SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Nov 22 – Ghislaine
Maxwell, charged with sex
trafficking and other
charges, faces a November
29, 2021 trial
On October 29 and
again on November 12,
she and the US Attorney's
Office for the Southern
District of New York filed a
flurry of motions in limine,
heavily redacted; the
Government argued that trial
exhibits are not public and
will be withheld. Inner City
Press opposed
and opposes the continued
secrecy.
Likewise,
Inner City Press
opposes censorship by
the UN, which after it
asked why UN
Sec-Gen
Antonio Guterres'
head of Partnerships
Amir Dossal
was
on the board
of Maxwell's
Terramar Foundation
was roughed up
and banned
from the UN,
summary here,
Quinn
Emanuel lawyers'
letter Q&A
here.
Now this: a
petition,
submitted
Monday to the
United Nations
Working Group
on Arbitrary
Detention,
filed by
international
criminal
lawyers
François
Zimeray and
Jessica
Finelle on
behalf of
Maxwell’s
three sisters
and three
brothers, arguing to
Maxwell's
partners at
the UN that
Maxwell’s
“abnormally
rigorous”
lock-up
conditions at
the
Metropolitan
Detention
Center in
Brooklyn are
horrific,
and thus
unlawful and
discriminatory.
The petition asks
the UN to call
on the US
government to
release
Maxwell
pending trial
and to urge an
independent
investigation
into her
“arbitrary
detention.”
This
while the UN
active covers up its own
peacekepers
child rapes.
This is
ghoulish.
On November 15, Judge
Nathan held a conference
about jury selection, Inner City
Press live tweeted here
(and podcast here)
On the
morning of
November 16,
Judge Nathan
questioned prospective
jurors; Inner
City Press
live tweeted here
(podcast here); Nov 16
afternoon here.
Late on
November 16 it
emerged
that Judge Ali
Nathan is
being
nominated for
elevation to
the Second
Circuit Court
of Appeals by
Senator Chuck Schumer.
She
said, "If I am
nominated
I...will
continue to do
my day job,
which means
presiding over
this trial
until
completion and
handling the
hundreds of
other civil
and criminal
matters on my
docket."
So
it
appears she would
complete the
Maxwell trial.
But any
sentencing?
Would she
follow 2d
Circuit Judge
Richard J.
Sullivan in
keeping some
SDNY cases? (As
noted,
Judge Sullivan
is still
rightly allowing
call-in lines
to in-person
cases, here).
Docketed
on November 22: "ORDER
as to
Ghislaine
Maxwell. On
November 1,
2021, the
Defense
noticed eight
expert
witnesses.
Def. Br., Ex.
1 ("Notice").
On November 8,
2021, the
Government
filed a motion
to partially
preclude the
testimony of
two of those
experts, Dr.
Dietz and Dr.
Loftus. Gov't
Br., Dkt. No.
424. The
Defense filed
a response via
email on
November 12,
2021, to
permit the
Government the
opportunity to
propose
redactions. In
an Opinion and
Order
temporarily
filed under
seal, the
Court DENIES
in part and
GRANTS in part
the
Governments
motion to
preclude Dr.
Dietz's
testimony and
DENIES in part
and GRANTS in
part the
Governments
motion to
preclude Dr.
Loftus's
testimony. It
doesso after
considering
the
admissibility
of the
anticipated
testimony
under Federal
Rule of
Evidence 702
and Daubert v.
Merrell Dow
Pharms., Inc.,
509 U.S. 579
(1993). The
Court will
send the
temporarily
sealed Opinion
& Order to
the parties.
By November
23, 2021, the
parties are
ORDERED to
inform the
Court whether
either seeks
sealing or
limited
redactions of
the Court's
Opinion &
Order,
justifying any
such request
by reference
to the
three-part
test
articulated by
the Second
Circuit in
Lugosch v.
Pyramid Co. of
Onondaga, 435
F.3d 110 (2d
Cir. 2006). In
addition, by
that date, the
parties are
FURTHER
ORDERED to
file any
proposed
redactions to
the Defenses
response brief
and/or
supporting
exhibits on
the public
docket, again
justifying any
such request
by reference
to the Lugosch
test (Signed
by Judge
Alison J.
Nathan on
11/21/21)."
The Doctor
Loftus is
Elizabeth
Loftus, who
among her 300
other cases
for defendants, while
testifying for
Harvey Weinstein
claimed she
had not
reviewed
anything about
the case but
then
tracked
Annabella Sciorra's
testimony
about Valium.
Will the same
occur here? Or
might it be
sealed? Podcast
here.
Watch this
site.
On
November 17,
jury selection
continued with
questions of
seized phones,
jail
conditions,
and the death
of Epstein, Inner
City Press
live tweeted here
(podcast here)
On the
afternoon of
November 17,
it continued,
Inner
City Press
live tweeted here
(podcast here)
Jury
(pre)
selection
ended on the morning
of November
18, Inner City
Press live
tweeted here
Near
5 pm on
November 18 this:
"ORDER as to
Ghislaine
Maxwell: IT
HEREBY IS
ORDERED: 1.
