On 14 January 2005, in a conference room in Washington, ten former or sitting heads of government from North America and Europe — together with a former WHO Director-General and an array of foreign-policy advisers — gathered around a table and played out a coordinated smallpox attack on six major cities simultaneously: Istanbul, Rotterdam, Warsaw, Frankfurt, New York City, Los Angeles. Within four and a half hours of exercise time the reported case count climbed from 51 to 3,320. The exercise was called Atlantic Storm.
124 States Said Yes. The US Said No. And Germany Is Paying the Bill. # In May 2025, 124 WHO member states adopted an international pandemic agreement in Geneva — the most far-reaching health accord since the International Health Regulations of 2005. Eleven states abstained, including Italy, Poland, Israel, Russia, and Iran. No state voted against it [1][2].
When a Health Minister with a Questionable Track Record Aims for the Top of Global Health Policy # Karl Lauterbach is being floated as a candidate for the position of WHO Director-General. You have to read that sentence twice to grasp what is happening. The man who promoted the COVID vaccine as “more or less side-effect-free” — on national television, in February 2022, to an audience of millions — is supposed to decide the health policy of the entire planet.