Agora Group

[Jenny Lake]

I'm digging into 'The Natural News' network, editor Mike Adams the Health Ranger, and working the angles of connection...they're an associated enterprise with Agora Inc. out of Baltimore, Md. and appear like a full-service front for Agora's interests.
Agora Financial produces a journal called The Daily Reckoning -- on the 'staff' --Dr. Ron Paul, Mr. Gerald Celente, Lew Rockwell, and many more
http://dailyreckoning.com/cast-of-characters/

It has bothered me from the beginning that Natural News is a hype-spewing, marketing heavy mouthpiece for Pandemic madness. Adams has been selling his Bird Flu Advanced Preparedness package since 2005, for example. Right on time with Deagle and Niman coming from another direction. So, I'm looking at Agora and anywhere I can reasonably follow threads and get to. It's a big planet. Agora is all about money, and lots of it. The name commonly pops up in searches, but I'm beginning to get some linkage --I think these guys are really big; besides investments, offering information as a cash-flow staple. Mirror-type corporations are in other countries, i.e. Poland, and the NGO properties under Agora are World Bank partners --Agora Partnerships USA http://www.agorapartnerships.org/press/ ... contact-us
Interestingly enough, their office is in a Wash,DC building with the Economic Research Service of the US Dept of Agriculture --this is global planning, folks. Agora Partnership's office (suite 1066, 1800 M street NW) is the office of USAID, United States Agency of International Development, a chapter of government.

Agora started out in Wash,DC founded by Bill Bonner and another (will return with more) in 1979.

I think this is how the NEW World Order wins --people on the ground with a multitude of NGOs from eco-conservation to the 'micro' venture capitalists, in full public-private collaboration that Agora has completely helped to shift investment out of the US and take public money with it. They are CELEBRATING collapse and disaster in the industrial west.

[Jenny Lake]

More about Agora:
from T. Ryls who claims fraud against Agora scams of 'pump and dump' stock and naked short-selling, and co-founder Jim Dale Davidson's involvement with the CIA's William Colby putting out the story that "Bill Clinton killed Vince Foster"....
http://richmond.indymedia.org/newswire/ ... /index.php
Ryls writes "Agora Inc, along with agoracom etc., has so many internet sites, and in my opinion, cyberfraud sites, it is difficult to keep track".
still more: http://sec.gov/comments/s7-19-07/s71907-376.htm

[Jenny Lake]

Agora co-founder Jim Dale Davidson:
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/node/77068
"Davidson admits or brags about his role as money launderer for the U.S. government..."

"Frank Carlucci, ex CEO of 'Papa Doc' Bush's or George Herbert Walker Bush's Saudi royalty and bin Laden family, connected Carlyle arms and corporate complex is also involved to some extent with Agora Inc...", "..implicated by some in the murder of Patrice Lumumba in Africa in the 1960s Congo struggle against Belgian and US imperialism"...

.."the fraudulent claim of turning 'as little as $500 into as mauch as $14 million..in just one month' should be enough to get Agora Inc..closed down permanently..[but] they are so well-connected in Wash.DC....However, I do consider Frank Carlucci's involvement and illegal enrichment with the U.S. incorporated Israeli penny stock scam Pluristem..as low as one can go...penny stock frauds mainly directed against Americans..promotes parasitism, not capitalism.., ..what..colleagues at Agora Inc. specialize in."

---I'll be following this and adding material to my blog under the post "The Debt-For-Nature Scheme".www.jenniferlake.wordpress.com. --top of the blog.

[abduLMaria]

"Frank Carlucci, ex CEO of 'Papa Doc' Bush's or George Herbert Walker Bush's Saudi royalty and bin Laden family, connected Carlyle arms and corporate complex is also involved to some extent with Agora Inc..."

what's in a word, the word being "agora" ?

in some cases, a LOT.

http://agorafinancial.com/

/  speaks for itself.  interesting, they also support "Whiskey & Gunpowder", whom i had previously perceived as independent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora
"The Agora (Greek: Ἀγορά, Agorá) was an open "place of assembly" in ancient Greek city-states."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_agora
1 shekel = 100 agorot

AND THEY EVEN made a movie !
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830/
"Agora"

"A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria."

