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Battery explosions
http://www.mining.com/web/explosions-threatening-lithium-ions-edge-battery-race/
Well, when a company under designs the amount of cobalt needed in a battery, or skimps on the amount of cobalt necessary in battery manufacturing to save a few bucks, or tries to substitute magic-dust synthetics for tried & true cobalt, or just uses shit quality cobalt to start with in making a battery... then explosions happen. That's the result.
The Doctor
DRC_scraps sentence for exiled_opposition leader Moise_Katumbi
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/drc-scraps-sentence-exiled-opposition-leader-moise-katumbi-190419175156694.html
One year ago I wrote that Moise Katumbi (the former governor of the DRC's copper-mining Katanga region) should be allowed to run for President of DRC https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=139776419
Obviously Kabila didn't listen to me (or to anyone else outside his palace gang for that matter). With Moise Katumbi's bullsheet sentence now being overturned through the courts in DRC let's hope next that he returns to DRC and gets a chance to improve his homeland and maybe even run in the next elections.
The Doctor
She's_18, stacked_and hotazhell... she_coos_OK, just_put_the tip_back in
https://www.stockwatch.com/News/Item.aspx?bid=Z-C%3aKAT-2743980&symbol=KAT®ion=C
Or, https://ih.advfn.com/stock-market/TSX/KAT/stock-news/79696926/katanga-mining-announces-limited-resumption-of-cob
The Doctor
Ivanhoe_kisses the_ring, but_stops_way way_short of kissing/licking the_ask
https://www.mining-technology.com/news/ivanhoe-reaffirms-commitment-to-mining-projects-in-drc/
Dear Joelix, all the "real" miners like Ivanhoe are going to remain in a state of suspended animation until you wake up to the fact all these wildcat mom & pop miners are not paying any taxes to the DRC on the cobalt & coltan they are smuggling across the border into Rwanda and on to China every night. You need to work on rebuilding all the semi-stable relationships with the real miners that DRC used to have before Kabila's thugs and over-greedy politically appointed greasy administrators severely macro-wrecked them these past 3 years.
You "appear" to be on the right track when you publicly admit "Congo’s endemic corruption had discouraged serious investors" (aimed at the previous dictatorial regime)... let's hope you can next indeed shake things up for the better politically back home in the DRC this week.
The Doctor
VisualPolitik_EN breaks down_the_Congo mess_into_its most_basic terms
Barrick_gives a LIKE to one_head of_the two-headed dragon/vampire
http://www.mining.com/barrick-upbeat-drc-new-presidents-pro-mining-stance/
The Doctor
WHO, Congo_Ebola outbreak spreading_faster than ever
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-congo-idUSKCN1RD2TV
Dear Joelix, Yeow, that Karma is a bitch.
Kabila_still holding_reins 3_months after DRC's_stolen election
https://www.axios.com/joseph-kabila-congo-stolen-election-b8934e76-f3df-47a3-a325-4f67f34f5b61.html
Hail Martin Fayulu.
Long live Martin Fayulu.
May G0D watch over him and keep him safe on behalf of the legitimate majority of the people in the DRC.
The Doctor
Next_the Ebola_really kicks into_overdrive, then_all_the lights_will start to_dim
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/venezuela-crisis/venezuelans-struggle-amid-massive-blackouts-while-maduro-holds-n988836
Joelix, RNI has_just downgraded DRC to worst_risk equal_to Venezuela
https://www.miningreview.com/central-africa/drc-downgraded-risk-venezuela/
You two fat-cat rub-a-dubs-in-a-tub must be so proud of yourselves. And soon DRC will be enjoying all the same successes Nicolás Maduro is currently enjoying in that sheethole Venezuela which will in due time eventually include the same fate Idi Amin had in Uganda after he threw the Asians out and "expropriated" (ie choked/stole) all their stores/businesses.
The Doctor
More_than a_third_of gold_mines in_Congo exposed_to Ebola
http://www.mining.com/third-gold-mines-congo-exposed-ebola-report/
This mining.com article says cobalt production in the Katanga mom & pop's mines region is not threatened by Ebola (see para 9)... ha ha ha... yeah righhhhhhhtttt.
The Doctor
Ring Ring
Hijacker Spokesperson Switchboard: Hello, this is DRC Hijacker's Emporium the main headquarters... please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. What can I do for you?
Joey: Let me talk to the agent code-named Dan.
Hijacker Spokesperson Switchboard: Hold for a moment please.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello.
