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🗓️ 20 January 2023
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In this episode, Whitney talks to Johnny Vedmore about the imminent appointment of former Wellcome Trust head Jeremy Farrar to be the World Health Organization's Chief Scientist and how it relates to the WHO's attempts to obtain new powers through a secretive regulation amendment process.
Originally published 01/17/23.
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0:00.0 | Here listening to a limited hangout of your host, Whitney Webb, last month the World Health Organization quietly announced that it would soon appoint a new Chief Scientist in 2023. |
0:16.0 | Here listening to a limited hangout of your host, Whitney Webb, last month the World Health Organization quietly announced that it would soon appoint a new Chief Scientist in 2023. |
0:30.0 | Here listening to a limited hangout of your host, Whitney Webb, last month the World Health Organization quietly announced that it would soon appoint a new Chief Scientist in 2023, a man named Jeremy Ferrar. |
0:40.0 | As part of its press release on Ferrar's imminent appointment, the WHO stated that Ferrar will be focused on quote, |
0:47.0 | services to the people who need the most no matter who they are and where they live. |
0:52.0 | However, Ferrar's history and his recent role as head of the Welcome Trust suggests that Ferrar's appointment to a top post at the WHO votes poorly for global health and is instead suggestive of who ambitions to become a supernatural organization that promotes the interests of big pharma and increasingly big tech to the detriment of public health. |
1:14.0 | The announcement of Ferrar's appointment comes at an interesting time for the who as the organization is currently involved in secret negotiations to amend the international health regulations. |
1:24.0 | Those amendments, if approved by who member states would give the who unprecedented power to declare a public health emergency and also to dictate to member states what measures they must implement as a result of that emergency. |
1:38.0 | It would also establish a framework to normalize and entrench vaccine passports and other biosecurity surveillance practices while also exempting these regulations from respecting human rights and the fundamental freedoms of the populations of who member states. |
1:52.0 | With such unprecedented power, a man like Jeremy Ferrar, who has consistently supported unscientific biosecurity measures throughout the COVID crisis would be able to dictate to most of the world what public health policies must be implemented and when. |
2:06.0 | Adding to these issues is the recent pandemic simulation hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, which previously hosted controversial simulations, including 2001's Dark Winter in 2019's event 2001. |
2:19.0 | This new simulation called catastrophic contagion focused largely on Africa and on the foods role in shaping global and regional pandemic responses. |
2:29.0 | It of course included considerable involvement from Bill Gates, whose foundation wields a significant and troubling amount of influence over world health organization policy. |
2:38.0 | Joining me today to discuss this and more is Johnny Vettmore. Johnny is an investigative journalist who contributes to unlimited hangout and maintains his own websites at johnnyvettmore.com and funky monkey.com. |
2:49.0 | He has previously written at length about Jeremy Ferrar in the welcome trust and has been a consistent critic of their health policies, particularly as they pertain to the COVID-19 response. |
2:59.0 | So welcome back to unlimited hangout. How's it going Johnny? |
3:02.0 | Yeah, it's good. I just got out of the unlimited hangout sweatshops after writing stories and articles and now I know I'm here here for a good discussion about someone different Jeremy Ferrar. |
3:15.0 | All right, well, without further ado, let's get into Jeremy Ferrar. So the press release announcing Ferrar's appointment was issued on December 13th of last month, probably at a time when a lot of people are getting ready for Christmas. |
3:31.0 | I know I didn't see it because it happened right around my daughter's birthday, so I wasn't paying much attention. |
3:36.0 | So took an independent media while to pick up on this, but it's very significant and I'm really glad you're here today, John, because out of independent media, I don't really know of anyone who's written more about Ferrar or the welcome trust, the new. |
3:51.0 | Let's see here and how this press release describes Ferrar. They say Ferrar is a clinician scientist who before joining the welcome trust in 2013 spent 17 years as director of the clinical research unit at the hospital for tropical diseases and Vietnam. |
4:11.0 | They oddly omit the fact that I believe his director ship there was funded by welcome and affiliated with the University of Oxford for whatever reason. |
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