With the WHO hurtling towards adoption of the ‘Pandemic Treaty’, as well as revisions of its International Health Regulations (IHR) which some knowledgeable observers regard as even more consequential, a leading theory among opponents appears to be that the changes will consolidate the power of the WHO bureaucracy and hence of private interests which allegedly control the latter.
But, prima facie, the theory makes little sense. The WHO is, after all – like, say, the UN or the World Trade Organisation – an international organisation, in which negotiations take place among member states and decisions are made by them. Private sources can contribute as much funding as they like, and this may well give them influence, but it will not give them a seat at the negotiating table or a vote. Without precisely state sponsorship, a project like the Pandemic Treaty and the related revisions of the IHR could not even get off the ground.
And, lo and behold, if we go back far enough – before hardly anyone will have ever even heard the expression ‘pandemic treaty’ – we discover that the treaty did indeed have a state sponsor and that, unsurprisingly, the state in question is the very same state which, if albeit unbeknownst to the broader public, was the driving force behind the WHO’s COVID-19 ‘pandemic response’: namely, Germany.
Thus, referring to then German Minister of Health Jens Spahn, the headline of a May 24th 2021 report from Germany’s dpa wire service reads: ‘Spahn Pushes for International Treaty: How the WHO Wants to Prevent a New Pandemic‘.
But the article is not in fact about how the WHO wants to prevent a future pandemic, but rather about how Germany wants the WHO to prevent a future pandemic. Thus, the accompanying blurb reads: “How can a catastrophe like the Corona pandemic be prevented in the future? With a UN treaty, Germany and other countries believe. At the WHO meeting, they want to break the resistance of other countries.”
The article goes on to narrate how Germany and its allies wanted to use the WHO’s annual assembly, which was being held remotely that year and which began on that very day, in order to “fire off the starting pistol for an international pandemic treaty”.
And so it would come to pass. By the end of the yearly event, a few days later, then German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a somewhat rag-tag band of two dozen other world leaders would publish a joint statement calling for the conclusion of a pandemic treaty. The signatories included many frankly minor figures like the Prime Ministers of Fiji and of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as heads of international organisations – like none other than WHO Director-General Tedros – but also somewhat weightier figures like then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron.
“States have to commit to cooperating and to the implementation of jointly established rules,” Spahn told the dpa. “So as not to remain at the level of pious wishes,” the article continues.
A legally binding treaty is planned: whoever takes part has to abide by it. A form of compulsion is supposed to come into being: practically only rogue states could then afford not to cooperate and they would have to count on international condemnation.
Speaking of private versus state interests, by this time, in mid-2021, Germany had shot past the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to become the WHO’s largest funder, nearly quadrupling its contribution overnight in a funding effort which the dpa report explicitly links to its desire to lead the world in pandemic prevention and response. Germany’s contribution thus reached nearly $1.15 billion for the 2020-21 funding period (as can be seen here).
All of the additional funding was, of course, voluntary (Germany’s assessed contribution as member state represented a mere 5% of the total), and nearly all of it was earmarked precisely for the WHO’s COVID-19 response budget. As in previous years, the bulk of Gates Foundation funding, by contrast, continued to be devoted to polio eradication. (See flowchart here.)
Thus, more to the point, if Germany’s total contribution to the WHO budget easily surpassed that of the Gates Foundation, its specific contribution to the COVID-19 response budget dwarfed that of the Gates Foundation. The below graphs generated from the WHO database clearly illustrate this fact for 2020, with Germany’s $425 million contribution leading the pack by a wide margin and the Gates Foundation’s mere $15 million trailing even the likes of Yemen!
In 2021, Germany would continue to lead the pack, with the European Commission, under former German Minister of Defence Ursula von der Leyen, now upping its game and finishing (a distant) second. The combined pledges of Germany ($406 million) and the Commission ($160 million) would represent around half of the WHO’s total COVID-19 response budget. The Gates Foundation contribution would fall to just $10 million. (See the WHO database here, selecting ‘SPRP 2021’, and for further discussion, my earlier article here.)
Moreover, Germany was not only massively funding the WHO’s COVID-19 response. It was also uniquely well-positioned within the organisation to influence the development of the Pandemic Treaty and the revisions of the International Health Regulations.
