Social media not your thing? It could hurt your job search

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></i></b></span><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal arial, helvetica;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="tblContent"><tbody><tr id="trContent"><td align="center" class="cb_style tcContent" id="tcContent" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div class="cbArticleWrapper" style="background-color: white; text-align: left; width: 750px;"><div class="cbArticleContentWrapper" style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 15px; width: 750px;"><div class="cbArticleRight" style="width: 560px;"><div class="RXart" style="padding-right: 20px;"><div class="ArticleHeadline" style="margin-top: -30px;"><div class="cbmsnArticleImage" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" src="http://emj.cbdr.com/artieimages/lf/ar5l88r75zpy5xpv6nlf.gif?time=8/21/2011%2012:00:00%20pm" /></div><div class="hdr_org_bld" style="color: #ff6600; font: normal normal bold 18px/normal arial, helvetica;"><h1 id="articleHeadline" style="color: #ff7700; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></h1></div><b><span id="cbArticle_lblByLine">Rachel Farrell, Special to CareerBuilder</span></b><br /></div><br /><div class="ArticleContent"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Allie McCormick left her full-time <a href="http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/public+relations/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">public relations</a>position to be a stay-at-home mom. Once she was ready to get back to work, she posted to Facebook that she was looking for a job.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"I believe my status was something along the lines of 'Allie McCormick is officially job hunting. I have over 10 years of experience in <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/pr/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">PR</a> and <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/marketing/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">marketing</a> and am overall awesome [smiley face],'" she recalls.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">McCormick says she received several messages instantly. "Within four weeks, I had interviewed formally with three companies and had two offers on the table," says McCormick, now a PR<a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/consultant/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">consultant</a> with Innography, an <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/intellectual+property/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">intellectual property</a> <a href="http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/software/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">software</a> company.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/social+media/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Social media</a>, also referred to as social recruiting, is on the rise. And if you're not familiar with it, you had better get to know it soon.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>"</b>Social media is where the employers are and where they're investing," says Adriana Llames, Career Coach and author of "Career Sudoku: 9 Ways to Win the Job Search Game."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">In a recent study by Jobvite, an online recruiting website, 55 percent of employers said they plan to increase their investment in social recruiting. Eighty-seven percent of them are already using LinkedIn for recruiting and 95 percent hired a new employee from their LinkedIn recruiting efforts alone, not to mention Facebook or Twitter.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Additionally, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that up to 85 percent of career opportunities go unadvertised, which means that you have to use your network.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"Word of mouth and friend referrals are huge [in a job search]. The new word of mouth is through social media," says Sarah Cullins, president of Finesse Staffing, a <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/recruiting+firm/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">recruiting firm</a> based in<a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/California/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Southern California</a>. "It is often still who you know, not what you know, and social media helps you to know a lot more people."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Echoes Llames, "If you know of a company or a job you want to land, get your network working for you. With 350 friends, they know 350 friends who know 350 friends. You've just reached more than 1,000 people, and the likelihood is someone knows a hiring authority at your target company."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">In fact, not having an online presence will hurt job seekers, says Morgan McKean, a consultant and<a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/writer/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">writer</a> who specializes in recommending "<a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/green/" style="color: #3300cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">green</a>" fashions, beauty products and home décor for women.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"These days, any business that doesn't have a Web presence isn't taken seriously. What job seekers have to understand is that their career is their business. They must have a place to send potential employers to see their background. The product or brand they are selling is their skill set. They need to have a place to showcase their features and the benefits to working with them. Without these things, they lack credibility in this new job market," she says.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">If you don't already have a social networking or social media profile, the first thing to do is get one. Then follow these steps:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>1. Be clear on what you want.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"Candidates need to have a clear focus of what they're looking for in a position. If you want your network, online or offline, to help you, you need to know what you're asking for first," Llames says.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Saying that you are looking for a job isn't clear enough, Cullins says. "People won't take that seriously," she says. "If you clearly define what you want and what you can do and ask your network to actively help you, you will get led or pushed in the right direction."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>2. Give help first.</b> "When someone asks if you know of a good mechanic or if they paid too much to the plumber, help them out. Be sincere and helpful. Refer your social media contacts to others and they will reciprocate," Cullins says.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>3. Consistent branding</b>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"There are a plethora of candidates and job seekers I see that have one profile on Facebook that says 'restaurateur,' another one on LinkedIn that says 'social media marketer' and yet a third on Twitter that says 'food blogger.' Who are you?" Llames says. "Create a consistent, clear and precise brand across all the social networks and on your résumé so hiring managers and companies know what you do and that you're an expert in your industry."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>4. Protect yourself.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">More often than not, employers will do a search for you before or after an interview, in a search engine or on a social network.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"To avoid giving away too much information, keep your profiles private. Only accept Facebook friend requests from people you know, and while keeping your LinkedIn profile public is recommended, you can chose to publish on certain aspects of your public profile on LinkedIn," Llames says. "Avoid those summer beer-guzzling Facebook profile shots; your profile picture is always public."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>5. Be social.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"Social media is not just about blasting your opinion or your accomplishments to the world. Social media is an online party," McKean says. "If you engage people in conversations, compliment them on their work, ask questions and acknowledge their expertise, they are more likely to respond."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Ultimately, if you don't have a presence on social media, you look outdated and will get left behind.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i>Rachel Farrell researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues for CareerBuilder. Follow @Careerbuilder on Twitter.</i></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>

