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...have also encouraged local residents to arm themselves and form militias with fanciful names like the Iron Ladies, the Night Butterflies and the Eyes of a Pineapple. Around 100,000 civilians are now members of such armed groups, and they either receive free guns from the military or can buy them at deeply subsidized rates. The majority of militia members come from Buddhist ranks because the government feels they are most vulnerable to attack...
...inspired a few people to eat differently for the better. I think I'm part of a much bigger idea in this country - we're one of the last countries to catch up in that department. But thankfully, people are demanding more value for the things that they buy, better ingredients and of course more locally grown things. We've made gigantic strides in the last decade or so, and now I think every year we're moving to a better place when it comes to food in this country...
Read about U.S. consumers who travel to Canada to buy high-flow toilets...
...like my options," the President said. Craig told the President his lawyers had concluded there was no alternative to releasing the photos. Obama sent Craig scrambling for a new way out. Three days later, Craig had found a loophole: instead of releasing the photos, Obama would buy time by fighting their release all the way to the Supreme Court...
Europeans have VAT and it's very, very high - in Nordic countries, it's somewhere between 20% and 25%. The average European pays a much higher percentage in overall budget every time they buy something, but European governments give it back in the form of social benefits. American social benefits tend to be limited to the poor, so there's a much clearer [wealth] redistribution through the tax system than there is in Europe...