7.8 #earthquake in Central #Turkey: #News and #Updates
This 32 minute video describes not only the horror of the earthquake in Turkey and #Syria, but #how the #deliberate #withholding of #aid by various powers caused a massive increase in the death toll. Aid only arrived after 3 days. The first 10 minutes describes the deliberate withholding of aid.
It then goes on to explore the theory that #HAARP was used to #create / #amplify the earthquake.
The signing of the peace agreement on Wednesday follows a week of negotiations and two years of fighting. The armed conflict in #Ethiopia pits forces aligned with Ethiopia’s federal #government against those affiliated with Tigray’s regional government led by the #Tigray People’s Liberation Front ( #TPLF).
Amid the #conflict, #millions of civilians have been #displaced, while thousands of #people have been #killed due to ethnic violence. The region has been largely cut off from the outside #world, and so #humanitarian #aid has also been #denied to millions of people in Tigray.
#Peace #agreement must deliver justice to victims and survivors of conflict (Amnesty International)
#Interview with #AdrienBocquet by John #MarkDougan | Duration 00:41:26
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This is a deeply troubling interview with Adrien Bocquet, a #French #humanitarian #aid #worker who was #attacked and #stabbed by #Ukrainian #operatives in #Turkey for exposing the truth that happened in #Bucha that he witnessed with his own eyes.
The hurricane hit #Cuba on Tuesday night where it knocked out the country's entire power grid, leaving 11 million people in the dark.
#help #emergency #news #disaster #storm #weather #humanity #humanRights #politics #usa
The United States will send an additional $5.5 billion in #aid to #Ukraine, made up of $4.5 billion in budgetary support and $1 billion in #military assistance, to help it come to grips with the turmoil of this year's Russian invasion.
The $4.5 billion budgetary grant will fund urgent government needs including payments for pensions, social welfare and healthcare costs, bringing total U.S. fiscal aid for Ukraine to $8.5 billion since Russia's February invasion, the U.S. Agency for International Development said.
The funding, coordinated with the U.S. Treasury Department through the #WorldBank, will go to the Ukraine government in tranches, beginning with a $3 billion disbursement in August, #USAID said.
It follows previous transfers of $1.7 billion in July and $1.3 billion in June, USAID said. #Washington has also provided billions of dollars in military and security support.
The $1 billion arms package announced by the #Pentagon is the largest single military package under President Joe #Biden's drawdown authority, including long-range rocket munitions and armored medical transport vehicles
It includes as many as 50 M113 armored medical transports and munitions for the U.S.-supplied #HIMARS long range rocket launchers and for the #NASAMS surface-to-air missile system. read more
The fiscal and military aid packages - both first reported by Reuters on Monday - are drawn from a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine approved by Congress in May. read more
Overall, the United States has contributed more than $18 billion to Ukraine this year.
#US #Russia
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-us-send-45-billion-more-ukraine-budget-needs-2022-08-08/
source: https://apnews.com/article/biden-health-indianapolis-00f39fd46778ecdd543c22f3630d79ba
A #military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in #Indianapolis, the first of several flights expected from #Europe aimed at relieving a #shortage that has sent #parents scrambling to find enough to feed their #children.
I am surprised that the #situation is now so bad that the U.S. is relying on #aid shipments.
#help #problem #trade #food #politics #economy #news #apocalypse
As near-record levels of funding fill the coffers of the #Ukrainian #aid response, #humanitarian insiders worry that resources may be diverted from other #crises that are receiving scant attention and remain badly underfunded – from #Afghanistan to #Yemen to the Horn of #Africa.
Numerous factors are contributing to the unusually generous outpouring for #Ukraine: the huge geopolitical significance and economic fallout of the #Russian invasion; the sheer speed and scale of the #displacement #crisis; not to mention the 24/7, wall-to-wall #media coverage.
But some also see double standards, even elements of #racism, in the lopsided levels of #assistance going to Ukraine compared to other crises raging around the world.
Ukrainian Red Cross: providing first #aid in areas where access to #medical services will be limited; communication will be established and awareness of #health risks will be raised and they will provide humanitarian aid to any people in need.
Razom Ukraine: are responding to the #Russian invasion by providing critical medical supplies, purchasing and delivering essential equipment and goods, translating important documents, and sharing vital information.
United Nations Crisis Relief Fund: The United Nations and humanitarian partners are committed to staying and delivering #assistance and #protection to the people of #Ukraine.
From children to the elderly, civilians were already paying a heavy price after almost eight years of war.
A school library in the village of Opytne. Soldiers have been training on the paintings of the children, leaving their faces marked with bullet holes.
#aid #Russian #invasion #Ukraine #civilian #casualties #humanitarian #displacement #crisis #communities #war #civilians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuOWLNtJd8I
https://caldronpool.com/polish-mps-blast-australian-governments-for-breaches-of-human-rights/
“ #Australia has unsubscribed herself from the #International #Community; the community of #civilized #nations. We, therefore, demand that the #Warsaw #Government condemn what is happening in Australia. We are also ready to rush #help and #legal #aid to #organize the #evacuation of #Polish #dual #citizens, as #refugees from the #People’s #Republic of #Melbourne.”
#poland #protest #totalitarianism #martial-law #police #state #covid19 #health #civilrights #humanrights #freedom
#Sanctions advocates from the hardline Foundation for Defense of Democracies recently made the case for piling on sanctions on #Afghanistan by adding the #Taliban to both the FTO list and the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Hawks have been disastrously wrong about the use of sanctions for decades, and now they propose to strangle a country that has been wracked by #war for the last four decades. The last thing that Afghanistan needs after generations of armed #conflict is a new #US #economic war.
