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i didn't watch the op video. hard earned data saved!

Good stuff for an important swing state. The Bush brothers stole the vote back in 2000.

LeBron James joins push to turn out ex-felon vote in Florida

By GARY FINEOUT 07/24/2020 01:32 PM EDT

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/07/24/lebron-james-joins-push-to-turn-out-ex-felon-vote-in-florida-1303417

TALLAHASSEE — A group founded by NBA superstar LeBron James and other Black athletes and entertainers is stepping into the fight to register Florida voters with felony records, saying it will help pay court debts and fees so they can cast ballots in the November presidential election.

More Than A Vote, a group established by James and others in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, on Friday said it will donate $100,000 to help pay outstanding court debts of ex-felons so they can register to vote. The money will go to the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, which in 2018 successfully pushed to a constitutional amendment that lifted Florida's lifetime voting ban on people with felony convictions. After the amendment passed, the Republican-led state Legislature earlier this year raised the bar for felons to vote, passing a law that is being challenged in federal court.

“Your right to vote shouldn’t depend upon whether or not you can pay to exercise it,” Miami Heat forward and More than a Vote member Udonis Haslem said in a written statement.

The partnership will help ensure that "formerly incarcerated American citizens — many of them Black and brown — are able to pay their outstanding fines and fees and register to vote in the 2020 election and beyond.”

The coalition already has raised more than $1.5 million for its fees-and-fines fund, but the partnership with More Than A Vote is expected to bring attention and awareness to the effort.

Desmond Meade, executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, said the partnership will strengthen democracy and make more voices heard.

The partnership comes amid a bitter legal fight over the voting requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups have likened to an unconstitutional poll tax. One study projected that as many as 775,000 people in Florida with felony convictions have financial obligations that render them ineligible under the law. Of the more than 13.7 million voters registered in the battleground state, nearly a third are either Black or Hispanic.

The fight has spilled outside of the courthouse as the presidential campaign intensifies. Polls show President Donald Trump trailing his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, in the swing state, where candidates win or lose on the thinnest of margins.

More Than A Vote also will partner with Magnolia Pictures and Participant, a media company with a socially-driven mission, to host an online screening of a new documentary that chronicles the life of Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon who died last week.

Athletes and artists will promote the screening with proceeds also going to the coalition’s fines-and-fees fund.

More than a Vote was launched in June by James and other athletes and artists dedicated to Black political empowerment. Organizers say they are working to educate and protect Black Voters. James at the time said he would also use his social media platform to combat voter suppression and draw attention to efforts to restrict the voting rights of minorities.

Friday's announcement marks the group's first state-level campaign.

A U.S. District Court judge in late May ripped Florida’s law, calling it an illegal pay-to-vote system. Requiring people with felony convictions to pay fees — which are separate from restitution paid to victims — in order to vote violated the U.S. Constitution’s ban on poll taxes, the judge wrote.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican and Trump ally, appealed the ruling to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which put the ruling on hold this month while the appeal was considered. The appeals court is scheduled to hold a hearing on the case on Aug. 18, the date of Florida’s state primary.

John Pilger 2016 film in link. (free).

The Coming War on China

http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-coming-war-on-china

When the United States, the world’s biggest military power, decided that China, the second largest economic power, was a threat to its imperial dominance, two-thirds of US naval forces were transferred to Asia and the Pacific. This was the ‘pivot to Asia', announced by President Barack Obama in 2011. China, which in the space of a generation had risen from the chaos of Mao Zedong's ‘Cultural Revolution’ to an economic prosperity that has seen more than 500 million people lifted out of poverty, was suddenly the United States's new enemy.

The build-up of naval forces would reinforce the US's already overwhelmingly superior military position in the region. Seldom referred to in the Western media, 400 American bases surround China with ships, missiles and troops, in an arc that extends from Australia north through the Pacific to Japan, Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India.

