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		<title>By: george mack</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[george mack]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 16:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey is already &#039;in Europe,&#039; or at least many millions of Turks are, and while I have met one or two who are assimilated, you only need to go around some German cities to see how most of them are wedded to backward Islamist ways.

http://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/seventeenth-of-june-lest-we-forget-berlin/


I applaud secular Turks who are fighting for freedom, but that does NOT mean Turkey should be considered part of Europe.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Turkey is already &#8216;in Europe,&#8217; or at least many millions of Turks are, and while I have met one or two who are assimilated, you only need to go around some German cities to see how most of them are wedded to backward Islamist ways.</p>
<p><a href="http://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/seventeenth-of-june-lest-we-forget-berlin/" rel="nofollow">http://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/seventeenth-of-june-lest-we-forget-berlin/</a></p>
<p>I applaud secular Turks who are fighting for freedom, but that does NOT mean Turkey should be considered part of Europe.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael_van_der_Galien</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael_van_der_Galien]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, agreed. For the Dutch website I&#039;m managing editor for I actually wrote &#039;three times hooray for the Egyptian army.&#039; If they had waited a few years, they would not have been able to do this, because Morsi would have fired the secular generals and other high officers and replaced them with islamists.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, agreed. For the Dutch website I&#8217;m managing editor for I actually wrote &#8216;three times hooray for the Egyptian army.&#8217; If they had waited a few years, they would not have been able to do this, because Morsi would have fired the secular generals and other high officers and replaced them with islamists.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael_van_der_Galien</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael_van_der_Galien]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s sadly true.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s sadly true.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is why Morsi has to go, before he does in Egypt what Erdogan has done in Turkey. The Pakistani Army is dominated by Islamists which is why they concealed bin Laden and kept undermining the US in Afghanistan. We don&#039;t need a Pakistani-like army in Egypt.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Which is why Morsi has to go, before he does in Egypt what Erdogan has done in Turkey. The Pakistani Army is dominated by Islamists which is why they concealed bin Laden and kept undermining the US in Afghanistan. We don&#8217;t need a Pakistani-like army in Egypt.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, as with all Islamists, the most troubling thing about them is their beliefs. As Stalin knew very well, it is easier to dispose of the man than to change his beliefs.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, as with all Islamists, the most troubling thing about them is their beliefs. As Stalin knew very well, it is easier to dispose of the man than to change his beliefs.</p>
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		<title>By: Besökare</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Besökare]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I don&#039;t think there exist such a thing as a healthy relationship with an &quot;islam-cultured&quot; nation. The way to relate to such entities is real-politik and containment, and nothing else. 

 Where in the real world does the advantages of this &#039;friendship&#039; actually materialize itself? What could we not get a thousand times better and cheaper by twisting their arm rather than the charade going on now?
Terms like &#039;close allies&#039; and &#039;keeping in our camp&#039; are just words and I cannot see any real world basis for them.

Both in the states and in Europe our diplomatic and intellectual class have convinced themselves that ridiculous trade-offs are justified (or most of their jobs would become obsolete). They feel we should be humble towards Turkey and massage their tender egos, give them lots of important positions, the right to keep migrating to EC, where they are responsible for grave, grave crimes often against women and children etc etc for some illusion about having a friend in the middle east.


