re: #190 The Vicious Babushka
For extra wingnut points it must be a conflict diamond.
Isn’t the administration removing penalties to parties that trade in conflict diamonds?
My bad, it’s a proposed executive order
The Trump administration has prepared a new executive order that would extinguish regulatory controls designed to prevent US companies profiting from and encouraging the spread of “conflict minerals” that are inflaming violence in Congo.
A draft executive order, composed last week and obtained by the Guardian, proposes a two-year suspension of a portion of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms that requires US firms to carry out due diligence to ensure that the products they sell include no minerals mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or neighbouring countries. The regulation was widely applauded as a mainstay of attempts to cut the umbilical chord between big business and violent warlords who have spread unrest throughout the Congo and caused the deaths of more than five million people since the 1990s.
There is no depth to low for him to wallow in. Ok, that metaphor is a tad mixed. Whatever.