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Peace efforts in the Middle East

"Any Jew who tries, from now on, to buy a lot of land or a house in Iraq should be killed," the decree [by Iranian cleric Kazem al-Husseini al-Haieri] said. "Selling any lot of land or a house in Iraq to Jews is forbidden."

Those modern Islamic clerics, always addressing the most serious problems in lands in turmoil, like Iraq. [source, source]

The Australian government says it will follow un-UN diplomacy

The Australian government on Thursday branded multilateral forums such as the United Nations "ineffective and unfocused" and said its foreign policy will increasingly rely on "coalitions of the willing" like the one that waged war in Iraq.

It's good to know that the leaders of Australia have been reading my weblog. [source, source]

EU to ban suggestive media

the European Commission is considering a law to ban sexist television programs and advertising. […] The draft directive, revealed in Tuesday’s Financial Times, would leave it to the courts to decide whether programs or advertisements were sexist or “did not respect human dignity”. An explanatory note says: “The purpose of this provision is to avoid throughout all forms of mass media all stereotypical portrayals of women and men, as well as any projection of unacceptable images of men and women affecting human dignity and decency in advertisements"

I think that this is great. It shows what the EU is really about. [source, source]