bonginoreport--2020-09-18--Lineman Maurkice Pouncey Becomes Second Pittsburgh Steeler to Come Out Against Wearing Police Shooti

Lineman Maurkice Pouncey Becomes Second Pittsburgh Steeler to Come Out Against Wearing Police Shooting Victim’s Name on Helmet

Steelers lineman Maurkice Pouncey issued a statement to clarify his position on having Antwon Rose ’ s name on the back of his helmet during Monday night ’ s game against the New York Giants .
“ I was given limited information on the situation regarding Antwon , and I was unaware of the whole story surrounding his death and what transpired during the trial following the tragedy.
” The Steelers organization chose to wear Rose ’ s name on the back of their helmets as part of the NFL ’ s social justice initiative .
Outkick ’ s Jason @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been told by the Steelers organization .
Here ’ s how the Steelers website described the Rose situation : “ On the night of June 19 , 2018 , the car Antwon Rose Jr. , who is black , was a passenger in was pulled over by the East Pittsburgh Police .
While the driver was being handcuffed on suspicion of being involved in an incident that happened earlier that evening , a frightened Rose fled from the car , Teresa Varley wrote on Steelers.com .
“ The cell phone video a bystander @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you could hear gunshots and see as he was fatally shot in the back three times by a white East Pittsburgh Police Officer.
” The Steelers failed to mention deeper details surrounding the case such as the victim in the drive-by “ incident ” told investigators it was Rose who shot at him .
“ The beef was between me and him , that car came by , he shot me , I ran to the store , ” William Ross told investigators referencing Rose .
Police also found a 9-millimeter handgun magazine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ loaded 9-millimeter Glock was found under the seat with 16-rounds in a 17-round magazine .
Police also stated gunshot residue was found on Rose ’ s hands .
Officer Michael Rosfeld was handcuffing the driver — later determined to be a jitney ( unlicensed cabbie ) — when Rose and Zaijuan Hester , who was in the backseat and used a .40-caliber Glock 22 pistol during the drive-by , took off running from the East Pittsburgh officer .
Rosfeld shot Rose .
The police officer testified that he thought one of the teens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him .
It took four days of trial and four hours of deliberation before officer Rosfeld was acquitted .
Key to the case was Pennsylvania law that states , “ a peace officer , or any person whom he has summoned or directed to assist him , need not retreat or desist from efforts to make a lawful arrest because of resistance or threatened resistance to the arrest .
He is justified in the use of any force which he believes to be necessary to effect the arrest and of any force which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ himself or another from bodily harm while making the arrest .
However , he is justified in using deadly force only when he believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury to himself or such other person.
” Pouncey , whose fellow offensive lineman Alejandro Villanueva chose to honor a Silver Star awardee , wrote that by wearing Rose ’ s name on his helmet , he “ inadvertently supported a cause of which I did not fully comprehend the entire background of the case .
I take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ something that is sensitive to the community and his family , but it is a lesson learned as it relates to political issues that occur every day in our society.
” The Steelers have chosen to wear Rose ’ s name on the back of their helmets for the entire season , but Pouncey says he won ’ t be following along .
“ Moving forward , I will make my own decisions about what to wear on the back of my helmet .
Make no mistake , I am against racism and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do is to continue helping repair relationships between the police and their communities .
System racism issues have occurred in our country for too long , and that needs to stop .
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bonginoreport--2020-09-18--NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell Says That America Is Just as Racist as During Jim Crow

In a recent editorial , former NBA champion Bill Russell insisted that America is just as racist and oppressive for blacks today as it was back in the Jim Crow era .
In a screed posted on Monday to The Players Tribune blog , the former Boston Celtics player excoriated the “ racist ” United States and said President Donald Trump was no different from the notoriously racist 1960 ’ s era Governor of Georgia , Lester Maddox .
Russell played for the Celtics from 1956 to 1969 and then became the league ’ s first black head coach in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the Celtics , the Seattle SuperSonics , and the Sacramento Kings .
But despite his great success — even during the Jim Crow era — Russell claimed the U.S. has not changed at all since its worst oppressive days of his youth .
“ In 2020 , Black and Brown people are still fighting for justice , racists still hold the highest offices in the land , and kids today still grow up with cultural norms that aren ’ t different enough from the ones that Lester Maddox grew up with , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ player next turned his pen against the police , saying that “ black kids today don ’ t grow up worried the Klan will kill them in the middle of the night — they worry the police will.
” Russell also praised the current social justice movement by agreeing that America needs a “ reckoning.
” The civil rights activist said that “ racial terror ” can be made to “ disappear with national reckoning , with an examination of our cultural norms and our power structures , with the dismantling and rebuilding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voter suppression so that everyone can vote for change from the bottom to the top of the ballot .
” Russell then went on the attack against President Trump and claimed that Trump is exactly like the racist ex-gov , Lester Maddox , saying , “ Despite being separated by 53 years , the only substantial difference between the two men ’ s statements is their accents.
” The former NBA star next plied the typical left-wing calumny that the US .
is built on “ racist ” ideals .
America , Russell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ genocide and built on slavery .
As a result of this discordant origin , America is a country at odds with its past.
” Freedom only applies to white people in the American system , Russell insisted .
“ America is not the land of the free when Black people have to worry about being hunted down , ” he said , citing the deaths of blacks such as George Floyd , Breonna Taylor , Tamir Rice , and others as proof .
Russell also claimed that there is “ no way ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s racism and its past with slavery .
“ [ T ] here is no way to move past racism .
Fifty-three years won ’ t do it , and 153 years won ’ t do it .
It ’ s like apologizing for something without knowing what you ’ re apologizing for — no real understanding comes of it .
If America doesn ’ t reckon with the past , divisions will only worsen , ” he wrote .
He closed his attack on America by claiming that blacks can not get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ land of the free when Black people ’ s murderers always go free .
”

In a recent editorial, former NBA champion Bill Russell insisted that America is just as racist and oppressive for blacks today as it was back in the Jim Crow era.
In a screed posted on Monday to The Players Tribune blog, the former Boston Celtics player excoriated the “racist” United States and said President Donald Trump was no different from the notoriously racist 1960’s era Governor of Georgia, Lester Maddox.
Russell played for the Celtics from 1956 to 1969 and then became the league’s first black head coach in 1966. He went on to coach for the Celtics, the Seattle SuperSonics, and the Sacramento Kings.
But despite his great success — even during the Jim Crow era — Russell claimed the U.S. has not changed at all since its worst oppressive days of his youth.
“In 2020, Black and Brown people are still fighting for justice, racists still hold the highest offices in the land, and kids today still grow up with cultural norms that aren’t different enough from the ones that Lester Maddox grew up with,” Russell railed.
The 86-year-old former player next turned his pen against the police, saying that “black kids today don’t grow up worried the Klan will kill them in the middle of the night — they worry the police will.”
Russell also praised the current social justice movement by agreeing that America needs a “reckoning.”
The civil rights activist said that “racial terror” can be made to “disappear with national reckoning, with an examination of our cultural norms and our power structures, with the dismantling and rebuilding of our institutions, and by ending voter suppression so that everyone can vote for change from the bottom to the top of the ballot. ”
Russell then went on the attack against President Trump and claimed that Trump is exactly like the racist ex-gov, Lester Maddox, saying, “Despite being separated by 53 years, the only substantial difference between the two men’s statements is their accents.”
The former NBA star next plied the typical left-wing calumny that the US. is built on “racist” ideals. America, Russell claimed, “was founded on indigenous genocide and built on slavery. As a result of this discordant origin, America is a country at odds with its past.”
Freedom only applies to white people in the American system, Russell insisted. “America is not the land of the free when Black people have to worry about being hunted down,” he said, citing the deaths of blacks such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, and others as proof.
Russell also claimed that there is “no way” to “move past” America’s racism and its past with slavery.
“[T]here is no way to move past racism. Fifty-three years won’t do it, and 153 years won’t do it. It’s like apologizing for something without knowing what you’re apologizing for — no real understanding comes of it. If America doesn’t reckon with the past, divisions will only worsen,” he wrote.
He closed his attack on America by claiming that blacks cannot get justice: “America is not the land of the free when Black people’s murderers always go free.”
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bonginoreport--2020-09-18--L.A. Dodgers’ Right Fielder Mookie Betts Sends Prayers to Ambushed Cops

The one-time MVP says he is 'angered ' by the shooting

Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Markus "Mookie" Betts has spoken out condemning the weekend ambush of two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, saying his prayers are with the officers, and calling for justice in the shooting.
What are the details?
"I am angered and disappointed by the ambush of the two LA deputies in Compton," the one-time MVP Betts tweeted Wednesday. "My prayers are with both deputies. #JusticeForAll"
Authorities are still searching for the gunman who was caught on surveillance video opening fire on the two deputies while they sat in their patrol car on Saturday. According to Fox News:
Officials have offered a $300,000 reward for information that leads authorities to the gunman who ambushed the deputies. The reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the brazen shooter has ballooned by more than $200,000 with the help of public and private donors.
The ambushed officers were hospitalized in critical condition due to the injuries they sustained in the shooting. LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced Wednesday that one of the deputies was released on Wednesday, but still "has a long road ahead for recovery."
The deputy who remains hospitalized has been identified as Claudia Apolinar, a former librarian and the mother of a 6-year-old boy. She has been hailed as a hero for applying a tourniquet to her partner to save his life in the moments following the attack, despite the fact that she herself had just been shot in the face and several times in the torso.
According to the LA County Sheriff's Office, protesters attempted to block the entrance to the hospital when the deputies were rushed there for emergency surgery, yelling, "We hope they die."
The attack comes after months of ongoing protests across the U.S. following the death of George Floyd in late May in Minneapolis, that have often descended into rioting, looting, arson, and calls for defunding the police. Every major sports league has advocated for social justice during the movement, and several athletes and teams have boycotted games to protest police brutality.
One of the most outspoken athletes has been Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James, who tweeted last month that black men are "being targeted" by the police in reaction to the shooting of Jacob Blake, who became involved in an altercation with police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after officers responded to domestic disturbance call.
Sheriff Villanueva challenged James earlier this week to meet or match the reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect who ambushed the deputies. James has remained silent on the shooting.


