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PHOTOS: President Biden Sits In A Jeep Wrangler 4ex Rubicon At The White House, Says Future Of Automobile Is Electric

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Saturday, August 07, 2021

Within nine years, half of all new vehicles sold in the United States should be zero-emission cars and trucks, according to an executive order signed by President Biden.

The future of the automobile industry is electric, "and there's no turning back," the president said during a White House South Lawn event Thursday afternoon.

Biden's target includes battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric and fuel cell electric vehicles.

Ford, General Motors and Stellantis said in a joint statement Thursday they hope "to achieve sales of 40-50% of annual U.S. volumes of electric vehicles (battery electric, fuel cell and plug-in hybrid vehicles) by 2030 in order to move the nation closer to a zero-emissions future consistent with Paris climate goals."

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Xenophobic attacks: Stop being ingrates – Thabo Mbeki tells South Africans

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Thursday, March 02, 2017

Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, has condemned the current xenophobic attack on Nigerians and other foreigners in different parts of South Africa.

While calling on the country’s security agencies to up their game, the former President called on communities to report criminal activities to the appropriate quarters.

His words, “I must express my grave concern at events which took place in this city last week, in the context of what was reported as an anti-immigrant march.

“In that context, I want to say ‘thank you’ to Ringo Madlingozi for what he said in the songs he rendered.
“As South Africans, we should never forget the enormous sacrifices that were made by the sister people of Africa to help us achieve our liberation.

“We cannot now behave in a manner that treats fellow Africans, who are now residents in our country, as enemies or unwelcome guests, neither should we commit the offence of viewing or characterising African migrants in our country as criminals.

“When our communities discover or suspect criminal activities in their areas, regardless of the nationality of the alleged criminals, it must be reported to the [South African] Police Service.
“The police service itself has an absolute obligation to follow up on these community reports to avoid people taking the law into their own hands.
“All of us know that our country faces many socio- economic challenges such as poverty and unemployment. Not even one of these problems can or will be solved by attacking fellow Africans who have joined us as migrants.

“Those who organise and participate in these attacks, which must stop, must know that there is absolutely nothing revolutionary, progressive, patriotic, acceptable or of service to the people in what are, in fact, criminal activities.”

U.S Senate approves Carson for housing secretary post

Olufemi David Unknown - Thursday, March 02, 2017

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - Ben Carson, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead U.S. housing policy, won Senate approval on Thursday.

The vote cleared the way for the retired neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential candidate to assume the post of secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He becomes the sole African-American member of Trump's cabinet.

(Reporting by Eric Walsh)

Minister for Sex appointed in Spain

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Thursday, March 02, 2017

The Spanish Government has appointed a Minister of Sex in order to boost the nation’s declining population.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy confirmed Edelmira Barreira as the country’s top sex official.

With this move, the government hopes to boost Spain’s falling birth rate, which is one of the lowest in the developed world.
The Spanish government revealed that the move is aimed at getting Spaniards produce more babies.
Experts have however attributed the decline in birth rate among Spaniards to long working hours and the culture of eating late at night.
Spain in recent years has recorded declining birth rates which according to reports places it among developing countries with the lowest index.

OBASANJO BLAMES SOUTH AFRICA GOVT FOR XENOPHOBIC ATTACK

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Thursday, March 02, 2017

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has blamed the South African government over the ongoing anti-immigrant attack in the country.
He said this on Wednesday while playing host to the leadership of the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru, Jos.
Obasanjo explained to the team led by Major General Laurence Onoja, that the South African government had betrayed the struggle for the emancipation of the country against apartheid.
He called on African heads of government to promote good governance for the overall development of the continent.
“Youths can be so immature; they may not understand what Africa stands for, what our continental organisations stand for. If the youths do not understand what happened to the elders?
“What happened to the leadership, I will blame the youths of the country for the attacks, but I will blame the leaders more in any country that allows xenophobic attacks against fellow Africans for whatever reason.
“Having said that, it is also the responsibility of everyone of us in our different countries to prepare our countries, so that our youths that think that there is an Eldorado somewhere outside their countries will be made to know that there is no green pasture anywhere, the green pasture is here in your country.
“I feel disheartened to know that many of our youths perished while crossing the Sahara Desert or the Mediterranean,” he said

