On 5/30/2014 RibbonsRosesRainbows said: I believe I saw the report on CNN today.....and I need to read about blood diamonds........I know I have seen a pigeon blood ruby and it is fabulous but blood diamonds sounds sad........do they kill people to get the diamonds?
It's not that they're killing people to GET the diamonds, but the sale of the diamonds from mines in a few countries are used to prop up the corrupt governments and terrorists. The REST of the diamond market is, sadly, being painted with the same brush.
The world at large has done a great job at keeping these "conflict" diamonds off the market the way they have "Burmese" rubies. If anyone thinks a diamond is a diamond, they're not as each area would have its own geologic DNA so to speak. A stone from Sierra Leone, for example, would be easily discovered. The market is also listing a stone's origin when they're worthy of being certified.
If people are going to get all huffy about mining practices, then they could put millions of people out of work across the planet. In many areas, it's the only work that's available, and it can mean starvation. When Western countries got involved with child labor, some factories closed, and they ended up in the "world's oldest profession."
Read it! New England Journal of Medicine—May 21, 2020
Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era
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