GAVI, WHO and American Taxpayers

While Washington's funding withdrawal from the World Health Organization (also known as the Bill Gates Health Organization) brought cheers from some quarters as shown here:

 

 

....and here:

 

...in fact, Washington is still heavily involved in Bill Gates vision of vaccinating everyone for just about every health issue and is still financially connected to the World Health Organization, for better or worse.

 

Let's start this posting with some background material by looking at who funds the World Health Organization.  WHO is funded from two main sources; Member States who pay their assessed contributions (a percentage of the nation's Gross Domestic Product) and voluntary contributions from Member States and other partners, mainly the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Here is a graphic showing the top ten contributors for the 2018 - 2019 biennium:

 

 

Note that the United States is, by a wide margin, the largest contributor when it comes to assessed contributions, followed by the United Kingdom, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the GAVI Alliance.  

 

While you may never have heard of the GAVI Alliance (aka the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations sometimes known as the Vaccine Alliance), here is a screen capture from GAVI's website showing their raison d'être:

 

 

GAVI was founded in 2000 as a private-public health care partnership with the goal of increasing immunizations, particularly in poor nations.

  

Now, let's look at who funds GAVI.  Here is a graphic from GAVI's website showing their founding partners, noting the presence of the World Health Organization and the ubiquitous Gates Foundation:

 

Here is a graphic showing GAVI's donor contributions for the period between 2016 and 2020:

 

 

Note that the United States and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations are two of the top three donors over the period from 2016 to 2020.

 

Now, let's look at some recent news from GAVI.  In June 2020, the United Kingdom hosted the Global Vaccine Summit 2020 which was attended by representatives from 62 countries, leaders from global health organizations and, most important, representatives from vaccine manufacturers which raised $8.882 billionn from various governments, foundations, corporations and organizations to immunize children and support the fight against COVID-19.  Here is the post-meeting announcement:

 

 

Now, let's look at the list of donor governments and foundations, corporations and organizations from the meeting, noting that I have highlighted the donation by the United States government:

 

 

Washington has agreed to pour $1.16 billion into GAVI over the years from 2021 to 2025, the second largest donation over the time period.  While this is less than the Gates Foundation donation of $1.6 billion, it is a substantial amount of tax dollars going to fund an organization whose sole purpose is to vaccinate the world and participate in the development of a vaccine for COVID-19 with a donation of up to $200 million as shown here:  

 

 

As well, if we look back in time, to the founding of GAVI, Washington has been one of GAVI's largest financial supporters, donating $2.5 billion or 111.83 percent of all donations received by GAVI:

Here is the breakdown of the $1.16 billion donation from the 2020 - 2021 Department of State budget document dated February 10, 2020 showing that this donation from Washington was already in the works prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and well before the Trump Administration announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization:

 

 

The donation of $290 million to GAVI for fiscal years 2021 to 2023 is the highest on record (tied with fiscal years 2018, 2019 and 2020.  

 

If we look at GAVI's Board of Directors, here is what we find:

 

 

Note that a permanent representative from the World Health Organization has a position on GAVI's board along with a permanent representative of the Gates Foundation, two of the four permanent positions.

 

Now, let's took at the bottom line.  According to the World Health Organization's 2018 - 2019 biennium report, here are WHO's largest contributors:

 

 

GAVI's voluntary contribution of $388.7 million in fiscal 2018- 2019 puts it in fourth place overall among all donors to the World Health Organization.  In other words, American taxpayers are still funding the World Health Organization through their kind donations to GAVI.  Does that not strike you as a bit of "bait and switch"? 

 

Let's close with a quote from the 2015 report by Jens Martens and Karolin Seitz entitled "Philanthropic Power and Development: Who Shapes the Agenda" which takes an in-depth look at GAVI's (and by extension the Gates Foundation's) approach to vaccines:

 

"The GAVI Alliance is the most prominent example of Gates’ engagement.  Despite the undisputed increase in the number of immunized children, GAVI has been criticized by civil society organizations (CSOs) and researchers for following a “Gates-approach” on global health challenges, focusing on disease-specific vertical health interventions (through vaccines), instead of horizontal and holistic approaches (e.g., health system strengthening)."

