The Post-Partisan Emporium

  EVs Indicted Cobalt Red is a scathing indictment of the global cobalt trade, and by extension, the electric vehicle industry. Robert Bryce Imagine for a moment if the oil and gas sector had direct (or indirect)  connections to slavery, child labor, or working conditions so dangerous that thousands of their workers were dying on the job every year. The uproar and indignation would be heard from here to Houston. But in the case of the world’s supply of cobalt—an element that is a critical ingredient in the batteries that are driving the global EV craze—the response to the widespread use of child labor and hell-like working conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has gone largely unnoticed and vastly under-reported. Until now. Siddharth Kara is among the world’s bravest journalists. And his new book,  Cobalt Red: How the Blood Of The Congo Powers Our Lives , is a must-read. It is a compelling, confounding, and withering indictment of the global supply chains t...

 Thanks to Manfred127 for recommending this article... When The Arsonist Predicts a Fire You Better Believe It Dr. Syed Haider A 2018 article describes how Bill Gates at the time was predicting a coming pandemic which would kill 30 million people within 6 months. We know from the work of RFK Jr. in his book ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’, that Gates and Fauci began collaborating at that time, some would suggest planning for the coming pandemic.  Matthew Crawford at his excellent substack ‘Rounding the Earth’  has written  that he was certain when the banking systems overnight  “repo market”  interest rates suddenly spiked in 2019 there would be some calamity brought forth to produce a controlled demolition of the global financial system and provide cover for a coming economic collapse that was at that point baked into the cake.  Along with most of us he didn’t have a global contagion event on his radar like Bill Gates,  the DOD  and perhaps the lar...