The Biden administration is preparing to sign up the United States to a legally binding accord with the World Health Organisation (WHO) that would give the WHO the lawful authority to dictate America’s policies during a pandemic. The Epoch Times has more.
Despite widespread criticism of the WHO’s response to the Covid pandemic, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra joined with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in September 2022 to announce “the U.S.-WHO Strategic Dialogue”. Together, they developed a “platform to maximise the longstanding U.S. Government-WHO partnership, and to protect and promote the health of all people around the globe, including the American people.”
These discussions and others spawned the ‘zero draft‘ of a pandemic treaty, published on February 1st, which now seeks ratification by all 194 WHO member states. A meeting of the WHO’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) is scheduled for February 27th to work out the final terms, which all members will then sign.
Written under the banner of “the world together equitably,” the zero draft grants the WHO the power to declare and manage a global pandemic emergency. Once a health emergency is declared, all signatories, including the United States, would submit to the authority of the WHO regarding treatments, government regulations such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates, global supply chains, and monitoring and surveillance of populations.
“They want to see a centralised, vaccine-and-medication-based response, and a very restrictive response in terms of controlling populations,” David Bell, a public health physician and former WHO staffer specialising in epidemic policy, told the Epoch Times. “They get to decide what is a health emergency, and they are putting in place a surveillance mechanism that will ensure that there are potential emergencies to declare.”
The WHO pandemic treaty is part of a two-track effort, coinciding with an initiative by the World Health Assembly (WHA) to create new global pandemic regulations that would also supersede the laws of member states. The WHA is the rule-making body of the WHO, comprised of representatives from the member states.
“Both [initiatives] are fatally dangerous,” Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law at Illinois University, told the Epoch Times. “Either one or both would set up a worldwide medical police state under the control of the WHO, and in particular WHO Director-General Tedros. If either one or both of these go through, Tedros or his successor will be able to issue orders that will go all the way down the pipe to your primary care physicians.”
Physician Meryl Nass told the Epoch Times: “If these rules go through as currently drafted, I, as a doctor, will be told what I am allowed to give a patient and what I am prohibited from giving a patient whenever the WHO declares a public health emergency. So they can tell you you’re getting remdesivir, but you can’t have hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. What they’re also saying is they believe in equity, which means everybody in the world gets vaccinated, whether or not you need it, whether or not you’re already immune.”
Regarding medical treatments, the accord would require member nations to “monitor and regulate against substandard and falsified pandemic-related products”. Based on previous WHO and Biden administration policy, this would likely include forcing populations to take newly-developed vaccines while preventing doctors from prescribing non-vaccine treatments or medicines.
But can Biden bind America without the agreement of the legislature? The Epoch Times continues.
A key question surrounding the accord is whether the Biden administration can bind America to treaties and agreements without the consent of the U.S. Senate, which is required under the Constitution. The zero draft concedes that, per international law, treaties between countries must be ratified by national legislatures, thus respecting the right of their citizens to consent. However, the draft also includes a clause that the accord will go into effect on a “provisional” basis, as soon as it is signed by delegates to the WHO, and therefore it will be legally binding on members without being ratified by legislatures.
“Whoever drafted this clause knew as much about U.S. constitutional law and international law as I did, and deliberately drafted it to circumvent the power of the Senate to give its advice and consent to treaties, to provisionally bring it into force immediately upon signature,” Boyle said. In addition, “the Biden administration will take the position that this is an international executive agreement that the president can conclude of his own accord without approval by Congress, and is binding on the United States of America, including all state and local democratically elected officials, governors, attorney generals and health officials.”
There are several U.S. Supreme Court decisions that may support the Biden administration in this. They include State of Missouri v. Holland, in which the Supreme Court ruled that treaties supersede state laws. Other decisions, such as United States v. Belmont, ruled that executive agreements without Senate consent can be legally binding, with the force of treaties.
Signatories also agree to support the official narrative in a pandemic. Specifically, they will “conduct regular social listening and analysis to identify the prevalence and profiles of misinformation” and “design communications and messaging strategies for the public to counteract misinformation, disinformation and false news, thereby strengthening public trust.”
The Epoch Times notes that a report from the WHO’s Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response characterised the WHO’s performance during Covid as a “toxic cocktail” of bad decisions. Co-chair Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told the BBC it was due to “a myriad of failures, gaps and delays”. Yet the solutions proposed in the report do not include more local autonomy or diversified decision-making, but rather greater centralisation, more power and more money for the WHO.