Joey: The United States on Friday imposed new sanctions on Corneille Nangaa and two other Congolese officials who monitored last year's polls.
https://news.yahoo.com/drcongo-election-official-denies-us-corruption-claim-221314727.html
I will not stand for this outrage! I want these sanctions reversed.
Hijacker Spokesperson: I don't work for the USA. That is a whole different high-powered dirty-tricks crew.
Joey: Well, then I want you to release my overseas secret bank accounts so I can fix these increasing problems at home. Do you have any idea the deep shit I will be in if any more of my flunkies get sanctioned or their overseas assets frozen?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Not exactly, but I can make a reasonable guess. As far as me helping reset the passwords on your slushy bank accounts overseas that option is pretty much off the table now since you didn't agree to the previous deal we had.
Joey: So what am I supposed to do now?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hire Rudy Giuliani as your lawyer might work if Mueller's report gives Trump a halfway decent clean bill of health which we will know if that is possible by mid week I suppose.
Joey: You're no help.
Hijacker Spokesperson: I know. Joey, I have to hang up now... Juan Guaido is calling on the other telephone.
Click. Bzzz zzz zzzz
Dear_Joelix, your_next trip_to_the_USA is_now being_slotted
General protocol has been revised slightly and is such now that you will visit the CIA first
https://www.axios.com/bolsonaro-brazil-us-visit-cia-018ba80e-d839-43e4-b00c-75a1f46137d4.html
... then you will visit with Trump if there is any time left. We trust these arrangements will meet with your kind approval.
Joelix, if_your power_goes down,_will you_accept_China help?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-china/china-offers-help-to-venezuela-to-restore-power-idUSKBN1QU0ZM
The Doctor
VW_to build 22,000,000_EVs by 2028 says CEO Herbert_Diess
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-results/vw-accelerates-electric-push-as-core-brand-margin-slips-idUSKBN1QT0IB
It just boggles the mind to realize how many new electric vehicles are going to be put into production by VW and all its subsidiaries including Audi and Porsche.
The Doctor
Joelix, you might want_to begin double-checking_all the_electrical fuses
and the Flux Capacitor on your national power grid.
https://www.axios.com/venezuela-second-day-power-outage-95886cba-c457-4ba7-b1f0-9d5fc2fec43d.html
just as a precaution I'm thinking.
The Doctor
Ooops, kindly_disregard my_last post.
I should never hit the send key on any post until after my second coffee in the morning.
The Doctor
Finally!_Bearing is_cited as_a "Comparable",_and we_here_are tickled-pink so_proud today
Sit down my good friend shareholders for some good news. Today Zacks Small-Cap Research for Wealth Minerals Limited has broke the glass ceiling and cited Bearing as a peer "comparable" in their February 12, 2019 prostituting client-paid (ie sponsored) report/analysis on page 14 of 21.
https://s1.q4cdn.com/460208960/files/News/2019/Zacks_SCR_Research_02132019_V.WML_Ralston.pdf
Finally we can pretend we too are playing with the big boys (at least in the farm-club leagues). Now all we need to do is pump this sheet out of our trash holdings and dump this POS when the price limps upward like those shameless pumpers do over on LPI-HotCopper.
The Doctor
PS, Dear Jeremy, did you find out yet if Martin Borda is going to China in April in the entourage President Pinera is taking to China for his first "Looking for a Handout" tour to Beijing? All we want from you is a straight Yes or No... that's it.
Oh_look! The_White House_is fretting_about Cobalt (to_fight 21st century_wars)
but of course they are... ohhhhh that's so precious.
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/365869-oil-and-gas-investments-bulletin/5270074-white-house-paying-attention-cobalt-investors
The Doctor
PS, Well Maduro is winding down to his last days... I wonder which corrupt dictatorial regime the world cop USA will take down next?
Ring Ring
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello, this is DRC Hijacker's Emporium the main headquarters... please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. What can I do for you?
Joey: Let me talk to the agent code-named Dan.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hold for a moment please whilst I ring through to the Cayman Islands.
Ring ring... ring ring
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello.
Joey: How will I know when or if Regime Change has started in the DRC?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Are you blocking any of US Secretary of State Pompeo's Aid Corridors? Click here for example of a blocked Aid Corridor.
Joey: No.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Then you're still good for now I would say.
Click
Axios_hits the_nail right on_the_head. It's_the Royalty_tax stupid
https://www.axios.com/the-congos-chaotic-election-throws-the-future-of-cobalt-in-doubt-b2d4b674-4fbc-4741-9f90-b887f5f6f06c.html
The Doctor
Ford says_maybe we_won't, maybe we_will invest_in cobalt_mines
http://www.mining.com/ford-says-carmakers-may-need-invest-cobalt-mines-soon/
Dear Ford, no rush, take your time. After all who can forget how much time you all in Dearborn needed to decide on whether to buy rubber from Belgium before WWI (and again before WWII) when rubber became scarce as hens teeth and you wound up making pacts with the devil to get this precious commodity. No, take your time. There's plenty of cobalt... or is there?
