Turkish authorities have released images of a woman, arrested for allegedly planting a bomb that killed six people and injured 81 in Istanbul on Sunday. Ankara has accused the “PKK” Kurdish Defense militias in Syria of masterminding the plot.
The accused woman’s photos were all over Turkish media.
“I don’t trust the Turkish government. Period. They are still NATO members. They invaded northern Syria and Iraq and support rebels in Syria. They assassinated a Russian diplomat and tried to blame an obscure dissident group. They shot down a Russian aircraft in pursuit of “ISIS” terrorists. The last couple of major bombings in Turkey were done by “ISIS” and they just conveniently happened to target Kurds and leftists, two enemies of the Turkish state”... from Comments on South Front
At least 47 people were arrested and interrogated. Any…
Tons of impersonators posed as prominent public figures. We saw the fake accounts of George W. Bush and Tony Blair lament that they miss killing Iraqis; meanwhile, someone pretending to be OJ Simpson admitted to murder
Elon Musk’s takeover has been a hilarious disaster
If you’re anything like me then you hate billionaires. In fact, more than that, you also really, really hate the corporations that dominate our day-to-day life.
The ongoing controversy surrounding social media platform Twitter, particularly its now-defunct ‘Blue’ paid verification scheme, is embarrassing the world’s richest man and causing large multinationals to lose tens of billions in market capitalization.
At the end of October, billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk completed a $44-million deal to take over Twitter. He immediately cut thousands of jobs, including many in the communications department and from high-ranking positions in charge of trust and safety.
Then Twitter Blue, a service that provides official verification for an $8-per-month fee, was rolled out. Chaos ensued after that and the service was suspended.
We saw the fake accounts of George W. Bush and Tony Blair lament that they miss killing Iraqis; meanwhile, someone pretending to be OJ Simpson admitted to murder.
But what was more consequential was the fact that large brands were impersonated.
For instance, an account claiming to be pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co said the company was giving away free insulin and immediately plunged its stocks. An account supposedly representing Lockheed Martin also said it was halting weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the US pending human-rights investigations. The weapons contractor also saw its stocks crater in response to these tweets.
The list goes on. Companies like Chiquita, American Girl, Roblox, BP and Tesla, as well as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) were impersonated by Twitter users and made controversial statements.
These ranged from praising apartheid in Israel to saying that a fruit company had overthrown Brazil’s government.
For its part, Twitter is in hot water over this situation. That’s obviously why it suspended its verification system, and, at the same time, Elon Musk has said the company could face bankruptcy in the near future.
There’s no doubt that the social media platform has lost significant value since the Tesla CEO’s takeover, probably to the tune of several billion. The roll-out of Twitter Blue was a predictable disaster that posed serious challenges to advertisers, clearly, which is why they’ve bounced from the social media platform.
But even though it’s true that this was a very ill-advised decision on Musk’s part, he inadvertently created the most formidable anti-capitalist weapon in modern history all at the cost of $8.
Anyone with a few bucks in their pocket could, until just days ago, shave off billions in value from an evil company that is destroying the planet, threatening global security or engaged in war crimes. That’s a remarkable thing.
Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions?
At least it would have been remarkable if it would have been left alone and not shut down.
Still, there were enough accounts that got through – with, at the same time, a skimped-down trust and safety network – that means impersonators are still common and misinformation is everywhere.
If you load your timeline, you’re sure to see countless examples of fake news from verified accounts that you would otherwise be inclined to trust at first glance prior to Twitter Blue’s roll-out.
You could also just use a messaging platform like WhatsApp or Telegram to message people, in case that’s what you use the bird for. Or you could just take your connections to the real world and ditch social media altogether.
At any rate, the social media platform’s meteoric rise and immediate tanking when Elon Musk took power are hilarious.
The richest man in the world has been left with egg on his face after going forward with buying Twitter, which is something no one seriously thought he wanted to do in the first place.
