Iran, nuclear weapons, nuclear energy and the law

from: http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner

“This business of making people conscious of what is happening outside their own small circle is one of the major problems of our time, and a new literary technique will have to be evolved to meet it. Considering that the people of this country are not having a very comfortable time, you can't perhaps, blame them for being somewhat callous about suffering elsewhere, but the remarkable thing is the extent to which they manage to be unaware of it. Tales of starvation, ruined cities, concentration camps, mass deportations, homeless refugees, persecuted Jews — all this is received with a sort of incurious surprise, as though such things had never been heard of but at the same time were not particularly interesting. The now-familiar photographs of skeleton-like children make very little impression. As time goes on and the horrors pile up, the mind seems to secrete a sort of self-protecting ignorance which needs a harder and harder shock to pierce it, just as the body will become immunised to a drug and require bigger and bigger doses.”
- George Orwell, "As I Please," The Tribune (1947-01-17)

Senator Lieberman, Secretary of State Clinton, and former UN Ambassador John Bolton have resumed rhetoric of a United States attack upon Iran. There are two general justifications they speak of to justify war: Iran's "nuclear program" and their threat to Israel. The following is edited from my brief, "War with Iraq and Afghanistan, rhetoric for war with Iran." You are welcome to use the brief to inform others of my factual analysis; found here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/41708 .

Iran’s “Nuclear Program”: The Bush and Obama administrations have prepared the US military and the American public for war with Iran. President Bush ordered three aircraft carrier strike groups into the region[1] and Israel and the US are engaged in military strategic planning for war.[2] In early August of 2008, unprecedented numbers of war ships began their deployment for Iran.[3] The Bush Administration, along with Senators McCain, Obama and Clinton, all contributed heated rhetoric regarding Iran’s “nuclear program” during the election season and alleged that Iran wants to destroy Israel, to “wipe Israel off the map.”[4] Let’s examine the factual bases for both claims.

Some necessary history in three brief paragraphs: first, the Non-Proliferation Treaty[5] (NPT) was designed to limit nuclear weapon development, facilitate availability of nuclear energy, and lead to global nuclear disarmament. The treaty allows any country to develop nuclear material for energy, receive the assistance of the nuclear countries to do so (US, UK, France, Russia, and China), and then be inspected by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to verify they do not refine fissionable material beyond energy-grade (3-5%) to weapons-grade (over 85%). To date, no NPT country with a nuclear energy program has developed nuclear weapons. Iran and the US are signatories of NPT. Therefore, the legal and Constitutional US response is to help Iran develop nuclear energy. However, the Bush administration rejects Iran’s proposal and threatens war. The Bush administration doesn’t disclose Iran’s treaty-right to nuclear energy under NPT and obfuscates the issue with rhetoric of Iran’s “nuclear program” to link energy with weapons.[6] Ironically, the US is in additional violation of NPT by developing new nuclear weapons and threatening to use them rather than work for global disarmament as per treaty terms.[7]

In 1953, the United States CIA led by one of President Theodore Roosevelt’s grandsons, initiated a coup in Iran (Operation Ajax[8]) to remove the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. The Iranian government was understandably dissatisfied with the terms of its contract with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company that allowed British interests to claim 85% of the oil profit from Iran.[9] Iran voted to nationalize the oil industry in 1951 after the British declined to renegotiate the terms. The US-led coup was successful, and the royal monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,[10] became virtual dictator. Fearing popular reprisal, Pahlavi’s government was supported by the CIA in creating the Iranian SAVAK, a vicious secret police for the Shah’s dictatorial government.[11] We can only assume that the oil revenue sharing agreement with the Shah was acceptable to the US and UK.

Under the Eisenhower administration, the US cooperated with the Shah’s government for the development of Iranian nuclear energy through the “Atoms for Peace” program.[12] President Ford agreed to US full cooperation to help Iran build about two dozen nuclear energy plants. When the Iranian people overthrew the Shah’s government in 1979, the US stopped cooperating. The US backed Iraq in their invasion of Iran in 1980 and throughout the war until 1988, seeking a more US-friendly Iranian government. The US provided Saddam Hussein with the chemical and biological weapons the W. Bush administration later used as justification for invading Iraq.[13] Since 1979, the US has worked to prevent Iran having a nuclear energy program, even under the legal provisions of the NPT, and reneged on a multi-billion dollar contract to deliver nuclear fuel to Iran without refunding Iran’s money.[14]

