This is one of the best examples of what JRE can do to bring awareness to issues that are purposefully swept under the rug.

@JACMAN02

Жыл бұрын

Fucking rights man. That's some heavy shit I'm so unconscious to. All we can do is vote with our money

@karlnapp7564

Жыл бұрын

99% of people of the world don't give a shit and sadly i have to say, i am one of them.

@dylanpilcheruniverse6515

Жыл бұрын

Srsly this wasn’t even on my radar and it’s horrific

@dylanpilcheruniverse6515

Жыл бұрын

We need to think about every step of our supply chain and re invent it for future generations

@dawidmurray

Жыл бұрын

Joe is close with Elon Musk, he could certainly raise this and ask for change. If Elon/Tesla made public statements about this issue and working to a solution to stop it happening, it would then put pressure on every other company to 'PR' their stance as well.

You can just tell, what this man witnessed is still haunting him.

@brett4264

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that too. It really makes this sink into your soul when he speaks of what he's seen.

@aubree455

Жыл бұрын

God Bless him for exposing this evil. What can we do?

@Sal3600

Жыл бұрын

when westerners see something thats been the norm in other countries for years

@timothyandrewnielsen

Жыл бұрын

It was just people digging. He's a wussy.

@palmeristo

Жыл бұрын

@@aubree455 not voting for rich people, stop listening to the news, get off social media. That's a start, but there's so much out of everyone's control. Too little too late.

This is the closet thing to a perfect podcast I have ever listended to. 1. Important subject matter 2. A guest with first hand experience who was able to articulate important information in an easy to understand way. 3. A combination of a great communicator and a great listener. They stayed on the subject matter, a balance of facts and emotion. I hope something gets done and the world take notice.

@mattiarubio3240

Жыл бұрын

Both of them speak so well, they use satisfying vocabulary but it isn’t too complicated like jordan peterson

@buildingdreams2279

11 ай бұрын

Say"EH WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS WITH A CROWN OF THORNS! OH WAS TO THE LEFT AND UH RIGHT. PEOPLE FROM ANOTHER PLANET ARE TRYING TO TAKE OVER EARTH WITH CIRCUMCISION AND EARRINGS! GOD WAS CIRCUMCISED"

@NAY2GAS

11 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, Some of Siddharth's point were not correct. EVs use only 10% of the world's batteries. The other 90% is used in things we all use every day. Your car, even though it takes Gasoline, has parts that were made using Cobalt. Your tires have Cobalt in them, your Airbags have Cobalt in them, the paint on your car has Cobalt in it. Everyone is complicit. We all use Cobalt, It's not just Electric Vehicles.

@ericfarina3935

10 ай бұрын

Nothing will be done. Marketing is just another form of propaganda, and these people have millions of data points on each and every one of us with algorithms that can predict our behavior down to the minute with 99+% accuracy. They know exactly when and how to push our buttons, and we lack the will to break free.

@ericfarina3935

10 ай бұрын

​@@NAY2GAS​It seems you misunderstood his point. What he said specifically, is that the projected increase in demand for electric vehicles is projected to drive growth in demand for cobalt in the coming decades. He also used the specific example that an EV battery uses 10 KG of refined cobalt, which is about 1000 times what a cell phone battery requires.

When I was a kid, I thought of heroes physically fighting off evil and being seemingly invincible. This man is a true hero! Not invincible, no weapons and no fighting. That's utterly terrifying. The bravery something like this must take is outstanding. Thank you for your service, be safe! 😅

@ianjohngonzales4066

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Heroes comes in many forms.

@buildingdreams2279

11 ай бұрын

Say"EH WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS WITH A CROWN OF THORNS! OH WAS TO THE LEFT AND UH RIGHT. PEOPLE FROM ANOTHER PLANET ARE TRYING TO TAKE OVER EARTH WITH CIRCUMCISION AND EARRINGS! GOD WAS CIRCUMCISED"

@shikony

4 ай бұрын

I had same thoughts too when I was a kid

@yonikki

20 күн бұрын

His weapon is TRUTH ... and the JRE platform.

As a mechanic I’ve been educated on this since 2014. No one would listen too me, I’m just a mechanic who fixes tractor trailers.

@stevrgrs

Жыл бұрын

The older you get the more you realize that the population is nuts. Even JRE podcasts, Lex fridman, Jordan peterson etc are only watched by a relative few. People see millions of subscribers and don't bother to think that these top guys are only reaching 10 % of the population of the US at BEST.

@hlmoore8042

Жыл бұрын

People only hear what they WANT to hear. No one is listening any more.

@Acemobilesuit

Жыл бұрын

Mechanic here agreed unfortunately once you get a higher pay grade it’s seems the lessers are forgotten

@bertkilborne6464

Жыл бұрын

Until the MSM gets the story and the information become a part of their news feed. Then they'll be repeating it like parrots and people will never forget it until the next news story shows up.

@jakerose1203

Жыл бұрын

@@hlmoore8042 True

What's really insane is these resources are exactly what's responsible for bringing you this information

@AnusheelSharma

Жыл бұрын

Because truth can't hide it self and a lie is always naked, they never thought the same device that they use for mind control will start to expose them.

@charleshess5654

Жыл бұрын

You...are so right. But let us use this "power" to make greater changes in our world.

@alanssnack1192

Жыл бұрын

@@AnusheelSharma there is no they

@kevinfrancis4255

Жыл бұрын

Where is BLM when these poor black folk need them most?!

@CactusBill

Жыл бұрын

I don't think that's the insane part, what's insane is that nothing will change. This video will age, along with the generations that now rely on cobolt fueled technology.

Great job Joe, I've been telling people this for years. People claim to not believe it, but its becoming more and more apparent that they just don't care.

@logicplague2077

Жыл бұрын

Of course not, makes it a lot harder to be smug about driving your electric car.

@Jameschung81

Жыл бұрын

Some people are really dead asleep.

@KM-ud9io

Жыл бұрын

It’s on phones laptops gaming consoles

@Hades1100

Жыл бұрын

Ya think they'd care by how anti big corporation they are?

@MrSilverfish12

Жыл бұрын

We are going to pay some day for not caring about this suffering.

I'm a house painter and i remember a few years ago it was mandatory for the paint industry to replace the cobalt in paint for another product. We were told it was a health issue... Now years later i know better than that!

This is a perfect example of how humanity is destroying itself through hypocrisy.

@johnsbackwithcommonsense7628

Жыл бұрын

Greed is.

@getstuk87

Жыл бұрын

Cobalt is difficult to fix. Diamonds are not. A higher priority should be doing away with the silly societal norms that we do like paying a wildly falsely inflated price for a mineral that is not rare to show our significant other how much we love them by supporting an industry like we're seeing in this video. We should start there first. Not with cobalt because if we can't even shame our friends for buying a potential "blood diamond" then why tf would you think cobalt, a necessity, is going to change. It's not.

@scottf5791

Жыл бұрын

@@getstuk87 I didn’t mean to laugh at this comment but the absurdity you highlighted was too great. Well said and very true indeed. I use to work for a jeweler at my local mall. The customers that would come in to our store were the most pretentious and petty self indulgent people I have ever known. I left after a few months and glad I did. Knowing how and where these diamonds come from made me question my morals. It’s like Las Vegas. It’s all a facade. A veneer of spectacle to draw people in only to find out the dark truth beneath the surface. The problem is no one ever looks.

@ThineLesser

Жыл бұрын

@@getstuk87 how is Cobalt a necessity?

@ThineLesser

Жыл бұрын

@Basado Americano the Dems and their cobalt mining slaves ✊🏿

Well said and done Sir. Thank you for shedding more light on this sorely underreported, massive human rights and environmental horrors.

@blank1778

Жыл бұрын

Then stop pushing green cars and energy. Here’s the short story it’s not green at all

@itsalllies4102

Жыл бұрын

This is caused by ignorant sheeple, corrupt government and coprporations and planned obsolescence.

