Taking Back Our Stolen History
HISTORY HEIST
2000-09

2000-09

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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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, 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 ...
Jury Rules Journalist Jane Akre was Wrongfully Fired by Fox News for Refusal to Broadcast "a False, Distorted or Slanted Story" about Monsanto rBGH

Jury Rules Journalist Jane Akre was Wrongfully Fired by Fox News for Refusal to Broadcast “a False, Distorted or Slanted Story” about Monsanto rBGH

Jane Akre and her husband, Steve Wilson, sued Fox News and on August 18, 2000, a Florida jury unanimously decided that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox Television when she refused to broadcast (in the jury’s words) “a false, distorted or slanted story” about the widespread use of BGH in dairy cows. They further maintained that she deserved protection under Florida’s whistle blower law. Akre was awarded a $425,000 settlement. Inexplicably, however, the court decided that Steve Wilson, her partner in the case, was ruled not wronged by the ...
Alex Jones, Jon Ronson, and Cameraman Sneak into the Bohemian Grove where Global Elite have Secret Meetings, Gay Sex, and Worship Moloch

Alex Jones, Jon Ronson, and Cameraman Sneak into the Bohemian Grove where Global Elite have Secret Meetings, Gay Sex, and Worship Moloch

On July 15, 2000, radio show host Alex Jones and his cameraman, Mike Hanson, and Welsh journalist Jon Ronson snuck into the Bohemian Grove. Alex Jones and Jon Ronson discuss the infiltration of the Bohemian Grove on a 2016 Infowars show: The Grove was exposed in a five-part Channel 4 documentary, The Secret Rulers of the World. Ronson documented his view of the ritual in his book Them: Adventures with Extremists: My lasting impression was of an all-pervading sense of immaturity: the Elvis impersonators, the pseudo-pagan spooky rituals, ...
Dr. Hirzy, Senior Scientist for Risk Assessment for the EPA, Testified to Senate Subcommittee on "Why EPA's Union of Professionals Opposes Fluoridation."

Dr. Hirzy, Senior Scientist for Risk Assessment for the EPA, Testified to Senate Subcommittee on “Why EPA’s Union of Professionals Opposes Fluoridation.”

On June 29th, 2000, Dr. William Hirzy was invited to give testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water on behalf of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) Chapter 280 - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Headquarters. At the time, Dr. Hirzy was serving his sixth term as the Senior Vice-President of the Union. His presentation that day was, "Why EPA's Union of Professionals Opposes Fluoridation." This is a video that documents the presentation along with interviews with Dr ...
Anti-Corruption Arkansas Journalist, Tony Moser, Killed

Anti-Corruption Arkansas Journalist, Tony Moser, Killed

Tony Moser, a critic of the Arkansas Democratic Party political machine, was killed as he crossed a street in Pine Bluff 10 days after being named a columnist for the Democrat-Gazette newspaper and two days after writing an article which exposed the looting of programs designed to obtain money from "Dead beat" parents to then give to their children. The police declared that no crime had been committed since the anonymous driver of the 1995 Chevy Pickup truck that struck and killed Moser was not intoxicated nor was ...
The Taliban Bans Poppy Production Eradicating Opium Production by 99% in 1 Year, Only to Explode to All-Time Highs Following US 2001 Invasion

The Taliban Bans Poppy Production Eradicating Opium Production by 99% in 1 Year, Only to Explode to All-Time Highs Following US 2001 Invasion

February 27, 2000, a Taliban fatwa announced a ban on the cultivation of poppy. Enforcement commenced in July of that year. Taliban leader Mullah Omar gave a firm re-statement of the Taliban’s position, declaring the use, cultivation and trafficking of poppy as “haram” – forbidden by the Koran. The reality was almost certainly more complex: many saw the rapid about-face by the Taliban as an attempt to gain recognition or funding from the international community or even a ploy to push up opium prices while trading off stockpiles ...
The Y2K Computer Glitch Scare that Wasn't

The Y2K Computer Glitch Scare that Wasn’t

The year 2000 (Y2K) problem scared the world. Although some were ready to "party like it's 1999," others predicted catastrophe at the end of the year because of a programming assumption from the early days of computers. Y2K entered the cultural conversation over concerns that technology and automated systems would fail when their clocks had to convert the date from Dec. 31, 1999 to Jan. 1, 2000. Age of Technological Fear any assumed that electronics would not be able to compute dates that did not begin with "19" ...