President Elect Donald Trump Will Get Us Killed - Says Michael Moore

Michael Moore published a scathing essay to his Facebook page on Tuesday night, slamming President-elect Donald Trump for not regularly attending national security briefings.

Titled "Donald Trump Is Gonna Get Us Killed," the piece builds upon what Moore told Seth Meyers in an interview earlier this month.

"A week has gone by since Donald Trump admitted he's only been to 'two or three' of his daily presidential national security briefings. There have been 36 of them since the day he secured enough electoral college votes to be appointed president next Monday when the Electoral College meets," Moore began. "Most would agree the No. 1 job of the leader of any country is to keep its people safe. There is no more important meeting every day for the President than the one where he learns what the day's potential threats are to the country. That Trump would find it too cumbersome or too annoying to have to sit through 20 minutes of listening to his top intelligence people tell him who's trying to kill us today, simply boggles the mind."

Citing what Moore called Trump's "childish tweets" about Saturday Night Live, the Oscar-winning filmmaker expressed doubt Trump "doesn't have time" to hear about threats to the nation.

"So, my fellow Americans, when the next terrorist attack happens -- and it will happen, we all know that -- and after the tragedy is over, amidst the death and destruction that might have been prevented, you will see Donald Trump acting quickly to blame everyone but himself.

CIC Canada's Immigration Website Crashes as Trump's Led Wins

Canada’s main immigration website appeared to suffer repeated outages on Tuesday night as Trump took the lead in several major states and his prospects for winning the US presidency turned markedly higher. Data from Google suggests searches for ‘move to Canada’ spiked significantly during the night as Trump victories unfolded in key battleground states

Some users in the United States, Canada and Asia saw an internal server error message when trying to access the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website.

When the Guardian clicked on the page it would not load and a “this page isn’t working” error message came up.

US Elections 2016: Ted Cruz drops out of the race as Donald Trump wins Indiana

US Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz dropped out of the presidential race after Donald Trump won Indiana state thereby making Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee.

But John Kasich, the other remaining Republican presidential candidate, who has only won 1 state since the Primary election started and only had 7.5% votes in Indiana is still in the race, he has refused to drop out.

Ted Cruz fought really hard, refusing to give up on his campaign but Tuesday night, he announced he was dropping out of the race after he lost Indiana to Donald Trump. It was an emotional announcement that left his parents teary eyed (That's his mum sitting in the above photo). He was also emotional as he made his speech. He said he was dropping out because there was no way he could win the GOP Presidential nominee after losing Indiana.

Donald Trump won with 53.3%, Ted Cruz 36.7% and John Kasich had 7.5%.

While Bernie Sanders won Indiana with 52.7% votes and Hilary Clinton-47.3% 

I Am Running For President

source: national journal

Governance in the 21st century has become a playground for who has the ball rolling. There was a time in the world where we were all ruled by a sect. The selected few had to come from a given family name and history. It has nothing to do about the “best hand of rule” but the willful sovereignty of the sect. As the human race evolved through civilization and modernization, the Greek first demonstrated representative democracy in the 6th century as a political system of government. 

Centuries past by, new world leaders have emerged from Egypt to Italy to England to Germany and now United States of America. Apparently as the lion of the western world, America has been characterized as the main proponent of democracy in the rule of nations. Concurrently we have a political system that is always ready to provoke change and challenge the norm. What could not have been possible in ages past is fast becoming living realities.

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Hillary Clinton declares interest to run for US Presidency in 2016

Wife of former US President Bill Clinton, and former US Secretary of State. Hillary Clinton, 67, has declared her interest to run for president of the United State sin 2016. She announced her interest to run today April 12th.

"I’m running for president. Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion. So I’m hitting the road to earn your vote - because it’s your time. And I hope you’ll join me on this journey.” she said

Quebec Shooting: Richard Henry Bain given last chance to find lawyer

Police and fireman work at the rear of an auditorium where a gunman shot and killed at least one person during the PQ victory rally on September 5, 2012, in Montreal. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press

Sidhartha Banerjee The Canadian Press
The man charged with first-degree murder in Quebec’s 2012 election shooting has been given one last chance to find himself a lawyer ahead of his trial.