@mrfatuchi

Жыл бұрын

@@blank1778 Not obly that but there is no signs they are going to recycle these minerals at all. Tesla claims it will but once you dig deeper the batteries arent even designed to be recycled easily, it uses alot of glues, it can be only done by producing toxic waste either by dipping in the axid or burning it all off. Now imagine when millions of these massi e batteries start coming back for recycling because Tesla guaranteed they will pick them up, they didnt say they will actaully recycle them. Just think of hoq much toxic waste is goibg to be produced and dumped where?

@aycarambas

Жыл бұрын

In other words, thanks but I dont care. Wheres my phone charger?

@ryansr1343

Жыл бұрын

Nobody’s going to do anything about anything. There’s a new chicken sandwich coming out……

Siddharth is a brave man for making it in to the lives, writing a book and publicly taking about this. Well done for exposing this.

@AdrianKetter

7 ай бұрын

He’s probably gonna commit suicide if he Doesnt shut up

I am a Congolese living in Seattle and I appreciate the effort that joe put in place to shade light on this tragic reality that is happening in my country. It’s very sad that people are enjoying the fruit of child labor who are not even suppose to be working and the world is not doing anything

@pearljameric

Жыл бұрын

Why can't the Congolese set better conditions for their people?

@williamking9707

Жыл бұрын

And all while acting morally superior for "doing their part" by driving a 100,000 dollar tesla...

@Jianju69

Жыл бұрын

Part of the problem is this: Big American companies, e.g. Apple, go to Chinese manufacturers and lay out rules for production, e.g. "no artisanal miners". Those Chinese manufacturers then go and do whatever they want, ignoring all the rules to save a buck. When Apple finds out, they say, "Hey, we said no artisanal miners!" Those managers of these Chinese manufacturing firms say, "What? You were SERIOUS about that??" At this point, even if Apple immediately starts changing plans to avoid using these corrupt manufacturers, it still takes them three years to change course, finding new manufacturers, due to being such a huge organization.

@simeondunev4890

Жыл бұрын

Youre probably also using a smartphone tho

@alanmacdonald1457

Жыл бұрын

@@simeondunev4890 whats your point...you can't blame the consumer when the product has become a necessity in life

This guy is genuinely a good human being. We need more investigative journalism like this.

@pistonburner6448

Жыл бұрын

Don't focus on the person, focus on the facts. Even if he provides us with valuable facts, he still used marxist key vocabulary like "agitation" so always beware of worshipping people. There's no need for it. Could be that he used those words innocently, could be that he has marxism in his background or planned future activities.

@joewood2868

Жыл бұрын

@@pistonburner6448 a little paranoid maybe?

@RupertWins

Жыл бұрын

UK has a huge child abuse problem. They threw me in prison for nosing around it.

@1freezyfrost

Жыл бұрын

@@pistonburner6448 is nobody else allowed to use that word? Weirdo.

@noneyobidness3253

Жыл бұрын

There's plenty of them... The problem is, as soon as they publish a story that sheds light on corporate or government crimes, the MSM labels them conspirationists and people swallow that shit whole... Just think how The Grey Zone got cancelled for insisting that the Hunter laptop wasn't a conspiracy.

I am reading Kara‘s book, Cobalt Red, right now! It’s incredibly well written, very informative, disturbing, and hard to put down. Everyone needs to read it!

@markmiller8903

3 ай бұрын

Agree, read Cobalt Red and its the most disturbing book I've ever read. Especially the last chapter they talk about tunnel collapes where 30 to 60 children die every time.

@markmiller8903

Ай бұрын

Agree I read Cobalt Red and especially the chapter on the tunnel collapses was troubling and sickening. EVS should be banned.

Huge thank you to Joe for bringing Siddharth Kara on the show to expose this deeply depressing important yet shunned issue. I ordered the book immediately after watching this clip and just finished it. Truly horrifying stuff.

@sv-xi6oq

7 ай бұрын

Typed from your iPhone lol.

As an African, I appreciate your effort & commitment to the truth Sir. Siddaharth Kara

@joshuagibson2520

Жыл бұрын

Where do you live in Africa?

@TwoFingeredMamma

Жыл бұрын

I see Indians building rain catchments in their thousands to bring green back to the soil. Get these same men and do the same thing. Its amazing what can be achieved without machinery. In the west we have no jobs, the machines have taken over. The West is nothing but corporate slavery and it still covertly controls Africa through the ownership of Corporations and control of puppet leaders. Babylon is nearing its death throws, thank heavens..

@RealTalkWithRoadMan

Жыл бұрын

@@joshuagibson2520 Im originally from Nigeria living in New Zealand for the past 10 years. I try to keep myself updated with the continent that I call him as much as possible till I get a chance to go back. Hearing what Siddaharth reveals about the Congo cobalt situation breaks my Heart because I now know that due to my "Tech Consumerism", I am adding to the problem my Congolese brothers and sisters in the mines are going through right now. I need to make some ....CORRECTION- I MUST MAKE SOME LIFESTYLE CHANGES!

@joshuagibson2520

Жыл бұрын

@@RealTalkWithRoadMan I feel ya brother. We're all complicit in one way or another and we need to make some changes. Greetings from your hillbilly friend in Tennessee, USA.

@OfficialGOD

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they keep messing with Africa

I’m from the Eastern Congo and nobody could expose this misery better. Thank You Joe for exposing this!

@danceyrselfkleen

Жыл бұрын

It’s crazy how people just lie in KZread comments like it’s nothing

@gracelynnblack

Жыл бұрын

@@danceyrselfkleen elaborate....

@mikeandroid3512

Жыл бұрын

I’m from eastern Congo too and I concur ….oh no wait I’m in eastern Canada. Never mind.

@ColonelMetus

Жыл бұрын

You belong in a mine you dirty savage

@magloire3

Жыл бұрын

@@danceyrselfkleen Well as a Congolese this is common knowledge to us and we have try but our government is corrupt to the core we can’t do shit. Add that with the current war going on with M23

His book Cobalt Red is very important and illuminating. It was also very disturbing and traumatizing when he described what the miners in Congo go through.

We wouldn’t need so much of it if they didn’t drop a new iPhone every year and started messing with the ones we already own to drive us out to get the new one

@miram2053

6 ай бұрын

Exactly

People freaked out about straws but still will have a blind eye to this reality.

@brushstroke3733

Жыл бұрын

People are selfish, self-centered, and unconcerned about anything beyond personal status and the stuff they use to escape being alone with themselves. People could be so much better, but they are mostly ignorant, stressed sheep driven by fear and insecurity.

@spotsaprahoosheberne642

Жыл бұрын

They (it’s not a correction to you) iykyk

@yoma2977

Жыл бұрын

@@diracsea i think it's called people not being altruistic as soon as it's an inconvenience to them

@user-ys6wv1bq9l

Жыл бұрын

There's also a narrative involved. Big tech leans to one political direction. This is their lifeblood.

@James-gr5mx

Жыл бұрын

china owns 80% of the mines in the congo. crazy why would you sell a valuable resource to make yourself rich but not your country

This man is a true journalist. Sad, gone are the days when they would travel to to the problem. Today, people and major news stations are buying stories.

@karlhering1298

Жыл бұрын

I think a true journalist would tell you that Cobalt is also necessary for the production of gasoline. It is necessary to refine the crude oil.

@KimStrandberg93

Жыл бұрын

What? Some of the biggest news you see come from freelance. Nothing wrong with that. Good journalists can get 150-300k $ for a good story. Atleast. Sidartha is a well paid journalist, in advance. He makes good shit gets good pay and opportunities.

@simranlikesthe6221

Жыл бұрын

@@karlhering1298 I think he already touched the point where cobalt is vital to our society today.

@phuckyoutube5927

Жыл бұрын

Yeah true journalism didn't do a thing but wrote a booka nd made some money though. 😂💀 And you ate it up hook line and sinker bet you already have the book in your Amazon cart.

