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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has launched a tirade over the Cyprus issue saying he was the only one still living, along with one top former EU official, who really knows what went in during the high-level negotiations in Burgenstock, Switzerland in March 2004.

In an interview with Turkish channel TRT on Tuesday night, Erdogan spoke on several topics such as Turkey-US relations and the situation in the eastern Mediterranean, also touching on the Cyprus issue and Ankaras often fraught ties with the EU.

Answering questions from journalists Erdogan said: Every now and then you bring before us the eastern Mediterranean, every now and then you bring before us Cyprus. Believe me, within the EU, no country in recent times knows how this division came about.How was the division made?How did the talks in Burgenstock take place? Nobody knows that.The only one who knows this is me.

Erdogan said when other politicians talk about Burgenstock, not even Greek premier Kyriacos Mitsotakis knows what really went on there at the highest level.

He referred to the fact that former UN Secretary-General, the late Kofi Annan, presided over the 2004 talks, though Erdogan failed to remember that Annans special envoy Alvaro de Soto was also in at the highest level. De Soto aside, he was also likely referring to the fact that the leader on the Greek Cypriot side at the time, Tassos Papadopoulos is also deceased.

There was one other person at the talks, he said, who participated on the part of the EU, and that was Gunther Verheugen who was the EU Commissioner for Enlargement at the time. Wherever he went he was telling the truth, said Erdogan. But no one gets up to ask him now.

Indeed, after Greek Cypriots rejected the Annan solution plan in late April and a week later joined the European Union on May 1, 2004, Verheugen publicly accused Cyprus of cheating its way into EU membership.

Erdogan said that in the middle of the Burgenstock talks Greece and the Greek Cypriots were ready to leave the table and only Kofi Annan stopped them, saying: You cannot leave, according to the Turkish president.

Annan told them I gave my word to Erdogan. We will finish the work here and then we will leave. They [the Greek side] came back and sat down. And after that meeting a referendum was held. They said yes in the north and then they [the EU] allowed the south to join, said Erdogan. They are not honest and now they come and without shame they tell us we have no rights over the gas and oil around Cyprus? he added. Erdogan said if it was up to Brussels, they would ask Turkey to disappear from the region altogether.

Referring to French President Emmanuel Macron who in late 2019 said Nato was becoming brain dead, Erdogan said that without a strong Turkey, the transatlantic military alliance was not strong.

In this context, Erdogan had harsh words for US President Joe Biden ahead of the upcoming Nato summit on June 14. At the meeting, we will ask why the Turkey-US relations are going through such a tense period, said Erdogan who added that he has worked with a number of former US presidents including Barack Obama and Donald Trump. He did not have such a tension with any of them, he said. The anger towards Biden however has more to do with the US recent recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide. Those who corner Turkey this way will lose an important friend, said Erdogan.

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That may be an overstatement. Mr. Wizner, who runs the A.C.L.U.s free speech project, has represented the National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden and rattled off important cases his lawyers handled. But FIRE, he acknowledged, has taken a strong lead on campuses, where so many consequential battles are fought.

FIRE does not have the same tensions, Mr. Wizner said. At the A.C.L.U., free speech is one of 12 or 15 different values.

Traditionally, the A.C.L.U.s state affiliates monitor and argue free speech cases, but in recent years some shied from such fights. Here are a few examples:

In 2015, University of Missouri students protested racism and established an encampment in a campus quad. When a student journalist tried to take photos and talk to protesters, students and a journalism professor physically blocked the reporter from doing so. The A.C.L.U. of Missouri applauded the courageous leadership of student activists and faculty members, and two national A.C.L.U. officials wrote columns about the protests. They did not mention First Amendment rights.

Four years later at the University of Connecticut, two white students walking home late at night loudly repeated a racial slur. In the ensuing uproar, the university police arrested and charged the students with ridicule on account of race.

The A.C.L.U. of Connecticut demanded that the university hire 10 Black faculty and staff members and require a freshman course on ending racism on campus. It made no mention of the arrests, other than to opine that the police force is an inherently white supremacist institution.

