NATO country (Turkey) just caught planning a false flag attack to jumpstart war against Syria

[Catherina]

103. Pres Carter wins this one: "“America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy,”

We'll have to give this one to our courageous President Carter.

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“America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy,” he said at an event in Atlanta on Tuesday sponsored by the Atlantik Bruecke, a private nonprofit association working to further the German-U.S. relationship. The association’s name is German for “Atlantic bridge.”

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Carter’s remarks didn’t appear in the American mainstream press but were reported from Atlanta by the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, whose Washington correspondent Gregor Peter Schmitz said on Twitter he was present at the event. The story doesn’t appear in the English-language section of the Spiegel website and is only available in German.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/18/jimmy_carter_us_has_no_functioning_democracy_partner/

The people saying we're foolish to demand "equal treatment under the law" are the same ones who defend American Exceptionalism and are working to make sure these despicable crimes can continue. It's a fine company we're keeping these days when lawbreakers in the US demand this form of protection. The hypocrisy, that this is one of the measures we use to paint rulers we don't like as "tyrants", is staggering.

The coup took place in 2000. I hope we have an administration one day that will undo that damage instead of enshrining Bush practices as SOP. Erdogan is a tyrant. The sooner he goes down, the better for the Turkish people and the rest of world he's working to drag into a war against Syria.

Turkish military fires into Syria after rocket hits mosque

ANKARA Mon Mar 31, 2014

(Reuters) - The Turkish military fired back into Syria on Monday in retaliation for mortar shells and a rocket from over the border that hit a mosque in the town of Yayladagi, the provincial governor's office and local media said.

Three mortar rounds landed on Turkish soil, fired during fighting between the Islamist rebels in Syria and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for control of the Armenian Christian village of Kasab, Turkey's Dogan News Agency said.

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Since then, Assad has sent army and militia reinforcements, backed by air power, to repulse the rebels, leading to heavy fighting across the strip of territory along the Turkish border.

"Our artillery troops have fired back at the region from where the shots originated," the Hatay governor's office said in a statement on its website.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/us-syria-crisis-turkey-idUSBREA2U0X320140331

Yeah right, sure. The truth is much closer to this

Turkey accused of sending fighters to Syria
Damascus says Ankara sends foreign fighters to Syria to fight government troops.

Last updated: 31 Mar 2014 10:18

Syria's information minister has lashed out at Turkey, accusing Ankara of sending foreign fighters across the border to fight Syrian government troops in President Bashar Assad's ancestral homeland in Latakia province.

Omran al-Zoubi told the state TV on Sunday that neighbouring Turkey is facilitating the entry of "groups of foreigners, armed to their teeth" into Latakia, where fighting is raging between Syrian government forces and rebel fighters trying to oust Assad.

Recently, the Syrian government complained to the UN that Ankara was providing cover to rebels crossing the border to Syrian soil.
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Hostilities have flared along the border on several occasions and last week, Turkey shot down a Syrian fighter jet, saying it violated its airspace.

Damascus rejects Ankara's airspace violation allegations, saying that the plane was hit on Syrian airspace.

Source: Agencies

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/03/turkey-accused-sending-fighters-syria-201433110314185295.html

By the way, you really have to love the corporate news. So many times I'll find an article on the net then, because of so many corporate screechers demanding corporate sources, will look for a corporate link to close that ridiculous line they use to attack news they don't like, only to find out that our MSM conveniently lops off whichever facts it doesn't like.

Look how ABC reports the same story, conveniently ignoring that there's any controversy regarding whose airspace the plane was in. Turkey's keeps trying to manufacture causus belli for NATo to go in and our press is just as complicit.