These critics charge that unfettered markets and runaway technology, far from bringing us closer to the promised land, destroy cherished values.

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Eight kilometres west of town is Mount Nebo where, in the Old Testament, Moses saw the Promised Land from its peak.

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In the original Jewish narrative, the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 meant redemption, an escape from the genocidal persecution of the Nazis and a return to the land promised by God (for the religious) or historical precedent (for the secular).

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But all this came from a warning that Canadians cannot spend their way to the promised land.

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Given these developments, it would seem that the American mobile market is far from a cellular promised-land.

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