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Turkey Arrests Journalists Who Exposed Erdogan's Weapons Smuggling To Extremist Syrian Rebels

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One of Turkish president Recep Erdogan's key contentions in the ongoing diplomatic spat with Russia is that everything that Russia has accused Turkey of doing, from funding the Islamic State's oil purchases, to providing weapons for Syrian "rebels" intent on eradicating the Assad regime, is unfounded slander without a shred of evidence.

Here is the problem: evidence does exist, as we showed two days ago, when we presented the role Erdogan's son Bilal has played in ISIS oil transit, and not only that but also proof that Turkey has been smuggling weapons to Syria as the editor and a reporter from Turkey's Cumhuriyet newspaper showed some time ago.

And in order to eradicate the evidence against him, yesterday Erdogan did what every dictator does when feeling threatened: he had the editor and his reported detained, jailed and accused of espionage precisely over the controversial story about an alleged arms shipment from Turkish intelligence to Syrian rebels.

The two Cumhuriyet journalists were accused of “political or military spying” by reporting “classified information” and “deliberately aiding a terrorist organization."

In fact, Erdogan personally sued Dundar and is requesting that he be given a life sentence, an aggravated life sentence and an additional 42-year term in prison on charges related to a variety of crimes, ranging from espionage to attempting to topple the government and exposing secret information.

What the reporters were really doing is their job.

As the WSJ reports, "Turkish authorities on Thursday imprisoned Can Dundar, editor in chief of Cumhuriyet, and Erdem Gul, the newspaper’s capital correspondent in Ankara, on charges of spying and aiding a terrorist organization, the newspaper’s attorney said. If convicted, the two men would face life in prison over the charges."

Their real offense: presenting the facts about the shady dealings and backroom politics of Erdogan's now fully-despotic regime.

The arrests are part of a renewed crackdown on Turkish media since the political party founded by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regained one-party rule earlier this month. They come on the heels of a warning from the European Union that Turkey’s clampdown on free media is jeopardizing its hopes of joining the organization.

 

Freedom of the press has been steadily eroding in Turkey under Mr. Erdogan. Police have closed opposition television stations, prosecutors have accused top journalists of writing tweets or columns insulting the president, and reporters have been beaten by mobs. The government is one of the world’s leading censors of Twitter, which is used widely in Turkey to criticize the government.

And this is the ideological banana republic ally of Barack Obama.

In the original Cumhuriyet report from May, the authors wrote a story, with photos and video evidence, suggesting Turkish intelligence was secretly ferrying weapons to extremist Syrian rebels. "The article sparked a major furor in Turkey, which has long been accused by its critics of secretly aiding in the growth of Islamic State militants based in neighboring Syria."

Mr. Erdogan personally sued Mr. Dundar, accused Cumhuriyet of  spying and releasing false information, warning in a television interview that the journalist who wrote the piece would “pay a heavy price.”

More on the arrests:

The arrests came one week after the Turkish newspaper won this year’s Press Freedom Prize from Reporters Without Borders, the Paris-based press freedom group. On Thursday, Reporters Without Borders said the arrests sent “an extremely grave signal about media freedom in Turkey.”

 

“For the first time, we’ve reached the level (of pressure on media in Turkey) that such a prominent figure in Turkey’s mainstream media and television for over 30 years is targeted,” said Erol Önderoglu, the group’s Turkish representative.

The propaganda from Turkey's quasi-dicator gets better: "Earlier this week, the Turkish president again lashed out at the newspaper and suggested that it had sabotaged the country’s support for moderate Turkmen rebels in Syria."

It appears that if one exposes the truth in turkey on is a criminal spy and must be put away.

Naturally, just before his arrest on Thursday, Mr. Dundar rejected the allegation that he was a spy. After three hours of testimony, Mr. Dundar said the prosecutors were focused on the wrong people.

“Who should be judged is who committed the crime, not who wrote about it,” he wrote on Twitter. Mr. Dundar said he and his paper were “defending press freedom” in the face of “lies” by the government.

 

Tora Pekin, one of the newspaper’s lawyers, said the government waited until after the recent parliamentary election to act against a prominent government critic.