The previous three paragraphs are plain vanilla history in conservatively-known content. Neither our government’s political leaders from either party or our major media give the US public the context of history to evaluate the Bush/Obama administrations' statements advocating war with Iran. Their use of the term “nuclear program” is misleading. We could also call it fraud, as it deliberately misinforms.[15] Objectively, the US actions are in violation of NPT and the UN Charter in threatening war.[16] Our mainstream media does not communicate these facts to the public.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Seymour Hersh, has reported since 2005 that government insiders have disclosed to him that the CIA is presently engaged in covert operations similar to 1953 to overthrow the Iranian government.[17] Hersh, claiming inside White House sources, reported one idea from Vice President Dick Cheney was for the US Navy to build four or five boats that looked like Iranian Naval PT boats, man and arm them with US Navy Seals, then have the Navy Seals attack a US Navy ship off Iran’s coast. The incident would be filmed and used as propaganda to enflame US public opinion for war with Iran.[18] Hersh is the reporter who insiders trusted to report the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up in the Vietnam War, and the Abu Ghraib Torture Scandal in the current Iraq war. Scott Ritter, US former weapons inspector and officer for US Marine Intelligence calls any covert planning and actions by their correct legal name: Acts of War. Ritter states the obvious: the US would never allow Iran to take these actions without calling them Acts of War.[19]

Recently and disturbingly, was the US Air Force admission that they “mistakenly” transported six live nuclear warheads attached to ready-to-launch cruise missiles to the US military base that is the jump-off for US supplies to Middle East Operations. This could be a veiled threat of nuclear war against Iran rather than explained by the long chain of continuous “mistakes” required for such an event to occur.[20] Nuclear weapons are protected by detailed protocol and lethal force; they go nowhere by mistake and had a 50 year perfect record for their handling.

We properly wonder why the Bush/Obama administrations are using Iran’s “nuclear program” as rhetoric linking Iran with atomic weapons, and the call for US war against Iran. In academic analysis, “why” is a subjective question that cannot be answered in full objective confidence. All we can do is discuss related facts to build broad-scale constructions of circumstances, and then construct hypotheses that match those facts. Let’s examine one more Iran war-related piece of propaganda before we attempt an analysis of why our government and major media use this misleading language in support of war. That, the "wipe Israel off the map" claim, is the subject of the next article. Can't wait? Read the full story in my brief.

