Gordon Brown, former British Chancellor and Prime Minister, wrote an unsurprising opinion piece in the Telegraph on May 17th 2024 endorsing the as yet unfinished World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Pandemic Agreement. This will be subject to a vote at the World Health Assembly in a little over a week’s time. Countries have less than two weeks to review the final version of this legally binding agreement and its potential effects on their health systems, economies, human rights and independence. It was supposed to have been delivered on March 29th. Of note, Mr. Brown overlooked to mention in his article the parallel vote on proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations, which he is presumably aware refutes many of the claims in his article.
The former politician rightly notes the terrible losses incurred during COVID-19. Alongside deaths linked to the virus itself – at an average age of over 80 years in most Western countries – was the deadly impact of the devastating economic losses as businesses, schools and supply lines were closed globally in an unprecedentedly homogenous global response. UNICEF estimated 228,000 children died in 2020 in South Asia from the response alone, and an additional 10 million girls will be forced into child marriage and all that entails. WHO estimated an additional 150 million people pushed into hunger, while malaria and tuberculosis mortality rose.
Mr. Brown is advocating that the world agree to similarly centralised and draconian responses to all future declared pandemics, and threats thereof, without waiting for a review on whether such measures actually caused, rather than mitigated, this disaster. Perhaps if WHO had kept to its pre-COVID-19 advice for respiratory virus pandemics of keeping borders open, people free from confinement and limiting workplace closures to protect low-income people things may have gone better. But abandonment of such orthodoxy remain unexplained.
Similarly, Brown bemoans the lack of vaccination in low-income countries where poor people with high rates of HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and malnutrition but very low rates of severe COVID-19 frequently went unvaccinated. The failed COVAX programme to which he refers set out to vaccinate 75% of people in sub-Saharan Africa, in full knowledge that half this population were under 20 years of age while just 1% were over-75 and at significant risk from COVID-19. He may be unaware though, that WHO also undertook a study published in the third quarter of 2021, before Omicron ‘vaccinated’ the world’s population, showing that two thirds of Africans already had detectable SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, thus making additional vaccination of little benefit. The resource diversion of almost $10 billion associated with this programme, three times the annual budget for malaria, could not logically have provided overall benefit.
Gordon Brown claims that the Pandemic Agreement never at any stage allowed WHO to enforce population-wide vaccination, mask mandates and lockdowns. This is correct, as these provisions were in the IHR amendments, which the Pandemic Agreement states complement and are compatible with the Agreement itself. The version of this prior to April 2024 did precisely that, with countries undertaking to follow the Director General’s recommendations, explicitly including mandated vaccines, border closures and quarantine. It may be that Mr. Brown did not read this.
In contending that it is false that 20% of commodities can be demanded by the WHO, Mr. Brown appears to recognise that something related to this was indeed in drafts of the Pandemic Agreement (Article 12.4.b: 10% of commodities to be provided free and 10% at cost price). So rather than working directly from the text, he quotes as evidence a clearly misleading statement from the U.K. Government Minister responsible.
Perhaps the most disappointing thing about the entire debacle around the WHO’s pandemic accords is this misinformation that is so frequently accompanying them. The urgency and risk of pandemics has been shown to be grossly misrepresented by WHO, the World Bank and G20 High Level Independent Panel, based on their own sources of evidence. COVID-19, quoted as a further justification, is now widely accepted to have arisen through gain of function research – a result of reckless approaches to pandemic prevention rather than of natural risk. A further report from the University of Leeds recently demonstrated that the financing required to address these proposals is equivalent to 25% to 50% of total global overseas development assistance for health – an unfeasible number the magnitude of which should not be lost upon a former Chancellor.
