48% Of U.S. Small Businesses Fear That They May Be Forced To “Shut Down Permanently” Soon
It is also important to remember that there are many Americans that have been unemployed for so long that they are no longer eligible to receive benefits.
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The US government initially planned to ban TikTok nationwide on security grounds. The White House officials have repeatedly argued that the company may hand over Americans’ private data to the Chinese authorities. ByteDance, meanwhile, has always denied those allegations and the Trump administration could never produce evidence.
Appeals court schedules Dec. 14 hearing on blocked U.S. TikTok new user ban
A federal appeals court said on Wednesday it will hear oral arguments on Dec. 14 on the government’s appeal of an order that blocked a ban on Apple Inc and Alphabet’s Google offering TikTok for download in U.S. app stores.
Reuters politicizing it by pointing out that three of the judges “were nominated by previous Democratic presidents.”
Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages Paid by Corporate Giants
Upon the study’s release Wednesday, Warren Gunnels, staff director and policy adviser for Sanders, tweeted: “The real looting in America is the Walton family becoming $63 billion richer during a pandemic, while paying wages so low that 14,541 of their workers in 9 states need food stamps — all subsidized by U.S. taxpayers. Yes. The Walton family is the real welfare queen in America.”
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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.
Trump’s TikTok Farce Ignores the Lessons of the Red Scare
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP would probably be surprised to learn that he is vindicating Marx’s claim that when history repeats itself, the second time is a farce. The administration’s odd war on TikTok echoes the period more than half a century ago when the US government was so worried about content from Communist countries that Congress directed the Post Office to detain perceived “Communist political propaganda.”
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We should all be a bit more hesitant to accept claims of imminent national security threats that justify radical action, especially when they happen to coincide with authorities’ interests. National security has been the basis for the rise of perhaps every despot in history. We should remember the example of the Supreme Court, which did not roll over to erode free press in the face of the Communist threat a half-century ago.
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TRUMP APPROVES TIKTOK DEAL WITH ORACLE AND WALMART ‘IN CONCEPT’
The new company, which will be called TikTok Global, has agreed to donate $5 billion to an education fund, which Trump said would satisfy his demand that the government receive a payment from the deal. “They’re going to be setting up a very large fund,” he said. “That’s their contribution that I’ve been asking for.”
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Enter: A $5 billlion pledge made collectively by TikTok, Oracle, Wal-Mart and the deal’s other backers that will seed a fund dedicated toward financing American education. The fund would go toward teaching American children “the history of the real America.”
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