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Meanwhile, In Turkey...
While most of the headlines this week have centered on Syria, Sweden (and Switzerland), Turkey has been cooking and today has broken into full-scale riots. As Reuters reports, Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon on Friday at demonstrators in central Istanbul, wounding scores of people and prompting rallies in other cities in the fiercest anti-government protests for years. The growing unrest centers on disquiet at the authoritarianism of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (who just visited Obama). "We do not have a government, we have Tayyip Erdogan ... Even AK Party supporters are saying they have lost their mind, they are not listening to us." The protests somewhat surprisingly were sparked by the uprooting of trees but rapidly escalated (as seen below) into riot police, water cannon, and tear gas battles as protesters exclaim, "we're fed up... we don't like the direction the country is heading."
Thousands of demonstrators massed on streets surrounding Istanbul's central Taksim Square, long a venue for political unrest, while protests erupted in the capital Ankara and the Aegean coastal city of Izmir.
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The unrest reflects growing disquiet at the authoritarianism of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).
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There have also been protests against the government's stance on the conflict in neighboring Syria, a tightening of restrictions on alcohol sales and warnings against public displays of affection.
"We do not have a government, we have Tayyip Erdogan ... Even AK Party supporters are saying they have lost their mind, they are not listening to us," said Koray Caliskan, a political scientist at Bosphorus University who attended the protest.
"This is the beginning of a summer of discontent."
The protest at Taksim's Gezi Park started late on Monday after trees were torn up under a government redevelopment plan but has widened into a broader demonstration against Erdogan's administration. Friday's violence erupted after a dawn police raid on demonstrators who had been camped out for days.
"This isn't just about trees anymore, it's about all of the pressure we're under from this government. We're fed up, we don't like the direction the country is headed in," said 18-year-old student Mert Burge, who came to support the protesters after reading on Twitter about the police use of tear gas.
"We will stay here tonight and sleep on the street if we have to," he said.
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But Erdogan brooks little dissent. Hundreds of military officers have been jailed for plotting a coup against him in recent years. Academics, journalists, politicians and others face trial on similar charges.
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"These people will not bow down to you" read one banner at the Gezi Park protest, alongside a cartoon of Erdogan wearing an Ottoman emperor's turban.
Postings on social media including Twitter, where "Occupy Gezi" - a reference to protests in New York and London last year - was a top-trending hashtag, and Facebook said similar demonstrations were planned for the next few days in other Turkish cities including Ankara, Izmir, Adana and Bursa.
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More guts than lazy simple minded americans
Too bad they don't have a 2nd ammendment.
We're not far behind.
"We" won't do shit until the EBT/Link cards go #REF. "They" know this too.
correct.....and that is WAY down the road...anything that pops up before that will be crushed quickly
Yet they've only got a 16.7% youth unemployment rate.
http://ycharts.com/indicators/turkey_youth_unemployment_rate_lfs
They simply need moar 'diversity'....
8 arrested after brawl at kindergarten graduation"There were no guns, but one individual did pull out a club or a stick and one person did grab a hammer," Drummond told NBC News.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/31/18657765-8-arrested-after-bra...
Erdogan is a zionist stooge setting his country up to invade syria and ignite WWIII...
Yeah, and you know this because you intercepted his orders?
Actually there are a lot of guns in Turkey
There is a classic saying among Turks that every man needs 3 things ... a wife, a gun and a horse. Nowadays, an automobile substitutes for a horse, but marriage and guns are still very popular
Americans always think they are the only ones with guns ... and aren't noticing how easily the US regime has been confiscating guns in their 'tests', in New Orleans after Katrina, this year in Boston with the bombings, and via all those new US laws on who can own (confiscating guns from military veterans who have had psychological help, for example)
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Privately owned guns in Europe are in the tens of millions
We have shooting clubs here in Brussels, where people like myself enjoy shooting .45 pistols etc. - Great American gun designer John Browning died in Belgium, while working on manufacturing guns here
In our little Belgium: 2 million civilian privately owned handguns, shotguns, rifles
Germany has 25 million civilian privately owned handguns, shotguns, rifles
France: 19 million civilian privately owned handguns, shotguns, rifles ... And so on.
