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Laura Rozen chose a particularly appropriate title for her post yesterday on the P5+1 meeting just concluded in Geneva: "US and Iran Speak 'Same Language' in Nuclear Talks". Not only were the negotiations carried out in English for the first time, but all sides report that a new tone was present and that the pathway to substantial progress has been laid out:
Western and Iranian diplomats hailed a new pace, candor and mutual will to try to forge a process to resolve international concerns about Iran's nuclear program, but acknowledged they were at the beginning of a still complex and difficult negotiation whose success is not guaranteed.
"I have never had such intense, detailed, straight-forward, candid conversations with the Iran delegation before," the American official said. "The discussions took place in English…the pace of discussions was much better. It creates the ability to have a back and forth."
"Both sides are serious, both sides want to find common ground," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, speaking in English, told journalists at a press conference at the conclusion of talks here. "Iran is interested in resolving this issue."
A very important statement from Zarif at the press conference was picked up by CNN:
"We will be doing the negotiation in the negotiating room and not in the press," Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told reporters after the talks concluded.
The decision to keep details of the negotiations secret (which is apparently endorsed by all sides in the negotiations since few details beyond Iran being willing to submit to the IAEA's Additional Protocol have emerged) is significant not just for the room it provides negotiators. Keeping the details secret also makes the path much harder for those on the outside who prefer a violent regime change in Iran rather than a negotiated path to peace.
I have remarked in many of my posts on the Iranian nuclear technology issue that "diplomats" in Vienna have a long history of leaking what they claim to be incriminating evidence against Iran to reporters there, primarily George Jahn of AP (look at the pretty cartoon!) and sometimes Fredrik Dahl of Reuters. Joby Warrick at the Washington Post often chimes in with information leaked from his sources who also seem to prefer a violent path. The intelligence is often embellished by David Albright and his Institute for Science and International Security. While there have been improvements lately by Jahn and Dahl in questioning the material leaked to them and providing alternative information available from other sources, much damage has been done to the diplomatic pathway by this process.
Remarkably, there is little to no pushback so far from this group to the progress made in Geneva. A story co-authored by Jahn late yesterday afternoon fits with most of the reporting on the meeting and his single quote from an unnamed source is innocuous:
A senior U.S. official said that while the six powers "got more today than we've ever gotten, there's a whole lot more that we need to get and probably more that Iran wants to get from us. … There's a lot of detail that needs to be unpacked." The official demanded anonymity as a condition for attendance at a background briefing.
Dahl also has no disruptive quotes in the several Reuters stories to which he contributed. Completing their shutout from the trio of their usual helpers, the hawks planted no inflammatory language in Joby Warrick's story in today's Washington Post. The David Albright pathway to propaganda also hasn't been activated, as the most recent post on his site at the time of this writing was dated October 3.
The dogs that aren't barking now are the most encouraging sign of all that there is widespread optimism that diplomacy has a real chance of succeeding.
When Hassan Rouhani scored such a decisive and surprising victory in Iran's elections, many took this as a sign that the hard-liner positions of Amadinejad were ending and that a new, more moderate position for the country would emerge. Iran-watching is of course made difficult by the complex relationship between the civilian and religious sides of the government, but additional signs are now emerging both that Rouhani is indeed maneuvering toward a friendlier negotiation stance and even that some of the moves toward moderation began before the election was held and are therefore not just moves by Rouhani.
In today's New York Times, we see further support for the suggestion that came out earlier in the week that Iran is likely to name new Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as the chief negotiator in talks regarding Iran's nuclear technology:
Mr. Rouhani's choice for foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, was confirmed by Parliament last week. The signals that Mr. Zarif would lead the nuclear negotiations were conveyed on Tuesday at a regular weekly news conference in Tehran by the Foreign Ministry spokesman, which was broadcast by Iran's Press TV Web site.
"Over the past 10 to 12 years, the negotiator has been the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council. This may change," said the spokesman, Abbas Araqchi. "Rouhani may decide to appoint somebody else. Maybe the foreign minister, or anyone else that he deems fit."
For the spokesman to even make such a speculative statement suggested that Mr. Rouhani had already decided that his foreign minister would be doing the negotiating henceforth and that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final word on the nuclear issue, had agreed, despite his own deep mistrust of the West.
There has been some minor push-back on the speculation about Zarif, but this appears to be aimed more at the fact that an official announcement has not yet been made than the idea of Zarif taking the lead in negotiations:
In similar remarks on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Araqchi also rejected the AP report which alleged that Zarif would be leading the negotiations with the G5+1, saying, "No decision has yet been adopted in this regard."
Araqchi said the foreign ministry and other related bodies are "waiting for President Rouhani to choose the country's chief negotiator", and added, "Whenever he specifies the negotiating chief and team, the next step will be specifying the time of the negotiations."
After getting that "denial" out of the way, however, the article goes on to report on discussions already held between Zarif and the chief EU negotiator Catherine Ashton, but with Ashton identified as EU's "foreign policy chief", so that the conversation is merely foreign minister to foreign minister (emphasis added): Continue reading
In a remarkably welcome surprise, moderate cleric Hassan Rohani won last month's presidential election in Iran and did so with a large enough margin to avoid a runoff. In the immediate aftermath of the election, there was hope that the heated rhetoric on both sides of the dispute over Iran's nuclear technology would calm a bit:
Though thousands of jubilant Iranians poured onto the streets in celebration of the victory, the outcome will not soon transform Iran's tense relations with the West, resolve the row over its nuclear program or lessen its support of Syria's president in the civil war there – matters of national security that remain the domain of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
But the president runs the economy and wields broad influence in decision-making in other spheres. Rohani's resounding mandate could provide latitude for a diplomatic thaw with the West and more social freedoms at home after eight years of belligerence and repression under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was legally barred from seeking a third consecutive term.
"This victory is a victory of wisdom, a victory of moderation, a victory of growth and awareness and a victory of commitment over extremism and ill-temper," Rohani told state television, promising to work for all Iranians, including the hardline so-called "Principlists" whom he defeated at the poll.
