Carving Up the Congo

[mizong84]

@theJonesBunch right on target! Preach!

[Alara0625]

Bankers run the world and this is proof of it. Talking about it won't change a thing.

[speakswahilidammit]

Lovely video! I grew up in Tanzania, on the lake (see my video on youtube). I just came back to UK from a visit. What can I say..? Rampant bilharzia due to Nile Perch eating the snail-predators, mercurial poisoning of lake from illegal gold-miners, over-fishing, declining fish stocks, flourishing water hyacinth, growing population, grinding poverty, epidemic HIV levels...! The world seems to have a blind spot for this burgeoning catastrophe.

[LADORSEY]

dont trust the world bank

[kairitukega]

Magnificent country,shame about whats happening!

[Cozzi0]

The thing is these people do not want money because after the logging companies have come and employed them and given them money they leave and they cannot do anything with the money. These people value the rainforest because it provides them with everything they need to live. And so should we, what really is money? It has no value, nature is worth 100x more than money will ever be.

[silkroad20000]

szemetek kicsinálták kenny t !!

[chakachocolate]

thanks for the film,that helps people to understand what really taking place there, i , myself is from the congo-brazza, in my province ( niari-dolisie ) , the exploitation and exportation of the limber is the first resource but only political authorities and those companies benefit from those biz, the poor people have no saying whatsoever.

[Moshid88]

Wow!The Congo is a really beautiful counrty, however it is sad that it is all overshadowed by the bad things that are going on there.

[jacklancescifi]

I love the Congo and all the unique wildlife in it. I just wish I could visit it, but I doubt it will ever happen. I hope greedy ignorant people in power will recognize what I recognize and treat it with more respect?

[jacklancescifi]

they say the 'heart of darkness' was brought to the Congo by man, not the other way around ;/

[anitaalford]

Hold on my beautiful black brothers and sisters. God is on his way to help us soon. We will rule once again in justice with Yahshua. The body have to die so sin can die, but we will be raised and live 4 ever.

[jacklancescifi]

you need to wake up. you are alive now. things need to be changed by you and me, now. dont let anyone tell you you need to die for anything.

[thejonesbunch]

no. only us can change this through education, discussing among us, and finding a solution. do not wait for external help or invisible forces to help us. we are waiting for 2000 years. 1300 arab slavery and 400 european slavery, and the remaning being as the bottom of society worldwide. So, it is up to us. no religion, only knowlege.

[tigerone1970]

Watch this video to see who is behind logging in the DRC:

Elwin Blattner Merchant of Death

watch?v=A5yGMIUdf8Y

[tigerone1970]

Google:

The War that did not make the Headlines: Over Five Million Dead in Congo?

Behind the Numbers Redux: How Truth is Hidden, Even When it Seems to Be Told

by Keith Harmon Snow

Global Research, January 31, 2008

[tigerone1970]

Western news reports will only report on the sensationalist things that Africans are reported to do to other Africans, but they will never follow the money trail to their own capitals. Or even follow the trail up to the ownership of these concessions in the DRC itself.

Elwyn Blattner was likely even involved with the assassination of Patrice Lumumba.

[sonofthedestroyer]

tigerone1970,

you nailed it.

[tigerone1970]

sonofthedestroyer,

Thank you very much. We need to get the word out. We have to expose the individuals who are profiting from the exploitation of Africa, and how they are doing it. Other than Keith Harmon Snow (AllThingsPass /com), also check out Stephen Gowans at gowans.wordpress /com.

[tigerone1970]

Odd of course that even this documentary does not touch on the main logger in the DRC. Google:

Elwyn Blattner

The Blattners have been involved in the corrupt exploitation of the Congo when it was still called Zaire.

[keir150]

omg this was SHIT i couldent eaven watch past 2 seconds.

P.S fuck you all.

[agbadu]

May Jesus Christ have mercy on Africa, I'm weeping in my heart because of this video. This is none other than colonialism rearing its insidious head all over again. How long will we Africans have to deal with the greed and reckless disregard of the West for our blessed land and people. May God severely and thoroughly punish the West. It's already started with this 'global' financial meltdown. God taught the West a lesson in WWI, WWII, and the Cold War, but the next one coming will finish...

[GreenpeaceUK]

lambXchop - racist comments of any kind are unacceptable and will be removed.

