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Violence Erupts In Turkey After Prominent Lawyer Is Assassinated On Live TV

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A day after Turkey arrested two journalists for their report exposing Erdogan's weapons deliveries to "extremist groups" in Syria, confirming that no dissent to the president's foreign policy would be allowed, today a new riot has erupted in Istanbul following the dramatic murder in broad daylight of Tahir Elci, the president of the Turkish bar association in southeastern Diyarbakir province, who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while giving a public speech.

A campaigner for Kurdish rights, Elci had been criticized in Turkey for saying the banned Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) was not a terrorist organization, as the government
describes it. He had, however, denounced PKK violence. He was facing trial over his comments, which had infuriated state prosecutors. A Turkish prosecutor last month demanded up to seven and a half years of prison tme for Elci on the grounds of "making propaganda of a terror organization" after remarks he made supporting the PKK.

Just before being gunned down, Elci called for peace and the silencing of all guns.

Moments later TV footage showed a shoot out breaking out and plain clothes police repeatedly shooting at a figure running past them towards Elci.  He was then seen lying on the ground with blood apparently streaming from his head. He was later pronounced dead from gunshot to the head. A policeman was also killed in the gunfight.

 

 

The killing which was captured on tape, took place while Tahir Elci was making a statement to the media.

"The moment the statement ended, the crowd was sprayed with bullets,” Reuters cited Omer Tastan, a local official from the pro-Kurdish HDP party, as saying. "A single bullet struck Elci in the head," he said, adding that 11 people had also been injured in the incident.

In other words, a hit meant to take out the pro-Kurdish lawyer, staged as an attack by the very people he was defending.

According to the state Anadolu news agency, it was Kurdish insurgents that opened fire, killing Elci, as well as a police officer, and injuring three other people, among them correspondents of the leading Turkish media organizations – the Anatolia and Dogan news agencies

That, however,  appears to be just more state propaganda, because as journalists were quick to point out, Elci not only was a pro-Kurd activist but defended the "Terrorist" PKK, which is Erdogan's political nemesis.

Then Erdogan himself chimed in, saying "I have just learnt that Bar Association President Mr. Tahir Elçi died and a policeman was martyred," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a meeting in the northwestern province of Bal?kesir. “This incident shows how Turkey is right in its determined stance in fighting terrorism." The irony is that according to the official narrative, Elci was somehow assassinated by the same people whom he was defending, which, needless to say, makes very little sense.

According to Today Szaman, in a video clip of the incident taken by the Dogan News Agency, men hiding behind the minaret of a nearby mosque started firing at Elci and people standing with him. "A person ran towards Tahir Elci, fired with one hand and then started to run away. Then fighting started," Dogan news agency reporter Felat Bozarslan said.

The US Embassy expressed shock over Elci's death, calling him a "courageous defender of human rights. Our condolences go to his family, that of the policeman killed and to all of Turkey. A terrible loss," the embassy said on Twitter.

Two policemen and a reporter of the state-run Anadolu news agency were injured in the gunfire, along with an unknown number of civilians, Dogan news agency said. One of the policeman was in critical condition, it said.

Turkey's People's Democratic Party (HDP) condemned Elci's killing which it described as an "planned assassination" and called a protest in Istanbul in a written statement.

"In the place left by Tahir Elci, thousands more Tahir Elcis will carry on the work in the struggle for law and justice," it said. Noting that Elçi had been targeted by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and its media, the statement called on political parties, civil society and professional groups to "raise their voices" in protest. Metin Feyzioglu, head of the Turkish Bar Association (TBB), said he and members of the executive board of the TBB will be heading to Diyarbakir, inviting all executives of local bar associations across Turkey to join.

"This bullet has been fired at not only our brother but at Turkey as a whole. We need to show that our unity will not be undermined and this heinous attack will not succeed," said Feyzioglu.

And so the tension across Turkey rises even more, only this time it has nothing to do with the country's ruinous foreign politics and everything to do with Erdogan's relentless attempt to crackdown on all domestic political adversaries.

Meanwhile, as summoned, at least 2000 people gathered in central Istanbul in Turkey late on Ssaturday, to protest the killing of Elci According to RT, one of the few media organizations covering today's political violence in Turkey, police used water cannon and tear gas, ordering protesters to disperse, RT's William Whiteman reported from the scene. He himself and an RT cameraman were also teargased during the clashes, the reporter added.

