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,” Henry M. Paulson, Jr., secretary of the Treasury, proposes that in addition to the five Federal agencies that already regulate the commercial banking industry the Board of Governors (a Federal agency) that oversees the privately owned Federal Reserve System of (central) Banks be given authority to do so also.

       [added 6/28/2024] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

       Lake Grove, new york statute enforcement officers (acting under-color-of-law) take 80-year-old, wheelchair-bound Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, into custody, after Smith Haven Mall security officers arrested him.  Zirkel’s crime was to refuse to remove his T-shirt that protested the Iraqi-American War.

       [added 6/28/2024] Thanks to Bill Holmes for this entry.