http://www.americanpendulum.com News and Commentary / U.S. and World Perspectives Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:29:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/sec-wall-street-watchdog-officials-spend-majority-workday-surfing-pornography/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/sec-wall-street-watchdog-officials-spend-majority-workday-surfing-pornography/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:29:12 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12183 Video -abc SEC + Pornography: Workers Spent Hours on Porn Sites Instead of Stopping Fraud; Gov't Report Finds Securities and Exchange Commission Employees Surfing Pornographic Websites at Work. April 22, 2010, ABC News. On a day when President Obama argued for more government regulation over the financial industry, a new government report reveals that some high-level regulators have spent more time looking at porn than policing Wall Street. The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to be the sheriff of the financial industry, looking for financial crimes like Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme. But the new report, obtained by ABC News, says senior employees of the SEC spent hours on the commission's computers looking at sites like naughty.com, skankwire, youporn, and others. The investigation, which was conducted by the SEC's internal watchdog at the request of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, found 31 serious offenders over the past two and a half years. Seventeen of the offenders were senior SEC officers with salaries ranging from $100,000 to $222,000 per year. ]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/sec-wall-street-watchdog-officials-spend-majority-workday-surfing-pornography/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/max-keiser-black-swans-social-security-and-farting-camels-of-tripoli/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/max-keiser-black-swans-social-security-and-farting-camels-of-tripoli/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:16:53 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12174 Max Keiser - Video --On this edition of the Keiser Report, Max and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the latest scandals of fetishes for black swans; American youth unconcerned by the coming collapse of their Social Security they bought and paid for; Tony Blair's 2007 photo op with Colonel Gaddafi and the farting camels of Tripoli. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland of Cheviot Asset Management about the silver market.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/max-keiser-black-swans-social-security-and-farting-camels-of-tripoli/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/rising-tensions-on-the-korean-peninsula-the-sinking-of-the-cheonan-reviewing-the-evidence/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/rising-tensions-on-the-korean-peninsula-the-sinking-of-the-cheonan-reviewing-the-evidence/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:08:45 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12169 By Gregory Elich --- Did a North Korean submarine fire a torpedo at the Cheonan? It seems improbable. If it was a torpedo that sank the Cheonan, then it certainly was not the one that the JIG put on display. It would have been foolhardy for the North Korean government to order such a strike. It had nothing to gain, and absolutely everything to lose by such an act. It may be that a rogue commander ordered the attack as revenge for an incident near Daecheong Island the previous November, when South Korean ships chased a North Korean patrol boat, firing on it and sending it up in flames, thereby causing the deaths of several sailors. That attack, incidentally, failed to elicit any concern whatsoever from the same U.S. officials who so sternly pontificate on the unacceptability of allowing the sinking of Cheonan to go unpunished. ]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/rising-tensions-on-the-korean-peninsula-the-sinking-of-the-cheonan-reviewing-the-evidence/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/china%e2%80%99s-policy-checkmate/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/china%e2%80%99s-policy-checkmate/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:05:53 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12176 By Michael Hudson --- Instead of rolling back bad mortgage debts and other debts to reflect the ability to pay, the Obama administration has bailed out the banks for their losses – leaving the debt overhead in place. This means that more and more income needs to be paid to creditors, leaving less available to be spent on goods and services. The result is a squeeze on living standards, which have not risen for the past thirty years or so.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/china%e2%80%99s-policy-checkmate/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/wikileaks-resistance-genuine-heroes-and-breaking-the-goddamned-rules/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/wikileaks-resistance-genuine-heroes-and-breaking-the-goddamned-rules/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:47:16 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12164 By Arthur Silber / 28 July, 2010 - Powerofnarrative Blog --- With regard to the particular role he seeks for Wikileaks and, relatedly, in connection with the mechanics of how that role can be made to function with astonishing effectiveness, Assange is nothing less than brilliant. This is a man who understands the system he's up against, and he knows how to jam the gears of that system.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/wikileaks-resistance-genuine-heroes-and-breaking-the-goddamned-rules/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/beware-rich-political-saviors/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/beware-rich-political-saviors/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:37:09 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12155 Joel S. Hirschhorn / American Pendulum --- Consumer confidence is terrible; citizen confidence is worse: Only 11 percent of Americans have confidence in Congress. No surprise there is record-setting anti-incumbency anger rampant among Americans. But the sad truth is damned if you do and damned if you don’t vote for incumbents. The problem is that the reformers, populist outsiders, tea party candidates, surprise primary winners and others expecting to oust incumbents in the coming mid-term elections for members of Congress and state governors and other officials mostly suck. Why? They are nutty, ignorant, dishonest or racist.