Quebec Superior Court Justice Guy Cournoyer authorized a 30-day delay in the case Monday to allow Richard Henry Bain to undergo a court-ordered evaluation that should take place next week.

The judge ordered Bain, 64, to find an attorney before the case resumes Feb. 20.

Bain is also charged with two counts of attempted murder stemming from an attack outside a downtown Montreal club where then-PQ leader Pauline Marois was toasting her party’s election victory on Sept. 4, 2012.

Wow! Convicted Sexual Predator Gets Re-Elected From Jail!

It’s not every day that a politician with a county jail-issued ankle monitor accused of having sex with his 17-year-old secretary campaigns for re-election, and wins. But that’s exactly what happened Tuesday in the Richmond, Va., suburb of Henrico County, where Joseph Morrissey snagged 42 percent of the vote to win re-election to the state’s House of Delegates, all while serving out a six-month jail sentence, the Richmond-Times Dispatch reported. And he did it while running as an independent.

"Canadian prince of pot" wife won’t run for Liberals election in Vancouver

The Canadian Press
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s much talked about support for legalizing marijuana has not helped the wife of a high-profile pot crusader get a shot at running for the party in the next election.

Jodie Emery’s attempt to seek the nomination in the riding of Vancouver East has gone up in smoke.

Liberal spokesman Olivier Duchesneau has confirmed that the party’s so-called green light candidate review committee rejected her bid.

Jodie’s husband Marc Emery was extradited to the U.S. in 2010, where he pleaded guilty to selling marijuana seeds to American customers and was sentenced to five years in prison.

Prince Ali of Jordan FIFA VP to challenge Blatter for leadership of scandal hit football body

 Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA, left, is greeted by FIFA Vice President, Jordan's Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein

Graham Dunbar, The Associated Press 

Sepp Blatter is facing a challenge from a 39-year-old Jordanian prince in his bid for a fifth term as president of soccer's scandal-tainted governing body.

Declaring that "it is time for a change," FIFA vice-president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein announced Tuesday he will be a candidate for the FIFA presidency on May 29 in Zurich, where Blatter will seek re-election at the age of 79.

"This was not an easy decision," the prince said in a single-page statement in which he pledged to run a positive campaign and did not specifically mention Blatter. "It came after careful consideration and many discussions with respected FIFA colleagues over the last few months."

"The message I heard, over and over, was that it is time for a change," said Prince Ali, who has been encouraged to run by European football governing body UEFA and its president, Michel Platini.

George Weah former world soccer star wins seat in Liberia Senate

/Reuters - George Weah, a former soccer star and the running mate of presidential candidate Winston Tubman of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC

REUTERS
Former world soccer player of the year George Weah has won a seat in Liberia's Senate to represent the capital, defeating the son of the president and boosting his political fortunes ahead of a presidential election in 2017.

Weah won the Montserrado County seat that includes the capital Monrovia with 78 percent of the vote, defeating Robert Sirleaf, the son of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia's National Elections Commission said late on Saturday.

Weah, leader of the country's largest opposition party, the Congress for Democratic Change, lost the 2005 presidential election to Sirleaf and lost again in 2011 when he was a vice presidential candidate. He is expected to stand again in 2017.

New Democrats MP quits federal politics to run for Ontario Liberals

Former Liberal hopeful Andrew Olivier, left, said Monday that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne told him she wants a different Liberal flag-bearer in the byelection to fill Joe Cimino’s vacant seat in Sudbbury. Torstar News Service

The Canadian Press
New Democrats reacted with anger Tuesday after one of their MPs announced he was leaving the party to run for the Ontario Liberals in a yet-to-be called provincial byelection.

“I am proud to announce that I will be running as the Ontario Liberal party candidate in the upcoming byelection in my community of Sudbury,” Glenn Thibeault said in a statement.