Protesters grew more and more angry with the police who were "being incredibly heavy-handed," Whiteman reported, adding that people were chanting slogans accusing President Erdogan of being a "thief" and a "killer."

Helicopters have been heard flying low over the area, and the "violent" protests are continuing into the night.

 

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Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:15 | 6849661 Looney
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But… but… Erdogan is civilized – he didn’t chop off the guy’s head, as King Salman would’ve done. Right? ;-)

Looney

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:23 | 6849692 Deathrips
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Destabalize another country...who does that?

 

Turkey will lead the charge out of nato...fingers crossed.

 

RIPS

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:23 | 6849696 -.-
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If anyone on ZerøHedge knows Turkish, I'd be infinitely greatful...

1. http://www.diyarbakirbarosu.org.tr/Anasayfa

 

Thanks,

-.-

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:31 | 6849729 tmosley
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So, when are the Turks going to put this madman's head on a pike?

His actions are showing ever decreasing rationality and forethought. It's like the country is being run by a petulant child.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:33 | 6849741 LawsofPhysics
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LOL!, please, you know the answer to that question. When it benefits the interests of NATO, the IMF, and the central banks in the west...

same as it ever was ...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:51 | 6849806 BaBaBouy
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""Violence Erupts In Turkey After Prominent Lawyer Is Assassinated On Live TV""

AND Turkey Is The EU's, NATO"s and uSA's "Great Partner & Ally" ???

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:55 | 6849816 BaBaBouy
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<=== TURKEY Next On The List For ""ARAB Spring"" ???

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:06 | 6849837 Haus-Targaryen
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Turkey is next.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:21 | 6849888 Bokkenrijder
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What a perfect 'blueprint for a totalitarian state' is Turkey, Dijsselbloem and his drinking buddy JC Juncker will be happy to usher Turkey into the EU.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:14 | 6850092 HowdyDoody
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Turkey ... i) arrest or kill journalists, ii) assassinate lawyers, and iii) have nice peaceful get-togethers with ISIS members near Kobane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atBhAv07kLc

The activities in this video are comparable to similar encounters between ISIS and IDF in the Golan. They really are all Brothers in Arms.

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:29 | 6850151 Anonymous User
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Hopefully there won't be too much to wait until Turkey will be turned into the belly dancing ho of Putin.

Nazdarovya!

http://goo.gl/EeUp0h

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:59 | 6850277 Fish Gone Bad
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There seem to be a lot of job openings in Turkey lately.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:35 | 6850777 MANvsMACHINE
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Two days after Thanksgiving and the Turkey killings continue? Shocking!

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:55 | 6851178 JLee2027
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If the Turks do come apart, Istanbul is being renamed back to Constantinople, the Christian city it was founded as.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 01:21 | 6851807 Socratic Dog
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Funny that the guy running in to shoot him was carrying a gun, not a knife.  As all Hedgers havebeen informed (www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-24/chicago-mayor-emanuel-urges-remain-pea...), a knife is infinitely more dangerous than a gun.

Apologies for the threadjack.  Couldn't help myself.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 04:56 | 6852023 jeff montanye
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well as rahm is a dual citizen and vet of the israeli defense forces (and an architect of obama's fabulously disastrous foreign policy), it all comes round since turkey's isis oil is brokered by erdogan's son to israel (they like to buy wholesale and illegal), one of the co-inventors of isis and, now, of the new (syrian and iraqi) kurdistan to come, where erdogan, if still in place, will attempt to herd the turkish kurds.  

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 06:17 | 6852098 Manthong
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well, some folks do not want a good crisis to go to waste...

and Chicago is great crisis that is not being wasted by the Zionistas.

 

I think I might be the first to coin the word "Zionistas"... yes?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 06:59 | 6852134 Anonymous User
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Turkey is NOT in the EU but wishes to enter.

I hope the EU dismembers itself before opening up to Turkey. 

If not, this is EU's more likely future:

http://oo.gl/QC3VhN

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 11:49 | 6852568 Mister Ponzi
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Hrant Dink, again.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:32 | 6853345 Hugh G Rection
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I prefer it much more than "Zionazis"

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 11:00 | 6852424 xavi1951
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In fact, as I have tried to explain before, if a man with a knife is withing 20' of you, unless you get a lucky head shot, he can slice you up and stand a better chance of bleeding out then he does.  That is gone over in most police training programs on shoot-don't shoot scenarios.  Just ask an ER Doctor what they think.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:19 | 6851233 snr-moment
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Well at least the mass shootings that plague our country [US] don't happen in other countries.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 06:24 | 6852104 Manthong
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but the good news is that some of us shoot back..

as a wise person once said.. "a shoot-out is way better than a massacre".