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

I didn't know Carlucci was with that group...eww. Kind of sounds like a rehash of the Bush Flunkie Bankrupt Carlyle Group.

I've read a lot of Bonner's articles over the years and never saw him as that weird until I saw he hawked high promises in his subscriptions and had legal troubles with his fund.  

This has more on Agora:
http://www.indymedia.org.nz/article/751 ... pluristem-

Always keep in mind that these are the same characters that started some of the very first hedgefunds out of Southern Australia in the 1970s -- in order to launder Burmese, Cambodian and Thai drug money for the CIA.  The Secrecy and lack of oversight with HedgeFunds began with the CIA's attempt to hide their slush funds and drug profits.  It is true even today and the Carribean Hedge Funds often wash dope money through Wallstreet and London.

[abduLMaria]

The Secrecy and lack of oversight with HedgeFunds began with the CIA's attempt to hide their slush funds and drug profits.  It is true even today and the Carribean Hedge Funds often wash dope money through Wallstreet and London.

i think that's one of the reasons for the asymmetric treatment of the banking sector & the banking sector.

one would think, why bail out a bunch of wealthy investors who tried to improve margins using borrowed money, etc., and were some of the primary investors in hedge funds, i.e. some of the primary buyers of credit derivatives ?

i.e., why $300 billion (or $3 trillion ?) to preserve the jobs of 20,000 bankers, and hemming & hawing about $30 billion to preserve the jobs of 200,000 auto-workers ?

my guess is, that first pool of money (the bankers) includes covert ops money & there's also a demographic attribute - how many auto-workers are Jewish ?

[Jenny Lake]

This just gets more interesting, looking at Agora's relationships. Martin D. Weiss, one of the financial staff regulars who has his own holding company,  out of Jupiter, Florida --that very posh and exclusive enclave where Charles Lindemann (brother of Frederick "Lord Cherwell") spent his last earthly days.http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/content/history.html  Agora's Larry Edelson is based there also as a member of Weiss's company. Naturally, he's got a company or three himself http:/www.larryedelson.com. Edelson first independent enterprise looks like International Commodity Services "brokerage firm with agency offices in Hamburg, Munich, Dusseldorf and Osaka, Japan".
--there's a Texas outfit with the identical name, founded by chemists, selling electrodes, http://www.weissresearch.com --don't know if/how they connect

Another staffer/partner is Tony Sagami in Montana, and his assorted companies, http://www.harvestadvisors.com/new/tsagami. He co-founded AdvisorSquare which is owned now by "LiveOffice", the world's largest website/software for online financial management. Sagami's company Monocle Systems hosts www.register.com, another website management tool system.
...and the Health Ranger looks like he got his 'in' with a business called Arial Software http://www.arialsoftware.com/about.htm , 1993 in Cody,Wyoming

The financial advisors under Agora's wing always seem to be the Guys coming up with amazingly prescient and accurate forecasts. Not so hard I guess if you've got a pipeline out of the US State Dept --USAID is State Dept. facilitating foreign policy.

This just gives me the creeps.

[Jenny Lake]

Below is a link to and quote from James Dale Davidson and his newsmax.con's spamming for the illegal Israeli-U.S. penny stock pump and dump scam called Pluristem that hopes to get 'oil from placentas' according to the tasteless con artist Davidson.As you will see if you follow the link the Beltway connected James Dale Davidson received 20 million of the Israeli scamsters' U.S. penny stock shares. If, for instance, he can keep the price at or above 5 U.S. cents as he sells or 'dumps' his 20 million shares he will make a million dollars or more on this one penny stock fraud alone ! And that can buy more influence in Washington !

taken from http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2007/ ... omment.php