bonginoreport--2020-09-18--Comedian Chris Rock Wades Into the Left’s Race Narrative

Beloved comedian Chris Rock is now leaning into the race narrative that the left is using to divide America , reminding New York Times readers that , sure , African Americans are making progress , but in the same way that a housewife in an abusive marriage is making progress by not being beat by her husband anymore .
In other words , Trump , conservatives and pretty much anyone who doesn ’ t support Black Lives Matter are at the very least , emotionally-abusing African Americans .
Sure , Rock ’ s a famous mega-millionaire black man with tremendous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racist society is written all over his face .
Instead of the New York Times September 16 piece being a profile on how fun and blessed Rock ’ s life has been as a big Hollywood star – whether that was becoming one of the biggest names in stand up in the 90s , or being best buds with Adam Sandler and Chris Farley during their SNL years – it was a foreboding bit of newsprint race-baiting , literally titled “ Chris Rock Tried to Warn Us.
” So we get yet another @ @ @ @ @ @ @ caught flak for making jokes about Asian people .
Yeah he ’ s one to talk .
Anyways , onto the racism we ’ re allowed to talk about .
When asked whether he felt that America had done away with racism , Rock said no .
“ It ’ s real .
It ’ s not going away , ” he declared , and then he even spun the idea of Barack Obama ’ s presidency in a way to disparage America ’ s racism .
“ I said this before , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s progress for white people .
It ’ s not progress for Black people.
” Hmm , interesting .
His point seems to be that electing the first black president was a way that white people can be proud of their progress .
He used the example of famous African American pro baseball player Jackie Robinson to clarify his meaning .
“ It ’ s the Jackie Robinson thing .
It ’ s written like he broke a barrier , as if there weren ’ t Black people that could play before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how white people have learned about racism .
They think , when these people work hard enough , they ’ ll be like Jackie , ” the Fargo actor added .
Though we get the point , that it ’ s almost as if someone like Jackie Robinson was allowed to use his natural talent , but that was before the Civil Rights era .
Do Americans nowadays really believe that Barack became president because white people allowed him to ?
Of course not , but still Rock continued down the same trajectory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to white Americans as if they ’ re mentally-handicapped , or keeping African Americans in an abusive relationship .
He declared that the “ real narrative ” should be “ Black people are being abused by a group of people that are mentally handicapped .
And we ’ re trying to get them past their mental handicaps to see that all people are equal.
” Today ?
Really ?
“ If a woman ’ s in an abusive relationship and her husband stops beating her , you wouldn ’ t say she ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ’ s what we do with Black people.
” Adding to that , he claimed , “ we ’ re constantly told that we ’ re making progress .
The relationship we ’ re in — the arranged marriage that we ’ re in — it ’ s that we ’ re getting beat less.
” Wow .
Though perhaps the reason things are so tense right now is that rich and powerful people like Rock are telling millions of impressionable Americans that they are no different than mistreated spouses .
Combine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NBA star LeBron James saying that African Americans are being “ literally hunted ” by police and white people and it ’ s not hard to see riots and actual racism perpetuated .
If Chris Rock wants hate to end , maybe he should start by changing his perspective .

Beloved comedian Chris Rock is now leaning into the race narrative that the left is using to divide America, reminding New York Times readers that, sure, African Americans are making progress, but in the same way that a housewife in an abusive marriage is making progress by not being beat by her husband anymore.
In other words, Trump, conservatives and pretty much anyone who doesn’t support Black Lives Matter are at the very least, emotionally-abusing African Americans. Sure, Rock’s a famous mega-millionaire black man with tremendous cultural influence, the pain of our racist society is written all over his face.
Instead of the New York Times September 16 piece being a profile on how fun and blessed Rock’s life has been as a big Hollywood star – whether that was becoming one of the biggest names in stand up in the 90s, or being best buds with Adam Sandler and Chris Farley during their SNL years – it was a foreboding bit of newsprint race-baiting, literally titled “Chris Rock Tried to Warn Us.”
So we get yet another overhyped lecture from a man who once caught flak for making jokes about Asian people. Yeah he’s one to talk. Anyways, onto the racism we’re allowed to talk about.
When asked whether he felt that America had done away with racism, Rock said no. “It’s real. It’s not going away,” he declared, and then he even spun the idea of Barack Obama’s presidency in a way to disparage America’s racism. “I said this before, but Obama becoming the president, it’s progress for white people. It’s not progress for Black people.” Hmm, interesting.
His point seems to be that electing the first black president was a way that white people can be proud of their progress. He used the example of famous African American pro baseball player Jackie Robinson to clarify his meaning. “It’s the Jackie Robinson thing. It’s written like he broke a barrier, as if there weren’t Black people that could play before him.”
“And that’s how white people have learned about racism. They think, when these people work hard enough, they’ll be like Jackie,” the Fargo actor added. Though we get the point, that it’s almost as if someone like Jackie Robinson was allowed to use his natural talent, but that was before the Civil Rights era. Do Americans nowadays really believe that Barack became president because white people allowed him to?
Of course not, but still Rock continued down the same trajectory, using the same point to refer to white Americans as if they’re mentally-handicapped, or keeping African Americans in an abusive relationship.
He declared that the “real narrative” should be “Black people are being abused by a group of people that are mentally handicapped. And we’re trying to get them past their mental handicaps to see that all people are equal.” Today? Really?
“If a woman’s in an abusive relationship and her husband stops beating her, you wouldn’t say she’s made progress, right? But that’s what we do with Black people.” Adding to that, he claimed, “we’re constantly told that we’re making progress. The relationship we’re in — the arranged marriage that we’re in — it’s that we’re getting beat less.”
Wow. Though perhaps the reason things are so tense right now is that rich and powerful people like Rock are telling millions of impressionable Americans that they are no different than mistreated spouses. Combine that with disgusting rhetoric of people like NBA star LeBron James saying that African Americans are being “literally hunted” by police and white people and it’s not hard to see riots and actual racism perpetuated.
If Chris Rock wants hate to end, maybe he should start by changing his perspective.


bonginoreport--2020-09-18--Deion Sanders May Become Jackson State’s Next Head Coach

Multiple reports are surfacing that Deion Sanders is nearing an agreement to be the new head football coach at Jackson State .
Part of his recent contract agreement with Barstool Sports was that they would support his pursuit to coach , so these reports doesn ’ t come as much of a surprise .
What may be a surprising hold up is sponsorship dollars ?
Coming off a 4-8 campaign last year , Sanders would be looking to change the culture at Jackson State .
Prime Time has the personality to influence recruiting classes , so expect a major jump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Jim Harbaugh resuscitated Michigan ’ s recruiting and it amounted to disappointment anyway .
Lucky for Deion that the South Western Athletic Conference would have much less resistance to a dominant recruiting class .
Other big names have returned to the college game from their place in the NFL , but Prime ’ s name would matter more .
Remember how top basketball recruit Mikey Williams challenged other athletes to lift up black universities by investing their services ?
Deion Sanders could have waited for a “ Prime Time ” job and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ends up taking this job , his legacy somewhat intertwined with the future of Jackson State Football and that should be applauded .
Jackson State might get much more interesting if the deal goes through and if it does , we wish Prime luck !

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Multiple reports are surfacing that Deion Sanders is nearing an agreement to be the new head football coach at Jackson State. Part of his recent contract agreement with Barstool Sports was that they would support his pursuit to coach, so these reports doesn’t come as much of a surprise.
Jackson State is finalizing a deal with Deion Sanders to name him their new head coach, per @RossDellenger pic.twitter.com/IkWPJVVXup — Sports Illustrated (@SInow) September 17, 2020
What may be a surprising hold up is sponsorship dollars?
Coming off a 4-8 campaign last year, Sanders would be looking to change the culture at Jackson State. Prime Time has the personality to influence recruiting classes, so expect a major jump in that department. To be fair, Jim Harbaugh resuscitated Michigan’s recruiting and it amounted to disappointment anyway.
Lucky for Deion that the South Western Athletic Conference would have much less resistance to a dominant recruiting class. Other big names have returned to the college game from their place in the NFL, but Prime’s name would matter more.
Remember how top basketball recruit Mikey Williams challenged other athletes to lift up black universities by investing their services? Deion Sanders could have waited for a “Prime Time” job and ditched building a program. If Deion ends up taking this job, his legacy somewhat intertwined with the future of Jackson State Football and that should be applauded.
Deion Sanders has just been named head coach for Jackson State. The HBCU Jackson State. The JSU that produced Walter Payton, Jackie Slater, Robert Brazil’s & more. Major for HBCU Football! #DraftHBCUPlayers — #BounceBeatBaby (@NFLMaliik) September 17, 2020
Jackson State might get much more interesting if the deal goes through and if it does, we wish Prime luck!


bonginoreport--2020-09-18--Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died tonight at the age of 87 .
The Supreme Court announced her death , stating the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas .
Ginsberg had battled cancer for years .
The Supreme Court released a statement saying she passed away peacefully at her home in Washington , surrounded by family .
A few days before her death , she dictated a statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera , `` My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed . ''
Justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years .
She was nominated to the Court under Bill Clinton , and was one of only four women appointed as a Justice .
Ginsburg has been a hero for women 's rights advocates , and was sworn into the 107th Supreme Court in 1993 .
Born in 1933 in Brooklyn , Ginsburg married her husband in 1954 .
Together they have two children .
With a BA from Cornell University and a a LL.B .
from Columbia University , Ginsburg began her law career as a clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure , as well as Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law , and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford , California .
Ginsburg 's seminal cases include United States v. Virginia in 1996 , which opened up the Virginia Military Institute to women as well as being exclusively male .
Bush v. Gore of 2000 was a case that determined how the contentious election should be handled .
In this case , Ginsburg wrote a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rule in favour of Bush .
Ginsburg voted in favour of legalizing gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 .
She also wrote a dissent in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company , in 2007 , which highlighted the so-called gender pay gap .

