“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
Egri Nok, who did the translation, has more information that puts this into a better context and will be added as I get it. For the moment, this video was made in January before the Boemann poem about Erdogan went on air. When it was done, Merkel had no ‘Plan B’. It was that all these migrants would be allowed in and distributed across the EU.
A couple of months later, the deal with Turkey was made, which was in fact Merkel’s plan B.
There has been quite a lot of attention and activity over Merkel’s supplication to Erdogan over some highly typical media criticism, and well deserved at that, of Turkish policies concerning both internal matters and matters that affect the safety, rights and freedoms of Europeans.
Most of the attention is over a fairly annoying and left leaning TV comic named Böhmermann, who wrote a poem mocking Erdogan’s sexuality, and suggesting he would prefer to share a straw bed with a sheep than a mattress with one of his lady friends.
His poem, which was scrubbed from the internet as much as possible, but managed to find its way on to The Rebel’s servers, was even read out loud the other day by a member of the German Parliament.
The Merkel-party MP did not read it as a show of solidarity with European freedom of speech, especially freedom to mock political authority, the sole purpose of that right along with mocking religious authority, but to show why Erdogan is right to be offended and why this comic should be jailed.
Now lets look at this same TV show that Böhmermann works for, doing a treatment of neighboring Poland:
An excerpt from some media on fashionable views of the Polish leadership.
A parade float in the city of Düsseldorf showing the leader of Poland’s ruling party as a dictator has caused shock in Warsaw. The depiction shows “contempt for Poland,” said the country’s foreign minister.
Germany’s famous Carnival Monday parades may be over on Tuesday, but the controversy many of them were courting was not. While several float makers remained under local police investigation for inciting racial hatred, one parade float from the city of Düsseldorf was causing an international outcry.
The creation in question depicts the leader of Poland’s ruling right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS), Jaroslaw Kaczynski, as a dictator in military uniform with out booted foot on the head of a woman symbolizing his prostrate nation.
Some rather harsh depictions and illustrations of Poland. A nation that, well I think its safe to say, has some negative history with Germany in the not too distant past.
If one has even a quick look over these cases, there is at least the possibility that what we are seeing can be defined in one word.
Dhimmitude.
Thanks for the help Egri Nok.
The greatest threat to the West is Islam.
Look at every country where Islam is dominant and you will see a total lack of freedom and democracy. Islam and freedom are absolutely incompatible. And yet, we are importing it into our western societies, thereby endangering our own freedoms. It is time to stop this foolishness.
Take Turkey, for example. Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has never made a secret of his aim to strengthen the powers of Islam. Contrary to what some want us to believe, Turkey does not prove that Islam and democracy are compatible.
For Erdogan, democracy is merely a tool. He once compared it to a tram: “You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.”
Today, Mr Erdogan is stepping off.
The repercussions are felt not only in Turkey, but also in European countries, such as Germany and the Netherlands, where large Turkish immigrant communities act as the fifth column of intolerance.
Indeed, the Turkish President not only oppresses free speech at home. He has embarked on a crusade to oppress it in Europe as well. And the large groups of Turkish immigrants in Western European countries are his henchmen.
Last month, the Turkish President demanded criminal prosecution of German comedian Jan Böhmermann. The latter had ridiculed Erdogan with a critical poem on German television.
German Turks began to threaten Böhmermann to such degree that he had to request police protection and go into hiding. At the same time, the German authorities started criminal proceedings against the comedian, based on a 19th century German penal law which forbids insulting the representatives of foreign states.
The criminal proceedings were started with the explicit consent of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who, according to Böhmermann, has “served me for tea to a despot.”
Meanwhile, Erdogan’s appetite is far from over. This week, he demanded a German court to stop Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of the Springer publishing company, from defending the comedian.
Fear of violent Turkish immigrants also forced a hamburger restaurant in Cologne to shut down. Its owner, Jörg Tiemann, had put a burger with goat cheese on the menu, calling it “the Erdogan burger.” Erdogan supporters immediately responded with threats against owner and staff, forcing the restaurant to close its doors.
Then, there is the case of Ebru Umar, a Dutch journalist of Turkish descent. Four weeks ago, she wrote a column criticizing the Turkish Consulate in Rotterdam. Following the Böhmermann incident, the Consulate had called on Dutch Turks to report incidents of “insults” against Erdogan in The Netherlands.
