The Iraqi Civil War continues: An al-Qaida (Arabic for “the Base”) suicide truck bomber kills 95 Iraqi nationals, at the Foreign Ministry, in Baghdad.

       NOTE: Meanwhile only one member of the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) lost his life.

       [added 12/25/2021] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

       The Confederation of Switzerland agrees to hand over data to the Internal Revenue Service on many over forty-four-hundred accounts at UBS AG commercial bank, in Zurich, that in the names of United states enemy /subject /citizens.  The IRS continues to seek information on another 48,000 Swiss bank accounts, and to hire 800 new employees (Federal workers) in its ongoing campaign to end financial privacy.

       [added 12/25/2021] Thanks to G. Edward Griffin 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,” President Mark Schienberg of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association, announces to the national media that half of the NYADA 425 dealer-members have stopped participating in the “Cash for Clunkers” because most of them have received around two percent of the 3,500 to 4,500 “dollars” in Federal subsidies for each automobile sold under the program.  C4C has left many of his organization’s dealerships in a worse position, as they are now short on enough Federal Reserve Notes (Bills of Credit) to meet their daily operating expenses.

       [added 12/25/2021] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

8/24/2009                   8/25/2009                   9/17/2009                  10/12/2009                  10/25/2009

11/17/2009                 12/8/2009                   1/10/2010                   3/10/2010                    3/21/2010

4/15/2010                   1/20/2011                   12/12/2016

References:

Kim Gamel, “Iraqis Lay Blame For Bombs In Two Places,” Orange County (California) Register, 20 August 2009, News:14.

BloombergUTV News: IRS intensifies hunt for secret accounts
www.bloombergutv.com/news/latest-business-news-us/3456/9/irs-intensifies-hunt-for-secret-accounts.html

NY dealers pull out of clunkers program | Fox10tv.com
www.fox10tv.com/dpp/on_the_money/local_economy/NY_Dealers_Pull_Out_Of_Clunkers_Program

Baghdad bomb attacks kill at least 95
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32472040

Home and Away Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties – CNN.com.htm
www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/table.Iraq.html?sortby=date&ski=4&field=table_year&key=%222006%22#top

NewsMax.Cash for Clunkers ‘Success’ Highly Dubious
www.newsmax.com/stossel/clunkers_deficit_/2009/09/02/255521.html

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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