It certainly appears that, one way or another, American taxpayers are going to be on the hook for funding Bill Gates' vision of a vaccinated world, particularly as the only valid solution to ending the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

 

Buying Influence the Gates' Way

In this posting, I want to look at the relationship between one of the world's largest purveyors of vaccines and the Canadian government.  While this is just a single example of the powers that control the world of vaccines, they provide us with a roadmap for what lies ahead as the COVID-19 pandemic winds on.

On May 1, 2020, Canada's Prime Minister and world's biggest selfie fan Justin Trudeau proudly tweeted this:

If you click on the tweet, this is what you will end up seeing:

While you might not be aware of it, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $750 million to set up the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization or GAVI Alliance (GAVI), a public-private partnership, in 1999 as shown here:

Here is GAVI's raison d'etre:

"As part of its mission to save lives, reduce poverty and protect the world against the threat of epidemics, GAVI has helped vaccinate more than 760 million children in the world’s poorest countries, preventing more than 13 million deaths.

By improving access to new and under-used vaccines for millions of the most vulnerable children, the Vaccine Alliance is transforming the lives of individuals, helping to boost the economies of low-income countries and making the world safer for everyone."

Here is a graphic from the GAVI website showing its funding partnerships:

Here is a screen capture from GAVI's Funding webpage showing its major donors going back to 2010:

Note that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated the following:

2000 to 2010 - $1.233 billion or 29% of total donations

2011 to 2015 - $1.350 billion or 18% of total donations

2016 to 2020 - $1.561 billion or 17% of total donations

That's a total of $4.044 billion over the past two decades.  Over the same timeframe, the Canadian government has donated $881 million or between 3 and 7 percent of total donations and the United Stats government has donated $2.470 billion or between 10 and 15 percent of total donations.

Now, let's look at how GAVI has been active in Canada.  According to the Canadian government's lobbying website, GAVI has registered as a lobbyist as shown here:

Here is a screen capture showing how much funding the Canadian government has provided to GAVI in the year ending December 31, 2018:

Here is a screen capture showing that GAVI has met twice with Canadian government officials during January 2020:

Here is a screen capture showing some of GAVI's meetings with Canadian government officials between March 2018 and June 2019:

Here is a complete list of meetings with multiple meetings being held on days that appear more than once:

(1) 2018 March 8

(2) 2018 March 9

(3) 2018 March 9

(4) 2018 October 9

(5) 2018 October 9

(6) 2018 October 9

(7) 2018 October 10

(8) 2018 October 10

(9) 2018 October 10

(10) 2019 June 11

(11) 2019 June 11

(12) 2019 June 11

(13) 2019 June 12

(14) 2019 June 12

(15) 2019 June 12

(16) 2020 January 28

(17) 2020 January 29

(18) 2020 January 29

(19) 2020 January 29

(20) 2020 January 30.

As you can see, GAVI has been very busy lobbying the Canadian government over the past two years.  As such, and with the Gates/Trudeau meeting in mind, it should not be terribly surprising that Trudeau announced this about a vaccine and the end of the lockdown on April 9, 2020:

As an aside, let's look at GAVI's involvement with the political community in the United States.  GAVI Alliance has spent the following on annual lobbying in the United States:

Here are the issues GAVI has lobbied on behalf of:

Let's close this posting with one additional government connection to GAVI Alliance.  In February 2019, the United Kingdom government announced the following:

The United Kingdom government has donated a total of $4.893 billion to GAVI Alliance since 2000.

The connections between Bill Gates, his family foundation and his funding of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization/GAVI Alliance and governments, particularly Canada's, clearly show us his agenda for the COVID-19 pandemic and how he has access to the highest levels of government, allowing him to pitch his pro-vaccine solutions as the only option for the world's diseases to our elected decision makers.  Let's all just bend over and become lab rats for Bill Gates, shall we?

Addendum

In his daily press briefing on May 12, 2020, Justin Trudeau announced Canada's $790 million pledge toward vaccine development through none other than the Global Alliance for Vaccine Innovation (GAVI) as you can see here.  Apparently, lobbying really does pay off when your surname is Gates.