- Global Citizen’s ‘One World: Together at Home’ concert aired on Saturday night
- Featured star-studded lineup of music legends as well as political figures
- Raised at least $150 million for the controversial World Health Organization
- WHO chief Tedros Adhanom also delivered a video message during concert
- Outrage poured out on social media over the wisdom of funding the WHO
- Group is accused of covering for China early in outbreak and downplaying risks
- WHO has backed China’s position on death toll there and possible originsÂ
- Trump pulled all funding pending an investigation into WHO handling of crisis
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A star-studded televised concert featuring music legends and political figures has drawn angry online backlash for raising money for the controversial World Health Organization, amid allegations that the group is beholden to China and badly mishandled the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
The two-hour ‘One World: Together at Home’ event, led by the WHO and non-profit group ‘Global Citizen’ was broadcast across multiple television channels in the U.S. and overseas on Saturday.
The event’s corporate sponsors and other donors have already given $150 million, earmarked for the WHO’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, organizers said.
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump pulled all U.S. funding for the WHO, accounting for about half of the group’s budget, pending an investigation into the group’s handling of the pandemic, and particularly its relationship with China.
That didn’t stop, and perhaps encouraged, the who’s-who lineup of stars who joined the One World concert, including Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Beyonce, Oprah Winfrey, Idris Elba, Lizzo and Lady Gaga, who gushed that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom was a ‘superstar.’
And the beat goes on! What will it take to educate these People that the whole World is NOT our FRIEND! That Money should have been used right here in the good old U.S.A. to feed, and support American’s! ! Period!
Disgusting display. In reality, they probably didn’t care where the money was going – they just couldn’t stand to NOT be in the spotlight, so they did this anyway. Ego over the good of humankind. What else can we expect?