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MESOP NEWS TODAYS PRIME QUOTATION / US Moving from Human Rights to Counterterrorism
Nikki Haley full text / AMBASSADOR TO UN – 3 Apr 2017
And Mr. Trump’s envoy to the United Nations called President Bashar al-Assad of Syria a war criminal but didn’t rule out cooperating with him to defeat the Islamic State. “Right now Assad is not our No. 1 person to talk to,” she said.
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MESOP NEWS ALARM ! – NEW WAVE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS USED BY ASSAD IN SYRIA ?
Conflict News @Conflicts 1h1 hour ago – BREAKING: Reports coming in of a chemical weapons attacks against rebel-controlled Khan Shaikhoun in #Idleb – @NorthernStork
Conflict News @Conflicts 1h1 hour ago
PHOTO: Mutiple people hit by the chemical attack in #Idlib, many of them children – @AsaadHannaa
Conflict News @Conflicts 1h1 hour ago – Conflict News Retweeted Dr Shajul Islam
UPDATE: Doctor on the scene says this could be a possible Sarin gas attack #Idlib
Conflict News added, Dr Shajul Islam @DrShajulIslam
OUR HOSPITAL GETTING FULL FROM THE SARIN ATTACK TODAY. ANYONE THAT WANTS EVIDENCE, I WILL VIDEO CALL YOU.
Conflict News @Conflicts 1h1 hour ago
LIVE: Live feed from the location of suspected chemical attack in rebel-controlled #Idlib #Syria – @Mr_Ghostly
Conflict News @Conflicts – Replying to @Conflicts @GissiSim and
VIDEO: Victims of the chemical attack have pin-point pupils, a signs of Sarin gas exposure – Neurosurg_Omar https://twitter.com/conflicts/status/849151540862615552
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MESOP NEWS FOOTAGE / CHEMICAL DEATH TO CHILDREN (WATCH VIDEO)
Rudaw EnglishVerified account @RudawEnglish – Footage reportedly showing children that have suffocated to death in alleged chemical attack targeting civilians in #Idlib — Activists.
WATCH VIDEO http://www.mesop.de/?p=84427
MESOP NEWS : PUTIN’S PARTNER – THE GASMAN BASHAR AL ASSAD
Syria Developing: 58+ Killed in Regime’s Latest Chemical Attacks
April 04 – by Scott Lucas – eaworldview – At least 58 people were killed on Tuesday by regime chemical weapons attacks in Idlib Province in northwest Syria, according to witnesses and medical staff. The “gas attack” was on the town of Khan Sheikhoun. Photographs showed victims, some with foam around their mouths, in the street and being treated by rescuers.The regime has carried out a series of chemical attacks in recent months, from the assault to reoccupy all of Aleppo Province to strikes in northern Hama Province — including on a hospital — in the past week to bombardment of Idlib Province. Watch pics http://www.mesop.de/?p=84433
MESOP DOCUMENT : FULL TEXT US GENERAL VOTELS STATEMENT ON MIDDLE EAST
Gen. Votel Assesses Middle East Security Challenges: On March 29, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander, Gen. Joseph Votel appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to assess the security challenges in the greater Middle East. In his prepared statement, he cited a number of contributing factors to instability, including ethnic and sectarian hostilities, economic uncertainty, large youth unemployment, worsening humanitarian crises, and outside actors seeking to supplant U.S. influence in the region. Read full text General VOTEL http://www.mesop.de/?p=84407
MESOP TODAYS OPINION BY NAFTALI BENNETT – HEZBOLLAH & IRAN BRINGING WAR TO ISRAEL RIGHT NOW
Hezbollah is Lebanon is Hezbollah
April 3, 2017, TIMES OF ISRAEL – Naftali Bennett – Naftali Bennett, a Major in the IDF (reserves), is Israel’s Minister of Education and a member of the Inner Security Cabinet.In July 2006 mortars and rockets were fired from Lebanon at Israel’s cities and infrastructure. At the same time, Lebanese militants crossed the border and attacked Israeli soldiers – killing three and abducting the bodies of two others to the Lebanese town of Ayta a-Shab. More Israelis were killed as they chased the attackers into Lebanese territory. Despite this, Israel did not retaliate against Lebanon. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84413
