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GOV. PERDUE MEETS U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON: Ban’s job requires him to meet regularly with tyrants and despots. (photo by Joeff Davis)

His driveway freshly pressure-washed for the occasion, Gov. Sonny Perdue welcomed U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Governor’s Mansion on Friday. Perdue greeted the Sec-Gen at his car and escorted him inside for a joint news conference during which he answered polite questions about Georgia (he apparently likes it), Jimmy Carter (he apparently likes him) and the military junta in Burma (he apparently doesn’t like them).

Among the dignitaries at the press conference were Secretary of State Karen Handel, and, um, Bert Weiss of Q100’s The Bert Show in a suit-and-tie. Weiss told me he was invited by the governor to join him for lunch with Ban after the press conference. If I were Frank Ski, I’d be ticked.

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*… and nobody gives a damn.

The United Nations released a devastating report yesterday that says mankind has basically laid waste to the planet and that it may be too late to turn the tide. It is so dire that “humanity’s very survival” is at risk, according to the report.

And this isn’t from some left-wing wacko group. The report was put together by 400 scientists from all over the world, then peer-reviewed by 1,000 others.

And yet, the report has gotten virtually no play in the United States.

Lead story in the New York Times? Nope. That would be the California wildfires and a story on how the disaster has brought our president closer to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Perhaps he got an autograph from the Terminator?

Lead story in the Washington Post? Nope. It talks about how a U.S. strike on Iran would screw up the oil supply. And there’s a piece on Rudy Giuliani’s political guru.

Lead story in the AJC? Nope. That would be Georgia’s battle for water.

WTF?
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The September issue of Portfolio magazine reports that Ted Turner is behind on his payments to the United Nations. According to the Huffington Post, Turner promised to wipe out the $1 billion debt owed by the United States to the United Nations in $100 million increments.

According to the magazine, Turner gave $83 million the first two years of his pledge, then only $48.9 million last year. But he still pledges to contribute the full $1 billion by 2015.

Hey, give the guy a break: Much of his fortune was tied up in Time Warner/AOL stock. Remember how the companies lost $99 billion in 2002, the largest one-year loss ever in American business?

Show Ted your solidarity by buying a buffalo burger today.

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