If we cut of their trade-privileges and start returning their criminal immigrants, stop the mony transfers, we can bring them to their knees in minutes (literally, their bonds and stocks couldn&#039;t bear it) and of course they will allow our planes to fly over etc. (they cannot even fix their own planes without our technology). We are still in a position of supreme power towards the middle eastern countries and we need to start using it now instead of babbling about friendship and alliances that don&#039;t exist. Anyway, middle easteners never respect people who squander their power-privileges, one reason they think so ill of Obama.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, I don&#8217;t think there exist such a thing as a healthy relationship with an &#8220;islam-cultured&#8221; nation. The way to relate to such entities is real-politik and containment, and nothing else. </p>
<p> Where in the real world does the advantages of this &#8216;friendship&#8217; actually materialize itself? What could we not get a thousand times better and cheaper by twisting their arm rather than the charade going on now?<br />
Terms like &#8216;close allies&#8217; and &#8216;keeping in our camp&#8217; are just words and I cannot see any real world basis for them.</p>
<p>Both in the states and in Europe our diplomatic and intellectual class have convinced themselves that ridiculous trade-offs are justified (or most of their jobs would become obsolete). They feel we should be humble towards Turkey and massage their tender egos, give them lots of important positions, the right to keep migrating to EC, where they are responsible for grave, grave crimes often against women and children etc etc for some illusion about having a friend in the middle east.</p>
<p>If we cut of their trade-privileges and start returning their criminal immigrants, stop the mony transfers, we can bring them to their knees in minutes (literally, their bonds and stocks couldn&#8217;t bear it) and of course they will allow our planes to fly over etc. (they cannot even fix their own planes without our technology). We are still in a position of supreme power towards the middle eastern countries and we need to start using it now instead of babbling about friendship and alliances that don&#8217;t exist. Anyway, middle easteners never respect people who squander their power-privileges, one reason they think so ill of Obama.</p>
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		<title>By: chan chan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[chan chan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erdogan keeps talking about &quot;the interest rate lobby&quot; and &quot;those who set interest rates should watch out&quot;.

This is a clear reference to interest rates being forbidden under sharia law. He&#039;s saying that sharia finance is on the way to turkey.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Erdogan keeps talking about &#8220;the interest rate lobby&#8221; and &#8220;those who set interest rates should watch out&#8221;.</p>
<p>This is a clear reference to interest rates being forbidden under sharia law. He&#8217;s saying that sharia finance is on the way to turkey.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael_van_der_Galien</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael_van_der_Galien]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt still has a strong army. If Morsi would have been president for 10 years already, I have no doubt that the army would have acted differently today. Luckily, the Egyptian army is still filled with and led by secularists, though.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Egypt still has a strong army. If Morsi would have been president for 10 years already, I have no doubt that the army would have acted differently today. Luckily, the Egyptian army is still filled with and led by secularists, though.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael_van_der_Galien</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael_van_der_Galien]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But that&#039;s the reason for the West to make sure that doesn&#039;t happen (Khamenei, Erdogan, Morsi, Hezbollah, etc.). That&#039;s a real nightmare. 


One of the biggest mistakes the West has ever made is to tell Turkey to scale back the role of the army. We are starting to live with the consequences of that now.


For some reason westerners refuse to understand that democracy in the middle east can&#039;t and won&#039;t be the same as in Europe and the US. They *need* a strong army as a bulwark of secularism there. If they don&#039;t have that, Islamists will take over.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But that&#8217;s the reason for the West to make sure that doesn&#8217;t happen (Khamenei, Erdogan, Morsi, Hezbollah, etc.). That&#8217;s a real nightmare. </p>
<p>One of the biggest mistakes the West has ever made is to tell Turkey to scale back the role of the army. We are starting to live with the consequences of that now.</p>
<p>For some reason westerners refuse to understand that democracy in the middle east can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t be the same as in Europe and the US. They *need* a strong army as a bulwark of secularism there. If they don&#8217;t have that, Islamists will take over.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael_van_der_Galien</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael_van_der_Galien]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactemundo. The troubling thing is, though, that he actually seems to believe that nonsense.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Exactemundo. The troubling thing is, though, that he actually seems to believe that nonsense.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael_van_der_Galien</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael_van_der_Galien]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about this for other websites and concluded that... I&#039;m not sure he isn&#039;t bluffing. The army is not as strong as it once was, but that&#039;s different from suddenly taking the side of Islamists.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote about this for other websites and concluded that&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure he isn&#8217;t bluffing. The army is not as strong as it once was, but that&#8217;s different from suddenly taking the side of Islamists.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael_van_der_Galien</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael_van_der_Galien]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, a very good point. I&#039;ll include this next time. Don&#039;t forget that the &#039;interest lobby,&#039; &#039;bankers&#039; and &#039;foreign governments&#039; also mean - at leat for a part - &#039;the jews&#039; to them.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, a very good point. I&#8217;ll include this next time. Don&#8217;t forget that the &#8216;interest lobby,&#8217; &#8216;bankers&#8217; and &#8216;foreign governments&#8217; also mean &#8211; at leat for a part &#8211; &#8216;the jews&#8217; to them.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael_van_der_Galien</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael_van_der_Galien]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, I completely agree that Turkey should not join the EU - I believe that&#039;s bad for both. Agreed.


