*America's Forever Wars | The Last Man | Emperor Erdogan
"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." – Erasmus
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." – Ibid.
"The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth" – Ibid.
Erdogan Unable to Bring the Turkey Home: Turkey is sliding inexorably into financial crisis. It's currency, the lira, has lost 20% of its value this year, inflating prices for households and businesses alike. But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dominating national life for 15 years is forging ahead with his sparkling new $12 billion airport project. It will take ten years to complete and will be as big as Manhattan, dwarfing all airport rivals on the planet, allegedly. Erdogan has bestowed heaps of public money, amassed mostly from unrestrained borrowing, on friends' construction companies. He's also guaranteed them against any financial losses.
Emperor Erdogan: Turkey is definitely not a democracy, or even a parliamentary representative democratic republic now — it's an autocracy. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was already in power for 15 years. Now he's gotten himself elected for life, and he's instituted new changes that cement his place next to Vladimir Putin of Russia and Viktor Orban of Hungary. He's issued voluminous decrees that consolidate his power. The changes will cause months of administrative upheaval as agencies are abolished and government employees reassigned.
Erdogan has eliminated the prime minister's office and appointed his son-in-law minister of the newly combined Treasury and Finance Ministry. He can now dismiss Parliament and call new elections at will; he can appoint the head of the National Intelligence Agency, the Religious Affairs Directorate, as well as ambassadors, governors and university rectors. All presidential appointments will now be made with no confirmation process.
As a columnist for the secular opposition newspaper Cumhurive said: "The state is being reorganized around Tayyip Erdogan…. U.S. President Trump can appoint a replacement to a vacant seat in the Supreme Court, but he does not appoint a police chief in Massachusetts or a public theater director in Boston."
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