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SurvivingNiki discovered 8 months ago- From the page: "The time has come to stop supporting tribal warfare, genocide, and acts of terror. The time has come to end the manipulation and brainwashing that the corrupt De Beers company has enacted these last eighty years. The time has come to stop buying diamonds. Completely. No diamond rings. No diamond earrings. No diamond necklaces or bracelets or watches. When we wanted to stop elephants from being poached, the world had to stop buying ivory. If we want to end the wholesale slaughter of Africans, we must stop buying diamonds. And, we must do it now. Diamonds are used by rebel forces to finance arms. Al Qaeda amassed millions of dollars by selling diamonds mined by Revolutionary United Front rebels in Sierra Leone. Please don't tell me the lies about only some diamonds being conflict diamonds. Everyone knows that's untrue. Blood diamonds are increasingly laundered through other countries. It's no coincidence that countries formerly classified as mineral-poor have "discovered" growing numbers of diamonds since the world became aware of conflict diamonds. The horror must stop. And s more than its fair share of diamonds. Americans, as consumers of 75% of the world's diamonds annually, can stop it. Utah, in particular, owing to it's high marriage rate, purchase We should shut down the diamond stores by refusing to buy diamonds. Those who work for jewelry stores should find other employment. No longer can Americans claim ignorance of the African plight. We can do something and itâ€s clear that we must act. Let's not be derailed by attempts to enact partial boycottsť, since diamond origins are unknowable; we must ban them all. In a 2002 report, Liz Stanton, Center for Popular Economics Staff Economist, lists Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond Ring from Anyone. Among those ten are these few, highlighting the reality of the horrors that is the diamond industry: * Conflict Diamonds Fund Civil Wars in Africa
- o There is no reliable way to insure that your diamond was not mined or stolen by government or rebel military forces in order to finance civil conflict. Conflict diamonds are traded either for guns or for cash to pay and feed soldiers.
- o Many diamond producing governments and rebel forces use children as soldiers, laborers in military camps, and sex slaves. Child soldiers are given drugs to overcome their fear and reluctance to participate in atrocities.
- o Illicit diamonds inflame the clandestine trade of small arms. There are 500 million small arms in the world today which are used to kill 500,000 people annually, the vast majority of whom are non-combatants.
- o More than one-half of the worldâ€s diamonds are processed in India where many of the cutters and polishers are bonded child laborers. Bonded children work to pay off the debts of their relatives, often unsuccessfully. When they reach adulthood their debt is passed on to their younger siblings or to their own children.
- From the page: "The time has come to stop supporting tribal warfare, genocide, and acts of terror. The time has come to end the manipulation and brainwashing that the corrupt De Beers company has enacted these last eighty years. The time has come to stop buying diamonds. Completely. No diamond rings. No diamond earrings. No diamond necklaces or bracelets or watches. When we wanted to stop elephants from being poached, the world had to stop buying ivory. If we want to end the wholesale slaughter of Africans, we must stop buying diamonds. And, we must do it now. Diamonds are used by rebel forces to finance arms. Al Qaeda amassed millions of dollars by selling diamonds mined by Revolutionary United Front rebels in Sierra Leone. Please don't tell me the lies about only some diamonds being conflict diamonds. Everyone knows that's untrue. Blood diamonds are increasingly laundered through other countries. It's no coincidence that countries formerly classified as mineral-poor have "discovered" growing numbers of diamonds since the world became aware of conflict diamonds. The horror must stop. And s more than its fair share of diamonds. Americans, as consumers of 75% of the world's diamonds annually, can stop it. Utah, in particular, owing to it's high marriage rate, purchase We should shut down the diamond stores by refusing to buy diamonds. Those who work for jewelry stores should find other employment. No longer can Americans claim ignorance of the African plight. We can do something and itâ€s clear that we must act. Let's not be derailed by attempts to enact partial boycottsť, since diamond origins are unknowable; we must ban them all. In a 2002 report, Liz Stanton, Center for Popular Economics Staff Economist, lists Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond Ring from Anyone. Among those ten are these few, highlighting the reality of the horrors that is the diamond industry: * Conflict Diamonds Fund Civil Wars in Africa
- Isadore rated 7 months ago
I support everything in this argument EXCEPT the author's contention that all the countries with newly discovered diamonds are actually just DeBeers co-conspirators attempting to launder blood diamonds through legitimate channels. This is not true. Canada really does have substantive diamond mines in the north, and the First Nations people potentially stand to benefit from them so long as they are permitted to retain control of the mining and production. Indeed, the quality and quantity of Canadian diamonds, and the fact that the mines are controlled by First Nations groups who are largely unwilling to permit further encroachment upon their land and sovereignty, is something of a thorn in DeBeers' side.
Again, that being said, I will never own a diamond unless I am certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that it originated from the Canadian North (and even then, they're still an unnecessarily expensive yet ultimately useless bauble).
- greatsloth rated 7 months ago
- There are more uses for diamonds than anyone here can probably imagine. Cutting tools, drilling tools and more importantly.. Rap Star's Bling.
- dread rated 7 months ago
- dentistry is nothing to do with it, industrial diamonds are man made.
if you really want to stop people dying in mines for conflicts you better stop buying mobile phones and light bulbs too, where do you think the rare metals for those comes from, or the batteries in your laptop, why stop at diamonds, why not just live without anything from the third world at all, let them starve because we won't buy anything.
The problem isn't diamonds, the problem is not letting the people who produce raw goods, produce refined goods. If the diamonds where cut in Africa, instead of Amsterdam, they would make the profit. Ditto rare metals, coffee, and all the other cash crops. - dentistry is nothing to do with it, industrial diamonds are man made.
- mxe806j02 rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "The time has come to stop supporting tribal warfare, genocide, and acts of terror. The time has come to end the manipulation and brainwashing that the corrupt De Beers company has enacted these last eighty years. The time has come to stop buying diamonds. Completely. No diamond rings. No diamond earrings. No diamond necklaces or bracelets or watches."
- SketchSepahi rated 7 months ago
- It is not even a great loss. I have no need for diamonds. Do you? We might have a small problem in regards to dentistry though. If you want to stop the diamond purchase completely you will have to take good care of your teeth.
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