Certainly. So my job was to work with the ANC leadership, essentially, in the new government. And as a part of that process, I found out that a U.S. multinational corporation was involved in unsafe working conditions in a U.S.-owned mine in South Africa that mines a substance called vanadium pentoxide. Now, vanadium pentoxide is really at the base of how we run our country and this--how we run this country and why this country operates, because the United States government and industrial society in general is based on a framework of steel. If you look at your buildings, technology, sometimes surgical equipment, cars, trucks, its really built on a base of steel. Vanadium is an alloy, so that its a substance that when you pour it, when you mix it with steel, it provides steel with flexibilities so that the steel would not crack when its under pressure, either hot and cold pressures or just extreme temperatures. So that its--so Henry Ford, for example, had a problem with the Model T in Detroit, because Detroit is an environment where we have very hot environments and very cold environments, and the steel kept cracking in the Model T. And through his communications with a French scientist, he found out that if you mix vanadium in with the steel, that the car--that they would provide the steel with the flexibility to withstand both hot and cold situations. So our armament, our weaponry systems, televisions, airplanes, forks, knives, everything that we use in this country that has steel in it comes from this small community in South Africa that produces vanadium pentoxide. DESVARIEUX: So this is a multibillion-dollar industry were talking about, this--. COLEMAN-ADEBAYO: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. There are a number of papers, particularly CIA papers, that we have been able to have access to which actually note that vanadium is a substance that the United States government would be willing to commit war in order to make sure that U.S. government had access to this substance. DESVARIEUX: Wow--commit war. So when you approach your supervisors and you let on that you have found there to be this, the poisoning of the residents, they basically told you to shut up. therealnews/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10903
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