IBOV 176,283 ▲ 0.31% IPSA 10,928 ▲ 0.16% IPC MEX 66,866 ▲ 1.35% MERVAL 3,265,257 ▲ 0.93% COLCAP 2,299.44 ▼ 0.36% BVL PERÚ 56,428.20 ▲ 2.28% USD/BRL5.07▼ 1.27% USD/MXN17.40▼ 0.75% USD/CLP923.54▼ 1.00% USD/COP3,254▼ 0.26% USD/PEN3.39▼ 0.58% USD/ARS1,475▼ 0.54% USD/UYU40.23▲ 0.99% USD/PYG6,039▲ 1.12% USD/BOB10.35▲ 6.04% USD/DOP58.31▲ 0.39% USD/CRC448.93▲ 1.31% USD/GTQ7.62▲ 2.07% USD/HNL26.73▲ 1.38% USD/NIO36.62▲ 0.63% USD/VES722.19▼ 0.13% USD/PAB1.00— 0.00% USD/BZD2.00— 0.00% USD/JMD157.59▲ 0.64% USD/TTD6.75▲ 1.19% EUR/BRL5.80▼ 0.27% BRENT 83.57 ▲ 0.32% WTI 77.98 ▼ 0.20% IRON ORE 161.91 — — COPPER 6.44 ▲ 3.30% GOLD 4,103 ▲ 2.66% SILVER 59.88 ▲ 3.89% SOY 1,190 ▼ 1.02% CORN 459.00 ▲ 4.85% WHEAT 639.75 ▲ 2.03% COFFEE 347.95 ▲ 1.92% SUGAR 14.83 ▲ 0.54% ORANGE JUICE 137.30 ▼ 3.68% COTTON 81.07 ▲ 1.55% COCOA 5,715 ▲ 0.33% BEEF 228.63 ▼ 2.60% CATTLE 350.40 ▼ 1.11% LITHIUM 71.72 ▲ 2.10% PETR4 40.33 ▼ 0.81% VALE3 74.12 ▲ 1.74% ITUB4 43.76 ▲ 0.55% BBDC4 18.74 ▼ 0.16% ABEV3 15.92 ▲ 0.57% BBAS3 20.49 ▲ 1.24% B3SA3 15.37 ▲ 1.65% WEGE3 44.38 ▼ 0.02% PRIO3 56.60 ▼ 1.05% SUZB3 40.98 ▼ 1.23% RENT3 40.17 ▼ 0.07% AZZA3 18.91 ▼ 1.61% CSAN3 3.88 ▼ 0.51% RAIZ4 0.32 ▼ 3.03% PCAR3 2.47 ▼ 4.63% GMAT3 3.94 — 0.00% PSSA3 54.16 ▲ 0.22% CVCB3 1.30 ▲ 4.00% POSI3 3.95 ▼ 1.00% SLCE3 13.74 ▼ 0.94% NATU3 8.47 ▼ 1.51% BRKM5 6.65 ▼ 4.18% RANI3 8.00 ▲ 0.63% CSNA3 5.18 ▼ 1.15% CMIN3 5.28 ▼ 3.12% USIM5 8.25 ▼ 1.55% GGBR4 23.05 ▲ 1.01% ENEV3 26.82 ▼ 0.22% CPFE3 47.04 ▲ 0.43% CMIG4 11.10 ▲ 0.27% EQTL3 40.83 ▲ 1.54% LREN3 14.11 ▼ 0.28% VIVT3 35.08 ▲ 1.01% RAIL3 14.07 ▼ 0.28% KLABIN 17.38 ▼ 0.57% RAIA DROGASIL 18.54 ▲ 1.87% RDOR3 35.87 ▲ 0.87% HAPV3 10.68 ▲ 2.10% FLRY3 16.19 ▲ 0.25% SMTO3 16.37 — 0.00% UGPA3 29.68 ▼ 4.04% VBBR3 32.78 ▲ 0.06% BBSE3 40.25 ▼ 0.07% BPAC11 58.38 ▲ 1.50% CURY3 32.68 ▼ 1.33% AERI3 2.08 — 0.00% VIVARA 23.25 ▲ 0.61% COMPASS 25.08 ▲ 1.25% VAMOS 3.02 — 0.00% SANB11 27.53 ▲ 0.58% ASAI3 8.60 ▼ 1.26% SBSP3 30.39 ▲ 0.07% WALMEX 49.82 ▲ 0.34% GMEXICO 203.50 ▲ 4.04% FEMSA 232.05 ▲ 2.97% CEMEX 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USD/COP 3,254 ▼ 0.26% USD/PEN 3.39 ▼ 