Will you read a long post? That is my hope... because it is all tied up with Tufts University, Paul Kagame and why we must pressure our government here in the US to not use our tax money to cover for companies and dictators. If you read the whole thing, like the post, leave a comment and share. Around the middle of the Second Congo War (which ended in 2003), speculation in international markets caused a spike in the price of tantalum, which shot up nearly ten times over the course of the year 2000 before dropping back to its initial price by late 2001. These were the heady days of the dot-com boom, and two of the world’s largest tantalum processors—Cabot and H.C. Starck—had set up long-term contracts with their suppliers in an effort to corner the market in gadget-bound tantalum. Other processors frantically sought new sources and found them in the vast untapped coltan reserves of the war-torn DRC. “Thanks to economic networks that had been established in 1998 and 1999 during the first years of the Congo War,” writes Michael Nest in his meticulous study Coltan, “minerals traders and military officials were perfectly placed to funnel it out of the country.” Colin Kinniburgh in his article Beyond “Conflict Minerals”: The Congo’s Resource Curse Lives On dissentmagazine.org/article/beyond-conflict-minerals-the-congos-resource-curse-lives-on Here is some research for you... and why all eyes have to be on Boston. 1. Did you know that Cabot is based in Boston? 2. Did you know that President Paul Kagame just spoke at Tufts University in the Cabot auditorium? 3. Did you know that Cabot funded the Cabot Intercultural Center? 4. Did you know that Cabot also provides scholarships to Tufts students? 5. Did you know that Rights And Accountability in Development and Friends of the Earth complaint filed against Cabot on August 4, 2004 with Mr. Wesley Scholz who was the director of the Office of Investment Affairs and National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises at the US Department of State? These organizations stated Friends of the Earth-US (FoE) and Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) are raising specific instances against Cabot Corporation, Trinitech Holdings and OM Group Inc. due to the lack of adequate investigation by the State Department into allegations raised by the United Nations (UN) Panel of Experts’ concerning the direct or indirect complicity of these companies in fueling the natural-resource driven war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 6. Did you know that the March/April 2002 issues of Passive Component Industry page 8 reported that African ore sales are also made directly to Cabot Corporation, tracked via IM145 shipment data from Africa to Pennsylvania, where Cabot maintains its tantalum processing plant. 7. Did you know that Cabot Corporation was listed in the UN Final report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Annex III Business enterprises considered by the Panel to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises page 7. 8. Do you know who is Samuel Bodman? Let me give you a hint. He was the United States Secretary of Energy in the Bush IIs administration and started working with Bish as his Deputy Secretary of Commerce in 2001. Now here is the story: In October 2002, Bodmans former company came under fire when a United Nations Panel of Experts produced a report accusing the company, along with several other US corporations, of helping to fuel the wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) while he ran Cabot by purchasing coltan from Congo during the conflict and illegally plundering the countrys vast natural resources. Cabot has publicly denied the allegations in the UN report, but a report by the Belgian Senate states that Eagle Wings Resources International had a long‑term contract to supply Cabot with coltan, which it too purchased from Congo during the war. Eagle Wings was also identified in the UN report as contributing to the war. ... The State Department is the agency in charge of deciding whether US companies breach the OECD guidelines. Despite the allegations included in the UN report and the complaint filed by the two activist groups, the State Department has refused to launch an independent investigation into whether Cabot, under Bodmans leadership, and the other US companies might have contributed to the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. huffingtonpost/jason-leopold/the-environment-is-doomed_b_8083.html Should I add more? Where is Cabot? Boston! I have laid out the facts... I have just told you that American companies were reported to the US government for pilfering Congos resources. I have provided you with where to find the info... what more can we do to show you that we know the companies... and when they tell you to go after Apple and the others, they are simply covering for people. I was told in Washington during another off-the-record meeting that you know why we cant help you? You guys give names... of people and companies... and it is a rabbit hole. My response was how can we end the war in the Congo if we dont tell people the truth? Where was Kagame a couple of weeks ago? Tufts University... What is Tufts connection to the Congo? Kagame and Cabot... What are you going to do with this information? Its up to you to decide! #BreakingTheSilence
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 04:04:17 +0000
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