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MESOP TODAYS HEADLINE : THE „REAL THING“ / POST TRUTH ERA

The Post-Truth Era: Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life … / Die Nach-Wahrheit-Ära: Unehrlichkeit und Täuschung im zeitgenössischen Leben …

 

MESOP TODAYS QUOTATION : OH BILL – OH HILLARY !

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson: People From Clinton’s Elections Team Visited Moscow Many Times

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that meetings with various personnel on the elections teams of both U.S. presidential candidates was “normal diplomatic practice,” and implied that the American outrage regarding Russian contacts with President-elect Trump’s team in the buildup to the elections was groundless. Asked about contacts with Hillary Clinton’s team, Zakharova said: “They came to Moscow many times.” She was speaking on a Russia 1 post-elections talk show on November 13.  www.mesop.de

 

MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS

ou were away…  – Kyle W. Orton and yassin musharbash liked this

Charles Lister@Charles_Lister Very disappointing to see absurd accusations being made against @Raqqa_SL. To accuse them of supporting #ISIS is despicably unprofessional.

 

MESOP TODAYS OPINION BY MUSTAFA AKYOL

Turkey’s Populists See an Unlikely Ally

New York Times 16 Nov 2016 – ISTANBUL — The election of Donald J. Trump as the next president of the United States came as an unpleasant shock to much of the world. But in Turkey, my country, it was applauded — not by everyone, for sure, but by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his enthusiastic supporters.

As it became clear that the Republican candidate had achieved an upset, pro-government Turkish columnists, some of whom are also members of Parliament, began cheering it as a blow to the American establishment. Mr. Trump won, they emphasized, despite the opposition of the American news media, Wall Street, the C.I.A. and Hollywood. Hillary Clinton’s defeat, they declared, was the defeat of “the globalist fascists.” The first official statement from the government came from Bekir Bozdag, the justice minister and an Erdogan confidant. “Nobody can win elections with newspaper headlines, polls, televisions,” Mr. Bozdag said. “The American people said no to their will being manipulated.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80132

 

MESOP LATEST COLUMN : The United States needs to hold Russia accountable for its aggression / By : Ben Cardin is a U.S. senator from Maryland and the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

November 17 at 6:01 AM – Washington Post – Any presidential administration’s top charge is to protect U.S. national security interests, and now more than ever, that important endeavor must start with addressing a resurgent Russia. Over the course of President Vladi­mir Putin’s time in office, Russia has been the purveyor of an anti-democratic agenda, completely antithetical to values that we as Americans hold dear — the liberal democratic process, human rights, sovereignty and the rule of law. Russia has interfered in our election, endangered lives in Ukraine and Syria and sought to dismantle the rules-based international system which has provided stability since the end of World War II. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80138

 

MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY ; “TRUMP WILL BE MUCH MORE ON THE PESHMERGA SIDE “ – By  Laurie Mylroie is a Washington DC correspondent for Kurdistan24 and covers the State Department and Pentagon.

17 Nov 2016 – The Kurdistan Region, including its most senior officials, has warmly welcomed the election of Donald Trump. Almost certainly Trump will prove friendlier than Barack Obama. But that friendliness will probably manifest itself in small, individual decisions, rather than a single big one, like declaring support for Kurdish independence. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80148

 

MESOP MIDDLE EAST

MESOP BACKGROUNDER:  TRUMP’S ADVISORS FÜR MIDDLE EAST & IRAQ

David William Lazar, defined by the Israeli press an “Assyrian activist and friend of Israel” – Two Assyrians Among Trump’s Advisors for the Middle East

Agenzia Fides + AINA  – 2016-11-17 17:00 GMT – Professor Gabriel Sawma, after his studies in Lebanon, and after having worked as legal advisor, which allowed him to visit various nations of the Middle East, emigrated to the US in 1975, during the Lebanese civil war, and is considered an expert in Islamic law especially on the laws concerning family, divorce, inheritance issues and legal custody of children. He wrote the book The Qur’an: Misinterpreted, Mistranslated and Misread, in which he supports the thesis that the Koran was originally written in Aramaic, not Arabic, and that the original version of the holy book of Islam allows interpretations of the text that differ from those offered so far by the various Islamic schools. Read all : http://www.mesop.de/?p=80152

 

SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)

MESOP NEWS : BARZANI’S THOUGH WORDS – Kurdish President: We Have Deal With US and Baghdad to Keep Reclaimed Lands

Rudaw – 2016-11-17 -Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani said Wednesday that Kurdish forces would not withdraw from lands they reclaimed from ISIS before the start of the Mosul operation last month, explaining that this was agreed with the United States and Iraqi government.

