US$ 5M investment will accelerate priority projects of the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence to drive global collaboration in genomic surveillance, adoption of data tools for pathogen detection, and assessment of climate-aggravated outbreak threats

For the fourth time within half a century, the people of the
United States have found themselves drawn into and forced to
fight a war that was not their concern and in which it was not
their desire or will to participate. On each occasion the nation
was tricked into war by the same clique. The more observant
and intelligent sections of the public have sensed that there is
a power behind and above the government that controls it and
dictates its actions without regard to the will of the people.
That power has thus far been immune to exposure

Ultra-rich philanthropists and their foundations have increasing influence on decision-making and are setting the global health and agriculture agenda in developing countries, according to a major study (pdf).