The Doctor
Ring Ring
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello, this is DRC Hijacker's Emporium the main headquarters... please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. What can I do for you?
Joey: Let me talk to the agent code-named Dan.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hold for a moment please whilst I ring through to the Cayman Islands.
Ring ring... ring ring
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello.
Joey: What the hell are you doing in the Cayman islands?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Two things. First I am here waiting for this tinpot Dictator Maduro's imminent collapse so I can attend the Chevron/Halliburton (click here) huge celebration reset party which will be the absolute greatest party for all of 2019 scheduled to include the likes of us hard-working government-saving, paradigm-shifting, Good Samaritans. This Venezuelan regime-change party in the Caymans promises to be even better/bigger than the one which could possibly be thrown for the "DRC Reset" perhaps in a few more weeks.
Joey: And what's the second reason?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Second... if you, Felix and your handpicked congressional ask-kissing lapdogs don't establish a reasonable (read Fair) mining royalty/tax rate el pronto then I will be here to sign for the ice cold FedEx package from DRC containing your wiener for the password-resetting machine to unlock all your secret bank accounts locally, after our best Israeli surgeons sew it on the guy impersonating you to the slippery bankers here.
Joey: I have Carter Pewterschmidt patched in on this call. Carter! Is this the story ending that Netflix is planning for the Made-for-TV Movie?
Carter: Well Your Ex-Highness Joey... you do have to admit this is probably the best ending we in TV land could hope for given the way you fudged all the election results.
Joey: Carter, is Kenan Thompson still playing the role of Your Highness Joey?
Carter: Nope. Kenan has decided he wants to play the part of your impersonator in the Cayman Islands fixing to scoop up all the money/gold/diamonds you stole/diverted/pocketed over the last 17 years once the passwords are reestablished.
Joey: Then for my 7 figures salary... who am I playing in the movie?
Hijacker Spokesperson: You're playing your award-winning role now just the way you secretly hoped you would. Smile, you're still on Candid Camera... and do ask your little Mr Happy to smile one more time also.
Click
Glencore_faces delays_in DRC over_building of vital_cobalt plant
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/glencore-faces-delays-in-drc-over-building-of-vital-cobalt-plant-a4055186.html
Many people (with new ants in their new pants) are now wondering when this sophisticated newfangled ion exchange plant will be ready to lower/remove the radioactive component from the precious cobalt?
Well, I am thinking the plant could be in production and working correctly about the same time the cobalt miners find out what the national tax/royalty (was 2.5%) will be on cobalt for the next 10 years.
The Doctor
It's_so_hard to_steal from_the national_treasury anymore
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-20-ton-pile-gold-022753684.html
Today it is just not like in the old days when a dictator could simply waltz into the national treasury with a wheelbarrow and take the money/gold out for himself. It might be because there is so many of these dam closed circuit security cameras (and embedded GPS trackers) nowadays that record every single movement/transgression.
The Doctor
Bank of_England blocks_Maduro's $1.2B gold_withdrawal
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/26/uk/venezuela-maduro-bank-of-england-gold-withdrawal-gbr-intl/index.html
... awww bummer, withdrawals can be so difficult when you are a dictator/despot.
The Doctor
Venezuela, well_this shouldn't_take too_much longer_now.
https://www.axios.com/venezuela-photos-juan-guaido-nicolas-maduro-6026665f-69be-467e-87e1-b403e76ab9eb.html
Manuel Noriega in Panama was a piece of cake easy-peasy... ousting Maduro in Venezuela won't be that much harder.
The Doctor
Testing 123, Testing 123, US_says let's_do Venezuela first
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/23/americas/venezuela-protests/index.html
The Doctor
Did_Joey have_a 'Et_tu_Brute' nightmare last_night? Inauguration_postponed
https://www.news24.com/Africa/News/presidents-inauguration-in-drc-may-be-postponed-party-source-20190121
The Doctor
Will the_people topple_Maduro? Does_a_bear sheet in_the_woods?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/video-shows-venezuela-sergeant-demanding-maduro-removal-190121121006477.html
The Doctor
Ring Ring
Pilot: Hello?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello Captain Pilot. Is your caller ID working properly?
