Blood Coltan
The mobile phone is a remarkable piece of engineering. But look inside. There's blood in this machine.
There's blood in this device because your mobile contains tiny electronic circuits, and they couldn't work without mineral called COLTAN.
It's mined in the eastern Congo. There is blood here, the blood of Congolese who are dying in a terrible conflict.
The West’s demand for Coltan, used in mobile phones and computers, is funding the killings in Congo. Under the close watch of rebel militias, children as young as ten work the mines hunting for this black gold.
Blood Coltan exposes the web of powerful interests protecting this blood trade. Meet the powerful warlords who enslave local population and the European businessmen who continue importing Coltan, in defiance of the UN.
Our ambassador Luca Attanasio was killed for this, he was helping to stabilize those people that are object of "forced deductio" something that was practiced in Roman times or anyway from dawn of times, extreme violence forcing people to move away from the location they have settled for interests of a few, usually economical, financial, similar to what England has done in Afghanistan, India\Pakistan, or Belgium has started in Congo-Rwanda by creating imaginary races (race does not exist it's an invention) ...
Luca Attanasio was killed, it was not a kidnapping attempt, as he was working hard to stabilize the people and give them faith in their own talents.
Africa deserves more of our sacrifice to wake up, the problem is that there are traitors that are africans and also foreigners like China and many of us all that have no limit, no red lines. If they kill our best, we will produce 2 of them. I have pity for these violent and often educated people who are behind this. A better way could exist...
and they say that Congo has one of the best educated Political Class ...
Remember Luca Attanasio and who was killed with him.
If only africa most powerful, riches country what the foreign country would do. Africa’s getting resources from your own soil, killing your own people so they can have whatever resources they need. ( just something to say, no sense) after all is where we all came from.
...and to maximise production the miners remain in the chill and damp of the high altitude Virunga forests, thus saving the time and energy of travelling up and down every day. For food, well, there is always 'bush meat'; the most intelligent and gentle animal next to humans sharing 98% of our DnA: gorillas. There are 250 approx. remaining of them in their diminishing, shrinking, coltan-rich home. Don'cha love humans and their greed ?
The problem will go away once the value is taken away, thus the problem that is the source is the demand for the product.
I would give up my cell phone if this carnage would cease. I really hate my cell phone anyway, it is just a tool for the banker society of America to rip off everybody!
"4 million people dead in 13 years". I live in a country where the population is less than 3 million.
Capitalism has spawned a demon child named 'POP (Profit Over People) culture' where humans have become consumption-bots who worship celebrities and brand names. A society of children raised by the Television.
If you think the demons of this planet are gonna let Black people dead or alive stand in the way of even a single dollar, well, you either just landed here or you were born last night.
You can call it capitalism if you want, but prefer to call it what it is; racism/white supremacy. People of color on this planet is of no consequence to any kind so-called progress. That's just the big and the small of it. Look at Merika right now. RACE, RACE, RACE and which race ain't winning.
Capitalism is the problem, fools. Anarchism (libertarian socialism) is the way forward (and Americans, before you react, read a book, maybe?)...
The UN would have to be the biggest waste of money countries pay into , they stand around and play games with their own rules as people die.
The producers of this program did a great job of exposing the corruption and exploitation in the congo . They did it by going into peoples homes under false pretenses with hidden cameras and outright lie. The journalists put these people in grave danger by showing their faces. Journalists care about no one by themselves and their own careers.
The devil resides in London and has bases in Zurich, Paris, New York, Washington DC and Toronto.
There is no god. Get use to it . Your death will only be silence.
But why is this "conspiracy". No conspiracy here, it is what's going on.
LUNACY - LUNA SEE - MOON EYE - MONEY
the world is a lunatic Pit
still going to buy that stuff but do wish there was another way
Also can the writer of this article please provide us with DETAILS that enlighten the consumer, such as freshly mined versus recycled Coltan is placed in which name brand products manufactured by which corporations with what kind of track record, so that we will be able to tell the woloves from the sheep when computer and other corporations tell us that THEIR products do NOT use freshly mined Coltan and that THEIR products use entirely recycled Coltan (like this is ethically okay?) Most important? Are smart meters, smart routers, smart aggregators, all of which use killer microwave frequencies no different than those used by the military, using freshly mined minerals to create a global smart blood grid? Thought so. Does China use Coltan? Please name countries, corporations. We have TREMENDOUS powers of boycott to stop technocracy's planetary destruction under the banner of "green" right now and being ethical as well is certainly a perk. Life AFTER recovery from illegal wireless electrosmog and personal wireless addiction can be truly wonderful.
So then... How isn't the smart grid a blood grid?
CEO's Can
You must tell the truth! You CEO's can!
Then we can sit down and all make a plan.
We don't want to guess!
Just drop the B.S.
Lies undermine the survival of man.
Love and awe, Lora B
Kleptocrats intend to degrade the entire world, to Africa's standard of slavery profiteering. Ottawa Canada is the west's capital slave trade, heroin sales boom - they're hiring the very mercenaries who make soldiers out of children in Africa, to conduct the same type tactics, now in North America, for their slave trade in mullah segeh and heroin sales.
This article says EUROPEANS are importing it, not Americans. Are we (Americans) using some sort of alternative mineral?
if people want to stop this type of stuff from happening first people need to remember your kids and family and friends should always be more important than anything else,food and water comes next,so on and so forth your favoret tv show is not as important as the things people take for granted to watch that tv show or ball game..food for thought
me and my wife have one cell phone ive only owned one and im 29 and she has owned 2 she is 22 my phone is never on and is a prepay it has 20 bucks on it and we never ever use it cause its only use is when we break down on the road and thats never happened yet,im just pointing out that a phone is a waist of mony it cost 500 bucks and you have to pay 50 or more each month to use it...when people figure out that this is a waist of your money they will find out why they are broke
The world bank loaned the Congo 1.7 billion in 2007 even though the Congolese are the 3rd poorest country on Earth, in return the Congo will sell it's resources for dirt cheap ensuring a windfall for the western corporations and constant poverty and economic slavery for the Congolese. Bastards.
Ironically cell phones (communication) are one the things that can help Africa’s economy. Also to be noted; if all the charity organizations where to collaborate with scientists and economists they could likely do at least 2 fold what they are now.