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	South Africa's De Beers: The Most Unethical Corporation in the World from the St. Antoninus Institute
		DeBeers is a corporation which was set-up by Cecil Rhodes, the British explorer and adventurer who gave his name to the African country of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and to Rhodes scholarships (the darker side of these scholarships will be made evident with the presentation of the elitist bent of Rhodes and DeBeers).
		DeBeers officially and through the mouth of its leader Oppenheimer, always took the position that it was opposed to Apartheid.
		DeBeers has also undermined the government of other diamond rich African nations and helped enrich their presidents to the tune of several billions of dollars while their population had to beg money from the UN and the World Bank to survive (the relationship with Soviet Russia is also quite interesting).
	www.ewtn.com /library/BUSINESS/ANTDEBRS.HTM (1795 words)

	CorpWatch : SOUTH AFRICA: DeBeers Pleads Guilty to Price-Fixing
		DeBeers SA, the huge diamond company, pleaded guilty yesterday to price fixing and agreed to pay $10 million to settle a 10-year-old indictment, which paves the way for the company to start doing business directly with the American market.
		DeBeers is the biggest diamond mining operation in the world, but its dominance of the world's diamond market has been declining in recent years as new mines have opened in Russia, Canada and Australia, and as new varieties of synthetic diamonds -- both industrial and gem quality -- are being created.
		"DeBeers may recognize that market dynamics are going to change with the introduction of cultured diamonds," said Robert C. Linares, chairman of Apollo Diamond Inc., one of the few makers of new, high-quality synthetic diamonds for both the jewelry and technology markets.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=11431 (704 words)

	DeBeers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anglo-American Corporation owns 45% of DeBeers; 40% is owned by the Oppenheimer family, which established DeBeers monopolistic, single-channel approach to rough diamond distribution; and 15% is owned by the government of Botswana.
		DeBeers sells these rough diamonds to approximately 80 "sightholders" (generally, major diamond cutting firms) which are the only companies authorized to buy rough diamonds directly from DeBeers.
		While DeBeers strictly controls the distribution and prices of diamond rough, recent information suggests that the inventory levels of DeBeers, Russia and other rough producers are much smaller than previously supposed and that they have been shrinking every year.
	www.dimonz.com /diamondmarket.htm (1177 words)

	Brokentype
		DeBeers couldn’t compete directly with the domestic sellers because they were forbidden from actually opening shop in the US.
		Debeers doesn’t need to sell diamonds on the site because they are the only game in town.
		The dealer may tell you that what you are buying is not a conflict diamond, but think about the fact that 90% of the market is controlled by DeBeers mining concerns, and then make up your own mind about what your love is worth.
	www.brokentype.com /blog/000125.html (843 words)

	DeBeers, Colonel Wrestleinfo
		DeBeers feuded with Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka after delivering a facefirst piledriver to Snuka on the concrete floor during an AWA show.
		DeBeers was a good talker and knew how to incite a crowd.
		DeBeers recently appeared at the WrestleReunion show in 2005.
	www.wrestleinfo.com /Page30.html (143 words)

	DeBeers Plays Up Details, Diamonds in Ad Push - Brief Article Brandweek - Find Articles
		Looking to maximize diamond sales during what may turn out to be the last over-the-top holiday season for prosperous power couples, DeBeers this week breaks a holiday TV ad, the second part of an integrated campaign that crosses online, print, outdoor and promo efforts.
		DeBeers sent 160,000 top prospects an e-mail message to visit www.adiamondisforever.com to view a sneak preview of the new ad, sans the gift at the end.
		DeBeers spent $67 million on advertising in 1999 and $39 million through July of this year, per Competitive Media Reporting.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BDW/is_45_41/ai_67541911 (487 words)

	DeBeers
		DeBeers needed to create the illusion that diamonds were excellent stores of value while simultaneously stopping holders from taking advantage of that value.
		The DeBeers diamond monopoly is, in fact, far and away the most successful cartel in the modern world.
		In what is surely a response to a perceived loss of control, DeBeers has begun etching the DeBeers name and a 'security number' on diamonds in order to try to create a brand in what has traditionally been a completely brandless industry.
	www.martinnorth.8m.com /DeBeers.htm (1751 words)

	EconUpdates: In The News #76
		DeBeers SA, the international diamond cartel, is a familiar name to most of us.
		DeBeers was sued by the U.S. Justice Department and charged with fixing the price of industrial diamonds shortly after WWII ended.
		At that time DeBeers will likely launch several luxury retail outlets in the U.S. to capitalize on the brand.
	www.prenhall.com /econupdates/articles/inthenews76.html (345 words)