The Coming War on China is John Pilger's most recent film – his 60th documentary and arguably his most prescient. Completed in the month Donald Trump was elected US President, the film investigates the manufacture of a ‘threat’ and the beckoning of a nuclear confrontation.

The film is marked in chapters. Chapter 1 is set in the remote Marshall Islands, in the Pacific, which the United States took over as a United Nations ‘trust territory’ in 1945 with an obligation to ‘protect the population’s health and wellbeing’. From 1946 to 1958, the US exploded the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb every day in the islands, contaminating its people and environment.

Filming on irradiated Bikini Atoll, which cannot be safely inhabited today, perhaps ever, Pilger describes the testing in 1954 of the world's first hydrogen bomb, codenamed Bravo, which vaporised an entire island, leaving a dark chasm a mile wide in Bikini's beautiful lagoon. The inhabitants had been moved to a nearby atoll, Rongelap, where the ‘unexpected’ fallout endowed them with multiple cancers.

Declassified documents describe a secret programme originally designed to test the effects of radiation on mice and used in the Marshall Islands on human beings. A US Atomic Energy official of the time describes the island of Rongelap as ‘by far the most contaminated place on Earth’.

The human guinea pigs were regularly monitored and underwent scientific examination. Many suffered thyroid cancer, deformities appeared in babies and countless survivors of the original blast died from radiation poisoning. A claims tribunal was set up and quickly ran out of money. The most moving interviews in the film are with islanders, mostly elderly women, who have survived, precariously, in poverty.

Today, the largest of the Marshall Islands, Kwajalein, is home to one of the United States’s most secretive bases, a missile launch pad designed as a ‘stepping stone to Asia and beyond’ and aimed at China.

Chapter 2 describes China's remarkable rise. Using rare archive film, Pilger describes ‘the century of humiliation’, when the Chinese were depicted as the ‘yellow peril’ in the West and racial stereotypes were a staple of Hollywood. Author James Bradley describes the opium trade and the colonisation by Britain and the other imperial powers. ‘The American industrial revolution was funded by huge pools of money… from illegal drugs in the biggest market in the world, China,’ he says.

The 1949 Communist revolution marked the end of foreign exploitation but also, ironically, the beginning of a China that almost no ‘expert’ in the West had predicted. ‘Today,’ says Pilger, standing against the ultra-modern skyline of Shanghai, ‘China has matched America at its own great game of capitalism – and that is unforgivable.’

Four hundred miles away, on the Japanese island of Okinawa, 32 American military installations form the front line of a coming war with China. Fumiko Shimabukuro, aged 87, is one of the leaders of a non-violent resistance challenging Washington’s ‘pivot to Asia’. They want the bases closed and point to a warning from the past. In 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis, American nuclear missiles were ordered to be launched at China, Russia and North Korea by an officer who, it appears, had lost his mind. Only luck – and the vigilance of another officer – allowed his moment of madness to be countermanded. In a memorable sequence, one of the 1962 missile crew describes how the world was almost destroyed ‘by mistake’.

In 2015, Pilger reports, the US Navy and its regional allies, including Australia, rehearsed a blockade that would cut China’s lifelines of oil, trade and raw materials. Today, President Trump is waging a trade war against China, where the United States's biggest companies, such as Apple, are based: the source of a trade deficit for which China is cast, in Trump's world, as the ‘bad guy’. In the meantime, China has built military airstrips in the disputed Spratly Islands, in the South China Sea, and is reported to have placed its nuclear missiles on ‘high alert’.

The Coming War on China was broadcast on ITV in the UK and SBS in Australia, and seen in many other countries, including China, where a pirated version was shown to possibly its biggest audience. ‘It's not the fairest way to distribute a film,’ said Pilger, ‘but I was delighted. The true story of China and America needs to be told, especially in Australia, where, fuelled by America, an anti-China propaganda campaign seems to be inviting a military reaction.’

African-American Firm & Ghanaian Partner on $30M Luxury Estate in Ghana


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdQDxvnx-Xs

@shalom4eva super congrats and wishing your family good health, happiness, and abundant blessings.

great to see you were frugal by not raising ur BP to purchase expensive rings.

