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MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS

MESOP : EMBARRASSING REMARKS BY JOHN KERRY

state.gov/secretary/remarks/2016/04/255533.htm

 

MESOP : READ HENRI BARKEY (US)

3 new interesting reports/articles written on Syrian #Kurds, #YPG, #Turkey, and fight against IS by Barak #Barfi, ICG, & .@hbarkey

MESOP : MUST READ !

Ascent of the PYD and the SDF – @WashInstitute http://washin.st/23jWHXz  

 

The Raqqa Imperative http://wp.me/p4ja0Z-z6L  via @aminterest

Islamic State publicly executes one of its own militants on charges of ‘high treason’ – ARA News http://aranews.net/2016/04/islamic-state-publicly-executes-one-militants-charges-high-treason/  … via @twitterapi

 

Saddam’s former deputy resurfaces a year after he was ‘killed’ | via @telegraphnews http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/07/saddams-former-deputy-resurfaces-a-year-after-he-was-killed/  …

MESOP : INDIVISIBLE SYRIA / WITH PUTIN’S OK !?

Assad regime official responds to Kurdish declaration of federalism: Syria is indivisible – ARA News http://aranews.net/2016/04/assad-regime-official-responds-kurdish-declaration-federalism-syria-indivisible/  … via @twitterapi

 

Another major opposition offensive launched in southern #Aleppo, focused on (1) Khan Touman (2) Barneh & (3) Zitan:

PT: #Turkey has been facilitating talks betw’n multiple groups in #Aleppo, pushing for a formal merger beyond existing military cooperation.

 

After external encouragement, it looks increasingly likely we’ll see at least 1 significant opposition merger in #Syria in next week or two.

 

U.S. shipped 3,000+ tonnes of weapons from #Bulgaria to #Syria FSA rebels since Nov 2015: http://www.janes.com/article/59374/us-arms-shipment-to-syrian-rebels-detailed#.VwfSpE0TX6g.twitter  …

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WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) 

MESOP FLASH: Syria cease-fire ‘about to collapse,’ says opposition / Basma Kodmani

PARIS – Agence France-Presse – 10 April 2016 – The cease-fire in Syria “is about to collapse,” an official from the opposition said in an interview published on April 10, just days before the resumption of peace talks in Geneva. “Over the last 10 days we have seen a very serious deterioration and the ceasefire is about to collapse,” Bassma Kodmani, a member of the High Negotiations Committee of the Syrian opposition, told Journal du Dimanche, saying “the use of barrel bombs has resumed.”“The U.S.-Russian mission monitoring the cease-fire is powerless,” she told the French newspaper. Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=73010

 

 

MESOP : KNOW HOW TO DI IT ! – Syrian deputy warns about Kurdish federalism in Syria

A parliament deputy in Syrian parliament warned about the federalism system that Kurds in Syria have announced and said the system would put the Kurds in an unending trouble.

9 April 2016 – Kurds in Syria declared a federal system on March 22 this year in the northern and northeastern parts of the country. Sharif Shahadeh told ARA News that the system would put the Kurds in a very difficult situation, adding that there is not something like a semi-state or federal system in Syria. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73000

 

SYRIA: Jaish al-Islam arrest commander for using unauthorized weapons in attack on Sheikh Maqsood in #Aleppo.

Watch document : http://www.mesop.de/?p=72989

 

MESOP BACKGROUNDER BY SYRIA DIRECT : Finding Alternative Routes to Europe – From Latin America

9 April 2016 – Following the plan by the EU and Turkey to turn back refugees, many are looking for alternative ways to reach Europe. Syria Deeply explores a new path to the continent that starts on the other side of the Atlantic – in South America. –  As Greece begins shipping migrants back to Turkey this week, Syrians are finding new alternatives to the increasingly difficult journey across the Mediterranean to Europe. One of these routes takes refugees to Brazil and into French Guiana, a French territory on the northeastern coast of South America, just above Brazil, where refugees can more easily establish legal residency in a French territory while applying for asylum in Europe. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72978

 

MESOP : THE PLAIN TRUTH IS PLAIN TRUTH / TEACHING APO IN EACH & EVERY CLASS ROOM

British Envoy to Turkey Says Clear Links between PYD & PKK / Visiting a PYD office, one can see a portrait of Abdullah Ocalan, Richard Moore says

  Sardar Sattar – BasNews – 9 April 2016 – British Ambassador to Turkey Richard Moore British Ambassador to Turkey Richard Moore Supplied – ANKARA — Top UK diplomat in Turkey has insisted that the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has not received military assistance from the UK as they are linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72983  

 

MESOP TODAYS OPINION ON SYRIA : “Assad’s Fateful Choice” by David W. Lesch (JOSHUA LANDIS)

This spring marks the fifth year anniversary of the events that launched a civil war in Syria.  Typically, there were some huge miscalculations early on that set the conflict in motion, such as the Syrian opposition’s expectation that the West would militarily intervene to facilitate the overthrow of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.  And then there was the West’s mistaken assumption that Assad would be the next domino to fall following the exits of dictators elsewhere in the Arab spring. Expecting this led to calls for Assad to step down, thus backing the West into a corner regarding a negotiated settlement once it became clear the Syrian president wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73006

 

MESOP – Kurd Autonomy: Is it Kerry’s Plan B or Putin’s Plan A?