If this Pandemic Agreement and the accompanying but overlooked IHR amendments are indeed crucial to us all, then perhaps countries need more than a few days to review them. Article 55(2) of the IHR requires four months review time, while the Pandemic Agreement was supposed to be delivered before the end of March. Both of these agreements, intended to be legally binding on states, are still under negotiation within two weeks of a vote. A more measured approach for Brown would involve supporting those calling for a postponement until obvious deficiencies are addressed and the reforms are placed on an evidence-based footing, allowing countries to assess their far-ranging implications. That would be good global governance. One hopes the former Chancellor, who previously called for a global Government with executive powers to manage the COVID-19 outbreak, would agree.
Whilst Mr. Brown does not consider handing decision-making powers currently vested in individuals and national government to an organisation a quarter privately funded, and overseen by an assembly including geopolitical rivals of the U.K., to be a sovereignty issue, other well placed people disagree. These include 49 U.S. Senators, the Dutch Parliament and the Slovak Prime Minister. Like many, the former Chancellor may be having difficulty in distinguishing misinformation from truth. This may be why trust, of such importance to governments and public health, is being lost by both.
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.
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Maybe I’m getting too sceptical in my old age, but I’ve just re-read ‘There Was No Pandemic’ by Denis Rancourt on Denis’s substack. I must say the very well qualified author makes a very convincing case.I am inclined to think that the truth of what we’ve been through since 2020 is some shade of grey, neither jet black nor pure white.
We know SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus.
We know coronaviruses cause the common cold.
We know that the common cold is a great deal more deadly to the over eighties than influenza.
We know that emergent coronaviruses like OC 43 have previously caused widespread and severe respiratory illnesses amongst the elderly and infirm across the globe.
It seems pretty clear that Covid 19 was simply another common cold coronavirus, very much as we were told by a coronavirus expert in China 06 February 2020.
All the rest was panic, duplicity and venality, not uncommon in monkeys……
Broadly right. What we don’t know accurately is how many “common colds” are actually caused by the various coronaviruses, if only because it’s a waste of time, and most of us don’t contribute to any relevant tests. The percentage seems to vary between 10 and 30 %, with the rest being down to the rhinoviruses – of which there are many variants, apparently.
Incidentally, the term “coronavirus” was invented at the Common Cold Unit in Salisbury, half a century ago, when it became possible to identify such tiny things via electron microscopy. It appeared kind of crown like; maybe not in another country, though.
It was interesting, though, that they couldn’t manually infect people with the so called virus. There was a similar experiment with the Spanish (neutral country) flu.
Pretty much follows Rancourt’s narrative. He goes as far as to say the killer in 1918 wasn’t flu per se, but that bacterial pneumonia was the chief killer. He quantifies the number likely killed by the clot-shot as 13m. The entire article was persuasive (given that my ‘A’ level biology was acquired 57 years ago).
I just read a book about Polio. The author makes a very persuasive cade that the deaths were initially related to early pesticides in an attempt to wipe out invasive moths. Later DDT did untold damage.
Read The Real Dr Fauci by RFKjnr for some equally persuasive stories about HIV.
Read RFK’s book on release Nick. Blockbuster! The thing that upsets me is why isn’t that little wart Faucci indictable?
He can tell tales on all the right people. His crimes exceed by far anyone ever taken to The Hague to stand trial. His knowledge of who, when and what means he is Teflon Tony in a white coat.
RFK’s book, in a sane world, would be required reading in every school and workplace. What those evil creatures did, and continue to do, is truly horrendous and exceed any horror fiction I ever read. By chapter 3 it is truly shocking the lengths they go to. It is truly evil.
I cannot agree with your position. The Scamdemic commenced 2020 and the initial phase runs through to 2030. All of this has been planned – see Agenda 2021 / 30. The fact that most of the developed world acted in Lockstep tells us all we need to know.
This is an interesting perspective. I understand a lot about Agenda 21/30, as you might be aware, but I do not know enough about Covid, so I will have to pass on that ——-But I am very interested in what you say and will keep an eye on it.
Also the Great Reset is just an accelerated version of Agenda21 / 30.