@kevinweltje4604

Жыл бұрын

Remember when Joe saw a boxing match and thought it was a dad beating up his son and talking about how messed up it was? Well turns out he got that completely wrong and it was instead a match at creator clash. True journalism

This brought tears to my eyes, this man’s passion for humans who deserve more.

Great video! Keep spreading information on these horrible conditions.

Thank You Joe for letting the world know about this issue. I had no idea about this my goodness, this is truly heartbreaking 💔

I'm from Congo. It's amazing how this is unknown to many Americans or the rest of the world for the most part. I've spoken on these issues 15 years ago, back in my college days. But as they say, when money talks, truth is silenced.

@neovenom7187

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention the people responsible for this put up smoke and mirror screens in other countries, like all that woke stuff and BLM. They pretend to care, yet do this.

@parunbelhomme

Жыл бұрын

@@neovenom7187 The hypocrisy is strong with those people.

@Anonymous-xq5cs

Жыл бұрын

it was worse 120 years ago

@parunbelhomme

Жыл бұрын

@@Anonymous-xq5cs and your point is?

@sad-frosty4462

Жыл бұрын

americans dont even know where the congo is

I went from this to the whole interview on Spotify. Incredible. I'm stunned by the work Kare has done. Rogan takes a lot of heat but I haven't seen anyone else giving this air time. Much appreciated. Siddharth Kara is a really brave man. This man's voice needs to be heard.

@norclag

Жыл бұрын

Same and well said 👏

@poolie-mag8282

Жыл бұрын

Definitely going to listen to more of this guy before the big tech companies inevitably try and silence him

@rebuttalc2075

Жыл бұрын

He takes alot of heat for a reason. People dont want the truth being told. His guests come from all walks so there is no reason for him to receive the hate he does plus he is pretty open minded

@markmiller8903

Жыл бұрын

Just finished Cobalt Red book. This is the most heart wrenching thing I've ever heard. And I've read about ship breaking, modern slavery, etc.

@Kabodanki

13 күн бұрын

@@rebuttalc2075joe rogan has a lot of bad sides, they are well known, like when he’s cornered, he weasel his way out. But for sure sometimes he invites good people

JR needs to have more good people like this on his show.

What a wonderful journalist putting his energy into such a good cause and so visually passionate to help people.

this is real journalism

@dankelly5150

Жыл бұрын

And the left in their zeal to get people to convert to battery powered cars WILL NOT talk about the slave labor issue to mine the cobalt that you make batteries with because it doesn't fit their narrative !! 😡

@the_batmobile0.4

Жыл бұрын

That's Elon musk for all u EV 🤡🤡🤡

@valentineblabla5056

Жыл бұрын

Its just to increase the prices ....old tactics

@classycassi20

Жыл бұрын

Fifth element is a cult classic 👌

@CalvinHikes

Жыл бұрын

Which is why it gets largely ignored.

Nobody can understand how important it was for this man to divulge this story on this particular podcast. This is the catalyst that was needed for visibility.

@sandylynn7343

Жыл бұрын

Have you seen "Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk HARD Questions About Cobalt Mining For TESLA Batteries" 🔥 🏎

@RHt09

Жыл бұрын

@@sandylynn7343 Have you seen the part where he says Apple is the biggest offender, Tesla has actually transitioned half its new cars off cobalt batteries and all major electronics like smart phones use cobalt? Sandy sandy sandy...

@arnoldlueders7500

Жыл бұрын

Why do we care? If any of you are shocked then I am sorry, you are either dumb or naive. We live in a world of limited resources and first world countries use either military or economic incentives in order to get the resources that it needs from whatever part of the world. In this case it's pure capitalism. If those people working that mine had any other better option for making money than they would do it but they see value in being hired for a dollar a day and what is wrong with that? These people don't live the same as you and I in the west. For some strange reason, y'all think that the entire world lives like we live. No billions of people in this world. Wake up every morning to do exactly what you saw in that video.

@teleportdinero

Жыл бұрын

i will show you the meaning of click bait I will show you the meaning of Clickbait there is a Legendary story to tell it is a story about bravery and fearlessness there is a story that must be told it is a story about one of the chosen ones i have a story to tell i am mace windu i had many mentors all of them were wise . what do you mean. what would make you think that there is something wrong with what i said did you see kit fisto spelling off a mentor who was like a brother to me once told me “if we don’t stop barack scumbama now he could become a threat later” “if we don’t stop barack scumbama now he could become a threat and a danger to our later generation our loved ones.” -teleportdinero i’m not saying that i agree with you but then again I’m not always correct either I remember a time back in the 80s when I was growing up things were different back then these youngsters today what makes you think that? It’s all right to disagree with people I remember when I was a young man growing up in the 80s in America it was a different time then back then we used to call each other ​ this is the best I’ve seen from you guys in a while was about to say the same exact thing m ​ “if we don’t stop barack scumbama now he could become a threat and a danger to our later generation our loved ones.” m m hi hi m -teleportdinero m m mm mm m m m m m m m m m everybody have a blessed day.🙏🏻 and stay safe thanks .

@brushstroke3733

Жыл бұрын

We'll all click the next video and forget about it within a couple days for the most part, except occasionally to bring it up in conversation to virtue signal our awareness and "compassion". How many of us will stop using cell phones, tablets, electric cars, etc.? That's really the only thing that will change what's going on, because it's all about greed.

I haven't seen this man on any legacy media and he deserves a lot more attention

Been reading the book and appalled by the fiasco. Glad to see Siddartha on JRE spreading awareness.

We need more people like this guy on da show. Very impactful

@elitecol69

Жыл бұрын

@@sentolt7460 He won't, he's still busy learning how the word 'the' is spelt..

@kenrehill8775

Жыл бұрын

@@elitecol69 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@23Butanedione

Жыл бұрын

@@sentolt7460 not to mention any work we did to change the landscape would be totally undone by China in a second. Also if it's not cobalt with Africa it's just going to be something else... It's almost like until Africans decide to grow up and take responsibility for their crappy decisions they're bound to repeat

@thelmeno

Жыл бұрын

It’s informative to say the least

@zacharydonofrio7118

Жыл бұрын

Love it!

I’m a Congolese living in Congo and I wanna Thank you so much for bringing awareness to this. Our country is beautiful but unfortunately too many people wants to benefit from our resources free of charge 🇨🇩💔

@lemonhead9628

Жыл бұрын

it really is sad that your government is being exploited instead of your country selling cobalt to the world for high prices since they need your resource for their electric vehicles

@mr.makedonija2627

Жыл бұрын

@Baljdeep Invajuna lol

@lucid4182

Жыл бұрын

@@baljdeepinvajuna1363 the sun will burn a hole thru you soon enough. You're not natural here..How can something that benefits the earth, hurt you? Sounds like your creator doesn't love you. Your time is up💚

@elijahchuruza

Жыл бұрын

@Baljdeep Invajuna what why? lol

@frankzappa9853

Жыл бұрын

So please enlighten us, what other job opportunities do these people have? Are they missing out on better options or would they starve without this work? I'm curious your from there you can tell us

As a a woman of color this has broke me down drastically…wow..being what they call us here African American and knowing our ancestry roots are over there makes me sick to my stomach-I literally prance around with my shiny diamonds 💎 and high tech phones & tablets…I never knew of this, and I’m ashamed of myself 😢the oppression and brainwashing is real

@Utubegofukurself

5 ай бұрын

This should have "broke you down drastically" no matter what color your skin is. Just an idi0tc statement.

@Kal-El207

2 ай бұрын

Don’t be. Nothing you can do about it anyway.

