Introduction
Thread archive.
This is the first Twitter thread I wrote that dug more into the people and politics of Covid-19. At the time, nobody had really looked into the World Health Organization (WHO) as an organization with respect to Covid (that I had seen) so I wanted to dig deeper into it. This thread was yet another example of the combination of hard work and luck that led to my platform growing very rapidly. Immediately after posting this thread, President Trump tweeted, “The world is at war with a hidden enemy. WE WILL WIN!” with a video of Tedros below it.
This led a lot of people to assume I was either a fed or Q. For the record, I am neither. I just trust my instincts and they’ve led me down the right path up until now very well. Anyways, on to the thread! It has since been edited to add more information and detail. If you’d like to read the original thread, it is linked at the beginning of this post.
Thread #1: Chapter One – The Corruption of Tedros Ghebreyesus
Tedros was elected as Director General by the World Health Assembly on May, 23, 2017, and on July 1, 2017, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus officially took the office. Although he was the first Director General of the World Health Organization who is not an medical doctor, he had extensive history working in Ethiopia, particularly with Malaria research. At the time, to many he seemed like a good choice, and a fresh face for the WHO.
Public failures of WHO programs (e.g., persistence and growth of polio despite decades of WHO-sponsored eradication efforts) and scandals within United Nations programs (e.g., fraudulent siphoning off funds from the Oil-for-Food program), have challenged the WHO’s ability to promote large-scale change. The result is a twenty-first century WHO that performs a considerably altered role from the one envisioned at the organization’s inception. In most cases, the WHO just seems to be a bureaucratic wasteland. Tedros championed a new vision for the World Health Organization that would begin to rectify its many glaring issues.
The reality of his tenure has been anything but what he campaigned on. Tedros has proven again and again to be a liar, a cheat, and a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party. On top of that, despite his glowing educational history, Tedros truly seems to be quite stupid. What else could be expected from a man who was conned by a 14-year-old Australian girl? Ethiopians in particular have no love to spare for Tedros Ghebreyesus.
Despite his repeated failures, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus is the leader expected to guide us through Covid-19. His prominent support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Clintons, and the Chinese Communist Party, have him elevated by the American media as a hero. In fact, he is anything but. Let’s explore.
Early Life & Education
Tedros was born on March 3, 1965, in Asmara, which is now known as Eritrea, Ethiopia. According to his Curriculum Vitae, in 1986 Tedros received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Asmara. In 1992, he earned a Master of Science in Immunology of Infectious Diseases from the University of London. And finally, in 2000 he was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in Community Health.
The Questionable Marxist Politics of Tedros Ghebreysus
Tedros Adhanom is a member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which is an ethnic nationalist paramilitary insurgency, political party, and former ruling authoritarian regime of Ethiopia. It is deeply rooted in Marxist ideology.
Ethiopians and others staunchly opposed his candidacy for Director General on grounds of his service and defense of the TPLF regime in Ethiopia, known as one of the leading violators of human rights. The regime even at one point rejected a call by UN human rights body to investigate killings of at least 669 civilians during protests. The regime also imprisoned over 80,000 people for opposing its rule. The Amhara Professionals Union also wrote a letter opposing his new position at the WHO. You can read it in its entirety here.
A Change.org petition was also filed to opposed his candidacy for WHO Director General, which gained over 10,000 signatures. The comments on the petition are very telling. And a journalist who is a particular favorite of mine, Yaacov Appelbaum, discovered images and connections between Ghebreyesus and TPLF members.
A Summary of Tedros Ghebreysus’s Career
Ethiopia’s Minister of Health (October 2005 – November 2012)
Tedros held the Minister of Health position in Ethiopia from October 12, 2005 – November 29, 2012. In that time he formed a strong relationship with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation via the Global Fund–a Geneva-based organization that was founded with seed money from Bill Gates. A fund that was also plagued with fraud, with one report from the Associated Press estimating that up to two-thirds of some grants misused or lost altogether. Only about half of the misappropriated funds were ever recovered.
In May 2017, stories surfaced about a cover-up involving Tedros of three cholera epidemics in Ethiopia in 2006, 2009 & 2011. The outbreaks were labelled as “acute watery diarrhea” without laboratory confirmation of Vibrio cholerae, which was seen as an attempt to play down the significance to ensure Tedros did not appear inept in his role. Had the outbreak actually been confirmed as Cholera, UN officials said more aid and vaccines could have been delivered to Ethiopia.