 

“After Erdogan’s comments, for six months we waited for the arrests,” he said. “We were 100% certain that Dundar and Gul would be arrested.”

Here are more details on the real crime in question: Turkey's ongoing arms supply to Syrian rebels, among which very likely members of the Islamic State, courtesy of Turkey's Today Szaman:

Dundar and Gul arrived at Istanbul Courthouse on Thursday morning to testify as part of a terrorism investigation. The investigation was launched after Cumhuriyet published photos in May of weapons which it said were transferred to Syria in trucks operated by the National Intelligence Organization (MIT).

 

“We came here to defend journalism. We came here to defend the right of the public to obtain the news and their right to know if their government is feeding them lies. We came here to show and to prove that governments cannot engage in illegal activity and defend this,” Dundar told the press outside the courthouse.

 

The articles, published on the daily's front page, reported that the trucks in question were intercepted by gendarmes on two occasions in January 2014 after prosecutors received tip-offs that they were illegally carrying arms to Syria. There have been allegations that the arms were going to extremist groups fighting against the Syrian regime. Ankara, on the other hand, insisted that the trucks were carrying aid to Syrian Turkmens and branded their interception as an act of “treason” and “espionage.”

 

Dundar continued, “First the government responded saying: ‘No there is nothing of the sort. This is aid. Then it was revealed that these were guns. Then they said that these were going to the Turkmens. Then the present deputy prime minister, Tugrul Turkei said, ‘I swear to God they [the trucks] were not going to the Turkmens.' … Then later the Turkmens said they did not receive any arms.”

 

“The president is acting as if this is a personal lawsuit, saying I will be following this, and I will not let it go. He, personally, is the complainant. I do not know why the president alone is the complainant. This secret is a secret that belongs to the state, it is not a secret that belongs to him personally.”

 

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally sued Dundar and is requesting that he be given a life sentence, an aggravated life sentence and an additional 42-year term in prison on charges related to a variety of crimes, ranging from espionage to attempting to topple the government and exposing secret information.

 

For the coverage of the MIT trucks, President Erdogan has publicly targeted Dundar, saying: "The individual who has reported this as an exclusive story will pay a heavy price for this," in a television interview with state broadcaster TRT late in June.

“We are being charged with being spies, the president is saying that we are traitors to the state. We are not spies, we are not traitors, we are not heroes; we are journalists,” Dundar added outside the courthouse.

 

“There is a crime that has been committed by the state that they are trying to cover up,” he said, adding that the state is understandably in panic over the reporting done by the paper for it has the potential to reach an international audience and show the world the crimes committed by the Turkish state.

 

Following the Cumhuriyet report, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it is “none of anybody's business” what the trucks contained. Speaking in a live broadcast on the Haberturk news station in May, Davutoglu said, “This is a blatant act of espionage.”

 

After the publication of video stills as well as video footage, Erdogan lashed out at Cumhuriyet and Dundar for publishing the evidence and publicly vowed that Dundar would “pay a heavy price” for his report.

 

According to the report, the trucks were carrying six steel containers which contained a total of 1,000 artillery shells, 50,000 machine gun rounds, 30,000 heavy machine gun rounds and 1,000 mortar shells. All of this is registered in the prosecutor's file on the MIT truck case, the report said.

 

The photos, published on the daily's front page in late May, show steel containers filled with mortar shells and ammunition underneath boxes of medicine. The daily also published a video showing the containers on trucks being opened and searched by gendarmes.

 

Earlier this month, Cumhuriyet was awarded the prestigious Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Prize for its contribution to defending press freedom.

 

There was an outpour of support for the veteran journalists from their colleagues and politicians. Republican People's Party (CHP) deputies were among the many CHP representatives that came to the courthouse to show their solidarity; People's Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Garo Paylan was also present. Journalist Hasan Cemal, writer Pelin Batu and Confederation of Revolutionary Workers' Unions (DSK) Secretary-General Arzu Cerkezoglu also came to the courthouse to stand by Dundar and Erdem.

 

The Turkish Journalists' Association (TGC) and Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) gave a written statement saying that the Cumhuriyet daily performed its duty of informing the public and that it is not the job of journalists to protect the government.