Pilot: Yes, I know you as the Hijackers High Council chief spokesman... and from the Seinfeld Show.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Are you aware Netanyahu is in neighboring Chad to sell Chadian President Idriss Deby Israeli weapons? Click here.
Pilot: Yes.
Hijacker Spokesperson: If we were to pay you a handsome sum of money could you fly Bibi into the new country of South DRC tomorrow in a bush plane?
Pilot: I could fly an elephant through the eye of a needle with one hand tied behind my back.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Good, please send to me your bank account number for the immediate wire transfer.
Pilot: Who is playing Bibi in the upcoming Netflix made-for-TV movie?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Gerard Butler.
Click
Ring_Ring (Voila, just_make two_new_countries. North_DRC and South_DRC)
Joey: Hello, this is Your Highness, Joey. To whom am I speaking to?
Carter Pewterschmidt: Your Highness, This is Carter Pewterschmidt from Netflix. We spoke yesterday about giving the Your Highness Joey part to that chap from SNL.
Joey: Yes, yes. So wassup?
Carter Pewterschmidt: Well the New Netflix Your Highness Joey (ie Keenan) has decided he wants to divide the DRC into two new countries. The New Netflix Your Highness Joey wants to construct a new border starting equidistant along the DRC seashore at the Atlantic Ocean and continue that new border eastward until it intersects the city of Goma. All the land north of the new divisional border (to be named the Mason-Dixon border) would be renamed North DRC and given to President Kabila/Tshisekedi to govern and all the land south of the divisional line would be renamed South DRC and given to President Martin Fayulu to govern. This TV-series conclusion is testing best on our pre-production TV marketing studies and is the only workable/practical ending for our Made-for-TV movie where (I will remind you) we are still paying you a huge 7 figures salary for your consulting work.
Joey: With that ending... we would be the first country who has its election outcome dictated by Netflix!
Carter Pewterschmidt: Yes you would indeed be the first of many sheethole countries to come to "enjoy" a Reality-TV election finale. But you will recall this form of reality-TV is not that unusual... do you remember the TV-series Homeland over at HBO?
Joey: Oh this is really too much to humanly absorb thsi early in the morning. I have a huge headache now... I need some water and a hooker or two again.
Click
A tale_of two DRC_presidents. Fayulu_says he is DRC_President.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-congo-election/congo-political-crisis-deepens-as-top-court-rejects-vote-challenge-idUSKCN1PE007
The only workable solution in this case may be to cut Your Highness Joey in half (north to south, nose to toes) and give half to Felix and half to Martin.
Then we count up which foreign countries recognize which President, like they are doing in Venezuela now. It is actually quite a simple process and one the UN can easily wrap it's arms around.
The Doctor
Ring Ring
Carter Pewterschmidt: Hello this is Carter Pewterschmidt, Made-for-TV Netflix movie producer
Joey: Hello, this is Your Highness, Joey. Listen Carter, are you sure Keenan Thompson from SNL is going to play Your Highness Joey in the Netflix Made-for-TV movie?
Carter Pewterschmidt: Yes Your Highness, my assistant is telling me Keenan signed on the dotted line 30 minutes ago.
Joey: Ooooo that's great.
Click
Ring Ring (the last party)
Carter Pewterschmidt: Hello this is Carter Pewterschmidt, Made-for-TV Netflix movie producer
Joey: Hello, this is Your Highness, Joey.
Carter Pewterschmidt: Yes Your Higness, what can I do for you?
Joey: I don't want to play the Your Highness Joey part in the movie.
Carter Pewterschmidt: But why my dear boy... are you not feeling well?
Joey: I feel horrible. I had a terrible dream last night. I dreamed I was at the inaugural ball for Felix having cake at the cake table standing shaking unknown hands when all of a sudden 23 heavy-duty long plastic knives plunged into my back and my belly.
Carter Pewterschmidt: And?
Joey: And when I staggered to my feet I looked in the floor-to-ceiling ballroom mirror (great for selfies)... I could see Felix smiling in the mirror and written in a fuchsia colored lipstick on the mirror were the words "Et tu Brute".
Carter Pewterschmidt: And tell me... what was the music playing in the background that you could hear?
Joey: Happy Days are Here Again.
Carter Pewterschmidt: Perfecto! We'll use that in the movie.
Joey: Who will you get to play Your Highness Joey in the movie now?
Carter Pewterschmidt: Keenan Thompson is just this morning released from SNL and available now. We'll get him.
Joey: Gee, Thanks.
Carter Pewterschmidt: No problem... don't mention it.
Click
Ring Ring
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello, this is DRC Hijacker's Emporium the main headquarters... please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. What can I do for you?
