>>12295089 (pb)
Which job is easier to get?
Lots of college hours gone to waste on degrees that are no longer useful.
But hey, guess what! Shit still needs welded together, house still need electrical wiring....
China Oil Majors May Face US Delisting After Telcos Cut
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/oil-china-delisting-telcos/2021/01/03/id/1004025/
Chinese oil majors may be next in line for delisting in the U.S. after the New York Stock Exchange said last week it would remove the Asian nation’s three biggest telecom companies.
China’s largest offshore oil producer CNOOC Ltd. could be most at risk as it’s on the Pentagon’s list of companies it says are owned or controlled by Chinese military, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Henik Fung. PetroChina Co. Ltd. and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., also known as Sinopec, may also be under threat as the energy sector is crucial to China’s military, he said.
“More Chinese companies could get delisted in the U.S. and the oil majors could come as the next wave,” said Steven Leung, executive director at UOB Kay Hian in Hong Kong. At the same time, the impact of removing the telecom firms is probably minimal as they were thinly-traded in the U.S. and they haven’t raised much funds there, he said.
The NYSE said it would delist the telecom operators to comply with a U.S. executive order imposing restrictions on companies identified as affiliated with the Chinese military. China Mobile Ltd., China Telecom Corp Ltd. and China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd. would all be suspended from trading between Jan. 7 and Jan. 11, and proceedings to delist them have started, the exchange said.
China’s Ministry of Commerce responded on Saturday, saying the country would take necessary action to protect the rights of Chinese companies and it hoped the two countries could work together to create a fair and predictable environment for businesses and investors.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission said Sunday that given their small amount of U.S.-traded shares the impact on the telecommunications companies would be limited and that they are well-positioned to handle any fallout from the delisting.
“The recent move by some political forces in the U.S. to continuously and groundlessly suppress foreign companies listed on the U.S. markets, even at the cost of undermining its own position in the global capital markets, has demonstrated that U.S. rules and institutions can become arbitrary, reckless and unpredictable,” the CSRC said in a statement on its website.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order in November barring American investments in Chinese firms owned or controlled by the military in a bid to pressure Beijing over what it views as abusive business practices. The order prohibited U.S. investors from buying and selling shares in a list of Chinese companies designated by the Pentagon as having military ties.
China’s Foreign Ministry later accused the U.S. of “viciously slandering” its military-civilian integration policies and vowed to protect the country’s companies. Chinese officials have also threatened to respond to previous Trump administration actions with their own blacklist of U.S. companies.
Just where the hell did CNN come up with 140+ joining the electoral opposition?
11 Republicans Joining Cruz in Opposing Certification
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/ted-cruz/2021/01/02/id/1003993/
Saturday, 02 January 2021 03:15 PM
A group of Republican senators led by veteran lawmaker Ted Cruz said Saturday they would not vote next week to certify Joe Biden's election win – the latest last-ditch move to support Donald Trump's efforts to undermine the vote.
The Republicans' statement, signed by Cruz and six other current senators along with four senators-elect, asserts that "allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes."
The group said that when Congress convenes in a joint session on Wednesday for what normally would be a pro-forma certification of Biden's victory they will demand the creation of a special commission to conduct "an emergency 10-day audit" of the election results.
The statement says individual states could then convene special legislative sessions and potentially revise their vote totals.
The 11 signees join Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who said earlier that he planned to raise objections on Wednesday.
According to a joint statement released Saturday, joining Cruz are: GOP Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; James Lankford, R-Okla.; Steve Daines, R-Mont.; John Kennedy, R-La.; Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.; and Mike Braun, R-Ind.; as well as Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis; R-Wyo.; Roger Marshall, R-Kan.; Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn.; and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.
A Republican member of the House of Representatives, Louie Gohmert, has also announced his plan to oppose certification, and more than 100 House Republicans reportedly will back his challenge.
Gohmert sought to further raise the stakes with a lawsuit that would have given Vice President Mike Pence traditionally in a ceremonial role in Wednesday's session the power to overturn the election result.
Pence opposed that effort, and a federal judge in Texas on Friday rejected the suit.
The Hawley and Gohmert challenges will ensure that Congress must meet to hear the complaints.
There are already demoncraps not going to vote for her.
>The Speaker would still be a Dem
Who said it wouldn't be?
Stop convolutin the subject matter.
…and off the shelves it went too, right before this shit hit.