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died tonight at the age of 87. The Supreme Court announced her death, stating the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas. Ginsberg had battled cancer for years.
The Supreme Court released a statement saying she passed away peacefully at her home in Washington, surrounded by family.
A few days before her death, she dictated a statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera, "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
Justice Ginsburg served the Supreme Court for 37 years. She was nominated to the Court under Bill Clinton, and was one of only four women appointed as a Justice. Ginsburg has been a hero for women's rights advocates, and was sworn into the 107th Supreme Court in 1993.
Born in 1933 in Brooklyn, Ginsburg married her husband in 1954. Together they have two children. With a BA from Cornell University and a a LL.B. from Columbia University, Ginsburg began her law career as a clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri.
She was associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure, as well as Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California.
Ginsburg's seminal cases include United States v. Virginia in 1996, which opened up the Virginia Military Institute to women as well as being exclusively male. Bush v. Gore of 2000 was a case that determined how the contentious election should be handled. In this case, Ginsburg wrote a dissent of the Court's decision to rule in favour of Bush.
Ginsburg voted in favour of legalizing gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. She also wrote a dissent in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, in 2007, which highlighted the so-called gender pay gap.


bonginoreport--2020-09-18--President Trump: “We’ll Take Care of Business” If Dems Riots After Election

President Trump told conservative radio host Dan Bongino that his administration would `` take care of business '' if people who were unwilling to accept the results of a Trump victory on Election Day turned violent .
In an interview on Friday , Bongino asked Trump if his administration was concerned about `` the potential for violence by people not willing to accept the results of the election . ''
`` We want to win , and once we win , we 'll take care of business , '' Trump replied .
`` We are winning now .
We have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 're winning in Wisconsin , we 're winning in Arizona , and yet , the New York Times comes out with a poll that we 're nine down .
We 're not nine down . ''
Democrats and Republicans have speculated about how the opposing candidate 's supporters are likely to respond should their candidate lose .
A report by the Transition Integrity Project , a group of bipartisan analysts , academics , and former campaign and government officials , predicted , among a slate of potential outcomes , that a close result @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that violent demonstrations might worsen as Election Day draws near , Attorney General William Barr told federal prosecutors to consider charging protesters with plotting to overthrow the government , according to reports this week .
The Trump campaign is seeking to limit voting irregularities through poll watching and other measures .
Trump has said he is not prepared to offer blanket support for the results until the time comes , telling Fox News in July that he would not `` just say yes '' when asked if he would accept the results of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to see , '' Trump said .
`` No , I 'm not going to just say yes .
I 'm not going to say no , and I did n't last time , either . ''
A surge of mail-in ballots is expected due to the increased risk of coronavirus transmission in indoor spaces , where polling usually occurs .
Trump has claimed that vote-by-mail is at greater risk of ballot fraud or that votes cast by mail could fail to be counted .
Earlier this month , Trump advised voters in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' by visiting a poll location `` and voting that way because if it tabulates , then they wo n't be able to do that . ''
On Friday , Trump took aim at a newly published slate of New York Times/Siena College polls , which he called `` crooked '' and `` suppression polls '' and said were `` meant to depress the voter and even the candidate . ''
The poll shows Democratic candidate Joe Biden ahead in Arizona and Maine , with the duo effectively tied in North Carolina .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ depressed last time , '' he added .
`` Last time , it was worse .
Going into Election Day , we were down in eight or nine swing states .
We were down in every swing state .
We won every one of them , every single one of them we won . ''
Bongino 's full interview with Trump will air on Sunday .

President Trump told conservative radio host Dan Bongino that his administration would "take care of business" if people who were unwilling to accept the results of a Trump victory on Election Day turned violent.
In an interview on Friday, Bongino asked Trump if his administration was concerned about "the potential for violence by people not willing to accept the results of the election."
"We want to win, and once we win, we'll take care of business," Trump replied. "We are winning now. We have polls — our polls show that we're winning in Wisconsin, we're winning in Arizona, and yet, the New York Times comes out with a poll that we're nine down. We're not nine down."
Democrats and Republicans have speculated about how the opposing candidate's supporters are likely to respond should their candidate lose. A report by the Transition Integrity Project, a group of bipartisan analysts, academics, and former campaign and government officials, predicted, among a slate of potential outcomes, that a close result could lead to street violence.
Fearing that violent demonstrations might worsen as Election Day draws near, Attorney General William Barr told federal prosecutors to consider charging protesters with plotting to overthrow the government, according to reports this week.
The Trump campaign is seeking to limit voting irregularities through poll watching and other measures.
Trump has said he is not prepared to offer blanket support for the results until the time comes, telling Fox News in July that he would not "just say yes" when asked if he would accept the results of the presidential election. "I have to see," Trump said. "No, I'm not going to just say yes. I'm not going to say no, and I didn't last time, either."
A surge of mail-in ballots is expected due to the increased risk of coronavirus transmission in indoor spaces, where polling usually occurs. Trump has claimed that vote-by-mail is at greater risk of ballot fraud or that votes cast by mail could fail to be counted.
Earlier this month, Trump advised voters in North Carolina to "check their vote" by visiting a poll location "and voting that way because if it tabulates, then they won't be able to do that."
On Friday, Trump took aim at a newly published slate of New York Times/Siena College polls, which he called "crooked" and "suppression polls" and said were "meant to depress the voter and even the candidate." The poll shows Democratic candidate Joe Biden ahead in Arizona and Maine, with the duo effectively tied in North Carolina.
"And we didn't get too depressed last time," he added. "Last time, it was worse. Going into Election Day, we were down in eight or nine swing states. We were down in every swing state. We won every one of them, every single one of them we won."
Bongino's full interview with Trump will air on Sunday.


bonginoreport--2020-09-18--The Philosophical Partnership Between the EU and Hezbollah

