http://abcnews.go.com/International/us- ... d=40634670" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07 ... ilty-of-t/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Turkish forces sought to crack down on the last remnants of an attempted military coup on Saturday afternoon,as it crumbled after crowds answered President Tayyip Erdogan's call to take to the streets to support him.
Mr Erdogan, who had been holidaying on the coast when the coup was launched, flew into Istanbul before dawn on Saturday and was shown on TV appearing among a crowd of supporters outside Ataturk Airport, which the coup plotters had failed to secure.
One hundred and sixty-one people were killed, including many civilians, after a faction of the armed forces tried to seize power using tanks and attack helicopters
Turkish F-16 shoots down helicopter 'carrying plotters'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkish-f-16 ... 48668.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Who was responsible?
It remains unclear, but the government has blamed Fethullah Gulen, a powerful, reclusive US-based Muslim cleric whom it accuses of fomenting unrest. Mr Gulen denied the claims and has condemned the coup.
Turkish media have suggested two men may have orchestrated the putsch: General Akin Ozturk, the former commander of the Turkish Air Force, and Lieutenant-General Metin Iyidil, a commander with the Land Forces Training and Doctrine Command.
In any case, nearly 3,000 alleged coup backers have been detained, including high-ranking officers. Some soldiers have claimed to have been told they were taking part in military exercises and did not know a coup was being attempted, media reports say.
President Erdogan has also dismissed some 2,745 judges in the wake of the coup.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36816045" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/worl ... /87176144/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Alleged mastermind of attempted coup in Turkey is cleric living in Pennsylvania
From his 25-acre estate outside Saylorsburg, Pa., Gulen runs a network known as Hizmet, an organization he describes as a "civil society movement" that operates 1,000 secular schools around the world, as well as tutoring centers, colleges, hospitals and relief organizations in 150 countries. His followers have been influential in starting charter schools in the United States.
His compound in Pennsylvania — where he maintains residency with a green card — is known as the Golden Generation Worship & Retreat Center. A spokesman for the center told the Financial Times that Gulen' s health is very fragile.
Who is Fethullah Gulen, the man blamed for coup attempt in Turkey?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/16/middleeas ... n-profile/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Turkey Accuses US Of Being Behind Military Coup, Demands Extradition Of Cleric Gulen
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-1 ... eric-gulen" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Counter-Coup Begins: Erdogan Purges 2,745 Judges, Prosecutors; Arrests Hundreds
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-1 ... s-hundreds" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/worl ... /87154052/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Political instability in Turkey, a NATO member and critical U.S. partner in the fight against terrorism, is already threatening to have an impact on the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
On Saturday, one day after a coup attempt, Turkey closed airspace to military aircraft around Incirlik Air Base, forcing the U.S. to halt air operations at the base, the Pentagon said. Incirlik is the base Turkey lets the U.S. use to launch anti-ISIL missions.
Turkey Suspends All US Operations Against ISIS At Incirlik Airbase, Which Vaults B61 Nuclear Bombs
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-1 ... ts-us-b61-" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/16/turkey-r ... tempt.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Turkish maritime authorities have reopened Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait to transiting tankers after shutting it earlier on Saturday for several hours following what the government said was an attempted coup by a faction in the military.
The Bosphorus is one of world's most important chokepoints for the maritime transit of oil with over three percent of global supply - mainly from Russia and the Caspian Sea - passing through the 17-mile waterway that connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. It also ships vast amounts of grains from Russia and Kazakhstan to world markets.
'Petrified': 50,000 British tourists in Turkey during coup violence
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07 ... -violence/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
France ‘Suppressed Reports of Gruesome Torture’ at Bataclan Massacre
http://heatst.com/uk/exclusive-france-s ... -massacre/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
India Launches Crackdown In Kashmir To Quell Violence
http://www.rferl.org/content/india-kash ... 62154.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Top US commander can see ISIS presence in Latin America
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/28773 ... -spreading" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Colombia Seeks Probe into Beverage Giant's Alleged Paramilitary Links
http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs ... tary-links" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
...severe lack of legal reform in Mexico...surprise surprise...
