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By Kevin Potvin
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Iran isn’t making nukes after all
A US National Intelligence Estimate paper released December 3rd says “We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons Program,” and that “Tehran’s decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005.”
The release claims that “National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) are the Intelligence Community’s (IC) most authoritative written judgments on national security issues.”
The report goes on to state that the US intelligence community believes Iran would not have a nuclear weapon until 2015 even if the government restarted work toward developing one today.
It claims that Iran was working toward a nuclear weapon from the mid-1980s until 2003, but that it stopped work in response to international pressure.
One aspect of Iran’s nuclear program the report did not mention was the work neighbouring Iraq was doing toward developing a nuclear arsenal of its own. During the 1980s, Iran and Iraq were engaged in an all out existential war. Though it turns out that Iraq was far from developing a nuclear bomb, there were suspicions in both Washington and Tehran that Iraq was further along in that development.
Investigations into mistakes made by American intelligence agencies regarding Iraq’s nuclear program revealed that the country stopped development, but continued to create the impression it was close to developing a bomb mostly for the deterrent effect that would have on neighbouring Iran. Now it seems Iran was doing the same thing for the benefit of Iraq. When the Iraqi government fell to the Americans in 2003 and no longer posed a nuclear threat to Iran, Iran stopped development of its own nuclear deterrent.
It is interesting to note that while neither country was ever close to developing a nuclear bomb, they both tried to fool each other into believing that they were, in both cases fooling the United States into believing they both were close to developing nuclear bombs.
And they call that intelligence.
So what happened?
Headline in The Globe and Mail, Monday December 3, 2007: “Chevez suffers stinging referendum defeat.”
Headline in The National Post, Monday December 3, 2007: “Chevez heading to referendum win.”
Headline in The Vancouver Sun, Monday December 3, 2007: “Chevez concedes defeat in Venezuelan referendum.”
Headline in The Wall Street Journal, Monday December 3, 2007: “Chevez headed for victory in Venezuela, exit polls show.”
Headline in The New York Times, Monday December 3, 2007: “For Venezuela, tensions mount with close vote.”
Surely a case of corporate media telling the story they want you to hear before telling the story that was.
Republic of Calgary
Call it The Republic of Calgary newspaper. The December 3rd issue of The National Post featured a lead editorial by Lorne Gunter writing about Calgary, another editorial by Josef Joffe, a reprint of a speech he made in Calgary, and a third editorial by Kevin Libin, “in Calgary,” according to the byline.
Since launching in 1998, the National Post has lost an estimated $350 million, and continues to lose an estimated $15 million annually. The Republic of East Vancouver, launched two short years later with editorials about East Vancouver and written in East Vancouver, by contrast, is roughly $350 million ahead of The National Post, and gaining about $15 million more each year.
Based on national averages, about 2,000 residents of Grandview-Woodlands read the National Post. About 6,000 read The Republic. Proportionately, The National Post has spent $315,000 trying to win those 2,000 readers in Grandview-Woodlands. The Republic has spent nothing winning our 6,000 readers.
At the going rate of $157.50 per reader, which the nation’s leading free-enterprise conservative business-friendly newspaper believes each reader is worth, we figure The Republic of East Vancouver is therefore worth about $1 million.
But unlike The National Post, we’re not for sale, and also unlike The National Post, we don’t sell the whole front page to advertisers. What a shameful, smudgy—and expensive!—rag that is.
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