MESOP NEWS EXTRA : Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling parties reach agreement on independence referendum
April 3, 2017 – ARA News – The two ruling parties in Iraqi Kurdistan region, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), have agreed on holding an independence referendum, a Kurdish official said on Sunday.“President Barzani supervised an important meeting between both KDP and PUK politburos. [Independence] Referendum, Kirkuk issue and the relations with Baghdad were discussed,” said Hemin Hawrami, senior assistant to Kurdistan regional president President Masoud Barzani.“KDP and PUK agreed to form a high-level joint committee for referendum and visit all other parties to work together for Self-0determination,” he added. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84411
MESOP ROJAVA SPECIAL : THE STALINIST CHARACTER OF PYD/PKK & THEIR SECRET ARRANGEMENTS WITH ASSAD
Have the PYD Kurds in Syria commited War Crimes ? Yes:
- https://www.thenation.com/article/have-the-syrian-kurds-committed-war-crimes/ This special report, which also exposes their collusion with the Assad regime, undermines their claim to be leading a democratic, open society. By Roy Gutman
- America’s Favorite Syrian Militia Rules With an Iron Fist
The Kurdish YPG recruits fighters at gunpoint, assassinates political opponents, and suppresses the media. By Roy Gutman – February 13, 2017 – Read all https://www.thenation.com/article/americas-favorite-syrian-militia-rules-with-an-iron-fist/
Probably the most serious charge against this movement is that, according to a 2015 Amnesty International report, it is responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Arab majority areas, and so presumably its socialist program and (and multi-ethnic alliance building) is cover for a Kurd-chauvinist agenda. Some on the left, just as in this article by Mick Armstrong in the Australian socialist publication Red Flag have continued this critic.
One of the most fundamental accusations of PYD/YPG is from 2014 report by Human Rights Watch.
Alliance with Assad
Another set of allegations concern the PYD-led movement’s relationship with the Bashar al-Assad regime. Recently retold by Joseph Daher in Jacobin magazine as part of an article on the battle for Aleppo. Syria’s Assad admits sending weapons to PYD.
‘We sent them [PYD] armaments, because they are Syrian citizens, and they want to fight terrorism,’ Assad tells British daily “Sunday Times”.
MESOP TOP OF THE AGENDA : Suspected Chemical Attack in Syria Kills Dozens – REPORTS BY AFP & BBC & GUARDIAN & ATLANTIC COUNCIL et.al.
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WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP NEWS: PYD & PKK = A CASE FOR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL !
Destiny of Political Prisoners Held by PYD in Rojava Unknown – There are children among the prisoners
Basnews English – 03/04/2017 – 20:15 – ERBIL — The members of the Syrian Kurdish National Council (ENKS) detained by the ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) are still held in prisons.Saeed Omar, a leader from Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria (KDP-S) which is a party within ENKS, told BasNews the political inmates of ENKS are still in PYD prisons in Rojava, with their destiny remaining unclear. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84409
MESOP NEWS SYRIA – NO PEACE OR CEASEFIRE AT ALL – Scores of Pro-Assad Airstrikes Across Country – PUTIN INVOLVED
April 04 – 2017 – By Scott Lucas – eaworldview – Scores — and possibly hundreds — of pro-Assad airstrikes were carried out across Syria on Monday, as pro-regime forces tried to reclaim territory in Hama Province and in and near Damascus. Some activists reported more than 200 airstrikes on northern Hama alone, including sustained bombing of the town of Halfaya, while 66 were recorded in Jobar in northeastern Damascus and nearby suburbs by Monday afternoon. There were also ongoing attacks on parts of opposition-held Idlib Province in northwest Syria.
