[Link] Ted Cruz, Bitcoin Booster, Bought a Bunch of Bitcoin

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

Increasingly vocal Bitcoin supporter Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) bought the dip, purchasing between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of Bitcoin shortly after it hit its lowest point during a recent sell-off.

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[Link] Texas governor bans all vaccine mandates, including from private businesses

Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com

Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order late Monday prohibiting all state entities, including private businesses, from requiring people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

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[Link] How South Dakota became a global tax haven

Read: 12/10/2021 www.axios.com

South Dakota has become the world's foremost tax haven — right up there with the Cayman Islands, and ahead of old-fashioned locations like Switzerland. That's one of the clear messages from the Pandora Papers leak of confidential financial information about the world's richest individuals.

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