This is a second follow-up to Military Coup in Turkey, Top Officials Held Hostage, Currency Plunges, Erdogan via Radio Calls for Resistance.
Reports says Erdogan is getting things under control. The actual situation in Turkey is fluid, unstable, and likely unknown.
Whom to Believe?
Those in Turkey do not know whom to believe or whom to trust.
Whose side are the police on? Is the answer the same the next block over?
What about reports of massive support for Erdogan? Do you believe those reports?
This one sums it up for me.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
In times of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
We’re 3/4th the way down the slippery slope and still sliding.
Corruption and greed at the very top have cooked our goose.
The baby boomers didn’t start the fire. But we sure poured a lot of fuel on it.
None of this is new. Government and corruption go hand in hand. The difference is we have better worldwide communication making it seem worse than just business as normal.
The real reason no news outlet knows what is happening is very simple, actually. The media is so used to being fed news from the DC elite that they have lost the ability to write anything original. That is why as soon as this news broke, they (AP, Reuters, CNN, NYT, etc.) contacted somebody from the Fed who responded and told them everything is under control or will be when the market opens on Monday.
That is why the first reports said that the coup will fail. Just like when they knew Bernie will lose even before a single ballot was counted in CA despite the polls calling a close race.
Then, the reporters called GOP headquarters located somewhere on the K street among the lobbyists. The GOP people had just heard about Trump’s VP and thought the question was about that. They replied that everything is lost. So the media wrote that the coup is a success.
Then, BO took a break from his busy golf schedule and uttered that some red lines should not be crossed until they are crossed in which case the red lines disappear and can be crossed nilly-willy. This confused the media stenographers and they ran with the word “Red”. That led to the following two headlines:
a] Red (from Orange is the New Black) is now in Turkey. This is what Huffington Post wrote.
b] The communists caused a coup. This is what the rest wrote.
As I said, it is very simple to explain why the stories kept changing.
Erdogan was not granted asylum. He had to land in Turkey. He could not land in Ankara, the capitol, because he does not have control of the government. Erdogan is hiding somewhere, probably Istanbul.
Erdogan is a rat thug who should be strung up from a lamp post like Mussolini. In any event we should have nuked Istanbul a long time ago. Maybe when Trump is elected…..
The real reason no news outlet knows what is happening is very simple, actually.
The media is so used to being fed news from the DC elite that they have lost the ability to write anything original. That is why as soon as this news broke, they (AP, Reuters, CNN, NYT, etc.) contacted somebody from the Fed who responded and told them everything is under control or will be when the market opens on Monday.
That is why the first reports said that the coup will fail. Just like when they knew Bernie will lose even before a single ballot was counted in CA despite the polls calling a close race.
Then, the reporters called GOP headquarters located somewhere on the K street among the lobbyists. The GOP people had just heard about Trump’s VP and thought the question was about that. They replied that everything is lost. So the media wrote that the coup is a success.
Then, BO took a break from his busy golf schedule and uttered that some red lines should not be crossed until they are crossed in which case the red lines disappear and can be crossed nilly-willy. This confused the media stenographers and they ran with the word “Red”. That led to the following two headlines:
a] Red (from Orange is the New Black) is now in Turkey. This is what Huffington Post wrote.
b] The communists caused a coup. This is what the rest wrote.
As I said, it is very simple to explain why the stories kept changing.
The sad thing is it wouldn’t surprise me if that is close to exactly what happened.
These coups, they’re funny sometimes. You never know how things will go.
One recalls how Nicolae Ceaucescu thought he was “in control of” Romania right up until they beat the living daylights out of him, then desecrated his remains in the streets of the capital.
I believe the Romanian coup was staged. Ceaucescu’s fate was decided and sealed by insiders, in cooperation with the big boys of course. Some guns were fired and smoke, then a dead dictator brought out and abused. There was nothing spontainous about it, was not a revolution, but a changing of the guard.
I believe the same thing here. Erdogan had apoligized to the Russians, and was attempting to buddy up where ever he could. Perhaps he knew something was up.
Or he staged the whole thing. Take your pick.
Truth is the first casualty of war.
Mike post your Time Zone. Thanks
“Illinois Time.” Ground Zero for Coup 2.
Seriously Ergogone is flying into the wrong City.
“What is the Capital of Assyria?” Ergo…
Last night, a repeat of Big Bang Theory (comedy?) had higher ratings than Obama’s town hall meeting on whatever lie he is spewing this week.
The leader of the free world sets the tone — for better or worse.
ISIS, Turkey, Brexit, Ferguson, Dallas … the world is in chaos because there is no leadership. A lying traitor certainly won’t calm things
Although some suggest this coup is a kind of false flag designed to fail , I really don’t see anyone risking not being able to control the impetus to gain a little political leverage .
So with that assumption aside , what stands out to me is the glimpse we are given of what lies behind what we take as reality when someone actually acts out of step , the thin film of illusion that people take for granted as established and dependable that evaporates and leaves just a bunch of ordinary people hustling their own priorities and trying to rebuild some kind of foolproof credibility out of thin air .
Like most of the world, we don’t know what happened — I never claimed there was a false flag situation.
I said the leader of the free world sets the tone. All he does, day after day after day, is make excuses. Its all someone else’s fault, no matter what happens.
We don’t know what is happening, but we don’t spend $100 billion of other people’s money spying on those same people (aka US taxpayers). Whatever dumb budget W Bush passed along — the complete lack of awareness about everything going on in the world from FY2010 onwards reflects Obama’s priorities and Obama’s lack of leadership.
Lying Hillary asked “what difference does it make?” — the difference is that no one trusts the US government anymore. Enemies never trusted the US — but now traditional allies, NATO, friendly countries, and even US bloggers (and commenters) now start with the assumption that Washington DC is almost certainly lying.
I did not mean to suggest you suggested a false flag, I just took off with my own observations from where you left off. 🙂
Face to camera , or are they thinking something else ?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnczhGlWcAAhSOR.jpg
https://mobile.twitter.com/DEFCONWS seems to be up to date and notes verification status.
Nobody knows anything….which is normal and “not what the media is used to.” So sure…throw some pictures up and pretend you know what’s going on in the World on any given day.
None of us do.
So now Incerlik is being cut off and the Insane Clown Posse is looking at the nukes…I say that’s the perfect bait and far from a “return to normalcy” that any other dictator would be demanding right now.
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they won’t nuke you.”
And if you’re really into this stuff 90 million dead Turks can solve a lot of problems.
So who knows how this will play out besides “Dumb and Dumber.”
No one even has a clue from whence the coup came…though of course everyone is an expert on these things now.
I would laugh if a nuke actually went off though.
Who knows what and who’s telling lies and who’s with whom and who said this and who asked about that and who did what to whom and other silly Game of Thrones inspired childishness, play a very distant second to the simple fact that Turkey has obviously become a very unstable country.
Which is kind of troublesome, given their military might, and the fact that they are the lone remaining bulwark between a Europe that has grown fat from being too stable for too long, and a Middle East that is well along in a process of completely coming unhinged.