And that's why Erdogan can claim there is no "proof" of his cabinet's illegal dealings with ISIS and extremist jihadists: when proof emerges, anyone who revealed it risks spending the rest of their life (and another 42 year on top) in prison.

 

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Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:03 | 6845702 Apeman
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Fuck you, Erdogan.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:06 | 6845712 -.-
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I hope that Zero Hedge is able to gather enough information to implicate this Erdogan family with this particular drug and its benefiting the ISIS...

http://www.vox.com/world/2015/11/20/9769264/captagon-isis-drug

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:08 | 6845725 SWRichmond
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Easy as 1,2,3:

1. "We" are angels, god is on our side, we are the light of hope and freedom globally.

2. Everyone we support are "moderates".

3. Everyone who opooses us are "terrorists".

 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:15 | 6845752 AlaricBalth
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Here in the US we don't arrest rogue journalists that don't adhere to the government propaganda. We have them killed.
RIP Michael Hastings.

"In a world where American Presidents openly arrogate to themselves the right to kill people deemed enemies of the United States, all things suddenly become possible."

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2013-08-09/article/41312

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:19 | 6845783 Baby Bladeface
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Not to be worry. Erdogan is that trail blazing toward American-style Free Press®.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:27 | 6845817 remain calm
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"welcome to Turkey".....How about welcome to your future America, the media already tells the governments narrative, just wait till one of them steps outside the lines. A similiar fate awaits.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:35 | 6845841 Handful of Dust
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Santa can cross Erdogan off his "Good" Christmas gift list.

 

He's being very very naughty.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:06 | 6845952 SoDamnMad
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How about a Russian cruise missile painted like a sleigh and sent to Ankara with a message written on the side saying, "Don't open until Eid al-Adha (Muslim  Christmas). 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 00:12 | 6848575 Fish Gone Bad
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Kill the chickens to scare the monkeys...  It sucks being the enemy of someone that powerful.  Those guys will get some "Midnight Express" treatment for Christmas.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:09 | 6845970 Mister Ponzi
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Why "future" America? Are journalists and whistleblowers treated any better today? Bradley Manning, James Risen, Michael Hastings...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 14:31 | 6846591 Borrow Owl
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We Breitbarted some folks...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:21 | 6845794 WTFRLY
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Turkey has been one of the primary enablers since the beginning. ISIS is a CIA-Mossad lie, co-signed by Turkey. Every credible alternative theory about Syria and ISIS, Serena Shim proved, on video. They killed her the same day as those airdrops to the Kurds where one was confirmed to fall into ISIS hands...

 White House, Media Silent One Year After Murder of US Reporter Who Exposed Western Links to ISIS October 20, 2015

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:07 | 6845957 Leveraged Algorithm
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Anyone here watch "Midnight Exresss"?  Enough said of Turkey....

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:08 | 6845958 Leveraged Algorithm
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More than a pain in the ass.....

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:31 | 6846077 Johnny Horscaulk
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Excellent post.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:14 | 6845754 Escrava Isaura
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Whaaat?

 

Someone telling the truth?

 

How did he managed that?

 

He must be brought back to church for reindoctrination.

And back to school for conformity.

 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:04 | 6845941 Arnold
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A Truth, as opposed to The Truth.

You can't handle The Truth.

 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 16:14 | 6847029 Escrava Isaura
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You first paragraph might be more correct than my second.

 

Your second paragraph I know every word but not what you meant.

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 00:20 | 6848591 Fish Gone Bad
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A Truth, as opposed to The Truth.

Perhaps a vague reference to 1984?

You can't handle The Truth.

Quote from Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FnO3igOkOk)

FGB

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:14 | 6845757 RonArgent
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Shocking...in America you get Breitbarted

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 00:29 | 6848604 Fish Gone Bad
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The fact people find this surprising is pathologically humorous.  Does anyone honestly think a very powerful and influential person is going to "play fair" and just "come clean"?  Friends come and go, enemies are for life ©.  Honestly, did anyone read Dale Carnegie other than me? 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:07 | 6845722 -.-
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And, yes, fuck Erdogan; he is an arrogant, deceitful bastard who deserves to be junked in the Wreck Yard.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:10 | 6845733 sushi
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Nothing a slightly off-course S-400 couldn't fix.

