Over the past two weeks Europe has experienced a rash of Islamist terrorist attacks.
This began on July 14th (14/7/16) when Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a truck through revellers celebrating Bastille day in Nice, France. He murdered 84 people.
On July 18th (18/7/16) Riaz Khan Ahmadzai (AKA; "Muhammad Riyad") - a 17 year old refugee from Afghanistan - attacked passengers aboard a train in Wurzburg, Bavaria, Germany with an axe. He seriously injured four people.
On July 22nd (22/7/16) Ali David Sonboly - a German/Iranian dual national - went on a shooting rampage in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He murdered 9 people.
On July 24th (24/7/16) an as yet named illegal immigrant from Syria who'd been refused refugee status attacked passers-by with a machete on the street in Reutlingen, Baden-Wuttemberg, Germany. He murdered a pregnant Polish woman.
Also on July 24th (24/7/16) another illegal immigrant from Syria who been refused refugee status attempted to carry out a suicide bombing at an open air music festival attended by some 2,500 in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. Having been denied entry to the festival he detonated his bomb at a near-by bar. Fortunately he only succeeded in killing himself although he did injure 15.
In response to all of these attacks I've spoken at length about how Al Qaeda have long had a strategy of using terrorism to destroy the secular space in which Muslims and non-Muslims coexist. Due to the growing community tensions caused by the migrant crisis the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seem to have adopted this tactic having identified a fracture point they can exploit.
Yesterday (25/7/16) the was yet another terrorist attack. This time in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, France.
Here two attackers burst into a Catholic Church taking a Priest, three Nuns and two Church goers hostage at knifepoint. They filmed themselves forcing the 84-year Priest to kneel before the altar before beheading him and sending the video to ISIL. They were then both shot and killed by police marksmen.
ISIL view it as their mission to purge the World of everybody who does not follow their perversion of Islam. This includes Sunni Muslims put particularly Shia Muslims, Christians, Druze and Yezidi. As such the spectacle of ISIL fighters storming into a Church and beheading Priests and slaughtering Christians is an all too common one.
However if people in the west were being told the truth of what is happening in Syria, Iraq and beyond there would be riots through the streets and western politicians would be torn limb from limb. As such a huge effort has gone in from both the media and politicians to hide the horrors of the Middle-East from the public.
With it being impossible to hide the beheading of a Priest in a Church in France yesterday's terror attack was extremely shocking to people who don't know that this is happening everyday and has been happening every day for the past five years.
It was intended to be seen as a direct threat to Europe's Christian's and its secular way of life by Muslims. The idea being to create a backlash by non-Muslims against Muslims. Particularly Muslim immigrants.
The attack also seemed to be a personal one against the Pope - the head of the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church is currently holding its biannual youth camp.
This sees young Catholics from around the World gather together for what is essentially a weeklong social festival. It is often dubbed; "The Catholic Woodstock." The highlight is World Youth Day which is today where the Pope attends the festival to address the crowds.
This year the World Youth Camp is being held in Krakow, Poland.
The European Union's (EU) ability to respond to the migration crisis has been severely hampered by two of its members - Hungary and Poland - refusing to implement an agreement that would see refugees shared out in quotas amongst member states.
The Polish Law & Justice Party (PiS) government of Beata Syzdlo in particular has made it quite clear that it does not want to accept a single Muslim refugee because it wants to preserve Poland's pure, Catholic identity from which the party takes much of its power.
The Pope - as the head of the Catholic Church - has much disagreed with the Polish government on this point. So when PiS has said that you cannot allow Muslim refugees into a Catholic nation the Pope responded by taken Muslim refugees into his home in the Vatican City - the ultimate Catholic nation.
As a result the Pope's trip to Poland today for World Youth Day was always going to be extremely tense. Unusually for a supposedly Catholic party the PiS are refusing the recognise the Pope's visit as an official state one with all the respect that affords.
Therefore yesterday's attack on a Catholic Church coming so soon after the terrorist murder of a Polish woman seems intended to weaken the Pope and strengthen the PiS' position on the migration issue.
After all by creating a weakness in the EU's response to ISIL the PiS are ISIL's biggest ally in Europe.
It also seems to have been an attack on me personally.
In response to the June 12th (12/6/16) terror attack against the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, US I spoke about the psychological effects of traumatic shock that occur during this type of situation. Using an example from my own life I mentioned an older Irish woman who'd been in a Catholic Church when the congregation was attacked by a naked swordsman. I mentioned this again in response to the Wurzburg train attack.
Therefore by carrying out what was effectively a sword attack on a Catholic Church I think the attackers were also trying to trigger off some sort of traumatic memory in me. The hope being that would take me out of the game preventing me from going after ISIL.
As such I should probably explain. I wasn't actually in the Church during the sword attack. In fact it was the way that this woman was randomly telling me about this guy's penis that had me nodding my head and thinking; "Yep. That's traumatic shock."
In terms of the psychological effects of this relentless parade of slaughter obviously it does have an effect on me.
Although it wasn't directly linked to ISIL the July 7th (7/7/16) terror attack in Dallas, Texas made for an extremely long and unpleasant day from me. This really lasted until the memorial service on July 13th (13/7/16). I really then had one day off before the Nice attack. It's been non-stop since then.
So even as far back as Saturday (23/6/16) was scheduling yesterday evening to go off an deal it. For obvious reasons I don't to share my particular process but generally it is just a matter of accepting that these things do affect you and coming to peace with it.
I could really have done without the mother of Sandra Bland appearing at the Democratic National Convention yesterday though. After all she is extremely offensive to anyone with knowledge of genuine Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
The attack in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray was very obviously the work of a small, largely self-directed ISIL cell.
The reason why it was so quickly indentified at as such is that one of the attackers - 19 year old Adel Kermiche - had previously served 10 months in prison for attempting to join ISIL in Syria. At the time of the attack he was released from prison on license/parole and was wearing an electronic monitoring tag.
The fact that despite being a known ISIL sympathiser Kermiche was free to commit the attack has obviously prompted a backlash against the French security services. However I should point out that cases such as these put them in an extremely difficult position.
When we talk about Muslim citizens being a nations first line of defence against terror we are not being politically correct. It is simply the truth.
The reason why the French authorities knew that Kermiche was an ISIL sympathiser is because his own mother and sister informed them that they were worried he was becoming radicalised. If the French authorities react to that by putting the son in prison for the rest of his life no other mother is going to come forward.
This will create a situation like the one you have in Molenbeek, Brussels, Belgium. Here not only don't local residents inform the authorities of members of the community who have become radicalised they actively shelter terrorists as they did with Saleh Abdeslam. As Lahouaiej Bouhlel demonstrates it is the threats the authorities don't know about that are the most dangerous.
That said though in other cases where people have been convicted of serious terrorist offences that haven't been uncovered by community intelligence should remain in prison until ISIL have been defeated. Those who have already been released from prison should be immediately recalled indefinitely as a threat to society.
What I am much more concerned about though is the French government's failure to combat the threat of ISIL at the international diplomatic and political level.
On May 10th 2016 (10/5/16) Russia tabled a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to designate both the Islamic Movement of the Freemen of the Levant/Harakat Ahrar ash-Sham al-Islamiyya (Ahrar al-Sham) and the Army of Islam/Jaish al-Islam (JAI) as terrorists groups.
These two groups are key parts of the Al Qaeda led Army of Conquest/Jaish al-Fatah (JAF) coalition in Syria. They regularly fight alongside ISIL - particularly during the spring of 2015 when the JAF's Northwestern offensive was co-ordinated with ISIL's capture of Palmyra. Therefore the designation of Ahrar al-Sham and JAI as terror groups is vital to the defeat of ISIL.
However France along with the US and the UK vetoed the Russian resolution. This allows nations such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia to continue supplying Ahrar al-Sham and JAI with weapons which are then passed on to ISIL. It also grants unwarranted legitimacy to ISIL claim that they are simply protecting Muslims from oppression.
Although I need to deal with it as a separate issue the big development over the past few weeks in Syria is that the Syrian government has succeeded in liberating the Castello Road.
Along with Highway 214 which is a crucial part of what I term "Erdogan's Pocket" or "Garvaghy Road." It's liberation cuts the supply line between Turkey and Army of Conquest forces occupying Aleppo City. As such the liberation of the Castello Road is a massive step forward in the efforts to force ISIL and their associates from Syria entirely.
Curiously though on Monday (25/7/16) the UNSC held a session on the liberation of Castello Road. Rather than celebrating this victory the French Ambassador joined with the US, the UK and others condemning this defeat of the terrorists. They then called on the Syrian government to hand the terrorists supply line back to them.
So if ISIL is at war with France as French President Hollande said in response to the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray attack he really needs to hurry up and decide which side he's on;
France's or ISIL's.
17:05 on 27/7/16 (UK date).
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Monday, 25 July 2016
The Munich, Reutlingen and Ansbach Terror Attacks. Pt.2
This should be read as a direct continuation of Part 1; http://watchitdie.blogspot.in/2016/07/the-munich-reutligen-and-ansbach-terror.html
In that part I explained how Ali David Sonboly had attacked a target that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had called on their supporters to attack in June 2016. I also explained how Sonboly attack targeted ISIL's main objectives of the Olympics and community tensions in Europe caused by the migration crisis.
As such it should be clear that Sonboly's attack bore all the hallmarks of an ISIL-style Islamist terror attack.
However the German government really doesn't want to admit that it has failed to uphold its part of social contract which obligates it to protect its citizens. As a result it immediately went into cover-up mode.
As part of this effort much has been made of the fact that Sonboly suffered from the sort of mental health problems associated with troubled teenagers in many western societies.
Firstly I should point out that this is exactly the profile of an ISIL recruit.
Unlike Al Qaeda which has historically been very committed to liberating the holy Mosques of Mecca from the Saudi Monarchy ISIL is not an Islamic group. Instead it is a nihilistic group.
Simply put nihilism is a philosophy of despair and destruction. For ISIL all these grand claims such re-establishing the Islamic Caliphate etc are simply a cover for the appalling violence they hope will help save them from their own sense of worthlessness.
Mohamed Lahouaie-Bouhlel who carried out the June 14th (14/7/16) in Nice, France had a similar history of being treated for psychological problems.
Likewise probably ISIL's most famous member Mohammed Emwazi (AKA: "Jihadi John") had a long history of depression and psychosis for which he was under a doctors care prior to his departure to Syria. In his emails to the Daily Mail newspaper Emwazi spoke extensively about his psychological problems in an attempt to garner sympathy.
As for the claim that Munich couldn't possibly be an Islamist terror attack because Muslims were amongst the victims. In Nice 1 in every 3 people killed were Muslims. In Saturday's (23/7/16) attack in Kabul, Afghanistan 100% of the victims were Muslims. Today 17 people were killed in an ISIL suicide bombing in Khalis, Iraq. They were all Muslims.
Secondly this overlap between the nihilism of ISIL and the light nihilism of teenage rebellion is something that has been talked about on the fringes of anti-ISIL efforts for a while now. So much so it's even appear as a storyline in the US TV Show "NCIS."
Made primarily for the syndication market it is extremely easy to mock NCIS. They have to churn out 24 episodes a year. Each one of those episodes has to be almost completely self-contained with a crime being committed, a crime being investigated and a crime being solved. All within the space of 40 minutes plus commercials. In those episodes sex and violence can only be alluded to and swearing is absolutely forbidden.
Despite these laborious restrictions on their creativity in one or two episodes every season NCIS manages to absolutely smash it out of the park. The long running Mossad liaison officer character "Ziva David" certainly won them lots of extremely well connected fans.
The stand out moments from the current season of NCIS (Season 12) revolve around a mysterious Islamist terror group known simply as; "The Calling." Although no-one is named specifically their membership includes a character who is suspiciously like Kayla Mueller and they were formed in Syria before moving on to invade Iraq.
What The Calling does is troll some of the darker websites on the Internet such as pro-suicide sites, pro-Anorexia sites and what are generally termed "Hate Sites" - think 4Chan. There they recruit trouble teenagers and manipulate their angst to get them to carry out terror attacks without them realising that they are part of an Islamist terror group.
The advantage for The Calling of operating in this way is that local authorities dismiss these attacks as isolated acts by maladjusted teenagers rather than the work of a Islamist terrorist network. As a result they never bother investigate the wider Islamist terror network leaving it free to conduct ever more brutal attacks.
In the show the investigators liken The Calling's action to "Peter Pan's" attempts to recruit "The Lost Boys." You may remember that aside from the tribute to the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony featured a sequence dedicated to Peter Pan. Just before they did that strange sequence about healthcare policy.
To give you an idea of how much NCIS is talked about in certain circles although he did cut his visit short following the July 7th (7/7/16) Black Lives Matter terrorist attack in Dallas, Texas US President Obama could not leave before he visited a US Naval base in Rota, Spain. That Naval base features very heavily in the NCIS "Port-to-Port Killer" storyline.
The first episode in The Calling storyline was broadcast in the UK last Saturday (16/7/16). On the Monday (18/7/16) there was an incident in Jerusalem, Israel when a man was stopped from carrying a bomb in a backpack aboard a trolley bus/tram. I don't want to give away spoilers but if you've seen the NCIS episode that would seem extremely familiar.
Also much has been made of the strange spectacle of the Muslim son of a refugee screaming racist abuse about Muslims and refugees as he carried out his attack.
I should start by pointing out that this seems to have been extremely overstated. It seems mainly based on a video of an exchange between a member of the public and Sonboly as Sonboly was reloading his gun.
During that exchange the member of the public unleashed an impressive stream of verbal abuse against Sonboly. I recognise some of the German phrases used even if Google refuses to translate them for me. Therefore this seems likely to just be Sonboly reacting to the accusations being levelled against him by a man who was too far away to shoot.
The attack did though occur on the fifth anniversary of Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Breivik's shooting rampage in 2011.
Seeming to bow to the Twitter campaign by much of the European left German police did initially claim that Sonboly was in possession of a copy of Breivik's manifesto although they have now retracted that claim. Likewise I understand the person who claimed to the media that Sonboly had used a picture of Breivik in his Snapchat profile has since been arrested as an accessory to the crime.
I think though there are two important details to remember about this aspect of the attack;
The first is that one of the primary objectives of the attack was to increase racial tension and division. Particularly by portraying the west as anti-Muslim in order to produce more western recruits for ISIL.
Secondly people - particularly terrorists - will lie to get what they want.
This issue of when we can call a terrorist attack a terrorist attack is an extremely hot issue within US politics. As with Black Lives Matter it also seems to have infected European politics.
Personally I think it goes back to Obama's fundamental misconception about ISIL.
Obama seems to genuinely believe that ISIL are some sort of heroic civil rights protest group battling the oppression of the Syrian government rather than a group of genocidal terrorists active from California in the US right across Europe, Africa and the Middle-East all the way into South-East Asia and even Australia.
The issue was really ignited by the February 10th 2015 (10/2/15) shooting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Here three members of a Mosque that was under Federal investigation for links to ISIL were shot and killed in an unrelated parking dispute. Seizing on the opportunity to take some of the pressure of the counter-terrorism investigation off them the Mosque demanded that this be labelled an act of anti-Muslim terrorism.
Unfortunately Obama fell for it hook, line and sinker.
Now every time there's a terrorist attack or mass shooting anywhere in the World Obama supporters take to Twitter to tell us that because we're all homophobic, Islamaphobic racists whenever the attacker's a Muslim we label it terrorism, whenever the attacker's black we label them a thug but when the attacker's white we simply put it down to mental illness.
Obviously Obama supporters very much want to avoid a legitimate discussion about when attacks are classed as terrorism.
After all that would involve some very difficult questions about the December 20th 2014 (20/12/14) Black Lives Matter attack on police in New York City. The March 12th 2015 (12/3/15) Black Lives Matter attack on police in Ferguson, Missouri. The July 7th 2016(7/7/16) Black Lives Matter attack on police in Dallas, Texas. The July 17th (17/7/16) Black Lives Matter attack on police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
It would also explain why there is absolutely no criminal case for Dylann Roof to answer over the events in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17th 2015 (17/6/15).
In short such a discussion could only conclude that Barack Obama and his associates have to go to prison for waging a terrorist war against the United States.
Apart from igniting those arguments I think that ISIL as a nominally Sunni organisation were hoping to boost recruitment by showing how the west refuse to open a terrorist investigation when the attacker is a Shia. Therefore as they will tell their recruits it is obvious that the west is backing Shia terrorists to destroy them. All good Sunnis must join ISIL to fight back.
Also I think that the terrorist were hoping that Germany would try and cover up Friday's (22/7/17) attack in Munich in the way that they did. The German's efforts so far have been so offensive to anyone with even half a brain cell that this will lead to a backlash further destroying the space in which Muslims and non-Muslims coexist and further destabilising Germany.
Based on the way they have behaved these past three days I think it is now going to be impossible for Germany to get Hungary and Poland to agree to a refugee deal. Therefore if Turkey decides to once again flood the continent with migrants the EU is - I believed the correct technical term is; "F*cked."
As I said on Sunday (24/7/16) the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held its meeting on whether to expel Russia from the 2016 Rio Olympics.
In an extremely rare display of moral courage they declined to expel Russia. However they failed to expel the IAAF from the Olympic movement and left other sports federations free to ban Russian competitors.
Despite this it took little more than an hour for Islamist terrorists to launch revenge attacks against Germany.
The first of these took place in Reutlingen in the north-western state of Baden-Wuttemberg.
Here a Syrian illegal migrant who had been refused refugee status twice but had not been taken into custody or deported launched a machete attack at a kebab stall. He injured two and murdered a pregnant Polish woman before being subdued and arrested. No doubt he's already out on bail.
The second of these took place in Ansbach which is in Bavaria.
Here another Syrian man who had been denied refugee status but had not been taken into custody or deported tried carrying a backpack bomb into an open air music festival attended by roughly 2,500 people that was being held in the town square.
Having been refused entry to the music festival for not having a valid ticket he instead chose to detonate his bomb at a near-by bar. Fortunately he only succeeded in killing himself although he did injure 15.
Following the attack in Reutlingen the German authorities did exactly what they did following the Munich attack. They denied that it was terrorist related and tried to make us feel bad for hurting the poor terrorists feelings.
Following the Ansbach attack the German authorities again tried to cover it up by denying that a bombing had taken place and trying to pass it off as a gas explosion. However the local Mayor called the Federal authorities out by confirming to the media that it was a bombing.
It has since been discovered that the prior to the bombing the attacker had recorded a video on his mobile phone which he sent to ISIL claiming the attack in the groups name declaring it to be an unspecified act of revenge.
