Posts tagged with "politics"
Friday, 11. December 2009, 18:09:51
talat muskara, K.talat muskara, politics, Cartoons
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Friday, 11. December 2009, 05:59:21
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, Cartoons
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Fares Garabet - Syria
Antonio Neri Licon - Mexico
Alex Falco - Cuba
Thursday, 3. December 2009, 23:43:44
news, muskara, Cartoons, talat muskara
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Jianping Fan - China
Luojie - China
Ares - Cuba
Tuesday, 1. December 2009, 16:14:31
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, Cartoons
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Friday, 20. November 2009, 10:17:33
talat muskara, K.talat muskara, news, Cartoons
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Jianping Fan - China
Rainer Hachfeld - Germany
Stephane Peray - Thailand
Angel Boligan - Mexico
Petar Pismestrovic - Austria
Pavel Constantin - Romania
Saturday, 14. November 2009, 19:09:18
politics, art, law, muskara
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Book of interest:
Empire of Illusion
The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Written by Chris Hedges
(from Amazon's page)
..."Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion.
Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins."...
[this is not only in the USA but most areas. - tkm]
Watch the Interview on c-span's Book-TV, running time 61min.(broadband needed).
Link:
http://www.booktv.org/Program/10883/After+Words+Chris+Hedges+Empire+of+Illusion+Interviewed+by+Ron+Suskind.aspx
Thursday, 12. November 2009, 01:16:59
news, muskara, Cartoons, talat muskara
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Stephane Peray - Thailand
Angel Boligan - Mexico
Jonathan Shapiro - South Africa
Yaakov Kirschen - Israel
JIHO - France
Alex Falco - Cuba
Wednesday, 11. November 2009, 06:07:09
K.talat muskara, politics, talat muskara, muskara
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Dear Readers,
I encourage you to watch or read
the whole show(link is bellow).
Thanks,
tkm
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10302009/profile3.htmlBILL MOYERS JOURNAL - Public Broadcasting Service(TV)USA.
October 30, 2009
Bill Moyers conducts a Web exclusive interview with Glenn Greenwald
GLENN GREENWALD:
..."So, the mere fact that somebody is a constitutional scholar and has knowledge of the Constitution doesn't mean that they are any more inclined to abide by it. In fact, they may understand better how to circumvent it. And I think, you know, the theory of political science for centuries has long when that power corrupts. And so, somebody gets into office as President and sees all these shining jewels of executive power. And either because they're convinced that they're good and won't abuse them, or will put them to good ends, or because they think there's political cost to reducing them — there's an obvious strong incentive to preserve them and expand them rather than to reduce and discard them. And I think you see Obama doing that on many, many fronts."...
..."who we suspect of engaging in terrorism and put them into cages for years or decades without having to charge them with any crime.
That — simply based on executive authority — the ability to point to someone and say, "This is a terrorist," then justifies the elimination of all due process and putting them into prison forever. Obama, several months ago, said that he not only believes in that power, but wanted Congress to enact a statute that would permanently enshrine this theory of law into Presidential power."...
,,,"BILL MOYERS: This brings me back to what we were discussing much earlier. Whether it's constitutional liberties and rights or threats, or whether it's escalating the number of troops in Afghanistan and prolonging the war: Where is the public in all these debates? I mean, some of these issues I would think would drive people to the Bastille, you know? Or to the kind of outpourings in the Vietnam War. Even the Iraq war, there were several hundred thousand people together. But we seem strangely mute today.
GLENN GREENWALD: I agree. I mean, if you look at what happened with the financial crisis, and the way in which Wall Street was — through its own recklessness — the principle cause of what became a virtual worldwide economic collapse and, to this day, continues to result in mass joblessness and misery and suffering on the part of the American people.
