Two recent actions address disentanglements from dysfunctional and exploitive world health authority and unwarranted and climate alarm-premised energy policy fiascos.
Regarding the first such matter, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. issued a Jan. 22 joint statement declaring,
“Today, the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization, freeing itself from its constraints, as President Trump promised on his first day in office.”
“This action responds to WHO’s failures during the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to rectify the harm from those failures inflicted on the American people.”
A White House statement on the matter declared that the decision was “due to the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.”
This declaration followed a Jan. 20 executive order directing that all U.S. funding for the WHO cease and all official representatives to the UN subsidiary be recalled, a prerogative established under terms of the original agreement that allows membership withdrawal after filing a year’s notice of intent to do so, which Trump issued immediately upon taking office in 2025.
Trump had attempted to withdraw the U.S. from WHO in 2020 at the end of his first term.
However, President Joe Biden reversed that move upon taking office in 2021 and actively tried to push for the UN to sign on to WHO’s Pandemic Agreement, which together with its International Health Regulations, was intended to give the organization sweeping new powers to set policy for all member nations during pandemics and other “health emergencies” declared at their sole discretion.
Although withdrawal from WHO was supposed to be subject to a condition that all unpaid membership dues be fulfilled – currently $278 million for 2024 and 2025 – a State Department spokesperson has stated that no additional payments will be made because “the American people have paid enough.”
The U.S. was required to fund 22% of WHO’s budget among 194 member nations since it was founded in 1948, amounting to an average $237 million annually between 2012 and 2024.
This January, President Trump likewise pulled the U.S. out of 66 U.N.-sponsored climate and social justice organizations, among them the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
As former UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) official Ottmar Edenhofer admitted in a November 2010 interview with the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung: ” . . . One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth . . . ”
The UNFCCC severance followed immediate actions upon Trump’s resumption of White House residency a year ago to withdraw America from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, contending that the agreement would undermine the U.S. economy with permanent damage which President Barack Obama had committed the United States to fund with a three-billion-dollar contribution to its Green Climate Fund.
During a September 2025 speech to the UN General Assembly, Trump has accurately characterized global warming alarmism a “con job” to push renewable energy “scams” such as wind and solar.
Trump repeated this view while speaking to attendees at the Davos World Economic Forum on Jan. 21, commenting, “There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place, and they are losers. One thing I’ve noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses, and the worse that country is doing.”
He pointed to Germany as a prime example, a country that “now generates 22% less electricity than it did in 2017 . . . and electricity prices are 64% higher.”
Trump added, “China makes almost all of the windmills, and yet I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China. Did you ever think of that? It’s a good way of looking at it.”
“They’re smart. China is very smart. They make them. They sell them for a fortune. They sell them to the stupid people that buy them, but they don’t use them themselves.”
“They put up a couple of big wind farms, but they don’t use them.”
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was jeered by a few attendees while advancing that theme during a Davos panel discussion that “globalization has failed the West” and has left America and American workers behind.
Lutnick rattled his audience further by criticizing European nations for pursuing green energy policies that would make them “subservient to China.”
“Why are you going to do solar and wind? Why would Europe agree to be net zero in 2030 when they don’t make a battery? They don’t make a battery,” he said.
Secretary Lutnick later reported that observing being booed by one particular attendee, former Vice President Al Gore, was the “greatest honor” he could have received during the trip, telling Fox News, “And you all remember Al Gore told us, by today — in 2025 — the whole ice cap would be gone, and Greenland would be green.”
Yes, and if Gore was right, most of us likely wouldn’t be experiencing the coldest winter storm in decades.
CFACT Advisor Larry Bell heads the graduate program in space architecture at the University of Houston. He founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture. This article was sourced HERE
“Today, the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization, freeing itself from its constraints, as President Trump promised on his first day in office.”
“This action responds to WHO’s failures during the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to rectify the harm from those failures inflicted on the American people.”
A White House statement on the matter declared that the decision was “due to the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.”
This declaration followed a Jan. 20 executive order directing that all U.S. funding for the WHO cease and all official representatives to the UN subsidiary be recalled, a prerogative established under terms of the original agreement that allows membership withdrawal after filing a year’s notice of intent to do so, which Trump issued immediately upon taking office in 2025.