Despite this the best the German authorities can come out with is a statement that' "We cannot rule out a link to ISIL at this time."
I find this strategy of denial and cover up on the part of the German authorities alarming and frankly dangerous.
I like to think that my hard-left credentials are beyond reproach. After all I have been banned from Germany because of them. However at this point even I think that the far-right and even the neo-Nazis are making a lot more sense than Merkel's government.
Imagine what people without my level of political experience are thinking.
21:10 on 25/7/16 (UK date).
In that part I explained how Ali David Sonboly had attacked a target that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had called on their supporters to attack in June 2016. I also explained how Sonboly attack targeted ISIL's main objectives of the Olympics and community tensions in Europe caused by the migration crisis.
As such it should be clear that Sonboly's attack bore all the hallmarks of an ISIL-style Islamist terror attack.
However the German government really doesn't want to admit that it has failed to uphold its part of social contract which obligates it to protect its citizens. As a result it immediately went into cover-up mode.
As part of this effort much has been made of the fact that Sonboly suffered from the sort of mental health problems associated with troubled teenagers in many western societies.
Firstly I should point out that this is exactly the profile of an ISIL recruit.
Unlike Al Qaeda which has historically been very committed to liberating the holy Mosques of Mecca from the Saudi Monarchy ISIL is not an Islamic group. Instead it is a nihilistic group.
Simply put nihilism is a philosophy of despair and destruction. For ISIL all these grand claims such re-establishing the Islamic Caliphate etc are simply a cover for the appalling violence they hope will help save them from their own sense of worthlessness.
Mohamed Lahouaie-Bouhlel who carried out the June 14th (14/7/16) in Nice, France had a similar history of being treated for psychological problems.
Likewise probably ISIL's most famous member Mohammed Emwazi (AKA: "Jihadi John") had a long history of depression and psychosis for which he was under a doctors care prior to his departure to Syria. In his emails to the Daily Mail newspaper Emwazi spoke extensively about his psychological problems in an attempt to garner sympathy.
As for the claim that Munich couldn't possibly be an Islamist terror attack because Muslims were amongst the victims. In Nice 1 in every 3 people killed were Muslims. In Saturday's (23/7/16) attack in Kabul, Afghanistan 100% of the victims were Muslims. Today 17 people were killed in an ISIL suicide bombing in Khalis, Iraq. They were all Muslims.
Secondly this overlap between the nihilism of ISIL and the light nihilism of teenage rebellion is something that has been talked about on the fringes of anti-ISIL efforts for a while now. So much so it's even appear as a storyline in the US TV Show "NCIS."
Made primarily for the syndication market it is extremely easy to mock NCIS. They have to churn out 24 episodes a year. Each one of those episodes has to be almost completely self-contained with a crime being committed, a crime being investigated and a crime being solved. All within the space of 40 minutes plus commercials. In those episodes sex and violence can only be alluded to and swearing is absolutely forbidden.
Despite these laborious restrictions on their creativity in one or two episodes every season NCIS manages to absolutely smash it out of the park. The long running Mossad liaison officer character "Ziva David" certainly won them lots of extremely well connected fans.
The stand out moments from the current season of NCIS (Season 12) revolve around a mysterious Islamist terror group known simply as; "The Calling." Although no-one is named specifically their membership includes a character who is suspiciously like Kayla Mueller and they were formed in Syria before moving on to invade Iraq.
What The Calling does is troll some of the darker websites on the Internet such as pro-suicide sites, pro-Anorexia sites and what are generally termed "Hate Sites" - think 4Chan. There they recruit trouble teenagers and manipulate their angst to get them to carry out terror attacks without them realising that they are part of an Islamist terror group.
The advantage for The Calling of operating in this way is that local authorities dismiss these attacks as isolated acts by maladjusted teenagers rather than the work of a Islamist terrorist network. As a result they never bother investigate the wider Islamist terror network leaving it free to conduct ever more brutal attacks.
In the show the investigators liken The Calling's action to "Peter Pan's" attempts to recruit "The Lost Boys." You may remember that aside from the tribute to the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony featured a sequence dedicated to Peter Pan. Just before they did that strange sequence about healthcare policy.
To give you an idea of how much NCIS is talked about in certain circles although he did cut his visit short following the July 7th (7/7/16) Black Lives Matter terrorist attack in Dallas, Texas US President Obama could not leave before he visited a US Naval base in Rota, Spain. That Naval base features very heavily in the NCIS "Port-to-Port Killer" storyline.
The first episode in The Calling storyline was broadcast in the UK last Saturday (16/7/16). On the Monday (18/7/16) there was an incident in Jerusalem, Israel when a man was stopped from carrying a bomb in a backpack aboard a trolley bus/tram. I don't want to give away spoilers but if you've seen the NCIS episode that would seem extremely familiar.
Also much has been made of the strange spectacle of the Muslim son of a refugee screaming racist abuse about Muslims and refugees as he carried out his attack.
I should start by pointing out that this seems to have been extremely overstated. It seems mainly based on a video of an exchange between a member of the public and Sonboly as Sonboly was reloading his gun.
During that exchange the member of the public unleashed an impressive stream of verbal abuse against Sonboly. I recognise some of the German phrases used even if Google refuses to translate them for me. Therefore this seems likely to just be Sonboly reacting to the accusations being levelled against him by a man who was too far away to shoot.
The attack did though occur on the fifth anniversary of Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Breivik's shooting rampage in 2011.
Seeming to bow to the Twitter campaign by much of the European left German police did initially claim that Sonboly was in possession of a copy of Breivik's manifesto although they have now retracted that claim. Likewise I understand the person who claimed to the media that Sonboly had used a picture of Breivik in his Snapchat profile has since been arrested as an accessory to the crime.
I think though there are two important details to remember about this aspect of the attack;
The first is that one of the primary objectives of the attack was to increase racial tension and division. Particularly by portraying the west as anti-Muslim in order to produce more western recruits for ISIL.
Secondly people - particularly terrorists - will lie to get what they want.
This issue of when we can call a terrorist attack a terrorist attack is an extremely hot issue within US politics. As with Black Lives Matter it also seems to have infected European politics.
Personally I think it goes back to Obama's fundamental misconception about ISIL.
Obama seems to genuinely believe that ISIL are some sort of heroic civil rights protest group battling the oppression of the Syrian government rather than a group of genocidal terrorists active from California in the US right across Europe, Africa and the Middle-East all the way into South-East Asia and even Australia.
The issue was really ignited by the February 10th 2015 (10/2/15) shooting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Here three members of a Mosque that was under Federal investigation for links to ISIL were shot and killed in an unrelated parking dispute. Seizing on the opportunity to take some of the pressure of the counter-terrorism investigation off them the Mosque demanded that this be labelled an act of anti-Muslim terrorism.
Unfortunately Obama fell for it hook, line and sinker.
Now every time there's a terrorist attack or mass shooting anywhere in the World Obama supporters take to Twitter to tell us that because we're all homophobic, Islamaphobic racists whenever the attacker's a Muslim we label it terrorism, whenever the attacker's black we label them a thug but when the attacker's white we simply put it down to mental illness.
Obviously Obama supporters very much want to avoid a legitimate discussion about when attacks are classed as terrorism.
After all that would involve some very difficult questions about the December 20th 2014 (20/12/14) Black Lives Matter attack on police in New York City. The March 12th 2015 (12/3/15) Black Lives Matter attack on police in Ferguson, Missouri. The July 7th 2016(7/7/16) Black Lives Matter attack on police in Dallas, Texas. The July 17th (17/7/16) Black Lives Matter attack on police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
It would also explain why there is absolutely no criminal case for Dylann Roof to answer over the events in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17th 2015 (17/6/15).
In short such a discussion could only conclude that Barack Obama and his associates have to go to prison for waging a terrorist war against the United States.
Apart from igniting those arguments I think that ISIL as a nominally Sunni organisation were hoping to boost recruitment by showing how the west refuse to open a terrorist investigation when the attacker is a Shia. Therefore as they will tell their recruits it is obvious that the west is backing Shia terrorists to destroy them. All good Sunnis must join ISIL to fight back.
Also I think that the terrorist were hoping that Germany would try and cover up Friday's (22/7/17) attack in Munich in the way that they did. The German's efforts so far have been so offensive to anyone with even half a brain cell that this will lead to a backlash further destroying the space in which Muslims and non-Muslims coexist and further destabilising Germany.
Based on the way they have behaved these past three days I think it is now going to be impossible for Germany to get Hungary and Poland to agree to a refugee deal. Therefore if Turkey decides to once again flood the continent with migrants the EU is - I believed the correct technical term is; "F*cked."
As I said on Sunday (24/7/16) the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held its meeting on whether to expel Russia from the 2016 Rio Olympics.
In an extremely rare display of moral courage they declined to expel Russia. However they failed to expel the IAAF from the Olympic movement and left other sports federations free to ban Russian competitors.
Despite this it took little more than an hour for Islamist terrorists to launch revenge attacks against Germany.
The first of these took place in Reutlingen in the north-western state of Baden-Wuttemberg.
Here a Syrian illegal migrant who had been refused refugee status twice but had not been taken into custody or deported launched a machete attack at a kebab stall. He injured two and murdered a pregnant Polish woman before being subdued and arrested. No doubt he's already out on bail.
The second of these took place in Ansbach which is in Bavaria.
Here another Syrian man who had been denied refugee status but had not been taken into custody or deported tried carrying a backpack bomb into an open air music festival attended by roughly 2,500 people that was being held in the town square.
Having been refused entry to the music festival for not having a valid ticket he instead chose to detonate his bomb at a near-by bar. Fortunately he only succeeded in killing himself although he did injure 15.
Following the attack in Reutlingen the German authorities did exactly what they did following the Munich attack. They denied that it was terrorist related and tried to make us feel bad for hurting the poor terrorists feelings.
Following the Ansbach attack the German authorities again tried to cover it up by denying that a bombing had taken place and trying to pass it off as a gas explosion. However the local Mayor called the Federal authorities out by confirming to the media that it was a bombing.
It has since been discovered that the prior to the bombing the attacker had recorded a video on his mobile phone which he sent to ISIL claiming the attack in the groups name declaring it to be an unspecified act of revenge.
Despite this the best the German authorities can come out with is a statement that' "We cannot rule out a link to ISIL at this time."
I find this strategy of denial and cover up on the part of the German authorities alarming and frankly dangerous.
I like to think that my hard-left credentials are beyond reproach. After all I have been banned from Germany because of them. However at this point even I think that the far-right and even the neo-Nazis are making a lot more sense than Merkel's government.
Imagine what people without my level of political experience are thinking.
21:10 on 25/7/16 (UK date).
The Munich, Reutlingen and Ansbach Terror Attacks.
I know. You try and take one day off.
On Friday (22/7/16) a gunman opened fire on passers-by outside a restaurant attached to a shopping mall in the Bavarian city of Munich in Germany. He killed 9 people and injured 27 others before turning the gun on himself.
The attacker has since been identified as Ali David Sonboly. An 18 year Shia Muslim with German and Iranian dual citizenship. This of course cuts straight to the core of the violence that has plagued the Middle-East region and beyond these past five years;
A Saudi Arabian Monarchy that takes its legitimacy from Sunni Islam trying to exterminate all of the Shia Muslims so it doesn't have to make democratic reforms within Saudi Arabia.
It also links in directly with the June 12th (12/6/16) terror attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, US.
As with Sonboly the attacker there - Omar Mateen - was the son of an immigrant and held dual citizenship of both Afghanistan and the US. Although he may not have realised it the father Mir Seddique Mateen worked for the CIA in a effort to limit Iranian influence within Afghanistan.
That theme was continued the following day (23/7/16) when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out twin suicide bombings against a protest march in Kabul, Afghanistan killing 80 and wounding 230.
The protest had been organised by members of Kabul's Hazara community. The third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan the Hazara are overwhelmingly Shia Muslims and are frequently discriminated against by other, predominately Sunni ethnic groups.
Saturday's protest was against plans to route a power grid project around Hazara areas in an effort to deny the ethnic group access to electricity. With electricity not being restored to USAF base Incirilk in Turkey until Saturday evening that was an extremely contentious topic at the time.
Therefore as with the Orlando attack one of the main motives behind the Munich attack was the hope that at the mere mention of Iran the American right's well-honed reflex would kick in. They would accuse Iran of being a state sponsor of the attack and use that to re-impose the sanctions on Iran that have done so much damage to the region these past five years.
The particular restaurant attacked in Munich was a branch of McDonalds. This of course is a world famous symbol of both America and American globalisation. As such it is frequently threatened by Islamist terrorists.
It was specifically named as a target by ISIL in a June 2016 when the group called for its followers to attack McDonalds restaurants - particularly ones attached to shopping malls.
McDonalds is also a longterm, key sponsor of the Olympics.
The particular shopping mall attacked in Munich was on the site of the 1972 Munich Olympics.
This famously had to be stopped when eight members of the Palestinian "Black September" terror group stormed the athletes village immediately murdering two Israeli athletes. A further nine Israel athletes were held hostage for 18 hours before they along with the terrorists and a German police officer were killed during a botched rescue operation.
The 1972 Munich Olympics represents the worst single loss of life the Olympic movement has ever suffered. The opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics which marked the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre featured a portion in tribute to the attack in which Emile Sande alongside the Akram Khan dance company performed "Abide With Me."
The Munich massacre saw the German police create their elite Grenzschutzgruppe 9 der Bundespolize (GSG9) counter-terrorism force and France create their similar Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale (GIGN) as a direct response to the attack. Even to this day the first priority in any security plan for any Olympics is avoiding a repeat of the Munich massacre.
Friday's (22/7/16) massacre in Munich came of course two weeks to the day before the scheduled opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil.
It also occurred hours before the start of the so-called "Anniversary Games" being held in London, UK.
Tediously threatening to become an annual event this marks the anniversary of the 2012 London Olympics. It is held in the same stadium that Emile Sande and the Akram Khan dance company performed Abide With Me as a tribute to those killed in the 1972 Munich Massacre and a discussion point of the threat to come.
Therefore it seems clear that as with the G4S element of the Pulse nightclub attack Friday's terror attack was intended as an open threat to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The really has its roots back in the summer of 2013. Due to Russia's opposition to ISIL Saudi Arabia decided that it should not be afforded the privilege of hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
So in a meeting in July of 2013 between then Saudi intelligence Chief Prince Bander bin Sultan and Russian President Vladimir Putin Prince Bandar issued a simple threat; Either Russia drops its opposition to ISIL or Saudi Arabia will send ISIL fighters to attack the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
With Russia refusing to drop its opposition to ISIL in December 2013 Saudi Arabia starting making good on its threat with two days of terrorist bombings in Volgograd on December 29th (29/12/13) and December 30th (30/12/13). In total these killed 30 people and wounded 85.
However the international community more or less united to end the Saudi threat to the Sochi games. In compensation to Saudi Arabia the US overthrew the government of Ukraine creating ISIL's Shamali Province and we were all forced to sit through that tedious Pinkwashing campaign as the US tried to pretend that ISIL are defenders of gay rights.
Quite why the Rio games would be threatened in the same way as the Sochi games seems something of a mystery.
Since 2013 the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) under the leadership of British peer Sebastian Lord Coe have discovered that drug cheating is epidemic within their sport. However they have only been interested in accusations against Russia leading a campaign to have Russia expelled from the Rio Olympics.
Lord Coe himself is of course deeply mired in corruption allegations due to both his complete mishandling of cheating within athletics and his extremely profitable relationship with US sportswear giant Nike.
While Russian athletes are to be banned from Rio the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to validate the ethnic cleansing and genocide of ISIL by including a refugee team.
The idea being to make ourselves good about ourselves for caring about refugees rather than disgusted at ourselves that we have allowed wars that have forced tens of millions to flee.
The IOC has also deemed it appropriate for Mourad Laachraoui to participate in Rio representing Belgium in Taekwondo. His brother Najim Laachraoui of course murdered 32 people in the name of ISIL in Brussels, Belgium on March 22nd 2016 (22/3/16).
As such the 2016 Rio Olympics are to be nothing more than a month long celebration of ISIL and their crimes. Therefore it is not something that I in good conscience will be able to associate myself with.
Far from threatening it though you would think that ISIL would be happy to revel in the glory of the crowds cheering them on.
There are though a few possibly explanations;
The first of these is that although the IAAF has already decided to ban all Russian athletes the IOC meeting on whether to ban all Russian competitors did not take place until yesterday (25/7/16). As such an attack on Friday (22/7/16) would be an opportunity for a bit of last minute intimidation to get the IOC to do ISIL's bidding.
Secondly ISIL like to portray themselves to their supporters as sort of rebellious outlaws fighting against the existing order. Having it revealed that they are in fact being backed by nation states such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the USA and the UK along with the IOC obviously damages their credibility.
Therefore they have a great incentive to make it appear as though the Rio Olympics isn't a mass celebration of ISIL by the existing order.
Thirdly it could simply be a power play. By getting the IOC and others do exactly what ISIL wants and then attacking them anyway allows ISIL to show its complete dominance.
There is of course a forth option. After all under US President Obama the question has never been; "How Do We Defeat ISIL."
Aside from being the host of the 1972 Olympics Munich is also the capital of the German state of Bavaria.
This sits in the south-east of the country right on the border with Austria. As such it really marks the end of the Balkan route for migrants travelling from Turkey across Europe to answer German executive leader (Chancellor) Angela Merkel's call to make Germany their new home.
As I explained following the July 14th (14/7/16) terror attack in Nice, France that killed 84 it is a longstanding objective of Al Qaeda to use terrorism to destroy the space in which Muslims and non-Muslims coexist.
The community tensions created by the mass of predominately Muslim refugees makes these type of strategy seem particularly effective. Now they've had it explained to them slowly and clearly ISIL also seem to be adopting this tactic.
Community tensions in Bavaria are particularly high at the moment.
During the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest Germany's neighbour Austria protested heavily over Merkel's mishandling of the migrant crisis. The joke doing the rounds was that if Merkel didn't sort it out quickly Bavaria would succeed from Germany and join Austria.
The cause of Germany's migrant problems are really twofold;
Firstly due to Germany's falling birthrate the nation really needs fresh migrants to prop up the base of its population pyramid. However rather than making that argument to voters for years Merkel's government has systematically abused the asylum process by which people apply for refugee status. For example refugee status is supposed to be a temporary measure. The Germans seem to be treating it as a route to citizenship.
