I only noticed today that Lila Rajiva has now claimed I'm part of the criminals of Agora Inc that she has been employed by and worked for and written hack journalism for and the fraudulent Agora dailyreckoning.com
'book titled,Mobs,Markets and Messiahs',that was even promoted for them by their Israeli and Zionist friends of The New York Times ! Well Lila as you have been an office girl for Agora Inc how about sending me my salary ? Better yet why don't you get your colleagues to empty out their pocket chasnge and reimburse me for my losses from James Davidson's and Porter Stansberry's Endovasc biotexch fraud that ripped me off and that was protected at the highest level of the U.S.SEC or Securities Exchange Common and the U.S.government itrself that the traitor Davidson is so connected to including not only Bill Clinton but dady Bush,George Herberrt Walker Bush,before that !? And no Lyer Rajiva Endiovasc was no more 'naked shorted' than your pal Geico billionaire's son,Patrick Byrne's,Overstock.com was.It was an illegal pump and dump you shameless prostitute!
Note that it has been Lila Rajiva who has attacked a blogger Jennifer Lake for having dared to consider that there may by a connection between Agora Inc. and the Rothschild financial crime family.And while it may be coincidence that one former oil company held by thje Rothschild's was called Agora as well as a company in Colombia with Rothschild connections called agora as well - it is a simple fact that Agora Inc.s money launderer stock fraudster and murder suspect,Porter Stansberry, brags of being the only American to ever be editor of Fleet Street in London.Agora Inc.'s UK Lord William Rees-Mogg who is also a co-author of scammy investment books with Agora Inc founder James Dale Davidsn is connected to Fleet Street Letter as well as connected to the highest levels of UK elites invcluding of course the Rothschild financial crime family.
After all of Agora Inc.prostitute and hack 'journailist' Lila Rajiva's internet attacks against anyone even hinting or wondering if Agora Inc securities and gold frauds promoter of Baltimore with its known UK Lord William Rees-Mogg and CIA connections might possibly have a Rothschild crime family connection - well now we begin to hear a different tune from Lila Rajiva - maybe she's just farting.Ha Ha :
In 2010 Lila Rajiva, between defending Agora Inc known money launderer and stock fraudster and murder suspect Porter Stansberry with his UK Fleet Street connections,( which means he would definitely know UK Rothschild financial crime family members),launched an attack on blogger Jennifer Lake for hinting there might be a connection between Agora Inc of Baltimore with its Rothschild connected UK Lord William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson connections,etc..Note at trhe time she says,'And, darn. “Rothschild agents”? That sounds exciting.'......And now she herself is saying the same thing even more vorciferously. And next she will be denouncing both Lake and myself for 'stealing her idea' just as she always does about everyone else who does their own research that she herself steals and twists to fit her lies even if the truth is no longer completely recognizable after she is done with it.
She also is quick to call aNYONE SHE DOESN'T Agree wqith 'anti-SAemitic' which is strange because she doesn't even seem to have a clear definition of what the term means which is not the same as being Amnti-Jewish at all as she and other Zionists prostitutes use the term.And she associates with CIA ands Agora Inc connected George Tenet's money laundering and friend who apparently was born Jewish but works overtime to appear 'Anti-Semitic' on VeteransToday where she and Duff worked to bash Julian Assange a couple of years ago and if possibe get him imprisoned and tortured by the U.S. government ! Go figure.
-Tony Ryals
The Mind-Body Politic » Writing » individuals, not ideologies
mindbodypolitic.com/tag/writing/CachedYou +1'd this publicly. Undo22 Jul 2012 – And, darn. “Rothschild agents”? That sounds exciting. (March 6, 2010: See EIN above, again). The post goes on: “The owner/founders of Agora ...
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And now Lila the CIA and Agora Inc and Rothschild gold prostitute has this to say.:
http://mindbodypolitic.com/2010/06/23/world-gold-council-rothschild-backed-fund-buy-stakes-in-bullionvault/
London’s BullionVault, an Agora friend and possible partner/affiliate, and, so far as I know, a very reputable firm has recently announced that theWorld Gold Council and Augmentum Capital (backed by Jacob Rothschild’s RIT Capital) has bought stakes in it, in return for a 12.5 million P. investment. I must say I’m not too happy about the news and may look into James Turk’sGold Money as an alternative. The World Gold Council has been an integral part of the gold-suppression scheme that is at the heart of the financialization of the economy from 1970 onward. (Full disclosure: I have an account at BV).
