However, Cecil Rhodes along with other British elites would have greater aims– that of a World Federation. Rhodes set up a secret society to pursue his goals.A select few– including Lord Milner, William Stead and Lord Rothschild were in on the plan… Rhodes left an endowment to set up the famous Rhodes Scholarship. But secretly, Rhodes also established the Round Table group that pulled its select initiates from Oxford and Cambridge institutions.
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The Diamond Empire: DeBeers & Oppenheimer Family’s Cartel – Artificial Scarcity
Well what I learned was that the diamond business wasn’t a business of extracting, as I originally expected – something of enormous value, and them simply seeing how much of this object you could get out of the ground, and selling it. That was what the business appeared to be when I started my venture. But their real business was restricting what came out of the ground, restricting what was discovered, restricting what got cut, restricting what actually found its way into the retail market. And at the same time, through movies, through advertising, through Hollywood, through the manipulation of perceptions – creating the idea that there was this enormous demand for these shiny little objects…
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