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research or g. a vast involve experimentation that ends to increase the transmitter city and virulence of pathogens. this research is meant to help improve the understanding of diseases and their potential to cause pandemic key word potential . the ultimate objective of this research is to have better preparedness 1st and develop counter measures. now, despite their altruistic goals, g o 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 van says 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 in hon. 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 funneling 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, they 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 pinpointing 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 a listed research and delayed, notifying the an age of dangerous research for over 2 years. at the same time, it has refused to provide the and i with basic and documents about the research equal health broke federal laws withheld evidence and conduct and 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. a proven bad actor. now let's dive deeper with dr. john to browse ski 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. did a function 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 outlawed it because it was too risky. place that we do know that are doing us as china is doing this. the lab is 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 get a function as well. the other 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 status balls. china. maybe they're doing that 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 didn't the u. s. ban in the 1st place? the, the bandit 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 know, why, 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 of function. but they call it a different name and 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 for gain a function. they didn't do that, so they, you know, they probably sent money to a organization. no, no, no one is called e go health alliance or the university of big down in north carolina. again, name is ralph eric, and another fellow 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, 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 couldn't do it here in the united states, as i said, we're 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 want 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 the 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 hopefully protecting us against viruses or being prepared for viruses. but the other side of it is it could be used as a biologic weapon. and that's, and that's one of these things you in, in the industry here in the united states. 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. ready radiologic activity, you know, radiologic activity. so it's called all you. so, you know, it's got this purpose that's intended, but maybe you could turn 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 in gain of function research? well, discuss that after the re what

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while some researchers claimed that g of up experiments can help pest scientific theories develop new technologies and fine treatments for infectious diseases, the purpose is to focus on pandemic pathogens to be prepared for a 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 virus and testing potential vaccines and treatments which benefited the medical community greatly. other benefits included creating more salt and drought resistant plants, or modifying disease vectors to produce mosquitoes that are resistant to transmitting dang, gay fever. g of f is also useful for modifying e call lie 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 bro. 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 ac 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 stuff 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, nebraska 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 everything is a double edged sword. you know, whether it's on any sort of medications that there can be good, but they could also be used to kill people. and same with this, you know, 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 out in, you know, thailand, you know, what market, you know, usually when you have viruses that were, do not, that means comes from an animal. we're usually a, by a human and then there's a human host in the past on the other humans that's never been found. there's no human host that's been found where they would 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 40 or maybe a 100 meters away was a p 4. 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, 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 loss, 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 what we have oversight. and at the end, the day we need to hold people accountable, we just can't say are well, now 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. let's understand, was this truly a natural occurring virus? things happen. ok, fine. we can learn from that was the something that we actually funded and funding that we did this to our own, you know, economy. we did this to the planets, 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? do with dana functions you're taking in innocuous virus changes genetic genetically to soup it up to make it more pathogenic. more deadly. like the bet corona buyers had really no way of getting into human or sticking to the human cells and things

like that. they had ha, change the genetic code to make a spike per coating 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 is 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. well, what else does that lead to always? blue eyed babies are born on, you know, male babies are born or things like that. just to be really cautious when we deal with genetic material, because we cannot plague god and these matters. and again, if it's natur occurring, we can deal with that. 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. browse k for your insight. are there any real winners here when it comes to gain a function research? well, the consumer would be winning if geo, that research led to any medical breakthroughs. but in the meantime, the biggest winters are the bio researchers who are now in a position to receive additional funding as investments and bio safety labs 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. materna 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 and science and the, and i age, which has been declining during the pandemic. i'm christy, i thanks for watching and we'll see you right back here next time on the cost of everything in the 1950s, the u. s. used former nancy's against the soviet union in the 21st century. they engineer dakota, that the former soviet republic into, on confrontation with moscow will certainly if 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 its successor, the russian federation. we would 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 and the economy, the world were functioning certainly better than is doing now. ah ah. in 1935 fascists, italy, led by dictator benito mussolini decided to expand its colonial empire in africa

and take over ethiopia. by that time, ethiopia was the only fully independent state on the continent. back in 1896, it's inhabitants were able to defeat the italian colonists and defend their independence. since then, rome craved for revenge for the humiliating defeat. in the morning of october, 3, 1935. without any announcement, the fascists attacked ethiopia and bombarded it most severely. ethiopian armed forces fought courageously, but the brutality of the italians knew no bounds. they use not only massive bombing attacks on civilians, but also chemical weapons, toxic gases. this change the course of the war. as a result of the occupation of ethiopia by the fascist 760000 people were killed. the capture of the african state was committed with europe stats at

approval. britain and france recognized the annexation giving the green light to further fascist expansion in the world and paving the way for the outbreak of world war 2 long. no one else seemed wrong when old fools just don't hold any world to shape out the same becomes the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will to part, we choose to look for common ground. the only one main thing is important for knox ism, internationally speaking to that is that nations allowed to do anything, all the mazda races, and then you have the mind,

the nations who are the slaves. americans, proc obama and others have had a concept of american exceptionalism. international law exist as long as it serves the american interest. if it doesn't, it doesn't exist. i turning those russians into this danger is go you man that wants to take over the world. that was a culture strategy. says i'm booked as of yet on your own. i not. felicia adult in zebulon and tablet block. nato said it's ours. we move east. the reason us, hey jim, it is so dangerous, is it? the law is the sovereignty of all the countries. the exceptionalism that american uses and its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if nato disbanded shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in lodge obs companies would lose millions and millions,

war is business and business is good. and that is the reality of what we're facing . which is fashion. with the rational for the mission to make sure that europe in western europe keeps on. funneling supporting nato and keeps on falling arms into, into what is clearly a proxy war against russia and an exclusive interview going on the ground renown to report a seymour hersh breaks down the us, sabotage of the nodes, 3 times lines within the exposed in a bombshell report they've been denied by washington. oh so this out. this is a greater made by the american made. hi marcy, rocky. they landed right in the yard of this that.