Note (added, June 24): No criticism is meant of anyone at BullionVault, which, from personal experience, I’ve found to be reliable, courteous, and efficient. No criticism is meant of Adrian Ash, the affable and insightful head of BV’s research desk and former Daily Reckoning city editor.- Lila Rajiva
FUNNY THAT LILA RAJIVA CLAIMS I'M AN AGORA INC CONNECTED PERSON WHEN SHE CAN FIND MY RIPPOFFREPORT FROM 2003 COMPLAINING ABOUT BOTH JAMES DALE DAVIDSON AS WELL AS MY EX 'BROKER' CHARLES SCHWAB'S INVOLVEMENT IN AND PROFIT FROM THE ENDOVASC 'BIOTECH' PENNY STOCK FRAUD AND ILLEGAL PUMP AND DUMP THROUGH THEIR 'MARKET MAKER' THAT WAS SHORTLY AFTER SOLD TO UBS AND WHOSE COLLAPSE IN SHARE PRICE AGORA INC'S JIM, OR JAMES DALE, DAVIDSON FRAUDULENLTLY BLAMED ON 'NAKED HORT SELLING',A LIE THAT LILA HERSELF IS GUILTY OF PASSING AROUND THE INTERNET !
Rajiva claims I must be an Agora Inc employee like herself because I haven't denounced EVERY single member of that financial fraud crime family,'like CEO Myles Norin, or their attorney, Matt Turner, or Agora Financial chief, Addison Wiggin, or some of their star traders, 'like Alan Knuckman.''
'Funnier still, Ryals never mentions a former senior employee, Christoph Amberger, whose blog about the company’s marketing shenanigans was shut down in 2011. Reportedly, this was after he was paid to shut up, that is, held to a non-disclosure agreement by threat of litigation.
'Instead, Ryals waffles on about Davidson, who is safely beyond reach of prosecution, and, in any case, seems to have more than paid for any sins by his investigations into the Clinton mafia and his insights into the manipulation of the stock markets; Bonner, who probably has no legal liability, as he’s not an officer of the company, and is too wealthy, too cautious, too smart, and too well-connected to get into trouble anyway;and Stansberry, who is already damaged goods and unlikely to get hurt any worse by innuendo.''''.....''
If Lila dearest will provide a complete list of all her sleazy colleagues at Agora Inc I'll curse them all individually.While Lila was allowed to post her commentary on her Agora Inc scumbag colleague Christoph Amberger's website before he removed it and fawn over his sword fighting scars I who told him he was an East German Stassi Nazi among other things,had my posts removed !In particular he deleted my commentary over the strange death of Agora Inc.'s Rey Rivera who took a 14 floor fall from the Belvedere
Hotel in Baltimore in 2006 the year after Lila Rajiva began emailing me about James Dale Davidson and then announced she was an employee of Agora and at the same time coincidentally when Porter Stansberry emailed me and invited me to Baltimore to 'prove' Agora was a legit company !
................................................ http://mindbodypolitic.com/2012/08/24/paul-lehrman-connection-meaningless-says-libertarian-gold-site/ Paul-Lehrman Connection Meaningless, Says Daily Bell (Corrections Added)
August 24, 2012by Lila Rajiva
'I even thought Agora itself was encouraging the story,(i.e. that Agora Inc. is connected to the Rothschild financial crime family network) , a view shared by at least one other credible journalist. For the same reason, I suspect that Tony Ryals, the cyberbully behind all the negative postings about me, isn’t half as insane as he pretends to be. In fact, I think he has indirect ties to Agora himself, since he never mentions the people there who have actual legal responsibility for things, like CEO Myles Norin, or their attorney, Matt Turner, or Agora Financial chief, Addison Wiggin, or some of their star traders, like Alan Knuckman.''
'Funnier still, Ryals never mentions a former senior employee, Christoph Amberger, whose blog about the company’s marketing shenanigans was shut down in 2011. Reportedly, this was after he was paid to shut up, that is, held to a non-disclosure agreement by threat of litigation.
'Instead, Ryals waffles on about Davidson, who is safely beyond reach of prosecution, and, in any case, seems to have more than paid for any sins by his investigations into the Clinton mafia and his insights into the manipulation of the stock markets; Bonner, who probably has no legal liability, as he’s not an officer of the company, and is too wealthy, too cautious, too smart, and too well-connected to get into trouble anyway; and Stansberry, who is already damaged goods and unlikely to get hurt any worse by innuendo.
But leaving intriguing theories about the cyber-underworld in which Ryals and his rants reside, I’m still not sure what the Rothschild connections to Agora really amount to. The best I can say is I’m much more willing to believe some people there profit from them..........'
