Turkish delights

The analysis and the vids below  are enough to tell us how dictator Erdogan's dreams of turning Turkey into a Caliphate are fast disappearing.

Gareth Jenkins, Turkey Analyst wrties:
The unprecedented anti-government protests  that have erupted across Turkey pose the most serious challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since his Justice and Development Party (AKP) first took office in November 2002. Although it is still too early to assess the extent of the threat to Erdoğan’s grip on power, he has been seriously weakened. At the very least, his dreams of establishing a presidential system and ruling the country singlehandedly for the next decade have suffered a fatal blow.

BACKGROUND: When Erdoğan first became prime minister, he was careful to avoid confrontation. Publicly, he insisted that he had discarded the firebrand Islamism of his youth in favor of a moderate, pluralistic conservatism. Skeptics remained unconvinced, claiming that Erdoğan was being disingenuous and merely biding his time. The previous regime had tried to squeeze a highly diverse society into a homogenized and theoretically secular, ethnic Turkish straitjacket. Their fear was that, once he felt strong enough, Erdoğan would attempt to impose a homogenized, Sunni Islamic one.

In time, the skeptics were proved right. As he consolidated his power, Erdoğan became not only more authoritarian and autocratic but also more explicit about his goal of reshaping Turkish society in accordance with his own Sunni Islamic beliefs. But, faced only with a flaccid and ineffectual opposition, Erdogan was able to dominate the political landscape, using his keen political instincts and bludgeoning rhetoric to build a strong electoral powerbase amongst the mass of the people.

In June 2011, the AKP won its third successive general election, securing 49.8 percent of the vote. Unchallenged and seemingly unchallengeable, Erdoğan started to advocate replacing Turkey’s parliamentary system with a presidential one – and indicated that he would run as a candidate to replace President Abdullah Gül, whose term in office is due to end in August 2014, and then serve for two successive five-year terms.

In November 2011, Erdoğan underwent emergency surgery for the removal of a malignant growth in his intestines. He had a second operation in February 2012. He is now heavily medicated and subject to frequent health checks. The expectation is that his cancer will return. The prognosis is uncertain.

The impact on Erdoğan of the medication and the reminder of his own mortality remain unclear. But, over the last 15 months, he has become more impatient, irascible, authoritarian and hubristic. For someone whose ability to gauge the public mood once made him the most accomplished Turkish politician of his generation, Erdoğan has also started to look dangerously out of touch. Yet the more detached he has become, the more Erdoğan has appeared to regard himself as the embodiment of the national will – with an electorally endowed right to issue the final word on almost every issue, from the number of children that women should bear to the costumes and scripts of television soap operas and Turkey’s national drink, which he announced in April 2013 was ayran or “buttermilk”. No one else was consulted.

In early May 2013, Erdoğan announced plans to restrict sales of alcohol and ban its advertising. The resultant law was rushed through parliament in the early hours of May 24, 2013. As Turks slept, Erdoğan inserted a number of last minute changes. One of these requires any depictions of alcoholic beverages on television to be blurred on the grounds that they endanger public health by encouraging people to drink alcohol. The scientific basis of this conclusion remains unclear. However, if Erdoğan genuinely believes that viewers will imitate what they see on television screens, it is difficult to understand why he has not made it compulsory to blur depictions of guns and knives, particularly when they are shown being used to kill people.......

Besides the USA, does the Caliphate of Libya aid the headchoppers in Syria? Yup ...a whole bloody lot.

Wanna know who are the scum who will be becoming the world's  new batch of muti-billionaires?    Look at the weapon manufacturing companies and look at those who have sizeable stakes in those firms.  Then look at all the gun runners.  Scum benefit at the cost of human blood.

Jessica Donati, Ghaith Shennib and Firas Bosalum writing at ReutersIndia:
....Abdul Basit Haroun says he is  behind some of the biggest shipments of weapons from Libya to Syria, which he delivers on chartered flights to neighbouring countries and then smuggles over the border.
After fleeing Libya in his 20s, Haroun established himself as a property developer in Manchester. After about two decades in the British city, he returned to Libya in 2011 to fight in the revolution, where he became a prominent rebel commander.
He says he sends aid and weapons to help Syrians achieve the freedom he fought for during the Libyan revolution.
The first consignment of weapons was smuggled into Syria aboard a Libyan ship delivering aid last year, Haroun says, but now containers of arms are flown "above board" into neighbouring countries on chartered flights.
In the months since Haroun began his work, arming the rebels has moved up the international agenda, with Saudi Arabia equipping them with missiles, and Washington also planning to send weapons to the men fighting President Bashar al-Assad.
Haroun spoke to Reuters over coffee and homemade cake late at night at his villa on the outskirts of Benghazi, the eastern city that began the uprising that deposed Muammar Gaddafi.
His son, a young man who spoke English with a Manchester accent, offered help with weapon prices and other details.
Haroun was upset the West had not intervened in Syria, as it did in Libya and said the opportunity to avert a larger war had been missed.
"Even when the war in Syria ends, there will be another war in region; Sunni against Shia. At the beginning, there was just Assad to bring down ... now Hezbollah, Iran are involved.".........



