political nonsense

China and France signed a bilateral pact to fight against climate change together.
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Swedish women were fighting for their right to go topless.
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It was reported that UK newspapers report on climate change 3 times as much as the US, and they did it more accurately.
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A Swiss survey found that teenagers that smoke weed function better than teen tobacco-users, are more socially driven and have fewer psychosocial problems than those who do not use either substance. US doctors disagreed.
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The military regime in Burma is still holding up to 2,500 people in prisons and labour camps around the country, and continues to arrest suspected dissidents, the British government claimed yesterday.
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The Foreign Minister of France said the world should brace for a war with Iran.
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The British Army began withdrawing from its last base in Basra’s city center early Monday, a move that will leave Iraq’s second-largest city without foreign forces for the first time since the American-led invasion in 2003.
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Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are enduring a fifth day of power blackouts. The power outages began after the European Union suspended its funding of Gaza’s main electricity plant.
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A region in Russia started offering it’s citizens prizes to procreate, such as money, and refrigerators.

[worth it]
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A Congressional committee slashed the funding to Bush’s European missile defense system budget.
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It was revealed that former Prime Minister Tony Blair talked to Rupert Murdoch alot, especially right before the outbreak of the Iraq war.
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President Vladimir V. Putin, angered by American plans to deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe, formally notified NATO governments on Saturday that Russia will suspend its obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, a key cold war-era arms limitation agreement.
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Ikea opened the Ikea Hostel in Oslo, where customers can stay overnight if they haven’t finished their shopping.

[comfy]
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Judges in Britain decided to keep wearing wigs.

[why not?]
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Three men accused of taking part in an extremist Muslim plot to carry out a series of suicide bombings on London’s transport system in July 2005 have been convicted of conspiracy to murder.
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BBC correspondent Alan Johnston has been released by kidnappers in the Gaza Strip after 114 days in captivity.
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Sweden started using confiscated alcohol as biodiesel.
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Tony Blair today was appointed special envoy for the Middle East.
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More than six out of 10 people in the UK regularly commit crimes against the government, their employers or businesses.
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The UK government announced that “creationism and intelligent design are not part of the science National Curriculum programmes of study and should not be taught as science. ”
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