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Germany, Intel Agree Subsidies for Chip Plant Worth €10 Billion.

#Germany and #Intel Corp. sealed an agreement for the US company to receive #subsidies worth €10 billion ($10.9 billion) for a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the eastern part of the country, according to people familiar with the deal.

Intel initially agreed to build the facility in the city of #Magdeburg with €6.8 billion in #government #aid but postponed the start of construction at the plant because of economic headwinds.

The enhanced package now agreed will include both traditional aid in the form of financial subsidies as well as price caps on energy, according to the people.

Intel said the site is expected to create 7,000 construction jobs during the initial construction phase, as well as around 3,000 permanent high-tech jobs and tens of thousands of additional positions “across the industry ecosystem.”

Under Gelsinger, Intel has embarked on a huge expansion program aimed at recapturing its previous dominance of the industry and diversifying manufacturing hubs for critical components, currently concentrated in East Asia.

#Capitalism #Handouts #Economy #Politics #EU #Europe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-19/germany-intel-agree-subsidies-for-chip-plant-worth-10-billion#xj4y7vzkg

Germany, Intel Agree Chip Plant Subsidies Worth €10 Billion

Germany and Intel Corp. sealed an agreement for the US company to receive an enlarged subsidy package worth about €10 billion ($10.9 billion) for a semiconductor facility in the former communist east, according to people familiar with the deal.

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nowisthetime

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.

https://banned.video/watch?id=63ec2e55048d7e3373b6e25f

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ramnath

https://borkena.com/2022/11/03/peace-agreement-must-deliver-justice-to-victims-and-survivors-of-conflict/

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)

Peace agreement must deliver justice to victims and survivors of conflict (Amnesty International)

Responding to the signing of a peace agreement between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front TPLF ...

anonymiss@despora.de
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Cuban #government asks US for #aid in rare request following #Hurricane #Ian damage despite chilly #relationship between the two nations

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/wsj-cuban-government-asks-us-aid-following-hurricane-ian-damage-2022-9?international=true&r=US&IR=T

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

Cuban government asks US for aid in rare request following Hurricane Ian damage despite chilly relationship between the two nations, per WSJ

Cuba's emergency assistance request comes as one of its key economic allies — Russia — wages a months-long war in Ukraine.

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faab64@diasp.org
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U.S. to send Ukraine $5.5 billion in new fiscal, military aid

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/

U.S. to send Ukraine $5.5 billion in new fiscal, military aid

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.

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anonymiss@despora.de
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78,000 pounds of #infant formula arrives in US

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

78,000 pounds of infant formula arrives in US

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — 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...

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steelnomad@diasp.org
steelnomad

Is Ukraine’s aid bonanza coming at the expense of other crises?

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.

#HumanRights

Is Ukraine’s aid bonanza coming at the expense of other crises?

Aid insiders fear hidden costs for other humanitarian responses in need of urgent funds.

steelnomad@diasp.org
steelnomad

Organizations you can help assist with #Ukrainian #humanitarian #relief directly

  • 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.

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steelnomad@diasp.org
steelnomad

Don’t Wage Economic War on Afghanistan

#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

Don't Wage Economic War on Afghanistan - Antiwar.com Original

Now that U.S. forces have finally exited Afghanistan, some American hawks are already agitating for the government to stoke internal conflict by backing a - Daniel Larison for Antiwar.com Original

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