The WHO made really awful decisions, but that’s because it didn’t have enough power? You can’t make this stuff up.
Worth reading in full.
Read Dr. David Bell’s thorough analysis of the proposed changes to the WHO’s role in ‘public health emergencies’ here.
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Hmm. Can any administration actually do that under the USA constitution?
No chance. Not unless he packs the Supreme Court.
I, and I am sure most on here knew this was on the way. There is nothing more certain than a new “pandemic” being found as soon as this is all signed up. The primary purpose behind this is depopulation. Control naturally falls alongside but only so that the depopulation can be proceeded with more efficiently.
The legal aspects will certainly be convoluted. I firmly believe this will breech UK Sovereignty although doubtless Fishy and his team of WEF stooges will have prepared some legislation aimed at swerving said Sovereignty. However, there is no question that there is absolutely nothing about the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty that would count as binding. Laws both national and international are flouted regularly so there is no requirement to pander to bad laws. Actually are bad laws really ever laws?
The Davos Deviants have been running amok for years and a brutal fightback is now required.
This year is destined to become pretty damned ugly.
Damn right. Comes as zero surprise. The EU will be next. Absolute bunch of psychopathic, corrupt crooks.
I wouldn’t argue that there aren’t plenty of sociopaths in high positions of power.
However, I don’t think all this happens because of evil people. To me it’s a structural problem.
You have a system of governance and administration that doesn’t really work for the interest of ordinary people. It works for powerful interest groups. And the incentives for the people within the system are not aligned with interests of ordinary people.
Powerful interest groups are far better are incentivising the politicians and bureaucrats than ordinary people. And so much power has now been concentrated within government and the bureaucracy that all the incentives are in place for interest groups to do all they can to capture the system.
Basically, I think the system is completely screwed.
I’m not saying the people aren’t arseholes. But without the power to wield they’d just be arseholes to those around them. It’s the power these bureaucrats have that make them so dangerous.
It’s all so F- in obvious !!…
So true. And they always telegraph their intentions in advance.
The following is a small selection of what can only be described as malevolence:
“The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises – whether real or not – is expected to lead to – compliance’ Dixy Lee Ray Former liberal Democrat governor of State of Washington, U.S.: ” The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises – whether real or not – is expected to lead to – compliance” Dixy Lee Ray Former liberal Democrat governor of State of Washington
” The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.” UN’s Commission on Global Governance
“ A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.” Ban Ki-Moon UN Secretary General
“We contend that the position of the nuclear promoters is preposterous beyond the wildest imaginings of most nuclear opponents, primarily because one of the purported ‘benefits’ of nuclear power, the availability of cheap and abundant energy, is in fact a liability.‘ Paul Ehrlich
“The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man” Club of Rome
“Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs John Davis Editor of Earth First
“A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer” Paul Ehrlich
“There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated…It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society” John Holdren President Obama’s science czar
“The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing” Christopher Manes Writer for Earth First!
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal” Ted Turner
“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world” David Foreman Co-founder of Earth First!
“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing” David Brower A founder of the Sierra Club
Wow. What a compilation.
Could be Adolph,s top ten
There is more and it’s all been festering for decades:
“Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it” Amory Lovins Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
“We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along” David Graber Scientist U.S. Nat’l Park Services
“Good terrorists would be taking [Ebola Roaston and Ebola Zaire] so that they had microbes they could let loose on the Earth that would kill 90 percent of people” Eric Pianka Professor at University of Texas
“The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world” John Shuttleworth Founder of Mother Earth News magazine
“…every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.” George Monbiot UK Guardian environmental journalist
” In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day” Jacques Cousteau
All here:
https://www.c3headlines.com/global-warming-quotes-climate-change-quotes.html
This Malthusian miasma is a classic example of Poe’s Law.
Telegraphing their intentions again, as usual. We need to pay attention!
Horrifying. The last paragraph is beyond belief. Who are these monsters?
Basically Nazis taking over the world. Everyone else is a “psuedo Jew” to be eliminated.
I would argue it’s Marxism, but either way Nazis and Communists are siblings. The parent is top down collectivism. The Grand Parents are all the ancient Assyrian style empires. The modern open society is not only vulnerable to corruption, but is primarily a threat to the collectivist, because the autonomous individual freely associating and spontaneously cooperating renders the top down collectivist irrelevant. Or perhaps this?
