MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : DEZISION & AUSNAHMEZUSTAND  á la Carl Schmitt

 Staranwalt: Dürfen Politiker in Zukunft Anti-Corona-Demos verbieten lassen?

Der bekannte Medienanwalt Prof. Ralf Höcker, Köln,  hat heute Morgen auf seinem Facebookprofil Stellung zu den Politikerforderungen nach einem Verbot von Corona-Demos aus Gründen des Gesundheitsschutzes genommen.

„Politiker fordern ein Verbot von Corona-Demos aus Gründen des Gesundheitsschutzes.Doch das wäre verfassungswidrig. Es verstieße gegen das Grundrecht auf Versammlungsfreiheit aus Art. 8 1 GG.

Denn die Teilnehmer gefährden sich eigenverantwortlich selbst. Sie wissen, dass sie sich auf einer Demonstration mit Grippe, Corona oder sonstigen Infektionskrankheiten anstecken können und willigen in dieses Risiko ein.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INTEL : Grandfather of new MI6 boss was IRA fighter who won medals in war with Britain – AUGUST 3, 2020 BY JOSEPH FITSANAKIS

INTEL ORG – The grandfather of the incoming director of Britain’s main external intelligence agency was a member of the Irish Republican Army and was awarded a medal by Irish separatists for fighting against British rule in Ireland. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced last week that Richard Moore would take over as director of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Britain’s equivalent of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : IRAN EXERCISES RAISE TENSIONS
3 August 2020 –  By Soufan Center
  • Iran’s ‘Great Prophet’ military exercises recently caused U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf to briefly go on high alert.
  • The recent high alert suggests that U.S. forces take the threat from Iran seriously, despite the Trump administration’s claims that U.S. sanctions are hindering Iran’s military capabilities.
  • In concert with recent military exercises, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed that its Noor surveillance satellite is operational and it launched ballistic missiles from hardened underground silos.
  • The Trump administration cites the Iranian military activity to further its thus far unsuccessful effort to extend the U.N. ban on arms transfers to Iran, which expires in October.
In late July, Iran launched its week-long ‘Great Prophet 14’ air, sea, and land military drills, accompanied by additional activities designed to showcase Iran’s advancements in its military technology capabilities. The main event of the exercises consisted of missile, direct-fire, and helicopter-borne commando attacks on a mock-up of the U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carriers that the U.S. Navy deploys to the Persian Gulf. Although some sources noted that the practice attacks on the carrier were not fully successful, Iran’s firing of ballistic missiles at the model carrier caused U.S. forces at two Gulf bases to go on ‘high alert’ and briefly take shelter. The two bases – Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar (the largest air base used by U.S. forces in the region) – host a total of about 13,000 U.S. Air Force personnel. Forces deployed at those bases constitute the core of U.S. power projection capability in the region. During the period of heightened tensions with Iran in mid-2019, the United States deployed to Al Dhafra the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, although it is not known if that aircraft was there during the high alert warning. The alert at the two bases indicates that the United States has significant respect for Iran’s missile capability in light of Iran’s retaliatory strike on Ayn al-Asad base in Iraq in January 2020 missile retaliation. That strike, which destroyed several buildings on the base and caused traumatic brain injury to hundreds of U.S. forces there, was in response to the early January U.S. strike that killed IRGC-Qods Force commander Qasem Soleimani outside Baghdad airport.

Potentially even more significant to U.S. estimates of Iranian strategic strength were Iranian announcements and claims that coincided with the exercises. During the course of the drills, Iran released detailed, overhead photographs of the Al Udeid Air Base that it claimed were taken by the Noor imaging satellite that the IRGC launched in April 2020. At that time, the U.S. military publicly assessed the Noor as a ‘tumbling webcam in space,’ indicating that it was not operational, and some sources claim that the Iranian photos of Al Udeid were not from the Noor but were instead commercially available photos. However, if the Iranian satellite photos were taken by the Noor, then Iran is in possession of a capability to closely monitor U.S. regional troop movements and U.S. force protection measures.

At the end of its week of drills, Iran compounded U.S. concerns by displaying IRGC footage of its ballistic missiles being fired from underground silos in the desert of central Iran. The IRGC purported to show some of the missiles striking a model of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, which protects installations where U.S. forces operate throughout the Gulf. The key message of the footage was to portray that the IRGC now has the ability to bury its missile force in hard and deeply buried targets that would require potent bombardment to destroy, and it remains far from a guarantee that they would be destroyed.

Iran’s displays of military hardware and related capabilities during the Great Prophet 14 exercises reinforce the view of many U.S. national security experts that Iran is emerging as a formidable strategic adversary. Yet, Iran’s boasts might assist the Trump administration’s effort to persuade its European allies to extend the U.N. ban on arms transfers to and from Iran, which is scheduled to expire on October 18. The Trump administration has made little progress, to date, in building support on the U.N. Security Council to extend the embargo or convincing Russia or China not to use their respective Security Council vetoes to block an extension. But, with the deadline to extend the embargo winding down, the Great Prophet drills might help the Trump administration argue that the expiration of the embargo will compound the strategic threat from Iran by enabling it to buy new long-range combat aircraft, tanks, submarines, and naval craft.  Even if it fails to achieve an extension of the U.N. ban, the Trump administration might be able to engineer a compromise under which Russia, China, or other arms manufacturers agree to voluntary restraints on the sales of certain new hardware to Iran.

