Millionaires of Turkey

This is sad.  But!!!!

The heart and soul of Turkey are the common, Turkish, Kurdish, Turkic and all of the neighbouring countries citizens living there.  There are a great mix of people in Turkey.  

The rich people, not all of them but many of them, when investigated made their fortune from two things:

1. The Greek and Turkish exchange of citizens.  Greeks went to Greece, Turks from the Balkans took over the fields, homes, and even businesses in Turkey and become rich over night.  

2. Reason was after the war, the Armenians were given land by the Soviet in eastern Turkey, which we know now to be Armenia.  Armenia’s were the richest and most successful group in the Ottoman Empire, they were all bureaucrats.   When they were forced to leave, the Turks took over their hazel nut fields, Fig farms, cherry operation and etc.  Again, many Turks got rich very fast.  

Remember, the ones that got rich, were the ones close to the party that was ruled by Ataturk, as Ataturk gave favours obviously to the ones close to him. 

 Now come 100 years to the present.  Most All of the rich donot like Erdogan, why? It is obvious is it not? The old rich families were close with Ataturk’s party (CHP), who received favours from that government. 

Look up the richest families of Turkey. 

Sabanci

Koc

Ulker 

These people are still the rulers of Turkey, behind closed doors and these are very old families. 

Driving Range

I would like to start to play golf, but not enough money and not enough time.  

Maybe in a few years. 

About 20 years ago, I use to go to the driving range in the westend, there use to be a driving range just west of west Edmonton mall around 87 ave and 189 street.  That driving range is bought out and now it is where the Anthony Henday is. 

Anyways, I use to buy a bucket of balls, and use to hit those.  It was about $5 a bucket and use to be a good 30 minute to one hour entertainment.  I use to go a couple times a week, and always around 8 pm’ish. 

Good times.  

Editing Videos

Very good editing. 

I like editing videos as well.  What you need is a good video editing software and lots of time.  

Also, you need to know where to find videos and how to download those videos onto your iPhone or computer, and afterwards upload into the video editing software. 

I use iMovie when editing my videos.  It is a software I am use to now, therefore I continue to use.  

I read months ago that windows media player is better than iMovie, but I donot have the energy to relearn how to use this.   

I use to use this software on my laptop prior to the iPhone days.  Now, I use iMovie right from my iPhone.  

Choking on a plum

Wow.  I did not know.  That is a sad. 

Reminded me of 1993, I was living in my fathers home, my brother, then was 3 years old and I was 21.   

I was sitting in my room.  My door closed.  

I heard a commotion coming from the kitchen. There were a few lady friends of my mother, who were visiting and my three sisters there. 

Their were lots of yelling from all of them, by my mother and sisters  mostly.   

My mother ran towards me with my brother Atilla, she was carrying him.  All my sisters and the lady friends were following. 

They all jammed into the doorway of my room.  We met there as I was coming out of the room. 

They were screaming mad.  

My brother Atilla was choking on a plum.  Looking back, I did not know it was a plum, I really did not know what was happening as there were so much yelling. 

I just saw my mother carrying Atilla.  

I looked at Atilla, He had not past out yet.  

My reflex took over as I donot remember thinking anything.  

I took Atilla from my mothers hands. 

Went behind him.  

Put my hands right over his stomach, under the chest bone part. 

Started thrusting from behind. 

As I was thrusting him, his legs were lifting off of the ground.  We were alll in shock.  

I did the thrusting about a dozen times.  

Then, a plum fell out of his mouth.  

He started to cry.  They all started to cry, I think I was too. 

He was breathing now.   

They took him back into the kitchen.  

I was alone again.  

It happened so fast.  

I fell to the ground and sat there.  

Then I went looking for Atilla.  

He was ok.  

I had shit my pants.....

Cast my Vote

I’ve been to the woods, 

seen Grizzly bears chase rabbits 

as we chased balls in our childhoods,

Killer whales escorted me, 

while I was riding on a ferry boat

to get to my hood to cast my vote, 

But I ain’t seen no shit, like the shit that goes around this place. 

😁😁😁

It’s bad, I know.  

Who is shaking the jar?

Excellent question.  

divide and conquer.   

If a government (ruled by the elite) sets the minimum wage at a certain amount and the newsrooms that are also owned by the elite, send out messages of “world is coming to an end” “high unemployment “ etc., then the citizens will not complain about the low minimum wage. Therefore, more profit to the elite.  

I think my example is very simple but the point is, we the common people are kept “in the dark” given the bare minimum information, and we cannot make proper decisions, the results constant chaos.   

Who is shaking the jar? 

Greed is.   

Particularly:

Governments, 

elite (top 1% that own almost everything), 

banks,

large corporations (that hide sales to not pay taxes), 

the above named have no empathy for the common people and we fight each other.   

Mr. Christopher Lee’s beautiful comment about Cushing

In an interview included on the DVD release of The Hound of the Baskervilles(1959), Christopher Lee said of his friend's death (Cushing): 

"I don't want to sound gloomy, but, at some point of your lives, every one of you will notice that you have in your life one person, one friend whom you love and care for very much. That person is so close to you that you are able to share some things only with him. For example, you can call that friend, and from the very first maniacal laugh or some other joke you will know who is at the other end of that line. We used to do that with him so often. And then when that person is gone, there will be nothing like that in your life ever again."

Godfather I

It is a good movie, you need to sit back and watch it one day.  

Not for it being a good movie only, think about it, it was filmed in I think 1974.  

Think about what you were doing in that year.  

While watching remember the legendary actors (now considered legendary), but back then they were fairly young.  Let me think without looking, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall. James Caan, and the wife of Sylvester Stallone in the movie Rocky. In this movie, she was Al Pacino’s sister.  

Also who played the Godfather? Marlon Brando.  The icon of the 1950s and 1960s.  

Also, the director was Francis F Coppola.  He did many good films.  

Get this, Francis is the uncle of Nicolas Cage, you know who that is? Good actor.  

Last thing, Marlon Brando won an Oscar for this role, I think this was his third Oscar honour, but guess what he did? He did not show up to the oscars and declined the award.  

He sent a very pretty female Native American Indian to the awards, when they called ‘the winner is Marlon Brando’, the native lady went to the podium and gave a written speech of the cruelty and prejudice of native Indians in film.  This got many people cheering Marlon and the native lady, but he made a lot of enemies in Hollywood, particularly the executives of the industry with the speech. 

Watch it now, for all of the side stories about the film and actors. 

It is a slow movie.  

If you want to listen to the book, it is on YouTube, it is about 12 to 15 hours. 

Clint - the Legend

I really think Clint is a legend.  There have been others that came close, I do not want to drop names here, as there are many, but Clint just is above the rest. 

My favourite movie is still, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, the third movie of the spaghetti trilogy with Sergio Leone. 

I did not know this, just found out from the interview.  

Clint was filming Rawhide and there was a three month break from filming this TV series.  He wanted to take that break and rest.  But, he gets a call from Sergio, the director of ‘A fist full of dollars’, the first of the trilogy.  They shot the film in Spain, and after completion, Clint goes back to USA and that is it.  

Then the film becomes an international success, and sometime later, Clint gets called back to do the second of the trilogy, For a few dollars more’.  

Interesting.