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handlewanker
Yes Warrenb, that company is in business to make money, lots of it, diamonds make lots of lovely money, and so do the people that are allowed to work there.
In case you also can't read, the barbed wire fence was to keep the WILD LIFE, as in animals, out of town, you know man, four legged kind with bleeding great 'orns on their 'eads. They're also protected wild life.
If you don't believe me, look up Gemsbok and you'll see what I mean.
Fizzwizz, polish the dribble off yo' specs mon, and read the last two lines of my post 3964, but perhaps you're frothing at the gills and can't quite make the keyboard work as fast as you want it to, too bad old age hasn't been kind to you.
I won't reply to the rest of the invective, some pass off as a post.
THK.....thebox, thanks again for the ref to Shock Doctrine by Naomi klein, watched the video, now I'm going to get the book.
I always thought Milton Friedman was an arrrsehole, now the world admits it to be so.
BTW all you Humanoids, I am quite happy being a fervent follower of Capitalism, and I fervently believe that what I make is partly mine to keep, partly that is because the relative government has a hand in my pocket by way of taxes etc.
BTW again, the company I worked for was in South West Africa, now Namibia, and is the Anglo American Corporation.
Is that a Marxist Socialistic Communistic set up, or are the Reds really under your corporate beds back home in good ole' US of A?
So you see, misinterpreting my motives just shows your senile mentality.
It is well documented that the Yanks go from infancy to senility without ever passing maturity, but then yo'all know that, and all in a space of only 200 years of your history, that's progress for you.
Ol' president Bush gonna sort you lot out man, he aint gonna hang around and solve your problems, no sirree, gonna let someone else do that, and while you vote for another born leader wannabe, remember the 500 billion dollar debt he's gonna have to get back from you'all.
Meanwhile back in OZ the Spring is coming which means down South in Melbourne town the weather will be improving from the cold 6 degree C at night and 16 degree C days to a more mellow 20 to 30 degrees C, which is why I came here.
But that's life.
Ian.