 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:44 | 6845870 GreatUncle
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Accidents do happen ... in fact they are just waiting to happen.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 00:31 | 6848606 Fish Gone Bad
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Shit Happens... sometimes all the time.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:59 | 6846196 Noplebian
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WW3 – Turkey/ISIS/Russia – The Countdown Has Begun......

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:05 | 6845709 Byte Me
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Hope Erdogan's food-taster likes polonium.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:17 | 6845768 Baby Bladeface
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Erdogan has no worry about such things as polonium tea. This method is trademark of British intelligence teamwork with Russian-Israeli mafia employed. These elements Erdogan somehow seems would be "partners" with.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/07/31/theresa-may-raises-an-o...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:07 | 6845715 Raymond_K._Hessel
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I dont think there is any doubt at all that Turkey has been actively and strenuously aiding ISIS. Along with the US, UK, Saudis, and Israel.

All for freedom and democracy, of course.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line

http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:22 | 6846273 Bumpo
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First it was Junker doing one off Junks on the Euro article, now Erdogan has logged on to single junk the non-believers. Must be a short-handed holiday schedule this morning for the PTB. There do appear to be  a couple of Zionist junkers working today, though. Maybe its not a 4 day weekend in Israel ...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:06 | 6845718 Infinite QE
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Time for a peace prize for Erdogay.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:07 | 6845720 xavi1951
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Turkey is a remake of Pakistan.  The Paki SAS are aiding AlQuida and the Turkish MIT are aiding ISIL.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:33 | 6846324 Iwanttoknow
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just ask youself why.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:07 | 6845721 Byte Me
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Lot of question marks over this story?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:09 | 6845731 numapepi
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It is past time to evict Turkey from NATO... http://incapp.org/blog/?p=2714

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:12 | 6845746 Infinite QE
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Turkey is a linchpin in ZATO. Led by zio madmen.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:19 | 6845781 Chairman
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Then pull the dam pin and throw it!

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:33 | 6845818 Chairman
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Oh shit, I meant throw the pineapple, not the pin.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:10 | 6845737 Kaiser Sousa
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Please Vlad...

FUCK TURKEY UP!!!!

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:14 | 6845753 Wahooo
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Obama protested this violation of freedoms, right?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:00 | 6845924 Berspankme
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he's still working on which bathroom to use

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 15:27 | 6846828 SoilMyselfRotten
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He's busy writing a congratulatory letter to Saudi for their recent Human Rights appointment 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:16 | 6845765 rejected
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A perfect ally for the USSA & NATO!

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:21 | 6845793 zeroboris
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Erdogan, you're too obvious man.

 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:22 | 6845799 The best Sun
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Erdogan?

I remember a high ranking member of the CIA's Muslim Brotherhood called Erdogan.
Must be a coincidence.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:22 | 6845802 dogfish
Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:24 | 6845809 I AM SULLY
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TURKEY is NATO-LACKEY-CIA-FASCIST-SCUM ...

(what douche bags)

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:25 | 6845810 Catullus
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With friends like these...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:08 | 6845966 Arnold
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You must have dirty friends in a dirty world.

 

 

--Manuel Noriega

 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:29 | 6845825 dogfish
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The downvote douchebag strikes again.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:36 | 6845845 Handful of Dust
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The HuffPo and Cass Sunstein group is up early today...at least the ones not protesting on some main street with Al or Jesse.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:09 | 6845934 Raymond_K._Hessel
Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:40 | 6845852 Bob
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Sure sounds like government policy toward journalists in the US of A. 

What else but espionage and treason, eh?  Asange is still holed up in the Equidorian embassy in London, Snowden exiled in Russian, Manning rotting in prison, etc.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:42 | 6845860 GreatUncle
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If Turkey joins the EU will be some fascinating cases for the ECHR to consider ... Failure to comply also results in fines so the question is and has anything been revealed on

CAN TURKEY FULFILL ITS EU OBLIGATIONS IF ALLOWED TO JOIN BECAUSE THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOUR SUGGESTS OTHERWISE.

