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2000 Abernethy, The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415–1980 (New Haven: Yale U rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Abernethy, The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415–1980 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. ●●

2000 B4 See William Blum, “Rogue State: A Guide rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story B4 See William Blum, “Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower” (Common Courage Press, Maine, 2000) for brief ●●

2000 Nupedia publishes its first article ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Nupedia, the free encyclopedia project that preceded Wikipedia, published its first peer-reviewed article. ●●

January 2001 Abolition of the Okurasho name ai_extracted 1 cit. In January 2001 Japan's Ministry of Finance lost its historic name Okurasho as part of a government reorganization, ending a long institutional history. ●●●

May 2001 Fukui's failed bid for the BoJ governorship ai_extracted 1 cit. In May 2001 Toshihiko Fukui, then head of the Fujitsu Research Institute, staged an attempt to take over from Governor Hayami as Bank of Japan governor, but Hayami refused to resign. ●●

June 2001 BoJ shifts to expanding the quantity of credit ai_extracted 1 cit. In June 2001 the Bank of Japan changed monetary policy again and sharply increased the quantity of its credit creation, which contributed positively to the economy in 2002 after the slump of 2001. ●●●

January 2001 The Okurasho loses its historic name ai_extracted 1 cit. In January 2001 the Ministry of Finance lost its grand old name, the Okurasho, as part of administrative reform. ●●

19 March 2001 Bank of Japan adopts quantitative easing ai_extracted 1 cit. On March 19, 2001 the Bank of Japan performed a sudden policy U-turn and officially adopted quantitative easing, a policy it had claimed for a decade was impossible to implement. ●●●●

January 2001 Abolition of the Ministry of Finance (Okurasho) ai_extracted 1 cit. In January 2001 the Okurasho was abolished, ending over half a century of the ministry's dominance and leaving only a rump institution. ●●●●

2001 Japan adopts market value accounting ai_extracted 1 cit. Fiscal year 2001 was the first in which Japanese company books were calculated by U.S.-style market value accounting instead of book value, sharply accelerating the dissolution of cross shareholdings and the shift to shareholder capitalism. ●●●

April 2001 Koizumi becomes prime minister ai_extracted 1 cit. Junichiro Koizumi became Japan's prime minister in April 2001, giving prominence to reform plans such as privatizing publicly owned companies, most notably the post office. ●●●

May 2001 Bank of Japan reflates under Koizumi ai_extracted 1 cit. In May 2001 the Bank of Japan's purchases of commercial paper rose over 500 percent year on year and bond purchases increased rapidly, pushing its liquidity injections back toward the levels of March 1998. ●●

March 2001 Bank of Japan announces quantitative easing ai_extracted 1 cit. The Bank of Japan officially announced quantitative easing in March 2001, and in May 2001 significantly boosted its credit creation in a policy rivaling its record 1998 reflation. ●●●

2001 Enron bankruptcy ai_extracted 1 cit. The 2001 bankruptcy of Enron, followed by other accounting and fraud scandals, blurred the distinction between Asian-style and U.S.-style cronyism. ●●●

2001 German economy slows down ai_extracted 1 cit. When the German economy visibly slowed in 2001, politicians including finance minister Hans Eichel wanted stimulatory policies but found monetary policy in the hands of the independent ECB and fiscal policy constrained by the stability and growth pact. ●●

2001 Japan's national debt reaches record high ai_extracted 1 cit. New government borrowing of over 300 trillion yen during the 1990s pushed total outstanding debt to 522.1 trillion yen by end-2000, and with 2001 borrowing the debt reached a record 582.46 trillion yen, about 120 percent of GDP. ●●

19 March 2001 Bank of Japan announces reserve targeting ('quantitative easing') ai_extracted 1 cit. On March 19, 2001 the Bank of Japan announced it would switch from targeting the overnight call rate to targeting the quantity of banks' reserve deposits, a policy commonly called quantitative easing; its actual credit creation nevertheless fell in the following months. ●●●

11 September 2001 September 11 attacks 1 cit. Al-Qaeda hijackers fly airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people. The attacks reshape global security, trigger the war in Afghanistan, and open two decades of conflict in the Middle East. politics / war ●●●●●

11 December 2001 China joins the WTO 1 cit. China becomes a member of the World Trade Organization after fifteen years of negotiation. Its full entry into world trade accelerates globalization, remakes supply chains, and shifts economic power toward Asia. economy ●●●●

