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February
24, 2020
UN
Refuses Press
Qs on
Coronavirus
But Inner City
Press Here
Publishes UN
Pro- China
Spin
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- CJR -
PFT
UN GATE, Feb
22 – The United Nations has assiduously
avoided answering Press questions about its
response to Coronavirus.
Publicly UN
Secretary General Antonio Guterres and his
officials have lavished praise on China for
its response, without answering on the
disappearance of a journalist who exposed them
on it.
Now that the
tech giants the UN has turned itself over to,
as it has to China,
have canceled
the Mobile World Congress 2020 even though it
was to be in Barcelona, the question is more
Pressing: what precautions has the UN taken
given the travel to and from it, on
unaccountable diplomatic passports, of
diplomats and others from the epicenter of the
virus? Inner City Press has asked each day for
a week - no answer at all, now as Guterres
takes public money and UN Security to lounge
around his real home in Lisbon.
But
banned Inner City Press has obtained the below
UN spin of Coronavirus including praise of
China's "vigorous" approach which has included
Guterres-like censorship and welding people in
their homes to die: "From: Ole Emmrich
Cc: Martha Helena Lopez ; Michael
Rosetz Esther Tan Subject: Message
from the CEB HR Network l Important Message
for All UN Personnel on the Novel Coronavirus
Outbreak
Dear HR
Network Colleagues, A cluster of cases
of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus
(2019-nCoV) was recently detected in Wuhan
City, Hubei Province of China.
Additional cases have since been identified in
China’s cities outside of Wuhan as well as
other countries outside of
China.
The UN’s
Department of Health Management and
Occupational Safety and Health (DHMOSH) is
closely monitoring this evolving situation and
have determined that the risk to UN operations
is low at this time. This risk rating is
based on current spread vs locations of UN
personnel, and the vigorous containment
efforts currently being applied by Chinese
authorities. Nevertheless, this is an
evolving and dynamic situation which will be
vigorously monitored. In the meantime,
DHMOSH has prepared the following message and
resources for all UN personnel. Please
feel free to broadcast the below to your staff
as needed.
Dr.
Esther Tan Senior Medical
Officer Division of Healthcare
Management And Occupational Safety and
Health/ Office of Support
Operations
Message for all UN personnel on the Novel
Coronavirus Outbreak:
The UN’s Department of Health Management and
Occupational Safety and Health (DHMOSH) is
closely monitoring the outbreak of novel
coronavirus (2019-nCoV) first detected in
Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China on 31
December. Additional cases have since
been identified in China’s cities outside of
Wuhan as well as other countries outside of
China.
The Division of
Healthcare Management and Occupational Safety
and Health (DHMOSH) recommends the following
key preventive measures for all UN personnel
against 2019-nCoV. 1. Take steps to
prevent illness with respiratory
pathogens:
·
Avoid close contact with people suffering from
acute respiratory infections such as with
fever, cough and difficulty breathing.
·
Perform frequent hand-washing, especially
after direct contact with ill people or their
environment.
·
Individuals with symptoms of acute respiratory
infection should practice respiratory
hygiene/cough etiquette including:
o Maintain your distance
from others; o Cover
your mouth and nose with a disposable tissue
when coughing or sneezing;
o Use the nearest waste
receptacle to dispose of the tissue after
use; o Perform hand
hygiene (e.g., hand washing with
non-antimicrobial soap and water,
alcohol-based hand rub, or antiseptic
handwash) after having contact with
respiratory secretions and contaminated
objects/materials;
·
Avoid close contact and unprotected with live
or dead farm or wild animals;
·
When visiting live markets in areas currently
experiencing cases of novel coronavirus, avoid
direct unprotected contact with live animals
and surfaces in contact with animals;
·
The consumption of raw or undercooked animal
products should be avoided. Raw meat, milk or
animal organs should be handled with care, to
avoid cross-contamination with uncooked foods,
as per good food safety practices;
·
Preliminary information suggests that older
adults and people with underlying health
conditions may be at increased risk for severe
disease from this virus. 2. Pay
attention to your health during your travel to
outbreak locations and after you leave.
·
Seek medical care immediately if you begin to
develop fever or respiratory symptoms such as
shortness of breath or cough. Remember
to share your previous travel history with
your health care provider.