However, for the balance of power and the region and for European economies, it is important to have a healthy relationship with Turkey. Don&#039;t forget that Turkey and the US, for instance, were close allies until 2002 / 2003. If I remember well, as much as 80 to 90 percent of Turks had a positive view of the US back then, which was very helpful for both countries.


It is important to keep Turkey in our camp, but I&#039;m becoming increasingly afraid that it is moving in the other - wrong - direction. That&#039;ll be bad for Turkey itself, but it will also severely weaken the West&#039;s role in the Middle East.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, I completely agree that Turkey should not join the EU &#8211; I believe that&#8217;s bad for both. Agreed.</p>
<p>However, for the balance of power and the region and for European economies, it is important to have a healthy relationship with Turkey. Don&#8217;t forget that Turkey and the US, for instance, were close allies until 2002 / 2003. If I remember well, as much as 80 to 90 percent of Turks had a positive view of the US back then, which was very helpful for both countries.</p>
<p>It is important to keep Turkey in our camp, but I&#8217;m becoming increasingly afraid that it is moving in the other &#8211; wrong &#8211; direction. That&#8217;ll be bad for Turkey itself, but it will also severely weaken the West&#8217;s role in the Middle East.</p>
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		<title>By: Besökare</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Besökare]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 08:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree very much, but I find hope in the fact that all of these countries have virtually no functioning economy on their own. If we simply cut support and cancel trade they will instantly be reduced to an agrarian state and constitute no military threat. This could be done tomorrow.

For us Europeans it is only a question if we are demographically overwhelmed before we realize that we are losing our ancient lands.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree very much, but I find hope in the fact that all of these countries have virtually no functioning economy on their own. If we simply cut support and cancel trade they will instantly be reduced to an agrarian state and constitute no military threat. This could be done tomorrow.</p>
<p>For us Europeans it is only a question if we are demographically overwhelmed before we realize that we are losing our ancient lands.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Let us hope so, for we cannot afford to let Turkey slide into 
authoritarianism. Europe and the United States need Turkey as a strong 
and democratic regional partner. Doing nothing is, therefore, simply not
 an option.&quot;

Since when do Islamists concern themselves with what infidel countries want? Erdogan has an agenda and he will pursue it because he is committed to it no less than Mohammed was. If the Turks don&#039;t divert him from his mission he will pursue it until the Turks have no choice but to comply and surrender their liberties and freedoms (to the extent they even have them).