We do not carry them around, or have as high gun ownership rates as in the US, but we have enough.
Yes, the crazy UK Brits confiscated all privately owned handguns in the 1990s - But they are extremists, suffering from the Anglo-American over-legalism disease.
It is not like that on the Continent. Here we know the Nazis can come back, older people here still remember the last time the Nazis were occupying when they were children
Facts of gun ownership and policies in countries around the world:
http://www.gunpolicy.org/
Why nobody invades Switzerland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaxOZ-fbe6M
awesome video...
I prefer the head of state & defense minister getting scope kissed by a .338 lapua...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS32rJ1PSVY
(but he basically took it like a man... However, I saw in the paper that he was shooting 7.5mm today with foreigners in attendance. It's funny that there isn't any video of Barack enduring the mild recoil of 12 gauge skeet, or the Potemkin put-up effort and possible multiple takes to capture a single still shot that conveniently sheds no light on whether he could hit the broad side of a barn at 20 paces.)
thanks for that post......
'Americans' have never forgotten to use their guns to signal tyranny in government.
Until that point, an 'american' government operates with the consent of the governed.
Funny. Another delusion.
old paki saying for a good life - "many sons and many guns"
Portugal has probably one of the more restrictive laws, yet latest police estimates were of around 3 million guns for a population of 10.5 mil, with a 50/50 split between legally (mostly hunting and small caliber pistols up to legal limit of 6.35mm) and illegally owned guns (anything, from converted alarm guns, up to smg, full auto rifles with high power scopes, silencers, laser target acquisition, etc.).
The Bern incident in same week as Feldschiessen... I wonder how many of the anarchist agitators have a compulsory shoot this weekend?
"Too bad they don't have a 2nd ammendment." Nor as many iToys or LCDTV+250 channels to calm them.
We wont be throwing rocks..
your police wonT be shooting water.
they'll have to drop their donuts to shoot- that's when you get 'em
They'll drop them donuts just long enough to call in the DoD/DHS Robocops and Drones. Then watch from their copcar monitors.
It's not bad enough.Yet.
These will be the good ol' days.
Going to be a long hot summer here in Europe. Burn baby burn.
long, yeah. Hot, no. Haven't heard about global cooling yet?
Dude are we all realizing how fast we are walking to the exits right now or is it just me? And I don't mean Turkey.
Walkin? I was flyin??
crude is going downstairs fast
Yeah WTF?
And the great fucking gold smash down as well. Fuck Bernake...
Feels worthy! Let it roll.
Turkey's century-long experiment in running a Muslim country like a Western democracy is coming to an end. Ottoman Empire, he we come!
turkey [ottoman empire] was dragged into wwi by germany because of their being trading-partners amongst other details i won't elaborate upon at this moment. but suffice to say... wwi was brought about to get israel/palestine from the ottoman's, period. read the 'balfour declaration' [white paper]' re: lord rothschild.
in fact, that is why wilson brought us into wwi because the german's were starting to turn things around and began winning much lost ground. rothschild's/ morgan couldn't have that? **** [kinda like syria and bashar al-assad today[regarding saddam's wmd... nukes and chemical weapons drummed up by the ussa's propaganda-machines 'imagination'!]
shortly after america entered the war in 1917, the 'balfour declaration was signed by the ottoman's ***[the silk road masters of a bigone-eurasia?]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
Both sides pretty much ran out of men to fight by 3rd Ypres, and the French were negotiating an armistace after their army started to munity. It was false flags like the Luisitania (uncoded telgraph transmissions of the ships whereabouts) that helped Wilson's case.
Starting WWI to get Israel from the Ottomans, that's the first time I heard that. Using the Fed to lend money to both sides and ensure US financial domination for a century, I'll buy. Misguided alliances, colonial competition, population growth, fomenting the Bolshevik revolution...I'll buy those, too. In 1914, but British could have just sent some ships and army and ended the Ottoman Empire if it wanted to, as long as they didn't land in Gallipoli.
