Since it's obvious that VHeadline constantly attacks Crystallex for its "per click" value, a better strategy would be to post this TRASH here ONCE! (Posters are asked to indicate "Vheadline" in the title.) This way, members can choose to read or ignore it and Carson and his comrades will loose revenue from the loss of site visits. Look at how many times "Crystallex" is mentioned in the "article" to enhance the chances of it being picked up by an email alert!

PS: I emailed the VHeadline piece to Diane Francis, the author of yesterdays Financial Post article in hopes she will pen a rebuttal.)

Crystallex will say anything to anybody if its lies promise to gratify its greed...

2009-08-19 13:46:17 - "All enlightened governments, including Canada's which just signed an investment agreement, should deem Venezuela a "no-go" zone. This is because the country, under Hugo Chavez, has descended into a kleptocracy. Industries, like coffee and rice, have just been nationalized and confiscations without compensation are underway," lied Diane Francis, the reactionary bourgeois propagandist, in her hatchet piece "Venezuela: banana kleptocracy."

VHeadline commentarist Arthur Shaw writes:

What makes Diane Francis, this reactionary clown on the payroll of the Financial Post, think that the Canadian Government under Stephen Harper is "enlightened?" After all, for three years, Harper dishonored the Canadian people while he served as George W. Bush's soft, weak, and obedient little boy and, now, Harper is Obama's happy little boy.

EXPROPRIATIONS

Expropriation of

industries is a legal option in all socialist as well as capitalist economies. In the US capitalist economy, for example, this option is called "eminent domain" and the bourgeois regime in Washington and its local subdivisions frequently exercise the option to expropriate. The exercise of legal options is not evidence of an "kleptocracy." The Venezuelan Government compensates the owners for the industries expropriated at the market value of the expropriated assets. The deep and worldwide capitalist crisis that struck the world with full force in the fall of 2008 drastically diminishes the market value of the expropriated properties. Bourgeois thieves -- including some Canadian capitalists -- still demand compensation at market value for a market that ceased to exist in 2008 with the advent of the capitalist crisis, because a market in an economic crisis is a very different thing from a market in prosperity. Venezuelan revolutionaries in power refuse to let capitalist thieves rob the Venezuela Revolution and the Venezuelan people. As a consequence, many capitalist thieves and propagandists of Canadian origin, exercising their well-known propensity for lying, call the glorious Venezuelan Revolution "kleptocracy."

The owners of expropriated property in Venezuela are compensated at the property's current market value ... not its past value.

This is just because Venezuela can't sell it oil at its past value, say the value in June 2008 when a barrel sold for $147. Venezuela must sell its oil at it current value of $67 per barrel.

CRYSTALLEX

In her piece, Diane Francis goes lunatic ... or, more relevantly, goes bananas ... over alleged injustices suffered by Canadian gold mining companies in Venezuela, especially the case of Crystallex International Corporation.

"The Company's [that is, Crystallex International Corporation's] interests in the Las Cristinas concessions are derived from a Mine Operating Contract (the "MOC") with the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana (the "CVG") which grants Crystallex exclusive rights to develop and mine the gold deposits on the Las Cristinas property," Diane Francis wrote.

In other words, Diane Francis argues that Crystallex owns a certain gold mining concession in Venezuela because Crystallex is a party to a deal, called a "MOC," with the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana, also known as the CVG.

This same Crystallex was sued in a US court in November 1998 by Placer Dome which was then another Canadian mining company. Placer Dome alleged in its US lawsuit against Crystallex that Placer Dome owned this same gold mining concession in Venezuela because Placer Dome was a party to a deal, called a "MOC," with the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana, also known as the CVG.

Considering its current position in the continuing controversy over the gold mining concession, Crystallex used an odd defense to win the Placer Dome case filed in November 1998. Crystallex in 1998 argued that although Placer Dome had a deal with the CVG, Placer Dome still didn't own the gold mining concession, because the CVG didn't have the authority to make a deal with Placer Dome or with anybody else, concerning the concession. Crystallex won the case against Placer Dome in a US court on Octover 20, 1999.

