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COURT: BIG TECH NOT LIABLE FOR DRC COBALT CHILD LABOUR!

Big tech companies are off the hook when it comes to buying cobalt mined by child labour in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). An American appeals court said they could not be held liable for children forced to work in terrible conditions. And that means Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dell and Tesla are free to keep buying the metal with no regard for shocking exploitation. The case had been brought by representatives of children who’d been killed in DRC’s mines.

It’s happening as the country suffers an endless conflict. Since 1994 more than six million people have been killed and seven million displaced in what has been called ‘Africa’s World War’. Today, 120 armed groups operate in the country, driven by a desire to control resources worth $24 Trillion. It’s argued Western firms thirst for DRC’s resources indirectly funds rebels who in turn use child labour to mine in demand metals like cobalt. Congolese in the east of the country are locked in a vicious cycle of poverty and violence while big tech survive and thrive.

It’s also worth remembering it’s US interference that’s responsible for the state of affairs. Coming off a brutal decades-long colonial occupation from Belgium, and eager to utilise the vast resources to develop Africa, DRC was shot in the knee with the assassination of visionary Pan-African leader Patrice Lumumba, but that wasn’t enough. The US installed a puppet that bled the country for the next three decades. The West served as a loot stash and while millions lived in poverty, President Mobutu Sese Seko held millions in foreign banks, with properties spread across Europe.

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Psalms 71:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. 71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. 71:3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth. 71:6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee. 71:7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge. 71:8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day. 71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. 71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, 71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him. 71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help. 71:13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt. 71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more. 71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof. 71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. 71:17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 71:18 Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. 71:19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee! 71:20 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. 71:21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. 71:22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. 71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed. 71:24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.