Relax for a few minutes, sit back and pretend morals and business ethics are redundant. Then imagine an infallible, risk-free business scheme in which you get to create the market, decide the product, manage its regulation, then have the power to confine people to their homes or remove their income until they submit to buying it. And no one can sue you or take you to court if it all goes wrong.
No legitimate government would allow that within its borders (except perhaps a few family-run or completely totalitarian ones), so aim higher and make this international, as it then ceases to be fantasy. All this is being negotiated within the WHO pandemic documents to be agreed by your Government in two months’ time.
So, imagine:
- Your organisation will be a public-private partnership, so using taxpayer money but guided by the private sector.
- You spin a story that a series of plagues are about to engulf humanity, exponentially increasing in frequency and severity (your partners control large swathes of the media, so don’t be troubled by reality).
- Then use public money to set up a surveillance network guaranteed to find virus variants (i.e., go and find nature, you can’t miss it).
- Governments have agreed ahead of time to give you power to control healthcare policy when you decide these variants pose a threat (not harm, just a threat). They have agreed that this includes border closures, restrictions on daily life of their citizens and of course mandated vaccination (in return for them ‘getting freedom back’).
- Then transfer these virus variants to laboratories and pharmaceutical companies of your choice (your friends and supporters, who will in return give your organisation some money).
- The pharmaceutical companies are ready: they have been receiving free billions from taxpayers annually under the same scheme to keep their production lines ready to profit from the market you are about to create.
- Your pharma-investor sponsors also sponsor disease modellers willing to produce the most fantastic death figures to shore up public compliance.
- You then use your powers to impose these lockdowns and insist that a 100-day vaccine must be rushed out to save hapless humanity and allow a return to an “inter-pandemic” period.
- Once your chosen companies rush out the vaccine, you get to control the regulatory bit (more money changes hands), bypassing pesky safety trials and those interminable ethics reviews.
- All the while, you can note any dissenting opinions that may reduce your market size; your governmental partners having already agreed to deal with them.
- Once you have the profit flowing, you get to decide when the profiteering can stop (think ‘respiratory virus vaccine’ and more sponsored modelling – rapid waning of efficacy so lots of boosters to keep humanity safe).
- All the while, you have ensured freedom from liability for your pharma partners and your own regulatory process.
- You, of course, have no liability either – you are above any national jurisdiction. You don’t even have to pay tax to anyone!
Dream on. You only get to do this if you are in the WHO or the international pandemic set, and member states pass the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) and the new Pandemic Agreement at the World Health Assembly this May. For this is exactly what they are proposing.
It amounts to perhaps the most infallible wealth concentration scheme in history. The general model proved itself during COVID-19, orchestrating the largest wealth transfer on a global scale from poor to rich the world has seen. Rather than fiddling around with sanitation, nutrition and the endemic infections that kill people, international public health is now concentrated on hypothetical but far more profitable stuff like Disease X (the next pandemic), amply guided by the corporatists it will benefit.
The last big natural pandemic, the Spanish Flu, occurred over a century ago in the pre-antibiotic era. The recent COVID-19 pandemic is widely thought to have arisen from just the sort of research being promoted within these WHO pandemic initiatives; the WHO now proposes to increase sharing of viruses considered to be high-risk among laboratories that it oversees.
This is the same WHO that concluded COVID-19 did not transmit from human to human, and may have come from frozen fish rather than the Wuhan Institute of Virology just down the road. It suggested this after sending its team, including a senior scientist involved in funding coronavirus researchers at that same institute, to investigate the problem. Since then, whilst insisting that “misinformation” kills, WHO has been systematically misinforming the public and their governments regarding the future risk from natural outbreaks.
What is the WHO?
The WHO is an organisation that receives roughly a quarter of its funding from the pharmaceutical industry and major pharmaceutical investors. These same sponsors have profited greatly from the COVID-19 response and are strongly aligned with the WHO’s current pandemic preparation and response proposals. The largest country-based funders are the USA and Germany, also heavily invested in Pharma. German public money backed BioNtech, the developer of the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine.
Most of the WHO’s funding is ‘specified,’ meaning that it does what the funder specifies. The WHO has now become a tool of vested interests for much of its work. Approximately 75% of its total funding works this way. This is a completely different type of organisation than the WHO of 75 years ago. When originally set up, its budget was based on ‘core’ funding from countries, and the WHO decided its priorities based on disease burden and country requests.
