{"id":2101,"date":"2005-11-30T18:43:23","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T22:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2005-11-30T18:43:23","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T22:43:23","slug":"maureen-farrell-tired-of-being-lied-to-modern-history-you-cant-afford-to-ignore-part-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2101","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Farrell: ‘Tired of Being Lied to? Modern History You Can’t Afford to Ignore’, part 2 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

As usual, there’s a great deal of important new material on the blog at the moment and I wouldn’t want to distract you from it. But on the other hand I thought you might like to know [even a bit belatedly] that Buzzflash<\/a> has published the second installment<\/a> of Maureen Farrell<\/b>‘s three-part essay about the history of modern America. <\/p>\n

As loyal BRAD BLOG<\/a> reader and frequent commenter Robert Lockwood Mills pointed out<\/a> last week, when the first part<\/a> was published, it’s “anecdotal history, not a narrative. But if even half of the dots connect it’s very, very scary.”<\/p>\n

In my opinion, the number of dots that connect is way more than half.<\/p>\n

If you’ve already read the first part<\/a>, you’ll have some idea of what to expect. If you haven’t, please consider this<\/a> a friendly reminder.<\/p>\n

Below, a few short excerpts from part two<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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1997<\/b> Members of Afghanistan’s Taliban travel to Texas to meet with Unocal officials to discuss plans to construct a gas pipeline across Afghanistan. Two months later, a Unocal official testifies before Congress, saying that construction of their proposed pipeline cannot begin “until an internationally recognized Afghanistan Government is in place.” Following the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, President Harmid Karzai (who previously worked for Unocal) signs a deal to build a pipeline through Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

2000<\/b> The Washington Post reports that “Something very strange happened on election night” in Volusia County, FL. Al Gore, it seems, was leading George W. Bush 83,000 votes to 62,000 at one point, but a half hour later, “Gore’s count had dropped by 16,000 votes, while an obscure Socialist candidate had picked up 10,000–all because of a single precinct with only 600 voters.” America gets its first whiff of e-voting election fraud.<\/div>\n

If you want to learn more about how we came to be where we are today, please the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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