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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3346715" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>Look up the leader of the UN World Health Organization that's in charge of this virus.. One of the most corrupt individuals in the history of the UN. Look who he is associated with.</p><p></p><p>Today the largest donors to the WHO are the Gates Foundation and its associated GAVI Alliance for vaccination. With backers like Gates and Clinton it was no surprise that Tedros went on, after a stint as Ethiopian Foreign Minister, to win the post of WHO Director-General, this despite being the first non-physician to hold the position. During Tedros’ three year campaign to win the WHO post he was charged with having covered up three major epidemics of cholera while health minister in Ethiopia, mislabeling the cases as “acute watery diarrhea” (AWD)—a symptom of cholera—in an attempt to play down the significance of the epidemics, charges he <a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/02/18/who-is-who-s-tedros-adhanom/%20https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedros_Adhanom" target="_blank">denied</a>.</p><p></p><p>There is one country where the national air carrier has not cut flights to China to this date—Tedros’ own Ethiopia. Ethiopian Airlines continues to fly daily into Ethiopia from major Chinese cities. At the Addis Ababa airport the passengers are only given a minimal temperature test, something for a disease with a 14 day incubation period is hardly sufficient to limit the spread of the pathogen to Africa. While 59 other air carriers from 44 different countries have all grounded their flights to China, Ethiopian Airlines insists that it will follow directives from the World Health Organization and <a href="https://ecadforum.com/2020/02/06/ethiopian-airlines-gambles/" target="_blank">continue</a> its daily China flights.</p><p></p><p>The entry point for air travel between China and Africa is Ethiopia. The Chinese have built a new airport in Addis Ababa and it is the “gateway” for travel between many African countries like Zambia and China. Ethiopia’s Bole International airport sees on average 1500 passengers per day arriving from China. There are an estimated one million Chinese working in Africa from Zambia to Nigeria, and Tedros’ Ethiopia is their place to enter. The problem is that Ethiopia is an extremely poor country and it, like most of Africa is ill-prepared to handle any outbreak of coronavirus. Despite the fact that Ethiopian citizens have protested at the continuing China air travel risk, the government continues to use WHO and Tedros’ statements to keep business flowing. In an alarm signal, the first reported case of coronavirus in Botswana was of an African student who <a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/02/18/who-is-who-s-tedros-adhanom/%20https://qz.com/africa/1795562/ethiopians-slam-their-government-for-not-stopping-china-flights/" target="_blank">came</a> from China on an Ethiopian Airlines plane.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-who-tedros-adhanom/5704110" target="_blank">https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-who-tedros-adhanom/5704110</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-china-trail-leading-back-to-wuhan-labs/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=fifth" target="_blank">to the Wuhan Labs</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/world-health-organization-corrupt-and-wasteful-it-needs-reform-1.jpg?fit=788%2C460&ssl=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>New WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Reuters photo: Denis Belibouse)</p><p>U.S. taxpayer funding of scandal-plagued World Health Organization needs strings attached</p><p></p><p></p><p>The World Health Organization (WHO), the troubled United Nations health agency, has just elected a controversial new director-general. The choice should disturb taxpayers, members of Congress, and the Trump administration.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf" target="_blank">budget blueprint</a>. Cuts to WHO will draw dire warnings about global pandemics and cries for America to do more.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://kff.org/global-health-policy/fact-sheet/the-u-s-government-and-the-world-health-organization/" target="_blank">largest contributor</a> to WHO’s approximately $2 billion budget. However, like other U.N. subsidiaries, WHO is plagued by persistent wasteful spending, utter disregard for transparency, pervasive incompetence, and failure to adhere to even basic democratic standards.</p><p></p><p>None of these problems are new, but they are worsening, and the latest developments underscore the need for tough love in the form of responsible stewardship of our largesse.</p><p>The May 23 election of Ethiopian politician Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to head WHO is the latest evidence that reform won’t come from WHO itself. Dr. Tedros, as he likes to be called (he has a Ph.D. in community health), is a leader of Ethiopia’s brutal minority party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, a wing of the ruling Marxist-rooted Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front. He served the violently repressive regime as minister of foreign affairs from 2012 to 2016, after a stint as health minister.</p><p><a href="http://www.apnews.com/1cf4791dc5c14b9299e0f532c75f63b2/AP-Exclusive:-Health-agency-spends-more-on-travel-than-AIDS" target="_blank">published an exposé</a> on WHO’s already infamously lavish spending on first-class airfare and five-star hotels.