And to realize that not only have they been greatly enriched on the way to causing that crisis, but continue to exert principle control over the government and to have laws written designed to benefit only them, while the masses in the United States continue to suffer financially. I mean, that is the sort of thing that has caused great backlash in the past. And, for example, Simon Johnson, who I know you've had on your show several times before--
BILL MOYERS: The economist--
GLENN GREENWALD: And former I.M.F. official, talks about how what has typically happened in more unstable countries, and countries we think about as being the third world and developing countries and under-developed countries, is that the oligarchs and the financial elite will cause the sort of financial crisis through their own corruption and the government will then step in and try and help and aid the very oligarchs who caused it, at the expense of the citizenry. And that will continue until the riots grow too large. That's what he wrote in an article in THE ATLANTIC. And that typically happens. But in the United States, that doesn't seem to be happening.
BILL MOYERS: Why?
GLENN GREENWALD: There is no end to that. And--
BILL MOYERS: You look at our culture, you study our culture, you write about it. What's your theory, at least?
GLENN GREENWALD:
I think there's several aspects to it. But I think the principle one is — and interestingly, Barack Obama actually talked about this in his Presidential campaign, quite eloquently and insightfully — that there gets to be a point where citizens look at the government, and they look at both political parties, and they conclude that the system itself is so radically corrupt and the political parties are so fundamentally nonresponsive that no matter what it is that they do, they aren't going to be able to achieve any change. They feel a sense of learned helplessness. And they essentially accept whatever it is that's done to them and simply hope that it's not too bad. And I think that's the population. It's not that they're apathetic. It's that they've come to believe in their own impotence. And I think that's actually sadder and-- and more dangerous."...
*Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer and currently a contributing writer at Salon.com, where he maintains the highly popular political and legal blog Unclaimed Territory. He is also the author of three books: the NEW YORK TIMES-bestsellers HOW WOULD A PATRIOT ACT? (2006) and TRAGIC LEGACY (2007), and his 2008 release, GREAT AMERICAN HYPOCRITES.
Thursday, 5. November 2009, 00:00:32
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, Cartoons
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Patrick Chappatte - Switzerland
Michael Kountouris - Greece
Stephane Peray - Thailand
Damien Glez - Burkina Faso
Sunday, 1. November 2009, 01:09:11
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, muskara
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Thursday, 29. October 2009, 17:23:08
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, Cartoons
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Effat Mohamad - Egypt
Ares - Cuba
Frederick Deligne - France
Sunday, 25. October 2009, 18:38:02
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, Cartoons
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From Ayvaland:
This weeks AyvaHead Awards go to(drum roll)....
Mr. Ihsan Bal for his wacky artical(I will not reprint
the nonsense here but provide a link bellow).
http://www.turkishweekly.net/columnist/3204/as-the-pkk-39-returns-home-39-.htmland
All the talking heads from friday night' Haberturk show (date: 23-10-09)20min. was all I can take.
Moral of the story:
If you got does PetroDollars, today's terrorist are tomorrow's heroes(in Ayvaland Terrorism pays, boys and girls)...
tkm
Friday, 23. October 2009, 22:52:31
news, muskara, talat muskara, K.talat muskara
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Dear Readers,
The following is from an interview on Radio Open Source(link is provided)I have excerpted the transcription.