Activists noted that Russia — nominally a guarantor of a December 30 ceasefire — must have been involved in the strikes, given the number of attacks and some of the munitions used. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84421
MESOP NEWS “THE ASSAD FAMILY” – CASES ALSO IN GERMANY & FRANCE
Assad’s Exiled Uncle Probed in Spain over Money Laundering
Asharq Al-Awsat English – 4. April 2017 – Asharq al Awsat – Spanish police raided on Tuesday the properties belonging to Rifaat Assad, the uncle of Syrian regime head Bashar Assad, as part of a money laundering investigation.They also blocked his bank accounts. Relatives of the former Syrian vice president were also included in the raids and assets freeze.Spain’s Civil Guard said searches took place in the southern coastal towns of Marbella and Puerto Banus. They followed a request by National Court judge Jose de la Mata. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84447
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP NEWS “JAREDS NEW SIGNALS TO MIDDLE EAST” – Jared Kushner Meets With Iraqi Leader on Future of ISIS Battle
By TIM ARANGO – APRIL 3, 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES – ERBIL, Iraq — After arriving in Baghdad on Monday afternoon, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, met with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to discuss the fight against the Islamic State and whether the United States would leave troops in Iraq afterward, according to a spokesman for the prime minister.Mr. Kushner, a senior adviser to the president, traveled to Iraq along with Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as part of the general’s planned trip to discuss the battle against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL.Mr. Kushner was also expected to meet with officials from the United States-led military coalition and Iraq’s minister of defense, according to an Iraqi military spokesman. He was also accompanied by Thomas P. Bossert, Mr. Trump’s homeland security adviser. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84425
EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)
MESOP NEWS TODAYS OPINION BY MICHAEL LEDEEN ON OBAMA’S INVESTIGATIONS
Investigations And Immunity / Michael Ledeen , Contributor – FORBES MAGAZIN – 2 April 2017
I write about Italy, Iran and fascism.
I am one of the few survivors of the Iran-Contra investigations, which at the time—late 1980s and early 1990s—was ballyhooed as a huge scandal, likely destined to bring down the Reagan presidency. There were two main rings in that circus: a special Congressional committee, and a special prosecutor with unlimited funding and no deadline.
I was declared a “target” of a “criminal investigation,” even though my “crime” or “crimes” was (were) never identified. The investigators seemed to assume that I must have done something wrong, so it was just a matter of finding it. So I got six years of lawyers asking all manner of questions, and dispatching cunning IRS officials to analyze the kids’ savings accounts.
It’s not fun. I was alarmed to learn from my lawyers that my greatest jeopardy was not for anything I’d actually done (talking to Iranians, Israelis and Saudis), but rather for any false statement I might make to the investigators. “False,” mind you, not lying. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84415
MESOP NEWS SPECIAL
MESOP NEWS EUROPE “JUNCKER – THE COMPLETE IDIOT!” – How The E.U.’s Boss Is Making A Joke of The E.U.
Simon Constable – Contributor – 3 April 2017 – FORBES MAGAZINE
Last week’s outburst by the European Union’s boss is comical at best. Worst than that, it’s only his latest diplomatic snafu. He’s making the whole organization look desperate. I write of course of Jean-Claude Juncker who threatened that he would help Ohio campaign for independence from the U.S. if Donald Trump didn’t stop encouraging European countries to follow Britain out of the E.U.
But there’s where Juncker sounds like a hick who just showed up on the world stage rather than the master of realpolitik that one would hope for from a world leader.
The problems with Juncker’s rant are as multi-layered as the E.U.’s bureaucracy. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84429
MESOP NEWS “UNITED STATES DEEP STATE – THE CLINTON/OBAMA COUNTER INTEL”
Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel
April 3, 2017 10:13 AM EDT – By – Eli Lake – BLOOMBERG – White House lawyers last month learned that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The pattern of Rice’s requests was discovered in a National Security Council review of the government’s policy on “unmasking” the identities of individuals in the U.S. who are not targets of electronic eavesdropping, but whose communications are collected incidentally. Normally those names are redacted from summaries of monitored conversations and appear in reports as something like “U.S. Person One.”