http://www.wola.org/sites/default/files ... o-WOLA.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mexico President Claims Homicide Drop Despite Uptick in Killings
http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs ... n-killings" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Guatemala Police Raid Rival Gangs, More Than 100 Arrested
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/07/ ... ricas&_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Honduran Security Minister Julián Pacheco says the country's drug trafficking groups have begun a process of reorganization following recent arrests and extraditions of powerful underworld players, mirroring a pattern observed in other countries across the region.
http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs ... t-minister" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
General Strike Draws 1 in 3 Uruguayans - The strike affected “virtually all labor activities in the country and activities were suspended in industries, construction, the government and public offices, education, ports and transportation,” Abdala said.
http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2 ... ryId=23620" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
BUENOS AIRES — Thousands of Argentines banged pots and marched through public squares in the rain on Thursday to protest steep hikes to basic services after President Maurcio Macri slashed subsidies for utilities. with wages stagnant and scant job prospects in an economy mired in recession, many Argentines say they cannot afford to pay utility bills that in some cases have jumped by more than 1,000 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/07/ ... f=americas" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Pinochet-Era Commander Released on Bail After 5 Days in Jail
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/P ... -0028.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Russia Foreign Intelligence Service Expands
http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2016/07/svr-expands/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
PUTIN PURGE Russian leader sacks EVERY commander in his Baltic fleet after ‘they refused to confront Western ships’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1430469/v ... ern-ships/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Former Admiral Urges America to Prepare for Imminent Naval Battle with China
http://undergroundreporter.org/admiral- ... tle-china/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
US Government Releases Redacted "28 Pages" Missing From 9/11 Report
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-1 ... 911-report" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
....document....
http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/int ... spart4.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Declassified 28 Pages From Congressional 9/11 Investigation
https://publicintelligence.net/us-911-28-pages/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Five Revelations From the 9/11 Joint Inquiry’s 28 Pages
https://digwithin.net/2016/07/16/five-r ... -28-pages/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
28 Pages Reveal Evidence of Saudi Govt Involvement in 9/11
http://news.antiwar.com/2016/07/15/28-p ... nt-in-911/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The 9/11 28 Pages Snorefest and “Transparency”
http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=49174" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://bawerk.net/2016/07/15/brexit-or- ... ill-crash/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Debt accumulation collateralized by rising asset values became a substitute for productivity and wage increases. While people could no longer afford to pay for their health care, education, house or car through savings they kept on voting for the incumbents (no, there is no difference between center left and right) since friendly bankers were more than willing to make up the difference. It is clear for all to see but the Ph.Ds. that frequent elitist policy circles that the massive misallocation and consumption of capital such a perverted system enables will eventually collapse on itself.
Over the next couple of years, we will experience a torrent of sea change, a lot of it unpleasant, but it will come nonetheless. In the social contract, immigration is OK when jobs are plentiful and people’s houses are worth more every year. Not so much when they are unemployed and without a house or even prospects of ever owning one. Corruption in the higher echelons of society is grudgingly accepted when the elite allegedly runs a system where incomes and productivity constantly moves upwards, but will not be tolerated as blue collar jobs are moved offshore.
Bottom line, the west is in a structural downturn, caused by decades of economic mismanagement and there is nothing our money masters can do to rectify it; they will only make the problem worse by postponing the inevitable.
...east isn't in any better condition....but war solves the productivity and focus issues...
The Bank of England’s chief economist has called for a big package of measures to support the UK’s post-Brexit economy, stressing the need for a prompt and robust response to the uncertainty. Andy Haldane made it clear the Bank’s monetary policy committee would do more than merely cut interest rates from their already record low of 0.5% when it meets in August.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... t-stimulus" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Philip Hammond, the UK’s newly appointed chancellor of the exchequer, said the vote to leave the EU had “rattled confidence” and that he will take “whatever measures” needed to shore up the British economy. “The number one challenge is to stabilise the economy, send signals of confidence about the future, the plans we have for the future to the markets, to business, to international investors,” Hammond said in a Sky News interview.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 36096.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A $35 Billion Pension Bomb Shows Who Really Has Power in Poland
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... -in-poland" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
...pales in comparison to the various pension bombs in the US...
