Lao Yang and Eddy both work for a company called CREC (Chinese Railway Engineering Company). They have just set up camp near the remote mining town of Kolwezi in the Katanga province of the RDC. The goal of the company is to redo the road - covering 300km - that connects Kolwezi with the capital of the province Lubumbashi. Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the isolated Chinese prefab camp. The Congolese government was supposed to deliver these things but so far the team hasn't received anything. With Eddy (a Congolese man who speaks Mandarin fluently) as an intermediate, Lao Yang is forced to leave the camp and deal with local Congolese entrepreneurs, because without the construction materials the road works will cease. What follows is an endless, harsh, but absurdly funny roller coaster of negotiations and misunderstandings, as Lao Yang learns about the Congolese way of making deals. https://archive.org/details/empire-of-dust_DVD_Quality/ "While there are a couple of copies of this documentary already on the internet archives, most of those copies are either compressed, or are otherwise in a lower resolution than the film was originally released in. These files are in DVD quality, which to my knowledge is the resolution this film was released in (if there's a true HD copy out there, I have yet to find it). Additionally, should any employee of the whatever company that currently holds the rights to this movie ever stumble across this page, please re-release this film, put it on some streaming service, release an HD version if you have it, just do something, this film is far too good to just rot for eternity in purgatory."

A video from the archives shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11. The incredible footage shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head. How did the BBC know that it was going to collapse? And why did they report the collapse when it is clearly standing in the background? if nothing else then its Just one more reason not to pay the BBC licence fee as to continue to do so would be directly funding of a terrorist organisation, and there are Laws against that kind of thing. Or perhaps it was just a simple "mistake" by the BBC? check out an archived version : https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/theeditors/2007/02/part_of_the_conspiracy.html