Something I'll bet you didn't know about the head of WHO

I've seen this fellow denounced on certain right-wing sites, but didn't pay much attention to the details, as the sites in question seemed to just be doing the reflexive 'Yay Trump!' thing.

But then I came across this, on one of my favorite Far-Left sites. (These folks would put people like me in a gulag, if not in front of a firing squad. Nonetheless, some of them are intelligent, and diligent researchers.)

The first few sentences:

[ SOURCE: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/17/the-gangster-head-of-the-who/ ]

 

Yeap I read into his dealings when this started, how anyone can become head of WHO with his background is f'ing insane. Leave it to the UN, they love them some murdering tyrants, I'm surprised he's not on the Human Rights board of the UN like several other true tyrants was/is.

 

Remember back when WHOand the UN was praising the Mandela's?
When you see blue helmits, run.

 

Yes ... the countries that get added to the Human Rights Committees always make me laugh. (There used to be a Lefty trope, which went like this: well, there are all kinds of Human Rights ... what about the right to eat? But since socialism tended to produce either famines, or queues of people with ration books waiting to get their weekly allocation of rice ... they've tended to go quiet on that one.)

 

I'm not religious, but I pray every day, just in case. And one of my prayers is that a Leftist mayor or governor will somehow invite in UN troops to his domain.
But they're not that stupid, unfortunately.

Back in the late 70s/early 80s, when the Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland were killing each other (because 'diversity is strength', remember), a prominent Leftwing Labour politician, Tony Benn, said the UK should withdraw its troops, and replace them with troops from the UN.

A cartoonist drew a wonderful cartoon -- it showed, as I recall, a Catholic IRA member and a Protestant paramilitary -- both pretty hard men -- looking on incredulously, as Benn explained to them something like "the Syrians will arrive today, and there's a batallion from Nigeria coming tomorrow". Well, it might have united the two sides for a while.

 

You give them too much credit.

 

I suggest you read his WIKIPEDIA instead of information from a site of dubious and known misinformation.

 

Typical of the type of shady characters that run these globalist organizations. He also wanted to have the bloody dictator Robert Mugabe as a WHO goodwill ambassador.

China pays only 10% of the WHO bill, since they own them let them pay the whole thing.

 

Counterpunch is dubious and known misinformation?

They are certainly the antidote to mainstream media pap, but that's about it. They were covering cocaine running by Iran Contra figures as it was happening.

Wikipedia is dubious and often misinformation.

 

Okay, his Wiki entry makes him look like a living Saint: an excerpt:

This sounds very much to me like Official Hagiography, the sort of thing you would read in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia about Laventi Beria, before Beria became a non -person.

However, I'll grant that I don't have any specialist knowledge about this man. Ethiopia and the surrounding areas is a very complicated place, where everyone seems to be at war with everyone else, and the only valid conclusion is: All Sides Are Squalid.

Counterpunch is a hard Left publication, so I radically disagree with its premises, but I haven't known it to be outright dishonest -- not like a leftist Alex Jones source.

So, according to you, he's a good guy? I grant you Ethiopia is a pretty confusing place ... I keep getting disapppointed by each new ruler, who starts off pretty good, and then reverts to type. And I absolutely grant that trying to run a place like Ethiopia, or anywhere else in the Third World, is not something you can do according to the precepts of the ACLU or the Federalist Society. A strong hand is needed. But the Counterpunch article makes it seem like he was just an Ethiopian nationalist, crushing the pesky Muslims of Somalia. Why do you think otherwise?

Here's some information on Ethiopian practices against Muslims in the Ogaden, from Human Rights Watch. https://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/ethiopia0608/3.htm
Apropo another thread, as you read this, you should, from time to time, repeat: DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH.

 

Sounds like the response to the Wuhan Virus.

The Ethiopian government’s reaction to reports of abuses in 2007 has been to deny the allegations, disparage the sources, and actively restrict or control access to the region by journalists, human rights groups, and aid organizations

 

Nice!

 

@61falcon said: ↑

The head of WHO comes from a leftwing dictatorship that is casual about mass death among its population, indeed caused a lot of it. It's in his DNA to suck up to powerful dictators. And it seems to be in the DNA of some people here to do likewise.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/c...covid19-narrative-by-brahma-chellaney-2020-04

 

The only way forward now for the WHO and the UN to survive is to send their leadership back to the third world and replace them with competent western nation leadership before the whole world really goes to Hell in a hand basket, if it already hasn't.

Placing token leadership in charge of world committees to appease the politically correct is only a recipe for disaster as anyone with half a brain can well see.

 

I believe you can find competent, courageous leadership for these committees from among Third World peoples as well. I'm a donor to the
Médecins Sans Frontières group and get their publicity mailings regularly, and you see a lot of doctors from the Third World involved in their operations.

 

~ Yes indeed ... I am certain many have read the history on this hack - who is not an M.D.
Apparently he is a sympathizer to the communist party. His actions are opposite of his predecessor Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/who-and-china-dereliction-duty

 

Perhaps so but we need to steer away from these obligatory politically correct placements of incompetent and easily bought people who have no qualifications and whose countries are a shambles.

 

´ ~ This seems to be the blueprint of the Democrat Party's new "Progressive" America.

 

No argument there!

But sometimes national origins are a legitimate factor in choosing leadership. They're definitely taken into account in deciding who becomes head of the IMF and the World Bank.

If you're hiring policemen to guard your city, and your city is not ethnically homogeneous, it makes sense to have policemen from all ethnic groups, so long as standards are maintained. (Which brings us to another point: what are legitimate standards for different occupations? Isn't it the case now that having a high school diploma (ha!) is a requirement for being a policeman, whereas I believe that courage and honesty and common sense are the only legitimate requirements. One of the areas where I think the libertarians have a point is the 'license Raj' -- surely we ought to do a away with licensing requirements for most occupations: why should a hairdresser require a license?

 

At this point it's more prudent to listen to The Who than the Chinese puppet WHO.

 

~ Or The Beatles ...