{"id":2056,"date":"2005-11-22T01:38:50","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T05:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2005-11-22T01:38:50","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T05:38:50","slug":"maureen-farrell-tired-of-being-lied-to-modern-history-you-cant-afford-to-ignore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2056","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Farrell: ‘Tired of Being Lied to? Modern History You Can’t Afford to Ignore’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Holy Cow! A blast and a half<\/a> from Maureen Farrell<\/b>. Although it’s only the first in a three-part series, she’s floored me already! <\/p>\n

Or, as Gandhi<\/a> writes: <\/p>\n

If I took four weeks off work to put together an article saying everything I wanted to say about Bush & Co, with lots of URL links to back up the facts, it might look something like this (I wish!).<\/div>\n

I’ll give you a short excerpt, which I hope will entice you to read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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1937<\/b>: A small company named Brown & Root (which will later become a division of Halliburton) calls upon Lyndon Johnson to procure $10 million in federal funding for the Mansfield Damn project. The freshman congressman eventually delivers the necessary authorization and funding for the project, which becomes the cornerstone of Brown and Root’s financial empire. In turn, Herman Brown finances Johnson’s political rise. “It was a totally corrupt relationship and it benefited both of them enormously. Brown & Root got rich, and Johnson got power and riches,” LBJ biographer Ronnie Dugger later notes, adding that Johnson “wouldn’t have been in the running without Brown & Root’s money and airplanes.”<\/p>\n

In 2000, the Bush\/Cheney campaign uses Halliburton’s planes during the Florida recount, triggering a federal investigation. ”The Bush administration literally flew into power on Enron’s and Halliburton’s private jets,” a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee charges.<\/p>\n

1942<\/b>: The New York Tribune features a front page story entitled “Hitler’s Angel has $3 million in US bank,” referring to Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen and his ties to Union Banking Corporation. Later that year, Union Bank official Prescott Bush, George W. Bush’s grandfather, is charged with “Running Nazi front groups in the United States.” Bush is elected to the U.S. Senate ten years later.<\/p>\n

1944<\/b>: Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace writes an Op-ed , discussing war profiteers who are “ruthless” in their “use of deceit or violence” to gain money and power — pointing to those who “hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.” Newly discovered government documents prove that Prescott Bush’s ties to the Nazis continued until as late as 1951, and that he and his cohorts “routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.”<\/div>\n

There’s a lot<\/i> more. Go ahead. Read it.<\/a> Knowledge is power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot Holy Cow! A blast and a half from Maureen Farrell. Although it’s only the first in a three-part series, she’s floored me already! Or, as Gandhi writes: If I took four weeks off work to put together an article saying everything I wanted to say about Bush & Co, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}