COCA-COLA TO USE RIVER WATER FOR PRODUCTION IN INDIA

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Thursday, March 02, 2017

An Indian Court ruled on Thursday that Coca-Cola and Pepsi should not be banned from using water from a river in the Southern State of Tamil Nadu.
The Madras High Court ruling came four months after petitioner PA Prabhakar argued that the beverage giants should not be allowed to use the water for commercial gain while farmers were struggling to irrigate crops.
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages and PepsiCo India, subsidiaries of the multinational companies, told the court that they were being unfairly targeted, NDTV news channel reported.
They said they were part of a government-run industrial estate in Tirunelveli district where the waters of the Tamiraparani river were supplied to all industries in the complex.
The bottling plants in the estate have not been allowed to use the water for the past four months pending the court’s decision.
The ruling comes at a time when the two companies are also battling a boycott by local traders’ associations.
“Drinks like Coke and Pepsi are unhealthy as they have high sugar content and chemicals. “Fruit juices and Indian soft drinks are much better,’’ TT Vellaiyan, president of the Federation of Tamil Nadu Traders Association, said.
Shops and restaurants were being asked to not stock the two beverages and encourage local businesses, Vellaiyan said.

AUSTRALIA CONFIRMS ARREST OF LOCAL MAN WHO TRIED TO HELP IS DESIGN HIGH-TECH MISSILES

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of an Australian man who tried to help the extremist militia organisation Islamic State develop high-tech laser and missile capabilities.
Turnbull said the 42-year-old man was arrested in the town of Young in the state of New South Wales on terrorism offences, but that he had not been involved in planning any attack in Australia.
“Police will allege that this individual, in a regional centre, acted with intent to provide ISIL (Islamic State) with the capability, with the technical capability, and high-tech capability, to detect and develop missiles,” Turnbull told reporters in Canberra.
Australian federal police commissioner Andrew Colvin said the man, a trained electrician, used the internet to provide services to Islamic State to help research and design laser warning technology and systems to develop long-range guided missile capabilities. “He was technically trained as an electrician with no direct knowledge of laser technology,” Colvin told reporters, alongside Turnbull, adding the arrest was part of an 18-month long operation. He said the “Australia-born Australian” had networks and contacts in Islamic State, “not just in the conflict zones but also in other parts of the world and relied on them to pass the information.”
Colvin said that police will charge the man on Tuesday afternoon with multiple terror-related offences, including two foreign incursion offences that carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

[A Must Read] How President Trump’s Violent 30 Days In Office May Lead To His Impeachment

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Every new President in the United States spends his first month in office getting to know and thank the people who elected him into office, talking (politely) to fellow world leaders, selecting his executive team, using the media to get his message out and starts to implement his election campaign policies.
But not President Trump….
In less than 30 days as the President he’s managed to upset nearly everyone in the world – the Chinese, Russians, Mexicans, Iranians, Muslims – he even put the phone down on the Australian Prime Minister!
Unique and unlike any other American President before him he’s an egomaniac, bully and misogynist and not to talk of him being crass; he makes ex-President bush look clever. He sees himself as an Emperor and if care isn’t taken to curb him he has all the makings of a wannabe dictator. I mean what kind of President demeans himself by acting like a juvenile delinquent, on steroids, tweeting his every dissatisfaction on Twitter and having spats with people? Hasn’t he heard of a thing(s) called decency, conduct and protocol? Obviously not!
Breaking with protocol and in a rare display of nepotism, never before seen in American politics, Mr Trump has populated his inner circle with family and cronies – with his daughter, Ivanka, standing in as First Lady In Waiting( – is the real First Lady, Melania, on vacation?)
His election promise to get Muslims from seven countries banned from entering the United States has been overturned by judges who have deemed it unconstitutional and discriminating. He’s still going to build his Mexican wall but now realises America will have to pay for it. He is even reported to be considering the use of more than a force of 100, 000 national guards to hunt down illegal immigrants.
His erratic behaviour is causing a major concern amongst world leaders who are not sure what he’s going to next. This is the man who has got his finger firmly on the nuclear button forcing Russia to step up its game in readiness for an all-out nuclear war should Trump flip.
Already he’s fired all foreign US ambassadors, fired sally Yates, acting US attorney-general, for opposing his US-ban on Muslims policy. He’s fired six of his White House staff after they failed FBI background checks. Michael Flynn, his top national security official, quit in the wake of secret contacts with Russian spies during his election campaign and the White House is in total disarray.
He’s constantly battling the press, singling out CNN and The Post as his arch-enemies claiming they only publish ‘fake news’ all the time ( – especially when things don’t go his way!).
His reluctant First lady ,Melania, is holed up in Trump Tower in New York most of the time and doesn’t want to seem to come out and leading politicians reckon he needs a psychiatrist on stand-by 24/7 as he’s mentally unstable and could suffer a meltdown.
Also, because he’s a billionaire his business interests conflict with his official duties as President. He claims he has signed over all his business interests over to his sons, who now run his empire, but everybody knows he’s still the power behind the throne. Where will he find the time to run the country?
There have been widespread demonstrations, worldwide, protesting against his stand on Muslim immigrants and travel and his treatment of women.
Finally on the 16th of February he gave a surprise 90 minute press conference claiming he had achieved more in his first few weeks than any of his predecessors saying ‘the White House is running like a fine-tuned machine’, while at the same time taking a swipe at the New York Times and CNN (again!) over his campaign aides links with Russia.
Running a country, the size of America, is not the same as running a business empire or a TV reality programme and the incumbent will have to learn to follow protocol and listen to the wishes of the people who elected him in the first place. At a time when there is a lot of turmoil in the world, America needs a clear headed President to head the world’s most powerful nation something Donald Trump clearly isn’t.
If in the space of less than a month he has managed to alienate himself from the people he’s supposed to lead there’s no saying what he’ll do if he’s allowed to complete his four year tenure. Knowing the Americans they’ll probably impeach him before then or.
Written by:- Tony Ogunlowo | Follow him on Twitter @Archangel641