	DeBeers Venetia Diamond Mine - Sybase Inc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		DeBeers Venetia Diamond Mine, the largest diamond mining company in the world, needed a solution that would give end-users a single interface to perform real-time and historical queries against a number of disparate systems.
		DeBeers Venetia Diamond Mine produces over 40 percent of the world’s gem diamonds from its own mines in South Africa and in partnership with governments in Botswana, Namibia and Tanzania.
		With the Sybase data management solution, DeBeers not only increased its functionality, it also reduced downtime and integrated disparate data sources for a unified data view.
	www.sybase.com /detail?id=1033732 (411 words)

	Making Economic Sense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is not simply that DeBeers mines much of the world's diamonds; DeBeers has persuaded the world's diamond miners to market virtually all their diamonds through DeBeer's Central Selling Organization (CSO), which then grades, distributes, and sells all the rough diamonds to cutters and dealers further down on the road toward the consumer.
		For a while, there was fear among DeBeers and the cartelists that the Russians would break the international diamond cartel by selling in the open market abroad.
		Consequently, DeBeers is taking heavy losses; as a result, Julian Ogilvie Thompson, the arrogant and aristocratic chairman of DeBeers, was forced to announce that the company was slashing its dividend, for only the second time since World War II.
	www.mises.org /econsense/ch91.asp (927 words)

	Posts tagged with debeers \| MetaFilter
		DeBeers is selling 26% of its mining operations to a South African "fl empowerment" holding company.
		Its chairman has been a prominent figure in the ANC and the National Union of Mineworkers.
		Seems pretty cool, even if DeBeers is only doing it because South Africa's Mining Charter says they have to.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/debeers (131 words)

	DeBeers Millennium Diamonds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The DeBeers Millennium Diamonds are inscribed by DeBeers with a millennium trademark that includes a name of a heavenly star with a serial number.
		Every Debeers Millennium Diamond is accompanied with a GIA Gem Trade Laboratory Diamond Report that confirms its quality as well as the DeBeers Millennium table inscription.
		Also included with each Millennium Diamond is a color photograph of the actual DeBeers hallmark as it appears in the viewer, which serves as further verification of its authenticity.
	www.ideal0.com /millennium.html (197 words)

	Debeers diamonds (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Debeers diamonds are often credited with the current global popularity of diamonds.
		Debeers SA is the original company that leads the world in the mining, exploration, recovery, sorting, valuation and marketing of diamonds.
		Debeers LV is the joint venture that eventually brought to consumers the diamond expertise of Debeers SA and the retail brilliance of LV.
	www.a1-engagement-rings-planet.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Debeers-Diamonds.html (217 words)

	Anglo American calls the shots, Oppenheimer takes a backseat, DeBeers denies listing, Anglo American to sideline ...
		They will just have to do what they are told." DeBeers announced that Jonathan Oppenheimer would step down from his role as managing director of De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM), after less than two years in the job.
		DeBeers was delisted from the Johannesburg stock exchange in 2001 and is seeking advice about returning to a public share listing.
		At the time of its delisting in 2001, DeBeers was valued at £9.3 billion, which included the companys non-diamond portfolio and a 38% stake the Oppenheimers held in Anglo American and which they agreed to relinquish as part of the delisting.
	www.diamondworld.net /newsroom/print.asp?newsid=181 (461 words)

	DeBeers (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's kind of refreshing to talk about the DeBeers in the scope of crime, because in the case of most companies, you can say "Well, at least they bring in low prices (Wal-Mart)" or "Man, those are some fine classic movies (Disney)".
		But the DeBeers empire has nothing good to speak for it; over a hundred years of rotten labor relations, a product of falsified value, and, if you're feeling particularly uncharitable, the blood of thousands of victims on its hands.
		The story starts with Johannes De Beers in South Africa, who bought a farm from the South African government in 1860 for the sum of £50.
	www.rotten.com.cob-web.org:8888 /library/crime/corporate/debeers (331 words)

	NPR : DeBeers Corporation
		All Things Considered, November 27, 2001 ·; Say the word "diamonds," and images of wealth, romance or adventure may come to mind.
		DeBeers has dominated the diamond market for 100 years.
		Critics contend DeBeers has manipulated the market to keep diamond prices high, even though they are no longer rare.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1133947 (194 words)

	deBeers & Clinton seek to destroy anti-Communist movement [Free Republic]
		Oddly, DeBeers, which was founded by Cecil Rhodes, the great British industrialist who dreamed and labored tirelessly for an "Anglo-run world, a federated state of English speaking people," is a company that need never have fallen into the hands of Rhodes.
		According to scores of UNITA soldiers and civilians interviewed by WorldNetDaily, supporting UNITA and the Zambian government, exposing the cabal of the U.N. and DeBeers, and getting the U.S. Congress and Pentagon to implement a No-Fly Zone in Southern Angola should be the priority of all Americans concerned with the fate of Christians in Angola.
		DeBeers Consolidated Mines Ltd. and Anglo-American Corp., South Africa's biggest miners, also have turned to Kabila's alliance and are renegotiating deals they had with Mobutu's government.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3893fe433ba8.htm (8505 words)