One week later, while on holiday in the Turkish seaside resort Kusadasi, Umar was arrested and only released on condition that she not leave Turkey. On Facebook and Twitter, hundreds of Dutch Turks openly rejoiced in her arrest.
Her home in Amsterdam was broken into and vandalized.When walking the streets of Kusadasi, Umar was threatened on several occasions by Dutch Turks who had gone looking for her. “We will know where to find you when you return to the Netherlands,” they said. “You will get what you deserve.”
Last Tuesday, after three weeks, the Erdogan regime finally allowed Umar to return to the Netherlands.
Many of those threatening people in the West are third or even fourth generation immigrants to our countries. This proves that – barring a few exceptions – the integration and assimilation of Islamic immigrants into our Western society has failed.
Many of the Islamic newcomers are simply incapable of adopting our values. Indeed, they are a danger to these values.
We must protect these values. And one of the first things to do is to sever our links with regimes promoting Islam. These regimes cannot be our friends; they are dangerous.
It is an outrage that Turkey is still a member of NATO. The sooner we get rid of this Trojan Horse within our Western alliance, the better. We should dump Turkey.
Instead of doing this, however, our current Western leaders are welcoming Turkey.
Next June, the European Union wants to allow visa free travel for Turks. For decades, the EU elites have been promoting Turkish EU membership, eagerly backed by President Barack Obama and by Hillary Clinton, who has even said that she is “strongly in favor of it.”
There is little doubt that if Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the next President of the United States, she will be a cheerleader for Turkey.
Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), which is currently by far the biggest party in the Dutch polls. He is the author of “Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me” (Regnery)
Click here to read the article at the website of Breitbart London.
Thank you Ava lon for this translation
Youtube has blocked this video world wide.
But the complete transcript is here, along with a link to the original in French.
It actually makes for an interesting read and a very important one to Europe.
First, a short video of the fight:
Ahram.Org describes it thusly:
Ruling party and opposition Turkish lawmakers on Monday exchanged punches and hurled water bottles at each other as a new mass brawl erupted in parliament over changes to the constitution, television broadcasts showed.
Parliament’s constitutional committee was meeting to discuss a government-backed proposal to strip MPs of their immunity, after last week’s session also broke up in violence.
Here is a longer video of better quality but I didn’t see that much happened in it.
I’ll have to go over it again and mine for good bits.
Below, a shorter video of the fight as it should be seen around the world
The Rebel has some background on it here
1. Video explaining the Turk demand to remove a photo by Swiss, and their refusal.
2. The Turkish government appears to already be working on graphics for their upcominng rubber stamp approval of EU membership.
Check this out:
3. Turk living in Australia makes war tribute museum for the TURKISH side of the war in Gallipoli
4. explosion in Bursa Turkey
5. The Netherlands Now Allows Citiizens to Insult Foreign Leaders
The Netherlands is going to abolish a law which considers insulting a foreign state leader as a criminal offence. The law states that insulting head of a friendly country carries 2 years of imprisonment.
The decision to abolish the law has been taken following Turkey’s attempt to prosecute a German satirist. MPs of two Dutch Liberal parties Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD) and Democraten 66 (D66) demanded to the government to abolish the low earlier this week, as stated by Dutch News.nl.
Jan Böhmermann, a satirist from Germany, has been facing prosecution due to a similar legislation in Germany and some people in the Netherlands do not want that to happen to the people from the country. Böhmermann read out an offensive poem about the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, on TV. He faces up to 5 years in prison.
6. Böhmermann’s Erdogan poem prompts private criminal complaints, too
The Turkish president filed his complaint with Angela Merkel weeks ago, successfully. Now, hundreds of German residents have lodged complaints about a poem treading a thin line between satire, stereotypes and slurs.
Besides a possible prosecution at the request of the Turkish government, hundreds of people in Germany have filed criminal complaints against comedian Jan Böhmermann. Böhmermann’s lewd poem insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan might have been removed from broadcaster ZDF’s website, but it’s liable to be aired in a German court at some point in the future.
(You can still see that Poem as it originally aired over at The Rebel)
Thank you “Egri Nök”, M., Wrath of Khan, Richard, Buck and all. More to come. These are just the Turkey related links.