Thus, the dpa report notes that “a WHO expert commission led by Lothar Wieler, the Head of the Robert Koch Institute,” had recommended the quick dispatch of “crisis teams” to the area of a “pandemic outbreak”. This procedure is supposed to be “anchored in the treaty”, i.e., to be mandatory whether a country wants to receive such ‘crisis teams’ or not.
A commission led by Lothar Wieler, the Head of the Robert Koch Institute? The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is none other than the German public heath authority. Wieler’s leading such a commission is as if Rochelle Walensky would lead a WHO expert commission while still heading the CDC or, say, Anthony Fauci would lead a WHO expert commission while still heading NIAID.
Wieler, who has since stepped down from his position as head of the RKI, chaired the WHO’s ‘Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 Response’, which undoubtedly played a key role in developing the proposed revisions of the IHR. This is perhaps the commission to which the dpa report is referring.
Wieler is also a long-time champion of the so-called ‘One Health’ approach, focusing on ‘zoonotic’ or animal origins of human diseases, which is at the very heart of the proposed Pandemic Treaty. (See the ‘zero draft’ here and the Wieler-edited volume here.) Wieler is a veterinarian, incidentally.
As further evidence of Germany’s commitment to ‘pandemic prevention’, the dpa report also points to a German Government grant of €30 million ($33m, £26m) to the WHO to create a “pandemic early warning centre” in Berlin. The €30 million would soon become $100 million (€90m, £77m) and the ‘early warning system’ would become the Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, which was inaugurated in Berlin – just three months later! – on September 1st 2021, by Chancellor Merkel and WHO Director-General Tedros.
Although the hub is commonly described as a WHO centre, it is in fact run as a full-fledged partnership between the WHO and none other than the German public health authority, the RKI. On that same September 1st 2021, Wieler and Tedros marked the creation of the partnership with a celebratory elbow-bump, as can be seen in the above picture taken from the RKI tweet here.
1/3 One year ago today, @DrTedros @WHO came to #RKI to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with @mikrowie. We are founding partner of the #WHOPandemicHub #Berlin. @BMG_Bund supports to strengthen global pandemic readiness.
— Robert Koch-Institut (@rki_de) September 1, 2022https://t.co/72IGJTatf5
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Quiz questions:
1) Which firm made the most money from the “covid vaccines”?
2) In what country is that firm based?
Two more questions:
1) Where’s the company located which invested huge amounts of money into a German competitor of another company from the same country?
2) Where’s the mRNA-wunderkind company located which had attracted huge amounts of money since 2011 (roughly) despite never coming close to developing a product which could clear regulatory safety hurdles and thus, could actually be sold, which was rescued by a miracle when medical safety regulations were all but abolished by the regulatory authority of them same country?
For practical purposes, the FRG is something similar to Puero Rico: A US-dependent territory whose inhabitants don’t have any of the right the US constitution grants to proper Usans.
I expect if I summarised your views to my German friends and relatives they would think I was barking mad. Sadly I expect your assessment is a lot more accurate than theirs.
My general views were probably much similar to theirs until 2011, when exposure to the alternate reality ended (for now). When I encountered the British Legion for the first time, I was genuinely shocked as I had assumed that it was world consensus that All Good People Are Pacifists[tm]. I’ve learned a little since then and the outburst of Corona madness, when a lot of things we were supposed to have long since overcome demonstrated that they’re very much alive and kicking cleared the remaining debris away (like considering the Guarian an information source, just with a couple of weird columnists). Approaching 51 (October), ie, with more of my life behind than in front of me, and single out of conviction, I probably won’t gain much from this overly late change of a worldview, but it’s still better to see than to walk around with blinders one believes to be an integral part of the world as such because they’ve always been there.
Yup, similar with me.
And don’t forget Angela Merkel’s September 2019 Visit to Wuhan
Maybe coincidence, WHO knows
Let me get this straight: A German vet’ writes the script for this S#it-show, Ghebreyesus, the Ethiopian Health Official produces it in which von der Leyen and the EU have starring roles. The Gates foundation is responsible for ticketing. The Prime Ministers of Fiji and Trinidad and Tobago are ‘up for it’. This I gotta see! (I have no choice of course, attendance is compulsory).
If the German administration (calling this a government is wrong as Germany isn’t a souvereign state) spends a lot of money on it, then, because that’s easier to accomplish for its US puppet masters than spending American money on it.
You’re right RW.. Germany is not a sovereign state, and we are now in the third and final phase of the complete destruction of Germany.
