In future elections from now on, Florida will have as many electoral votes as former political powerhouse New York.

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Not only does it set the stage for another crisis just a few months from now, Democrats complain, but it also rigs future negotiations on reducing the deficit in the Republicans' favour.

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Do we want to look back decades from now and recognize that at this critical juncture in history, America, through its inaction, cemented its future on the dust heap of former world powers, including the Roman, Ottoman, British or Soviet empires?

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But just as The Wintel duopoly is now in tatters, the expectation that Google and Facebook will split future revenues from the work that is going on at Mozilla, Samsung, Intel, Jolla, Baidu, LG and elsewhere is open to challenge.

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While once Syria used Hezbollah in Lebanon as a proxy against Israel, Hezbollah is now deterred from acting on Lebanese soil for fear of Israeli retribution and is preparing to use the instability in Syria as its future staging ground.

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