Feds are Still Sending ‘mad scientist’ Millions to China — and Keeping It From Congress; Musk's Ban On Remote Work At X Beats Disability Bias Claim For Now, and other C-Virus related stories

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Feds are still sending ‘mad scientist’ millions to China — and keeping it from Congress:

Washington should have learned an important lesson after COVID-19: Stop sending our tax dollars to China for risky, secretive research.

Yet, the feds keep funneling untold millions to China and other adversarial countries, hiding the details about the suspicious projects being funded, and admitting they cannot offer a full accounting of the cash.

For example, according to a recent report from the Department of Defense Inspector General, the Pentagon potentially paid up to $6.5 million to a Chinese biotech company for perilous research on deadly diseases.

That’s despite concerns the pharmaceutical firm may be assisting with the genocide of ethnic minorities in China, and that its work could pose a threat to our own national security.

And all we know about the project is that it involves lethal pathogens, including Ebola and COVID-19.

This particular firm, WuXi App Tec, has an even broader relationship with Washington.

According to data gathered by OpenTheBooks.com, it has collected another $1 million from the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health — and because of the government’s inconsistent reporting requirements, we can’t know for sure whether even more cash is flowing to the firm from other federal agencies.

How many companies like WuXi are there, which agencies are paying them, and at what costs and risks to Americans?

At DoD alone, the inspector general’s report admits, at least two more Chinese companies have been paid millions of American taxpayer dollars for pathogenic research.

The Government Accountability Office found Chinese institutions directly received at least $29 million between 2015 and 2021 from DoD, NIH and a handful of other agencies, as well as additional federal funding funneled through intermediaries.

However, “the full extent is unknown” because — unbelievably — the expenditures aren’t being tracked.

WuXi‘s association with China’s People’s Liberation Army and its connection to the Chinese Communist Party has spurred a bipartisan push in Congress to have the company banned from doing business with the US government and prohibited from receiving taxpayer funds.

But incredibly, as one branch of government works on a ban, another is doing business as usual. --->READ MORE HERE

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Musk's ban on remote work at X beats disability bias claim for now:

A federal judge in California on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing social media platform X of forcing out workers with disabilities after Elon Musk took over the company and barred employees from working remotely.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in San Francisco said the plaintiff in the 2022 proposed class action, Dmitry Borodaenko, failed to show how Musk's mandate to return to the office specifically impacted employees with disabilities. The judge gave him four weeks to file an amended lawsuit including more detailed claims.

Borodaenko, a former engineering manager and cancer survivor, claims he was fired shortly after Musk acquired X, then called Twitter, for refusing to report to the office during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit claims X violated a federal law requiring employers to accommodate workers' disabilities.

Musk said in a memo to the company's staff in November 2022 that employees should be prepared to work "long hours at high intensity" or quit, and later tweeted that it was "morally wrong" to work from home.

Martinez-Olguin on Wednesday said the ban on remote work did not amount to disability discrimination.

"Borodaenko’s theory improperly relies on the assumption that all employees with disabilities necessarily required remote work as a reasonable accommodation," Martinez-Olguin wrote. --->READ MORE HERE

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