That courtroom
sketch artists
whether in the
courtroom or
overflow rooms
may not draw
exact
likenesses of
the Protected
Witnesses; and
2. For
avoidance of
doubt,
courtroom
sketch artists
may confer
with the Court
or counsel for
either party
to determine
whether a
witness is a
Protected
Witness. SO
ORDERED.
(Signed by
Judge Alison
J. Nathan on
11/18/2021)."
We'll have
more on this.
With so much
of the case,
and so many of
the victims, far
from Epstein's
Manhattan
townhouse, in Florida,
the Caribbean,
New Mexico,
the UK and by
private jet in
Africa, the lack
amid COVID of
a listen-only
call-in line during
the trial
proper would
be all the
more unfortunate.
On October 29,
after the flurry of redacted motions, Inner
City Press filed formal requests with SDNY
District Judge Alison J. Nathan, on
DocumentCloud here.
On
November 12, while Maxwell and DOJ still
redacting and a notice that after 50 people,
no more would be admitted even on November 15,
Inner City Press filed again. This time, both
letters were docketed - appreciated - but
denied, letter on CourtListener here.
"ENDORSED
LETTER as to Ghislaine Maxwell addressed to
Judge Alison J. Nathan from Matthew Russell
Lee, dated 10/29/2021, re: timely opposition
to blanket requests to seal portions of
motions in limine, trial exhibits, public
access. ENDORSEMENT: The Court received the
attached letters via email. This District no
longer permits public access by telephone for
in-court criminal proceedings, including
trials. The memorandum can be found here.
The Courts public access orders for all
proceedings in the case can be found here.
The Court has implemented a procedure for
docketing filings with proposed redactions and
is ruling on the proposals as expeditiously as
possible. See Dkt. No. 401. SO ORDERED.
(Signed by Judge Alison J. Nathan on
11/12/2021)."
Earlier
on November 12, Inner City Press called in to,
and reported on, a January 6 case in the
District for the District of Columbia - and
even other in-person criminal matters in the
SDNY. For November 15, only 50 people will be
allowed in. Meanwhile, for example, the Kyle
Rittenhouse in Wisconsin state court is on
YouTube. While engaged and appreciative on the
Federal / SDNY beat, we'll have more on
this.
Here was from
the October 29 request: Re: US v. Maxwell,
20-cr-330 (AJN), timely opposition to blanket
requests to seal portions of motions in
limine, trial exhibits, public access
Dear Judge
Nathan: On behalf of Inner
City Press and in my personal capacity, I have
been covering the above-captioned case. This
concerns in the first instance the flurry of
motions in limine filed earlier this evening,
replete with redactions justified by a
conclusory reference to Lugosch v. Pyramid
Co. of Onondaga, 435 F.3d 110 (2d Cir.
2006).
The
Government's Justifications for redaction
(Docket No. 399, docketed at 10:06 pm on
Friday Oct 29) cites Lugosch then says "The
Government also seeks sealing of trial
exhibits, which are not public." Inner City
Press immediately opposes this.
As one
example within this motions of limine, the
Government has redacted the entirety of its
Argument X, even the title and the page
number. And as to trial exhibits, see for
example Judge Jed S. Rakoff's order in US v.
Weigand, 20-cr-188 (JSR), here.
There,
Judge Rakoff ordered the US Attorney's Office
to make trial exhibit available to the public
at large. While this was done, belatedly, in
US v. Parnas, it was refused in the current US
v. Cole. It cannot be refused in this
case. Also, Inner City Press
understands that the listen-only call-in
telephone lines available so far in the case,
there may be an attempt to discontinue them.
The Court should take judicial notice of
continuing COVID-19 issues, including people's
understandable concerns about congregating
even in so-called overflow rooms. Be aware
that the District for the District of Columbia
still allows public phone access to all
criminal proceedings, even those held
in-person. That should happen here. The loss
of First Amendment freedoms, even for a short
period of time, unquestionably constitutes
irreparable injury. Elrod v. Burns,
427 U.S. 347, 373
(1976).
Inner City Press
will cover the trial, and all the comes before
and after it; #CourtCaseCast and song I, Song
2, Song
3, and new(est) song In UN Only 51 Votes In
Election of Correspondents Who Ignored Lawyer Letter Some
Get Only 31 Votes
UN GATE, Nov
24 – Each day, the current United Nations gets
worse. Usually we focus on Secretary General
Antonio Guterres moving from concealing his
links to UN briber CEFC China Energy to
banning the Press that asks, to failures on
Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Haiti, Honduras (JOH)
& Nigeria (Nnamdi & Igboho).
But
today
the UN's
partnership in
censorship,
the United
Nations
Correspondents
Association,
has hit a new
low. While
having lobbied
to get
independent
Press thrown
out, and
having
unprofessionally
declined to
response in
any way to
polite letter
from a major
US law firm
asking about
UNCA's
commitment (if
any) to the
First
Amendment, now
UNCa has
"elections."
And,
for fifteen
seats there
were...
fifteen
candidates. No
competition at
all, like in
North Korea.
And at least
forty percent
of
"candidates"
are state
media,
including from
Guterres'
favorite
China.
On November 24
the results
were as
follows: only
51 people
voted - this,
claiming to
represent
jouranlists
all over the
world, while
selling them
out daily.