Google translation from an AlAkbar article:
...sent over the past year three shipments   of weapons of steamboats from Benghazi to Turkey and then overland to Syria, the latest in nearly a month from now. This is revealed exclusively for the channel is now one of the organizers send this Alokad, which oversees the process of charging weapons . offer you here the first exclusive photos of these shipments, has concealed the faces of the participants in this campaign for security reasons. the pictures show Libyans carrying ships vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns in the port Benghazi. these pictures military vehicles with anti-aircraft weapons, and large quantities of ammunition. all these weapons, does not come from any party government, but donated by battalions Libyan participated before in the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime. 
According to the source, charging so far about one hundred and twenty rockets anti-aircraft type Sam seven laptop on the shoulder, and it was these missiles greatest credit for dropping helicopters and other aircraft belonging to the Syrian regime last year, but the source who preferred not to provide us with those images 
. assistance battalions Libya in Benghazi, the Syrians are not limited to arms, but also include food and medical as well. across the Mediterranean sailing ships to arrive in the end to Turkey without any problem, and is not known whether there was prior coordination with the border guards of the Turkish introduction of these shipments to Turkey and from there to areas controlled by the opposition in the north of Syria. 
ships are not the only way used by the Phalange Libya to send arms and food to the opponents Alsoreyen, has hired these battalions aircraft as well, since even sent at about twenty-seven aircraft to Turkey, specifically to Gaziante....

Ian Drury writing at DailyMailUK:
....  Don't turn Syria into a 'Tesco for terrorists'   like Libya, generals tell Cameron.  Up to 3,000 surface-to-air missiles went missing in Libya.Up to 3,000 surface-to-air missiles have gone missing in Libya since the conflict -  and spy chiefs say the state has become the 'Tesco' of the world's illegal arms trade.
More than one million tonnes of weapons belonging to Colonel Gaddafi were looted from arms dumps after the dictator was toppled in October 2011.
MI6 agents fear large numbers of weapons - which included 22,000 shoulder-launched missiles capable of bringing down an aircraft - have been smuggled out of Libya to groups linked to Al Qaeda....

Project "Refugees dumped on Canada by United Nations"

Project Traveller has arrested the following, mostly Somalis and other riff-raff  that the wannabe One World Governance body of this planet, mandates that Western countries should give refuge to because the Muslim countries will not take in their own Muslim riff-raff.   Also arrested were those who acted as facilitators supplying means  and logistics for the various crimes committed by the "refugees-made-Canadians" scum.

Whom do we  blame?   Our own government who lets its arm be twisted any which way by an entity that we should not be a part of, or should we blame the United Nations over which we have no power whatsoever?  As voters we can only blame our own government and therein lies the whole stinky mess of our own making.

...News Release from the Toronto Police Services ...In June 2012, the Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force began Project Traveller, as a result of a criminal organization alleged to have been operating in Toronto, Windsor and Edmonton. Project Traveller investigated the alleged criminal activities of a group known as the Dixon City Bloods or the Dixon Goonies. Many of the alleged crimes committed were centred in the area of the apartment complexes on Dixon Road in Toronto but the investigation revealed the impact of their activities ranged far beyond and involve serious crimes of violence, gun importation, and drug trafficking across Toronto and surrounding regions, including Windsor, and in Alberta.
A total of 42 tactical teams from 17 police agencies executed 83 search warrants on Thursday, June 13, 2013. After an extensive investigation, 44 arrests have been made and over 220 charges have been laid. More than 175,000 grams of drugs, $570,000 in cash, 42 firearms, 1 Taser and more than 100 rounds of ammunition were seized..........

....The following individuals have been arrested and charged in relation to Project Traveller:
Siyadin Abdi, 29, of Toronto:
Ahmed Abdullahi, 23, of Toronto:
Hashim Abdullahi, 28, of Toronto:
Farah Abdulle, 27, of Toronto:
Amy Andrews, 55, of Mississauga (female):
Abdulkadir Bihi, 24, of Toronto:
Ahmed Dirie, 20, of Toronto:
Mohamed Dirie, 24, of Toronto:
Ahmed Farah, 30, of Toronto:
Mohamed Farah, 33, of Toronto:
Abdullahi Harun, 22, of Toronto:
Madina Hassan, 36, of Toronto (female):
Orlando Hollinshed, 42, of Windsor:
Abdinaim Hussein, 26, of Toronto:
Daud Hussein, 27, of Edmonton:
Liban Hussein, 18, of Toronto:
Monir Kasim, 20, of Toronto:
Brett Kersey, 51, of Windsor:
Danyal Khan, 26, of Toronto:
Tala Khan, 24, of Mississauga:
Mohammad Khattak, 19, of Toronto:
Terry Mauldin, 26, of Windsor:
Abukar Mohamed, 21, of Windsor:
Nicholas Obeng, 27, of Woodbridge:
Jerry Pope, 43, of Detroit:
Halima Said, 62, of Toronto, (female):
Mohamed Salim, 24, of Toronto:
Sandra Sayegh, 25, of Windsor, (female):
Mohamed Siad, 27, of Toronto:
Liban Siyad, 22, of Toronto:
Allyson Steil, 32, of Windsor (female):
Sarah Vaughan, 26, of Toronto:
Naimo Warsame, 23, of Toronto:
Corey Peterson, 27, of Windsor:
Curtis Elliott, 27

In addition, nine individuals were arrested and charged in relation to Project Traveller prior to June 13, 2013. They are awaiting transfer to Toronto where they face additional charges. Their names will not be made available until that time. The investigation is ongoing. Ten people remain outstanding.........