Secondly in July of 2015 Angela Merkel held what Americans would refer to as a televised "Town Hall" event. Here a 14 year old Palestinian girl who'd been denied refugee status burst into tears as she asked Merkel to explain why. Merkel's robotic attempts to comfort the girl quickly made her a national laughing stock with people joking that Merkel was completely lacking in human emotion.
As an emotional backlash to these Internet memes Merkel suddenly decided to invite every migrant in the world to come and make Germany their home. As often happens with emotionally driven decisions Merkel didn't bother think through the problems this would create let alone draw up a plan of who to solve those problems.
The 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees is very clear in the fact that the granting of refugee status to an asylum seeker is neither immediate not automatic.
Instead anyone illegally entering a country should be arrested for the offence of illegal entry and remanded in custody. Prior to their trial if they choose to make an asylum application their case must be investigated to see if they qualify for refugee status - the statutory defence to the offence.
Not only must their cases be investigated to determine if they have a legitimate fear of persecution but also to determine if they have participated in or been members of any group that has participated in war crimes or crimes against humanity. Those who have are automatically excluded from refugee status.
A prime example of the asylum system at work properly has actually cropped up in the past week.
Following the July 15h (15/7/16) Turkish rising eight of those involved fled to Greece aboard a helicopter where they immediately applied for asylum. While their case is been investigated all eight have been remanded in prison. The case will hinge on whether they are fleeing persecution or legitimate prosecution for being members of an armed group waging war against the state.
Due to their longstanding attempts to use the asylum system to sneak in economic migrants through the backdoor and a failure to prepare for the waves of migrants Merkel invited Germany simply isn't abiding by the correct legal procedure. Instead it is treating all migrants as refugees and letting them freely wander the streets while their cases are being investigated.
This has unleashed a massive migrant related crime wave. Just at the start of July the German police were forced to admit that the influx of migrants had caused a massive increase in rapes and sexual assaults at public swimming pools.
Far more alarmingly it is becoming increasingly clear that Germany's failure to properly enforce the asylum system is allowing ISIL fighters and other Islamist terrorists free access to the European Union (EU).
Just last Sunday (17/7/16) there was the reported case of a Yezidi woman who'd been held as a sex slave by ISIL only to flee and claim asylum in Germany. There she came face-to-face with one of the ISIL fighters who'd repeatedly raped her at a market in Baden where he was free to do as he pleased as a refugee.
Despite this being reported to the police I am yet to hear that this ISIL fighter has been arrested.
Due to these daily horror stories and the German government's apparent refusal to protect its own citizens many Germans are now seeing the need to take matters into their own hands.
Already this year there have been 45 arson attacks against buildings housing what the German authorities wrongly term "refugees" rather than "illegal migrants seeking refugee status." That is on top of 800 similar attacks in 2015 - a 400% increase on 2014.
Therefore it is extremely easy to see how ISIL or their associates would look at Germany - particularly Bavaria - and conclude that it is at boiling point making it a prime target for attack.
At around 17:05 on 25/7/16 (UK date) I have so much more to add after dinner it may well take the form of a seperate post.
On Friday (22/7/16) a gunman opened fire on passers-by outside a restaurant attached to a shopping mall in the Bavarian city of Munich in Germany. He killed 9 people and injured 27 others before turning the gun on himself.
The attacker has since been identified as Ali David Sonboly. An 18 year Shia Muslim with German and Iranian dual citizenship. This of course cuts straight to the core of the violence that has plagued the Middle-East region and beyond these past five years;
A Saudi Arabian Monarchy that takes its legitimacy from Sunni Islam trying to exterminate all of the Shia Muslims so it doesn't have to make democratic reforms within Saudi Arabia.
It also links in directly with the June 12th (12/6/16) terror attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, US.
As with Sonboly the attacker there - Omar Mateen - was the son of an immigrant and held dual citizenship of both Afghanistan and the US. Although he may not have realised it the father Mir Seddique Mateen worked for the CIA in a effort to limit Iranian influence within Afghanistan.
That theme was continued the following day (23/7/16) when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out twin suicide bombings against a protest march in Kabul, Afghanistan killing 80 and wounding 230.
The protest had been organised by members of Kabul's Hazara community. The third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan the Hazara are overwhelmingly Shia Muslims and are frequently discriminated against by other, predominately Sunni ethnic groups.
Saturday's protest was against plans to route a power grid project around Hazara areas in an effort to deny the ethnic group access to electricity. With electricity not being restored to USAF base Incirilk in Turkey until Saturday evening that was an extremely contentious topic at the time.
Therefore as with the Orlando attack one of the main motives behind the Munich attack was the hope that at the mere mention of Iran the American right's well-honed reflex would kick in. They would accuse Iran of being a state sponsor of the attack and use that to re-impose the sanctions on Iran that have done so much damage to the region these past five years.
The particular restaurant attacked in Munich was a branch of McDonalds. This of course is a world famous symbol of both America and American globalisation. As such it is frequently threatened by Islamist terrorists.
It was specifically named as a target by ISIL in a June 2016 when the group called for its followers to attack McDonalds restaurants - particularly ones attached to shopping malls.
McDonalds is also a longterm, key sponsor of the Olympics.
The particular shopping mall attacked in Munich was on the site of the 1972 Munich Olympics.
This famously had to be stopped when eight members of the Palestinian "Black September" terror group stormed the athletes village immediately murdering two Israeli athletes. A further nine Israel athletes were held hostage for 18 hours before they along with the terrorists and a German police officer were killed during a botched rescue operation.
The 1972 Munich Olympics represents the worst single loss of life the Olympic movement has ever suffered. The opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics which marked the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre featured a portion in tribute to the attack in which Emile Sande alongside the Akram Khan dance company performed "Abide With Me."
The Munich massacre saw the German police create their elite Grenzschutzgruppe 9 der Bundespolize (GSG9) counter-terrorism force and France create their similar Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale (GIGN) as a direct response to the attack. Even to this day the first priority in any security plan for any Olympics is avoiding a repeat of the Munich massacre.
Friday's (22/7/16) massacre in Munich came of course two weeks to the day before the scheduled opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil.
It also occurred hours before the start of the so-called "Anniversary Games" being held in London, UK.
Tediously threatening to become an annual event this marks the anniversary of the 2012 London Olympics. It is held in the same stadium that Emile Sande and the Akram Khan dance company performed Abide With Me as a tribute to those killed in the 1972 Munich Massacre and a discussion point of the threat to come.
Therefore it seems clear that as with the G4S element of the Pulse nightclub attack Friday's terror attack was intended as an open threat to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The really has its roots back in the summer of 2013. Due to Russia's opposition to ISIL Saudi Arabia decided that it should not be afforded the privilege of hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
So in a meeting in July of 2013 between then Saudi intelligence Chief Prince Bander bin Sultan and Russian President Vladimir Putin Prince Bandar issued a simple threat; Either Russia drops its opposition to ISIL or Saudi Arabia will send ISIL fighters to attack the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
With Russia refusing to drop its opposition to ISIL in December 2013 Saudi Arabia starting making good on its threat with two days of terrorist bombings in Volgograd on December 29th (29/12/13) and December 30th (30/12/13). In total these killed 30 people and wounded 85.
However the international community more or less united to end the Saudi threat to the Sochi games. In compensation to Saudi Arabia the US overthrew the government of Ukraine creating ISIL's Shamali Province and we were all forced to sit through that tedious Pinkwashing campaign as the US tried to pretend that ISIL are defenders of gay rights.
Quite why the Rio games would be threatened in the same way as the Sochi games seems something of a mystery.
Since 2013 the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) under the leadership of British peer Sebastian Lord Coe have discovered that drug cheating is epidemic within their sport. However they have only been interested in accusations against Russia leading a campaign to have Russia expelled from the Rio Olympics.
Lord Coe himself is of course deeply mired in corruption allegations due to both his complete mishandling of cheating within athletics and his extremely profitable relationship with US sportswear giant Nike.
While Russian athletes are to be banned from Rio the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to validate the ethnic cleansing and genocide of ISIL by including a refugee team.
The idea being to make ourselves good about ourselves for caring about refugees rather than disgusted at ourselves that we have allowed wars that have forced tens of millions to flee.
The IOC has also deemed it appropriate for Mourad Laachraoui to participate in Rio representing Belgium in Taekwondo. His brother Najim Laachraoui of course murdered 32 people in the name of ISIL in Brussels, Belgium on March 22nd 2016 (22/3/16).
As such the 2016 Rio Olympics are to be nothing more than a month long celebration of ISIL and their crimes. Therefore it is not something that I in good conscience will be able to associate myself with.
Far from threatening it though you would think that ISIL would be happy to revel in the glory of the crowds cheering them on.
There are though a few possibly explanations;
The first of these is that although the IAAF has already decided to ban all Russian athletes the IOC meeting on whether to ban all Russian competitors did not take place until yesterday (25/7/16). As such an attack on Friday (22/7/16) would be an opportunity for a bit of last minute intimidation to get the IOC to do ISIL's bidding.
Secondly ISIL like to portray themselves to their supporters as sort of rebellious outlaws fighting against the existing order. Having it revealed that they are in fact being backed by nation states such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the USA and the UK along with the IOC obviously damages their credibility.
Therefore they have a great incentive to make it appear as though the Rio Olympics isn't a mass celebration of ISIL by the existing order.
Thirdly it could simply be a power play. By getting the IOC and others do exactly what ISIL wants and then attacking them anyway allows ISIL to show its complete dominance.
There is of course a forth option. After all under US President Obama the question has never been; "How Do We Defeat ISIL."
Aside from being the host of the 1972 Olympics Munich is also the capital of the German state of Bavaria.
This sits in the south-east of the country right on the border with Austria. As such it really marks the end of the Balkan route for migrants travelling from Turkey across Europe to answer German executive leader (Chancellor) Angela Merkel's call to make Germany their new home.
As I explained following the July 14th (14/7/16) terror attack in Nice, France that killed 84 it is a longstanding objective of Al Qaeda to use terrorism to destroy the space in which Muslims and non-Muslims coexist.
The community tensions created by the mass of predominately Muslim refugees makes these type of strategy seem particularly effective. Now they've had it explained to them slowly and clearly ISIL also seem to be adopting this tactic.
Community tensions in Bavaria are particularly high at the moment.
During the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest Germany's neighbour Austria protested heavily over Merkel's mishandling of the migrant crisis. The joke doing the rounds was that if Merkel didn't sort it out quickly Bavaria would succeed from Germany and join Austria.
The cause of Germany's migrant problems are really twofold;
Firstly due to Germany's falling birthrate the nation really needs fresh migrants to prop up the base of its population pyramid. However rather than making that argument to voters for years Merkel's government has systematically abused the asylum process by which people apply for refugee status. For example refugee status is supposed to be a temporary measure. The Germans seem to be treating it as a route to citizenship.
Secondly in July of 2015 Angela Merkel held what Americans would refer to as a televised "Town Hall" event. Here a 14 year old Palestinian girl who'd been denied refugee status burst into tears as she asked Merkel to explain why. Merkel's robotic attempts to comfort the girl quickly made her a national laughing stock with people joking that Merkel was completely lacking in human emotion.
As an emotional backlash to these Internet memes Merkel suddenly decided to invite every migrant in the world to come and make Germany their home. As often happens with emotionally driven decisions Merkel didn't bother think through the problems this would create let alone draw up a plan of who to solve those problems.
The 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees is very clear in the fact that the granting of refugee status to an asylum seeker is neither immediate not automatic.
Instead anyone illegally entering a country should be arrested for the offence of illegal entry and remanded in custody. Prior to their trial if they choose to make an asylum application their case must be investigated to see if they qualify for refugee status - the statutory defence to the offence.
Not only must their cases be investigated to determine if they have a legitimate fear of persecution but also to determine if they have participated in or been members of any group that has participated in war crimes or crimes against humanity. Those who have are automatically excluded from refugee status.
A prime example of the asylum system at work properly has actually cropped up in the past week.
Following the July 15h (15/7/16) Turkish rising eight of those involved fled to Greece aboard a helicopter where they immediately applied for asylum. While their case is been investigated all eight have been remanded in prison. The case will hinge on whether they are fleeing persecution or legitimate prosecution for being members of an armed group waging war against the state.
Due to their longstanding attempts to use the asylum system to sneak in economic migrants through the backdoor and a failure to prepare for the waves of migrants Merkel invited Germany simply isn't abiding by the correct legal procedure. Instead it is treating all migrants as refugees and letting them freely wander the streets while their cases are being investigated.
This has unleashed a massive migrant related crime wave. Just at the start of July the German police were forced to admit that the influx of migrants had caused a massive increase in rapes and sexual assaults at public swimming pools.
Far more alarmingly it is becoming increasingly clear that Germany's failure to properly enforce the asylum system is allowing ISIL fighters and other Islamist terrorists free access to the European Union (EU).
Just last Sunday (17/7/16) there was the reported case of a Yezidi woman who'd been held as a sex slave by ISIL only to flee and claim asylum in Germany. There she came face-to-face with one of the ISIL fighters who'd repeatedly raped her at a market in Baden where he was free to do as he pleased as a refugee.
Despite this being reported to the police I am yet to hear that this ISIL fighter has been arrested.
Due to these daily horror stories and the German government's apparent refusal to protect its own citizens many Germans are now seeing the need to take matters into their own hands.
Already this year there have been 45 arson attacks against buildings housing what the German authorities wrongly term "refugees" rather than "illegal migrants seeking refugee status." That is on top of 800 similar attacks in 2015 - a 400% increase on 2014.
Therefore it is extremely easy to see how ISIL or their associates would look at Germany - particularly Bavaria - and conclude that it is at boiling point making it a prime target for attack.
At around 17:05 on 25/7/16 (UK date) I have so much more to add after dinner it may well take the form of a seperate post.
Saturday, 23 July 2016
Munich Sketch.
Yesterday (22/7/16) a gunman attacked passers-by at a shopping mall in Munich, Germany. He killed 9 people and injured 27 before turning the gun on himself.
The attacker who has not yet been formally named was an 18 year old German/Iranian dual national. He was identified because he had been entered into the Interpol database.
The German authorities are yet to confirm why they were so worried about him that they entered him into the Interpol database. However Interpol rarely investigate instances of petty theft.
Due to a busy week I have not yet addressed the previous Islamist terror attack in Germany this week. However these are the main points of yesterday's attack;
The attack began at a McDonalds restaurant. This is obviously a very large symbol of American globalisation and a target that both Al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have frequently called on their supporters to attack. McDonalds are also a key sponsor of the Olympics.
This particular McDonalds was located in a shopping mall built on the site of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Nobody familiar with the history of modern terrorism needs the significance of the 1972 Munich Olympics explained to them.
The attack took place hours before the so-called "Anniversary Games" were held in London, UK. This annual event is part of the UK's inability to get over the fact that it hosted the 2012 London Olympics.
The attack took place two weeks to the day before the start of the 2016 Rio Olympics to be held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil.
So as with the recent Orlando terror attack this terror attack was very clearly intended as a threat against the Olympics.
However the only mystery is why ISIL would be threatening the Olympics.
After all with the Russians being banned while a team celebrating ethnic cleansing being allowed to compete the 2016 Olympics is going to be a month long celebration of ISIL. South Africa are even sending a competitor named; "Isis" is the hope she'll be given a free pass to the top of the medals table.
It must be said that the whole thing struck me as ISIL reaching that difficult teenage phase where they try and rebel against their parents.
The attack also took place in Bavaria.
This is effectively the end of the Balkan migrant route. As a result community tensions are extremely high. Therefore this was clearly an attempt to worsen those tension in a similar way that last Thursday's (14/7/16) attack in Nice, France was intended to.
During the course of the attack the Muslim immigrant gunman made a series of bizarre anti-Muslim and anti-immigrants statements.
Coming on the fifth anniversary of Anders Brevik's attack in Norway this seemed to be a deliberate attempt to have the attacks portrayed to a Muslim audience as an anti-Muslim neo-Nazi terror attack.
However with the gunman then choosing to take his own life thus revealing his identity I think it's fair to assume we're not dealing with a brain surgeon.
11:15 on 23/7/16 (UK date).
The attacker who has not yet been formally named was an 18 year old German/Iranian dual national. He was identified because he had been entered into the Interpol database.
The German authorities are yet to confirm why they were so worried about him that they entered him into the Interpol database. However Interpol rarely investigate instances of petty theft.
Due to a busy week I have not yet addressed the previous Islamist terror attack in Germany this week. However these are the main points of yesterday's attack;
The attack began at a McDonalds restaurant. This is obviously a very large symbol of American globalisation and a target that both Al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have frequently called on their supporters to attack. McDonalds are also a key sponsor of the Olympics.
This particular McDonalds was located in a shopping mall built on the site of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Nobody familiar with the history of modern terrorism needs the significance of the 1972 Munich Olympics explained to them.
The attack took place hours before the so-called "Anniversary Games" were held in London, UK. This annual event is part of the UK's inability to get over the fact that it hosted the 2012 London Olympics.
The attack took place two weeks to the day before the start of the 2016 Rio Olympics to be held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil.
So as with the recent Orlando terror attack this terror attack was very clearly intended as a threat against the Olympics.
However the only mystery is why ISIL would be threatening the Olympics.
After all with the Russians being banned while a team celebrating ethnic cleansing being allowed to compete the 2016 Olympics is going to be a month long celebration of ISIL. South Africa are even sending a competitor named; "Isis" is the hope she'll be given a free pass to the top of the medals table.
It must be said that the whole thing struck me as ISIL reaching that difficult teenage phase where they try and rebel against their parents.
The attack also took place in Bavaria.
This is effectively the end of the Balkan migrant route. As a result community tensions are extremely high. Therefore this was clearly an attempt to worsen those tension in a similar way that last Thursday's (14/7/16) attack in Nice, France was intended to.
During the course of the attack the Muslim immigrant gunman made a series of bizarre anti-Muslim and anti-immigrants statements.
Coming on the fifth anniversary of Anders Brevik's attack in Norway this seemed to be a deliberate attempt to have the attacks portrayed to a Muslim audience as an anti-Muslim neo-Nazi terror attack.
However with the gunman then choosing to take his own life thus revealing his identity I think it's fair to assume we're not dealing with a brain surgeon.
11:15 on 23/7/16 (UK date).
Friday, 22 July 2016
The Turkish Rising.
