BREAKTHROUGH: IRAN TO AIM SMALLER WARHEADS AT EURO CITIES
After a week of tough negotiating by France, Germany and Britain, the Islamic Republic of Iran has conceded to reduce the size of nuclear warheads it will use in the eventual bombing of Paris, Berlin and London."Iran blinked," said French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, who is a man. "We have achieved everything we wanted in these negotiations. Our capital cities will be spared to a certain degree and Iran has pledged to stop enriching uranium, while retaining 20 operating centrifuges, and continuing to process plutonium. This is a great victory of diplomacy."
A spokesman for Iran's President Mohammad Khatami said, "The Europeans are vigorous negotiators, and we have made deep concessions. The eventual survivors in Paris, Berlin and London will express gratitude to Allah when they compare their lot with the fate of Jerusalem and New York."
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To quote a wise man: "It's funny cause it's true."
Check this out. A French made film, with a French script writer, a French staffed film crew, French lead and supporting actors, a French producer, and director, filmed on location in (of all places) France, has been deemed too American, due to Warner Bros financing.
Alexander the Gay received French subsidies, but A Very Long Engagement is deemed "too American".
Jeunet had pointed out that director Oliver Stone's Alexander the Great received funding from the French government despite not being filmed in France or in French.
"Oliver Stone's movie Alexander is French - his mother is French and he did the post-production in Paris so it's French, no problem. And this one is not French, can you believe it?" said Jeunet.
