How pitiful is this?U.S. Casts sole "No" Vote:
"The United States, which is the world's biggest exporter of arms and accounts for more than 50 per cent of all arms exports, on Wednesday became the only country in the United Nations to vote against letting work begin on a new treaty to bolster arms embargoes and prevent human rights abuses by setting uniform worldwide standards for arms deals. The vote in the 192-nation UN General Assembly was 153-1, with the United States casting the sole "no" vote. Twenty-four other nations abstained, including major arms sellers Russia and China and emerging exporters India and Pakistan...."
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it's pitiful, but it's the business the united states has been about since wwII... weaponry, wars, and violence drives our economy and keep the rivers of cash flowing into the pockets of the already super-rich... everybody outside the united states sees this quite clearly... too bad our own citizens don't...
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