Both WW1 and WW2 were orchestrated to do exactly that.. “Germany must be destroyed”.. and a country that gained the name ‘Perfidious Albion’ was the entity behind the planning, just like it is today. The US is just the muscle being used by its master..
Oh -3 already.. George is obviously over the target..
Blimey.. they’re even red marking my little jokes now. I’ll take that as an honour and recognition of my continuing good work..
haha
How many of the politicians who published the statement calling for the conclusion of a pandemic treaty have links to the WEF? There’s Macron, Zelensky and Rutte.
Merkel has left the stench of the Stasi lingering over the whole continent of Europe. We really need to start withdrawing from many of these supranational organisations. Everything bad in this world begins with giant organisations that supersede elected governments. The bigger they get and the more centralised they get, the less voice the individual human being has. John Major touted EU subsidiarity in the 1990s and we saw how well that went! Not surprising this is a German backed scheme: one of the most bellicose races to walk the Earth and the largest ethnic group in the USA… Much of Europe’s history of war is about German states bickering with Russia. Now we have the EU as Germany’s avatar at war with Russia via Nato.
WW2 saw USA based Grandsons of Germans actually flying in the Bombers over Germany & Bombing their own Grand Parents !
Scratch the surface of Germany, and you will see the word NAZI writ large.
Disagree.. replace that with Bolshevik and you’ll be nearer the truth. Stop relying on established history, its lazy, and doesn’t bear any resemblance to critical thinking. You’re just repeating established lies.
Earlier news about this were about the Biden administration being strongly in favour of the treaty despite it being unclear if it’s compatible with the US constitution.
A little off topic.. but produced in Germany none the less.. Ursula Von der Leyen’s EU Commission Just Received “World Prize For Peace And Freedom”
It reminds me of Blair being made a Peace Envoy after destroying Iraq.. you can’t make it up.. can you ???
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/no-joke-ursula-von-der-leyens-eu-commission-just-received-world-prize-peace-and
Incidentally, I remember a former WHO offical/whistleblower saying that Gates had lobbied to become a Member State, I kid you not.
So the Fourth Reich is imminent. I always believed we were too soft on the Nazis and now this abdication of retribution is coming back to bite us.
Talk about failing to learn the lessons of history.
I beg to differ Hux.. I do agree with so many of your arguments, but what you’re seeing play out now are the same lies that accompanied both world wars.
The Forth Reich is only imminent because we’re repeatedly told it is. The word Nazi is thrown around like confetti everywhere, and when something like that happens you know there’s an agenda. A look here, don’t look there tactic. Tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth.
As I said above, and I’m pretty sure I’m 100% right.. the real enemy we are facing now are Bolsheviks/Communists.. through the poison of cultural Marxism. not Nazis. The derogation of the word Nazi was world war propaganda.. just like babies on bayonets of the Hun was.
Both the UK and the US have supported Bolshevism in the past, Trotsky, Lenin, Marx, Stalin, and that’s actually is in established recorded history. Capitalists like the Rockefeller’s and Rottenchild’s have a desired outcome for us, their preferred method of control..communism. Its certainly not National Socialism, no matter what the history books say. People, once again are being mislead, and until they realise who their real enemies were and are we’ll never get out of the sh1t show.
Germany did not win WW2, it was utterly decimated, with up to 10 million Germans murdered after the war had ended. Watch the film Hellstorm, link below, it will at least give you some idea of what really went on. There’s massive amounts of information coming online now.. the truth is finally starting to get out at long last..
That original link has been hijacked, I’ll see if I can find another. You’ll need a VPN to watch this in UK. Hopefully this link will be ok.
https://archive.org/details/HellStorm_201505
Thanks George.
Your knowledge of revisionist history is much more advanced than mine so at this point I defer. The reality is that both communism and national socialism are similarly brutal and freedom depriving forms of totalitarian government. Essentially the masses become slaves to a self appointed elite so in fact the net result for Joe Bloggs is the same whichever form of control is being exercised.
You’re more than welcome Hux.. as for revisionist history, I prefer to call it hidden history, because that’s what it is. Censured and hidden from everyday people.
If you’re up for doing a bit of reading, and starting with WW1.. which is definitely the place to start because the scheming and lies were really stepped up then.. try to pick yourself up a copy of Hidden History. It gives an amazing insight into the despicable behaviour involved in starting that war.