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 07:04 | 6852117 Manthong
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I guaran.. f’n T you that if I was carrying in that Paris concert hall, more than one of the operators would have holes in their heads.

If one is trained and has point of aim, one will not waste a round trying to hit the center mass ceramic.

BTW, note my use of the word “operators”.

and heck.. a nifty little anecdote..

When they finally passed CCW in Illinois and the final qual was shooting at a target a lousy 10 feet or so away..  the instructor was wondering why there were no other holes on my target..

.and that was because they were all concentrated in the two inch hole in the middle.

I used my comfy little Beretta 9mm for that test.

 

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:09 | 6850301 HowdyDoody
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Update

ii) assassinate lawyer who is a prominent member of the Kurdish opposition party

[also - enough with the auto-play videos]

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:45 | 6850403 Luc X. Ifer
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Only another Ataturk can save Turkey now from its downfall ...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:38 | 6850787 kiwidor
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no.  it's the big man syndrome that has turkey in a jam.  these nutjob turks take everything as a personal affront.  a nation of insecure children who compensate by being part of a gang, which has to have a strong leader. 

another saviour isn't going to stop that cycle.  Turkey needs to be split up into multiple republics .  a separate kurdish nation would be a good start.

now where's that bitch Nuland when we need her?

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:41 | 6851127 Luc X. Ifer
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Do you know who Ataturk was?!

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 01:27 | 6851819 Socratic Dog
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A jew, I believe.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 05:05 | 6852035 jeff montanye
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and a zionist. 

and a british agent.

and gay, not that there's anything wrong with that last one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_L6uQLR2dM

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 10:49 | 6852405 Luc X. Ifer
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and you are obviously an ignorant idiot

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:57 | 6850851 Optimusprime
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Sorry, Turkey has had enough of crypto-Jews.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 22:15 | 6851354 Sparkey
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Don't worry Luc, this will pass quickly!

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:26 | 6849897 Dame Ednas Possum
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I read the UK's weekend FT (Financial Times) over lunch. There was no mention whatsoever of the Russian bomber being shot down several days ago.

This paper supposedly prides itself on objective analysis of important events.

Not one single mention of this blatant, premeditated act of war.

Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot?

No mention of Turkey's active support of Isis.

No mention of the oil sales or the arms supplies.

The mainstream media is complicit in the crimes.

Pathetic, piece of shit shill presstitutes.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:50 | 6850237 McCormick No. 9
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Courtney did it.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:25 | 6850358 hongdo
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Correct and very sad that so many read that tripe.  I used to until I could not correlate it with the facts.  "Talk your book" is the law.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:46 | 6850405 trader1
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Dame,

Last updated: November 24, 2015 6:44 pm

Turkey shoots down Russian fighter jet on Syrian border
Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:00 | 6850862 Optimusprime
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And I have friends--staunch "progressives"--who think reading FT and The Economist (both Rothschild organs) somehow keeps one realistically abreast of the news.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:21 | 6851225 Killdo
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you are right - FT is pathetic - I stopped reading it about 6 months ago after many years. Even their best books of they year section is not that good any more. 

I've noticed the Guardian is pretty anti-Russian (but comments are almost like ZH)

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 09:57 | 6852319 DetectiveStern
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The Gaurdian delete so many comments. I'm always getting mine deleted whenever I post links to facts about the Politician Paedophiles running this country.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 23:32 | 6851537 SixIsNinE
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seriously ?  that's pretty seriously wrong ...

at least our small local paper put a small column to it on the first page pretty quick. 

 

It's SERIOUS folks ...

what if the general human population was to begin to be infused with a new sense of purpose and understanding of why we are here now   -  and it could be accomplished in a similar time frame as if everyone scheduled an appointment with the optometrist and got a new prescription, whether it be IntraLase LASIK, contact lenses, or glasses.  

To really see with new eyes - but this is an internal new vision - which is gained by the medicine activating the pineal gland and Experiencing only what can be said as having such effectiveness of seeing the wisdom of a path of peace instead of a path of war. 

