What the Hell is This? Syrian Chemical Weapons Lab Bombed. Check Out the Board of Directors. (news)

submitted ago by 13Buddha

Pulverized buildings were shown which are reportedly the remains of a research facility in Damascus after a cruise missile blitz. The article states that the RAF joined US and French forces in unleashing a "blitz on evil Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapon capabilities..."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6041478/syria-air-strikes-bombing-strike-uk-us-chemical-weapons-assad-latest-pentagon-russia/

Okay, so here we have "NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative) Building a Safer World" with NTI's Syria page showing that its primary biological weapons agent facility is reportedly located at the Damascus-based Scientific Research Council. Here anthrax, cholera, and botulism are developed by the Biological Research Facility and produced. It is believed that all research, development, and production activities and facilities associated with the Biological Weapons program are under the direct control of the Centre D'Etude et Recherche Scientifique (CERS). On April 14, 2018, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a CERS facility in Damascus had been potentially struck during US missile strikes on chemical weapons sites. Pentagon officials later reported that the facility had been destroyed. What in the hell is NTI all about??? http://www.nti.org/learn/countries/syria/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Scientific_Studies_and_Research_Center

Whatever NTI is, it is also located in Washington D.C. Its website says the following: "Every day, we work to prevent catastrophic attacks with weapons of mass destruction and disruption - nuclear, biological, radiological, chemical and cyber. Working with leaders, partners, and citizens around the world to develop policies to reduce reliance on nuclear wapons, prevent their use, and end them as a threat."

Here's the shocker - The Board of Directors include Ernest J. Moniz, Sam Nunn, Ted Turner, Des Browne, Joan Rohlfing, Ambassador Hamad Alkaabi, Alexy Arbatov, Charles A. Bowsher, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Liru Cui, Rolf Ekeus, Gideon Frank, Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., and several more.

Its advisors include Warren E. Buffett, David A. Hamburg, and Siegfried S. Hecker. http://www.nti.org/about/board-and-advisors/

I can't figure out exactly what NTI is or does, but something is very, very wrong.

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Are_we__sure ago

Where is in your links is your claim sustained? If it's there I missed it.

13Buddha ago

@Are_we_sure, first of all, there is a drop-down menu on both NTI provided links for Syria and Washington D.C. READ the information for each entry. I believe you will discover that there is much ambiguity as to what, exactly, this organization actually does. Ambiguity = Suspicion. Once you have read all of the information, perhaps your illustrious mind can enlighten us.

Are_we_sure ago

Ambiguity certainly does not equal suspicion. It simply means things aren't clear or you don't understand what is going on. Usually people then try to understand what they don't understand, they don't start asking hysterical questions based on wild speculation.

And it certainly doesn't support your beyond-wild-speculation, false claims.

Where is your evidence for your claim that NTI is a Syrian ChemIcal Weapons Lab?

This is not ambiguity. This is in incompetence verging on flat out dishonesty.

You either don't understand what you are reading or you are trying to deceive people by claiming NTI is a Syrian Chemical Weapons factory.

The reason I accuse you of dishonesty is a simple search of Wikipedia would have explained what NTI is. It is a think tank based in Washington, DC. There's a drop down on their website for Syria because Syria is one of the countries they monitor.

The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 2001 by former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn and philanthropist Ted Turner in the United States, which works to prevent catastrophic attacks and accidents with weapons of mass destruction and disruption – nuclear, biological, radiological, chemical, and cyber.

It's a think tank devoted reducing threats. It started with the nuclear threat and expanded to others.

One of the ideas that Warren Buffet supports is the idea of a international nuclear fuel bank. Rather than have states like Iran or Saudi Arabia develop their own enrichment facilities for nuclear energy, have a guaranteed supply for countries that agree not to proliferate. This would reduce the risk of countries secretly converting their domestic energy program into a weapons program.

Another project they work on is the Nuclear Security Index: which

assesses the security of the world’s deadliest materials: highly enriched uranium and plutonium. A first-of-its-kind resource, the Index is designed to encourage governments to take actions and build confidence in the security of their materials. Now in its third edition, the NTI Index is recognized as the premiere resource and tool for tracking progress on nuclear security and identifying priorities.

The NTI Index assesses nuclear materials security conditions in 24 countries with one kilogram or more of weapons-usable nuclear materials across a broad framework capturing policies, actions, and other conditions that shape their nuclear security. An additional 152 countries with less than one kilogram of weapons-usable nuclear materials or none at all are assessed across a subset of the framework.

Short term the founders want to reduce the need to use nuclear weapons.

Long term, they want the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.

13Buddha ago

First of all, I never said that NTI is a "Syrian Chemical Weapons Lab." Furthermore, imo, NTI's intention is NOT to make the world a safer place. Its intention is to continue to rule the world. I read all about the international bank, and we both have different opinions.