Donald Trump: Umeagbalasi and powers of screwdriver salesman by Jude Chijioke Ndukwe - Commentary@ITREALMS

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It is never difficult to see the hand of Esau in the report by The New York Times under the headline, “The Screwdriver Salesman Behind Trump’s Airstrikes in Nigeria” purportedly filed in by one Ruth Maclean.

The mocking description of Mr Emeka Umeagbalasi as a “short man” and the repeated mention of “Onitsha”, a leading commercial town in southeast Nigeria, a region with arguably the highest population and concentration of Christians in the country, in the report send all the signal needed to conclude that the report was not about facts, nor about love for Nigeria, but all about labelling a man and the ethnic group he belongs just to keep promoting a dangerous narrative mischievously and maliciously skewed against the Igbo ethnic stock of Nigeria.

Africa is future economic engine not a ‘shithole’

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The African Leadership Magazine (ALM) has expressed deep disappointment over the rather unfortunate comment attributed to the President of the United States of America (USA), Mr. Donald Trump, which described Africa as a "shithole" as widely reported in the media, reports ITRealms.

The Group Managing Editor, at ALM, Mr. Kingsley Okeke told ITRealms that instead of seeing Africa as such, that Mr. Trump should see Africa more as the future economic growth engine of the world.

ALM in a press statement also made available to ITRealms, noted that the aforesaid comment is very unfortunate, and displays a posturing of a person that is not in tune with prevailing realities.

According to Okeke, available data has proven time and again, that Africa is a resource-rich continent, which has consistently rewarded American companies doing business on the continent.

Experts, he said, have projected that Sub-Saharan Africa, will reach a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $29 trillion by 2050.

“The continent is also arguably blessed with some of the most outstanding human resource on the planet today, plying their trades in very key strategic roles globally,” he said.

Decrying that to describe the generality of the continent as a whole in such derogatory parlance is generalization and freedom of expression taken too far.

“Certainly, a continent that has experienced growth, with over one-third of Sub-Saharan African countries posting 6 per cent or higher growth rates annually, and another 40 per cent growing between 4 per cent to 6 per cent per year, cannot be a "shithole".

“A continent, described by international business observers as the future economic growth engine of the world, is definitely not a "shithole."

ALM, therefore urged President Trump, when next he is in search of a narrative for the continent to consider these indices, as well as the 1.8 Million African in diaspora, that are contributing to the growth of the American economy.

“And we call on all people of good conscience to condemn this denigration of our beloved continent, while thanking the American people who have risen up to condemn this attack on Africa - the cradle of civilization. We hope that President realizes his error and retracts this statement,” Okeke concluded.

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America to harness technologies of tomorrow – Donald Trump

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Full Transcript of The Inaugural Address Of The United States President Donald Trump Delivered On Friday 20th January, 2017. Excerpts:

Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you.

We, the citizens of America, are now JOINED in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people.

Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come. We will face challenges, we will confront hardships, but we will get the job done.

Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power, and we are grateful to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent. Thank you.

Today's ceremony, however, has very special meaning because today, we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the people.

For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left and the FACTORIES closed. 

The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.

That all changes starting right here and right now because this moment is your moment, it belongs to you.

It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone WATCHINGall across America. This is your day. This is your celebration. And this, the United States of America, is your country.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

January 20th, 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.

The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.

Everyone is listening to you now. You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before.

At the centre of this movement is a crucial conviction,  that a nation exists to serve its citizens. Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighbourhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public.

But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted out FACTORIES scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

We are one nation and their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams. And their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny. The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.

For many decades, we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries, while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military. We've defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own.

And spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay. We've made other countries rich, while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon.

One by one, the FACTORIES shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind. The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world.

But that is the past. And now, we are looking only to the future.

  We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first.

Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs.

Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength. I will fight for you with every breath in my body and I will never ever let you down.

America will start winning again, winning like never before.

We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.

We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back to work, rebuilding our country with American hands and American labour.

We will follow two simple rules; buy American and hire American.

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.

We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate from the face of the Earth.

At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America, and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other. When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

The bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity. We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.

There should be no fear. We are protected and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most IMPORTANTLY, we will be protected by God.

  Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining, but never doing anything about it.

The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action.

Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.

We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions.

It's time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget, that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots.

We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag.

And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the wind-swept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they will their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator.

So to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words. You will never be ignored again.

Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

Together, we will make America strong again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And yes, together we will make America great again.

Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America.

Thank you.

God bless America.

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Donald Trump goes to the Internet, opposes IANA transition

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The Republican Presidential candidate in the forthcoming United States election, Mr. Donald Trump has taken his politricks into the Internet space by vehemently opposing the already on course transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) plans, reports ITRealms.