Indeed.
and in complete accord with Event 201.
Definitely.
I’ve searched for that but can’t find it, could you post a link? Thanks
There was no pandemic just an orchestrated over reaction to a disease about as lethal as flu. If we behaved that irrationally we could do it every flu season.
“Orchestrated reaction” – yes. Overreaction – no.
How can it not be an overreaction when the NHS completely downgraded Covid in February 2020 before any lockdown stating that it was more or less harmless?
They came the propaganda, “act like you have it”….In most cases then, as you were!
Of course, it was downgraded to allow these experimental emergency use jabs to be rushed through.
The C1984 was downgraded in order to let in the “vaccines.” I have posted this many times.
C1984 was re-categorised as a Low Consequence Infectious Disease from a previous High categorisation because if it remained at High then all medicines and prophylactics would have to be kept available to combat it. Obviously this would have kept Ivermectin and Hydroxichloroquine on the shelves and Ivermectin in particular is one of the safest and most effective drugs on the planet.
What most numbnuts have failed to understand is that in downgrading the authorities were blatantly admitting that the C1984 did not warrant a “vaccine.” It simply wasn’t dangerous as the official figures, doctored at that, confirmed.
”Grossly misinterpreted”. You can say that again. Remember the preoccupation and obsessive reporting on ‘Covid deaths/cases’? How many ( ”unvaccinated” ) were hospitalized and all the ICUs were bursting at the seams? When we look back at the lunacy it seems even more mental, people should really feel a thousand shames ( I’m looking at you, medics! ) that they fell for this epic con, or at least never had the balls to question it if their instincts told them something was off about all of it. Does anybody remember it being normal to put down the flu on somebody’s death certificate as the cause of death when they’d fallen off a ladder or been in a car crash? Nothing to do with head trauma, the flu did it! But with ‘Covid’ those all important numbers were everything;
”Some people put the over-zealousness to classify all deaths within a certain number of days (normally 30 or 60) of a “positive covid test” as “covid deaths” down to some sort of mass delusion, with one nation just copying others in some sort of groupthink.
But that isn’t the case at all.
It should be noted that the term “clinically compatible illness” is used. However, if you recall, once the magical PCR test had become accepted as the “gold standard” it – and it alone – became the basis of diagnosis. Hence the delusional attribution of every single symptom (including death) to “covid” in people who tested positive, even if they had no respiratory illnesses.
The effect of all this would obviously have been:
https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/the-insane-over-attribution-of-deaths
Suicide and Covid = Covid, Run over by a bus and Covid = Covid, Heart Attack and Covid = Covid.
I recall they got more funding with more deaths attributed to C19. And in care homes they could diagnose C19 over a zoom call, and the family weren’t aloud into the homes to challenge anything. And of course, Medazolam helped inflate the deaths in April 2020.
If this goes through in the form that the WHO/TheRPTB want ie the power to order lockdowns, digital ID’s, mandatory universal vaccination etc. then evidence based medicine will be dead.
There will be no control group to measure success/failure.
Bigpharma’s dream come true. Everything bad that happens health wise to the human race can never be their fault.
Just think, mRNA jabbed from cradle to (an ealrier) grave.
Happily, I can’t see it ever happening, too many of us will not comply, in spite or maybe because of Orders.
Yup they will have to vaccinate my dead body!
Gordon Brown will go down in history for one thing:
selling off Britain’s Gold Reserves for tuppence.
He belongs in jail.
Yes and wasn’t he the genius who said he’d end the “Boom Bust” economy.
He did that alright, been bust ever since – flogging off our industries didn’t help, oh and there’s the wonderful PPI initiative to build hospitals..
And that’s even before one considers Iraq.
Yes the Chancellor who ran a deficit through one of the strongest periods of growth on record leaving us unprepared for the 08 crash.