Intersectionality has become a cynical craze among woke activists determined to promote division and undermine the fabric of Western society .
But long before these Johnny-come-lately militants launched their campaigns of disruption , cancelling all who disagree , doing their best to get dissenters fired and tearing down historic statues , other militants were putting their brand of intersectionality into action to kill , maim and destroy the targets of their own hatred .
Sinn Fein 's campaign of violence against the British state and the people of Northern Ireland , fronted by the Provisional IRA , lasted 30 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , especially the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch , forced them to lay down their arms under the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 .
Sinn Fein-IRA 's intersectionality included close cooperation with a wide range of fellow terrorists , including the Basque separatist movement , ETA .
For many years , Sinn Fein-IRA also colluded with terrorist gangs in the Middle East , themselves masters of intersectionality , sometimes crossing the Shia-Sunni divide as they still do today .
Perhaps the most significant of these unholy alliances involved Colonel Muammar Gadaffi 's regime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ terrorism in the mid-1980s by supplying cash and weaponry , including rifles , pistols , machine guns , rocket launchers , surface-to-air missiles , flamethrowers and high explosives .
Four massive arms shipments from Libya -- totalling more than 100 tons -- made it through to the IRA strongholds and a fifth was intercepted by the French navy .
These bombs and guns were used to murder large numbers of innocent people in Northern Ireland .
Sinn Fein-IRA also climbed into bed with Palestinian terrorists from the early 1970s , with the Soviet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supplied the IRA with munitions , and both sides exchanged training as well as increasingly sophisticated terror techniques .
Palestinian terrorists reportedly trained the bombers and financed the attack in southern Ireland that killed the Queen 's cousin , Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Mountbatten , in 1979 .
Cooperation between Palestinians and Irish Republican terrorists went beyond the practical to the ideological .
Since its inception in 1905 , Sinn Fein has been vehemently anti-Semitic and , now a mainstream political party in the north and south of Ireland , remains @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state .
Even today , in Republican areas of Northern Ireland , Palestinian flags are a common site .
The Iranian terror proxy , Lebanese Hizballah , was a compelling intersectionality partner for Sinn Fein-IRA after its creation by the ayatollahs in Tehran in the early 1980s .
Iran reportedly supplied millions of dollars in funding to the Provisional IRA in the 1980s and 1990s .
And according to British intelligence , IRA bomb-making technology , passed to Hizballah , was used in attacks that killed British troops in Iraq .
This week @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now exist between New IRA and Hizballah .
New IRA is the largest IRA splinter group , intent on continuing the terrorist campaign .
It has carried out significant violence since the Provisional IRA halted terrorist action under the Good Friday Agreement .
New IRA 's plethora of attacks and attempted attacks go under-reported in the British media , although the group seized public attention after murdering journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry last year .
Highly dangerous though it is , New IRA lacks anything like the potency achieved by the Provisional IRA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more in need of backing from rogue states and terrorist groups outside the UK -- and perhaps jihadist capabilities within the UK itself .
New IRA established its credentials by organizing pro-Palestinian extremist and pro-Iran protests in Ireland .
Members of New IRA 's political front , Saoradh , signed a book of condolences in Tehran 's Dublin embassy to honour IRGC Quds Force commander and arch terrorist Qassem Soleimani after he met justice in a US air strike in Baghdad last year .
British and Irish security services now believe New IRA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and assault rifles , provided by Hizballah .
Hizballah has sleeper cells in Britain and also reportedly stocks of arms and explosives , some of which could be made available to New IRA .
The potential for Hizballah-New IRA cooperation goes beyond weapons and technology , with the possibility that New IRA could facilitate Hizballah terrorist attacks in Europe and even infiltrate their own operatives into Israel to strike there on behalf of Hizballah .
In both cases , they would be more likely than Hizballah 's traditional operatives to evade detection .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ represents a lethal cocktail , above all threatening the present peace in Northern Ireland .
Enter the European Union .
Clutching at straws in the latter stages of Brexit negotiations , the EU claimed that preserving peace in Ireland was one of their primary considerations , demanding that Northern Ireland be treated differently to the rest of the United Kingdom .
On this pretext , backing up a southern Irish government terrified of the consequences of Brexit for their own economy , the EU has been pushing to impose a border in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rest of the UK , to allow unfettered trade between north and south while disrupting trade between Britain and Northern Ireland .
This dispute is one of the major impediments to progress in current negotiations over Britain 's future trading arrangements with the EU and has resulted in vicious diplomatic flare-ups in recent days .
Many view the Brussels agenda as a weapon to force the UK into line and if not , to punish Britain by fracturing the union .
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the EU 's plans would `` carve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the economic and territorial integrity of the UK '' .
The reality is , should the EU get its way , contrary to its claims to try and uphold the Good Friday Agreement , its demands would harm future prospects for peace and stability in Northern Ireland by undermining and destabilising the union .
This is not the position of the British government alone but also of experts such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Lord David Trimble , previously First Minister of Northern Ireland and architect of the Good Friday Agreement .
Reminiscent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infamous threat during the Brexit campaign to send Britain to `` the back of the queue '' on trade with the US , former vice-president and now US Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi both , in the last few days , took up the EU cudgel from across the Atlantic .
While displaying a complete misunderstanding of the Good Friday Agreement , Pelosi warned that unless Britain submitted to EU border demands , `` there will be absolutely no chance of a US-UK trade agreement passing the Congress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ similar threat , also based on false EU propaganda and apparently aimed at Irish-American voters rather than at any real concern for the peace process in Northern Ireland .
With these menaces , we come full circle back to the intersectionality between Hizballah and the New IRA , in reality the greatest challenge to peace in Northern Ireland .
Where does Hizballah get the weapons and explosives it is reportedly providing to the New IRA ?
Iran .
And the EU has been at the forefront of supplying funds to Iran , including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Middle East and beyond .
The EU was an enthusiastic signatory to Obama 's flawed nuclear deal , the JCPOA -- never signed by Iran -- which provides a path for Tehran to have unlimited nuclear weapons ; and which released previously frozen assets to the ayatollahs .
The EU remains an enthusiastic supporter of the deal in the face of approaching Iranian nuclear capability and US opposition .
The EU also wants Iran to have unfettered access to munitions , rejecting US attempts in the Security Council to extend UN conventional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ month .
Not only that , but the EU and several European nations have set up Instex -- a mechanism to defy US sanctions -- enabling trade with Iran by circumventing US banks and reliance on the dollar .
The EU 's bungling foreign policy does not proscribe Hizballah in its entirety , mulishly maintaining a fictitious separation between `` political '' and `` military '' wings , despite the terrorist group 's own insistence that there is no distinction .
Meanwhile , Hizballah has attempted large-scale terrorist attacks in Britain , France @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the chemical that caused such devastation in Beirut last month .
Desperate to preserve a semblance of coherence in the face of the Brexit body-blow it has suffered , the EU falsely claims to uphold peace in Ireland while itself facilitating the greatest threat to that peace .
This approach makes the EU an inadvertent intersectional partner to the Iranian terrorist entity and its proxy , Hizballah .

The EU's bungling foreign policy does not proscribe Hizballah in its entirety, mulishly maintaining a fictitious separation between "political" and "military" wings, despite the terrorist group's own insistence that there is no distinction. Meanwhile Hizballah has attempted large-scale terrorist attacks in Britain, France and Germany....
Where does Hizballah get the weapons and explosives it is reportedly providing to the New IRA? Iran. The EU has been at the forefront of supplying funds to Iran, including cash used for its terrorist proxies across the Middle East and beyond.
The reality is, should the EU get its way, contrary to its claims to try and uphold the Good Friday Agreement, its demands would harm future prospects for peace and stability in Northern Ireland by undermining and destabilising the union.
This week it emerged in the media that links now exist between New IRA and Hizballah. New IRA's plethora of attacks and attempted attacks go under-reported in the British media, although the group seized public attention after murdering journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry last year. Pictured: The scene of Lyra McKee's murder on April 19, 2019 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
Intersectionality has become a cynical craze among woke activists determined to promote division and undermine the fabric of Western society. But long before these Johnny-come-lately militants launched their campaigns of disruption, cancelling all who disagree, doing their best to get dissenters fired and tearing down historic statues, other militants were putting their brand of intersectionality into action to kill, maim and destroy the targets of their own hatred.
Sinn Fein's campaign of violence against the British state and the people of Northern Ireland, fronted by the Provisional IRA, lasted 30 years until their comprehensive infiltration by British intelligence, especially the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch, forced them to lay down their arms under the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
Sinn Fein-IRA's intersectionality included close cooperation with a wide range of fellow terrorists, including the Basque separatist movement, ETA. For many years, Sinn Fein-IRA also colluded with terrorist gangs in the Middle East, themselves masters of intersectionality, sometimes crossing the Shia-Sunni divide as they still do today.
Perhaps the most significant of these unholy alliances involved Colonel Muammar Gadaffi's regime in Libya. Gadaffi helped re-energise IRA terrorism in the mid-1980s by supplying cash and weaponry, including rifles, pistols, machine guns, rocket launchers, surface-to-air missiles, flamethrowers and high explosives. Four massive arms shipments from Libya -- totalling more than 100 tons -- made it through to the IRA strongholds and a fifth was intercepted by the French navy. These bombs and guns were used to murder large numbers of innocent people in Northern Ireland.
Sinn Fein-IRA also climbed into bed with Palestinian terrorists from the early 1970s, with the Soviet Union acting as go-between. The PLO supplied the IRA with munitions, and both sides exchanged training as well as increasingly sophisticated terror techniques. Palestinian terrorists reportedly trained the bombers and financed the attack in southern Ireland that killed the Queen's cousin, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Mountbatten, in 1979. Cooperation between Palestinians and Irish Republican terrorists went beyond the practical to the ideological. Since its inception in 1905, Sinn Fein has been vehemently anti-Semitic and, now a mainstream political party in the north and south of Ireland, remains strongly and actively hostile to the Jewish state. Even today, in Republican areas of Northern Ireland, Palestinian flags are a common site.
The Iranian terror proxy, Lebanese Hizballah, was a compelling intersectionality partner for Sinn Fein-IRA after its creation by the ayatollahs in Tehran in the early 1980s. Iran reportedly supplied millions of dollars in funding to the Provisional IRA in the 1980s and 1990s. And according to British intelligence, IRA bomb-making technology, passed to Hizballah, was used in attacks that killed British troops in Iraq.
This week it emerged in the media that links now exist between New IRA and Hizballah. New IRA is the largest IRA splinter group, intent on continuing the terrorist campaign. It has carried out significant violence since the Provisional IRA halted terrorist action under the Good Friday Agreement. New IRA's plethora of attacks and attempted attacks go under-reported in the British media, although the group seized public attention after murdering journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry last year.
Highly dangerous though it is, New IRA lacks anything like the potency achieved by the Provisional IRA at its height, and is even more in need of backing from rogue states and terrorist groups outside the UK -- and perhaps jihadist capabilities within the UK itself. New IRA established its credentials by organizing pro-Palestinian extremist and pro-Iran protests in Ireland. Members of New IRA's political front, Saoradh, signed a book of condolences in Tehran's Dublin embassy to honour IRGC Quds Force commander and arch terrorist Qassem Soleimani after he met justice in a US air strike in Baghdad last year.
British and Irish security services now believe New IRA may have imported weapons, including mortars and assault rifles, provided by Hizballah. Hizballah has sleeper cells in Britain and also reportedly stocks of arms and explosives, some of which could be made available to New IRA. The potential for Hizballah-New IRA cooperation goes beyond weapons and technology, with the possibility that New IRA could facilitate Hizballah terrorist attacks in Europe and even infiltrate their own operatives into Israel to strike there on behalf of Hizballah. In both cases, they would be more likely than Hizballah's traditional operatives to evade detection. The alliance of Hizballah and New IRA represents a lethal cocktail, above all threatening the present peace in Northern Ireland.
Enter the European Union. Clutching at straws in the latter stages of Brexit negotiations, the EU claimed that preserving peace in Ireland was one of their primary considerations, demanding that Northern Ireland be treated differently to the rest of the United Kingdom. On this pretext, backing up a southern Irish government terrified of the consequences of Brexit for their own economy, the EU has been pushing to impose a border in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, to allow unfettered trade between north and south while disrupting trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.
This dispute is one of the major impediments to progress in current negotiations over Britain's future trading arrangements with the EU and has resulted in vicious diplomatic flare-ups in recent days. Many view the Brussels agenda as a weapon to force the UK into line and if not, to punish Britain by fracturing the union. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the EU's plans would "carve up our country" and "destroy the economic and territorial integrity of the UK".
The reality is, should the EU get its way, contrary to its claims to try and uphold the Good Friday Agreement, its demands would harm future prospects for peace and stability in Northern Ireland by undermining and destabilising the union. This is not the position of the British government alone but also of experts such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Lord David Trimble, previously First Minister of Northern Ireland and architect of the Good Friday Agreement.
Reminiscent of former US President Barack Obama's infamous threat during the Brexit campaign to send Britain to "the back of the queue" on trade with the US, former vice-president and now US Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi both, in the last few days, took up the EU cudgel from across the Atlantic. While displaying a complete misunderstanding of the Good Friday Agreement, Pelosi warned that unless Britain submitted to EU border demands, "there will be absolutely no chance of a US-UK trade agreement passing the Congress". Biden followed up with a similar threat, also based on false EU propaganda and apparently aimed at Irish-American voters rather than at any real concern for the peace process in Northern Ireland.
With these menaces, we come full circle back to the intersectionality between Hizballah and the New IRA, in reality the greatest challenge to peace in Northern Ireland. Where does Hizballah get the weapons and explosives it is reportedly providing to the New IRA? Iran. And the EU has been at the forefront of supplying funds to Iran, including cash used for its terrorist proxies across the Middle East and beyond. The EU was an enthusiastic signatory to Obama's flawed nuclear deal, the JCPOA -- never signed by Iran -- which provides a path for Tehran to have unlimited nuclear weapons; and which released previously frozen assets to the ayatollahs. The EU remains an enthusiastic supporter of the deal in the face of approaching Iranian nuclear capability and US opposition. The EU also wants Iran to have unfettered access to munitions, rejecting US attempts in the Security Council to extend UN conventional weapons sanctions, due to expire next month. Not only that, but the EU and several European nations have set up Instex -- a mechanism to defy US sanctions -- enabling trade with Iran by circumventing US banks and reliance on the dollar.
The EU's bungling foreign policy does not proscribe Hizballah in its entirety, mulishly maintaining a fictitious separation between "political" and "military" wings, despite the terrorist group's own insistence that there is no distinction. Meanwhile, Hizballah has attempted large-scale terrorist attacks in Britain, France and Germany, using ammonium nitrate, the chemical that caused such devastation in Beirut last month.
Desperate to preserve a semblance of coherence in the face of the Brexit body-blow it has suffered, the EU falsely claims to uphold peace in Ireland while itself facilitating the greatest threat to that peace. This approach makes the EU an inadvertent intersectional partner to the Iranian terrorist entity and its proxy, Hizballah.