By 2009, Tedros was elected Board Chair of The Global Fund, set on advancing the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. As the second-largest donor to the WHO, the Gates Foundation has extraordinary influence and leverage on WHO health policies and priorities, and leadership.
Early on in his Minister of Health career, Tedros also held meetings with Bill Clinton, who committed to “making the Minister’s goal of improving hospital care in Ethiopia a reality” via the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). Clinton even referred to Tedros as a “rock star.”
It would later be discovered that Tedros helped broker a $100M donation for the Clinton Foundation from a little-known Swedish-Canadian oil and mining group that has been repeatedly criticized for producing “Blood Minerals.” This group, known as the Lundin Group, has a long history of cutting deals with warlords, Marxist rebels, military strongmen, and dictatorships in the war-torn African countries of Congo, Sudan, and Ethiopia.
During a 2014 speech given at the Opportunity: Africa conference, Bill Clinton called Tedros “one of the ablest public servants I ever worked with.” I’m sure he is, Bill.
In 2010, Ethiopia was chosen by the US State Department and Barack Obama as one of the US Global Health Initiative Plus countries, where the US pledged support of innovative global health efforts. I guess all those connections with the Gates Foundation and the Clintons paid off.
Despite his glowing accolades and connections, the WHO Africa office (WHO-AFRO) reported that in 2011 while Adhanom was Minister of Health, 75% of the land and 60% of the population was exposed to malaria in Ethiopia. A sharp increase from years previous.
The same document alleges serious policy failures of the Government of Adhanom. It argues “Ethiopia faces many challenges related to human resources for healthcare, including the shortage of skilled health workers, high turnover and lack of retention of health professionals”. In addition to these challenges, the National Malaria Guideline stresses once again, “serious problems in coordinating health interventions and implementing partners”.
Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (November 2012 – November 2016)
During the Ebola outbreak in 2014, Tedros was strongly criticized for his delayed response and inappropriate usage of funds to combat the epidemic. Instead of focusing on the disease itself, Tedros used the opportunity again to secure political influence with big names in global funding and focused on overall health systems instead.
Tedros and his strong relationship with the Clintons continued into his new role. Tedros was a speaker at the 2015 Annual Meeting for the Clinton Global Initiative.
In a financing conference held on July 13-16, 2015, Tedros secured political backing and financing for the Addis Ababa Action Agenda to support the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal model. He also oversaw the development of Agenda 2063, which is yet another globalist plan to secure financing and political power for the development of Africa within United Nations parameters. The Conference was criticized for failing to come up with new money for implementing the SDGs during its process.
Director General of the World Health Organization (July 2017 – Present)
A Culture of Overspending
During the launch of the campaign to install Tedros as Director General, it was stressed by American media that his nomination was based on merit and his prolific national and global credentials. His campaign tagline was “Together for a Healthier World.”
Upon taking the office of Director General, Tedros identified universal health coverage as his top priority at the WHO, in line with Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goal 3.8. In one of his first articles written as Director General, Tedros said:
The world has agreed on universal health coverage. Sustainable Development Goal 3.8 sets the following target by 2030: achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential healthcare services and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all. How should WHO help countries to achieve universal health coverage?
So who is going to fund this massive bill for universal health coverage? In the assessed contributions report provided for 2020 – 2021, the United States accounted for $115,766,920 per year, or 24% of the total budget. No other country comes close to that amount. So when Tedros says he wants to give the world universal health coverage, the implication is that the United States will be footing most of the bill.
The United States continues shelling out millions each year despite the fact that the World Health Organization has been repeatedly criticized for its spending practices. In a scathing 2017 report, the Associated Press found that the WHO routinely spends about $200M/year on travel. This is more than the WHO spends on fighting AIDS & Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, Malaria, or on Mental Health & Substance Abuse combined.
Margaret Chan traveled to Africa in 2017 on behalf of the WHO to celebrate the world’s first Ebola vaccine and spent the night in the presidential suite at the beach-side Palm Camayenne hotel. The suite, equipped with marble bathrooms and a dining room that seats eight, has an advertised price of $1200 per night.
According to the AP, staff members routinely broke internal rules against flying business class and staying in luxury hotels. Internal complaints documented WHO staff booking perks like business class airplane tickets and rooms in five-star hotels with few to no consequences.
This followed 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.
So how is it an organization that can’t even curb its own employee’s outrageous spending plans to implement global health coverage including financial safety nets? By throwing more money at erroneous problems and ignoring the crucial ones, if history is bound to repeat itself. And don’t expect much help from Tedros. When asked about the egregious travel spending, he said, “Any travel costs, as long as they can be justified because of the program, it’s fine.”