The same one who ignored the bank of England’s advice and allowed the property bubble to form which is the root of the current house price issue today
He was also part of the government that pushed the “weapons of mass destruction” lie as a pretext for launching the invasion of an independent sovereign nation that lead to the death of hundreds of thousands and the displacement of millions.
So lying about an international treaty is just business as usual for this scumbag.
Quite correct, Heretic.
But “selling off Gold Reserves” is equivalent to condemning Al Capone for being a tax dodger.
In addition to all the other things he must be condemned for (see comments below), he was the PM when Ed Miliband’s Climate Change Act 2008 was pushed through parliament, with the enthusistic support of all but five MPs.
This, together with Theresa May’s turbocharging of this Act to “Net Zero”, will eclipse even Covid in the damage it does to the UK and the West.
I wonder is the money she made doing speeches just a front for pushing through Agenda 2030 policies.
Yes , this seemingly dedicated political Colossus , is in reality one of the most damaging influences on the Economy of Britain in my lifetime . First , he abolished tax relief on private pension schemes , then he completely missed the financial chicanery that preceded the 2008 Financial Crash and then to top it off , he sold most of the British Gold Reserves at the bottom of the market . People claim that he Saved The World in 2008 with the relief scheme for Financial Institutions but he just did as directed by Peter Sands of Standard Chartered Bank . Brown , is a Political Numbnut !
A Globalist to the core!
Thank you.
You are far too generous in your accolades. The Broon, a Next Tuesday supreme. At least he hit the heights in something.
“The UN National Security Council held a moment of silence to honor the “Butcher of Tehran.” The US Ambassador joined”
Mark Steyn
“The Covid vaccines? Ah, no. This was the UK’s “tainted blood” scandal of the Seventies and Eighties, which resulted in thousands of NHS patients being injected with Hepatitis C or HIV. I recall that among the victims was the late Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop.
Dame Anita was injected with Hep C in 1971. So, on the timeline of this inquiry, we should expect some eminent personage’s devastating report on the Covid vaccines circa the early 2070s. Can’t wait”
Brown is a cross between Stalin and Mr Bean. Clownish incompetence blended with a ruthless lust for power.
Oh that’s bordering on poetry.
Thank you
Without a doubt, in my opinion, the thickest man ever to occupy the post of PM in my lifetime.
To describe this pillock as “intelligent stupid” overrates him by an incalculable degree.
As some of you may know I have been very vocal in my objections to the WHO Pandemic Treaty and IHR regulation amendments.
We are coming to the final stages of negotiations before the assembly at the end of May 2024, during which these documents are supposed to be signed.
Unfortunately it appears that there is a concerted effort to get these over the line, despite many people voicing concerns and also despite the fact that according to their own rules these documents should have been produced 4 months prior to the assembly (so late January 2024).
I just thought I would share this paper, published after the first outbreak of Avian Influenza in humans in Hong Kong 1997. I find it an interesting paper as it summarises the mindset of the WHO. Their philosophy is that central control and fast roll-out of vaccines is key in controlling any future pandemic.
I am personally of the opinion that, if anything, the last four years should have taught us central control, aiming to control a respiratory virus, plus an expedited roll-out of a novel technique vaccine was a disaster.
So some reflection and learning is urgently needed.
But the train appears to be hurtling ahead, probably through too many vested interests, whilst ignoring the impact on human health and wellbeing.
Snacken, R., Kendal, A. P., Haaheim, L. R., & Wood, J. M. (1999). The next influenza pandemic: lessons from Hong Kong, 1997. Emerging infectious diseases, 5(2), 195–203. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0502.990202
Thank you for the reference. The Abstract of the paper begins:
The 1997 Hong Kong outbreak of an avian influenzalike virus, with 18 proven human cases, many severe or fatal, highlighted the challenges of novel influenza viruses.
