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You Have A Friend

Locality: Tweed Heads, New South Wales

Address: P.O.Box 637 2485 Tweed Heads, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.youhaveafriend.com.au

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20.01.2022 YES. Black Lives Matter BUT why are the Black Lives Matter demonstrators around the world ignoring the fact there are hundreds of thousands of Black Children in child slave labor? UNICEF notes that as many as 40,000 black children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone are being forced into slave labor to mine the minerals needed for our mobile phones, our computers, the new electric cars, batteries and the list goes on. These children will never have any school...ing. They are paid $1.00 a day if they are lucky. Many die in mine collapses and we have no idea what it is doing to their health. Children as young as 5 years old. And they are all Black Children do their Lives Matter? Why are these people who are demonstrating around the world, telling us what we can say, what we can eat, what we can market and name, why are they not standing up and demanding that the major companies who make our products such as mobile phones, computers, electric cars and the list goes on and on, not being made accountable and demonstrated against? I have already posted on this site, photos and also reports from CBS who have reported this shame. See below. Do multinationals care? The coveted raw material is used for making smartphone batteries. Big corporations such as Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and Sony rely on it for their electronic gadgets. The mineral can also be found in electric cars produced by Daimler and Volkswagen. According to the UN children's agency, UNICEF, about 40,000 children work in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For a shift of up to 24 hours underground, most earn less than $2 (1.80 euro) a day - many receive half of that. "The working conditions in the Congolese mines are miserable," Faustin Adeye, who works with the Catholic charity Misereor told DW. "Many children are often physically ruined as a result. There are whole excavations which they dig up with their bare hands using machetes spades." Adeye said the conditions in some of the cobalt mines located in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo were so bad that at times the children are buried alive when the mines cave in "Black Lives Matter" BUT so do "All Lives Matter" and very importantly, SO DO "Children's Lives Matter"

18.01.2022 Have you been smoking any pot today?

17.01.2022 There is not much to say about this picture. It is so powerful just take the time to consider the caption and what you are seeing

15.01.2022 The Rich vs The Poor

14.01.2022 Blood, Sweat, and Batteries: Inside Congo's Cobalt Mines I Fortune Folks. Below is reality. I do not advocate that we give up on such things as our phones etc. However, we need to at least make our children at home and in schools understand that what is happening to so many children is not right. I am not finished and will be putting up many articles. Here below is a report on what is happening in this world. Please let your children know and tell them to start standing up an...d fighting for so many who have NO VOICE. (CBS News) - A CBS News investigation has found child labor being used in the dangerous mining of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The mineral cobalt is used in virtually all batteries in common devices, including cellphones, laptops and even electric vehicles. A report by Amnesty International first revealed that cobalt mined by children was ending up in products from several companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Tesla and Samsung. On a recent trip to the southern part of the country, CBS News found what looked like the Wild West. There were children digging in trenches and laboring in lakes -- hunting for treasure in a playground from hell. The work is hard enough for an adult man, but it is unthinkable for a child. Yet tens of thousands of Congolese kids are involved in every stage of mining for cobalt. The latest research by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates 40,000 children are working in DRC mines More than half of the world's supply of cobalt comes from the DRC, and 20 percent of that is mined by hand, according to Darton Commodities Ltd., a London-based research company that specializes in cobalt.

12.01.2022 ALM All lives matter Who will shareALM All lives matter Who will share

11.01.2022 I intend putting up photos of the the "Rich vs the Poor" on a regular basis. These photos will be specifically aimed at our youth. I really believe through no fault of their own, they have no idea of the poverty and sadness in the world outside of our Australia, UK, USA and parts of Europe. Hopefully this will help in some small way. The Rich vs the Poor.

08.01.2022 How some countries mine today

07.01.2022 Mr Bayldon-Lumsden, so are you about to fine the homeless in Coolangatta $650 for having no place to sleep - I have seen this before by your Council. You Have a Friend has fed and supported the homeless people in the Tweed and also Coolangatta for the last 15 years. In that time, many homeless people have died. 68 that I know of on the streets alone in toilet blocks and most over 50 years - men and women....Continue reading

06.01.2022 In keeping with my trying to expose Child Labor, here are some photos/montages I have created. Yes BLM BUT where are the voices for the "slave children in the mines in Africa, India, Madagascar and so many other countries. I will keep posting

04.01.2022 One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. What’s this? she asked. Pulverized willow bark, replied her fairy godmother. What happened to the carpet? she asked. The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene a...Continue reading

02.01.2022 For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 mil...lion people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million. When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet. When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish. At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening. As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents) survived through everything listed above. Perspective is an amazing art. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, and we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. This too, shall pass. Copied from another post. Feel free to share.

01.01.2022 Time for laughter. So much sadness in the world right now.