Alas, those who favor violence over negotiation don't intend to sit idly while moderation has a chance of breaking out. Today, we have a new "revelation" brought to us in a Reuters article:
An exiled opposition group said on Thursday it had obtained information about a secret underground nuclear site under construction in Iran, without specifying what kind of atomic activity it believed would be carried out there.
The NCRI said the site was inside a complex of tunnels beneath mountains 10 km (6 miles) east of the town of Damavand, itself about 50 km northeast of Tehran. Construction of the first phase began in 2006 and was recently completed, it said.
The group released satellite photographs of what it said was the site. But the images did not appear to constitute hard evidence to support the assertion that it was a planned nuclear facility.
The Reuters article identifies NCRI as the National Council of Resistance of Iran and in addition to identifying them as "exiled dissedents" also mentions affiliation with the "People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI)" without noting that the more commonly used acronym for the latter group is MEK. That would be the same MEK that was only de-listed by the US Department of State as a terrorist organization last year. Promptly after de-listing, the group moved to register as lobbyists:
An Iranian group that was listed as a terrorist organization until last year has formally registered to lobby the Obama administration.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran told the Justice Department that it plans to "educate" the public and the U.S. government about the need to pursue an Iran policy "based on respect for human rights, non-proliferation, and promotion of democracy." The council is an umbrella group of five Iranian opposition groups, the largest of which is the delisted terror group Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK.
The State Department closed the council's Washington office in 2002, calling it a front group for the MEK. Since then, the group has earned the good graces of U.S. conservatives by drawing international attention to Iran's clandestine uranium enrichment facility in Natanz.
That bit about NCRI exposing the Natanz facility? Even though it also is cited in today's Reuters article, there is good reason to believe that MEK came into the information through a leak to them rather than their own intelligence-gathering: Continue reading
Man Bites Dog
It was a development worthy of the proverbial mythical headline reversing the natural order of the world. For a very long time, I have mercilessly attacked George Jahn of the AP for the role he has played while serving to move anti-Iran propaganda into newspapers across the globe. Here's how I described his usual role in my most recent post about him:
I have often described the process of "diplomats" close to the IAEA's Vienna headquarters gaining access to documents and other confidential information relating to Iran's nuclear activities and then selectively leaking the most damaging aspects of that information to George Jahn of AP. Sometimes, the information also is shared with Fredrik Dahl of Reuters, who, like Jahn, is also based in Vienna. Many believe that Israeli diplomats are most often responsible for these leaks and for shaping the stories to put Iran in the worst possible light.
Another key aspect of Jahn's role has been his reliance on David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security, whom Jahn has relied on regularly for adding that special "think-tank aura" to the propaganda that has been funneled to him.
Yesterday, the stage was set for Jahn to transcribe more propaganda into the record. A new IAEA report was available (pdf; I see that there is a typo on the date on the cover page, it is a 2013 report instead of the 2012 appearing there, note 2013 embedded in the document ID code) and David Albright had already taken to the fainting couch, proclaiming the evil portents of the sudden appearance of New Asphalt (!) at the Parchin site in Iran where the US and Israel claim Iran has carried out blast chamber experiments to develop a trigger for a nuclear weapon (and where the suspect building, and presumably the blast chamber itself, itself remains standing, despite a hilarious cat and mouse game Iran has played at the site). But, in true "man bites dog" fashion, Jahn chose not to play the New Asphalt game and instead published an article that puts much of the intelligence gathering of the IAEA into a perspective that calls into question the motives of those who supply the bulk of that intelligence to the UN's nuclear watchdog agency.
Jahn wastes no time, opening the article by proclaiming that the US supplies the bulk of intelligence on Iran's nuclear program to the IAEA and that US credibility on weapons intelligence took a huge hit in 2003 with the Iraq fiasco:
The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency's efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international community.
Much of the world looks at U.S. intelligence on weapons development with a suspicious eye, given American claims a decade ago that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. used those claims to justify a war; Iraq, it turned out, had no such weapons.
Jahn even went so far as to get IAEA sources to provide an estimate of how the US and its allies dominate the intelligence that is provided: Continue reading
I have often described the process of "diplomats" close to the IAEA's Vienna headquarters gaining access to documents and other confidential information relating to Iran's nuclear activities and then selectively leaking the most damaging aspects of that information to George Jahn of AP. Sometimes, the information also is shared with Fredrik Dahl of Reuters, who, like Jahn, is also based in Vienna. Many believe that Israeli diplomats are most often responsible for these leaks and for shaping the stories to put Iran in the worst possible light.
Today that process is in play once again and the "damaging" new information appears to be a letter from Iran to the IAEA in which Iran states that they intend to add thousands of new generation centrifuges called IR-2 centrifuges for the enrichment of uranium. The stories by Jahn and Dahl, already echoed by the New York Times (one can only assume that Joby Warrick will be along a bit later today to complete the first round of the propaganda machine), make this sound like a new and very important breakthrough that will make it much easier for Iran to produce uranium for a nuclear weapon. Only through close reading of the articles do we learn that these new centrifuges will be installed at the Natanz facility and will only be used for low-level enrichment to below 4% uranium (5% in the Dahl article). Enrichment to the more controversial 20% level is carried out at the Fordow facility and even that level is still short of the 90%+ needed for a weapon. Keep in mind also that IAEA regularly monitors both of these facilities and that all uranium has been accounted for, meaning that no 20% material has disappeared for secret conversion to weapons grade.
None of the articles gets around to pointing out that Iran installed its first IR-2 centrifuges over a year ago and the current development only represents installation of additional IR-2 units. Oh, and in the final paragraph, Jahn grudgingly admits that no time frame for this installation was given and that the installation work has not even started. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Here is Jahn's breathless announcement from today's leak:
Iran is poised for a major technological update of its uranium enrichment program that would vastly speed up production of material that can be used for both reactor fuel and nuclear warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press Thursday.
The diplomats said that Iran last week told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it wants to install thousands of high-technology machines at its main enriching site at Natanz, in central Iran. The machines are estimated to be able to enrich up to five times faster than the present equipment.
