Warning: satire site. They got the truthiness right, given some of the idiosities recently spouted by his immensity, President Erdogan I of Turkey.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan makes another scandalous statement. As he declared, US moon-landing was a hoax and world should know the truth behind the Apollo missions.
Nurse, the yellow pills -- quickly! He's doing that thing again, and foaming at the mouth besides!
Addressing a meeting in Izmir on global warming, Erdogan said USA has to finally admit that astronauts never landed on the moon and it was staged in the Hollywood. He also appealed to other leaders of the world to back him up.
“Every president, PM or chancellor know the truth about US moon hoax. When we are elected to the cabinets, we get the black suitcase where all secrets of the world are kept. I was shocked when I learned that US never went to the moon,” Erdogan said. “The leaders are supposed to keep this secrets and never tell, but it is time for honesty.”
Turkish president promised that he will reveal more secrets when the time is right.
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Tell me the part again about how Turkey is an important and valued member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. That smacking noise you hear? Kemal Ataturk face-palming from beyond the grave.
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This is old news from February 23, 2001 - The Great Moon Hoax, Moon rocks and common sense prove Apollo astronauts really did visit the Moon.
Recep has been watching old Fox TV re-runs - All the buzz about the Moon began on February 15th 2001 when Fox television aired a program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? Guests on the show argued that NASA technology in the 1960's wasn't up to the task of a real Moon landing. Instead, anxious to win the Space Race any way it could, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios. Neil Armstrong's historic first steps on another world, the rollicking Moon Buggy rides, even Al Shepard's arcing golf shot over Fra Mauro-- it was all a fake!
And oh, Recep needs his Aricept, you know the yellow pills --
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Since one of the other headlines is, "Putin's Wife Gets Crimea in Divorce Settlement", I'm inclined to think that this site should be taken with a grain of salt.
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"Chitinews.com is humorous, satire and fake news agency. All of the articles on our website are untrue and are intended purely and solely for entertainment."
Satire? Humor? Pretty wide of the mark. I do not think those words mean what you think that they mean.
People, please check the sources. This is embarrassing.
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OOPs! I blame this slip on being influenced by MSM's journalistic standards and listening to White House spokesmen Josh Earnest news conferences (i.e. That's my story and I'm stickin to it!).
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But ... how can it be satire when it's so ... plausible? [sarc off]
Besides, if it was done in Hollywood, they'd have killed all those involved to keep it a secret.
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Heck I've been hearing this for years so why would I check to see if Tayyippee really believed it? After all they still believe in flying carpets, right?
The Myth Busters did a show testing all the complaints and found that there's nothing to any of them. Same thing with the truthers but you still hear of them all the time.
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SteveS, "Tell me the part again about how Turkey is an important and valued member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization."
The relevance of NATO now, is another question but once Turkey helped put pressure on the Soviets in the Caucus and Black sea merely by existing. Also membership kept Turkey and Greece from fighting (which the Soviets would have dearly liked).
Now, not so much. I would have kicked Turkey out (or disbanded NATO) when they refused to allow troops to invade Iraq from their border. Now I'd be talking to Greece about how beautiful Constantinople is in the summer.
One of the more compelling reasons to consider Scott Walker’s candidacy for president is that he has been elected, repeatedly, governor of a mid-size state with a strong executive. Wisconsin’s state constitution establishes a powerful governor’s seat, as opposed to, say, Texas’ constitution, or even to the limited powers granted to the U.S. president.
There are numerous ways in which the state of Wisconsin is a microcosm of the country, and perhaps advisory of things to come.
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As much as I liked Reagan, right now America needs another Calvin Coolidge, not another Ronnie.
Walker is the only Republican with the credentials to diminish the size of the public work force by the 50-75% it needs to be diminished. He is certainly less than perfect on some policy issues, but what candidate is perfect?
Hopefully as we see him campaigning etc. he continues to look good. DC needs someone to come into town and trim away the parasitic dreck that is the main cause of us losing our economic preeminence to China.
America will be great again when the wealthy suburbs surrounding DC and state capitals are impoverished ghost towns and the bureaucrats, functionaries, lobbyists, lawyers, and consultants who profited in them are forced to decide between real-work jobs in the dreaded private sector with a lot less pay than they are used to, or watching themselves and their families starve.
That is what justice looks like.
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In my opinion the best republican is one not currently in Washington and disliked by and a focus of liberal attack dogs. Walker appears to fit the description.
The problem with the US these days is that the left wing (aka Democrats) think that they are still fighting the Civil Rights wars of the '60s; and the right wing (aka Republicans) are still fighting the Cold War.
Neither side seems capable of seeing the world the way it really is today.
