@ekis same with #Belgium and all the other enerals traded in #Antwerp.

I wounder how they workaround the #KimberleyConvention.

#BloodDiamonds #BloodEmeralds #ConflictResources #ConfluctDiamonds #diamonds #emeralds

@benroyce
Erm...not just #DeBeers but also #Israel #BloodDiamonds

NEW STORY: Set in the Central African Republic, this savage satire uses the folkloric “rule of three” to tell a frankly brutal allegory of exploitation and innocence. HOW 'BOUT A COSTLY JOKE (FEATURING DIAMONDS), by Abhishek Sengupta @AbhishekSWrites

https://fabulistmagazine.com/how-bout-a-costly-joke-featuring-diamonds/

#blooddiamonds
#fable
#allegory
#magicrealism
#thefabulistflash

How 'bout a Costly Joke (featuring Diamonds) > The Fabulist Words & Art

Set in the Central African Republic, this savage satire uses the folkloric “rule of three” to tell a frankly brutal allegory of exploitation and innocence.

The Fabulist Words & Art

Blockchain tokens are digital blood diamonds. Their value in based on their scarcity, which is entirely artificial. It's quicker and cheaper (and less lethal) to manufacture diamond from abundant carbons than to mine natural ones. Similarly, it's quicker and cheaper to generate tokens on new blockchins than to mine them on existing ones.

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#BlockChains #BloodDiamonds

"I bambini, dai 6 ai 16 anni, sono costretti a lasciare la scuola per unirsi ai genitori nel lavoro massacrante nella cava di #Braza.
Le ragazze, anche minorenni, non vengono risparmiate da questa faticosa realtà."

#Tshikapa #BloodDiamonds #5giugno #RDC

https://diogeneonline.info/crescere-a-tshikapa-dove-i-bambini-lavorano-nelle-miniere-di-diamanti/

Crescere a Tshikapa, dove i bambini lavorano nelle miniere di diamanti - Diogene

A Tshikapa l'economia ruota intorno alle mineire di diamanti dove lavorano bambini e si verificano costantemente incidenti mortali

Diogene
Diamond industry 'in trouble' as lab-grown gemstones tank prices further

"A diamond is forever," but perhaps not for the increasing number of consumers who are spurning the gemstone for its lab-grown counterparts and gold.

CNBC
LA Legault ✌🏻 (@[email protected])

The was the most important & instructive #news item in the last decade, and everyone missed it: Cartier boss with $7.5bn fortune says prospect of the poor rising up 'keeps him awake at night' https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/cartier-boss-with-7-5bn-fortune-says-prospect-poor-rising-up-keeps-him-awake-at-night-10307485.html

Newsie

You mean we were still buying this luxury item from the terrorists a year and a half after their second invasion of Ukraine?

You can tell what sort of people we have in governments. "Yeah, they are bad people, but just let me buy a few more jewels before we do anything to annoy them."

#russia #sanctions #diamonds #blooddiamonds #Ukraine

Russian diamonds set for ban under new EU sanctions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67413029

Ukraine war: Russian diamonds set for ban under new EU sanctions

One third of the world's diamonds come from Russia, which so far has escaped sanctions for the trade.

BBC News