Spirals tighten and speed up as they get closer to the center end.
Turks go to protest against a shopping mall being built on a park.. Next thing you know everyone goes apeshit and people start getting hurt.
Meanwhile in Europe legitimate governments get replaced by technocrats, unemployment soars and there's no end in sight. The question is, what do the European governments feed to their populations to keep them subdued? Surely there has to be something special in the food supply, or in the water?
in Europe legitimate governments....
I know what you mean, so I'm not trying to be picky, but no government is truly legitimate unless people are giving the option of opting out.
Prozac is made mostly from flouride.
At least we have nice teeth while watching dancing with the bozo's.
...like by voting with your feet and going elsewhere as has been done since centuries, including going to America
though I find changing government (make it opt out) the better solution, in the long run
"what do the European governments feed to their populations to keep them subdued?"
For twenty years the Eurocrats fed money to the populations. Everywhere you went in the periphery (and Ireland was BIG in this scam) there were huge billboards advertising the largesse doled out by the centre, and a huge number of people benefitted, some by having a job where there was none before; some by earning twice what they had earned before; and a few creaming the top off and living the good life. For some reason which I do not understand the memory of the largesse lingers still and kindles a little hope that it may come again. And I think that is why there has not been very much unrest, so far.
Food Stamps...lots and lots of Food Stamps
Every geopolitical event seems to be falling in Russia´s favor right now... interesting.
cue...Spirit of Truth?
he will now proceed to post the same thing on every thread for the rest of the weekend.
Wash your Turkey before roasting.
On being called 'Indians' and the search for the Western passage...
"Thank God you guys weren't looking for Turkey." -- Native American Comic
I think when it comes down to Americans starting to riot, it will be a whole lot bloodier than the ones in the EU and ME.
"The protests somewhat surprisingly were sparked by the uprooting of trees but rapidly escalated"
I find this great, whatever is the background to this story.
'Bout time someone cut the Turkey!
Sell program complete. BTFD, yes!?
Was that a "scoop" I saw operating at beginning of video? I think they are just washing the protesters before making them into Soylent Green.
Long; water cannons.
they used to sleep under those trees, no wonder they're mad.
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The people of Turkey need to tell their government that the people are the boss of the government.
No Human voice can reach those ears, but bullets most certainly can.
“When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.”
? John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
I wonder if they have an Attorney General as well.
US robo cops must itching for some "action" of their own.
if Boston is any indication of their tactics then they are up shit creek-the last time I saw groups of something that closely bunched together it was grapes.
It's a common police tactic called SoF, in typical militaristic/thuggish fashion, it's all about the Show of Force, after all, someone else is paying for it, so why not, right?
The Turkish government has an ally in Washington.
Prior to his election as President, Obama gave an undertaking that he would recognise the Armenian genocide. That was soon forgotten as he embarked on his own genocide of freedoms enjoyed by Americans.
that he would recognise the Armenian genocide.
It is beyond sick that the US guv would pretend that this didn't happen. Don't EVER imply morality to government... to ANY government, even the one you were brought up to worship.
The blonde's eye's in the last couple of seconds of the video says it all...
Those TURKS.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO6_l-ExOJY
there goes my travel plans. . . let me see what's on TeeVee this coming month!
Oh, DING DONG.
LAST MINUTE: 16:30 Local time. Tweet: 10 police officers have resigned as a response to the ongoing brutality.
The numbers are up to 400 officers resigning now, with most of them dropping their badges and gear, joining the protesters. [REDDIT Reddit #2 Reddit #3 < Live thread]
Stream of Protests NOW. (There are more in the Reddit thread)
Another Stream
Highlights Video
Round #1: Russia plays: "Blow cover of spooky Rebels with chemical weapons"
Round #2: USA plays: "Islamic Spring"
Round #3: Free Humans plays: "Stop all this bullshit fucktards, we just like our park"
Round #4: Police plays: "LOL WUT? AMERICAN TEARGAS & NATO POLICE VEHICLES BITCH"
Round #5: XXX plays: "Organize your shit people"
Round #6: Military plays: "Internet is OFF"
Round #7: Random Old Man plays: "Takes off false leg to shout at authorities"
Round #8: Military plays: "Really regretting giving everyone gas masks now"
Round #9: Free Humans plays: "I HAZ SCARY GREEN LAZER, SHOOTING THE NATO SUPPLIED V&".