On July 15th (15/7/16) a small group of Turkish citizens rose up against the Islamist dictatorship of President/Prime Minister/Emperor Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
A devoted ally of Erdogan's the US had been warning him of the possibility of this rising for several weeks. As it began the US immediately leapt to Erdogan's aid granting him airtime on CNN to call supporters of his Justice & Development Party (AKP) to violently crush the rebellion.
Rather like the recent British vote to leave the European Union (EU) the crushing of the Turkish rising has created a situation where at the same time both everything and nothing seems possible. This has freaked a lot of people out. Particularly the Americans.
Immediately after the rising had been crushed Erdogan sent troops to seal of the USAF base Incirilk by shutting down the airspace, blocking access to and from the base and cutting off its power supply.
This effectively made hostages of the some 1,500 US troops stationed on the base and the 50-90 US nuclear warheads stored there. It also shut down air operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by the US-led coalition Combined Joint Task Force: Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTFOIR).
So on Sunday (17/7/16) morning the US arranged for militants to storm a police station in Yerevan the capital of Turkey's neighbour Armenia.
Although this quickly developed into a hostage situation similar to the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London, UK the deployment of troops and armoured vehicles onto the streets of the capital caused many Armenians to worry they were in the grips of a Coup d'etat.
The relationship between Turkey and Armenia has long been a fractious one.
This really dates back to when Turkey invaded and occupied Armenia as part of the Ottoman Empire. A particularly contentious event was the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in which the Turks exterminated 1.5 million Armenians and expelled at least a further 1.5 million from Armenia under the Tehcir Law.
Of late international pressure has been growing on Turkey - and Erdogan in particular - to recognise the Armenian Genocide. More than 100 years after the genocide such a recognition will not lead to the prosecution of anyone involved or any compensation being paid to survivors.
Instead calls for Turkish recognition of its past crimes are intended to get to Erdogan to acknowledge that genocide is not an acceptable part of either foreign nor domestic policy and pledge to refrain from using it in the future.
Even before the US crushed the Turkish rising tension between Erdogan and its NATO allies over the Armenia genocide were already reaching boiling point. Particularly at Incirilk airbase.
On June 2nd (2/6/16) the German Parliament formally recognised the Armenian genocide and Turkey's role in it. Since then Turkey has been blocking German access to Incirilk in gross violation of NATO protocol.
As part of the dispute between Turkey and Armenia Turkey has long closed its land border between the two nations. Turkey has also firmly allied itself with Armenia's eastern neighbour Azerbaijan which has also closed its land borders with the country. This leaves majority Christian Armenia sandwiched between two majority Muslim nations.
Due to Armenia's alliance with Russia its neighbour to the north Georgia has also closed its border with Armenia. This means that Armenia is totally blockaded save for a small land border with Iran which itself up until recently was under international blockade.
The reason why the need for Erdogan to reject genocide as a policy tool has become so urgent of late is his support for the self-proclaimed genocidal organisation ISIL.
As part of his support for ISIL Erdogan has been working with Azerbaijan to reignite the Nagorno-Karabakh Region (NKR) conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
With both Armenia and Azerbaijan enjoying good relations with Russia a conflict between the two over the NKR puts immense pressure on Russia. Erdogan's ultimate ambition seems to use the NKR conflict as a justification for more international sanctions against Russia.
This would be a repeat of the way that Shamali Province was created in what used to be Ukraine to allow for sanctions to punish Russia for opposing ISIL.
The Yerevan siege is being run by the US in the same way the Khuzestan group who conducted the Iranian Embassy were being run by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
However the siege itself is being conducted by the "New Armenia Public Salvation Front (NAPSF). They are calling for the release of one their founders Zhirayr Sefilian who was jailed in April 2016.
Sefilian's main aim is to establish an independent Christian Armenian state in NKR. Curiously Sefilian is not actually Armenian. He's Lebanese with his ancestors being forced to move from Armenia to Lebanon as part of the 1915 Genocide.
Therefore the US' purpose in launching the Yerevan siege was to swirl controversy in order to exert pressure on Erdogan to get him to lift the siege of Incirilk.
At the same time someone simply pointed out to Erdogan that shutting down CJTFOIR operations from Incirilk meant that those operations were shut down.
As a result CJTFOIR would no longer be enforcing the aerial protective dome that was established over ISIL's de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa as a condition of CJTFOIR being allowed to use Incirilk. That meant Russia aircraft would be free to attack ISIL in and around Raqqa and there was nothing Erdogan could do to stop them.
Needless to say later that day Erdogan re-opened the airspace around Incirilk and CJTFOIR were able to resume missions to protect ISIL from Russian attack. US access to and from the base however remains blocked and the power supply remains cut off.
At the moment probably the World's most famous Armenian is Kim Kardashian. Her husband Kanye West is currently engaged in some pointless showbiz squabble with Taylor Swift.
On Sunday (17/7/16) Kim Kardashian released some covertly recorded portions of a telephone conversation between West and Swift which Kardashian claimed proves that Swift is lying and responsible for the squabble.
This was the US' way of posing the question of whether anyone believes Erdogan's claim that the Turkish rising was carried out by Fethullah Gulen - a Turkish exile currently based in Pennsylvania, US.
In short we were being asked whether we believe that the covertly recorded telephone conversations that Erdogan is no doubt rushing to forge between Gulen and the rebels exist.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the name Fethullah Gulen is a conservative Sunni Muslim cleric who extensively backed Erdogan during his rise to power and the early days of his rule.
They fell out because Gulen is a secularist who believes that religion and politics should be kept separate. Erdogan however is an Islamist who believes that religion is the source of his political power. This led to Gulen being banished from Turkey by Erdogan in 2013.
Therefore "Gulenist" is sort of a Erdogan euphemism for any secularist.
To give you an idea of how lacking in credibility Erdogan's claim that the rising was a Gulenist conspiracy Erdogan has since claimed that it was driven by anger that he wasn't taking a tough enough line in his war against Turkey's Kurdish population.
At the same time Erdogan claimed - without a hint of irony - that Gulen is allied with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Erdogan of course has previously claimed that all Kurds - regardless of where they are in the World - are members of the PKK and that the PKK is allied with ISIL. The fact that Syria's Kurdish population have been locked in fierce battle with ISIL for several years doesn't seem to bother Erdogan's logic in any way.
The US' decision to launch the Yerevan siege was of course a stupid one to begin with. However it has since gone on to cause further problems.
As with the Iranian Embassy siege which was ended by special forces after 6 days the Yerevan siege did not last for just a day. In fact it is still going on now.
In that time it has become something of a focal point for the NAPSF who have staged protests there on an almost daily basis. Wednesday's (20/7/16) were particularly violent with more than 50 people injured in clashes.
As a result concerns have begun to grow that simply saving Erdogan from the rising was not enough for the US.
In order to consummate the apparent deep love affair between Erdogan and Obama it now seems that the US is trying to stage a coup d'etat in Armenia just the same as it did in Ukraine to create Shamali Province. Again the US will try and blame its aggressive actions on Russia providing an excuse to further attack it for opposing ISIL.
So on Monday (18/7/16) an Islamist gunman staged a similar attack on a police station in Almaty, Kazakhstan killing four police.
Kazakhstan sits across the Caspian Sea from Azerbaijan and Georgia. It is probably most famous for being the country from which astronauts travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) are launched. This is probably the last remaining area of co-operation between the US and Russia following their split into the pro and anti-ISIL camps.
This area of co-operation seems to have been coming under sustained attack of late. On June 5th (5/6/16) a gang of Islamist terrorists robbed a gunshop in Aktobe before getting into a shoot-out with police in which six were killed. On June 8th (8/6/16) an Islamist terrorist opened fire on a children's camp also in Aktobe. Fortunately no-one was killed.
As such the police station attack in Almaty seemed intended to question the US' motives in Yerevan. It also invoked the previous day's terror attack on police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as a way to question Obama's judgement.
After all Obama's inability to distinguish between the Nation of Islam and Islam does seem to explain both his apparent hatred of Muslims and his deep love affair with Erdogan and ISIL.
A nation that is particularly concerned by recent events in Turkey is Germany.
In the first instance that is because Germany has an extremely large Turkish diaspora population of around 3 million. Following Friday's events both supporters of Erdogan and supporters of the rising have taken to the streets in both Germany and Austria.
Just today the German police federation have warned that Erdogan could order his supporters in Germany to take to the streets to attack the German state just as he ordered them to the streets to crush the Turkish rising. That of course is of course on top of concerns that Erdogan could send Europe another little 'gift' such as the Molenbeek cell.
Secondly due to Angela Merkel's insane decision to instruct migrants to leave Turkey and head for Germany the Germans have been at the forefront of the migrant deal with Turkey. Erdogan's crushing of the rising obviously puts that deal in significant doubt.
So on Monday (18/7/16) Germany announced that it was criminally charging a train dispatcher for causing the February 9th (9/2/16) crash between two trains near Munich, Bavaria.
That crash of course formed part of the protest at the Munich Security conference over the US' continued support for Erdogan and his plans for a ground invasion of Syria. One train represented Erdogan's desire to flood Europe with ISIL fighters while the other represented European's desire not to be killed in terrorist attacks.
The fact that the train dispatcher was accused of putting everybody's lives in jeopardy because he was too busy playing a computer gamed seemed to be Germany attempting to blame me for starting the Turkish rising just jeopardising the migrant deal. However it could also be interpreted as a reference to how Obama has endangered all of Europe by helping Erdogan crush the rising.
The notion that I was responsible for the rising is of course a nonsense.
After all if I'd known that it was already underway would I have finished my post that evening promising that I'd be back after dinner to discuss renowned CIA agent Rihanna's role in warning Erdogan of the possibility of a rising?
Speaking of which at around 16:55 on 22/7/16 (UK date) I'll try and pick this up tomorrow.
Edited at around 15:15 on 23/7/16 (UK date) to add;
On Monday evening in Germany a man attacked passengers with an axe aboard a train in Wurzburg, Bavaria. This is obviously remarkably similar to the February 9th (9/2/16) train crash.
Also in talking about the June 12th (12/6/16) Pulse nightclub terror attack in Orlando, Florida, US I shared an example from my own life in which a man attacked a Church congregation with a sword. As such I'm entitled to look at the bloody pictures of the scene in Wurzburg and say; "Been there. Done that. Glad I don't have to again."
On June 25th (25/6/16) I of course had a little incident with security at my home base. It was resolved by me giving someone the impression I was about to attack them with a sledgehammer/axe. My lawyer will assure you that at no point did I actually threaten them.
This of course was two days before Rihanna released her ode to Erdogan "Sledgehammer" on June 27th (27/6/16).
As such my first instinct was that the Wurzburg attack in which only 4 people were injured was just an example of spies mucking about. With the US staging the Yerevan siege in order to exert pressure on Erdogan it was simply the Germans staging a similarly confusing stunt to show the Americans the error of their ways.
Unfortunately it has since emerged that this was not the case. ISIL have since released a video of the 17 year Afghan refugee attacker Riaz Khan Ahmadzai (AKA; "Muhammad Riyad") pledging allegiance to the group and explaining he was about to carry out the attack in their name.
This should be extremely alarming for the German and European security forces.
As with last Thursday's (14/7/16) attack in Nice, France it appears to demonstrate that through migrants and the Internet ISIL has been able to establish a network of sleeper agents across Europe. Those agents can then be activated to carry out attacks at very short notice.
However it is possible that Ahmadzai simply decided to activate himself. That of course would depend on how much coverage the charging of the train dispatcher in the February 9th (9/2/16) train crash received. Here in the UK I got a couple of lines on it from a French news agency. I'm guessing it received a lot more coverage in Bavaria.
It is of course possible that the two events are entirely coincidental. However that seems unlikely to me.
On Tuesday (19/7/16) a man armed with a knife and falsely claiming to be carrying explosives barricaded himself in a hotel in Bollene on France's Cote de'Azor region around 250km (150 miles) north-west of Nice. This of course created scenes extremely similar to the current situation in Yerevan.
On Tuesday (19/7/16) night a woman and her three daughters aged between 8 and 14 were stabbed by a north African man who objected to the fact they weren't dressed in accordance to Muslim modesty standards. This of course occurred on France's Cote de'Azor region around 265km (160 miles) west of Nice and around 70km (40 miles) south of Bollene.
The fact that women are increasingly harassed for not adhering to Muslim modesty standards is just one of the symptoms of how Turkey is becoming increasingly Islamist under Erdogan.
I do remember one particularly unpleasent conversation with an AKP supporter who claimed that 8 year old girls not wearing the Hijab deserve to be raped.
Prior to France and Germany raising their concerns of Sunday (17/7/16) there was a plane crash at an airshow in Alberta, Canada. Including the Shoreham, UK airshow disaster this was of course a big fashion of the summer of 2015 - just after Obama saved Erdogan's AKP from defeat in Turkey's June General Election.
The aircraft on this occasion was a T-28 Trojan. This was brought in as a training aircraft by the US military to replace the T-6 Texan - as in Dallas, Texas. However combat versions were used in various counter-insurgency/terrorism operations in Vietnam, Congo and Algeria. It also saw action in the 1989 failed coup d'etat in the Philippines.
Earlier on Sunday (17/7/16) a small private jet carrying UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (no really) to an EU meeting in Belgium was forced to make an emergency landing at Luton Airport, UK.
This seemed to pose the obvious question of if Erdogan's small private jet was being harassed by rebel F-16's and Istanbul's Ataturk airport was under rebel control as he claimed why was Erdogan's jet allowed to land at Ataturk rather than simply being shot down?
At around the same time a vintage helicopter crashed at Breighton airfield in the UK. Rather like Incrilk Breighton is a former Cold War military base built to hold long range bombers and store "Thor" nuclear warheads.
Although it's hard for me to be exact the particular helicopter in question seems to be some variant of a Saro P.531 such as a Westland Scout or Westland Wasp. It's distinctive lattice tail section means it could be easily be mistaken for the iconic Bell H-13 Sioux.
The Sioux is of course hugely famous for being featured in the opening titles of the US TV show "M*A*S*H."
This was set during the 1950-1953 Korean war. It was due to their participation in that UN mandated operation that Turkey was invited to join NATO in 1953. A decision that now seems to be very much in doubt.
Whether Mobile Army Surgical Hospital's (M*A*S*H's) will be deployed to Iraq to help with the liberation of Mosul from ISIL or even to Syria to help liberate Raqqa is a major discussion point at the moment.
The theme song from the 1970 movie "M*A*S*H" is of course "Suicide is Painless."
That's sounds like a recommendation to a certain American individual who shall remain nameless at this point.
16:35 on 23/7/16 (UK date).
A devoted ally of Erdogan's the US had been warning him of the possibility of this rising for several weeks. As it began the US immediately leapt to Erdogan's aid granting him airtime on CNN to call supporters of his Justice & Development Party (AKP) to violently crush the rebellion.
Rather like the recent British vote to leave the European Union (EU) the crushing of the Turkish rising has created a situation where at the same time both everything and nothing seems possible. This has freaked a lot of people out. Particularly the Americans.
Immediately after the rising had been crushed Erdogan sent troops to seal of the USAF base Incirilk by shutting down the airspace, blocking access to and from the base and cutting off its power supply.
This effectively made hostages of the some 1,500 US troops stationed on the base and the 50-90 US nuclear warheads stored there. It also shut down air operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by the US-led coalition Combined Joint Task Force: Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTFOIR).
So on Sunday (17/7/16) morning the US arranged for militants to storm a police station in Yerevan the capital of Turkey's neighbour Armenia.
Although this quickly developed into a hostage situation similar to the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London, UK the deployment of troops and armoured vehicles onto the streets of the capital caused many Armenians to worry they were in the grips of a Coup d'etat.
The relationship between Turkey and Armenia has long been a fractious one.
This really dates back to when Turkey invaded and occupied Armenia as part of the Ottoman Empire. A particularly contentious event was the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in which the Turks exterminated 1.5 million Armenians and expelled at least a further 1.5 million from Armenia under the Tehcir Law.
Of late international pressure has been growing on Turkey - and Erdogan in particular - to recognise the Armenian Genocide. More than 100 years after the genocide such a recognition will not lead to the prosecution of anyone involved or any compensation being paid to survivors.
Instead calls for Turkish recognition of its past crimes are intended to get to Erdogan to acknowledge that genocide is not an acceptable part of either foreign nor domestic policy and pledge to refrain from using it in the future.
Even before the US crushed the Turkish rising tension between Erdogan and its NATO allies over the Armenia genocide were already reaching boiling point. Particularly at Incirilk airbase.
On June 2nd (2/6/16) the German Parliament formally recognised the Armenian genocide and Turkey's role in it. Since then Turkey has been blocking German access to Incirilk in gross violation of NATO protocol.
As part of the dispute between Turkey and Armenia Turkey has long closed its land border between the two nations. Turkey has also firmly allied itself with Armenia's eastern neighbour Azerbaijan which has also closed its land borders with the country. This leaves majority Christian Armenia sandwiched between two majority Muslim nations.
Due to Armenia's alliance with Russia its neighbour to the north Georgia has also closed its border with Armenia. This means that Armenia is totally blockaded save for a small land border with Iran which itself up until recently was under international blockade.
The reason why the need for Erdogan to reject genocide as a policy tool has become so urgent of late is his support for the self-proclaimed genocidal organisation ISIL.
As part of his support for ISIL Erdogan has been working with Azerbaijan to reignite the Nagorno-Karabakh Region (NKR) conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
With both Armenia and Azerbaijan enjoying good relations with Russia a conflict between the two over the NKR puts immense pressure on Russia. Erdogan's ultimate ambition seems to use the NKR conflict as a justification for more international sanctions against Russia.
This would be a repeat of the way that Shamali Province was created in what used to be Ukraine to allow for sanctions to punish Russia for opposing ISIL.
The Yerevan siege is being run by the US in the same way the Khuzestan group who conducted the Iranian Embassy were being run by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
However the siege itself is being conducted by the "New Armenia Public Salvation Front (NAPSF). They are calling for the release of one their founders Zhirayr Sefilian who was jailed in April 2016.
Sefilian's main aim is to establish an independent Christian Armenian state in NKR. Curiously Sefilian is not actually Armenian. He's Lebanese with his ancestors being forced to move from Armenia to Lebanon as part of the 1915 Genocide.
Therefore the US' purpose in launching the Yerevan siege was to swirl controversy in order to exert pressure on Erdogan to get him to lift the siege of Incirilk.
At the same time someone simply pointed out to Erdogan that shutting down CJTFOIR operations from Incirilk meant that those operations were shut down.
