Agree 100%.
AVZ Discussion 2022
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Why is Westwin Elements looking for its supplies outside the DRC?
Well, here's your answer:
Westwin Elements’ move to look beyond the DRC is directly linked to the array of difficulties in dealing with the country-namely, endemic corruption, neglected infrastructure, an unskilled workforce, security risks, and the need to diversify away from Chinese-dominated supply chains.
These factors collectively drive Western firms to seek more reliable, ethical, and cost-effective sources of critical minerals elsewhere.
Who would have thunk.
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Winenut
GO AVZ!!!!
Ahhh......
It's only the really old, rusted-on crew that get this one!
Love that!
Xerof
Flaming 1967
I’m suggesting “Get your filthy hands off my desert” Floyd 1983 be added to mixtapeAhhh......
It's only the really old, rusted-on crew that get this one!
Love that!
Samus
Top 20
You mean us poor unfortunate miserable bastards with the misfortune to be part of this godforsaken shitshow going back for many years!Ahhh......
It's only the really old, rusted-on crew that get this one!
Love that!
I'll leave the mixtape, take my money and never look back!
Xerof
Flaming 1967
Spikerama
Regular
A momentary pause for me before the cogs turned.
It's Friday, you're allowed to be a bit brain dead..
Woogr
Regular
That’s fucking gold mate, I’m sitting here crying! Thanks for that!
That's a slow burn. I read. Then scrolled. Then scrolled back to re-read. Burst out laughing
Winenut
GO AVZ!!!!
Same here!
A momentary pause for me before the cogs turned.
brief
Man walks into a bar, says, "Gimme a shot of Jack." Bartender brings the shot, the man slams it back, bartender asks, "You okay, buddy?" The man says, "No, I just found out my youngest son is gay." Gets up, walks out.
Two weeks later, same guy walks into the bar. "Bartender, gimme a Jack, and make it a double." Bartender asks what's wrong, he says, "I just found out my middle son is gay." Downs the shots, walks out.
Two weeks later, he walks into the bar again, almost crying. "Bartender, gimme a damn pint of Jack." Bartender asks what's wrong, he says, "I just found out my oldest son is gay!" Drinks the Jack down like water and stumbles out.
Another couple of weeks, the guy walks back into the bar. This time he's already shit-faced. "Bartender," he slurs, "jush bring me the damn bottle!"
Bartender says, "Shit, man, doesn't anybody at your house like chicks?"
"Yeah," says the guy. "My wife."
Two weeks later, same guy walks into the bar. "Bartender, gimme a Jack, and make it a double." Bartender asks what's wrong, he says, "I just found out my middle son is gay." Downs the shots, walks out.
Two weeks later, he walks into the bar again, almost crying. "Bartender, gimme a damn pint of Jack." Bartender asks what's wrong, he says, "I just found out my oldest son is gay!" Drinks the Jack down like water and stumbles out.
Another couple of weeks, the guy walks back into the bar. This time he's already shit-faced. "Bartender," he slurs, "jush bring me the damn bottle!"
Bartender says, "Shit, man, doesn't anybody at your house like chicks?"
"Yeah," says the guy. "My wife."
Dave Evans
Regular
An overweight bloke goes to the doctors. Desperately wanting to lose weight he says to the doctor “Can you recommend a good diet that I can go on”
The doctor says “I’ve got a great diet for you. On the first day you eat everything you normally eat, the next day you eat half what you normally eat, then the next day you eat half what you normally eat again, then skip a day, go back to eating what you normally eat followed by half what you normally eat then half what you normally eat and repeat the process for three months, then come back and see me”
Three months goes by and the bloke goes back to the doctor and says, “Doctor that diet is fantastic, I’ve lost 30kg, I’m going to tell all my friends how great the diet worked”. The doctor says “It wasn’t the diet that worked, it was the skipping”
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The playlist has unfortunately been on a prolonged multi-year pause, but hopefully like a phoenix it will soon rise from the ashes and be re-released as an extended special edition mix.
CashKing
Regular
Man walks into Woolworths looking around confused.
Another man walking around confused.
They both bump into each other accidentally and get talking.
Im looking for my wife first man says.
Second man says I’m looking for my wife also dunno where’s she’s gone.
First man well my wife is 28 years old fit as fuck with big boobs and a great ass…
Second Man says Fuck looking for my wife let’s go find yours
Happy Friday All.
GLTAH
Another man walking around confused.
They both bump into each other accidentally and get talking.
Im looking for my wife first man says.
Second man says I’m looking for my wife also dunno where’s she’s gone.