Now that I’ve come to think the whole “Rothschild” conspiracy is something more than fiction, I’ve also begun to look at Ron Paul with a more critical eye.
So that’s where I come from on that.
Now, for my own credibility on the subject, given that I too have a connection to Agora:
This is what I have to say.
Except for the attacks following my pieces on Assange (by Tom Ussher at RealLibertarian Christian) and a legal threat at DailyBell (by someone calling himself Al Kyder), and a couple of other things, one hundred percent of the negative posts about me on the net stem from this one supposedly crazy person, who seems to have an indirect connection to Agora.....
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Lila at The Daily Reckoning
I’ve updated and added links to this page several times. Many of the links are to stock message-boards rather than to mainstream articles, because I believe the discussion around these articles is just as important as the original articles and because the story of the financial scandal first broke on threads like these, not in the mainstream.I’ve noted some of my changes and the time when I made them, but not all, because the piece becomes almost unreadable with so many notes and corrections added.Suffice to say, it’s a work in progress and I will continue to add new information and links as I see fit.______________________________From: “Lila Rajiva” <lrajiva@hotmail.com>
To: endoscam@lycos.com
Subject: Re Agora and Davidson
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:25:56 +0000> Dear Mr. Ryall,
>
> I read with interest your articles on the net regarding Agora
> Publishing and the stock ventures of the founder, James Dale
> Davidson. However, I was led to believe that Bill Bonner a
> well-known copywriter and author is the founder. Can you please
> clarify this as I have had some dealings with the latter gentleman
> and am concerned about such connections. Could it be that you are
> mistaken in your accusations?
>
> Sincerely
> Lila RajivaEMAIL TWO:October 27, 2005From: “Lila Rajiva” <lrajiva@hotmail.com>
To: endoscam@lycos.com
Subject: Re: Re Agora and Davidson
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:19:44 +0000>> Dear Mr. Ryals,
>
> I did speak to Mr. Bonner about Porter Stansberry. He was very
> forthcoming and adhered to the position that he was not guilty of
> any legal wrong doing, such as pump and dump.
>
> He seemed a very open and sincere individual so I am a bit puzzled.
> It’s quite possible that some of his associates are involved in
> things he is not aware of.
>
> Or that they were only inexperienced or needlessly zealous, which
> was unfortunate, but may not be illegal.
>
> Do let me know if you come across anything else.
>
> Lila Rajiva
>EMAIL THREEOctober 27, 2011:From: “Lila Rajiva” <lrajiva@hotmail.com>
To: endoscam@lycos.com
Subject: Re: Re Agora and Davidson
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:17:44 +0000
> Mr. Ryals,
>
> I’ll keep this in mind. Thanks.
>
> Regards.
> Lila RajivaEMAIL FOUROctober 28, 2011:From: “Lila Rajiva” <lrajiva@hotmail.com>
To: endoscam@lycos.com
Subject: Re: Re Agora and Davidson
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:32:52 +0000> Dear Mr. Ryals:
>
> Thank you for all this information. I will certainly keep it in
> mind. I plan to work for Mr. Bonner only in a limited way and with
> nothing to do with his stock activities or selling. I am a writer
> and and planning on working on a book with him that has nothing to
> do with finances.
>
> I appreciate this information and do thank you for it. But I am not
> in a position to ascertain the truth of it and don’t have the time
> as well. I hope that you will be able to recoup your losses. I
> sincerely feel for you about that as I suffered similar losses
> through unscrupulous individuals.