Jahn waits until the 13th of 15 paragraphs before getting around to stating that these new centrifuges will only enrich to low levels since they will be at the Natanz facility. Dahl's opening is no less dramatic:
Iran has told the U.N. nuclear agency that it will deploy more modern machines to refine uranium, a defiant move that may further complicate diplomatic efforts to resolve the dispute over Tehran's atomic activities peacefully.
The Islamic Republic said in a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency that it will use the new centrifuges at its main enrichment plant near the central town of Natanz, according to an IAEA communication to member states seen by Reuters.
Such a step could enable Iran to enrich uranium much faster than it can at the moment and increase concerns in the West and Israel about Tehran's nuclear program, which they fear has military links. Iran says its work is entirely peaceful.
With all this panic going around, the Times had to join in:
Iran has told the United Nations nuclear supervisory body that it plans to install more sophisticated equipment at its principal nuclear enrichment plant, a diplomat said on Thursday, enabling it to greatly accelerate its processing of uranium in a move likely to alarm the United States, Israel and the West.
The diplomat, based in Vienna which is the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency, cited a letter from Iranian officials to the I.A.E.A. saying it wants to upgrade its main enrichment plant at Natanz. The upgrade could speed up enrichment by as much as two or three times, the diplomat said, requesting anonymity in light of the confidential nature of the Iranian note.
As I mentioned earlier, Jahn notes at the very end of his article that there is no time frame for this installation. Neither Dahl nor the Times makes this important point in their panic-mongering:
One of three diplomats who spoke to the AP said Iran gave no time frame for its planned upgrade. He said installation work had not started at Natanz, adding it would take weeks, if not months, to have the new machines running once technicians started putting them in.
Considering that Jahn also included this quote from Mark Fitzpatrick of David Albright's Institute for Science and International Security, it appears that Jahn is finally gaining awareness of how he has been used lately to ratchet up anti-Iran sentiment:
"This won't change the several months it would take to make actual weapons out of the fissile material or the two years or more that it would take to be able to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile, so there is no need to start beating the war drums," he said. "But it will certainly escalate concerns".
Fitzpatrick also is quoted by Dahl, but only with the inflammatory "game changer" language, not the calmer disclaimer on the lack of impact on the critical final steps of weapon production.
Note: During the time I was writing the version of the post above, Jahn and AP updated their story, but it retains the URL linked above (when Reuters produces new versions of stories, they get new URL's so their changes can be tracked more easily). Notably, the mention of no time frame for the installation has been moved up to the fourth paragraph and the opening language has been altered significantly. The new version of the story emphasizes what IAEA is saying rather than what diplomats told Jahn. Here are the opening paragraphs of the version of the story times-tamped 8:32 (I failed to save a copy of the previous version with a time-stamp about two hours earler):
The U.N. nuclear agency has told member nations that Iran is poised for a major technological upgrade of its uranium enrichment program, in a document seen Thursday by The Associated Press. The move would vastly speed up Tehran's ability to make material that can be used for both reactor fuel and nuclear warheads.
In an internal note to member nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it received notice last week from Iran's nuclear agency of plans to install high-technology enriching centrifuges at its main enriching site at Natanz, in central Iran. The machines are estimated to be able to enrich up to five times faster than the present equipment.
Although the word "diplomats" still appears in the headline for the story ("Diplomats: Iran Prepared to Up Nuclear Program") Jahn does not reference a diplomat until the fourth paragraph when he talks about the time frame. It's almost as if Jahn and his editors are starting to realize how formulaic the diplomat to Jahn pipeline has become. Of course, anyone who has been paying attention knows how AP "saw" the document Jahn describes in his opening, he is just being less direct about it in this new version of the story.
Despite the best efforts of those who want a military attack on Iran to paint Iran as hiding attempts to develop a nuclear weapon, cooler heads appear to be prevailing as yesterday's talks in Tehran produced reports of a likely agreement and a follow-up meeting between the IAEA and Iran in only a month. One of the most important signs of progress is that the AP's George Jahn, who has served as a conduit for many of the most flimsy charges against Iran even gave space at the end of his report today to provide an alternate viewpoint that calls most of his reporting for the past year into significant question.
From Reuters, Fred Dahl (who at times has dabbled in the same rumor-mongering as Jahn, but not as blatantly) reports on the progress made yesterday:
The U.N. atomic agency failed to gain access to a military site in talks with Iran this week but expects to reach a deal in January to resume a stalled nuclear probe, the chief U.N. inspector said after returning from Tehran on Friday.
Even though the International Atomic Energy Agency was not allowed to see the Parchin complex during Thursday's visit to the Iranian capital, IAEA team leader Herman Nackaerts said progress had been made in the meeting.
"We expect to finalize the structured approach and start implementing it then shortly after that," he said, referring to a framework agreement that would enable the IAEA to restart its investigation into suspected atomic bomb research in Iran.
"We had good meetings," Nackaerts added. "We were able to make progress."
It is not just the IAEA who characterized the meeting as productive. From PressTV, we also get positive news from the Iranian side of the meeting:
Earlier, Iran's Ambassador to the IAEA Ali-Asghar Soltanieh told Press TV that Tehran and the UN nuclear body agreed at the end of the one-day meeting to hold a next round of talks in January.
"This round of talks was constructive and good progress was made," Soltanieh added.
Adding to the possible momentum generated yesterday, both the Reuters article linked above and this Fars News piece from Iran report that a new round of the P5+1 talks also could be taking place soon.
But perhaps the most encouraging news of all comes from what appears in today's report from the AP's George Jahn, who has been at the center of controversy many times during the last year because of the way he publishes "leaked" material coming from countries that favor military action in Iran and who want to disrupt diplomatic negotiations. In today's story, he does recite some of his litany of charges against Iran and the claims that work at the Parchin military site may have been carried out to develop an explosive trigger device for a nuclear weapon. He also relates that David Albright emailed to AP a "series of commercial satellite photographs of the Parchin site" detailing activities at the site that Albright and Jahn have been hyping as aimed at "cleansing" the site of radioactive signatures of the trigger development work. Presumably, Albright had to email the photos to Jahn because Jahn is not able to find them on Albright's website where he posted them along with a "they're still at it" type of "analysis" earlier this week.