Turkey's police thugs use streets for short naps

Must be pretty exhausting for the bullies, what with driving those huge poisoned water cannon tanks and firing those plastic and glass bullets at the protesters while at the same time kicking helpless people when they are already down and  spraying tear gas canisters right into the faces of women  ... my heart weeps for the bullies as I am sure yours does too.
The video below is supposed to be of a journalist being dragged away by the bullies.  The link below has other clips.

From BusinessInsider:
...This clip here from LiveLeak shows a police officer approach a photographer asking for proper identification.

Moments later his colleague walks up and totally loses his mind. He yells about how the press always 'shoot' the police, and not the protesters — implying that photographers are out to demonize the Turkish police.
"Is the police the fall-guy? You make us go mad!"
Then, totally irate, he references tear gas and asks the journalist, "What else can we do, do you want me to fart?"
Many of the commenters on the Liveleak video contend that the riot police have been deployed for the entire two week period of the clashes with protestors. Some said that the police haven't been home yet and sleep in the streets.
Then one posted an image of exactly that, a bunch of exhausted cops sleeping in the street.........

How Canadian universities act as fronts for the Iranian govt by taking their funds

And, before any of you start throwing darts at Canada ... look in your own backyard.   The USA, UK, France, Germany, Australia and each and every Judeo-Christian nation in the world .... without a single exception ...is complicit in force-feeding the propaganda .and the ideology of the islamic curse, from both the Sunni and the Shiite Muslim nations, to the young citizens of all these non-Muslim countries.  Shame !!  Who are the traitors now?  Is it individuals like Snowden or whole entities like the governments of the people?

From YahooNews:  Michael Petrou writing at McLeans:
....Canadian universities are receiving funds   from what U.S. prosecutors allege is a front for the Iranian government.  
A foundation that American authorities say is a front for the Iranian government continues to fund McGill University and a Toronto Farsi school, years after U.S. federal prosecutors went to court to seize the group’s assets and alleged it was channelling money to an Iranian state-owned bank sanctioned by Canada.

The Alavi Foundation is a New York-based non-profit that has given more than $300,000 to Canadian universities, and more than $200,000 to the private Toronto Farsi School, since 2004.
In November 2009, U.S. federal prosecutors filed an amended civil complaint seeking the forfeiture of the foundation’s interest in a lucrative Manhattan office tower, from where it derives most of its income. The property was built in the 1970s by the Pahlavi Foundation, which was controlled by the shah of Iran to run the country’s charitable activities in America.

The claim, which is not resolved, alleges that, following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran’s new government took control of the property and the foundation, which it renamed, running them through Iran’s ambassadors to the United Nations.

It alleges that the Iranian state-owned Bank Melli, through an offshore shell company, owns 40 per cent of the Manhattan property, while the Alavi Foundation controls the remaining 60 per cent.
Under Canada’s 2010 Special Economic Measures Regulations on Iran, Bank Melli is a designated entity with which Canadians cannot do business. The United States and the European Union have also blacklisted the bank, alleging it funds terrorism and Iran’s nuclear missile program....

.....At the time, the Alavi Foundation already had a long-standing funding relationship with several Canadian universities, as well as the Toronto private school. Its charitable tax records indicate it gave $5,000 to the University of Alberta in 2004 and 2008, and $10,000 to Ottawa’s Carleton University in 2007. The Toronto Farsi School, which has charitable status and claims it can provide credits toward an Ontario secondary-school diploma, received more than $200,000 between 2004 and 2010. The largest beneficiary in Canada, however, was McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies, which received $270,000 between 2004 and 2010. Christopher Manfredi, dean of McGill’s faculty of arts, told Maclean’s he believes Alavi has been funding McGill since 1987.

Carleton University and the University of Alberta say they have not received money from the Alavi Foundation since 2007 and 2008, respectively. The Alavi Foundation gave McGill $30,000 last August.......

Edward Snowden, if he's killed by the USA or by the internet giants, will become the first true martyr of this century

He's a hero, IMO.  Another one is Wikileaks founder Assange, again IMO.  Tell the truth, shame the devil.
We keep complaining about how big and powerful those ruling over us are becoming and then when people like Assange and Snowden blow open the dirty laundry bags of the government  which should give us ammunition to hit them back with .... what do we do?  Instead of thanking the guys who helped expose the dirty laundry ... we crucify them.   Madness !!

And, don't tell me that telling military secrets is traitorous because then the enemy wins.  That might have been true long ago ... not now in our modern day and age when the government itself has become  the  biggest traitor of all by tying up the army, navy and what have you in the horror of political correctness on the battlefield.  If  the West had let their soldiers do what soldiers of the past did, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would have been done with within a year of their start.

Glenn Greenwald of TheGuardianUK who broke the biggest scandal ever  is live with Edward Snowden in a question/answer chat :

Edward Snowden Q and A:   NSA whistleblower answers your questions
LIVEThe whistleblower behind the biggest intelligence leak in NSA history is answering your questions about the NSA surveillance revelations – follow it live now......