</p><p></p><p>Prior to Tedros’s election, the Associated Press published an exposé on WHO’s already infamously lavish spending on first-class airfare and five-star hotels.</p><p>The AP obtained documents showing that WHO “routinely has spent about $200 million a year on travel expenses, more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health, including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.”</p><p></p><p>This follows similar scandals that prompted a 2015 seminar on accountability, in which WHO finance chief Nick Jeffries said that WHO employees “can sometimes manipulate a little bit their travel.” He admitted that WHO couldn’t be sure that staff travel was booked cost-effectively, or was even warranted.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA70/A70_INF2-en.pdf" target="_blank">WHO considers assessed contributions</a> to be “the highest-quality funding” because they are “fully flexible, and can be allocated to any type of work.” Just the way WHO likes it, without strings.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/07/reporters-banned-from-global-anti-tobacco-conference/" target="_blank">WHO group ejected</a> credentialed media and members of the public before deliberations began. I know, because <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR-UN_Tobacco_102214.html" target="_blank">I was among them</a>. At the 2014 Moscow meeting, Russian security personnel escorted me out on orders of the FCTC secretariat.</p><p></p><p>At last year’s ostensibly transparent meeting, a credentialed American journalist <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/309610-united-nations-works-against-press-freedom-when-it-comes-to" target="_blank">suffered bruises</a> on his arms and shoulders while being pulled out of his chair and dragged out of the meeting hall by six guards.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://ukctas.net/pdfs/UKCTAS-response-to-WHO-ENDS-report-26.10.2016.pdf" target="_blank">criticized by leading tobacco-control experts</a> for positioning these harm-reducing products as a “threat rather than an opportunity.”</p><p></p><p><a href="http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/813500123053490176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2Fstory%2Ftrump160un-a-club-for-people-to-have-a-good-time-10709141" target="_blank">December 26 tweet</a> From President Trump (“The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!”) was a rare understatement, with respect to the U.N.’s WHO.</p><p></p><p>With so many lives at stake, it is imperative that the U.S. exercise leadership by using its influence as a leading donor to force real change, before it commits to maintain its current level of funding.</p><p></p><p>WHO’s malfeasance has gone on for too long, with no accountability to U.S. taxpayers. But it’s the world’s poorest who have the most to lose.</p><p><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/06/world-health-organization-corrupt-wasteful/" target="_blank">https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/06/world-health-organization-corrupt-wasteful/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3346715, member: 5412"] Look up the leader of the UN World Health Organization that's in charge of this virus.. One of the most corrupt individuals in the history of the UN. Look who he is associated with. Today the largest donors to the WHO are the Gates Foundation and its associated GAVI Alliance for vaccination. With backers like Gates and Clinton it was no surprise that Tedros went on, after a stint as Ethiopian Foreign Minister, to win the post of WHO Director-General, this despite being the first non-physician to hold the position. During Tedros’ three year campaign to win the WHO post he was charged with having covered up three major epidemics of cholera while health minister in Ethiopia, mislabeling the cases as “acute watery diarrhea” (AWD)—a symptom of cholera—in an attempt to play down the significance of the epidemics, charges he [URL='https://journal-neo.org/2020/02/18/who-is-who-s-tedros-adhanom/%20https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedros_Adhanom']denied[/URL]. There is one country where the national air carrier has not cut flights to China to this date—Tedros’ own Ethiopia. Ethiopian Airlines continues to fly daily into Ethiopia from major Chinese cities. At the Addis Ababa airport the passengers are only given a minimal temperature test, something for a disease with a 14 day incubation period is hardly sufficient to limit the spread of the pathogen to Africa. While 59 other air carriers from 44 different countries have all grounded their flights to China, Ethiopian Airlines insists that it will follow directives from the World Health Organization and [URL='https://ecadforum.com/2020/02/06/ethiopian-airlines-gambles/']continue[/URL] its daily China flights. The entry point for air travel between China and Africa is Ethiopia. The Chinese have built a new airport in Addis Ababa and it is the “gateway” for travel between many African countries like Zambia and China. Ethiopia’s Bole International airport sees on average 1500 passengers per day arriving from China. There are an estimated one million Chinese working in Africa from Zambia to Nigeria, and Tedros’ Ethiopia is their place to enter. The problem is that Ethiopia is an extremely poor country and it, like most of Africa is ill-prepared to handle any outbreak of coronavirus. Despite the fact that Ethiopian citizens have protested at the continuing China air travel risk, the government continues to use WHO and Tedros’ statements to keep business flowing. In an alarm signal, the first reported case of coronavirus in Botswana was of an African student who [URL='https://journal-neo.org/2020/02/18/who-is-who-s-tedros-adhanom/%20https://qz.com/africa/1795562/ethiopians-slam-their-government-for-not-stopping-china-flights/']came[/URL] from China on an Ethiopian Airlines plane. [URL]https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-who-tedros-adhanom/5704110[/URL] [URL='https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-china-trail-leading-back-to-wuhan-labs/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=fifth']to the Wuhan Labs[/URL] [IMG]https://i1.