Your wife?
AVZ Discussion 2022
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Spikerama
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Wordy jibes are broke and contrived?
Spikerama
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Samus, did you change your name?
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Hates a beer
I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so
I sat down and had a cold beer.
The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking.
My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing,
and I said, "Nothing."
The reason I said "nothing" instead of saying "just thinking" is because she then would have asked, "About what?"
At that point I would have had to explain that men are deep thinkers about various topics, which would lead to other questions.
Finally I pondered an age old question: Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the nuts?
Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts, but how could they know?
Well, after another beer, and some more heavy deductive thinking, I have come up with an answer to that question.
Getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than having a baby, and even though I obviously couldn't really know, here is the reason for my conclusion:
A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, "It might be nice to have another child."
But you never hear a guy say, "You know, I think I would like another kick in the nuts."
I rest my case.
Time for another beer. Then maybe a nap.
I sat down and had a cold beer.
The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking.
My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing,
and I said, "Nothing."
The reason I said "nothing" instead of saying "just thinking" is because she then would have asked, "About what?"
At that point I would have had to explain that men are deep thinkers about various topics, which would lead to other questions.
Finally I pondered an age old question: Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the nuts?
Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts, but how could they know?
Well, after another beer, and some more heavy deductive thinking, I have come up with an answer to that question.
Getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than having a baby, and even though I obviously couldn't really know, here is the reason for my conclusion:
A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, "It might be nice to have another child."
But you never hear a guy say, "You know, I think I would like another kick in the nuts."
I rest my case.
Time for another beer. Then maybe a nap.
Samus
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What are you talking.about?
I've never even held the mantle!
Anyway I'm not sure why you keep singling me out?
Spikerama
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Are you gonna make me come down there? Don't make me come down there. I'm serious. Don't make me come down there!
Chase
Regular
Yep Frank Cobber on the money..well said Cobber!!
RHyNO
Regular
I know it’s lame stream media but really….. How long are Trump and Elon going to let China keep fucking them like this. Trump is going to get all the DRC minerals he needs and we will get a nice fraction of our actual value.
Dave Evans
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This X post was so funny I just couldn’t help myself. Thanks to our great saviour
@DrJPPham
@POTUS
Message from hailing signing today of Declaration of Principles between the #DRC & #Rwanda that can end the conflict in the eastern Congo as well as open the way for investments leading to peace & prosperity for people there and secure #CriticalMinerals for the #USA.
Department of State and 2 others
7:21 AM · Apr 26, 2025
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@DrJPPham
@POTUS
Message from hailing signing today of Declaration of Principles between the #DRC & #Rwanda that can end the conflict in the eastern Congo as well as open the way for investments leading to peace & prosperity for people there and secure #CriticalMinerals for the #USA.
Department of State and 2 others
7:21 AM · Apr 26, 2025
19.7K Views
Mute22
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Mining group backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos expands into DR Congo
KoBold bets country will be important to US efforts to secure minerals for energy transition
AVZ mentioned again.
Same article readable on MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/top...-jeff-bezos-expands-into-dr-congo/ar-AA1DGMuO
Kobold even reposting on Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kobo...s-and-jeff-activity-7322136759864090624-slTh/
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Dave Evans
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This X post was so funny I just couldn’t help myself. Thanks to our great saviour
@DrJPPham
@POTUS
Message from hailing signing today of Declaration of Principles between the #DRC & #Rwanda that can end the conflict in the eastern Congo as well as open the way for investments leading to peace & prosperity for people there and secure #CriticalMinerals for the #USA.
Department of State and 2 others
7:21 AM · Apr 26, 2025
19.7K Views
For those replying with
the DRC and Rwanda Foreign Affairs Ministers signed the “declaration of principles” with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a witness.The two sides committed to drafting an initial peace agreement no later than May 2, according to the declaration.
Click on “declaration”
for the link to itMassad Boulos, the US Senior Adviser to Africa was also there to witness the signing
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Frank
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Mining group backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos expands into DR Congo
A mining start-up backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos is expanding into the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a bet that the resource-rich nation will be crucial to US efforts to compete with China for minerals that are needed for the energy transition.KoBold Metals, which deploys artificial intelligence to identify untapped mineral deposits, was betting “big” on DR Congo, said Benjamin Katabuka, its newly appointed director-general in the country.