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		Alan Greenspan may have inflation under control, but it doesn't look that way in the diamond business -- and certainly not in those rarefied realms where size of heart is conspicuously if not touchingly linked to size of wallet.
		They don't stand a chance, not with the world's largest producer of diamonds, DeBeers, spending $60 million this year just to advertise its rocks, often with ego-taunting slogans like, "Give her something that won't wilt in a week." Now that's cruel.
		Another key indicator -- DeBeers sales of rough diamonds -- surged 57 percent last year to a record $5.24 billion, up from $3.35 billion in 1998.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/inequal/diamonds.htm (791 words)

	DeBeers cares about black people \| MetaFilter (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		November 8, 2005 4:33 PM DeBeers is selling 26% of its mining operations to a South African "fl empowerment" holding company.
		I eagerly await the day we hear of DeBeers management on trial for unfair business practices, what amounts to widespread fraud, labor violations reminiscent of the 1800s, and the deaths of thousands of innocents in the way of their profits.
		Regarding the economics of this: DeBeers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) is the DeBeers subsidiary in question.
	www.metafilter.com.cob-web.org:8888 /mefi/46501 (1448 words)

	De Beers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In recent years, techniques for creating high quality real diamonds in a laboratory setting have become a threat to the pricing of natural diamonds.
		A marketing campaign will be aimed at convincing potential customers that laboratory diamonds are "fake" (even though they are real diamonds, and potentially may be of higher quality than natural diamonds).
		DeBeers and Beyond: The History of the International Diamond Cartel
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Debeers (2194 words)

	Amazon.com: Twisted Roots (DeBeers): Books: V.C. Andrews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It trots out all the old hackneyed cliches: insecure teenage girl with unhappy family situation and unstable mother who runs away with sensitive boy from wrong side of the tracks and finds danger in the form of mentally ill stranger before being reunited with family as evildoers are punished.
		It's a shame, too, because the DeBeers saga started off well, but the author got really lazy with this one.
		I'd have rated it a 1/2 star if there was one, but since there isn't my advice is this: if you must read it, check it out at the library and save your money on this one.
	www.amazon.com /Twisted-Roots-DeBeers-V-C-Andrews/dp/074342865X (1587 words)

	[Jewelry making - Article 00027] - Re: [Orchid] Diamonds Price and DeBeers' monopoly
		If anyone has read a book called Master of the game it actually refers to the DeBeers monoply and how it came to be.
		As per Argyle Dimonds they put mass diamonds into the market because DeBeers tried to tell them they wernt allowed to sell there diamonds without the permission of DeBeers.
		In actuall fact 30% of DeBeers diamonds are infact Argyle Diamonds.If your Question is how do i know this well let me tell you Im Australian and i read not only the papers but also the mining reports from Argyle.
	www.ganoksin.com /orchid/archive/200004/msg00027.htm (293 words)

	InterActive8 Wins Internet Account for DeBeers Diamonds
		InterActive8 in New York City was awarded the online account for DeBeers by J. Walter Thompson, according to Bill Markel, InterActive8 vice president and managing director.
		The DeBeers Web site, adiamondisforever.com, will be maintained and hosted by InterActive8 beginning this month.
		"I believe we proved to J. Walter Thompson that combining compelling content with leading edge technology is the best way to take the DeBeers site to the next level," said Markel.
	www.clickz.com /showPage.html?page=2741 (187 words)

	DeBeers Diamonds Today Competition - info?
		Does anyone knows what is the DeBeers Diamonds Today Competition?
		I was given a business card of a local appraiser here in Orlando, FL.
		From what I can gather, this competition is for jewelry design and is sponsored by deBeers.
	www.pricescope.com /idealbb/view.asp?topicID=1708 (132 words)

	www.myspace.com/thehiggybaby
		Lord DeBeers aka Diamondkutta, MC Mel Kiper JR, the late Harry Carey (RIP Budman)
		View All of DJ DeBeers aka Diamondkutta 's Friends
		Next time we go you'll have to lead the way again.
	www.myspace.com /thehiggybaby (697 words)

	Col DeBeers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He and Buddy Rose currently run a wrestling school in Portland, Oregon.
		Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Col DeBeers
		Find where Col DeBeers is credited alongside another name
	imdb.com /name/nm1338713 (103 words)

	Samuel Gordon Jewelers : DeBeers / Diamond Trading Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Samuel Gordon Jewelers : DeBeers / Diamond Trading Company
		What better time to celebrate the timelessness of love?
		Click here for a large picture of the Hourglass.
	www.samuelgordons.com /dzdebeers.html (170 words)

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