Joey: Let me talk to the agent code-named Dan.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hold for a moment please.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello.
Joey: My good man, how are you? Did you sleep well last night? How's the kids?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Joey, Joey, Joey... tick, tick, tick... tick, tick, tick... Looks like a lot of your paper IOUs are coming due in another 15 days according to our H&R Block spies/accountants watching your sheet for us.
Joey: Well yes... that is a bit of concern to me. Actually I need to convert a few of those pre-election-issued IOUs into cash on Tuesday, (Click here for possible outcome video) which Is why I need your help now.
Hijacker Spokesperson: No can do in the help department, I suggest you just hop on a plane and fly to the Cayman Islands, Switzerland and to the Trump Bank/Screen-Door-Company in DC, place your fingerprints or your pecker print on the password scanner machine glass and reset your password.
Joey: Oh silly boy, we both know I don't dare leave this sheethole as Trump has so eloquently described it. Once I cross the border out of here I will never get back in... that is, if a land to air missile doesn't take me out of the sky first.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Then go find a clone of yourself, sew your hand or your pecker on him and send him overseas to unlock the password on all your secret offshore accounts.
Joey: You know we don't have qualified hand and/or pecker transplant surgeons in Kinshasa and besides I can't trust any clone impersonator from Africa much less from here... he'll probably take all the money leaving me zilch-ola. I want your Dick Gregory impersonator to be my clone and go reset the safety deposit passwords.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Why?
Joey: Better the devil I know than the devil I don't know. 31% of my overseas stolen loot is better than 0% of my overseas stolen loot.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Good point. But MLK Day is Monday and with the upcoming non-violent protests (ha-ha-ha, yeah right) coming up here the Hijackers High council has decided it would be best if we all chill out for the next two weeks. After the African Council leaves DRC and our security protection unit is furloughed then I am thinking about kicking back at the crib and watching you squirm for the next two weeks on TV.
Joey: The Hijackers High Council isn't thinking about pushing the red button on that remote exploding device secretly buried somewhere in my miserable carcass... are they?
Hijacker Spokesperson: No. They still think you are going to find Jesus and in an epiphany figure out it is best to hand over all the true unadulterated voting results to the people/courts before long.
Joey: Now why would I do that?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Because if you don't come clean now then in the next 2023 election every nasty dishonest scummy despicable trick you pulled in this 2018 election will be employed against you to defeat you in your third try for President.
Joey: Geez, I have a huge headache now... I need some water and a hooker or two.
Click
Fayulu_calls for non-violent protests...IIIItttt's Hammer_Time!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46935898
The Doctor
Reuters_explains in_detail how Kabila using_Plan-B greased the_skids
https://af.reuters.com/article/africaTech/idAFKCN1PD0AH-OZATP
Most troubling is the observation from writers Giulia Paravicini, David Lewis, and Aaron Ross which reads:
“What is certain is that Kabila will keep a seminal role,” a senior Congolese government official said. Tshisekedi and Kabila’s camps deny such a deal was reached. But Fayulu supporters question how members of Kabila’s coalition won over 70 percent of the votes in provincial and national legislative elections when official results show their candidate, Shadary, won just 24 percent in the presidential vote.
What a pity to see such a poor country overwhelmed in this fashion using pretend democracy perverted so brazenly to rip control from the people.
The Doctor
Kabila/Tshisekedi Plan-B ticket_declared_winners. Democracy_kicked in_the_nuts again
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46935898
If this holds then all of Africa is doomed to live in the dark ages another decade or two because the formula for stealing the election in plain view of everyone with more than half a brain is now clear as a bell,
The Doctor
IBM_and_Ford lead blockchain_scheme to_stop_Congo’s bleeding_cobalt
https://www.exchange.co.tz/ibm-and-ford-lead-blockchain-scheme-to-stop-congos-bleeding-cobalt/
Wow, if something like this could be implemented in the DRC it would put 40,000 kids on the dole/unemployment rolls within a year. But, one good outcome would be that La Générale des Carrières et des Mines (Gécamines) could no longer say they lost/misplaced/misdirected the quarterly royalty payments made by the cobalt miners to the government agency... whew, now that would really blow a major hole in the whole Gécamines joint sandwich-shop/accounting department managed by the CFO where they still use Commodore 64 computers to keep track of things/money.
The Doctor
Ring Ring
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello, this is DRC Hijacker's Emporium the main headquarters... please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. What can I do for you?
Joey: Let me talk to the agent code-named Dan.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hold for a moment please whilst I patch you through to the agent in Israel.
Ring Ring
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello.
