Jens Stoltenberg, now General Secretary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for almost a decade, is a Norwegian. Norway is also behind the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI), launched in January 2017 at the World Economic Forum with the aim of developing, supplying and injecting everybody with new vaccines against coronavirus and other deadly diseases. Norwegians gave the international community those fabulous pandemic bonds. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been heavily funded by Norway for decades. Klaus Schwab’s president Borge Brende used to be Norways’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Norway built the «Domsday Vault» where indigenous (as opposed to GMO) crop seeds from across the world are stored safely in the High North of Svalbard, under the auspices of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). These seeds are managed by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, headed from 2013 to 2019 by the Norwegian politician Aslaug Haga, who currently serves as Associate Vice-president of the External Relations and Governance Department at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). And let’s not forget that Jens Stoltenberg, now of NATO fame, was also instrumental in setting up the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) together with his close friend Bill Gates.
All the strings come together in a small kingdom north of Denmark. Norway has the resources, and the world’s largest pension fund based on North Sea oil revenue. Norway awards the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. And Norway has the will to influence the world, whether through clandestine operations, multilateral organizations, international non-governmental alliances, or global initiatives headed by disgraced billionaires or washed up politicians like Al Gore and Bill Clinton. Norwegian parliamentarians agreed to bomb Libya by text message. And now Seymour Hersh has revealed that Norwegians were behind the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the psyop that launched the Vietnam War.
It’s time to take a closer look at some characters at the center of the Norwegian fairytale: the Stoltenberg family.
Once upon a time in Norway…
Just after the end of World War II, a young admiral’s son named Thorvald Stoltenberg met a Norwegian-American girl named Karin Heiberg. They were both teenagers at the time. The two friends became pen pals after Karin’s family emigrated again, this time to Granby, Quebec, where Karin’s father, a Chemist, worked for the stocking company Nordic Hosiery Limited.
Thorvald pursued a degree in Law while Karin studied Human Genetics at McGill University. Her marriage to a Canadian student in 1953 ended with a divorce, but Karin achieved a Master of Science degree after submitting a thesis on her experimental work, injecting pregnant mice with cortisone to determine the stage of pregnancy at which the injections would produce the maximum instances of cleft palate in the offspring.
Karin Heiberg and Thorvald Stoltenberg were married in 1957, Thorvald now a hero of the Hungarian refugee crisis. A year later, their daughter Camilla was born, and Thorvald landed a job with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1959, their son Jens was born, while Thorvald was stationed at the Royal Norwegian Consulate in San Francisco as Vice-Consul. In 1963, Jens and Camilla’s little sister Nini was born in Oslo.
The Stoltenberg kids grew up in Oslo. Jens and Camilla joined the movement against the Vietnam War. Saigon fell in 1975, when Jens was 16 and every teenager in Oslo was a peacenik, pushing against doors left wide open by Jane Fonda, Walter Cronkite and Seymour Hersh.
Camilla studied Medicine and Sociology at the University of Oslo, while Jens studied Economics. At the age of 15, Nini ran away to Christiana in Copenhagen, a self-governed zone known for its cannabis market. Nini lived there for several months. She returned home, but continued to use drugs. Meanwhile, Camilla was active in the Marxist-Leninist youth movement. One of their demands was to abolish NATO. Jens agreed, at least until he had secured the leadership of the youth wing of the Labour Party.
Father Thorvald was not only a diplomat, he was an active member of the Norwegian Labour Party. He was appointed Minister of Defense in 1979. His service was appreciated. He went on to become Minister of Foreign Affairs (1987-89; 1990-93), Norway’s Ambassador to the United Nations (1989), United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees (1990), Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the former Yugoslavia (1993) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission (1993).
Mother Karin worked for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, as a government official, and as State Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce and Shipping and the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
Our Common Future
Karin and Thorvald were close friends with Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway’s Prime Minster (1981; 1986-89; 1990-96), famous for her authorship of the Brundtland Report, Our Common Future (1987) for Agenda 21, and later for her leadership of the World Health Organization (WHO). Jens climbed the Labour Party ladder under Brundtland’s watchful eye.
Jens started his career in the Norwegian government in 1990, as State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1993 and served as Minister of Industry and Energy (1993-96), Minister of Finance (1996-97) and finally Prime Minister (2000-01).
Nini didn’t complete her studies, but made a name for herself in the television business. She co-hosted several shows and worked as a talk show producer, until she was discovered injecting heroin at work. In 2001, the Stoltenberg family decided to go public with Nini’s drug addiction, which was common knowledge by then. Nini told her story on a popular current affairs show with her father by her side. Thousands of viewers sent Nini letters of support. Thorvald followed up with a book complaining about the law that made his daughter’s unfortunate disease a crime. The law was later changed, of course.
Camilla followed in her mother’s footsteps, conducting research on birth defects. Her major work in this field was Birth defects, stillbirth, and infant death: epidemiological studies of the effects of consanguinity and parental education on births in Norway 1967-1995. She reached the peak of her career in 2012, when she was hired as the Director-General of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, an institution set up by the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1920s.
Will it be war or pestilence?
Camilla and Jens are both champions of immunization and huge supporters of the WHO and Bill Gates. Jens was one of the driving forces behind the founding of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) and served as a member of the GAVI board from 2002 to 2005. While Jens served his second term as Prime Minister (2005-13), he continued to fund GAVI generously, directly from the Prime Minister’s Office.
Mother Karin died in 2012. Nini died in 2014, at the age of 51. At Nini’s funeral, Jens said he had failed as a brother. He should have protected her. Jens was appointed Secretary General of NATO the same year.
Camilla’s institute was instrumental in setting up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI), where Bill Gates also played an important role. CEPI was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2017. Its objective is to develop vaccines to protect against pathogens such as coronavirus, and deliver these innovative vaccines to Global South populations that would otherwise not have access to them. Pure love for the underprivileged, no doubt.
Camilla’s Institute of Public Health was also a key actor in Norway’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in an advisory role to the government on lockdowns, pandemic surveillance and not the least, immunization.
While Camilla is worried that the next pandemic will wipe out the human race, her brother Jens is concerned that NATO countries will fail to help Ukraine defend its precious sovereignty, potentially triggering World War III.
Which one will it be, war or pestilence? Either way, it looks like we’re heading for a situation so dangerous that only a World Government or a Stoltenberg will be able to save us from disaster.