>
> Kind regards
> Lila Rajiva
I was hired to work at Agora between November, 2005 and January, 2006.During that time, I was also traveling and promoting my first book and working on an article for another book (”One of the Guys,” Seal Press). I was also getting ready to go abroad. In fact, I was out of the country for most of 2006. That too is well-documented, from official and personal records.What could I have to do with things going on in Baltimore that year? Nothing.More sliming by Ryals.In 2007, after difficulties over promotion and attribution of the book which was released in 2007, I decided to leave. By that time, I’d had to research dozens of pieces to find out who wrote what in the Daily Reckoning columns, some of which were used for Mr. Bonner’s part of the book. That led to research into previous Agora books. The company’s somewhat loose attitude toward attribution had me worried that I might have incorporated material that was actually written by some previous co-author who hadn’t been fully attributed. Going back into Agora’s history, I then saw some articles and statements showing that Mr. Davidson had been involved as recently as 2004.This led me to think about what Tony Ryals had written to me about Davidson, and it led me to drop a note to him in 2007. At that point, seeing my book and my pieces in support of Ron Paul, Ryals flew into a rage and started attacking me as a “stock fraud,” “con artist,” and “bimbo,” all over the web, even though I wrote back to him at length explaining that I’d never written any newsletters there or sold stocks, beyond a few investment notes that you can read below.The only investment report I wrote was one in 2006, recommending that people sell Goldman Sachs. That was the prototype of all the fashionable “Short Goldman” political and financial columns being tossed around today. Writing that in 2006 was a whole different ball game.[To give credit where it's due, it was not my idea to turn the Goldman research into an investment report. I was actually researching Goldman for "Mobs," when I was in Argentina. I mentioned this to Mr. Bonner, who was also suspicious of Goldman's trading success. I recall that he asked about it to Kevin Kerr, an excellent trader who used to work atAgora, and Kerr was suspicious too.Around that time, Mr. Bonner was also trying to get me to do more interesting work than editing and he suggested I write up my research as an investment report on Goldman Sachs. This I did and a part of it was published as a cover story on Agora affiliate/subsidiary, Money Week, a prestigious English business magazine. Later, the report was sold through another newsletter, under someone else's name without my permission.Apparently, the assignment sparked off resentment against me in the company so that for most of 2007-07, some individuals were intent on defaming me, undermining my work, or otherwise making it difficult for me to continue. Nonetheless, I was offered a position there (I refused it) and Mr. Bonner did write me a good testimonial, even though I have also refused to use it, on principle.Let me be clear. I no longer feel a need to revisit this issue.The only reason I do so is because of the continuing malicious lies Ryals keeps publishing about me, at every turn, with the clear intention of smearing me by association and thus discrediting my work.As I mentioned before, Mr. Bonner did apologize for what happened in 2007 and recently also written me an apology about a recent attribution issue. For me, this is enough.The case is closed.Lila Rajiva......
EMAIL FIVE (AFTER I LEFT AGORA IN 2007)
| From: | Lila Rajiva (lrajiva@hotmail.com) |
| Sent: | Sun 12/02/07 6:33 PM |
| To: | william knowles (endoscam@lycos.com) |
Yes I did say I wouldn't be involved in Agora's stock selling in 2005.
And guess, what. It's 2008 and I haven't been. I have never sold a
single stock for them.
As for Jim Davidson, I believe his association with Agora has been
terminated for some years and no one there defends him. The investment
advice that I've read in the Agora newsletters that I've followed has
been basically useful - and provided at very reasonable terms. Too bad
I haven't always followed it.
Do I have a problem with some of their "hard sell" language? Yes, I
do. And I expressed it to several people there quite vociferously and
incessantly. I think some of them became quite bored and annoyed with
me over it.
But not all of their advisories use those tactics. Many are quite
low-key and all of them do give you your money back.
In any case, the company is very free-wheeling and there are lots of
very different people doing very different things.
I decided at the time that it was unfair to tar everyone with the
mistakes of a few and chose to work on Mr. Bonner's Daily Reckoning
column as an idea person, research assistant, and editor from late
2005- mid 2007. And to write a book with him.
I decided that the good of bringing some political home truths to
people in the influential financial world far outweighed the bad of
possibly having people like yourself leap to wrong conclusions. In an
important election year, that was actually a no-brainer for me.
How is that wrong?
In 2005, when Mr. Bonner approached me about the book, he did indeed
intend it to be a pop sociology book and not financial. And most of
the book, even in its finished version, is about politics and history.
We added a financial and investment section later mainly because the
publisher needed that to sell the book, since finance is the field
where Mr. Bonner is best-known.
Besides, the investment advice Mr. Bonner gave in the book was
extremely general. Not was it necessarily what I think. In a joint
effort, it's not possible to always agree on all things. I think I
mention that in the preface to the book.
Funny thing is if you had followed his advice over the last couple of
years, you'd have doubled your money...
FYI, here's an account of how the book was written:
www.thehindubusinessline.com/
As for my qualifications, you're wrong there too. I have an
undergraduate degree in economics and history and did graduate work in
International Relations (MA)- where I read a healthy quantity of
economics. I currently contribute to the whackonomics column of the
Hindu, which, if you've ever read it, answers questions on finance and
economics from people in the field. I have also studied the market and
trading on my own for seven years. I think I can hold my own in
understanding how finance works in the real world. In any case, if you
read our book, you will see a large part of it is a debunking of the
notion of economics as a science like physics. We think a knowledge of
history and human psychology is more important. Since I have graduate
training in history, politics, and philosophy, I'm pretty well
qualified I think.