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/beware-rich-political-saviors/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/congress-ratifies-obama-escalation-of-afghanistan-war/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/congress-ratifies-obama-escalation-of-afghanistan-war/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:14:30 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12149 / wsws.org --- 28 July 2010 -- Little more than 24 hours after the release of 91,000 documents detailing US military atrocities in Afghanistan, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives gave final approval to a funding bill to pay for the escalation of the war. By a margin of 308-114, well over the two-thirds majority required under an expedited procedure known as “suspension of the rules,” the House backed a $60 billion supplemental funding bill passed by the Senate last week.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/congress-ratifies-obama-escalation-of-afghanistan-war/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/china-calls-our-bluff/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/china-calls-our-bluff/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:16:18 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12119 By Washington's Blog --- "The head of China’s largest credit rating agency has slammed his western counterparts for causing the global financial crisis and said that as the world’s largest creditor nation China should have a bigger say in how governments and their debt are rated."]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/china-calls-our-bluff/feed/ 2 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/a-danish-scientist-breaks-the-911-culture-of-silence/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/a-danish-scientist-breaks-the-911-culture-of-silence/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:15:40 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12143 By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat / Veterans Today --- Neils Harrit has been hosted in a Danish TV interview to discuss his scientific theory of how WTC towers collapsed. On the interview he responded by affirming that the two airplanes- impacts did not cause the towers to collapse. And according to a newly published scientific article, researchers found Nano-Thermite explosive in the rubble of WTC collapsed buildings, that couldn’t have come from the planes. They believe large amounts of explosives were placed in the buildings in advance, Neil Harrits and eight other researchers conclude in this article that it was Nano-Thermite that caused these buildings to collapse.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/a-danish-scientist-breaks-the-911-culture-of-silence/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/obama-maneuvers-to-contain-china/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/obama-maneuvers-to-contain-china/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:14:47 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12134 By Robert Dreyfuss / The Nation -- The Times also quoted a prominent Chinese foreign policy expert, Xu Liping, who said: "The U.S. feels like this is the time to play the political and military card since it's very difficult for them to compete with China in the economic sphere." Ouch. And, true. With few cards to play in the economic area, given the startling economic rise of China, the military domain is one place where the United States still possesses huge—in fact, overwhelming—superiority. And, as time passes, it will be increasingly tempting for the United States to try to use its armed forces to put pressure on China.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/obama-maneuvers-to-contain-china/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/us-treasury-running-on-fumes/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/us-treasury-running-on-fumes/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:13:25 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12122 By Paul Craig Roberts --- Americans can get no help out of Washington, but the US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, declared that Washington’s commitment to Israel’s security is "not negotiable." Washington’s commitment to California and to the security of the rest of us is negotiable. War spending has run up the budget deficit, and the deficit precludes any help for Americans. With the US bankrupting itself in wars, America’s largest creditor, China, has taken issue with America’s credit rating. The head of China’s largest credit rating agency declared: "The US is insolvent and faces bankruptcy as a pure debtor nation."]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/us-treasury-running-on-fumes/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-year-america-dissolved/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-year-america-dissolved/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:08:58 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12127 By Paul Craig Roberts -- The Roman Empire lasted for centuries. The American one collapsed overnight. Rome's corruption became the strength of her enemies, and the Western Empire was overrun. America's collapse occurred when government ceased to represent the people and became the instrument of a private oligarchy. Decisions were made in behalf of short-term profits for the few at the expense of unmanageable liabilities for the many. Overwhelmed by liabilities, the government collapsed.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-year-america-dissolved/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/did-bp-accidently-tap-into-the-rigel-gas-field/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/did-bp-accidently-tap-into-the-rigel-gas-field/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:48:44 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12113 By Washington's Blog --- On July 23rd, Admiral Thad Allen said that the seep 3 kilometers from the leaking BP well was from the Rigel gas field:]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/did-bp-accidently-tap-into-the-rigel-gas-field/feed/ 1 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/dennis-kucinich-and-ron-pauls-resolution-aimed-at-u-s-withdrawl-from-pakistan/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/dennis-kucinich-and-ron-pauls-resolution-aimed-at-u-s-withdrawl-from-pakistan/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:47:08 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12138 