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Horrible disaster.
1 posted on 11/17/2025 7:37:20 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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Background of how bad this really is.

Blood Cobalt: The Congo’s Dangerous and Deadly Green Energy Mines | Foreign Correspondent (3 years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V3bIzNX4co


2 posted on 11/17/2025 7:38:26 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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All for green EVs....................


3 posted on 11/17/2025 7:38:29 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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The tens of millions of aborted infants in the United States send their sympathies to the families of those killed in the mine landslide.


4 posted on 11/17/2025 7:43:50 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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Joy Reid’s home country.
Maybe she can go do all her usual anti Trump hate nonsense from a microphone there and solve the problem.


5 posted on 11/17/2025 7:44:51 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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“…demand for cobalt and copper used worldwide in electronics and EV batteries.”

This is what EVs do to get the consumer their 3,500 pound vehicles to us who pretend that plugging the car in saves petroleum consumption

80 people dead in a second. Kids too


8 posted on 11/17/2025 7:51:18 AM PST by stanne
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Better to die in seconds than be trapped for days until you run out of air.


11 posted on 11/17/2025 8:19:35 AM PST by alternatives?
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This is terrible.


16 posted on 11/17/2025 8:39:54 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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>>Artisanal mining in the DRC

“Artisanal mining”... nice euphemism.


26 posted on 11/17/2025 8:57:00 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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What’s an artisanal mine?


35 posted on 11/17/2025 9:59:38 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Artisanal mining

really, 'artisanal'?
38 posted on 11/17/2025 10:54:30 AM PST by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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The next auto energy source is hydrogen. It’s // this close.


40 posted on 11/17/2025 12:01:23 PM PST by lurk (u)
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