Yesterday Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said "The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance [Western powers] on the 22nd of Bahman [Feb. 11] in a way that will leave them stunned," (source) Today, despite the objections of the US and its allies, Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level bringing the Islamic republic closer to having nuclear weapons. (source)

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Animal rights activists have been preaching for years that a vegetarian diet will do more to prevent global warming than all the other proposed initiatives combined. A recent United Nations report claims cattle-rearing generates more greenhouse gases than all transportation industries. And now in the UK, the first official recommendations for a diet that is both healthy and good for the environment has been published.

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It was revealed in late September that Iran has a heavily guarded, underground uranium enrichment facility near the city of Qom Speaking at the United Nations on this revelation, President Barack Obama said "We have offered Iran a clear path toward greater international integration if it lives up to its obligations, and that offer stands. But the Iranian government must now demonstrate through deeds its peaceful intentions or be held accountable to international standards and international law." Not surprisingly those words did not have a chilling effect on Iran's nuclear ambitions and today the Iranian government approved a plan to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities in defiance of UN demands it halt the program. (source)

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President Obama will travel to Copenhagen late this week to support Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics. But fear not, according to White House aides his first priority is the ongoing debate in Washington over health care reform and he is determined that his trip to Denmark won't take away from that process. (source) Meanwhile Iran has tested its most advanced missiles and General Stanley McChrystal told a reporter that he has spoken to the president once in the 70 days since he took command in Afghanistan. (source)

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Yesterday the United Nations presented a parade of buffoons that, were international tensions not so high, would have been comical. Perhaps when the institution was founded in 1945 if might have served a purpose. There definitely was reason to hope back then that it might. But it has failed, miserably and repeatedly, to live up to its charter "to maintain international peace and promote cooperation in solving international economic, social and humanitarian problems."

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