2011 August | American Pendulum

Secret History of the Freemasons

Posted by admin Sci-Tech News Monday, August 29th, 2011

History, intent, and power of Freemasons.

Will NATO-led Rebels Ethnically Cleanse Libya?

Posted by admin Top Stories Monday, August 29th, 2011

Andrew Gavin Marshall – Now that NATO’s rebels have sacked Tripoli and are claiming sovereignty over Libya, will they continue to institutionalize their current patterns of ethnically cleansing rebel-held areas of black Libyans and black migrant workers… on a national scale?

Finding Planets Around Other Stars by Lucianne Walkowicz

Posted by admin Sci-Tech News Monday, August 29th, 2011

How do we find planets — even habitable planets — around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz and the Kepler mission have found some 1,200 potential new planetary systems. With new techniques, they may even find ones with the right conditions for life.

Re-sexualizing the Magdalene: Dan Brown’s Misuse of Early Christian Documents in The Da Vinci Code

Posted by admin Sci-Tech News Monday, August 29th, 2011

Nancy Calvert-Koyzis – 2006 Journal article -I will argue that Brown not only misrepresents the documents that he claimed to have used but that he actually replicates the errors of the early church by concentrating on Mary’s sexual status rather than upon her status as the apostle to the apostles.

The Great Penguin Rescue – by Dyan deNapoli

Posted by admin Sci-Tech News Monday, August 29th, 2011

My mission as the penguin lady is to raise awareness and funding to protect penguins, but why should any of you care about penguins? Well, you should care because they’re an indicator species. And simply put, if penguins are dying, it means our oceans are dying, and we ultimately will be affected, because, as Sylvia Earle says, “The oceans are our life-support system.”

Why My 9-Year-Old Neice Is Smarter Than Our Genius President

Posted by admin Top Stories Monday, August 29th, 2011

David Swanson-Can a letter from a girl squeeze through a crack and find a human heart shriveled but beating inside the war machine? Can people who deeply believe they are right to serve an oligarchy, slaughter foreigners, imprison whistleblowers, and destroy the environment for the sake of very short-term interests, be brought to share in a longer-term vision?

Officially Declared Nuclear Nightmare

Posted by admin World Monday, August 29th, 2011

Dr. Mark Sircus-Nothing good about the nuclear news at the end of August as we have official recognition (finally) of what is going on in Japan and thus what is threatening the rest of the world, especially the northern hemisphere.

Radiation Above Chernobyl Evacuation Limits Found In Tokyo

Posted by admin Featured Media, World Monday, August 29th, 2011

by alexhiggins732 on Aug 21, 2011 Radiation Levels Above Chernobyl Evacuation Limits Found In Tokyo In a deceitful article, the NY Times has announced that Japan is expected officially declare a large area of Japan surrounding Fukushima indefinitely uninhabitable, perhaps for decades. The Times article however misleads the reader on several points, including implying that [...]

Obama Widening War in Somalia

Posted by admin Top Stories Monday, August 29th, 2011

Sherwood Ross-The expanding war in Somalia, largely unreported in America, marks the sixth country in the Middle East—-after Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, and Yemen—in which the regime of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Obama is engaged. One wonders how many additional countries Mr. Obama, (the former secret CIA payroller,) has to invade to win another Peace Prize?

Glenn Greenwald on 'The Last Word': Dick Cheney Rewrites History In New Book

Posted by admin Top Stories Sunday, August 28th, 2011

Excellent Interview with Glenn Greenwald on the crimes of Dick Cheney and the “moral hazard” that is created when people like this are not prosecuted for crimes against humanity.