As a result CJTFOIR would no longer be enforcing the aerial protective dome that was established over ISIL's de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa as a condition of CJTFOIR being allowed to use Incirilk. That meant Russia aircraft would be free to attack ISIL in and around Raqqa and there was nothing Erdogan could do to stop them.
Needless to say later that day Erdogan re-opened the airspace around Incirilk and CJTFOIR were able to resume missions to protect ISIL from Russian attack. US access to and from the base however remains blocked and the power supply remains cut off.
At the moment probably the World's most famous Armenian is Kim Kardashian. Her husband Kanye West is currently engaged in some pointless showbiz squabble with Taylor Swift.
On Sunday (17/7/16) Kim Kardashian released some covertly recorded portions of a telephone conversation between West and Swift which Kardashian claimed proves that Swift is lying and responsible for the squabble.
This was the US' way of posing the question of whether anyone believes Erdogan's claim that the Turkish rising was carried out by Fethullah Gulen - a Turkish exile currently based in Pennsylvania, US.
In short we were being asked whether we believe that the covertly recorded telephone conversations that Erdogan is no doubt rushing to forge between Gulen and the rebels exist.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the name Fethullah Gulen is a conservative Sunni Muslim cleric who extensively backed Erdogan during his rise to power and the early days of his rule.
They fell out because Gulen is a secularist who believes that religion and politics should be kept separate. Erdogan however is an Islamist who believes that religion is the source of his political power. This led to Gulen being banished from Turkey by Erdogan in 2013.
Therefore "Gulenist" is sort of a Erdogan euphemism for any secularist.
To give you an idea of how lacking in credibility Erdogan's claim that the rising was a Gulenist conspiracy Erdogan has since claimed that it was driven by anger that he wasn't taking a tough enough line in his war against Turkey's Kurdish population.
At the same time Erdogan claimed - without a hint of irony - that Gulen is allied with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Erdogan of course has previously claimed that all Kurds - regardless of where they are in the World - are members of the PKK and that the PKK is allied with ISIL. The fact that Syria's Kurdish population have been locked in fierce battle with ISIL for several years doesn't seem to bother Erdogan's logic in any way.
The US' decision to launch the Yerevan siege was of course a stupid one to begin with. However it has since gone on to cause further problems.
As with the Iranian Embassy siege which was ended by special forces after 6 days the Yerevan siege did not last for just a day. In fact it is still going on now.
In that time it has become something of a focal point for the NAPSF who have staged protests there on an almost daily basis. Wednesday's (20/7/16) were particularly violent with more than 50 people injured in clashes.
As a result concerns have begun to grow that simply saving Erdogan from the rising was not enough for the US.
In order to consummate the apparent deep love affair between Erdogan and Obama it now seems that the US is trying to stage a coup d'etat in Armenia just the same as it did in Ukraine to create Shamali Province. Again the US will try and blame its aggressive actions on Russia providing an excuse to further attack it for opposing ISIL.
So on Monday (18/7/16) an Islamist gunman staged a similar attack on a police station in Almaty, Kazakhstan killing four police.
Kazakhstan sits across the Caspian Sea from Azerbaijan and Georgia. It is probably most famous for being the country from which astronauts travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) are launched. This is probably the last remaining area of co-operation between the US and Russia following their split into the pro and anti-ISIL camps.
This area of co-operation seems to have been coming under sustained attack of late. On June 5th (5/6/16) a gang of Islamist terrorists robbed a gunshop in Aktobe before getting into a shoot-out with police in which six were killed. On June 8th (8/6/16) an Islamist terrorist opened fire on a children's camp also in Aktobe. Fortunately no-one was killed.
As such the police station attack in Almaty seemed intended to question the US' motives in Yerevan. It also invoked the previous day's terror attack on police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as a way to question Obama's judgement.
After all Obama's inability to distinguish between the Nation of Islam and Islam does seem to explain both his apparent hatred of Muslims and his deep love affair with Erdogan and ISIL.
A nation that is particularly concerned by recent events in Turkey is Germany.
In the first instance that is because Germany has an extremely large Turkish diaspora population of around 3 million. Following Friday's events both supporters of Erdogan and supporters of the rising have taken to the streets in both Germany and Austria.
Just today the German police federation have warned that Erdogan could order his supporters in Germany to take to the streets to attack the German state just as he ordered them to the streets to crush the Turkish rising. That of course is of course on top of concerns that Erdogan could send Europe another little 'gift' such as the Molenbeek cell.
Secondly due to Angela Merkel's insane decision to instruct migrants to leave Turkey and head for Germany the Germans have been at the forefront of the migrant deal with Turkey. Erdogan's crushing of the rising obviously puts that deal in significant doubt.
So on Monday (18/7/16) Germany announced that it was criminally charging a train dispatcher for causing the February 9th (9/2/16) crash between two trains near Munich, Bavaria.
That crash of course formed part of the protest at the Munich Security conference over the US' continued support for Erdogan and his plans for a ground invasion of Syria. One train represented Erdogan's desire to flood Europe with ISIL fighters while the other represented European's desire not to be killed in terrorist attacks.
The fact that the train dispatcher was accused of putting everybody's lives in jeopardy because he was too busy playing a computer gamed seemed to be Germany attempting to blame me for starting the Turkish rising just jeopardising the migrant deal. However it could also be interpreted as a reference to how Obama has endangered all of Europe by helping Erdogan crush the rising.
The notion that I was responsible for the rising is of course a nonsense.
After all if I'd known that it was already underway would I have finished my post that evening promising that I'd be back after dinner to discuss renowned CIA agent Rihanna's role in warning Erdogan of the possibility of a rising?
Speaking of which at around 16:55 on 22/7/16 (UK date) I'll try and pick this up tomorrow.
Edited at around 15:15 on 23/7/16 (UK date) to add;
On Monday evening in Germany a man attacked passengers with an axe aboard a train in Wurzburg, Bavaria. This is obviously remarkably similar to the February 9th (9/2/16) train crash.
Also in talking about the June 12th (12/6/16) Pulse nightclub terror attack in Orlando, Florida, US I shared an example from my own life in which a man attacked a Church congregation with a sword. As such I'm entitled to look at the bloody pictures of the scene in Wurzburg and say; "Been there. Done that. Glad I don't have to again."
On June 25th (25/6/16) I of course had a little incident with security at my home base. It was resolved by me giving someone the impression I was about to attack them with a sledgehammer/axe. My lawyer will assure you that at no point did I actually threaten them.
This of course was two days before Rihanna released her ode to Erdogan "Sledgehammer" on June 27th (27/6/16).
As such my first instinct was that the Wurzburg attack in which only 4 people were injured was just an example of spies mucking about. With the US staging the Yerevan siege in order to exert pressure on Erdogan it was simply the Germans staging a similarly confusing stunt to show the Americans the error of their ways.
Unfortunately it has since emerged that this was not the case. ISIL have since released a video of the 17 year Afghan refugee attacker Riaz Khan Ahmadzai (AKA; "Muhammad Riyad") pledging allegiance to the group and explaining he was about to carry out the attack in their name.
This should be extremely alarming for the German and European security forces.
As with last Thursday's (14/7/16) attack in Nice, France it appears to demonstrate that through migrants and the Internet ISIL has been able to establish a network of sleeper agents across Europe. Those agents can then be activated to carry out attacks at very short notice.
However it is possible that Ahmadzai simply decided to activate himself. That of course would depend on how much coverage the charging of the train dispatcher in the February 9th (9/2/16) train crash received. Here in the UK I got a couple of lines on it from a French news agency. I'm guessing it received a lot more coverage in Bavaria.
It is of course possible that the two events are entirely coincidental. However that seems unlikely to me.
On Tuesday (19/7/16) a man armed with a knife and falsely claiming to be carrying explosives barricaded himself in a hotel in Bollene on France's Cote de'Azor region around 250km (150 miles) north-west of Nice. This of course created scenes extremely similar to the current situation in Yerevan.
On Tuesday (19/7/16) night a woman and her three daughters aged between 8 and 14 were stabbed by a north African man who objected to the fact they weren't dressed in accordance to Muslim modesty standards. This of course occurred on France's Cote de'Azor region around 265km (160 miles) west of Nice and around 70km (40 miles) south of Bollene.
The fact that women are increasingly harassed for not adhering to Muslim modesty standards is just one of the symptoms of how Turkey is becoming increasingly Islamist under Erdogan.
I do remember one particularly unpleasent conversation with an AKP supporter who claimed that 8 year old girls not wearing the Hijab deserve to be raped.
Prior to France and Germany raising their concerns of Sunday (17/7/16) there was a plane crash at an airshow in Alberta, Canada. Including the Shoreham, UK airshow disaster this was of course a big fashion of the summer of 2015 - just after Obama saved Erdogan's AKP from defeat in Turkey's June General Election.
The aircraft on this occasion was a T-28 Trojan. This was brought in as a training aircraft by the US military to replace the T-6 Texan - as in Dallas, Texas. However combat versions were used in various counter-insurgency/terrorism operations in Vietnam, Congo and Algeria. It also saw action in the 1989 failed coup d'etat in the Philippines.
Earlier on Sunday (17/7/16) a small private jet carrying UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (no really) to an EU meeting in Belgium was forced to make an emergency landing at Luton Airport, UK.
This seemed to pose the obvious question of if Erdogan's small private jet was being harassed by rebel F-16's and Istanbul's Ataturk airport was under rebel control as he claimed why was Erdogan's jet allowed to land at Ataturk rather than simply being shot down?
At around the same time a vintage helicopter crashed at Breighton airfield in the UK. Rather like Incrilk Breighton is a former Cold War military base built to hold long range bombers and store "Thor" nuclear warheads.
Although it's hard for me to be exact the particular helicopter in question seems to be some variant of a Saro P.531 such as a Westland Scout or Westland Wasp. It's distinctive lattice tail section means it could be easily be mistaken for the iconic Bell H-13 Sioux.
The Sioux is of course hugely famous for being featured in the opening titles of the US TV show "M*A*S*H."
This was set during the 1950-1953 Korean war. It was due to their participation in that UN mandated operation that Turkey was invited to join NATO in 1953. A decision that now seems to be very much in doubt.
Whether Mobile Army Surgical Hospital's (M*A*S*H's) will be deployed to Iraq to help with the liberation of Mosul from ISIL or even to Syria to help liberate Raqqa is a major discussion point at the moment.
The theme song from the 1970 movie "M*A*S*H" is of course "Suicide is Painless."
That's sounds like a recommendation to a certain American individual who shall remain nameless at this point.
16:35 on 23/7/16 (UK date).
Monday, 18 July 2016
No Known Motive.
This morning it took me a full three hours to catch up on events overnight.
It is perhaps fortunate then that I merely have to copy & paste most of this from a post I wrote just 10 days ago.
If you cast your minds back to the summer of 2014 you may remember that former US President Barack Obama and his Democrat Party were in dire straits.
With the ethnic cleansing of the town of Sinjar/Shingal in Iraq the genocidal hatred of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had become so clear that the world was no longer able to turn its back. Under immense public pressure Obama had been forced to deploy US aircraft to bring an end to these crimes against humanity.
Having spent the previous three years creating and supporting ISIL and their associates Obama was really not happy about being forced to fight them and was in desperate need of a distraction.
Also the Democrats really, really wanted to seize control of both houses of the US Congress in the November 2014 mid-term elections.
So the Democrats responded to this pressure by making up a story of an innocent young black man named Michael Brown who had been murdered by a police officer as he had his hands up in surrender in the town of Ferguson, Missouri.
On the back of this lie the Democrats formed a street army marching under the banner of "Black Lives Matter."
The purpose of this group was to use violence and the threat of violence to impose on America the notion that black people should not be punished when they choose to break the law.
In Ferguson Black Lives Matter immediately went to work unleashing a full year of rioting that lasted from August 9th 2014 (9/8/14) until August 11th 2015 (11/8/15).
Ultimately though in Ferguson they failed.
In response to the violence the police officer in question was called before a Grand Jury.
Here they heard the truth that Micheal Brown had committed a robbery at a local convenience store and when challenged by the police launched into a violent assault in which he attempted to steal the police officer's firearm.
Therefore the killing was found to be entirely lawful and no charges were filed. This is something that should have been obvious on day one of the investigation.
Despite this the Democrats continued to rally behind their street army.
In March of 2015 a Department of Justice (DoJ) report found no evidence of wrongdoing in the Ferguson police department. Having falsely accused the police for six months the then Attorney General Eric Holder was forced to resign over his conduct
However this did not stop his replacement Loretta Lynch using the apparatus of state along with the threat of violence from the street army to force Ferguson police to no longer prosecute black offenders.
I understand this legal action is still to be brought before the Supreme Court where the Obama administration does not exactly have a strong record.
Obviously the Black Lives Matter movement's;
"unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives"
Means that every gathering, every speech, every social media posting and every riot by the group is an act of domestic terrorism against the US.
However there have been a number of murders and attempted murders tied to the group.
On March 12th 2015 (12/3/15) members of Black Lives Matter gathered outside Ferguson police HQ the same way they had done every night since August 2014. As they had also done every night since August 2014 members Missouri State Police formed a cordon to stop Black Lives Matter attacking the building.
On this particular night members of Black Lives Matter opened fire on the police. They succeeded in hitting two officers in the head/neck seriously wounding them.
In response to this Black Lives Matter and much of the US news media went full tin foil hat brigade. They immediately claimed that the shootings had been the work of some shadowy government agency conducting a "False Flag Operation" to discredit the group.
I particularly remember the CNN reporter Don Lemon claiming that is was impossible for a 9mm handgun which is certified for use at 250 yards/metres to hit a target at a mere 100 yards. He went on to speculate whether some type of 9mm weapon had been created in some sort of secret lab specifically to carry out the shootings.
So Don Lemon didn't actually accuse the CIA of carrying out the shootings live on national TV. However he strongly implied it.
It was after two days of this type of reporting that another CNN reporter was dragged - almost literally by his ear - to a local firing range. There he was quickly taught how to hit a target at 100 yards with a 9mm handgun.
Then of course there was the Black Lives Matter rally in Washington D.C on December 14th 2014 (14/12/14). Here movement leader Al Sharpton called for a "Diversity of Tactics" in the groups fight against the police.
Seven days later on December 20th 2014 (20/12/14) a member of Black Lives Matter - Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley - ambushed two New York City police officers, shooting and killing them as they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn.
Despite these two clear terror attacks the Obama administration continued to refuse to designate Black Lives Matter as a domestic terror group and prosecute their members/leaders accordingly.
On June 17th 2015 (17/6/15) a member of the public became frustrated at the US governments failure to protect its citizens from the terrorist threat of Black Lives Matter. So he took matters into his own hands killing 9 members of the group at a planning meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.
Across the globe people who run their own police departments and criminal justice systems looked at events in Charleston and concluded that the neutralisation of 9 terrorists as they planned future attacks could not be considered a criminal act. As such they pleaded with Obama to disband his Black Lives Matter terror group.
I am still not sure about how much detail I want to go into about the extent of these warnings.
However the UK seemed to lead the line with the murder of Sarandev Singh Bhambra in Mold, Wales on January 14th 2015 (14/1/15). This was linked to the neo-Nazi "Britain First" street army which is extremely similar in nature to the US Black Lives Matter group. This of course was further referenced in the lawful killing of UK MP Jo Cox on June 16th 2016 (16/6/16). A day before the anniversary of the neutralisation of the Charleston cell.
Although I don't really have time to go back through my notes to list every example events in Charleston triggered a cacophony of developed nations just laughing in Obama's face and pleading with him to stop.
The October 2nd 2015 (2/10/15) plea from Sydney, Australia particularly sticks with me. After all it's come to something when even Australia are telling you to grow up and develop a culture.
Do I need to reiterate the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest?
At this point so many developed nations have pleaded with Obama to see sense before he drags the US into civil war and turns it into some sort of third world banana republic the phrase; "We told you so" has lost all meaning.
Even the 2016 Superbowl pleaded with Obama and Beyonce to abandon the (Huey) Newton Black Panthers civil war nonsense and return to mainstream society.
Unfortunately Obama and the Democrats are either too evil or just too damn stupid to listen to reason.
As such they seem to have made the conviction at all costs of the Charleston accused a core plank of their 2016 campaign. This of course eliminates any possibility of a fair trial making an acquittal a legal certainty.
Obviously Black Lives Matter have still not been designated a domestic terror group. That is because the Democrats need their street army for the 2016 Presidential campaign. Their mission now is to silence any opposition to the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton.
Citing just one example of many on April 15 2016 (15/4/16) Black Lives Matter were sent to prevent presumptive Republican Party nominee Donald Trump holding a campaign rally in Brooklyn, New York.
Fast forwarding to this Tuesday (5/7/16) the FBI released the results of its investigation into Hillary Clinton. As I said at the time this was completely devastating.
With it having been found that Hillary Clinton had violated the 1917 Espionage Act on 110 occasions she will never hold a US government job ever again. Particularly not the office of President.
And with that suddenly the street army received fresh marching orders.
This began on Tuesday (5/7/16) with the release of a video showing the death of a black man - Alton Sterling - in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Although it is not shown in the video or apparently any of the subsequent media coverage the incident began with a call to the police that a man very closely matching Alton Sterling's description had been threatening members of the public with a gun.
As part of their duty to protect black lives the police responded to this call. However based on what happened next I can see why they won't bother in the future.
Arriving on the scene the police identified Alton Sterling as the man most likely to have been threatening passers-by with a gun.
Therefore to protect the public and themselves they moved to handcuff and search Sterling in order to begin their investigation and establish whether a crime had been committed.
However as with Michael Brown in Ferguson Alton Sterling very much objected to this lawful and reasonable request by the officers. Instead he launched into a violent assault on the officers.
In the course of this assault it became obvious to officers that Sterling was in possession of a lethal weapon. Therefore they were obligated by law to use lethal force to prevent Sterling from using that weapon against either themselves of members of the wider public.
Some people are trying to argue that the officers should have waited until Sterling had drawn his gun and fired it at them. These are people who've clearly never been punched full in the head in the course of a knock down, drag out brawl.
Having dealt with numerous violent offenders over a great many years however the law is quite clear on this point. Given the precedent of Graham V Connor (1989) examples of defence of self/other under common law do not come clearer than this case.
Even CNN were forced to admit this.
However like I said that was the day that Hillary Clinton's political career ended.
So rather than just informing the public the then Attorney General Loretta Lynch abused her position by opening a baseless Federal civil rights investigation in a clear attempt to incite the street army.
Then on Wednesday (6/7/16) we had the shooting of Philando Castile in St Paul, Minnesota during a traffic stop. This is a much more curious incident.
