9, December 2017
President Trump says US political system is rigged and sick from inside 0
US President Donald Trump has said the American political system is rigged and sick from inside.
Trump made the comments during a rally in Pensacola, Florida on Friday night where his supporters also chanted “lock her up” after he mentioned his former Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton’s name.
During the 2016 election campaign, Trump’s supporters used to chant “lock her up” at his rallies throughout the presidential election.
“It’s being proven we have a rigged system. Doesn’t happen so easy,” Trump said. “But this system – gonna be a lot of changes. This is a rigged system.”
“This is a sick system from the inside. And there’s no country like our country, but we have a lot of sickness in some of our institutions,” he added.
“We’re working very hard, we’ve got a lot of them straightened out, but we do have, we really do, we have a rigged system in this country and we have to change it,” he continued.
Before the crowd began its chants of “lock her up,” Trump mocked the Democratic movement known as “the resistance.”
“They are resisting progress,” Trump said. “They’re resisting change. Because the only thing they really care about is protecting what they have been able to do, which is really control the country and not to your benefit.”
According to WikiLeaks, Trump won the November 8, 2016 US presidential election because Democrats rigged the system to have Clinton beat Bernie Sanders.
Independent Senator Sanders, who sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, could have won the election but the Democratic National Committee (DNC) stopped him from doing so by pushing him out from the primary race, the whistleblowing agency suggested in a statement issued a day after the election.
WikiLeaks claimed that the Democratic Party establishment conspired to ensure Clinton win the party’s presidential nomination. In doing so it chose a weaker candidate who lost the election against Trump, the agency suggested.
Last month, Trump invited Clinton to try again in 2020. “Crooked Hillary Clinton is the worst (and biggest) loser of all time. She just can’t stop, which is so good for the Republican Party. Hillary, get on with your life and give it another try in three years!” he tweeted.
Clinton had been leading Trump throughout the campaign in most of the polls except for the last week of the election when she lost ground to Trump, who stunned the world by defeating her.
In her recent interviews, Clinton has admitted that she is not entirely done with the election and still wonders why she lost to Trump.
Clinton has, on numerous occasions, blamed Russia for losing the election to Trump, claiming that Moscow had colluded with her rival. The allegations, however, have been repeatedly denied by both Trump and Russia.
Source: Presstv
11, December 2017
Yaounde: MP injured by flying debris in parliament amid anglophone crisis 0
A politician was hurt by an object thrown by another MP during chaotic scenes in Cameroon’s parliament in which vuvuzela horns were blown to drown out a budget debate, sources said on Saturday.
It comes against a backdrop of unrest in the country’s English-speaking regions which led to independence protests that turned fatal in October and the detention this week of US literary professor Patrice Nganang for criticising the government’s handling of the issue.
Government spokesman Issa Tchiroma said Nganang’s arrest on Wednesday in Douala followed the posting on Facebook of a death threat against the head of state.
He repeated the pledge of President Paul Biya, who has been in charge of the francophone nation since 1982, to rid the country of what he calls secessionists among the English-speaking minority, which has complained about discrimination.
Resentment among anglophones has fed a spiral of political demands and also a government crackdown, leading to calls for secession.
In Saturday’s incident, Hermine Patricia Ndam Njoya of the opposition Democratic Union of Cameroon “hurled into the air” parts of her desk to protest against the assembly speaker’s refusal to allow her party’s legislators to speak, the party’s communications officer Amadou Mongwat claimed.
Mongwat said the object landed on the head of a member of the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, causing a head injury. It is not clear from video of the alleged incident where the object lands or what is thrown. Other reports have suggested a shoe was hurled.
The speaker ended the session with the announcement that the budget had been adopted without further discussion.
Last month four Cameroonian soldiers were killed by suspected separatists in the south-west of the country, while international monitors say at least 20 people have been killed since late September. The president of the senate has since promised to have a commission investigate the anglophone issue.
The detained writer Nganang, who has a home in New Jersey and has been teaching in the US since 2000, was said to be in good spirits and has met a lawyer, a colleague at New York’s Stony Brook University said.
Karin Deutsch Karlekar at advocacy group PEN America said: “Detaining an important independent voice like Patrice Nganang, who has used his writing to investigate the consequences of violence, is indicative of a movement by the government to silence all political criticism and dismantle the right to free expression.”
Farhan Haq, a spokesman for the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said at a briefing on Thursday he hoped Nganang was safe but did not say whether the UN was aware of the detention or whether it would intervene. “We certainly hope and expect that this particular person will be found, and we’re hopeful that nothing untoward has happened,” he said.
Nganang has published 12 books, scholarly essays, novels and books of poetry.
Culled from The Guardian