2001 Robert Pastor publishes Toward a North American Union ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Robert A. Pastor's book Toward a North American Union was published in 2001, just before the 9/11 attacks. It argued for deep integration beyond NAFTA. ●●

2001 Ark of Hope Earth Charter celebration ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On September 9, 2001, two days before 9/11, an Earth Charter celebration in Vermont unveiled the Ark of Hope holding a papyrus copy of the charter. It was later carried to U.N. headquarters. ●●

2001 Time Magazine reports China's turn to technocracy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 2001 Time Magazine documented China's shift toward rule by technocrats in an article titled "Made in China: The Revenge of the Nerds." Wood argues China became a technocracy following Deng Xiaoping's post-1978 reforms. ●●

2001 Epicyte announces a contraceptive corn ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book asserts, in a footnote drawing on William Engdahl, that in September 2001 Epicyte reported creating a contraceptive corn. It presents this as part of a claimed depopulation agenda. ●●

2001 September 11 attacks rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. The attacks of September 11 were the catastrophic failure Tenet had predicted three years earlier. It was the Pearl Harbor the CIA had been created to prevent. ●●

2001 Bush's secret directive unleashes the CIA ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Bush issued a top-secret directive ordering the CIA to hunt, capture, imprison, and interrogate suspects worldwide with no limits. It became the foundation for a system of secret prisons and torture. ●●

2001 Bush orders warrantless eavesdropping ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Bush ordered the NSA to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists' communications inside the United States without judicial warrants. General Hayden said he could not not do it. ●●

2001 Taliban leadership toppled in Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The American military knocked out the Taliban's political leadership and paved the way for a new government in Kabul. Tens of thousands of Taliban loyalists melted into the villages to fight another day. ●●

2001 Year 2001: 2 (Summer 2001). Abramson, Rudy. Spanning the Cent rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2 (Summer 2001). Abramson, Rudy. ●●

2001 Enron reveals massive loss and accounting fraud ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Enron announced $681 million third-quarter loss and $1.2 billion shareholder equity reduction, revealing magnitude of its fraudulent accounting scheme. ●●

2001 Bush asks George Tenet to stay as CIA director ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Just after New Year's Day 2001, President-elect George W. Bush called Senator David Boren about George Tenet. ●●

2001 Taliban announces plan to destroy Afghan statues ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On March 1, 2001, the Taliban announced its intention to destroy all statues in Afghanistan. ●●

2001 Mullah Omar warns Musharraf in private letter ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On January 16, 2001, Taliban leader Mullah Omar wrote a private letter to General Musharraf. ●●

2001 Deputies committee prioritizes bin Laden and Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On April 30, 2001, the Bush administration's deputies committee held its first meeting on bin Laden and Afghanistan. ●●

2001 State Department meets Taliban in Pakistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On June 26, 2001, State Department diplomats met with Taliban representatives in Pakistan. ●●

2001 CIA warns Bush of imminent al Qaeda attack ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On July 10, 2001, the CIA prepared a briefing paper warning of imminent al Qaeda attack. ●●

2001 CIA threat reporting about bin Laden surges to extraordinary levels rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In spring 2001, the CIA's threat reporting about bin Laden reached levels the Counterterrorist Center had rarely seen. CIA director Tenet considered the threat intelligence from intercepts and human agents as exceptionally frightening. ●●

2001 Abdul Haq leads resistance mission into Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Afghan rebel commander Abdul Haq crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan with twenty fighters in October 2001 to lead a political and military campaign against the Taliban regime. ●●

2001 US launches Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom on October 7, 2001, with air strikes against Taliban military installations and Al Qaeda training camps. ●●

2001 September 11 attacks on the United States ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people. ●●

2001 CIA team deploys to the Northern Alliance with cash ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A ten-person CIA team carrying $3 million in cash departed Washington on September 20, 2001, to provide direct military funding to Northern Alliance commanders fighting the Taliban. ●●

2001 Iraq Becomes Priority for Bush Administration rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Iraq was immediately placed at the top of the White House national security agenda when President Bush took office in January 2001, even before the September 11 terrorist attacks. ●●

2001 Like the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Like the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. ●●

2001 US-led intervention in Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After September 11, the American-led intervention in Afghanistan used military force to topple regime protecting terrorist attackers ●●

2001 body was exhumed in October 2001. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story body was exhumed in October 2001. ●●

