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Medical Research Going Out The Door To China. Finally We Are Seeing The Damage The PRC Is Doing To The US
JUNE 16, 2020|JUDICIAL WATCH
U.S. Medical Research Agency Fires Dozens of Scientists with Financial Ties to China
Dozens of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. government’s handsomely funded medical research agency, have been fired over their secret financial ties to Communist China. It is not clear how long they went undetected or how much taxpayer-funded research they stole, but so far 54 scientists have been booted for failing to disclose a troubling financial arrangement with a foreign government. In the overwhelming majority of cases—93%—the cash came from China, according to an ongoing NIH investigation that started two years ago. Also, in most of the probes the targets were Asian men in their 50s. The bulk of the ousted researchers received generous grants from the NIH, a federal agency with a $41.7 billion annual budget.
The probe, launched in the summer of 2018, is being conducted by Dr. Michael S. Lauer, Deputy Director for Extramural Research at the NIH. It mainly focuses on 285 active grants distributed to institutions in 27 states and 59 cities, totaling $164 million. Investigators singled out 399 “scientists of possible concern” and found that 133 (70%) had an “undisclosed grant” from a foreign government and 102 (54%) had an “undisclosed talents award.” More than 150 committed other NIH violations. Nine percent of the researchers concealed ties to a foreign company and 4% had an undisclosed foreign patent. Around three quarters of those investigated had active NIH grants and almost half of the scientists had at least two grants funded by American taxpayers. Every year the NIH invests tens of billions of dollars in medical research by giving around 50,000 grants to more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 universities, medical schools and other institutions throughout the country. Only 10% of the agency’s budget supports projects conducted by scientists in its own lab in Bethesda Maryland.
Less than a year ago, a congressional investigation found that the NIH is among the government agencies that have long permitted Communists working in the U.S. to steal billions in taxpayer-funded scientific research. Others include the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) national laboratories. For years all have been deeply impacted by Chinese infiltrators stealing valuable research, according to a scathing U.S. Senate report that describes the probe’s findings. Investigators determined that billions of dollars in scientific research funded by American taxpayers has been stolen by China right under our noses and the U.S. government has no viable plan to stop the ongoing theft of the highly valued intellectual property. In the meantime, the publicly funded work is helping the Communist nation meet its goal of becoming a world leader in science and technology. “This report exposes how American taxpayer funded research has contributed to China’s global rise over the last 20 years,” the document states. “During that time, China openly recruited U.S.-based researchers, scientists, and experts in the public and private sector to provide China with knowledge and intellectual capital in exchange for monetary gain and other benefits.”
While the Chinese Communists run their illicit operation on our own soil, the federal government’s grant-making and law enforcement agencies do little to stop it, which makes the NIH’s probe long overdue though it only considers a tiny portion of its multi-billion-dollar grants. Besides the FBI practically ignoring the violations, the government research agencies impacted by the costly crimes have failed to develop a coordinated response to mitigate the ongoing threat, Senate investigators found. “These failures continue to undermine the integrity of the American research enterprise and endanger our national security,” Senate investigators determined. China uses hundreds of government-funded talent recruitment plans—specifically mentioned in the new NIH probe—to incentivize individuals engaged in research and development in the U.S, transmit information in exchange for salaries, research funding, lab space and other perks. The Communists then use the American research for their own economic and military gain. An example is Chinese talent recruitment members who downloaded sensitive electronic research files before returning to China, submitted false information when applying for grant funds and willfully failed to disclose receiving money from the Chinese government on U.S. grant applications. One Chinese talent recruitment member removed 30,000 electronic files before heading back home. Another filed a patent based on U.S. government-funded research and hired other Chinese recruitment plan members to work on American national security projects. The NIH has not revealed specifics on the recently fired scientists with ties to China nor have the culprits been identified.
Chinese infiltrators have been stealing valuable research from the U.S. government for decades. In fact, more than 20 years ago Judicial Watch helped expose a Chinese Communist scientist (Wen Ho Lee), who stole nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, among the world’s largest science institutions and the nation’s key nuclear weapons research facility. The Bill Clinton Justice Department refused to prosecute Lee because then Attorney General Janet Reno claimed the accusations against him were racist. Judicial Watch represented the whistleblower, Notra Trulock, responsible for launching an investigation into Lee’s actions. Trulock was the DOE’s intelligence operations chief and Clinton administration officials defamed him by accusing him of being a racist to cover up Lee’s repeated and embarrassing security violations.