0.58% USD/ARS 1,475 ▼ 0.54% USD/UYU 40.23 ▲ 0.99% USD/PYG 6,039 ▲ 1.12% USD/BOB 10.35 ▲ 6.04% USD/DOP 58.31 ▲ 0.39% USD/CRC 448.93 ▲ 1.31% USD/GTQ 7.62 ▲ 2.07% USD/HNL 26.73 ▲ 1.38% USD/NIO 36.62 ▲ 0.63% USD/VES 722.19 ▼ 0.13% USD/PAB 1.00 — 0.00% USD/BZD 2.00 — 0.00% USD/JMD 157.59 ▲ 0.64% USD/TTD 6.75 ▲ 1.19% EUR/BRL 5.80 ▼ 0.27% BRENT 83.57 ▲ 0.32% WTI 77.98 ▼ 0.20% IRON ORE 161.91 — — COPPER 6.44 ▲ 3.30% GOLD 4,103 ▲ 2.66% SILVER 59.88 ▲ 3.89% SOY 1,190 ▼ 1.02% CORN 459.00 ▲ 4.85% WHEAT 639.75 ▲ 2.03% COFFEE 347.95 ▲ 1.92% SUGAR 14.83 ▲ 0.54% ORANGE JUICE 137.30 ▼ 3.68% COTTON 81.07 ▲ 1.55% COCOA 5,715 ▲ 0.33% BEEF 228.63 ▼ 2.60% CATTLE 350.40 ▼ 1.11% LITHIUM 71.72 ▲ 2.10% PETR4 40.33 ▼ 0.81% VALE3 74.12 ▲ 1.74% ITUB4 43.76 ▲ 0.55% BBDC4 18.74 ▼ 0.16% ABEV3 15.92 ▲ 0.57% BBAS3 20.49 ▲ 1.24% B3SA3 15.37 ▲ 1.65% WEGE3 44.38 ▼ 0.02% PRIO3 56.60 ▼ 1.05% SUZB3 40.98 ▼ 1.23% RENT3 40.17 ▼ 0.07% AZZA3 18.91 ▼ 1.61% CSAN3 3.88 ▼ 0.51% RAIZ4 0.32 ▼ 3.03% PCAR3 2.47 ▼ 4.63% GMAT3 3.94 — 0.00% PSSA3 54.16 ▲ 0.22% CVCB3 1.30 ▲ 4.00% POSI3 3.95 ▼ 1.00% SLCE3 13.74 ▼ 0.94% NATU3 8.47 ▼ 1.51% BRKM5 6.65 ▼ 4.18% RANI3 8.00 ▲ 0.63% CSNA3 5.18 ▼ 1.15% CMIN3 5.28 ▼ 3.12% USIM5 8.25 ▼ 1.55% GGBR4 23.05 ▲ 1.01% ENEV3 26.82 ▼ 0.22% CPFE3 47.04 ▲ 0.43% CMIG4 11.10 ▲ 0.27% EQTL3 40.83 ▲ 1.54% LREN3 14.11 ▼ 0.28% VIVT3 35.08 ▲ 1.01% RAIL3 14.07 ▼ 0.28% KLABIN 17.38 ▼ 0.57% RAIA DROGASIL 18.54 ▲ 1.87% RDOR3 35.87 ▲ 0.87% HAPV3 10.68 ▲ 2.10% FLRY3 16.19 ▲ 0.25% SMTO3 16.37 — 0.00% UGPA3 29.68 ▼ 4.04% VBBR3 32.78 ▲ 0.06% BBSE3 40.25 ▼ 0.07% BPAC11 58.38 ▲ 1.50% CURY3 32.68 ▼ 1.33% AERI3 2.08 — 0.00% VIVARA 23.25 ▲ 0.61% COMPASS 25.08 ▲ 1.25% VAMOS 3.02 — 0.00% SANB11 27.53 ▲ 0.58% ASAI3 8.60 ▼ 1.26% SBSP3 30.39 ▲ 0.07% WALMEX 49.82 ▲ 0.34% GMEXICO 203.50 ▲ 4.04% FEMSA 232.05 ▲ 2.97% CEMEX 22.51 ▲ 3.35% GFNORTE 185.93 ▲ 2.12% BIMBO 56.32 ▲ 0.81% TELEVISA 9.62 ▲ 0.10% AMX 22.87 ▲ 1.24% GAP 386.60 ▼ 5.29% ASUR 278.24 ▼ 0.15% OMA 234.25 ▲ 0.40% KOF 181.75 ▲ 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WHO Monkeypox ’emergency’ is the decision of one man, and he has no medical training

