The problem is you assume the best in people and just write off the past as the past. This is the same guy that begged you to buy the stock up to .01 and now it is a tenth of that. So, while I agree that does not make him sound smart he's apparently smart enough to get people to have faith in him now to hold and buy. Just not enough people to raise the stock price. You see none of us knows what is really going on, if anything, with the removal and sale of diamonds or gold. It could be they get nothing or it could mean they are pulling out $500,000 a year and pocketing it. No one here would know either way.