The WHO does not come under any national legal jurisdiction. Senior WHO staff have diplomatic immunity. The organisation is highly hierarchical, with a military-like structure that tightly controls outputs and messaging. Staff have tax-free salaries and benefits such as an education allowance until their children are adults, health insurance, living allowances, and they travel business class on longer trips. After retiring on a generous pension scheme, former staff commonly supplement this through consultancies arranged by their friends still within the organisation. Its largest office is in Geneva, Switzerland, one of the most expensive cities on earth.
How Will the New Outbreak Business be Developed?
The proposed legally binding Pandemic Agreement and IHR amendments are designed to work together. Having two parallel documents has allowed the WHO Director-General to repeatedly claim that the Pandemic Agreement does not hand any power to the WHO, and anyone who says so is a liar and conspiracy theorist. A group of former country leaders and public health people debased themselves recently by publishing a letter saying the same. The clauses that they say don’t exist in the Pandemic Agreement do exist, of course, in the proposed IHR amendments. The Pandemic Agreement says the two documents are compatible (Article 26. 2).
If you think this is all fanciful and such powers would only be used in dire circumstances, recall that the WHO Director-General declared “Mpox” (monkeypox) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (the future trigger for this process). This was declared after just five deaths, with transmission essentially restricted to a small demographic, against the advice of his own advisory committee.
Remember also that COVID-19 was rarely fatal beyond the elderly and very sick, and the CDC showed the Covid vaccines were less effective than natural immunity. This did not stop the WHO running the COVAX campaign to vaccinate 75% of Africans in the knowledge that 50% of this population was under 20 years of age, less than 1% over 75 years, and the vast majority had immunity to COVID-19. The vaccines were also aimed against variants that were already rare or extinct.
The vaccines that the WHO will mandate are planned to include mRNA vaccines produced within 100 days by CEPI. mRNA vaccines are modified genetic material (the mRNA is changed to persist longer than our own mRNA) in a lipid envelope. Biodistribution studies from Pfizer/BioNTech indicate that they are expected to concentrate in the ovaries, adrenal glands, liver and spleen as well as the injection site, and are also distributed throughout the body including the nervous system. After entering cells, these cells produce the foreign protein coded by the mRNA, which is then expressed on the surface of the cell and circulates within the body. The body then mounts an immune response to this protein, killing the cells that express it and causing local inflammation, also creating a low-level inflammatory response. This is how mRNA vaccines work.
CEPI, a key player running the rushed vaccine effort, is a public-private partnership set up at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2017 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (a major pharmaceutical investor), the Wellcome Trust and a number of countries. CEPI was specifically set up to make vaccines and similar products for pandemics at a time when the world had gone 100 years without one – the last major pandemic having been the pre-antibiotic era Spanish flu.
Why it Can Work
Money, in large amounts, is really good for helping people to understand that wrong might be better than right. It also helps those who don’t care at all about right or truth to rise to the top despite their obvious unfitness. It allows the media to survive if they please these sponsors, and it can help country delegates to find more important priorities than the good of their own people. During COVID-19, the industry pushing the new WHO initiatives made an unprecedented amount of money, so the pandemic agenda has lots of momentum.
Thousands of well-paid staff are already becoming dependent on this scheme within the WHO, other public-private partnerships and the research and ‘humanitarian’ industries. They have mortgages, healthcare costs, education and travel benefits to maintain. This is largely why, despite being able to work out that this massive resource diversion will increase poverty, reduce life expectancy and abrogate public health ethics, they find themselves able to support it.
For most of the rest of humanity – those not heavily invested in pharma or modelling software and those concerned about human rights – the future does not look so rosy. We are supposed to provide the money that ends up in the hands of the people running it all. That is how profiteering works. So we will have to put things right, because they obviously won’t. Now that it is all written out for us in the WHO documents and we are aware of the money transfers of the past few years, we no longer have any excuse to ignore it.