By F. William Engdahl  –Global Research, April 07, 2016 –New Eastern Outlook 4 April 2016

On March 17 delegates representing different ethnicities and nationalities–Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Syriacs, Turkomans, Armenians, Circassians and Chechen–along with representatives from the Syrian People’s Defense Units or YPG, and the YPJ womens’ defense   units declared a formal Federation of Northern Syria which would incorporate 250 miles of mostly Kurdish-held territory along the Syria-Turkey border. On March 15, two days earlier, Russian President Putin surprised much of the world by announcing “Mission Accomplished” in Syria, ordering Russian jets and personnel to begin withdrawal. The two events are intimately connected.

Combined and Conflicting Goals

Both Russia’s beginning of withdrawal and the Kurds declaration of an autonomous federal region within Syria are linked, but not in the manner most western media report. A distinctly different phase in the long-standing US State Department blueprint for a new Greater Middle East Project, first announced by Condoleezza Rice in 2003 after the US invasion of Iraq, has begun. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73004

 

MESOP : APO’S AIRPORT  / US DECLARE KOBANE AS NEW AIRPORT & MILITARY COMPOUND

US Changes Plan of Building Air Base in Syrian Kurdistan / The Air base will be included in a large military compound in southern Kobani

Narin Kobani – 10 April 2016 – KOBANI — USA has allegedly made shifts in its plan and decided to instead relocate it to the western outskirt of Kobani, and build its air base in a village in the southern part of the town. Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=73008

 

THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER

MESOP : PRO ASYL DEM TERROR –  Über 1000 Gefährder in Deutschland? Verfassungsschutz: Haben IS unterschätzt

Der Verfassungsschutz gesteht ein, den IS falsch eingeschätzt zu haben. Die Terrororganisation habe ihre Leute ganz offensichtlich unter den Flüchtlingsstrom nach Deutschland gemischt. Deshalb sei die Sicherheitslage jetzt sehr ernst. Volltext http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Verfassungsschutz-Haben-IS-unterschaetzt-article17429121.html

 

 

MESOP WORT DER WOCHE: REBECCA HARMS – „Wir müssen die Direktabstimmungen und Referenden unbedingt verbieten, mit denen man uns mal einen Denkzettel verpassen möchte, sie machen Europa kaputt“.

Rebecca Harms is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Alliance ’90/The Greens, part of the European Greens. Since 2010 she has been the president of The Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European parliament. Wikipedia

Sie dachte natürlich an Holland und nicht daran, daß sie selber – aus der Anti-Atom-Bewegung stammend, – ihre sämtlichen Posten + Positionen nur ergatterte, weil  sie stets + ständig für „direkte Demokratie“ eingetreten war, lautstark :  WORT IM WANDEL DER ZEIT !

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MESOP : ÜBERALL IST PANAMA (I)  / DARF  AUCH GELD MIGRIEREN ?

Vorwürfe gegen Bundesdruckerei – “Panama Papers” erreichen Schäuble  / Schäubles Geschäfte mit Venezuela

9 April  –  nrtv – Wirbeln die “Panama Papers” nun auch die deutsche Politik auf? Wie der “Spiegel” berichtet, soll der Auslandschef der von Finanzminister Schäuble beaufsichtigten Bundesdruckerei über Mossack Fonseca mindestens zwei Briefkastenfirmen betrieben haben.

Die staatseigene Bundesdruckerei soll über die Skandal-Kanzlei Mossack Fonseca mindestens zwei Offshore-Firmen zur Verschleierung von Auslandsgeschäften betrieben haben. Das berichtet der “Spiegel” unter Berufung auf die “Panama Papers” und die peruanischen Investigativ-Journalisten IDL-Reporteros. Wie das Blatt berichtet, sollen die deutsche Politik und Justiz entsprechende Hinweise jahrelang ignoriert haben.Die Affäre betrifft nicht irgendein Staatsunternehmen: Verantwortlich für die Bundesdruckerei ist das von Wolfgang Schäuble geführte Bundesfinanzministerium.  Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=72974

 

MESOP  ÜBERALL IST PANAMA (II)

Bundesdruckerei : Schäuble ließ Panama-Informanten abblitzen / Geschäfte mit Hugo Chavez

9 Apr 2016 – FAZ – Der Bundesfinanzminister soll den Kontakt mit einem Whistleblower verweigert haben, der über dubiose Geschäfte der Bundesdruckerei mit einer Briefkastenfirma in Panama auspacken wollte.

Bundesfinanzminister Wolfgang Schäuble und sein Staatssekretär Werner Gatzer haben laut einem Bericht des Nachrichtenmagazins „Der Spiegel“ jahrelang den Kontakt mit einem Whistleblower verweigert. Der Mann hatte wohl über dubiose Geschäfte einer Briefkastenfirma in Panama auspacken wollen. Die dem Finanzministerium unterstellte Bundesdruckerei hatte diese Firma angeblich benutzt, um Geschäfte in Venezuela zu machen. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=72976