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Countdown_3_2_1

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July 28, 2012

U.N. states fail to reach global arms trade treaty

Source: USA Today

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A U.N. treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade will have to wait after member states failed to an reach agreement, and some diplomats and supporters blamed the United States for the unraveling of the monthlong negotiating conference.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-07-27/un-arms-trade-treaty/56546258/1

More details at the link.

I expected more from this. But I cannot say I'm surprised at the news.

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I work. I'm Married. My Wife and I are DINKs: Dual Income, No Kids. Come Spring we are going to get a house. Wife: Hooray! Me: (no so enthusiastic) Yard Work. Yea. On the downside this means no vacation this year. On the upside, this means we will get a pair of kittens. I'm into sci-fi, go to conventions. Met the wife at one. I would love to colonize Mars as part of a terraforming project--I would go knowing I could never come back. I would colonize the ocean floor if I could, but it seems Mars is more likely to happen sooner.