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And, unless the president is going to rule by decree like our current king, there's a lot he can't do. There is a swamp of existing laws and rules and bureaucracy that would take decades to rationalize, if it can be done at all short of a complete crash. Unfortunately, a lot of the debate about rules is yes/no rather than "What are the proper limits"
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No Mo Uro
What America and the world urgently needs is a President able to win the battle against Islam.
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What America needs is a citizenry that doesn't mail in the responsibility of a republic to a few of any brand. A republic requires a participating citizenry not treating selection of its public servants as a vote on America's Got Talent or who can raid the Treasury for their klan/tribe/blood short term aggrandizement at the expense of the whole or future generations.
The left has been very diligent to infiltrate the public schools and collages to produce such a citizenry. They have succeeded and as such we now have the sorry political leaders they voted in off their low information vote.
[DAWN] IT has been six months since the start of the military incursion into North Wazoo. While in the first few weeks reports about 'terrorists' killed came thick and fast, nowadays we only hear about 'successes' every once so often. Either way the storyline does not change.
Media outlets all over the world have been reporting such 'successes' for the best part of the 13 years since the onset of the 'war on terror'. If I were to venture an estimate of the number of 'dead terrorists' on the basis of media sources in Pakistain alone, the figure would run into tens of thousands.
It is plausible that such a figure is accurate. Given the scale at which the 'war on terror' has been prosecuted, and the fact that this is a country of almost 200 million, there is every possibility that 100,000 people or more have enlisted with bully boy outfits, just as it is possible that a fraction of this number has died in combat.
Yet journalistic ethics as much as critical social science demand verifiable facts, not hypothetical projections. Sceptics -- and I am very much among them -- might be tempted to ask how 'terrorists' just keep falling out of the sky? North Waziristan, for instance, is a territory of modest size with only so many places to hide, especially given indiscriminate bombing raids: why, then, does the world's seventh biggest military still have such an epic fight on its hands after six long months?
Certainly right-wing militancy is not a superficial trend without sociological roots. Many ordinary people in this country are drawn to millenarian violence for a host of reasons, mostly material but also ideological. Regional powers -- Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Iran most of all -- have played a decisive role in breeding various brands of political Islam, but there is now a well-developed indigenous infrastructure that would not disappear even if foreign patrons ceased to exist.
It is this local infrastructure, and the ideological impetus provided through educational, media and other institutional sources to it, that is woefully under specified, both in the popular media and within academic circles.
Take the most obvious example: what do we really know about who becomes a 'terrorist' in North Waziristan? Frankly, not very much at all. In this case it can be explained by a lack of information due to the military's refusal to allow outsiders into the area to make sense of what is really happening. But we would do well to remember that self-proclaimed jihadis ply their trade all over the country: if investigative journalists and the intelligentsia really want to uncover the sociological roots of right-wing militancy, there is no reason why they cannot do so.
Comparative study could help us in this regard. A well-tested hypothesis about militancy in general ‐ both of the left and right-wing variety ‐ is that it often takes root amongst displaced populations, and particularly in refugee camps. Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, is an example of an organization that gestated in the Paleostinian refugee camps of Gazoo.
Some amongst us are currently lamenting the plight of those displaced by the North Waziristan operation, but we refuse to think of them as people with agency whose harrowing experiences may drive them in the direction of militancy. I am not suggesting that this is necessarily the case, just that there is an urgent need to think deeply about such potential correlations.
It is by concerning ourselves with such questions that we demonstrate a commitment to truly addressing the phenomenon that is so loosely termed 'terrorism'. A knee-jerk demand for a military solution every few months gives way to a sense of deflation when we inevitably discover that the problem has not gone away. This is precisely why we need to have a much more circumspect attitude towards the never-ending 'successes' of our uniformed guardians in the 'war on terror'.
The truth is that progressives are caught in a vicious cycle with regard to our fading dreams of establishing a just and egalitarian social order in this country. We implore the very forces that have been the principal source of popular disaffection and injustice in society -- the military foremost amongst them -- to establish peace and harmony.
In doing so we forget the cardinal rule of politics that there can be no peace where injustice and exploitation are rife. In a bygone era progressives were well aware of this rule and in fact themselves propagated a politics of change, mobilising those suffering injustice and exploitation to overturn the military-dominated structure of power.
Whether or not we like it, the religious right is today laying claim to spearheading a transformative politics. We will have to take back this mantle ourselves. Asking the generals to do the job for us is not only futile but also bad politics.
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Something wobbly, squishy, wormy and skin-crawling about this guy's essay. Modern faculty lounges want to manage affairs -- all of them, including private -- but without personally monopolizing and deploying the lethal force required to do that. I don't know. I've reached the point of saying, in effect, if you can't give me a straight answer, go piss up a rope.