[ladyamybrooks]

@GreenpeaceUK wow thats real sad , did the biggots even pay attention to the video ... smh ... all native people are beautiful and the world can learn so much from them and their ways of life , im native american and i agree that this has to be stopped ... not just stopped but done so before it is too late

[UrEyesRWideShut]

History repeats itself. Greed, selfishness and a complete disregard for the well being of man and planet allows these people to get away with stealing the land from the people who have learned to live as one with the planet and has not until contaminated had a desire for anything more than that that sustains life. They will now be cheated out of their land, their history and their future. They will now also suffer the same fate as other indigenous people that were victims before them.

[RNBlissII]

Mbote Hegemonies,

Yo ojali kilikili mingi mpenja. E.U.A. ejali malamu mingi na Congo. Chin ejali mabe mingi na Congo te E.U.A.

[GreenpeaceUK]

Hey urlilshawty33 - please don't bring your biggoted racist attitude on to our video pages ever again, ok?

[54spiritedwill54]

Is anyone surprised the World Bank keeps coming up? These people are blood suckers-they dont care about anyone, any group any race nothing! Savages in fancy cars and homes

[Gazyllionaire]

. . . after having to face independence, the cold war, then the spill of violence from Rwanda - alone- further deprived the Congo population of their existence. FORGET ABOUT SKIN COLOR COMPLEXES. What's necessary is for them to make be prepared and make sure [THIS TIME] THAT alien forces will not interrupt or determine their cultural and economic future anywhere.

[Gazyllionaire]

. . . after having to face the cold war - then the spill of violence from Rwanda further deprived Congolese population of their existence. FORGET ABOUT SKIN COLOR COMPLEXES. What's necessary is for them to make sure alien forces will not determine their future.

[Gazyllionaire]

This is a prime example of corruption and expolitation stemming from the Portugese colonialism who enslaved the Congo; after Patrice Lumumba came to power - he was killed by European colonialists - then the cold war came and further disenfranchise and devastated the congolese populations . .

[ericerj4141]

people in the Congo just seem to be that EXTRA black.

[Malifx]

You see, this is why zimbobwe is the way it is now. Theres always a price to pay but if the people in control arent ready to take a step and control their own destiny for any reason things will always turn out like this.

[ongojo]

I am fuming with anger. What do I say!!!! IMF, world bank, UN bodies, what the heck are they doing about this? Nobody from the west seems to care about black man. They brought us christianity and western "civilization" so as to exploit us. What a shame. Fire burn babylon, babylon shall fall....one day...one day.

[ZIKERLANDER]

Racist

[ongojo]

Dude, what is your problem? I do not think I sound racist, I am just feeling disgust about the exploitation of africa by the western world and no one is doing anything to stop this. I do not have a problem with any race. All people are equal but the corporations, western, suck!!! and that is what i mean by babylon. Fire burn!!!!

[ZIKERLANDER]

Ok I guess I misunderstood, forgive me for making snap judgments. We should also realize, however, that the people of the Congo are also fighting to control the resources, in fact they are slaughtering each other for these resources. I think it is disgusting that the west is scrabbling for these resources too but I do not think it has anything to do with them being black and you can't blame all there suffering on the west.

[ongojo]

Zikerlander. You are forgiven and thanks for your reply, I think we can understand one another. That said and done, I would like to ask u a question: Does black man manufacture arms? He buys and uses arms to kill his fellow black man, stupid isn't it? Sit back and think, who are the arms dealers, the west, who cause and support militant groups, the west and who buys the gold, the diamond, the oil, agricultural products just to name but a few? the west.And all these for peanuts and lots of blood.

[reuven2007]

If you look at the arms closely you'll see that it was made in Russia or China and not the west. Second China is becoming the biggest consumer of Africa's natural resources and even supplying the arms for the blacks to kill each other and nobody seems to notice........ Who uses the most cell phones? asians!

[landminelily]

i'll thank you to shut up about my race, thank you very much.

you know, it was possible to say that paragraph WITHOUT the racist remark.

[reuven2007]

China?

[tamaduni]

The turmoil that happens in most parts of Africa is directly connected with western owned companies. In their quest to expolit Africas natural resources they choose to ignore observance of human rights and dignity. After sometime western journalists head back to the same countries to report of what is happening ignoring the fact that their countries are directly linked to the instability. mizizi dot net

[fritz34]

all the best for the people of Congo. I hope this grim situation can be reversed

[Dadtoudii]

People in the forest in Central America and Congo forest they should live in a much better life with richness. If they start living in the outside world and making them work to get paid very less of money. I think for those people should live in his or her world. They don't have to suffer like today in this era. I see only few people they like to live how they want to live and it should that way for the rest of these years. Even tho there are other people kicken them out.