Thibeault’s decision, which comes less than a year before the next federal election, is seen as a blow to NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and his provincial counterpart, Andrea Horwath, whose newest member of the provincial legislature quit after five months on the job, prompting the need for a byelection.

It also came one day after the Liberal candidate in the June 12 Ontario election, Andrew Olivier, said he was offered a government appointment or job to stop pursuing the nomination for the Sudbury byelection.

Thousands protest election results in Poland

Thousands of supporters of the main opposition party, the conservative Law and Justice, gather at the Three Crosses square in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014. Alik Keplicz/AP 

Vanessa GeraThe Associated Press
Thousands of supporters of a conservative opposition party in Poland marched on Saturday to protest the results of recent local elections, which party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski says were falsified.

The November elections were marred by problems, with a computer glitch delaying results and many ballots declared invalid because voters apparently were confused and marked them incorrectly.

However, there is no indication they were falsified. Kaczynski’s critics accuse him of making false claims about the election outcome to motivate his base ahead of national elections next year.

His supporters marched in Warsaw under the slogan “in the support of democracy,” chanting “repeat the elections.”

Rob Ford promises comeback if health rebounds

Toronto's outgoing Mayor Rob Ford (centre) stands next to his brother Doug Ford (right) outside his office as he scrums with the media before signing bobble heads in Toronto on Friday November 21, 2014. Rob Ford says he's due for a fifth round of chemotherapy next week but that if he beats cancer he'll take another run for mayor of Toronto. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

The Canadian Press
Rob Ford says he’s due for a fifth round of chemotherapy next week but that if he beats cancer he’ll take another run for mayor of Toronto.

Ford, now a city councillor, told local TV station CP24 that his health is up and down but that he’s “not going to stop fighting.”

The ailing Ford says he is returning to hospital Monday for five straight days of treatment with results due in 2015, adding that chemo leaves him laid out in bed for a week after.

Asked about a comeback mayoral campaign in the 2018 election, Ford says “if my health holds up my name will be on the ballot.”

The controversial ex-mayor ditched his re-election campaign after doctors in September found a cancerous mass in Ford’s abdomen, but he ran for council and took back his old seat.

Ontario | Mother, daughter could go head-to-head in 2015 election

Catherine Sloan has a shot at the Conservative nomination in St. Thomas, Ont. on Dec. 6, 2014. (Twitter)

Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press
For voters in the area around St. Thomas, Ont., who might be weary of mean, nasty, personal campaigns that are short on substance, next year's federal election might just hold a pleasant surprise.

Municipal politician Lori Baldwin-Sands has been acclaimed as the Liberal candidate in Elgin-Middlesex-London. Her daughter, financial-sector worker Catherine Sloan, has a shot at the Conservative nomination coming up on Dec. 6.

Little chance here of the campaigns going negative. Mother and daughter say they are committed to fighting it out on the issues.

"People can learn from us, mother and daughter, that we are both strong, independent, we have our own voice, and we really focus on the issues themselves," said Baldwin-Sands.

Millions In Tunisia Vote In First Free Election

Millions of Tunisians are casting their ballots to directly elect their president for the first time since the revolution four years ago that swept away longtime leader, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Al Jazeera reports.

Sunday’s election will be a closely fought contest among stalwarts of the deposed regime, members of the once-outlawed parties, as well as a new breed of politicians that has emerged since the 2011 revolution.

Early voter turnout after the opening of the polling stations at 8am local time (07:00 GMT) was low, especially among the young.

Al Jazeera visited a polling centre at 18 Rue de L’Inde in Lafayette district in downtown Tunis, where the voting process was progressing smoothly.

President Mahinda of Sri Lanka seeks unprecedented third term

President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka signed an official proclamation on Thursday confirming that he will seek re-election for an unprecedented third term two years ahead of schedule, New York Times reports.

The proclamation came after Rajapaksa’s governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party unanimously endorsed such a move Wednesday night, said Media and Information Minister, Keheliya Rambukwella.