Bill Gates warns the world to prepare for bio-terrorism

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Monday, February 20, 2017

On Saturday, February 18, 2017, Bill Gates spoke at the Munich Security Conference in Germany where he said,

"It's time to redirect some of the money the world spends on weapons to prepare for a looming threat: terrorists with pathogens. He's warning that the threat of bio-terrorism is "right up there with nuclear war and climate change."

He says it's now necessary for the world to prepare for what he considers to be one of its largest existential threats: the next pandemic.

"Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at the hand of a terrorist, epidemiologists say a fast-moving airborne pathogen could kill more than 30 million people in less than a year. And they say there is a reasonable probability the world will experience such an outbreak in the next 10 to 15 years" he said.

The most recent pandemic was even more deadly than that, Gates pointed out. A flu outbreak that occurred naturally killed between 50 million and 100 million people in 1918.

Donald Trump Vs Tech : 97 Tech Companies Fight Against Travel Ban

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Sunday, February 19, 2017

The 97 signatories include Apple, Facebook and Microsoft but surprisingly Amazon and Tesla are excluded.

The said document is an amicus brief , which allows parties not directly involved in a case but who feel they are affected by it, to give their view.

It was filed in Washington DC on Sunday.

Trump's order affected a lot of thing. It halted the entire US refugee programme for 120 days, indefinitely banned Syrian refugees and suspended permission to enter the US for all nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Visa holders from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be allowed to enter the US until the full case has been heard.

According to BBC:

The US president says national security is at risk as a result.

"Of course, the federal government can and should implement targeted, appropriate adjustments to the nation's immigration system to enhance the nation's security," reads the tech group's brief.

"But a broad, open-ended ban - together with an indication that the ban could be expanded to other countries without notice - does not fit the goal of making the country more secure. Instead, it will undermine American interests."