What wine goes best with Turkey Kebabs ... red or white?

Given a choice .... I would try every wine Turkey has to offer.   Unfortunately,  Erdogan does not want to give Turks that choice.  Crackdown on the wine industry is just one of the many restrictions brought about by this islamist overlord .... and surprise, surprise ... he has a large following on his side of the fence.  If  photos are to be believed these days and taken for what they seem to look like ... then his rally on Sunday had  almost a million people or maybe even more.

And, Turkey is supposed to  become the youngest member of the European Union?   What a great idea, eh?  

Trade group Wines of Turkey   is showing off the country’s top reds and whites at a packed tasting at VinExpo fair in Bordeaux this week while heavy-handed regulations are making it harder than ever for them to sell at home.

In Turkey, which boasts a 7,000-year wine history, seven wine regions, and 800 grape varieties, its more than 100 wineries face new curbs on domestic sales.

Ironically, this is happening just as its wines are getting better and better. Those made from indigenous grapes like okuzgozu and bogazkere are igniting international interest. With dozens of boutique producers established in the past decade, Turkey is experiencing a wine renaissance.

The recently-passed alcohol bill pushed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP, the Justice and Development party, was signed into law by President Abdullah Gul on June 10.

This latest effort to control where and when people drink was one trigger for the massive protests at Taksim Square.

“Wine producers are in shock,” Taner Ogutoglu, the director of Wines of Turkey, wrote in an e-mail. He’d delivered a letter on behalf of the producers to President Gul, hoping to persuade him to veto the bill. It didn’t work.

The regulations make it illegal for shops to sell alcohol between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and to display bottles where they can be seen from the street. New restaurants and shops near schools or mosques can’t offer wine at all.

The most sweeping -- and vague -- part of the law is its prohibition on advertising and promotion.....

....Doluca will no longer be able to offer its one-day winery tours from Istanbul. Kutman says new brands will suffer if they can’t talk to consumers about their wines. What will happen with wineries’ Facebook pages (FB) and Twitter feeds is unclear.

“My marketing team is already asking me, ‘Do we still have jobs?’” she adds.....

World gone totally, utterly, completely bonkers

I say it's to do with the sun flares and the earthquakes ... something is seeping out of the earth, getting mingled with the gas sent our way from the sun ... and triggering some violent impulses in our brains.  No jokes ... I am serious.

Sao Paulo erupts over hike in transit fares.   Are you watching and listening Toronto Transit Corporation?   There's only so much people will take and no more.  Especially, in lefty countries like Brazil, people expect the socialists to make sure that the cost of basic things remain within their reach but when the lefty govt. is unable to keep their promises .... all hell breaks lose.

The protests and riots are spreading to other cities of Brazil and it's all due to police brutality. Those bullies just wait for chances like these to hit out at defenseless citizens ... and all in the name of the law.



Adam Taylor writing at BusinessInsider:
....São Paulo Raised The Cost Of A Bus Fare By 10 Cents And The City Erupted Into Protests.  São Paulo has seen a fourth night of protests after an increase in bus and subway fares, and the BBC reports that things are starting to get violent.

The price rise itself may seem relatively insignificant — an increase of 3 reals ($1.40) to 3.20 reals ($1.50) per journey — but the protests show a growing unease with inflation and crime within Brazil, and unrest has begun to spread to other cities, including Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre.

Videos from the scene show police battling with large crowds, and there have been reports of petrol bombs being thrown. More than 200 people have been detained, and police are reported to have used both rubber-coated bullets and tear gas.......

Movie: Rent Control

Good movies disappear from YouTube.  Watch this fun movie before it's gone.

Uh Oh ... Allahu Akbars attack Turkish protesters with knives and sticks

This is gonna escalate into another civil war.   Will the USA send tonnes more weaponry to Erdogan  or will they defend the helpless "rebel" protesters from Erdogan, his islamists and his police thugs?  

CNN has a note at the link that says:  CNN has not vetted this report ....  but knowing the nature of islamists I am willing to bet it's true.

From CNNireport:
....Islamists Chanting “Allahu Akbar”  Attack Peaceful Protestors.  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's supporters started to attack peaceful protestors by sticks and knives chanting "Allahu Akbar". Police is not taking any action against them.

Russia's Vladimir Putin makes perfect sense, unlike the others at the G8 ...

including our own honcho, PM Stephen Harper.  What happens when one loses respect for the person one voted for and rejoiced at his victory?  Does it mean that come the next election, I sit home and not go to the polls or should I go vote for Elizabeth May of the Green Party or one of the other two?  So many choices and none of them include Harper !!

What Vladimir Putin said:
....The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, rounded on Britain on Sunday, accusing David Cameron of betraying humanitarian values by supporting Syrian rebels with “blood on their hands”.

In harsh and undiplomatic language, Mr Putin accused the UK and other Western powers of attempting to arm rebels who “kill their enemies and eat their organs”. He insisted that Russia would continue to arm what he said was the recognised “legitimate government” in Syria and called on other countries to respect the same rules..........

What Stephen Harper said:
Prime Minister Stephen Harperhas ruled out Canada’s support for arming rebel forces in Syria and lashed out at Russian President Vladimir Putin for supporting the “thugs of the Assad regime.”