Trump had attempted to withdraw the U.S. from WHO in 2020 at the end of his first term.
However, President Joe Biden reversed that move upon taking office in 2021 and actively tried to push for the UN to sign on to WHO’s Pandemic Agreement, which together with its International Health Regulations, was intended to give the organization sweeping new powers to set policy for all member nations during pandemics and other “health emergencies” declared at their sole discretion.
Although withdrawal from WHO was supposed to be subject to a condition that all unpaid membership dues be fulfilled – currently $278 million for 2024 and 2025 – a State Department spokesperson has stated that no additional payments will be made because “the American people have paid enough.”
The U.S. was required to fund 22% of WHO’s budget among 194 member nations since it was founded in 1948, amounting to an average $237 million annually between 2012 and 2024.
This January, President Trump likewise pulled the U.S. out of 66 U.N.-sponsored climate and social justice organizations, among them the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
As former UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) official Ottmar Edenhofer admitted in a November 2010 interview with the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung: ” . . . One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth . . . ”
The UNFCCC severance followed immediate actions upon Trump’s resumption of White House residency a year ago to withdraw America from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, contending that the agreement would undermine the U.S. economy with permanent damage which President Barack Obama had committed the United States to fund with a three-billion-dollar contribution to its Green Climate Fund.
During a September 2025 speech to the UN General Assembly, Trump has accurately characterized global warming alarmism a “con job” to push renewable energy “scams” such as wind and solar.
Trump repeated this view while speaking to attendees at the Davos World Economic Forum on Jan. 21, commenting, “There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place, and they are losers. One thing I’ve noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses, and the worse that country is doing.”
He pointed to Germany as a prime example, a country that “now generates 22% less electricity than it did in 2017 . . . and electricity prices are 64% higher.”
Trump added, “China makes almost all of the windmills, and yet I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China. Did you ever think of that? It’s a good way of looking at it.”
“They’re smart. China is very smart. They make them. They sell them for a fortune. They sell them to the stupid people that buy them, but they don’t use them themselves.”
“They put up a couple of big wind farms, but they don’t use them.”
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was jeered by a few attendees while advancing that theme during a Davos panel discussion that “globalization has failed the West” and has left America and American workers behind.
Lutnick rattled his audience further by criticizing European nations for pursuing green energy policies that would make them “subservient to China.”
“Why are you going to do solar and wind? Why would Europe agree to be net zero in 2030 when they don’t make a battery? They don’t make a battery,” he said.
Secretary Lutnick later reported that observing being booed by one particular attendee, former Vice President Al Gore, was the “greatest honor” he could have received during the trip, telling Fox News, “And you all remember Al Gore told us, by today — in 2025 — the whole ice cap would be gone, and Greenland would be green.”
Yes, and if Gore was right, most of us likely wouldn’t be experiencing the coldest winter storm in decades.
CFACT Advisor Larry Bell heads the graduate program in space architecture at the University of Houston. He founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture. This article was sourced HERE
13 comments:
Ah yes, the tyranny of a clean environment and stable climate. America will be free of this, but which type of tyranny will they replace it with? I reckon state tyranny. Like arresting, and on occasion executing citizens without cause, and deporting people without due process.
Sadly, we have a PM who is either stupid enough to buy the alarmist BS or he is just following polls and focus groups.
I totally agree with you Chuck. There was only one MP who was prepared to question this climate alarmism nonsense and that was Maureen Pugh. It frightened the pants off the National party pollies. Luxon instructed Willis to send Pugh a book on the subject to ensure she never questioned their delusional religion again. The Truth doesn’t mind being questioned but a lie hates being challenged.
Sadly, we have a far left print and TV media. Alarmist Jack Tame interview Phil Geoff, who is another alarmist. Neither Tame nor Geoff will debate their alarmist views.
Hi Robert, had Luxon read the book ?
or perhaps anything written by Ian Bradford ?
Or is he too busy learning te reo for his secret conversations with Maori elite ?
Kennedy says "This action responds to WHO’s failures during the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to rectify the harm from those failures inflicted on the American people.”