By the way, the year before I wrote the book about Abu Ghraib, I was
making (trying to make) my living as a swing trader...so my interest
in finance is quite long standing and preceded my social activism. I
see no conflict between the two, actually.
On your other accusations:
I was invited to speak at BFI Consulting's conference to promote
"Mobs, Messiahs and Markets." I wasn't going to talk about investments
but about how governments destroy savings. Had I chosen to speak about
anything to do with investment, it would have been about the global
real estate market, which I know quite well.
As for Dr.Mark Skousen, I have never met him personally, but he was
kind enough to blurb our book and point out errors in the MS. I owe
him gratitude at least for that. From what I know, he is an erudite
and accomplished author/teacher in the areas of economics and
philosophy.
I am also aware that he has worked with the CIA, but that is all I
know and I don't think you are right to draw any conclusions about me
from that. I hope you are not naive enough to believe that everyone
connected with the CIA routinely engages in water boarding on
weekends. It's a large, mostly bureaucratic organization.
The fact that I might have accepted an invitation to speak at the same
conference where Dr. Skousen was also speaking says nothing. I also
correspond with an Indian friend of (the late) Milton Friedman. I
suppose you would say that makes me complicit in South American
torture, as Naomi Klein seems to think. Actually, I consider Dr.
Friedman a statist and far from being libertarian. but I doubt that
even statist economics inevitably leads to a painful death.
Finally, my birth data is not on the Internet, because I don't give it
out. Put it down to the fragile egos of women over the age of thirty.
If there's anything else you'd like to know, please feel free to drop
me an email, instead of taking it to an Internet web page.Kind regards.
Lila RajivaTHAT IS THE LAST EMAIL I EVER SENT HIM.Now, please check the number of times he has posted all over the net any time he hears my name, even if it's from a third party. The figure runs into the scores, even though a number of sites were ethical enough to take down his posts after I explained the story. Even so, there is no forum on which he hasn't tried to smear me or get into battle with the forum's owners to spread his lies.Notice, how his story keeps changing.First, Porter Stansberry invited him down to Baltimore; then, when he got angry with me, it became Lila Rajiva and Porter Stansberry.First, it was Mark Skousen who worked for the CIA (true enough) and then it became Lila Rajiva and Skousen and Bill Bonner, who work for the CIA.First, it was Bud Burrell who threatened him (true enough); then it's Bud Burrell (whom I don't know) and Lila Rajiva who threatened him.In other words, he just adds the name of whoever he's angry with to whatever allegation he is spewing.Yet these clear signs of either derangement or disinformation are ignored by Indymedia, to whom truth doesn't matter as long as they can smear whoever they see as their opponents (and I have no idea why they should consider me so, since I am fairly anti-corporatist as well).NOTE: there is NOT ONE WORD in all these emails inviting him to Baltimore or to any other Agora office anywhere.To be truthful, I originally didn't read what Ryals had to say in any great depth, because it all sounded like the confused ranting of someone who was extremely upset. Throughout 2006-07 I was much more involved in researching the housing bubble fraud and tying together the story of Goldman Sachs so that, for me, the pump-and-dump part of the story was much less interesting, as it was more limited in scope.... or. so it seemed to me at the time.Indeed, the only reason I became interested again in what Ryals was saying was that during the promotion of the book I began to become alarmed by the loose attitude of some (note, some) editors/copywriters/publishers to factual accuracy, attribution, and related copyright matters.This was one of the reasons I left.About a month later, I remembered what I'd read on the web and decided to find out what happened to Ryals' case. My email to him (a few polite noncommittal words) is the last email (see above) I ever sent him.That was in 2008. And again, there's not a word in it inviting anyone anywhere.As soon as Ryals got my mail, he went to my blog and noticed I was supporting Ron Paul. This sent him into a wild rage and he began attacking me, both at the blog and all over stock forums. And that has continued almost non-stop for three and a half years, escalating to wilder and wilder statements.Update 6 (September 28, 2010)I just came across this site, which hosts some poems and essays from Ryals (see below). From appearances, it seems to be legitimate and it gives some information about his motives and background.This is what I get from it:1. Ryals claims to be a small investor/stock trader, who invested his inheritance through Charles Schwab in an investment (Endovasc) sold by James Dale Davidson, and lost all his money. This seems to have been in 2001-2002.He has posted since then under multiple aliases on the Raging Bull message-board, a frequent haunt of paid "bashers" who pose as cybervigilantes looking out for naive investors. In reality, many of these so-called vigilantes have turned out to be in the pay of short-selling hedge-funds and their associates. Ryals might be one of them, or he