Pluristem is a Life Science company that produces "cell therapy products from human placenta, for the treatment of severe ischemic and autoimmune disorders" claiming that the source material is "non-controversial, non-embryonic adult stem cell" (abortion source?, I wonder)
http://www.pluristem.com/overview.asp and the Board of Directors here http://www.pluristem.com/directors.asp

"Those who do not question the naked short selling lie and cover up of international collusion of shares fraudulently clamed below as victims of 'naked shorting' that made Goldman Sachs insiders richer than ever and James Dale Davidson's and Patrick Byrne's role though their NAANSS and NCANS websites and the National Tapayers Union of James Davidson and Steve Forbes and the Agora Inc penny stock holding and dumping company of Jim Davidson,Bill Bonner and the great American patriot Lord William Rees-Mogg of England will never uncover what really caused the syphoning of perhaps trillions of dollars out of the U.S. economy to anonymous offshore accounts."

...this was left in a commentary section.

[kolnidre]

Always keep in mind that these are the same characters that started some of the very first hedgefunds out of Southern Australia in the 1970s -- in order to launder Burmese, Cambodian and Thai drug money for the CIA.

This would be difficult to demonstrate, but the Taiwan connection could intersect with the Golden Triangle somehow, since a lot of the major players in the drug trade there are the descendants of Nationalist (KMT) warlords that left China and set themselves up there while most of their crowd fled to Taiwan in 1949. The CIA has always been tight with the KMT and I wouldn't doubt that they helped prop the warlords up in turn for their contribution to the drug trade.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Well on the KMT, it seems the CIA let anything go in Asia as long as it was anti-communist and didn't involve the acquistion of Nukes or implicate them in these crimes.  The Triads in Taiwan certainly didn't stop shipping drugs to the USA and Europe. The CIA apparently just skimmed for their budget on the Drugs to the West -- like they are probably doing even today except the US govt. is dumping tons cash on them unlike it did in the late 1970s during Carters admininstration.   For example, S. Korea's president "Chun Hee Park" was killed by a CIA plot because he was looking to acquire Nukes in the late 1970s. Apparently they warned him and he didn't back down.  
 
Interesting that according to this link, Soros and Rothschilds invested heavily in the "Carlyle Group".  It is really no surpise when you really look at it.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/socio ... hild06.htm


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( Soros is one of principal investors in Carlyle Group, a defense contractor
George Soros
NS Profile
Neil Clark / New Statesman 2jun03

The billionaire trader has become eastern Europe's uncrowned king and the prophet of "the open society". But open to what? George Soros profiled by Neil Clark

George Soros is angry. In common with 90 per cent of the world's population, the Man Who Broke the Bank of England has had enough of President Bush and his foreign policy. In a recent article in the Financial Times, Soros condemned the Bush administration's policies on Iraq as "fundamentally wrong" - based as they were on a "false ideology that US might gave it the right to impose its will on the world".

Wow! Has one of the world's richest men - the archetypal amoral capitalist who made billions out of the Far Eastern currency crash of 1997 and who last year was fined $2m for insider trading by a court in France - seen the light in his old age? (He is 72.) Should we pop the champagne corks and toast his conversion?

Not before asking what really motivates him. Soros likes to portray himself as an outsider, an independent-minded Hungarian émigré and philosopher-pundit who stands detached from the US military-industrial complex. But take a look at the board members of the NGOs he organizes and finances.

 

At Human Rights Watch, for example, there is Morton Abramowitz, US assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research from 1985-89, and now a fellow at the interventionist Council on Foreign Relations; ex-ambassador Warren Zimmerman (whose spell in Yugoslavia coincided with the break-up of that country); and Paul Goble, director of communications at the CIA-created Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (which Soros also funds).