Even with no
competition,
some
"candidates"
like that of
France 24 got
only 31 votes.
That's a vote
of no
confidence.
We'll
have more,
much more, on
this. Because
these
unopposed
candidates,
most of them,
received the
polite law
firm letter
asking them
why they
supported or
allowed
censorship,
and they
didn't even
have the
courtesy or
professionalism
to answer. In
any way.
Impunity like
Guterres, or
the Hermit
Kingdom.
The
letter was
received by
the UN's
Melissa
Fleming, Maria
Luiza Vioti
and Tal Mekel
and to each
UNCA Executive
Board member,
to them citing
UNCA's stated
goals that it
has a charter
to supposedly
uphold. And
four months
later, no
answer. Total
corruption and
censorship.
What's
next? Since
the letter,
Inner City
Press has
published
exclusive
stories not
only from the
U.S. court
systems but
about the
United
Nations,
including its
agencies UNOPS,
UNFPA,UNITAR
and UNESCO.
(Also credited
in AP,
Daily
Mail, and
Nigeria's
Sahara
Reporters,
amid answers
from the IMF.)
But
none of its
written
questions have
been answered
by the UN
Spokespeople,
and it remains
banned from
entry to the
UN's
briefings.
This must
end.
Having
asked for a
colleagial
discussion,
and while
still offering
it, things
must turn to
the law. UNCA
is a New York
State
non-profit
which has not
only not
abided by its
stated goals -
it has
tortiously
interfered
with a
journalist's
right to cover
the United
Nations.
The United
Nations itself
propounds
Article 19 of
the Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights,
and has other
legal duties
that must be
addressed by
national
courts,
particularly
in the UN's
host
country...
Those
in receipt of
the first,
friendly
letter:
melissa.fleming@un.org,
marialuiza.viotti@un.org,
mekel@un.org,
malu@un.org,
and
UNCA
Valeria
Robecco, ANSA
News Agency,
Nabil Abi
Saab,
Al-Araby,
Jianguo Ma,
Xinhua News
Agency, Edith
Lederer,
Associated,
Giampaolo
Pioli,
Quotidiano,
Linda Fasulo,
Ibtisam Azem,
Al-Araby
Al-Jadeed
Newspaper, Ali
Barada, France
24 (31 votes)
Asharq
Al-Awsat;
Oscar Bolanos,
OMB News,
Sherwin
Bryce-Pease,
SABC South
Africa -
Alexander
Hassanein, The
Tokyo Shimbun,
Maria
Khrenova,
TASS, Philippe
Rater, Agence
France-Presse
(39 votes),
Kaori Yoshida,
Nikkei, Betul
Yuruk, Anadolu
Agency at
president@unca.com,
valeria.robecco@gmail.com,
nabisaab@gmail.com,
mjg222888@gmail.com,
elederer@ap.org,
giampioli@aol.com,
lindafasulo@gmail.com,
ibtisam.azem@alaraby.co.uk,
abarada@hotmail.com,
ombyvozque@gmail.com,
s.brycepease@gmail.com,
alexander@tokyoshimbun.us,
khrenova_m@tass.ru,
philippe.rater@afp.com,
kaori.yoshida@nex.nikkei.com,
byuruk@aa.com.tr
Three
of the 15 are
from French
media, two
from Italy,
with various
dictatorships
represented.
Newlly
"elected" is
Carrie Neuton
of Le Monde,
with 32 votes.
She is now
responsible
for the UNCA
board's lack
of response to
a law firm's
letter about
their / her
role in
censorship.
Will there be
a response?
We'll have
more on this.
Watch this
site.
November 22, 2021
On UN Sex
Abuse in Mali Inner City Press Asks MINUSMA By Zoom Now
Guterres By Email
UN GATE, Nov
18 – In June 2021 the United Nations published
a single line of data about a case of sexual
abuse by its personnel or contractors in Mali,
without any indication of what was done for
the victim or to the perpetrator.
Inner
City Press, as it does, asked UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres and his spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric, Melissa Fleming and others
to provide the further information that even
under previous UNSG Ban Ki-moon was
provided.
There
was no answer, including to a polite letter to
Fleming from the law firm of Quinn
Emanuel, asking how Inner City Press can
end the retaliatory UN ban on it and enter the
UN briefing room to ask this and other
questions. Video here.
On
November 18, having received a Zoom invite to
attend the press briefing of the UN mission in
Mali MINUSMA, Inner City Press Zoomed in and
asked, first in the chat and then live, for
"a status
report on the case of UN sexual abuse put on
the UN's website in June 2021 - what has been
done for the victim? What justice has been
meted out?"
MINUSMA's
spokesperson Myriam Dessables to her credit,
and unlike Dujarric and others he and Fleming
have been able to reach and have ordered to
censor, allowed Inner City Press to ask. Video
here.
She said she
will revert with more information, after first
inaccurately - perhaps unknowingly - claiming
that the UN website has all the information.
It has only a single line.