“We want to see the opposition in Syria become more representative, less sectarian,” Mr. Harper told reporters after meeting Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny in Dublin. “We do worry about extremist elements in the opposition, we’re very clear about that.”....

.....Mr. Harper took exception to Mr. Putin’s stance.
"I don’t think we should fool ourselves. This is G7, plus one. That's what this is, G7 plus one," he said.
He added that the West has a very different view than the Russian President.
“Mr. Putin and his government are supporting the thugs of the Assad regime for their own reasons that I do not think are justifiable and Mr. Putin knows my view on that.”.....

Sarah Palin on Syria: "I say, let Allah sort it out."

Good to know  Gov. Palin remains true to her conscience and steps away from warmonger John McCain.  Most Americans know that both the Democrats and the Republicans are backing the side that's immensely more evil.  I haven't  seen any reports of Shiite suicide bombers and neither have I seen reports of Shiites killing Americans in their 100s leave alone in their 1000s ... like the 9/11  monsters did ... and those monsters  were all Sunni Muslims... to the very last one.  How can America side with the same kind of evil that killed so many of their own in such a horrendous way???   How ????  It's so very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, WRONG !!!!

Madeleine Morgenstern writing at TheBlaze:
.....Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin scoffed at President Barack Obama’s decision to begin arming the Syrian rebels, saying that until the U.S. has a commander in chief that knows what they’re doing, “let Allah sort it out.”

“Militarily, where is our commander in chief?” Palin asked conservatives at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference Saturday. “We’re talking now more new interventions. I say, until we know what we’re doing, until we have a commander in chief who knows what he’s doing, well, chief, in these radical Islamic countries who aren’t even respecting basic human rights, where both sides are slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line, ‘Allah Akbar,’ I say until we have someone who knows what they’re doing, I say, let Allah sort it out.”

It’s a sign of just how far Palin has diverged from her 2008 Republican presidential running mate Sen. John McCain, who has been one of the chief proponents of providing assistance to the rebels......

Human Rights abuses committed by police thugs in Turkey

Here are just some of the many photographs of these abuses.
Doctors handcuffed and taken away for the "crime" of doctoring to injured protesters;
Police thugs adding chemicals to the water cannon tanks;
Effects of chemicals on skin;
Glass bullets and plastic bullets used instead of  rubber bullets;

 To see more pics go  here.

Iran enters WWIII in the making after USA's decision to arm terrorist gangs in Syria

Robert Fisk's article is worth the time to read  in full. There was a lot there I had never heard of before like how the French had to leave 50 tanks in Afghanistan because there was no way to transport them back to France without Iran's assistance.  Imagine that !   This journalist is  rabidly pro-Palestinian, but most of what he says in this piece is pretty much accurate.  No getting away from that fact ... whether we like it or not.

....Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria  For the first time, all of America’s ‘friends’ in the region are Sunni Muslims and all of its enemies are Shiites. Breaking all President Barack Obama’s rules of disengagement, the US is now fully engaged on the side of armed groups which include the most extreme Sunni Islamist movements in the Middle East.....

....In years to come, historians will ask how America – after its defeat in Iraq and its humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan scheduled for  2014 – could have so blithely aligned itself with one side in a titanic Islamic struggle stretching back to the seventh century death of the Prophet Mohamed. The profound effects of this great schism, between Sunnis who believe that the father of Mohamed’s wife was the new caliph of the Muslim world and Shias who regard his son in law Ali as his rightful successor – a seventh century battle swamped in blood around the present-day Iraqi cities of Najaf and Kerbala – continue across the region to this day. A 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbott, compared this Muslim conflict to that between “Papists and Protestants”.

America’s alliance now includes the wealthiest states of the Arab Gulf, the vast Sunni territories between Egypt and Morocco, as well as Turkey and the fragile British-created monarchy in Jordan. King Abdullah of Jordan – flooded, like so many neighbouring nations, by hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees – may also now find himself at the fulcrum of the Syrian battle.  Up to 3,000 American ‘advisers’ are now believed to be in Jordan, and the creation of a southern Syria ‘no-fly zone’ – opposed by Syrian-controlled anti-aircraft batteries – will turn a crisis into a ‘hot’ war.  So much for America’s ‘friends’.....

.....From now on, therefore, every suicide bombing in Damascus - every war crime committed by the rebels - will be regarded in the region as Washington’s responsibility. The very Sunni-Wahabi Islamists who killed thousands of Americans on 11th September, 2011 – who are America’s greatest enemies as well as Russia’s – are going to be proxy allies of the Obama administration. This terrible irony can only be exacerbated by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s adament refusal to tolerate any form of Sunni extremism.  His experience in Chechenya, his anti-Muslim rhetoric – he has made obscene remarks about Muslim extremists in a press conference in Russian – and his belief that Russia’s old ally in Syria is facing the same threat as Moscow fought in Chechenya, plays a far greater part in his policy towards Bashar al-Assad than the continued existence of Russia’s naval port at the Syrian Mediterranean city of Tartous.  ....

