The day in anger: Jewelers hate on Leo; Chavez hates on video games

Post “Da Vinci Code,” the worlds is a might tetchy about nearly everything.

News came today that the U.S. jewelry industry, per MSNBC, “is gearing up to counter any negative effects from the upcoming film ‘The Blood Diamond,’ which shows how illicit gem trade fuelled bloody civil wars, a trade group said.”

That film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a South African mercenary jailed for smuggling in Sierra Leone circa 1999, a time when the nation was in the midst of a horrific civil war.

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