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Date Sent: 2013-11-13
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
Anal Probes And The Drug War: A Look At The Ethical And Legal Issues
Calif. Insurance Commissioner: More Than 1M Californians Having Insurance Cancelled Due To ACA -- Memphis officer arrested in entering ex-girlfriend's home with gun -- Sheriff's employee suspended over game tickets -- Federal Reserve Whistleblower Tells America The REAL Reason For Quantitative Easing -- Court orders new trials because of judge’s undisclosed affair -- Pakistani faces US terror charge, wanted to fight in Syria -- The Top 5 John F. Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories -- Tina Turner formally ‘relinquishes’ U.S. citizenship -- Ronald Kirby, top D.C. region transportation planner, slain in Alexandria home -- Why GMO labeling really failed in Washington State: stop whining -- NSA Leaks Could Inspire a Global Boom in Intrusive Surveillance -- This Is The FAA's Plan For Drone-Friendly Skies -- Public Health Concerns in Typhoon Haiyan Aftermath
AZ: Bitcoin Workshop @ Hancock's w/ Davi Barker-bring your
Smartphones/Tablets, Nov 14, 2013, 3-9 p.m.
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News Link • Drug War
Anal Probes And The Drug War: A Look At The Ethical And Legal Issues
11-12-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
Last week, news wires, blogs and pundits lit up with the horrifying story of David Eckert, a New Mexico man who last January was subjected to a series of invasive and degrading drug search procedures after a traffic stop.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Bitcoin Workshop @ Hancock's w/ Davi Barker-bring your Smatphones/Tablets Nov 14, 2013, 3-9 p.m.
11-07-2013
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www.meetup.com/ArizonaLibertyR3VOLUTION
If you are interested in getting a Bitcoin account and have no idea how to do it, or are not that familiar with it and want to learn more about it, bring your tablets and/or smartphones to this workshop and we will have people here to help you get it
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Calif. Insurance Commissioner: More Than 1M Californians Having Insurance Cancelled Due To ACA
11-12-2013
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CBS News
Health insurer Anthem Blue Cross of California has agreed to a two-month extension of about 104,000 individual policies after failing to give the required 90-day cancellation notice, state Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
A Hole Too Deep
11-12-2013
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Simple Justice
The saga of the 2d Circuit panel’s bizarre war with Judge Shira Scheindlin in the stop & frisk cases, Ligon and Floyd, continues to spiral out of control, as the judge and both plaintiffs have sought to undo the ruling.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Memphis officer arrested in entering ex-girlfriend's home with gun
11-12-2013
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A Memphis police officer has been arrested after he entered his ex-girlfriend's home with a handgun early Saturday, the Memphis Police Department said.
About 1 a.m., police responded to a report about an armed man at a home at 870 Crossfield Cove,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Sheriff's employee suspended over game tickets
11-12-2013
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AP
A Knox County Sheriff's Office employee was suspended after he seized tickets from Georgia fans at Neyland Stadium and gave them to other people.
A woman emailed the University of Tennessee Police Department about tickets
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Federal Reserve Whistleblower Tells America The REAL Reason For Quantitative Easing
11-12-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A banker named Andrew Huszar that helped manage the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program during 2009 and 2010 is publicly apologizing for what he has done. He says that quantitative easing has accomplished next to nothing for the average pe
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Court orders new trials because of judge’s undisclosed affair
11-12-2013
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The Georgia Court of Appeals has ordered new trials for five men convicted of serious crimes in Fayette County because their trial judge was having an undisclosed affair with the defendants’ public defender.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Pakistani faces US terror charge, wanted to fight in Syria
11-12-2013
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AFP
A Pakistani living legally in the United States has been charged with attempting to join an Al-Qaeda linked militant group after falling for an FBI sting, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Basit Javed Sheikh, 29, contacted an undercover FBI age
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Top 5 John F. Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories
11-12-2013
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ABC News
The fifty years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy have done little to quell the public's interest or skepticism about who killed the president.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Emmigration
Tina Turner formally ‘relinquishes’ U.S. citizenship
11-12-2013
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Washington Post
This item just in via an “activity” report from the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, headlined “Soul Legend Relinquishes U.S. Citizenship.” “Long-time Swiss resident Tina Turner” was in the embassy Oct. 24 to sign her “Statement of Voluntary
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News Link • Conspiracies
Ronald Kirby, top D.C. region transportation planner, slain in Alexandria home
11-12-2013
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Washington Post
Officials said Tuesday that Ronald Kirby, 69, director of transportation planning at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, died of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and the medical examiner deemed the case a homicide.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Why GMO labeling really failed in Washington State: stop whining
11-12-2013
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Farm Wars
“You’re eating poison and we can prove it.” Lead with that. Don’t be shy. Don’t tap dance. Reveal the threat.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Humor
Stephen Colbert on Washington State’s Failed GMO Labeling Initiative " Just Eat It! (Satire)
11-12-2013
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Farm Wars
Stephen Colbert rips apart GMOs and calls for no labeling on anything - just eat it! This is hilarious, and spot on satire. VIDEO
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Media: Television
Homelessness, a New Yorker’s view
1112-2013
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http://www.msnbc.com/up-late/watch/new-york-citys-
Mary Broshnahan of the Coalition for the Homeless joins Alec Baldwin to talk about the differences in the homelessness issue in American and the rest of the world. Also, Broshnahan weighs in on what kind of mayor Bill De Blasio will be for the homele
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News Link • Inventions
Roomba 880 ditches brushes for extra dirt-busting power
11-12-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Terry Chao
As an idea, the Roomba sounds like every lazy but clean-loving person's dream. Most people know Roomba as the little circular vacuum 'bot that can get under tricky areas like beds and uses sensors to seamlessly suck up your house's dirt.