Here is what is said to be a train in Switzerland. Picture, if that is what this is, was taken recently.
Erdogan + Goat = True Love
More:
A British magazine which is a tribute to the French Magazine, Charlie Hebdo, called, Vive Charlie published this cover for their magazine.
An original translation by Egri Nök with much thanks.
Berlin Journal
Bürger schalten Anzeige gegen Merkel in der Schweiz
Michael Müller –
26. April 2016
Citizens place advertisement against Merkel in Switzerland
Page 2 of the Neue Züricher Zeitung of Monday shows a ½ page advertisement with the title “Merkel still cheating on. How long will this continue?” The authors criticise Merkel sharply. The German chancellor is portrayed as a smiling hat player
[translator’s note: This type of play is illegal in Germany].
The advertisement in the Swiss daily cost more than 16,000 Swiss Franks
[16,000 USD/20,000 CAD].
But it is not aimed at a Swiss, but at a German audience. The NZZ is widely read in Germany too. The text of the ad obviously aims at German citizens:
Merkel cheats on!
For how long?
This is how the sham looks:
With the EU-Turkey-Treaty, Chancellor Merkel tries to convince us that she has got the mass immigration into Germany under control. But the facts show: the Turkey-Treaty is a sleight of hand.
1. For every illegal Syrian refugee, who is sent back from EU into Turkey, a recognized Syrian refugee can enter the EU and therefore Germany, as most EU-countries do not accept unlimited quantities of refugees. In other words: the illegal migration is rechristened into a legal migration – the mass immigration into Germany remains constantly high.
2. For this rechristening, EU citizens have to pay 20 million Euros per month!
3. As a “Thank you” for taking them back, Turkey pulled the EU over a barrel and achieved Visa freedom for Turkish citizens at the latest end of this year.
More than 74 million Turks can come to Germany without any Visa at all. The consequences? Bavarian Minister of Finance Söder warns of a Kurdish mass immigration, and the renowned Criminologist Christian Pfeiffer calls this Treaty a “monumental stupidity”, because the freedom of travel could start “a wave of illegal mass immigration”.
4. For this “monumental stupidity” the EU tax payers have to wire 6 billion Euro to Turkey until end 2018, to a country that tramples human rights, freedom of opinion, and freedom of the press under their feet.
Therefore we ask YOU to sign our appeal against the “Merkelian Welcome Culture” at www.rechtundfreiheit.de
[end of ad]
It is the Association for the Preservation of Law and Civil Liberty behind the advertisement. Why did this German group place their advertisement in a Swiss newspaper?
The media businessman Josef Konrad answers an enquiry by Blick:
“Except for the Hannoversche Zeitung, all large newspapers in Germany refused to print this ad.” The NZZ-ad has fully been funded by donations of the supporters. But they do not plan further ads in Swiss media.
About 3,500 people have already signed the ‘No’ to the “Merkelian Welcome Culture”. Now they hope to find more signatures through the NZZ advertisement “Merkel cheats on!”.
The name of those behind the association still remain a mystery. Media businessman Josef Konrad says, his cooperation with the association was only temporary, and he has no connections to the association.
“The founders and members of the association currently do not wish to appear in public or to be named”, says Josef Konrad, who is a member of the AfD Bavaria. It is a “loose association of concerned citizens from Germany”.
This is how people should respond to totalitarian demands not to criticize or in any way do anything that may offend the powerful. If more had this man’s wit and wisdom the problem would have been solved before it ever started.
Thank you Oz-Rita for the rapid translation and find of this great clip
For those who have’t followed the history behind this event, I will post a link to a timeline on it later today. For the moment, a search of this site or even the BBC link here.
An original translation by Nash Montana
It is not an April Fool’s day joke: Jan Böhmermann’s taunting poem about the turkish president has been deleted from the media library, because it does not conform to ZDF quality standards. Böhmermann consented to the removal.
ZDF has deleted an entire segment, published last Thursday, from Jan Böhmermann’s “Neo Magazine Royale”. The satirist read a taunting poem about the turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and he had created an image which hit below the belt.