So Inner
City Press immediately, as UN/MINUSMA
spokesperson Dessables' request, emailed this
question to her and Dujarric and Marcia Soares
Pinto, Amina J. Mohammed, Luiza Ribeiro
Viotti, Tal Mekel, Eri Kaneko, Achim Steiner,
Farhan Haq, Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez,
Fabrizio Hochschild, Daniela Gross and
spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay:
"At today's
MINUMSA breifing I asked you for a status
report on the case of UN sexual abuse put on
the UN's website in June 2021 - what has been
done for the victim? What justice has been
meted out? You said it is on the UN website in
all transparency - but there is only one
line: "unspecified... 2021."
Please email
me all if-asked information as the UN used to
provide under Ban Ki-moon - what was done for
the victim, what has been done with the
peacekeeper, etc. Thank you in advance -
including for your answers on the two military
incidents in Mali I asked about."
The
military incident including one of Estonian
troop in Mali mistaking UK troops, described
as working with MINUMSA, as enemies. Ms.
Dessables said she had looked it and the UK
troops are with the French "BARKHANE" or
another mission, not the UN.
And so we
publish that, and will public the answer - or
non answer - to the UN sex abuse questions we
have posed to Guterres and spokespeople, who
continue to Ban Inner City Press. Watch this
site.
November
15, 2021
Belt and
Roadkill Is Tale of UN Corruption By China With Dark
Comedy, Series Launched
NEW YORK CITY,
Nov 12 – What is a
novel? How long should it be? How corrupt is
the United Nations? What is the line between
real world injustice and fiction, black
comedy?
A just
published
novella, "Belt and Roadkill," raises
these questions.
The corruption
of the UN, its documented domination by China
as evidenced by two recent real-world bribery
prosecutions in the U.S. District Court of the
Southern District of New York, are the soil or
message of the text. But the meta questions
about what is a novel(la) is raised by its
form and length. (It is available, first on
Kindle, here).
Earlier this
month Parul Sehgal in The New Yorker bemoaned
the democratization of literature, or content,
by Amazon and Kindle Direct Publishing. But
who are the gatekeepers? Who should they be?
The author of
Belt and Roadkill, years ago, was on the
threshold of elite / elitist publishing,
summoned to a venerable firm on Union Square
in Manhattan and told that if only the actual
names of Citigroup's predatory lenders could
be dropped, it might be possible to move
forward.
But aren't
public figures open to satire, without danger
of libel lawsuits?
Aren't those
Predatory Benders who foreclose on thousands
of homes just targets, like those at the UN
who cover up hundreds of rapes by
peacekeepers, and ten thousand Haitians killed
by cholera, as only two examples?
Belt and
Roadkill does not mention Haiti, even once. It
does, however, name-check Cameroon
and Western Sahara, Huawei and the January 6,
2021 insurrection, breach or protest, whatever
your politics.
Let a hundred
flowers bloom, as Mao said
before moving to cut them
down. There will be
more.
[Belt and Roadkill: A Story
of Dis-United Nations, by Matthew Russell Lee, Inner City
Press is on Kindle,
and by paperback soon.]
November
8, 2021
UN Self
Dealing By Wall St Amid Censorship Lawyer Letter Ignored
Conflicted Prizes
UN GATE, Nov 6
– Each day, the current United Nations gets
worse. Usually we focus on Secretary General
Antonio Guterres moving from concealing his
links to UN briber CEFC China Energy to
banning the Press that asks, to failures on
Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Haiti, Honduras (JOH)
& Nigeria (Nnamdi & Igboho).
This
year the UN lost a journalist of integrity, Apostolis
Zoupaniotis, who retired to
return to Greece. Even after
the UN in retaliation threw
Inner City Press out of its
UN office, Apostolis
offered the
use of his
cubicle.
By contrast
the insiders
of the UN
Correspondents
Association,
while
purporting to
praise this
journalist
among with UN
Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric on
three week
vacation in
Greece, have
neither
responded to
or offered any
explanation
when a
lawyer's
letter - to
each UNCA
Executive
Committee
member - urged
them to have a
dialogue about
ending the
UN's banning
and censorship
of Inner City
Press. No
answers -
video here.
Instead they
are taking UN
system money -
from the
"Alliance of
Civilizations"
no less - to
give prizes to
their own
members, at
overprice
Cipriani by
Wall Street on
December 8:
"Guterres
will be the
guest of honor
of the
evening.
We are also
pleased to
announce the
winners of the
2021 UNCA
Awards and the
2021 Dag
Hammarskjold
Journalism
Fellows
below.
They're giving
prizes to
their own
James Bays,
who worked
with Stephane
Dujarric to
get Inner City
Press banned,
their own
Mauricio
Guerrero who
first resisted
but their
censored, Pass
Blue, and
others to be
named.
Beyond its
role under
current
management as
the UN
Censorship
Alliance,
here's a
recent pitch:
"UNCA is
extending an
invitation to
the online
launch of the
third annual
Hyundai Motor
‘Re:Style
2021’
Sustainable
Fashion
Collection,
introducing 12
fashion items
created with
discarded
wearable
materials from
vehicles,
launching in
partnering
shops in Seoul
and Paris.
Hyundai Motor
Company will
donate all
profits from
the project to
charitable
programs of
the United
Nations
Development
Programme
(UNDP).
