[Hurriyet] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has overtly presented the creation of a new constitution that would pave the way for a transition to a presidential system as the number-one item on the agenda of the newly elected legislature.
"The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's need to solve the issue of a new constitution was one of the most important messages of Nov. 1. The nation is waiting for this," Erdogan said Nov. 4, during a group of neighborhood and village heads (muhtars) at the first of such regular meetings held at his presidential palace since the Nov. 1 snap elections.
Although Erdogan this time did not directly referred to his long-held, naked ambition to create an executive presidential system, earlier in the same day, his presidential spokesperson, Ibrahim Kalin, said Turkey was considering holding a referendum on changing from a parliamentary to a presidential system.
"I hope that they won't fail to make contributions for preparations for a new constitution in the new period and sit down at the table and solve this issue," Erdogan said, calling on all political parties that will be represented in parliament after the Nov. 1 snap elections.
Erdogan also noted that he had already discussed the issue at a meeting with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Nov. 3.
As a matter of fact, Davutoglu already raised the issue publicly early on Nov. 2, addressing thousands of people who waited for hours in the cold to hear him speak from the balcony of the headquarters of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Ankara.
Hailing the result of the Nov. 1 vote which endowed his party with a legislative majority sufficient to form a single-party government as a "victory for democracy," Davutoglu urged Turkey's political parties to work together on a new constitution, which Erdogan, the founding leader of the AKP, has said he would like to see include executive powers for the presidency.
"An issue like the presidential system can't be decided without the nation. If the mechanism requires a referendum, then we will hold a referendum," Kalin told news hounds, adding the change was not simply a personal issue for Erdogan.
"The executive presidency is not a question of our president's personal future. He has already entered the history books. The basic motivation is to make the system in Turkey as effective as possible."
According to unofficial results, the AKP secured 317 seats in the 550-member parliament. For a constitutional change in parliament in favor of the presidential system in line with Erdogan's aspirations, the AKP needed to win 367 seats, though 330 seats would be enough to take the issue to a referendum.
On Nov. 3, the AKP's appeal found conditional support from the Republican People's Party (CHP), which has clear reservations about a presidential system -- a stated goal of the AKP.
Former President George H.W. Bush takes some unexpected swipes at Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, key members of his son's administration, over their reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks, in a new biography of the 41st president, Fox News reported on Wednesday.
In "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey Of George Herbert Walker Bush," author Jon Meacham quotes Bush as saying that Cheney and Rumsfeld were too hawkish and that their harsh stance damaged the reputation of the United States, the cable news network said.
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..and was wrapped up with the magic of the concept of a "Hundred hour war". Who could push back on the media's whine about 'piling on' the 'Highway of Death' by pointing out the destruction of Falaise Gap in the Nazi retreat out of Normandy. You kill the bastards. That's war. You don't make it kinder, gentler.
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When the hundred hour war stopped my work buddies were cheering. I was screaming "No, no, no. When the enemy is down, you beat him silly."
I knew that we would be back sooner or later.
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could push back on the media's whine about 'piling on' the 'Highway of Death' by pointing out the destruction of Falaise Gap in the Nazi retreat out of Normandy
All we did was beat up on the jayvee team; the Republican Guard had pretty much already crossed back into Iraq and was heading for Baghdad.
As for rest, it wasn't "war." It was an achievement of a strictly defined objective established among a relatively shaky coalition; one that was already fraying by the time the Iraqis began leaving Kuwait.
Somebody like OldSpook could probably tell you more about the aftermath in Iraq.
[EAG News.org] WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Obama administration is sending $70 million to Pakistan to educate girls and "empower" them to improve their country, despite massive, chronic budget problems and abysmal student performance at home.
First lady Michelle Obama's "Let Girls Learn" initiative is focused on educating "62 million girls around the world" to help them "build a healthier family, a stronger community, and a brighter future," according to the White House website.
As part of that effort, the Obama administration vowed to send $70 million to Pakistan to educate about 200,000 female students between ages 10 and 19 during a special event at the White House last month with the wife and daughter of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Judicial Watch reports.
"Let Girls Learn will seek opportunities to foster public-private partnerships and collaborate with other development partners to advance girls' education and empowerment. The Let Girls Learn/Pakistan program will serve as a platform and catalyst for broader political and social commitment to strengthen adolescent girls' education and empowerment in Pakistan," according to a USAID media release.
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It is all about the narrative. They can show compassion about woman's causes while keeping their own women ignorant, dependent and voting dhimocrat.
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It is all about the narrativeand the GRAFT. They can show compassion about woman's causes while keeping their own women ignorant, dependent and voting dhimocrat.....FIFY
Ran Baratz, the man who has been appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as his top media adviser, once referred to US Secretary of State John Kerry as someone "whose mental age doesn't exceed 12."
In a column that he wrote for an online media magazine last year, Baratz offered a scathing critique of Kerry's suggestion that the emergence of Islamic radicalism in the Middle East could be traced to the lingering Israel-Palestine conflict.
During remarks at a White House ceremony for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha last year, Kerry implied that the strife resulting from the decades-long dispute between Israel and the Palestinians has harbored an environment prone to fostering extremism.
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You mean 5.
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Ad hominem "red hat" attacks are appropriate on the burg because they are in response to facts. That is, this is how the facts make me feel.
Without marshaling facts Ran is going to have a hard time convincing people which is, after all, his job.
BTW, is that lucky hat made out of aluminum foil? :-)
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Ran Baratz, the man who has been appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as his top media adviser, once referred to US Secretary of State John Kerry as someone "whose mental age doesn't exceed 12."
Jim, Ran was being ad diplomatic as he could by giving Jawn every benefit of the doubt. Besides, if Ran pushed any harder, Jawn would be crying because of his hurt feelings.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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