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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.

Red China's California Bioweapons Base

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Written by George Rasley, Conservative HQ Editor

Categories: ASCF News

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Why would a bio-lab run by a shady Chinese company be operating in Reedley, California, in the central San Joaquin Valley?
This was a lucky find, observed our friends at Zero Hedge, and frankly, when the story first broke in the California Globe, we were skeptical until our friend, former Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Devin Nunes, posted about it on the Truth social media app.

And then we started digging deeper.

The lab was discovered by Reedley, CA, city code enforcement officers when they saw a garden hose attached to the building and investigated because it was supposed to be an empty building used only for storage.
When public Health staff entered the building, they observed blood, tissue, and other bodily fluid samples and serums, and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material.
Additionally, they found 900 genetically engineered mice, engineered to catch, and carry COVID-19.
According to multiple media reports, 773 of the mice had to be euthanized, and officials found another 178 mice already dead.
“This is an unusual situation. I’ve been in government for 25 years. I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba.

Even county health officials were left in shock.

“I’ve never seen this in my 26-year career with the County of Fresno,” said Assistant Director of the Fresno County Department of Public Health Joe Prado.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested the substances. They detected at least 20 potentially infectious agents, including coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis, and herpes, according to a Health and Human Services letter dated June 6.

Citing court documents, KTLA reported that there were "20 potentially infectious viral, bacterial, and parasitic agents were present, including E. Coli, malaria, and even COVID."

Agents also found thousands of package boxes - many with shipping labels from China.

The warehouse was allegedly rented by "Prestige Biotech."

NBC News reported Xiuquin Yao, the president of Prestige Biotech, "told officials that Prestige BioTech moved assets belonging to a defunct company, Universal Meditech Inc., to the Reedley warehouse from Fresno after UMI went under. Prestige Biotech was a creditor to UMI and identified as its successor, according to court documents."

Except officials reportedly could not find any California-based address for Prestige BioTech or Universal Meditech.

The Epoch Times reported, "Court documents say both companies failed to provide any licensing that allows laboratory activity, nor did they provide the necessary permits for storing and importing chemical reagents from outside the United States."

"The other addresses provided for identified authorized agents were either empty offices or addresses in China that could not be verified," court documents declared, according to NBC News.

So, why would a bunch of Communist Chinese nationals be involved in off-the-books biotech companies operating an illegal infectious disease lab and storage facility in the middle of NoWheresVille, California?

Our friend and former CIA operator Charles “Sam” Faddis supplied the answer in a Sunday, July 30, 2023, post to his must-read And Magazine Substack:

The implications of this discovery are terrifying. As noted by retired Navy Captain James Fanell, former head of intelligence for the Navy’s Pacific Fleet, Reedley is only 40-45 miles from Master Jet Base Lemoore, the home of all the U.S. Navy's West coast based FA-18/Hornets. All of the F-18s for all of the Navy’s West Coast-based carriers are located at Lemoore. The F-18s are the primary strike fighters for the U.S. Navy. In a war with China, these are the aircraft that we would rely upon to sink Chinese naval vessels and give us victory.

Now imagine that a contagious and rehabilitating virus is released in proximity to Lemoore and disseminated via mice specifically engineered to carry the virus and spread it to humans. Such an attack would quickly and effectively take offline the U.S. Navy’s entire carrier-based strike capability in the Pacific. We would find ourselves paralyzed and helpless to respond, say to a Chinese move against Taiwan.

Do you know what’s even better than releasing a dangerous and highly contagious virus in a city in China and then relying upon the natural spread of the virus from human to human to carry the disease into the heart of the United States?

Releasing a dangerous and highly contagious virus on American soil in proximity to critical American military facilities, answered Mr. Faddis.

And it gets even better.

You know all those young, fit, military-age Communist Chinese men we’ve told you about who have been illegally crossing the southern border Joe Biden has left wide open? Many of them are headed to California, according to “humanitarian aid volunteers” in Brownsville, Texas.

The Reedley, California illicit bio-lab is just one node in a potential network of Fifth Column operations being put in place by the Communist Chinese military in their oft-expressed expectation that they will soon be at war with the United States.

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