Ono Loki, head of S/ Sudan military courts quits

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Sunday, February 19, 2017

The head of South Sudan’s military courts, Colonel Khalid Ono Loki, has resigned, saying high-level interference made it impossible to discipline soldiers accused of rape and murder amid the nation’s civil war, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Saturday.
The resignation of Loki is the third high-level departure in a week. A highly respected general stood down seven days ago, citing ethnic favouritism in the military and rampant human rights abuses. On Friday, the minister of labour defected to the rebels.
Oil-rich South Sudan has been mired in civil war since 2013, when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer.
Since then, fighting has increasingly fractured the world’s youngest country along ethnic lines, leading the U.N. to warn that the violence was setting the stage for genocide.
In a letter to the SPLA Chief of army staff, General Paul Malong, Ono Loki, cited absence of “ justice” in the country’s judiciary.
Colonel Loki also accused Gen Malong of running parallel kangaroo courts.
“Mr. Chief [Malong], you have often avoided the current courts, tried officers on your own, whilst, crafting and forming alien ones paradoxical to the existent established courts which are in conformity with the law. Your un-qualified clique of friends and relatives who dangerously arrest and sentence as you so wish and command have never attended any law school to carry such responsibility,” Col Loki said.
He also accused Gen Malong and those close to him of releasing convicts at will without following the due process of the law
Loki’s resignation buttresses allegations by international rights groups that the government permits soldiers to gang-rape and murder civilians with impunity. The U.N. has documented hundreds of accusations of rape involving soldiers in the capital alone.
Rebels have also been accused of human rights abuses, although fewer cases have been documented.
Military spokesman Brigadier General Lul Ruai Koang said Loki had resigned last year but that it had not been publicised.
“Their defection won’t have any negative bearing on the national army,” he said. He did not comment on reports of human rights abuses by the military.
The government has previously said soldiers who commit abuses are prosecuted. Officials have not provided any figures or details on such cases.
The rash of resignations will isolate Kiir’s government further within the international community and strengthen calls for a regional protection force to patrol the capital and for the military to withdraw.
There are 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers in South Sudan, but they have been criticised for not intervening when human rights abuses are being committed.
The conflict has forced more than 3 million of the nation’s 11 million citizens to leave their homes, creating pockets of severe malnutrition. Last year inflation reached over 800 percent.

Trump Declares The “Media The Enemy Of The People” As 7 Committees Investigate Russia Scandal

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Saturday, February 18, 2017

As seven congressional committees line up to investigate Donald Trump for the Russia scandal, the President Of The United States as declared the media to be the enemy of the American people.
Trump tweeted his enemy of the people tweet twice.
Here was his first attempt, since deleted:

You’ll notice that the first time Trump made his list he called the media sick and limited his attack to CNN, The New York Times, and NBC.
The President instantly remembered that he has way more enemies in the media than those three, so he replaced his tweet with this:
He added ABC and CBS to the list and took out the sick. Maybe he thought using the word sick in a tweet was unpresidential?
At least seven different congressional committees are currently investigating Trump’s connections to Russia with varying speed. The House and Senate Intelligence committees, Judiciary committees, and the House Oversight Committees are among those who are examining the Russia scandal.
The White House has decided that Trump can’t function without an enemy to campaign against, and they have decided that the enemy will be the media. Trump’s contention is that anything negative about him is “fake news.” The idea of a man who has massive credibility issues with the American people thinking that he can delegitimize the media and therefore, undermine the facts, reeks of desperation.
The real enemy of the people isn’t the free press, who are trying to report facts and truth. The real enemy of the American people is a president who is doing everything he can to keep people in the dark about his activities as president.
Trump is getting desperate, and if the Russian scandal ends up destroying his presidency, he will blame the media for his failure.

President* Trump Can't Escape This Time

Olufemi David Unknown - Saturday, February 18, 2017

Charles P. Pierce
EsquireFebruary 16, 2017
Photo credit: Joe Raedle / Getty
Photo credit: Joe Raedle / Getty

The lines of conflict are now clear and precisely defined. The combatants are both experienced and well-heeled enough to engage in prolonged hostilities, with no quarter given and none taken. The Washington Post and The New York Times are clearly in an old-fashioned newspaper war with each other over the story of Russian influence in American politics, and specifically Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election and in the now-listing hulk of an administration that the election produced. And we are all the better for the battle that's raging.

On Tuesday night, it was the Times' turn to fire a broadside.

But the intercepts alarmed American intelligence and law enforcement agencies, in part because of the amount of contact that was occurring while Mr. Trump was speaking glowingly about the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. At one point last summer, Mr. Trump said at a campaign event that he hoped Russian intelligence services had stolen Hillary Clinton's emails and would make them public. The officials said the intercepted communications were not limited to Trump campaign officials, and included other associates of Mr. Trump. On the Russian side, the contacts also included members of the Russian government outside of the intelligence services, the officials said. All of the current and former officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the continuing investigation is classified.

And here's a giant surprise. Try not to hit the floor too hard.

The officials said that one of the advisers picked up on the calls was Paul Manafort, who was Mr. Trump's campaign chairman for several months last year and had worked as a political consultant in Russia and Ukraine.

