by Peter Koenig, Global Research:
Yesterday, after the formal inauguration, President Trump signed about 200 Executive Orders which do not need approval from Congress. Among the more important ones, literally about 8 hours after his inauguration, is the one mandating the United States exit the World Health Organization (WHO). He has also signed an Executive Order to immediately stop the inhumane WOKE agenda.
See this – BREAKING: United States Withdraws from the World Health Organization.
“Secretary of State, Mark Rubio, shall immediately inform the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the leadership of the WHO of the United States’ withdrawal from the WHO.” – President Trump
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The main reason Mr. Trump gave for exiting WHO was the horrendous mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic and other international health crises. Without saying so in direct words, President Trump was likely referring to thee infamous Pandemic Treaty and the related newly revised International Health Regulations (IHR) which were being forced upon all 194 WHO member countries. issues. A health tyranny depriving autonomous nations from their health sovereignty.
Mr. Trump also said the WHO had failed to act independently from the “inappropriate political influence of WHO member states” and required “unfairly onerous payments” from the U.S. that were disproportionate to the sums provided by other larger countries such as China.
He referred to an enormous imbalance with China which has four times more inhabitants than the US, but pays only about one-third of the US amount. This is not quite correct.
Member contributions to UN agencies, including WHO, are based on a complex economic formula, including on GDP and other wealth indicators. The chart below indicates current contribution levels. The US is by far the largest member-country backer, paying 22% towards the official WHO budget of US$6.8 billion for the 2024-2025 period, and China about 15%.
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In the case of WHO, the official budget (member-country contributions) becomes almost irrelevant, considering that up 87% of WHO’s total budget (money available) comes from private sources, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Big Pharma, especially GAVI – the Vaccination Association (some 20 pharma corporations), which has their offices basically across the street from WHO, IT tech-companies, and other interested industries.
These private influences are a blatant conflict of interest and may also have been a reason for President Trump’s decision to exit the WHO which makes believe it works for the public interest, when in fact it is bound to represent the interests of its private donors and sponsors.
Back to the Pandemic Treaty and the revised IHR. Since they never passed the mandatory vote of the World Health Assembly – not in May 2023 nor in May 2024 – the case was delegated to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September 2024. September 20 and 21, 2024 were reserved for a semi-clandestine debate on the Pandemic Treaty and the new IHR. Since no consensus could be reached, the UNGA decided on a well-known, treacherous, and undemocratic procedure of “approval” by non-objection.
None of the 193 UN members dared objecting. So, the new IHR, which incorporates the basic criteria of the Pandemic Treaty, was pushed through as a Pact. A pact, while legally binding, has certain flexibilities that allow countries to defy its rules under special circumstances. Besides, countries have until end 2025 to approve or disapprove the Pact.
From here onwards, the WHO fiasco becomes blurry. It is unclear how many countries have approved and may approve the Pact – most likely not many, but the overall “picture” is deliberately kept fuzzy. General silence is the public information of this WHO disaster.
No nation wants to lose its health sovereignty to a dictator, as WHO already is with the powers given by the UN system to the incompetent Mr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s Director-General, pushed into his position by Bill Gates, a major donor to WHO. How could the WHO General Assembly say no?