We really can awaken to the possibilities of a Peaceful living together .... the combination of Music Medicine yields Miracles

  ...  i wrote a paper about this medicine while also offering opinions on the events of 11 September 2001.  I'd love the opportunity to share the importance of this medicine toward a brighter, better, more beautiful world. 

RIP John Lennon   - Pat Tillman - Jimi Hendrix 

Founding Fathers of the Sgt. TiLLmAn's PUrple HearTs CLuB  - Banzai - I will email you - I want to collaborate with you on a t-shirt for this -

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:57 | 6850019 JRobby
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Later in the day in another part of the world, Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated triggering.................................

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:52 | 6851009 hannah
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...and germany bombs pearl harbor.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 02:11 | 6851878 WOAR
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And then America saves the day! Ooorah!

'MERICA! FUCK YEAH!

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 22:05 | 6851329 Fukushima Fricassee
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Perhaps but that mother fucker aint so "prominate" now

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:56 | 6850017 Freddie
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How many months ago was there big protests against Erdogan over a park and his authoritarian rule?  Was that about 8 months ago?  The Turkish people were rising up but they used tear gas and bullets against the people.

He lives in a f***king 110 or more room palace.  The guy is a real bag of shit but the Turkish military is run by the See Aye Eye and Moose-ad. All payoofs and bribery plus threats.  Someone wrote they think the Turkish military with the See Eye Aye and Moose-ad decided to shoot down the Russian Su-24 not erdogan.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:04 | 6850291 Fish Gone Bad
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If they lose their jobs, perhaps they can start a circus because there appears to be an awful lot of clowning going on.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:47 | 6850818 kiwidor
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That possibility hasn't escaped the notice of the Russians.  Now what better outcome would be an orthodox christian renaissance stretching westly from the Third Rome  back  to the second rome, Istanbul Constantinople Byzantium

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:50 | 6850238 Anacrust
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The CIA only gets involved if you stray from the agenda. Turkey is following the play at this point, so no western supported revolution needed.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:58 | 6851306 fleur de lis
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The CIA is a curse on this Earth.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 22:06 | 6851332 fleur de lis
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The CIA is a curse upon this Earth. They serve no purpose but the spread of misery and bringing wreck and ruin everywhere. Then sticking the taxpayers with the bill for their malevolence.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:25 | 6850737 TRM
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Russian-Turk spring or is that Kurdish spring? Hmmm. The possibilites oh the endless possibilties for mischief ....

 

 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 03:35 | 6851942 Tall Tom
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What is rather surprising is that the Turkish Government did not immediately blame Russian Agents for this attack.

 

Erdogan mssed an opportunity to unite his country for war. He may have used it to unite the Kurds and the Turks against the Russians. He could have declared that Russia was attemting to sow the seed of discord within Turkey as a response to the downing of the Russian Fighter Jet..

 

Thus the attack was not originated by the Turkish Government, as it was a shock to them, as they would have already prepared the narraative in advance.

 

Do you see that in a False Flag attack the villian is immediately identified?

 

It did not happen here.

 

And if they attempt to change the narrative now then we will know that they are LYING

 

The Russians did not do this either...or did they?

 

Qui bono?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 07:09 | 6852145 azusgm
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If Erdogan were to attempt to pin this on Russia, Russian intelligence would probably bust this open in a very public way. If the facts involved Erdogan, the PKK would be energized.

To me, Erdogan appears to be a narcissist who is intent on becoming the caliph of a revived Ottoman Empire. I don't think he looks too far outward at the moment. If he ends up with several million extra migrants stuck inside Turkey's borders and competing for work with the native millenials, he may end up too busy to look for provocation with Russia. He has already been spanked once this week.

The Kurds are Medes. They too have a history of empire.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:53 | 6849809 NoDebt
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If this isn't worth 100 Dow points to the green on Monday, I'll eat my hat.

It's always good for business when one guy takes complete control of his country and executes all opposition.  At least you only have to bribe one side to do business there.

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:29 | 6849918 Dame Ednas Possum
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Hey wank-stain that is responsible for the '-1' against ever comment here... there's a lamp post, a noose and a few litres of petrol waiting for you.

You piece of shit.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:36 | 6849939 chunga
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It's almost as lame as the new users that do nothing but link porn.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:47 | 6849981 UncleSparky
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Bread and Circuses.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:56 | 6850018 UncleSparky
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There he goes again!

