MESOPOTAMIA NEWS BACKGROUND : Syrian Business Tycoon Firas Tlass: Iran, Hizbullah Have Complete Control Over Certain Areas, Military Facilities In Syria – Bashar Al-Assad Doesn’t Know What Goes On There
April 20, 2021 – Iran, Syria | Special Dispatch No. 9292 – The following is a complimentary offering from the MEMRI Iran Threat Monitor Project (ITMP)..Syrian business tycoon Firas Tlass said that certain areas in Syria are completely under Iranian or Hizbullah control, and that President Bashar Al-Assad does not know what is happening in those areas. He made these remarks on Al-Arabiya Network (Saudi Arabia) in an interview that aired on March 24, 2021 and on March 25, 2021. Tlass said that the areas controlled by Iran are used to bring in weapons and supplies to Hizbullah, as part of food and equipment shipments to Iranian militias active in Syria. Tlass also said that weapons and advanced missiles parts are hidden in vegetable trucks and then transferred into Hizbullah-controlled territories in southern Syria and Lebanon. He said that Iran now has complete control over the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center, charged with creating biological and chemical weapons. Firas Tlass is the son of former Syrian Minister of Defense Mustafa Tlass.
“The Area Between Al-Qusayr And The Syria-Lebanon Border Is Under The Complete Control Of Hizbullah; Hama Airport Is Under Complete Iranian Control”
Firas Tlass: “There are areas in Syria that are controlled by Iranian officers. Al-Assad does not know and does not want to know [what goes on there]. There are some areas in the desert… The area between Al-Qusayr and the Syria-Lebanon border is under the complete control of Hizbullah.
“Hama airport is under complete Iranian control.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SHORT CUTS : Veteran Syria opposition figure Michel Kilo dies of COVID-19
Michel Kilo, a Syrian opposition leader and writer, speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia in July 2012. Kilo died in Paris on April 19, 2021, of complications from COVID-19.
Michel Kilo, an exiled veteran Syrian opposition figure, died Monday of complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Paris where he lived, family and friends said. He was 81.
Kilo spent time in prison during the rule of late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in the early 1980s and more recently from 2006-2009 under his son, current President Bashar Assad.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE LAST CHAPTER OF DOWNGOING BRUSSELS EUROPE
China and Russia: The Guns of April
| by Gordon G. Chang – April 20, 2021 at 5:00 am GATESTONE INSTITUTE – |
- Russian troops are massing on the Ukraine border, Chinese vessels are swarming Whitsun Reef of the Philippines in the South China Sea, and China’s air force is flying almost daily through Taiwan’s air-defense identification zone. Chinese troops for almost a year have been dug in deep in Indian-controlled Ladakh in the Himalayas. Two large aggressors are threatening to break apart neighbors and absorb them.
- American attempts to de-escalate flashpoints are seen in Russian and Chinese circles as failures of resolve.
- The Global Times, an unofficial Communist Party tabloid used by Beijing to signal new policies, on April 12 posted a video of Hu Xijin, its editor-in-chief, warning that Beijing would overfly Taiwan—in other words, fly into Taiwan’s sovereign airspace—to “declare sovereignty.”
- Chinese leaders speak provocatively because, among other reasons, they do not believe the United States or others will come to Taiwan’s rescue…. In effect, China’s leaders are saying they do not believe President Joe Biden would defend Taiwan.
- In a propaganda blast on April 8, China’s regime said Taiwan “won’t stand a chance” if it decides to invade the island. This Chinese self-perception of overwhelming strength is extraordinarily dangerous….
- [W]e have already passed the point where just declarations and warnings will suffice. The Biden administration has yet to impose costs on China for aggressive actions jeopardizing America’s security and that of allies like Japan. Chinese leaders, while hearing the mild warnings from the Biden administration, must be asking one question: “Or what?”
- Vladimir Putin in 2019 said that Russia reserved the right to protect ethnic Russians outside Russia. This month, Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of Russia’s presidential administration, said his country might intervene to “defend” its citizens. If it did, he suggested, Ukraine would not survive because it would not be “a shot in the leg, but in the face.”
- The American response has not been adequate. Russians perceive Biden as feeble. “In Putin’s game of brinkmanship, Biden blinked first,” said journalist Konstantin Eggert to the BBC, referring to the American president proposing a meeting to his Russian counterpart. Biden’s “nerves,” he said, “had failed him.”
- That assessment may be correct. In the face of threats directed at Washington by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, the U.S. Navy did not, as many had expected, send two destroyers through the Bosporus into the international waters of the Black Sea. Politico reported that “two U.S. officials familiar with the plans” said the cancellation was due to American concerns about inflaming the Russia-Ukraine situation….
- the ultimate decision to stay away made it look as if the U.S. had backed down.
- The Dragon and the Bear appear to be coordinating moves, as they have for some time. At the very least, each is acting with an eye to what the other is doing. Once one of these aggressors makes a move, the other large state, taking advantage of the situation, will almost certainly follow. Biden also has to be concerned about Moscow or Beijing acting through proxies Iran and North Korea.
- All the elements for history’s next great conflict are now in place.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE ONLY REAL HUMANIST IS TRANSGENDER & BLACK
American Humanist Association excommunicates Richard Dawkins after he made several doctrinal errors and refused to recant.