Nunes Says Trump Team Caught in U.S. Surveillance Net – Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84431
THE GERMAN CHAPTER
DAS ESTABLISHMENT WÄSCHT GERN WEISS / WENN’s PASST ! (DER FALL VUCIC)
…. heute von der SZ über ARD + ZDF + ZEIT + besonders FAZ, hier vom Michael Martens – eine Eloge nach der anderen unter der Headline „Gut beraten“ per Adresse Aleksandar VUCIC, früher „Ultranationalist“, jetzt aber pro-EU-Brüssel – und nun auch mit Mehrheit in Serbien gewählt.
Die guten korrekten Linksliberalen von den aufgeklärten Medien mit ihrer etwas erodierten Definitionsmacht müssen nur eines krampfhaft dabei verschweigen: der EU’ler VUCIV verpaßt sich eine Präsidialverfassung, die jene des Recep Tayyip Erdogan um einiges an Machtvollkommenheit übertrifft.
Aber mein Gott, hatten Michael Martens et.al. nicht auch Erdogan jahrelang favorisiert?
MESOP NEWS “PAUL COLLIERS WELTFORMEL” – DIE MÖRDERISCHE FLÜCHTLINGSPOLITIK DER DEUTSCHEN NGO’S (VON PRO ASYL ÜBER MEDICO INTERNATIONAL BIS WADI e.V.) – Volltext – http://www.mesop.de/?p=84437
MESOP CULTURE : AM ZENTRALISMUS BRÜSSEL STIRBT DIE EU – Die EU ist am Scheideweg»
Der deutsche Ökonom und Publizist Philipp Bagus über den Brexit, Trump und die Europäische Union.
BASLER ZEITUNG – 3 April 2017 – Philipp Bagus/Andreas Marquart: »Wir schaffen das – alleine!», FinanzBuch Verlag 2017, 160 Seiten, Fr. 21.90. (Basler Zeitung)
Die Staatschefs der EU feierten kürzlich 60 Jahre Römische Verträge. Grossbritannien teilt fast gleichzeitig der EU seinen Austritt mit. Was ist los mit der EU?
Philipp Bagus: Die EU ist an einem Scheideweg angelangt. Man hat sich mit der «immer engeren Union», wie es im Vertrag von Rom heisst, letztlich von dem verabschiedet, was Europa über die Jahrhunderte wohlhabend gemacht hat.
Was meinen Sie damit?
Dass es viele kleine Staaten gab, die miteinander im Wettbewerb standen. Das hat zu einer weltgeschichtlich einmaligen Blüte von Bildung, Forschung und Wohlstand, aber auch von Freiheit der Menschen geführt. Seit den Römischen Verträgen entwickelt sich der Kontinent – ausgenommen die Schweiz und nun Grossbritannien – zu einem europäischen Einheitsstaat. Das ist der Scheideweg: Die EU muss sich entscheiden, ob sie sich auf die Erfolgsgeschichte dieses Kontinents besinnt oder tatsächlich zu einem einheitlichen Zentralstaat wird.
Was bedeutet das? – Volltext : http://www.mesop.de/?p=84435
MESOP LATEST : WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT GAB INTEL AUSFORSCHUNG TRUMP’S IN AUFTRAG
Donald J. Trump lag schon wieder richtig: Es war Susan Rice – mehr Washingtoner #Elite geht fast gar nicht – die die Ausforschung der #Trump-Kampagne mit nachrichtendienstlichen Mitteln in Auftrag gab. #SusanRice arbeitet schon seit 30 Jahren an den Schaltstellen der Macht: Beraterin von Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright (Mentorin von Rice seit deren Kindheit), John Kerry, Barak Obama, Hillary Clinton… (Und die #FaktenFinder von der #Lügenpresse? KEIN WORT über das #Watergate der Gegenwart.)
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