2001 Blow film released ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The drug-themed film Blow, starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz, was released based on the true story of cocaine trafficker George Jung. ●●

2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider released ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Laura Croft: Tomb Raider starring Angelina Jolie was released with a 94 million budget involving tax shelters in Germany and the UK. ●●

2001 A Beautiful Mind released ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind depicted John Nash, a figure with possible NSA connections, portrayed as paranoid schizophrenic. ●●

2001 2001: Throughout 2001 Williams worked around the clock from his ap... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ger’s software for $40,000, thus keeping it alive. Bricklin was, above all, a nice guy. Throughout 2001 Williams worked around the clock from his apartment or in borrowed space to keep Blogger running ●●

2001 2001: Dan Bricklin (1951– ) and Ev Williams (1972– ) in 2001. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Dan Bricklin (1951– ) and Ev Williams (1972– ) in 2001. Jimmy Wales (1966– ). Sergey Brin (1973– ) and Larry Page (1973– ). ●●

2001 2001: But the wiki concept was not widely known beyond software en... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story to his software. But the wiki concept was not widely known beyond software engineers until January 2001, when it was adopted by a struggling Internet entrepreneur who was trying, without much success, ●●

2001 2001: Cunningham was supportive, indeed delighted when Wales calle... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Cunningham was supportive, indeed delighted when Wales called him up in January 2001 to say he planned to use the wiki software to juice up his encyclopedia project. Cunningham had not sought to paten ●●

2001 2001: By September 2001, after eight months in existence, it had t... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story d articles, approximately seventy times the number that Nupedia had after a full year. By September 2001, after eight months in existence, it had ten thousand articles. That month, when the September ●●

2001 2001: A vivid example was Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie, 2001: A Sp... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story enstein motif became a staple of science fiction. A vivid example was Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the frighteningly intelligent computer HAL. With its calm voice, H ●●

2001 2001: Sources for this section include author’s interviews with No... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story dle edition); Steven Kent, The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon (Three Rivers, 2001); Scott Cohen, Zap! The Rise and Fall of Atari (McGraw-Hill, 1984); Henry Lowood, “Videogames i ●●

2001 2001: Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine (Viking, 2001), 279. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story I was an editor of Time and remember the dispute. 81. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine (Viking, 2001), 279. 82. Stephen Lukasik, “Why the ARPANET Was Built,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ●●

2001 2001: Linus Torvalds with David Diamond, Just for Fun (HarperColli... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ://www.linfo.org/linus.html . 128. Linus Torvalds with David Diamond, Just for Fun (HarperCollins, 2001), 4. 129. Torvalds and Diamond, Just for Fun , 74, 4, 17; Michael Learmonth, “Giving It All Away ●●

2001 2001: 15, 2001, http://danbricklin. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And Then There Was One.” 75. Dan Bricklin, “How the Blogger Deal Happened,” blog posting, Apr. 15, 2001, http://danbricklin.com/log/blogger.htm ; Dan Bricklin, Bricklin on Technology (Wiley, 2009), 20 ●●

2001 2001: , 257 Tomlinson, Ray, 384 Tom Swift Terminal, 303 Tools f... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story n), 120 Turing Test, 124 –28, 478 Watson and, 470 Turner, Ted, 391 Twitter, 433 , 479 –80, 485 2001: A Space Odyssey , 311 , 468 , 477 TX-2, 243 U-2 planes, 155 UCLA, 253 , 255 –56, 259 Ulam, Stanisla ●●

2001 2001: ization.” He called Kleinrock’s claims “ludicrous.” 71 The backlash ag rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ization.” He called Kleinrock’s claims “ludicrous.” 71 The backlash against Kleinrock was so bitter that it became the subject of a 2001 New York Time ●●

2001 2001: Ken Kesey (1935–2001) holding a flute on the bus. Stewart Brand (1938– rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ken Kesey (1935–2001) holding a flute on the bus. Stewart Brand (1938– ). The first issue, fall 1 ●●

2001 2001: ing it alive. Bricklin was, above all, a nice guy. Throughout 2001 Wil rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ing it alive. Bricklin was, above all, a nice guy. Throughout 2001 Williams worked around the clock from his apartment or in borrowed space to keep Bl ●●

2001 2001: Dan Bricklin (1951– ) and Ev Williams (1972– ) in 2001. Jimmy Wales (1 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Dan Bricklin (1951– ) and Ev Williams (1972– ) in 2001. Jimmy Wales (1966– ). Sergey Brin (1973– ) and ●●