>>She always been cruel when she asks me for anything and i refuse to give her maybe i don't have or just don't see needs to do so.
I also discovered that most of our fun times comes immediately money enters my hand.


@Olamila .... i stopped reading here. Pls find the backbone, liver, strength to dump this selfish user asap. find youself a 50-50 or even a 60-40 girl that is groomed and accustomed to equality and sharing in a relationship. thank me later. and good luck joining team-no-simp/s.

>>>Although details of those suspended are yet to be made public,

thx for saving my reading time. next.

>>What's your take on this?

Karma tingz .... someone in his family (ancestor/s) may have done some awful evil for him to be catching this much hell on earth.

Pray hard, do good deeds, and treat ppl right. dats all i have.

i dunno, the throughout the decades the 9ja elite looters have switched political parties and drawn up new ones so the question is moot.

Mr sperm donor has an interesting area boy/cultist background


HIP-HOP
5 Things to Know About Kenneth Petty, Nicki Minaj's Husband

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8533743/who-did-nicki-minaj-marry-kenneth-petty

i really like this thread.

sonyoung:
Na this 1 b beautiful lady...op, u de mad?

almost everyone half caste or light fits the description of beautiful to some mods. i tire o. op didn't use the word in his or her post.

i feel for her, all dat money invested in bleach and weaves/wigs down the drain until she go find sugar daddy.

Ikaygbonnie:
In naija they will be butchered for food

abeg, use a little data to read the article. but if you're running low because of season 5 i go understand.

"This is the first organised grindadrap hunt of 2020 with the meat from the hunt distributed first to the approximately 70 hunt participants from the boats and those killing on the beach - and then the remainder to villages on Suðuroy with all recipients then free to sell their share of the meat if they so wish."

Corruption grammar. Corruption is fighting back tooth and nail. A well earned brown envelope article.

PMB & the Ppl vs Malami and the Cabal. The Civil War II has begun.

Madam is looking extra good!

I bet Nkem was tearing dat ____ up on the set of 'Stronger than Pain'

wishing you two a very happy marriage and safe delivery. me thinks u have scored goal already. which is a blessing!

have no fear, dis fp nl news will have help on the way. supply and demand in capitalism lowers prices.

but u see why ppl keep saying lazy 9ja youth? dem could get seeds and grow dere own plants.

Fayose is out free, taking cruises and talking big sh*t again, and Kalu is out of prison and back in NASS.
Someone pls tell me how Malami is not the most corrupt force in the administration and nation today.
Bubu must find a way to sack him asap like he did the former Supreme Court Justice. If he doesn't I think history will write a negative chapter in his rule.

London followed by Rome gets my vote for the wickedest city. The sun never sat on the British empire, they were and still are exploiting/pirating around the world. And don't forget your history lessons of lions and wild beast devouring early Christians in the Roman Colosseum for the pleasure of a full capacity crowd of 70k ppl. And the gory gladiator fights to the death.

lolz, dumps my blank. using a government supplied lawyer means he can't put his hands of any money to pay lawyer fees.

let's see if the Reno the California surfer supplies him any assistance.

glad to say i said such yesterday before the naming


>>ppl underestimate the important history dem forged between themselves and for the nation. true statesmen like maturity for democracy.

https://www.nairaland.com/5994695/goodluck-jonathan-lands-mali-peace/3#91793293

i bet there will be more bleached and half-caste babes on the show than deep dark melanated beauties.
no disrespect to anyone on NL!
and we already know there's gonna be the continued bacchanal/sodom and gomorrah theme.
but enjoy the show, don't let my small criticism stop u from numbing ur brain/s and wasting ur study and hustle time.

Black Sub Saharan Christians and Jews have a difficult time immigrating to Israel, aka the Holy Land. I also remember the story of their government forcibly sterilizing Black women.