IANA, ITRealms gathered is responsible for the global coordination of the Domain Name System (DNS) Root, Internet Protocol (IP) addressing, and other Internet protocol resources.

According to the National Policy Director of Trump+Pence Campaign Organisation, Mr. Stephen Miller, the opposition of IANA transition is seen by Mr. Trump as surrendering American Internet control to foreign powers.

He also said in a official press statement made available to ITRealms that Donald J. Trump is committed to preserving Internet freedom for the American people and citizens all over the world.

“The U.S. should not turn control of the Internet over to the United Nations and the international community,” he declared, and alleged President Barrack Obama intension to do so on his own authority.

“Just 10 days from now, on October 1st, unless Congress acts quickly to stop him,” Trump alleged.

The Republicans in Congress, he said, are admirably leading a fight to save the Internet this week, and need all the help the American people could give them to be successful.

Trump also blamed Hillary Clinton’s Democrats, saying they refused to protect the American people by not protecting the Internet.

For him, the United States created, developed and expanded the Internet across the globe, stressing that U.S. oversight was what kept the Internet free and open without government censorship.

“A fundamental American value rooted in our Constitution’s Free Speech clause,” he declared.

Trump further alleged that the Internet freedom is now at risk with the President’s intent to cede control to international interests, including countries like China and Russia, which have a long track record of trying to impose online censorship.

“Congress needs to act, or Internet freedom will be lost for good, since there will be no way to make it great again once it is lost," he said.

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Exclusively Trending: Online petitioners demand Donald Trump tax returns

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A petition launched by Steven Gill, a resident of Austin in Texas, United States of America (USA) which  is currently trending online with over 400 supporters, have demanded that the Republican presidential flagbearer, Mr. Donald Trump should release his tax returns, reports ITRealms.

Just at the weekend, his counterpart at Democratic party, Senator Hillary Clinton made public her tax returns in the last one year, in a move to force Trump to release his tax returns despite claims that Trump said he donates to charity than Clinton.

According to the petition, which as addressed to the U.S. Republic National Committee and Federal Elections Commission (FEC), respectively, Mr. Gill asked Donald Trump to release his tax returns, has attracted over 400 supporters within a few minutes of setting it up at Change.org. on Saturday, August 13, 2016.

For Mr. Gill, every U.S. Presidential candidate since Richard Nixon has voluntarily released copies of their tax returns to the public so that voters could assess the amount and sources of income, taxes paid, charitable contributions and other data which could affect their propensity to elect them.

He lamented that despite this historical path, Donald Trump has refused to do same, claiming this might affect audits of his returns currently underway.

“This claim, on its face, is absurd, since he would simply be releasing information the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) already has. No new information would be disclosed,” Mr. Gill argued.

He, therefore, insisted that the Republican presidential candidate, Trump, follows the trend of politics in the United States and make his tax returns public.

“We should insist that Mr. Trump adhere to the same custom as past Presidential candidates, and encourage the FEC to make tax return disclosure a requirement in future elections. 

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Fraud: Trump may face trial

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The United States leading Republican presidential nominee, Mr. Donald Trump may end up in San Diego jail for defrauding students of Trump University reports ITRealms.

This is coming as Donald J. Trump is being investigated by the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) over his visit Thursday, May 5, 2016, during a poll at Wisconsin primary and was suspected to have campaigned 100 feet and specifically at Waukesha Fire Station.

ITRealms reports that a federal judge, Gonzalo Curiel sitting in San Diego on Friday ordered that Donald Trump, must face trial starting November 28 in a civil case in which he is accused of defrauding students who attended Trump University.

In a pretrial conference on the six-year-old lawsuit, the lawyers for the plaintiffs led by Jason Forge, argued that “justice delayed is justice denied,” insisting a trial to start as early as this summer, that is immediately after the Republican convention in Cleveland, declaring, “There are people who are still paying off their debts for the money they paid to Trump University.”

Trump’s lead lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, pointed out that a trial over Trump University would end up becoming a media spectacle consider the November elections, stressing that Curiel put the whole matter off until next February, after the inauguration, arguing that Trump, if elected, would be working “round the clock” during the transition to form a cabinet.

Curiel, therefore, decided to split the difference: In an effort to “accommodate” Trump’s political campaign, he agreed to put the trial off until after the election but scheduled it right afterward, rather than “waiting for [a] President Trump to begin his first term,” thereby “placing him a situation where, as a sitting president, he is taking up time as leader of the free world” to sit through trial.