Valeria
Robecco
President,
United Nations
Correspondents
Association."
Cars for the
environment.
Watch this
site.
November
1, 2021
In UN of Guterres Preeti Sinha
Questions By Inner City Press Still
UNanswered So Docs
UN GATE, Oct
28 – How corrupt has the UN under Antonio
Guterres become? Back in August, Inner City
Press in writing asked him and UN Spokesperson
Stephane Dujarric: "On
UNCDF, on deadline, what is the
UN system's response to this,
from a whistleblower? Ms Preeti
Sinha the newly appointed UNCDF
secretary was the business
development officer in a Swiss
based organization IHDLIFE SARL
until October 2020, before that
she handled the Secretariat of
the same organization’s another
vertical. She ran a small
company FFD ventures SARL
but in the appointment news of
Preeti Sinha she is projected as
the CEO and president of FFD
Ventures SARL which has raised
millions of dollars to support
Covid 19 response and other
development work. But the
truth is far less. etc"
They had not
answered, in two months,
enjoying impunity. So Inner City
Press on October 27 asked again,
in a noon briefing it was
sent to the WebEx code
to by UNICEF but was then muted and "removed." It
asked in writing: On
UNCDF as Inner City
Press asked each of you
in August 2021 without
any response, AGAIN,
"what is the UN system's
response to this, from a
whistleblower? Ms Preeti
Sinha the newly
appointed UNCDF
secretary was the
business development
officer in a Swiss based
organization IHDLIFE
SARL until October 2020,
before that she handled
the Secretariat of the
same organization’s
another vertical. She
ran a small company FFD
ventures SARL but
in the appointment news
of Preeti Sinha she is
projected as the CEO and
president of FFD
Ventures SARL which has
raised millions of
dollars to support Covid
19 response and other
development work.
But the truth is far
less."
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Oct 30 – Asa Saint Clair was
questioned for wire fraud by the US
authorities at 845 United Nations Plaza in
September 2019 for his involvement in a
dubious cyber-currency called Igobit, issued
through a UN-linked "inter-governmental
organization" called the World
Sports Alliance.
Inner City Press, before being banned from the
UN by Secretary General amid its questions
about his corruption and links to UN briber
CEFC China Energy, reported on the World
Sports Alliance, including here
and here and here,
on Burundi.
On October 23, 2019 Inner City Press now
covering the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York was the only
media in the SDNY Magistrates Court when Asa
Saint Clair was brought into the court in
shackles. He was arrested in California trying
to get on a plane to Madagascar by way of
Paris. More on Patreon here.
Now in
October 2021, we present the claimed
crypto-currency program of another UN
affiliated group, the World Association of
Former United Nations Interns and Fellows:
"WAFUNIF has
launched a charitable cryptocurrency program,
which has been vetted by our compliance
department in cooperation with our blockchain
technology provider."
And
yes, it is UN affiliated - and under Guterres,
Press questions to confirm or deny such things
are blocked and refused: "WAFUNIF received the
Special Consultative Status with the Economic
and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Associational
Accreditation with the Department of Public
Information (DPI). And in October 1983, the
United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD) accorded it the
Consultative Status in the General Category.
In September 1987, in recognition of WAFUNIF’s
significant contribution to the International
Year of Peace, United Nations
Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar
designated it as an Official Peace Messenger,
an honor conferred in a special ceremony held
at the United Nation Headquarters in New
York."
This is the UN
under Antonio Guterres, corrupt censor.
October
25, 201
Cameroon
Kills 3 Year
Old Minex
Kimora But UN
Guterres
Silent As
Colludes and
Bans Press
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Oct 16 – As more and more
civilians have been
killed by the Cameroon government of
Paul Biya, absentee president for 41 years, UN
Secretary General Antonio Guterres has been
silent, other than falsely claiming that he
got a ceasefire in Cameroon (while he made a
deal with Paul Biya, for UN Budget Committee
favors).
Now
amid Guterres' false claims and continued
banning of Inner City Press with no end in
sight (Q&A on law firm letter here),
on the morning of October 15, 2021 Inner City
Press asked Guterres, spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa Fleming and DSG Amina J.
Mohammed this: " On Cameroon what are the
comments and actions if any of SG Guterres and
separately USG Lacroix on that this week
3-year-old Minex Kimora was on her way to
school with her mother in the city of Buea
when a Cameroonian gendarme opened fire on
their car, shattering her skull, killing the
girl instantly."
More
than a day later, no answer. No one they let
in asked; Dujarric said grandly he would make
sure that announcements of meetings will be in
French. And the UN "elected" Cameroon on a
so-called clean (dirty) slate to its UN Human
Rights Council. Today's UN is corrupt.
Back on
December 9, Guterres' envoy Francois Lounceny
Fall told the UN Security Council: "On 6
December, Cameroon successfully held its first
ever regional elections aimed at finalizing
the decentralization process in the country,
including the implementation of a special
status for the North-West and South-West
Regions."
And Guterres
and his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric and
Melissa Fleming refused all of Inner City
Press written questions on Cameroon.