Joey: Israel? Why aren't you back in DRC finalizing our agreement?
Hijacker Spokesperson: First, because your gofer-boy lackey hasn't made the announcement on his intentions for mining royalties. Second, because you are interfering in the Constitutional Court process, and third because we're now also handling back-up stealth undercover security for the President of the African Union's visit to DRC on Monday and I needed to procure some additional hi-tech equipment in Israel to keep him ultra-ultra safe.
Joey: Who is playing Felix in the upcoming Netflix made-for-TV movie?
Hijacker Spokesperson: If Felix grows a pair of testicles and protests to the Constitutional Court how your party outright stole a majority of seats in Parliament during the election... then General Colin Powell will play Felix with dignity, intelligence and solid honorable character. If Felix rolls over, butt up in the air and lets you walk all over him then Rupaul will play him (Felix) in corresponding drag.
Joey: Yeow, Carter is tough.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Carter simply wants to tell the truth in this movie.
Joey: Any chance you could possibly bring one or two of those gorgeous leggy Russian emigre hookers from Tel Aviv with you on your way back here if I give you a signed royally-stamped IOU right now over the fax machine?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Joey, Joey, Joey... your IOUs are even worth less than they were on Thursday when they were no longer worth the paper they are written on and like I said before...You and I both know that. Bye.
Joey: But not everyone everywhere everytime knows my IOUs are crap now... maybe we could...
Click... bzzzz. This telephone call is no longer active. If you would like to make a call then please hang up and try again.
Paul_Kagame, Pres_of_Rwanda, Chairman_of AU_arrives in DRC on_Monday
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/world/africa/congo-african-union-election.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FCongo&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
The Doctor
DRC flunky tells AU to pizz off
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2019/01/dr-congo-slams-african-union-call-suspend-election-result-190118140840583.html
Of course it is none of the African Union's stinking business who Kabila wants as the next president... geez, are people so naive as to think there was a fair democratic election in the DRC or something?
Well, let's see what the Constitutional Court in the DRC has to say later today, then we will know.
The Doctor
Ring Ring
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello, this is DRC Hijacker's Emporium the main headquarters... please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. What can I do for you?
Joey: Let me talk to the agent code-named Dan.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hold for a moment please whilst I patch you through to the agent.
Ring Ring
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello.
Joey: Ah yes my good man... a minor problem has popped in the African Union Assembly meeting... chambers... anterooms... errr, backrooms, and I am in need of just one of the 5 padlocked strongboxes full of cash, gold, hand-carved cobalt voodoo/porno dolls and blood diamonds you mistakenly claim I was trying to smuggle out of the country on election vote counting announcement night which obviously was just a misunderstanding on my part. It seems I have some written IOUs on paper within this distinguished group of fine gentlemen which require immediate conversation into cash, gold or diamonds. Could you please ask the Hijackers High Council to perhaps let me have just one teensy weensy little bitty strongbox from the five you are holding?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Nope.
Joey: Maybe half of one strongbox to get me through the weekend?
Hijacker Spokesperson: No can do.
Joey: First, are the USA-made/Israeli-modified Hellfire drones still flying over the palace and the airport? And second, is Netflix getting most of this on film for the Made-for-TV movie?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Yup, and yup.
Joey: Ooooo this is so not going the way I had planned.
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SADC buckles_to_Kabila... but_maybe the African_Union has_a set_of real_balls
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-congo-election/african-union-cites-serious-doubts-urges-delay-to-final-congo-election-result-idUSKCN1PB1RR
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46914032
The Doctor
Ring Ring (calling Addis Ababa... for follow-up)
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello, this is DRC Hijacker's Emporium the main headquarters... please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. What can I do for you?
Joey: Let me talk to the agent code-named Dan.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hold for a moment please whilst I patch you through to Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
Ring Ring
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello.
Joey: Have you spoken with Carter Pewterschmidt at Netflix regarding the made-for-TV movie?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Yes, I spoke to him about 45 minutes ago.
Joey: Who is going to play Shadary's part?
Hijacker Spokesperson: US Secretary of HUD, Ben Carson.
Joey: Dam, I want to play the role of Your Highness Joey... but at the Martin Fayulu 7 figures salary.
Hijacker Spokesperson: OK, I will pitch you to Carter.
Joey: Excellent. So tell me what's going on Addis Ababa?
Hijacker Spokesperson: I got 455 pre-orders for your shiny-version carved cobalt porn dolls.
Joey: Good good, and...?
