No, it’s not Greta Thunberg. It’s this kid, a child, a slave to the Great Reset. He’s a ghost to the men and women of the Davos crowd as he crushes rocks for their rechargeable batteries, fueling the green dreams of totalitarian madmen.
Cobalt is the new gold; an indispensable mineral for the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries and since the green future demands it, the mineral will be obtained under any circumstances, including human enslavement.
How Dare You!
How dare you, right Greta? Do you think it is acceptable to destroy third world lives to accomplish the fascist visions of smart cities free from the evils of petroleum? But if it is okay, then what else will you be comfortable allowing by going green? Is it okay to starve out millions of people in order to lower carbon footprints? The only carbon footprint this poor kid puts out is his exhausted exhalation. But when he inhales, he gets a good lungful of heavy metal dust coating his lungs. He won’t live long enough to get lung cancer—since life expectancy in the Congo is 47, compared to the low 80s in the West—so, at least, that’s okay.
This little guy helps the developed world utilize cell phones, tablets, rechargeable gizmos for your entertainment and, most importantly, the world saving EV cars.
Klaus Schwab must be delighted.
This is not a new story. The media has covered it extensively, with little fanfare. However, it exposes how far these zealots will go in order to force you into the renewable energy world. The Great Reset is built upon the backs of children in Congo and the Uyghurs, ethnic Hui, ethnic Kazakhs, ethnic Kyrgyz, ethnic Tajiks, and ethnic Uzbeks in China. There are certainly other places in the world where a human life is but a consumable product.
Roughly 10kg of the precious resource is needed to make an electric car, for example, and, without it, the feasibility of grid-scale battery storage is severely compromised.
The vast majority of the planet’s cobalt [roughly 70%] is located within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where a plethora of interested parties are engaged in a frantic contest for control over mining operations.
That particular race may have already been won, however, as China appears to have established a monopoly over the metal in the politically unstable region. [Source: NS Energy]
According to Human Trafficking Search, a human rights NGO, 40% of the 100,000 Congolese artisanal (independent mines) miners are children aged 12 and under. While Congo has one of the richest mineral deposits in the world, the country remains the second poorest.
In December 2019 “International Rights Advocates [a NGO human rights group], [filed a lawsuit] on behalf of 14 families who accused the technology firms of knowingly aiding and abetting – and subsequently benefiting from – forced labour practices in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).”
‘Defendants Apple, Alphabet [Google], Dell, Microsoft and Tesla all knowingly aided and abetted and benefited enormously from a system that forces impoverished children, including the plaintiffs and others similarly situated, to perform extremely hazardous work without safety equipment of any kind for less than subsistence wages in order to barely eke out a minimal human existence,’ said the complaint.
As many as 11 of the children [covered under the lawsuit] sustained a variety of injuries, including smashed limbs and broken spines, while five others were killed by tunnel collapses or falling into unprotected mining shafts, International Rights Advocates alleged.
Straight out of a thriller novel, “Auguste Mutombo, executive director of Alternatives Plus, a DRC-based NGO that works to improve conditions in the artisanal mining sector, helped facilitate the field research that formed the evidence base for the suit.
“He said that shortly after details of the lawsuit went public, he received dozens of death threats in person and via telephone, and text messages from people who claimed to be members of mining cooperatives...” He was forced to skedaddle with his family from his home country under threat of death. These guys are pretty serious about their green dreams.
Should we be surprised that the suit was dismissed on November 5, 2021? The U.S. District court judge ruled that there wasn’t enough causal evidence to link the Big Tech giants to the mining efforts in Congo. Additionally, “as the alleged violations took place far from this country’s [U.S.] shores,” the suit was invalid. (Let’s forget that Congress has allowed families affected by the 9-11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia—as should be the case—but turnabout isn’t fair play.) Big Tech lawyers are paid a tremendous amount of money to protect Big Tech. Tim Cook, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk can sleep well at night knowing they aren’t responsible for the exploitation of children—not that they tossed and turned at night anyway.
All of the named companies have stated that they’re committed to “transitioning” to ethical mining. (Lots of people are transitioning nowadays so why not Big Tech?) Between all of these companies, they could easily afford to buy out the mines in Congo and mine the needed minerals “ethically”—especially since paying $44 billion for Twitter is pocket change. But then Jeff Bezos isn’t exactly running an ethical business model in his Amazon warehouses. And, of course, China would be out of the picture—can’t let that “ethically transitioning” developing country go hungry, right?
China is having its own problems with manufacturing iPhones. “Workers at the biggest factory for Apple’s iPhone in China were kicked and clubbed by cops as violent protests continued over a pay dispute… Videos online showed thousands of workers in surgical masks facing rows of police in white protective suits with plastic riot shields, in rare scenes of open dissent in China.”
Going green ain’t as easy as they thought!
And all of this brings us to reparations. Dear ol’ Joe promised billions of dollars…
Representatives and negotiators from nearly 200 countries have reached a historic agreement to pay reparations to poor countries said to be victimized by climate change, though proponents say more is needed to scale back fossil fuels... It was a big win for poorer nations that have long called for money — sometimes viewed as "reparations" — because they are often the victims of floods, droughts, heat waves, famines and storms despite having contributed little to the pollution that heats up the globe.
Are they going to pay reparations to the thousands of kids and their families they turned into slaves for the Climate Change! monster? Of course not. If any money actually makes it to Congo, it’s going to end up in Swiss bank accounts easily accessible from the Côte d’Azur or Monaco.
What about the soup-on-art campaign by the trust fund psychos? Do these morons even think about a poor kid crushing rocks in the Congo? How about the geniuses who glued themselves to the runway in Berlin? If they had pulled that stunt in Davos, the Gulfstreams would have been revved up and the fools squashed. Soup-on-tarmac would have shown real commitment.
Wokesters scream about us supposed colonialists but what about the true colonialism committed by His Galactic Majesty Klaus Schwab? By Big Tech? By Big Green? By all of the other fascists looking to make slaves of us all?
If one has bought into the Climate Change! usurpation of basic human rights, are they going to care when their human rights are dismissed as collateral damage?
Probably not. They want to own nothing and be happy.
And eat crickets.
I don’t.