Social media not your thing? It could hurt your job search

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Starbucks Giveaway Winner!

Drum roll.... the results are in!  <a href="http://biggerthanababyelephant.blogspot.com/">Jodie from Bigger Than a Baby Elephant</a> has won the $10 Starbucks giftcard! <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOnxi8qxdaqDCZZq4WF7uq7u-d7E0VccSlh6acWPYCJE0hfSiXuEASbgDHGSOn9CbFLM7FqS9C3PztkUvh4FipmQ_V9zlwRMnap65ezCCWjUGt-KqAAJp7iukVDWQw24l-n6reG0FxBw/s1600/jodie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOnxi8qxdaqDCZZq4WF7uq7u-d7E0VccSlh6acWPYCJE0hfSiXuEASbgDHGSOn9CbFLM7FqS9C3PztkUvh4FipmQ_V9zlwRMnap65ezCCWjUGt-KqAAJp7iukVDWQw24l-n6reG0FxBw/s400/jodie.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />Congratulations Jodie and Happy Birthday!<br /><br />This week, I have non-scale victories to celebrate, because I certainly don't have scale victories to celebrate (thanks to <a href="http://the-big-weight.blogspot.com/2011/09/welcome-to-oa-meeting.html">many cookies</a> and lots of beer this week - I'm not surprised). <br /><br />I stuck to the NROLFW workout this week - and have been progressing well with the amount of weight I've been lifting each time.  And last night, I made my first trip to the gym without Joel where I actually lifted weights!  I kept putting it off all evening because I figured the longer I waited, the more likely it would be that the big men would be mostly gone for the night.  Also, to be honest, I didn't want to go.  I knew this week on the scale was going to bring bad numbers and I felt like "What does it matter now?".<br /><br />Still, I went and I'm glad I did.  I'm just not happy with myself.  I now have to re-lose those 2.2 pounds that just 7 days ago were not apart of me.  Of course it's my fault.  I get it.  And I'm <i>obviously </i>not good at resisting temptation. <br /><br />Hopefully this Septathalon this weekend will help me out. 

Gain giveaways Starbucks Giveaway Winner!

