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Source: Kick Them All Out
by Editor Friday, May 14 2021
By Dr. Joseph Mercola
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
• "TrustWHO," a documentary film produced by Lilian Franck, delves into the corruption behind the World Health Organization• Industry influences, from Big Tobacco to the nuclear industry and pharmaceuticals, dictated WHO's global agenda from the start; WHO's 2009 H1N1 pandemic response was heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry• WHO works closely with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a promotor of the nuclear industry, and has downplayed health effects caused by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters• WHO's investigation into COVID-19's origins is corrupt, as China was allowed to hand pick the members of the WHO's investigative team, which includes Peter Daszak, Ph.D., who has close professional ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) that was being investigated The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was the biggest funder of WHO when Donald Trump stopped U.S. funding, making Gates' priorities the backbone of WHO• Given the strong and ongoing evidence that WHO is heavily influenced, if not outright controlled, by Bill Gates and industry, WHO's usefulness as a guardian of public health needs to be reevaluated.
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The World Health Organization was created in 1948, founded by 61 member states and financed from their contributions. It appeared to be a promising start, intended to end human suffering and save lives but, according to Robert Parsons, a journalist based in Geneva, Switzerland, where the WHO headquarters are based, "it was infiltrated by industry from the very start."
Parsons is just one expert interviewed in "TrustWHO," a documentary film produced by Lilian Franck that delves into the corruption behind the preeminent organization that’s being trusted with public health. It started in the 1950s, a time when the scientific evidence on the harms of smoking was emerging, and has continued through nuclear disasters and at least two pandemics — swine flu in 2009 and COVID-19 in 2020.
Tobacco Industry Infiltrated WHO
It's well known that the tobacco industry launched a public relations campaign to undermine the emerging science and keep cigarettes in a favorable light with the public.1 In its first decades, WHO did little to oppose it. As late as 1994, tobacco heads testified before U.S. congress, saying nicotine is not addictive.
Gradually, tobacco companies were required to publish their internal documents, which revealed their strategies to combat WHO. Among them was the Boca Raton Action Plan, which was developed by Philip Morris executives.2 In regard to WHO, it stated, "This organization has extraordinary influence on government and consumers and we must find a way to diffuse this …"3
WHO, put under pressure, released a report in 2000 stating that the tobacco industry worked for many years to subvert WHO efforts to control tobacco use, noting, "The attempted subversion has been elaborate, well financed, sophisticated and usually invisible."4
WHO special envoy Thomas Zeltner was among those who investigated the tobacco industry, finding that it founded institutes and bought scientists to represent their position without disclosing their industry ties.
One prominent name in the scandal is Paul Dietrich, a U.S. lawyer with close ties to the tobacco industry. While claiming to be an independent expert, Dietrich advised the tobacco industry, spoke at conferences and wrote articles against WHO. While receiving a monthly retainer from British American Tobacco, he was appointed to the development committee of the Pan American Health Organization, which serves as the WHO's regional office for the Americas, a BMJ report noted.5
While serving in this role, he convinced the Pan American Health Organization to focus on vaccines and cholera instead of tobacco control.6 Frank Sullivan is another example. He worked as a tobacco company consultant and, while challenging data that tobacco smoke was harmful, was also advising WHO.7
In 2000, the documentary notes, Sullivan’s collaboration with the tobacco industry became public, but he still continued to advise WHO. Franck requested to see Sullivan's conflict of interest forms, which should have been on file, but they were never provided.
WHO's Swine Flu Pandemic Plan Influenced by Big Pharma
The pharmaceutical industry has a similar history with the WHO, which became a glaring conflict during the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic. Secret agreements were made between Germany, Great Britain, Italy and France with the pharmaceutical industry before the H1N1 pandemic began, which stated that they would purchase H1N1 flu vaccinations — but only if a pandemic level 6 was declared by WHO.
The documentary shows how, six weeks before the pandemic was declared, no one at WHO was worried about the virus, but the media was nonetheless exaggerating the dangers. Then, in the month leading up to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, WHO changed the official definition of pandemic, removing the severity and high mortality criteria and leaving the definition of a pandemic as "a worldwide epidemic of a disease."8
This switch in definition allowed WHO to declare swine flu a pandemic after only 144 people had died from the infection worldwide, and it's why COVID-19 is still promoted as a pandemic even though plenty of data suggest the lethality of COVID-19 is on par with the seasonal flu.9
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Source: Summit News
World's Leading Scientists: WHO Has Failed To Make 'Balanced Consideration' On Possibility COVID Leaked From Chinese Lab
"We must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillovers seriously until we have sufficient data"
14 May, 2021 | By Steve Watson
A group of the world's leading scientists have written an open letter urging more investigation into the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic was caused by a leak from Wuhan's Institute of Virology, saying that the World Health Organisation has dismissed the notion without proper consideration.
The scientists, who all work for the globe's leading universities and health organisations, urged that the origins of the pandemic must be further investigated and that the lab leak theory remains "viable" despite the WHO’s statements to the contrary.
The group includes David Relman, professor of microbiology at Stanford, Ravindra Gupta, a clinical microbiologist at the University of Cambridge, and Jesse Bloom, a virus expert at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
"More investigation is still needed to determine the origins of the pandemic," the letter from the 18 leading scientists reads.
"Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable," the scientists wrote in the letter to the journal Science.
"We must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillovers seriously until we have sufficient data," the scientists emphasise in the letter.
The development comes days after an independent panel ruled that the WHO, which in January 2020 suggested it was racist to impose border controls to stop the spread of COVID-19, could have saved over 3 million lives if it had recommended travel restrictions earlier.
As we previously highlighted, after spending months trying to negotiate a visit, WHO officials largely absolved China of blame for the COVID-19 pandemic after visiting a virus lab in Wuhan for just 3 hours.
Please go to Summit News to read more.
Source: Summit News
World's Leading Scientists: WHO Has Failed To Make 'Balanced Consideration' On Possibility COVID Leaked From Chinese Lab
"We must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillovers seriously until we have sufficient data"
14 May, 2021 | By Steve Watson
The scientists, who all work for the globe's leading universities and health organisations, urged that the origins of the pandemic must be further investigated and that the lab leak theory remains "viable" despite the WHO’s statements to the contrary.
The group includes David Relman, professor of microbiology at Stanford, Ravindra Gupta, a clinical microbiologist at the University of Cambridge, and Jesse Bloom, a virus expert at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
"More investigation is still needed to determine the origins of the pandemic," the letter from the 18 leading scientists reads.
"Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable," the scientists wrote in the letter to the journal Science.
"We must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillovers seriously until we have sufficient data," the scientists emphasise in the letter.
The development comes days after an independent panel ruled that the WHO, which in January 2020 suggested it was racist to impose border controls to stop the spread of COVID-19, could have saved over 3 million lives if it had recommended travel restrictions earlier.
As we previously highlighted, after spending months trying to negotiate a visit, WHO officials largely absolved China of blame for the COVID-19 pandemic after visiting a virus lab in Wuhan for just 3 hours.
Please go to Summit News to read more.
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