It all started in response to the German Ambassador’s summon in Ankara because of a satirical film by the show “Extra 3”
He explained the difference between permissible satire and prohibited vilifying critique. In order to demonstrate the difference, he read a satirical poem that disparaged Erdogan – not without continuously pointing out that this was not permissible.
As ZDF has confirmed the segment had already been aired on ZDFneo. “The parody on “Neo Magazine Royale” from March 31, about the proper handling of the turkish president with satire did not correspond with the standards that ZDF has set for satirical programs”, the station explained. “For this reason, that segment from the show was removed.”
ZDF station chief – “there are limits”
[Screen cap of one of the finer moments]
Notice also the Turkish subtitles
Press Release from Center for Security Policy in Washington DC
(Stephen Coughlin will be on Nick V’s AM radio program tonight at 9:00 to 10:00 PM EST on 580 AM, CFRA or outside of the Ottawa broadcast area, www.cfra.com click listen live)
There is much to say about this.
Below is the Russian language video we had translated and subtitled this morning along with a series of links to other videos and articles which seem to point to a Turkish and NATO and US connection to the Islamic State, its actions, its weapons and funding.
This is a very upsetting set of data points if one accepts the most likely conclusion from them
. Thank you Gates of Vienna and D@rLin|{ for helping get this done so quickly, and to Xanthippa that worked on this project as well.
Here is Gates of Vienna’s post on this video
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Today, Russia published this article which I put through google translate and screen captured below.
Add this to the news items from the Turkish press on arms shipments to the Islamic State and it starts to look pretty airtight. The real mystery is the NATO-US connection to Turkey and the Islamic State. There is simply no way Russia, and the Turkish media could know these things and the Obama administration would not.
1. Turkey feels that Russia should appologize for having its jet and rescue copter shot down and its pilots killed by Turkey and Turkish agents
2. I am not at liberty to say where I got the following bit of information at the moment but it is a source I know and I hope to have an interview with the source soon.
Meanwhile, the text below is verbatim from my email:
a message to me:
Xxxxxxxx, Turkish MIT & CIA have been working together for a few years. There is an entire warehouse full of weapons in Adana that belongs to the U.S. Consulate.
I’ll try to arrange an interview with someone that worked there.
3. In the article that was written in the spring, and which the Turkish government took down and only today, arrested the journalists who wrote it, (who may face life in prison now) the basic story ran that Erdogan was using the Turkish secret service to run large amounts of weapons and ordnance to the Islamic State fighters known as Turkmen.
Here is an article on who they are as related to the downing of the Russian jet and rescue heli
Syria’s Turkmen: who they are, and what they have to do with Russia’s downed plane
After Turkish forces shot down a Russian Su-24 warplane on the Turkey-Syria border on Tuesday morning, disturbing reports emerged that members of a Syrian rebel group claimed to have killed the Russian pilots as they descended with parachutes after ejecting from their destroyed plane.
“Both of the pilots were retrieved dead. Our comrades opened fire into the air and they died in the air,” Alpaslan Celik, a rebel commander, told Reuters.
To understand why Celik’s rebels would even claim to do this, you need to know a little bit about who they are. These rebels aren’t part of Syria’s Arab majority: They’re Turkmen, an ethnically Turkish minority in Syria that plays a unique role in the Syrian conflict — one that may have had something to do with the downing of Russia’s aircraft in the first place.
4. BBC link to the story about the Turkish journalists arrested in Turkey
5. Turkey makes the bizarre claim that it didn’t know the jet was Russian
(This begs a lot of questions even if true, which Ezra dealt with well in his video of yesterday)
6. Putin recommends tourism to Turkey ends from Russia
7. Turkey accuses Russia of slander as Moscow has 39 businessmen arrested in wake of downed plane
Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan exchanged accusations of treachery and slander on Thursday, as the diplomatic fall out of Turkey shooting down a Russian warplane continued to mount.
The public recriminations came as Russia prepared to impose a swathe of punishing economic sanctions against Turkey, including abandoning a flagship pipeline project and a $20 billion nuclear power deal.
A Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian SU-24 bomber as it carried out a mission against rebel fighters near the Syrian-Turkish border on Tuesday morning. Turkey claims the Russian aircraft violated its airspace, while Russian officials say the shooting down happened over Syrian territory.
Thank you Shabnam, CB Sashenka, M., Yucki, Wrath of Khan, and more.