 

MESOPOTAMIA NEWS OUTLOOK – Israel Versus Anyone: A Military Net Assessment of the Middle East

By Kenneth S. BrowerAugust 2, 2020 – IDF soldier of the 595th Field Intelligence Battalion stationed at Israel’s northern border, photo by Cpl. Eden Briand, IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

 

Mideast Security and Policy Studies Paper #178

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Most published Middle Eastern military net assessments are based primarily on lists of units and equipment. Unfortunately, history proved that such lists are all too often incorrect. Even when they were correct, the overall assessments generally ignored the quality of personnel and/or equipment, as well as the extent to which rival defense systems could turn available financial, human, and material resources into actual military power.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS :  dolce far niente ! –  ITALIEN ERHÄLT CASH!

 

Hanks Welt : Brüsseler Milliarden – Von Rainer Hank  FAZ –  am 03.08.2020-12:09

Die Ergebnisse des EU-Gipfels werden in Deutschland als Erfolg bezeichnet. Die EU schickt in der Corona-Pandemie Milliarden an notleidende Staaten. In Deutschland erzählt man, warum das vor allem uns selbst nützt. Narrative haben in die Wirtschaftswissenschaft Einzug gehalten.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS „DER FALL SPD OB FELDMANN“ : WIE ZUBEYDE VON DER PRAKTIKANTIN OHNE AUSBILDUNG KARRIERE NACH OBEN MACHTE  / DER AWO SUMPF !

Sozialverband in der Krise : Staatsanwaltschaft weitet Awo-Ermittlungen aus

  • Von Helmut Schwan  – FAZ – -Aktualisiert am 03.08.2020-12:22 Der Frankfurter Oberbürgermeister Peter Feldmann (SPD) zusammen mit seiner Frau Zübeyde

Nun sind auch das frühere Gehalt und der Dienstwagen der Ehefrau des Frankfurter Oberbürgermeisters Peter Feldmann (SPD) Gegenstand der Ermittlungen.

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MESOPOTAMI NEWS HISTORY TO REMEMBER : On the 6th anniversary of the ISIS genocide of Yazidis: A personal look backBy SETH J. FRANTZMAN – 3. August 2020 

My first memories of ISIS crimes were in the summer of 2014 when the group first began to flood social media of images of mass murder. It was a chaotic summer because I was in Jerusalem at the time and there was a conflict beginning with Hamas in Gaza. It was only later that I understood the genocide that was unfolding. It was clear after the massacre at Camp Speicher and the expulsion of Christians from Mosul, that this group was going beyond what similarIslamic groups had done.

The genocide of Yazidis hit me hard.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS: DIE FORMELLE UND REELLE SUBSUMTION DES INDIVIDUUMS UNTER DIE GLOBALISIERUNG IM ZEITALTER IHRER PAUSE

DENKPAUSE FÜR GLOBALGESCHICHTE

von Stefanie Gänger und Jürgen Osterhammel MERKUR 2020 – # 855 – 

Von Zeit zu Zeit fegen auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks Stürme der Begeisterung durch die Geschichtswissenschaft. Es ist in solchen Zeiten blamabel, die Leitwerke der »kritischen Sozialgeschichte«, der »historischen Anthropologie«, der »Neuen Kulturgeschichte« – oder was auch immer das jeweils glanzvollste Paradigma sein mag – nicht zu kennen. Charismatische Exponenten vertreten die neueste Richtung mit öffentlicher Wirkung auch jenseits der akademischen Welt.

Kluge und wagemutige, nach einer Weile auch trendopportunistische junge Forscherinnen und Forscher stürzen sich in neue Themen. In den 1990er Jahren wurde global history, bald auch als »Globalgeschichte« in den deutschsprachigen Raum importiert, zum Gegenstand eines solchen großflächigen Enthusiasmus. 1 Sobald sie sich von einer amateurhaften »Weltgeschichte« distanziert hatte, die dem Publikum vorgaukelte, über alles und jedes Bescheid zu wissen, wurde Globalgeschichte wissenschaftlich respektabel. Institute, Forschungsschwerpunkte, Zeitschriften und Buchreihen entstanden; man konnte nun Professorin und Professor für die neue Subdisziplin werden, die sich – das war bald der Konsens – zentral mit der Geschichte von Wechselwirkungen, Mobilität und Beziehungen in und zwischen verschiedenen Teilen der Welt befasste. 2

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : JAKOBINISCHER HETZ-MOB GEGEN DIETER NUHR / WEHE ES IST SATIRE !

DFG löscht Dieter Nuhr : Kapitulation !

  • Ein Kommentar von Michael Hanfeld  –  FAZ 02.08.2020-17:21 – Nr Zuerst bittet die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft den Kabarettisten Dieter Nuhr um ein Audiostatement. Dann legt eine Netzmeute dagegen los und die DFG knickt ein. Sie löscht den Beitrag. Ein Offenbarungseid.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : DIE GENOSS*INNEN VON BERLIN ALS FILZ

Steuer-Affäre  – Berlins Bausenatorin Lompscher tritt zurück

03.08.2020, 07:47 Uhr | fls, AFP, dpa  – Politisches Beben in der Berliner Landespolitik: Bausenatorin Katrin Lompscher tritt von ihrem Posten zurück. Anlass dafür sind Einnahmen aus Aufsichtsratstätigkeiten, die sie nicht steuerlich geltend gemacht hat.

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