mass criticism in a failure to fulfill his promise is an economic policy since assuming his office in 2050 under his tenure, nigeria is now finding a 100 percent of its economic output on servicing its debts. it's credit card is so fully loaded, that it has no choice but to borrow law the paying the whopping interest on it has not been great with economic principles and policies. we want people who have the ability to implement what they say, but how did nigeria end up here? one of the main reason is the obsession that bihari had with net 0 pushed by western heads of state by the powers treating other such initiatives, nigeria and oil rich nation as committed to a bossy, ambitious renewable energy strategy at right cost. in spite the currently nigeria can only service enough renewable energy to power dismal $3500.00 homes. that's not the only reason. nigeria is natoya for his lack of st services. be that educational

institutions, health care, or even adequate housing for its people. this is called the stagnation, even the decline in nigeria is that are able to enter skill professions and thus generate wheels have his tax revenues for the government coffers. the final reason is corruption. with government officials living in such opulence that even the babylonians, with blush, it's hard to believe that they can afford to live in such a manner, giving their dwindling government salaries. we are deeply concerned with the lack of vigorous scrutiny and attention by the lawmakers in granting requests for loans without reflecting the provisions of the fiscal responsibility act and the greater implication of the nation's economic state. nigeria should not continue to look westwards, but to the east. russia and china have a bosley different investment strategy, investing in the real resources that nigeria desperately needs be that new routes, new hospitals, or well, cost universities. a highly skilled nigeria will have a in battle africa is not the whole world. it's going to be very,

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potential. the ultimate objective of this research is to have better preparedness efforts and develop counter measures. now, despite their altruistic goals, g u of research can be very dangerous when it comes to bio security and bio safety . there's also the question of ethics, does the benefit of this research outweigh the risks? and all particular concern is that the advances in biotech may enable the development and use of a new generation of biological weapons of mass destruction. a top and i h official has admitted that us taxpayers funded g of as research on bad corona virus, and han, and that equal health alliance was d. u. s. non profit that funded the hon. institute of urology ego health received $3700000.00 over 6 years from the n h, and distributed nearly $600000.00 of that total to china's woo hon lab eco health

alliance has been bundling us taxpayer money to the hon. institute of urology for risky g o s research. that was in clear violation of us laws, but rather than being punished for this, there are still continuing to receive grants from the national institute of health even to this very day. the an age has repeatedly requested information from eco health allies to provide original lab notebooks and electronic files related to the research under investigation at the cause of the pandemic. but those records were never provided. the lack of specific lab records, pin porting, a specific incident or mutation that led to the emergence of the corona virus has been used as evidence to discount the possibility of a lab origin. but without access to those records in question, such evidence is unattainable. so to summarize,

ego health alliance has violated its grant agreement, spend billions of us taxpayer dollars on elicit research, and delayed notifying the and i age of dangerous research for over 2 years. at the same time, it has refused to provide the an age with basic and documents about the research equal health broke federal laws withheld evidence and conducting dangerous research in unsafe conditions. but now instead of being defunded, the national science foundation recently awarded it an additional $1000000.00 grant eco health for predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention. and the, and i h announced a 5 year grant to conduct more studies on corona virus from bats. so it's quite a disturbing pattern that additional funding continues to be awarded for the same high risk research that may have caused the current pandemic before. there has been

even any national investigation of the origin of the pandemic. the grands to equal health continues rewarding, approve embodied actor. now let's dive deeper with dr. john de brow sky medical doctor at the washington pain center. so what countries are permitting gain of function research and who is leading this field? to great question, i think we're going to learn a lot more about that with the new house that are now in the republican hands, you know, functions from, for a controversial. it's been all the way back to the obama administration. we were doing it here in the united states, and actually the obama administration out bought it because i thought it was too risky. place that we do know that are doing us as china is doing this in the lab was doing it also there's one group that came out in the news. it's up in boston, i think gives a boss university was doing can function as well. there are places there's a place down in houston, texas does, does it as well as north carolina. so there are

a lot of places in the united states. there might be other places that i don't know about the ones that are making the news or here in night stages, ross, china, maybe they're doing the united kingdom or other parts of all the content of europe . i don't know. now gain a function, we start was paused in 2014, but then the band was lifted. why did the u. s. ban in the 1st place? the, the band. it because he thought it was quite risky. they did not want to have federal dollars going to something that could be, you know, very lethal or certainly problematic if anything was too bad to happen. that's why they banned federal funding for. and you all right. what happened with during the trump administration? i guess there were some sort of bill that was passed and money unknowingly, went back to this and a lot of it to not go to directly to universities for gain of function. but they want to carve out like equal health alliance or other kind of shell organizations that would do basically what was outlawed, gain a function, but they called it