Dennis Kucinich --- This week we have two very important votes for the future of this country and the future of the world. The first deals with Pakistan - House Concurrent Resolution 301, and the second deals with supplemental funding which will provide another 33-billion dollars to keep the War in Afghanistan going. I would like to speak to you briefly about both of those votes. ]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/dennis-kucinich-and-ron-pauls-resolution-aimed-at-u-s-withdrawl-from-pakistan/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/message-for-the-uniforms-and-dark-suits/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/message-for-the-uniforms-and-dark-suits/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:16:59 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12111 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/message-for-the-uniforms-and-dark-suits/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-love-police-versus-globalist-ian-goldin-former-vp-world-bank/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-love-police-versus-globalist-ian-goldin-former-vp-world-bank/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:16:47 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12102 Filmed By Charlie Veitch / The Love Police --- 23rd July 2010 at Secret Garden Party 2010 in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. "I was giving a speech at this festival and realised they'd invited a globalist as well. The Love Police go to investigate. As usual, the minions of the borg stand by their mainstream man."]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-love-police-versus-globalist-ian-goldin-former-vp-world-bank/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/police-release-rabbi-arrested-for-inciting-to-kill-non-jews/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/police-release-rabbi-arrested-for-inciting-to-kill-non-jews/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:39:59 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12096 By Chaim Levinson --- Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, head of the Od Yosef Hai Yeshiva, released from police custody hours after being arrested for encouraging the killing of non-Jews. Police released the head rabbi of a prominent yeshiva yesterday hours after arresting him for encouraging to kill non-Jews.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/police-release-rabbi-arrested-for-inciting-to-kill-non-jews/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/epa-covering-up-effects-of-dispersant-in-bp-oil-spill-democracy-now/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/epa-covering-up-effects-of-dispersant-in-bp-oil-spill-democracy-now/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:13:28 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12076 Videos - Democracy Now --- With BP having poured nearly two million gallons of the dispersant known as Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico, many lawmakers and advocacy groups say the Obama administration is not being candid about the lethal effects of dispersants. We speak with Hugh Kaufman, a senior policy analyst at the EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response and a leading critic of the decision to use Corexit." Published with written permission from democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. Credits for this video belongs to democracynow.org, an independent non-profit user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/epa-covering-up-effects-of-dispersant-in-bp-oil-spill-democracy-now/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/how-hundreds-of-earth-like-planets-were-found-dimitar-sasselov/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/how-hundreds-of-earth-like-planets-were-found-dimitar-sasselov/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:46:05 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12067 Dimitar Sasselov Ted.com presentation on: Search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin and existence of biological life elsewhere (and on Earth). How many such planets have they found already? Several hundred. ]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/how-hundreds-of-earth-like-planets-were-found-dimitar-sasselov/feed/ 0 http://www.thedailybell.com/496/Ellen-Brown-Web-of-Debt.html http://www.thedailybell.com/496/Ellen-Brown-Web-of-Debt.html#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:03:24 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12063 Daily Bell Interview of Ellen Brown -- "Our money is an illusion. Except for coins, which compose only one ten-thousandth of the money supply, all of our money today consists of debt to private banks. Banks always take back more money in principal and interest than they put into the money supply as principal, making the system basically a pyramid scheme. After 300 years, this scheme has spread around the world and has now reached its mathematical limits. The whole world has been captured in the debt trap of a private international banking monopoly."]]> http://www.thedailybell.com/496/Ellen-Brown-Web-of-Debt.html/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-real-tea-party-begins-here/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-real-tea-party-begins-here/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:00:39 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12060 Video Based on Ellen Brown's Web of Debt --- Reclaiming our sovereignty with publicly-owned banks. Public banking has a long history in the United States despite being challenged by the private banking cartel at every turn. Here's a brief history of the battle and a call to action.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-real-tea-party-begins-here/feed/ 0 http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=302250 http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=302250#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:32:14 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12056 Ma'an News --- Two survivors of the raid on the Freedom Flotilla, author Iara Lee and retired colonel Ann Wright, have expressed their support for the US aid mission, named The Audacity of Hope. US professor Rashid Khalidi, who is supporting the initiative, commented that "Given the national-religious hierarchy which determines what the IDF can do to whom, the fact that the ship is American will make it harder to deal with it as the Mavi Marmara was dealt with." Speaking to the Israeli daily Haaretz, Khalidi suggested that if the name of the boat, after the 2006 bestseller penned by then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, was a problem for the US administration, ”it can simply insist publicly that Israel lift the siege.”]]