A practical thing that can be made is raise donations for safety equipment for the people that dig in the cobalt mines and then we need to send a delegation that make sure the equipment is actually get to them safe and they wears it

I am a Congolese , and i am working in a cobalt mine, i want you to know that everything exposed in this podcast is real. You cannot imagine how hard it is, we are not living anymore, we are now surviving. I think, when next generations will study this era , they will wonder how could such things was going on. Many will think that it's just a story, but it's our daily life

@WeAgreeToDisagree1

Жыл бұрын

Bro, why not use your KZread channel as a tool to help expose these horrific circumstances? Perfect opportunity

@gigahertz_1911

Жыл бұрын

@@WeAgreeToDisagree1 probably many reasons Too dangerous to film without being caught Spotty internet connection, not enough time to upload, or hardly any access to the internet at all I'm sure the people that control the mines also control all communications coming out of the mine. They don't want to risk their lives or their families trying to expose the truth

@ImxPhreme

Жыл бұрын

What do you think are the solutions? Do these big tech companies take over the mines, or is the land already controlled by someone else? I wonder what we can actually do

@joshuaflaming6663

Жыл бұрын

@@WeAgreeToDisagree1 i am a human right activist, i have already try rising awareness trough social about certain things , but you don't know how deep these logistics and supply chain are organized, they got people everywhere, in the gouvernement, in institution, so no matter where you go you will fall on one of them. But we don't stop trying to do whatever we can to push things

@joshuaflaming6663

Жыл бұрын

@@gigahertz_1911 you said it. Many people , authorities and activist felt on this journey, and corruption is deep. With wisdom , i a m sure that , one day we will found a way There is a time for everything under the sun

I work in a nickel and cobalt site in Australia and we have standards I couldn't imagine working like that, that's just shocking.

@pipedreamism1

Жыл бұрын

If deez ppl was white I promise you this would be shut down the next day

@jackphillips6742

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad Australia actually has decent labour standards. Still hard work though.

@lei9149

Жыл бұрын

youd also be going home with thousands of dollars every week

@Howtododrugs.

Жыл бұрын

Cheeseburger with no cheese is a hamburger

@Chelsleen

Жыл бұрын

@@Howtododrugs. Amen Bruuther

I truly hope new battery technology will make cobalt irrelevant like synthetic rubber replaced natural rubber’s market demand. The scale of this problem is so enormous and challenging to solve.

@dougvuillemot8670

5 ай бұрын

Before cobalt was nicad after cobalt just another thing that needs mined. That's how it works.

Joe, keep up this awesome work and digging into critical topics.

Best examples of what JRE can do to bring awareness to issues that are purposefully swept under the rug.

@tonyd8454

Жыл бұрын

Under the rug by dems

@CaliDraco

Жыл бұрын

ur comment was right above the original comment that said the exact same thing. lol

@Crussman499

Жыл бұрын

@@tonyd8454 republicans are just as bad. Don't be biased. Centrism is the only way to go.

@ObeloMusic

Жыл бұрын

@@Crussman499 The center between these 2 extremes is the most evil. Anti-phase polar modulation is the only way !

@mikesticha7801

Жыл бұрын

abc did a story about this 10 months ago you just ignore what you call fake news

Here is the sad part of this whole situation. There is a huge vein of Cobalt where I grew up in NW Ontario ( Google - Werner Lake Cobalt) that was mined in small quantities during the 2nd world war. A BC company has acquired the mineral rights for this cobalt years ago, but they still haven't mined it. I'm thinking that they can't compete against the child, slave labour in Africa.

@asianmanfromasia

Жыл бұрын

It’s either pay one person $25+/hr (idk what miners make) or 25 people each $1 a day. Sounds really shitty, but it’s all about max profit with minimum investment

@aa2339

Жыл бұрын

But the mine that outputs more in a shorter amount of time should win.

@coolcatrich

Жыл бұрын

@@aa2339 That's not true. If you can mine 100x faster but at 100x the cost, its a net neutral, or so it seems. But if you dig deeper it isn't neutral, because you're using up more minerals for the same amount of profit. So your mine is going to run out of minerals and the slower, cheaper mine is going to win in the end.

@anthonytorridson5360

Жыл бұрын

Have you seen the video “Elon Musk meets Post Malone” It’s hilarious!! 👽 😂

@matthewmiksza5855

Жыл бұрын

The problem is we have Trudeau in power who loves to virtue signal but would never put forth the necessary policies to get it out of the ground

Glad more light is being shed on this issue.

Thanks a lot Siddhartha Kara and Joe for addressing this issue.

Please remember that the minerals in this story are not the problem. The problem is our lack of transparency regarding supply chains. We must hold people accountable for where material comes from.

@trillrifaxegrindor4411

Жыл бұрын

yes,the dependence on shitty,unnecessary tech and peoples idiotic reliance on it (cell phones,im talking to you)is the core of the problem.........you really think a car needs 15 body modules,6 cameras, 4 ecms ,a tablet and 800 feet of wire? ANY SUCCESSFUL business will always be done to meet the highest profit margin with the lowest bottom line,full stop

@NDE108

Жыл бұрын

They'll pass off the cost of anything down to the consumer and do nothing about these working conditions

@ChicagoMike85

Жыл бұрын

But coal and nuckkklear are bad so we need to mine cobalt which is used in these batteries.. so it’s a good trade off. And the politicians that are promoting this are saving humanity, because if we stay on this track, the world will be destroyed in 4 years.. that’s how much time we have left.. 4 years omg! These politicians deserve immense amounts of credit because they are doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. They love people, they love humanity, that’s why this is a great thing. Even my college professor says this is good. And also if you check fact-check there is no signs of slavery. We must put more trust into these corporations, and a lot of them are owned by great people who donate so much into helping humanity..

@DerStammtischphilosoph

Жыл бұрын

Do you see the video? Thats transparency. Do you think the corporations don't know? Do you really think that anyone will sacrifice social media to stop this? People couldn't care less.

@runtaoyang1244

Жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as ethical mining. All miners are treated horribly over exploited and underpaid

I've known about this for 5 years. A client asked me to research the three main metals that comprise these batteries, cobalt, copper and lithium. I was shocked to learn of cobalt's toxicity and the child labor used to extract it.

@Redmanticore

Жыл бұрын

you didnt care to research for your client how small children, in the rain, with bare hands, dig 9999999 tonns of cobolt every day? didn't ring a bell? let me guess: "african 6 year old children dig 99999999999 tonns of cobalt ore every day, in the rain, with nothing but bare hands, while a mean man shouts at them." somehow, it makes sense to dig with small children bare hands in the rain, than with massive modern mining equipment? kekw, sure.. and nobody thinks its a set-up pictures and articles. nobody checks sources. only American oil can save us, not those 6 year old cobalt ore diggers. this "critical" audience doesn't even think one second, that it just might be falsified sources, with dudes just paid for photoshoots and videos. this "academic researcher" doesn't once ask, is it any point to try to dig with small children with bare hands, when you need 9999999tons per day. obviously they cant dig anything. obviously its bogus. even congolese warlords/chinese warlords would need serious mining equipment, obviously, not kids or adults being useless. 6:10 "this mine shibara.. they're not supposed to be here.. lo and behold I walk into this place and this is what I see.." sure you didn't pay those movie extras to be there? give me a break. if you would dig by hand in 21st century there would be nothing done. 8:21 are there industrialized cobalt mines that use machinery? - ive never seen one. now you know he is just full of bs. 10:02 "hundreds of thousands of people digging" this dude is a riot. nobody would know hundreds of thousands of people would be slaves? united nations? even united nations is in the pocked of "big electric"? give me a breaaaaaaaak. 10:45 "this is a made up video!" curious how he was pre-emptively defensive that his short videos are fake, just hired movie extras.

@gozieboy3899

Жыл бұрын

Did you say anything about it?

@cjweisman

Жыл бұрын

@@gozieboy3899 No. I didn't have a clue what to do about it. Wish I did.

@Paul-vf2wl

Жыл бұрын

Point is there is no necessity to use child labour for mining these metals this issue and the toxicity are both issues that could easily be dealt with. People are just excited to have a reason to not use battery power.