·
You should make every effort to inform the
medical clinic by telephone about your
condition prior to presenting in person
there. 3. Keep up to date with
local health advice before and during your
travel For all travelers, while WHO
advises against the application of any travel
or trade restrictions on countries with nCoV,
please be aware that local authorities may
begin to implement travel restrictions and
health screening measures for travelers
entering or exiting the country. All UN
personnel should check with the destination
countries’ embassy, consulate or Ministry of
Health and keep up to date with local health
advice before and during your travel. You
should also comply with any screening measures
put in place by local authorities.
Similar messages have been posted on the DSS
TRIP system for individuals seeking travel
clearance into China."
Previously the
UN refused to answer then in-house Inner City
Press about its response to New York City's
Legionnaires disease. The UN did not even take
the precautions taken by apartment buildings
in The Bronx. But in that case, the UN even
with its standing water in its traffic circle
foundation was no more risky that any other
NYC building.
Not so with
Coronavirus, given the travel in and out of
the UN, precisely the risk that led largely
liberal tech titans to cancel MWC2020. There
is also the question of the tourists coming on
busses and charged $20 to enter, which
investigative Inner City Press is banned from
an any price. The UN is silent and
unaccountable. Perhaps this time they will be
held to account - the question has begun to be
asked, starting here.
Here prior to
that are questions that Inner City Press,
roughed up by the UN Security Antonio Guterres
and and banned for 593 days says, has put in
writing to Guterres, his spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric, Farhan Haq and now Eri Kaneko, and
global communications chief Melissa Fleming,
without any answer at all despite formal
and on
camera promises to answer:
January
29-1: On Coronavirus, are UN interns and
contractors in Wuhan and elsewhere in China
covered by any UN health insurance?
February
11-2: On China, what are SG Guterres
comments and action if any on the video of
Chinese authorities welding people into their
homes to die of coronavirus?
February
11-10: On press freedom and China what
are the comments and actions if any of SG
Guterres and separately USG Melissa Fleming on
the disappearance of journalist Chen
Qiushi, a freelance video journalist, traveled
to the city of Wuhan in Hubei province from
Beijing on January 24 and began filming and
reporting on the health crisis in the city? On
February 6, he told his family that he planned
to report on a temporary hospital, and has not
been seen since..
February
14-4: On coronavirus and UN Peacekeeping
what are the comments and actions if any of SG
Guterres and USG Lacroix, including any impact
on deployment of peacekeepers from China and
elsewhere, on that coronavirus is spreading
among members of the Chinese military and
armed police, with thousands placed under
quarantine to prevent further contagion,
according to the Hong Kong-based ICHRD?
Ten soldiers within the People’s Liberation
Army (PLA) and 15 armed police officers have
tested positive for COVID-19 in Hubei
Province, according to the ICHRD, which added
that 1,500 soldiers and 1,000 armed police are
under quarantine.
No answers at
all. The UN of Antonio Guterres is
irresponsible, and now dangerous. It should be
held to account. Watch this site.
February
17, 2020
On
Myanmar Pro UN
Groups Oppose
Internet Cut
Like One
Guterres in
Cameroon
Complicit With
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UN GATE, Feb
13 – The UN's own report on its systemic
failure in protecting civilians in Myanmar, as
in Cameroon, typically stopped short of naming
who was in charge and who is responsible:
Antonio Guterres, Secretary General since
January 2017. Then Guterres' head of
communications pimped out refugees by publishing
personal identifying information, while
banning the Press from covering the September
2019 UNGA week.
Now
from a group of NGOs, some of them sincere,
mostly the local groups, some of them mostly
seeking access at the UN and silent on
Guterres' censorship, this: "On February 3,
the Government of Myanmar ordered the
reinstatement of internet restrictions in
Rakhine and Chin states. On June 21,
2019, the government first imposed
restrictions on mobile internet communications
in nine townships: Buthidaung, Kyauktaw,
Maungdaw, Minbya, Mrauk-U, Myebo, Ponnangyun,
and Rathedaun townships in Rakhine State and
Paletwa Township in Chin State. On September
1, the government lifted restrictions in
Buthidaung, Maungdaw, Myebon, Paletwa, and
Rathedaung townships. On February 3, the
government ordered the reinstatement of the
restrictions in those five townships. In the
joint statement published today,
organizations—including Human Rights Watch,
Article 19, CIVICUS: World Alliance for
Citizen Participation, FIDH - International
Federation for Human Rights and Amnesty
International -
called on the Myanmar government to “restore
internet access” and “repeal Section 77 of the
Telecommunications Law.” The
Myanmar military and Arakan Army (AA) have
engaged in armed conflict in Rakhine State
since 2015 On February 3, the AA
published a statement online declaring that it
would release evidence of mass graves of
Muslims killed and buried by Myanmar armed
forces in Rakhine State. The same day, the
government cut internet access" - and a few
more, led by a total fraud. That Myanmar
abuses Rohingya, we agree. That the UN has any
credibility calling for due process when it
ousts and bans the Press without a single
hearing or right to appeal, while itself
pimping out refugees, is truly disgusting.