However, after giving space for more information from Albright, Jahn makes the remarkable move of providing an alternate viewpoint from an authoritative source [emphais added]:
But a former IAEA inspector questioned what the information shown on the satellite photos actually mean.
"This 'sanitization story' is an old wives' tale," said Robert Kelley, in an email Friday to the AP. "It is clear from examination of the satellite images that there is no concerted effort to disguise possible uranium contamination outside the building."
Kelley said the activities at Parchin reflected "a construction project, not a demolition effort," adding: "This is clearly not a sanitization."
Seeing his last year of work on behalf of war mongers dismissed as "an old wives' tale" and then including it in his report had to hurt Jahn. He is due a bit of respect for reporting it, even if he did hide it at the very end of his report.
Yukiya Amano, Director General of the IAEA, appeared on the record yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations. He presented a very brief statement and then the bulk of his time was spent in a wide-ranging question and answer session. The lineup of questioners included Barbara Slavin leading off, David Sanger near the middle and Gareth Porter getting in just before questioning was brought to a close.
Joby Warrick took advantage of Slavin's question to present Iran in the worst possible light:
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano said the nuclear watchdog would try again next week to visit the Parchin military base, a sprawling complex where Iran is thought to have conducted tests on high-precision explosives used to detonate a nuclear bomb.
Iran has repeatedly refused to let IAEA inspectors visit the base, on the outskirts of Tehran. Instead, in the months since the agency requested access, satellite photos have revealed what appears to be extensive cleanup work around the building where tests are alleged to have occurred.
"We are concerned that our capacity to verify would have been severely undermined," Amano told a gathering of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. He noted Iran's "extensive" cleanup effort at the site, which has included demolishing buildings and stripping away topsoil.
"We cannot say for sure that we would be able find something," Amano said.
Notice the careful way in which Warrick has excerpted parts of what Amano said and inserted his own spin into the statements. If you listen carefully to what Amano says in response to Slavin's question around the 27 minute mark of the video, you will see that Amano never characterizes the activities by Iran as sanitizing the site (as said in Warrick's headline) or even that it was cleanup work, as Warrick says in the body of the article. Amano does mention removal of soil, demolition of buildings and extensive use of water, but maintains that access to the site is necessary in order to have a clear understanding of both past and current activities there.
Amano sits in a a position of high tension. He must deal with the Wikileaks disclosures showing that he is much more aligned with the US than his predecessor, Mohamed ElBaradei. Perhaps helping him to navigate this delicate position, the host of the CFR event, George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, provided some background comments and posed questions to Amano aimed at allowing Amano to voice his overall goal of resolving issues diplomatically. Despite this claim by Amano that his goal is diplomatic solutions, he must deal with the fact that the issues his organization has been raising are cited (often in an embellished way, as Warrick does above) as grounds for an attack on Iran. Perkovich also used these comments as a way to provide an endorsement of sorts for a second term for Amano.
One of the better questions posed by Perkovich related to whether it is possible to come to agreement with Iran regarding boundaries for future activities while leaving unresolved questions about what may have taken place in the past. Continue reading
I noted on Tuesday that Fredrik Dahl of Reuters dutifully transcribed accusations from anonymous "Western diplomats" to report that satellite images (which David Albright finally published yesterday–I'm so happy we get to see those dirt pile photos!) revealed that Iran had brought fill dirt to the Parchin site where there have been accusations that Iran may have carried out work on developing an explosive trigger for a nuclear weapon. That post had barely been up for an hour or two when George Jahn unleashed a spectacularly bad graph purporting to show Iranian calculations on nuclear bomb yields. Glenn Greenwald did a terrific debunking of the graph yesterday, showing, among other things, how profoundly wrong the science in the graph was. I had noted back in September, when Jahn first started hinting at what turned out to be his beloved graph, that this particular accusation first came to light in the November, 2011 IAEA report. Jahn and those who are feeding him his "exclusives" sat on this graph for a year before releasing it, presumably because it is so craptastically ridiculous that it could not be made public until the laughter over Bibi's bomb cartoon and the pink tarps had died down.
The timing of this nearly simultaneous flinging of poo by Dahl and Jahn is explained by the fact that the IAEA is meeting now to discuss the most recent report on Iran's nuclear activities. The US is using this meeting to roll out a new bit of "leverage" against Iran, stating that if Iran does not comply with IAEA requests by the time of the next IAEA report in March, the US will request that the IAEA refer Iran to the UN Security Council for its intransigence. Aside from how hypocritical this announcement looks, coming within just a few hours of the US condemning the UN for allowing Palestine to achieve non-member observer status, it also appears that Iran knew this ploy was coming. Today we see a report from Mehr News noting that Iran has reported the US to the UN for violating Iranian airspace at least eight times during October.
Lost in all of this noise is the fact that for all the posturing over Iran's 20% enriched uranium being "close" to weapons grade, Iran continues to divert significant amounts of the 20% enriched material into fuel plates for the Tehran reactor where the uranium has become chemically incapable of further enrichment to weapons grade. From David Albright's summary of the most recent IAEA report (pdf), we see that Iran has produced 232.8 kg of 20% enriched uranium but has diverted 95.5 kg, or 41%, of this to fuel plates. Back in August, Moon of Alabama explained the significance of the chemical changes that take place when fuel plates are produced [emphasis in original]: Continue reading
As I have noted many times, there is a prescribed, choreographed sequence for getting reports of "cleanup" activities at Iran's Parchin site into the US news media. First, "diplomats" release information (arising from intelligence agencies or the IAEA) to George Hahn of AP or Fredrik Dahl of Reuters, and then David Albright emerges within just a few hours with an "analysis", usually including satellite imagery. The choreography and imagery reached a comedic highpoint when Iran covered a number of buildings at the Parchin site with pink tarps last summer. Once Albright provides his viewpoint, various US media chime in to tell us how devious the Iranians are being with this military site that might house work that could somehow, one day, sort of help Iran produce a nuclear weapon.
