A minerals deal searching for Donald Trump
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been ravaged by war over such things as religion and ethnicity. Since the 1990's more than 6 million people have died. The big problem has been that the Congo took in about 2 million refugees during the genocide happening in neighboring Rwanda. Various rebel groups & extremists have emerged in those areas and now the Congo is embroiled in a guerrilla war.
The Congo happens to be the country with the most rare & precious minerals in the world. Untapped deposits are worth an estimated 24 trillion dollars. It produces 64% of the world's cobalt, it is the 4th largest producer of diamonds in the world, and it has significant lithium deposits. Over the Biden years, China has gradually exercised significant control of the mining now taking place in the Congo. Other countries have also shown an interest in the mining of minerals there.
This past week the rebel group known as M-23 withdrew from peace negotiations. The leader of the Congo, Felix Tshisekedi is now offering President Trump a minerals deal in exchange for US security. Two nights ago, he was a guest of Bret Baier on Special Report . If you got to see it, he was the man wearing a suit without a shirt or a tie. I'm sure they'll catch up. He seemed like a nice man. It is a tough deal to consider, but it may be too much to pass up.
In other news:
House Republicans are putting together a big, beautiful bill that will extend tax cuts for Americans, streamline the budget and codify the Trump agenda. It is going to be a very delicate process in order to encompass all of Republicans’ ambitions, which include ending taxes on tips, trimming corporate payments and extending other treasured tax breaks.
President Trump, surrounded by schoolchildren in the East Room of the White House, signed an executive order that he said would “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all.” Only Congress, which created the department, can dissolve it. Will they have the public's support?
A federal judge said the administration has been woefully insufficient in turning over details about last weekend’s deportation flights. He gave the White House until Tuesday to explain itself. Although Chief Justice Roberts has thus far resisted taking a look at the authority of district judges to set injunctions on executive policies, he may have no choice but to address it as AG Bondi has vowed to bring every injunction before the SCOTUS.
A law firm has finally agreed to represent clients regardless of their politics and donate $40 million to causes Trump supports. He then dropped the executive order he had signed against the firm.
Tax revenues have fallen in China, leaving the government with less money to help consumers or exporters as Beijing braces for Trump’s tariffs. Some call it Karma.
President Trump got the Taliban to release George Glezmann, an American airline mechanic who was detained while visiting Kabul in 2022 as a tourist. Trump gave nothing in return, and it appears that the Taliban released him as a goodwill gesture.
The University of California said it would stop using diversity statements in hiring.
Tesla is recalling nearly all of its cybertrucks after it found that an exterior trim panel was falling off.
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Disney’s live-action remake of the classic film “Snow White,” which has largely been overshadowed by various controversies as the film became a culture war target, opens in theaters this weekend to generally poor critical reviews and a middling box office outlook.
'Snow White’ Controversies, Explained: Critics Knock Disney's Latest Live-Action Remake
Young men are moving right.
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal:
Former MSNBC host Greta Van Susteren said that the left-leaning Comcast-owned network was the only employer that ever “tried to tell me what to do.”
Van Susteren, the former career lawyer who got her start in television broadcasting as a legal analyst for CNN during the OJ Simpson murder trial, recalled her experiences working for MSNBC after departing Fox News in 2016.
“Nobody told me what to say or do at CNN [or] Fox,” Van Susteren told former Politico and Puck reporter Tara Palmeri on Palmeri’s newly launched Substack newsletter.
Greta Van Susteren: MSNBC was only place that 'tried to tell me what to do'
More condescension to non whites. The management here should put a stop to this.
Something is going to stop.
I can feel it.
How pathetic does one have to be to want to bring illegals and criminals BACK to the country?
He was never qualified to be a judge.
I read the Forbes story about the right wings complaints about the Snow White movie.
Top complaint - Snow White is not "white" in the movie (she is played by a hispanic actress, Rachel Zegler)
"the source material, the Brothers Grimm fairytale"
Its not real , its a made up story . Snow White is in the realm of Santa Claus and mermaids.
But more importantly than that, WHY does Snow White need to be a white girl? What demands this?
Denzel Washington played the Shakespeare character Macbeth in a movie a few years ago. Macbeth was Scottish, Washington, is uh, not. There were no complaints that I know of, I guess right wingers are too oblivious to Shakespeare to have noticed, but fairly tales they are all over.
I guess they got more than even with the world. The part of Maria in West Side Story should have gone to Rita Moreno.
I'm sorry, I can't stop laughing!
We have managed to stay out of the Congo, specifically Katanga Province, since 1960. Most of the US and Russian uranium was sourced from Katanga for decades.
Watched a good film about the 1960 Tshombe coup and how badly the UN fucked up and left Irish UN Peace Keepers to fight off thousands of French Legionaries supplied by DeGaulle and thousands of Cong troops until the Irish had no more ammo and no means to resupply. The mercanaries shot down the UN plane carrying UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold who died in a plane crash on a mission to prevent civil war in newly independent Congo.
Jadotville: The True Story That Inspired the Netflix Film | TIME
Since then, Rhodesia and Rawanda and dozens of "freedom fighters" have held one uprising after another to keep the UN, US , UK and Russia out of the Congo.
It would be a mistake of Vietnam like proportions for the US to get involved there.
They are recalling 46,096 out of the 38,965 sold.
In the auto industry parlance, that is 100% recall. The only units not recalled are the test vehicles which will never be sold.
First it was the "grille covers coming partially free, now the door panels are falling off. It's no laughing matter, just another short cut gone wrong.