New U.S. banking rules creating financial headaches in Caribbean
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation- ... 31922.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://theintercept.com/2016/07/13/bil ... verywhere/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;In Brazil, partly because the state has always had a large presence in the economy, a lot of wealthy families owe their fortunes to personal connections to the government or even outright corruption. This clashes with the American ideal of the self-made man who gets rich thanks only to his own talent and hard work.
But, of course, if you look at the richest people and companies in the U.S., they tend to defend their fortunes by putting their money to work in the political system, swaying the rules in their favor through lobbying, campaign donations, and other less transparent contributions. Obviously there’s a difference between outright graft and legal forms of influence, but the desire and the effect are often similar: to allow the very rich to claim a larger piece of the economic pie without necessarily making the pie larger.
...pretty much the same around the world...
Clinton Super-Delegate U.S. Congresswoman Indicted For Fraud
http://dennismichaellynch.com/clinton-s ... for-fraud/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1474951378 ... ng-mosques" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;First of all, policies don’t matter in this election, or in any other election. Reason is mostly an illusion. And anyway, Pence will modify his positions to match Trump. No one cares.
Secondly, political experts say making a good choice for a VP running mate can’t help a candidate much, but a bad choice can hurt. Pence doesn’t do much to help, but he also doesn’t do much to hurt. So he’s a safe choice on that dimension. And he has plenty of government experience, as Trump says he needs. So Pence helps solve for Trump’s lack of experience. But those effects are all marginal.
What matters with Pence is how he looks in terms of contrast with Trump. The best choice for VP is someone who looks like a boring, washed-out version of the top of the ticket. You need that contrast to remind people that the top of the ticket is truly special.
Pence is an experienced politician. But you stand him next to Trump and he sort of disappears. The contrast persuades you – subconsciously – that Trump is better than an experienced politician. That’s totally irrational, and totally effective.
What’s Clinton’s biggest strength? Experience. How does Trump compare to the experienced politician on his own ticket? Better, at least in the public’s irrational way of thinking. So if Clinton and Pence are both experienced, and you prefer Trump over Pence, you somewhat automatically extend that thinking to Clinton – with all of her boring experience – and imagine her to be a weak version of Trump as well.
Replace Trump and Pence with Reagan and Bush-the-elder to see how well this contrast-based persuasion works.
And think of Obama picking Biden. It’s all the same persuasion trick. You want the VP to be the solid, uninteresting version of whoever is at the top of the ticket.
18 Senators Skipping GOP
http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/senators ... id/738835/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
DIAMOND AND OBAMA MEET
http://dennismichaellynch.com/dimobama1/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... extended-/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Is Pokemon Go Evil, Dangerous Or Demonic?
http://themostimportantnews.com/archive ... or-demonic" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The 28th Annual National Survey of Police Chiefs shows that “76 percent” of respondents believe armed citizens reduce violent crime. An even higher percentage–nearly 88–stated their conviction that “any vetted citizen” should be able to purchase a gun “for sport or self-defense.”
http://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/ ... ght-crime/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Death by Guns Contrasted Against Death by Vaccines
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/07/dea ... cines.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Abortion workers might have delivered babies alive and then killed them in order to harvest their body parts, the House Select Panel on Infant Lives revealed in an interim report on the one-year anniversary of the release of the Center for Medical Progress videos. This is consistent with the Center for Medical Progress’ findings and video showing Dr. Deborah Nucatola, a Planned Parenthood abortionist, discussing how she tailors abortion procedures to maximize her chances of obtaining intact fetal organs.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/babie ... sional-rep" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Diesel Emissions: EU Commission Has Known for Years about Manipluation
http://www.spiegel.de/international/bus ... 03249.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Glyphosate Link to Brain Damaged Babies in Brazil? New Groundbreaking Report
http://farmwars.info/?p=15001" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Researchers have created a model of the virus, currently circulating in more than 35 countries in the Americas, to explore how the epidemic will play out
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... ay-experts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Earth's 5th Costliest Non-U.S. Weather Disaster on Record: China's $22 Billion Flood
https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffM ... -chinas-22" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A gigantic hole has just formed on the sun
http://strangesounds.org/2016/07/gigant ... video.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;