might be posting disinformation that helps them, or he might genuinely be a defrauded investor who's driven himself a bit crazy over his loss. This is not to say that there isn't some truth in what he alleges. But it is misconstrued and mangled to the point that it actually constitutes a hindrance to anyone researching these topics seriously.2. Ryals also seems to have had a mental illness/breakdown and been confined at some point. That's by his own admission. This would account for the stream-of-consciousness writing and magical thinking, as well as the emotional fixation that I've noted.3. He seems to make his money from a small farming (coffee business) of some kind in Guatemala (which is where his IP addresses originate). The outfit is called Tostaduria, Antigua, and his writings on coffee, politics, finance, and other things, are hosted by a budget travel site based in Central America. In earlier versions, this site seemed to be very much on the left, as you would think if it hosted Ryals' writing. However, the home page on June 12, 2011, displayed an animus toward Islam ("gutter religion", "Mohammed (May s*** be upon him") that's quite outlandish, especially coming from a self-described progressive site. Notice also that Ryals, though posing as some one on the far left, actually supports establishment Democrats, rushing to the defense of Bill and Hillary Clinton over the Vince Foster story, for instance.Ryals' unwavering position that there is no such thing as naked short-selling is in fact a hallmark of the thinking of the financial establishment, which makes me suspect that someone or other from that bloc subsidizes or feeds his rants in some way. It is interesting, for example, that while he rants about my "connection" to Agora, he never mentions leading figures currently working in that outfit.Some of them are well-connected to Wall Street and thereby to the hedge-fund community. Elements in that community, as Deep Capture notes, are in business with organized crime and have a history of bashing people on the net anonymously, in the most scurrilous terms. That suggests to me that some of the anonymous libels of me (not those by Ryals, but other comments) might well have come from someone with such connections. See here for a forum discussion, in which the editor of Barron's complains about an alleged threat made to him, which turns out to have been made in response to anonymous threats/slanders posted by the cybervigilantes connected to the hedge-fund community.Ryals is clearly in touch with Barrons' editors, Dow Jones newswire reporters, and the SEC. And, if Ryals is linked to them in some way, it makes sense that he never references them in his wild accusations.You'd think if Ryals were seriously interested in researching the company, he would at least mention long-time critic and former division chief Christoph Amberger's analysis in his posts. Nothing of the sort. His attention (and venom) is focused elsewhere, on a motley band of right-leaning figures, including Lew Rockwell, Patrick Byrne, and Jim Davidson, who have only one thing in common obviously.They are all critics of the Federal Reserve and the paper money regime.Therein lies the true motivation for Ryals' nasty, supposedly "progressive" rants.4. Ryals exhibits a deep-seated hatred of Christianity and the Pope in his writing. This is observation not psychoanalysis, since none is needed. His mental state speaks for itself.5. He writes under multiple emails, probably as a result of being banned from various forums or having his account deactivated for using too many aliases and posting off-topic. Apparently he sees this as some kind of global censorship of his stock investigations.[I can't say whether or not he has been censored in other contexts, but I certainly never asked to censor his views on anything, except to ask him to remove false and malicious statements about me. Besides, I have no motive to, since I also think the financial world is riddled with fraud and corruption and have written a lot about it. The only difference is that I don't make any distinctions between different types of fraud, whereas Ryals (along with the establishment media in general) prefers to focus on management-related fraud or stock-pumping and money-laundering, while ignoring "activist" hedge-fund/speculator -related fraud. This often boils down to a political division, since several libertarian activists seem to show up in government cases of tax evasion or share manipulation or licensing issues (eg. this pieceon intelligence analyst-turned-stock promoter, Bob Chapman) whereas speculators and banks, even those committing much larger and more consequential frauds, seem to walk free.As one of the targets of his rants says:
