While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Republican (fascist/socialist) President George W. Bush signs the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act, making permanent the USA PATRIOT Act.

       [added 1/13/2024] Thanks to Jim Lorenz for his contributions to this entry.

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“Law of the Jungle”
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Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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