Gold War

A few months ago, I put out my worst blog post ever (yes, all you 2 die-hard fans who even know about the failure fail blogs "Freedom of Speech" and "Bethlehem Steel", which I didn't even spell right, this was worse than the one blog post on each of them.) "Diamonds aren't forever (James Bond lied, I know)". This was about "Blood Diamonds" and it was horrible. I want to delete it, but I sometimes use it as a benchmark to do better than. This one is about something very similar to the idea of "Diamonds aren't forever (James Bond lied, I know)" (I hesitate to even write that out) but I hope to God that it is better than... that. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, perhaps known better as Zaire as it was called Zaire under former president Mobutu Sese Seko, there is a war that has killed up to 4 million people and this war is about gold.

Okay, so let's break this thing down. In the DR Congo, there's a lot of gold, and in the U.S. and all around the world, (don't yell at me about this one Jake, I was all-inclusive this time) there's a huge demand for gold, but for stupidity purposes, let's just refer to DR Congo as "Country A" and the U.S. and all around the world as "Country B". Country A is on the poorest continent in the world, and if Country A is rich with gold which is worth up to 1000 dollars per ounce. If Country B needs gold for things like money and jewelry (and yes, he went to Jared), the citizens of Country A will try and mine the gold so much that they will risk their lives, work in mountains that are at high elevation and at constant threat for landslides.

How this war was started is nine countries that border or are close to DR Congo invaded "Country A" in effort to get the gold resources of the DR Congo, eventually this invasion ended, but ever since, rebel militias have been trying to take over various mines so that they can control certain mines and get all of the profits of that mine, and these militias will take these $1000 and ounce mines, including killing innocent civilians to create terror and keep the conflict going. The last thing that these militia leaders want is a sudden resolution to this conflict, in fact, they want to keep the conflict going as long as they possibly can. But we the people of the United States need to find a resolution of a conflict.

Now my opinion. I think that this war needs to be ended and the only way to legally end it is by banning all gold that comes from the DR Congo, but even then, there would be jewelry companies who will import these diamonds instead of ones found in mines here in the US because they're cheaper than the ones where there is not a conflict so the US needs to talk with government officials from "Country A" and possibly spread out our industry to the DR Congo so that there are not still people being killed with the entire world turning it's back on this conflict.
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Sam

The worst war in the world

Darfur has quickly become the most famous region in Sudan. And that is because of the war there, and this war is the most deadly war that is currently going on in the world. 400,000 people have died in this war. And this war has -and should be- entirely credited to religions (and I am trying to write a book about this war called "400,000")
Now you get to hear my democratic opinions (and if you don't like them, well sorry, you lost the election).
Sudan's religion percentage is 70% Sunni Muslim, 5% Christian, and 25% Indigenous Beliefs. So as you can see, there are about 14x more Muslims than Christians, however that does not mean that we can just immediately count them out, they were actually the ones who started this war. With their revolt and them saying that the Sudanese government was discriminating against them.
Now I think that it was completely rational for the Christians to have a sudden revolt. If the Muslims were forcing Islamic laws on them and said that they were right, it is completely within the Christian's right to call them out on it and say that they were forcing the laws on them.
However, maybe the Christian's shouldn't have responded in the way that they did.
It was some one's idea that they should start a war, and it seemed like a good idea (of coarse, I am against war in almost all circumstances) at first. Y'know, fight for like a month or so and the Muslims will learn their lesson.
But then, the Muslims decided that they would fight back.
And that's how it's been ever since.

And then, recently, current President Omar al-Bashir has been charged with war crimes by the ICC (International Criminal Court) and has denied all of them. He has denied all of them to the point where he has banned all of the aid groups that support the ICC.
And now, you get to hear what I have to say again, first of all, if you deny all of your accusations, and you take out all of the aid groups that work to save people's lives who are about to die because of the war you are paying pretty much no attention to at all because you'd rather live in your own wealth then save people's lives, that doesn't seem like a good idea. It seems that if you don't want to act suspicious that you just let it go and don't do anything that would make you seem more of a suspect.
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Sam