November 30, 2008 (LPAC)--The Dec. 7-11 conference in Parana, Brazil, featuring Soros-promoter Thomas Palley, as well as a handful of British-run renegades from the LaRouche movement, is growing in scope. Agencia Brasil, the official news agency, posted an interview Nov. 27 with conference sponsor Parana Governor Roberto Requiao, in which he reports that Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega is now scheduled to attend, and that all state governors and current presidential candidates have been invited to come for the last day of the conference.

Requiao said: "We are inviting personalities with a heterodox view of economics; I'm not going to invite those who caused the disaster." One wonders if Requiao is even aware of the fact that someone invited Soros flunky Thomas Palley to the event as a featured speaker. LPAC has been able to confirm that at least some among the conference's leading organizers were totally unaware of the invitation to Palley, and of his connection to Soros--whom they thoroughly despise. So the interesting question is: "Whodunnit?"

Further research on Palley, who was the Director of the Globalization Reform Project at George Soros's Open Society Institute in 2002 and 2003, shows that he shares Soros's agenda for the U.S. Democratic Party, including a visceral hatred of Hillary and Bill Clinton. In an April 2008 op-ed, "Curse of the Clintons," Palley demanded that Hillary Clinton drop out of the Democratic primary race: "The reality is both [Hillary and Bill Clinton--ed.] are cut from the same cloth, which is marked by unbridled ambition and desire for power for power's sake... When it comes to the Clintons, the truth is they have become a curse for Democrats and not an asset."

As for Palley's idol, the economist Irving Fisher (1867-1947), he not only was a proponent of the British race-science of eugenics--as was his contemporary John Maynard Keynes, whom Palley also greatly admires--but he was also wildly incompetent both in theory and economic forecasts. As the New School web site reports: "His [Fisher's] fortune was lost and his reputation was severely marred by the 1929 Wall Street crash, when just days before the crash, he was reassuring investors that stock prices were not overinflated but, rather, had achieved a new, permanent plateau." Sound familiar?