Congrats you twat my first ever downvote.

Mom's basement?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:10 | 6850074 JRobby
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Video uploading his Mom with Midgets in Her basement

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:26 | 6850133 slaughterer
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There has been a down-voting juggernaut down-votigng everything over the last few days.  Pay no attention.   He is only meant to confuse your well-founded opinions.  

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:10 | 6850312 Fish Gone Bad
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Does anyone care if there are down votes?  Do the police show up at one's door and rochambeaux (kick them in the nuts) them?  Just in case, I better lock the gate...  

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 03:49 | 6851961 Tall Tom
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He lacks those nuts to which to deliver the kick as he has proven himself effeminate.

 

LMAO

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 03:45 | 6851958 Tall Tom
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I will downvote you now as you have demonstrated that you LACK CONVICTION.

 

I cannot care any less about anybody downvoting me.

 

So you are a woman who requires social validation?

 

Grow a skin.

 

This is not Agreement Club.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:46 | 6849787 GMadScientist
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And Erdogan's too.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:54 | 6849812 NoDebt
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"It's like the country is being run by a petulant child."

Wait, are we talking about Turkey or the US?  It gets so confusing these days.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:34 | 6850167 miki
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they are all madmen that 75million heads on a pikes lol

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:46 | 6850217 McCormick No. 9
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C'mon... Obama's not Turkish!

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:34 | 6850772 kiwidor
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tmosley:  that is the collective turkish psyche you describe so well. 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 21:30 | 6851215 fleur de lis
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Ergodan is giving us a real time profile of the typical violent psychopath dragging entire nations into a ditch. It is rare that they spin out of control in public so badly. The Matrix must be furious. He wrecked their little scheme and gave the Russians the upper hand.

Psychopaths are everywhere at the helms of power, destroying entire social structures, looting resources, triggering wars and leaving a trail of bloodshed to keep the NWO in control.

But these things must be done quietly. The target populations must not be alerted that they are being terrorized and robbed. They might catch on and revolt.

That is why NATO is so angry with him -- they don't care about the Russian jet or the murders of the pilot and the marine. It's just that Ergodan made such an absolute mess of it. Maybe it was being planned along those lines anyway but he got out in front and did things his way, thus overplaying his hand and NATO's.

By becoming the biggest loose cannon on Earth he has attracted the negative attention of his handlers. He will be reprimanded in no uncertain terms.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 05:52 | 6852080 Johnny Horscaulk
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Spot on.

Erdogan signed his own death warrant, with the shoot s
Down, even if it was really the us ordering turkeys military to do it.

And it will likely be a Turkish Spring that does it.

erdogan, netanyahu, the saudis - what a fucking shithole.

Bring our troops and our shut home from the middle east, make deals with russia and iran and venezuela, stop the interventionist warmongering nonsense, and focus on unfucking our own country... For a change.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 07:21 | 6852157 azusgm
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I'd be willing to bet the attack on the Russian plane was Erdogan's idea. It is the type of thing a narcissist would do. He had help, but it is a stretch to think someone else would have to order him to do it. Could be a matter of two minds thinking alike, but the extra input would have been redundant.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 22:13 | 6851345 European American
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"So, when are the Turks going to put this madman's head on a pike?

His actions are showing ever decreasing rationality and forethought. It's like the country is being run by a petulant child."


So, when are the Americans going to put this Obama's head on a pike?

His actions are showing ever decreasing rationality and forethought. It's like the country is being run by a petulant child.

 

 

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:45 | 6849784 GMadScientist
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Also a translation of "Mission Accomplished!" into Hebrew would be a mitzvah.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:34 | 6849748 Freddie
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Greeceshould have left NATO and the EU but they are too f**king stoopid.

Turkey is a disgusting country and Erdogan is scum.  The See Eye Aye and Moo-sad are always in the background pulling strings in Turkey.

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:28 | 6849715 SILVERGEDDON
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By golly, there is a lot of shit going on in that neck of the woods.

Almost makes you think someone wants a war or something...................