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TURKEYS MIDDLE EAST CHESS GAME

<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>THE TRUE REASON BEHIND TURKEYS WARMONGERING AGAINST ISRAEL </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" class="b-hbp-video b-uploaded" frameborder="0" height="266" id="BLOGGER-video-0133e2e4896cf571-14791" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxX-HndMhBk-LhyykzSCP5wKgb7wBl41v4wXdTSAv-Fixx9wQ-QPbZnQibyyePBkS2vuUU9VgJ_PdEXD3qPppUHM2qZEabmZWjAgxwNa5UCb-EmlgkZuoG2gDCBpqIexmZu_EwH" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>TURKISH DÉJÀ VU , NEO OTTOMANISM</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>  </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">TURKEY cleverly utilized the ARAB SPRING for its own political agenda, namely that of expansionism and spreading its political model in order to gain greater geopolitical influence and subsequently obtain a stronger stance on the world stage. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Under pretence of the GAZA FLOTILLA incident, ERDOGAN used the excuse to distance himself from ISRAEL in order to gain acceptance of MUSLIM countries and the ARAB LEAGUE and promote TURKEY as a model for ARAB STATES. His populist warmongering rhetoric against ISRAEL are well received among Arab states, what he neglects however to mention is the true cause of his rift with Israel, namely that of an ongoing natural resources dispute which involves GREECE, CYPRUS and ISRAEL. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE NATURAL RESOURCES CHESS GAME IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN  </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wdkCCVftpmaqt4q46p6MHtWxol9tm-43DP9sRBARP2AEvCTowQl08H6lFKATyhbZXP8bciGGD6vqvtpStuaeP8Y4hKofhsAnOjnkIYe60S7Y5vNHYwnIHu_a-xTIe0RE3549RXRPm9Zy/s1600/cypriot-turkey-conflict-nationalturk-19876.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wdkCCVftpmaqt4q46p6MHtWxol9tm-43DP9sRBARP2AEvCTowQl08H6lFKATyhbZXP8bciGGD6vqvtpStuaeP8Y4hKofhsAnOjnkIYe60S7Y5vNHYwnIHu_a-xTIe0RE3549RXRPm9Zy/s200/cypriot-turkey-conflict-nationalturk-19876.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">(See CYPRUS conflict <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus</a>) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">As mentioned in my previous article posted Friday the 9^th of September on this blog,  ISRAEL and CYPRUS, in a joint venture,   are about to extract gas from a 350,000 hectares gas deposits found on the border of CYPRUS’S and ISRAEL’S economic zone in the eastern Mediterranean, which TURKEY claims a share of.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">By using warmongering rhetoric’s TURKEY not only drew attention of the ARAB world but also GREECE, its  archenemy and close ally of CYPRUS who responded equally harsh by <b>threatening with war</b> if TURKEY hinders CYPRUS’S gas exploration, a calculated move of GREECE to distract from its looming default, a tactic which has proven a success in recent past under Thatcher’s government in order to distract from the problem the government faced in the UK and subsequently led to the MALVINAS (Falklands) war with ARGENTINA and a political resurrection for Thatcher. ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War</a>)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2akoKQvD5mUAtKcr8JO3FkDs45yCbbeNdpQPrvloTUb6DqDhXRvUm9zUkxNsjF5BQ2PMs3OLpJqqLcTbI0OY0oZztpQ68dQRHG6cTZ36Wn2j4mllCWWkT6QQJz4vUr4InN3KeIzVjs80k/s1600/8216don8217t-sacrifice-talks-in-cyprus-for-natural-gas8217-2011-08-14_l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2akoKQvD5mUAtKcr8JO3FkDs45yCbbeNdpQPrvloTUb6DqDhXRvUm9zUkxNsjF5BQ2PMs3OLpJqqLcTbI0OY0oZztpQ68dQRHG6cTZ36Wn2j4mllCWWkT6QQJz4vUr4InN3KeIzVjs80k/s400/8216don8217t-sacrifice-talks-in-cyprus-for-natural-gas8217-2011-08-14_l.