Meanwhile on Cameroon, where Paul Biya cut the
Internet then gave Guterres a golden statue
and UN Budget Committee favors as chair in
exchange for Guterres' silence, some of these
groups let Guterres and the UN off the hook,
focus on the underdogs' fight back and even
block on the Internet those who question that
(that would be
Human Rights Watch).
On
Myanmar Inner City Press reported how Guterres
rejected warning from his own senior staff
about the impending slaughter, so caught up in
outmoded infatuation with Aung San Suu
Kyi. Inner City Press was in mid 2018
roughed up by Guterres' Security and banned
from the UN since, 590 days and counting. Its
written questions on Myanmar have been ignored
by Guterres and his spokespeople, now
including Melissa Fleming, even while still
spokesperson for UNHCR. It is shameful. Inner
City Press applied to all of them to cover the
September 2019 UNGA week, which it covered for
a decade. Then on Friday August 30, her
MALU
issued a
one-line
denial of
access:
"Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City
Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018."
Inner
City Press asked Guterres, and this directly
to Melissa Fleming on August 21: "On the
repatriation of Rohingya from Bangladesh to
Myanmar set to start on August 22, what is the
UN system's role? Why is it going forward with
a system that will give returnees non citizen,
"Bengali" ID cards? National Verification
Cards (NVCs), which do not confer rights nor
citizenship and, through an NVC application
process, effectively identify Rohingya as
“Bengali” or more generally as “foreigners.”
What has been the UN system's, specifically
UNHCR's, role in this in the past? the
governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar and the
U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for
Refugees forcibly repatriated an estimated
250,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to
northern Rakhine State, and Myanmar began
issuing Temporary Resident Cards (“White
Cards”) to Rohingya, which, like NVCs, did not
confer rights. What did Guterres do on
this while at UNHCR?"
Still, no
answer at all from Fleming, even as she
virtue-signal tweets. We will not relent.
February
10, 2020
In
Cameroon Biya
Army Makes
Election A
Joke While
Guterres
Covers Up At
AU Silent on
Rapes
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UN GATE, Feb 8
–
Cameroon's 38
year ruler Paul
Biya, propped up
by France and
now for three
years by
corrupt UN Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres who
cut a deal
with Biya for his
support as
chair of the
UN Budget
Committee, on
New Years Eve
made threats
to kill more
people.
And now
those threats
are making a
mockery of
his so-called
municipal and
legislative elections as
Biya's army has
stepped
up its
raids on
villages in
the Anglophone
North
West and South
West regions. In
Teze, Ngie
subdivision,
Momo division,
for example
many
inhabitants
have fled
their homes.
How to vote?
Guterres,
meanwhile, is
pontificating
at the AU,
without a word in his
speech or
"press
conference"
about
Cameroon. He
is corrupt.
And no
answers by his
spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa
Fleming, who continue
Guterres'
ghoulish ban
on Inner City
Press even
entering the
UN to ask
questions.
They
have refused
Inner City Press'
daily written
questions on
Cameroon, but
see Inner City
Press February
4 radio Q&A
here,
about Cameroon
from Minute 32. It
also covers
Guterres' Gulbenkian
/ Partex oil links
he bans Press
for.
February
3, 2020
UN
Guterres Set
To Reward
Shiotani Who
Gave UNSC Site
To Husband
With UNSC Post
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
UN GATE, Jan
29 – UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres
claims he has
a zero
tolerance
policy on
sexual
harassment,
but continues
to reward UN
officials who
are charged
with
harassment.
Inner City
Press
previously reported
on Guterres
promoting his
official
Fabrizio
Hochschild
Drummond of
Chile, after
sexual
harassment in
his own 38th
floor office,
to "Special
Adviser of the
Secretary-General
on the
Preparations
for the
Commemoration
of the United
Nations’ 75th
Anniversary."