Imagine a world in which Erdogan rules Turkey, Morsi rules Egypt, the Ayattolah rules Iran, an Islamist rules Syria and possibly Lebanon. Israel will be like a solitary sheep surrounded by wolves. We will see the resurgence of a Caliphate and the descent of total medieval darkness over the entire Middle East, a darkness which will eventually war with the light of western civilization and culture. This is the reason that what happens in Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, etc. matters. But this is NOT the reason that Europe or America have any awareness or comprehension of. No, to the Western democracies, it is not Islamists who are a threat to the existence of mankind, it is Islamophobes who are. Don&#039;t expect the US or Europe to do anything but accept whatever Erdogan does, lest he accuse them of being Islamophobes. Heaven forbid!!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Let us hope so, for we cannot afford to let Turkey slide into<br />
authoritarianism. Europe and the United States need Turkey as a strong<br />
and democratic regional partner. Doing nothing is, therefore, simply not<br />
 an option.&#8221;</p>
<p>Since when do Islamists concern themselves with what infidel countries want? Erdogan has an agenda and he will pursue it because he is committed to it no less than Mohammed was. If the Turks don&#8217;t divert him from his mission he will pursue it until the Turks have no choice but to comply and surrender their liberties and freedoms (to the extent they even have them).</p>
<p>Imagine a world in which Erdogan rules Turkey, Morsi rules Egypt, the Ayattolah rules Iran, an Islamist rules Syria and possibly Lebanon. Israel will be like a solitary sheep surrounded by wolves. We will see the resurgence of a Caliphate and the descent of total medieval darkness over the entire Middle East, a darkness which will eventually war with the light of western civilization and culture. This is the reason that what happens in Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, etc. matters. But this is NOT the reason that Europe or America have any awareness or comprehension of. No, to the Western democracies, it is not Islamists who are a threat to the existence of mankind, it is Islamophobes who are. Don&#8217;t expect the US or Europe to do anything but accept whatever Erdogan does, lest he accuse them of being Islamophobes. Heaven forbid!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 04:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Supposedly, this is all part of some grand kind of “conspiracy” by the 
aforementioned “interest rate lobby,” who want to throw Turkey into 
chaos.&quot;
I see. So throwing Turkey into chaos will have an effect on interest rates, probably moving them higher because of uncertainty and risk. What&#039;s amazing is that so many protesters belong to this &#039;interest rate lobby&#039;. Did the lobby suddenly emerge from nothing into a mass movement? Totalitarian regimes have a long roster of scapegoats available to defuse any political crisis.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Supposedly, this is all part of some grand kind of “conspiracy” by the<br />
aforementioned “interest rate lobby,” who want to throw Turkey into<br />
chaos.&#8221;<br />
I see. So throwing Turkey into chaos will have an effect on interest rates, probably moving them higher because of uncertainty and risk. What&#8217;s amazing is that so many protesters belong to this &#8216;interest rate lobby&#8217;. Did the lobby suddenly emerge from nothing into a mass movement? Totalitarian regimes have a long roster of scapegoats available to defuse any political crisis.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;...the Ottoman slap is an “all powerful“ way to take out one’s opponent.&quot; I don&#039;t think an Ottoman slap could turn on a light bulb. WWI demolished the Ottomans, or has Turkey not yet realized that? What Erdogan needs is an &#039;Ataturk Slap&#039; which would restore democracy, sanity and prosperity to Turkey.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230;the Ottoman slap is an “all powerful“ way to take out one’s opponent.&#8221; I don&#8217;t think an Ottoman slap could turn on a light bulb. WWI demolished the Ottomans, or has Turkey not yet realized that? What Erdogan needs is an &#8216;Ataturk Slap&#8217; which would restore democracy, sanity and prosperity to Turkey.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 04:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;If a government wants to crack down on dissent, it will have to do so without their help.&quot; History is replete with stories of governments wanting to leverage technology against its people. That&#039;s why we should not be surprised when the NSA is used to acquire secrets about us, telecom companies are compelled to provide private phone records, Erdogan wants Twitter and Facebook to join his Secret Police, and Obama uses drones to eliminate his enemies (as defined by him who is pulling the trigger). DO NOT TRUST GOVERNMENT!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If a government wants to crack down on dissent, it will have to do so without their help.&#8221; History is replete with stories of governments wanting to leverage technology against its people. That&#8217;s why we should not be surprised when the NSA is used to acquire secrets about us, telecom companies are compelled to provide private phone records, Erdogan wants Twitter and Facebook to join his Secret Police, and Obama uses drones to eliminate his enemies (as defined by him who is pulling the trigger). DO NOT TRUST GOVERNMENT!</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 04:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morsi of Egypt was following Erdogan&#039;s footsteps but apparently the Egyptian people cannot be as easily misled as the Turks. But let&#039;s give them credit. They did wake up eventually to reject the Islamist Erdogan. One has to wonder what is taking the American people so long to wake up to the realization that they also have a would-be dictator in the Presidency.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Morsi of Egypt was following Erdogan&#8217;s footsteps but apparently the Egyptian people cannot be as easily misled as the Turks. But let&#8217;s give them credit. They did wake up eventually to reject the Islamist Erdogan. One has to wonder what is taking the American people so long to wake up to the realization that they also have a would-be dictator in the Presidency.</p>
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		<title>By: watsa46</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are about 15 to 18 thousands Jews in the WHOLE of Turkey!!!!!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are about 15 to 18 thousands Jews in the WHOLE of Turkey!!!!!!</p>
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