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To: eldoradude

LOL!


676 posted on 06/04/2018 1:17:51 PM PDT by TEXOKIE
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To: TEXOKIE
Tongue in cheek comment, lol.

Maybe we could send him to the Congo - there's still a lot of cannibalism there.

Congo rebels are eating pygmies, UN says

My first thought was maybe they're on a diet? Eating light? I know.

The Congo is interesting - lots of conflict and minerals the aerospace industry requires.

The UN estimates that Congo has untapped mineral reserves worth $24 trillion. Since the late 1990s militias, rebel groups and armies have plundered these riches to fuel a string of wars that have caused more deaths than any conflict since the second world war.

In the US, the furore over conflict minerals intensified with revelations that multinational firms such as Apple, Intel and Motorola were unwittingly buying conflict minerals to make products such as smartphones and laptop computers.

Obama’s conflict minerals law has destroyed everything, say Congo miners

The infusion of $97,000 into the 2012 Obama re-election campaign by a Texas oil executive should not raise any eyebrows in an election cycle where the president has publicly embraced the super PAC concept. US media organizations might not flinch when the same executive happens to be a 2010 Obama appointee to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN). But since the oil magnate, Kase Lawal, is now implicated by the United Nations in a gold smuggling operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it might be time to dust off the neglected Congo desks and get a solid investigative reporter on the story.

UN Implicates Obama Donor in Congo Gold Smuggling Scheme

And of course, everything has a child trafficking component it seems.

Many children are brought to Congo at a young age: nine or 10 years old, sometimes even younger. Some are illiterate; few have finished primary school. They end up as domestic workers or prostitutes. Physical and psychological abuse is common.

While the sensitivity of the issue makes it hard to gauge the extent of child trafficking in Congo, a report prepared by UNICEF and the Congolese government in 2007 (volume one and volume two both in French) estimated that 200,000 children in west and central Africa are affected by trafficking every year.

http://www.irinnews.org/feature/2008/07/16/tackling-child-trafficking

How about the Clinton Foundation connection?

A little known Swedish-Canadian oil and mining conglomerate human rights groups have repeatedly charged produces “blood minerals” is among the Clinton Foundation’s biggest donors, thanks to a $100 million pledge in 2007, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/24/exclusive-clinton-foundation-got-100m-from-blood-minerals-firm/

CEMEX connection? They developed a policy in 2014 regarding minerals from the Congo.

https://www.cemex.com/documents/20143/160082/conflict-minerals-policy.pdf/c469ec03-039f-6d32-804e-2833d05c5b40

Amazing how the flies congregate.

783 posted on 06/04/2018 4:09:59 PM PDT by eldoradude (Try believing your lying eyes for a change...)
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