The company would recruit staff in the country and planned to apply for licences to explore for lithium, copper and cobalt, he said.
The push into DR Congo comes as the African nation seeks to secure a minerals deal with the US, in talks that are part of President Donald Trump’s ambitions to break dependency on China for metals.
“KoBold is looking to go big in this country in terms of investment,” said Katabuka, a former employee of Freeport-McMoRan who has more than a decade of experience in the industry in DR Congo.
“Investments could be in the billions.”
Massad Boulos, Trump’s newly appointed senior adviser for Africa, said last week that he and DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi had in recent days discussed the development of a US-DR Congo minerals pact and had “chartered a path forward”.
“We’re having similar discussions with other neighbouring countries,” Boulos added.
“Our role is to facilitate those private sector investments” in the mining sector, including with American government funding, he said.
DR Congo is the world’s number one supplier of cobalt, a metal used in the production of batteries for electric vehicles.
But it is also in the midst of an armed conflict that has disrupted mining in the eastern part of the country, where the M23 rebel group has seized large areas of land.
Berkeley-based KoBold raised $537mn during its latest round in January from investors including Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, whose backers include Bezos and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. The company has raised $1bn to date.
Katabuka acknowledged it was “difficult” to do business in DR Congo and that the perception of corruption was “high”.
KoBold would insist on “high standards” for its operations, he added.
Separately, several of the billionaires backing the mining operation have environmental interests in DR Congo through their philanthropic foundations.
The Bezos Earth Fund had pledged to protect the Congo basin, which the UN estimates stores about three years’ worth of global greenhouse gas emissions, from “degradation, deforestation and biodiversity loss” with grants of $110mn.
The Gates Foundation is supporting agricultural programmes in the region.
KoBold is also among the companies that are interested in developing a huge lithium deposit in DR Congo that is the subject of a legal dispute between Australia’s AVZ Minerals and China’s state-backed Zijin Mining.
The deposit had “the potential to become a large-scale, long-lived lithium mine”, KoBold wrote to the DR Congo government in January, according to a letter obtained by the Financial Times.
Mfikeyi Makayi, chief executive of KoBold Metals Africa, said the company was prepared to “look at” potential acquisition targets, although its main focus was on making new discoveries.
Many mines in DR Congo are run by Chinese groups, and no big American mining companies have operated there since Freeport-McMoRan sold its stake in the Tenke Fungurume copper mine to China’s CMOC in 2016.
Katabuka said the Congolese government was “interested in having some western investors coming into the country”, which would help “balance” China’s presence.
DR Congo wanted more metals processing to be done within the country, but it lacked the necessary infrastructure to do that, with mining companies even “struggling to get enough power for their production”, he said.
Dave Evans
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Mining group backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos expands into DR Congo
KoBold bets country will be important to US efforts to secure minerals for energy transitionwww.ft.com
AVZ mentioned again.
Same article readable on MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/top...-jeff-bezos-expands-into-dr-congo/ar-AA1DGMuO
Kobold even reposting on Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kobo...s-and-jeff-activity-7322136759864090624-slTh/
If KoBold are coming out with low-ball offers, there’s no excuse for it, especially if a peace agreement has been made between the DRC and Rwanda.
KoBold aren’t miners so there’s nothing stopping them from forming a JV with Rio Tinto, BHP or the Saudi’s and stumping up $10billion, I’m sure CATL would.
No one likes the waiting around, but now @Spikerama has the counters out there on Cominiere’s fines and the ICSID, I’m looking forward to their next findings.
DRC ICC Penalty Calculator 2.0
Calculates the amount of penalties the DRC has incurred since the first & 2nd violation of the ICC court ruling
drc-icc-penalty-counter-2.netlify.app
AVZ vs DRC @ ICSID - Final Countdown
Countdown to the ICSID tribunal of AVZ vs DRC (Congolese).
avz-icsid-final-countdown.netlify.app
And seeing it’s after midnight here, I’m going to beat you to it just this once Spike
34 Now follow the law
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