Erdogan's police thugs must have been trained by Iran's Revolutionary Guards

They are just as brutally beastly.   The description to the vid below says:

Published on Jun 15, 2013
Police entered the Hilton hotel in Istanbul to tackle the protesters who have used the facility as a safe-haven, Saturday. Reportedly, the Hilton allowed protesters to seek refuge in its plush lobby and bar, but as tensions continue to rise in the city as the government seeks to regain full control, police entered to clear the hotel. 

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan set Sunday as the deadline for protesters to desist and leave the occupied areas of central Istanbul, in particular Taksim Square and Taksim Gezi Park. Police entered with force on Saturday evening, taking protesters off-guard and claiming the square -- a move that has angered the protest movement and created an intense atmosphere throughout the city, where running battles are continuing as protesters attempt to maintain their presence on the streets. 

Protesters continue to call for the resignation of Erdogan in the wake of a series of the uprising. Citing the "creeping Islamification" of Turkish secular society as their base, many have mobilized against the Prime Minister arguing that his recent legislation is moving Turkey away from its secular roots established by Ataturk and towards the Islamic ideologies, like the Muslim Brotherhood. Protesters are also angered by the foreign policy of Turkey, particularly in regards to Syria, with many arguing that the country's security has been jeopardised by the developing conflict.



According to info on twitter and elsewhere, because of the blockage of tweets and disruption on twitter,
send/receive  tweets via SMS in #Turkey Avea, KKTC Telsim, Vodafone 2444; Turkcell 2555

Cleaning up Toronto plagued with Muslim immigrant gangs

"Project Traveller" has been able to scoop up a lot of scum from immigrant gangs in Toronto and also arrest some of their facilitators in Windsor.  Windsor seem to have become the connecting point for import of guns and drugs from down south.  This operation was in the making for over a year .... so,  the Toronto Star, the CBC and the Globe & Mail,  were wrong in insinuating that the police department were coming down hard on gangs only after the Rob Ford fiasco.  Nothing and nobody is ever able to shame these three amigos. Disgusting !!

Trevor Wilhelm writing at the WindsorStar:
...About 300 charges laid, more arrests coming after police raids.  Police say more arrests and gun seizures are likely here after a series of dramatic raids targeting a murderous Toronto street gang that used Windsor as an illicit firearms pipeline.

Investigators said they must also move to fight the invasion of others intent on filling the criminal void left with the crackdown on the Dixon City Bloods.

“Make no mistake, Toronto violence comes into Windsor all the time,” said Insp. Pat Keane with Windsor police. “We work collaboratively with Toronto all the time on a lot of our stuff.”

“There’s always a vacuum. It’s all about money and the misaligned prestige of the world these people live in. So we just have to continue to be vigilant and see where go from here.”
Investigators still haven’t revealed the names of the 28 people arrested Thursday during Project Traveller. But many of them were big players.

“The way that the gangs work is everything filters down to street level people,” said Keane. “This enterprise focused on the people at the top that were moving the guns and the ones that were putting the organization together.”

Police from across southern Ontario converged on Toronto and Windsor for a series of raids that began around 5 a.m. Thursday. Authorities laid about 300 criminal charges for murder, attempted murder, drugs, gun trafficking and participating in a criminal organization.

Keane said one of the people now in Toronto police custody has also been linked to a robbery in Windsor. All of the nine people arrested in Windsor were previously known to police.

About a dozen handguns were seized in Windsor. A next step in the investigation will be tracing where they came from.

In total, police said they seized 40 guns, $572,000 in cash and $3 million worth of drugs including cocaine, crack, crystal meth, LSD and marijuana........

Movie: Mistress

Light comedy-drama with Robert Wuhl,  Eli Wallach, Robert De Niro, Laurie Metcalf and others.

Turkey's Erdogan is being helped by Twitter's feed control of news from Turkey

It's just not believable that there's hardly any traffic on Twitter from the protesters today.  Right now (Sunday approx 2 AM over there) we can glean from a couple of tweets that the protests are in full swing in many cities and the biggest crowd must be  in Istanbul but Twitter is bending to the orders from the dictator and censoring  tweets from that country.  We can safely premise that that's what's happening because of the almost non-existence twitter traffic from Turkey.  Shame!!

amount of people on streets in #turkey tonight looks unprecedented in recent times. Not just #istanbul, but #ankara, #eskisehir, #izmir etc
— Mark Bentley (@MarkABentley) June 15, 2013

From  HurriyetDaily:
...Everyone who will enter Istanbul's Gezi Park, the heart of the nearly 20-day-long protests, will be considered a terrorist, Turkey's European Union minister said in a televised interview today.
"[The police] will intervene to everybody who try to enter the Taksim Square [treating them] as a terrorist," Minister Egemen Bağış said hours after the police's intervention to protesters in Istanbul.
Clashes between the police and protesters are continuing around the park along with some other parts of the city. Bağış has been criticising the foreign media for exaggerating the protests in Turkey....

From AlArabiyaEnglish:
Turkish riot police storm Istanbul park   to end protests.  Turkish riot police stormed a central Istanbul park on Saturday firing tear gas and water cannon to evict hundreds of anti-government protesters, hours after an ultimatum from Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
Lines of police backed by armored vehicles sealed off Taksim Square in the center of the city as officers stormed the adjoining Gezi Park, where protesters had been camped in a ramshackle settlement of tents.
Erdogan had warned hours earlier that security forces would clear the square, the center of more than two weeks of fierce anti-government protests which spread to cities across the country, unless the demonstrators withdrew before a ruling party rally in Istanbul on Sunday.....

