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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Who is W.H.O.?

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Written by Laurence F Sanford, Senior Analyst ASCF

Categories: ASCF Articles

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W.H.O. is the World Health Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations concerned with international public health. Founded in 1948 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, it has 194 member states.

W.H.O., for the past three years, has been opaquely working on empowering the U.N. to establish a global pandemic treaty that would require:
● Countries and companies to share intellectual property and
medical supplies.
● Mandatory lockdowns and inoculations.
● Special treatment for developing countries. The U.N.
defines China as a developing country despite having the
world’s second-largest economy.
● Declaring “climate change” as a health issue.
● Censorship of misinformation and disinformation as defined
by W.H.O.

The treaty would infringe on U.S. sovereignty and, as usual with the Globalist agenda, would have Americans paying billions of dollars to subvert their own civilization. Fortunately, the member nations have not yet agreed on the treaty.

W.H.O. is now seeking an additional $7 billion to its annual $6.7 billion budget to fund global preparedness for future pandemics. Left unsaid is that the W.H.O. acted as a shrill for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cover-up and deception on COVID-19. The U.N. and W.H.O. lied and deceived the world about the CCP’s role in the coronavirus. Now, the W.H.O. wants to enlarge its powers over sovereign nations to further the CCP's objectives of world domination.

W.H.O. Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected to the post in 2017 with the support of the CCP. He previously served in an Ethiopian Marxist government as Health Director and then as Foreign Minister when Ethiopia received millions of aid dollars from Communist China. He holds a doctorate in Philosophy.

Ghebreyesus repaid the CCP with the W.H.O. coverup of COVID-19's origins in China and endorsed the draconian lockdowns imposed in China. He was responsible for the W.H.O. report that absolved China’s Wuhan lab as the source of the virus. The report was shallow, at best, since the CCP did not allow W.H.O. full access to the Wuhan lab. Furthermore, W.H.O. promoted the CCP policies of lockdowns and facemasks that have been proven ineffective. An estimated 7 million died, economies were ruined, education suffered, suicides increased, and the social fabric sundered.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) were also complicit in the coverup of CCP malfeasance in the COVID-19 pandemic. See my American Security Council Foundation position paper “China & Dr. Fauci - Why?” for more details.

President Trump reduced funding to W.H.O. in April 2020 because of its “covering up the spread of the coronavirus and being “too China-friendly.” President Biden, in one of his first acts as president, retracted Trump’s decision and rejoined W.H.O. with American dollars. Biden appointed Dr. Anthony Fauci to represent the United States on the world body’s executive committee.

The U.S. is the largest funder of the U.N. and its agencies. In 2022, it contributed over $18 billion, of which $15 billion was voluntary.

Peter Schweizer’s book “Blood Money” noted that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under Fauci and CCP influence, reversed the 2017 CDC guidelines for voluntary home quarantine of ill persons during a severe pandemic such as the Spanish flu. The CDC did not call for a forced lockdown, which Western medicine considered ineffective, damaging, and even draconian.

Instead, Fauci and many in the Western world (Sweden is a notable exception) followed China’s historical path of lockdowns and facemasks. The West believed the CCP’s lies over its own history and research of pandemics. Even more disturbing, the West funded China’s research on “gain of function” viruses.

Summary
W.H.O., founded with the good intention of improving world health, is controlled by the CCP and fellow Marxists who seek to dominate the world at the expense of Western civilization. First, the W.H.O. covered the origins of COVID-19 to protect the CCP; then, it followed the CCP’s protocols to harm the West’s economies and social fabric. Now, the W.H.O. seeks to expand its control over sovereign nations with a pandemic treaty and increased funding.

The United States is no longer the “home of the brave and land of the free,” as witnessed by the people’s ready acceptance of draconian lockdowns, forced inoculations, and facemask mandates issued by the federal government and some state governments. Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida led the fight against lockdowns, and he was vilified in the malicious Marxist mainstream media.

The mass hysteria was based on CCP lies. Marxist progressives accepted these lies without question and labeled any opposition as misinformation or disinformation. Who can forget the lone surf paddler arrested by California police while the California Governor dined without a mask at the French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley?

Action
1. Eliminate all U.S. voluntary contributions to the U.N. The
total U.S. contributions should align with the percentage
of the U.S. economy to the world economy. Other
industrialized countries should be treated the same.
a. China should no longer be considered a “developing
country” that receives favorable treatment in world
affairs.
b. India, Germany, and Japan should be added as permanent
Security Council members to reflect their world status.
2. Stop funding Chinese research labs and universities with
U.S. tax dollars. China is reportedly working on Ebola
gain of function research --- far more deadly than
COVID-19.
3. Recognize that the U.N. membership is stacked against
the United States and Western Civilization. Between
Marxist, autocratic, and Islamic countries, Western
countries are vastly outnumbered.

Reciprocity should be the foundation of American foreign policy. If the W.H.O. and the U.N. act against American interests, the U.S. should reciprocate by restricting their funding.
If the CCP does not allow American media to operate freely in China, then America should not allow CCP-controlled media, TikTok, to operate freely in America. President Biden and Trump are TikTok users.

Peace Through Strength!

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