Now, however, the cycle appears to have been broken. Late Wednesday, Fredrik Dahl published an article where he reported that a "closed-door" IAEA briefing had disclosed that satellite images of Parchin dated November 7 found new piles of dirt. Whether due to the Thanksgiving holiday or a lack of enthusiasm after the embarrassment of the pink tarp photos, Albright has not yet followed up by publishing these all-important photos of the piles of dirt.
Here is Dahl's report:
Iran has been hauling dirt to a military site U.N. nuclear inspectors want to visit, Western diplomats said on Wednesday, saying the findings were based on satellite images and they reinforced suspicions of a clean-up.
They said the pictures, presented during a closed-door briefing for member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), suggested Iran was continuing to try to hide incriminating traces of any illicit nuclear-related activity.
The allegations come a few days after the IAEA said in a report on Iran that "extensive activities" undertaken at the Parchin site since early this year would seriously undermine its inquiry, if and when inspectors were allowed access.
Albright clearly was already aware of the new piles of dirt. From his comments (pdf) put up along with publication of the November 16 IAEA report (pdf) (clearly marked "Restricted Distribution"):
The third and final points about removal of external pipework from the containment vessel building and about a depositing of new earth where earth was removed are new observations and ones that were not previously reported by ISIS. (See previous ISIS imagery analysis on the apparent sanitization activities at Parchin here.) Iran undertook sanitization activities, including the removal of earth and deposit of new earth, at Lavisan Shian in 2004. These activities are suspected to be related to Iran hiding evidence of efforts of the Physics Research Center, a military entity linked to parallel military nuclear activities that was sited there until the late 1990s.
On the date that the IAEA provided for restricted distribution its latest report on Iran, Albright was already aware that new imagery showed the additional fill dirt being brought to the Parchin site, and yet more than ten days later, and nearly a week after being prompted by Dahl, Albright still has not given us the dirt photos. If he doesn't come around soon, Albright will be in danger of being left out of the noise amplification loop and in the future new photos will bypass him and go directly to Barbara Starr.
Update: Ha ha ha ha. I guess George Jahn was feeling left out. He just published a diagram proving that the Iranians can calculate the yield of an atomic weapon. Quick! Prepare the fainting couch! Even Albright wasn't too impressed with this one, as quoted by Jahn:
David Albright, whose Institute for Science and International Security is used by the U.S. government as a go-to source on Iran's nuclear program, said the diagram looks genuine but seems to be designed more "to understand the process" than as part of a blueprint for an actual weapon in the making.
I'm sure Barbara Starr will be along shortly to tell us how frightened we should be by this diagram.
Breathlessly calling today's story an "AP Exclusive", George Jahn sticks to his usual routine of depending on "diplomats" to leak information on Iran and then using David Albright to cast the information in a way calculated to make it look as though Iran has made new, major breakthroughs in efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Today's effort is more transparent than a pink tarp, with Jahn's article itself finally getting around to noting that everything claimed to be an "exclusive" in the article was already noted in IAEA's November, 2011 report.
Jahn's opening:
The U.N. atomic agency has received new intelligence that Iran has moved further toward the ability to build a nuclear weapon by advancing its work on calculating the destructive power of an atomic warhead, diplomats tell The Associated Press.
And then, of course, we need Albright to add just the right spin:
"You want to have a theoretical understanding of the working of a nuclear weapon that is then related to the experiments you do on the various components," said David Albright, whose Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security is a frequent go-to source on Iran for Congress and other U.S. government branches. "The two go hand-in-hand."
Such computer mock-ups typically assess how high explosives compress fissile warhead material, setting off the chain reaction that results in a nuclear explosion. The yield is normally calculated in kilotons.
Now that we have been properly scared into believing there is new and damning evidence against Iran, let's see what Jahn finds when he goes back to the November, 2011 IAEA report:
The IAEA first outlined suspicions in November that Iran was working on calculating the yield of a nuclear weapon, as part of a 13-page summary of Iran's suspected nuclear weapons work that it said was based on more than 1,000 pages of research and intelligence from more than 10 member nations.
It said then that "the modeling studies alleged to have been conducted in 2008 and 2009 by Iran … (are) of particular concern," adding that the purpose of such studies for calculating anything other than nuclear explosion yields is "unclear to the agency."
Albright, of the Institute for Science and International Security, said such computer-run modeling is "critical to the development of a nuclear weapon."
So Jahn admits that this "new" information is basically just a re-run of what was stated in November by the IAEA. I guess Jahn and his handlers decided that not enough attention had been paid to this particular nugget of information, and so a new "exclusive" was needed in order to focus more attention on it. That is a very brave move after being punked so badly by the pink tarps.
At least Jahn got one sentence correct:
Any new evidence of Iranian research into nuclear weapons is likely to strengthen the hand of hawks in Israel who advocate a military strike on Iran.
Next week, perhaps Jahn and Albright can provide analysis of all Google searches from Iran on "nuclear weapons". I'm sure Jahn's "diplomat" friends can provide those for us.

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By Aly Semigran, Hollywood.com Staff
While the worst of Hurricane Sandy may be over for the East Coast, the devastation that it's caused from damaged property to widespread power outages to the heartbreaking loss of life has taken its toll on those in the region and beyond. It's been a rough 24 hours. If anybody deserves a pick-me-up, it's the Northeast.
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Beasts of the Southern Wild : Okay, you could pick just about any line from the beautiful, haunting film about a little girl named Hushpuppy living in a ravaged post-storm bayou with her father. But this one feels especially fitting: ""I see that I am a little piece of a big, big universe, and that makes it right.""
Manhattan: ""New York was his town and it always would be.""
Tree of Life: ""There are two ways through life the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose the one that you will follow.""
The Fountain: ""Every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light."
The Karate Kid: "Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up."
The Count of Monte Cristo: ""Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."
Mulan: "No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it."
The Hurricane: "You can't break me because you didn't make me."
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: ""Everything will be all right in the end. If it's not all right then it's not the end."
Six Feet Under: ""Why do people have to die?....To make life important. None of us know how long we've got. Which is why we have to make each day matter.""
Friday Night Lights: Because Coach Taylor makes everything right. ""Life is so very fragile, we are all vulnerable and we will all at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts, that what we have is special, that it can be taken from us and that when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.""