There’s a brand new copy going on ebay uk right now for £17.42.. a bargain. Link below..
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374664955490?epid=152498201&hash=item573bc58662:g:lmIAAOSwye1kTPwo&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4LbO3xCUKnBm01rekJpU5zaXgb51FwrZXozvSGeZzP7K%2FnKm6PYk5ECmKpG31U7EADEAT3%2FmhQcNoqDAL%2FdqwXKTnvpz%2Bgk3J%2BtWzsUvprU10Wqy7hqgAtBIdrn1KjL3%2BukyKR4uGdaRVyK4ohDWKPq3L1Mvl5lY2la2LEeVsjS5TrJw3%2FMu7TFkd5o14Jy%2B0dv%2F6iI71GBu9zmVsRycwd74p9d32TFFWCwOIP%2F1m4g2aJkKostgEGkScCZTncmY5irPuHP1HvQK5COLSCJ8mieedZQ9S3LM89ROEGdtWd6d%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8r_ypSzYg
Here you go.. the front cover..
Just looked and there’s a copy for £15.46 at the bottom of that page.. even better
Why not just call the aim ‘stakeholder capitalism’ – that deceptively harmless epithet used by the WEF, just like the rest of its deceptively harmless pronouncements?
This bunch of muppets exists solely (or too a large to degree) to enable the channeling of German money into international projects someone[*] believes to be beneficial (eg, arming Ukraine) and they’re all ardent antifascists spending an enormous amount of money and effort on spying on ordinary Germans to find and eliminate everything which can somehow be called far right, be it circles of pensioners discussing politics[**], groups opposing Corona measures (Querdenker) or political parties in favour of pre-Merkel CDU policies like actually ever deporting asylum seekers who lost their cases in court (AfD).
[*] Hint: The current someone’s name starts with B and he has also a den.
[**] Funny part of the recently (this year) uncovered Reichsbürger terrorist group (as it was called in the press): One of the pensioners had a gun license because he was member of a shooting association. As he was thus considered an extremely dangerous armed terrorist, German police special forces were planning to blow up his door without warning in the early hours of morning. As per their usual compentence, they ended up blowing up the door of a family of Syrian refugees instead who are now receiving counselling at the expense of the state to help them with dealing with the resulting trauma. The extremely dangerous armed terrorist was arrested with furter difficulties afterwards.
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without further difficulties.
Germans are ageing, fearful hypochondriacs, hell-bent on doing the right thing and, above all, make others do the right, aka German, thing: Am Deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen.
They are also willing and on the way to commit economic suicide, but harbour the illusion that they can replace their to be killed-off industries, in particular the automotive one, with other, politically correct ones in time.
Hence a huge push into and support if anything healthcare and biotech, with BioNTech alone already being responsible for a full percentage point of GDP. As such, the political leadership here is logical.
Germany’s responsible for wrecking the global economy twice in the 20th century; I’m not at all surprised they’re having another go in the 21st. Leopards can’t change their spots.
Sorry.. you are so wrong RTSC.. your post is straight out of a Imperial schoolboys encyclopedia I’m afraid..
Its this sort of ignorance and throw away remarks that damn the world to the continuance of the evil we’re witnessing now.
Wake up, do some real research to who was really responsible for both world wars instead of trotting out the tired old lies. Surprise yourself..
Given the increasing evidence that this pandemic was exaggerated by the accidental release of a virus created by gain of function manipulation, the simplest way of preventing a recurrence is to ban such research.
What is it about the psyche of Germany that wants to rule the world? Haven’t they learnt anything from their two previous failures?
See my answer to RTSC.. research.. open your mind.. you’ve been lied to all your life as to who was responsible for WW1 and WW2.. we all have. Continuing with that mindset dams us all to any sort of hope for the future
It seems German politicians can’t resist their attempt to control the world, if not by war, by other means as attempted here. It’s vitally important that we and our government in the UK have nothing to do with the WHO and its attempt to control us over the heads of our elected politicians, who we hope have learnt from the Covid debacle
Remember, always follow the money. The current budget of the WHO is 3.4 billion from voluntary sources. The new agreement will make the b7dger 32 billion from members fixed. Think of the trouble this unaccountable elite organization could cause with those kind of funds. Next will be they will have their own m9bile storm troopers to enforce their man-made pandemics.