Sunday, March 10, 2024
Top microchip makers are postponing US expansion and instead expanding in "dangerous" Israel and even Russia because American grants come with so many 'equity' caveats
Top microchip makers are postponing their expansion into the U.S. and setting up shop in Israel and Russia due to equity caveats that are required for them to receive grants from the U.S. government.
The Biden administration promised earlier this year that they would be handing out $39 billion in grants to encourage semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S.
Shortly after the announcement however, Intel announced they would be holding off on their Columbus factory, while Samsung also delayed their facility in Texas.
Despite the billions in subsidies, two experts believe the tech companies' decision to back out of building manufacturing facilities in the U.S. stems from the diversity, equity and inclusion policy.
In an opinion piece for The Hill, CEO of Strive Asset Management Matt Cole and head of research at the company, Chris Nicholson, say the subsidies are so 'loaded with DEI that it can't move.'
FDNY commissioner is branded a 'fascist pit bull' for threatening to 'hunt down' firefighters who booed AG Letitia James and chanted 'Trump' during speech
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FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh has been branded a 'fascist pit bull' after announcing plans to seek out the unruly firefighters who booed New York Attorney-General Letitia James as she gave a speech earlier this week.
James was speaking at a New York Fire Department promotion ceremony on Thursday when the jeers began before she even took the stage.
The firefighters shouted Donald Trump's name as James appealed for calm from those gathered at the Christian Cultural Center's Brooklyn Campus.
But it appears those behind the chanting may not get away with it if Fire Department chiefs have anything to do with it.
FDNY Chief of Department John Hodgens sent an email to department leaders warning of an impending investigation by the Bureau of Investigation and Trials (BITS) into the booing and 'Trump' chants directed at James.
Hodgens has urged those involved to come forward voluntarily to avoid being pursued by the department which is currently reviewing video footage of the entire ceremony.
'BITS is investigating this, so they will figure out who the members are,' Hodges wrote to FDNY chiefs on Saturday.
Chareidim are Warning Beit Shemesh that there will be a "Genecide" If Dr. Aliza Bloch is Elected
I walked out of my house the other day to find a brochure warning that the Jews of Beit Shemesh, just like the Jews of ancient Persia, need to “assemble and stand for their lives.” No, this wasn’t about a new front in the war with Hamas, or Hezbollah, or any other Islamic genocidal terrorists. The genocidal threat being referred to was the possibility of the non-charedi candidate winning today’s run-off election for mayor.
This kind of hyperbole further demonstrates how detached the charedi community is from the real dangers facing Israel. But putting that aside for now, let’s analyze further. In the brochure, there was a letter signed by dozens of charedi rabbis from the city, explaining that the threat of genocide is spiritual rather than physical. Kol kiyum haYahadus, “the entire existence of Judaism” in this city, they explain, rests upon this vote.
It’s important to clarify: the non-charedi candidate facing the charedi candidate is the incumbent mayor, Dr. Aliza Bloch. She is a religious woman. She has already been mayor for five years. During that time, the charedi population of the city grew significantly, with her help. There are endless new charedi neighborhoods and new charedi schools and yeshivos. Declaring that “the entire existence of Judaism” depends on her being ousted is nothing short of utter absurdity.
But beyond the hyperbole of a community with a siege mentality that wants ever more power and control, there’s something going on here which is representative of a broader problem.
Mishpacha magazine ran a feature article this past week, “Behold a People,” proudly claiming that the Hamas war has led to a unique period in which there is genuine achdus in Israel. (Of course, this is a fraudulent claim, as there is no genuine achdus without shared communal obligations, but let’s put that aside for now.) Bizarrely, in an article claiming that there is achdus, it acknowledges that many charedim do not even recognize the greatness of the sacrifice being made by Zionist Jews in the IDF:
This is the great hour of the national-religious world, but, on the defensive yet again about the draft law which threatens the yeshivos, the chareidi world in Israel and beyond has been slow to recognize the unfolding story. We should call it what it is: authentic Jewish heroism, both physical and spiritual.
Still, the author hastens to add that this physical and spiritual heroism does not mean that the charedim are not doing something at least as important:
Acknowledging that does nothing to alter the fact that the Torah learned in yeshivos and kollelim is the guarantor of Jewish national survival. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said last week that “without physical existence, there’s no spiritual existence.” It’s a materialistic worldview that we’re taught to see in reverse. Without the Torah, there is no Jewish People.
And here, once again, is the rhetorical sleight-of-hand that is fundamental to charedi discourse. Did you notice it?
It is 100% true that without the Torah, without spiritual existence, there is no Jewish People. But that does not at all equate to “the Torah learned in [charedi] yeshivos and kollelim is the guarantor of Jewish national survival”!!!
There is far more Torah being studied today that at any point in history. There is plenty of Torah learned outside of yeshivos and kollelim, which barely even existed until a few decades ago. There is plenty of Torah learned in national-religious yeshivos and kollelim. There is plenty of Torah learned in charedi yeshivos and kollelim outside of Israel. There is plenty of Torah that can even be learned in charedi yeshivos and kollelim in Israel by a few thousand elite or otherwise exempt learners.
(And all this is aside from the strangeness of the mystical claim that permanent full-time Torah study of charedi men cloistered in the charedi yeshiva world, who are not teaching Torah to the nation, has any effect whatsoever on Jewish national survival.)
Equating Torah, spiritual existence and Jewish national survival with the exemption of every charedi young man from IDF service is as absurd as claiming that the ever-more-charedi city of Beit Shemesh is in the middle of a spiritual genocide. We need serious discourse, not idiotic hyperbole and absurdities.
Kamala Harris Sounds Just Like a Satmar Chusid She Says She Distinguishes Between Israeli ‘Government’ and ‘People’
Vice President Kamala Harris told CBS News on Friday that she distinguishes between the Israeli government and the Israeli people, as if Israel were not democratic, and as if Israelis disagreed with their government over the war in Gaza.
Harris spoke to CBS News and responded to a question about whether the Biden administration would end military aid to Israel over the death of 30,000 Palestinians. (CBS did not distinguish between terrorists and civilians killed).
“It’s important for us to distinguish or at least not conflate the Israeli government with the Israeli people,” she said.
It was not clear what Harris meant. The idea that one does not conflate a people and their government is usually expressed with regard to autocratic regimes; Israeli voters elected their current government in November 2022.
Moreover, while Netanyahu has faced strong opposition over domestic issues, Israelis broadly support his conduct of the war — and oppose the Biden administration’s vision for the region such as a “two-state solution.” A recent Gallup poll showed that nearly two-thirds of Israelis oppose the creation of a Palestinian state — a reversal from a decade ago.
Not even Americans support the Biden administration’s policies. A recent poll showed that nearly two-thirds of Americans support an Israeli attack on Hamas terrorists in the city of Rafah, which Biden has opposed publicly.
Harris’s confused response reflects an enduring hostility among Democrats toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Saturday, Biden said he believes Netanyahu is “hurting” Israel more than “helping” it — a bizarre statement about an lay in the middle of a war. Biden snubbed Netanyahu for most of the latter’s first year in office. But as Netanyahu has repeatedly said, opposing his policies on the war means opposing the majority of the Israeli people.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent book, “The Zionist Conspiracy (and how to join it),” now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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