Mr. Rajapaksa’s government removed a two-term limit on the country’s powerful presidency in 2010 through a constitutional amendment. Last week, the Sri Lankan Supreme Court dismissed legal concerns about Rajapaksa’s eligibility to seek a third term. Rajapaksa removed the previous chief justice from office in January 2013 in a move that was widely seen as solidifying his control over the court.

How Obama and the Democrats lost the election - CNN Analyst

Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Analyst
Back in 1994, when Newt Gingrich led the GOP to take over the House, it was historic. A sea change. An earthquake.

Why? Because Democrats had held control of the House for the previous 40 years. As in four decades. Imagine that.  Hard to believe it ever worked that way. Now voters demand change elections more often than they don't. Consider this: Republicans win the Senate in 2002, then lose it in 2006. The Democrats hold the Senate until losing control of it last night -- predictions are that they might be in a good position to take it back in two years.

At some point, someone might start listening: Voters are steaming. They're anxious. They're also not expecting Democrats and Republicans to suddenly write poetry together. But here's one thing they do expect: competency. As in: figure out a way to do your job without continually kicking the proverbial cans down the road

 In a pre-election interview with CNN earlier this week, Vice President Joe Biden told me that the "President and I have to figure out how to better communicate."

Zambia’s White President Says His Blood is Black

Guy Scott, the first white person to rule Zambia since independence from Britain in 1964, said though his skin was white, his blood was black.

He told journalists on Friday in Lusaka that “I may be white from the outside, but my blood is black.’’

He said he would not give interviews for the time being because the media kept referring to him as a White president.

Scott, the 70-year-old economist and former agriculture minister who served as President Michael Sata’s Deputy, became the head of state on Wednesday after Sata died in London on Tuesday.

However, he cannot seek the presidency in the elections due in 90 days’ time because of his Scottish parentage.

The constitution stipulates that the president of Zambia must be a Zambian with both parents born in the country.

Manitoba | Greg Selinger To Stay On As Premier Despite Calls To Step Down

Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger says he will stay put as leader, despite calls from several high-ranking NDP cabinet ministers that he consider resigning amid the party's faltering public support.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Selinger said he is focused on serving the province and he believes the NDP is making progress on infrastructure, health-care services and jobs.

"A better Manitoba means a better Manitoba for families. It means that we focus on their priorities, and that's what I'm committed to," said Selinger, who was surrounded by about half of his caucus.

"My decision today is to continue to serve Manitobans. That's what I was elected to do."

The news conference took place after a total of five Manitoba cabinet ministers — including Justice Minister Andrew Swan and Health Minister Erin Selby — spoke out this week, calling on Selinger to consider resigning.

CBC

Election Update: Alberta Premier Jim Prentice wins seat in the Legislature

Dean Bennett, The Canadian Press
Alberta Premier Jim Prentice won a seat in the legislature Monday as his Progressive Conservatives defeated all comers in four byelection races.

Prentice, the 58-year-old former MP and Conservative cabinet minister under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, handily defeated Wildrose candidate Kathy Macdonald in Calgary-Foothills.

"We heard Albertans loud and clear," Prentice told cheering supporters.

"Albertans want a lot more action and a lot less talk. They want a lot less politics and a lot more good government."

He cited the struggles ahead including the eroding price of oil and the continued struggles to get pipelines built from the oilsands to the coasts.

"Working on balancing these dual challenges begins tomorrow morning ... in earnest," said Prentice. "We're on the right path, but we know that the work has just begun."

In the other races, Health Minister Stephen Mandel scored a convincing victory over NDP candidate Bob Turner and Tim Grover of the Opposition Wildrose party in Edmonton-Whitemud.

In Calgary-Elbow, Education Minister Gordon Dirks edged out rivals John Fletcher of the Wildrose party and Greg Clark, leader of the Alberta Party.

In Calgary-West, PC candidate Mike Ellis, a Calgary police sergeant, held on to defeat Wildrose candidate Sheila Taylor in the tightest race of the night.

Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith told volunteers she was disappointed in the outcome, but tried to put a positive spin on the results.