What is going on with the World Health Organisation? In December 2021 it began to talk about a global pandemic treaty. And now an International Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention and Response will be presented to the 77th World Health Assembly between May 27th and June 1st: that is, next week. In the Daily Sceptic David Bell has done good work in going through the articles of the draft treaty, and also noting that we should read the amendments to the International Health Regulations too. But I want to ask a broader question. Is this a world state through the back door?
No one spoke about a world state much — except dismissively — until the early 20th century. H.G. Wells was fond of the idea. It was a modish subject at around the time of the formation of the League of Nations and again around the time of the formation of the United Nations, though, interestingly, it was usually dismissed. In the last 30 years the question of a world state has returned, though the answer is usually still negative.
However, one of the fundamental laws of politics is, and has been ever since Thucydides — or Augustus — that a thing can be one thing and yet can be called another thing. Politics is, as everyone has known since before Socrates, a rhetorical art: and the art of rhetoric involves all manner of minimisations, exaggerations, substitutions, reversals, redescriptions.
So what has happened in the last 30 years is not that we have become enthusiasts for something called a world state, but that we have become enthusiasts for something that we by and large do not want to call a world state while hoping — consciously, unconsciously — that it will be a world state.
Consciously: here I refer to the hypocrites, who want a world state but know they should not say so.
Unconsciously: here I refer to the idealists, who believe that one could have an ‘international society’ or ‘global democracy’ or ‘global governance’ — all vogue phrases of the last half century — without a state (specifically, without coercive power).
I have waded through the academic literature on ‘cosmopolitanism’. Many scholars, especially since the end of the Cold War, have strained to tell us exactly what we should do to have peace, redistribution, representation, rights, capabilities, all over the world. You know the sort of people I mean: earnest, irritating, the sort of professors who try to overcome their own presumable Weltschmerz by sketching visions of Weltharmonie: those tweeded 1950s Lucky Jim types or leather-jacketed 1970s History Man types, or, nowadays, the open-necked and scarved 2000s glass-ceiling breaking types, all of whom love the sound of their own grandiose normativity.
Normative: a word I have always disliked. It doesn’t mean ‘normal’: it means ‘concerning norms’, especially ‘concerning the norms that should be established’. It is a stipulative, imperative, finger-wagging word. The emphasis is on the word ‘should’: an innocent word, until it alarmingly comes to sound like ‘must’ and then, finally, ‘shall’.
The academics who write about cosmopolitanism most often speak about it as if everything could be achieved by law or federation or that mystical thing called ‘global governance’. ‘Governance’ is yet another dubious word: it means ‘government’ without exactly meaning anything as clear as ‘government’. (Governance murders us without leaving any marks on the body.) But with the advent of ‘climate change’ there has been a growing sense that something less democratic and more technocratic is required. And, of course, COVID-19, especially for those who believed that it was what it was said to be (those innocent folk who forgot that politics was a rhetorical art), was the most emphatic and startling arrival of an opportunity to respond to something collectively and coercively — in fact, in the manner of a world state.
The WHO declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30th 2020 and, more memorably, a ‘pandemic’ on March 11th 2020. But the definition of a PHEIC is worth examining. It refers, I discover, to “an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other states through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response”. The most important words in that sentence are determined and coordinated.
Determined: someone decides that there is risk.
Coordinated: the response to the risk is a singular one.
And if we ask who is to do the determining and the coordinating the answer is not a world state, but instead an international agency with treaty powers. COVID-19 was the best thing that has ever happened to the World Health Organisation (and its cluster of corporate allies). The back door opened. While the WHO strode through that back door, the IPCC looked on jealously; and I daresay Stonewall wondered how they could get involved.
But of course the WHO got there first, not letting a good crisis go to waste. The first thing it did was get us all on side rhetorically. Consider the word ‘pandemic’: it is derived from Greek: pan = all, and demos = people. Think about it. It isn’t a medical word. It’s a political word. From now on, they (‘They’) want us to be a pandemos, to be ordered about by those-who-know-best.
The European Union is also an influence here. For what is the history of the European Union but a history of bait-and-switches? First we hear: “It is just an economic community.” But in come the hypocrites and the idealists, and then we hear: “It is a political community.” Or first we hear: “We’ll have a referendum on the constitution.” But the people vote ‘No’, and the hypocrites and idealists have to change tack. So then we hear: “Here’s a treaty to get the constitution through the back door.” The international agencies have learnt much from the EU: which, in the later history of the world, will seem to have been nothing more than an early and useful and small-scale experiment in How To Do It.
