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,” the Department of Justice finalizes a 53,800,000,000 “dollar” settlement with the British Petroleum corporation over its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

       NOTE: This settlement goes not to those individual property owners who were harmed by BP, but to the Federal, five state and over 400 municipal governments.

       [added 12/27/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.