BULLETIN AT 11:25 P.M. ET:  It's important for all well-informed citizens to be aware of this.  Please don't sleep tonight before reading these details first:

LA PAZ – The president of the United Nations General Assembly, Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, on Saturday declared Bolivian President Evo Morales as “World Hero of Mother Earth” in a ceremony at the presidential palace in this capital.

With a medal and a parchment scroll, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization named Morales “the maximum exponent and paradigm of love for Mother Earth” in the resolution for his decoration that was read during the ceremony.

The document added that the decision was taken “after extensive consultation” among representatives of the General Assembly’s member countries.

D’Escoto recalled that Morales “was the one who most helped” the United Nations declare last April 22 as International Mother Earth Day, or “Pachamama” as Mother Earth is said in Bolivia’s Aymara Indian tongue.

COMMENT:  You know, I'm grateful.  This saves me so much research time.  I was really wondering who the maximum exponent and paradigm of love for Mother Earth was.  Now I know. 

Chalk it up to another service by the United Nations.  And to think, there are people who criticize the fact that we pay 25% of the UN's budget.  These people clearly have contempt for Mother Earth and its maximum exponents.  Shame.  Shame on them.

August 29, 2009