Israel Forcibly Injected African Immigrants with Birth Control ...
Jan 28, 2013 - Some 130,000 Ethiopians, most of them Jewish, live in Israel. ... is the result of a birth control regimen forced upon Ethiopian immigrant women.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseknutsen/2013/01/28/israel-foribly-injected-african-immigrant-women-with-birth-control/#652d95e767b8

This weekend, a report revealing that African women immigrating to Israel were subjected to mandatory contraceptive injections, effectively amounting to forced (if temporary) sterilization made global headlines. Some 130,000 Ethiopians, most of them Jewish, live in Israel.Jan 28, 2013



Another powerful Israeli commits crimes in Africa — and again his government does nothing

BY JAMES NORTH JULY 18, 2019

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/07/another-powerful-government/

So true Mr Op!

I'd like for Chairman Seun to code in a brand new block/ignore button into the website. Many of these kids and adult mischief makers waste ppl's data and precious reading time on a daily basis.

Hmmm, complex stuff to comprehend. At least for me.

Court Summons Malami, Emefiele, Others Over National Theatre Handover

Shola Soyele

Updated July 18, 2020

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has directed the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, and five others to appear before it on Friday, July 24.

According to the court, they are to explain the alleged handover of the National Theatre to some developers while the structure is a subject of a pending lawsuit.

Among the five others summoned by Justice Ayokunle Faji is Access Bank of Nigeria Plc and its Managing Director, Mr. Herbert Wigwe.

Others summoned to appear before the court are the Minister, Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and National Orientation, the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), the National Theatre and the National Troupe of Nigeria Board.

Justice Faji summoned all the parties who are listed as defendant/respondents in a suit before it by a company, Topwideapeas Limited.

Topwideapeas Limited is reportedly designated as the concessionaire of the fallow land adjoining the National Theatre.

Through its lawyer, Chijioke Okoli (SAN), the company brought an exparte application before the court asking it to reverse the handover in order to protect its interest in the property.

The senior lawyer contended that if not reversed, the handover of the structure would render the eventual decision of the court in the suit null and void.

Okoli also complained that despite pending litigation on the structure, the National Theatre was handed over to the CBN, Access Bank of Nigeria Plc, and Herbert Wigwe on July 12.

The handover was said to have been purportedly done by the National Theatre and the National Troupe of Nigeria Board, the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), and the Minister, Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture & National Orientation who are listed as the 1st to 3rd defendant in the suit.

Okoli, therefore, is seeking an order “suspending or staying the purported handover on or about July 12, 2020, by the 1st and 3rd defendant/respondents to the 5th-7thdefendant/respondents of the National Theatre Complex, Iganmu, Lagos and the adjoining lands, pending the hearing and determination of the applicant’s motion for an interlocutory injunction (by notice filed on December 31, 2019).”

https://www.channelstv.com/2020/07/18/court-summons-malami-emefiele-others-over-national-theatre-handover/

Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami and CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele.

One has to wonder about the powerful influence of https://www.shell.com.ng/ in helping to maintain this refinery dysfunction?

the company has not has an sterling reputation in Naija for decades.

How about some positive development news?

courtesy of .. Bashir Ahmad @BashirAhmaad

Enugu Airport before and during Buhari.

Dis-order in the court

Ribbit2:
Lmao.

I guess another trump buttlicking scallywag is moderating this dump.

I get the ban for pointing to how stupid a post his but the other person that called me a mannerless liberal pig gets the pass..


Una well-done.



All of you will cry when your Lord and savior (trump) gets the boot come November.

Nonsense and Amala

I send a polite msg to the super mods with an example of the reason for the ban and most times they rectify the situation rapidly.
This thread generates numbers/income for NL.


https://www.nairaland.com/mailsupermods

Slymonster:
That's why they keep losing case. I saw the rubbish and was annoyed. The people who steal billions you don't snap their family too. I guess there is level to every fraud in naija

how market many in the judiciary?
many chop bribe money. perhaps the AG Oga also. you no see the big war between Magu and Malami in the news?