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1/ Acting defense sec'y Patrick Shanahan & Turkey🇹🇷: #LifeIsGettingBetterForTurkey (& Boeing) @MsMariaT
Shanahan "served as VP & general manager of the 787 Dreamliner, the Boeing Missile Defense Systems, and Boeing Rotorcraft Systems... (con't)
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT 2/ … overseeing the Apache, Chinook and Osprey helicopters..."
"This last position is directly connected to Turkey's war against Kurdish insurgency. The U.S. first announced the possible sale of CH-47F Chinook helicopters to Turkey🇹🇷 in 2009... (con't)
@JoumanaGebara__
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT @JoumanaGebara__ 3/ … as part of a sale valued at $1.2 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) noted the primary contractor would be Boeing — a program that Shanahan had overseen." (Another Cabinet member in line for kickbacks like David Bernhardt at DOI😡.) more...
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT @JoumanaGebara__ 4/ "Keynote speakers include Rep of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sedat Onal, and Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ of TAIK (US Turkish Business Council). more on Yalçındağ⤵️...
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT @JoumanaGebara__ 5/ Link to December 11, 2016 article by @borzou in next tweet: "It was May 4, 2012, and Donald Trump arrived for the opening gala at the high-end apartment and office towers and greeted shopkeepers alongside his daughter Ivanka... (con't)
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT @JoumanaGebara__ @borzou 6/ ... They were joined by two power players in Turkey’s🇹🇷 plutocracy: Aydin Dogan, a Turkish billionaire who oversees a real estate and media empire, and his son-in-law, Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ." (more…)
buzzfeednews.com/article/borzou…
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT @JoumanaGebara__ @borzou 7/ "Trump’s ties to Turkey🇹🇷 include licensing deals with the head of the country’s largest media empire, Dogan, which includes CNN’s Turkish edition and the premier newspaper, Hurriyet; its most well-connected furniture firm, Dorya… (con't)
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT @JoumanaGebara__ @borzou 8/ …which caters to the country’s most powerful institutions; and also Anar Mammadov, a billionaire executive of two Turkish construction companies who is also the son of an Azeri🇦🇿 oligarch and transportation minister US officials suspect of corrupt dealings... (con't)
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT @JoumanaGebara__ @borzou 9/ … with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, according to leaked US diplomatic cables."
And of course Anar Mammadov connects to possibly *the* most corrupt TTower venture, and the Agalarov family connected to Miss Universe 2013 and Jun 9, 2016 TTower meeting.🙄
nytimes.com/2018/04/28/wor…
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT @JoumanaGebara__ @borzou 10/ Previous head of TAIK🇹🇷 was recently indicted Ekim Alptekin, who connects to Michael Flynn attempting to whisk Gulen onto Erdoğan's doorstep in 2016, which connects to Sezgin Baran Korkmaz (SBK Holding) who was subpoenaed by Mueller...
Dec 17, 2018:
justice.gov/opa/pr/two-men…
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT @JoumanaGebara__ @borzou 11/ ... to appear before a grand jury in DC on Sep 22, 2017. Korkmaz (SBK Holding) connects to indicted domestic launderers (more downthread), but first will introduce Mubariz Mansimov and his relationship with Erdoğan: (more...)
propublica.org/article/robert…
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT @JoumanaGebara__ @borzou 12/ Mubariz Mansimov (Palmali Group) and Erdoğan: (more...)
@ThomasS4217 @ericgarland @MsMariaT @JoumanaGebara__ @borzou 13/ Palmali USA LLC was registered in California by son of Armenian-American Levon Termendzhyan (aka LevDermen), who was indicted for money laundering (to Turkey) last Aug, along w/Kingston brothers of Utah. /end
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@ThomasS4217 @SaysDana @ReflectingMan @soychicka @karolcummins @pleasesaveour @HiMaui 1/ I cast my vote for George Birnbaum.
"After having founded his university's [FL Institute of Technology] chapter of College Republicans & volunteering on several Congressional campaigns Birnbaum took his 1st paid position in a political campaign in 1992
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(1/3) h/t @OldGrunt0351
"Italy🇮🇹 is a particularly important location for Pyongyang🇰🇵, given that Rome hosts the UN’s World Food Program🇺🇳. North Korea🇰🇵 suffered famines in the 1990s and continues to face widespread malnourishment to this day. (con't)
(2/3) In the past, the embassy is also believed to have handled shipments of Italian🇮🇹 luxury goods – ranging from ice-cream and fresh fish to marble interior decorations – for the Kim🇰🇵 family." (more...)
(3/3) "[North Korean🇰🇵] Diplomats have defected from embassies including those in Egypt🇪🇬, Thailand🇹🇭, the UK🇬🇧, Zambia🇿🇲 and even UN organizations🇺🇳." /end
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1/ Op-Ed author: "Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of 'The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism'”
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2/ Olsen opens his rebuttal against Romney's op-ed in praise of character:
"Let’s start with the article’s premise that President Trump’s character is more important than his accomplishments or principles. Most Republicans simply don’t accept this argument."🙄
3/ Basically this senior fellow at the *Ethics* and Public Policy Center (👋waves to Howard Dahl, Leonard Leo and Ed Whelan, ) is arguing that public policy has no need for *ethics.*🤔 #IOKIYAR GOP should be renamed MWORH (my way or the highway) or ZT (zero tolerance). /end
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<Thread> Whether or not Sec Mattis was the last “adult in the room,” his resignation has created a historic opportunity for the Pres & Congress to shape the Pentagon’s future leadership. In 2019, they’ll choose a new SecDef, 5/7 new Joint Chiefs, & several new Combatant CDRs. 1/
As research by @ProfSaunders and others shows, presidential advisors are always political. While it is a little different for military advisors, my dissertation shows that Presidents & Senators usually try to politicize military appointments, too. 2/