Round #10: <NEW PLAYER ENTERS THE GAME> Football Fans plays: "Oh HAI"
Round #11: Military plays: "Seriously, guys, it's a bit of a give away when you're all in civilian clothes wearing gas masks behind the police lines, please try to be subtle about this"
Round #12: ANON plays: "Hey GAIZ, why does each livestream have different light levels in the same country?"
Round #13: Random Old Man plays: "Well, when I took my leg off, I caused an eclipse"
Round #14: <Everyone else> plays: "WUT?"
Round #15: XXX plays: "Sorted that glitch out, please continue"
Round #16: Free Humans plays: "Reinforcements Arrived!"
Round #17: Police plays: "No, seriously, dudes: we KNOW you're on our side, but stop walking in front of our scary riot gear line and throwing shit, it's kinda embarrassing, you're ruining the psychological effect here, especially with your gas masks on"
Round #18: Undercover Police plays: "FUUUUUUCK, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, PLAY CARD WAS UPSIDE DOWN, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO CHARGE THE LINE, NOT WALK IN FRONT. FFS PEOPLE, WE PRACTICED THIS SHIT!"
Round #19: ANON plays: "Picard double face-palm"
Round #20: America plays: "Sponsored by JCB! We've come to... er... PR said to: BRAND AWARENESS! LOOK! SQUIRREL!"
Round #21: ANON plays: "Where's a single media representative with balls enough to be in the crowd? Shit is going down off-screen"
Round #22: Marla plays: "Fight Club, this is a little kid, get involved"
Round #23: Military plays: "Good job no-one knows how to make Molotovs, they're doing shit all but shouting and getting splatted"
Round #24: Russia plays: "Pretty sure I can help you with that..."
Round #25: Football Fans plays: "We have flares though"
Round #26: XXX plays: "Grabbed all feeds in Reddit thread, have them all looping same mad old man with false leg, GG people, WAIT SHIT SHIT SHIT, ALL FEEDS SUPPOSED TO SHOW DIFFERENT THINGS, CODE RED CODE RED" <22:21 GMT < MARKED>
Round #27: Free Humans plays: "You're shitting me, right?"
Round #28: ANON plays: "GOAT TAKEN, GOAT TAKEN, GOAT TAKEN, #OP IS LIVE"
Round #29: XXX plays: "SHIT BUSTED - PLAY SOME FOOTAGE FROM EARLIER, NO-ONE WILL NOTICE IT'S NOT DARK. LOOP MORE FEED AND PRETEND IT'S FRESH"
Round #30: Random Old Man plays: "I'm off air again? /sad panda"
Round #31: Free Humans plays: "Molotov? Good suggestion, let me grab one right now, got one"
Round #32: America plays: "JCB doing it's thing, look at that great engineering! Yours to own for only $125,000 and 2% APR!"
Round #33: <New player enters the game> QE2 Asteroid: "Seriously: all the fun stuff isn't happening via Reddit, you need better sources. Oh, and WE SEE YOU WATCHING, AND YOU GOT PLAYED. FOR THE RECORD, I'M NOT FAT, I JUST HAVE A MOON, OK?"
Seriously? All too easy. Spooky, you're out of date, and you certainly got played over the streams and how you were doing it. #CNN PROFESSIONALS IN THE HOUSE (Iraq 1 Stylie, fucking amateurs)
On a serious note; one death reported. Escalation going upward.
TRUST NO FEED FROM ADVANCED MEDIA. THERE ARE OTHER (DARK) SOURCES OUT THERE. BE SEEING YOU.
Reddit. Cute.