bonginoreport--2020-09-18--Five Missing Children Found After U.S. Marshalls Make Major Gang Bust

Over the past two months , “ Operation Triple Beam , ” has been a massive undertaking by US Marshalls @ @ @ @ @ Friday , US Marshalls made announcement that 262 individuals have been arrested , including 141 @ @ @ @ @ , five missing children were found as part of their operation , according the KFOR @ @ @ @ @ was a targeted enforcement initiative by the Marshals and their partners to address violent crime @ @ @ @ @ , ” said U.S .
Marshal for the Western District of Oklahoma Johnny Kuhlman .
@ @ @ @ @ operations like OTB is to make communities safer .
When we arrest these violent fugitives @ @ @ @ @ guns and narcotics from our streets .
We believe these efforts have an immediate , @ @ @ @ @ we serve.
” Beyond the arrests made and children rescued , the Marshalls also seized @ @ @ @ @ kilograms of narcotics and nearly $ 17,000 in currency .

Over the past two months, “Operation Triple Beam,” has been a massive undertaking by US Marshalls in Oklahoma City. On Friday, US Marshalls made announcement that 262 individuals have been arrested, including 141 gang members.
More significantly, five missing children were found as part of their operation, according the KFOR
“Operation Triple Beam OKC was a targeted enforcement initiative by the Marshals and their partners to address violent crime in and around Oklahoma City,” said U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Oklahoma Johnny Kuhlman. “Our primary goal with operations like OTB is to make communities safer. When we arrest these violent fugitives, we are also removing guns and narcotics from our streets. We believe these efforts have an immediate, positive impact on the communities we serve.”
A 60-day U.S. Marshals operation to reduce violent gang crime in Oklahoma City resulted in 262 arrests – including six people wanted for homicide – and the rescue of five missing children: https://t.co/leNPRZxUGG — U.S. Marshals (@USMarshalsHQ) September 18, 2020
Beyond the arrests made and children rescued, the Marshalls also seized 72 firearms, over nine kilograms of narcotics and nearly $17,000 in currency.


bonginoreport--2020-09-18--Herschel Walker Slams BLM As “Anti-American,” “Anti-Christian”

Storied sports legend Herschel Walker has just released another video in which he delivers a scathing criticism of professional sports these days for their involvement with the Black Lives Matter movement .
Former NFL player and Heisman Trophy winner Walker went on Twitter and iterated clearly his disdain for athletes , coaches and organizations that are on board with BLM , calling it a Marxist organization .
“ First , I want to apologize to the American people because I was blind but now I can see .
I was deaf but now I can hear .
The other day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ founders of Black Lives Matter , and I heard her say that they are ‘ trained Marxists.
’ And I ’ ve heard that statement so many times.
” Walker then goes on : “ But then yesterday , I finally heard it .
And I saw it with my own eyes .
And I ’ m challenging every owner in the NFL , every owner of major league sports , every owner of stadiums , every commissioner , every leader in Washington , every church : ” “ I ’ m challenging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you ’ re supporting ?
Because a trained Marxist tells you that they ’ re anti-government ; they ’ re anti-American ; they ’ re anti-Christian ; they ’ re anti-everything , ” was Walkers pointed question at the end .
According to the NY Post , Patrisse Cullors did indeed admit in an interview that she is , in her own words , a “ trained Marxist ” , which was the main point of Walker ’ s tweet , and other recent tweets and statements : Walker closed his most recent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see all these signs ; I see all these logos ; I see all these commercials ; I see all this stuff , and it ’ s okay , because we ’ re in America .
You can support who you want and do what you want , but I need to know and the American people need to know that when you talk about support of BLM , are you supporting the group that said that they are trained Marxists ?
Because they ’ re making a lot of money , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ”

Storied sports legend Herschel Walker has just released another video in which he delivers a scathing criticism of professional sports these days for their involvement with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Former NFL player and Heisman Trophy winner Walker went on Twitter and iterated clearly his disdain for athletes, coaches and organizations that are on board with BLM, calling it a Marxist organization.
“First, I want to apologize to the American people because I was blind but now I can see. I was deaf but now I can hear. The other day I was listening to one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, and I heard her say that they are ‘trained Marxists.’ And I’ve heard that statement so many times.”
Walker then goes on:
“But then yesterday, I finally heard it. And I saw it with my own eyes. And I’m challenging every owner in the NFL, every owner of major league sports, every owner of stadiums, every commissioner, every leader in Washington, every church:”
“I’m challenging every professional player: Is this who you’re supporting? Because a trained Marxist tells you that they’re anti-government; they’re anti-American; they’re anti-Christian; they’re anti-everything,” was Walkers pointed question at the end.
According to the NY Post, Patrisse Cullors did indeed admit in an interview that she is, in her own words, a “trained Marxist”, which was the main point of Walker’s tweet, and other recent tweets and statements:
Walker closed his most recent tweet with the following:
“I see all these signs; I see all these logos; I see all these commercials; I see all this stuff, and it’s okay, because we’re in America. You can support who you want and do what you want, but I need to know and the American people need to know that when you talk about support of BLM, are you supporting the group that said that they are trained Marxists? Because they’re making a lot of money, and I’d like to know.”


bonginoreport--2020-09-18--New Jersey Eyes Becoming First State With a Financial Transaction Tax

