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The Rare Earth Metals Gold Rush

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Congo Conflicts Minerals Act of Two Thousand Nine

In some regions of the congo, about 30 % of school children have been pulled away from their daily lives and forced to work in the mines. Senator sam brown introduced something he called the congo conflicts minerals act of two thousand nine. And it said here, if you're an electronic company and you work with us, you need to verify and disclose your sources of several specific conflict resources. This legislation died in committee because it was messing with the money, potentially. So brownback went back and added similar language in the dod frank wall street reform and consumer protection. It would be like if we all decided we were going to order petza an, then someone saidw i'm only ordering

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