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Non-Tech : Thom Calandra, CBS Marketwatch and IVAN - Exposing the TRUTH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pluvia who wrote (9)	11/8/2003 11:55:44 PM
From: Pluvia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 167

cont'd THE EVIDENCE AGAINST IVAN & THOM CALANDRA #2 Hired Mercenaries used to kill locals and rape diamond mines? abc.net.au Background Briefing has learnt that this version of the due diligence report is now missing from the public files of the Vancouver Stock Exchange. And don't forget, Diamondworks now owns Branch Energy. In my many attempts to speak to Robert Friedland, I did talk to Bob Williamson, one of his media officers in Vancouver. Bob Williamson was concerned about my obsession with Diamondworks. Didn't I know, he said, that Robert Friedland has only a small share holding in Diamondworks, and that it's Eric Friedland, Robert's brother, who is the President of the company, not Robert. I told Williamson that on the Internet there is an Ivanhoe site, which gives lots of information about Robert Friedland's Ivanhoe Capital Corporation. Diamondworks was listed there as one of the companies that have benefited through association with Robert Friedland. Bob Williamson hadn't heard of the website. Two days after our conversation, that website disappeared from cyberspace. Adrian Duplessis. Adrian Duplessis: I don't think anyone that is close to Robert Friedland, whether they be those who as I do, investigate for clients or essentially in the public interest, to inform investors or those who are Friedland supporters, the brokers, the traders, who get into deals like Diamondworks, are doing it because Robert Friedland controls their destiny. There is no illusion that it's not a Friedland company. While they may like to point technically to things that would say 'You can't say that he does this, or he does that' much in the same way that you find ironically the same game is played by the mercenary outfit, Executive Outcomes, they're always keen to say 'You can't show there's a corporate relationship between ourselves and say, this company A or company B'. But it's all a bit of a silly game, or a word game, because essentially you have the same people involved on both sides, and who is the directing minder, the controlling party? When concerns are raised about Diamondworks, when someone goes to the press to complain, or as in the case with Friedland, Robert Friedland being concerned about what he felt was unfair coverage in our national newspaper, the Globe and Mail it's Robert Friedland who demands an audience, it's not Eric Friedland.