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30 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Horrific forest fire situation in Turkey. 13 major fires now. I share @ClaireBerlinski's doubts re. PKK responsibility, but (as the thread illustrates) there's heavy suspicion. The likely truth is even more worrying than a PKK attack: the planet is spontaneously combusting.
Now, as @ClaireBerlinski says, "It's fire season." There are forest fires every summer in Turkey, Greece and elsewhere in the Mediterranean. But the fires across Turkey now are more numerous, larger and more intense than usual. Very scary.
@SimonLite strikes a balanced note, saying people shouldn't jump too hastily to conclusions of arson ("eco-terrorism" etc.).
This video gives a sense of the suddenness with which these fires are arising: bewildered people hurriedly gather their stuff up from the beach and flee as the fire suddenly arrives at the edge of town (in this case, Marmaris).

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28 Jul
Turkey Isn't Immune from Assault Suit Against Erdogan Guards lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/turkey…
Not mentioned: acoustic analysis of the VOA video shows a bodyguard leaning into the back seat of RTE’s limo to talk to RTE, then straightening up and calling out to the rest of the bodyguards: “Dalan diyor !” (“He says ‘plunge in’”!). They did so immediately.
*Dalın, not ‘dalan’
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23 Jul
@SenWhitehouse You have been by far the most persistent in raising questions about Kavanaugh’s fitness, and I thank you for it. The article below details your questioning of the then nominee’s personal finances. You asked many good questions.
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Your 14 pages of questions, however, were put to him after the hearings. He answered evasively and incompletely (as the article describes). As a result, key questions are still unanswered. Why was there no sustained interrogation of Kavanaugh’s finances when it counted ?
Or was there close questioning of his finances in the closed door sessions before the public hearings ? If that’s the case, how could the (obvious) written questions you posed to him later have remained unexplored prior to his confirmation ?
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11 Jul
We’ll see what the Select Committee is able to do in uncovering the leadership and funding of Jan. 6, and its GOP collaborators. It must not, however, serve as a substitute for criminal investigations of senior officials.
Have senior military officers been called for interviews on their interactions with civilian counterparts that day ? Uniformed personnel will cooperate, if questioned directly. Their info should be productive.
The DOJ investigations of Jan. 6 are centered in the U.S Attorney’s office for D.C. and the FBI’s Washington, D.C. field office. From published DOJ statements thus far, there’s no reason to believe they are investigating senior political figures’ involvement.
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10 Jul
Although this article on the foreign assassins of the Haitian President doesn’t explicitly say so, I note that Colombian ex-military guns for hire (sicarios) have been a mainstay of Erik Prince’s operations, including in the Middle East (a theater mentioned in the article).
I’m not alleging any involvement by Prince in the Haitian assassination. I’m calling attention again (I’ve tweeted about this before) to the fact that he resorts to contract gun slingers of the sort used in Port au Prince (not all Colombian ex-mil, of course).
Here’s the article: amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
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26 Jun
With all the furore over Fetullah Gulen over the years, it’s curious that few top investigative journalists have examined the current Turkish govt.’s allegation that the U.S. harbors Gulen because he is an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. That he is, in fact, a U.S. agent.
They adduce: Gulen’s permanent residency was sponsored by at least one retired CIA operative (true); Gulen’s global network is sustained by cash flow from his U.S. schools; Gulen schools and facilities in other countries (e.g., East Africa) have provided cover for the U.S. IC.
Most importantly, they say USG plays Gulen against Erdogan, with the ever present threat of Gulen’s return (like Khomeini returning from Paris) somehow constraining Erdogan.
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29 May
Two conversations with NYC friends yesterday offered contrasting impressions of NY’s current recovery. One, a high end realtor, said “I think we’re back. My artsy friends have resumed their normal routines of screenings, gallery shows and the rest. Life is returning to normal.”
The other, a businessman who went for a meeting y’day at the Paramount Building on Broadway, said the lobby security man told him that, in normal times, the security desk processed 8,000 visitors/ day. Now 800. Entire floors stand vacant.
Both are valid indicators. Cultural life is rebounding but office-based commercial life is not. The City’s economy, as now configured, cannot sustain prolonged absence of the latter. Same is true in other cities (downtown Boston still a ghost town, according to a lawyer there).
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