 

Soros's International Crisis Group boasts such "independent" luminaries as the former national security advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski and Richard Allen, as well as General Wesley Clark, once Nato supreme allied commander for Europe. The group's vice-chairman is the former congressman Stephen Solarz

Take a look also at Soros's business partners. At the Carlyle Group, where he has invested more than $100m, they include the former secretary of state James Baker and the erstwhile defense secretary Frank Carlucci, George Bush Sr and, until recently, the estranged relatives of Osama Bin Laden. Carlyle, one of the world's largest private equity funds, makes most of its money from its work as a defense contractor.

Soros may not, as some have suggested, be a fully paid-up CIA agent. But that his companies and NGOs are closely wrapped up in US expansionism cannot seriously be doubted.

So why is he so upset with Bush? The answer is simple. Soros is angry not with Bush's aims - of extending Pax Americana and making the world safe for global capitalists like himself - but with the crass and blundering way Bush is going about it. By making US ambitions so clear, the Bush gang has committed the cardinal sin of giving the game away. For years, Soros and his NGOs have gone about their work extending the boundaries of the "free world" so skillfully that hardly anyone noticed. Now a Texan redneck and a gang of overzealous neo-cons have blown it.

As a cultivated and educated man (a degree in philosophy from the London School of Economics, honorary degrees from the Universities of Oxford, Yale, Bologna and Budapest), Soros knows too well that empires perish when they overstep the mark and provoke the formation of counter-alliances.

 

He understands that the Clintonian approach of multilateralism - whereby the US cajoles or bribes but never does anything so crude as to threaten - is the only one that will allow the empire to endure. Bush's policies have led to a divided Europe, Nato in disarray, the genesis of a new Franco-German-Russian alliance and the first meaningful steps towards Arab unity since Nasser.

Soros knows a better way - armed with a few billion dollars, a handful of NGOs and a nod and a wink from the US State Department, it is perfectly possible to topple foreign governments that are bad for business, seize a country's assets, and even to get thanked for your benevolence afterwards. Soros has done it.

The conventional view, shared by many on the left, is that socialism collapsed in eastern Europe because of its systemic weaknesses and the political elite's failure to build popular support. That may be partly true, but Soros's role was crucial. From 1979, he distributed $3m a year to dissidents including Poland's Solidarity movement, Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet Union.

 

In 1984, he founded his first Open Society Institute in Hungary and pumped millions of dollars into opposition movements and independent media. Ostensibly aimed at building up a "civil society", these initiatives were designed to weaken the existing political structures and pave the way for eastern Europe's eventual colonization by global capital. Soros now claims, with characteristic immodesty, that he was responsible for the "Americanization" of eastern Europe.

The Yugoslavs remained stubbornly resistant and repeatedly returned Slobodan Milosevic's unreformed Socialist Party to government. Soros was equal to the challenge. From 1991, his Open Society Institute channelled more than $100m to the coffers of the anti-Milosevic opposition, funding political parties, publishing houses and "independent" media such as Radio B92, the plucky little student radio station of western mythology which was in reality bankrolled by one of the world's richest men on behalf of the world's most powerful nation.

 

With Slobo finally toppled in 2000 in a coup d'etat financed, planned and executed in Washington, all that was left was to cart the ex- Yugoslav leader to the Hague tribunal, co-financed by Soros along with those other custodians of human rights, Time Warner Corporation and Disney. He faced charges of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, based in the main on the largely anecdotal evidence of (you've guessed it) Human Rights Watch.

Soros stresses his belief in the "open society" propounded by the philosopher Karl Popper, who taught him at the LSE in the early 1950s. Soros's definition of an "open society" - "an imperfect society that holds itself open to improvement" - sounds reasonable enough; few lovers of genuine liberty would take issue with its central tenet that "the open society is a more sophisticated form of social organization than a totalitarian one". But Soros's "open societies" don't tend to be all that open in practice.

Since the fall of Milosevic, Serbia, under the auspices of Soros-backed "reformers", has become less, not more, free. The recently lifted state of emergency saw more than 4,000 people arrested, many of them without charge, political parties threatened with bans, and critical newspapers closed down. It was condemned by the UN Commission on Human Rights and the British Helsinki Group.