> http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=302250/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/more-infrastructure-failure-while-the-government-uses-taxpayer-money-for-ill-gain/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/more-infrastructure-failure-while-the-government-uses-taxpayer-money-for-ill-gain/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:23:30 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12053 Video of Iowa Dam Breaking --- While Trillions go to Bank Bailouts, illegal wars, funding of Israeli war crimes, and other waste, fraud and abuse, our infrastructure is aging and failing and our people are becoming poorer]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/more-infrastructure-failure-while-the-government-uses-taxpayer-money-for-ill-gain/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/afghan-war-leaks-expose-costly-deceitful-march-of-folly/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/afghan-war-leaks-expose-costly-deceitful-march-of-folly/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:07:27 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12049 by Ray McGovern / Consortium News Blog --- The brutality and fecklessness of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan have been laid bare in an indisputable way just days before the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on whether to throw $33.5 billion more into the Afghan quagmire, when that money is badly needed at home. On Sunday, the Web site Wikileaks posted 75,000 reports written mostly by U.S. forces in Afghanistan during a six-year period from January 2004 to December 2009. The authenticity of the material - published under the title "Afghan War Diaries" - is not in doubt.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/afghan-war-leaks-expose-costly-deceitful-march-of-folly/feed/ 0 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/7909432/The-Death-of-Paper-Money.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/7909432/The-Death-of-Paper-Money.html#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:26:51 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12043 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/7909432/The-Death-of-Paper-Money.html/feed/ 0 http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0726/rules-military-action-venezuela/ http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0726/rules-military-action-venezuela/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:19:48 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12041 http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0726/rules-military-action-venezuela/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/whitehouse-condemns-wikileaks-for-releasing-afghan-war-logs/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/whitehouse-condemns-wikileaks-for-releasing-afghan-war-logs/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:27:36 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12032 By Catalina Hanna --- The biggest leaks appear to involve unreported NATO killings of Afghan civilians and new information that Pakistan spy agencies are aiding the Afghan insurgents. The U.S. is not only condemning Wikileaks but also Pakistan. There are 180 files that relate to the ISI spy agency supplying, arming, and training insurgents since 2004. There will be much more to come on this breaking story, as over 90,000 files were released. For sure, there will be much "blowback" one way or another with more horror stories of aggression are bound to be published. You can visit the Wikileaks website to view the files.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/whitehouse-condemns-wikileaks-for-releasing-afghan-war-logs/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-time-of-testing-is-here/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-time-of-testing-is-here/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:33:05 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12005 By Richard C. Cook --- Are we at “the end of the age?” In social life, the overriding characteristic of our era is the increasing division in the world between haves and have-nots, masters and slaves, controllers and controlled, rich and poor. The power of the wealthiest class of people has never been so great. The weapons of mass destruction they–and the armed forces who work for them–monopolize have the force to destroy the earth many times over.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/the-time-of-testing-is-here/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/until-they-are-awake-they-are-a-threat-to-you/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/until-they-are-awake-they-are-a-threat-to-you/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:26:37 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=11999 By Charlie Vietch / The Love Police --- It’s not the psychopathic international banksters who pose a threat to us. In essence, they have no power. They are fat, gout-riddled, unfit and spiritually empty vessels pressing forward the agenda of some anti-human but albeit very testing alien code. We can handle them. We know where we stand. The battle-lines are drawn. Our most pressing enemy is not them. Our most pressing enemy is the hordes of droids who obey blindly. Until they are woken up, they are the foundations of the pyramid of control.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/until-they-are-awake-they-are-a-threat-to-you/feed/ 0 http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/mossad-chief-reportedly-visited-saudi-arabia-for-talks-on-iran/ http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/mossad-chief-reportedly-visited-saudi-arabia-for-talks-on-iran/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:20:57 +0000 admin http://www.americanpendulum.com/?p=12015 By Anshel Pfeffer / Haaretz.com --- Account on WorldNetDaily follows series of recent reports on increasing secret cooperation between Israel and the Saudis, including defense coordination on matters related to possible military action. Mossad chief Meir Dagan visited Saudi Arabia recently, if unofficial reports published over the weekend on the WorldNetDaily website are accurate. The Internet news site attributed the story to Arab sources.]]> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/07/mossad-chief-reportedly-visited-saudi-arabia-for-talks-on-iran/feed/ 0