@jrno93

Жыл бұрын

they could use machines but rather pay a dollar a day or they say. im sure most of them are forced

The upside down part of this is that if the world industrializes this those people will be left out and have even less money. How do we fix this and not leave them out?

My respects sir if most ppl picked a something like this or even something less severe but if everyone was to make a effort to bring attention to one thing we can help to fix alot of issues would get more ppl working to fix them at least ease the suffering of those families good work you dedicated yourself to a good cause even if one family gets a better life cuz of this i would feel justified in all the work and chances are you have already helped many families

Didn’t even realize I was watching this on a cobalt device. Glad to see this information available more broadly

@furerorban9324

Жыл бұрын

J Peterson kissing the Orbanus hard for 50 million HUF: "my message to Hungarians: Do not rebel against your dictator! What your prime minister is trying to do is to restore the metaphysical foundation of the dirty-white Hungarian culture and race"

@howardhavardramberg7160

Жыл бұрын

This is why news particularily in America is so fucked because it is just politics on the left or right. You don’t get good sources on what actually goes on in the world.

@spookkybeemee669

Жыл бұрын

I'm just now learning what cobalt.

@SlackerU

Жыл бұрын

Changes my fear of battery fires.

@ameliaannhouck2670

Жыл бұрын

ALSO CALLED SLAVE COBALT DEVICE , THINK ABOUT IT ! AMERICANS OR WHO EVER WHO ARE, THINK ABOUT WHERE THINGS COME FROM, SO FEELING ANY SHAME YET???

Omg that's shocking This needs to gain massive awareness

@dekin819

Жыл бұрын

I think a lot of people know, look at Nike everyone knows about Nike

@truthwarrior122

Жыл бұрын

Most people nowadays are too evil, greedy, and selfish to even bother to care about anyone but themselves. Thanks to brainwashing from FAKE NEWS.

@subdefine

Жыл бұрын

The problem is, if these mines are automated then it will cause two things to happen: electronics will be more expensive and these people mining will be unemployed. It's not an easy problem to solve.

@timturk1899

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! And there's so much advertising money being spent towards putting our awareness on buying the next, new, smartphone/electrical vehicle (from drones, "skateboards", scooters, bicycles, motorcycles, and cars, up to buses and even larger more industrial vehicles and machines that rely on Rechargeable Lithium batteries, and as a result, Cobalt itself). I'd love to see the documentary this great journalist put together with the footage shown here..?! And share that to others, just like this JRE clip!👍💯

@subdefine

Жыл бұрын

@@smikethehandicappedfriend Given the way you type, I doubt you even own a house. Don't shit talk me son, I'd put you to shame.

joe. just want to say your doing a great job .i thank you sir. keep up the good work

I don't like electronics anymore

100% REAL JOURNALISM!!! EXCELLENT WORK.

@David-bf6bz

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely not. It is mostly BS full of half truths and misframming

@trimademi7637

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but this people don't live a long life that's sad

@XXX_JiaYangGuiZi

Жыл бұрын

Really? He said there were American companies there. Imagine, if Americans treated the workers so well, paid them so well, why would anyone want to work for Chinese companies? How could Chinese companies find any workers in the area? If a Chinese company comes to your town open the same business, would quit your job, and to work for the Chinese company with less pay. Remember, American Companies were there before Chinese Companies moved in. Think about it. What he said does not make any fking sense. He can fool you easily, all he has to do is connect it to China. He knows the collective mood of Americans. Hating China is in high demand.

@babitapandhare1889

Жыл бұрын

@@XXX_JiaYangGuiZi thank for writing ccp bot and your comment just proves that man in the video is saying true

@dannypqliar8763

Жыл бұрын

@@XXX_JiaYangGuiZi No, they weren't. I've worked in several African countries - American presence there is laughable compared to Chinese, who have a foothold in everything from mining to construction to timber and so on and so forth. You are talking out of your behind. And I'm Russian, so I have no emotional stake in making the U.S. look good. Just saying it like it is.

You could hear his pain throughout the whole podcast, even had me emotional at time, problem is nothing will changed because if is not in front of you all the time we quickly forget and move on.

@WATCHMYCLIPSZ

Жыл бұрын

Joe sounds pretty serious too. You know he hates to hear this knowing most of his fan base are on phones

@cliftonwindham4194

Жыл бұрын

The problem is in front of us everyday if the cobalt being mined is powering this iPhone.

@BrianFordKY

Жыл бұрын

@@cliftonwindham4194 💯

@123shotas

Жыл бұрын

Either way big companies will blame you for your decisions

@xerozeus890

Жыл бұрын

The problem is also that we pay attention to him and what he felt. And we don't try to look/feel what the people go through. I hope I conveyed what I meant. Summary: The observer is the observed. No division is needed.

Something most people don't think about: Toxicity is an inherent chemical trait of heavy/rare earth metal elements used in a lot of "green" technologies. That is to say, something that is toxic will stay so forever. In contrast, radioactive materials (as the name suggests) radiate energy until the element is transmuted into something with a stable electron structure that is no longer radioactive. With enough time, radioactive materials become harmless rocks and there are various ways of speeding up that process.

People are NOT aware of this. I just learned about it today. Thank you for this interview.

I have been trying to talk about this for years. Since the first leaks 5/6 years ago. I can't tell you how many regular people literally want to fight me for pointing this out.

@SzymczykProductions

Жыл бұрын

Okay? And? What are you going to do about it? Nothing! You only care in comment section. You don't care just like the rest of us lmao. Liar

@Bga1412

Жыл бұрын

@Drone Studios ok, what is your game plan, bud? Buy the tickets to the DRC. I'll come with you

@RealAmericanStar

Жыл бұрын

You can't tell us because nobody wants to physically attack you over this lol

@Bga1412

Жыл бұрын

@RA. STAR go and start talking about the dark side of ev's and renewables to someone on the street. I guarantee you will find someone delusional enough to want to physically fight you over it. That was my point. Most of the time, you get apathy. And they just don't give a shit that there is a 6 year old in a toxic pit somewhere. As long as they get the newest thing, they don't give a shit. I'm all for renewable energy, but the way it's being pushed is dirty. The stupid batteries are not economical to recycle, what's going to happen in 8-10 years? Same thing that's been happening for the last 50, it gets shipped to the 3rd world and burned in open pits to extract minute amounts of copper or whatever. Look up how e-waste is disposed of. Most of it ends up in places where it poisons the surrounding land and communities.

@RealAmericanStar

Жыл бұрын

@@Bga1412 I'm not saying people wouldn't get mad or heated. No one is throwing punches over this tho.

This guy wouldn't get a second of time on mainstream media because they are all in the same matrix together, so thanks Joe for continuing to provide people like him a platform!

@teleportdinero

Жыл бұрын

i will show you the meaning of click bait I will show you the meaning of Clickbait there is a Legendary story to tell it is a story about bravery and fearlessness there is a story that must be told it is a story about one of the chosen ones i have a story to tell i am mace windu i had many mentors all of them were wise . what do you mean. what would make you think that there is something wrong with what i said did you see kit fisto spelling off a mentor who was like a brother to me once told me “if we don’t stop barack scumbama now he could become a threat later” “if we don’t stop barack scumbama now he could become a threat and a danger to our later generation our loved ones.” -teleportdinero i’m not saying that i agree with you but then again I’m not always correct either I remember a time back in the 80s when I was growing up things were different back then these youngsters today what makes you think that? It’s all right to disagree with people I remember when I was a young man growing up in the 80s in America it was a different time then back then we used to call each other ​ this is the best I’ve seen from you guys in a while was about to say the same exact thing m ​ “if we don’t stop barack scumbama now he could become a threat and a danger to our later generation our loved ones.” m m hi hi m -teleportdinero m m mm mm m m m m m m m m m everybody have a blessed day.🙏🏻 and stay safe thanks .