Makes me wonder also wether Erdogan has really contemplated the consequences for joining the EU because there will be reporters from other EU countries scrutinising his every action and YOU CAN'T HIDE EVERYTHING.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:58 | 6845919 Berspankme
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like all those tough french and belgian journalists?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:42 | 6845863 captainchaos
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Summary of ZH articles:
USA: evil.
Turkey: evil
Russia: good for now
EU unelected plutocracy: evil
Gold manioulators: still evil
Rapacious Chinese greed: sad/kind of evil
Chinese govt: evil but kind of tolerable
Black Friday: evil but good viewing
US political candidates: pathetic
Taiwan: poor sucker
Stock Market: broken
Israel (not to be left out): always evil

Did I miss anything new and interesting?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:57 | 6845912 Berspankme
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you forgot  Captainchaos: dim witted asshole

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:10 | 6845979 Arnold
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That's page six, next to the Wegman's ad

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:01 | 6845931 Good bi bull
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Israel are always the scapegoat if things go tits up. But no-one mentions the white, gentile, Jesuit paymasters.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:12 | 6845990 Raymond_K._Hessel
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Because only an idiot thinks 3000 men with an average age north of 50 secretly controls much more than a handful of colleges and liquor cabinets.

I mean... It is an absolutely ridiculous species of Zioganda emanating from the deranged minds of people who figure Evangelicals will believe anything.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:23 | 6846049 Good bi bull
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The cogs of world power work in secret. Always have, and their secrets we shall never know. But a few of the US presidents have spoken out about the Secret Cabal and shortly had been assasinated. Especially in the early days of the US before it was controlled centrally. But everythings OK now because it has a Central Bank, created Secretly on the same model as London and Rome.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:44 | 6846379 BarkingCat
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Shall we run down the names of major political donors Hollywood moguls and media company moguls?

Perhaps names of those who control the most powerful financial institution.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 14:20 | 6846541 Good bi bull
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The ones in the public eye you mean and not the cabal behind these ( Hiding and manipulating ).

If i had a bank i would put a jew in charge aswell. They are prestty good at numbers and shit. Just look at their alphabet.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:08 | 6845964 danepol
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The influence of liberal journalism is part of the explantion why the US, most unfortunately, will be dragged screaming and crying into war once again, but will ultimately prevail, despite terrible loss and destruction. The defeatist, pacifist, gulit-ridden or simply delusional left wing voted the man for the times, President Obama into office. He gave them what they wanted. That included abandoning that most ancient of wisdoms "If you seek peace, prepare for war". That implies not only the means but also the will to defeat one's traditional enemies by all means, diplomatic and military, but never at the expense of the latter. Obama's clarion signal was to withdraw and avoid force at all costs and the US' enemies predicatably seized the intiative as you are now witnessing. The US is no island and homeland security will be sorely tested. It gets much worse and the greatest collateral damage at this moment is the loss of confidence and faith by the US' traditional allies, most importantly Israel, which is the canary in the coalmine for others. 

 

These words will not be popular with the liberal class who remain moribound in their sweet but naive outlook. I too would like to believe in the innate goodness of mankind. Meanwhile US allies like Israel will prepare for the worst and leave no one in doubt that they intend to protect their strategic interests even if it means facing up to the political ideas of the current US administration.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:48 | 6846402 BarkingCat
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Son, what kind of drugs are you on??

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 08:39 | 6849029 Raymond_K._Hessel
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You repetitive twat!^

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:53 | 6846165 TheSheepWolf
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Gloom & doom site so no surprise here. Or perhaps funded by Russian oligarchs?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:53 | 6845893 Raymond_K._Hessel
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New Edition of Brzezinski's Book Spotlights US Strategy in Eurasia
18 years ago, the former US national security advisor seems to have predicted quite well the world of today
http://russia-insider.com/en/americas-hegemony-and-europes-place-chessbo...

