EXPLORE BUSINESS Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign By Edward Jay Epstein FEBRUARY 1982 ISSUE SHARE SAVED STORIES SAVE The diamond invention—the creation of the idea that diamonds are rare and valuable, and are essential signs of esteem—is a relatively recent development in the history of the diamond trade. Until the late nineteenth century, diamonds were found only in a few riverbeds in India and in the jungles of Brazil, and the entire world production of gem diamonds amounted to a few pounds a year. In 1870, however, huge diamond mines were discovered near the Orange River, in South Africa, where diamonds were soon being scooped out by the ton. Suddenly, the market was deluged with diamonds. The British financiers who had organized the South African mines quickly realized that their investment was endangered; diamonds had little intrinsic value—and their price depended almost entir...
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To all the grammar Nazis
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You know what I'm no longer going to say that my Dysgraphia Is a disability. Can you look at a sentence and still know exactly what's going on with it without proper punctuation or correct spelling ? Can you speed read through a book literally by skimming a sentence and still gain the context of it? Can you do complex math in your head automatically? People seem to need it to have perfect spelling and have punctuation in the right spot but I'm dumb. My brain just works faster it's not a sign of a low IQ, Actually Its the opposite. Yes I do this when I when I write sentences out when I post on social media. I get constantly attacked because my spelling and grammar is messed up. I don't see the mistakes my brain automatically fixes them for me. So please stop with the attitude that those with poor grammar have a Low IQ!! They just have a different perspective than you. Not everybody you can't understand is stupid. They just have a different way of communicating t...
This is as copy of a article about how abortion went from a none issue to the main dog whistle of the GOP
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There was a time in the United States when abortion wasn't so political, but one conservative Christian man believed it could be. To him, the reproductive rights of women presented an opportunity. He dreamed of building a coalition — a powerful voting bloc that would help pull the Republican Party to the right. He needed an issue that would bring conservative Americans of Christian faiths together, something they could sell as a family value and that positioned the coalition as morally superior. Abortion could prove potent. And so, the conservative political strategist set about testing the theory, even proclaiming that when the "moral majority" had power, they would be able to "re-shape the nation". His name was Paul Weyrich and he warned the people in his movement were "radicals". Weyrich was planting these seeds in the 1970s and while he was playing a very long game, it seems his vision is now coming to pass. The so-called 'religious right...
List Of policies in Hitler's Germany a lot of this does Ring some Alarm Bells now
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If you see none off this you are part of the problem in this Country - Messianic, cult-like exaltation of a strongman dictatorial figure - Rhetorically claiming the banner of "law and order" while engaging in unconstitutional and illegal acts including political violence - Rabid, baseless conspiracy theory peddling and demonization of Jews, LGBTQ, socialists, communists, immigrants, "others" - Rhetorically casting the racial/cultural majority as the "victim" of oppression by minorities - Vilification of the educated/the academy (anti-intellectual) - Indoctrination of children and infiltration of party propaganda into school curricula - Attempting to erase history and replace it with a mythological racial, cultural and religious narrative - Colluding with and extensively funded by industry, capital and profiteering oligarchs while pushing faux-populist rhetoric - Hyper-nationalist rhetoric - Forced "patriotic" education in public schools - Book Ba...