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February 23, 2008
What ElBaradei Says

Because you will not read it in the "western" media without heavy obfuscation and bias we reproduce the original:

Latest Iran Safeguards Report Delivered to IAEA Board, 23 February 2008

After the report was circulated, Dr. ElBaradei made the following comments:

"Our task in Iran is to make sure that the Iranian nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes.  We are at it for the last five years.  In the last four months, in particular, we have made quite good progress in clarifying the outstanding issues that had to do with Iran´s past nuclear activities, with the exception of one issue, and that is the alleged weaponization studies1 that supposedly Iran has conducted in the past.  We have managed to clarify all the remaining outstanding issues, including the most important issue, which is the scope and nature of Iran´s enrichment programme.
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We need Iran to implement the Additional Protocol2. We need to have that authority as a matter of law. That, I think, is a key for us to start being able to build progress in providing assurance that Iran´s past and current programmes are exclusively for peaceful purposes.  So we have the Protocol issue and we have the weaponization, alleged weaponization studies. I should however add that in connection with the weaponization studies, we have not seen any indication that these studies were linked to nuclear material.

(Emphazis and notes added by b)

1The "alleged weaponization studies" are unproven accusations based on U.S. intelligence, reportedly from the Niger papers Laptop of Death and given to the IAEA only two weeks ago. They do not refer to anything nuclear.

2Iran had voluntarily signed, but not ratified, the additional protocol of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Following the IAEA Board decision, in a rare non-consentual vote, to report Iran’s file to the UN Security Council, Iran informed the IAEA that it would suspend voluntary adherence to the additional protocol.

Posted by b on February 23, 2008 at 18:07 UTC | Permalink
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Green energy consultants say an ultimate buildout US wind power energy share of 5 to
7 percent is a realistic goal. The US population growth rate is now at 0.894% (2007).
The full and forever impact of US wind energy development will be overridden by 2027,
regardless how expensive other forms of energy become. Green energy consultants say
an ultimate buildout US solar power energy share of 35 to 37 percent is a realistic
goal, however the nexus of solar power would be the Death Valley region, unavailable
to the NE. The full and forever impact of US solar energy development, adjusted for
transmission losses, will be overridden by 2065, regardless of how expensive other
forms of energy become. Then at least 1/3rd of humans alive today will experience
the end of fossil fuel’s era, regardless how long it’s protracted by “green energy”.
Think about that, you 95% of Americans who live in boxes, your food flown to you.
Good news, population biologists say we, as a species, are on our “final billion”.
Bad news is world desertification and deaquiferization is growing geometrically.
Long before we run out of fossil fuels and max green energy potential doing so,
we’re gonna need massive desalinization projects, unfathomable to today’s thinking.
More likely, it will be in the form of storm and sanitary sewage recycling, which
forward thinking municipalities have already begun doing, but haven’t found the
vehicle to entice customers to drink, and it’s far too expensive for irrigation.
There’s only one form of power which provides co-located desalinization on demand,
with the ability to also completely sterilize the resulting treated recycled water,
so that it can be made safe, potable water. Nuclear. Engineer Ahmadinejad knows this.
The problem, obviously, isn’t with Iran building peaceful nuclear power towards that
day rushing towards US, like a out-of-control DoD spy satellite. Nobody will be able
to afford their food grown in recycled irrigation water. That’s why the Saudi’s are
beginning to shut down their grain farming operations nationwide, saving fresh water.
The Canadian shield and the Russian steppes promise only a brief respite, a shorter
growing season, more frequent shortages and famines, until the tundra itself burns.
Current global grains deficit will continue to expand along with desertification.
We may never reach that final billion as a species, not as a meat-eating one.
It’s not Ahmadinejad, stupid! America’s Wet Dream is rushing US pellmell into Dune.
There’s lots of Fundamentalists who would vote to nuke the world, if US Empire dies.
Think about that, when you’re reaching for the McCain (R) lever in the voting booth.
28,000,000 Americans homeless, non-persons … McCain is gonna bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Is this a Great Republic, Last Best Hope for Man (TM), or what?!

Posted by: Delbert Keys | Feb 24 2008 5:16 utc | 1

@Delbert Keys
Right on.
We humans may divide into camps and hate each other, but an outside observer would have to see all of us as a single insidious plague on the biosphere.

Posted by: Cloud | Feb 24 2008 16:22 utc | 2

Iran Nuke Laptop Data Came from Terror Group

The George W. Bush administration has long pushed the “laptop documents” — 1,000 pages of technical documents supposedly from a stolen Iranian laptop — as hard evidence of Iranian intentions to build a nuclear weapon. Now charges based on those documents pose the only remaining obstacles to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring that Iran has resolved all unanswered questions about its nuclear programme.
But those documents have long been regarded with great suspicion by U.S. and foreign analysts. German officials have identified the source of the laptop documents in November 2004 as the Mujahideen e Khalq (MEK), which along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organisation.
There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel’s Mossad.
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Tehran has denounced the documents on which the charges are based as fabrications provided by the MEK, and has demanded copies of the documents to analyse, but the United States had refused to do so.
The Iranian assertion is supported by statements by German officials. A few days after then Secretary of State Colin Powell announced the laptop documents, Karsten Voight, the coordinator for German-American relations in the German Foreign Ministry, was reported by the Wall Street Journal Nov. 22, 2004 as saying that the information had been provided by “an Iranian dissident group”.
A German official familiar with the issue confirmed to this writer that the NCRI had been the source of the laptop documents. “I can assure you that the documents came from the Iranian resistance organisation,” the source said.
…

Posted by: b | Mar 1 2008 7:56 utc | 3

Note: offtopic post from jonku.
@Delbert Keys, your nickname reminds me of clothing designer Donna Karan. DK.
Your previous posts as Peris Stroika, Troy McClure, all with email addresses in your signature at “usarps.com” are pretty funny especially as usarps.com is a lampoon site dedicated to the game of rock paper scissors.
If this is your way of gaining traffic to your website it’s kinda circumlocutive.
Your posts make some sense if one is looking for consensus that society is going off the rails. That is a given as far as I’m concerned, yet you have little else to offer.
This is meant in the most helpful of senses, maybe you should pick a single nickname and continue to post. That way we could learn your point of view and you could gain credibility as a person, not someone who hides behind a series of nicknames while giving the game away through a series of similar email addresses.
We all know that it is easy to screw with a forum like this one. I look forward to you standing up and taking a single identity.

Posted by: jonku | Mar 1 2008 8:52 utc | 4

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