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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The photo and Princess Anne’s comments are a small insight into the inhumane treatment of human beings by the psychopaths who run Western governments, civil service, and particularly Big Pharma.
My heart aches for the multitudes whose lives, and deaths, were impacted by the unnecessary rules, mandates and restrictions.
At the time obviously these images were seen as good publicity for the warmongers:
‘Look everybody, even the Queen has to antisocial distance at her husband’s funeral.’
Now they can be seen as a stark reminder of the depravities foisted on the population.
Not exactly in their favour any more.
Are you watching Bozo?
I wonder if she did it deliberately… to make a point she couldn’t make openly?
Nah.. don’t you remember.. she was pushing the jab and associated guilt if you didn’t get it..
I’d like to ‘read in full’ but it won’t open for me: it says “about: blocked” and has a red dot.
The first link (first paragraph) works. Second link is apparently an error.
‘Asked if this was a “thievery”, she said: ‘Yes, you’re quite right. In some ways I’m glad we didn’t see that, at that moment. When you see the photograph it’s much worse somehow.’
So very well said.
That image isn’t going away; says it all about the venal, mendacious, incompetent bovine idiocy of Bunter, the well named Hancock, the Gumby Brothers, Prof. Pantsdown and that whole unsavoury crew, backed by the bunch of hand wringing cowardly no hopers running the obsolete, bloated, out of touch and hopelessly inefficient national health service of this country.
It is also a thunderous indictment of the spineless subservience of so many of the British people.
Yes.. and all for an alleged killer virus with a 99.7% survival rate.. a HOAX.. and they knew it from day one.. and probably well before that. Liars – charlatans the lot of them..
Well yes, and the spineless subservience of the majority of citizens of rich world countries, and the unsavoury people running all of their governments, in lockstep – and this applies to countries with relatively efficient health services.
” If you ever wondered how and why millions of ordinary decent people just stood and watched as Germany descended into Fascism – you do now”.
And the sheep think we’re better than the Germans.
LOL.
Annie is a top bird.
Steady on, she’s still a bloody Windsor.
Jeez Hux.. that made me laugh..
Thank you.
Mountbatten-Windsor….but, technically, historically, would have been Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg-Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
She is and personally I wish next week it was going to be Queen Anne…
I like Anne. I’ve always liked her, despite her being a ‘royal’. She’s always come across as a straight talking, no nonsense person. Far better than her brothers, IMO.
For the record, I won’t be sat at home – or anywhere – swearing allegiance to her brother during the coronation. Nope, definitely not.
Any chance we can do a swap and get her on the Throne in Saturday instead of that spoilt, dull-brained nitwit?
She could perhaps ‘identify’ as being the king. Seems to work for everyone else who
pretendswants to be what they clearly are not!COVID didn’t steal anything from anyone. The mindless cruelty of the compassionate and kind[*] pandemic politicians, experts and profiteers did that.
[*] We’re soo sorry that we have to hurt you! But it doesn’t hurt much, don’t you agree, and it’s for the benefit of others! Take this times the number of people who got hurt and it’ll turn out that – strangely – no others would could have benefitted are left. COVID propaganda always adressed individuals – Look him in the eyes and tell him …! – who were asked to make small sacrifices, so it was claimed, It’s just as mask!, for the benefit of some silent majority. That’s a clever trick because in reality every member of the population was indivdiually sacrificed and thus, no one benefitted.
Exactly..
This whole point of the now iconic, artfully composed image of the former Queen sitting frail and all alone in St George’s Chapel for her beloved husband’s funeral was to underline both the necessity of coronavirus restrictive measures (in this case social distancing and mask wearing) and the royal family’s self-sacrificial acceptance of them.
Just as Princess Anne’s comments in fact comprise complete support for the tyrannical Covid measures rather than any sort of anti-lockdown dissent:
“Covid stole from my father, who lost a lot of the people who would have gone to see him and come and talk to him and have those conversations that would have kept him interested. He lost all of that,” she said”
‘Covid stole’ rather than ‘fraudulent and oppressive lockdown measures stole’.
Looking at big picture stuff the historically unprecedented attempt to introduce a medieval / North Korean element to the imminent coronation in the form of a mass public oath of allegiance to ‘King Charles III’ (who has already made use of the coronavirus ’emergency’ to support the worldwide launch of a communistic ‘Great Reset’, one which also revolves around the inherently totalitarian and mass impoverishing ‘Net Zero’ agenda) is deeply sinister, indeed there are the genuine makings of an anti-democratic monarchist coup.
Having said that it is important to remember that both ‘Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change’ Green delusions and interconnected ultra-health obsessions (eg that a flu like illness requires shutting down entire societies) are very widely held.
In other words (as always) these are an ideological and practical rather than personalised issue.
Great post.. you said it far better than I could..
I shall always think of her as a very worthy Queen Anne II (unfortunately lost by us, because her brother was born first).
It was not only Queen Elizabeth who was forced to sit alone when attending her husband’s funeral service. Many, many other families were forced to follow the lies and nonsense made up by governments. Who made up these cruel rules. Whoever did should be serving time in prison for lying to the public. Shame on the government and its advisors who made things up as they went along during the covid debacle. The data was available regarding risk, had been since the beginning of the plandemic. Dr. John Ioannidis made it available for every single person on earth. The question is why did governments around the world choose to ignore his data
And these are the same class of elites pushing the net Zero insanity and the great reset, ESD, open borders and all the other dreamed up programs all funded by your tax dollars.
The royal family failed in their duty to stand up for us and they should have set an example by ignoring the dictatorial government.