2001 2001: well as open-source improvements to his software. But the wiki concept rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story well as open-source improvements to his software. But the wiki concept was not widely known beyond software engineers until January 2001, when it was ●●

2001 2001: Cunningham was supportive, indeed delighted when Wales called him up i rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Cunningham was supportive, indeed delighted when Wales called him up in January 2001 to say he planned to use the wiki software to juice up his encycl ●●

2001 2001: mes the number that Nupedia had after a full year. By September 2001, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story mes the number that Nupedia had after a full year. By September 2001, after eight months in existence, it had ten thousand articles. That month, when ●●

2001 2001: kenstein motif became a staple of science fiction. A vivid example was rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story kenstein motif became a staple of science fiction. A vivid example was Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the frightening ●●

2001 2001: 11. Sources for this section include author’s interviews with Nolan Bu rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 11. Sources for this section include author’s interviews with Nolan Bushnell, Al Alcorn, Steve Jobs (for previous book), and Steve Wozniak; Tristan Do ●●

2001 2001: s an editor of Time and remember the dispute. 81. Mitchell Waldrop, Th rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story s an editor of Time and remember the dispute. 81. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine (Viking, 2001), 279. 82. Stephen Lukasik, “Why the ARPANET Was B ●●

2001 2001: n Project, http://www.linfo.org/linus.html . 128. Linus Torvalds with rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story n Project, http://www.linfo.org/linus.html . 128. Linus Torvalds with David Diamond, Just for Fun (HarperCollins, 2001), 4. 129. Torvalds and Diamond, ●●

2001 2001: How the Blogger Deal Happened,” blog posting, Apr. 15, 2001, http://da rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story How the Blogger Deal Happened,” blog posting, Apr. 15, 2001, http://danbricklin.com/log/blogger.htm ; Dan Bricklin, Bricklin on Te ●●

2001 2001: 265 , 378 Toffler, Alvin, 394 Tolkien, J. R. R., 257 Tomlinson, Ray, 3 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 265 , 378 Toffler, Alvin, 394 Tolkien, J. R. R., 257 Tomlinson, Ray, 384 Tom Swift Terminal, 303 Tools for Conviviality (Illich), 302 –3 TOPS-10, 321 ●●

2001 Information history in 2001 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story antum generalization of classical information has led to a cleaner and more powerful theory, both of computing and communication. ” Shannon lived till 2001, his last years dimmed and isolated by the d ●●

2001 loped any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to projec rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story loped any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors.”26 On July 29, 2001, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice stated that “We are able to keep his arms ●●

2001 September 11 Terrorist Attacks Transform Privacy Debate rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The September 11 attacks led to a dramatic shift in political priorities, with privacy legislation disappearing from conversation. ●●

2001 Estonia launches the Estonian Genome Project ai_extracted 1 cit. no story elhi and Tokyo. The name of the company is IBM. Its Iceland project operates under a division known as “Life Services-Nordic.”32 Estonia became the second nation to databank its entire population. In 2001, Estonia created the Estonia Genome Project to capture the genetic profiles of its 1.4 million ●●

2001 NSA mass surveillance of Americans after 9/11 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And, as the world has come to know through the revelations of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency has been given broad leave to collect data not just on foreign activities but also on American citizens since September 11, 2001. ●●

2001 Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001); Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution, Vol. ●●

2001 Kagan, Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Kagan, Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001). ●●

2001 “Agenda, Meeting of Board of Trustees,” October 19, 1960, RAC, RG IV3B4.2, Population Council, Ge... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “Agenda, Meeting of Board of Trustees,” October 19, 1960, RAC, RG IV3B4.2, Population Council, General File, box 36, folder 507; McCarthy, “Ford Foundation’s Population Program,” 21–22; Radhika Ram... ●●

2001 , Political Parties and Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story , Political Parties and Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). ●●

2001 Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State, 1980–2001 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State, 1980–2001. ●●

2001 °° The American bombing of Afghanistan, begun on rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story °° The American bombing of Afghanistan, begun on 7 October 2001 and followed by a nilitary occupation of much of the cou ●●

2001 At the time of the first anniversary of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At the time of the first anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack and subsequently as well, the Department ●●

2001 bombing and special forces attacks, October 7, 2001 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story bombing and special forces attacks, October 7, 2001 until present day” For further discussion, see essay by William Blum ●●