And on
the other hand Human Rights Watch, whose
Cameroon "expert" blocks Inner City Press, removed
it from HRW's Louis
Charbonneau's and UNCA's "human rights"
presser, here.
When Inner City
Press asked about it, Guterres used UN Security
to rough
up Inner City Press right after it
interviewed Monthe, and to ban it from entering
the UN, 1308 days and counting. October
18, 2021
UN Puts
Cameroon and Honduras on Human Rights Council, Guterres
Colludes Scam Election
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Oct 14 – How corrupt is today's UN
system, under Antonio Guterres? Well on
October 14 for the UN "Human Rights" Council
every election was without any opposition or
competition.
And among
those elected were Cameroon of Paul Biya,
which with Guterres support has been
slaughtering Anglophone civilians (to cover it
up, Guterres, Melissa Fleming and Stephane
Dujarric have banned Inner City Press 1300
days), and Honduras of narco-president Juan
Orlando Hernandez. Here's the full line up:
The new
members of the Human Rights Council will start
the three-year-mandate on 1 January
2022. The numbers of votes obtained by
each Member State: Benin: 189, Gambia:
186, Cameroon: 179, Somalia: 171 and Eritrea:
144. India: 184, Kazakhstan: 184,
Malaysia: 183, Qatar: 182, United Arab
Emirates: 180. Lithuania: 178,
Montenegro: 178 Paraguay: 185,
Argentina: 175, Honduras: 172 Finland:
180, Luxembourg: 180, United States of
America: 168.
We'll have more on this.
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October 11, 2021
UN
Guterres Who Bans Press Bloviates Praise of Ressa
and Muratov Nobel to State Media
UN GATE, Sept
18 – Each day, the current United
Nations less accountable. And Inner City
Press, banned now for the 1294th day by
Secretary General Antonio Guterres continues
to report on it, on August 16 publishing a UN
internal memo about moving international staff
to Kazakhstan. On August 16, 17 and 18 it in
writing asking Guterres and his UN
Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming about it - no answer. And no one they
let in ask, or seeming had the memo, below.
Now on
October 8, Guterres who bans Inner City Press
said this: "I congratulate Maria Ressa and
Dmitry Muratov on being awarded the 2021 Nobel
Peace Prize. Throughout the world, a
free press is essential for peace, justice,
sustainable development and human rights — and
the cornerstone for building fair and
impartial institutions. No society can
be free and fair without journalists who are
able to investigate wrongdoing, bring
information to citizens, hold leaders
accountable and speak truth to power." Total
hypocrisy. Vlog here.
Pod here
The UN
has
neither
responded to
or offered any
explanation
when a
lawyer's
letter - to UN
official
Fleming, and
Tal Mekel, and
to each UNCA
Executive
Committee
member - urged
them to have a
dialogue about
ending the
UN's banning
and censorship
of Inner City
Press.
On
August 9, an
independent
(minded)
journalist
asked Dujarric
about the
letter, video
here,
Spokesman:
There has been
no change in
Mr. Lee's
status.
Question:
Has the letter
been answered?
Do you plan to
answer
it?
Spokesman:
It's been
received.
Whether or not
it's been
answered, I
don't know
yet.
The
letter was
received by
the UN's
Melissa
Fleming, Maria
Luiza Vioti
and Tal Mekel
and to each
UNCA Executive
Board member,
to them citing
UNCA's stated
goals that it
has a charter
to supposedly
uphold.
What's
next? Since
the letter,
Inner City
Press has
published
exclusive
stories not
only from the
U.S. court
systems but
about the
United
Nations,
including its
agencies UNOPS,
UNFPA,UNITAR
and UNESCO.
(Also credited
in AP,
Daily
Mail, and
Nigeria's
Sahara
Reporters,
amid answers
from the IMF.)
But
none of its
written
questions have
been answered
by the UN
Spokespeople,
and it remains
banned from
entry to the
UN's
briefings.
This must
end.
Having
asked for a
colleagial
discussion,
and while
still offering
it, things
must turn to
the law. UNCA
is a New York
State
non-profit
which has not
only not
abided by its
stated goals -
it has
tortiously
interfered
with a
journalist's
right to cover
the United
Nations.
The United
Nations itself
propounds
Article 19 of
the Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights,
and has other
legal duties
that must be
addressed by
national
courts,
particularly
in the UN's
host
country...
Those
in receipt of
the first,
friendly
letter:
melissa.fleming@un.org,
marialuiza.viotti@un.org,
mekel@un.org,
malu@un.org,
and
UNCA
Valeria
Robecco, ANSA
News Agency,
Nabil Abi
Saab,
Al-Araby,
Jianguo Ma,
Xinhua News
Agency, Edith
Lederer,
Associated,
Giampaolo
Pioli,
Quotidiano,
Linda Fasulo,
Ibtisam Azem,
Al-Araby
Al-Jadeed
Newspaper, Ali
Barada, France
24, Asharq
Al-Awsat;
Oscar Bolanos,
OMB News,
Sherwin
Bryce-Pease,
SABC South
Africa -
Alexander
Hassanein, The
Tokyo Shimbun,
Maria
Khrenova,
TASS, Philippe
Rater, Agence
France-Presse,
Kaori Yoshida,
Nikkei, Betul
Yuruk, Anadolu
Agency
October
4, 2021
Kenya As UNSC
Prez Bans Inner City Press and Takes Only 6 Qs None on
Nigeria or UN Rapes
UN GATE, Oct 1
– With Kenya taking over presidency of
the UN Security Council on October 1, on
September 29 Inner City Press wrote to the
Kenyan Mission to the UN to request access to
its October 1 press conference by Ambassador
Martin Kimani.