"Your delight in attacking responsible people and companies and indiscriminately lumping them into a category with bad actors is a destructive way for someone to spend their time on the Internet. You carefully hide behind the anonymity of the Internet. I have no need to do so. " (Ronald Logan, Atty., Logan & Geotas, Phoenix, Arizona)6. Again, as I note below, I think the Deep Capture website is closer to the truth than the other sites that try to identifyRyals (Causalnexus, Fraudwatch?). Both of these claim he's a con man called Joe Cafasso. But somehow the profiles there don't match what is known of Ryals.[June 12: I have rewritten parts of this section, since there was some repetition in the old version. I've also added some new links I came across about Ryals}So who is Ryals?Clarence Anthony Ryals was born in Texas (could this be him?) and is a small investor/trader, who lost his inheritance in the market. That much seems to be accurate, but the rest is a mish-mash of links, names, and events that sometimes have only a tenuous connection to each other.As I just said, this is either because Ryals has a mental problem...or because someone pays him to write as if he does. You'll notice that his writings on other topics besides finance (like his pieces on cocoa) display none of the confusion and contradiction evident in his comments on naked short-selling.While he doesn't sound like the professional con artist described at CausalNexus, he associates on boards with some people who might well be. He has become something of an eccentric local fixture, showing up in accounts of travelers to Guatemala. (That is, if the "cocoa man" is really him, and not a ficitious persona).More to the point, and quite oddly, Ryals' name has also shown up in several newspaper articles in the MSM, and he seems to have corresponded with several reputed print journalists, including Carol Remond, Christopher Byron, Gary Weiss, and blogger Jeff Mitchell, among others. There is a degree of attention-seeking in his name-dropping about the people he "knows" and their interest in his incessant self-referential cut-and-paste posts.I notice that in the past few months he's stopped referencing me in his posts. I think maybe it sank into his head that I've been telling the truth.{Update: Feb 15 2011: Unfortunately, this hiatus was short-lived]Update 5 (September 10, 2010):I’ve made all except two of my previous posts on Agora private, as there isn’t any longer a valid reason for them to be aired in the public realm. They’ll stay that way, unless I see some further need to republish them. (Added: May 3, 2011: Since then, Ryals’s renewed libels, as well as other developments, have led me to keep most of my posts up).Internet disclosures are permanent and very intrusive and I made those only after carefully weighing any personal injury they might cause against my own right to defend my credibility and the public interest at stake. My judgment at this point is that my privacy, as well as the privacy of the people I’ve cited, trumps any public interest in the matter.So, the only posts still public are this one and another responding to web libel directed against me. These two will remain public as long as those libels remain on the net.Update 4 (June 26, 2010):Re: the accusation by Ryals (multiple posted) that I created a “vanity” bio. This is rubbish too. You can’t actually create a “vanity” bio. There are a number of criteria for an entry, and an entry that doesn’t meet those criteria will be removed in short order.So that’s Ryals’ imagination. My bio was originally created by someone who liked the Abu Ghraib book. I didn’t know about it and found out purely by accident. Originally, wikipedia also had a photo of me posted there, which I had removed - something I surely wouldn’t have done, if I was interested in self-promotion. That was in 2006.Shortly after, I wrote in support of the 9-11 truth movement. It was at that point that someone at wikipedia decided I didn’t deserve an entry and tried to remove my page. The discussion ended with my entry being retained. That actually happened twice and had everything to do with my writing on Zionism and 9-11, since Wikipedia is controlled on certain subjects by a Zionist cabal, to which Gary Weiss, allegedly, belongs. Weiss is highly critical of Patrick Byrne and the whole anti-naked-short-selling campaign, whereas, in general and with some caveats, I support it. Weiss is, allegedly, protected by Jimmy Wales, the founder/owner of Wikipedia. I know nothing about Wales, beyond what I read. In fact, I first heard Wales’ name from the Ryals.In 2008-09, when there was an issue about the attribution of certain articles, a close friend added pieces to the existing list of my articles at the wikipedia entry. Nothing wrong with that. There was nothing promotional about the list. It was a factual record of the truth. I blogged about that and about Deep Capture, Weiss and Ryals. In July-August 2009, a pro-Zionist editor at wikipedia saw my blog post (which was supportive of DC) and immediately tried to eliminate my wiki entry again. The editor also tried to expunge the wikipedia entry for the GetAbstract business award, which is given out by a libertarian business outfit in Switzerland and is a well-known, well-regarded and influential award, cited in all major media. That shows you what the political agenda of wikipedia is.