The cover of Time magazine labeled the 2000s “the decade from hell.” Bookended by 9/11 at the start and a financial wipeout at the end, the first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post–World War II era,” Andrew Serwer wrote.1 The decade was littered with recessions, stock market crashes, financial scandals, antitrust cases, and flat-out disasters all around. But the 2000s were also a decade of tremendous change for the IT industry, with disruptive technologies, market-altering mergers, and trailblazing products that transformed the economic landscape forever and drastically changed the way we live. From the Y2K bug and the HP-Compaq merger, to Apple’s rebound and an insider trading scandal, the decade saw a wealth of historic events.
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Famous Japanese Archaeologist Exposed as Fraudster
Shinichi Fujimura was celebrated in Japan's archeological circles - some even believed he had 'divine hands'. One of Fujimura's first major discoveries was in 1981 when he found stoneware dating back 40,000 years, the oldest stoneware ever unearthed in Japan. By 1999 Fujimura had visited more than 150 dig sites and discovered artifacts at nearly all of them. The Japanese government designated some of his dig locations as national historical sites. School children were taught about his important discoveries. In 2000, when Fujimura was at the height of ...
The Pentagon Simulates a Commercial Plane Striking the Pentagon
By Matthew Everett Since 9/11, numerous authors and researchers have drawn attention to training exercises being conducted or prepared for by the U.S. military and other government agencies at the time of the September 11 attacks. With names like Vigilant Guardian, Global Guardian, Timely Alert II, and Tripod, the question has arisen as to what connection these drills might have had with real-world events that morning.[1] Editor’s Note: Profuse thanks to astute 9/11 researcher and historycommons.org contributor Matthew Everett for allowing us to debut his highly thought-provoking study ...
Archaeologists Discover Ancient City Helike, Once Submerged for a Period under Sea Water, Yet Now are Above Sea Level
Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the remains of a long-lost ancient Greek city, Helike. Classical texts suggest that all its inhabitants perished when the city sank beneath the waves after suffering a disastrous combination of earthquake and tidal wave. Some scholars have speculated that the catastrophe may well have been the source of Plato's story of Atlantis, a land that supposedly suffered a similar fate. In the centuries following the disaster, several classical writers, including Pausanias and Ovid, reported that the ruins of Helike could ...
Missouri Governor and Senate candidate Mel Carnahan Killed in Plane Crash
Missouri governor and Senate candidate Mel Carnahan (66) was killed along with his son Roger (44) and the governor's campaign adviser Chris Sifford when the Cessna 335 they were in crashed. The three had been en route to a rally for Carnahan's U.S. Senate campaign when the plane went down about 25 miles south of St. Louis in a hilly, wooded area. The NTSB concluded the likely cause of the crash was, "the pilot's failure to control the airplane while maneuvering because of spatial disorientation. Contributing to the ...
USS Cole Attacked in Yemen: A Mossad False Flag?
On 12 October 2000, while sitting in the port of Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole was allegedly attacked by some guy called al-Badawi and his accomplices. A small boat was allegedly loaded with approximately 500lbs of explosives and some ready-made suicide bombers, who then drove it alongside the Cole and... kaboom. Below is a photo of the damage to the ship. Media reports initially claimed that "conventional explosives" were used. That was generally understood to mean something like a 'fertilizer bomb' sufficiently unsophisticated for non-state actors, and in keeping with attacks by others groups ...
The Forged Document that Promoted the Uranium Hoax that Triggered the Iraq War
The main argument former President George W. Bush used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a claim that Saddam Hussein was ramping up his nuclear weapons program - an accusation based on forged documents promoted in the president’s State of the Union address in January 2003, two months before the start of the war. The allegation was largely based on forged documents claiming Iraq tried to purchase 500 tons of yellowcake uranium powder from Niger, a country in North Africa, which could be enriched and used ...
NSA director Michael Hayden initiated the Trailblazer Project – the NSA Spying Software for Cell Phones, Email and other Communications.
The Trailblazer Project was a National Security Agency (NSA) program intended to develop a capability to analyze data carried on communications networks like the Internet. It was intended to track entities using communication methods such as cell phones and e-mail. James P. Chandler, III was an advocate of Trailblazer for President Bill Clinton. Numerous NSA whistleblowers including J. Kirk Wiebe, William Binney, Tom Drake, Ed Loomis, and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staffer Diane Roark would later complain to the Department of Defense's Inspector General (IG) about ...
PNAC Release a Report that their Plans to Conquer Global Resources needed “Some Catastrophic and Catalyzing Event, like a New Pearl Harbor”
Exactly one year prior to the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11/2001, The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a Washington-based think tank of neo-conservatives formed in 1997, released a report that stated their aspiration to conquer and militarize global resources would be achieved much too slowly, "unless there were some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor." In 1997, a think-tank called the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was created. Members of PNAC—also known as "Neocons"—are affiliated with the Bush Administration; George Bush, Donald ...
UN Holds the Millennium World Peace Summit to Begin Push for a One World Religion
August 28-31, 2000 - Millennium World Peace Summit: About three months after the United Religions was formed one week before the Millennium Summit for the world’s political leaders was held, there was a meeting held at the United Nations called the Millennium World Peace Summit. This was the first religious meeting ever held at the United Nations. The supposed concept behind this meeting was to bring about cooperation between the religious leaders of the world and the political leaders of the world, but almost certainly to begin the ...
Paul Fray, Takes and Passes Lie Detector Test Proving He Didn’t Lie about Hillary Clinton Calling Him a ‘F—ing Jew B——!’ in 1974
Paul Fray, the former campaign director who claimed that the first lady called him a "f---ing Jew b------" after Bill Clinton lost his race for Congress 26 years ago passed a lie-detector test arranged by the New York Post. "There's no doubt in my mind that Mr. Fray is truthful," said Hubanks, a state-licensed Arkansas polygrapher, who administered the three-hour test last Sunday in Little Rock, Ark.. Hillary Clinton had no comment on the polygraph results, but had previously commented, "Anyone who tries to get someone else to believe this ...
