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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Merck Settles Lawsuit for $650 Million for Overbilling Government
Merck agreed to pay more than $650 million to settle charges that it routinely overbilled the government for its most popular medicines, the arthritis drug Vioxx and the cholesterol drug Zocor, cheating Medicaid out of millions of dollars in discounts over eight years. Prosecutors say the drugmaker gave pills to hospitals at virtually no cost to hook poor patients on expensive medicine. When the patients left the hospital, they often continued taking the drugs, but with the government footing the higher bill. The Merck settlement culminates an investigation ...
John Glasgow, CFO of Firm that Constructed the Clinton Library, Disappears
John Glasgow served as the Chief Financial Officer of CDI Contractors. John Glasgow was 45-years-old and was a very successful and well-known businessman within the city of Little Rock, Arkansas. John had a wife, Melinda, and John was a happy family man. He seemed to have the perfect life. He was known as "bright," "intelligent," and truly loved his job. Glasgow vanished without a trace in 2008 after reporting financial irregularities with the Clinton library construction costs and his skeletal remains were found at Petit Jean State Park ...
Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein argues in Academic Paper that heavy Tax should be Imposed on Conspiracy Theorist
In a lengthy academic paper, President Obama’s regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, argued the U.S. government should ban “conspiracy theorizing" by the Government ...impos[ing] some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories.” Among the beliefs Sunstein would ban is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud. Sunstein also recommended the government send agents to infiltrate “extremists who supply conspiracy theories” to disrupt the efforts of the “extremists” to propagate their theories. In a 2008 Harvard law paper, “Conspiracy Theories,” Sunstein ...
Another Former Obama Gay-Lover, Donald Young, Assassinated?
Donald Young’s bullet-ridden body was found in his Chicago apartment in what appeared to be an assassination-style slaying. Norma Jean Young, the 76-year old mother of the late Trinity United Church of Christ choir director Donald Young, has spoken out and declared that persons trying to protect Obama murdered her son at the height of the 2007 Democratic presidential primary to protect Obama from embarrassing revelations about his homosexual relationship with her son. According to an acquaintance of Obama, Larry Sinclair, Obama is a closet bisexual with whom he had sexual ...
John Kiriakou Blows the Whistle on Illegal CIA Torture
On December 10, 2007, John Kiriakou gave an interview to ABC News in which he described his participation in the capture of Abu Zubaydah, who was accused of having been an aide to Osama bin Laden. Kiriakou said he did not witness his waterboarding, but he had been told by CIA associates, it had taken only a single brief instance of waterboarding to extract answers. ...He was able to withstand the waterboarding for quite some time. And by that I mean probably 30, 35 seconds...and a short time ...
Robert Hawkins, a 19yr-old on Anti-Anxiety Drugs, Shot and Killed eight People and Wounded Five Before Committing Suicide in an Omaha Mall
The Westroads Mall shooting was a murder-suicide that occurred on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, at the Von Maur department store in the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins killed nine people (including himself) and wounded four, two of them critically. It was the deadliest shooting spree in Nebraska since the rampage of Charles Starkweather in 1958. Prior to the shooting An hour before the rampage, Hawkins' mother gave the Sarpy County Sheriff's Department his suicide note which stated, "I just want to take a ...
CNN/YouTube Hosted an Interactive Debate between the Republican Candidates Using a Loaded Question from an Undisclosed Hillary Clinton Campaigner
On July 23, 2007, CNN/YouTube hosted an interactive debate between the Democratic candidates in the 2008 Presidential Election, in which YouTube users submitted videos of themselves asking questions. A similar debate involving the Republican candidates occurred on November 28. This led to controversy, as they received and used a question from an undisclosed gay activist who turned out to be a supporter of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Retired Brig. Gen. Keith H. Kerr told candidates he was an “openly gay man,” member of the “California National Reserve”, and asked ...
Larry Bland, one of 3 Openly Gay Men at Barrack Obama’s Church with Trinity United Pastor Jeremiah Wright, was Murdered Execution Style
Larry Bland, one of three openly gay men at Barrack Obama's church with Trinity United pastor Jeremiah Wright, was murdered execution style. Wright ran the Down Low Club, a club for gays to hide their secret gay lifestyle. The bombshell may involve the murder of Donald Young, a 47-year-old choir master at former Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ—the same congregation that Obama has attended for the past 20 years. Two other young black men that attended the same church—Larry Bland and Nate Spencer—were also murdered ...
18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen had been Taking Antidepressants Before he Killed 8 people and wounded 12 more at Jokela High School in Finland
One of the school shooters that gun activist and gun manufacturer John Noveske cited (just a week prior to his mysterious car accident) on his list, point out that that each were on some type of antidepressant or psychotropic drug, was Pekka-Eric Auvinen. Jokela, Finland – 18-year-old Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School in southern Finland, then committed suicide. Auvinen had some extreme views and hated the human race, should we believe that ...
Research Into How to Block Out the GOD Gene (The VMAT2 gene) Accepted for Publication
References linking genes to complex human traits, such as personality type or disease susceptibility, abound in the news media and popular culture. In his book The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into Our Genes, Dean Hamer argues that a variation in the VMAT2 gene plays a role in one's openness to spiritual experiences. In a nonmajors class, we read and discussed The God Gene and conducted on a small scale an extension of the study it describes. Students used polymerase chain reaction to replicate a portion of their VMAT2 genes, and they analyzed three ...