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I absolutely loved this dish! Made me wonder why I pay to go out sometimes. I found that I needed about 3/4 c. more broth in risotto, but maybe only because I was cooking it a little hotter than I should have been. Added a bit more pepper to risotto. I will definitely be making this again and would HIGHLY recommend it!
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WOW. This was delicious!! Added spinach to the risotto and used Ina Garten's recipe for roasted tomatoes. Everything was finished within 40 minutes and absolutely delicious. I will be making this for my dad on Father's Day.
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This was one of the best CL dishes I've ever made! The combination of roasted tomatoes, peppery arugula and salmon with fresh lemon thyme can't be beat! I used fat free 1/2 & 1/2 and a bit more Parmesan, and we grilled the salmon and used a torch to crisp the top. Absolutely fabulous!
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While this dish exceeded hub's 2-pan limit for cooking dinner, it was well worth it. Salmon was excellent. Risotto fussy as expected, but we added 1/4 c wild rice which bumped up the appearance & texture. Great leftover. Slow-roasted tomatoes are super-easy; we've made them a couple times - after they're done baking, turn off oven & let them sit until ready to serve.
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Had this last night and it was fantastic. I am not a salmon fan, so we used red snapper instead (was the freshest at the seafood counter). I didn't think the tomatoes added much (other than smoking up my house). Next time, I think we will actually smoke the tomatoes over cherry wood and see how that impacts the difference. Oh, also, I didn't have arugula or spinach so I used kale....it worked beautifully!
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This meal is delicious. The flavors come together perfectly, and any of the three parts would be great on its own. I used dried thyme instead of fresh and reduced the recipe to serve 4. I will definitely make this meal again.
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What a surprise, I can't believe how delicious this recipe was! I made it with spinach and we grilled the salmon instead of on top of the stove and then I put in the broiler for a few minutes to get it crispy, didn't exactly come out that way, but it was still great. The combination of flavors was sublime and this is going into my rotation. Risotto is always a pain since you have to stand there stirring and stirring, but so worth it!


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When they hear the word "catering," most people think of the last buffet they went through at a wedding or conference, or picking hors d'oeuvres off of a tray at a recent party. However, there are many other types of foodservice operations that fall under the domain of "catering." If you are thinking of starting a catering company or expanding an existing one, learn about the pros and cons of different types of catering operations to determine what is right for you.
Special Event Catering
Special event catering provides food for weddings, anniversaries, receptions and large-scale parties. It often involves the presentation and service of the food as well as different aspects of event planning. Some event caterers specialize in one kind of event, while others do them all.
- In addition to using your chef's skills, you can use other forms of creativity for decorating and planning for the event, and you can contract with musicians, rental companies, florists and venues to increase your profits.
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Business caterers provide food for business meetings, lunches, training sessions, conferences and corporate parties. This is one form of catering that is in high demand, but there is also a lot of competition in the market.
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Mobile catering is not done through contract, but rather moves from place to place in a van or truck designed to carry food and equipment. Examples of mobile caterers are vendors at festivals, fairs and farmers' markets, meals-to-go services and parking-lot vendors. If you are interested in mobile catering, you may want to learn more about concessions, since these two areas often overlap.
- Mobile caterers enjoy low start-up costs due to the small scale and part-time nature of their operation.
- This type of catering operation can be easily managed alongside a standard event catering business or restaurant operation.
- Much of the equipment needed to cool, cook, warm and sell the food must fit in a small, confined space, like a van, truck or booth.
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The 24-hour Rule
There might be one or two of you waiting to hear what I have to say about the debacle we all just witnessed. Maybe not. I know after we pissed away 2003 I got 37 e-mails begging me to write. This year, not a single solitary one. I got several old-fashioned phone calls from friends who were concerned for my well-being. All these phone calls were from, of course, non-Cubs fans who don't really understand. If we do someday, in fact, Win It All, make the well-being call. If the Cubs do in fact someday win a World Series, I just may very well determine that it won't get no better than this, and decide to jump head first off of a CTA bus into a crowd of drunks. But this, we've been here before. I can deal with it.
So all sorts of phone calls, but nothing anymore wanting to know what the Sloth thinks. The Internet is a fickle beast. I'm beginning to think you don't care. Or maybe I just suck at writing. That may be, because I had no idea how to start to summarize what we all just saw. Then I came out here this morning and saw a thoughtful piece by Colin and another thoughtful piece by Kurt. Hmm. Well, based on the premise (the totally correct premise) that shit is broken, one post talks about our chances for next year, the other examines what options we have to actually FIX the gatdam thing. I am going to invoke the 24-hour rule on the post that is just making me ITCH, and comment on the other right here.
What to do with our bodies? If I don't say anything about someone (ie. Bob Howry) then I essentially concur with Mr. Wyers.
Henry Blanco - while Colin logically notes that Hank is quite well paid for a backup catcher, the notion that someone named Wellington Castillo is ready for the show is quite a reach, since this system has developed exactly one catcher since Randy Hundley.
Jim Edmonds - has decided that he is NOT washed up, and will try to get as much money as possible.
Reed Johnson - he is one of Hendry's "guys", someone he spent years looking at, and you can count on him being here next year, at maybe triple his $1.25MM salary.
Ryan Dempster - this past year completely tastes like a "salary drive". I am very happy that he was able to work as hard as he did this past off-season, and was very pleased in this year's performance, Wednesday excepted, of course. A couple of troubling facts were proven this year, in fact. One is that he HAS the talent, but has spent most of his career relying on that talent. He has never worked this hard before, there is no way that he will ever work that hard again. Maybe with maturity, he will work harder in his 30's than he did in his 20's. It's just human nature, but once he gets paid (and he WILL get paid) this winter, do you see him running up mountains anymore? The other thing that was proven beyond a doubt this week is: he is no Ace, and he will demand and will receive Ace money this winter.
We should NOT pay Ace money for Ryan Dempster. If we are willing to shell out Ace money, then we should go after CC Sabbath and let Dempster go.
Jason Marquis - if Marquis were to go on the market again this year, would he still get $7MM a year? I believe he would, which is why (Nightmare Fuel Alert - look away) I would keep him this year.