Inner
City Press wrote to the Mission and to its
listed spokesman, James Ndirangu Waweru.
Two days
later, nothing - inconsistent, to say the
least, with Kenya's duty as President of the
UN Security Council. And at the delayed
October 1 Press-less briefing, after a pitch
by Raychelle Omamo, the Ambassador took only
six questions, all nearly identical but still
in clumps of three to allow evasions. Inner
City Press live tweeted it here:
It begins: UN
Security Council "press" conference by October
President Kenya Mission UN
AmbMKimani - Inner City Press emailed
asking for WebEx access (as it has at IMF)
& Q's on Afghanistan Burma Cameroon, Yemen
Nigeria - no answers. #UNcorruptsEveryone
Now
@AmbMKimani says UNSC will go on junket
to Niger (no UN mission there) and Mali
(failing mission); he quotes an unnamed
Ambassador at breakfast this morning trying to
"touch reality." The reality at the UN today
is censorship
Now
AmbMKimani says "UNSC is expected to
negotiate a resolution for the mission for a
Referendum in #WesternSahara." The UN has been
supposed to hold that referendum for decades
and never did, took money, had sex abusers
running MINURSO here
Now
@AmbMKimani claims he will grant
interview request. Then why did
@KenyaMissionUN refuse to even answer on
WebEx access to ask about Nigeria Cameroon
Yemen? Says he wants Kenyans to know what he's
doing. We'll work on that - watch this feed
Now those
allowed in the room consent to asking
questions in bunches, so that
AmbMKimani can dodge or ignore any Qs he
wants. Tellingly, all three called on first
ask the same question. Nothing on Nigeria
Cameroon Haiti, Western Sahara much less UN
rapes in CAR, most recently by a peacekeeper
from Peru
And now it's
over - AmbMKimani took only six
questions, at least four and a half of them on
the same topic. The topics that Inner City
Press emailed @KenyaMissionUN
about were not asked about, nor the email
answered
Inner
City Press covered the UN and UNSC under Kofi
Annan and Ban Ki-moon then was thrown out
under Antonio Guterres after asking him
directly about [, among other things including
Cameroon,] the omission
from his financial disclosure covering 2016 of
his link, through Lisbon's Gulbenkian
Foundation which paid him money, to convicted
UN briber CEFC China Energy.
This was and
is a legitimate journalistic question however
Inner City Press has been banned by Guterres
and his USG Melissa Fleming.
There is no
commitment by the UN Secretariat to even
respond to a polite law firm letter seeking
access to Inner City Press, see video.
See also Press
Freedom Tracker and The
Independent (UK)
The Kenyan
Mission and Kenya have a duty to not collude
in censorship, and to take questions from
media. Inner City Press is permitted (in fact,
invited) to put WebEx questions to the IMF
briefings, see below, and is accredited at the
SDNY Federal court here in New York.
So it remains
up to Kenya and the Kenyan Mission to provide
access. We will be covering them closely.
For now: "Here
is the UN Security Council program
of "work" for October under
@KenyaMissionUN @AmbMKimani :
#WesternSahara 13th, 4th #Haiti (cholera),
18th CAR (UN rapes) - no #Cameroon or
#Nigeria, Inner City Press asked why, no
answer."
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site.
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September 27, 2021
As US
Sanctions Salvador 5 But No Hondurans UN Guterres With JOH
Inner City Press Asks Of
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Sept 21 – With Central America on
the agenda of U.S. Secretary of State Antony
Blinken June 1-2 in Costa Rica, Inner City
Press on May 27 asked Department of State
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Acting
Assistant Secretary Julie J. Chung about the
Administration's approach to
Honduras.
Now
during the UN General Assembly from which UN
Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres has banned Inner City
Press, with no actions by the US Mission to
the UN, the US on September 20 announced
sanctions of five from El Salvador and two
from Guatemala - and NONE from Honduras. Why
not?
Well,
one reason is the UN Sec-Gen Guterres has
repeatedly covered up for Juan Orlando
Hernandez, sending a four person panel to prop
him up after dubious election, then refusing
to answer Press questions about it. Now on
September 21 in New York, Guterres has issued
this: "The Secretary-General met with H.E. Mr.
Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, President of
Honduras. The Secretary-General and the
President discussed efforts undertaken to
address the COVID-19 emergency, the impact of
recent natural disasters and the
implementation of the Comprehensive
Development
Plan.
New York, 21 September
2021
***** El
Secretario General se reunió con El
Excelentísimo Señor Juan Orlando Hernández
Alvarado, Presidente de Honduras. El
Secretario General y el Presidente Hernández
discutieron sobre los esfuerzos realizados
para abordar la emergencia del COVID-19, el
impacto de los recientes desastres naturales
que afectaron al país, y la implementación del
Plan de Desarrollo Integral." Shameful.
