The Ugly Truth

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2006)

For those of you who are hearing about conflict diamonds for the first time, welcome to the real world. This has been going on for decades and continues today. There are literally thousands of journalists from around the world in Africa who report on it everyday. The problem is that we don't really care. we want cheap diamonds (or at least affordable). Also, slavery and genocide is and has been perpetuated by Africans on Africans forever. That doesn't fit in with our politically correct media agenda so it doesn't get reported. The only reason any African nation has any infrastructure is because Europeans colonized it. Take a look at any country there now that all Colonial governments have left and all you see is genocide and war. The revolutionaries who felt subjugated by the Europeans are now the mass murderers and enslavers. The Europeans never did that. Although our media would have you believe that Africa is all milk and honey and that everyone are peace loving fisherman and farmers, its simply not true and never has been. This movie is a metaphor of the DeBeers Diamond Company. For those who don't recognize that name their slogan is Diamonds Are Forever and every woman in the world believes it. They are the real power in Africa and have been for decades.Thats why they are the only company that has survived every war, coup-de-tat, and revolution. Of course Hollywood would not name them seeing as that a good portion of diamonds end up on Rodeo Drive. As for the movie it was fantastic. It presented a world tragedy to the ignorant masses in America and yet lets them go home at night and sleep with a clear conscience. Oh, by the way, all that food aid that goes to the refugee camps, about three quarters goes to the rebels who are killing and maiming. The other one fourth is distributed to the camps and rationed out by United Nations and World Health Organization workers who act like they bought it and that their doing the refugees a favor.