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D-printed undergarments are sprayed on, made in three seconds
11-12-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Terry Chao
Rejoice, laundry hating humans: the days of washing your underwear may soon be over. Thanks to the power and versatility of 3D textile printing, the Tamicare company has created a biodegradable and completely customizable fabric that comes in any des
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Can Genomics Blow Up the Clinical Trial?
11-12-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Susan Young
Genomic technology could accelerate patient trials of new cancer drugs that are targeted to a tumor’s individual molecular profile.
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News Link • Energy
Graphene Supercapacitors Ready For Electric Vehicle Energy Storage...
11-12-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com,
Graphene Supercapacitors Ready For Electric Vehicle Energy Storage, Say Korean Engineers
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Leaks Could Inspire a Global Boom in Intrusive Surveillance
11-12-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com,
Governments already dabbling with authoritarian control of the Internet could be spurred on by learning of NSA surveillance.
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News Link • Drones
This Is The FAA's Plan For Drone-Friendly Skies
11-12-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
Buried inside a dull bureaucratic tome is the future of flying robots in America.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Public Health Concerns in Typhoon Haiyan Aftermath
11-12-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Brooke Borel
The images coming out of the Philippines are wrenching. Last week, the country was hit with Typhoon Haiyan, which may be the strongest typhoon in recorded history. Then, it was then pelted with a tropical storm (not as badly as predicted, but the rai
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
RNA’s Secret Life Outside the Cell
11-12-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Wynne Parry
For decades, researchers have been finding DNA and its sister, RNA, circulating in the body, outside the safe interior of cells where these molecules do their essential work of storing and translating the code of life.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Where Is Curiosity Rover Now? Go There With This Amazing Panorama
11-12-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Adam Mann
Need a break? Why not dash over to Mars using this amazing panorama from NASA’s Curiosity rover. The beautiful mosaic stitches together 101 images taken about two weeks ago on the Red Planet to get a full 360-degree view around the rover.
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News Link • Transportation
Italians Condense a Yacht Into a Teeny-Weeny Pod of Luxury
11-12-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Damon Lavrinc
Most of us will never afford the mega-yacht of our dreams, so Italian design firm Lazzarini has taken all the amenities and luxuries of a floating executive pleasure den and distilled them into a compact pod.
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News Link • Government
Venezuelan military seizes major retail chain
11-11-2013
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USA Today
"This is for the good of the nation," Maduro said. "Leave nothing on the shelves, nothing in the warehouses … Let nothing remain in stock!" Daka's store managers have been arrested and are being held by the country's security services.
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News Link • Activism
Protester nails his testicles to Red Square cobblestone to protest Russian police state
11-11-2013
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AFP
A Russian performance artist was hospitalized Sunday after stripping naked and nailing his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in protest against the Kremlin’s crackdown on political rights.