By · July 26, 2022 · 4 min read

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The World Health Organization’s declaration of monkeypox as a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (PHEIC) was made by one man, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has no medical training, over the objection of the majority of his own expert committee of medical and scientific advisers.

Nine of the committee members thought a PHEIC should not be declared, and six supported a declaration.

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“Nine and six are very, very close. Since the committee’s role is to advise, I then had to act as a tie-breaker,” Tedros said in a news conference called to announce the decision.

Perhaps the “new math” leads to the conclusion of a “tie” with a three-vote majority on one side?

Rosamund Lewis, the WHO technical lead for monkeypox, in a press conference on July 20, said: “About 98 percent of (monkeypox) cases are among men who have sex with men –and primarily those who have multiple recent anonymous or new partners.” She then said they are typical of young age and chiefly in urban areas.

This raises the obvious question for thinking people: Why is a disease that occurs 98% in men having sex with men now being applied to a worldwide population of people – men, women, children – of all ages who do not fit this risk profile?

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A fact not discussed in most media outlets is even more ominous. PHEIC is the legal “buzzword” that triggers the implementation of the International Health Regulatory Agreement signed in 2005 by over 190 countries, giving WHO worldwide authority of the “public health” response for all those nations.

This is the same legal framework that led to the lockstep, draconian global control that led to all the COVID lockdowns, mandates, and loss of medical freedom.

With this WHO declaration of yet another “Public Health Emergency of International Concern,” we have a serious and aggressive move underway that people of the world need to understand and take steps NOW to stop.

5 ASTONISHING FACTS ABOUT WHO CHIEF TEDROS

The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is not a medical doctor but a member of a Marxist-Leninist Ethiopian political party that analysts have listed as a perpetrator of terrorism.

Below are five worrisome facts about the man leading the WHO amid the coronavirus pandemic and has declared Monkeypox as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

1 TEDROS HELPED BEIJING HIDE THE SEVERITY OF THE CHINESE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

On January 14, months after health officials are believed to have detected the first case of the virus in China on November 17 of last year, the WHO was promoting a Chinese claim via Twitter that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.”

Meanwhile, the disease was spiraling out of control. The WHO tweet came a day before the first case to reach the United States reportedly flew from Wuhan to the state of Washington.

2 TEDROS IS NOT A MEDICAL DOCTOR

The WHO director holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Community Health from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and a Master of Science (MSc) in Immunology of Infectious Diseases from the University of London. China reportedly supported Tedros’s rise to lead the WHO in 2017, even though he was not trained as a medical doctor.

The WHO Director is a Member of the Leftist Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)

3 TEDROS IS A MEMBER OF THE MARXIST-LENINIST TIGRAYAN PEOPLE’S LIBERATION FRONT

As a member of the violent and powerful communist Ethiopian political party known as the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), Tedros rose through Ethiopia’s autocratic regime as health (2005-2012) and foreign minister (2012-2016). Analysts, reportedly including American government officials, have listed the TPLF in the Global Terrorism Database.

When it came to power in 1991, TPLF was in the vanguard of that year’s overthrow of Ethiopia’s military regime under dictator Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam. TPLF played a role in Ethiopia’s 1980s famine a few years after launching its protracted rebellion against the military government in 1975. The party is also reportedly linked to other gross human rights violations.

3 TEDROS HELPED INDEBT ETHIOPIA TO CHINA

Ethiopia has borrowed billions from China, reportedly including more than US$$13 billion during Tedros’ tenure as foreign minister between 2012 and 2016.

An editorial published by the Hill in mid-March pointed out:

We note China’s connections to Tedros’s homeland of Ethiopia, now called East Africa’s ‘Little China’ because it has become China’s bridgehead to influence Africa and a key to China’s Belt and Road initiative there. Indeed, China has invested heavily in Ethiopia.

Citing the coronavirus threat last month, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued asked the international community for immediate debt relief. China has become Ethiopia’s largest trading partner, thanks partly to Beijing’s investments in the African country while Tedros was foreign minister.

5 TEDROS NAMED ROBERT MUGABE AS WHO ‘GOODWILL AMBASSADOR’

In October 2017, Tedros named Mugabe a “goodwill ambassador” to help combat non-communicable diseases in Africa, provoking outrage from medical professionals and human rights groups. At the time the New York Times noted:

The role of goodwill ambassador is largely symbolic, but rights groups were scathing in their reaction to the symbolism of giving it to a man whose leadership, they say, has led to the collapse of its health service and major rights abuses in Zimbabwe.

Ultimately, Tedros rescinded his decision to name Mugabe “goodwill ambassador” in the wake of criticism.

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