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">CYPRUS MAIL Newspaper Article </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/turkey-watchful-oil-rig-moved-position/20110916">http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/turkey-watchful-oil-rig-moved-position/20110916</a></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>DRAWING SYMPATHY FROM ARAB COUNTRIES</b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>  </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">CYPRUS only recently reiterated that it will not halt exploration activities despite warnings from TURKEY who obviously does not want to miss out on the prospects of huge oil and gas extraction in the EASTER MEDITERRANEAN basin. Due to the geographic position of these fields it becomes imminent that TURKEY needs ARAB countries as allies in order to isolate CYPRUS and ISRAEL. Thus it also becomes evident why ERODGAN emphasized Israel’s so-called increased isolation in the region during his “public relation trip” in ARAB MIDDLE EAST countries and at the same time promoting the upcoming PALESTINE statehood bid, for it plays in TURKEY’S long-term geopolitical strategic favor.  What ERDOGAN neglects though is that ISRAEL has always been isolated in the region, despite its peace treaty with JORDAN and EGYPT. ISRAEL never was naïve to believe that it will have an everlasting peace with those two countries and subsequently has adjusted its politics and policies accordingly.   </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">What mainstream media also neglect to mention is that CHINA supports ISRAEL in the PALESTINE statehood issue and that Israel has signed a free trade agreement with MERCOSUR, of which BRAZIL is also part of,  (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur</a>), a move that could prove to be essential, especially since MERCOSUR countries are gaining economic and political influence on the world stage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WESTERN ARROGANCE AND IGNORANCE LED TO UNDERESTIMATE TURKEY </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlPAUzM_U7k5R7joJUfkswxYyvPjbvEWikc2M0rqI5EB0zBHTn_5ADsBmfyi9TOl7LuBg6D9-JGe6eWbcEORwhsD7UWW0G6LsgTdeFT-h-HDi1iIB46-8dqKTOFqyfKCC5Ak-GpCO6ya3/s1600/800px-Map_of_countries_by_number_of_active_troops.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlPAUzM_U7k5R7joJUfkswxYyvPjbvEWikc2M0rqI5EB0zBHTn_5ADsBmfyi9TOl7LuBg6D9-JGe6eWbcEORwhsD7UWW0G6LsgTdeFT-h-HDi1iIB46-8dqKTOFqyfKCC5Ak-GpCO6ya3/s320/800px-Map_of_countries_by_number_of_active_troops.PNG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Map of countries by number of active troops</b></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the other hand EUROPE has always underestimated TURKEY’S political wittiness in expanding its influence in the BALKAN and indeed the political world stage. Over the years TURKEY has become the 2^nd largest NATO army in EUROPE and the 8^th largest army of the world.  Despite its current warmongering tactics, TURKEY is still a close ally of the USA which on the other hand is an ally of ISRAEL.  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>TACTICS – TURKEY PERMITS NATO ANTI MISSILE RADAR TO BE INSTALLED ON ITS EASTERN BORDER </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thus ANKARA’S recent decision to permit the installation of an anti missile radar on its border as part of a defense shield against RUSSIAN and IRANIAN missile threats, indirectly provides additional security for ISRAEL. On the other hand the NATO radar site also showcases the link between the USA, TURKEY and SAUDI ARABIA in the quest to oppose IRAN, RUSSIA and to some extend CHINA.  With TURKEY permitting the NATO radar shield it covers two issues at one stroke.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">One is that it maintains the support of the SUNNI ARAB states in the quest against SHIITES and at the same time satisfies the USA and its Western allies, strengthening TURKEY’S reputation among WESTERN as well as EASTERN countries, making it a key player on the political as well as economic world stage.   </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNHWVgfgoL8zlTuhrB_nOz2Pp-ILHxPiToT5HkEs9kilX0bOJJVBuLW_0PjbRjfOupFaFJrO_m5WjcYAMDvicRLklqIKnbW4ZsOT3h7tM7cRzqe03vfjPnvOKmXnK0O7RrRCz1FZS-bZn/s1600/Islam-by-country-smooth.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNHWVgfgoL8zlTuhrB_nOz2Pp-ILHxPiToT5HkEs9kilX0bOJJVBuLW_0PjbRjfOupFaFJrO_m5WjcYAMDvicRLklqIKnbW4ZsOT3h7tM7cRzqe03vfjPnvOKmXnK0O7RrRCz1FZS-bZn/s320/Islam-by-country-smooth.png" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Map from Wikipedia Commons</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Green:  Sunni</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Blue: Shiite</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>

TURKEYS MIDDLE EAST CHESS GAME

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