(Before we go any further, let's pause for a moment and consider, one more time, the curious role of James Comey in the past election. The FBI knew all of this and kept everything in-house. They found some e-mails on Anthony Weiner's laptop a week before the election and Comey told the world. History is not going to look kindly on this gentleman, and his testimony before whatever commission or committee gets handed this grenade is going to be highly entertaining.)

I despise the guess-the-sources roundelay because it turns everything into a parlor game, but it's clear now that the president* and his people made "disruption" into a kind of faith without having the foggiest notion of what the consequence is. The things this administration wants to do-privatize everything, strengthen the existing oligarchy, shove more of the wealth upward-are being done quite smoothly on every front with the exception of healthcare, where there is a tremendous dearth of clues among everyone dealing with the issue. The "disruption" has been reserved for the institutions that have inconvenienced the president*. This apparently was the case with the intelligence community, and now that community is having its vengeance in a very serious way. It's extraordinarily plain that the White House is now in the middle of an outright brawl without the faintest notion of how to fight it, except dirty, and that's not working, either.

I no longer have any doubt at all that there were borscht-stained thumbs on the scales throughout 2016. (I never had much doubt, but what little I had has completely vaporized.) I have very little doubt any more that the Trump campaign served two primary functions: one, to monetize Being A Candidate and then Being The President on behalf of the Family Trump; and two, to act as a vessel for Russian interests in the west. The Republican Party and, god knows, the good of the Republic, were secondary and tertiary concerns at best. The Republican Party has demonstrated that it doesn't give a damn what this president* does to the country as long as it gets its tax cuts on; in December, Slate had an interesting report on how Mitch McConnell monkey-wrenched a study of Russian influence of the election. The question is how much the people in the country can take.
Photo credit: Win McNamee / Getty
Photo credit: Win McNamee / Getty

And that's the rub. One of the things the Trump people have done very well is immunize their supporters against any bad news. This, of course, merely built on the work done over 30 years by the conservative movement and the burgeoning conservative media complex. (Do you have any idea how many people out there still really believe the 2008 economic crash was caused by how the Community Reinvestment Act "forced" big banks to give loans to Those People?) Shadowy figures from Spookland whispering to reporters is unlikely to put a serious dent in the reasons they decided to vote for the snake-oil peddler with the gilded commode who told them that he was the last real hope they have.

This story fairly screams for an extended televised series of hearings on the Sam Ervin model. Investigative journalism can penetrate only so deeply. Televised punditry based on that reporting can penetrate only so deeply, and the audiences for those shows are so polarized at this point that they have fairly well abandoned the idea of changing any minds or moving any numbers. But turn this into a mini-series and, in concert with all of that other activity, that's when the country has the best chance to move on its rulers.

It can't go on like this.

We can't have a White House this compromised and this oblivious to the water rising over its head. We can't have an intelligence community permanently at war with the civilian government. We can't have a Congress so set on its economic and social agenda that it abandons its oversight function. (Do you know what your House of Representatives was doing today? Among other things, it dealt with the issue of hunting bears in Alaska from the air. Sarah Palin was ahead of her time in so many ways.) And we can't have an American public so numb and disengaged that this carnival of the bizarre and grotesque-and worse-sounds like the way self-government is supposed to work.

The question is how much the people in the country can take.

One of the more underrated American political novels-and perhaps the most underrated American political satire-is Richard Condon's Winter Kills, a thinly fictionalized version of the circumstances surrounding the JFK assassination. It was made into a very strange but compelling film by William Richert in 1979 and it starred the great John Huston as the evil Joe Kennedy, Sr. figure who, at the end, is confronted by his stepson, who has proven that the old man was responsible for the murder of the president, his own son.

"I'm all that's standing between you and darkest night, son," Huston says. "The other side of me, there's Chaos."

What we have now is a guy who created the specter of Chaos in the campaign, and who is now halfway to making it a reality in the country, and who still is pitching himself as the only person who can keep us safe from the Chaos that exists in his mind, and from the actual Chaos of his own making. This ought not to be tenable in the leader of a democratic republic. This is not the way it's supposed to work at all.

Full List Of Grammy 2017 Winners.

