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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

China & Dr. Fauci - Why? - By Laurence F. Sanford

Monday, October 24, 2022

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By Laurence F. Sanford, ASCF Senior Analyst

October 24, 2022

Why did Dr. Anthony Fauci support the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) deception that the Wuhan virus originated in a “wet” market and not the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)? Once the virus started to spread in Wuhan, the CCP banned all domestic air travel yet allowed international flights to and from Wuhan. These international flights helped to speed up the spread of the virus worldwide, causing millions of deaths and ruining the world economy.

American taxpayer funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), where Dr. Fauci has been the director for 38 years, partially financed WIV gain-of-function virus experiments. The CCP’s Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) also was conducting gain-of-function research in the lab.

Why did Dr. Fauci follow CCP’s doublespeak of naming the Wuhan virus Covid-19? Previous worldwide pandemics were named after the country in which the virus originated. The CCP’s motive was to deflect world opinion from blaming China since to blame China would be “racist.” (My computer edit software recommended I change the term Wuhan virus to Covid-19, as using the word “Wuhan” can encourage prejudice and misinformation.)

Why did Dr. Fauci follow the totalitarian Chinese model of lockdowns? In April 2020, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Deborah Brix persuaded President Trump to lockdown the economy, knowing full well that lockdowns did not work during pandemics and would result in massive destruction in jobs, lives, children’s education and development, and commerce. Moreover, numerous pandemic studies over the years had recommended against lockdowns.

The country of Sweden did not have a lockdown, and life continued. Florida quickly removed lockdowns and recovered better than states who continued with lockdowns. Yet, under the guise of “emergency,” Federal and state authorities imposed draconian and totalitarian restraints on Americans which were never seen before - even in World Wars.

Why did Dr. Fauci recently authorize $3.3 million in grant monies to EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) for pandemic prevention after the National Institute of Health (NIH) terminated a grant to EHA for failure to hand over WIV laboratory records for review?

EcoHealth Alliance is a New York City-based NGO whose mission is to conduct research preventing pandemics. It has received millions of NIH/NIAID dollars over the past two decades. Led by British biologist Peter Daszak, he composed a letter saying the Wuhan lab leak theory was misinformation. Social media companies censored anyone who supported the lab leak theory. Instead, Daszak and Fauci support the hypothesis that the virus jumped directly from animals to humans.

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst said, “It is absolutely batty that the NIH would give another cent of taxpayer money to EcoHealth when the group failed to respond to repeated NIH requests about their research, and conducted the same dangerous experiments which may have been responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic to begin with.”

NIH has a federal budget of over $45 billion and is the parent organization for 27 medical research institutes, including NIAID. Dr. Fauci has led NIAID, which has a budget of over $6 billion, since 1984.

Why would the NIH allow one man (Fauci) to run an organization (NIAID) for 38 years?
Basic management principles would suggest that 38 years is probably 30 years too long for the reign of one person. “Hubris” and “deep state” are words that come to mind, and may explain why Fauci claimed, “I represent science.”

Why does NIAID, under Dr. Fauci’s leadership, continue to send American taxpayer monies, usually through cut-out NGOs like EHA, for research in China? Why not fund research institutes in the United States instead of worldwide? Countries receiving NIH monies for bat research include China, Singapore, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos.

Why did Dr. Fauci, in March 2020, advise healthy Americans against wearing masks? In April 2020, the CDC (Center for Disease Control) recommended wearing masks. Yet in May 2020, Dr. Fauci and the New England Journal of Medicine admitted that masks are little more than symbols (virtue signaling). In January 2021, Fauci told healthy Americans to wear two masks. One week later, he backtracked on the recommendation.

Why did Dr. Fauci and his wife Christine Grady’s net worth grow by $5 million during the Wuhan Virus pandemic? It soared from $7.5 million in 2019 to $12.6 million by the end of 2021. Fauci is the highest-paid federal employee at $456,028/year, and his first-year golden parachute retirement will be the largest in history. In addition, he collects royalties from drug companies for NIAID patents and receives cash prizes from non-profits around the world. Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit for the disclosure of financial records of NIH and Fauci for receiving $350 million in secretive “royalty” payments from drug companies and other third parties.

Why did Dr. Fauci and the CDC ban hydroxychloroquine when some studies demonstrated it was effective against the Wuhan Virus? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explains, in his New York Times best-seller “The Real Anthony Fauci,” how Fauci, in partnership with Bill Gates and Big Pharma, has led a global war on democracy and public health.

Dr. Fauci retires at the end of 2022. Americans should reflect on how this man attained his power and influence and take steps to ensure this leadership longevity does not happen again. An easy fix would be passing a law for term limits of leaders of government agencies, similar to what was done regarding the President of the United States. In addition, term limits should also be implemented for members of Congress.

We have met the enemy, and he/she is us.

VOTE in November.

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