tkm
http://www.radioopensource.org/chris-hedges-requiem-for-the-republic/Chris Hedges: Requiem for the Reading Republic
October 19th, 2009
Chris Hedges is “Mr. Bad News” in our time, the obituary writer for our economy, our culture, our democracy, our media. When I got to the New York Times (some years before Chris Hedges) in the late Sixties, Alden Whitman had the bad news moniker, writing obits of great figures for the paper of record. When Alden Whitman knocked on your door for a long interview about your life, you were supposed to know it was almost over. It’s Chris Hedges’s gig now, observing all of us. After most of 20 years as a war correspondent with the Times, Chris Hedges in 2003 charged his paper and others with “shameful cheerleading” for the war in Iraq, and left to study up again on ancient history, theology and classic literature, and to write his own classic, War is a Force that Gives us Meaning. In his new jeremiad, Empire of Illusion, pro wrestling and pornography are the bookend spectacles in a parody culture all around us now — the grotesque joke representations of power and eros in the end times. I find these resonant arguments, from the rare daily-news ace who’s trained himself also in the long view:
..."To believe somehow that we are the culmination, that time is linear, that we are progressing morally, is to ignore human history and human nature, and essentially to remain in a state of infantilism. That’s what illusion is about. If we had an understanding of what the dying days, the twilight hours of great civilizations were like we would be able to see all the flashing lights, the warning signs around us. But I think that the illiteracy which has gripped the country (a third of this country is either illiterate, or is technically literate but doesn’t read anymore); that shift from a print based culture into an image based culture, the belief that how we are made to feel is a form of knowledge, propaganda being a kind of ideology — these are the hallmarks of a totalitarian state. Totalitarian states are image based, spectacle based states.
We have set the ground for a seamless transfer from a democracy into a kind of corporate state. With the corporate state always comes the rise of the surveillance or the security state. We lack the capacity, having been unmoored from print, and relying on skillfully manipulated images, to fight back… We see it in the environmental crisis; we are literally destroying the ecosystem that sustains the human species; the gap widens between the illusion of the world we think we live in, and the reality of that world. What you’ve done is render huge segments of the population into a kind of childishness which makes them emotionally, intellectually and psychologically unprepared for what it is they are about to face. They will react like all children, which is to reach out for demagogues who promise a new glory, vengeance and moral renewal."...
[this system is being used for the past 50 years in many regions of the world including Ayvaland. tkm]
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(Please click on the link bellow to read the article(s)in full. Thank you. tkm)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1122104.htmlHaaretz Newspaper - Israel
Dovish Jews? They love Israel? Excommunicate them
By Bradley Burston
We don't need them. They'll never see things our way, no matter what. Let them go.
It's a new Israeli approach which borrows from the very worst of our aging instincts. It says: We're moral, our enemies are out to exterminate us along with our state, that's all you need to know. No modifications necessary. Stay the course. Concede nothing. Ease no siege. Give no ground. Ever.
It is a radical redefinition of Postmodern Zionism, this time from the right. Over the past weeks, it's been test-run in our relations with Turkey, with the Goldstone Commission, with Mahmoud Abbas - and with consistent results.
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[The same goes for Ayvaland - tkm]
Wednesday, 21. October 2009, 14:48:36
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(Please click on the link bellow to read the article(s)in full. Thank you. tkm)
http://www.yenialanya.com.tr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7155:neredeyse-kahraman-ilan-edecekler&catid=155:zelihadasiyici&Itemid=63Yeni Alanya Gazetesi
Neredeyse kahraman ilan edecekler! - Zeliha Daşıyıcı
"Şehitlerin kemikleri sızlamıştır. Bu ne şov böyle? Gelenler kim? Türkiye’de böyle bir talihsiz karşılama töreni normal mi?
Kimi karşılıyoruz? Teröristi!..
Elindeki tüm cephaneleri, askerlerimize ve sivil vatandaşlarımıza kullananlar bu “caniler”, “teröristler” değil miydi?"...
Wednesday, 21. October 2009, 13:18:05
humour, news, muskara, Cartoons
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Jianping Fan - China
Victor Ndula - Kenya
Pavel Constantin - Romania
Herbjørn Skogstad - Norway
Arcadio Esquivel-Costa Rica
bancos = banks
Friday, 16. October 2009, 16:38:41
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, news
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(Please click on the link bellow to read the article in full. Thank you. tkm)
http://www.milliyet.com.tr/Yazar.aspx?aType=YazarDetay&ArticleID=1150787&AuthorID=59&Date=16.10.2009&b=Seker%20krizi...&a=Melih%20AsikMİLLİYET
Şeker krizi... - Melih Aşık
..."Hükümet, şeker sanayiinin tamamen özelleştirilmesi, 25 şeker fabrikasının elden çıkarılması kararını aldı.