There are two really profound problems with a World State.
The first is that it is a logical impossibility. States are like demons in the New Testament: their name is Legion. They are necessarily plural. For thousands of years we had empires with frontiers; then, in the 16th and 17th centuries, we invented states with borders: lines exactly drawn. A line can only be exactly drawn if we are no longer fighting over territory but coming to some agreement: where this agreement involves what modern lawyers call ‘recognition’: each side recognises the right of the other to exist. States are plural: they recognise others. I don’t know how we could live in a world where there was one state which recognised only itself. Whatever such a thing would be, it would not be a state in the usual sense. It would be an unlimited state, whereas it is part of the idea of a state that it is limited.
The second is that it is an abstraction. It is a fantasy, a fiction: it exists in the mind of lawyers. It could exist in law, of course: everything can exist in law. But there would be no culture or society to back up that law: so it would be backed up by force. Lord Sumption writes books about how we are coming to depend too much on law and not enough on convention. David McGrogan in the Daily Sceptic tells us the same thing. It was Burke’s point in Reflections on the Revolution in France, which remains the paradigmatic book of our time. I heard Eric Weinstein say it recently too. (His illustration: Law = you may not say something objectionable. Convention = you may say it, but the convention is that you would not say it.) Our cultures have usually depended on conventions which have emerged through long, troublesome but shared histories. If we have no shared history, then there is no culture, no conventions, only law. So a world state would be an unreal thing: something no one would believe in, except the people paid to believe in it, i.e., its functionaries — the bossy WHO, IPCC, Stonewall types.
Neither of these profound problems is enough to stop the thing happening. So I’d say that though this WHO treaty might not be a very clear revelation of a world state, it is certainly an important dry run for it. It is a sketch, part of a work-in-progress: and we should be wary of all the quislings who are opening the back door for it.
Dr. James Alexander is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Turkey.
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Ten days early? Organisations need to be careful about the calendar at this time of year!
Yes, and the astrology!
The WHO failed with Covid. Nearly everything they did was wrong, and timed badly.
Really there needs to be a review at a fundamental level as to why the WHO behaved as it did (ie, where there harmful influences).
Actually encouraging the WHO (in current form) is the last thing the world should be doing.
The WHO are fundamental to the whole Agenda 2030 plan. The UK is perfectly capable of dealing with Winter coughs and colds left to its own devices.
Comments like this really get my back up. So the last three years were a cock-up?
Good grief.
Yes.. ^^^^
Thanks George.
No problem.. I get really irritated when people push off what’s gone/going on as just being irresponsible or incompetent. Its neither.. its planned and deliberate.
Too fecking right!
There won’t be another pandemic but there will be a ‘Plandemic’. In my opinion as long as there is gain of function research ongoing across the world then this is inevitable. But, as I understand it, you cannot have a virus which is both super deadly and super transmissible ( because it would kill the host, therefore impacting its ability to spread effectively ) so there would be the usual huge emphasis on PsyOp and fear porn once again and I really can’t see sufficient people falling for it again. Monkey Pox failed, Marburg failed…another bird flu? And can you really see people lining up in their droves to be tested once more? Gatesy and his pals can dream on. ”Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”.. springs to mind.
There was a ‘Plandemic’ the first time around.. just driven by dodgy a PCR test and not stop fear porn..
Mogs, I don’t believe gain of function research has anything to do with Billy’s next Plandemic. He wants one, Agenda 2030 wants one and that’s all there is to it:
Pandemic Preparedness Treaty, revised International Health Regulations. Enough said.
Next Scamdemic 2024 or 2025 particularly as Net Zero has been brought forward to 2040.
Yes.. things are moving fast now. Whether that’s because the wheels are falling off and the parasites are panicking.. or.. because they feel so cock sure of themselves and feel they can push the envelope harder and faster.. any ideas ???
George, this is what I posted on 20th March on the Net Zero article:
I think there are two ways of looking at this:
1. The Davos Deviants are running scared and believe if they don’t get on with their mission then it could all fall apart under the weight of the awakening and fierce resistance.
2. The Davos Deviants are flushed with the success of the last three years and have decided to ramp up their tactics while most of the population are still in shock at what has happened and continues to happen and before the masses wake up.
I suppose it could even be a mixture of the two. Either way they are clearly intent on ensuring the nastiness levels become supercharged given that their time -lines have been shortened by a third.
