Blood Diamonds

Posted by Matt in July 17th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Africa, African Nation, Antwerp Belgium, Array, Blood Diamonds, Brutality, Cobblestone Streets, Correspondents, Diamond, Diamonds, Display Cases, Documentary, Finest Jewelry, Full Length, Illicit Diamonds, Insurrection, Jewelry Stores, Landscape, Love Affection, National Geographic, Pits, Precious Gems, Sierra Leone

Full length National Geographic documentary on illicit diamond trafficing.
Long a symbol of love, affection, and faithfulness, the diamond is now increasingly linked with war, blood and brutality. In the diamond rich West African nation of Sierra Leone, rebels used the precious gems to bankroll a violent ten-year insurrection, leaving a terrorized population and a ravaged [...]

Diamonds on Demand

Posted by Matt in June 12th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Off-Topic, Apollo, Barbed Wire, Bryant Linares, Corporate Spies, Diamond Company, Diamond Conference, Diamond Mine, Diamonds, Fast Food Restaurant, Hotel Meeting, Lab Grown Diamonds, Luxury Car, Man Made Diamonds, Meeting Room, Natural Diamond, Nondisclosure Agreement, Public Relations Staff, Scary Moment, Secret Location, Security Guards, Spy Agency, Strip Mall

Scientists and engineers see a world of possibilities in lab-grown diamonds; jewelers are less enthusiastic.
I’m sitting in a fast-food restaurant outside Boston that, because of a nondisclosure agreement I had to sign, I am not allowed to name. I’m waiting to visit Apollo Diamond, a company about as secretive as a Soviet-era spy agency. [...]

The Curse of Oil Wealth

Posted by Matt in May 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Oil, Caspian Basin, Chad, Conflict, Correlation, Countries In Africa, Curse, Diamonds, East Timor, Internal Strife, minerals, myanmar, Oil And Gas, Oil Wealth, Ross, Southeast Asia, Violence

And the correlation between oil and violence is likely to grow stronger, since as Ross points out, countries in Africa, the Caspian basin, and Southeast Asia will soon become “significant oil and gas exporters. Some of these countries, including Chad, East Timor, and Myanmar, have already suffered internal strife. Most of the rest are poor, [...]

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