Olufemi David Unknown - Monday, February 13, 2017

Album of the year
25 - Adele - WINNER
Lemonade - Beyoncé
Purpose - Justin Bieber
Views - Drake
Sailor’s Guide to Earth - Sturgill Simpson
Record of the year
Hello - Adele – WINNER
Formation - Beyoncé
7 Years - Lukas Graham
Work - Rihanna
Stressed Out - Twenty One Pilots
Song of the year
Formation - Beyoncé
Hello - Adele - WINNER
I Took A Pill In Ibiza - Mike Posner
Love Yourself - Justin Bieber
7 Years - Lukas Graham
Best rap album
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book - WINNER
De La Soul - And The Anonymous Nobody
DJ Khaled - Major Key
Drake - Views
Schoolboy Q - Blank Face LP
Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
Best urban contemporary album
Beyonce - Lemonade - WINNER
Gallant - Ology
King - We Are King
Anderson Paak - Malibu
Rihanna - Anti
Best country solo performance
Love Can Go To Hell - Brandy Clark
Vice - Miranda Lambert
My Church - Maren Morris – WINNER
Church Bells - Carrie Underwood
Blue Ain’t Your Color - Keith Urban
Best rock song
Blackstar - David Bowie - WINNER
Burn the Witch - Radiohead
Hardwired - Metallica
Heathens - Twenty One Pilots
My Name Is Human - Highly Suspect
Best pop duo/group performance
Closer - The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey
7 Years - Lukas Graham
Work - Rihanna
Cheap Thrills - Sia featuring Sean Paul
Stressed Out - Twenty One Pilots - WINNER
Best new artist
Kelsea Ballerini
The Chainsmokers
Chance the Rapper - WINNER
Maren Morris
Anderson Paak
Best pop vocal album
Adele - 25 - WINNER
Justin Bieber - Purpose
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
Demi Lovato - Confident
Sia - This Is Acting
Best pop solo performance
Hello - Adele - WINNER
Hold Up - Beyoncé
Love Yourself - Justin Bieber
Piece By Piece (Idol Version) - Kelly Clarkson
Dangerous Woman - Ariana Grande
Best R&B performance
BJ The Chicago Kid - Turnin’ Me Up
Ro James - Permission
Musiq Soulchild - I Do
Rihanna - Needed Me
Solange - Cranes In the Sky - WINNER
Best R&B song
PartyNextDoor Featuring Drake - Come See Me
Bryson Tiller - Exchange
Rihanna - Kiss It Better
Maxwell - Lake By the Ocean - WINNER
Tory Lanez - Luv
Best rap performance
Chance The Rapper featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz - No Problem - WINNER
Desiigner - Panda
Drake featuring the Throne - Pop Style
Fat Joe & Remy Ma featuring French Montana & Infared - All the Way Up
Schoolboy Q featuring Kanye West - That Part
Best rap/song performance
Drake - Hotline Bling - WINNER
Beyoncé featuring Kendrick Lamar - Freedom
DRAM featuring Lil Yachty - Broccoli
Kanye West featuring Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream - Ultralight Beam
Kanye West featuring Rihanna - Famous
Best R&B album
BJ The Chicago Kid - In My Mind
Lalah Hathaway - Lalah Hathaway Live - WINNER
Terrace Martin - Velvet Portraits
Mint Condition - Healing Season
Mya - Smoove Jones
Best rap song
Fat Joe & Remy Ma featuring French Montana & Infared - All The Way Up
Kanye West featuring Rihanna - Famous
Drake - Hotline Bling - WINNER
Chance the Rapper featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz - No Problem
Kanye West featuring Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream - Ultralight Beam
Best metal performance
Baroness - Shock Me
Silvera - Gojira
Korn - Rotting In Vain
Megadeth - Dystopia - WINNER
Periphery - The Price is Wrong
Best rock performance
Alabama Shakes - Joe (Live from Austin City Limits)
Beyoncé featuring Jack White - Don’t Hurt Yourself
David Bowie - Blackstar - WINNER
Disturbed - The Sound of Silence (Live on Conan)
Twenty One Pilots - Heathens
Best dance recording
Bob Moses - Tearing Me Up
The Chainsmokers - Don’t Let Me Down - WINNER
Flume - Never Be Like You
Riton - Rinse and Repeat
Sofi Tukker - Drinkee
Best dance/electronic album
Skin - Flume - WINNER
Electronica 1: The Time Machine - Jean-Michel Jarre
Epoch - Tycho
Barbara, Barbara, We Face A Shining Future - Underworld
Best music video
Beyonce - Formation - WINNER
Leon Bridges - River
Coldplay - Up and Up
Jamie xx - Gosh
OK Go - Upside Down and Inside Out
Best country song
Keith Urban - Blue Ain’t Your Color
Thomas Rhett - Die A Happy Man
Humble and Kind - Tim McGraw - WINNER
My Church - Maren Morris
Miranda Lambert - Vice
Best country duo/group performance
Dierks Bentley Featuring Elle King - Different For Girls
Brothers Osborne - 21 Summer
Kenny Chesney and Pink - Setting the World On Fire
Pentatonix Featuring Dolly Parton - Jolene - WINNER
Chris Young With Cassadee Pope - Think of You

For the complete list of the 2017 Grammy nominees in all 83 categories, visit the
official website.