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[1] See SpaceWar. US Dismisses Iranian Offer as Warships Arrive. Feb. 21, 2007: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Dismisses_Iranian_Nuclear_Offer_As_Warships_Arrive_999.html , Scoop. Sedov, D. Strike on Iran Would Signify Epoch of Nuclear War. Feb, 2007: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0702/S00167.htm , and Global Research. Nazemroaya, M.D. The March to War: Naval Build-up in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean. Oct. 1, 2006: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=NAZ20061001&articleId=3361 .
[2] The Coming Catastrophe? David DeBatto, June 23, 2008. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9437 .
[3] Global Research. Earl of Stirling. Massive US naval armada heads for Iran. Aug. 11, 2008: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9799 .
[4] CNN interview. Bush takes Iran “seriously.” Sept. 20, 2006: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2006/09/20/sot.bush.iran.cnn , Raw Story. Bush Warns of World War III if Iran Goes Nuclear. Oct. 17, 2007: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bush_warns_of_World_War_III_1017.html and White House Press Conference. Dana Pushes Bush’s Big Lie. Reporters Sit on their Asses. Oct. 18, 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECVBzL9Q0nc . Transcript from the White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/20071018-2.html .
[5] United Nations. Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: http://www.un.org/Depts/dda/WMD/treaty/ , and Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_Proliferation_Treaty .
[6] Heard, L. Iran is not the Belligerent Party. June 23, 2008: http://www.gulfnews.com/articles/08/06/24/10223329.html .
[7] Alternet. Berrigan, F. March 8, 2007. The United States Nuclear Hypocrisy: http://www.alternet.org/audits/48890/ and United States Government.net. United States Violating International Treaties: http://www.unitedstatesgovernment.net/violatinginternationaltreaties.htm , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States-Iran_relations
[8] Future of Freedom. Hornberger, J.G. An Anti-democracy Foreign Policy: Iran. Jan. 31, 2005: http://www.fff.org/comment/com0501i.asp , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax .
[9] Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/2003/8/25/50_years_after_the_cias_first , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Iranian_Oil_Company .
[10] New York Times. Risen, J. April 16, 2000. The CIA in Iran: http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi .
[11] Federation of American Scientists. Pike J. Ministry of Security: SAVAK. Jan. 16, 2000: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iran/savak/index.html ,Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK .
[12] World Nuclear University. President Eisenhower’s speech to the UN General Assembly. Dec. 8, 1953: http://world-nuclear-university.org/html/atoms_for_peace/ , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran .
[13] Iran Chamber Society. King, J. Arming Iraq: A Chronology of US Involvement. March, 2003: http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/arming_iraq.php , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_iraq_war .
[14] Antiwar. Prather, G. ElBaradei Isn’t Perfect. Dec. 27, 2005: http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=8308 , and background: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran#After_the_1979_Revolution .
[15] Legal Dictionary: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/fraud , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud .
[16] Foley, B. “Limiting War by Process: Congress, the UN and Iran. Jurist Legal News and Research. May 25, 2006. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2006/05/limiting-war-by-process-congress-un.php .
[17] Hersh, S. Preparing the Battlefield: The Bush Administration Steps up its Secret Moves Against Iran. July 7, 2008: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh and interviews on Preparing the Battlefield: http://www.911blogger.com/node/16388 , http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1812 .
[18] Prison Planet. Watson, S. Media blackout on Cheney Iran false flag story. Aug. 2, 2008: http://www.prisonplanet.com/media-blackout-on-cheney-iran-false-flag-story.html .
[19] Truthdig.com. Ritter, S. Acts of war. July 29, 2008: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080729_acts_of_war/ .
[20] Analyses: Project Camelot. Carter, J. What Really Happened at Minot AFB. : http://www.projectcamelot.org/jack_carter.html , Information Liberation. Lindorff, D. The Air Force Report on the Minot-Barksdale Nuclear Missile Flight. Nov. 2, 2007: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=24191 , and Rense. Twietmeyer, T. Missteps in the Bunker: Damage Control? Sept. 25, 2007: http://www.rense.com/general78/dmge.htm ..

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what George Orwell had to say. Well if people here in the States don't wake up soon we will be going through the same atrocities Orwell talks about. I think the first step is to expose 9/11/2001. If that doesn't do the trick I don't know what will.

Speaking of Orwell, check this out

It is 60 years since George Orwell (real name, Eric Blair) wrote the truly prophetic 1984 that described a global state of total control and subordination of the population.

I have said many times that I don't believe for a moment that Orwell was writing purely from his imagination. He operated in the sort of circles that could have given him access to the long-planned agenda for the demolition of human freedom and I am sure that this is what happened.

The plans for what is now unfolding across the world were known at least in the 19th century and, in truth, long, long before. This conspiracy is far bigger than people even begin to realise and involves forces beyond this reality working with a different reference to 'time' than we have. This allows events to be projected far into what we call the future.

The 'game', therefore, was well known in the inner circles by the 1940s when Orwell wrote his 'novel' and the accuracy of his book so many decades in advance of events is testament to the fact that he had access through whatever means to the agenda.

Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in India where his father, Richard Walmesley Blair, worked in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service. This name is misleading, because the British Empire ran Indian affairs and the opium racket that extended to the Opium Wars in China when the drug was smuggled into the country from India to instigate widespread addiction.

Orwell was brought to England at the age of one and later attended the elite Eton College where he was taught briefly by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, and during the Second World War he worked in the propaganda department of the BBC.

He led an expansive life that took him through all levels of society and deeply into political circles. Somewhere he picked up the story of what was planned to be.

The global agenda has overwhelmingly remained in the shadows, known only by the few, but it has occasionally come to the surface to confirm how long it has been in the making.

I described in a recent newsletter how an official of the Bank of America told a friend of mine in 1970 about the coming cashless society, human microchipping and cameras in the streets long before any of this was suggested. Here is another example:

In 1969, Dr Richard Day was the national medical director of the Illuminati-front, Planned Parenthood, sponsored by the eugenics-supporting Rockefeller family, and he was also Professor of Paediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York.

On March 20th that year, he addressed the Pittsburgh Paediatric Society with an audience of about 80 doctors. Dr Day asked everyone to turn off tape recorders and stop taking notes, so that he could tell them about a coming new world system and how American industry was going to be sabotaged.

