The ”agreement” contains a plethora of provisions so outrageous they are almost impossible to believe:

• In the event of an emergency declared by the WHO, the United States will be required to hand over 20% of its medical supplies, to the WHO for global distribution.
• The WHO will decide which countries get what supplies.
• Whenever the WHO decides there is a pandemic all patent protections go out the window. The world gets all your intellectual property.
• The United States and other designated “wealthy countries will be required to pay a fixed percentage of gross domestic product yearly into a WHO pandemic-preparedness fund. The WHO will then decide how that money is spent and where.
• The WHO would have the authority to declare a public health emergency in any country overriding the decisions of the national government. The WHO would also have the power to counter “disinformation” spread during a public health emergency.

• [D]espite the clear and present threat Iran poses to the security of both the Middle East and the wider world, Western governments are still proving reluctant to take any measures needed to cripple the Iranian economy.
• A key factor in the reluctance of Western leaders to punish Iran for its aggression is the appeasement policy the Biden administration has pursued towards Iran in recent years in the naive hope that, by going easy on Iran, the Iranian regime might be persuaded to agree to a new deal on its nuclear activities.
• “The Iranians have mastered the art of sanctions circumvention. If the Biden administration is really going to have an impact, it has to shift the focus to China.” — Fernando Ferreira, head of geopolitical risk service at the Rapidan Energy Group, Financial Times, April 17, 2024.
• If the West is really serious about holding Iran to account for its aggressive activities, then it… should include the possibility of imposing secondary sanctions against any country that continues to do business with Tehran in defiance of Western sanctions.
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• Many have reflected on the fact that Big Pharma has a perverse incentive to promote ill health, as its financial bottom line depends on it. But few understand just how elaborate its efforts to that end are
• American podcaster and former professor of evolutionary biology Bret Weinstein describes the pharmaceutical industry as an intellectual property racket. Big Pharma patents molecules, compounds and technologies, and then looks for diseases against which their patents can be applied
• Pharma is engaged in a continuous effort to portray its intellectual properties as more useful and safer than they are, and to persuade the medical establishment, journals, medical societies, hospitals and government to direct people toward drugs they wouldn’t otherwise be taking. So, when COVID-19 happened, the industry was more than prepared to take advantage of it
• The introduction of the mRNA platform technology was central to the entire COVID response. The technology has a lethal flaw that would prevent it from getting to the market under normal circumstances. The COVID pandemic allowed Pharma to bypass this obstacle and deploy this incredibly lucrative technology
• By way of amendments to the International Health Regulations and the pandemic treaty, the World Health Organization seeks to achieve global dominion and total control of the masses under the guise of public health