The
president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez,
was repeatedly referred to by DOJ prosecutors
as involved in narco-trafficking during the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District
of New York trials of his brother, Tony
Hernandez (sentenced to life plus 30 years)
and Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez.
Acting
Assistance Secretary Chung told Inner City
Press that those leaders who will not tackle
corruption will not be U.S. partners. While
Inner City Press said thanks for the answer,
how will the Administration cordon off its aid
from use by the JOH government, which also
used Facebook to game elections in the
country? Podcast here.
QUESTION:
Sure. Thanks a lot and thanks for taking the
question. I had wanted to ask specifically
about Honduras. There have been a series of
cases in the Southern District of New York
where the brother of the president, Juan
Orlando Hernandez, his brother Tony was
convicted of drug trafficking. And in the most
recent trial, his name came up repeatedly as
“CC-4,” seemingly involved in the
trafficking. So I’m wondering – I know
there’s a general concern with corruption and
countries being sort of involuntarily subject
to drug trafficking, but what’s the State
Department’s thought of how to ensure that
that aid to Honduras isn’t used by the current
government? Or what’s your thinking on this?
Thanks a lot.
MS CHUNG: Yes,
well, we take any allegations of criminal
activity very seriously. I won’t speak to the
specifics of the DOJ case, but combating
corruption and impunity, those are really at
the center of the President’s priorities in
the region and how to address the root causes
of irregular migration. So we have said very
clearly that any leader unwilling to tackle
corruption will not be considered a close U.S.
partner, and we take that very seriously. And
so we want to have these conversations ongoing
with, again, not just the governments but all
stakeholders in the region. And we also want
to use this opportunity in this multilateral
format to see how countries can look for these
regional challenges and come up with regional
solutions together as well.
The
answer stands in contrast with the United
Nations, which after under Antonio Guterres
have propped up JOH when he stole the election
the last time has refused all of Inner City
Press' questions, even in writing, and
continues to ban
it from entering the UN, now for the
1060th day. Something must change.
Here's the
trip announcement: Ned Price, Department
Spokesperson Secretary of State Antony
J. Blinken will travel on June 1-2 to San
José, Costa Rica, where he will engage with
senior leaders from Central America, Mexico,
and the Dominican Republic, as well as Costa
Rican government officials and civil society.
...
Secretary Blinken will then participate in a
meeting with senior leaders from member-states
of the Central America Integration System
(SICA), along with Mexico. Together,
they will advance a collaborative approach to
addressing the root causes of migration,
including improving democratic governance,
security, and economic opportunity for the
people of Central America. He will also
meet separately with several of his foreign
counterparts to discuss joint efforts to
address bilateral and regional issues. Watch
this site.
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September 20, 2021
For No-Vax Super Spreader UNGA
Now NYC Letter, SG Guterres Thumbs Nose As Bans Press
UN GATE, Sept
15 – Since August 3, Inner City Press has each
week end asked UN Spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa Fleming about the UN's
planned "honor system" UN General Assembly
week, without vaccination required.
On September
10 in a "press" conference from which he
banned Inner City Press, Guterres again
promoted his no-vax UNGA week, while saying
he'll inject money to the Taliban and dodge a
question about the Burma Ambassador targeted
for assassination as prosecuted in SDNY court
Inner City Press covers while banned from the
UN by Guterres.
Inner City
Press live tweeted the press-less presser here
and below.
Now New
York City has written to Guterres saying that
those entering the UNGA Hall would have to be
vaccinated, letter here,
something banned Inner City Press has asked
Guterres in writing about for months. But on
September 15 his spokesman Stephane Dujarric
confirmed on camera that the UN will NOT be
requiring that, and said there will be a
vaccination tent. But don't those kick in
after two weeks? The UN violates NYC law, just
as it killed 10,000 in Haiti with cholera. UN
under Guterres is a Super Spreader.
South Korea, land of Ban Ki-moon and this
second Moon: Presidential spokeswoman Park
Kyung-mee announces President Moon Jae-in's
plan to visit the United States to attend the
upcoming U.N. general assembly at the
presidential office in Seoul on Sept. 13,
2021. Moon will embark on the five-day trip
starting Sept. 19.
UNGA Week Blues
by Matthew Russell Lee, 12 Sept 2021
"The UN of Guterres has its GA week
And UN hypocrisy is hitting its peak
Unvaccinated dictators coming to NYC
Guterres doesn't give a damn about you or me
If you ask about UN bribery he'll have you roughed
up" pic.twitter.com/6nXPqRCSBg
On September 21,
while France's Macron was as of August 13 coming
in person, by September 10 he is virtual, as did
Chile. Guinea, post-coup, has been dropped from
Day 1. Sept 10 list here.
And new PGA Adbulla Shahid's spokesperson Monica
Grayley has refused a request for a copy of the
speakers list - we'll have more on this.
September
13, 2021
UN Guterres
Pitches No-Vax UNGA In Presser He Bans Inner City Press From,
No Answers
In Other
Media e.g. Somalia,
Ghana,
Azerbaijan,
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