Mark DeRosa - yep, as we speak, DeRosa's trade value has peaked. He will never be worth more than right now. The only problem is, who would we trade him for? We don't have enough prospects to package him with to get a True Ace Pitcher (and Kurt is right - we're NEVER getting Roy Halladay), and the other gaping hole we have - right fielder? Are there any for sale? Keep in mind, the Wrigley Field Right Fielder must not only be able to hit, he must be an Outstanding fielder with an Above Average arm.
Kosuke Fukudome - of course, Dome was supposed to be that guy. Now, I knew he would start off hot, and then the league would adjust to him. BUT, then, he was supposed to adjust to the league. He did NOT. It's a chess game, he's in Check, and its his move. If he doesn't figure it out over the winter, and comes back hitting .230 next year, then he is officially a Bust. And yes, I was the main guy beating the drums for him this past winter.
So what do we do there? We owe him $36MM for the next three years, he's as good as untradeable. Maybe we eat our Sunk Cost, and platoon him with Johnson in center. That is assuming we can find a Real Right Fielder. There are lots of Hitters out there this winter. But our right fielder has to be able to play the wall, play the sun, and the guys Colin wondered about: Manny, Dunn, and Ibanez, none of them qualify. They're all Left Fielders, and unfortunately we're dealing with our other Sunk Cost, the $18MM x 6 we still owe Soriano, in left. He can't play right - he throws well enough, but he can't even play LEFT field.
So, obviously it would not make sense to throw any more big dollars at outfielders. Hendry's Job #1, in my mind, (again) is to find a young RF to obtain and grow into the position. Nice try with Fukudome, Jim. Either find out what's wrong with him, or go back to the drawing board.
The one thing that Colin didn't mention, that I am compelled to do at this time is bring up the one year remaining on:
Derrek Lee - he's a Gold Glove first baseman. So was Mark Grace, and how did that turn out for us? At this point in time, Lee < Grace. Both hit into a lot of double plays which, in the third hole, just kill us day after day, but Grace at least would get a hit late in games once in a while. How many did Lee get this year, one? He's a lovely human being, who saves us plenty of errors every year, who is getting paid a lot of money, and is taking up a power hitting position in a power hitting slot in the lineup. The third slot is where your best hitter should be. He was our best hitter, three years ago. This year, Ramirez > Soto > DeRosa > freakin' Soriano > Lee.
Now, this is where it gets provocative:
Not as a fielder, but as a hitter, if you told me you were going to give Derrek Lee and Micah Hofpauir 600 ABs in the three hole in 2009, which one would be more productive? It ain't necessarily Lee. And, Micah makes 10 million less next year.
I am not advocating that we throw away Derrek Lee. I am saying he should NOT bat third anymore. I suppose if we assume that New Ownership has Unlimited Resources, then overpaying Lee doesn't have any bearing on its pursuit of a right fielder and an Ace starting pitcher. But there is no such thing as unlimited resources, and if we had $30MM to spend, and you gave me the choice of:
- Choice A: Lee at first, Dempster as the Free Agent Starter dujour, and whatever we scrape off the floor in RF, or
- Choice B: Hofpauir at first, Sabathia as the Free Agent Starter dujour, and say an Andre Ethier or Josh Hamilton in RF?
Let's just leave it at this: I know it isn't for lack of trying, but I am very dissatisfied with the role Derrek Lee is asked to fill for the Cubs. He isn't up to it.
I have said all along that we needed a dominant team to get over the hump. "Well, we had the Best Record this year! How much more dominant do you want?" A LOT more, actually. Let's just say this: the last week of the year, after we clinched. We shuffled our lineup, yet ran our best starters out there every day but the last. The teams we played had the weight of the world on them, all the pressure was on them. All we had to do is play ball. We finished 4-4.
If we truly were dominant? 7-1, probably. I knew the last week that we weren't ready to go in and win 11 postseason games. I'll elaborate soon, but The Team That Eventually Wins It All is going to have to do better than 97 regular season wins. And its manager is going to have to do a better job, too.
Yup, for the first time in two years, I am thoroughly upset at Uncle Lou. He sat like a bump on a log this week. He's too old, and his team was NOT ready to play.
UPDATE: Paul Sullivan has his top ten list. Whatever you think of his writing or his opinion, this guy has spent the past few years living with these guys day after day. When he says that Dempster is worth bringing back because of his attitude, it at least requires consideration.
I have to disagree with you
I have to disagree with you completely on Dempster. I think he's proven so many of us (including myself) wrong this year who said it was a joke to have him start.
Kaplan was on WGN this morning relaying a conversation he had with Dempster on Saturday night after the loss. Dempster was emphatic about wanting to stay here with the Cubs. To the point where even if other clubs were offering him more money, he would take the lower offer to stay here. At 17 wins, he is going to be offered money by clubs.
Obviously he'll have to walk the walk to back that up, but it does give me hope.
All the baseball guys like Dempster
And, there IS enough money to sign him AND also bring in Sabathia, if they felt like it.
My two points simply are:
1) he isn't an Ace, in the mold of the Great Aces
2) if I HAD to choose between signing him and Sabathia, who IS one of the Great ones, I'd of course choose the Ace.
Not that there are any plans to go after Sabathia.
For the record, I'd rather have Dempster than A.J. Burnett.
Just remember, Rob
If you're just itching to tell me how wrong I am for that article, I'm sure you could come up with about 9 MILLION reasons that Cubs fans will waste more time in 2009, or something.
Like I said, I'm taking the 24 hours to make it sound like I don't hate you (which I don't of course) but that I hate the list....
That's fine
Just remember one thing ... between Deadspin and Fark, the Nine Reasons article has garnered us a ton of hits ... which was probably the second reason I wrote it. (The first being that cliff jumping Cub fans give me the wigins and I felt compelled to respond.)
Derrek Lee vs. Micah Hoffpauir
You can not guarantee that Hoffpauir would have better numbers than Derrek Lee. I mean if you make that claim, you could do the same with Fontenot. Mike Fontenot would be 22 HR 100 RBI guy with 183 hits. Over time pitchers figure out hitters. I mean it didn't take too long for pitchers to figure out Fukudome. Soto had a great season last year, but he didn't bat over .380 like he did in 2007.