@danielstehura9657

Жыл бұрын

This A Hole has No Solution! He’s making profit on bellyaching about a problem that he has no solution

@danielstehura9657

Жыл бұрын

I’m agitated about you A Hole

@bri200490

Жыл бұрын

It has been reported for years in mainstream media , it’s just that , for example , in the US , no one cares.

@MacLethal

Жыл бұрын

Rogan IS mainstream media at this point. He gets WAY more views than any of the MSM "matrix" people you speak of.

I got Siddharth's book on audio, and it's very important and disturbing. But I also listened to this entire interview because it felt like I had questions and comments I wanted to ask the book itself. And with this, it's like Joe was my proxy and Siddharth was the book.

Joe should talk about the potential dangers of tattoos aswel! Inks aren’t even regulated by the FDA. Some of the ink used in the industry contains heavy metals such as cobalt, titaniumdioxide, murcury, etc. And many more… Some researchers found inks they used for printers or even For car painting… some contains formaldehyde or arsenicum… people really, look this stuff up and don’t get tattoo’s!

@Sam-sw8dj

Жыл бұрын

Reading this whilst I’m covered in tattoos 😅

Truly a brave and impressive gentleman speaking for those without voices. I hope this gets more attention

@susanvandeneng5231

Жыл бұрын

Buy his book. Monies will help him continue on his part. Maybe he can sell his story to a big movie motel like Blood Diamonds.

@RealKlausSchwab

Жыл бұрын

He is lying. Look at the video he showed. That mine definitely used industrial machinery. That was a video of "bring your kid to work day".

@dq3666

Жыл бұрын

@@RealKlausSchwab Good one, Klaus. Okay, gotta get back to eating ze crickets. 👋🏻

@mattmarzula

Жыл бұрын

@@RealKlausSchwab That is pretty funny. Good one.

@mattmarzula

Жыл бұрын

@@susanvandeneng5231 and do what? Your veterans have been telling everyone about this for two decades. If anyone is listening, no one is doing anything. You want to do something with money? Don't spend it on these companies. Cut your dependence on the products.

This guy looks like a fusion of Obama and Tuco Salamanca

@christianmathison1182

Жыл бұрын

Lmfao!!

@tattoobobby3103

Жыл бұрын

Lol the accuracy

@d1pz9

Жыл бұрын

Lmaooooo 💀

@hotsaucejunkie

Жыл бұрын

you nailed it... LOL

@anneliendekramer9243

Жыл бұрын

Poor guy

A recent study estimated that 3T miners earn around USD 2.7 and USD 3.3 per day in eastern DRC whereas 76% of the population lived with less than USD 1.9 a day in 2012 (de Brier et al. 2020, 9). Copper and cobalt miners have an average daily income of USD 7.65.

When I was told EVs are "green" I never imagined it could imply using slavery instead of fuel-burning machines.

As he is talking, I realized everyone is watching this on their phones, laptops and they are sitting in a room full of the stuff. It is a sad reality of our modern world. It almost can't be helped.

@ewitdmt6389

Жыл бұрын

Gah dam your so right thank you I realized it when i read your comment. We dont need any of these things to live we need food shelter and water not a dam luxury vehicle

@haslamabad_

Жыл бұрын

the life we live here was built off exporting misery overseas so we can live comfortably

@caspar_gomez

Жыл бұрын

nah Im on desktop but still, we all suck

@successfulman681

Жыл бұрын

It can be helped

@jay1jayf

Жыл бұрын

I'm watching it on a PC, no rechargeable batteries here. You presuming C-word.

When an American hears that some aspect of their lifestyle is created by slave or child labor we are programmed to semi acknowledge the atrocity verbally but we never take the time to Google the details and learn the extent of the suffering. We don't know how bad it is because we don't want to know.

@suzKawasaki

Жыл бұрын

It’s why Angelina Jolie’s movie about the mines was ignored by Hollywood, critics and the public. People only want to live in their bubble of bliss.

@drshrimppuertorico3540

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the whole world is using these devices not just America

@jasonsanders8091

Жыл бұрын

True.

@Jm-dx9tl

Жыл бұрын

Hey bro you can buy his book on kindle for only $20 where he profits of the suffering and dedicates 0 of the funds to solve it himself.

@Jm-dx9tl

Жыл бұрын

@@drshrimppuertorico3540 the whole world except the people in such extreme poverty

Thank you for dropping the knowledge. Its extremely important people know whats really going on.

My great grandfather used to work in a cobalt mine in Leadville Colorado

My daughter had to do a social studies project in high school a few years ago. She was struggling for ideas, she didn’t want to do the standard global warming/transgender/racism path because that’s what everyone was doing. I told her to investigate cobalt mines and slave/child labour in the Congo. She did a great job I thought but got completely shitted on by her teacher and peers because it didn’t go with the narrative that EV’s are saving the planet, fossil fuels are terrible.

@tobene

Жыл бұрын

Did she also find out that gasoline cars require cobalt as well?

@SaulTeeMeat

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to left-wing fascism: Where freedom of speech is DESPISED.

@zakmartin

Жыл бұрын

@@tobene As I'm sure you are well aware, only microscopic particles of cobalt are used in *some* catalytic converters in cars. No cobalt is used in more than 99% of cars. Stop spreading misinformation.

@kalumw3983

Жыл бұрын

Kudos for challenging the narrative and thinking for herself.

@apatheticallyconcerned6574

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the woke zealots (the same people who preach about global warming all day) don't care about children being hurt. They prove this everyday by advocating for groomers in schools to be allowed to prance in front of kids with barely any clothes on and read porn stories to them, so why would they care about some African child slaves when they don't care about the kids in their own towns?

This is the dark side of the green industry. Thank you for bringing awareness to this atrocity.

@blessingejima7140

Жыл бұрын

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@onesolopolo4194

Жыл бұрын

Green industry? Apple is not a green industry. Tech companies are not green industries. If you're refering the electric cars, the miners were not enslaved by environmentalism. Even without EVs this has been a problem for over a decade. Electric vehicles are only getting better, there are already rechargeable lithium batteries that have no Cobalt in them.

@lucasm7177

Жыл бұрын

@@onesolopolo4194 you should learn about how lithium is mined by slave labor in China

@karlhering1298

Жыл бұрын

You should look up the fact that cobalt is used to make gasoline

@astralfluxaf

Жыл бұрын

This isn’t about “green industry” cobalt is also used for gasoline… batteries and phones are not apart of the “green industry” Did you even watch the video?

WOW! Thanks for informing us of this.

Thank you KZread for making sure I saw this lol it kept popping up on my feed but I kept avoiding it very informative thank you for this Joe and thank you KZread

For future, this guy didn't commit suicide.

@uriiel1211

Жыл бұрын

Gotta get it out there before he’s offed by our evil Govt

@dave20000

Жыл бұрын

More like the republic of Congo offed him. One of the most dangerous places and most corrupt governments on the planet.

@aSSGoblin1488

Жыл бұрын

he would if he cared about child slaves

@bockskarr6626

Жыл бұрын

This information has already been out there for years. You just late

@ericjones9699

Жыл бұрын

Hands tied behind his back, hanging from a rope tied around his neck. Shot in the back of the head and the media will say it's suicide. 60% of ya'll will believe it cause the so called news told you too.

Joe Rogan bringing shit to the table that everybody else sweeps under the rug! Keep it coming Joe!

@TrollextheTroll

Жыл бұрын

Are you an alien lady?

@imahumdinger77

Жыл бұрын

@Trollex Trollex yes, do you want to be probed?

@JimShorts10

Жыл бұрын

What about Kuniko? Check their site out

@Renwick2585

Жыл бұрын

Seriously what other mainstream media platform is giving this man a voice. Well done Joe.