The young dream of greater freedom in Iran, whereas; their counterparts in Turkey see theirs eroding

I truly feel that this is a new beginning for Iran.  The newly elected new honcho of Iran might keep the world from entering the insanity of  the looming WW3.
Turkey, on the other hand must get rid of their aggressively arrogant turkey.

Celebrations in Iran


Human Rights abuses in Turkey

Big Brother USA's jihadi army in Egypt is galvanized to go chop off Alawite and Christian heads in Syria

Christians worth their salt, whether you be a lukewarm Christian like me or a die hard believer,  should never ever forget that it was the USA, a largely Christian nation, under the thumb of a Muslim president, who brought on World War III which completely wiped out Christianity not only from Syria but from all other countries in its vicinity and made that entire area into an  impenetrable stronghold of the Caliphate.

The most puzzling behaviour of all, at least from where I am standing,  is that of  Israel.  Aligning herself with the Sunnis is like aligning with one of the twins of pure evil.  The twins have the same calling and once the twins stop their presently ongoing squabbling and make up  (that's a foregone conclusion which I would have expected Israel to know) guess which country and which people stand the most to lose?   The enemy is almost at Israel's borders and yet Israel thinks Sunnis mean them no harm because the taqiyyah masters from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other sheikdoms have promised them so.  Sheesh !!!!   Grow up Israel, grow up before it's too late.

... Thousands of Islamists rallied   in the Egyptian capital on Friday in support of calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The demonstration took place outside a Cairo mosque where Saudi preacher Mohammed al-Oreifi called in a sermon for a "jihad in the cause of Allah in Syria."
Oreifi urged worshippers to "unite against their enemy."
Saudi Arabia, like Egypt, is an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim country, and Sunnis are the backbone of the revolt against Assad, whose Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.



Demonstrators, most of them bearded and wearing the traditional white galabiya, shouted "there is no God but Allah, and Bashar is his enemy."
People waved not only the Egyptian flag but also the one adopted by the Syrian opposition.
On Thursday, influential Sunni clerics from several Arab states called for a holy war against the "sectarian" regime in Syria.
"We must undertake jihad to help our brothers in Syria by sending them money and arms, and providing all aid to save the Syrian people from this sectarian regime," they said in a statement at the end of a gathering in Cairo.......

Cleric Hassan Rouhani is running away with the Iranian vote

Lefty Scotland  is jubilant that a "Glasgow man" will now be Iran's honcho.
By that same token, I bet  Big Brother too was jubilant  when Morsi  was elected as President of Egypt because he spent some years in a California university.  That makes Morsi a "California man".
Hassan Rouhani is supposed to be the most moderate and the most modern from the others who were in the running.

Fraser Nelson writing at SpectatorUK:
Iran may have just elected a Glasgow man  as president  Early results from Iran’s presidential election indicate that Hassan Rouhani, as Glasgow graduate, is in the lead. He is a cleric and a polyglot, speaking English, German, French, Russian and Arabic. He is seen as a reformer and jumping out from his long CV is a doctorate from Glasgow Caledonian University. Like most Glasgow men, he’s proud of the fact – even if his election broadcast cheekily truncated his alma matter to “Glasgow University” so it could show footage of its far-prettier campus. He was rumbled: it now looks as if he studied at the old Glasgow Polytechnic in the 1970s. But he seems to have enjoyed Glasgow so much – understandably – that he returned to study a PhD in the 1990s. (The graduation list here: he then went by the name of Hassan Feridon).
To his credit, his PhD study appears to coincide with his tenure as secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council. Now, personally, I’d rather do this job from Glasgow than Tehran. What better vantage point to view the world than the kebab houses and hostelries of Sauchiehall Street? Where better to hone skills in diplomacy? (He has been Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator). And you can’t accuse him of reveling in Western decadence – life expectancy is lower in Glasgow than in Iran.
All told, the ascendancy of this Glasgow man bodes well for Iranian politics. Those armed with a Scottish education have made excellent leaders of foreign countries. Canada had John Buchan and modern Hong Kong was pretty much invented by John Cowperthwaite who applied the ideas of Adam Smith to make this tiny island as rich (per capita) as America.....

From YahooNews ...Nasser Karimi and Brian Murphy writing at AP :
... Iran's reformist-backed presidential candidate  surged to a wide lead in a partial vote count Saturday, a top official said, suggesting a flurry of late support could have swayed a race that once appeared solidly in the hands of Tehran's ruling clerics.
The powerful showing by former nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani, which may be enough to give him an outright victory and avoid a two-person runoff next Friday, demonstrated the strength of opposition sentiment even in a system that is gamed against it. The ruling clerics barred from the race reform candidates seen as too prominent, allowing a list of hopefuls who were mainly staunch loyalists of the supreme leader.
But the opposition settled on Rowhani as the least objectionable of the bunch, making him the de facto reform candidate.
While Iran's presidential elections offer a window into the political pecking orders and security grip inside the country — particularly since the chaos from a disputed outcome in 2009 — they lack the drama of truly high stakes as the country's ruling clerics and their military guardians remain the ultimate powers.......

