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The Rockefeller Foundation has been given the authority to make these decisions on behalf of the world
BY SIMONE J. SMITH
One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make in life is deciding who to trust. I know that we all have a story where trusting the wrong person has gone wrong. Trusting the wrong person can result in abusive relationships, being taken advantage of, financial losses, and many more undesirable outcomes.
This week, I want to share a newer development that has not been discussed readily, but what it does is put us, the citizens of the world, in a position where we are forced to trust leaders who may not have our best interest at heart. Unfortunately, our history has presented us leaders who manipulate people to follow them, even when it’s not in the followers’ economic or other interests. They do this by using emotion and identity to attract and manipulate their followers. They define in-group and out-group by manipulating emotions, especially fear, anger, and outrage. Through emotional persuasion, leaders get followers to adhere to a particular partisan identity, and they emphasize that by sticking with them, followers can avoid harm.
In recent years, concern has been expressed in both scholarly and popular literature about the dangers of scientific developments that could be used to control and manipulate human behavior. There are fears that behavioral techniques have advanced to such an extent that they threaten the fundamental values of Western civilization.
It is one of the reasons that when I found out that The Rockefeller Foundation announced it had partnered with the World Health Organization (“WHO”) “To expand global pandemic preparedness in an era of climate change,” the alarms in my head went off! We have seen how our global leaders have used manipulation to evoke trust during the pandemic, actions that have caused severe harm to many of us. Let’s take a look at what they have in store for us.
The Rockefeller Foundation launched the partnership with the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence on the sidelines of the 76th World Health Assembly (“WHA”). The Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from May 21st–30th, 2023. The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. They also meet to “negotiate” proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations (“IHRs”).
The Rockefeller Foundation’s announcement dramatically titled ‘One Health in practice – Preventing the Next Pandemic Before Communities Suffer’. A topic which is more in line with the Foundation’s announcement which makes it clear that the pandemic, climate change and surveillance ideologies have merged into one agenda.
The Rockefeller Foundation announced it is investing US$5 million to accelerate priority projects of the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence to drive global collaboration in genomic surveillance, adoption of data tools for pathogen detection, and assessment of climate-aggravated outbreak threats.
With support from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, the WHO Pandemic Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence was established in September 2021. The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence (the WHO Pandemic Hub), facilitates a global collaboration of partners from multiple sectors that supports countries and stakeholders to address future pandemic and epidemic risks with better access to data, better analytical capacities, and better tools and insights for decision-making.
The WHO Pandemic Hub works closely with Member States and WHO Regional and Country Offices to strengthen their data-sharing capacities and enable partners from around the world to collaborate and co-create tools to gather and analyze data for early warning surveillance. With a presence in more than 150 countries, six Regional Offices, and its Geneva Headquarters, WHO’s reach gives them the ability to treat pandemic, epidemic and public health risks with equal urgency and diligence around the globe.
So, as things stand, it has been decided by a small group of people at the World Health Assembly that a select group of undisclosed “partners” will have total global control over the prediction, data and information of “future pandemics.” Pandemics that could be declared at the whim of WHO’s Dictator General in the name of health, environment or climate.
WHA and WHO’s partners have not been given the authority to make these decisions on behalf of the world, and yet more than 8 billion people in the world do not have a say. We are to “trust” that these individuals have our best interests at heart, which is difficult after seeing all the harm that has been caused.