Speaking in the town of Bashiqa, which was liberated by the Peshmerga in the first week of this month, Barzani warned human rights organizations that have recently accused Kurdish forces of demolishing homes in some liberated areas that those who cooperated with ISIS have no place among the Kurds, while all others are warmly embraced . Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80134

 

WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

MESOP BACKGROUNDER : THE REASON WHY PUTIN HAS LEFT INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT – MASS MURDER!

Syria Daily: 116 Killed As Russia & Regime Bomb In & Near Aleppo

17 Nov 2016 –  By Scott Lucas – eaworldview -The opposition Syrian National Coalition has accused Russia of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court to “to evade accountability for the war crimes its forces are committing against civilians in Syria”.On Wednesday Moscow announced its formal departure from the ICC, which began functioning on July 1, 2002. Russia signed the 1998 Rome Statute, which established the court, in 2000 but has never ratified the treaty.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: At least 116 people were killed across Syria on Wednesday, as Russia and the Assad regime carried out intense bombing in and near the country’s largest city Aleppo. The fatalities included 11 women and 19 children, according to the Local Coordination Committees, the pro-opposition group which documented the deaths.Of the casualties, 82 were in Aleppo country.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80136

 

MESOP Syria Feature: Human Rights Watch — Yes, Russia Attacked Schools & Killed Children in Late October

November 17 –  By Scott Lucas – Human Rights Watch has issued a report establishing Russia’s responsibility — despite Moscow’s denials — for airstrikes on schools in Idlib Province on October 26, killing eight teachers and 18 children: See Syria Feature: Russia Kills 26, Including 18 Children, in Bombings of Schools. – Analysis of satellite imagery provides additional verification that damage to a school complex in the village of Haas in Idlib on October 26, 2016, was caused by airstrikes carried out by the joint Russian-Syrian military operation in Syria, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the Russian Defense Ministry. The complex included a kindergarten, an elementary school, two middle schools, and a secondary school, witnesses reached by telephone said. The attacks also hit other nearby civilian infrastructure.

The Russian Defense Ministry denied that the attacks on the opposition-controlled town of Haas took place, on the basis of two still frames it released from footage from a surveillance drone of the school complex. The military rejected a November 6 Human Rights Watch report on the attacks that was based on interviews with witnesses. The report found that the strikes on Haas killed dozens of people, mostly schoolchildren. But the drone footage presented by the Russian Defense Ministry shows, and even marks, damage that matches the damage visible in the satellite imagery analyzed by Human Rights Watch. The Human Rights Watch report was also based on reviews of several videos of the attack and an interview with one of the videographers. Read all & watch pics & images http://www.mesop.de/?p=80140

 

 

THE GERMAN CHAPTER

MESOP NEU : ERDOGAN’S PROBLEM – “WAS MUSS ICH NOCH TUN, DAMIT IHR DIE BEZIEHUNGEN ABBRECHT …….?

Türkei will EU-Parlamentarierin nicht empfangen – Reise abgesagt

SPIEGEL ONLINE  – 17 Nov 2016 – Die türkische Regierung lässt die Türkei-Beauftrage des EU-Parlaments Kati Piri nicht mit Ministerpräsident Binali Yildirim sprechen. Brüssel sagt … Volltet www.mesop.de

 

Die vorerst letzten deutschen Waffen für Kurdistan (Neufassung)

MESOP NEU : DIE LETZTEN DEUTSCHEN WAFFEN FÜR KURDISTAN (IRAQ) – VORERST !