Notes:
- Read the amendments to the IHR here (especially Articles 12, 13A, 18, 23, 35, 42, 53)
- An annotated summary can be found here (and don’t take anyone seriously who ignores the proposed IHR amendments when claiming a transfer of authority won’t happen under the Pandemic Agreement, irrespective of his or her credentials)
- Read the Pandemic Agreement here (especially Articles 12,13,15,18; latest version is appended to the bottom of the article)
Dr. David Bell is a clinical and public health physician with a PhD in population health and background in internal medicine, modelling and epidemiology of infectious disease. Previously, he was Director of the Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in the USA, Programme Head for Malaria and Acute Febrile Disease at FIND in Geneva, and coordinating malaria diagnostics strategy with the World Health Organisation. He is a Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute, where this article first appeared.
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“Law to ban trans and gay conversion therapy will not be in the King’s Speech”
Not that I’m in favour, but is there one policy idea that hasn’t seen a U-turn..?
Symptomatic of people who believe in nothing, floundering around with what came out of a focus group, and counting the votes. Is there anybody prepared to do the right thing, and not the current thing..?
Telegraph “Since entering No 10, the Prime Minister has set out to reassert the basic Conservative virtues of competence and pragmatism.” He has not u-turned on his current implementation of that.
Why there’ll never be peace in the Middle East and these ”Free Palestine” protestors are all just delusional useful idiots;
”If the Palestinians were at all interested in “self-determination” along the lines of Biden’s stubbornly delusional “two-state solution” — in which “Palestine” coexists peacefully with an Israeli neighbor — they would already have it. Gaza is the jihadist launchpad because Israel withdrew from every bit of it in 2005 — so the Palestinians could have self-determination . . . whereupon they self-determined that Hamas was what they wanted. Meantime, the Israelis would like nothing better than to wash their hands of the West Bank, too. But the dirty little not-so-secret is that there is no Palestinian vision of “self-determination” and “dignity” that would abide a Jewish state in the middle of what Palestinians insist is Allah’s turf.
This is not a Hamas thing. It’s a Palestinian thing.
Have you seen any Palestinian polling lately? There’s not a lot of it, since the West Bank and Gaza are not the easiest places from which to collect reliable data, but there is some. Here’s one from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. It tells us that, by a margin of 58 percent to 20 percent, Palestinians would prefer a renewal of the intifada (the “armed struggle”) to peaceful negotiations aimed at ending “the occupation.” That’s consistent with last year’s polling, as is the finding that about seven in ten Palestinians oppose the two-state solution.
Here’s some more: “President” Abbas must continue to resist having an election in the West Bank because, if one were held, he’d be thrashed by Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, 58 percent to 37 percent. And that’s with Haniyeh holed up in his well-appointed Qatari headquarters, from which he and his subordinates joyously watched news reports of the October 7 barbarities in real time.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/hamas-is-the-symptom-not-the-disease/
I know that every bit of scepticism has disappeared from this site, but do you know who funds the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey research?..Does anyone even care anymore about these kinds of details…?
because before, during Covid, these are the questions we would have automatically asked…
No one knows who funds this group..they don’t publish it..that should give people a clue? Probably Israel and the CIA….
Plus millions of people are joining these marches, not as pro-Palestinians, or anti-Israelis, but as peace protesters who want an end to the killing and suffering.
If people wanting to protest against the continued murder of thousands of innocent children are counted as delusional useful idiots..there you go..that’s me labelled …
..I assure you it’s better than what I think about people calling for mass-murder and genocide.
But if it’s true that the majority of Palestinians do not want to live in a two-state and peaceful kind of set-up then what is the solution? It’s surely a fact that any reasonable person should accept that if the Arabs lay down their arms then peace would be a reality, but if the Israelis lay down their weapons and dropped their guard they would be annihilated. You can’t reason with radicalised people who are hell-bent on murder and destruction. But also, Israel cannot possibly kill/capture all of the terrorists. So therein lies the dilemma. How to move forward?
Mogs, truly I don’t want to fall-out with anyone here, but honestly I could post mountains of evidence that it is Israel who don’t want a two-state option…there’s tons of it.
There is just as much evidence of radicalised Jews calling for the death of all Palestinians, similarly, of illegal Israeli settlers killing and injuring Palestinians who have been thrown off their land. All of these ‘settlements’ are illegal under International Law….
There is also plenty of evidence of Israel indiscriminately bombing dozens of schools and hospitals over the last decade..
This is a list of war crimes against Israel compiled by the wrongly maligned Yanis Varoufakis….
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/10/15/list-of-war-crimes-and-crimes-qualifying-as-genocide-committed-by-israel-in-gaza-since-7th-october-2023/
There is also a very very long list of Israeli transgressions against International Law….
