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Big respect for Bob Brown – leader of the Australian Green Party – who took a stand for borderless democracy in their senate a couple of weeks ago.
In a senate debate in support of the United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, he said:
“We go to war over supporting democracy in countries elsewhere around the world. The opposition certainly supported the invasion of Iraq on the basis of extending democracy to that country. When it comes to a principle of democracy being given to the near seven billion people on the planet, it seems that there is no willingness to support that ethic of democracy whatever.”
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Take two of the nastiest things around and you’re bound to get grim results. Nationalism and oil make for an unhappy world.
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