American Humanist Association@americnhumanist · 13h 20 April 2021
Today the American Humanist Association Board voted to withdraw, effective immediately, the 1996 Humanist of the Year award it bestowed on Richard Dawkins. Tap the preview below to read the board’s statement explaining why.
Regrettably, Richard Dawkins has over the past several years accumulated a history of making statements that use the guise of scientific discourse to demean marginalized groups, an approach antithetical to humanist values. His latest statement implies that the identities of transgender individuals are fraudulent, while also simultaneously attacking Black identity as one that can be assumed when convenient. His subsequent attempts at clarification are inadequate and convey neither sensitivity nor sincerity.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : WILL NATO COLLAPSE !? – Why Putin Threatens Ukraine
Ukraine has been the number one target of Putin’s new-age imperial ambitions. He has consistently refused to recognize the legitimacy of Ukraine’s independence, stating Ukraine is not a “real country” and that it will always be part of the “Russian world.”
By REUBEN JOHNSONon April 19, 2021 at 4:21 PM Breaking Defense – SOURCE: CIA World Factbook
KYIV: Ukrainian citizens are studying maps to local bomb shelters as Russia builds up its forces at land and sea, while the US imposes sanctions and issues stern statements. But the question remains: what are Russian President Vladimir Putin’s objectives in this crisis. What, people are asking, does the former KGB lieutenant colonel hope to gain by threatening a full-scale invasion of his neighbor and former vassal state?
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FAKE ELECTIONS IN SYRIA
Two Applicants File for Running For Presidency in Syria
Tuesday April 20th, 2021 by AL-MASDAR (Pro-Regime Lebanese website) – Two individuals have come forward as applicants for Syrian presidency, reports Al-Masdar.
The speaker of the People’s Assembly Hammoudeh Sabbagh announced on Monday that he received applications from two individuals for the presidency.
Sabbagh announced in a session held by the Council that they notified the Supreme Constitutional Court that two applications had been submitted for the presidential candidacy by Abdullah Salloum Abdullah and Muhammad Firas Yassine Rajouh.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : WESTEN ? USA & GB=FALSCH ! / OSTEN ? PUTIN & XI = GUT! DIE LETZTEN TAGE DER BRÜSSEL EU !
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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : MILLIONEN STEUERGELD FÜR DEN BAU VON RIESEN-MOSCHEEN IN EUROPA
Streit um Moschee in Straßburg : Gesucht wird ein Islam für Frankreichs Republik – Von Niklas Bender – FAZ – 20.04.2021-09:20 – Die Baukosten werden auf 32 Millionen Euro veranschlagt: Die Eyyub-Sultan-Moschee in Straßburg wurde als eine der größten Moscheen Europas entworfen.
Mit 2,5 Millionen Euro wollte sich die Stadt Straßburg am 32 Millionen teuren Bau der Eyyub-Sultan-Moschee, einer der größten Europas, beteiligen. Das wurde heftig kritisiert, auch von Emmanuel Macron. Nun will die islamistische Bewegung Millî Görüş kein Geld mehr vom Staat.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : DAS NÄCHSTGRÖSSTE UMWELTVERBRECHEN – Alternative zum Suezkanal : Erdogans neues Megaprojekt
- Von Rainer Hermann FAZ – 20.04.2021-09:09 – Mit der kostenlosen Passage durch den Bosporus lässt sich kein Geld verdienen. Im Kampf um das östliche Mittelmeer soll der „Kanal Istanbul“ nun die Position der Türkei stärken.
Durch den Suezkanal fahren jeden Tag fünfzig Schiffe. Das bringt dem ägyptischen Staat im Jahr sechs Milliarden Dollar Transitgebühren ein. Den Bosporus passieren am Tag zwar doppelt so viele Schiffe, davon fällt für den türkischen Fiskus aber nichts ab. Denn anders als der Suezkanal ist der Bosporus ein freier internationaler Schifffahrtsweg, selbst wenn er türkisches Hoheitsgewässer durchzieht. So regelt es die Konvention von Montreux zu den beiden türkischen Meerengen Bosporus und Dardanellen aus dem Jahr 1936.
„Blackfacing“ im BR : Über das Ende von Maxwell Strauß wurde nicht diskutiert
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : MILLIONEN STEUERGELDER FÜR MOSCHEEN / SATIRE/KABARETT NICHT ERLAUBT – HEILIGE FARBE BLACK ! BAD COLOR WHITE!
- Aktualisiert am 19.04.2021-15:01 FAZ – Helmut Schleich als Maxwell Strauss. – Der Bayerische Rundfunk hat Helmut Schleich die Satirefigur des „Maxwell Strauß“ wegen vermeintlichen Rassismus’ gestrichen. Der Kabarettist will sich nicht verkämpfen. Aber das kritische Potential seines Auftritts sieht er verkannt.
In der Diskussion um einen Satirebeitrag des Bayerischen Rundfunks mit einem fiktiven, schwarz geschminkten Kanzlerkandidaten hat der Kabarettist Helmut Schleich den Sender kritisiert. Die ARD-Anstalt hatte die Kunstfigur wegen Kritik am sogenannten „Blackfacing“ gestrichen. Schleich sagte in einem Interview des „Münchner Merkurs“ und der „tz“, er bedauere, dass „der Diskriminierungsvorwurf stärker gewichtet wurde als die Freiheit der Kunst“.
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