But Trump may still find his legal troubles impinging on his campaign; he is facing a separate trial in New York state courts in a civil fraud suit, also stemming from the ill-fated Trump University, brought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. No trial date has been set on that case yet, but it was gathered by ITRealms that it could begin as early as this fall.

ITRealms gathered that the core case revolves around the operations of a school Trump launched in 2005, which was never an accredited educational institution, and he was later forced by state attorneys general to change its name to the “Trump Entrepreneurial Initiative.” 

The plaintiffs, former students at 'Trump University,' alleged that Trump used “misleading, fraudulent and predatory practices,” conning them into maxing out their credit cards and in some cases paying more than $35,000 in fees for seminars and “mentoring” by Trump’s “handpicked” real estate experts.

*Okoli Vincent with additional reports from MediaTracker/PMNews/GEE

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World security risk: Anti-Donald Trump campaigners seek 2m signatures

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A group of concerned world citizens are gathering 2 million signatures against the controversial United States President, Mr. Donald Trump, due to his security risk to the world, reports ITRealms.

The campaign being championed by Stephen Miles on behalf of Avaaz, an online public interest advocacy organization, urge people of the world to join the crusade to say ‘No’ to what Miles called “Mexicans rapists and women "bimbos" and "fat pigs".

Miles also alleged that Trump had promised to shut down mosques, keep a database of Muslims, and round up the children of "illegal" immigrants.

“Now a new report says Donald Trump’s hateful speech could make him a threat to our global security. Enough is enough -- with one click, join the sign-on letter below that's sweeping the planet and speak out against Trump’s hate-mongering. Once we hit 2 million signers it will be printed in media outlets around the world,” he lamented.

Also in a letter to Mr. Trump, the campaigners, said his campaign style is not what greatness looks like.

“Dear Mr. Trump, 

“This is not what greatness looks like.

“The world rejects your fear, hate-mongering, and bigotry. We reject your support for torture, your calls for murdering civilians, and your general encouragement of violence. We reject your denigration of women, Muslims, Mexicans, and millions of others who don’t look like you, talk like you, or pray to the same god as you. 

“Facing your fear we choose compassion. Hearing your despair we choose hope. Seeing your ignorance we choose understanding. 

“As citizens of the world, we stand united against your brand of division. 

“Sincerely,” 

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Donald Trump may switch-off the Internet

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The Republican Presidential candidate in the United States, Mr. Donald Trump, may switch off the Internet from the rest of the world if elected in the upcoming presidential election, reports ITRealms.

He gave this indication at a political rally in Indianapolis on Monday, saying that he had received some criticisms online, especially from African-Americans.

According to the report on Politica.com, Mr. Trump said, the criticism of African-Americans mostly via their blogs no longer worry him, because the internet they are using belong to the United States of which the US could decide to switch the Internet off.

“I hear they abuse me in their blogs but I don’t care because even the internet they are using is ours and we can decide to switch it off from this side,” Mr. Trump was quoted as saying.

He also described African-Americans as people who import everything including matchsticks. 

“In my opinion, most of these African countries ought to be recolonized again for another 100 years because they know nothing about leadership and self-governance” he declared.

Trump insisted that  in making America great again as he promised by restoring the dignity lost through Obama. 

“The more reason why I still believe that he, and his Kenyan brothers and sisters should be deported back to Kenya to make America safe.”

For Trump, “African Americans are very lazy. The best they can do is gallivanting around ghettoes, lamenting how they are discriminated. These are the people America doesn’t need. They are the enemies of progress. Look at African countries like Kenya for instance, those people are stealing from their own government and go to invest the money in foreign countries,” he lamented the level of looting on the continent.

Trump further said that from the government to opposition, they only qualify to be used as a case study whenever bad examples are required.

“How do you trust even those who have ran away to hide here at the United States …,” he said.

However, reacting to the Trump’s statements, Louis Obiajulu  Okonkwo commended Donald Trump for opening up, saying it out loud what American whites have been thinking for a long time but nobody has the guts to say it until he came along.

“Look at his poll numbers rising despite his outlandish statements,” he said.

Africans, he said, needs to blame themselves for the so called  "Thief Leaders" who steal our money, dump them in western banks and abuse their own people in the process, then turn around and ask World Bank for more loans to steal and continue oppression by saying his fighting communism.

“Look at all our diaspora associations in the United States and around the world, cases of embezzlement and most of us in court for one little thing or the other,” Okonkwo decried.

He wished the so called Africa Leaders and diaspora associations will read Donald Trump's statement and start making the necessary changes in attitude and commitment to their own people “so that we can address people like Donald Trump in a more effective manner.”

*Remmy Nweke with additional report by Christine Mendoza

 

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