This is gaslighting of a magnitude only the Trump administration would attempt. This is the administration that aided and abetted the deaths of a million Americans during the COVID pandemic. This is the President who considered injecting bleach a perfectly acceptable remedy. This is the Kennedy who fought tooth and nail to oppose the introduction of live-saving vaccines. These people have zero interest in the well-being of the American people so long as their own personal ambitions are being met. And the tragedy for ordinary Americans is that the COVID disaster is being replayed in real time with measles, a virus significantly more transmittable than COVID. So expect to see TB, smallpox and polio also make a comeback in the near future now America is great again. I'm curious to know who the Trump administration will find to blame that on. But of course, the loved ones of the million COVID dead already know that, don't they.
totally agree with this article.I wish more people would realise what is really going on.
How sad that there are still people (eg Jones Boy) who remain captured by the demonic propaganda developed to support and sustain the most evil scam ever perpetrated against the people of this world.
Oh come on Jonesy. Why should we believe someone who hides behind a nom de plume, supposedly in order to protect his or her own credibility.
Fact checking can only take place when the origin of the so called verifiable information is available to those who wish to challenge the false allegations. Your utterings fail the pub test.
There are also estimates that multi millions have been killed by the vaccine. Health officials are still trying to understand how Haiti , with the very lowest vaccine rate in the world also had the lowest death toll in the world during and after covid.
NZSOS would be a good source of truth to get a very measured discussion by doctors who have lost their jobs by taking a stand against the vaccine from the evidence they have gleamed from highly reputable sources eg the world expert in melanomas who states those who had the vaccine have staggering higher rates of m elanoma than those didn't get it . Then there are the cowardly thousands of NZ health workers who got themselves exempted from the deadly vaccine on condition they shut up.
Increasingly people are getting their news from else where because so many lies are told on MSM.
Trump has done some stupid things but spreading misinformation on the Covid scam is not one of them.
Funny how there is a plethora of reliable information published on COVID mortality. Funny how that includes the data collated and published by the WHO on its website for anybody to read. Funny how that contradicts Trump's view. It's entirely predictable therefore that Trump would declare the WHO as being contrary to American interests which really only means contrary to MAGA's interests. Mr Bibby, you need to expand your research beyond Fox News if you want to comment with any credibility. Credibility which is not enhanced by your propensity to indulge in ad-hominem sneers. Being from the country, you should understand the meaning of "play the ball not the man". Try applying that wisdom if you want people to take notice of you.
Haiti doesn't have the lowest COVID death toll in the world. That honour belongs to North Korea which not only had zero reported deaths but zero reported cases. Yeah, right! All that demonstrates is the unreliability of data from North Korea. Haiti is just as unreliable, but for a different reason. Its reported 34,900 cases and 860 deaths sounds good until you realise Haiti is a failed state with no recognisable government and no medical infrastructure capable of quantifying anything reliable about health outcomes. Consider the case of the Dominican Republic that shares the same island. 661,000 cases to date and 4,300 deaths. Almost the same population, same climate and physical environment, but much better governed and so probably much more representative of what should be happening in Haiti. In fact, given the disparity in social conditions between the two, rather worse outcomes are highly likely for Haiti. The only certainty is that, on the available data, no conclusions may be drawn about vaccine effectiveness in Haiti. So sorry Anon 9.48. Your comment has as much credibility as North Korea's death toll.
Oh dear Jonesy
At least l am open to criticism from anyone who wants to research the credibility of my claims about anything because they know where to look .Unlike you, l don’t leave readers wondering about the legitimacy of the claims l make or what has led me to a particular conclusion.
They can be easily investigated and it is over to the reader to decide what is fair or unjustified comment.
Contrary to your opinion of what is published under my name on this blog, l don’t need to use hyperbole in order to accurately describe your responses.
Why don’t you be brave and put your own thoughts in an article under your real name that may be considered acceptable by the publishers of this blog.
Failure to do so only leaves readers wondering about the validity of your criticism of contributing authors like me who subject ourselves to not only your snide personal attacks but also to the Moderator and Publishers close scrutiny.
You might be interested to know that every published article has already been proof read by the above scrutineers before being accepted.
There are a strict set of standards that have to be met before being published.
And believe me, writers must adhere to those standards or face rejection.- and the moderator’s decision is final.
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