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your dig here okay any bigger yes i'm gonna zoom in don't worry so last week we talked about

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the uh the congo and we talked about the mining stuff going on the congo and the ties to massad

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and the israeli government and dan gertler this guy the israeli billionaire he was targeted by

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executive order 13818 and the trump organization so i'm gonna like talk about russia and their

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involvement um with the arabs uh we're gonna bring us all back to ukraine but before we go there i

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want to follow up on south africa so this article came out last week talking about the uae's rising

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influence in africa we're not going to go through the whole article um this is my write-up and the

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brief some of y'all may have seen it uh but basically what it comes down to is that these guys

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the gumta brothers of india um were arrested last year there's three of them two of them were arrested

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in the uae last last june or i'm sorry june uh 2002 and then one of them was arrested last week in

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india uh the oldest one and so who are these guys well back on october 10th 2019 uh pompeo and the

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u.s treasury uh went ahead and issued sanctions against those three guys um using executive order

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13818 here's pompeo's tweet from october 10th uh naming them by name um and so what they were doing

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is that they were bribing the south african president uh this guy jacob zuma and this guy

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as i detail in this brief he his corruption he's like the joe biden of south africa his corruption

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goes back to the late 90s we don't need to get into the the tons and tons of corruption he's been

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he's faced multiple trials and gotten out of every single one of them um but katanga mining so katanga

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mining as it mentions in this article uh so this article up here the uae rising influence in africa

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mentions a company called glencore it also mentions a company called katanga mining so katanga mining

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and glencore are um are connected to dan gertler so dan gertler the israeli billionaire from the other

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story that's his company katanga mining and just to prove that here's an article from march march 10th

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2021 u.s sanctions mining magnet accused of corruption the congo reversing trump era move

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i mentioned how in the days leading up to the end of the trump presidency uh the first term um using like

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contacts in the israeli government and the u.s government they quietly got those sanctions lifted

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it took the media like a month to figure it out because they were so focused on the on the

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january 6th stuff they finally reported it in late february and so like a week later janet yellen

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reissued the sanctions this is the article then talking about those sanctions being reissued

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it mentions glencore right here here's a picture of dan gertler walking around the katanga mining

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company in the democratic republic of congo so we've connected dan gertler now to south africa

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um an article from reuters special report the biggest company you've never heard of

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glencore this is from 2011 um so that just goes to show that it is a very very massive company

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here's a subpoena from uh this is a a investor update that like a pr statement from glencore to

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their investors from july 3rd 2018 during the trump presidency a subpoena from the u.s department of

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justice uh regarding their mining operations in africa um specifically nigeria the democratic republic of

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congo um venezuela and then you fast forward to may of may 24th 2022 glencore pleads guilty to a

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decade of bribery and manipulation um they had to pay 1.5 billion dollars in settlements and the cases

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were brought by the u.s uh uh department of justice britain and brazil so it was those three bringing

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them you know basically like pincer moving them um and forcing them to uh sign this settlement deal

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part of the settlement deal was that their companies then were then acquired by the uae and

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so the uae right here i um irh uh who's mentioned in that article that first article acquires the

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company this is an article from two months ago march 22 uh uh march 22nd 2024 and it just mentions that

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right here irh's deal with the copper producer was signed in december amid zambia's search for a new

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investor from uh mopenai since it took uh control of the assets from glencore in 2021 in the 1.5

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billion dollar deal so basically glencore gets its mining companies taken away from them

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by uh these government by these governments that have found them guilty of all these horrible human

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rights violations and then these companies are then sold to um who i would consider guys who i would

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consider part of the sovereign alliance this guy in this picture up here is the president of uae

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mohammed bin zaid he is uh mohammed he is the saudi crown prince's best friend basically his number

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one supporter bent the ear of the saudi uh saudi senior um royal family officials to get um mbs

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appointed as crown prince and ultimately become king when his father passes away so what how does

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that connect to russia so here's an article from 2018 and this is what's really weird is that the

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exact same day that pompeo puts out that tweet about the gumta brothers this article the next day gets

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published um this is a um this is putin shaking hands with the new south african president the guy

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who replaced the really really corrupt guy that i just mentioned jacob zuma um cyril uh rama fosa is

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his name and then this article goes through and talks about how it talks about trump's africa strategy

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it talks about the russia african summit it talks about how russia will look to sign more military deals

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including one recently with right nigeria as well as acquire oil and gas and mining

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contracts this is really it's really interesting one of the main criticisms of russian influence

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is that it uses secret military units to prop up dictators and strongmen these units are often

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mercenaries linked to the wagner group uh reportedly has soldiers on the ground in the central african

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republic sudan libya ukraine and syria uh you then fast forward and it says the u.s military has

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outposts in 34 african countries um with little to no accountability to the u.s congress or broader

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american public meaning that our military industrial complex is in africa operating without oversight

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from our government that's basically what they're saying talks about the cia having their own drone

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bases um and then really interesting it says that um basically the wagner group was went in there

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because they were french soldiers and u.n peacekeepers who were kidnapping and raping children

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and uh they basically the wagner group went in there and killed all the killed all those guys

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and liberated all these these children and these people who were being enslaved by the u.n

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enslaved by french um soldiers uh really really crazy stuff and then these three french journalists who

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were uh investigating all this were killed and then their families were accusing the french government of

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like of um like covering it all up so really really odd that uh that you know that all connects the

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wagner group has obviously been instrumental in ukraine so that brings us to ukraine

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the badlands rather the badlands explain those badlands that's a hell of a name