Posted on 01/09/2014 2:53:06 PM PST by Biggirl
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Well you are a talkative one, and if you are here, I have no doubt the count will be up. Welcome aboard...rest your fingers......and tomorrow, type your little heart out.
See ya tomorrow Clint.
Someone once said,
“If I’d a known I was gonna live this long,
I’d a taken better care of myself!”
Mae West
100% right.
You too, special lady.
Batchelor: They’re talking about the 1948 WH now, the remodel yada.
I’d imagine he wants to get back to his family and dog, upstairs from “The Bunker” studio in his basement. Beck does a 4th hour for his “Insiders”; Mark could too, if he went that format. I’d sign-up.
Yeah me too.
“The Hidden White House”
Batchelor is losing me...
Indian Jones is on the Sy Fy channel...
It’s interesting but nothing great. He blew me away right before Thanksgiving, I had been working on some Christmas projects and just happened to catch his show for the first time—
July 1914: Countdown to War
http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com/podcasts/2013/11/13/fourth-hour
None of the shows have been quite as good since but I always check his show since that night.
I listen to him because I don’t know of anyone else that is on live in this time slot...
...that’s not a very glowing recommendation, is it?
I just caught something interesting on the show—Turkey and Iran laundering money and that we may have known about it for 6mos without doing anything? I was dozing off so now I’ve got to go look this up.
It had to with gold, shipping, oil and such. It seems the Turkish government supported or basically condoned it and that’s why there’s the crack down on the Turkish police by the government—they’re trying to keep them silent.
All this is very interesting because shipping played a big part in the overthrow of Gaddafi and later possibly gun running for Syria and the Turkish diplomat that met with Stevens in Benghazi that night.
Also it was known that Ansar al-Sharia that was part of the attack that night were mostly unemployed and “Libya’s deputy defence minister Mohamed Taynaz, say it is likely that Ansar al-Sharia and Rafallah el-Sehat are receiving foreign funding.”
I didn’t know that the Turkish president is going to try and get a new constitution so that he can stay in power longer and have greater powers. He’s Obama’s best pal, too...isn’t he?
I need to go hunt this story down, I missed some of it in dozing and it seems most interesting. Sorry if this isn’t making much sense, I’m half asleep.
Check this out...
“We also got the Central Bank into the system and under the slogan “getting the gold under the mattresses into the economy” created an economic system that facilitated money laundering through the widespread use of gold.”
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/business/2013/12/turkey-gold-banking-faciliated-money-laundering-iran.html#
This story first broke on December 17, 2013, when Iranian-Azeri businessman Reza Zerrab was accused of being involved in irregular money transactions, mostly from Iran, totaling $US119 billion between 2009 -2012. Zerrab, who had long been suspected of taking part in financial felonies, is accused of laundering the money mainly through Bank Mellat, which is 40-percent owned by Iran.
Based on a tip from a police source, who wishes to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the issue, Zerrab was also involved in irregularities related to naturalization of some foreign citizens through covert deals and bribes with the sons of government ministers.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/09/201292218380199890.html
(Turkey’s Erdogan Visits the U.S May 16, 2013)
Turkey Graft Probe Ensnares Erdogan’s Cabinet, State Bank
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-17/halkbank-ceo-turkey-minister-s-son-said-detained-in-graft-probe.html
Halkbank has been at the center of a “gas-for-gold” plan that allowed Tehran to buy gold with Turkish lira in exchange for Iranian natural gas and oil. Western sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program prevented the country from getting paid in euros or dollars, so Halkbank used the gold to get around the restrictions.
http://www.voanews.com/content/irans-foreign-minister-to-make-key-turkish-visit/1822891.html
The operation was started on December 14, 2011 when $14.5m and € 4m were found on three Azerbaijanis and an Iranian at Vnukovo airport. The Federal Customs Service of Russia asked Turkey to investigate the case. First, the Turkish police arrested an owner and 14 employees of an exchange office in Tahtakale, Istanbul. It was found out that these people transferred $40m and €10m to Russia 37 times and these funds belonged to Azerbaijani businessmen A. Nizami, H. Surkhay and B. Vidadi. It was revealed that the money was brought to Turkey from Dubai and sent to Russia. Istanbul Police released the couriers and declared 3 aforementioned Azerbaijani businessmen internationally wanted.
http://en.apa.az/xeber_reza_zerrab_accused_of_illegal_transfer__204505.html
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Erdogan has not named the organization but used references that make it clear to Turkish listeners that he is accusing the followers of Fethullah Gulen, an influential Muslim cleric who lives in the United States.
*snip*
Dueling Islamists
In response to the widening scandal, the government has hit back hard by removing six senior police officials from their jobs, including Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin on December 19. Erdogan has also announced he will personally appoint two prosecutors to help oversee the investigation, creating press speculation that he may seek to suppress it altogether.
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Erdogan’s commanding style has been much on display this week as he has dubbed the corruption investigation an abuse of power. His tough counterattack echoes a strategy he has already successfully used to send top generals to jail on charges of plotting coups, pushing the military out of politics.
http://www.rferl.org/content/turkey-corruption-scandal-crisis/25206516.html
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Many suspect Mr Erdogan wants the AK party to produce its own blueprint that would boost the powers of the presidency, enabling him to keep running the country after the party’s rules require him to step down as prime minister. Since he does not have a two-thirds majority in parliament, a new constitution would need to be put to a referendum; most polls give AK a big lead.
*snip*
Media bosses fearful of losing government contracts have sacked critical journalists. At least 80 journalists are in jail, many of them Kurds accused of PKK membership
*snip*
With scores of generals jailed on coup-plotting charges the army has been cowed into silence.
http://www.economist.com/node/21561918
Hi carriage_hill, Biggirl, can you kindly please post and ping the Rush thread please, going to be out shortly. Thank-you. :)=^..^=
Sure; I’ll take care of it.
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