Grand Chessboard ^ + Oded Yinon Plan:

'Pursuit of comprehensive peace with all of Israel’s neighbors was to be abandoned for selective peace with some neighbors (namely Jordan and Turkey) and implacable antagonism toward others (namely Iraq, Syria, and Iran). The weight of its strategic allies would tip the balance of power in favor of Israel, which could then use that leverage to topple the regimes of its strategic adversaries by using covertly managed “proxy forces” and “the principle of preemption.” Through such a “redrawing of the map of the Middle East,” Israel would “shape the regional environment,” and thus, “Israel will not only contain its foes; it will transcend them.”'

https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/clean-break-to-dirty-wars-d5ebc5fda9f9

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/12/us-caught-faking-it-in-syria/

= ww3

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:57 | 6846183 Good bi bull
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Is that the same Jesuit trained Zbigniew Brzezinski?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 14:54 | 6846700 Johnny Horscaulk
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Do you think perle, feith, bolton, wurmser, kagan, libby, lewis, et al were Jesuits? Or the heads of the fed, treasury, commerce, national econ counsel, recent heads of sec, cftc, cbo, fdic, etc etc.

Jews are 2.5% of the population, Catholics are ten times that but there are probably ten times as many jews at the fed and treasury than catholics.

But the jesuit order is secret puppetmaster? Are you that fucking easily tricked?

Your theory just lacks evidence, why you stick to it is either Protestant blind hate or Ziotrollery.

http://www.jrbooksonline.com/Intl_Jew_full_version/ij77.htm

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 15:37 | 6846870 Good bi bull
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Yes these people are in the public eye - this is true. If things go wrong then are these puppets the end of line?

What is true though is that they belong to the Bilderberg group - setup by the Jesuits.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:56 | 6845905 Berspankme
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Obama gets a boner when he sees this kind of stuff

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 11:56 | 6845907 Good bi bull
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NATO's last "Free press" Country now being dismantled.

The trouble is Turkey's press is not fully owned like the Wests but one day in the future will be.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:34 | 6845933 SMC
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Corrupt regimes can not permit “unfavorable truth” and remain profitable for “Just Us” and their thug minions.

Most governments have become nothing more than a tool for their own TBTF and TBTJ class.

Why should Turkey be any different? /SARC

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:10 | 6845980 BernankeHasHemo...
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Why can't we let Putin nuke these bastards? Or put a drone on Erdogan's ass?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:22 | 6846040 gaoptimize
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Don't people running the US Government want to be the good guys anymore?  Do good guys keep friends like this?  I think this situation and relationship with Turkey is demoralizing to thoughtful, peace and freedom-loving Americans, and probably the majority in the military who want to believe they are fighting for a good cause.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:28 | 6846062 Dre4dwolf
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Same thing happens in America , via Snowden.

You dont have to be a journalist to tell the truth.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:28 | 6846064 Johnny Horscaulk
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Every IsraeliFirster and neocon piece of shit troll is up and on this morning. Did I miss a big news story Israel has to 'spin' or something?

I mean one that might get reported in the us?

Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinian schoolgirl
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/israel2

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:47 | 6846391 dsty
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Poor boy

not fair to have someone who won't put up with your Israel is to blame for everything crowd

Gosh this just aint fair

Hitler is turning over in his grave because of this

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 14:00 | 6846440 Johnny Horscaulk
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Waah waah!

Hey no comment on the link though, right?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/israel2

Just mention 'hitler' and declare victory, huh? Lol.

Nah i think it would be fine to blame israel for what israel is to blame for without a herd of chickenshit fucking pussy assholes like you ready to leap in, mention Hitler, and act like Israel never does anything wrong.

Fuck you and your fellow Hasbarats.

https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=35866.0

Your only job is to try to obfuscate the truth and cry 'antisemite' at us while boldly avoiding any discussion on the merits.

http://youtu.be/HL5mAdu7vTg

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 14:07 | 6846473 Onan_the_Barbarian
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It's all good.  Not a jew, so not a human, she doesn't count.  Put on a show trial and done.

But you can bet they'll be punishing the soldiers who leaked it in the first place.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:36 | 6846091 smacker
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How much difference is there between a Turkish newspaper editor and journalist that exposed .gov corruption/criminality, numerous American whistleblowers who are arrested and imprisoned (if they don't manage to flee to Russia first) or a Brit MI6 operative who planned to expose MI6's role in creating terrorism and was found dead inside a locked holdall bag in his MI6 apartment?