Hijacker Spokesperson: And the SADC conference here was a big dud. I guess I am not surprised you got to all the delegates and fattened up their bank accounts before they even sat down to the table. These guys were buying hookers/booze/dope here like water. But, I am sure you gave them IOUs owing to the fact all your offshore money is currently frozen, right?
Joey: You are so very perceptive my dear boy. My IOUs are good for 30 days.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Well, I guess we will have to see just how much "friendship" and nose-holding you actually bought on day 31.
Joey: Now now my good man, I am sure we can settle our differences before Day 30.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Maybe.
Joey: I want to propose we tweak the agreement a little bit more...
1. I play the role of Your Highness Joey in the Netflix Made-for-TV movie.
2. The Israeli plastic surgeons will sew Shadary's huge trombone-shaped twanger on Your Highness after the transplant of the Royal Highness's penis (to reset the secret bank password) is made to the Dick Gregory comedic impersonator who will pretend to be said Royal Highness and travel to the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, and Trump Bank/Screen Door Company in DC for the specific purpose of unlocking the secret off-shore safety deposit boxes. The Royal Highness will get a rhinoplasty like Michael Jackson's first nose job, a chin lift to get rid of the blubbery royal double chin and remove the bags under the royal eyes. The surgeons will also remove 25 pounds of royal fat from the Royal Highness belly and 15 pounds from the Royal Highness ass using liposuction.
3. The Royal Highness will get 31% of the off-shore money expropriated and/or accepted as bribes/kickbacks/grease. 67.5% of the off-shore money/graft will be returned to the DRC treasury to build roads, fresh drinking water wells, schools, infrastructure and hospitals for the nation's fine citizens. 1.5% will go to the hijackers for straightening out this mess, with 20% of that money (ie the 1.0%) going toward setting up more proper secure voting machines for the 2023 election.
4. The Royal Highness will get 3.0 of the 5 padlocked strongboxes filled with gold, cash, carved cobalt voodoo/porn dolls and blood diamonds that was to be smuggled out of the country on election voting-results announcement night.
5. The Royal Highness will get the Presidential escape airplane returned (storage/hangar fees to be paid by the Highjackers).
6. The Royal Highness will get 24 free Ebola cooties wash downs of the fuselage/wings on the air plane anytime... night or day.
7. The Royal Highness will get two cases of 288 vials of the Ruffie mixture Marlena used to knock out the 160 pound captain pilot... the Ruffie concentration will be boosted up high enough to knock out 230 to 300 pound chicks.
8. The Royal Highness will instruct Felix to personally announce to the media (including AP, News24 and Reuters) that his possible new government if certified the winner by the Supreme Court will limit the mining royalty paid to the state to no more than 3.33% for the next 5 years and 3.67% the following 5 years.
9. If the Supreme Court rules the Election results were totally bogus and should be recounted... and Martin should just happen to win outright, then Martin has to agree he will not order me or my entourage put on trial for those niggling pecuniary affairs/violations during the last 17 years.
Hijacker Spokesperson: I will talk to the Hijackers High Council when I get back in town.
Joey: Could you possibly bring one or two of those gorgeous long-neck Danikill hookers with you on your way back here if I give you an IOU now over the phone?
Hijacker Spokesperson: Joey, Joey, Joey... your IOUs are no longer worth the paper they are written on and we both know that. Bye.
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Addis_Ababa SADC conference_high points_summarized =_complete waste of_time
https://www.sadc.int/files/3815/4772/6263/Communique_of_the_SADC_Double_Troika_Summit_Addis_Ababa_17_Jan_2019.pdf
Well, that certainly turned out to be nothing more than a big over-hyped fizz-fuzz fart in the wind.
The Doctor
The_long version_of how the_election was_stolen from Martin_Fayulu
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4233887-congo-elections-controversial-official-results-potential-impacts
The Doctor
Ring Ring (Felix calling)
Joey: Hello, this is Your Highness, Joey.
Felix: it's Felix, your new partner in crime.
Joey: Yeah, yeah. What's up?
Felix: I need to talk to you in private-private again.
Joey: About what?
Felix: Our "New arrangement" bro'
Joey: Don't call me bro'. Did the Netflix guys call you?
Felix: Yup.
Joey: Who is playing you?
Felix: Samuel L. Jackson.
Joey: Dam... they want me to play the Martin Fayulu role in the upcoming Made-for-TV movie.
Felix: Hell I would take it if I were you. You sure don't want to play the Your Highness Joey part in this new flick... Hell no, no way Jose.
Click
Ring Ring
Matadi Port Dock Master: Hello, this is the Dock Master at His Majesty's seaport of Matadi, what can I do for you?
