Featured cards and single booster cards can be purchased
with Blood Diamonds, booster packs with Blood Gems or Blood Diamonds, and a «light» pack with Blood Pearls.
We discuss the issues
with blood diamonds below.
Eragon may not be a big Oscar contender, but in a movie season filled
with blood diamonds, fascist soldiers and Idi Amin, it provides a much - needed afternoon of PG - rated family - friendly adventure.
Not exact matches
Unscrupulous companies mine «
blood diamonds,» and counterfeiters flood the market
with convincing fakes.
It's trade finance that provides the economic rationale to do a lot of these things: it happens to be aligned
with the health benefits and the social impact of keeping
blood diamonds out of the supply chain, but if the money wasn't there, I don't think there'd be an ability to do it,» he says.
Many pairs of Green's earrings are set
with sparkling cubic zirconia, avoiding all potential «
blood diamond» conflict issues, and accompanied
with entirely biodegradable and plantable packaging.
Many people instantly associate the «resource curse»
with images of African
blood diamonds and mining - induced population displacement in Latin America.
Associated
with brutal civil war and human rights violations, these illicitly traded rough
diamonds became known as conflict
diamonds, or
blood diamonds.
Water may be older than light,
diamonds crack in hot goat's
blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught
with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string.
There were a few that didn't resonate
with me (as is the way
with anthologies) but some of my favorites included «The Man in the Mask» by Emma Faraday, «Great Canadian Comics» by Patrick T. Goddard, and «Canadian
Blood Diamonds» by Kristi Charish.
In a 2010 post to this blog, I identified puppy mill dogs as the
blood diamonds of animal welfare — beautiful things that consumers purchase
with no understanding of the pain, suffering and death involved in bringing them to market.
Because locating an NES Classic Edition is like braving the Congo River in search of
blood diamonds, the console has been springing up on eBay tagged
with ridiculous prices, some hovering near the thousands mark, which is an insane markup for a plaything that originally retails for $ 59.99.
Blood diamonds are associated
with human rights abuse, enviromental damage, and terrorism.