Castile had a permit to carry a concealed weapon and was in possession of that firearm.
As part of his training for that weapons permit Castile would have been instructed that during such a traffic stop he should place his hands on the dashboard, calmly inform the police officer that he is carrying a concealed weapon and await further instructions from the officer.
Before being granted that permit Castile would have had to sign a legal declaration that he understood and would follow that procedure.
However this is not what Castile chose to do.
Instead Castile chose to repeatedly shout; "I've got a gun" while reaching into his pockets. He was repeatedly told to stop doing that by the officer.
However Castile refused and continued. Under law this obligated the police officer to take action to protect himself and the wider public.
Despite the repeated provocations the officer still declined to use lethal force against Castile. Instead he chose to shoot him in the arm which would not normally be a life threatening injury.
What caused Castile to bleed out and die though was his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds.
She decided to obstruct the provision of life saving aid to Castile by refusing to comply with the officer's instructions and bizarrely broadcast the incident live on Facebook via a cellphone that should have used to call an ambulance.
As a few people have mentioned Ms Reynolds actions seem remarkable similar to the radical Islamist terror attack that occurred on June 13th (13/6/16) in Magananville, France.
Here Larossi Abballa murdered two police officers and during the ensuring stand-off broadcast his actions live on Facebook calling for others to carry out attacks against police officers.
The death of Philando Castile of course occurred against a backdrop of Black Lives Matter protests following the Alton Sterling case in which leaders were calling for people to "Give their lives for the cause."
Minnesota is of course well known as the main source in the US for radical Islamist recruits for ISIL and associated groups.
The US has been repeatedly warned about the overlap between the vile quasi-Islamic hate group "The Nation of Islam" and the vile quasi-Islamic hate group "ISIL." Particularly around the recent funeral of Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali.
Curiously Loretta Lynch and the Justice Department have shown no interest in launching a Federal investigation into the Castile case.
Thursday (7/7/16) of course saw FBI Director James Comey appear before the US Congress to explain his decision not to criminally prosecute Hillary Clinton for 110 acts of Espionage against the US.
The only explanation he could offer was that he didn't want to.
At that point lawyers across the globe fell about laughing.
The Democrats of course were extremely angry that Comey's moral cowardice in failing to prosecute Hillary Clinton was being exposed to potential US voters.
Obviously I don't have time to check the transcript and quote every Democrat's comments word for word. However I think the general tone can be summed up by;
"HOW DARE THE RACISTS REPUBLICANS DEMAND THE LAW IS UPHELD WHEN INNOCENT BLACK MEN ARE BEING ASSASSINATED BY THE RACIST KU KLUX KLAN BROTHERS IN THE POLICE EVERY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
That afternoon Barack Obama himself decided to participate in this culture of incitement. He issued a Facebook statement which subtly but clearly stated that the Hillary Clinton campaign has a serious problem and called Black Lives Matter to the streets.
Later in the day Obama intended to issue a further incitement to violence in a televised address to the nation. However words were had. So although Obama took some of the aggression from his address he failed to retract his Facebook call to arms and continued to refuse to disavow Black Lives Matter.
Answering Obama's call Black Lives Matter did indeed take to the streets that night. This led to violent disorder in Los Angeles, California, New York City, New York, Washington D.C and of course Minnesota.
However the most violent incident of the night occurred in Dallas, Texas. Here at least one gunman affiliated to Black Lives Matter opened fire on police officers murdering five and wounding seven others.
On Tuesday (12/7/16) Obama attended a memorial service for the five murdered Dallas police officers.
However Obama actually delayed the start of that memorial service for almost an hour because he was too busy telephoning members of the Black Lives Matter campaign associated with both the Sterling and Castile families.
Obama then used his address to the memorial service to try and equate those two lawful killings with the murders of five police officers.
The memorial service mockingly played Obama off - Oscars-style - to the strains of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." As in; "His 'truth' is marching on."
It almost goes without saying then that Obama has again failed to properly designate Black Lives Matter as a domestic terrorist group and police them appropriately.
To make matters worse Loretta Lynch has still failed to end the baseless, politically motivated and racial biased Federal investigation into the entirely right and proper lawful killing of Alton Sterling.
As a result Black Lives Matter have continued their terrorist activities. The situation has been particularly bad in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Here there have been near daily violent clashes between police and members of Black Lives Matter.
Shortly after Obama's appearance in Dallas police in Louisiana confirmed that over the course of the previous weekend they had disrupted a plot by four Black Lives Matter members to steal weapons in order to launch another Dallas style terror attack against police.
One of the most worrying developments from Baton Rouge is that on July 9th (9/7/16) the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) announced that they were heading to join Black Lives Matter on the streets. They immediately carried through on their threat.
Not to be confused with Huey Newton's Black Panther Party of the 1970's the NBPP is an extremely nasty and violent off-shoot of the Nation of Islam. It is viciously anti-Semitic and wishes to create a separate Black nation within the United States through violent insurrection.
The NBPP are so unpleasant that the Black Panther Party actually have a standing injunction to prevent their name being used by what they and the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC) view as a racist hate group.
Yesterday (7/7/16) three more police officers were murdered in Baton Rouge in a Dallas style terror attack.
The perpetrator who was killed in the course of the attack has been identified as Gavin Long, a 29 year old African American.
Long's extensive online presence reveal him to be a member of Black Lives Matter. He was particularly angered by the Alton Sterling case which Loretta Lynch and the Justice Department have been working to portray as some sort of crime.
Long also claims to have been a member of the Nation of Islam.
Having clearly decided a long time ago that violence and extremism is the only true form of Islam Barack Obama clearly views the Nation of Islam to be a Muslim group. However he is almost entirely alone in that belief.
As with the inner workings of Turkish President/Prime Minister/Emperor Recep Tayyip Erdogan's mind the Nation of Islam's ideology is extremely difficult to explain to a rational audience.
However essentially they believe that 66 million years ago the Black race arrived on what was an uninhabited Earth as an alien race. The scientists of this master race then built spaceships which shaped the topography of Earth including creating a large explosion which blew part of it away creating the moon.
Within that superior Black race the Nation of Islam consider 85% of it to be the deaf, dumb and blind masses. A further 10% of the Black race are made up of so-called "Slave Makers" who are constantly trying to enslave the 85%. The remaining 5% are the members of the Nation of Islam and referred to as the "Righteous Teachers." They consider themselves at war with the Slave Makers in an effort to free the minds of the 85%.
It would be considered the duty of one the "Righteous Teachers" to kill any Black man working as a police officer because they would be a "Slave Maker" oppressing the 85%.
The Nation of Islam believe that the White race was created by the devil Jew Jacob on the Greek island of Patmos. This is where John the Apostle or John of Patmos is believed to have written the Biblical book of Revelations. However the Nation of Islam believe that it was here that Jacob began a 600 year program of eugenics that saw him murder dark skinned children until a light skinned, white race was created.
Long's claim that he was a member of the Nation of Islam is currently being investigated to see if it is true. However the fact he would be claim to be a member of the group certainly demonstrates that he was at the very least inspired by them and their ideology.
In conducting his terror attack Long wore black military style fatigues and covered his face with a mask. This is the uniform of the New Black Panther Party.
However under immense pressure from the continuing unwarranted Depart of Justice investigation Louisiana police investigating yesterday's attack are not allowed to refer to it as a terrorist attack.
Instead they're being forced to parrot the line;
"There is no known motive behind the murders."
17:40 on 18/7/16 (UK date).
It is perhaps fortunate then that I merely have to copy & paste most of this from a post I wrote just 10 days ago.
If you cast your minds back to the summer of 2014 you may remember that former US President Barack Obama and his Democrat Party were in dire straits.
With the ethnic cleansing of the town of Sinjar/Shingal in Iraq the genocidal hatred of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had become so clear that the world was no longer able to turn its back. Under immense public pressure Obama had been forced to deploy US aircraft to bring an end to these crimes against humanity.
Having spent the previous three years creating and supporting ISIL and their associates Obama was really not happy about being forced to fight them and was in desperate need of a distraction.
Also the Democrats really, really wanted to seize control of both houses of the US Congress in the November 2014 mid-term elections.
So the Democrats responded to this pressure by making up a story of an innocent young black man named Michael Brown who had been murdered by a police officer as he had his hands up in surrender in the town of Ferguson, Missouri.
On the back of this lie the Democrats formed a street army marching under the banner of "Black Lives Matter."
The purpose of this group was to use violence and the threat of violence to impose on America the notion that black people should not be punished when they choose to break the law.
In Ferguson Black Lives Matter immediately went to work unleashing a full year of rioting that lasted from August 9th 2014 (9/8/14) until August 11th 2015 (11/8/15).
Ultimately though in Ferguson they failed.
In response to the violence the police officer in question was called before a Grand Jury.
Here they heard the truth that Micheal Brown had committed a robbery at a local convenience store and when challenged by the police launched into a violent assault in which he attempted to steal the police officer's firearm.
Therefore the killing was found to be entirely lawful and no charges were filed. This is something that should have been obvious on day one of the investigation.
Despite this the Democrats continued to rally behind their street army.
In March of 2015 a Department of Justice (DoJ) report found no evidence of wrongdoing in the Ferguson police department. Having falsely accused the police for six months the then Attorney General Eric Holder was forced to resign over his conduct
However this did not stop his replacement Loretta Lynch using the apparatus of state along with the threat of violence from the street army to force Ferguson police to no longer prosecute black offenders.
I understand this legal action is still to be brought before the Supreme Court where the Obama administration does not exactly have a strong record.
Obviously the Black Lives Matter movement's;
"unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives"
Means that every gathering, every speech, every social media posting and every riot by the group is an act of domestic terrorism against the US.
However there have been a number of murders and attempted murders tied to the group.
On March 12th 2015 (12/3/15) members of Black Lives Matter gathered outside Ferguson police HQ the same way they had done every night since August 2014. As they had also done every night since August 2014 members Missouri State Police formed a cordon to stop Black Lives Matter attacking the building.
On this particular night members of Black Lives Matter opened fire on the police. They succeeded in hitting two officers in the head/neck seriously wounding them.
In response to this Black Lives Matter and much of the US news media went full tin foil hat brigade. They immediately claimed that the shootings had been the work of some shadowy government agency conducting a "False Flag Operation" to discredit the group.
I particularly remember the CNN reporter Don Lemon claiming that is was impossible for a 9mm handgun which is certified for use at 250 yards/metres to hit a target at a mere 100 yards. He went on to speculate whether some type of 9mm weapon had been created in some sort of secret lab specifically to carry out the shootings.
So Don Lemon didn't actually accuse the CIA of carrying out the shootings live on national TV. However he strongly implied it.
It was after two days of this type of reporting that another CNN reporter was dragged - almost literally by his ear - to a local firing range. There he was quickly taught how to hit a target at 100 yards with a 9mm handgun.
Then of course there was the Black Lives Matter rally in Washington D.C on December 14th 2014 (14/12/14). Here movement leader Al Sharpton called for a "Diversity of Tactics" in the groups fight against the police.
Seven days later on December 20th 2014 (20/12/14) a member of Black Lives Matter - Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley - ambushed two New York City police officers, shooting and killing them as they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn.
Despite these two clear terror attacks the Obama administration continued to refuse to designate Black Lives Matter as a domestic terror group and prosecute their members/leaders accordingly.
On June 17th 2015 (17/6/15) a member of the public became frustrated at the US governments failure to protect its citizens from the terrorist threat of Black Lives Matter. So he took matters into his own hands killing 9 members of the group at a planning meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.
Across the globe people who run their own police departments and criminal justice systems looked at events in Charleston and concluded that the neutralisation of 9 terrorists as they planned future attacks could not be considered a criminal act. As such they pleaded with Obama to disband his Black Lives Matter terror group.
I am still not sure about how much detail I want to go into about the extent of these warnings.
However the UK seemed to lead the line with the murder of Sarandev Singh Bhambra in Mold, Wales on January 14th 2015 (14/1/15). This was linked to the neo-Nazi "Britain First" street army which is extremely similar in nature to the US Black Lives Matter group. This of course was further referenced in the lawful killing of UK MP Jo Cox on June 16th 2016 (16/6/16). A day before the anniversary of the neutralisation of the Charleston cell.
Although I don't really have time to go back through my notes to list every example events in Charleston triggered a cacophony of developed nations just laughing in Obama's face and pleading with him to stop.
The October 2nd 2015 (2/10/15) plea from Sydney, Australia particularly sticks with me. After all it's come to something when even Australia are telling you to grow up and develop a culture.
Do I need to reiterate the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest?
At this point so many developed nations have pleaded with Obama to see sense before he drags the US into civil war and turns it into some sort of third world banana republic the phrase; "We told you so" has lost all meaning.
Even the 2016 Superbowl pleaded with Obama and Beyonce to abandon the (Huey) Newton Black Panthers civil war nonsense and return to mainstream society.
Unfortunately Obama and the Democrats are either too evil or just too damn stupid to listen to reason.
As such they seem to have made the conviction at all costs of the Charleston accused a core plank of their 2016 campaign. This of course eliminates any possibility of a fair trial making an acquittal a legal certainty.
Obviously Black Lives Matter have still not been designated a domestic terror group. That is because the Democrats need their street army for the 2016 Presidential campaign. Their mission now is to silence any opposition to the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton.
Citing just one example of many on April 15 2016 (15/4/16) Black Lives Matter were sent to prevent presumptive Republican Party nominee Donald Trump holding a campaign rally in Brooklyn, New York.
Fast forwarding to this Tuesday (5/7/16) the FBI released the results of its investigation into Hillary Clinton. As I said at the time this was completely devastating.
With it having been found that Hillary Clinton had violated the 1917 Espionage Act on 110 occasions she will never hold a US government job ever again. Particularly not the office of President.
And with that suddenly the street army received fresh marching orders.
This began on Tuesday (5/7/16) with the release of a video showing the death of a black man - Alton Sterling - in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Although it is not shown in the video or apparently any of the subsequent media coverage the incident began with a call to the police that a man very closely matching Alton Sterling's description had been threatening members of the public with a gun.
As part of their duty to protect black lives the police responded to this call. However based on what happened next I can see why they won't bother in the future.
Arriving on the scene the police identified Alton Sterling as the man most likely to have been threatening passers-by with a gun.
Therefore to protect the public and themselves they moved to handcuff and search Sterling in order to begin their investigation and establish whether a crime had been committed.
However as with Michael Brown in Ferguson Alton Sterling very much objected to this lawful and reasonable request by the officers. Instead he launched into a violent assault on the officers.
In the course of this assault it became obvious to officers that Sterling was in possession of a lethal weapon. Therefore they were obligated by law to use lethal force to prevent Sterling from using that weapon against either themselves of members of the wider public.
Some people are trying to argue that the officers should have waited until Sterling had drawn his gun and fired it at them. These are people who've clearly never been punched full in the head in the course of a knock down, drag out brawl.
Having dealt with numerous violent offenders over a great many years however the law is quite clear on this point. Given the precedent of Graham V Connor (1989) examples of defence of self/other under common law do not come clearer than this case.
Even CNN were forced to admit this.
However like I said that was the day that Hillary Clinton's political career ended.
So rather than just informing the public the then Attorney General Loretta Lynch abused her position by opening a baseless Federal civil rights investigation in a clear attempt to incite the street army.
Then on Wednesday (6/7/16) we had the shooting of Philando Castile in St Paul, Minnesota during a traffic stop. This is a much more curious incident.
Castile had a permit to carry a concealed weapon and was in possession of that firearm.
As part of his training for that weapons permit Castile would have been instructed that during such a traffic stop he should place his hands on the dashboard, calmly inform the police officer that he is carrying a concealed weapon and await further instructions from the officer.
Before being granted that permit Castile would have had to sign a legal declaration that he understood and would follow that procedure.
However this is not what Castile chose to do.
Instead Castile chose to repeatedly shout; "I've got a gun" while reaching into his pockets. He was repeatedly told to stop doing that by the officer.
However Castile refused and continued. Under law this obligated the police officer to take action to protect himself and the wider public.
Despite the repeated provocations the officer still declined to use lethal force against Castile. Instead he chose to shoot him in the arm which would not normally be a life threatening injury.
What caused Castile to bleed out and die though was his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds.
She decided to obstruct the provision of life saving aid to Castile by refusing to comply with the officer's instructions and bizarrely broadcast the incident live on Facebook via a cellphone that should have used to call an ambulance.
As a few people have mentioned Ms Reynolds actions seem remarkable similar to the radical Islamist terror attack that occurred on June 13th (13/6/16) in Magananville, France.
Here Larossi Abballa murdered two police officers and during the ensuring stand-off broadcast his actions live on Facebook calling for others to carry out attacks against police officers.
The death of Philando Castile of course occurred against a backdrop of Black Lives Matter protests following the Alton Sterling case in which leaders were calling for people to "Give their lives for the cause."
Minnesota is of course well known as the main source in the US for radical Islamist recruits for ISIL and associated groups.
The US has been repeatedly warned about the overlap between the vile quasi-Islamic hate group "The Nation of Islam" and the vile quasi-Islamic hate group "ISIL." Particularly around the recent funeral of Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali.
Curiously Loretta Lynch and the Justice Department have shown no interest in launching a Federal investigation into the Castile case.
Thursday (7/7/16) of course saw FBI Director James Comey appear before the US Congress to explain his decision not to criminally prosecute Hillary Clinton for 110 acts of Espionage against the US.
The only explanation he could offer was that he didn't want to.
At that point lawyers across the globe fell about laughing.
The Democrats of course were extremely angry that Comey's moral cowardice in failing to prosecute Hillary Clinton was being exposed to potential US voters.
Obviously I don't have time to check the transcript and quote every Democrat's comments word for word. However I think the general tone can be summed up by;
"HOW DARE THE RACISTS REPUBLICANS DEMAND THE LAW IS UPHELD WHEN INNOCENT BLACK MEN ARE BEING ASSASSINATED BY THE RACIST KU KLUX KLAN BROTHERS IN THE POLICE EVERY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
That afternoon Barack Obama himself decided to participate in this culture of incitement. He issued a Facebook statement which subtly but clearly stated that the Hillary Clinton campaign has a serious problem and called Black Lives Matter to the streets.
Later in the day Obama intended to issue a further incitement to violence in a televised address to the nation. However words were had. So although Obama took some of the aggression from his address he failed to retract his Facebook call to arms and continued to refuse to disavow Black Lives Matter.