  1. Nov 2016 – MESOP – die Bundeswehr hat in dieser Woche eine weitere Waffenlieferung für die kurdischen-Peshmerga-Kämpfer im Einsatz gegen die ISIS-Terrormilizen in den Nordirak gebracht – die vorerst letzte Unterstützung mit deutschen Waffen. Die aktuelle Tranche bestand im Wesentlichen aus Sturmgewehren des Typs G36 und Munition, wie die Bundeswehr am (heutigen) Donnerstag mitteilte:

Die Unterstützung der nordirakischen Sicherheitskräfte mit Waffen und Munition wird weiter fortgesetzt. In den Abendstunden des 15. Novembers 2016 brachte eine Transportmaschine vom Typ Antonov 1.000 Gewehre G36 und fast 2,5 Millionen Schuss Munition nach Erbil. Das Flugzeug war am Mittag vom Flughafen Leipzig/Halle gestartet und nach einem geplanten Zwischenstopp in Bagdad nach Erbil weitergeflogen, wo es in den Abendstunden entladen wurde. Bestandteile dieser Lieferung waren:
• 1.000 Gewehre G36
• 2.480.000 Patronen Kaliber 7,62mm x 51  – Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=80146

 

MESOP NEU : THE DARLING OF GERMANY’S PRO ISRAEL LEFTISTS

Goldman Sachs, Bank to the Elite, Makes Pitch to the Masses

By RANDALL – NYT – 17 Nov 2016

The bank will roll out its first advertising campaign aimed at getting individuals to replace higher-cost credit card debt with a lower-cost personal loan.  www.mesop.de

 

 

MESOP NEU : BRÜSSEL ZUM FINALEN SUIZID FEST ENTSCHLOSSEN

Selbst-Demontage

Die EU-Kommission will der Finanzminister für den kompletten Euroraum sein. Der jüngste Schritt hat mit ihrer eigentlichen Rolle nichts zu tun.

16.11.2016, von Werner Mussler – FAZ – Nun ernennt sich die EU-Kommission also zum „kollektiven Finanzminister“ für den Euroraum. Unter anderen politischen Umständen hätten die einen diese Anmaßung mutig und zupackend, die anderen frech und empörend gefunden. Jetzt wirkt die Initiative in ihrem ganzen hohlen Pathos nur lächerlich. Wieder einmal flüchtet sich die „politische“ Kommission in Aktionismus, weil sie glaubt, in Zeiten der politischen Unsicherheit irgendetwas tun zu müssen.

Währungskommissar Pierre Moscovici begründet die neue Selbstbezeichnung damit, dass die Kommission erstmals dem Euroraum als Ganzem eine expansive Fiskalpolitik empfiehlt, selbstredend vor allem jenen Ländern, deren Haushaltslage das zu erlauben scheint. In der Sache hätte Moscovici auch nur das tun können, was er seit Jahren tut – Deutschland auffordern, die Staatsausgaben zu erhöhen und mehr zu investieren.

Aber einer politischen Kommission reicht das natürlich nicht. Sie muss ihren „politischen Willen“ (Moscovici) in bombastische Floskeln gießen – und hoffen, dass sich die Mitgliedstaaten von ihrer Aufforderung beeindrucken lassen. Der Bundesfinanzminister wird von internationalen Organisationen seit längerem gedrängt, die schwarze Null aufzugeben.

Taschenspielertricks zugunsten von Spanien und Portugal

Es ist wenig wahrscheinlich, dass er nun seine Meinung ändert, weil diese Forderung von einem selbsternannten „Eurofinanzminister“ an ihn herangetragen wird. Dem Glauben des Brüsseler Kollektivs, es könne per Anweisung die Konjunktur des Euroraums steuern, fehlt schon ökonomisch die Grundlage. Erst recht lächerlich wird er aber, weil die EU-Behörde keine rechtliche Handhabe hat, ihre Globalsteuerungsambitionen durchzusetzen.

Eine Konsequenz hat der neue Vorstoß freilich. Die Kommission entfernt sich noch weiter von der ihr (auch rechtlich) zugedachten Rolle, über die Haushalte der Mitgliedstaaten zu wachen. Sowenig Deutschland die Brüsseler Aufforderung ernst nehmen wird, die Staatsausgaben zu erhöhen, so wenig ernst nehmen Mitgliedstaaten wie Frankreich die pflichtschuldig vorgetragene Brüsseler Mahnung, den Staatshaushalt wieder in geordnete Bahnen zu bringen.

Dass sie auf deren Einhaltung im Ernstfall auch keinen Wert legt, hat die Kommission mehrfach gezeigt. Diesmal zeigt sie es besonders mit den Taschenspielertricks zugunsten Spaniens und Portugals. Diese Kommission nimmt niemand mehr ernst. Was Moscovici als einen Akt politischer Entschlossenheit lobt, ist in Wirklichkeit ein weiterer Schritt Richtung endgültiger Selbstdemontage.

FAZ 17 Nov 2016