Vengeful massacre by Sunnis on innocent Shiites villagers ....

probably in revenge for Assad's army  liberating  Qusayr  where the St.Elias church is located, from their monstrous hands.  

But, hey ... all's good!  Don't worry, be happy !   Our neighbour the USA and our "strong connection"  the UK  are with the Sunni murderers as are the Israelis, the French, the Australians, the Germans  and the entire group of Sunni nations who control the UN.   We better zip our mouths shut and not say anything against the Al Qaeda headchoppers known as  the FSA  or the glorious "Syrian opposition"  because Big Brother is watching and listening and Big Brother has a bad case of the Stockholm syndrome.  Big Brother is deeply in love with headchoppers and is under the impression that headchoppers won't cut off his head, not ever.

I wonder if the FSA or the glorious "opposition" make up even 5% of the rampaging gangs in Syria.  The Al Qaeda gangs are the proxy soldiers used by not only the "opposition" in Syria but by the Muslim Brotherhood wherever and whenever the need arises and farts-for-brains leaders of the Judeo-Christian nations listen to all the taqiyyah with open mouths and widened eyes....and give in to their suicidal tendencies.  We voted these idiots to where they are now....so, we are guilty as well  for  the additional suffering  the Syrians will have to endure from now on.  At least some of us will acknowledge our guilt, unlike the politicians.

Fernande VanTets writing at IndependentUK:
60 Shia Muslims massacred   in rebel ‘cleansing’ of Hatla.  Up to sixty Shia Muslims have been killed in an attack by opposition fighters in the eastern Syrian town of Hatla. A video posted online on Tuesday, entitled “The storming and cleansing of Hatla”, showed fighters waving the black Salafi flag and celebrating.

“We have raised the banner ‘There is no God but God’ above the houses of the apostate rejectionists, the Shia,” the voice of the cameraman says.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed that thousands of rebels participated in the killings, although the footage of the attacks pictured just a handful of fighters. The death toll could not be independently verified......

Turkey cooking .... the preparation, method and equipment required

Survey says menopausal women find blindfolded knife throwing at faux researchers bring instant relief

Below is a perfect example of how taxpayers' money gurgles down the drain when those huge grants and subsidies are given to brain dead universities and their equally brain-dead researchers to come up with any kind of  utter rubbish so long as it is cloaked in  intelligent sounding shit.  However, shit is shit, whether you paid 100s for the gourmet meal that produced it or a dollar at your nearest McDonald ....  and the only place for it is down the toilet hole.

From CalgaryHerald:
Theories abound as to why women go into menopause, but the latest hypothesis being put forward suggests it may be men — or specifically their preference for younger mates —that has led to women’s loss of fertility at a certain age.

Researchers at McMaster University believe that over tens of thousands of years, a lack of reproduction among older women has given rise to menopause as an unintended result of evolutionary natural selection.

Using computer modelling, the researchers found that over time, competition among men of all ages for younger mates left older females with much less chance of reproducing.

“We are saying somewhere along the line, men began to change their preference in mating,” said evolutionary biologist Rama Singh, co-author of the study published in this week’s issue of the journal PLOS Computational Biology.

“What we’re saying is that menopause will occur if there is a preferential mating with younger women and older women are not reproducing,” he said Thursday from Hamilton, Ont..........

Rand Paul: "US taxpayers funding war on Christianity at home and abroad"

It's a relief to see that there's at least one man in the Republican party using  common sense as the main ingredient in his thinking processes.  Even Sarah Palin who purports to stand for Christian values does not have the guts to go against John McCain's warmongering.  Shame on her and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz for being cowards of the first order.  Tea Party patriots ?  My arse !!



American taxpayers are paying  for a "war on Christianity" at home and abroad, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said during a speech at a conservative conference Thursday.

"There is a war on Christianity," Paul told an audience of mostly evangelical Christians and Jews during a luncheon at the annual Faith and Freedom Conference in Washington. "Not just from liberal elites here at home, but worldwide. And your government, or more correctly, you, the taxpayer, are funding it. You are being taxed to send money to countries that are not only intolerant of Christians, but openly hostile. Christians are imprisoned and threatened with death for their beliefs."

Paul, who has said he's considering running for president in 2016, was referring to U.S. financial aid to foreign countries where Christian persecution occurs.

Paul has long called for an end to foreign aid to particularly Muslim-majority countries Egypt, Pakistan and Libya, but he does not always frame his opposition in terms of faith. Last year, he introduced a bill to the Senate that would cut off aid to those countries.

"In Egypt, in Pakistan, they burn our flag—I say not one penny more to countries that burn the American flag," Paul said. "While they burn the American flag and the mobs chant 'Death to America,' more of your money is sent to these haters of Christianity."

He added: "It is clear that American taxpayer dollars are being used to enable a war on Christianity in the Middle East, and I believe that must end."

The conference where Paul spoke Thursday is organized by former Christian Coalition Executive Director Ralph Reed, and it regularly hosts Republican politicians seeking the party's nomination for the presidency. The venue provides the potential candidates an opportunity to reach the Christian conservative base of the party.........