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:29 | 6849722 Ballin D
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"'The moment the statement ended, the crowd was sprayed with bullets,' Reuters cited Omer Tastan, a local official from the pro-Kurdish HDP party"

 

Watch the video.  Looks like police/security spray the crowd. Not so sure Erdogan ordered more than one death here.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 00:20 | 6851665 SixIsNinE
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well, i'm hoping those two who came out shooting from among the photography crew and the victim were aiming at the assassin/s ...

it was confusing as to which direction the incoming fire was from ...or was it from both sides?

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:36 | 6849752 Noplebian
Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:55 | 6849817 ZH Snob
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this overreaching of erdogan just might be the spark to his undoing and an eventual coup.

and although the state would have us all believe in an ironic and unfortunate event, a coup would be the best irony of all.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:18 | 6849874 junction
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Erdogan is just following the CIA's JFK playbook on how to bump off opponents.  Trouble is, the killers started shooting to soon.  Soon, the surviving killers will get their payment and then their bodies tossed into a nearby river.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:44 | 6850398 Dungeness
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"But… but… Erdogan is civilized"

He is a moderate.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:20 | 6849676 Deus Irate
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What's with buddy eating the hood of that car? Was he expecting a delivery at the rear door -- or something? Oh, I shoulda realised. He's just another turkish chickenshit.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:20 | 6849680 Truther
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Are you Destroying the evidence Erdogan?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:24 | 6849701 BennyBoy
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Next Turkish headline:

"Mysterious" Fire Hits Turkish Ministry Of Finance, Destroys Years Of Corrupt Regime's Files

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-27/mysterious-fire-hits-argentine-...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:54 | 6850844 Stuck on Zero
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Following Turkish headline: "Round up the usual suspects." - Erdogan.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:22 | 6849688 FreeShitter
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Good for another 100-200 on the djia.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:43 | 6850396 InjectTheVenom
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why so pessimistic ?   

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:22 | 6849690 Scooby Dooby Doo
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Hey man nice shot! Lawyers....

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:24 | 6849697 Global Hunter
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When I first came to ZH nearly every post had a commentator mentioning "black swans", 4 years later and a number of posts each day make me think of the Archduke Ferdinand.  From Black Swans to Archdukes in 4 years.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:27 | 6849713 medium giraffe
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#blackarchdukesmatter

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 00:24 | 6851673 SixIsNinE
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#blackcheesepopesmatter

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:28 | 6849719 RonArgent
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"nearly every post" = < 1%

 

GFY

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:47 | 6849789 Global Hunter
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I had never heard the term black swan until I stumbled on ZH so it stood out for me.  I probably exaggerate but the point I was trying to make was that we've probably already had the events that future historians and history books will refer to as the start of WW3 or 4 or whatever term one would like to give it.  I wasn't knocking this site or anybody that uses the term black swan (there seems to be a lot of events that could be called black swans). 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:45 | 6849974 ANestIOS
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future historians and history books? a future is an assumption too far in itself

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:00 | 6850029 cougar_w
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Technically you should not refer to "black swans" in the past tense. It is forward-looking term to describe something that has not happened. After the event it is no longer the unexpected future. In theory you can run out of "black swan" events as they actually unfold.

We are all expecting bad things now. It's hard to call them "black swans" because we know they are coming, stacked up like airliners waiting to land at a busy airport.

Hence the transition away from the language of anxiety. Now, we only wait.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:34 | 6850170 Global Hunter
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cougar_w, thank you for the clarification.  This sentence is especially relevant to me "In theory you can run out of "black swan" events as they unfold."  Yes we wait.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:41 | 6850976 SgtShaftoe
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Agreed, Didier Sornette's Dragon Kings (expected tumult) is what we're looking at.  In Taleb's nomenclature it's a "gray swan".  A black swan is something that is completely unexpected like a comet hiting DC (I wish it would). 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 00:35 | 6851700 SixIsNinE
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2 months lockup for a comedy routine that offended the chosenite tribesfolk ...

French comic Dieudonne sentenced :

 

https://news.yahoo.com/belgium-sentences-french-comic-dieudonne-two-mont...

As comedians have outspokenly commented recently about the hesitation to play USA tours

seein' the MATRIX yet ?

 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 01:28 | 6851820 Adahy
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They don't want to play here for threat of Hitlery.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/11/clinton-goes-after-laugh-facto...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:03 | 6851031 flapdoodle
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If you read Taleb's book, he never defines Black Swans as something  totally unexpected.

