“When the enemy is making a false movement, we must take good care not to interrupt him,” so said Napoleon at one of the critical junctures of the Battle of Waterloo. Today it is commonly written as: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”With that in mind: what the fuck is Mike […]
A provision in the foreign aid supplemental funding bill passed late last night by the United States Senate — and by the House of Representatives last Saturday — would force the Chinese-owned technology conglomerate ByteDance to either divest itself from TikTok or face its ban in the U.S. However, TikTok isn’t the only ByteDance-owned app that the bill will impact once it is signed into law by Joe Biden. The divestment language mirrors that of legislation passed by the House in mid-March.
An additional number of Chinese-owned companies could face having to find a buyer for their U.S. operations or being banned from American markets as well. ByteDance alone offers several other apps in U.S. digital app stores that fall under the same provisions impacting TikTok. The National Pulse has compiled a list of ByteDance-owned apps and other products that could be impacted below.
- CapCut – A video editing app often used by TikTok content makers.
- Hypic – A ByteDance-owned photo editing app.
- Gauth – An AI homework assistant.
- Lemon8 – A social media app with features similar to that of Pinterest.
- SoundOn – An app that pairs with TikTok and allows users to distribute original music creations.
- Lark – A software product similar to Microsoft‘s Office productivity suite or Google‘s Workplace.
- BytePlus – A cloud-based storage and computing service.
- 8th Note Press – A digital publishing platform.
In addition to ByteDance’s U.S. offerings, their foreign market products will likely face a ban on use in the United States. These include:
- Toutiao – An app that serves as a news aggregator.
- Xigua Video – A social media platform that allows users to share video content.
- Douyin – China‘s domestic version of TikTok.
A provision in the foreign aid supplemental funding bill passed late last night by the United States Senate — and by the House of Representatives last Saturday — would force the Chinese-owned technology conglomerate ByteDance to either divest itself from TikTok or face its ban in the U.S. However, TikTok isn't the only ByteDance-owned app that the bill will impact once it is signed into law by Joe Biden. The divestment language mirrors that of legislation passed by the House in mid-March.
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Mass migration is causing a housing crisis while failing to increase wealth per person, according to Robert Jenrick, who resigned as Minister of State for immigration at the end of 2023. Jenrick, who previously served as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government under Boris Johnson, warned the British government has become “hooked” on mass migration — but it is not improving the economy and amounts to a “betrayal to voters.”
A reduction in net legal immigration “from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands” was promised by Jenrick’s Conservative Party ahead of the 2010, 2015, and 2017 elections, and an “overall” reduction was promised ahead of the 2019 election. The Brexit campaign was also fought mainly on an anti-immigration basis. However, the Conservatives increased net immigration from 196,000 in 2009 to 745,000 in 2022, and illegal immigration is also at unprecedented levels.
“[T]he economic model that we’ve become hooked on isn’t working,” Jemrick admitted. “If importing hundreds of thousands of foreign workers to the UK was a route to prosperity, the UK would be one of the richest countries in the world. Instead, for almost the last two years we’ve had a recession in GDP per capita… I care about the prosperity of our own citizens, not the overall size of the economy.”
HOUSING CRISIS.
Jenrick stressed that government “modeling of the benefits of immigration has consistently overlooked the fiscal costs arising from pressure on housing, public services, and welfare.” On housing, in particular, he noted that the country currently would “have to build a house every five minutes, day and night, purely to keep up with the level of net migration to this country” — a feat that is not being accomplished, driving up home prices and rents and causing severe shortages of public housing.
The United States also suffers due to dogmatic beliefs that immigration benefits the economy. In early April, globalist media outlet Semafor argued “[t]he border crisis might be a boon for the economy,” citing an economist who formerly worked at Joe Biden’s White House.
The cost of housing, feeding, and otherwise caring for illegal aliens is costing billions of dollars across multiple states, near and far from the southern border.
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Mass migration is causing a housing crisis while failing to increase wealth per person, according to Robert Jenrick, who resigned as Minister of State for immigration at the end of 2023. Jenrick, who previously served as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government under Boris Johnson, warned the British government has become "hooked" on mass migration — but it is not improving the economy and amounts to a "betrayal to voters."
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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D) has vetoed state legislation allowing homeowners to have unlawful squatters removed from their property by law enforcement. Senate Bill 1129 (SB1129) would have changed the status quo, which subjects homeowners to lengthy court battles before they can reclaim their property, empowering law enforcement to remove squatters as trespassers swiftly.
Hobbs, 54, argued in her veto letter that SB 1129 did not “respect the due process rights of lawful tenants” and could have “unintended consequences, such as for victims of domestic violence.”
Republican state senator Wendy Rogers questioned whether Hobbs “read the bill.” She said it addressed only illegal occupants, not lawful tenants, and included carve-outs for family members and “anyone with an agreement to cohabitate.”
“The issue of squatters taking over people’s homes is growing exponentially across the nation, including here in Arizona, yet Governor Katie Hobbs is refusing to address the problem,” complained Republican state senator Wendy Rogers.
“If a stranger invades a home unlawfully and claims a right to live there, SB 1129 would have allowed the homeowner to request law enforcement immediately remove that person from the property,” she explained, adding that refusing to leave would have been treated as trespassing.
‘WE CAN SEIZE IT.’
“Criminals are scheming to take over homes that aren’t theirs, posing a threat to the safety of homeowners and infringing on their private property rights,” Rogers said. It is “a shame Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed yet another piece of commonsense bipartisan legislation,” she added.
Illegal aliens have been taking advantage of America’s permissive squatting laws. Venezuelan illegal Leonel Moreno built a substantial TikTok following teaching migrants how to abuse the law.
“I found out that there is a law that says that if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it,” Moreno said in one video. He boasted his friends had “already taken about seven homes.”
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— AZSenateRepublicans (@AZSenateGOP) April 24, 2024
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D) has vetoed state legislation allowing homeowners to have unlawful squatters removed from their property by law enforcement. Senate Bill 1129 (SB1129) would have changed the status quo, which subjects homeowners to lengthy court battles before they can reclaim their property, empowering law enforcement to remove squatters as trespassers swiftly.
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Law enforcement in Sumter County, Florida, arrested Ricardo Agustin Lorenzo, an illegal alien hailing from Guatemala, on second-degree murder charges on April 13. Lorenzo is accused of stabbing a man to death at a Days Inn Hotel in Wildwood, Florida.
The suspect is believed to have fatally stabbed Bilder Pablo, also an illegal alien, and subsequently fled the scene. Police arrived on the scene and were able to locate Pablo. He was airlifted to a nearby hospital in Gainesville, Florida, where he died of his injuries.
After a brief manhunt, Ricardo Agustin Lorenzo was seen walking down Interstate 75 but attempted to flee when law enforcement arrived. He was quickly found hiding in a nearby wooded area. Police were able to take the illegal immigrant and suspected murderer into custody without further incident. At this time, the motivation for the murder is not known.
Lorenzo is currently being held at the Sumter County Jail without the option for bail. In addition, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has placed a detainer request on Lorenzo, meaning they would take custody should he be released on bail or on the orders of a judge.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has encountered at least 145,000 illegal immigrants from Guatemala already this fiscal year, according to data from ICE.
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Law enforcement in Sumter County, Florida, arrested Ricardo Agustin Lorenzo, an illegal alien hailing from Guatemala, on second-degree murder charges on April 13. Lorenzo is accused of stabbing a man to death at a Days Inn Hotel in Wildwood, Florida.
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