being sued, enabling its coronavirus vaccine to be rolled out across the country as early as next week.

The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed the company has been given an indemnity protecting it from legal action as a result of any problems with the vaccine.

Ministers have also changed the law in recent weeks to give new protections to companies such as Pfizer, giving them immunity from being sued by patients in the event of any complications.

Comment: That 'one off' payment will do little to help those that suffer disability - or even death - because of an experimental vaccine. And it gets worse, because governments are using coercion seen only in totalitarian states to make citizens to take the vaccine: 'And that no man might buy or sell': Welsh government to roll out 'coronavirus vaccine ID cards'

The Canadian vaccine czar admits that this is the plan:


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Sherlock

Liverpool Mayor arrested over conspiracy to commit bribery & witness intimidation

Ben Hill
The Sun
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 11:00 UTC
Merseyside

Joe Anderson was arrested by Merseyside Police on Friday
THE Mayor of Liverpool has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.

Joe Anderson, 62, was arrested by Merseyside Police along with four other men on Friday.

They were arrested in connection with alleged offences of bribery and witness intimidation as part of an investigation into building and development contracts, the Liverpool Echo reported.

The arrests were made as part of "an ongoing investigation", cops said.

Comment: Considering the rampant corruption in those circles, did he step on someone's toes?

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Bullseye

Was insecure voting this year's 'insurance policy' for Democrats?

Joy Pullmann
The Federalist
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 14:37 UTC
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Poll workers in Wisconsin
Democrats spent 2020 insisting they would not only win the presidency in a landslide but ride a "blue wave" through Congress. If they were truly that confident Joe Biden could become leader of the world through Zoom calls from his basement, then why did Democrats blanket the country with millions of dollars to alter election processes in ways that are known to substantially increase errors and fraud to within election-tipping margins?

The Russia collusion investigation uncovered text messages calling Barack Obama's intelligence agencies spying on Donald Trump's campaign an "insurance policy" against the "risk" Trump might win. What "insurance policies" did Democrats take out in 2020?

Democrats' allies in big tech rigged search results and online conversations to hide news harmful to Biden. Their allies in big media refused to report on stories harmful to Biden or to ask him difficult questions. An election-overturning number of Biden voters say they would not have supported him had they been better informed of stories big tech banned and corporate media panned.

Comment: The fraud would not have been possible without a network of operatives at the local level committed to ousting Trump. Prominent in the lawfare battle to weaken election safeguards were attorneys elected with the backing of George Soros, who are committed to his leftwing globalist vision.

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Ice Age Farmer Report: Soybean shortage & cyberattack on food supply chain - Achilles' Heel


Ice Age Farmer
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 15:09 UTC
shortage
The world is running out of soybeans after drastic crop losses. This has severe implications, which the establishment will use to further their Great Reset. A strategic cyberattack on the food supply chain -- part of the "Cyberpandemic" the WEF has promised is looming -- will be used both as an excuse for food rationing, as well as the motivation for the "Great Reset of Food" for which the WEF/Rockefellers/others have been calling.

A recent attack on Americold offers a perfect case study of this achilles heel in our food supply. There is a lot to digest here -- Christian breaks it down.


Sources

Comment: View also: Ice Age Farmer Report: "Next crisis bigger than COVID" - Power grid/finance down - WEF Cyber polygon

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