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Thread 👇triggered many questions:

1-How can Syrian leadership resume relations with #Saudi after its support of the Opp?

2-What about #Iran and will Tehran feel betrayed?

3-What about #Russia and how might this potential shift impact Turkish/Russian relations?

Answers ==>
2-On #Saudi : No question that Riyadh/Damascus rapprochement is difficult to foresee. Note that this shift is being led #UAE and not Saudi. Riyadh is expected to follow and yes, reluctantly. Damascus is just as easy about this given Saudi’s early support of the Opp. BUT ==>
3-When discussing Riyadh/Damascus, it’s critical to think about Qatari/Saudi schism. If forced to choose, who should Damascus side with? Answer: #Saudi . Why? #Qatar is ardent supporter of the Moslem Brotherhood (enemy of both Damascus & Riyadh). Doha is also still supporting Opp
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<Thread> This @TaskandPurpose article by Emma Moore from @CNASdc makes a really important point about the civil-military gaps. It is this: people simply don’t understand how much diversity there is our armed forces. 1/
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In @KoriSchake and Sec Mattis’s book, @lindsaypcohn Peter Feaver & I noted that fewer people know someone who has served in the military, and that this trend is likely to continue. 2/
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But we didn’t emphasize a related, but nuanced point - it is not just that fewer people know someone who has served, it is also that even those who know someone who has served, know fewer people who have served. 3/
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<Brief Thread> on some CIA reports as the #PKK insurgency was beginning in #Turkey.
HT @Ayei_Eloheichem, who found these materials. He covers Russia, Israel, terrorism, espionage, and more. Give him a #FF.
In August 1985, the CIA believed that the #PKK insurgency in #Turkey that had begun exactly a year before was all-but finished because of the internal divisions in the Kurdish population and the gangsterism of the PKK, plus no support from Iraqi Kurds. bit.ly/2uk88k3
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The question (posed by the FoxNews, InfoWars & Breitbart types) goes something like, "Yes, we know you are against Trump, but what are you FOR?"

I would expect their audience to repeat this inane talking point, but I seem to be hearing this from Resistance members./1
I can't speak for other people, but there seems to be a general thread of values that runs through the Resistance, and it's pretty consistent.

We are composed mostly of women, so we fight for women's rights.

We are religiously & ethnically diverse, so we fight for inclusion./2
We are lesbian, gay, straight, bi, gender-queer & trans, so we support LGBTQ rights.

We are Black, Latino, Asian & white, so we support minority rights

We're mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters, sons, wives, husbands & grandparents, so yes, we're for family values./3
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<THREAD> I'm now hearing this meme that governments around the world have defeated communism.

Guys. It's time for some Marxist theory
A spectre is haunting Europe--the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to 1/590
exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the party 2/590
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