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Baby want. Baby get.<\/a> From The Guardian:<\/p>\n An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities. As the U.S. president renews his threats to claim the vast Arctic territory, materials to prepare for drilling were brought ashore in recent days on Greenland\u2019s eastern coast. That has prompted Greenland\u2019s government to issue a \u201cstrong warning\u201d that no approval had been granted to land the kit. \u201cAll future logistical matters must be advised and approved by the mineral resources authority\u2014before they are carried out,\u201d the government said in a statement.Greenland Energy has retained Phil McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, a prominent rightwing former chatshow host who served on Trump\u2019s religious freedom commission, to make a documentary series that will \u201ccapture the mission of these modern-day wildcatters\u201d. It has also appointed as a director a U.S. navy veteran who is working on Golden Dome, the missile defence plan for which Trump says controlling Greenland is \u201cvital\u201d. Larry Swets, Greenland Energy\u2019s chair and a big shareholder, appears to enjoy access to Trump\u2019s circle. He has said the oil project is \u201cnot related to American annexation\u201d.<\/p>\n Jim Wright\u2014Stonekettle, to his countless fans on the Intertoobz\u2014beat me to this parallel, dammit.<\/a> This is nothing less than the same kind of rapacious greed that tangled the United States in Central American politics on behalf of the United Fruit Company.<\/p>\n They’ll land the gear, claim to be peaceful oil drillers, provoke a confrontation which they\u2019ll escalate into a violent one, the Press will paint the Americans as the victims … and give Trump an excuse to invade and annex Greenland in order to \u201cprotect Americans and American interests.\u201d Those who forget history are doomed to watch their government repeat the dirty tricks of the past.<\/p>\n Greenland, Denmark, and, hell, the rest of NATO should mobilize against this land grab and start arresting people by the carload. And if you don\u2019t think this is being done at the express will of the president, and if you don\u2019t think he\u2019s already counting on his slice, I advise you to seek professional help. And it\u2019s already going on. You can tell by the lies.<\/p>\n After a company representative falsely claimed at a Jameson Land community meeting in June that it had permission to land drilling equipment, Swets said: \u201cOur enthusiasm for the project led us to communicate in a way that created confusion.\u201d <\/p>\n Oh, shut up.<\/p>\n But the next month, local people in the sparsely populated region noticed a tug pulling a barge shorewards and unloading a dozen containers. \u201cThe goal was to get the equipment onshore at Nunap Qeqqa [Jameson Land] in connection with planned oil exploration drilling,\u201d the Greenland government\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n And Greenland isn\u2019t the only place where unleashed corporate greed is playing mumbledy-peg with sovereign nations, their populations, and their natural resources. It\u2019s like we have brought back colonialism without the paperwork. Last October, the Oakland Institute published a report<\/a> about the exploitation of the mineral wealth in the unfortunate Democratic Republic of the Congo, which continues to have a bloody war raging in its eastern half, an ongoing Ebola outbreak, a major drought, and dozens of other crises. A war between Rwanda and the DRC is one of the eight wars the president has claimed to stop<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cU.S. involvement in Congolese affairs has always been unequivocally tied to the goal of securing access to critical minerals,\u201d said Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Mousseau, report co-author and Policy Director at the Oakland Institute. \u201cThe \u2018peace\u2019 deal comes after decades of U.S. training, advising and sponsoring foreign armies and rebel movements, and at a time when Rwanda and its proxy M23 have expanded territorial control in eastern DRC. This is a win-lose deal that serves U.S. mining interests and rewards Rwanda for decades of pillaging Congolese resources.\u201dThe report\u2019s analysis of previously overlooked coltan trade data shows that the U.S. has been a central actor in laundering illegally smuggled Congolese minerals. Rwanda\u2019s overall tantalum (metallic ore extracted from coltan) exports to the U.S. increased 15-fold between 2013 and 2018. This was after the first M23 invasion in 2012 and at the time when the U.S. administration waived its sanction mechanism against Rwanda. At its peak, over half of US imports of tantalum originated from Rwanda, despite the country\u2019s limited production. \u201cWith the world\u2019s largest reserves of critical minerals, the Congolese will continue to bear the social and environmental costs of extraction, while Rwanda reaps the benefits from processing and exporting its neighbor\u2019s resources,\u201d said Andy Currier, report co-author and Policy Analyst at the Oakland Institute. \u201cThe deception is even more obvious knowing that Rwanda\u2019s Minister of State for Regional Integration is none other than James Kabarebe\u2014sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in early 2025 for orchestrating Rwanda\u2019s support for the M23, coordinating the export of minerals from the DRC, and managing the revenue generated by this extraction,\u201d Currier continued. <\/p>\n Cecil Rhodes, please call home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4 min read Baby want. Baby get. 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