Today on
January 29
Inner City
Press, now banned
from the UN by
Guterres for
575 days,
exclusively
reports on
another reward
being doled
out, and
scandal
blunglingly
covered
up, in
Guterres'
world of
double-speak,
harassment and
hypocrisy.
On January 30
scandal
plagued Kyoko
"Kiki"
Shiotani will
take over the
UN Security
Council
Affairs
Division's
Security
Council
Practices and
Charter
Research
Branch - after
Inner City
Press outed
her as
Rosemary
DiCarlo's
chief of staff
getting her
husband given,
for money, the
Security
Councils
website.
After Inner
City Press
exposed this
scandal it was
told if it
backed off,
Guterres
would. It
didn't, and
soon Inner
City Press was
roughed
up and
thrown out and
banned.
Guterres is
corrupt.
Inner City
Press is now
informed that
The post has
been held for
months since
the departure
of Yvette
Blanco in May
2019, after a
Yvette has
been bullied
and forced out
by Hasmik. The
latter has
kept the post
for her friend
Kiki whom
DiCarlo did
not want in
her office due
to her
corruption.
Basically,
Hasmik gave
the post to
her friend who
was a D2 (I
believe), now
she took a D1
- the same
person whose
husband was
given a P5.
This
is the corrupt
UN of Guterres
and Rosemary
DiCarlo,
complicit in
Guterres'
roughing up
and banning of
Inner City
Press. UN
Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa
Fleming refuse
to answer any
questions,
like
propagandists
in any
dictatorship.
January
27, 2020
Guterres
Used Angola
dos Santos
Family Funds
To Be UNSG Now
No Luanda
Leaks Answers
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- CJR -
PFT
UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Jan 21 – When Antonio Guterres wanted
to get the position of UN Secretary General in
2006, he needed money and political support.
He found it in long time Angola dictator and
kleptocrat Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
Now Guterres refuses to answer Press questions
about the Luanda Leaks scandal, and about his
close Angolan staffer Aguinaldo Baptista's
online support for Isabel
dos Santos. Guterres had roughed up and
has banned
for 567 days and counting Inner City Press
which asks the questions.
Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who played and
plays his role in the banning, said on camera
he would answer Inner City Press' questions,
video here.
But so
far, now answer to this one: "January 20-1: On
corruption and Angola, what are the comments
and actions if any of SG Guterres on the
Luanda Leaks exposure of Isabel dos Santos of
Angola, and as Inner City Press has repeatedly
asked, what are his comments and action on the
repeated retweeting of Isabel dos Santos'
denials by his close staffer Aguinaldo
Baptista? After, for example, exposure of the
corrupt urban development project near Luanda
for which some 3,000 families were driven from
their homes to make way for the development?"
On
January 21 it is added
from Mauritius that the "spoils of the Dos
Santos clan", is according to the ICIJ survey
distributed among 400 companies in 41
countries around the world . Almost 100 of
these companies are in controversial
jurisdictions such as Mauritius, Malta, Hong
Kong, the Netherlands, the British
Virgin Islands and Dubai"
- which also hosted Amr Abdul Aziz's money
laundering for OneCoin,
on which Dujarric has also refused to answer.
We'll have more on this.
On
March 17, 2016 Angolan state media reported
that "José Eduardo dos Santos Thursday in
Luanda was informed on the process of
candidacy of António Manuel de Oliveira
Guterres to the post of the UNSG. Antonio
Guterres, who served as Portuguese prime
minister, said he presented a program of his
candidacy for the world body’s top
position. 'It is very important for me
to have Angola at the very beginning of this
candidacy, as I am an old friend and
admirer."
Dos Santos, flush with oil money, controlled
more embassies and strings throughout Africa
than did Guterres' Portugal. Guterres'
son Pedro Guimarães e Melo De Oliveira
Guterres' untold business
links in Lusophone countries include
Angola.
Guterres' oil connections were not limited to
Angola: he was getting paid by Lisbon based
Gulbenkian Foundation which in terms was
turned by oil company Partex, with business in
Angola, that UN
briber CEFC China Energy in turn tried
to buy.
Inner City Press asked about this, and was roughed
up by Guterres' UN Security and banned
from entering the UN. Guterres' designated
censor Melissa Fleming has continued this ban,
with no appeals process. His spokesman
Stephane Dujarric said
he would answer written question from banned
Inner City Press.
