The Turks in Europe

A Turkish fascist

Tensions between The Netherlands and Turkey are very high as Turkish presidents calls the Dutch remnants of the nazis. Tensions between Turkey and other European questions are high.

This is of course a deliberate tactic by Turkish president Erdogan. By forcing European countries to take action against Turkish ministers who want to visit those countries to hold campaign meetings, Erdogan wants to prove his citizens that he absolutely needs to win the referendum giving him absolute power.

The fact that politically campaigning outside of Europe is strictly forbidden by Turkish law and is ignored by Erdogan proves, however, that he is a true fascist.

I also wonder. There are tens of thousands of Turkish people living outside Turkey. Part of them publicly support Erdogan. If he is such a good leader to them, why don’t they go and live under his rule, in Turkey? Why do they feel the need to stay in the West European country they live in? Surely they would be far happier living in their beloved Turkey with their beloved ruler? Or are they merely carrying out a long term strategy to slowly but surely take over Europe by spreading their population, much as islam is doing with religion?

I really do wonder…

Turkish people in Rotterdam demonstrating in favour of their great leader Erdogan. Why don’t they return to Turkey to live under his rule?

About the American voters

Sometimes television series, even American ones, do contain a whole lot of truth, like these two screen captures of the fourth season of the excellent series Stargate SG-1:

It seems reality is rapidly catching up with fiction, wouldn’t you think?

The art of hugging

There’s a popular phrase that says that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. While this may or may not be true, I would like to change it to: a hug a day keeps loneliness at bay.

People who are animals

Reportedly three million Syrian children have toxic stress. They are traumatised because of what they witnessed during the Syrian war: other children being slashed to death, people being shot, and so on.

Whose rights?

Supposedly contrary to “womens’ rights”

A bit of an uproar yesterday as actress (and very sensible person) Emma Watson has posed half naked to Vanity Fair. Feminists claim this kind of pictures are contrary to womens’ rights.

Amateuristic end to overrated Oscars evening

The Oscars ended in a true farce last night as it appeared only after the thank you speeches from the director and cast of La La Land that they had actually not won. So the whole thing had to be re-done with Moonlight, the much deserved factual winner of the Oscar.

The Oscars themselves are quite overrated and are the perfect sample of a very nationalistic view on film. One Oscar for the best foreign film? That just shows how little Americans are interested in the outside world and how extremely lousy their knowledge of languages is.

Taking into account that learning another language means learning another culture, it is clear that most Americans (and the inhabitants of most other English speaking countries) are culturally barbaric.

I myself am fluent in five languages and being able to speak another language does give you huge possibilities to grasp another culture. But in able to do that, you need to have interest in other cultures and be prepared to leave your own backyard, something most Americans seldom do.

The European and Indian film scenes are at least as important and qualitatively perhaps even better (with smaller budgets) than the American one, but as most of their films are not in English, they get relatively little attention.
Who am I to doubt Charlotte Rampling?

Turkish ban on the word ‘no’

On 16 April Turkey will hold a referendum. If the voters of ‘yes’ have it, president Erdogan will install a pure presidential regime. This means that he would become both state and government leader. In reality, it means he will become an even bigger fascist than he already is.

A boy holds up a placard that reads “NO” as the leaders of Turkey’s nationalist groups gather to launch a campaign for “NO” ahead of the April 16 national referendum on expanding the president’s powers, in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. Critics say it would concentrate even more power in the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a leader they accuse of authoritarian behavior. The reforms would potentially allow Erdogan to remain in power until 2029. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

But polls suggest that the Turkish people may have seen the light as 58% may say ‘no’ to their fascist president. In order to turn the tide, the president has decided to ban all instances of the word ‘no’. The oscar nominated movie ‘No’ on the fall of Chilean dictator Pinochet has been removed from Digitürk’s offer. And brochures to promote saying ‘no’ to smoking were also removed.

Let’s hope that the Turkish people will massively say ‘Hayir’ to their fascist president. If not, Turkey would no longer be a democracy, something it barely is now.

 

Deadliest used weapon ever sold

Auction house Alexander Historical Auctions has sold Hitler’s personalised red Siemens telephone which he used to give orders to his Wehrmacht (army).

The telephone, which bears his name and a swastika, was found in Hitler’s Berlin bunker after the fall of Nazi Germany. Soviet soldiers gave the telephone as a souvenir to British sergeant Ralph Rayner. His son kept the phone for years.

The selling price was estimated between 200,000 and 300,000 dollar. That was a pretty good estimate as the final selling price turned out to be 243,000 dollar or 229,000 euro.

The most deadliest used weapon so far would of course have been mass murderer Stalin’s mouth, but that’s not an easy thing to sell. Fortunately…

Lie Lie Land

The work from street artist Bambi in London is going viral. Perhaps that is because it so effectively sums up people’s feelings in general:

Theresa May’s Brexit camp won the referendum vote through sheer lies on for instance the National Health Service, with Nigel Farage from UKIP as the biggest liar of them all.

Donald Trump won his campaign with the least amount of popular vote ever (or so abouts) and with clear help from the Russians. Incidentally, I have never understood why the Americans were so outraged about the possible Russian influence on their elections. The Americans have done it for years in other countries where they influenced the voting proceedings. Quite the hypocrite stand.

Anyway, the image sums up the increasing lack of faith and belief people have for politicians. If one checks world news and looks at political news of all countries in the world, one can see that literally every day news leaks out on politicians who have been unethical in their job. There is therefore little reason left to trust politicians. It is as if getting power automatically means becoming corrupt. Why do power and corruptness go hand in hand?

A question to ponder on…

Australia is burning

In the past weekend, temperatures rose to an incredible 47 degrees Celsius in Australia.

Officers from the Queenspark Police Service showed in a video clip that they could bake an omelet on a pan that was put on the boot of their car.

In the meantime there are still a significant amount of people in the USA denying that climate change is happening, let alone that mankind is responsible for it.

A baffoon like Utah Congressman Chaffetz publicly refused to respond to a ten year old girl’s question whether he believes in science. He is the perfect example of Trump’s Make America dumb(er) policy.

One can wonder what it will take for certain people to realise that climate change is no longer a possibility but is really happening as we speak.