Answering Obama's call Black Lives Matter did indeed take to the streets that night. This led to violent disorder in Los Angeles, California, New York City, New York, Washington D.C and of course Minnesota.
However the most violent incident of the night occurred in Dallas, Texas. Here at least one gunman affiliated to Black Lives Matter opened fire on police officers murdering five and wounding seven others.
On Tuesday (12/7/16) Obama attended a memorial service for the five murdered Dallas police officers.
However Obama actually delayed the start of that memorial service for almost an hour because he was too busy telephoning members of the Black Lives Matter campaign associated with both the Sterling and Castile families.
Obama then used his address to the memorial service to try and equate those two lawful killings with the murders of five police officers.
The memorial service mockingly played Obama off - Oscars-style - to the strains of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." As in; "His 'truth' is marching on."
It almost goes without saying then that Obama has again failed to properly designate Black Lives Matter as a domestic terrorist group and police them appropriately.
To make matters worse Loretta Lynch has still failed to end the baseless, politically motivated and racial biased Federal investigation into the entirely right and proper lawful killing of Alton Sterling.
As a result Black Lives Matter have continued their terrorist activities. The situation has been particularly bad in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Here there have been near daily violent clashes between police and members of Black Lives Matter.
Shortly after Obama's appearance in Dallas police in Louisiana confirmed that over the course of the previous weekend they had disrupted a plot by four Black Lives Matter members to steal weapons in order to launch another Dallas style terror attack against police.
One of the most worrying developments from Baton Rouge is that on July 9th (9/7/16) the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) announced that they were heading to join Black Lives Matter on the streets. They immediately carried through on their threat.
Not to be confused with Huey Newton's Black Panther Party of the 1970's the NBPP is an extremely nasty and violent off-shoot of the Nation of Islam. It is viciously anti-Semitic and wishes to create a separate Black nation within the United States through violent insurrection.
The NBPP are so unpleasant that the Black Panther Party actually have a standing injunction to prevent their name being used by what they and the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC) view as a racist hate group.
Yesterday (7/7/16) three more police officers were murdered in Baton Rouge in a Dallas style terror attack.
The perpetrator who was killed in the course of the attack has been identified as Gavin Long, a 29 year old African American.
Long's extensive online presence reveal him to be a member of Black Lives Matter. He was particularly angered by the Alton Sterling case which Loretta Lynch and the Justice Department have been working to portray as some sort of crime.
Long also claims to have been a member of the Nation of Islam.
Having clearly decided a long time ago that violence and extremism is the only true form of Islam Barack Obama clearly views the Nation of Islam to be a Muslim group. However he is almost entirely alone in that belief.
As with the inner workings of Turkish President/Prime Minister/Emperor Recep Tayyip Erdogan's mind the Nation of Islam's ideology is extremely difficult to explain to a rational audience.
However essentially they believe that 66 million years ago the Black race arrived on what was an uninhabited Earth as an alien race. The scientists of this master race then built spaceships which shaped the topography of Earth including creating a large explosion which blew part of it away creating the moon.
Within that superior Black race the Nation of Islam consider 85% of it to be the deaf, dumb and blind masses. A further 10% of the Black race are made up of so-called "Slave Makers" who are constantly trying to enslave the 85%. The remaining 5% are the members of the Nation of Islam and referred to as the "Righteous Teachers." They consider themselves at war with the Slave Makers in an effort to free the minds of the 85%.
It would be considered the duty of one the "Righteous Teachers" to kill any Black man working as a police officer because they would be a "Slave Maker" oppressing the 85%.
The Nation of Islam believe that the White race was created by the devil Jew Jacob on the Greek island of Patmos. This is where John the Apostle or John of Patmos is believed to have written the Biblical book of Revelations. However the Nation of Islam believe that it was here that Jacob began a 600 year program of eugenics that saw him murder dark skinned children until a light skinned, white race was created.
Long's claim that he was a member of the Nation of Islam is currently being investigated to see if it is true. However the fact he would be claim to be a member of the group certainly demonstrates that he was at the very least inspired by them and their ideology.
In conducting his terror attack Long wore black military style fatigues and covered his face with a mask. This is the uniform of the New Black Panther Party.
However under immense pressure from the continuing unwarranted Depart of Justice investigation Louisiana police investigating yesterday's attack are not allowed to refer to it as a terrorist attack.
Instead they're being forced to parrot the line;
"There is no known motive behind the murders."
17:40 on 18/7/16 (UK date).
Saturday, 16 July 2016
Pray For Turkey.
Pray for the World.
In the 2001 the former Mayor of Istanbul Recep Tayyip Erdogan formed the Justice & Development Party (AKP) as a vehicle to sweep him to power in Turkey. In November 2002 the AKP won a landslide victory in the General Election.
The problem was that as Mayor of Istanbul in 1997 Erdogan attended a rally for the radical Islamist Welfare Party which at the time he was a member of. At that rally Erdogan called on party supporters to;
"Turn the Mosques into their barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."
Rather unsurprisingly this call for Muslims to take up arms against the Turkish state was deemed an incitement both to violence and to religious and racial hatred.
As a result Erdogan was jailed for 10 months, banned from ever again holding political office and the Welfare Party was disbanded as a threat to national security.
Erdogan's conviction and ban from ever again holding public office obviously prevented him from taking up the office of Prime Minister in 2002.
With Hillary Clinton having been found to have committed 110 offences of espionage against the US and the Obama administration refusing to prosecute it is frightening how similar current US politics are to Turkish politics back in 2002.
If the Obama administration does not reverse its decision and prosecute Hillary Clinton or she fails to unilaterally withdraw from the 2016 President election Turkey could well be the type of country America becomes in the future.
Obviously Erdogan wasn't going to let a little something like the law of the land prevent him from seizing power. So in 2002 the AKP's co-founder Abdullah Gul simply became Turkey's Prime Minister in Erdogan's place.
Gul's sole purpose as Prime Minister was to annul the ban of Erdogan holding political office. This task was rapidly completed allowing Erdogan to become Prime Minister in March 2003.
Having seized power Erdogan almost immediately set about making sure that Turkey's law, Courts and other apparatus of a democratic state could never challenge his authority ever again.
Within months of taking up the office of Prime Minister Erdogan declared that there was secretive organisation called "Ergenekon" that was plotting to overthrow his government on behalf of the Global Zionist Conspiracy.
Stories of the Ergenekon group continued for the next 10 years resulting in 254 senior military and civil service officials being convicted to life imprisonment for treason against Erdogan. It almost goes without saying that those 254 vacancies were immediately filled with members of the AKP.
In 2015 the Ergenekon cases were reopened after independent forensic examinations revealed that many of the documents entered into evidence in the case were forgeries.
This merely prompted Erdogan to declare the conspiracy to be much wider than previously thought accusing the journalists who'd had the documents tested of being part of the "Gulen Movement."
Existing really only in Erdogan's brain the Gulen Movement is supposedly a vast CIA conspiracy against him that is fronted by Fethullah Gulen an Islamist preacher based in Pennsylvania. Whenever anyone disagrees with Erdogan they are immediately dismissed as Gulenists.
Following the revelation that much of the evidence had been forged the convictions in the Ergenekon case were annulled in April 2016. Obviously the wrongly imprisoned have not been allowed to return to their jobs which are now occupied by AKP members.
Just as the Ergenekon trials were reaching their climax in 2010 Erdogan suddenly uncovered another vast conspiracy against him. This time known as "Sledgehammer." On this occasion 365 senior military and civil service figures such as Judges were arrested and replaced by AKP members.
Again much of the evidence produced by Erdogan in the case was found to have been faked. Again Erdogan labelled those who proved the evidence to be fake to be members of the Gulenist conspiracy. After pointing out that the trials were in no way fair the Istanbul Bar Association itself was prosecuted for conspiring against Erdogan. All cases are currently being appealed.
The reason why Erdogan has been so desperate to remove any domestic oversight of his rule is quite clear. His policies should terrify any right thinking person.
In terms of foreign policy Erdogan is a neo-Ottoman.
That means he wants to re-establish the Ottoman Empire that stretched from Austria across the middle-east through Africa to Morocco. Erdogan wants to rule this Islamic Caliphate as Sultan with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) - as its Caliph.
To this end Erdogan has aggressively supported Islamist terror groups in Tunisia, Libya, Palestine. In Egypt he attempted to install the Islamist puppet regime of Mohammed Morsi and has backed terror groups to wage a low intensity war against Egypt ever since Morsi was overthrown by the Egyptian people in 2013.
It almost goes without saying that Erdogan has been an energetic supporter of ISIL in both Syria and Iraq. As I've really spent the last two years detailing Erdogan's support for ISIL it would take me far too long to list every example of the support he has given to the group here.
However one that really sums up Erdogan's rule occurred in January 2014 when the Attorney General of Turkey's Adana province was tipped off that a convoy carrying illegal weapons to terror groups in Syria was passing through the province.
Obviously the Attorney General and the local police stopped the convoy, seized the weapons and arrested those involved.
This prompted the Erdogan regime to arrest the more than 50 people involved in stopping the convoy on charges of treason for interfering with a National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) delivery of weapons to extreme Islamist terror groups active in Syria.
This story was broken by the Cumhuriyet newspaper. Erdogan responded by accusing the newspaper and the journalists of being part of the Gulenist conspiracy and prosecuted them for treason.
Just in May the journalists - Can Dundar & Erdem Gul - were jailed for five years for publishing the story. As he was arriving at Court Dundar survived an assassination attempt when an AKP member opened fire on him.
In March 2016 Turkey's biggest selling newspaper Zaman made the mistake of criticising Erdogan for the way it was cracking down on journalists and the free press. This led to a Turkish Court - staffed by AKP members of course - to order the newspaper to be shut down and placed under government control.
On March 6th (6/3/16) Turkish police physically seized Zaman's offices from its staff replacing them with AKP members. Funnily enough the new state run Zaman thinks that Erdogan is the greatest man to have ever lived and Turkey's one true saviour.
It is not just journalists writing about Erdogan's foreign adventures who have reason to be fearful. Erdogan's domestic policies are just as dangerous and just as unpleasant.
As part of Turkey's secular constitution the wearing of the Islamic hijab in areas of the public sector such Parliament, Courts and Schools is strictly forbidden. Rather than being Islamaphobic this was a rule introduced by Muslims.
Erdogan has long campaigned for this ban to be scrapped. His own wife has made a point of wearing the hijab at all times - even when carrying out official duties - and in 2008 Erdogan amended the constitution to exclude universities from the ban.
Erdogan's campaign for women to adhere to Islamic modesty standards has triggered a collapse in women's rights in Turkey with instances of rape, sexual assault, forced marriage and child marriage all skyrocketing.
You may remember how the French/Turkish movie "Mustang" was denied the 2016 Best Foreign Language Oscar as not to embarass US Vice President Joe Biden over his support for the Erdogan regime.
Just on June 5th (5/6/16) - in a speech to the Women's Democracy Association - Erdogan declared that women who choose to work rather than becoming wives and mothers are "deficient" and "inhuman."
Turkey's women are not alone in suffering at Erdogan's hands. The 2015 Gay Pride march in Istanbul was banned for being "un-Islamic." The marchers marched anyway so Erdogan's police attacked them.
Shortly after an AKP linked newspaper celebrated the recent Orlando terror attack as; "50 Perverted Homosexuals Killed" the same thing happened with the 2016 Gay Pride march. On this occasion even members of the German Parliament were arrested and assaulted by Erdogan's thuggish police force.
Even people who want to do something as simple as listen to music must live in fear in Erdogan's Turkey.
On June 18th (18/6/16) a small group of fans of the band Radiohead were listening to their new album in a record store in Istanbul. The AKP's street thugs attacked them with clubs and bottles threatening to burn them alive in the building for going against Islam by listening to music.
Fellow Istanbul residents rallied behind the victims of the attack calling for those responsible to be punished. Erdogan's police responded by attacking the demonstrators.
It almost goes without saying that this constant repression has seen Erdogan's popularity plummet.
In May of 2013 some 7 million people - roughly 1/10th of Turkey's entire population joined the Gezi Park/Taksim square protest calling for Erdogan to stand down.
Needless to say rather than heeding the will of the people Erdogan sent in the police to violently crush the protests killing 11 and injuring more than 8,000.
Erdogan then declared the protests to be not a sign of his own unpopularity but further work of the Zionist/Gulenist conspiracy against him.
As always the task of explaining the inner workings of Erdogan's mind to a rational audience is proving to be a hard one.
At around 16:40 on 16/7/16 (UK date) I'll be back to add more on what is likely to be a long night.
Edited at around 20:00 on 16/7/16 (UK date) to add;
In March of 2013 Erdogan's two terms as Prime Minister came to an end. However he refused to step down continuing to hold the office until August 2014 when he simply switched to the ceremonial non-executive role of President.
If anything this further damaged the popularity of both Erdogan and the AKP. They paid the price for this in the June 2015 General Election.
Here the AKP hoped to win the 330 seats needed to give them the 60% qualified majority needed to change the constitution to scrap term limits and make Erdogan an executive President. All without public approval. As it happened the AKP only succeeded in winning 258 seats - falling 17 seats short of a governing majority.
This really should have been the end of Erdogan and the AKP. It was simply a question of the other three main parties led by the Republican People's Party (CHP) forming a coalition and then repairing Turkey's fractured relationship with the international community including NATO.
However then US President Obama stepped in save Erdogan.
Following the July 20th (20/7/15) Suruc bombing against Turkey's Kurds Obama telephoned Erdogan and gave him permission to declare war on both Turkey's Kurdish population and the Kurds across the entire region. Including in Iraq & Syria where they are fighting ISIL - who carried out the Suruc bombing.
This of course immediately drove a wedge between the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the People's Democratic Party (HDP) ending the possibility of an anti-AKP coalition.
It also allowed Erdogan to portray himself as the wartime leader wrapped in the national flag while introducing increasingly draconian controls on the media and political opponents under the guise of "fighting terror."
Buoyed by the wartime fervour Erdogan called a snap General Election in November 2015. On this occasion the AKP managed to scrape together just enough votes to secure 317 seats. Not enough to change the constitution but just enough for the AKP to rule alone.
This election took place against the backdrop of the government being at war against 20% of the Turkish population and journalists and publishers being dragged through the Courts on trumped up charges of espionage and treason.
As a result it was only the US that recognised Turkey's November 2015 General Election as free and fair. The Council of Europe monitoring mission described the election by saying;
"This campaign was unfair and characterised by too much violence and fear."
Citing specifically;
"Criminal investigations of journalists and media outlets for support of terrorism and defamation of the president, the blocking of websites … and the effective seizure of some prominent media outlets reduced voters’ access to a plurality of views and information."
Despite being the only developed nation to consider Turkey's November 2015 election as legitimate the US still refused to respect either its result or the Turkish constitution.
Rather than conducting business with the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu - the recognised holder of democratic executive power - the US continued to deal only with Erdogan as if he still had legal authority in Turkish policy.
In May 2016 Erdogan decided that Davutoglu was getting to big for his boots and dismissed him in favour of Binali Yildirim. Erdogan had no lawful authority to make that decision.
Following the November 2015 electoral coup Erdogan seems to have become even more power crazed and out of control.
Reading the Turkish media it seems that over the past 8 months hundreds of opponents of the AKP and just random members of the public are being rounded up every week on vague charges of being part of the; "Parallel State"- by which I think Erdogan simply means; "The State."
Then of course there has been Erdogan's attempts to weaponise refugees from Syria to blackmail the European Union (EU) into handing over 15% of its budget and grant Turkish passport holders visa-free access to the trading bloc.
This of course has been linked to the November 13th (13/11/15) Paris Massacres and the March 22nd (22/3/16) Brussels attacks. Three days prior to the Brussels attacks Erdogan quite clearly and publicly said to an AKP rally; "Brussels will be [attacked] next."
So to all who do this sort of thing for a living it has been clear that the pressure was reaching a tipping point. Erdogan would soon be overthrown and Turkey would be returned to democracy and civil society.
I personally thought that the NATO intelligence agencies should have been working with the Turkish military alongside the MHP and the CHP to make sure this transition was a swift and smooth as possible. Failing that I thought they could at least pretend that they couldn't see what was going on and remember to act all surprised when it finally happened.
Therefore I find US President Obama's decision to once again step in to protect Erdogan on multiple occasions extremely hard to understand.
This began on June 27th (27/6/16) when well known CIA agent Rihanna released the much trailed single "Sledgehammer." This of course shares its name with what Erdogan had claimed was a giant conspiracy to overthrow him. However it was also extremely significant that it was Rihanna releasing this single.
Rihanna is currently on her first tour since the 2013 Diamonds World Tour. It was during the European leg of this tour that the Islamist puppet regime that Erdogan had helped install in Egypt was overthrown.
This was the result of 30% of the Egyptian population signing a petition calling for Morsi to stand down. This was followed by roughly 15-20% of Egypt's population taking to the streets in protest and staying there day and night until Morsi stood down.
Obviously in a democracy faced with that level of public opposition a President would either stand down or at the very least call a fresh election. However as with Erdogan Morsi is no democrat so he refused.
This forced the Egyptian military to take control of the situation an usher Morsi out of power. The Egyptians then held a constitutional referendum and a Parliamentary election to confirm that was indeed the will of the people.
However enraged by the loss of his puppet Erdogan and his supporters in the AKP continue to allege that this was some sort of a coup d'etat. Primarily to block further progress in Egypt's revolution.
Therefore Rihanna singing about Sledgehammer whilst on tour seemed to be a coded warning by the US to Erdogan and the AKP that a coup was coming and they had better be prepared to resist it.
Erdogan responded almost immediately with the staged terror attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport on June 28th (28/6/16).
Key to the Sledgehammer plot was claims that loyalists to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk would stage a series of terror attacks across Istanbul and down a plane in order to spread chaos to justify the military taking control of the country.
Therefore domestically the purpose of the June 28th attack was to prepare AKP supporters to prepare to resist any moves against Erdogan by whipping them up into a frenzy over a potential coup plot.
Due to the similarities between Erdogan's rise to power and Turkish politics at the start of the century the news of July 5th (5/7/16) that Hillary Clinton is now prohibited from becoming US President raised in the temperature in Turkey even further.
However beyond deploying the Black Lives Matter street army in support of Hillary Clinton a faction within the US government took this as a further opportunity to warn Erdogan of his impending demise.
On July 9th (9/7/16) a video claiming to be on behalf of the "Anonymous" hacking group appeared online calling for a "Day of Rage" against police in 39 US cities last night (15/7/16).