Two days later, Mr. Cole issued a corrective: The students conduct is not criminal, he stated. The First Amendment protects even offensive and hateful speech.

Even the New York Civil Liberties Union, traditionally an independent-minded A.C.L.U. affiliate that has produced several national executive directors and stood at the forefront in defending free speech cases, did not want to talk about those issues. A spokeswoman for its executive director, Donna Lieberman, said, We dont feel well have anything to add.

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Throughout my life, conservatives have believed the U.S. Constitutionmeans what its authors intended. While it can sometimes be challenging to apply the document's verbiage to modern times, conservatives know that when the founders wrote, "Congress shall make no law" they meant that, "Congress shall make no law." Easy peasy, as the saying goes.

By contrast, liberals have often championed a"living and breathing"Constitutionone that evolves with the times. They don't mean proper change via amendment, but through "enlightened" court interpretations. Like shamans, liberal justices don't obsess over the founders' intentions, but on truths found in penumbras. Go figure, but their divinations usually conform to their own biases.

In a bizarre twist, conservatives are now sounding like liberal jurists rather than traditionalists on some key constitutional questions. Let's take theFirst Amendment, which the founders viewed with particular significance given that they placed it, well, first in the Bill of Rights. These days, conservatives are busy reinterpreting its meaning and have been quite creative with their new interpretations and divination.

For instance, Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed alawthat applies governmental moderating standards to social-media companies. It fines tech companies if they suspend political candidates prior to elections, lets the state attorney general and even private citizens sue these companies if they believe they've been treated unfairly, and gives online publishers a list of enforceable editorial conditions.

That's obviously a government restriction on speech given that the government is mandating that private publishers behave in a certain way. Yet writing inAmerican Spectator, the Heartland Institute's S.T. Karnick has discovered such a novel method of interpreting that law that he would have made former Justice Thurgood Marshall, the late justice who was known for his creative constitutional gyrations, quite proud.

"Defenders of Big Tech routinely argue that these companies have a right to do whatever they want because they are not government entities. That is false," Karnickwrote. "The fact that they are in the private sector does not change the definition of the word" censorship. If we erase the distinction between private censorship (which we all do) and government censorship, however, we essentially erase the First Amendment.

The Constitution forbids Congress specifically from regulating private speech, but then the 14thAmendment applied most of the Bill of Rights to the states and their governments. Karnick alsoarguesthat the 10thAmendment gives Florida the right to exercise its authority on this basic-rights issue, which is a rather odd position for a conservative.

If the10thAmendment, which vests many powers in the states rather than the federal government, can be justified to obliterate constitutionally protected rights, then California can ban firearm ownership, despite what the Second Amendment says. If you don't think rights should apply to tech companies whose decisions anger you, then they might not apply when your decisions anger others.

The"Fairness Doctrine,"which mandated equal time for political views on "public" airwaves, offers a template for what conservatives now are suggesting. Its elimination allowed for the proliferation of conservative talk radio, given that such imbalanced programming previously was verboten. What would happen if the Biden administration could force broadcast outlets to balance the views of Mark Levin and Tucker Carlson? Take a guess.

Many of these conservatives are like liberals in another important way. They seek to control private-sector companies because they don't like how they operate. For instance,David Marcuscomplained in a Fox News column last week about the media's Johnny-come-lately coverage of the theory that the coronavirus emerged from a Chinese laboratory.

Yes, the media mostly treated that story as a conspiracy when Donald Trump had postulated itbut are treating it seriously now that Trump is gone. So what? Publications can print whatever they choose, some do a lousy job and all of them are biased. My conclusion is the media should learn from its mistakes, but Marcus' take is more draconian.

"Nobody is checking the fact checkers, and it is time that changed," hewrote. "It's time for government to regulate the fact checking industry." He named Politifact and Associated Press as examples of organizations that need government oversight as they advise social mediaeven though they are journalism organizations.