Summat big is on the way.
The shortened time-lines was a reference to the Net Zero target date being brought forward from 2050 to 2040.
Thanks for that Huxley.. my thinking entirely.
I guess the game is exactly that.. keep people guessing. Have so many events of varying types kicking off all over the planet that even the relatively well informed are always a step.. or two.. behind!
You’d have thought that viruses like that are too indiscriminate, compared with other lethal products, such as the Russian one used in Salisbury a few years ago. Even then, they accidentally killed someone else rather than the intended victim.
Ah yes.. those dastardly Russians releasing Novichok.. just a drop being deadly enough to kill thousands.. I’m not even sure John that the lady who died was actually killed by said (imaginary) substance. The woman was a drug addict if I recall and in poor health.
As for Skripals.. whatever happened to them..?? A long holiday courtesy of MI6 I wouldn’t be surprised..
I bought a new bottle of aftershave today (almost impossible to find nowadays, as men’s skin has been become soo sensitive that it can tolerate disinfectants anymore but needs loads of perfume instead) and the sole inner Reading shop still selling this has a female employee who’s much younger than all the others, at best, in the early 20s. I saw her last months ago, probably Spring 2022. By that time, I was wondering if she would ever let go of her cloth mask and the thought that she was still so frightened of COVID made me a little sad. Fast forward to Spring 2023, she’s obviously still wearing it. She’ll probably still be wearing it when the next scamdemic comes around and will frantically jump on that bandwagon as well. I’d really like to say something like
Deine Blödheit kotzt mich an! Bloß Arschgesichter wie Du haben uns in diese Scheiße geritten!
[Your pigheadedness makes me want to puke! It’s solely ass-faced people like you who got us into that shithole! — the English version is by far not vulgar enough]
to her. An unscientific estimate of mine is that about 1% of the population still really believe in COVID and that there were never really more than that. That’s enough to get everything train-rewrecked once the opportunity arises, as it inevitably will unless it’s nipped in the bud by the perhaps also 1% of the people who got inellectually past both Must be ok if the government asks for it! and No use putting one’s head above the parapet!
I SO want to believe you but…
The censoring of scientific discussion will be even more rife with the WHO plandemic implementation.
Sound of Silenced Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2LaDrDL4g4
Well seeing as Bill runs the joint.. its hardly surprising is it..??
Overthinking it again, particularly the last paragraph. If Billy wants to find another “pandemic” he will find one, or invent one – now where have I heard that before?
And if salaries depend on confirming a “pandemic” once it has been found it will be confirmed even so much as a cough, if of course right time, right place, right country are established. Realistically I suppose these will be confirmed before the “find.”
Hasn’t Billy already told us “you will notice the next one?”
National governments will react to the ‘next pandemic’ not because of a culture of fear or safetyism but as they are instructed by TPTB – Black Rock etc.
I assume Eugypius’s “pandemic free future” phrase means he has swallowed the nonsense of pandemics.
Pandemics, or what we are told are pandemics are simply stage one in the destruction of nations.
People need to wake up. The name of their game is depopulation but it hides behind an inocuous title – Agenda 2030.
Gates isn’t a menace, he’s a mass murderer.
While not disagreeing with you, HP, I am not wholly convinced that Gates is the one calling the shots, as I think you imply.
As I’ve argued before, I think he may well be a (blackmailed) frontman (one of many) for the military-industrial-intelligence complex, and it is the complex that will decide where and when to release a lab-enhanced virus, and how lethal and infectious that virus will be.
That’s an interesting hypothesis. We’ll need to find more clues and evidence in order to help give your theory legs.
Yes.. he’s right. There’s a definite trail leading to the US Dept of Defence. Cast iron evidence, no hypothetical thinking. I can’t put my finger on a link right now but if not in this thread I will get one across to you..
Yup, with you on that Mogs.
Is that not essentially what people like Sasha Latypova, David Martin and Katherine Watt have been saying (or implying)? That it is all about bioweapons and countermeasures, both developed under the supervision of the US Dept of Defence (as George L refers below).
It’s just when you mentioned blackmail. I don’t know who would blackmail Gates or why. But I’m well aware of the fact it’s all a US, DoD orchestrated gig. But why would the DoD, for instance, blackmail Gates? He’s gladly been all about developing and profitting from vaccines and impersonating a public health expert for years of his own volition.