In 2 days, over 3,000 people from the 7 countries in Trump's travel ban have entered the US..& he's wailing..lol

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Monday, February 13, 2017

According to figures provided by the Department of Homeland Security, approximately 3,000 people from the seven countries listed in President Donald Trump's travel ban were allowed to enter the US between February 4 and February 6, 2017.

Trump signed an executive order last month barring foreign nationals from Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days, and all refugees from Syria indefinitely.

But a federal appeal court ruled that Trump's travel ban will remain blocked after an earlier court raised concerns about the constitutionality of the ban among other things. The unanimous ruling from the three-judge panel means citizens of the seven majority-Muslim countries were able to travel to the US, despite Trump's executive order.

During the same period in 2016, 1,817 from the seven impacted countries were admitted to the US.

Mexico wall will cost more than the government originally thought but

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Sunday, February 12, 2017

Building a border wall between the United States and Mexico was one of Donald Trump's focus during the campaign and now he has an update on it.

OMG !! 650 , 000 Sign Petition To Impeach Donald Trump As US President (Read)

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Thursday, February 09, 2017

Following the dissatisfaction over the emergence of Donald Trump, as the President of the United States, more than 650,000 Americans have reportedly signed a petition for his impeachment.
The online petition was signed to unseat the president, whose relationship with the general public has never been good, a US-based newspaper, Times is reporting.
According to the report, the online petition, spearheaded by two non-profit advocacy groups, Free Speech for People and Roots Action, was created the day Trump was inaugurated as President.
The report quoted the campaign as saying 655,363 signatures have been collected from Americans in a move to impeach the President.
Trump has issued a number of controversial executive orders, including immigration ban against people from seven Muslim-majority countries. This has been put on hold by a federal judge.
The report said the President’s approval rating is at a historic low level.
It noted that the US Congress would have to find him guilty of treason, bribery, or “other high crimes and misdemeanors” before his impeachment can be possible.
Times said the organizers are asking supporters to sign the petition in order to convince Congress to impeach the unpopular president.

Senate confirms Jeff Sessions for attorney general

Olufemi David Unknown - Thursday, February 09, 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general in the Trump administration despite fierce Democratic opposition to the Alabama Republican over his record on civil rights and immigration.

The 52-47 nearly party-line vote capped weeks of divisive battles over Sessions, an early supporter of President Donald Trump and one of the Senate's most conservative lawmakers.

Democrats laced into Sessions, casting him as too cozy with Trump and too harsh on immigrants. They asserted he wouldn't do enough to protect voting rights of minorities, protections for gays and the legal right of women to obtain an abortion. They fear immigrants in the country illegally won't receive due process with Session as the top law enforcement officer.

"Any attorney general must be able to stand firm for the rule of law even against the powerful executive that nominated him or her. In this administration I believe that independence is even more necessary," said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. "His (Sessions') record raises doubts about whether he can be a champion for those who need this office most and it also raises doubts about whether he can curb unlawful overreach" by Trump.

Republicans say Sessions has demonstrated over a long career in public service — and two decades in the Senate — that he possesses integrity, honesty and is committed to justice.

"He's honest. He's fair. He's been a friend to many of us, on both sides of the aisle," Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said. "It's been tough to watch all this good man has been put through in recent weeks. This is a well-qualified colleague with a deep reverence for the law. He believes strongly in the equal application of it to everyone."

Sessions won unanimous backing from Senate Republicans but picked up the support of just one Democrat, Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is expected to name a replacement for sessions as early as Thursday. Bentley has named six finalists for the Senate appointment, including state Attorney General Luther Strange and GOP Rep. Robert Aderholt.

Strange is considered a leading candidate for the job since Bentley interviewed potential replacements for state attorney general, according to people close to the process. However, Bentley's office has said he has not made a decision.