Joey: This is Your Highness Joey.
Matadi Port Dock Master: Yes, Your Highness... I heard about your 20 Catholic priests notarized voting poles results baptism on the radio since the Internet & YouTube is still shut down here at the port. Can you sit down in a normal chair yet?
Joey: Forget about that stupid baptism. I need to know something. Let's say hypothetically that if those SADC ding dongs in Addis Ababa vote on Thursday to shut down (ie blockade) all freight export shipments going out over their land from the DRC... then how long would it take me to physically ship one year's worth of GNP products including all the mined ore out of your seaport by oceanic freight ships?
Matadi Port Dock Master: Oh that is easy to answer Your Highness Joey since the local Chamber of Commerce made that calculation just before the election. If you want to keep allowing oceanic imports (including foodstuffs & motor vehicles) then it would take 4-5 years to ship out by boat one year of DRC GNP previously sent out overland by trucks/Chinese-coolies/buses/trains through neighboring countries.
Joey: Omif**kinggod... this gets worst by the hour.
Matadi Port Dock Master: Can I help you any more Your Highness Joey?
Joey: No, that's all I needed for now. Goodbye.
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Katanga Mining Limited operates a large-scale copper-cobalt project with substantial high-grade mineral reserves and integrated metallurgical operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Our single-site operation, which comprises brownfield assets and new facilities under construction, will have one of the lowest unit production costs in the world, net of by-product credits.
The January 2008 merger with Nikanor PLC, whose adjacent concessions had previously been part of the same mine complex, has consolidated our leadership position in the region and is expected to generate significant operating and financial synergies.
Katanga holds a 75% stake in two joint ventures with Gécamines, a state-owned mining company in the DRC.
We are committed to the socio-economic development of the DRC and the communities surrounding our operations, and place sustainable development as integral to the way we do business.
Katanga is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol KAT.
WEBSITE: http://www.katangamining.com/
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KATANGA is the world biggest Cobalt mine.
The world third biggest mining company Glencore holds 86.33% of shares.
Glencore now beneficially owns, or has control or direction over, a total of 1,646,613,928 shares in Katanga representing approximately 86.33% of the outstanding shares of Katanga (based on there being a total of 1,907,380,413 shares of Katanga outstanding).
http://www.glencore.com/assets/media/doc/news/2017/20170213-Glencore-purchases-stakes-in-Mutanda-and-Katanga.pdf
The other institutions that hold Katanga Shares
Citibank China Co Ltd 53,668,000
http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-major.html?t=KAT®ion=can&culture=en-US&ownerCountry=USA
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BSG Capital Markets PCC Limited
Direct Ownership Common Shares 26,504,383
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Central African Mining & Exploration Company plc
10,175,130 shares
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Katanga posted New Technical report: Area produces roughly 7% of the world’s copper production and 62% of the world’s cobalt production.
Production will re - commence during the second half of 2017
page 31:
Mining in the Kolwezi district has a long history, stretching back to the early 1900’s. At its peak, in the late 1980s, the district accounted for roughly 7% of the world’s copper production and 62% of the world’s cobalt production. In the mid-to late-90s, production declined to a virtual standstill as a result of various political and technical factors. In 2002, a new Mining Code was established and since 2008, after the KCC and DCP merger, significant growth in mining production has occurred. Due to a slump in metal prices in 2015, operations were put on care and maintenance. During this time, construction of the WOL facility was undertaken in order to achieve the planned recoveries and reduce operating costs. Production will re-commence during the second half of 2017.
http://www.katangamining.com/~/media/Files/K/Katanga-mining-v2/operations/reportsoperational/technical-report-march-2017.pdf
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Katanga Mining Is A Potential Turnaround Story
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4033629-katanga-mining-potential-turnaround-story
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Tesla's Evolving Cobalt Nightmare
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4027400-teslas-evolving-cobalt-nightmare
The role of cobalt in battery supply
http://www.indmin.com/Article/3586106/The-role-of-cobalt-in-battery-supply.html
Cobalt to the fore as lithium-ion battery demand rises for electric vehicles and renewables storage
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-25/wa-cobalt-project-poised-for-slice-of-battery-storage-pie/8187296
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COBALT PRICE INCREASED 150%
http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/cobalt/1-year/
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KATANGA (KATFF, on the TSX: KAT.T) is an essential company for Cobalt production. The company has the world biggest cobalt reserve. Due to a slump in metal prices in 2015, operations were put on care and maintenance. During this time, construction of the WOL facility was undertaken in order to achieve the planned recoveries and reduce operating costs. Production will re-commence during the second half of 2017.
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