2001 Germany), 116 Instituto Cultural Trabalho (Brazil), 168 Inter-American rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Germany), 116 Instituto Cultural Trabalho (Brazil), 168 Inter-American Police Academy (Panama), 234 International Police ●●

2001 Clinton pardons Patty Hearst ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Levenda notes that in January 2001, President Bill Clinton pardoned Patty Hearst as one of his last official acts as President. ●●

2001 Wikipedia adopts wiki software ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jimmy Wales called Ward Cunningham in January 2001 to say he would use wiki software for his encyclopedia project. ●●

2001 Nineteen hijackers assemble in the United States for 9/11 ai_extracted 1 cit. By mid-July 2001 all nineteen hijackers had entered the United States. Fifteen were Saudis, two Emiratis, one Egyptian, and one Lebanese; the trained pilots came from the Hamburg cell, and the "muscle" recruits arrived between April and June 2001 to await the signal, funded by al-Qaeda transfers from the Gulf. ●●●

2001 Al-Qaeda suicide bombers assassinate Ahmed Shah Massoud ai_extracted 1 cit. On September 9, 2001, two Arabs posing as television journalists detonated a bomb hidden in their camera while interviewing anti-Taliban commander Ahmed Shah Massoud in northern Afghanistan. The killing, two days before the 9/11 attacks, removed the Taliban's most formidable opponent. ●●●

October 2001 Moi nominates Uhuru to Parliament and Cabinet 2 cit. In October 2001 Moi nominated Uhuru to Parliament and soon appointed him Minister for Local Government. The move bypassed the electoral route and made clear that Moi was elevating Kenyatta from party asset to succession prospect. Uhuru now had the name, cabinet rank, and state sponsorship needed for the coming KANU succession fight. politics ●●●●

2001 The Mara Triangle is delegated to Mara Conservancy management 2 cit. The western Mara Triangle remained part of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, but day-to-day management was delegated to the Mara Conservancy through agreement with the local authority. This did not privatize the reserve title. It did create a public-private management model in which security, roads, tourism control and revenue collection could be run by a contracted conservation body. economy / environment / politics ●●●

December 2002 Koizumi pledges an anti-deflation BoJ governor ai_extracted 1 cit. In late December 2002 Prime Minister Koizumi stated that he would appoint as Bank of Japan governor only someone aggressive in fighting deflation. ●●

September 2002 BoJ announces stock purchases; Yanagisawa replaced by Takenaka ai_extracted 1 cit. In September 2002 the Bank of Japan announced it would be prepared to purchase stocks from banks, a move that embarrassed Financial Services Minister Yanagisawa, who was sacked and replaced by Heizo Takenaka, a supporter of the bank's foreclosure plan. ●●●

2002 Surprise recovery in late 2002 ai_extracted 1 cit. Following the Bank of Japan's renewed credit creation of 2001 and the usual time lag, industrial production, consumption, and real GDP staged a recovery by late 2002 that surprised most observers. ●●

1 January 2002 Euro cash introduced; national currencies abolished ai_extracted 1 cit. On January 1, 2002, new euro paper money and coins were introduced across most of Europe as twelve countries, including Germany with its deutsche mark, gave up their national currencies. ●●●●●

2002 ECB orders record shrinkage of Bundesbank credit creation ai_extracted 1 cit. In 2002 the ECB ordered the Bundesbank to shrink its credit creation by record amounts; as money circulating in the economy shrank, demand fell and Germany moved into recession. ●●●

2002 National Science Foundation publishes Converging Technologies report ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In June 2002 the National Science Foundation published a 482-page report, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, calling for the integration of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science (NBIC). Wood ties this convergence to transhumanist goals. ●●

2002 Giscard d'Estaing authors the EU Constitution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Valery Giscard d'Estaing authored the European Union's Constitution in 2002-2003 as President of the Convention on the Future of Europe. Wood highlights his Trilateral Commission membership. ●●

2002 CBS reports USDA-financed spermicidal corn trials ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book asserts that on October 6, 2002 CBS News reported the USDA had financed field trials including Epicyte's spermicidal corn. It presents this as evidence of a hidden fertility-reduction effort. ●●

2002 Cheney asserts Iraq has WMD ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Vice President Cheney declared there was no doubt Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and was amassing them to use against America. Rumsfeld and other officials echoed the certainty. ●●