The correct meaning from Taleb is that they are unexpected...  by the victims. The ones who instigate the Black Swans, like the farmer fattening up a  turkey, (how timely!) know exactly what is going on...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:39 | 6850968 SgtShaftoe
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If you like black swans, read Taleb's books.  You should also brush up on Didier Sornet (sp).  He uses a term called "Dragon King" that in Taleb's terminology would be a gray swan (something that is inevitable and forseeable, like the next currency reset and the end to US hegemony). 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:51 | 6849755 Scooby Dooby Doo
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At least we know one thing. Every thread will have a least one comment referencing Hitler. That hasn't changed at all, all negative references too.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:50 | 6850236 duncecap rack
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I'm curious what a positive Hitler comment might be.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:23 | 6850351 Global Hunter
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He made the trains run on time?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:50 | 6850418 geno-econ
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He also introduced the Peoples car---the Volkswagon ---now the liar mileage car.   

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:04 | 6851033 FixItAgainTony
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Though not the ubermensch he desired, A.H. created a master race and gave them a homeland at the center of world intrigue.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 18:24 | 6850733 cougar_w
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Hitler was instrumental in getting rid of that stupid little mustache men would commonly sport. Those things were sorry. And you don't see them anymore, notice.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 00:52 | 6851740 SixIsNinE
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everyone noze now them little mustasshes is racist & anti Seemittish .... 

SafeSpaces BiiTcheZZ

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 04:13 | 6851973 Tall Tom
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Watch the video...

 

Writing of instrumental enjoy the music about Einstein's son.

 

Sparks..."Talent is an Asset"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHp9NsrTlAY

 

Hitler on keyboards.

 

Of course they grew up.

 

Here is one strange jazzy orchestrial recent cut...They are still producing....after releasing 35 Albums

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HljyP1mh5IA

 

He is no longer Hitler

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 12:54 | 6852742 L Bean
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Yessssssss SPARKS. I was gonna mention the Maels if no on e else did.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:06 | 6850884 Optimusprime
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"He fought the banksters"?  He did, actually.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:20 | 6851074 Dancing Disraeli
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I fought the banksters and the banksters won

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 00:50 | 6851734 SixIsNinE
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say, those Banksters,  should they wiseup and voluntarily see a different route to take ... it's more rewarding and healthy to have a peaceful world where people inherently see the benefits of impeccable behavior ..... imagine ,   it's easy if you try ....

 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 04:28 | 6851999 Tall Tom
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He issued money not based upon debt.

 

He rebuilt the German Economy into a War machine...like we do have in the USSA today.

 

He was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938 due to Germany's Economic Miracle.

 

We adopted his model in the postwar period having near full employment...although we failed to abolish the FED.

 

Yes he was a warmonger, murdering millions, just like the United States does today.

 

Do not think that we are any better because we are not. And we are no worse.

 

I do not care if you claim that Russians are better. They are not. They mass murdered also.,,even their own people.

 

That is what our leaders are good at doing...GENOCIDE.

 

And it is very, very sad.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 00:39 | 6851712 SixIsNinE
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2nd rule of fight club :  don't feed Scooby any Scoobysnacks !  it only encourages him

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 01:41 | 6851843 Socratic Dog
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He got rid of jew bankers.  For that he had to die.

Don't know if it's true, but I want it to be true.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:19 | 6850111 ali-ali-al-qomfri
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@ GH  welcome aboard Tyler’s Arc;

We have;

Black swans

White swans

Boiling frogs

Raging Bulls

Perma Bears

Monkey hammers

Dying Canaries

Flopping Whales

Octopi (vampire species)

Doves

Hawks

Deads Cats (bouncing version)

Pigs

Elephants

Donkies

Cash Cows

Sheeple

Unicorns (skittle shitting variety)

all animal, all the time

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:07 | 6850475 umdesch4
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Don't forget:

Green shoots

BTFD (YFI)

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:21 | 6850526 Global Hunter
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Since Lehman Bitchez!!!

