2011 September | American Pendulum

Global Financial Apocalypse – Step Aside BBC "Trader": Head Of UniCredit Securities Predicts Imminent End Of The Eurozone

Posted by admin Top Stories Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

ZeroHedge – “A Greek default will trigger an immediate “magnitude 10” earthquake across Europe.”…”Holders of Greek government bonds will have to write off their entire investment, the southern European nation will stop paying salaries and pensions and automated teller machines in the country will empty “within minutes.”

A Move Underway to Discredit "Trader" Alessio Rastani?

Posted by admin Top Stories Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

“I agreed to go on because I’m attention seeker,” he [Rastani] said on Tuesday. “But I meant every word I said.” His comments that Goldman Sachs “rules the world” apparently have the elite in a twist. Damage control is in force. But, whether Alessio Rastani’s credentials as a “market expert” may have been implicitly implied, but exaggerated, it can still be argued that Goldman Sachs is at least part of a banking system that has way too much power over the political processes in the West.

Germany slams 'stupid' US plans to boost EU rescue fund

Posted by admin Economy Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Mr Schauble told Washington to mind its own businesss after President Barack Obama rebuked EU leaders for failing to recapitalise banks and allowing the debt crisis to escalate to the point where it is “scaring the world”.

Class War Winner

Posted by admin Top Stories Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

by Joel S. Hirschhorn – The only peaceful strategy being use of the Article V convention option in the Constitution by which state delegates could propose amendments that would reform the political and government system to take away the power used by the rich to steal the wealth of the nation. Do not ever believe that voting for new Democrats or Republicans will fix our corrupt and dysfunctional system.

“God’s Wars” : " Looking into the Silence to Find the Answers"

Posted by admin Top Stories Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Sometimes a poem is a soul on a page, sometimes a scream. May Ayres sculptures are also both. “God’s Wars”, her first solo exhibition since 1985, in a historic East London church: “presents meditations on war and peace, selected from her ‘War of Aggression’ series, which has been created out of anger over the last seven years.” Photo: May Ayres

What is the mainstream media NOT reporting?

Posted by admin World Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

In George Orwell’s oft-quoted and insightful book 1984, we clearly see how this work of fiction has become reality, and in turn how reality is turned back into fiction through the manipulative, inaccurate and deceptive reporting of mainstream media.

Libya Invasion Planned by NATO Since 2007 with the Support of MI6

Posted by admin World Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

According to the Daily Mail, Allen was also actively involved in pressuring the UK government to support the prisoner release programme (10). Of course, the tone of their article, as with the current media furore about MI6 complicitity in Belhadj’s torture, all fit in with the overall narrative that Gaddafi and the West had a great relationship until the rebellion started and forced NATO to conduct a humanitarian intervention. It is all designed to obscure the reality that Libya under Gaddafi’s leadership was an obstacle to Western domination and subordination of Africa, and that MI6 has been plotting his removal ever since he came to power.

What media coverage omits about U.S. hikers released by Iran

Posted by admin World Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Glenn Greenwald – If only establishment media outlets displayed a fraction of the bravery and integrity of Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, who had a good excuse to focus exclusively on Iran’s sins but — a mere few days after being released from a horrible, unjust ordeal — chose instead to present the full picture.

As the Drone Flies..

Posted by admin Top Stories Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

By Ralph Nader-Biologists and chemists should urge their colleagues in physics to take a greater role as to where their knowhow is leading this tormented world of ours before the blowback spills over into even more lethally indefensible chemical and biological attacks.

Cultural Fragging!

Posted by admin Economy Monday, September 26th, 2011

Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss cultural fragging and financial flashbacks. They also discuss Papandreou’s high frequency austerity measures for Greece. In the second half of the show Max talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland of Cheviot Asset Management about the latest developments in the silver manipulation case against JP Morgan.