Wednesday's vote came amid rising tension between Republicans controlling the chamber over delaying tactics by minority Democratic that have left fewer of Trump's picks in place than President Barack Obama had eight years ago. Democrats no longer have filibuster power over Cabinet picks, however, after changing Senate rules when they controlled the chamber in 2013.

Next up for the Senate is Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., Trump's pick for health secretary. A final vote on Price could come late Thursday and success seemed certain.

Democrats have solidly opposed Price, a staunch advocate of repealing Obama's health care overhaul and reshaping and scaling back the Medicare and Medicaid programs that provide health care to older and low-income people.

But they've mostly accused Price, a wealthy former orthopedic surgeon, of conflicts of interest by acquiring stocks in health care companies and pushing legislation that could help those firms.

They've especially targeted his acquisition of shares in Innate Immunotherapeutics, an Australian biotech firm that's said Price got a special insider's deal. Price, who has said he learned of the opportunity from a fellow lawmaker, Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., had testified to Congress that the shares were available to all investors.

"If I were a prosecutor, I'd say this case has real potential," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday.

This week has featured overnight, round-the-clock Senate sessions as GOP leaders are grinding through a thicket of controversial picks.

Epitomizing the sharp-edged partisanship surrounding confirmation of Trump's Cabinet nominees, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was given a rare rebuke Tuesday evening for quoting Coretta Scott King, widow of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., in her 1986 criticism of Sessions.

King wrote that as an acting federal prosecutor in Alabama, Sessions used his power to "chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens."

McConnell held that the Massachusetts Democrat had run afoul of rules about impugning a fellow senator.

Sessions' nomination to a federal judgeship was rejected three decades ago by the Senate Judiciary Committee after it was alleged that as a federal prosecutor he had called a black attorney "boy" and had said organizations like the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union were un-American.

At his hearing last month, Sessions said he had never harbored racial animus, saying he had been falsely caricatured.

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Associated Press writer Kimberly Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama, contributed to this report

Trump's Travel Ban: US Federal Judge Blocks Donald Trump's Travel Ban

Olufemi David Unknown - Saturday, February 04, 2017

A federal judge has put a nationwide block on
US President Donald Trump's week-old
executive order temporarily barring refugees
and nationals from seven Muslim-majority
countries from entering the United States.
The temporary restraining order issued by US
District Judge James Robart in Seattle on Friday
will remain valid nationwide pending a full
review of a complaint by Washington attorney
general Bob Ferguson.
"The constitution prevailed today," Ferguson
said, describing the judge's decision as historic.
"No one is above the law - not even the
president
"Not everybody may like this decision - I'm
certain the president will not like this decision -
but it is his job, it is his responsibility, it is his
obligation as president to honour it and I'll
make sure he does."
Friday's ruling was not the first to challenge the
travel ban, but it was the most sweeping as it
effectively vacated the main tenets of the order.
Ferguson said the order technically means that
anyone with a valid visa must be allowed entry
into the country by Customs and Border
Protection (CBP).
The White House said it would file an appeal as
soon as possible

French soldiers shoot machete-wielding man who yelled 'Allahu Akbar' as he tried to enter Louvre Museum, Paris

Olufemi David OLUFEMI DAVID - Saturday, February 04, 2017

French soldiers opened fired on a man carrying a machete and two bags as he tried to enter the Louvre Museum, Paris after yelling "Allahu Akbar". According to the police, they believe he had plans to carry out a terrorist attack.

He is said to have launched himself at the soldiers when they told him that he could not bring his bags into the Carrousel du Louvre shopping mall underneath the world-famous museum where the Mona Lisa hangs causing the building to go into emergency lock down.

He brought out a knife and tried to stab a soldier which made the soldiers respond to the to the attack by firing five shots. Speaking on the attack, the Head, French capital police force, Mr Cadot said a solider was hurt while the attack is wounded in the stomach. "It was an attack by a person ... who represented a direct threat and whose actions suggested a terrorist context.The attacker is wounded in the stomach. He is conscious and he was moving. Checks of the man's two backpacks found they did not contain explosives"

He also said a second person who was acting suspiciously was also arrested but appeared not to have been linked to the attack. The spokesman, French ministry of Interior, Mr. Pierre-Henry Brandet said the identity and nationality of the attacker is still unknown. The police evacuated and blocked entrance into the museum. The visitors who were already inside building were stopped from leaving.

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