[Dadtoudii]

Those people should live rich with their environment they have animals and farm crops that they can managed to survive. They don't need the outside world to show them how to live in a better life. If their life in the forest or other place. They live more richer than having money that you might be poor later in life.

[phynx8]

Who are the logging companies that are involved? Unless the public is aware of exactly who is supporting these initiatives how can we boycott them? Many of these companies are listed on the International trade markets and are included in mutual funds and segregated funds - the power is with the dollar and we can choose where we invest it.

[GreenpeaceUK]

Racist comments have been deleted from this board.

[marklosextremus]

@GreenpeaceUK Why supprese people opinions just because they dont go along with your own views? Im disgusted. What hypocrisy.

[GreenpeaceUK]

@marklosextremus Ok, can you clarify this a little? The only comments that get deleted from this board are those which are racist and abusive. I make no apologies for that and will continue to do so when necessary. People are free to debate and disagree with each other here, but that can easily be done without resorting to abuse.

[USthuglord]

I agree with beast in black

[beastinblack]

too depressing to watch

[mikesdjftr]

type palm oil in on youtube

[yxcvbnnnhgujztrfg]

im sorry to say this. im from drc but never see stupit people like those from my own country. what they care is to support a stupit person to the power bkz he is from their province whatever.

[HumanityofGod]

How dare you insult people from your own country by calling them S-T-U-P-I-D? Are these same people you intend to govern when you become a leader some day? Have respect for your own people and the rest of the world will respect you. This problem is common everywhere and powerful multinationals are exploing these people in Africa, in Latin America, in the Carribean. It is a global issue and the world bank is not innocent in creating chaos in the DRCongo.

[amphotep]

no one cares about the original people of the planet. they are cutting off their own roots, not knowing that they are killing themselves.

[deriveonline]

Thanks for posting this.. how can paradise be turned into a man-made hell? Northern Uganda is the same situation.. deaths due to resources.. the environment has been devasted in n. uganda as well..

[jjokonda]

I cannot still understand why these compagnies would leave the West & go to destroy again a country already in war. Shame on any compagny that supports such a evil acts!

Could you imagine that the compagny is making so much fortune but fails to provide even a decent classroom! I see children are learning in a classroom ready to fall if only rain strikes. Oh shame on any government who signed this kind of contract without telling these parasites to modernize also the local city.

[a1mint]

It's always the same shit. Evil companies run by evil people using, abusing, and sucking dry anything in their way. Bribe money to pay off authorities and governments is likely. The only solution lies in putting the governing powers in the people's hands through *proper* democracy and audits.

[motherlodeuk]

Thanks for the spurious info Gammaclipper - you forgot to mention that Greenpeace started the Iraq War and funds right wing terror groups throughout Latin America - oops, my mistake, that would be the US government, wouldn't it?

[Gammaclipper]

(Continued)

If you support Greenpeace or have contributed money to them paty yourself on the back, you've helped murder Africans in a way not dissimilar to the Holocaust. Congrats, Greenpeace, you're nearly as bad as the National Socialists of Germany.

[Gammaclipper]

Fact Alert: Greenpeace's campaign's against Genetically Enhanced Foods pioneered by Norman Borlaug&co. caused the deaths of tens of thousands of starving Zambians. The food had already been donated but thanks to the valiant efforts of Greenpeace, the Zambian government decided to deny the food and allow thousands of their own people to die of starvation.

[mariettaga]

Is anyone surprised the World Bank keeps coming up?

These people are blood suckers-they dont care about anyone, any group any race nothing! Savages in fancy cars and homes

[rmansingh]

This is truly a sad situation.. of have's exploiting have nots to the hilt.. International trade and authorities have to take action and ban imports made from unethical logging. A ship cannot be smuggles in - can it.

How can one reach out to the land owners not for logging but for reforestation - can some one guide me !!

[jmcvaz]

We need the forests as we need water, food...

[GreenpeaceUK]

aid is only part of the solution though, and certainly not a long term one. political and economic decisions need to be made that don't allow a free-for-all for the international logging companies, and allow the DRC to develop properly.

jamie

[wolfy11232]

This is really sad to see , i dont understand the make millions off the forest and it is so hard to help the people who own the forest , if i would know i would donate money to theas people , little money could help theas people mutch ,people should talk more about theas things in our europe school's and make public donations !!!!!!