As the name suggests Anonymous has no official membership structure instead being a loose umbrella term that anyone can use. People normally associated with Anonymous and Black Lives Matter seem to know nothing about this particular video. In fact I think only 30 people answered its call.
However the language of a "Day of Rage" is synonymous with the Muslim world and the so-called "Arab Spring." Particularly the Egyptian revolutions in 2011 and 2013. In fact it seems impossible for Muslim protesters to call a demonstration without referring to is as a; "Day of Rage."
As such this video and the police response it triggered in the US seemed a barely coded warning to the Turkish police who are staunchly loyal to Erdogan that the Turkish military would be making their move on Friday (15/7/16). The Turkish police had better be ready to resist.
One of the first things the Turkish military did in making their move last night was to take control of the state broadcaster and put out a message that Erdogan had been overthrown and that people were to remain in their homes overnight.
Almost immediately following this announcement the US news network CNN broadcast a bizarre interview with Erdogan conducted over Apple's Facetime. In this interview that was broadcast nationally CNN allowed Erdogan to call on his supporters to take to the streets to fight the military to restore him to power.
Apparently while all this was going on Erdogan telephoned a number of European leaders asking for their support. Nobody was prepared to take his calls.
However US President Obama took it upon himself to call Erdogan and then release a public statement announcing that the US would not back the Turkish military.
With the Turkish military not being prepared to open fire on the crowds of AKP supporters who flooded the streets they were overwhelmed and Erdogan was returned to power.
Already Erdogan is using this as an excuse to further hollow out democratic institutions. Some 150 Judges have already been arrested and a further 2,775 dismissed from their post. As with the Ergenekon and Sledgehammer accusations they have already been replaced by AKP members.
Most worrying though has been today's developments at USAF base Incrilk which is where the bulk of anti-ISIL operations are conducted from and is home to 50-90 US nuclear warheads. Erdogan has ordered this base to be shutdown and cut off power to it.
As such Erdogan appears to be holding anti-ISIL operations and part of the US nuclear arsenal hostage.
I know I'm in danger of over using this phrase of late but after yet another screw up of epic proportions surely Obama is under arrest.
Or at least being psychologically assessed to determine if he is medically fit to continue in post.
22:05 on 16/7/16 (UK date).
In the 2001 the former Mayor of Istanbul Recep Tayyip Erdogan formed the Justice & Development Party (AKP) as a vehicle to sweep him to power in Turkey. In November 2002 the AKP won a landslide victory in the General Election.
The problem was that as Mayor of Istanbul in 1997 Erdogan attended a rally for the radical Islamist Welfare Party which at the time he was a member of. At that rally Erdogan called on party supporters to;
"Turn the Mosques into their barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."
Rather unsurprisingly this call for Muslims to take up arms against the Turkish state was deemed an incitement both to violence and to religious and racial hatred.
As a result Erdogan was jailed for 10 months, banned from ever again holding political office and the Welfare Party was disbanded as a threat to national security.
Erdogan's conviction and ban from ever again holding public office obviously prevented him from taking up the office of Prime Minister in 2002.
With Hillary Clinton having been found to have committed 110 offences of espionage against the US and the Obama administration refusing to prosecute it is frightening how similar current US politics are to Turkish politics back in 2002.
If the Obama administration does not reverse its decision and prosecute Hillary Clinton or she fails to unilaterally withdraw from the 2016 President election Turkey could well be the type of country America becomes in the future.
Obviously Erdogan wasn't going to let a little something like the law of the land prevent him from seizing power. So in 2002 the AKP's co-founder Abdullah Gul simply became Turkey's Prime Minister in Erdogan's place.
Gul's sole purpose as Prime Minister was to annul the ban of Erdogan holding political office. This task was rapidly completed allowing Erdogan to become Prime Minister in March 2003.
Having seized power Erdogan almost immediately set about making sure that Turkey's law, Courts and other apparatus of a democratic state could never challenge his authority ever again.
Within months of taking up the office of Prime Minister Erdogan declared that there was secretive organisation called "Ergenekon" that was plotting to overthrow his government on behalf of the Global Zionist Conspiracy.
Stories of the Ergenekon group continued for the next 10 years resulting in 254 senior military and civil service officials being convicted to life imprisonment for treason against Erdogan. It almost goes without saying that those 254 vacancies were immediately filled with members of the AKP.
In 2015 the Ergenekon cases were reopened after independent forensic examinations revealed that many of the documents entered into evidence in the case were forgeries.
This merely prompted Erdogan to declare the conspiracy to be much wider than previously thought accusing the journalists who'd had the documents tested of being part of the "Gulen Movement."
Existing really only in Erdogan's brain the Gulen Movement is supposedly a vast CIA conspiracy against him that is fronted by Fethullah Gulen an Islamist preacher based in Pennsylvania. Whenever anyone disagrees with Erdogan they are immediately dismissed as Gulenists.
Following the revelation that much of the evidence had been forged the convictions in the Ergenekon case were annulled in April 2016. Obviously the wrongly imprisoned have not been allowed to return to their jobs which are now occupied by AKP members.
Just as the Ergenekon trials were reaching their climax in 2010 Erdogan suddenly uncovered another vast conspiracy against him. This time known as "Sledgehammer." On this occasion 365 senior military and civil service figures such as Judges were arrested and replaced by AKP members.
Again much of the evidence produced by Erdogan in the case was found to have been faked. Again Erdogan labelled those who proved the evidence to be fake to be members of the Gulenist conspiracy. After pointing out that the trials were in no way fair the Istanbul Bar Association itself was prosecuted for conspiring against Erdogan. All cases are currently being appealed.
The reason why Erdogan has been so desperate to remove any domestic oversight of his rule is quite clear. His policies should terrify any right thinking person.
In terms of foreign policy Erdogan is a neo-Ottoman.
That means he wants to re-establish the Ottoman Empire that stretched from Austria across the middle-east through Africa to Morocco. Erdogan wants to rule this Islamic Caliphate as Sultan with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) - as its Caliph.
To this end Erdogan has aggressively supported Islamist terror groups in Tunisia, Libya, Palestine. In Egypt he attempted to install the Islamist puppet regime of Mohammed Morsi and has backed terror groups to wage a low intensity war against Egypt ever since Morsi was overthrown by the Egyptian people in 2013.
It almost goes without saying that Erdogan has been an energetic supporter of ISIL in both Syria and Iraq. As I've really spent the last two years detailing Erdogan's support for ISIL it would take me far too long to list every example of the support he has given to the group here.
However one that really sums up Erdogan's rule occurred in January 2014 when the Attorney General of Turkey's Adana province was tipped off that a convoy carrying illegal weapons to terror groups in Syria was passing through the province.
Obviously the Attorney General and the local police stopped the convoy, seized the weapons and arrested those involved.
This prompted the Erdogan regime to arrest the more than 50 people involved in stopping the convoy on charges of treason for interfering with a National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) delivery of weapons to extreme Islamist terror groups active in Syria.
This story was broken by the Cumhuriyet newspaper. Erdogan responded by accusing the newspaper and the journalists of being part of the Gulenist conspiracy and prosecuted them for treason.
Just in May the journalists - Can Dundar & Erdem Gul - were jailed for five years for publishing the story. As he was arriving at Court Dundar survived an assassination attempt when an AKP member opened fire on him.
In March 2016 Turkey's biggest selling newspaper Zaman made the mistake of criticising Erdogan for the way it was cracking down on journalists and the free press. This led to a Turkish Court - staffed by AKP members of course - to order the newspaper to be shut down and placed under government control.
On March 6th (6/3/16) Turkish police physically seized Zaman's offices from its staff replacing them with AKP members. Funnily enough the new state run Zaman thinks that Erdogan is the greatest man to have ever lived and Turkey's one true saviour.
It is not just journalists writing about Erdogan's foreign adventures who have reason to be fearful. Erdogan's domestic policies are just as dangerous and just as unpleasant.
As part of Turkey's secular constitution the wearing of the Islamic hijab in areas of the public sector such Parliament, Courts and Schools is strictly forbidden. Rather than being Islamaphobic this was a rule introduced by Muslims.
Erdogan has long campaigned for this ban to be scrapped. His own wife has made a point of wearing the hijab at all times - even when carrying out official duties - and in 2008 Erdogan amended the constitution to exclude universities from the ban.
Erdogan's campaign for women to adhere to Islamic modesty standards has triggered a collapse in women's rights in Turkey with instances of rape, sexual assault, forced marriage and child marriage all skyrocketing.
You may remember how the French/Turkish movie "Mustang" was denied the 2016 Best Foreign Language Oscar as not to embarass US Vice President Joe Biden over his support for the Erdogan regime.
Just on June 5th (5/6/16) - in a speech to the Women's Democracy Association - Erdogan declared that women who choose to work rather than becoming wives and mothers are "deficient" and "inhuman."
Turkey's women are not alone in suffering at Erdogan's hands. The 2015 Gay Pride march in Istanbul was banned for being "un-Islamic." The marchers marched anyway so Erdogan's police attacked them.
Shortly after an AKP linked newspaper celebrated the recent Orlando terror attack as; "50 Perverted Homosexuals Killed" the same thing happened with the 2016 Gay Pride march. On this occasion even members of the German Parliament were arrested and assaulted by Erdogan's thuggish police force.
Even people who want to do something as simple as listen to music must live in fear in Erdogan's Turkey.
On June 18th (18/6/16) a small group of fans of the band Radiohead were listening to their new album in a record store in Istanbul. The AKP's street thugs attacked them with clubs and bottles threatening to burn them alive in the building for going against Islam by listening to music.
Fellow Istanbul residents rallied behind the victims of the attack calling for those responsible to be punished. Erdogan's police responded by attacking the demonstrators.
It almost goes without saying that this constant repression has seen Erdogan's popularity plummet.
In May of 2013 some 7 million people - roughly 1/10th of Turkey's entire population joined the Gezi Park/Taksim square protest calling for Erdogan to stand down.
Needless to say rather than heeding the will of the people Erdogan sent in the police to violently crush the protests killing 11 and injuring more than 8,000.
Erdogan then declared the protests to be not a sign of his own unpopularity but further work of the Zionist/Gulenist conspiracy against him.
As always the task of explaining the inner workings of Erdogan's mind to a rational audience is proving to be a hard one.
At around 16:40 on 16/7/16 (UK date) I'll be back to add more on what is likely to be a long night.
Edited at around 20:00 on 16/7/16 (UK date) to add;
In March of 2013 Erdogan's two terms as Prime Minister came to an end. However he refused to step down continuing to hold the office until August 2014 when he simply switched to the ceremonial non-executive role of President.
If anything this further damaged the popularity of both Erdogan and the AKP. They paid the price for this in the June 2015 General Election.
Here the AKP hoped to win the 330 seats needed to give them the 60% qualified majority needed to change the constitution to scrap term limits and make Erdogan an executive President. All without public approval. As it happened the AKP only succeeded in winning 258 seats - falling 17 seats short of a governing majority.
This really should have been the end of Erdogan and the AKP. It was simply a question of the other three main parties led by the Republican People's Party (CHP) forming a coalition and then repairing Turkey's fractured relationship with the international community including NATO.
However then US President Obama stepped in save Erdogan.
Following the July 20th (20/7/15) Suruc bombing against Turkey's Kurds Obama telephoned Erdogan and gave him permission to declare war on both Turkey's Kurdish population and the Kurds across the entire region. Including in Iraq & Syria where they are fighting ISIL - who carried out the Suruc bombing.
This of course immediately drove a wedge between the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the People's Democratic Party (HDP) ending the possibility of an anti-AKP coalition.
It also allowed Erdogan to portray himself as the wartime leader wrapped in the national flag while introducing increasingly draconian controls on the media and political opponents under the guise of "fighting terror."
Buoyed by the wartime fervour Erdogan called a snap General Election in November 2015. On this occasion the AKP managed to scrape together just enough votes to secure 317 seats. Not enough to change the constitution but just enough for the AKP to rule alone.
This election took place against the backdrop of the government being at war against 20% of the Turkish population and journalists and publishers being dragged through the Courts on trumped up charges of espionage and treason.
As a result it was only the US that recognised Turkey's November 2015 General Election as free and fair. The Council of Europe monitoring mission described the election by saying;
"This campaign was unfair and characterised by too much violence and fear."
Citing specifically;
"Criminal investigations of journalists and media outlets for support of terrorism and defamation of the president, the blocking of websites … and the effective seizure of some prominent media outlets reduced voters’ access to a plurality of views and information."
Despite being the only developed nation to consider Turkey's November 2015 election as legitimate the US still refused to respect either its result or the Turkish constitution.
Rather than conducting business with the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu - the recognised holder of democratic executive power - the US continued to deal only with Erdogan as if he still had legal authority in Turkish policy.
In May 2016 Erdogan decided that Davutoglu was getting to big for his boots and dismissed him in favour of Binali Yildirim. Erdogan had no lawful authority to make that decision.
Following the November 2015 electoral coup Erdogan seems to have become even more power crazed and out of control.
Reading the Turkish media it seems that over the past 8 months hundreds of opponents of the AKP and just random members of the public are being rounded up every week on vague charges of being part of the; "Parallel State"- by which I think Erdogan simply means; "The State."
Then of course there has been Erdogan's attempts to weaponise refugees from Syria to blackmail the European Union (EU) into handing over 15% of its budget and grant Turkish passport holders visa-free access to the trading bloc.
This of course has been linked to the November 13th (13/11/15) Paris Massacres and the March 22nd (22/3/16) Brussels attacks. Three days prior to the Brussels attacks Erdogan quite clearly and publicly said to an AKP rally; "Brussels will be [attacked] next."
So to all who do this sort of thing for a living it has been clear that the pressure was reaching a tipping point. Erdogan would soon be overthrown and Turkey would be returned to democracy and civil society.
I personally thought that the NATO intelligence agencies should have been working with the Turkish military alongside the MHP and the CHP to make sure this transition was a swift and smooth as possible. Failing that I thought they could at least pretend that they couldn't see what was going on and remember to act all surprised when it finally happened.
Therefore I find US President Obama's decision to once again step in to protect Erdogan on multiple occasions extremely hard to understand.
This began on June 27th (27/6/16) when well known CIA agent Rihanna released the much trailed single "Sledgehammer." This of course shares its name with what Erdogan had claimed was a giant conspiracy to overthrow him. However it was also extremely significant that it was Rihanna releasing this single.
Rihanna is currently on her first tour since the 2013 Diamonds World Tour. It was during the European leg of this tour that the Islamist puppet regime that Erdogan had helped install in Egypt was overthrown.
This was the result of 30% of the Egyptian population signing a petition calling for Morsi to stand down. This was followed by roughly 15-20% of Egypt's population taking to the streets in protest and staying there day and night until Morsi stood down.
Obviously in a democracy faced with that level of public opposition a President would either stand down or at the very least call a fresh election. However as with Erdogan Morsi is no democrat so he refused.
This forced the Egyptian military to take control of the situation an usher Morsi out of power. The Egyptians then held a constitutional referendum and a Parliamentary election to confirm that was indeed the will of the people.
However enraged by the loss of his puppet Erdogan and his supporters in the AKP continue to allege that this was some sort of a coup d'etat. Primarily to block further progress in Egypt's revolution.
Therefore Rihanna singing about Sledgehammer whilst on tour seemed to be a coded warning by the US to Erdogan and the AKP that a coup was coming and they had better be prepared to resist it.
Erdogan responded almost immediately with the staged terror attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport on June 28th (28/6/16).
Key to the Sledgehammer plot was claims that loyalists to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk would stage a series of terror attacks across Istanbul and down a plane in order to spread chaos to justify the military taking control of the country.
Therefore domestically the purpose of the June 28th attack was to prepare AKP supporters to prepare to resist any moves against Erdogan by whipping them up into a frenzy over a potential coup plot.
Due to the similarities between Erdogan's rise to power and Turkish politics at the start of the century the news of July 5th (5/7/16) that Hillary Clinton is now prohibited from becoming US President raised in the temperature in Turkey even further.
However beyond deploying the Black Lives Matter street army in support of Hillary Clinton a faction within the US government took this as a further opportunity to warn Erdogan of his impending demise.
On July 9th (9/7/16) a video claiming to be on behalf of the "Anonymous" hacking group appeared online calling for a "Day of Rage" against police in 39 US cities last night (15/7/16).
As the name suggests Anonymous has no official membership structure instead being a loose umbrella term that anyone can use. People normally associated with Anonymous and Black Lives Matter seem to know nothing about this particular video. In fact I think only 30 people answered its call.
However the language of a "Day of Rage" is synonymous with the Muslim world and the so-called "Arab Spring." Particularly the Egyptian revolutions in 2011 and 2013. In fact it seems impossible for Muslim protesters to call a demonstration without referring to is as a; "Day of Rage."
As such this video and the police response it triggered in the US seemed a barely coded warning to the Turkish police who are staunchly loyal to Erdogan that the Turkish military would be making their move on Friday (15/7/16). The Turkish police had better be ready to resist.
One of the first things the Turkish military did in making their move last night was to take control of the state broadcaster and put out a message that Erdogan had been overthrown and that people were to remain in their homes overnight.
Almost immediately following this announcement the US news network CNN broadcast a bizarre interview with Erdogan conducted over Apple's Facetime. In this interview that was broadcast nationally CNN allowed Erdogan to call on his supporters to take to the streets to fight the military to restore him to power.
Apparently while all this was going on Erdogan telephoned a number of European leaders asking for their support. Nobody was prepared to take his calls.
However US President Obama took it upon himself to call Erdogan and then release a public statement announcing that the US would not back the Turkish military.
With the Turkish military not being prepared to open fire on the crowds of AKP supporters who flooded the streets they were overwhelmed and Erdogan was returned to power.
Already Erdogan is using this as an excuse to further hollow out democratic institutions. Some 150 Judges have already been arrested and a further 2,775 dismissed from their post. As with the Ergenekon and Sledgehammer accusations they have already been replaced by AKP members.
Most worrying though has been today's developments at USAF base Incrilk which is where the bulk of anti-ISIL operations are conducted from and is home to 50-90 US nuclear warheads. Erdogan has ordered this base to be shutdown and cut off power to it.
As such Erdogan appears to be holding anti-ISIL operations and part of the US nuclear arsenal hostage.
I know I'm in danger of over using this phrase of late but after yet another screw up of epic proportions surely Obama is under arrest.
Or at least being psychologically assessed to determine if he is medically fit to continue in post.
22:05 on 16/7/16 (UK date).
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