While watching a segment on 60 Minutes entitled "Business Adventures", I am whole heartedly disappointed in the power that the Congo has that they choose to abuse. This place is RICH, I mean DROWNING, in resources. While it is estimated that the Congo only produces 1% of the world's gold, we must mind the fact that there is no true established system to trace gold back to the place of origin (P.S., that's B.S.).
What really baffles me is the fact that only $500 worth of gold was sold WITHIN Congo (last year) -far less than the 75 million dollars worth of the product that was sold to outside countries to fund a war. The war path is stained by the blood of the innocent. And we can adorn ourselves with the misery, courtesy of walmart -the largest retailer of gold in the WORLD.
I don't intend to make blame the corporations for acquiring wealth by any means. While I think companies' continued commercialization of misery is sickening, we are just as equally responsible. After all, who do they sell it to? ...An inexhaustible wealth of misery.
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