But now he’s stuck with a broken application and accumulating debt to the point that, as stated before, the company could just flat-out go bankrupt.
And the only casualties in this entire scandal besides Musk’s reputation have been the stock valuation of some dastardly companies that are, frankly, evil.
Again, if you’re anything like me then word of Twitter’s implosion is good news to you.
That’s probably because you recognize how unforgivably unequal our society is and believe in some form of poetic justice for the people and entities perpetuating the system.
Turkish authorities have released images of a woman, arrested for allegedly planting a bomb that killed six people and injured 81 in Istanbul on Sunday. Ankara has accused the “PKK” Kurdish Defense militias in Syria of masterminding the plot.
The accused woman’s photos were all over Turkish media.
“I don’t trust the Turkish government. Period. They are still NATO members. They invaded northern Syria and Iraq and support rebels in Syria. They assassinated a Russian diplomat and tried to blame an obscure dissident group. They shot down a Russian aircraft in pursuit of “ISIS” terrorists. The last couple of major bombings in Turkey were done by “ISIS” and they just conveniently happened to target Kurds and leftists, two enemies of the Turkish state”... from Comments on South Front
At least 47 people were arrested and interrogated. Any one of which might confess under duress. Officials banned news channels and social networking services from sharing any images of the deadly explosion, while claiming the young woman had ‘dropped a backback’, and publishing her photos in which she appears tortured or drugged, in a ‘trial and sentence by Media’.
Suspicion is rife in Kurdish circles. Turkey has seen a whole series of black propaganda and false flag attacks over the years, sometimes stemming from the huge security apparatus and ultra nationalist Grey Wolves.
One of the worst was the 2015 Suruc bombing of Kurdish volunteers taking toys to child victims of ISIS, which led to a shady revenge attack, that sparked the military crackdown and carpet bombing of entire Kurdish cities inside Turkey.(Suruç Bombing Victims Were Bringing Books And Toys To Kobanê)
The ‘elected dictator’ Erdogan is suspected by some of repeating that evil strategy, desperate to attack Kurdish Syria yet again and thus gain far right support in upcoming elections, and deflect attention from inflation running at over 80%.
Accused bomber said to be from Afrin
The accused woman is said by State controlled media to have come from Afrin, yet the border with Turkey is sealed with a huge wall, and the province is occupied and tightly controlled by the Turkish army and a range of their extremist Islamic mercenaries.
December 2, 2019, for example, eight Kurdish children died in an intentional attack by Turkish mercenaries against Tell Rifaat, in the north west of Syria. All of them were under fifteen years old. Tell Rifaat is home to many of the Kurdish refugees from the Efrîn (Afrin) canton, currently occupied by Syrian, Turkish and Mercenary Troops. Three adult civilians also died in the attack.
In Aug 2022 Erdogan announced that his next illegal invasion will begin precisely in the town of Tell Rifaat!
Afrin was invaded, massacred, subdued and occupied by Turkey on a totally false pretext and 80% of the surviving mainly Kurdish population was expelled to refugee camps, mostly in a small enclave which is still regularily shelled and drone attacked by Turkey. A crime objectively much worse than Russia’s in Ukraine, but shamefully with zero world interest.
In 2019 a crew of experienced documentary makers travelled to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), commonly known as Rojava. The cameras followed Janet Biehl as she got to grips with the role that her late partner Murray Bookchin’s ideas played in the region’s Kurdish-led revolutionary movement.
That documentary, called Road to Rojava, is now reaching its final stages of production. The team isasking for help to complete the crowdfunder and finish the film.
This is an interview with directors, Danny Mitchell and Ross Domoney, and looks at the experiences they had making the documentary. The pair met at a screening of The Accidental Anarchist and realised they shared a vision of documenting daily life in Rojava.
What motivated you both to make the documentary?