Tedros Ghebreyesus is Petty About Funding
In the summer of 2017, as Tedros was elected as Director General of the WHO, President Trump released his budget plan for the next year. In the budget, the United States reduced its contributions to the World Health Organization that would bring its total of 24% of WHO funds down to 17%. It was a significant cut, but still the most contributed out of any other member by far.
But in the very next WHO assembly, the organization voted itself a $28M increase in assessed contributions in the 2018-2019 budget, which brought the total of US contribution back to the original amount. He also expressed his desire for more flexible funds that are not earmarked for specific goals in mind. However, to allay the fears of anyone wondering if more funds to the WHO would be essentially the same as setting them on fire and to prove that a WHO under Tedros would be more financially efficient, he included a Venn diagram in his budget assessment of all the things he could magically make happen if only he had more money.
Tedros’s Upheaval of the Hiring Process at the World Health Organization for the Sake of Diversity
Tedros received praise in the beginning of his tenure for his commitment to gender equality, but he also received criticism for a lack of transparency in his hiring process. The criticism was largely due to two major appointments for positions that resulted in massive public backlash. In an effort to increase gender/geographical diversity as quickly as possible, Tedros attempted to bring about a rapid political culture change at the cost of more of his credibility.
The editor-in-chief of The Lancet, Richard Horton, called Tedros a “Dictator-General” over his actions.
He appointed Dr. Tereza Kasaeva of the Russian Ministry of Health to lead the WHO Global Tuberculosis Program without soliciting input and ignoring a list of suggested nominees just one month after meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Russia has a notoriously abysmal record with Tuberculosis management. Medical professionals were so irritated, a write up appeared in The Lancet about it.
Then, on October 18, 2017, Tedros announced he had chosen President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to serve as a WHO Goodwill Ambassador to help tackle non-communicable diseases for Africa. It was condemned as an insult by WHO member states and international organizations alike who said Zimbabwe’s healthcare system had gone backwards under Mugabe’s regime, and pointed out Mugabe’s many human rights abuses. It was also noted that Mugabe himself does not use his own country’s health system, instead traveling to Singapore for treatment.
Tedros’s ignorance at the insulting nomination shouldn’t have been a surprise, seeing as in 2013 as African Leaders were facing charges for crimes against humanity, Tedros was accused of major bias for declaring, “sitting heads of state and governments should not be prosecuted while in office.”
Tedros’s Covid-19 Response
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tedros Adhanom was widely criticized by both countries and the public for acting slowly and not doing his best to contain the virus and to provide the best advice, causing such a widespread pandemic.
For example, despite prevailing evidence that the situation in China was spiraling out of control, Adhanom had still praised China for containing the outbreak marvelously, which was not that in line with other country’s reaction.
In addition, he was also believed to be siding with the then Chinese president Xi and did not take action in order to contain the virus outbreak.
We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous.” And if we don’t tackle this, he went on, “we are headed down a dark path that leads nowhere but division and disharmony.”
Given the misinformation about the novel coronavirus epidemic, WHO has communicated with some companies including Google to ensure that the public will get the authoritative information from the WHO.”
Travel restrictions [to and from China] can have the effect of increasing fear and stigma, with little public health benefit.”
The lockdown of people is unprecedented in public health history, so it is certainly not a recommendation the WHO has made.”
The WHO highly appreciates the tremendous efforts China has made to contain the epidemic.”
Memberships and Board Positions Held
Chairman of the Board – Roll Back Malaria Partnership (2007 – 2009)
Programme Coordinating Board Member – UNAIDS (2009 – 2010)
Co-Chair – Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health (2005 – 2009)
Board Member – GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance (2008 – 2009)
Founding Board Member – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Interesting to note, the IHME was formed in 2007 with a major grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and receives continuous influxes of cash from the Gates Foundation to establish a continuous partnership between the WHO and the IHME. The IHME is also the metrics system responsible for the decision by most governments to adhere to Draconian Covid-19 lockdowns.
Board Chair – The Global Fund (2009 – 2011)
Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health – The Aspen Institute (2011 – Present)
Conclusion
Tedros Ghebreyesus is deeply embedded in a bureaucratic regime that seeks to drain money from its donors under the premise of improving global health and combating outbreaks of disease. Instead, it enriches its allies and shuns those who criticize it, emboldened by Western media.
Talk soon,
L