WHO GETS 81% OF FUNDING FROM PRIVATE CORPORATIONS: CFR WEBSITE REVEALS MEMBER STATES DID NOT WANT TO DECLARE A PANDEMIC EMERGENCY

'The WHO’s annual budget for 2010 will be almost $5 billion with 81 % of the funding -- or $4 billion --coming from voluntary contributions from pharmaceutical companies, foundations and other donors, according to a WHO draft budget, available on the website of the Rockefeller affiliated think-tank, the Council of Foreign Relations.

http://www.cfr.org/publication/20003/world_health_organization.html

A table on page 13 of the document, which is called "Draft proposed programme budget for 2010-2011" reveals that the proportion of funding that WHO gets from voluntary contributions has been rising steadily from 71% in 2006-2007 to 77.3% in 2008-2009 to 81% in 2010-2011.

Total funding in 2006-2007 was just over US$ 3 billion.'

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO INVESTIGATE WHO IN JANUARY 2010

"Wodarg has criticized the measures taken against the swine flu as one of the "biggest medical scandals of the century."

'The Council of Europe member states are to launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focussing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO, according to reports in the German media."

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Exposing WHO Influenza Advisers: They're Paid By The Pharmaceutical Industry

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"There is a huge pharmaceutical lobby in the WHO, and it has been this way for so long. It is hard to see through what is the industry's interest and what is factual information," says specialist in community medicine, and former employee at the university, Mauri Johansson.

'Several of the WHO's influenza advisers are paid by the pharmaceutical industry. Conflicts of interest have encouraged the industry to influence the decision that the H1N1 swine flu is a pandemic - and that the vaccine is necessary to defeat the disease.

On June 11, 2009, WHO Director General Margaret Chan stated that the swine influenza was a pandemic. It meant a huge economic benefit for the pharmaceutical industry. Many member countries - including Denmark - have contracts with major pharmaceutical companies and are therefore obligated to purchase vaccines in the event of a pandemic.

Investment bank JP Morgan estimates that the pharmaceutical industry may well receive vaccine orders up to 10 billion this year. Much of the turnover is due to the WHO's decision.

Many of the apparently impartial researchers the WHO uses are paid by the companies that produce vaccines.'

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