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Services (HHS) announced that it was scaling back Zika activities to “a International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, another
more limited set of goals and deliverables.” As of the summer of 2018, recipient of Gates Foundation millions; before
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NIAID’s website stated that six vaccine candidates to prevent Zika were that, Berkley accumulated experience at the
still under development. 35 Rockefeller Foundation and CDC.)
Both Fauci and Birx have longstanding ties with Bill Gates and From 2009 through 2011, Tedros served as
the Gates Foundation. Birx is a board member of the Global Fund, an chairman of the board for the aforementioned,
influential program established and largely financed by Gates to address Gates-supported Global Fund. An audit of
AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Fauci, as already mentioned, has served Global Fund disbursements to Ethiopia during
on the Leadership Council of the Gates-sponsored Global Vaccine Ac- Tedros’ chairmanship identified “a flagrant lack
tion Plan, and, in the U.S., his agency benefits from extensive Gates of transparency, numerous shortcomings in
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research support. In January—just three days after the first U.S. case the accounting and management of the funds”
of Covid-19—the Gates-financed Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and “a huge discrepancy between the results
Innovations (CEPI) announced significant monies for an experimental presented and the reality observed in Ethiopia
coronavirus vaccine to be developed jointly by NIAID and Moderna during. . . field visits.” 40
Therapeutics. The Moderna vaccine, which has caused severe illness in Tedros was not necessarily a shoo-in for the
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some clinical trial participants, has already made the company’s CEO an WHO directorship, with some WHO member
overnight billionaire as well as generating bonanzas for shareholders. 37 states questioning his overemphasis on health
indicators like vaccine coverage in lieu of tend-
TEDROS THE TERRORIST ing to basic public health measures like access
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus became WHO director-general in to clean water. However, when Bill Gates—then
2017—the organization’s first African director and the first who is not a the WHO’s second largest funder—indicated
medical doctor. Fauci professes to have known Tedros for a long time that Tedros was his pick, the dissent abated.
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and calls him an “outstanding person.” (Many have been quoting a May 4th article
Tedros gets credited in the mainstream media for his prior stints as in Politico that began, “Some billionaires are
both health minister (2005-2012) and foreign minister (2012-2016) of satisfied with buying themselves an island. Bill
Ethiopia, but news accounts tend to gloss over his long-time status as a Gates got a United Nations health agency in Ge-
politburo member of the violent and corrupt Marxist organization—the neva.” ) When China, too, threw its weight be-
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Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)—which “has ruled Ethiopia hind Tedros’ candidacy, the matter was settled.
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under iron fist” for almost thirty years since overthrowing the Mengistu China’s support may have had something to do
regime. During his time as health minister, Tedros oversaw a series of with the Asian nation’s massive investments
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genocidal policies against the Amhara ethnic group, including targeting in Ethiopia, which could in turn explain why
the Amhara with cancer-causing and fertility-damaging contraceptive Tedros has repeatedly given over-the-top praise
products restricted or banned in the U.S. and Europe. 40 to China for its handling of Covid-19.
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In addition to Tedros’ longstanding friendship with Fauci, a compre-
hensive dissection of Tedros’ career and affiliations shows that he has MIXED-MESSAGE MUSK
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had a number of points of contact with Bill Gates and the organizations Interestingly, two months in advance of
that Gates finances. From 2008 to 2009, for example, Tedros served Tedros’ election as head of WHO, Tedros and
on the board of Gavi, a Gates brainchild. When Tedros became WHO Gates met up at an event in Beijing, where Gates
director-general, Gavi’s CEO Seth Berkley wrote that “Tedros’ commit- made a speech about “innovation, philanthrophy
ment to immunisation is clear” and declared that he “look[ed] forward and global leadership.” In his talk, Gates dis-
to working with Dr Tedros” to “achieve our shared goal of universal ac- cussed a partnership with Beijing’s municipal
cess to lifesaving vaccines.” (Prior to leading Gavi, Berkley headed the government and Tsinghua University to estab-
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TEDROS: FROM BRUTAL POLITICIAN TO WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HEAD

An impassioned critique of Tedros published in the Ethiopian press just prior to his ascension to the World Health
Organization in 2017 lambasted the two-time government minister’s regime. According to this report, the regime that
Tedros served continuously for eleven years is well known for its use of “fake anti-terrorisms laws to stiffen any dissent or
opposite opinion” and has a reputation for “brutal crackdown of opposition parties, mass killing, imprisonment, displace-
ment, forced immigration, unemployment and human right abuse documented by Amnesty International and Human
Right Watch.” Its “kidnappings, bombings and armed robberies” have also earned it a listing in the U.S. Homeland
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