@teleportdinero

Жыл бұрын

@@imahumdinger77 i will show you the meaning of click bait I will show you the meaning of Clickbait there is a Legendary story to tell it is a story about bravery and fearlessness there is a story that must be told it is a story about one of the chosen ones i have a story to tell i am mace windu i had many mentors all of them were wise . what do you mean. what would make you think that there is something wrong with what i said did you see kit fisto spelling off a mentor who was like a brother to me once told me “if we don’t stop barack scumbama now he could become a threat later” “if we don’t stop barack scumbama now he could become a threat and a danger to our later generation our loved ones.” -teleportdinero i’m not saying that i agree with you but then again I’m not always correct either I remember a time back in the 80s when I was growing up things were different back then these youngsters today what makes you think that? It’s all right to disagree with people I remember when I was a young man growing up in the 80s in America it was a different time then back then we used to call each other ​ this is the best I’ve seen from you guys in a while was about to say the same exact thing m ​ “if we don’t stop barack scumbama now he could become a threat and a danger to our later generation our loved ones.” m m hi hi m -teleportdinero m m mm mm m m m m m m m m m everybody have a blessed day.🙏🏻 and stay safe.

I am very happy to see this stuff on KZread so that the rest of the world can see what is happening in Congo 🇨🇩 , this is my hometown, the Chinese and our leaders had to displace us to different areas in the forest and build the smaller houses so that they can have access to the cobalt and promised to care about our issues which was a big false promises, but the phone, electric car and battery companies are getting richer without giving back to local people, this need to change for the sake of humanity.

Hi Joe👋 love your channel, big fan👍 This video just pop-up to me😊... Congrats on revealing what really going on in Africa,sad sad situation, people don't know, or don't want to know as longest they have their "comfortable life secured".... Just wanted to tell you to look on to COLTAN MINING, also in Congo, if you could, I think it's interesting too... Have great day you and your team👍

As a Congolese, thank you for covering this Joe 😢 . Avoir un Corrupted gouvernement that doesn’t give a flip about son peuple c juste un high level of slavery.

@matildo4ka7

Жыл бұрын

My school in Russia is named after Patrice Lumumba. We remember him. US KILLED HIM.

@matildo4ka7

Жыл бұрын

STOP LOOKING UP. AFRICA SHOULD LOOK WITHIN. Please lead the way. We need to look UP to Africa, you are the soul of the world in the future. Order in the world now is a BS. USA won't solve shit. The last 100 years are proof in the pudding. JRE is the past, not the future. Last white man standing.

I thought my problems were actual problems until I saw this. Heart breaking.

@spartanmucho5950

Жыл бұрын

@@leeman23664 give up

@georgeschnakenberg7808

Жыл бұрын

First world privilege

@brandonkrebbs

Жыл бұрын

You must be a pamper priss. Never done manual labor???

@Bee-tj8gc

Жыл бұрын

People need to stop buying the new phones as soon as they come out Make your phones last 5-10 years if you can

@Bee-tj8gc

Жыл бұрын

@@leeman23664 that shit is wack man. Practice for like 5 more years. Sound like the first song you've ever written

Joe and his team have done the best reporting out of ALL media outlets!

When I was in my 20s I broke rocks all day long with a double jack(sledge hammer). I turned rocks the size of refrigerators into rocks the size of bowling balls, decorative "torazo". Sometimes I got tired and couldn't hit the rocks hard enough to break them and I stacked bags of crushed rock onto pallets while i "rested up". There were only a few dozen of us in the quarry, but there would have been 15,000 working there if there had been enough demand. This wasn't in the Congo, it was in California. BTW, there was no international out cry over our job conditions.

@Nill757

Жыл бұрын

Well that’s the thing, doesn’t make sense to have 15,000 shoulder to shoulder busting rocks. Get in each others way, can move production etc. Even $1 a day 15,000 people it’s cheaper to put in a few people w excavators and jack hammers. So what’s going on?

@asmosisyup2557

Жыл бұрын

you were earning significantly more than $1 a day, and you were working with strong healthy adults, not 5 year old childern and elderly at knife or gunpoint. so no, don't put yourself in the same position as these slaves.

@Daniel-zm6nh

Жыл бұрын

@@asmosisyup2557 The weather's great ,they sleep on the ground, all they eat is rice any way , a dollar a day is good money and that's exactly why they're working there. I don't see in guns in the video I think it's the best job in town or they wouldn't be there.

@nedflanders620

Жыл бұрын

You had a choice.

@cheezesmoker8851

Жыл бұрын

​@@asmosisyup2557 so he was a better paid slave then? Open your eyes scooter

“Artisanal” has such a positive connotation that I don’t believe it should be used to convey the idea of poverty stricken, slavery, unsafe manual mining.

@katiewolfe9618

Жыл бұрын

Fits into the whole marketing scheme

@jdfray338

Жыл бұрын

Not so positive any more.

@nineallday000

Жыл бұрын

It is because 'artisanal' translates to something closer to 'homemade' 'self made' or 'independent' in french, and they speak French in the congo.

@lancepage1914

Жыл бұрын

Why does 'artisanal' have to have a positive connotation to it when that has absolutely nothing to do with the meaning of the word? Something good, something bad... I have been to plenty of shit coffee shops that are self proclaimed 'coffee artisans' - doesn't mean it's good coffee. All artisanal means it's produced traditionally or in a non-mechanized way.

@truongkimson

Жыл бұрын

You might wanna look up what artisanal means. Spoiler alerts, it has nothing to do with art

Fascinating and depressing issue. The pervasive use of cobalt in every facet to today's life should make this a huge story. Thanks Joe and Siddharth for bringing this to light.

@robertfish4052

Жыл бұрын

I agree. I love the "let's get down to it" approach. But the stark reality is very unnerving. That's globalism in a nutshell..

@annetteholman2999

Жыл бұрын

What can we do as cosseted Americans to stop this terrible crime?

@jtjoemamma

Жыл бұрын

@@robertfish4052 not globalism. it's called capitalism. the rich would rather destroy lives and destroy the planet than lose profits.

@ezbayt8723

Жыл бұрын

It’s just the way the world works. Things will improve but not because of news stories covering the issue.

@Facts-Over-Feelings

10 ай бұрын

@@ezbayt8723 WTF U SOUND SILLY

0.0017 United States Dollar. Xaf congo $ Salaries in the category: Mining, Metallurgy. The gross salary range for people working in Congo in Mining, Metallurgy is typically from 31,156 XAF (minimum salary) to 78,122 XAF (highest average, actual maximum salary is higher). This is the total monthly salary including bonuses. 132 usd month

Here’s something nobody talks about. When a ev battery fails a new one is shipped to the dealership and the old one is sent to a warehouse that repairs them where they sit on a shelf until sold then shipped again. Imagine how much fuel is wasted shipping them when they could design them so a cell can be replaced by a technician at the dealership to not only avoid all of that but also that we don’t have millions of lithium batteries sitting around not getting used while we make more of them and also lithium batteries have circuit boards for charging reasons too. Every day many thousands of battery packs are sold for power tools and the battery packs that failed usually have one bad cell but they get tossed out same thing with laptops and so many other things. So much waste on many levels

I feel like this was one of the best Rogan podcasts ever. Really opened my eyes about the horrors of this world

@purplespeckledappleeater8738

Жыл бұрын

There is sketchy stuff happening in every country on every continent.

@TravelBandit

Жыл бұрын

Good morning...

@ZeroPhilosopher

Жыл бұрын

Purple speckled apple. wow so profound. why even make the comment? people breathe in every continent. look at me I said something.