Marcusclaimsthe First Amendment forbids regulation of "in-house" fact checkers, but he carves out the exception for independent checkerssomething he appears to have pulled from thin air just like the living-and-breathing jurists. "This may seem antithetical to traditional conservative values of small government," he says, but we ought not be "slaves to orthodoxy."

Perhaps the Biden administration should appoint a regulator to fact-check Marcus' writing for the next few weeksand then he can report on the experience. Thanks to First Amendment "orthodoxy" that won't happen, but it's time for conservatives to grow a thicker skin and stop attackingthe constitutional protections all of us enjoy.

This column was first published in The Orange County Register.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence lauded his and former President Donald Trumps administration in a speech Thursday, but he said the two may never "see eye to eye"about the Jan. 6 insurrection.

To a crowd of Republicans in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Pence called the Capitol riot a dark day in American history. The attack saw thousands of pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol and left five people dead.

President Trump and I have spoken many times since we left office, Pence said. I dont know if well ever see eye to eye on that day. But I will always be proud of what we accomplished for the American people for the last four years.

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Trump insisted Pence had the power to block congressional certification of Joe Bidens presidential election win in November. Pence repeatedlydenied the false claims, saying only lawmakers can decide whether to accept the Electoral College votes won byBiden.

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During the riots, chants to hang Mike Pence and bring out Pence erupted in the crowd, according to video shown during Trumps second impeachment trial.

But Pence on Thursday immediately cast blame on Democrats and news media for what he called an outsized scrutiny over the day.

I will not allow Democrats and their allies in the media to use one tragic day to discredit the aspirations of millions of Americans, he said.

Thirty-five House Republicans,including Indiana Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, voted in favor of a bipartisancommission to study the insurrection, butSenate Republicans blocked the commissioneffort last week. Neither Indiana senator voted in favor of the commission.

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Late on Wednesday night, super lawyer, Lin Wood released the full transcripts of interviews conducted with a government whistleblower using the alias Ryan Dark White, with many hair-raising allegations about former Vice President Mike Pence, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and former Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, who he says were all working together to overthrow President Trump from the very beginning of his administration.

The interviews were conducted in early January of this year. On January 18th, Lin Wood had posted video of these interviews, in 8 parts, which I strung together and uploaded to Rumble and published for my subscribers on Inauguration Day.

Some of the highlights of this full transcript include the following shocking revelations:

Chief Justice John Roberts is gay and highly-controlled to keep that a secret. Roberts adopted his children illegally with the help of Jeffrey Epstein through a child sex trafficking network in the British Isles and he immediately proceeded to use his adopted children to sexually entrap and blackmail powerful people.

Mr White also says Roberts helped with some logistics in an FBI false flag operation to kill several Supreme Court Justices during Hillary Clintons first term, so that she could then pack the Supreme Court with Globalists/Communists.

This plot was foiled when Mr White (aka @JohnHereToHelp on Twitter) was hired by someone at the office of the Supreme Court to infiltrate the operation. However, those trained and armed by the FBI to commit mass-murder fell back to a Plan B, to execute Justice Anton Scalia, who was considered Hillarys greatest threat.

Mike Pence is gay and likewise controlled. Prior to becoming Vice President, Pence had two steady lovers who were significantly younger but then he got framed into having sex with a 13-year-old on video. Pences wife is totally aware of this and helps him manage and schedule his trysts.

Mike Pence hated Trump and he worked together with Rod Rosenstein, Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney as their mole in the White House. The idea was to get rid of Trump by using the 25th Amendment, then for Pence to become President and for Rod Rosenstein to become Vice President. In other words, Rod Rosenstein was not joking when he talked about wearing a wire to frame Trump. In fact, White says he did wear a wire more than once, attempting to do just that, to no avail.

Judge Emmet Sullivan, the Federal Judge presiding over the case of General Mike Flynn is an anti-Black racist and a violent incestuous pedophile, who raped his own granddaughter for years until she was no longer a child and he lost interest. Sullivan once injured her so horribly that she was hospitalized and he made his son (the girls father) turn himself in for the crime in the state of Maryland.

