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More rumblings from the United Nations about issues that concern us all, like poverty, the environment, AIDS. Of course, we gut the whole thing as best we can to ensure no holds barred for our great nation’s hungry corporate sponsors.

We, the SUV-driving, cellphone talking population of America won’t pay attention to these issues until a catastrophe occurs right here on our own shores. Oh, right. New Orleans. Oh, right. 9/11. Vonnegut wrote in the end of “Slaughterhouse Five” (something I’ll butcher in paraphrase here) “5 billion people; I suppose they’ll all want dignity.” Bush is proving that to be a kind of “not if we can help it” proposition for the US, hmm?