One member of the audience, Dr Lawrence Dunegan, a Pittsburgh paediatrician, did take notes and later detailed what he had heard in a series of taped interviews. Dr Dunegan, who died in 2004, said:

'The stated plan was that different parts of the world would be assigned different roles of industry and commerce in a unified global system. The continued pre-eminence of the United States and the relative independence and self-sufficiency of the United States would have to be changed ...

… In order to create a new structure, you first have to tear down the old, and American industry was one example of that. Each part of the world will have a specialty and thus become inter-dependent, he said. The US will remain a centre for agriculture, high-tech, communications, and education, but heavy industry would be "transported out".'

The subsequent run down of American industrial production has all been planned, as you can see. What Day described has also been happening for decades in the European Union as the economies and industries in the various countries have been targeted to destroy diversity and self-sufficiency and replace it with 'specialisation'. This makes everyone dependent on everyone else and allows a central control-system to dictate to its subordinate parts.

Even more important given current events, Day said the plan was to cull and control the population through medicine, food, new laboratory-made diseases and the suppression of a cure for cancer. 'We can cure almost every cancer right now', he said in 1969, 'Information is on file in the Rockefeller Institute, if it's ever decided that it should be released'.

Why do people think that so many of those involved in the conspiracy live such long lives? A CIA scientist I met in the late 1990s told me that he had been cured of cancer by a secret serum not available to the public.

Letting people die of cancer, Dr Day said, would slow down population growth - 'You may as well die of cancer as something else'. Like all the bloodline families, Day believed in eugenics and the 'survival of the fittest'. So long as that doesn't include themselves, naturally.

He said in 1969 that abortion would no longer be illegal and it would be accepted as normal. The food supply would be monitored so that no-one could give it to a 'fugitive of the system'. Growing food privately would be banned by saying it wasn't safe.

Young people would spend longer in school, but not learn anything. There would be restrictions on travel and private home ownership would disappear. The conspirators would increase violence, pornography and obscenity in the media and movies and this would desensitise people to violence and porn and make them feel that life is short, precarious and brutish.

Music would 'get worse' and would be used for programming perception. Society would be fiercely controlled and people would be electronically tagged. Long established communities would be destroyed by unemployment and mass immigration.

Weather modification would be used as a weapon of war and to create drought or famine. Day himself had been involved in weather modification during the Second World War. 'People will have to get used to the idea of change, so used to change, that they'll be expecting change. Nothing will be permanent' (see Obama).

This is a summary of what he said was coming, posted at overlordsofchaos.com:

Population control; permission to have babies; redirecting the purpose of sex - sex without reproduction and reproduction without sex; contraception universally available to all; sex education and carnalising of youth as a tool of world government.

Tax funded abortion as population control; encouraging homosexuality ... anything goes homosexuality also was to be encouraged; technology used for reproduction without sex; families to diminish in importance; euthanasia and the 'demise pill'.

Limiting access to affordable medical care making eliminating the elderly easier; medicine tightly controlled; elimination of private doctors; new difficult-to-diagnose and untreatable diseases; suppressing cancer cures as a means of population control; inducing heart attacks as a form of assassination.

Education as a tool for accelerating the onset of puberty and evolution; blending all religions ... the old religions will have to go; changing the Bible through revisions of key words.

Restructuring education as a tool of indoctrination; more time in schools, but pupils 'wouldn't learn anything'; controlling who has access to information; schools as the hub of the community; 'some books would just disappear from the libraries'.

Changing laws to promote moral and social chaos; the encouragement of drug abuse to create a jungle atmosphere in cities and towns; promote alcohol abuse; restrictions on travel; the need for more jails and using hospitals as jails.

No more psychological or physical security; crime used to manage society; curtailment of US industrial pre-eminence; shifting populations and economies - tearing out the social roots; sports as a tool of social engineering and change.

Sex and violence inculcated through entertainment; travel restrictions and implanted ID cards; food control; weather control; knowing how people respond and making them do what you want.

Falsified scientific research; use of terrorism; surveillance, implants, and televisions that watch you; home ownership a thing of the past; the arrival of the totalitarian global system.

All that was stated in 1969 and it has all happened or is happening. I was told this very week by a very reliable source that digital television screens have minute cameras that can watch you in your living room.

