Alcoa
Aluminium
Corporatocracy
[The main Aluminium poisoner. e.g. Alzheimer’s]
[vid Alcoa, Africa] How the Rich Keep us Poor
HowTheRichKeepUsPoor.com "What’s Going On” With a GDP ranking of 182
out of 195 international countries and 55.2% of the population living below the
poverty line, Guinea is one of the poorest countries in the world. This is
shocking considering Guinea is the world’s largest producer of bauxite with half
of the world’s reserves in its land.
Over the past 50 years, one lone mining conglomerate in Guinea, CBG, has
produced and exported approximately $400 billion USD worth of bauxite.
Shockingly, Guinea’s share of that wealth has been limited to a mere $5 billion
USD.
Through its joint-venture mining deal with the country, CBG
established itself as the largest bauxite mine in West Africa, and is now 49%
owned by the Guinean state and 51% by a consortium composed of ALCOA (American),
RIO TINTO (Anglo-Australian) and DADCO (SWISS).
One of the provisions put in place in order to benefit
economically from the venture, gave the Guinean government the right to choose
its own company to transport 50% of all bauxite cargos mined by CBG.
On August 12, 2011, the government of Guinea authorized NANKO
Shipping (owned and operated by a Guinean national who has over 30 years of
experience shipping cargo for public and private sector companies all over the
world) to execute the government’s shipping rights. To date, NANKO has yet to
ship a single cargo load because CBG has refused to honor the terms of the
agreement. Their resistance is surprising given that this would cost them less
than 0.05% of the value of the aluminum produced from its bauxite mines.
Resource rich countries continue to be deprived of a share in
the wealth that they create, which takes away from the country’s ability to
assign resources to its people. This is why the life expectancy in Guinea is
54.1 years old, the literacy rate is 41% and only 1 out of 5 households have
access to electricity. This is also part of the reason why Guinea lacks the
resources to handle the current Ebola crisis, which originated in its forest
regions and has spreads across West Africa.
The overall issue is not unique to Guinea alone, but a common
theme across the African continent as a whole. Over the last 30 years, the
continent has lost out on more than $1 trillion as a result of similar
situations.
Today, NANKO Shipping is suing Alcoa, which manages the
day-to-day operations of the CBG, for refusing to honor its terms of the mining
deal. According to Reuters, if NANKO’s lawsuit were successful, it would mark
the beginning of African nations taking control of their natural resources from
international companies.
"The aluminum industry is gathering together all research documents, marketing promotion documents, and trade association documents for that near future time when individual populations worldwide will wake up to the dangers of its aluminum products. Court actions are inevitable. In the meantime aluminum company executives are attempting to win friends for themselves and the industry. For instance, Edward Truschke, the executive director of the Alzheimer's Association headquarters in Chicago, in response to our multiple inquiries, finally admitted that his organization has received unrestricted grant monies from the Aluminum Association of Canada (ALCAN) and from the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA). He did not acknowledge, but we are aware anyway, that the international Alzheimer's disease medical meeting held in July 1992, in Italy, was sponsored in part by the Aluminum Association of Canada."----Dr Casdorph, M.D. & Dr Morton Walker
"I wrote a chapter from our book I published (Toxic Metal Syndrome) in the Townsend Letter on aluminium and promptly a letter came from the aluminium industry of America and that they protested out statements and gave a lot of public relations nonsense in their letter, and they lied, they just outright lied. You don’t hear much about aluminium from, for instance, the Alzheimer’s Disease Association because that Association takes money from the aluminium industry......Edward Truschke, the executive director of the Alzheimer's Association headquarters in Chicago, in response to our multiple inquiries, finally admitted that his organization has received unrestricted grant monies from the Aluminum Association of Canada (ALCAN) and from the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA). He did not acknowledge, but we are aware anyway, that the international Alzheimer's disease medical meeting held in July 1992, in Italy, was sponsored in part by the Aluminum Association of Canada."----Dr Casdorph, M.D. & Dr Morton Walker (Toxic Metal Syndrome)