Posted on 04/12/2017 8:17:52 PM PDT by FR_addict
Ploughshares Fund The Ploughshares Fund is a public grantmaking foundation that supports initiatives to prevent the spread and use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and other weapons of war, and to prevent conflicts that could lead to the use of weapons of mass destruction. --wikipedia
The Ploughshares Fund was established in 1981 by the San Francisco-based philanthropist, artist and activist Sally Lilienthal (1919-2006), who had formerly served on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California during the 1960s and 70s, and had co-founded the Northern California Committee of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in 1971. From its inception, the Ploughshares Fund's purpose was to support the nuclear-freeze movement, a Soviet-sponsored initiative that sought to further solidify the nuclear and military superiority which the USSR had gained during the post-Vietnam War era. Moreover, Ploughshares adamantly opposed NATO’s decision to place medium-range missiles in Europe, a decision that was made in response to an aggressive Soviet military buildup and to the USSR's then-recent deployment of SS-20 Missiles in Eastern Europe.
Also during the Cold War, Ploughshares claimed that U.S. militarism—particularly that of the Reagan administration—was far likelier to spark a nuclear holocaust than anything the Soviet Union might do. Identifying U.S. belligerence and aggression as the chief source of tensions between America and the USSR, Ploughshares pressured the United States but not the Soviets to initiate disarmament measures. To advance this agenda, Ploughshares pooled donations from a number of wealthy contributors and charitable foundations (including the Rockefeller and Stern Foundations) to bankroll and almost singlehandedly create a left-wing “peace” movement that denounced American defense policies and featured the progressive icon Edward Kennedy as one of its spokesmen.[1]
...Ploughshares identifies itself as a partner of such groups as Code Pink, Demos, the Institute for Policy Studies, the National Priorities Project, United for Peace & Justice, and the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
... Of a piece with Ploughshares' Iran policy is the organization's support for the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), the Iranian regime’s principal lobbyist in the United States....The Ploughshares Fund is supported by annual contributions from approximately 2,000 individuals and a small number of foundations. Among its benefactors are the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Compton Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Minneapolis Foundation, George Soros’s Open Society Institute, the Prospect Hill Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, the Turner Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ---Discoverthenetworks.org http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7156 **
Syria Claims US-Led Coalition Strike On ISIS Chemical Weapons Depot Has Killed Hundreds | Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-13/
If this really happened today, then it proves ISIS has chemical weapons.
Professor’s bio
http://sts-program.mit.edu/people/emeriti-faculty/theodore-postol/
Theodore Postol is Professor of Science, Technology and National Security Policy in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He did his undergraduate work in physics and his graduate work in nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Postol joined the staff of Argonne National Laboratory, where he studied the microscopic dynamics and structure of liquids and disordered solids using neutron, x-ray and light scattering, along with computer molecular dynamics techniques. Subsequently he went to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to study methods of basing the MX Missile, and later worked as a scientific adviser to the Chief of Naval Operations. After leaving the Pentagon, Dr. Postol helped to build a program at Stanford University to train mid-career scientists to study developments in weapons technology of relevance to defense and arms control policy. In 1990 Dr. Postol was awarded the Leo Szilard Prize from the American Physical Society. In 1995 he received the Hilliard Roderick Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2001 he received the Norbert Wiener Award from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility for uncovering numerous and important false claims about missile defenses.
I got no problem with a perfesser being anti nuke or what the hell ever they want. When an anti nuke perfesser is able to make a great living off tax dollars at the public trough we need to take another look at the basic assumptions of having a DOD.
As I said, this is one of those situations where despite my suspicions, I either believe “everybody” (including US gov’t sources, and Trump) or I believe the weirdos. It’s much like a 9/11 truther situation.
It is clear what we have been assigned to believe. I cannot see a road where, through my access to 6th hand information, I get to a point that is more, or less, unsatisfactory than thinking (as I do) that an (ISIS or rebel) stockpile of VX or other chem agent was hit by conventional (Syrian) explosive bombs and the contents leaked out. Or, a suicide schmuck uncorked a VX warhead he had lying around.
So I find it hard to want to pursue the inquiry and very probably that’s exactly the desired result.
“why are you thinking like you live in a totalitarian state ?”
Why are you writing like a MSNBC panelist?
TY
CNN is an excellent source to discount the professor. Not.
Given our “intelligence” missed the fall of the Soviet Union and sent Bush on a witch hunt for WDM in Iraq, and most recently spied on Trump’s campaign and other Americans intelligence does not like, I’ll go with the MIT professor. US “intelligence” is just another word for stupid and evil.
thanks for the link
Sarin is a clear, colorless and tasteless liquid that has no odor. It can evaporate into a gas and spread into the environment. Because it evaporates quickly, the threat is immediate — but not long-lived.
The threat would have been gone pretty quickly, especially in that climate. Sarin is not like chlorine or other ground-hugging chemical weapons that linger and collect in low points. It would dissipate pretty fast and at low concentrations easily go unnoticed. Handling someone exposed to sarin is not dangerous after relatively short intervals.
the link isn’t to a cnn article. It’s to The Hague’s OPCW report hosted at cnn. Which is also at the opcw website - if you know how to dig for it.
Also at the opcw website that you’ll also have to dig for, is the Dec ‘16 recommendation that, much like Iraq, Syria was to immediately submit to site inspections, hand over flight logs for previous confirmed attacks in 2014/15/16, blah blah. Not exactly something Assad wanted to happen for many reasons.
A relatively short interval of days. As opposed to other nerve agents that are in a class called “persistent”.
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