I hate to say it but Derrek Lee is still our best hitter. In my blog entry I pointed out that Aramis Ramirez hit around .260 in the first six innings of games. That is against good and bad starting pitchers. A-Ram hit very well against relievers because not many teams have a good bullpen. Soto was a lot better in the lower part of the lineup. As the number 5 hitter he batted .226. His average only got better the further down the lineup he went. DeRosa, I agree was better than Derrek Lee in the second half of the season, but like you said this is his peak. Maybe, another session in Arizona may help maintain his level of play. Soriano... Don't get me started about him. The guy had a .252 batting average against right-handed pitching. Funny thing about Derrek Lee in this past post season was that he hit over .500. DeRosa and Lee were the only Cubs who had any real success at the plate versus the Dodgers.
I would like to add an interesting point. During the last 8 games of the regular season, 3 of those wins came with the starting lineup full of bench players.
I think the Cubs should resign Dempster, if Dempster is willing to sign for under $15 million. Any contract more than that would be ridiculous.
How about Abreu?
(I already posted this on Colin's post, but that's pretty buried at this point). He's been a butcher of late in RF, but he's a lefty who can still get on base. I'd certainly take him over (ugh) Ibanez
Lee has two years left.
He's signed through the 2010 season, at $13 million apiece.
I think Lee is vastly more likely to be more productive than Hoffpauir, although there certainly are no guarantees. And Lee's defense outstrips Hoffpauir's as well. I don't see the reason to downgrade at 1B to save money right now.


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1/2 carrot, diced into 1cm cubes
2 potatoes, diced into 1cm cubes
1/2 turnip, diced into 1cm cubes
300-500g frozen fish ( I used hoki)
1 handful of frozen uncooked prawns
1 tsp salt
1 star anise
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4 large lemon grass stalks, use the white core and roughly chop (use lemon peel if you dont have lemon grass)
25g garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
2 shallots or an onion peeled and roughly chopped
25g fresh tumeric peeled and roughly chopped ( use 1tsp powder if you dont have fresh)
1 medium green chilli, sliced
25g galangal or ginger peeled and roughly chopped
2 kaffir lime leaves shredded
50g roasted peanuts or cashew nuts
100ml coconut milk
To serve
1 Medium green chilli sliced
1 handful parsley finely chopped, save a few sprigs to decorate.
1.Put all chowder ingredients except prawns together in a saucepan with just enough water to cover them and simmer until fish is unfrozen, and vegetables are soft but still together.
2.Put all curry ingredients in a food processor and blend to a fine paste/sauce
3.Add the curry to the chowder along with prawns and simmer for a further 10mins
4.Add 1/2 the chopped parsley and stir through before serving with the remainder of parsley and chilli to garnish.


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"I was thinking, 'what the hell is wrong with this psycho, shooting at people and terrorizing people?' I was avoiding the area driving down to Detroit."
The two have known each other since 1996 when they first lived together as grad students at MSU. Burns says the last time they saw each other was about six years ago, a casual get-together to catch up, and Burns says Casteel was the same guy he knew back in college. He says Casteel tried to get ahold of him two years ago, but he he lost his number and hadn't spoken to him since then.
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Wireless Industry Safety Task Force Releases New Public Service Announcement Video
(Denver, Colorado) – The Wireless Industry Safety Task Force today released the second in a series of public service announcements (PSA) as part of the 100% Tie-Off 24/7 Awareness Campaign. The PSA entitled "100% Tie-Off…It's the Law" was unveiled prior to the Task Force meeting that is being held in Denver, Colorado in conjunction with the 2014 National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) Summer Conference.
"The Wireless Industry Safety Task Force continues to work hard to educate the industry's workforce and stakeholders on the standards and compliance directives that govern fall protection when working on communication tower structures," stated NATE Chairwoman Pat Cipov from Cipov Enterprises, Inc. in Sumter, South Carolina. "The fact of the matter remains, 100% Tie-Off is the Law and this PSA continues to echo that safety message," Cipov exclaimed.
The Task Force's 100% Tie-Off 24/7 Awareness Campaign was launched in February 2014 and continues to utilize a comprehensive grassroots approach that includes public service announcement videos, paid advertising, earned media efforts, a social media component and collaborating with State Wireless Associations in order to expand the campaign's reach.
"This latest PSA showcases the resolute commitment that the participating companies involved with the Wireless Industry Safety Task Force have in highlighting the 100% Tie-Off law and ultimately solving all of the industry's fall protection challenges," said Task Force member Brad Olson from Nexius.
Click here (http://youtu.be/-leZRT564Lg) to view the "100% Tie-Off...It's the Law" PSA. Members of the Task Force are encouraging that everyone involved in the wireless industry play a role in helping the video go "viral" by sharing the PSA with their respective colleagues, friends and social media communities.
Participating companies and organizations affirming their commitment to the 100% Tie-Off 24/7 Awareness Campaign include:
Alcatel-Lucent, American Tower, AT&T, Bechtel, Black & Veatch, Crown Castle, Ericsson, General Dynamics, Goodman Networks, Jacobs, MasTec Network Solutions, Motorola Solutions, National Association of Tower Erectors, Nexius, Nokia Solutions and Networks, SAI Communications, Samsung, SBA Communications Inc., Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Velocitel Inc., Verizon Wireless and WesTower Communications.
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National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) is a not-for-profit trade association in the wireless infrastructure industry providing a unified voice for tower erection, service and maintenance companies. Today the Association boasts over 725 member companies located throughout the United States, Australia, Bahamas, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Ghana, India, Italy, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Arab Emirates. For additional information on NATE, please visit www.natehome.com.
About the Wireless Industry Safety Task Force
The Wireless Industry Safety Task Force consists of top safety and operations executives representing wireless carriers, tower owners, OEM's, turnkey/construction management firms and National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE). The Task Force has been established in order to collaborate on best practice solutions to achieve sustainable safety improvements in the industry.
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