 

But there was not a murmur from the Open Society Institute or from Soros himself. In fairness, Soros has been far more critical of his former protégée Leonid Kuchma, president of the Ukraine, a country described by the former intelligence officer Mykola Melnychenko as "one big protection racket", and now possibly the most repressive police state in Europe.

But generally the sad conclusion is that for all his liberal quoting of Popper, Soros deems a society "open" not if it respects human rights and basic freedoms, but if it is "open" for him and his associates to make money. And, indeed, Soros has made money in every country he has helped to prise "open". In Kosovo, for example, he has invested $50m in an attempt to gain control of the Trepca mine complex, where there are vast reserves of gold, silver, lead and other minerals estimated to be worth in the region of $5bn.

 

He thus copied a pattern he has deployed to great effect over the whole of eastern Europe: of advocating "shock therapy" and "economic reform", then swooping in with his associates to buy valuable state assets at knock-down prices.

More than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Soros is the uncrowned king of eastern Europe. His Central European University, with campuses in Budapest, Warsaw and Prague and exchange programmes in the US, unashamedly propagates the ethos of neoliberal capitalism and clones the next pro-American generation of political leaders in the region. With his financial stranglehold over political parties, business, educational institutions and the arts, criticism of Soros in mainstream eastern European media is hard to find. Hagiography is not.

 

The Budapest Sun reported in February how he had been made an honorary citizen of Budapest by the mayor, Gabor Demszky.

    "Few people have done to Budapest what George Soros has," gushed Demszky, saying that the billionaire had contributed to "structural and mental changes in the capital city and Hungary itself".

The mayor failed to add that Soros is also a benefactor of Demszky's own party, the Free Democrats, which, governing with "reform" communists, has pursued the c

The Soros strategy for extending Pax Americana differs from the Bush model, particularly in its subtlety. But it is just as ambitious and just as deadly. Left-liberals, admiring his support for some of their favourite issues such as gay rights and the legalization of soft drugs, let him off lightly.

Asked about the havoc his currency speculation caused to Far Eastern economies in the crash of 1997, Soros replied:

    "As a market participant, I don't need to be concerned with the consequences of my actions."

Strange words from a man who likes to be regarded as the saviour of civil society and who rails in print against "market fundamentalism".

source: http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism@lis ... 45266.html  3jun03

[Jenny Lake]

Very interesting about Soros.
The Solidarity movement hired well-known communists to create a newspaper for 'free elections' to have a platform. It named its parent company "Agora" and eventually ran afoul of Lech Walesa. Agora Group in Poland now is one of (if not the one) largest media and communications corporations in eastern Europe. I haven't directly tied this Agora Group in Poland to Agora, Inc. in the U.S., but maybe Soros is a missing link. The Polish paper attained financial status with mentoring from Cox Communications --any connection to Soros there?

The Hungarian Jews probably believe themselves to be the modern inventors of "the open society". Before Popper there was Michael Polanyi who emigrated to Britain (in the 1920s), an had a major influence on the activity of the London School of Economics and a lot to do with the 1933 migration out of Germany. And, of course, Theodor Herzl was from Budapest --martyr for the Zionist cause perhaps, speculation that his acceptance of alternative territory for the future state of Israel somewhere other than Palestine, led to his being slowly poisoned to death over a 2 year period. At the time, Herzl was angry at the British "Maccabean Club" for failing the all out support that Herzl was requesting. The Maccabeans were primary supporters of the LSE.

This same "open society" philosophy was imported into the Univ. of Chicago, and provided a major leg of support for the science that went on there --particularly the Manhattan Project --in fact, the MED scientists fraternized in these circles. The neo-con ideology is a direct outgrowth of this. Far from "giving away the game", I think they played their parts with supreme efficiency, ensuring a take-down for the U.S., which the extended and current activity of Agora, Inc. seems designed to do by draining off the financial strength of the American public.