Not a lot I'd say.

Whether we talk about the venal fascist Recep Erdogan, the venal Marxist/fascist Barack Obola or HRH Tony "Il duce" Blair, the same tactics are being used by .govs to silence opposition and dissent.

Did I mention those who end up dead in both countries before they even get near to any judicial process?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 12:41 | 6846120 Neochrome
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Turks wanted  Jihadi for a president, I don't think this is really a problem in their eyes. It may grate our sensibilities, but it's not like we are talking Sweden or Norway here... 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:52 | 6846419 BarkingCat
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You are right. Unlike Norway or Sweden, Turkey is not polluted by a bunch of self loathing natives and African trash.

While those countries in the past had some very smart people, you can now expect the collective IQ to drop significantly and their once peaceful nation to turn to riot infested shit holes.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 15:14 | 6846779 Demdere
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Fools or trolls?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:00 | 6846200 Noplebian
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WW3 – Turkey/ISIS/Russia – The Countdown Has Begun......

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:06 | 6846223 Oldrepublic
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Those reporters were from Cumhuriyet, a leading Kermalist newspaper, founded in 1924. Kermalism refers to the reforms of a great Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk who founded the modern Turkish state, which was based on secularism, the equal rights of women, the separation of church and state and a neutral foreign policy. His polices kept Turkey out of World War two.
A visitor to Turkey will see pictures of Kemal Ataturk everywhere.
He kept the army out of politics ,the military coups in recent years were always to keep Turkey secular and not Islamic.
A very good biography of the man is to be found in Ataturk: the rebirth of a nation by Patrick Kimross

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:13 | 6846253 SharkBit
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#IBoycottTurkey, #IBoycottIsreal, #IBoycottSaudiArabia, #IBoycottQatar.

Wait, these are all USSA puppet states.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:14 | 6846255 Ms No
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I am going to make the guess that if 15% of the population of the planet had the intelligence and courage of those two men despots wouldn't exist.  What the percentage would really be, who knows, but it probably wouldn't take much.

Funny how all of our allies seem to decend toward Saudi demonic standards never do they ascend toward freedom... never.   

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:22 | 6846279 Joebloinvestor
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Bet you didn't know Turkey was a Latin American country.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 13:23 | 6846280 Joebloinvestor
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Bet you didn't know Turkey was a Latin American country.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 14:07 | 6846476 Onan_the_Barbarian
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Remember Serena Shim.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 14:08 | 6846481 earleflorida
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we've all heard of the saying: "from the frying pan into the fire"

this is a classic USSA covert operation drawing Erdogan into the 'spiders web'?

the USSA put erdogan on murika's 'must-go-list' when he refused the baby`bush access from flying sorties from Turkish airbases during the illegal invasion of Iraq. Erdogan must go.

just like Kadafi was disposed out of the blue!??!

murika would draw erdogan unknowingly into a 'morass'. turkey's unique geofraphy is the linchpin [envy] for two continents.

without turkey the USSA coudn't contain its long-lost nemisis, 'Russia'!

erdogan is just about finnished in turkey. he is a liability for the countries economy, growth, security,... and most importantly, future generations.

the USSA has his replacement all primed and ready to install?
Ref:    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulen_movement  

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 14:52 | 6846690 Mewa
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Western media take note....its called Journalism. Do your damned job for a changes and stop sucking Obama's tit.....

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 02:49 | 6848776 elstrom
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A 1958 (probably) soviet cartoon: http://preview.tinyurl.com/je3jl6j
Sat, 11/28/2015 - 07:01 | 6848950 Lynn Trainor
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Nazi Turkey going on here.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 07:49 | 6848979 Raymond_K._Hessel
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Funny how sometimes the same actions by a certain government never seem to become stories in the us media, eh?

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/22471-israel-meets-wi...
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/11/palestinian-theater-jerusalem

Mon, 11/30/2015 - 00:45 | 6855158 onmail1
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erDOGan feeds on illegal oil

erDOGan family makes money from syrian oil which is actually blood

erDOGan is the ring leader of oil smuggling mafia

erDOGan is a criminal

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