As a Federal Judge, he was able to bury the case with the help of then-US Attorney Rod Rosenstein, Maryland Congressman, Elijah Cummings and Baltimore Mayor, Catherine Pugh. However, records of the case still exist in the Federal system. Mr White says it can be found on Pacer.

Sullivans son is also a very sick pedophile who also raped that same daughter for years and he was later busted again for trading images of child pornography.

Judge Sullivan had 4 homes in a beach community in Delaware that he used for his trysts with female children and that he would lend out to Joe Biden, for his own pedophilic trysts.

Mr White describes Joe Biden as a well-known pedophile and he says that in many of those videos weve all seen of Biden sniffing children in front of their family members as theyre being sworn-into their government posts, those children have been promised to him for his role in the securing those positions for their parents. White said, Joe cant control himself because hes anticipating his payoff. So, thats why you see these sniffing videos.

Moreover, Jill Biden knew about his perversions going into the marriage. Indeed, she was 15 and Joe was 30 when they began dating. White says the Biden grandchildren are all sexual abuse victims, as well.

Space economist, Molly McCauley was murdered by the same crooked DEA henchmen associated with Rod Rosensteins Dirty Tricks Squad according to White, because it was she who figured out that they were using satellites to steal elections, using the Hammer supercomputer with Scorecard and Sunrise software. Rod Rosenstein was heavily involved with the Hammer program.

What really happened to Seth Rich. I had suspected that White was the whistleblower who came forward on the 2-year anniversary of Seth Richs murder, in July of 2018, when Matt Couch and a Republican lobbyist, Mark Burkman set up a press conference to introduce him as a new witness in the Seth Rich murder case. At that time, he was called Luke and he phoned into the event, to protect his identity.

It was clear to me that this Luke from the 2018 Seth Rich press conference was the same person as Ryan Dark White, as well as the same person who is known on Twitter as @JohnHeretoHelp and this was confirmed in the transcript.

Despite his many different aliases, White has consistently described himself as an intelligence veteran, a terrorism consultant and expert witness for the US Attorneys Office in Maryland but the July 2018 event was fraught with technical problems, which made it come off as very amateurish and it was widely derided by people on both the Left and the Right.

Whites account of the Seth Rich murder was very non-partisan at a time when everyone on the Right was convinced that Seth Rich was murdered by the DNC.

White alleged that Rod Rosenstein was behind the murder. Seths DNC email breach would reveal Rosensteins operation with the DOJs (and the Republicans) to tamper and alter the DNCs emails throughout the course of the Obama Administration.And it would also reveal that they began spying on Hillarys private server, almost as soon as it went live.

Back in 2018, it was hard to imagine this level of corruption and it went over most peoples heads but after everything weve seen, especially since the 2020 Election, it makes a lot more sense.

What we learn about the Seth Rich murder with Lin Woods release of the full transcript is that it wasnt intended to be a murder and it really was a botched robbery, as claimed.

The MS-13 gang members who were hired and transported to DC from out-of-state by Rosensteins DEA henchmen, they were contracted to steal Seth Richs thumb drive containing the DNC server data and to replace it with another thumb drive that had all of the incriminating data pointing back to Rosenstein and the DOJ removed.

For years, weve heard rumors that Donna Brazile was at the hospital where Seth was taken and White confirms this in the full transcript. I specifically remember a Reddit post about a week after Seths death in 2016 from a male nurse working at the hospital where Seth had been taken, saying that Brazile showed up at the hospital that night and that Seths room was cordoned off and he was denied treatment.

White says that Donna Brazile and her girlfriend, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser were waiting at the hospital before Seth was even brought in, and they also had people at the crime scene, in order to recover the thumb drive, which everybody knew Seth always kept on his person.

Rod Rosensteins hitmen had to quickly replace Seths thumb drive with his sanitized version before the DNC people could get to it and it looks like in the tussle to do that, Seth was killed.

I was on Making Sense of the Madness last night with John Chambers and James Grundvig to discuss all of this and more.

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