I think Moggy.. Gates just has to do what he’s told. Yes he’s got the bread, but there are far more powerful entities than him in the mix..
“But why would the DoD, for instance, blackmail Gates?”
I would suggest 3 reasons: 1) they need frontmen who are happy to push the narrative to the world’s media – who better than a trusted (by the masses) philanthropist who also invests heavily in vaccines; 2) because they can (Jeffrey Epstein); 2) to ensure he stays on script.
I do not doubt that Gates is evil, so probably doesn’t need blackmail to justify doing evil himself – and he is allowed by the complex to continue his philanthropy and vaccine investment activity as long as he complies with their wishes.
Yes exactly that.. Michael.. bags of evidence too..
Thanks, George
Fair enough.
The Bill Gates contribution to the WHO is the Gates Foundation + GAVI which is funded almost entirely by the Gates foundation. So Gates is the biggest funder of the WHO.
Gates is also the sole decision maker at the Gates Foundation.
I don’t know about anywhere else, but down here, in the real world, nobody gives away $1 billion a year and doesn’t expect to exert influence.
In the real world, he who pays calls the shots.
Exactly.. well put.. I couldn’t have said it better myself, although I did post the shortened version further up..
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The BMGF is the largest private funder of GAVI but not the largest funder; most of their funds come from governments being generous with their citizens’ money. https://web.archive.org/web/20230302011843/https://www.gavi.org/investing-gavi/funding/current-period-2021-2025
GAVI was set up at the WEF Davos forum in 2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20221006232413/https://www.savethechildren.de/news/20-jahre-im-einsatz-fuer-kinder-die-impfallianz-gavi/
Event 201
WEF bought
WHO bought
GAVI bought
ID2020 his baby
MSM bought and paid for.
Gates is the private financier of a lot of organisations with converging Malthusian aims.
He sure is.. busy man is our Billy.. I’ve emailed him on several occasions suggesting he jump out of window 95 or if he was feeling adventurous window 98. Never got a straight answer off him.. he went all Millennium on me..
“Global Epidemic Response and Mobilisation team, or GERM”
Eghrrrrr! It makes you skin crawl!
Is there a wealthy bunch of despots that sit around a 60ft long mahogany table in a carved out mountain somewhere stroking white cats and arbitrarily discussing our fate! and I bet they all have monocles
This light machine-gun will reliably kill 99.9% of GERM should it come around.
Can I pull the trigger? please please !
It isn’t – or shouldn’t be – controversial to state that a healthy immune system can deal with an infection successfully (otherwise there wouldn’t be 8 billion human beings in the world) or at least is more likely to overcome an infection than a weakened immune system.
But nowhere in the World Health Organisation’s document – nor in any of the interviews or writings of Bill Gates which I have seen and heard, nor in anything I’ve heard from Dr Fauci – is there any mention of how to help and encourage people to build up a healthy natural immune system. This is puzzling to understand, if they actually care about people being healthy.
The point Dr Mike Yeadon makes is that there cannot be a viral pandemic that kills en masse. For a virus to succeed it must mutate to ensure that it does not kill its hosts. If it did kill ultimately it would literally reach dead end. And this is why progressive immunity gained across populations is so effective and has ensured our species survival. In today’s parlance – herd immunity but I detest the phrase for its bovine connotations.
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Mr Gates’ plan is a sort of oxymoron. He plans to gather the world’s finest experts to plan and then police the future – the same experts who have got it wrong for the last three respiratory virus pandemics, who failed to listen to the knowledgable clinicians.
if Anders Tegnall is in charge we might be OK. There is a handful of other names, like Heneghan and Jefferson, and perhaps the Daily Sceptics team could be i/c management. I’d be happy to help. Otherwise we will have the same cock-up as before.
Sadly you seem to have swallowed the Scamdemic wholesale.
How many times does someone on here have to say: This was NEVER about health. If you understand that, you can move on to what’s coming.
Damn right. Well put.
Gates is EVIL. He uses his money to spread his evil ideas. The guy is a creep with insufficient education to be the arbiter of the actions he proposes. His fortune should not give him power in the areas he tries to influence. The WHO is not an elected organisation, so should not have power over governments and with the addition of the Gates madness, its time for it to be disbanded.
“knows what to do when a potential outbreak emerges”, Huh!! How can it be ‘potential’ if it’s ’emerged’?? If he can’t even get this comment right, what hope is there?
No thank you Bill!
No thank you WHO!