Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The World Health Organization’s disastrous handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, their alleged excessive deference to China, and their apparent refusal to consider any serious reform, has convinced President Trump they are not fit for purpose.
Trump Administration Formally Notifies U.N. of Withdrawal From World Health Organization
BY MATTHEW LEE / AP JULY 7, 2020 4:24 PM EDT
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Guterres, in his capacity as depositary of the 1946 WHO constitution, “is in the process of verifying with the World Health Organization whether all the conditions for such withdrawal are met,” his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said.
Under the terms of the withdrawal, the U.S. must meet its financial obligations to the WHO before it can be finalized. The U.S., which is the agency’s largest donor and provides it with more than $400 million per year, currently owes the WHO some $200 million in current and past dues.
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The president said in a White House announcement that Chinese officials “ignored” their reporting obligations to the WHO and pressured the organization to mislead the public about an outbreak that has now killed more than 130,000 Americans.
“We have detailed the reforms that it must make and engaged with them directly, but they have refused to act,” Trump said at the time. “Because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms, we will be today terminating the relationship.”
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Read more: https://time.com/5863883/us-withdrawal-world-health-organization-trump/
What really caught my attention is the United Nations response.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ priority appears to be trying to extract a last few hundred million out of the USA.
Instead of accepting the USA’s withdrawal with good grace, and say expressing hope of a future rapprochement, the United Nations is going through the fine print, to see if they can squeeze President Trump and US taxpayers for a bit more cash before the money pipe is closed.
UN – United Nations.
Rewrite to:
UN – Ununited Nations
good point nw sage!
Who needs performance when you have entitlement.. Eh?
Cheers
Mike
This should have been done long ago. Now, kick UN the f**k out of America.
Exactly. Battle cry — “Yesterday the IPCC, now the WHO, tomorrow the UN!”
The democratic nations should all withdraw from the WHO and form their own health monitoring group. Let the dictatorships workout things for themselves.
Probably long overdue. Sometimes we have to be willing to change if we expect things to get better.
WHO knew.
“Trump Administration Formally Notifies U.N. of Withdrawal From World Health Organization”
Brilliant!
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/03/18/the-eco-crisis-ambition-of-the-un/
Slightly off topic:
Students willing to give up free speech if it makes others “more comfortable”.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15219
If there is something resembling a contractual agreement that says how much the US owes WHO then there must be some details about what WHO owes the US and other members. Something about honest, objective efforts to promote the health and wellbeing of all world citizens above any political or personal agendas perhaps? So WHO owes who? And WHO first broke the contract?
That’s what I’m telling you! 🙂
This is really rich. If I were a member of a club and owed substantial money in past dues, how would the club react?
If you guessed “kick you out” you’d be correct.
But the WHO, in its infinite wisdom, is telling us we CAN’T QUIT because we haven’t paid our dues. The Bizzaro world in which bureaucrats live…
WHO: “But you still owe us $200 million.
Trump: “Come and take it”
Sounds more like a gang, or the mafia… “you’re with us or against us”
ho hum-
“A high-profile European pathologist is reporting that he and his colleagues across Europe have not found any evidence of any deaths from the novel coronavirus on that continent.
Dr. Stoian Alexov called the World Health Organization (WHO) a “criminal medical organization” for creating worldwide fear and chaos without providing objectively verifiable proof of a pandemic.
Another stunning revelation from Bulgarian Pathology Association (BPA) president Dr. Alexov is that he believes it’s currently “impossible” to create a vaccine against the virus.
He also revealed that European pathologists haven’t identified any antibodies that are specific for SARS-CoV-2”
https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/02/no-one-has-died-from-the-coronavirus-president-of-the-bulgarian-pathology-association/
Joe “China” Biden just said if he is elected the United States will rejoin the WHO.
Right idea, but not enough. We need to withdraw from the UN entirely and tell them go pound sand. Let them relocate their HQ to whatever awful corner of the Earth they wish to occupy.
No one has mentioned bill gates control of WHO!
A little more research is required by the media – unless they are caught up in the Gats money web!