DM: I have been interested in the revolution in Rojava since I first heard about it around 2014. I wanted to explore what was happening there as a filmmaker and go behind the news headlines because at the time, most of the news was primarily focused on the battles with ISIS and there was hardly anything about the political project being developed in Rojava. I had tried different ways of approaching the story but nothing had materialised but had heard Janet speak at various conferences and was intrigued by her story. I was interested in her connection with Murray Bookchin and how Abdullah Öcalan had used some of Bookchin’s revolutionary ideas as part of the political framework for the revolution in Rojava. I thought this could be a good way to approach the story and may help to bring it to a wider audience.
RD: I had been interested in the politics of Syria since the beginning of the uprising against the authoritarian regime of Bashar Al Assad in 2011. It was not so easy for me to go to other parts of Syria amongst the conflict and I am not a frontline war reporter. The politics of North and East Syria where the Rojava revolution happened, particularly interested me and it was more accessible with the right connections. I had tried to go there twice in the past but the situation was too dangerous so the trips had not gone ahead. I wanted to explore with my camera the radical democratic experiment that was being played out amongst the ashes of war. And where I was interested in the politics of the ecologist Murray Bookchin, I was most interested in learning about life there from the people of North and East Syria. I wanted to spend time with them, and find ways to use the film-making process to put the most value cinematically to their stories. I wanted to go beyond the poster images some western leftists where imagining of the Rojava revolution. We saw a lot of people re-sharing images of women with machine guns taking on ISIS. Of course this is amazing bravery (and we have also captured some of these images in our film). However I wanted to use the film-making process to go further and explore the different layers of the revolutionary society in Rojava.
UN Special Representative Pramila Patten has been exposed for fabricating her claim that Russia was supplying its troops with Viagra as a part of its “military strategy” in the Ukraine conflict. The widely publicized lie was recycled from baseless NATO propaganda deployed during its 2011 Libyan regime change war.
In a November 10 call with Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, better known by their aliases Vovan and Lexus, UN Envoy on Sexual Violence Pramila Patten admitted that there was no evidence to back up her widely publicized claims from October that the Russian government was using Viagra-fueled mass rape as a weapon of war….. continues…
Nov 14 – The Kurdish militant group PKK denied involvement in Sunday’s bomb attack in Istanbul, saying it did not target civilians, in a statement on its website on Monday. Turkey routinely blames without evidence thousands of ‘crimes’ under their cultural genocide policy against the 17 million Kurdish citizens.
“It is out of question for us to target civilians in any way,” the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said, refuting Turkey’s claims that it and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia were responsible for the blast that killed six people.
Government says Kurdish PKK and YPG to blame
Officials point to U.S. support for YPG in Syria
The PKK has long renounced separatism and any terrorist attacks and held 2 long unilateral ceasefires. Yet it is still classed as a ‘Terrorist Group’ by the US and its client states with continuing drone, bomb and assasinations against suspected PKK supporters across borders in Syria and Iraq
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ISTANBUL, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Turkey blamed Kurdish militants on Monday for an explosion that killed six people in Istanbul and police detained 47 people including a Syrian woman suspected of planting the bomb.
No group has claimed responsibility so far for Sunday’s blast on the busy pedestrian Istiklal Avenue, and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied involvement in it.
The explosion wounded 81 people, sending debris flying into the air and hundreds of shoppers, tourists and families fleeing from the scene.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the PKK and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia were responsible for the blast.
Ankara says the YPG is a wing of the PKK. The United States has supported the YPG in the conflict in Syria, stoking friction between NATO allies.
As international condemnation of the attack poured in, Soylu, a fierce critic of Washington, likened U.S. condolences for the victims to “the murderer arriving as one of the first at the scene of the crime”.
Every week dozens of Kurds are murdered by Turkish drone bombs in illegally invaded Syria and Iraq. Shamefully this never makes it to Reuters, the MSM or even Russian media who collaborate in placating the ruling AKP’s Turkish genocidal racism.
In a statement on its website, the PKK denied involvement and said it would not attack civilians. SDF commander Mazloum Abdi also denied involvement on Twitter.
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