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De Beers is the world's largest supplier and marketer of diamonds -- effectively only a semi-precious stone since the opening of the diamond mines in southern Africa in the late nineteenth century. They employ sophisticated advertising strategies to create demand for a product with little or no intrinsic value or worth, which cannot easily be resold by the consumer.They employ supply and marketing cartels to ensure pricing at orders of magnitude higher than the actual value of their product.
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De Beers operates the most successful monopoly inmodern trade. It achieves this success through a complex and deceptive web of companies and cartels. DeBeers is miner and buyer of 70-90% of the world's rough diamonds and arbiter of their prices, the latter through control of supply, marketing and advertising. De Beers spends 180 million dollars a year to advertise cut diamonds, although it does not sell them, as part of this highly sophisticated and deceptive monopolistic strategy. De Beers completely controls distribution of diamonds throughout theworld, and will not allow clients to sell their diamonds if they undercut prices. De Beers is not allowed to operate in the U.S., because it violatesU.S. anti-trust laws, so it hires independant advertisers to promote demand for its products, and sells to independant diamond distributers to act as retailers. But, De Beers ultimately controls all aspects of diamond retail by having complete control over supply to retailers. The retailers will receive no product if they do not cooperate. And one of the rules: retailers cannot repurchase from consumers!
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Deaths from 1921-1953 in USSR:
Executions: 900,000
Deaths in gulag: 1.2 million, but only 25% political prisoners, rest common criminals: 300,000
Deaths of kulaks in collectivization: 390,000 Does not include deaths to population transfers in WW2 and possibly German war prisoner deaths. Does not include Ukrainian famine, which was NOT deliberate.Holodomor figures: 1.5 million.
All figures from new Soviet archives unveiling.
Totals: 1.59 million killed.
Stalin saved probably 35 million lives. All progress in life expectancy ended in early 1960's. Czarismkilled 3 X as many per capita year and out asStalinism. Return to capitalism killed 15 million Russians, and Communism killed only 1.6 million.
It was statistically impossible for Stalin to have executed 20 to 40 million people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union
January 1926: 148,656,000 *
January 1937: 162,500,000 *
January 1939: 168,524,000 *
All women of child-bearing age - roughly 1 / 6 of thepopulation - would have to give birth to 6 children in13 years, give normal mortality rates.
Jerry Kraus
jkraus_1999@yahoo.com
De Beers is the world's largest supplier and marketer of diamonds -- effectively only a semi-precious stone since the opening of the diamond mines in southern Africa in the late nineteenth century. They employ sophisticated advertising strategies to create demand for a product with little or no intrinsic value or worth, which cannot easily be resold by the consumer.They employ supply and marketing cartels to ensure pricing at orders of magnitude higher than the actual value of their product.
Miscellaneous
Other Information:
De Beers operates the most successful monopoly inmodern trade. It achieves this success through a complex and deceptive web of companies and cartels. DeBeers is miner and buyer of 70-90% of the world's rough diamonds and arbiter of their prices, the latter through control of supply, marketing and advertising. De Beers spends 180 million dollars a year to advertise cut diamonds, although it does not sell them, as part of this highly sophisticated and deceptive monopolistic strategy. De Beers completely controls distribution of diamonds throughout theworld, and will not allow clients to sell their diamonds if they undercut prices. De Beers is not allowed to operate in the U.S., because it violatesU.S. anti-trust laws, so it hires independant advertisers to promote demand for its products, and sells to independant diamond distributers to act as retailers. But, De Beers ultimately controls all aspects of diamond retail by having complete control over supply to retailers. The retailers will receive no product if they do not cooperate. And one of the rules: retailers cannot repurchase from consumers!
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Deaths from 1921-1953 in USSR:
Executions: 900,000
Deaths in gulag: 1.2 million, but only 25% political prisoners, rest common criminals: 300,000
Deaths of kulaks in collectivization: 390,000 Does not include deaths to population transfers in WW2 and possibly German war prisoner deaths. Does not include Ukrainian famine, which was NOT deliberate.Holodomor figures: 1.5 million.
All figures from new Soviet archives unveiling.
Totals: 1.59 million killed.
Stalin saved probably 35 million lives. All progress in life expectancy ended in early 1960's. Czarismkilled 3 X as many per capita year and out asStalinism. Return to capitalism killed 15 million Russians, and Communism killed only 1.6 million.
It was statistically impossible for Stalin to have executed 20 to 40 million people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union
January 1926: 148,656,000 *
January 1937: 162,500,000 *
January 1939: 168,524,000 *
All women of child-bearing age - roughly 1 / 6 of thepopulation - would have to give birth to 6 children in13 years, give normal mortality rates.
Jerry Kraus
jkraus_1999@yahoo.com
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