It's got the largest margin share of 14-25 yr olds in the western world, and the young post there, making it one of the fastest aggregators on the net. The problem is, they think it's a friendly place, which it isn't.
22:21 was a moment where the matrix was glitched, and all the feeds synched, it was beautiful, the set-up was spot on (if I'm a little immodest): and the right people were watching to learn the lesson.
Loki out.
PLAAAAAYED.
I told you before I had to throw back the big fish.
Interesting, such a pleasant combo of Avatar name & imagery.
Then again, I told you I played GO, while You said you played Chess then told me I was dead.
Reborn just outside of Hell while spelunking the dripping vagina, found a dead seagull in there. Cried; water is life; reborn? Perhaps. Matriarchy is perhaps a better road: at least it'd be less boring. That's the real charge: boredom.
Not Sisyphus (although, forgetting Camus' Revolt even when given it on paper is a large error), but boredom with interactions.
I think the original purgatory was based on grey flat 2D planes of boredom, but this is just from memory. It's someone's mythology, anyhow. Might even be a Terry Pratchett bad guy's fate.
"Pipelineistan and the New Silk Road(s)" by Pepe Escobar 5/31/13 @ www.atimes.com/
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-310513.html
Note: node hubs for China's Energy?-- "Pakistan's, 'Gwadar port' and Iran's SE... 'Chabhar port'" with destination?!
Turkey wants to align with China and Russia, as pepe says subtlely... read-on ___.
Fantastic analysis by the worlds greatest geo-political journalist! PERIOD!!!
Pepe? rofl......good grief son. Pepe's work is right out of the leftist garbage heap that is being discredited on a daily basis. But I guess if it makes you feel good......
We do not have a government we have Obama.
Live riot cam:
http://www.vgtv.no/#!/video/65023/direkte-oppt%C3%B8yer-i-istanbul-live-istanbul-riot
Link came from a Turkish friend that mentioned it was said they have to use Norweigan TV to see anything about riots in their own country.
Meanwhile, in Detroit... they've got things handled. "Detroit Citizens Protect Themselves After Police Force Decimated"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-31/detroit-citizens-protect-themselves-after-police-force-decimated.html
Meanwhile, in Detroit... they've got things handled. "Detroit Citizens Protect Themselves After Police Force Decimated"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-31/detroit-citizens-protect-themselves-after-police-force-decimated.html
No worries, post again when "decimated" turns into "devastated!"
These people need to stop watching YouTube. It seems to get them upset.
From an email I got today. I'm not so sure about giving them all of the Subaru wagons. Hopefully that doesn't make me a liberal sympathizer or anything.
Fw:
Interesting concept!Since we are not going to get gasoline back to $1.50 per gallon and coffee to $2.00 per pound maybe this would be a solution we could live with.
DIVORCE AGREEMENT -- This is so incredibly well-put, and I can hardly believe it's by a young person, a student!! Whatever he runs for, I'll vote for him!
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, regressive, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et. al.:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is a model separation agreement: 1. Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy. Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides had such distinct and disparate tastes.
2. We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
3. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
4. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
5. We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind,
solar, and bio-diesel.
6. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O'Donnell. You are,
however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to
move all three of them. 7. We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
8. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
9. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks.
10. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood .
11. You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
12. You can have the peace-niks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
13. We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
14. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLain. You can also have the U.N., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
15. We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.
16. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.
17. We'll continue to believe healthcare is an earned luxury and not a right.
18. We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
19. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya," or "We Are the World".
20. We'll practice trickledown economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.
21. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our constitution and our flag.
22. Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years. 23. (My addition) You can also keep your lenient sentences and quick paroles for repeat violent criminals as well... Please. - Man charged with killing couple, raping toddler hours after release from prison Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S.: Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, and Jane Fonda with you.
P.S.S..: And you won't have to "Press 1 for English" when you call our country.
Forward this every time you get it! Let's keep this going; maybe some of it will start sinking in!
** If you can't stand behind our Military, Please feel free to stand in front of them! **
Keyser Söze is Turkish. The protesters should call him.