Here is how the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse reported the Placer Dome v. Crystallex (1998) case:

"The company [Crystallex] further claimed, it is alleged, that the rights of its rival, Placer Dome, a multinational mining company, to explore these concessions, received pursuant to a joint venture agreement with Corporacion Venezolana de Guyana, a Venezuelan company owned and operated by the Venezuelan government, were in question because of the lack of authority of CVG to grant rights to these concessions. Throughout the class period, it is alleged, Crystallex continued to dispute the right of Placer Dome, pursuant to its joint venture agreement with CVG, to the Las Cristinas concessions and continued to claim the right to those concessions for itself." Crystallex, under oath in a US court, told a lie, the whole lie, and nothing but a lie.

This is the kind of source of information on which Diane Francis of the Financial Post usually relies.

What's more, years ago, the Supreme Court of Venezuela heard the Crystallex case and after careful consideration of the facts and law ruled against Crystallex ... but the dross who grovel and bow before imperialism dismisses, with extraterritorial arrogance, the decision of the Supreme Court of Venezuela, concerning a gold mining dispute that arose in Venezuela.

POLITICAL PRISONERS/
POLITICAL PROSECUTIONS

"He [Hugo Chavez] and his supporters harass those who do not align themselves politically and ideologically with the Bolivarian Revolution," Diane Francis further lied in her Financial Post piece.

The international capitalist press, rigidly centralized in content, editorial views, and often in ownership under the US capitalist press and the US bourgeoisie, plays a nasty little propaganda game with stories about "political prisoners" and "corruption" in Venezuela.

First, the bourgeois media constantly report that corruption is rampant and very thick in Venezuela in order to discredit the Bolivarian Revolution, using the theme of excessive greed. Each month, the Venezuelan Government investigates, charges, arrests, and prosecutes a good number of corrupt individuals. Some of these corrupt individuals are rich and politically powerful members of the Venezuelan opposition ... for example, former opposition Maracaibo Mayor Manuel Rosales .... who like senior officials in the Canadian regime under Steve Harper always grovel like dogs and bow like slaves before the will of US imperialists.

Second, when the Venezuelan Government's anti-corruption drive implicates a rich and powerful Venezuelan connected with the political opposition and imperialism, the bourgeois media throughout world promptly airs a pack of lies about these corrupt individuals being "political prisoners" or about "political prosecutions" of the these persons accused of corruption. This tactic of false and malicious propaganda in the bourgeois media also seeks to discredit the Bolivarian Revolution, using the theme of a politically biased application of the rule of law.

The venal capitalist press ... especially in Canada and the USA ... rarely reports stories about members or former members of the revolutionary parties who are implicated in corruption ... like for example the former pro-government Caracas Mayor Freddy Bernal or three former pro-government Governors. When such stories occasionally surface in the capitalist media, these members or former members of revolutionary parties who hold or held government office are miraculously transformed into supporters or even "leaders" of the bourgeois and imperialist-led opposition. They also thereby suddenly become "political prisoners" or victims of "political prosecutions" based on their new-found opportunist connections with the opposition.

The bourgeois media regularly hides stories about the prosecution for corruption of members or former members of revolutionary parties, because these stories will expose dirty lies and the filthy propaganda that the bourgeois media daily emit concerning the Bolivarian Revolution.

THE IMPERIAL THIEF

Diane Francis' piece in the Financial Post is headlined "Venezuela: banana kleptocracy" or, in other words, Francis alleges Venezuelan revolutionaries will steal your bananas...

The "bananas" of Venezuelan revolutionaries are the oil reserves of the Venezuelan people. Before the triumph of the glorious Venezuelan Revolution in 1999 under the leadership of the great revolutionary Hugo Chavez, the seedy imperialists, including some equally seedyy Canadian capitalists, stole a lot of oil from the Venezuelan people, paying almost nothing in taxes and paying almost nothing in royalties for the oil.

To this day, neither the US imperial thieves nor their Canadian accomplices have paid the Venezuelan people one dime for the billions of barrels of stolen oil.

The Venezuelan people never stole their oil ... or, if you prefer, their "bananas" ... that have always belonged and will always belong, in both law and in ethics, solely to Venezuelan people.

When the trash of US imperialism ... with their long Canadian bourgeois tail dangling from the imperial rear ... steals the natural resources that nature or a divine being bestowed forever on Latin America and Caribbean peoples, the imperialist trash calls the stolen resources "the private property" of the imperialists.

Then, the repulsive Canadian bourgeois tail cheers with its big mouth and applauds with its soft little hands "That's right. Stolen property is now the private property of the imperial thief. That property no longer belongs to the people."

Capitalism is a kleptocracy and a kleptocracy imminently doomed by its utter rottenness.

Arthur Shaw
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