2011 April | American Pendulum

The Intelligence of Mushrooms in Environmental Restoration

Posted by admin Top Stories Monday, April 25th, 2011

As decomposing agents, mycelia of certain mushroom species have the digestive systems to break down long, recalcitrant[1] bonds of many organic pollutants produced by human beings. With proper knowledge of this appetite, mycologists have been learning how to feed toxic wastes such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of oil wastes to mycelia in what plays out as a magic show of ecological transfiguration.

Al-Qaida Assassin 'Worked for MI6'

Posted by admin World Monday, April 25th, 2011

But his CIA captors knew the Algerian had been an informant for MI6 and Canada’s Secret Intelligence Service for over three years – and suspected he had been double-crossing handlers. According to US intelligence the two spy agencies recruited Hamlili as a “humint” – human intelligence – source in December 2000 “because of his connections to members of various al-Qaida linked terrorist groups that operated in Afghanistan and Pakistan”.

Guantanamo Inmates Included 89 Year Old Man and 14 Year Olds

Posted by admin World Monday, April 25th, 2011

The Guantánamo files reveal the often fragile physical and mental condition of Guantánamo’s oldest and youngest residents, who have included an 89-year-old man and boys as young as 14.

China's Ghost Cities and Malls

Posted by admin Featured Media Monday, April 25th, 2011

Documentary by SBS Dateline (Australian TV) about the Chinese real estate market.

Matt Taibbi on a Government "Shadow Budget" that benefits Wall Street

Posted by admin Featured Media Monday, April 25th, 2011

MSNBC Host Cenk Uygur speaks with Rolling Stone Contributing Editor Matt Taibbi on a government “Shadow Budget” that benefited Wall Street

Libyan Financial Heist: Confiscating Libya's Sovereign Wealth Funds

Posted by admin Top Stories Monday, April 25th, 2011

Global Research Article by Manlio Dinucci: The management of sovereign funds has, however, created a new mechanism of power and corruption in the hands of ministers and senior officials, which probably in part escaped the control of the Gadhafi himself: This is confirmed by the fact that, in 2009, he proposed that the 30 billion in oil revenues go “directly to the Libyan people.” This aggravated the fractures within the Libyan government.

Taliban Jail-Break (Video)

Posted by admin World Monday, April 25th, 2011

Around 541 members of the Taliban, including military commanders, escaped from Kandahar city’s main jail via a 320 metre-long tunnel. A Taliban official on Monday confirmed the overnight escape, boasting that the prison break had been “very well-planned” and that it was five months in the making, Al Jazeera’s Qais Azimy, reporting from Kabul, said.

Bretton Woods II — The Final Enslavement of Mankind

Posted by admin Economy Monday, April 25th, 2011

Charges of a conspiracy theory are a convenient pretext to dismiss criticism when the global financial elites meet to shape the next evolution of centralized control of all economic activity.

Max Keiser: As Gold As Gold

Posted by admin Featured Media Monday, April 25th, 2011

Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on downgrades, gold bars and third worlds. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Taki Oldham, director of The Billionaires Tea Party, about tea parties, astroturfing and Ayn Rand.

China Proposes To Cut Two Thirds Of Its $3 Trillion In USD Holdings

Posted by admin Top Stories Monday, April 25th, 2011

today we get a sense of just how big the upcoming Chinese defection from the “buy US debt” Nash equilibrium will be. Not surprisingly, China appears to be getting ready to cut its USD reserves by roughly the amount of dollars that was recently printed by the Fed, or $2 trilion or so. And to think that this comes just as news that the Japanese pension fund will soon be dumping who knows what. So, once again, how about that “end of QE” again?