**My credentials are exactly as I’ve said they are and they can be verified quite easily by anyone who puts in the effort and uses their intelligence. More than that I’m unwilling to put on the net, given that my blog is fairly controversial and I’m an immigrant writing about politics here. I travel widely and spend a lot of time outside the country, which is why I regard myself as an unofficial expat. In a while, I’ll put up some of my doctoral work, as well as testimonials (suitably scrubbed) as verification.Another example. Ryals claims that I must be Msid (a wikipedia editor who edited James Davidson’s entry there).Quote: I suspect the Mysid alias Wikpedia editor is really the fraud and possibly dangerous Agora Inc criminal LilaRajiva.Now take a look at the Msid profile. Msid is (or claims to be) a biosciences student from somewhere in northern Europe. She edited the Davidson entry in early November 2005, before I’d even been hired by Agora. At the time I was still teaching and was working on the release of my first book, “The Language of Empire” . As you can imagine, I was swamped with work and with articles and PR connected with the book…. as any writer would be. Fiddling with a stranger’s wikipedia page would be the last thing I’d have time for, even if you assume I was engaged in some kind of global conspiracy to cover up for an Anglophile stock-promoter/political activist I’d never laid eyes on and had only heard about from Ryals’ Indymedia posting in the first place. What’s more, a brown-skinned, black-haired, middle-aged Indian humanities scholar who relies on her web reputation for her credibility would surely do something a tad easier and smarter than moonlight as a blue-eyed (presumably), twenty-something Scandinavian science student whose email, IP address, appearance and identity could easily be verified by wikipedia.Update 2, June 13, 2010): I’ve noticed that several Indymedia outlets (see here and here) are now deleting/hidingRyals’ posts, not because they’re censoring the content (which would be wrong) but because it’s obvious that he’s posting for reasons quite other than what he states. He’s google-bombing and using Indymedia as a PR tool rather than an information outlet. Add to that, cross-posting, endless self-referential links, repetition, ad hominem, and vicious twisting of facts. Recently, I also noticed this allegation that Ryals is actually a well-known confidence man called Joe Cafasso. That doesn’t seem too plausible to me, but who knows…..In any case, what is clear is that there seems to be a long streak of confusion and disinformation of some kind inRyals posts, as even fellow message-board aficionados and anti-NSS critics have noted:“Mark [Cuban, of Blog Maverick], do us a favor and introduce an ignore feature to your blog. This will be a very interesting topic and I’d like to put Tony Ryals on ignore so I don’t have to wade through 50 pages of him cutting and pasting stuff and self indulging his ego with fragments of illiterate sentences that adds nothing to the conversation but instead clogs any threads of rational discussion.”The account of Ryals at Deep Capture is probably closest to the truth. I should add that I’ve also seen some evidence in his writing that Ryals is connected to the Wall Street “media mob,” which has been connected to a disinformation campaign conducted by the big banks. The media mob tends to be uncritically admiring of stock vigilantes, even though a number of them have ended up in prison, as you can see from checking out the comments on this Deep Capture post.Update 1: I’ve added a few facts/explanations to this response (originally posted at Indymedia), since the posterRyals then did what cyberstalkers and flamers like to do - returned and twisted even my innocuous defense into something different.(Added on Feb 15, 2011: I am using his name in my revisions/updates because he no longer rushes out to attack when mentioned, which was his old m.o.)Introduction to Post (Feb 15, 2011):I’ve posted below my published response to the libels of a cyberstalker and stock-basher (associated, in my belief, as well as in the belief of others, with a group of bashers posing as stock vigilantes, such as Janice Shell, some of whom are directly connected to Anthony Elgindy’s stock-board - anthonypacific.com). Ryals’ abusive and libelous rants about me, and many other people, can be found on Indymedia and other forums:Original Response On Indymedia1. I do not know, have never met, and have never corresponded with Porter Stansberry, James Davidson, Bud Burrell, or Gary Weiss. Or Jimmy Wales. I’m certainly not “covering up” for them or for anyone else at Agora Inc. or at Deep Capture. Many of the allegations/facts about Agora cited by this poster Ryals have actually been taken without attribution from research first posted at my blog and then twisted around to suit this poster’s agenda.2. I did not remove Mr. Davidson’s name from anywhere on wikipedia, nor have I ever corresponded with Gary Weiss or Jimmy Wales on wikipedia about Davidson. That can be verified by looking up the record at wikipedia. I contribute once in a while to comments at Deep Capture, a site which is highly CRITICAL of Mr. Weiss. I’m not involved in Deep Capture in any other way, and I’ve never received any compensation from them for anything.I encountered and corresponded with someone called “Mantanmoreland” when I came across his address and comments NOT at wiki, but at some internet forums like the SEC website, where it was THIS POSTER Ryals who brought his name up:http://www.sec.gov/comments/
I seriously doubt it.For shame.Lila RajivaPS. I stand by the remark that I made in early 2008 (after I had left Agora and was no longer receiving compensation for them in any way and without any solicitation on their part). I remarked that if you had followed Bonner’s ‘trade of the decade’ (sell the stock market, buy gold) you would indeed have doubled your money by 2008. I didn’t do that to “promote Bonner” . It was simply a truthful observation and I brought it up in my exchange with the poster to defend myself from his charge that my book was somehow inaccurate or misleading. It was not. Read it and see._______________________________
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