New Jersey is presently facing a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall. And with tax receipts falling far short of the spending aspirations of state lawmakers, Trenton is hurtling toward incorporating a slate of new taxes in the 2021 budget, including one on financial market transactions. It’s an idea which has been around for some time, surfacing most recently in 2019 among candidates vying for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination.
In this case, the specific targets are the New Jersey-based data centers of New York City securities exchanges and other financial markets: massive server farms through which hundreds of billions of dollars worth of transactions and market data travel each day. The working proposal is that all firms executing at least 10,000 trades electronically per year – 400 per day, a threshold that ensnares even the smallest of firms – would be subject to a ¼ of one cent ($0.0025) per transaction tax. It’s a small number, but one that could add up to as much as $10 billion per year.
History rhymes
As politicians are so fond of saying, let’s be clear: New Jersey’s budget problems are the outcome of two factors, both of which are squarely the fault of the state’s government. The first is decades of excessive spending; so much that even having some of the highest taxes in the United States are insufficient for financing it. The second are the incredibly reckless, catastrophic policies imposed in the wake of the global outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Whether explained as a means of harnessing an allegedly lawless, out-of-control Wall Street, a way to reduce inequality, or simply a manifestation of the adage that “If it moves, tax it; if it keeps moving regulate it,” the likelihood that the new tax will appear soon is high. Although such a levy would ostensibly be used to address New Jersey’s fiscal gap, it’s equally likely that the tax would go toward social justice pet projects.
It’s certainly easier to go after “Wall Street” than, say, public sector unions. The very term “Wall Street” is
[a]bsurd … and duplici[tous.] … To summarize the vast panoply of activities conducted by many millions of individuals — employed by tens of thousands of broker-dealers, hedge funds, investment banks, mutual funds, venture capital and private equity firms, management consulting groups, and other businesses ranging in size from individual proprietorships to globally active firms — is as puerile a feat of political demagoguery as any. Only politicians, who flit opportunistically between meticulous nuance and dull monochromatics as it serves them, would find cause to use such a term.
This is the low-hanging fruit; envy-driven policies always find support.
Corollaries
Needless to say, a tax on financial market transactions will be quickly passed on to clients and customers, as will their periodic increases. And those will particularly impact the costs of administering nearly $30 trillion in retirement funds, the management of which is mostly transacted through securities exchanges in New York, and thus sure to be affected by the proposed New Jersey tax.
Another side effect of a transaction gouge is that the activity known as block trading may see a resurgence. Over the last few decades, the number of market centers – places where trades are executed, including exchanges, crossing networks, etc. – have increased. A byproduct of that process, called fragmentation, is that the average size of an execution has decreased markedly. Thus, where several decades back the average trade size was several thousand shares, it now numbers in the hundreds of shares. In an effort to keep the number of transactions (and thus the transaction tax impact) to a minimum, some firms and funds may opt to trade only in large single-transaction sized orders. That would be good for block trading firms, but would add additional transaction costs for other market participants: decreased liquidity, reduced opportunities for price discovery, and higher market impact.
Why stop there?
To the extent that the theory behind this tax is that securities trading is inherently unproductive, or that finance leads to an untenable concentration of wealth, there are many other sources of lucre to focus on: Hollywood and professional sports come immediately to mind. A tax on stock, commodity, and derivatives trades could be accompanied by a per word/per page tax on television, play, and film scripts, or perhaps a per minute tax on film lengths.
Pro sports could be roped in as well, with a tax on event tickets or – because they’re highly paid (perhaps dangerously so!) – athletes themselves. Baseball teams or individual players could be taxed on a basis of total swings per game. Football players could be taxed for each rushing yard, quarterbacks for each pass or handoff, and so on – for all sports.
And yes: these are facetious suggestions, but no less ridiculous than taxing financial firms on each transaction they execute.
Don’t you believe it
No one should take New Jersey governor Phil Murphy’s claim that the proposed tax on transactions tax is “not a forever thing” seriously in any way. Political economy is nothing if not a history of taxes which, promised as temporary, expanded and endured to perpetuity.
The Revenue Act of 1932 – like the proposed financial transaction tax – was designed to make up for steeply falling Federal tax receipts. It, too, contained ostensibly negligible taxes which were touted as temporary: the Federal Gasoline Excise Tax, for example. It was originally promulgated as a paltry one cent per gallon tax on gasoline that would be in effect from the passage of the bill until May 10, 1934, less than two years later. But a provision of the act allowed states to continue the tax and in many states (including, of particular note, New Jersey) it is in effect to this day: now standing at 18.4 cents per gallon to the Federal government, with a varying state tax on top of it: $0.41/gallon in New Jersey for a total tax of of $0.59/gallon, and $0.60/gallon on top of the Federal gasoline tax for a total of almost $0.80/gallon in California.
Additionally under the 1932 Act are the Federal Firearms Tax, the Federal Sporting Goods Tax, and the Federal Tires Tax, all of which were slated to disappear in 1936, but remain in effect today. Even the Federal Telephone Excise Tax, which was reduced by small degrees in both 1990 and 2007, remains in force in some forms.
In the wake of the so-called Great Recession, some 25 “temporary” taxes were imposed at the state level; today, three are still active; three were replaced by other, new taxes; and ten more were converted to permanent taxes. The remainder ended as planned, but could be reinstated at any time. Betting that an allegedly temporary financial transactions tax will become as permanent as the income tax – another government levy the impermanence of which was assured – is as close to a lock as exists today.
Elected racketeers and extortionists
The entire exercise is infused with the vacillation between passive-aggressive and bullying behaviors that is characteristic of legislators. While Murphy attempted to frame the threat that firms would leave the state as somehow inappropriate given the day the memo was leaked (“I’m not sure I would have put that out there at 9 o’clock in the morning on 9/11[.]”), Assemblyman John McKeon was more direct, threatening financial market firms: “They can run but they can’t hide.” (In light of his major campaign contributors, the posturing makes perfect sense.)
On Saturday, September 26th, the targeted financial markets and firms will conduct tests to ensure their business continuity in the event that the proposed tax is approved: they will relocate, quite possibly overnight, to another state. Governor Murphy, meanwhile, has expressed his hope that those businesses will be “prepared to give a little bit of blood [and] help us all get through” the consequences of policy choices made in Trenton “for the next couple of years.”
There’s no reason for optimism. The “little bit of blood” that was taken from consumers in the form of the Federal Gasoline Excise Tax in 1932 – and supposed to expire two years later – has, over an uninterrupted course of nearly ninety years, expanded and extracted over $1 trillion from consumers’ pockets.
The views of political figures regarding the nature of financial markets – whether they are essentially a purposeless casino to be bilked when and as needed, or an engine of economic calculation for pricing aggregates of capital goods – are a solid litmus test for the degree and depth of their overall understanding of economics. It is unsurprising that public officials in the state of New Jersey – a state with horrible finances owing to spendthrift decades and now draconian COVID policies – fail here as well.


bonginoreport--2020-09-18--Kosovo Awards President Trump “Order of Freedom” for Peace Efforts

It was a historic past two weeks for the Trump administration , with President Trump presiding over the signing of two Middle East Peace Deals , and receiving two different nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize .
The first nomination was for Trump ’ s work with the UAE-Israel peace deal , while the second was for his Serbia-Kosovo deal .
Trump was also nominated for a Nobel last year by Japan ’ s president Shinzo Abe , who credited him with opening talks with and soothing tensions with North Korea.. South Korean President Moon Jae-in seconded the motion , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for his efforts to negotiate an end to North Korea ’ s nuclear weapons program .
It ’ s certainly a prize that Trump is deserving of – especially considering that his predecessor was awarded one for doing absolutely nothing .
President Trump has said that he deserves a Nobel long before the deals that got him twice nominated this week and last .
Last year he said he deserved one after claiming that millions of people living in Syria ’ s rebel held territory of Idlib had been saved after he warned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government against a planned offensive they had .
Trump did express pessimism about receiving one though .
“ They gave it to Obama .
He didn ’ t even know what he got it for .
He was there for about 15 seconds and he got the Nobel Prize… With me , I probably will never get it.
” And unfortunately , he ’ s probably right .
While the Nobel committee may not give him the award he deserves , Kosovo is grateful enough to give award him their equivalent .

It was a historic past two weeks for the Trump administration, with President Trump presiding over the signing of two Middle East Peace Deals, and receiving two different nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first nomination was for Trump’s work with the UAE-Israel peace deal, while the second was for his Serbia-Kosovo deal.
Trump was also nominated for a Nobel last year by Japan’s president Shinzo Abe, who credited him with opening talks with and soothing tensions with North Korea.. South Korean President Moon Jae-in seconded the motion, and said that Trump deserved a Nobel for his efforts to negotiate an end to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
It’s certainly a prize that Trump is deserving of – especially considering that his predecessor was awarded one for doing absolutely nothing.
President Trump has said that he deserves a Nobel long before the deals that got him twice nominated this week and last.
Last year he said he deserved one after claiming that millions of people living in Syria’s rebel held territory of Idlib had been saved after he warned Russia, Iran, and the Syrian government against a planned offensive they had.
Trump did express pessimism about receiving one though. “They gave it to Obama. He didn’t even know what he got it for. He was there for about 15 seconds and he got the Nobel Prize… With me, I probably will never get it.” And unfortunately, he’s probably right.
While the Nobel committee may not give him the award he deserves, Kosovo is grateful enough to give award him their equivalent.
As U.S. News & World Report reports:
Kosovo’s awarded U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday with one of the country’s highest honors for his government’s efforts on peace and reconciliation in the former war-torn region.
President Hashim Thaci awarded Trump with Kosovo’s Order of Freedom “for his exceptional contribution for the freedom of Kosovo and the strengthening of Peace and reconciliation in the region.”


bonginoreport--2020-09-19--Amy Coney Barrett Emerges as Front-Runner to Replace RBG

Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has emerged as a front-runner to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , three sources told NBC News on Saturday .
President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have vowed to nominate and vote on a replacement for Ginsburg with the presidential election less than two months away .
Allison Rushing , 38 , of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals based in Virginia is also being considered for the nomination , NBC News reported .
Two other judges are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to NBC News , including Barbara Lagoa , 52 , of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Georgia , and Amul Thapar , 51 , of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati .
Barrett , 48 , who was appointed by Trump and has served on the federal appeals court in Chicago since 2017 , was on a list of potential nominees Trump updated earlier this month .
She was also among those considered to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy when he retired in 2018 .
To fill Kennedy 's spot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , an establishment Republican figure who angered some on the religious right for not being conservative enough even as he set off storms of panic on the left .
Axios ' Jonathan Swan reported in 2019 that Trump said he was `` saving [ Barrett ] for Ginsburg . ''
Though any confirmation fight in the midst of a presidential election will be hard fought , the battle is expected to be amplified if Barrett is picked , because of her track record .
In particular , critics of Barrett have zeroed in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which she raised questions about the importance of respecting precedent and referred to `` unborn victims '' of abortion .
In a 2013 article in Notre Dame 's quarterly alumni magazine , Barrett is paraphrased as saying the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade , the decision which legalized abortion nationwide , created `` through judicial fiat a framework of abortion on demand . ''
Barrett said in a 2013 speech at Notre Dame , however , that it is `` very unlikely at this point that the court is going to overturn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' `` The controversy right now is about funding , '' she said , according to Notre Dame 's student newspaper .
`` It 's a question of whether abortions will be publicly or privately funded . ''
During the 2016 hearings for her nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals , Democrats , including Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California , pressed Barrett on whether her Catholic faith would cloud her legal judgment .
`` The dogma lives loudly within you , and that 's a concern , '' Feinstein said during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It 's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge 's personal convictions , whether they arise from faith or anywhere else , on the law . ''
Barrett was ultimately confirmed in a 55-43 vote by the Senate in 2017 .
The fact that she was already vetted and previously confirmed by the Senate could help her case in the Republicans ' effort to quickly confirm a nominee .
At the time of her 2017 confirmation , three Democratic senators supported her nomination : Joe Donnelly , who was voted out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Joe Manchin , D-W.Va. Every Republican in the Senate at the time voted to confirm Barrett in 2017 .
Barrett 's views on abortion , in particular , stand in stark contrast to the late Ginsburg , who died on Friday surrounded by her family at her home in Washington , D.C. , due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer , the court said .
The vacancy allows Trump to nominate his third justice to the court , allowing him to swing the bench further to the right .
He previously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Only an hour after the Supreme Court announced Ginsburg 's death , Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday pledged he will hold a vote on Trump 's eventual nominee to fill the vacancy .
McConnell said last year he would seek to confirm a Trump nominee if a vacancy opened , despite vowing during President Barack Obama 's presidency to refuse any appointments during an election year .
The Supreme Court had a 5-4 majority of Republican appointed justices , and a 6-3 GOP majority could transform the shape of the law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Ginsburg , a feminist icon who championed women 's rights , was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 and vowed to remain as long as her health allowed .
Ginsburg told her granddaughter before she died that her `` most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed . ''
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden , who has served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said on Friday night that the vacancy should not be filled until after the November election and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland during the Obama presidency .
`` There is no doubt — let me be clear — that the voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the Senate to consider , '' Biden told reporters in Wilmington , Delaware .
`` This was the position the Republican Senate took in 2016 when there were almost 10 months to go before the election .
That 's the position the United States Senate must take today . ''
—CNBC 's Brian Schwartz , Tucker @ @ @ @ @ @ @ report .

U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a question before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020.
Allison Rushing, 38, of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals based in Virginia is also being considered for the nomination, NBC News reported . Two other judges are under serious consideration as well, according to NBC News, including Barbara Lagoa, 52, of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Georgia, and Amul Thapar, 51, of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
There are several leading contenders on Trump's short list, all of whom are young and would likely have a decades-long career on the Supreme Court, potentially tipping the balance of power on the judicial body decisively in a conservative direction for a generation. Judge Amy Coney Barrett, 48, of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago has emerged as a front-runner to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Ginsburg, three sources told NBC News on Saturday.
"If someone were to ask me now, I would say that a woman would be in first place, yes," Trump said. "The choice of a woman I would say would certainly be appropriate."
"I think the process could go very, very fast," Trump said before departing for a rally in North Carolina. "I'll be making my choice soon and when my choice is made I'll be sending it over to Mitch in the Senate and they will do what they have to do. I think we'll have a very popular choice whoever it may be but we'll be sending over to the Senate."
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would pick his nominee in the coming week to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat and the candidate would probably be a woman, making good on his promise to move "without delay" to appoint a conservative to the nation's highest court. Trump, speaking to reporters on the White House South Lawn, said he would like to see a vote before the November presidential election, though no firm decision has been made yet on the timing.
Barrett who was appointed by Trump and has served on the federal appeals court in Chicago since 2017, was on a list of potential nominees Trump updated earlier this month. She was also among those considered to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy when he retired in 2018.
To fill Kennedy's spot, Trump ultimately picked Brett Kavanaugh instead, an establishment Republican figure who angered some on the religious right for not being conservative enough even as he set off storms of panic on the left. Axios' Jonathan Swan reported in 2019 that Trump said he was "saving [Barrett] for Ginsburg."
Though any confirmation fight in the midst of a presidential election will be hard fought, the battle is expected to be amplified if Barrett is picked because of her track record. In particular, critics of Barrett have zeroed in on her prolific academic writings, in which she raised questions about the importance of respecting precedent and referred to "unborn victims" of abortion.
In a 2013 article in Notre Dame's quarterly alumni magazine, Barrett is paraphrased as saying the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade, the decision which legalized abortion nationwide, created "through judicial fiat a framework of abortion on demand."
Barrett said in a 2013 speech at Notre Dame, however, that it is "very unlikely at this point that the court is going to overturn Roe [v. Wade]."
"The controversy right now is about funding," she said, according to Notre Dame's student newspaper. "It's a question of whether abortions will be publicly or privately funded."
During the 2016 hearings for her nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Democrats, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, pressed Barrett on whether her Catholic faith would cloud her legal judgment. Feinstein's line of questioning raised controversy about whether she was implying that Barrett was too religious for the bench.
"The dogma lives loudly within you, and that's a concern," Feinstein said during the hearing.
Barrett responded: "It's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge's personal convictions, whether they arise from faith or anywhere else, on the law."
Barrett was ultimately confirmed in a 55-43 vote by the Senate in 2017. The fact that she was already vetted and previously confirmed by the Senate could help her case in the Republicans' effort to quickly confirm a nominee.
At the time of her 2017 confirmation, three Democratic senators supported her nomination: Joe Donnelly, who was voted out in 2018, Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
Every Republican in the Senate at the time voted to confirm Barrett in 2017.
Barrett's views on abortion, in particular, stand in stark contrast to the late Ginsburg, who died on Friday surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C., due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said.
The vacancy allows Trump to nominate his third justice to the court, allowing him to swing the bench further to the right. He previously nominated Justices Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
Only an hour after the Supreme Court announced Ginsburg's death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday pledged he will hold a vote on Trump's eventual nominee to fill the vacancy. McConnell said last year he would seek to confirm a Trump nominee if a vacancy opened, despite vowing during President Barack Obama's presidency to refuse any appointments during an election year.
The Supreme Court had a 5-4 majority of Republican appointed justices, and a 6-3 GOP majority could transform the shape of the law and maintain a conservative majority for years.
Ginsburg, a feminist icon who championed women's rights, was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 and vowed to remain as long as her health allowed. Ginsburg told her granddaughter before she died that her "most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who has served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Friday night that the vacancy should not be filled until after the November election and noted that Senate Republicans didn't consider the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland during the Obama presidency.
"There is no doubt — let me be clear — that the voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the Senate to consider," Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware. "This was the position the Republican Senate took in 2016 when there were almost 10 months to go before the election. That's the position the United States Senate must take today."
—CNBC's Brian Schwartz, Tucker Higgins and Emma Newburger contributed to this report.


bonginoreport--2020-09-19--Package Sent to Trump Containing Ricin Poison Intercepted by Law Enforcement

This is a breaking news story .
Please check back for updates as more information becomes available .
A package containing the deadly poison ricin addressed to President Donald Trump was intercepted by law enforcement sometime this week , before it was delivered to the president , two law enforcement officials told CNN on Saturday .
Two law enforcement officials also told CNBC about the ricin package that was addressed to Trump .
According to CNN , two tests were performed on the package , to confirm the presence of the deadly ricin poison , and the FBI , U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Service are investigating the matter .
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All mail addressed to the White House is sorted and screened at an off-site facility separate from the White House as a security precaution .
“ The FBI and our U.S. Secret Service and U.S .
Postal Inspection Service partners are investigating a suspicious letter received at a U.S. government mail facility .
At this time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public safety , ” the FBI ’ s Washington field office said in a statement on Twitter .
The New York Times , citing another unnamed official involved in the investigation , reported investigators believe the letters were sent from Canada , and investigators have identified a woman as a potential suspect .
The Times also reported letters containing were sent to federal offices in Texas .
Law enforcement officials did not say how many letters containing ricin they have recovered .
Ricin is derived from castor beans and even a few granules @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an adult , according to The Daily Mail .
Ricin can be made into a powder , pellet , mist or acid form .
Those poisoned with ricin experience nausea , vomiting and internal bleeding in their stomach and intestines , as well as failure to their kidneys , liver and spleen and then a shutdown of their circulatory system , resulting in death .
The poison has been used in past terror plots , including through mailed packages to American politicians and military leaders .
In October of 2018 , ricin particles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pentagon , addressed to then-Defense Secretary James Mattis and to then-Chief of Naval Operations , Admiral John Richardson .
In 2014 , Walking Dead actress Shannon Richardson was convicted of sending envelopes with ricin in them to then-President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg .
She is now serving an 18-year prison sentence for the ricin plot .