Bu karar öncesinde ve sonrasında “Türkiye’nin Japonya’dan sonra şekerde en pahalı ikinci ülke olduğu, Türkiye’deki şeker fabrikası sayısının düşürülerek şeker ithalinin serbest bırakılması” propagandası sürüyor.
Kim sürdürüyor bu propagandayı... IMF, AB, ABD, ED&F Man gibi uluslararası şeker kartelleri, Cargill gibi NBŞ üreticileri dahil tüm anti- şeker lobisi...”
Özelleştirme İdaresi, geçen yıl Kars, Erciş, Ağrı, Muş ve Erzurum şeker fabrikalarını ihaleye çıkardı."...
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Food as many other things IS strategic importance, unfortunately we (the Turkish people) do not have a government FOR the people, we have a "privatized" management group, earning it's profits from the highest bidder and commissions.
The guardians of the country have gone over to side of the U.S. Empire(this probably happened in the mid - fifties).
Hence, I will call this puppet state as Ayvaland.
Solutions to stop or change are always illegal because the legal system is to protect the puppets and it's masters.
tkm.
p.s. This Ayvaland will be carved-up as the once Yugoslavia.
p.p.s. I understand this message has become repetitive and will leave the good people of Turkey in there fantasy-world aided by the mass media.
tkm
Wednesday, 14. October 2009, 16:41:23
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, Cartoons
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Petar Pismestrovic - Austria
Antonio Neri Licon - Mexico
Sergei Tunin - Russia
Angel Boligan - Mexico
Saturday, 10. October 2009, 20:30:10
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, Cartoons
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Tuesday, 6. October 2009, 23:08:32
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, Cartoons
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Monday, 5. October 2009, 00:20:11
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, Cartoons
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Ares - Cuba
Manny Aenlle Francisco - Philippines
Frederick Deligne - France
Hassan Bleibel - Lebanon
Damien Glez - Burkina Faso
Angel Boligan-Mexico
Thursday, 1. October 2009, 18:44:26
Turkish art, politics, K.talat muskara, Cartoons
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Wednesday, 30. September 2009, 12:29:11
politics, K.talat muskara, talat muskara, muskara
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http://www.yenialanya.com.tr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6252:ranla-3t&catid=70:manset&Itemid=78Yeni Alanya Gazetesi
[bellow is snippet of a local news item]
..."'İRAN'DA SARIMSAK TESİSİ KURUN'
İŞBİRLİĞİ anlaşması ile birlikte İran’daki ürünlerin Alanyalı işadamlarının yardımıyla dünyaya açılmasını arzuladığını ifade eden Vali Moradi, "Örneğin bizim en ünlü tarım ürünümüz sarımsaktır ama bu ürünü paketleyecek tesislerimiz bulunmamaktadır. Gelin, bu tesisi siz kurun, hep birlikte dünyaya açılalım" dedi. İran heyeti, daha sonra Alanya protokolünü ziyaret etti."...
[ An example of how we Turks have lost our best interests to short term profits. If Mr. Kerim Aydogan* was a person of vision he would of said
"Mr./Mrs. Behrooz Moradi Why don't you transport those garlic harvest to Turkey and WE will process then in our plants, we have all the necessary factories and workers ready?"... - tkm]
* ALANYA Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası (ALTSO) Başkanı Kerim Aydoğan
Wednesday, 30. September 2009, 02:46:14
muskara, talat muskara, K.talat muskara, humour
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Victor Ndula - Kenya
Michael Kountouris - Greece
Christo Komarnitski - Bulgaria
Ares - Cuba
Angel Boligan - Mexico
Sunday, 27. September 2009, 16:57:09
politics, news, humour, K.talat muskara
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Ref:
“L’Etat, c’est moi”
-Louis XIV
(“The state is me”)
tkm
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