The Attempted Coup in Turkey...

[Gulliver]

The "Wee scary Scottish Nutter Party leader" should be arrested, then taken to Berkeley Castle to suffer the same fate as to what happened to Edward II.

FOURO.

Fouro,you've just reminded me to go and water my Red Hot Pokers in this mini heatwave .My Bressingham Sunbeams are looking particularly lovely.

[vic mcclymont]

14 Turkish Naval ships are reported missing, wonder where they have gone.
regards
Vic

[j.sabourn]

Maybe illegal person trafficking. That must just about be 90 per cent of the Middle east now in turmoil. Big oaks from little acorns grow. To think it mostly all started with regime change. Plus of course the liberal selling/supply of arms. JWS

[happy daze john in oz]

Maybe illegal person trafficking. That must just about be 90 per cent of the Middle east now in turmoil. Big oaks from little acorns grow. To think it mostly all started with regime change. Plus of course the liberal selling/supply of arms. JWS

And that John is the key to it all, the sale of arms to these mad loons who if they took over the world having removed all the 'infidels' would then turn on each other until only one was left standing.

[John Pruden]

ISIL is like a pack of wolves and like all packs they turn on each other in the end terrorists will never win there are more good than bad in the world and I don't think the good will stand for much more murders? the world will have to turn to being racists sad but true that faith knows who's who but dos nothing about it to live in peace? just my view jp

[Gulliver]

JP,/.I agree that there are more good than bad in the world, but I'm afraid that amongst the Good,that pernicious little gene amongst their brains is multiplying and mutating at a rapid pace.It's name? the BTGIE mutant gene ,or to give it it's full name, the Believe There's Good in Everyone mutant gene.

It was first recorded in an ancient fable(possibly Aesop) and concerned a poor ,cold starving wolf ,fleeing it's hunters who was given sanctuary by a flock of sheep. The shivering wolf admired greatly the beautiful fleece coats of those lovely sheep.He was a very polite,well-mannered wolf,prayed religiously to his wolf god,and had a family back home,so he was absolutely delighted when they found him a discarded fleece they had saved from one of their dear departed community. He donned it immediately ,and all settled down in the field for the night,the sheep contentedly smug knowing that they had believed 'their' wolf was a good wolf.How could those stupid hunters not see how good he was.There was Good in Everyone.


Next morning the farmer found not a single whole sheep.Just hundreds and hundreds of half-eaten mutilated sheep bits and pieces,......and a discarded fleece.
From then onwards the farmer vowed to tell everyone he came into contact with ,that the Wolf, was a bad animal.
They would have none of that,told him he was being bigoted and a wolf racist.Wolves were good,and that they should be encouraged to live and breed amongst us.Some of them admitted to themselves in their hearts that perhaps the farmer was right. but no-one would openly admit it.Why not? , well they would be shunned and condemned for being racist against Wolves,wouldn't they?So they held their tongues and thought it much easier to subscribe to the There's Good in Everyone belief,even if increasingly they were subjected to more wolf attacks of their own.
The poor farmer sadly took his protest to the grave,and that BTGIE gene has since become entrenched in the Good peoples brains.It has a similar associated mutant gene,called the PCMG ,or the Politically Correct Mutant Gene. The two genes are closely correlated,and usually appear simultaneously in many of it's victims.

Gulliver

[j.sabourn]

Another good old moralistic story was the little rabbit whose mother told him not to play near the railway line. Having the impetuous behaviour of youth he ignored, along came a train and cut off his bob. His mother went into tantrums saying I told you so now you keep away from that area, yeah yeah he says and immediately goes back looking for his tail, along comes another train and cuts off his head. ... The moral of the story "Don't lose your head over a bit of fluff". JWS

[j.sabourn]

It really makes it obvious to the western world how little we are aware of our fellow citizens living in different areas of the world, and amazes me that we accept what we hear as coming from the horses mouth. The tens of thousands of those immediately arrested after a so called unknown coup until it had started bears some imagination. For all those supposedly involved must have been under observation for a long time. I still don't understand if the coup was because of political intent or the differences of different sects in their religious make ups. No doubt we will be deluged with different experts beliefs in the not too distant future. But something in the garden doesn't smell too Rosy. We seem to be going back in time when religion and politics was one and the same thing. JWS

[happy daze john in oz]

An academic from Turkey was interviewed here on TV today. He said that the majority of Turks welcome freedom and democracy but the president has now taken most teachers, judges, police and others into custody or banned them from moving around. None may leave the country. As he says this is in total contradiction of the law, from a man who claims to be there for the people!

There is so much corruption amongst those at the top in so many nations it makes one wonder where we are all headed?