Message: Drawing A Line In The Sand - Money Needed To Fight Another Predatory Takeover

Good morning to you all and we hope you are enjoying your Labour Day Long Weekend.

As everyone heads back home and prepares for the commencement of what I call "Trading Season" (September - May), I wanted to take a moment to remind you that junior resource investors are still at the mercy of predatory takeovers of their prized companies.

Specifically, as investors of unknown junior resource investors, we all put in the time and effort to conduct research and support the companies we believe in, hoping to see them flourish one day for the benefit of all.

Unfortunately, Bay Street predators have a reputation for swooping in and reaping the benefits when our unknown juniors turn into polished gems - and often enough there was nothing retail investors could do about it.

ONLINE SHAREHOLDER REVOLTS

In the last couple of years, we have started to fight back. Thanks to this amazing AGORACOM platform and, more importantly, the incredible people that utilize it to share information, collaborate and mount counter-attacks. This is precisely what I personally had predicted would happen almost back in 2007 .

More than just lip service, we were able to wage wars against the powers that be as follows:

• AURELIAN RESOURCES - The "Friendly" takeover of Aurelian Resources that nonetheless forced Kinross Gold Corp to renew their offer an unprecedented 4 times before finally winning control. This was the first shot across the bow. We sent a loud message to Bay Street and we made headlines in the process.

We may have eventually lost the battle for Aurelian but the war for the protection of all junior resource companies was just beginning. We all did exceptionally well for our first battle and we learned some valuable lessons. Those lessons turned into a stunning victory in our next battle:

• NORONT RESOURCES - When Rosseau Asset Management decided it was suddenly better qualified to run Noront Resources better than Richard Nemis and his team, investors realized this was nothing more than another predatory attempt to takeover another great and promising junior, especially when Rosseau named the former Aurelian CEO as their candidate to run Noront. When the final votes were tallied ... investors won. Despite any subsequent compromises, we won the vote.

As a result, the National Post recognized AGORACOM and its incomparable members as The Site Retail Investors Use To Fight Takeovers.

This is who you are. This is a large part of what makes this community so great. We have moved beyond mere passive investors. We are active and we don't take crap from anyone, no matter how much they throw at us. Believe me when I tell you, there are many people that would applaud the demise of this platform and would prefer that each and every one of you simply kept your mouths shut and swallowed whatever the eilte fed you.

I don't ever plan to give them the satisfaction. The Ancient Agora stands today because a band of Spartans simply responded with "Come And Get Them" when asked to lay down their weapons.

AGORACOM is our weapon ... and we've been called upon again.