These calls for designating the Taliban would have a few practical effects, all of them bad: it would impede the delivery of #aid and the conduct of #trade with the rest of the world, it would deprive the #Afghan #people of being able to import goods from elsewhere, it would worsen the #refugee #crisis, and it would give Taliban every incentive to cooperate with and support #hostile groups.
#USA #PerpetualWar #antiwar #propeace #peace #pacifist #pacifism #HumanRights #humanitarian
How to best help haiti according to haitians
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tsw3nKDlBE
6:02 min music #video
In 1989, artists from Pink Floyd, Queen, Rush, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Yes, Iron Maiden, Free and others joined forces to raise funds for people affected by the Armenian earthquake. Kerrang called it "the greatest array of hard rock talent every assembled
#music #rock #aid #armenia
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Visit SLOPS, https://bit.ly/slopsstore
Check out the RN&RM Charity, https://www.rnrmc.org.uk/
#charity #aid #help #support #veterans #military #family #children #kids #spouses #armedservices
#ThisWeekInPictures: Oct. 14 - 21 by NBC News
Battle for Mosul begins, presidential candidates have a laugh at dinner, a pygmy anteater makes its debut, and more.
14 PHOTOS
1. #Iraqi #soldiers #walk on a #road as #smoke billows from the #Qayyarah #area, about 35 miles south of #Mosul, on Oct. 19, 2016, during an #operation against #ISIL to retake the main hub #city. In the biggest Iraqi #military operation in years, #forces have retaken dozens of #villages, mostly south and east of Mosul, and are planning multiple #assaults for October 20.
YASIN AKGUL / AFP - Getty Images
2. #Commuters are #dressed in #black and #white or #dark colored #clothing mourning the #death of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej during the #morning rush hour at a #station in #Bangkok on Oct. 17.
ISSEI KATO / Reuters
3. 89th Airlift Wing Vice Commander Col. Christopher M. Thompson loses his hat with the blast from #Air #Force #One, with #President Barack #Obama aboard, as it departs from #Andrews Air Force #Base, Md. on Oct. 20 en route to #Miami to encourage #people to sign up for #health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act during an upcoming enrollment period.
Jose Luis Magana / AP
4. A #street #vendor selling #paintings #drinks hot #tea while waiting for #customers on a #sidewalk in central #Lviv, #Ukraine on Oct. 20.
GLEB GARANICH / Reuters
5. #Democratic presidential #candidate Hillary #Clinton, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, #Archbishop of #NewYork, and #Republican presidential candidate Donald #Trump share a laugh during the Alfred E. Smith #Memorial #Foundation #dinner on Oct. 20 in New York.
Evan Vucci / AP
6. A #Ukrainian #serviceman #fires a 2S7 Pion self-propelled #gun during #military #exercises near the #village of #Divychky in #Kiev #region, #Ukraine on Oct. 21.
VALENTYN OGIRENKO / Reuters
7. North #Korean #traffic #police #women chat next to a #residential #building while off duty on Oct. 18, 2016, in #Pyongyang, North #Korea.
Wong Maye-E / AP
8. A vet holds a #pygmy anteater, also known as a #silky #anteater, at the #Huachipa #Zoo, on the outskirts of #Lima, #Peru on Oct. 19. The zoo presented on Wednesday three anteater #species: #giant #bears, #tamanduas, and #pygmies, during an #event to promote their pair of silky #anteaters, who just turned 11 years old. The zoo is preparing a #breeding #program of this #rare species, that does not exceed 13 cm.
Martin Mejia / AP
9. Newly displaced #people wait to receive #food #supplies at a #processing center for displaced people In #Qayyara, south of #Mosul, #Iraq on Oct. 21.
ZOHRA BENSEMRA / Reuters
10. #Soldiers of the #Sudan #People #Liberation #Army ( #SPLA ) #celebrate while standing in #trenches in #Lelo, outside #Malakal, northern South #Sudan, on Oct. 16. Heavy #fighting #broke out on October 14 between the #government's SPLA and #opposition #forces in #Wajwok and Lalo #villages, outside Malakal. SPLA #commanders claim they succeeded to keep their positions and assure their #forces just responded "on self #defence".
ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN / AFP - Getty Images
11. #Smoke rises from a #building after #shelling in the #rebel held besieged #town of #Douma, eastern #Ghouta in #Damascus, #Syria on Oct. 19.
BASSAM KHABIEH / Reuters
12. #Migrants are seen during #rescue #operation in the #Mediterranea #Sea on Oct. 20.
Yara Nardi / Italian Red Cross via Reuters
13. #Members of an #evangelic #church attend church #damaged by #Hurricane #Matthew, in the commune of #Roche-a-Bateaux, in #LesCayes, #Haiti, on Oct. 16. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced distress at the "absolute #devastation" caused by the deadly hurricane in Haiti, and disappointment at the little #emergency #aid reaching the struggling #nation.
HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP - Getty Images
14. The #Orbital #ATK #Antares #rocket, with the #Cygnus #spacecraft onboard stands on launch Pad-0A during sunrise at #NASA's #Wallops #Flight #Facility on Oct. 16 in Wallops #Island, #Virginia. Orbital ATK's sixth contracted #cargo resupply #mission with NASA to the #ISS will deliver over 5,100 pounds of #science and #research, #crew supplies and #vehicle #hardware to the orbital #laboratory and its crew.
Bill Ingalls/NASA / NASA via Getty Images
#image #photo #picture #pictures #foto #photography #photograph
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