Posted on 04/21/2020 9:16:06 AM PDT by Steve1999
President Donald Trump dropped the hammer on the previous administration after revealing on live TV that the White House is investigating reports the Obama admin sent millions of dollars to the Wuhan lab suspected of being linked to the origins of COVID-19.Details have recently emerged that Barack Obama's National Institutes of Health (NIH) sent a $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015.
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...the Obama admin sent millions of dollars to the Wuhan lab suspected of being linked to the origins of COVID-19.
From this point on, there can be nothing that takes priority over shutting down the Chinese exotic-animal trade and wet markets. Nothing.
“Fauci approved the $3.7 million for the Wuhan lab.”
That’s been out there for a few weeks. It may have been Chanel Rion from OAN that originally dug up the info, but it was ignored by MSM.
Could be that Fauci is protecting his viral “child” — like a theme from a SciFi movie.
WIKI EXCERPT——The NIH Office of the Director is the central office responsible for setting policy for NIH, and for planning, managing and coordinating the programs and activities of all NIH components. The NIH Director plays an active role in shaping the agency’s activities and outlook.
The Director is responsible for providing leadership to the Institutes and Centers by identifying needs and opportunities, especially in efforts involving multiple Institutes.
Within this Office is the Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives with 12 divisions including:
Office of AIDS Research
Office of Research on Women’s Health
Office of Disease Prevention
Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office
Tribal Heath Research Office
Office of Program Evaluation and Performance
Funding for the NIH has often been a source of contention in Congress, serving as a proxy for the political currents of the time. During the 1980s, President Reagan repeatedly tried to cut funding for research, only to see Congress partly restore funding. The political contention over NIH funding slowed the nation’s response to the AIDS epidemic; while AIDS was reported in newspaper articles from 1981, no funding was provided for research on the disease. In 1984 National Cancer Institute scientists found implications that “variants of a human cancer virus called HTLV-III are the primary cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),” a new epidemic that gripped the nation.[43]
In 1992, the NIH encompassed nearly 1 percent of the federal government’s operating budget and controlled more than 50 percent of all funding for health research and 85 percent of all funding for health studies in universities. From 1993 to 2001 the NIH budget doubled. Since then, funding essentially remained flat, and during the decade following the financial crisis, the NIH budget struggled to keep up with inflation.
In 1999 Congress increased the NIH’s budget by $2.3 billion[42] to $17.2 billion in 2000.[45] In 2009 Congress again increased the NIH budget to $31 billion in 2010.[45] In 2017 and 2018, Congress passed laws with bipartisan support that substantially increasing appropriations for NIH,
Funding criteria-—NIH employs five broad decision criteria in its funding policy.
<><> First, ensure the highest quality of scientific research by employing an arduous peer review process.
<><>Second, seize opportunities that have the greatest potential to yield new knowledge and that will lead to better prevention and treatment of disease.
<><>Third, maintain a diverse research portfolio in order to capitalize on major discoveries in a variety of fields such as cell biology, genetics, physics, engineering, and computer science.
<><>Fourth, address public health needs according to the disease burden (e.g., prevalence and mortality).
<><> And fifth, construct and support the scientific infrastructure (e.g., well-equipped laboratories and safe research facilities) necessary to conduct research.
Advisory committee members advise the Institute on policy and procedures affecting the external research programs and provide a second level of review for all grant and cooperative agreement applications considered by the Institute for funding.[52]
NIH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE——Gender and sex bias
In 2014, it was announced that the NIH is directing scientists to perform their experiments with both female and male animals, or cells derived from females as well as males if they are studying cell cultures, and that the NIH would take the balance of each study design into consideration when awarding grants. The announcement also stated that this rule would probably not apply when studying sex-specific diseases (for example, ovarian or testicular cancer).
Seems like we are living a sci-fi movie.
“Seems like we are living a sci-fi movie.”
Ain’t that the truth! An invisible monster dictating to the government to imprison the good citizens. Very creepy.
Hamma time, bozo
Obama hosts WH dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Moochelle looks stupid in her long-hair---like she forgot to finish her hairdo.
VIDEO
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/sep/04/barack-obama-forced-to-exit-from-ass-of-air-force-one-video
Obama in China disembarks from Air Force One through a little-used exit in the plane’s belly after no rolling staircase was provided when he landed in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou for the G20. The incident is being interpreted as a calculated snub from Beijing.
“Tom Fitton
@TomFitton
BREAKING: Obama did it. Today’s Senate “report” reconfirms Obama rushed out hit job on @RealDonaldTrump on Russia as one of his last major official acts. Abused entire intelligence system to try to destroy his successor. And his allies continue the sedition to this day.”
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