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/world-health-organization-corrupt-and-wasteful-it-needs-reform-1.jpg?fit=788%2C460&ssl=1[/IMG] New WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Reuters photo: Denis Belibouse) U.S. taxpayer funding of scandal-plagued World Health Organization needs strings attached The World Health Organization (WHO), the troubled United Nations health agency, has just elected a controversial new director-general. The choice should disturb taxpayers, members of Congress, and the Trump administration. [URL='https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf']budget blueprint[/URL]. Cuts to WHO will draw dire warnings about global pandemics and cries for America to do more. [URL='http://kff.org/global-health-policy/fact-sheet/the-u-s-government-and-the-world-health-organization/']largest contributor[/URL] to WHO’s approximately $2 billion budget. However, like other U.N. subsidiaries, WHO is plagued by persistent wasteful spending, utter disregard for transparency, pervasive incompetence, and failure to adhere to even basic democratic standards. None of these problems are new, but they are worsening, and the latest developments underscore the need for tough love in the form of responsible stewardship of our largesse. The May 23 election of Ethiopian politician Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to head WHO is the latest evidence that reform won’t come from WHO itself. Dr. Tedros, as he likes to be called (he has a Ph.D. in community health), is a leader of Ethiopia’s brutal minority party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, a wing of the ruling Marxist-rooted Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front. He served the violently repressive regime as minister of foreign affairs from 2012 to 2016, after a stint as health minister. [URL='http://www.apnews.com/1cf4791dc5c14b9299e0f532c75f63b2/AP-Exclusive:-Health-agency-spends-more-on-travel-than-AIDS']published an exposé[/URL] on WHO’s already infamously lavish spending on first-class airfare and five-star hotels. Prior to Tedros’s election, the Associated Press published an exposé on WHO’s already infamously lavish spending on first-class airfare and five-star hotels. The AP obtained documents showing that WHO “routinely has spent about $200 million a year on travel expenses, more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health, including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.” This follows similar scandals that prompted a 2015 seminar on accountability, in which WHO finance chief Nick Jeffries said that WHO employees “can sometimes manipulate a little bit their travel.” He admitted that WHO couldn’t be sure that staff travel was booked cost-effectively, or was even warranted. [URL='http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA70/A70_INF2-en.pdf']WHO considers assessed contributions[/URL] to be “the highest-quality funding” because they are “fully flexible, and can be allocated to any type of work.” Just the way WHO likes it, without strings. [URL='http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/07/reporters-banned-from-global-anti-tobacco-conference/']WHO group ejected[/URL] credentialed media and members of the public before deliberations began. I know, because [URL='http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR-UN_Tobacco_102214.html']I was among them[/URL]. At the 2014 Moscow meeting, Russian security personnel escorted me out on orders of the FCTC secretariat. At last year’s ostensibly transparent meeting, a credentialed American journalist [URL='http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/309610-united-nations-works-against-press-freedom-when-it-comes-to']suffered bruises[/URL] on his arms and shoulders while being pulled out of his chair and dragged out of the meeting hall by six guards. [URL='http://ukctas.net/pdfs/UKCTAS-response-to-WHO-ENDS-report-26.10.2016.pdf']criticized by leading tobacco-control experts[/URL] for positioning these harm-reducing products as a “threat rather than an opportunity.” [URL='http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/813500123053490176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2Fstory%2Ftrump160un-a-club-for-people-to-have-a-good-time-10709141']December 26 tweet[/URL] From President Trump (“The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!”) was a rare understatement, with respect to the U.N.’s WHO. With so many lives at stake, it is imperative that the U.S. exercise leadership by using its influence as a leading donor to force real change, before it commits to maintain its current level of funding. WHO’s malfeasance has gone on for too long, with no accountability to U.S. taxpayers. But it’s the world’s poorest who have the most to lose. [URL]https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/06/world-health-organization-corrupt-wasteful/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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