First man well my wife is 28 years old fit as fuck with big boobs and a great ass…
Second Man says Fuck looking for my wife let’s go find yours
Happy Friday All.
GLTAH
I recall that previously the DRC did not allow Starlink to operate in their country. So this might seem inconsequential but it’s another positive sign of the DRC and US working together. It’s also an indication that the US is likely making demands of the DRC to allow its businesses to operate in their country.
Maybe I’m reading into it too much, but I’ll take any (positive) news at the moment while we wait
Maybe I’m reading into it too much, but I’ll take any (positive) news at the moment while we wait
Mute22
Regular
U.S. Pushes Congo and Rwanda to Sign Ukraine-Style Mineral Deals
The Trump administration wants the DR Congo and Rwanda to sign a peace treaty with each other and sign minerals deals with the United States.
U.S. Pushes Congo and Rwanda to Sign Ukraine-Style Mineral Deals
John Hayward2 May 20258
4:51
Massad Boulos, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for Africa policy, told Reuters on Thursday that the administration wants the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to sign a peace treaty with each other — and then sign Ukraine-style minerals deals with the United States.
Boulos predicted a minerals deal with the DRC would be signed on the same day as the Congo-Rwanda peace accords, “and then a similar package, but of a different size, will be signed on that day with Rwanda.”
That day, according to Boulos, should come sometime in the next two months. At a meeting in Washington last week, the DRC and Rwanda agreed to an ambitious timetable that included both of them submitting drafts of their half of the peace treaty on May 2. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to preside over another meeting in Washington to finalize the peace treaty by mid-May.
Rwanda’s side of the deal included a pledge to stop supporting M23 and other insurgent groups that have been rampaging through the eastern Congo. The insurgents captured several key cities in the DRC at the beginning of the year, and when they marched through the gates of their captured towns, Rwandan troops marched right alongside them.
In return for Rwanda pulling out its troops and halting support for the insurgents, the DRC will promise to take Rwanda’s security concerns seriously, including action against a Rwandan insurgent group that operates in the Congo, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
The FDLR is one of more than a hundred armed groups operating in the eastern Congo. It is of particular concern to Rwanda because its members are mostly members of the Hutu tribe and they are determined to overthrow the government of Rwanda, which is largely controlled by the Tutsi tribe at present. The Hutus attempted to exterminate the Tutsis in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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Boulos said the bilateral mineral deals between the U.S. and the two African nations would have to be completed before the peace treaty could be signed.
“The (agreement) with the DRC is at a much bigger scale, because it’s a much bigger country and it has much more resources, but Rwanda also has a lot of resources and capacities and potential in the area of mining as well … not just the upstream, but also midstream and downstream to processing and refining and trading,” he told Reuters.
After meeting in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday, delegations from the DRC and Rwanda said they were close to agreement on a draft of the peace treaty.
Boulos was not exaggerating when he said a U.S. minerals deal with the DRC would be much larger than a deal with Rwanda. The DRC has trillions of dollars’ worth of untapped mineral resources, including precious metals, cobalt, copper, and lithium.
The unstable security situation in the eastern Congo is a major reason why these resources have not been tapped. Investors will want to see the area pacified before they pour huge amounts of money into mining and refining projects. M23 insurgents have reportedly seized control of major Congolese mines and shipped the pilfered minerals to Rwanda.
The United Nations was supposed to stabilize the region with a peacekeeping force called MONUSCO and, while it helped to push M23 back over a decade ago, it has been largely ineffective during the current crisis.
President Felix Tshisekedi asked MONUSCO to withdraw last year, but the peacekeepers are still there. Seventeen of them have been killed so far this year during battles between M23 and Congolese government forces.
South Africa announced on Thursday that it has begun withdrawing its peacekeepers from rebel-held areas in the eastern Congo. Malawi and Tanzania are also pulling their forces out, believing them to be trapped in hostile territory after M23 advanced and captured the city of Goma in January.
Hundreds of Congolese troops were also cut off by the rebel advance. The International Committee of the Red Cross began escorting those soldiers and their families out of rebel territory on Wednesday.
President Tshisekedi raised the idea in March of giving the U.S. exclusive mineral rights in exchange for assistance against the M23 insurgency.
“Your election has ushered in the golden age for America. Our partnership would provide the U.S. with a strategic advantage by securing critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, copper and tantalum from the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Tshisekedi told President Donald Trump in a letter.
Boulos, who has existing business interests in Africa, made a trip to the DRC soon after Tshisekedi sent his letter to begin hammering out the terms of a mineral deal.
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