a different name in an age funded this other entity to them, you know, do do what they were actually forbidden to do and how much federal funding is currently going to gain a function research. and i don't know, i'm sure it's public knowledge, but again, it is kind of hard to find out because you need to start connecting the dots. i mean, because they didn't really put down in a budgetary item, you know, $10000000000.00 or again, a function. they didn't do that. so they, you know, they probably sent money to a organization. no, no, no one has called equal health alliance or the university of big down in north carolina. again, name is ralph eric, and another father was done in houston, texas. and there might have been a university to do something. but, but really it was for gain a function, so it says one line item on probably on a budgetary matter. but then we can not, it really is for jenna function research or that area of study. and how much money

is going to research on gain a function outside of the u. s. and does research conducted in other countries, pose a risk given that other nations can steal the research or co opted for their own purposes. of course, and actually some of these funding that we had. we said we could not do it here in the united states, as i said, were doing it in north carolina, boston and houston, texas. but then we would say, well, we can't do it here, but we can fund it over there and over there might be won china ram, no biology. so i'm in my and god knows there might have been other place that i am not aware of, but perhaps, or other places that we as a governments, that money to saying that we can't do it here. but if you do it over there, that's, that's their business, and your quote is incredibly well taken. this is a great area of research in terms of, um, hopefully protecting us against viruses or being prepared for viruses. but the other side of it is it could be used as a biologic wrap it and that's,

and that's one of these things you in, in the industry here and, you know, it's, it's called dual use. so in other words, i might sell you something that's completely innocuous for medical experimentation, but you can also turn around and use that medical equipment to make a nuclear weapon because it's, it's radiologic activity, you know, radiologic activity. so it's called dual use. so, you know, it's got this purpose that's intended, but maybe you could turn out to be something different that could be, you know, incredibly harmful, you know, for us as a country doctor john dombrowski, thank you so much for your time. and when we return, is there any economical or scientific benefits to investing and gain a function research? well discuss that after the re ah

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how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk ah, welcome back. so what are the benefits of gain of function research? are there any? while some researchers claim that ga, that experiments can help, has scientific theories develop new technologies and find treatments for infectious diseases. the purpose is to focus on pandemic pathogens to be prepared for response and develop counter measures. so for example, when the original sars outbreak happened, researchers developed a method to grow the virus in mice. so they could study it. and this work led to a model for researching the buyers and testing potential vaccines and treatments which benefited the medical community greatly. other benefits included creating

more salt and drought resistance plans or modifying disease factors to produce mosquitoes that are resistant to transmitting dang, gay fever. g of s is also useful for modifying e call i so that it can convert plastic waste into a valuable commodity. however, these experiences come with a high degree of risk. some potential outcomes of this research may include the creation of pathogens that are more transmissible or more virulent than the original. other examples include engineering organisms that can evade current detection methods and available treatments, or grow in other parts of an organisms or even have the ability to cross the blood brain barrier. now, in the wake of the coven, 19 pandemic. countries are now planning to build more than 40 high level bio safety labs around the world, including in india, philippines, and singapore. but what other costs associated with maintaining these bio safety

level $3.00 and $4.00 facilities? now roughly 10 percent of the labs budget actually goes towards the experiments. the other staggering 90 percent of the budget is spent on checking, maintaining, and repairing the facility. when instruments break, they cost a lot to fix and everything going in and out has very strict safety protocols. a b s l for facility in texas receive close to 12000000 dollars a year from the national institute of allergy and factious diseases just for maintenance and operations alone. $2000000.00 of which is spent on 24 hours security. another 2000000 is required to power the ventilation heating a c and negative air pressure and portions of the lab. and these facilities can become like giant white elephants when it's not used and as a very big money thing. and while building in developing nations like manila or the philippines can be much cheaper than building the same facility in the u. s. there

is a big problem with the education and training. these labs handle high risk contaminants, and scientists often struggle to find well trained lab staff to run high contaminant facilities. a survey of lab practices in the philippines found that bio safety officers had only a weak understanding of bio safety. doctor john brozowski medical doctor at the washington pain center is joining us again to discuss the benefits or not again of function research. so dr. are there any benefits to gain a function research, or is it only a tool to developing weapons? and can this type of research lead to any medical breakthroughs? well, yeah, i mean, but anything is a double edged sword. you know, whether it's any sort of medications that can be good, but they could also be used to kill people. and same with technology. technology is

always great, we always learn about things. we always do learning, we can compare, you know, prepare for the future of what, what might happen. but again, if you want to have some in the areas to then change something, you know genetically in the code of a virus and then release it. well, that great idea can also be used as a weapon. it really depends whose hand and it's in. and what is the overall intent as a country or as a scientists? and that's why it's very, you know, it's very controversial. and we need tremendous oversight in this field of study. and what is the social and political cost of this type of research? well, social cost might be the coven $19.00, or the source code b to virus, because it was thought that perhaps this was not something that naturally occurring out of a bad cave at, in, you know, thailand, you know, a wet market, you know, usually when you have viruses that were do not,

