A Closer Look at Pat Robertson

Hi Crashfrog,As a general rule, ANYBODY who owns a Congolese diamond mine is a monster. People at this forum should please read up on the diamond trade, especially labour practices in those mines, and check that if you buy jewellery containig diamonds that they are from a country that doesn't use slave labour and currently doesn't have a civil war going on - because the money from the diamond trade funds extreme violence.Mick

Just a note to the Chavez-bashers out there.Chavez just announced that he will be shipping oil at below-market price to a Mexican-American community in Chicago starting in October; and he will be expanding the program to poor communities in Boston and New York in November. More information hereWhy is he doing this? Part of the explanation was given in his recent address to the UN: He said "I believe one of the countries that require protection is precisely the United States. That was shown painfully with the tragedy caused by Hurricane Katrina; they do not have a government that protects them" (full text of his speech here (in Spanish at the top, English translation at the bottom). Another part of the explanation is in his leftist political ideology that "If you want to eliminate poverty, you have to empower the poor, not treat them as beggars".This is a guy Americans want to assasinate???Mick