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News Link • Surveillance
Seattle police department has network that can track all Wi-Fi enabled devices
11-11-2013
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Rawstory
The network is not yet turned on, according to Seattle Police, but once it is, it will be able to determine the IP address, device type, downloaded applications, current location, and historical location of any device that searches for a Wi-Fi signal
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News Link • Police State
Words to avoid using if you don't want the government spying on you
11-7-2013
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Bryan Nelson, MNN
If you use several of these hundreds of words (such as 'pork,' 'cloud,' 'wave' or 'smart'), there's a chance you might get flagged by the government.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Drones
FAA Sets Plan for Allowing Domestic Drones by 2015
11-8-2013
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Dave Lefcourt, OEN
So you still believe you're not living in a surveillance state? Well think again.
The Federal Aviation Administration just published a 74 page plan whereby law enforcement agencies, businesses, universities and hobbyists can begin flying drones in t
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News Link • Drones
Why the CIA isn't handing over its drone assassins to the military
11-11-2013
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Russell Brandom on the Verge
The CIA will continue running its drone program separately from the Pentagon, at least for the time being. More than six months after the initial reports, progress has slowed to a standstill. It might sound like a simple procedural shift, but the dec
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul: Chained CPI Chains Taxpayers
11-10-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
One of the least discussed, but potentially most significant, provisions in President Obama’s budget is the use of the “chained consumer price index” (chained CPI), to measure the effect of inflation on people’s standard of living.
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News Link • Corruption
US Navy admirals under investigation in widening bribery scandal
11-10-2013
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Russia Today
2 Navy admirals placed on temporary leave after their access to classified materials was suspended. This comes as part of a growing investigation into allegations that Naval officers illegally accepted bribes from a military contractor.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
First Time Ever, a Prosecutor Goes to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting Innocent Man
11-10-2013
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The Huffington Post
Today in Texas, former prosecutor and judge Ken Anderson pled guilty to intentionally failing to disclose evidence in a case that sent an innocent man, Michael Morton, to prison for the murder of his wife. When trying the case as a prosecutor
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News Link • Afghanistan
What Will a New Army Chief Mean for Pakistan and the Neighborhood?
11-10-2013
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New York Times
Since it was announced last month that Pakistan’s army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, would be retiring, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has kept the country dangling on his choice, creating a new parlor game for the chattering classes in the process.
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News Link • Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, interpreters who helped U.S. in war denied visas; U.S. says they face no threat
11-10-2013
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Washington Post
A growing number of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside American troops are being denied U.S. visas allotted by Congress because the State Department says there is no serious threat against their lives.
But the interpreters, many of whom serv
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News Link • Syria
Inspectors in Syria Have Only One Site Left to Check
11-10-2013
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New York Times
International chemical weapons inspectors reported further progress in eliminating Syria’s stockpile, verifying the destruction of 22 of 23 sites the Syrian government had been used for the production and mixing of the banned munitions.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Which of the 11 American nations do you live in?
11-10-2013
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Washington Post
A reporter says North America can be broken neatly into 11 separate nation-states, where dominant cultures explain our voting behaviors and attitudes toward everything from social issues to the role of government.
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News Link • TAXES: State
Defeat of School Tax Stings Colorado Democrats
11-10-2013
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New York Times
They had $10 million in contributions, a barrage of advertising and support from usually warring factions of the educational establishment. But Democratic leaders were dealt a stinging defeat as voters resoundingly rejected an effort to raise taxes
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News Link • World News
Philippine typhoon death toll could reach 10,000
11-10-2013
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AP
The death toll from one of the strongest storms on record that ravaged the central Philippine city of Tacloban could reach 10,000 people, officials said Sunday after the extent of massive devastation became apparent and horrified survivors
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News Link • Iran
No nuclear deal between 6 world powers and Iran
11-10-2013
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AP
Talks on curbing Iran's nuclear program ended with no deal early Sunday after France objected that proposed measures didn't go far enough. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said "significant progress" had been made on the remaining differences.
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Monsanto’s Friends in High Places
00-09-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Many companies hope to send an employee into a government agency to influence regulation. How much better if the employee can actually shape government regulation to promote and sell a specific product! Monsanto seems to have accomplished this " and
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Gummy Bears, Pharmaceutical Drugs And Vaccines Made Out Of People
11-09-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
That is a really crazy headline, right? Unfortunately, it is not a joke. Right now, gelatin made with human DNA fragments is already being used in pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, and scientists believe that recent breakthroughs will soon make it
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Gov Cancels SNAP Cards: Louisiana EBT Free-for-all May Come at a High Price
11-09-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Remember last month when EBT cards in Louisiana showed no limits? Remember how all of those EBT users had a chaos-fueled shopping spree and emptied store shelves within hours? Remember how that one woman with only 49 cents left on her card tried to
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