UK - British Muslims face a conflict of loyalty between their faith and the country, Nigel Farage will say tonight. In a major speech in response to the Paris terror attacks, the Ukip leader will warn that the authorities needed to "win the battle of hearts and minds" within Muslim communities.
USA - Mike Huckabee forcefully criticized President Obama Monday for his refusal to change his strategy against ISIS, calling the president "wimpish" and a "Cub Scout" commander-in-chief. Obama declared on Monday at the G-20 Summit that he wasn't interested in slogans about American leadership and America "winning."
FRANCE - Crowds of extreme right-wing protesters have disturbed a solidarity march in France as news breaks that at least one of the terrorists responsible for the slaughters in Paris was a Syrian refugee. A peaceful demonstration taking place in the centre of Lille, northern France, was interrupted by right-wingers appearing to belong to the Front National. The unrest came as Front National leader Marine Le Pen declared French people “are no longer safe” and called for France to take back control of its borders. The protesters, armed with flares and with banners reading: “Throw out Islamists” pushed their way through the peaceful crowd and started chanting “Out the Muslims”. Protesters hurled Islamophobic chants as police surrounded the tense scenes.
EUROPE - A Twitter account that seemingly ‘predicted’ the Paris terror attacks has made some people believe the whole thing was a conspiracy. The @PZBooks account sent out a tweet on November 11 - two days before terrorists launched their deadly rampage across the French capital - that referenced the attacks and detailed how many had been killed.
UK - Scared ISIS militants are rushing to protect a key propaganda operation from hacking group Anonymous. The panicked terror group has withdrawn one of its main websites onto the dark web, in a desperate bid to save it from a “revenge” attack after their horrific attack on Paris, according to a cyber-security expert.
USA - What if millions of medical diagnoses, procedures, and treatments were based on, at best, questionable scientific evidence, but still performed daily, the world over, in the name of saving patients lives or reducing their suffering? A new JAMA review indicates this may be exactly what is happening.
USA - Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and it's not the weapons used.
FRANCE - It seemed like the world stopped. News outlets devoted nonstop coverage to the terrorist attack in Paris. Many people changed their Facebook or Twitter profile pictures to show solidarity with France. Why this attack? Why didn’t the suicide bombs the day before in Lebanon, or the slaughter of more than 100 college students in Kenya earlier this year, draw such an outcry?
EUROPE - The Paris attacks that killed at least 128 people on Saturday night will put renewed pressure on the European Schengen agreement and threaten the “very essence” of the European way of life, as far-right parties seek to capitalise on the attacks, analysts have warned. With Paris now enduring this second major terror bloodbath in under a year, questions are now being asked about how much longer both Europe’s open border system and the vision of a tolerant, multi-cultural society can survive.
MIDDLE EAST - Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington. The video, which appeared on a website used by Islamic State to post its messages, begins with news footage of the aftermath of Friday's Paris shootings in which at least 129 people were killed.
USA - In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, Senator Ted Cruz (Republican for Texas) said President Obama is not interested in protecting the United States. “I recognize that Barack Obama does not wish to defend this country,” Cruz said on “Fox and Friends” "He may have been tired of war, but our enemies are not tired of killing us. And they’re getting stronger.”
EUROPE - The hacktivist group Anonymous, engaged in electronic warfare against Islamic State, has declared ‘total war’ on the terror group following the deadly attacks in France, while pledging to hunt down every single supporter of the jihadist group online.
ISRAEL - For hundreds of years, the long-accepted traditional location of the temple of Solomon and the later Second Temple expanded upon by Herod the Great in Jerusalem has placed them within the precinct that now contains the famous Haram al-Sharif (Dome of the Rock), otherwise known as the “Noble Sanctuary”. It has been a sacred space for three major world religions for centuries.
USA - Having exposed the world yesterday to the 2-mile long line of tankers-full'o'crude heading from Iraq to the US, several weeks after reporting that China has run out of oil storage space we can now confirm that the global crude "in transit" glut is becoming gargantuan and is starting to have adverse consequences on the price of oil.
USA - Globalization is a positive and powerful force for good, if it is embedded in the right kind of ethical and legal framework. Yet the current draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership is not worthy of a simple thumbs-up by Congress. Without jettisoning the purported goals of TPP, the 12 signatories should slow down, take the pieces of this complex trade agreement in turn and work harder for a set of international standards that will truly support global sustainable development.