MBS meeting with Hamas

Deglobalization, sabotaging EU, and the containment of the US itself by the OCGFC

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇪🇺 US manufacturing
investment doubles
after Biden subsidies
launched

🔵 The investment in semiconductor and clean tech investments is almost double the commitments made in the same sectors in the whole of 2021, and nearly twenty times the amount in 2019, according to data compiled by the Financial Times.
While the FT identified four projects worth at least $1bn each in these sectors in 2019, there were 31 of that size after August 2022.

🔵 “We see right now the tectonic plates are shifting with respect to investment in the United States,” said US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm this week, referring to the surge of investment in recent months.
The Inflation Reduction Act, which became law last August, includes $369bn of tax credits for clean technologies as the Biden administration of pledges to decarbonise the US economy. Another law passed last August, the Chips and Science Act, includes $39bn in funds to stimulate semiconductor manufacturing and $24bn worth of manufacturing tax credits. Both are also designed to break US dependence on Chinese supply chains.

🔵 The industrial policies have drawn fire from European and Asian allies, who have claimed their deep subsidies and made-in-America requirements amount to protectionism. Emmanuel Macron, president of France, who visited China last week in an attempt to improve Paris’s relations with Beijing, has said the IRA could “fragment the west”.

The EU unveiled a rival industrial strategy last month with provisions to match subsidies for projects at risk of going abroad.

🔵 “The magnitude of these investments together is pretty staggering,” said Cullen Hendrix, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “This is attempting to go from zero to 100 miles an hour in terms of supply chain development in a way that we haven’t seen in quite a while.”

https://www.ft.com/content/b1079606-5543-4fc5-acae-2c6c84b3a49f

https://archive.ph/jBMw9

🇸🇩 Sudan MAP: "The *approximate* situation in Sudan as of 22:00 on 16/04/2023.

Note that the situation is still very fluid and this map is only an indication of the approximate territorial balance of power across the country."

📎 Thomas van Linge

Amorality is a control strategy

we need to compile a kind of dossier, a record of some sort, of all the moves being made by KSA and UAE over the last several years in pursuit of expanding their influence and enabling themselves to act independently. Anyone want to help work on this?

It is very interesting what UAE and KSA are doing. This is potentially empire-building in real time, I think we can benefit from documenting and examining it

I have created a google doc for compiling research on the influence expansion project of the UAE and KSA, this will be a work in progress

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qXH1UbPvO9xB8hF-uCXcz1rKNyp5t_yeO9EXdv3afgY/edit

« Paris en feu et Macron au milieu ! » des barricades sont incendiées sur le chemin du cortège à Paris. Plusieurs manifestations sont en cours dans la capitale. (Thomas Rannou)

➡️ t.me/AnonymeCitoyen

In case it was unclear who is, and who is not, behind the RSF

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇸🇩 USA and EU have been attacked in Sudan

In the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, Rapid Support Forces fired on an armored car of the U.S. Embassy. According to embassy sources, "the embassy's armored car was deliberately fired upon by a special forces unit." According to their sources, diplomats were unharmed.

Also, the EU ambassador to Sudan was attacked in his residence, said Josep Borrel.

#USA #EU #Sudan

@africaintel

🇸🇩 Sudanese rival forces said to agree to 24-hour cease-fire

The Sudanese army and a rival paramilitary force Rapid Support Forces that have been battling the past four days for control of the country agreed Tuesday to a 24-hour cease-fire. The truce started at 6 p.m. Sudanese time.

Still, hours before the cease-fire was reportedly set to begin, forces loyal to Sudan's two top generals continued fighting each other in the streets of Khartoum.

#Sudan

@africaintel

French publisher arrested in London for refusing to disclose the passcodes to his phone and computer when questioned about participation in anti-government protests in France. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/18/french-publisher-arrested-london-counter-terrorism-police-ernest-moret

🇧🇩 The Bangladeshi authorities have said they want to pay for the construction of the Rooppur nuclear power plant, which Russia is building for them, with Chinese yuan.

Dollar who?

Sudan, UAE, KSA; Leverage and Hedging

Greed gone mad

Shahid Bolsen exposing the West for 5 minutes straight