Politics

“For every seven Shiites killed, we want seven Sunnis [killed] in their place.”

That rather alarming declaration comes from outspoken Iraqi lawmaker Hanan Al-Fatlawi. Not known for holding her tongue, the Shia MP inflamed sectarian tensions with her eye for an eye tirade in the summer of 2014, prompting Diana Moukalled, the Web Editor at the Lebanon-based Future Television to pen the following sharp rebuke: 

Flashing red headlines, business media anchors exuberant as gun-maker stocks were suddenly sold after CT Governor Malloy unveiled his executive order and following White House chatter that gun control regulations were being drawn up:

In the many strategies proposed to defeat the Islamic State (IS) by presidential candidates, policymakers, and media pundits alike across the American political spectrum, one common element stands out: someone else should really do it.

Submitted by Bill Bonner of Bonner & Partners (annotated by Acting-Man.com's Pater Tenebrarum),

Ganging up on the Donald

Poor Donald Trump. Everybody’s against him.

Jeb Bush says he’s “unhinged”...

...Chris Christie says he has “no idea what [he’s] talking about”...

...John Kasich accuses him of “outrageous divisiveness”…

The Donald – in reality, they love him…

...and Marco Rubio describes him as “offensive and outlandish.”

Whatever one's opinion of the Muslim attacks and the perpetrators behind them, one thing is without dispute - the French response, which has been to quickly impose unlimited emergency laws, is nothing short of the second coming of "Operation Gladio."

In addition to warrantless searches and raids, France's state of emergency laws allow the government to put people under house arrest, seal the country's borders and ban demonstrations. The laws were created during the Algerian war in 1955.