Beverly Hill Prohibits Demonstrations! Liberals Strke Again
It seems that while many liberal celebrities are more than happy support disruptive protests and ‘Autonomous zones’ run by anarchists, they aren’t so happy when such things take place in their own neighborhoods.
This certainly seemed to be the case in Beverly Hills, an area in which countless Hollywood celebrities live, earlier this week when it banned any public protests as well as the establishment of ‘autonomous zones.’
As The Daily Wire reports:
Celebrities and other wealthy residents of Beverly Hills, California, and the surrounding area may be happy to contribute millions to “freedom funds” to pay bail for rioters arrested in other major cities, but they’re moving quickly to shut down demonstrations — and the possibility of an “autonomous zone” like the one taking shape in Seattle, Washington — from coming anywhere near.
Using coronavirus as an excuse, the City of Beverly Hills issued a strict order earlier this week banning protests, demonstrations, and curtailing plans for an “autonomous zone” in one of the country’s wealthiest districts.
Celebrities and other wealthy residents of Beverly Hills, California, and the surrounding area may be happy to contribute millions to “freedom funds” to pay bail for rioters arrested in other major cities, but they’re moving quickly to shut down demonstrations — and the possibility of an “autonomous zone” like the one taking shape in Seattle, Washington — from coming anywhere near.
Using coronavirus as an excuse, the City of Beverly Hills issued a strict order earlier this week banning protests, demonstrations, and curtailing plans for an “autonomous zone” in one of the country’s wealthiest districts.
Mayhem Reins Supreme In Areas Near Seattle's Chaz
Owner Of Store Bordering CHAZ Says He Called 911 Numerous Times While Mob Showed Up, Says Police Never Came
According to various reports, an auto-shop
owner whose store just outside the Capitol
Hill Autonomous Zone, known either as
“CHAZ” or “CHOP,” called 911 multiple
times on Sunday night after a protester
allegedly got into the store, stole cash and
lit a counter on fire,
but police and the fire department never
showed up, even though a mob broke
down the fence guarding the store and
demanded that the owner release the
then-subdued suspect.
The owner of Car Tender, John McDermott,
told KIRO 7 News that he received a call
after the suspect shattered a window, then
set fire to the front counter. McDermott
said the suspect poured hand sanitizer on
a cassette tape, yanked the film out,
poured hand sanitizer on that, then lit
everything on fire. He added that he and
his son Mason put out the fire before
Mason pursued the suspect.
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“I chased him down and as soon as I came
face to face, he came at me so I put him
on the ground,” said Mason McDermott,
adding that he pinned the suspect while
his father dialed 911 a total of 19 times.
Mason McDermott said the suspect sliced
McDermott’s jeans with a box-cutter.
“Other protesters soon arrived — and video
on social media shows the mob eventually
knocking over a section of fencing, running
in to confront the owners and angrily demand
the return of the original suspect,”
the New York Post reported.
John McDermott said he was “heartbroken”
when they “finally said that they weren’t
going to send somebody. I mean, they are
the cavalry.” He said he released the suspect
to avoid “mayhem beyond mayhem” while
his son drew a gun for protection.
“I think the mayor and governor need to get their act together — because this is beyond a protest,” Mason asserted, adding, “Nobody showed up when literally our lives are on the line.”
According to The Seattle Times, Police Chief Carmen Best said officers responded — but “observed the location from a distance.”
“They did not see any signs of smoke or fire or anything else and they did not see a disturbance,” said Best. “The officers did not observe, from the report that I read, anything they perceived as a threat to life safety and they did not go in.”
Deedee Sun of KIRO asked the Seattle Police Department why they had not come to the site. In an emailed statement, the department responded: “Seattle Police did respond to the incident last night and documented the incident on a report. The case number is #2020-188030. Due to limited staffing, we are unable to provide you with a redacted copy of the narrative.”
Asked by Sun why the Fire Department did not respond, Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins answered, “We’re still trying to figure that out. We have a little more follow-up to do. We did look at the area and there are no signs of fire inside the building but there was a small fire set. The owners did put the fire out.”
McDermott said no police officer showed up at the scene.
“Multiple others at the scene said they never saw SPD either,” KIRO reports.
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