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 20:50 | 6851159 Loose Caboose
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Deer (in the headlights)

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 11:10 | 6852447 xavi1951
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False Flags

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:27 | 6849711 Francis Marx
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The guy never stops...he back stabs the Russians, now killing someone who stands up to his corruption. Pretty obviuos to the west now how wicked he is.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:29 | 6849724 LawsofPhysics
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but Turkey is a NATO member and an allie of the "west"...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:36 | 6849746 Francis Marx
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Yea...I guess that gives Egor-dogan a free ticket to slaugter the Kurds doesnt it?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:50 | 6849801 LawsofPhysics
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This is no surprise. Been this way for 30+ fucking years.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:01 | 6849828 Salah
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take a gander at the palace this asshole built for himself, right out of the Nicolae Ceausescu playbook

http://www.balkaneu.com/erdogan-inaugurates-presidential-palace/

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:44 | 6850211 Whoa Dammit
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I bet Lil' Kim is jealous. It's got that full North Korean architectural look going.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 00:46 | 6851725 SixIsNinE
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that link is grossly understating the $$ amount ... i'm pretty sure there was a $10 billion tag reported associated with the compound, not $250 million Euro ...

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:27 | 6849712 LawsofPhysics
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Absolute power corrupts, absolutely.

Same as it ever was folks.

Pay attention because the true faces of evil do make themselves known from time to time and those that seek power and control over real resources (which is what this is always about) do lose control from time to time...

Interesting times, hedge accordingly.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:19 | 6849821 Grave
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psychopaths have been in power throughout history because they have no morals or ethics (because they are stupid and they are stupid because they are lazy to learn)

so they steal, cheat, lie and cause violence and murder on a large scale. the only short term way to deal with psychopaths has been countering by other psychopaths

long term (thousands of years) they will be filtered out of population because honest and decent people seek no power to steal, murder and enslave others, they just want to live and enjoy a peaceful life

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:14 | 6850326 delacroix
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this anti-semitism, has got to stop.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 16:31 | 6850365 I-am-not-one-of-them
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chosen by GOD to overlord, that's the problem, they all think they are exceptional

 

 

 

 

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:58 | 6850638 Hapa
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Is god a psychopath?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:01 | 6850865 kiwidor
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All variations of God G_d jehovah yahweh allah yaldabaoth etc etc , all of them, are psychotic space fairies, products of the denial of reality and weak collectivist minds.
There IS the divine earth mother, Sophia and her consort..  Much more important they are, given that your existence and life are drawn directly from them.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 00:58 | 6851757 SixIsNinE
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LOVE - GOD = GOD - LOVE  

 

KISS

 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 08:07 | 6852191 css1971
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There is no god. God is a manifestation of psychotic minds.

 

Go read a bible or torah or whatever. It's completely clear that they were batshit insane.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 10:47 | 6852401 PhilofOz
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My take is that God is so perfect that for those such as yourself there is of course no God. You've been given the option and chose nothing so nothing is all that exists for you. For those that do choose to have a belief in God, then God exists. It also depends a lot on your definition of God. For me it's "universal subconcious mind". There be a few here that know where this very appropriate definition originates I'm sure.

 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 02:52 | 6851914 hunkerdown
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Actually, when it does get filtered out of societies, it's because the psychopaths who pilfer the commons have the damnedest poor luck with accidents at the hands of the sane folk.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:07 | 6849842 Isotope
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Or possibly:

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
- Frank Herbert
Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:10 | 6850901 Optimusprime
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Herbert also mentions adrenaline addiction...

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:28 | 6849716 Dr. Engali
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A lawyer got shot and people are pissed? Man, they're more screwed up than we are.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:07 | 6849839 rwe2late
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 no surprise here that:

Engali believes Turks should not be "pissed" off about this murder.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 14:33 | 6849932 SoilMyselfRotten
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You are rather easily diverted

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 15:49 | 6850231 McCormick No. 9
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President of the (local) bar association, no less. Ambivalence rules the day...or the night. Whatever.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 17:02 | 6850464 ross81
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tell that to the family and supporters of Pat Finucane. He was a lawyer who really did want justice but the British state had other ideas.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:32 | 6849731 Spinquads
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It's just an ISIS hop, skip and jump to Europe if Turkey buckles.

Bullish.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:16 | 6850911 Optimusprime
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Nonsense.  Turkey has been shipping them out by the thousands.  It is up to the Europeans--the indigenous Europeans, for the politically-correct--meaning white people--to require their traitorous governments to repel the invasion and deport all the phony refugees.  Now that would be good news.  Send Barbara Lerner Specter back to Israel!

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:32 | 6849732 me or you
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Next breaking news will be: Erdogan's plane blows in thousands pieces.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 19:03 | 6850874 kiwidor
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and hopefully many of his cronies fall out of their helicopter

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