THERE has recently been a spate of incidents against citizens of the Christian faith in Punjab. In a number of these, economic and/or other social scores have been settled by invoking the controversial blasphemy laws.
Though the government, major political parties and the judiciary have condemned the actions and promised ‘justice’, if we go by the history of investigations of previous such incidents, we can be pretty sure that nothing much is going to happen. The incidents will eventually move out of media and public attention; we will, collectively, move on to another crisis, and the whole ‘justice’ thing will be swept under the carpet. Where the murders of prominent public figures have gone unpunished, what is the likelihood that poor people will get any justice from such a system?
But this violence against blasphemy accused — which in several instances has resulted in murder — will not be forgotten by those whose families have been affected, and it will not be forgotten by affected communities. They have been terrorised. And it is not only the young children of the couple recently burned to death who have been terrorised, it is entire communities who have been terrorised. These communities know that if anyone who belongs to the majority does not like them, or dislikes them enough, all it takes is a blasphemy accusation and they will, in all likelihood, be beaten and perhaps murdered, even before the incident becomes breaking news.
They know that the state institutions will not protect them. But more importantly, they also know that other citizens with whom they share this society will not be able and/or willing to protect them either.
Is creating a feeling of profound insecurity in an individual and/or community not the definition of ‘fitna’ and terror? Should we not revisit a law that, in practice, is so easy to abuse and with such dire consequences not just for individuals but for entire communities?
Many people are reluctant to have a conversation on religious laws and edicts in our society. Most of us are afraid, and rightly so, of what the reactions will be like.
Given the level of intolerance present in our society, and which we can expect would be displayed in a discussion on blasphemy laws, the reluctance and fear is understandable. But this is exactly the terror we are talking about. Not only has the Christian community been terrorised, we stand terrorised too.
State institutions are supposed to protect all citizens. We know that power structures are very lopsided in Pakistan.
The landowner, the patron, the local badmaash have a lot of power to threaten people around them and even carry out these threats. But this is only possible with the tacit or explicit complicity of state institutions. If these local strongmen knew that state institutions would stand with those who have been wronged and would ensure justice and fair treatment for them, they will think twice before threatening anyone or before actually acting on those threats.
While carrying out a household survey in some districts of central Punjab, we came across a number of villages where a local patron had the entire village in his grip. Villagers were afraid of the patron to the point where they would vote as he instructed, they would not let their sons go to college because of their fear of him and would not even send their primary school-age girls to school as the patron, to ensure his control, had had the girls’ school constructed near his house (dera).
And it was not even that these patrons were large landholders. Sometimes they derived their power from having a brother or relative in politics or bureaucracy (especially police), or even from sheer threats of violence. But without exception in all cases, state institutions, explicitly or implicitly, were behind the patron. Police, local bureaucracy and local judiciary were either using the patron for their own benefit (hierarchies of patron-client relationships) and in turn providing protection to him, or were protecting the patron at the behest of higher level patrons.
We even came across a village where members of a particular caste were treated as outcasts from the rest of the society. These people were forced to inhabit the worst land area in the vicinity and had to walk long distances in search of forage and water and other means of survival and livelihood. Many women and young girls from this group complained of constant and serious harassment and molestation at the hands of men from other castes in the area.
But they all felt they had no option but to live on the margins of society as they could not appeal to state institutions to intervene on their behalf. Is this not terror? Is this how citizens of Pakistan should be treated?
When state institutions resort to extra-judicial means to deal with a situation, using disappearances, illegal detention, torture, and/or extra-judicial killings, they undermine the very purpose of their creation. But such means are resorted to not just to punish an individual or his/her family. It is to terrorise an entire population. It is to give a message to a group that they are completely vulnerable and at the mercy of the state institutions and their arbitrary power.
We have seen the use of this instrument very often in Pakistan and are witnessing it even today in various parts of the country.
An attempt to make a group or person insecure is tantamount to terror. It is the quintessential definition of ‘fitna’.
It does not matter if the perpetrator is the state, groups of individuals or even individuals acting alone, and it is also not predicated upon the goal which these individuals might think they are trying to achieve. It is still an attempt at terrorising people and thus condemnable.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan makes another scandalous statement. As he declared, US moon-landing was a hoax and world should know the truth behind the Apollo missions.
“Every president, PM or chancellor know the truth about US moon hoax. When we are elected to the cabinets, we get the black suitcase where all secrets of the world are kept. I was shocked when I learned that US never went to the moon,” Erdogan said. “The leaders are supposed to keep this secrets and never tell, but it is time for honesty.”
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