2011 September | American Pendulum

BofA, Wells Fargo, Citigroup Left TARP Early To Avoid Restrictions On Executive Pay: Report

Posted by admin Economy Friday, September 30th, 2011

In the wake of the financial crisis, a number of the nation’s largest banks were excused from the government’s rescue program before they had returned to a position of complete financial security — in part because they wanted to avoid restrictions on how much their executives would get paid, according to a new report from the program’s government overseer.

States to Financially Break Away from Federal Government

Posted by admin Economy, National News/Opinion Friday, September 30th, 2011

Silver Shield-I received this email this morning from Ron Hera about how states are establishing their sovereignty and getting ready for the mathematically inevitable collapse of the dollar.

Total Control of United States (FULL MOVIE) The Israel Lobby

Posted by admin World Friday, September 30th, 2011

A short documentary on the influence of the Israeli Lobby on the U.S. and whether the U.S. support for Israel is in its best interest.

US media blackout of protest is shameful

Posted by admin World Friday, September 30th, 2011

One of the best-kept secrets in the United States over the past two weeks seems to be the protest on and near Wall Street in New York. More than 1,000 people protested on the first day, September 17, marching and chanting slogans. Yet the demonstration, known as Occupy Wall Street, did not appear on the major networks’ evening news or in major newspapers the next day.

This economic collapse is a 'crisis of bigness'

Posted by admin Economy Friday, September 30th, 2011

Paul Kingsnorth-Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened

Citibank Like the Mafia

Posted by admin World Thursday, September 29th, 2011

A businessman arrived at a Citibank office in Indonesia to pay his debts. Hours later, a family friend found him sprawled on the floor of a Citibank interrogation room with his nose bleeding, bruises on his head and abdomen, and foam in his mouth.

How propaganda works on Bill O’Reilly’s imbecile TV

Posted by admin Economy Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Stacy Herbert-They identify Nomi first and foremost as an economist, when, in fact, she is a former SENIOR banker – the reason for this mis-identification is that Bill O’Reilly’s low information, anti-intellectual audience equates economist as ‘academic’ and so liberal – making her DOUBLE LIBERAL (Fox News meaning of the word)! But banker = good, hero, patriot, wealth creator. So the O’Reilly audience is not allowed to know that she is a former Managing Director of Goldman Sachs and senior banker at Bear Stearns for it would short circuit his propaganda.

China Loan Shark Market Crashes; Scores of Chinese Business Owners Unable to Pay Black Market Loans Commit Suicide or Disappear

Posted by admin World Thursday, September 29th, 2011

About 89% of families/individuals and 59% of companies in Wenzhou participated in such “private loan” schemes. In Erdos (the ghost city you blogged many times), such “private loans” are more than 200 billion RMB with annual interest rate over 60%. Now they are crashing, causing rampant unfinished real estate projects in Erdos.

The Greek Depression

Posted by admin Featured Media Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, ask why wallstreet protesters are maced in the face for merely walking on the sidewalk while JP Morgan’s CEO can throw a tirade in the face of regulators and a central banker without being pepper-sprayed. They ask why Vince Cable doesn’t pack some pepper spray.

Michael Krieger: Rebellion Has Arrived in America

Posted by admin Top Stories Thursday, September 29th, 2011

What has shielded the U.S. from a lot of the social strife sweeping the rest of the globe at the moment has been the U.S. dollar’s reserve status…This keeps the populace fat, happy and most importantly asleep and apathetic. Well I am pleased to announce that those days are OVER. The American populace is now in the very beginnings of a state of open peaceful rebellion against the criminal oligarchic mafia that runs the nation through fraud and corruption. The status quo is likely to become increasingly defensive as a result and may lash out aggressively like a cornered rat, but they cannot and will not win.