I’m not trying to prove a point here particularly… just trying to show that there are just as many reasons as to why millions of people don’t support Israel blindly…and don’t accept the agenda they are asking us to.
It’s pretty easy to find ‘evidence’ either way to confirm any bias….
The terrorists, (no doubt sitting safely in their underground bunkers) I agree, have no thought for the ordinary Palestinian citizens..but that can’t mean we can’t have compassion for them, and most of the world just don’t want to stand by and watch it happen ….
The main object of most right-thinking people I would argue, is to get a ceasefire, and some humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza…
it’s a hideous comparison but in ten days, Israel’s bombing of Gaza has killed more than three times as many children — 1,756 as of yesterday — than those that have been killed in nearly two years of war in Ukraine.
The West would never support it in Ukraine, and we cant support it now…
….it’s got to stop….
Totally second all of the above. Thank you for continuing to post at such length and so eloquently about the issues.
..that’s kind of you, thanks. I’m really struggling with it all actually.…but I do believe it will taint us all forever if we watch people being bombed and killed day after day without speaking about it…and pleading for it to stop.
Lord Sumption speaking complete sense on Israel’s response to the Hamas atrocities (55:03) and the protests (11:45).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naDOp8PMb_I
Yeah, there is no better way to stand up stupidity and intolerance than calling everyone you dislike politically face-punchable.
Bill Maher starts off ok but in the end it’s clear he is just as biased and intolerant as the people he criticises.
Spot on
I’ve not watched it but you’re probably right, as usual. However, what I do find interesting is that Maher is middle of the road mainstream liberal (not one of the new breed of illiberal liberals) and he seems to be getting increasingly outspoken and angry, feeling like he is being pushed into a corner. It gives me some tiny sliver of hope that our drift into awfulness could be arrested if the other side overplay their hand.
There are some things so obvious that to fail to acknowledge them or deny them undermines all credibility.
That is presumably why Gates openly admits Covid vaccines aren’t very good. His solution though is better vaccines,
And Maher admits the lunacy of the political left in the US, but I think he just wants better leftists and still promotes the nastiness that the right are dangerous lunatics.
There is no change of course as much as an acknowledgement of the risk of being steered off course by their own side.
If by “better leftists” he means less extreme ones perhaps that is a step in the right direction? Or is the only good leftist a dead one? (Joke).
Perhaps if he has slightly changed his mind once he can do so again. But you may well be right.
I don’t like the word extreme. It’s loaded and so often used dishonestly., to trap the person on the other side of the argument.
My main problem with Maher is that he promotes the idea that Trump is an evil monster and more generally that the right is dangerous. Trump has his flaws but he’s not an evil monster. And the notion that he is, is creating a lot of damage not just in America but here as well.
Well an example of “extreme” vs “less extreme” would be that you believe in higher taxes but also in absolute freedom of speech
I agree about Trump. I have never understood the reaction to him. My metropolitan liberal acquaintances seem to object to him on the grounds that he would make a vulgar dinner party guest. I suppose the more cynical and savvy on the left vilify him because they fear him
Thats the left for you. They believe that with enough money and enough government intervention everything can be made perfect. Essentially it is ‘Designing the world how I want it to be’.
In fact, living your life and letting other people live their lives, accepting there will be compromises and trade-offs is so much easier, cheaper and fulfilling. Yet they are all tripping over their bottom lip because they can’t get everyone to kowtow to their vision of perfect.
I think comedians should push the boundaries so I’ll give him that..it’s just that they always have to spoil it.…..
.. he noticeably leaves Obama out of his ‘hate list’ ..so while criticising the young students for their ‘anti-Israel letter’ as he puts it…. he doesn’t mention the thousands of innocent people that died in Obama led wars…
Isn’t school and college when you get to be young and stupid? What’s Obama’s excuse?
A good article with a poor headline by Nick Cohen in The Spectator (it’s far more about Labour than the Tories):
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-tory-war-on-woke-wont-work/
https://x.com/nickhudsonct/status/1713980307135725619
Well worth memorising!
It’s far shorter than my last scoping of the next scam.
Hudson’s Razor being sharpened.