This has all been in the planning for so long - way before Day made his speech 40 years ago and Orwell wrote 1984 some 60 years ago. Look at what Orwell said in his book about 'telescreens' - surveillance in every home:

'The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.'

This was not from his imagination. He knew what was coming - just as Day did two decades later. Look at what happened in the Orwellian society …

The government, or 'Party', was headed by 'BB', or Big Brother, who appeared on posters everywhere with the words: 'Big Brother is watching you'. In the smoke and mirrors society that Orwell describes, Big Brother himself could have been a myth to hide the real controllers, just as Obama, Brown, Sarkozy and company are mere front people today for those who really dictate events.

Emmanuel Goldstein

The people were sold the story of Big Brother's battle to save them from the terrorist, Emmanuel Goldstein, the alleged prime threat to the 'free' world. Goldstein had been in league with Big Brother during the revolution, the story goes, but he was said to have become a major part of the resistance Brotherhood (see al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and whoever the authorities blame next for their own terrorism).

Orwell implies that Goldstein either does not exist, or was eliminated, but as long as the people believed in his existence and his complicity in terrorism they would support the actions taken by the government to protect them from his 'terror'.

Orwell's Big Brother state was imposed as a result of a series of events that included a Third World War between the three emerging powers of Oceania (including Britain and led by what had previously been the United States); Eastasia (controlled by a revitalised China); and Eurasia (the expanded Soviet Union).

I have been writing since the mid-1990s about a planned conflict with China and Russia to trigger a Third World War and the imposition of world government. This information has come to me from many sources over the years.

The way that Orwell's world was separated into giant superstates is happening today with the European Union, African Union, and the planned American Union (first the North American Union) and the Asia-Pacific Union.

The three superstates in 1984 eventually realised that a continuous stalemate war (see 'war on terrorism') was far more effective than victory. The constant war kept the people focused and busy manufacturing weapons and goods for the conflict.

Airstrip One (the official name for Britain) is apparently the target of Eurasian 'rocket bombs', but it is hinted that the Oceania government is launching these attacks on its own land to convince Airstrip One's urban populations that they are under constant attack. This is precisely what has happened with 9/11, the London bombings, and so on.

By the year 1984, Airstrip One is a police state and a mere province of the enormous Oceania (see European Union).

Artificial insemination was the preferred method of producing children in Orwell's nightmare. Sexual life was entirely regulated by the two words, sexcrime (sexual immorality) and goodsex (chastity).

Sexcrime covered all sexual 'misdeeds', including fornication, adultery, homosexuality and heterosexual intercourse practised for its own sake. They were all punishable by death. We now have the term 'sex crime' in everyday use. Richard Day said in 1969 that the plan was to redirect the purpose of sex - 'sex without reproduction and reproduction without sex'.

The theme of 1984 is mass and individual mind control through fear and trauma, and the manipulation of language, most obviously expressed today through what is called 'political correctness' and 'hate speech', or 'hate crime'. These terms alone could have been invented by Orwell, who explained how vital language is to manipulating perception.

Orwell talked of the 'proles', or 'proletarians', which made up around 85 per cent of the population. They were the unthinking masses and the authorities looked upon them as cattle, just as they do today.

They didn't suffer the same level of surveillance of those considered intellectually dangerous, because they didn't question anything. They were given prolefeed, the brain-numbing 'entertainment' and made-up 'news' for the masses that kept them dumbed down and incapable of free thought.

If that is not a description of today's 'entertainment' and media, then what is?

Orwell was so clearly communicating from knowledge of what was to come, just as Richard Day openly did in 1969. I may sound tedious when I keep saying it, but I don't care. It's important that people grasp this fact: the conspiracy is much bigger than is currently understood by the vast majority even of the more aware.

What is the force that can plan the future in such fine detail and include predictions of technology that was not even known about at the time? Not by human society, anyway. We need to expand our minds beyond dark suits at round tables discussing what will be.

The stars and other dimensions of reality are where the real answers lie.

Inquiry

Do you care to mention some source you find particularly instructive that would shed light on your last sentence (about cosmic inputs)?

cosmic inputs

Most scientists agree we are not the only intelligent life form in the universe. Google Carl Sagan sometime. There are many others too numerous to mention. Most people think we live in a three dimensional universe. String theory is beginning to prove we live in an eleven dimensional universe. Here is a good web site to check out. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html This may not answer your question but I hope it helps.