18? Are there a number of zeroes missing? The Hong Kong population at the time was 6.5 million. Then:
Influenza pandemics are typically characterized by the rapid spread of a novel type of influenza virus to all areas of the world, resulting in an unusually high number of illnesses and deaths for approximately 2 to 3 years. Such pandemics occurred in 1918, 1957, and 1968 (Table); in the most severe pandemic (1918-20), at least 20 million people died, most working-age adults (10-12).
The 1918-20 Spanish flu “pandemic” has been credibly portrayed (e.g. in the book ‘Virus Mania’, by Engelbrecht et al) as the result of the mass vaccination programme at the end of WWI, weakened immune systems after the war and the many poisons contained in the medicines of the time.
The paper continues:
For many years, influenza viruses have been isolated by injecting clinical samples into embryonated chicken eggs. Viruses have been detected by agglutination of erythrocytes and inhibited by using antisera provided through WHO, thus keeping costs relatively low and methods relatively simple … However, when the H5 viruses isolated in Hong Kong were injected into chicken eggs, they caused high numbers of deaths, thus making eggs less suitable as the sole host system for surveillance purposes.
The Terrain v. Germ Theory lobby have always maintained that viruses have never been truly isolated, only being ‘identified’ in mixtures of various biological substances, in this case chicken eggs.
Finally, under Conclusions:
One year after concerns were raised in Hong Kong about another influenza pandemic, are we really much further along in establishing the most effective early warning systems and developing the ability to deal with a true pandemic?
And now we come to the crux of the matter: how can we perpetuate fear by always reminding people of the next deadly, global pandemic, just waiting around the corner? A pandemic where the only cure can be a novel vaccine!
In my very cynical opinion, the whole pandemic/virus/vaccine business is just a huge money-maker with absolutely no basis in truth behind it. The days of smallpox and other true epidemics were ended with what we nowadays regard as basic hygiene, good nutrition and humane working conditions.
Excellent post
What is currently happening in NL is truly shocking. The caretaker minister has taken it upon herself to sign this document, against the will of the Dutch Parliament. An urgent debate was called last night in Parliament.
he wants another number 2 job when Satans love child takes over at the WEF.
Brown is another one of those political types who should come with both a Wealth and a Health Warning.
Gordon the Moron has never been right about anything.
And he’s continuing his record with his endorsement of the WHO’s proposed power-grab.
Part of the Blair Government that completely trashed the Country from devolution, to mass migration, to selling off the gold reserves, making political correctnesss and wrongthink the crimes they are today, the seperation of the Bank of England making it answerable to no one, I could go on it would take pages, and yet people like this man still somehow has influence, why?
Blair to replace Schwab?
Would Gordon Brown like to explain how he can endorse an organisation that is responsible for rolling out a gene therapy that causes these problems?
https://x.com/SenseReceptor/status/1793004716114243914
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/05/21/craig-mackinlay-tory-mp-sepsis-quadruple-amputation-pmqs/
“Gordon Is a Moron” was how the song went !
“Former politician”…now do one.
Given that Brown, who was nobody’s Prime Minister just as Sunak is not, is one of the biggest liars on the planet. Why is he even given any time to spew his lies by anyone? He agrees with “the right people” that’s why.
I had intended voting for John Smith but had grave concerns about Brown and Blair. Suddenly Smith dies. Quite frankly I would not be in the slightest surprised to find those two had a hand in it. Would anyone seriously claim it is unfeasible? Needless to say I have never voted Labour since and never will. Any party, or body, that has anything to do with those two evil bastards cannot ever be trusted.
Incidentally, I am well aware that Prime Ministers are not elected. In both Sunak and Browns case they were parachuted in by the apparatchiks of their parties. Sunak had been roundly rejected so the members were ignored the second time around. In Browns case, everyone was pushed out of standing. Leaders of nothing, Prime Ministers of nothing.
Cracking post.
Am I the only one who looks at a picture of Brown and sees every creepy paedophile / sick weirdo in all the books I ever read? Long before they were in office I always knew there was something seriously wrong with him and Blair.