Best wishes
Mike
A post just seen on Telegram from Steve Kirsch:
Breaking: You can now sue the mRNA COVID vaccine manufacturers for damages and the FDA is required to take the COVID vaccines off the market. Why? Adulteration. The plasmid bioactive contaminant sequences were NOT pointed out to the regulatory authorities. It’s considered adulteration. I just got off the phone with Professor Byram Bridle and Dr. Robert Malone on this.
Emergency Use Medication Means Mainly Untested – latest leaflet to print at home or forward to politicians, media, friends online
Sadly it’s a very long time since I have agreed with Janet Daley in the Telegraph..on any subject..
Dan Hannan was also saying similar things yesterday..
So yet again, I feel like a ‘common sense’ tap needs turning on…
Is there honestly something difficult to understand about the fact that a ‘gay’ person, might well understand that many countries, including Palestine, are not ‘gay friendly’..but at the same time, as a human being, is able to hold a second thought in their head that they want to see the indiscriminate killing of innocent children brought to an end?
That this isn’t an either or situation? Neither idea is mutually exclusive….
Ariel Gold אריאל
@ArielElyseGold
We know, as Jews, the lie that if we accept transport, if we evacuate, our lives will be spared. We know what it is like to have entire family lines wiped out. We know genocide when we see it. We are seeing it now in Gaza. Never Again means for anyone. NEVER AGAIN IS NOW!
I was recently call a poltroon and a halfwit by a poster who was unhappy when I refused to play his game of “my facts are the truth and yours are a lie”.
One of the points he was making was that there are no natural resources in Israel so the US involvement is purely altruistic (I paraphrase).
However, one of the key facts that I have not heard mentioned anywhere recently is about the Gaza Marine gas reserve, which is within Palestinian jurisdiction but whose development Israel appears to obstructing.
I imagine that this gas reserve has reached new levels of value in the Western world. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that cake?
…I did mention a similar thing, only in passing, a few days ago…this article from 2021 gives a bit of an overview (why do British companies, in this case British Gas, always seem to have a finger in every pie?!)
Of course as they always say if Palestinians are involved this is putting money into Hammas’s coffers..
Which also means it’s the ‘go to’ excuse/reason to never give Palestinian people in Gaza their fair share?
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/21/palestines-forgotten-oil-and-gas-resources
I often have a look at Aljazeera’s output. What might not be common knowledge that some of the Hamas top dogs are based in Qatar, where of course Aljazeera is based. Isn’t it likely that there is a certain amount of global revenue via that route?
…oh yes…we’ve all learned that lesson I think…always question where the info comes from….and proceed accordingly…
..is there any media left that isn’t compromised by ‘dirty’ money?
I must have missed that. Sorry, but still worth repeating for those who missed it and to get your link.
…no need..I don’t think everyone can look at everything, every day..so reminders about anything are good…plus this one I’ve posted today is a different one anyway….
Plus I forgot to say whoever your troll was…USA and altruistic in the same sentence…LOL! Good one…hahaha….
In a world full of bad news..at least this is good…..yay!!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-20/moderna-s-lost-mojo-leaves-wall-street-in-wait-and-see-mode?leadSource=uverify%20wall
Moderna Shaves Off $7 Billion in Value After Pfizer Warning…Stock plunged as rival noted declining demand for Covid shots
Moderna Inc., which shot to fame when it became one the first companies to bring the world Covid-19 vaccines, has been searching for its next big thing ever since.
Investors have bailed in droves as waning demand for shots and treatments for the virus drove an eight-day losing streak in the stock.”
Remember the other conflict?
This new interview with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, in the Berliner Zeitung Newspaper has claimed that the United States prohibited Ukraine from conducting peace negotiations with Russia in March 2022, although the parties had a chance to agree to end the conflict.
Schroder said that while representatives of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky were open to making concessions on key issues such as renouncing efforts to join NATO, the US did not agree to peace talks.
The Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to. They first had to ask the Americans about everything they discussed,” said Schroder, who was asked to help mediate the peace negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian officials in Istanbul weeks after Moscow launched its military operation in February 2022.
“My impression is that nothing could happen because everything else was decided in Washington”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/10/22/713213/Ukrainian-not-allowed-agree-peace-Russia-exgerman-leader
..this would seem to lend credence to the former Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s claims that he was set to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine but his efforts were stopped by the major Western powers.
Bill Maher´s 8 minutes are brilliant!
I agree..even though, in the main, I don’t agree with one thing he said…
Its good to see a comedian actually saying something..even pushing the boundaries..