A package containing the deadly poison ricin addressed to President Donald Trump was intercepted by law enforcement sometime this week, before it was delivered to the president, two law enforcement officials told CNN on Saturday. Two law enforcement officials also told CNBC about the ricin package that was addressed to Trump.
According to CNN, two tests were performed on the package, to confirm the presence of the deadly ricin poison, and the FBI, U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating the matter.
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All mail addressed to the White House is sorted and screened at an off-site facility separate from the White House as a security precaution.
“The FBI and our U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Postal Inspection Service partners are investigating a suspicious letter received at a U.S. government mail facility. At this time, there is no known threat to public safety,” the FBI’s Washington field office said in a statement on Twitter.
#FBIStatement: “The FBI and our U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Postal Inspection Service partners are investigating a suspicious letter received at a U.S. government mail facility. At this time, there is no known threat to public safety.” pic.twitter.com/jsBMIsDHbt — FBI Washington Field (@FBIWFO) September 19, 2020
The New York Times, citing another unnamed official involved in the investigation, reported investigators believe the letters were sent from Canada, and investigators have identified a woman as a potential suspect.
The Times also reported letters containing were sent to federal offices in Texas. Law enforcement officials did not say how many letters containing ricin they have recovered.
Ricin is derived from castor beans and even a few granules of the poison can be deadly to an adult, according to The Daily Mail. Ricin can be made into a powder, pellet, mist or acid form.
Those poisoned with ricin experience nausea, vomiting and internal bleeding in their stomach and intestines, as well as failure to their kidneys, liver and spleen and then a shutdown of their circulatory system, resulting in death.
The poison has been used in past terror plots, including through mailed packages to American politicians and military leaders.
In October of 2018, ricin particles were detected in mail sent to the Pentagon, addressed to then-Defense Secretary James Mattis and to then-Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral John Richardson.
In 2014, Walking Dead actress Shannon Richardson was convicted of sending envelopes with ricin in them to then-President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. She is now serving an 18-year prison sentence for the ricin plot.


bonginoreport--2020-09-19--“George Floyd Autonomous Zone” Springs Up in Minneapolis – Already Causing Violence

Minneapolis claimed that an emergency vehicle ’ s entrance into the autonomous zone was badly delayed due to an improvised blockade .
As crime in Minneapolis continues to spiral out of control and police resources have been made scarce due to recent budget cuts , police say they are facing a new problem : According to a local ABC news channel , surveillance video ( shown below ) shows a man being assaulted within the four block area behind barricades , commonly referred to as an “ autonomous zone , ” around the area where George Floyd died in police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police have gone so far as to release a letter giving advice on how to avoid being the victim of robbings and carjackings , since these incidents have skyrocketed recently .
An MPD report on the indecent , which has come to light , stated the following : “ The crowd from the George Floyd Memorial began moving toward us and people were hollering that they were going to kick our asses and that we would have to kill them.
” The zone in question is in fact barricaded ( as is clearly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from 37th to 39th streets and encompasses Elliot , Chicago and Columbus Avenues , centered around the George Floyd memorial .
An unidentified spokesperson for the City of Minneapolis stated , that “ There is no autonomous zone in the area of 38th and Chicago Avenue , or anywhere else in the City of Minneapolis .
Laws and enforcement responsibilities have not changed for any part of the city , ” perhaps referring strictly to the legal technicalities of the present situation .
The mayor has not commented on this incident yet .

Minneapolis claimed that an emergency vehicle’s entrance into the autonomous zone was badly delayed due to an improvised blockade.
A George Floyd autonomous zone in Minneapolis is blocked off by barricades & checkpoints. A business owner within zone was violently beaten unconcious by a man who demanded money. Responding police & ambulance were stopped by aggressive protesters. #BLM https://t.co/8FJduWFC50 pic.twitter.com/yKCwgaRRac — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) September 18, 2020
Local resident groups categorically deny this.
As crime in Minneapolis continues to spiral out of control and police resources have been made scarce due to recent budget cuts, police say they are facing a new problem:
According to a local ABC news channel, surveillance video (shown below) shows a man being assaulted within the four block area behind barricades, commonly referred to as an “autonomous zone,” around the area where George Floyd died in police custody back in May.
Beleaguered Minneapolis police have gone so far as to release a letter giving advice on how to avoid being the victim of robbings and carjackings, since these incidents have skyrocketed recently.
An MPD report on the indecent, which has come to light, stated the following: “The crowd from the George Floyd Memorial began moving toward us and people were hollering that they were going to kick our asses and that we would have to kill them.”
The zone in question is in fact barricaded (as is clearly shown in the videos) and runs from 37th to 39th streets and encompasses Elliot, Chicago and Columbus Avenues, centered around the George Floyd memorial.
An unidentified spokesperson for the City of Minneapolis stated, that “There is no autonomous zone in the area of 38th and Chicago Avenue, or anywhere else in the City of Minneapolis. Laws and enforcement responsibilities have not changed for any part of the city,” perhaps referring strictly to the legal technicalities of the present situation.
The mayor has not commented on this incident yet.


bonginoreport--2020-09-19--IRS to Contact 9 Million Americans Eligible for Coronavirus Relief Payments

The IRS next week is scheduled to begin reaching out to 9 million Americans who may be eligible for a federal stimulus check but who have yet to claim the coronavirus relief payment .
The agency says it will begin mailing letters to people who may qualify for the money on September 24 , which will inform recipients that they could be eligible for a payment if they meet certain criteria , such as if they are a citizen or a resident alien and have a valid Social Security number .
Washington , D.C. , has the highest share of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money , at 4.8 % , according to a CBS MoneyWatch analysis of the state data issued by the IRS .
Alaska is second , with about 4.2 % of the state 's residents slated to receive a letter from the tax agency asking them to claim the money .
California has the most residents who may be eligible for , but have yet to claim , a stimulus check , at 1.2 million , followed by Texas ( 796,000 ) , Florida ( 567,000 ) , New York ( 538,000 ) and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are releasing this state-by-state information so that state and local leaders and organizations can better understand the size of this population in their communities and assist them in claiming these important payments , '' IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in a statement on Friday .
`` Time is running out to claim a payment before the deadline . ''
The stimulus checks targeted middle- and low-income households by providing $ 1,200 for single taxpayers , $ 2,400 for married couples and $ 500 per child under 17 years old .
To deliver the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ IRS relied on taxpayers ' most recent tax returns , which included either banking details for direct deposit or home addresses for paper checks .
Now , IRS wants to reach people who may have missed out on getting the stimulus payments because they do n't file a federal tax return .
The agency said that people have until October 15 to register for IRS.gov 's `` non-filer tool '' to receive their payments by year-end .
About 160 million taxpayers have received the payments , which were designed to offset the economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ IRS said .
The letters will come from an IRS address and are sent to people who have n't filed a return in either 2018 or 2019 .
The tax agency said its internal analysis found that these tend to be Americans who have very low incomes , such as seniors who rely solely on Social Security for their income .
People can provide their bank account information to the agency when they use the non-filters tool , which will allow the IRS to wire them the money by year-end .
People who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a check by mail .
The IRS has cautioned that receiving a letter about registering by October 15 is n't a guarantee that someone is eligible to get a stimulus check .
Some people are excluded from the payments , such immigrants without a Green Card and those who are incarcerated .
Although many Americans may be able to claim their so-called Economic Impact Payment , the odds of another round of stimulus checks going this year are fading , according to Goldman Sachs .
Another relief package before the election looks like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the investment bank said in a report Friday .

The IRS next week is scheduled to begin reaching out to 9 million Americans who may be eligible for a federal stimulus check but who have yet to claim the coronavirus relief payment.
The agency says it will begin mailing letters to people who may qualify for the money on September 24, which will inform recipients that they could be eligible for a payment if they meet certain criteria, such as if they are a citizen or a resident alien and have a valid Social Security number.
Washington, D.C., has the highest share of residents who may be entitled to the money, at 4.8%, according to a CBS MoneyWatch analysis of the state data issued by the IRS. Alaska is second, with about 4.2% of the state's residents slated to receive a letter from the tax agency asking them to claim the money.
California has the most residents who may be eligible for, but have yet to claim, a stimulus check, at 1.2 million, followed by Texas (796,000), Florida (567,000), New York (538,000) and Georgia (349,000).
"We are releasing this state-by-state information so that state and local leaders and organizations can better understand the size of this population in their communities and assist them in claiming these important payments," IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in a statement on Friday. "Time is running out to claim a payment before the deadline."
The stimulus checks targeted middle- and low-income households by providing $1,200 for single taxpayers, $2,400 for married couples and $500 per child under 17 years old. To deliver the checks as quickly as possible, the IRS relied on taxpayers' most recent tax returns, which included either banking details for direct deposit or home addresses for paper checks.
Now, IRS wants to reach people who may have missed out on getting the stimulus payments because they don't file a federal tax return. The agency said that people have until October 15 to register for IRS.gov's "non-filer tool" to receive their payments by year-end. About 160 million taxpayers have received the payments, which were designed to offset the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the IRS said.
The letters will come from an IRS address and are sent to people who haven't filed a return in either 2018 or 2019. The tax agency said its internal analysis found that these tend to be Americans who have very low incomes, such as seniors who rely solely on Social Security for their income.
People can provide their bank account information to the agency when they use the non-filters tool, which will allow the IRS to wire them the money by year-end. People who don't provide bank information will receive a check by mail.
The IRS has cautioned that receiving a letter about registering by October 15 isn't a guarantee that someone is eligible to get a stimulus check. Some people are excluded from the payments, such immigrants without a Green Card and those who are incarcerated.
Although many Americans may be able to claim their so-called Economic Impact Payment, the odds of another round of stimulus checks going this year are fading, according to Goldman Sachs. Another relief package before the election looks like a "long shot," analysts with the investment bank said in a report Friday.