The Interior Ministry of Iraq, immediately suspends the activities of Blackwater Security Consulting after some of its security guards (soldiers of fortune) were involved in a skirmish that resulted in the deaths of eight Iraqi citizens.

       NOTE: Sixty percent of Blackwater’s revenues come from no-bid Federal contracts.

       [restored 5/19/2024]

       The Federal court for the district of (the Federal enclave of) Nevada decides United states v. Kahre: The refuses to convict Robert Kahre of income tax evasion for paying his workers agreed upon wages in gold and silver Coin (lawful Money), and not reporting the income to the Internal Revenue Service because the face value of Coins was below IRS reporting requirements.  This is another example of Jury Nullification (The act of a fully informed Jury, empowered through self-knowledge, to judge the decrees and the evidence in question).

       NOTE: This verdict received no attention from the national media, and only one article in the local newspaper.

       [restored 5/19/2024] Thanks to Bill Holmes for this entry.

       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” after having denying it for years, Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the privately owned Federal Reserve System, admits in an interview with Jim Lehrer, of the Public Broadcasting System, that said “we had a bubble in housing … larger than most people expect [ed].”

       NOTE: Greenspan, during his last four years as Chairman of the FRBGs, repeatedly denied that there was any type of “housing bubble.”

       [restored 5/19/2024]