“The world of tomorrow will witness a tremendous battle between technology and psychology. It will be a fight of technology versus nature, of systematic conditioning versus creative spontaneity.” – Joos Meerloo
Hux you save me having to write stuff
can you read my mind , spot on as usual 
And lemme guess, the next plandemic will be….wait for it…BIRD FLU!
I mean, they already telegraphed their intentions. As they always seem to do. People just need to pay closer attention (hard, I know, given how most Americans have shorter attention spans than a goldfish).
The only hope I have for humanity is that the hard-earned cynicism from the past three years will be a bulwark against them fooling us again.
The next pandemic has already been war-gamed and is planned for 2025. This one will, apparently, be particularly dangerous for young people.
Medical fascism has finally arrived…scary times ahead!
Out-sourcing ones inalienable rights, such as bodily autonomy, could never be constitutional in any jurisdiction.
If you think government is there to represent the best interest of the population, then this obviously makes no sense.
But if you know that “the people” are little more than a feeble voice in the corridors of government power and really the people who shape and influence government policy are organisations, especially large corporations, then this makes perfect sense.
US pharma companies are at the forefront of all the WHO pandemic planning and the principal beneficiaries of WHO centralised control. This is perfect for them. They don’t have to go government to government lobbying and pushing their products. They tie all the government strings to the WHO and pull them all from there in one go.
The US government is an influential voice. So they’ll lobby hard for the US government to support it and get momentum for all other nations to do it.
Pharma companies don’t give a toss about national sovereignty. The opposite, national sovereignty is a nuissence to them.
That’s not going to work at the state level.
Red states will simply ignore this.
The problem is the crappy wet pollytishans haven’t the balls to take responsibility for another Panic Demic
So the best plan is to outsource the responsibility to the hopeless/hapless WHO
There hasn’t been a “panic demic.’ The last three years have all been carefully contrived.
Indeed, it is a PLANDEMIC.
Why?
Could it be that in fact the good old USA is controlling the WHO & using this new supposed deal for more of their own nefarious manoeuvres, my theory is that nothing in this world gets past the CIA !..
Legally, it’s gonna be murky.
DeSantis has already proposed laws to prohibit just that becoming possible in Florida.
If he becomes POTUS in 24, it’s gonna be history again anyway in the US.
The real question is: How and why can ANY allegedly democratic nation seriously discuss, let alone sign up to this?
First and foremost British ‘It’ s all about sovereignty, mate!’ Brexiters?!
This treaty puts dictatorial powers into a foreign body’s and even just 1 person’s hand.
It is as such even more authoritarian than Hitler’s enabling act of 1933 and also outright treasonous.
And we can probably count on Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota as well to oppose this.
Not sure about any other governors. But most blue governors will cheer it on, while even most red governors will roll over and play dead.
Wow, this one of the scariest things I have read in a long time, and that really says something! How can this possibly legal, unless the US Constitution is effectively a dead letter?
How is this not treason?
With due deference to the Bulley family at this sad time. Our wonderful police couldnt find a body a mile away from an incident so asking the Keystone Cops to police WHO polices is frankly risible
I have written to my MP to highlight this issue.
If I am correct these WHO amendments only need a majority vote to pass. It will bypass Parliament and means an end to countries’ sovereignty in terms of health decisions.
I wrote to my Tory MP a few months ago about this issue. He is supportive of the initiative denying there will be any loss of national health sovereignty by signing up to the WHO ‘treaty’. We know he is lying, he knows he is lying and he knows he can rely on the Party to lie too.
This is WAR!
These hopeless clods just folded in the face of China’s non- co operation with the investigation into the origins of the SARS Cov virus. (No doubt agreed in advance)
Hopefully their record of ineptitude will put paid to any notion of a centralised medical authority for the whole world with them at the head.
I’m trying to suppress the sinking feeling that this is exactly the qualification required for the job. That, and a commitment to rubber stamp the mandate for whatever brew Pfizer churn out.
This is the BIG ONE ! If the the western world traitors get this through , The George Orwell Boot will be firmly treading on Humanity’s collective face !
This is beyond EVIL.
One more step towards the ‘utopian’ one world govt?
Globalists are handing away every bit of freedom we have to unelected unaccountable bureaucracies. Everything from climate to covid is to be controlled by the global government in waiting at the UN/WEF ———We may still be allowed some small freedoms like maybe cutting our own toenails. ——-Wake up people you are being played.