I leave you with a symbol of the great relationship between our two nations. (Video via Stephen Pollard.)

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False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities.

the british did it on purpose into iranian waters as US MILITARY BUILD UP ON THE IRANIAN BORDER

I suppose the US and Britain also orchestrated the increasingly offensive campaign by the Iranians of forcing British service personnel to make televised confessions and apologies. I suppose Tony Blair's repeated and restrained calls for the release of his troops is just a smokescreen. Why did I not see all of this before?

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The work, called "My Sweet Lord," will be on view in a window of the Roger Smith Hotel's Lab Gallery on E. 47th Street. The sculpture is made of almost 200 pounds of dark chocolate.

According to the New York Daily News, because the statue is "anatomically correct" (which I think is shorthand for 'stark bollock naked') some Catholics believe it is in bad taste:

"It's an all-out war on Christianity," fumed Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. "They wouldn't show a depiction of Martin Luther King Jr. with genitals exposed on Martin Luther King Day, and they wouldn't show Muhammed depicted this way during Ramadan. It's always Christians, and the timing is deliberate."

Chocolate Christ sculptor Cosimo Cavallaro, who is himself a Catholic, said giving Jesus a loincloth would be "ridiculous."

"This person is talking from a very narrow window," he said of Donohue. "They're not allowing themselves to open their hearts. … If it makes them feel better, I'll ask for their forgiveness and do 10 Hail Marys, but they should just lighten up and be more accepting of people."

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As if the death of two auxiliary officers in a Greenwich Village shooting wasn't enough, March has also witnessed the shooting of one officer in the foot and the stabbing of another officer in the head. Yesterday, an officer was attacked by a man wielding a railing from a hospital bed where he was supposed to be under guard.

Miguel Gabriel, 19, had his feet shackled and his arm cuffed to the bed, but he somehow managed to wrench the railing free, attacking officer Mikhail Vinitsky who was supposed to be guarding him.

Vinitsky tried to subdue Gabriel with pepper spray and a baton before finally drawing his gun and shooting him four times. According to the New York Daily News:

Even after Gabriel was shot, cops answering Vinitsky's radio call for help had to use a stun gun and pepper spray to subdue the attacker, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

"Even though he was shot, he was still standing, and fighting," Kelly said after visiting Vinitsky, who was in stable condition. He suffered a concussion and required six stitches to close a gash on his head, police said.

Gabriel was in stable condition at the same hospital.

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Faced with compelling reports from around the world of torture, persecution, and violence against women, what has the Council pronounced, and what has it decided?

Nothing. Its response has been silence. Its response has been indifference. Its response has been criminal.

One might say, in Harry Truman's words, that this has become a Do-Nothing, Good-for-Nothing Council.

But that would be inaccurate. This Council has, after all, done something.

It has enacted one resolution after another condemning one single state: Israel. In eight pronouncements — and there will be three more this session — Hamas and Hezbollah have been granted impunity. The entire rest of the world — millions upon millions of victims, in 191 countries — continue to go ignored.

[…]Let us consider the past few months. More than 130 Palestinians were killed by Palestinian forces. This is three times the combined total that were the pretext for calling special sessions in July and November. Yet the champions of Palestinian rights — Ahmadinejad, Assad, Khaddafi, John Dugard — they say nothing…Why has this Council chosen silence?

Because Israel could not be blamed. Because, in truth, the dictators who run this Council couldn't care less about Palestinians, or about any human rights.

Needless to say the speech, which you can read in full here or watch here, did not go down well. Council President Luis Alfonso de Alba refused to "express thanks" for the statement, ruled the remarks inadmissible to the official record and banned further statements "in similar tones."

His response has been taken to task on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Sun today.

"When it comes to actual human rights, the United Nations Human Rights Council reflexively discharges obfuscation, like a squid and its ink," says the Journal. While the Sun points out that Mr de Alba has previously thanked a Zimbabwean speaker for denying human rights abuses under President Mugabe and a Sudanese delegation for saying reports of violence against women in Darfur were exaggerated.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But it seems that as far as human rights go, they end when you criticize the United Nations Human Rights Council.

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An older gentleman gets on the train. Looks normal enough. Wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase. He has a fedora hat on and a big, white beard. Normal, right?

Well, he walks into the center of the train car and we start to pull out of the sation.

Very casually he says, “I have a question. Does anyone here think they can bomb Iran?”

Ummm what?

Everyone sort of looks around at each other and ignores him. He didn’t just say what I though he said…did he?

Then I take another look at his briefcase. Large (like extra wide), matte back, and sorta beat up. I’m thinking, boy I hope he doesn’t think HE can bomb Iran via this train car.

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Feelings ran so high in the debate at Blackpool that the chairman was forced to ban the taking of photographs and filming on the conference floor as some unidentified delegates were heard to shout "we have your photographs on file" at speakers.

Quite who the people shouting were, and who they were shouting at, is not explicitly clear, but the topic of discussion "whether the NUS should implement the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia's (EUMC) working definition of anti-Semitism" clearly brought out the worst in some people.

The contentious issue was the EUMC's inclusion that "such manifestations could also target the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity".

In other words: criticism of Israel can sometimes be anti–Semitic. True or False?

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Many of the attendees said they were sad that the only place safe enough to hold a conference for gay Arab women was in a Jewish area of Haifa, which has a mixed Arab-Jewish population. Israel's Jewish majority is generally tolerant of homosexuality

"This conference is being held, somehow, in exile, even though it's our country," said Yussef Abu Warda, a playwright.

Driven deep underground for the most part, only 10 to 20 Arab lesbians attended the conference, organizers said. Most blended in with Israeli lesbians and heterosexual Arab female supporters without making their presence known.

"We'd like all women to come out of the closet — that's our role. We work for them," said Samira, 31, a conference organizer who came with her Jewish Israeli girlfriend. Samira agreed to be identified only by her first name for fear of reprisals.

[…]Homosexuality, which is strictly forbidden by Islam, is considered taboo among most of Israel's Arab citizens, who make up 20% of the country's population.

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With the 25th anniversary of the war between the UK and Argentina over the Falkland Islands approaching this weekend, Baker says there are voices calling for a more robust (military?) response from Britain. Tony Blair's critics are bemoaning the fact that Margaret Thatcher would have sorted the Iranians out quick sharp (by sending a naval task force to the Persian Gulf?).

But Baker calls the similarities between Thatcher and Blair's dilemmas "simply hooey." The right course of action, says Baker, is not necessarily clear cut or awe-inspiring:

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Whale Sharks live for up to 120 years in the wild, but a recent Japanese study showed that in captivity their average lifespan is about 502 days.

At the Georgia Aquarium, a whale shark died earlier this year when his stomach was punctured by feeding tubes used because the shark had stopped eating, according to the NewYork Times:

“Findings show that Ralph’s stomach appeared abnormal, because it was thin-walled and perforated,” Jeff Swanagan, the executive director of the aquarium, said in a news release. “This likely caused peritonitis which led to Ralph’s death.”

[…]Though he [Dr. Robert Hueter] cautioned that it was impossible to know for sure what caused the punctures, he added, “the only thing that came out of that discussion was looking at the force-feeding method and looking at the tube.” He said the panel recommended using tubes with more rounded ends in the future to prevent injuries.

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