@TJ45223

Жыл бұрын

You're just know learning the world is jacked up? Check your privilege

@joshcann9950

Жыл бұрын

@@TJ45223 stfu Kyle you dork , this real news often doesn't reach the mainstream

My university specialised in teaching the idea of ESG/SRI investing in finance. I remember spending my entire time there arguing with the lecturers about these sustainability and ethics claims. What it really boiled down to, was aesthetics and perception. Westerners like the luxury of “buying ethically” (if we have money) It makes us feel good. It’s a status symbol too. But we don’t really want to know the truth. We don’t really want to give up something just because it’s mined or harvested terribly. The companies know this. The purpose of those ESG reports and others is marketing. They say that ESG companies produce slightly higher returns on investments in our current market. But that’s just because they have used faux morality to tap into the western consumer. It’s not because their practices are better. It’s because their perceived/advertised “practises” penetrate the market better. It’s all a scam. If you actually wanted to buy ethically you’d have to pay quite a bit more. Because the company wants its pound of flesh. They won’t sacrifice profits to be ethical. So either you the consumer pay quite a bit more, or you buy the companies lies. That’s the nature of almost all ethical companies. The truly ethical ones usually go bust, they just cannot compete. You’ll get genuine people who want to make an ethical company. It rarely works. Because their place in the market is drowned out by other companies advertising they do the same ethical practices but offer cheaper products.

@leticiabraun2909

Жыл бұрын

First useful, real comment so far.

@ToroMoto

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely true. ESG is a tool used to control the politics of corporations.

@mj625

Жыл бұрын

Well said! Were you able to convince anyone in your college class?

@geralsetya4097

Жыл бұрын

Haha you're absolutely right, sad as it is I work at an indonesian company. We just onboarded a team of environmental and social impact team as a perma hire, whose sole job is to package the company in a way that makes us look good in the eyes of investors. It's all bullshit as nothing operationally changes, the team just look at any angles that can make em appear as having a good impact (e.g. look how our users from x industry are 73% women! we are having a tremendous impact compared to blah2) We still offer predatory products like BNPL, no one cares. When I first heard about this team i thought it was such a gimmick, but apparently it works as suddenly some western investors appear out the wazzoo offering us great deals, as it seems we fit into their esg policy or something It's all trolls trolling trolls

@mj625

Жыл бұрын

@@geralsetya4097 I'm glad to hear about these real-world examples of hypocrisy in action. It makes me hopeful that the charade will someday be exposed to everyone.

We're all in the same game just different levels dealing with the same hell just different devils

So glad things like this are being brought to the light. Wow. The sad thing is, is that nothing will be done, and these ppl actually need the money to feed themselves -_- where else can they get the money from? I hope something is fixed here and at least maybe they can get some safety equipment, but I don't see that happening either, as it's all about money to these greedy corps

@sarahkim9362

Жыл бұрын

It should be in written contract they get paid as much as any American would.

What’s so crazy to me is that this is the same podcast that Elon Musk went on. JRE is a crazy platform that brings up pretty though topics besides controversial guests, comedy and mma at the same time. It’s so amazing! Thanks a lot for this episode, it is really important to show people the fucked up sides of the world we live in

@farliepaynter9580

Жыл бұрын

Holcomb energy systems would eliminate batteries period like in electric cars

@anthonysupplee858

Жыл бұрын

Ya because Elon is in charge of mining Cobalt. The Chinese run this mine because the Biden’s got em a deal on it

@jpmkiv

Жыл бұрын

What is crazy about that? LFP model 3, zero cobalt, all new cars will go to 4680 which is Zero cobalt. Cobalt is used to make every drop of oil on earth, yet there are plenty of cobalt free EV's on the road today.

@samkregar2087

Жыл бұрын

Look up “Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk HARD Questions about Cobalt Mining for TESLA Batteries!” thank me later 🙏

@Winterstick549

Жыл бұрын

@@jpmkiv Which models? Just asking.

And THIS is why joe rogan needs to be protected at all cost. Giving people like this a voice/platform

@Jahn_Pah_Jonz

Жыл бұрын

"butt heez rayciss tho!" - cnn

@joshnic6639

Жыл бұрын

I couldn’t disagree more, I mean yeah I agree that Joe Rogan is good, but these people are poor. their socioeconomic status does not matter in their setting. What’s bad is when you have people who are mega rich in America and people who are poor in the same damn country. why aren’t we talking about that? So what if someone has more goats than you, but when somebody has a fucking mansion and you don’t even have a pot to piss in yet you live in the same country, you become an outcast of your society.

@almightysosa3007

Жыл бұрын

Except he’s wrong. There is 6x more cobalt at the bottom of the ocean than there is on land.

@dq3666

Жыл бұрын

Joe looooooves EVs, tho.

@chasecarter1170

Жыл бұрын

@@almightysosa3007 what area of the ocean bottom though, that's vital info you left out. It's not feasible to mine cobalt from the ocean floor as of yet , not on the level it's occuring in the congo. If it were it would already be happening at a massive scale as it is in the congo......

There's another term for artisanal miners. It's thieves. Those people are stealing cobalt so they can sell it. The thieves are the ones forcing people to work in deplorable conditions, not the mines.

Thankyou Joe for telling us the truth. So disturbing and beyond unimaginable 😢. I cannot put this into words honestly. Government only care about money. We also need our kids to see where there phones laptops etc are coming from and maybe they will think how bloody lucky they are.

Cobalt actually started much earlier, I remember me and my father running armed security for the cobalt freight trucks. We would meet them at the Botswana border and escort them to a main hub in Johannesburg, these trucks would often get highjacked on route, once criminal organizations figured out the value of them.

This is why Joe rogan will ALWAYS be better than any major news outlet out there. They should be taking notes 📝 from this podcast instead they want to insult the guy. Good work Joe!

@bicyclist2

Жыл бұрын

Joe has more viewers than CNN. And the major news media outlets hate him for it.

@mkhululi9517

Жыл бұрын

Yep. Instead, they're gonna try to attack and discredit him if he continues like this.

@desd1932

Жыл бұрын

The wont take note because they arent about real news. Just scripted crap

@DerekCaldwell

Жыл бұрын

they insult him because long form podcasts get people thinking. MSM wants people to not think and just absorb.

@kratoleaf7619

Жыл бұрын

i said this 7 yrs ago but people laughed.

WOW. This needs to change. I feel so heartbroken

This is insane "no hand mining here at all, not one" LITERAL OCEAN of people hand mining /facepalm idk what to do cause it's still happening and I'm typing this on a phone:(

good for joe to put awareness ahead of pumping the narrative

@mooreweasel

Жыл бұрын

Now that you are aware what steps are you prepared to take to hinder this? Are you going to stop buying cell phones, laptops, etc? If not then awareness means literally nothing.

@89burni

Жыл бұрын

@@mooreweasel is it really the problem of consumption or is it political?

@mooreweasel

Жыл бұрын

@@89burni politics aren't going to interfere with things happening in other countries especially when a company isn't based in the United States. Addionally, consumerism drives the market, politicians/governments depend on consumerism to survive. So politics aren't going to solve this. It's up to the consumer to say hey Apple, telsa etc. We're not going to buy anymore of your products until something is done about this. Otherwise it won't change.

@89burni

Жыл бұрын

@@mooreweasel but every market has rules and those are set by politics.

@89burni

Жыл бұрын

@@mooreweasel would be totally fine to stop buying all said shit if there was none at the beginning

Joe thank you for being an outlet for authentic international news. Our media has failed us for decades.

@Novastar.SaberCombat

Жыл бұрын

Mainstream media is owned by corporations which obviously favor themselves. Fox "News" would never publish anything that makes their backers look bad. They highlight and promote companies which feed them money. Simple as that. If you pay a news media corporation enough money, they'll say whatever the bloody hell ya want. This isn't a refutable point, either; it's been demonstrated in thousands of instances. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

@nwwfmaniac529

Жыл бұрын

New York Times has written thoroughly about this.

@intermediate212

Жыл бұрын

Please don't tell me you only get your news from Joe Rogan. 🙁

@stevesherman1743

Жыл бұрын

@@nwwfmaniac529 … and getting it wrong.

What’s stupid and sad - if these companies would just use a tiny fraction of a % each of their profits to fund these miners they would get more production while taking care of the people producing it.

@S-ib8yu

5 ай бұрын

They could afford to build them villas around the mining areas and robots to assist in the mining and still make good profit

Thank you so much for this video Joe Rogan, very informational. Cole and I appreciated it for our project.