that means comes from an animal or usually a by a human, and then there's a human host and then pass on to other humans. that's never been found. there's no human host that's been found. where they'll jump from the bat to the sweat market, and that's where they kept talking about. but you know, in the went market, i think it was like maybe up to 40 or maybe a 100 meters away. was a p for that's a high grade ology lab that was looking at gain a function. and what were they looking at? they were looking at that corona viruses. so maybe that's just a coincidence. i don't know, but it's something that probably should be looked at to, to make sure you know what are we doing and so that, you know, you saw what happened in the past 18 months. what happened to society at large? basically the plant stopped no commerce, no travel, no socialization, isolation, tremendous effects on you know, human psyche, the individual, one importantly, economically, i mean, it,

trillions of dollars have been loss. businesses have been lost, et cetera. so i mean that that is a tremendous social experiment that happened, that we can actually look at if something does go wrong as a potential. now, in the past decade, the u. s. has developed oversight for research that could be directly misused for nefarious purposes. does a system like that work and what happens when there are bad actors like eco help who conceal their actual research and misuse funds and ways that goes against what it was intended for? well, that's why we have oversight. and at the end of the day, we need to hold people accountable. we just can't say, oh wow. i like next time. oh shucks i made a mistake and then move on. we cannot move on. i mean, these are very dangerous pathogens that were dealing with their jobs or viruses or anything. and if something is done it for a nefarious reason, those individuals that company must be held, not only liable in terms of financial,

but also perhaps jail time, you know, because there's got to be some sort of penalty for doing this. i mean, look what happened to the planet related to gain a function and whether it wasn't intended. but we did this and we didn't mean that to happen. but again, we have to be incredibly cautious. and we have to start having these, you know, time conversations. because we need to bring it to other people's attention that this was really serious, less understand, was this truly a natural occurring virus? things happen. ok, fine. we can learn from that was something that we actually funded and in funding that we did this to our own, you know, economy, we did this to the planets and world economy. and to this, to this many people and how many people, billions of people are kill vaccinations and all that. that is a big question that should be investigated and let's see where it goes. and finally, do you think gain a function? research should continue. and how should it be regulated and monitored so that it

is actually beneficial? like it was kind of functions you're taking in and not to a virus changing it to negative genetically, to soup it up to make it no more pathogenic, more deadly. like the bad corona virus had really no way of getting into human or sticking to the human cells and things like that. they had a change the genetic code to make a spike per protein to then make it lethal and see where we got it. so again, i think the whole idea is what we're going to do these to virus just to see what happens and then we can be prepared. i think that's a good story. i'm not sure if that's, you know, well intended and perhaps it should just be outlawed because there's more harm than good. i'm just like with, with a thing like, you know, genetic changing of genes for a baby. what we want to prevent down syndrome or what else does that lead to all a blue i babies are born on, you know, male babies or things like that. just to be really cautious. we deal with genetic

material because we cannot plague god. and these matters, and again, if it's natural occurring, we can deal with that. and there's no reason to soup up these viruses that could be incredibly lethal, that we may not have an answer for very quickly because it could change the world on a dime as we've seen. thank you so much dr. the brow sky for your insight. are there any wheel winners here when it comes to gain a function research? while the consumer would be winning if g of f research led to any medical breakthroughs? but in the meantime, the biggest winners are the bio researchers who are now in a position to receive additional funding as investments and bio safety. lots often follow major epidemics. now the other big winner here is of course, the pharmaceuticals who are swooping in with the cure to save everybody from these virulent diseases. pfizer report a 92 percent operational growth in revenue to $81000000000.00 for 2021.

moderne, brought in $18000000000.00 in revenue for the company in 2021, and a total of nearly $1000000000.00 of us taxpayer money was poured into research for vaccines. so unfortunately, it seems like when it comes to bio security research, the agencies involved are not very transparent. there are now calls for more oversight and for the risks and benefits of the funded experiments to be shared. openly. projects must be fully disclosed and evaluated for their risks, and this would go a long way into improving public trust in science and age, which has been declining during the pandemic. i'm christy i. thanks for watching. i will see you right back here next time on the cost of everything. i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a

robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except when the shorter does that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. the point obviously is to great a rather than fear a job with artificial intelligence. real, somebody with a robot most protective own existence with a 950 s b u. s. used former nazis against the soviet union in the 21st century. they engineer dakota, the former soviet republic,

into our conversation with moscow will certainly hear the united states and the u. k. and the rest of the western world had not engaged in conflict with the ukraine and with the soviet union and a successor of the russian federation. we will not have the horrible situation we have today. i think that if the american stopped, we would be at peace and the role would be a lot better place as the economy, the world or function certainly better than it's doing now. now when i was showing wrong, when i just don't hold any world yet to see out this thing becomes the advocate and engagement equals the trail.

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