No answers
at all, and those whom Guterres, Melissa Fleming
and Dujarric allowed into their noon press
briefing on January 20 did not ask about
#LuandaLeaks, or anything in Africa. It's
Guterres' big scam. And it must be ended. Watch
this site.
January
20, 2020
UN
Guterres In
Closed Meeting
Lied About His
Retaliation
and Bogus
Reforms So
Audio Here
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon, Audio
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- CJR -
PFT
UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Jan 14 – How corrupt is UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres?
Well, when he
held a closed door meeting with UN staff in
Geneva last months, he lied about his
commitment against retaliating - while
retaliating, against staff and the Press - and
claimed that he was unaware or unconcerned
about changes he had imposed.
Inner City Press, though banned from the UN
now 560 days by Guterres, has repeatedly in
writing provided Guterres through his
spokesman Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming an opportunity to explain his remarks.
But despite
Dujarric on camera and Fleming's Department
written promises to answer such questions, no
answers at all.
So now
Inner City Press has published the audio, here.
Tweeted here.
January
13, 2020
UN
Strips Vote of
Lebanon and
Yemen While
Stonewalling
on Gambia and
Corruption of
Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- CJR -
PFT
UN
GATE / SDNY COURT, Jan 10 – In the United
Nations, already an undemocratic autocracy under
Secretary General Antonio Guterres, embattled
countries are being official stripped of their
votes in the General Assembly, including Lebanon
and Yemen and the Central African Republic,
where UN peacekeepers have raped children and
had it covered up by Guterres.
Others facing lose of vote are Venezuela,
Lesotho, Tonga and Gambia, on whose opening of a
"Morocco" consulate in Western Sahara Guterres'
spokes / hatchetman Stephane Dujarric on January
10 promised an off-camera answer to France 24
while refusing each and every written question
from Inner City Press, banned from the UN by
Guterres now 556 days and counting for reporting
on his corruption. Given a
bye, for now, and allowed to keep voting without
paying are Comoros, Somalia and Sao Tome and
Principe, where Guterres' son Pedro does
undisclosed business presumptively trading off
the name of his father and of the
UN. In Somalia, Guterres threw
his own representative under the bus, telling UN
staff that asking it is impolite to ask human
rights questions, in a closed door meeting
exclusively reported by banned Inner City Press
with leaked audio. Really, to
avoid being complicit more countries should stop
paying the UN until these abuses and censorship
are ended. We'll have more, much more, on this.
January
6, 2020
UN
Security
Council Admits
Estonia
Tunisia
Vietnam St
Vincent and
Niger While
Guterres
Censors
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- CJR -
PFT
UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Jan 2 – In the sideshow of the UN
and its Security Council, from which UNSG
Antonio Guterres has banned the investigative
Press for 548 days, five new non-permanent
members entered in a January 2 ceremony. Each
spoke, but no questions were taken. And Inner
City Press has many questions.
New
member Vietnam is president for January, but
its program of work has nothing for example
about the slaughter in Cameroon; it has
Colombia on January 13 but nothing on
Honduras, recently exposed as a narco-state in
a trial in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York which Inner City
Press now covers as well as the UN, from the
UN Gate.
There
are no fewer than four meetings on Syria, but
Libya where Turkey has voted to send forces
and where the UN has been exposed as helping
militias is put off until the 29th. Yemen is
on the 16th, West Africa (pro strongman SRSG
Chambas) on the 8th and, interestingly, a
debate on ASEAN on the 23rd. We'll have more
on this.
And the
UN of SG Antonio Guterres, wasting public
money for example on Guterres' now three week
junket away from New York, didn't even manage
to update to Security Council's website at the
turn of the year. At 7 pm on January 1, the UN
web site still listed as current members:
"Côte d’Ivoire , Equatorial Guinea, Kuwait
(2019) Peru (2019) Poland (2019)." Photo here.
Even
Wikipedia had, nineteen hours before, added
Estonia, Eastern European Group, Niger,
African Group, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, Latin American and Caribbean Group
(GRULAC), Tunisia, African Group and
Vietnam." As Inner City Press reported,
Guterres gave the UNSC website to the
photographer husbands of USG DiCarlo's chief
of staff, here.
Inner City
Press, which covered in person these five's
performance from January through June of 2018
before being roughed up and
banned by UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres with no reaction by the five, despite
claims of commitment to press freedom and even
UN transparency, has continued to cover them.
Kuwait, for example, which has gotten its KUNA
to inflate its performance, phoned
it in on African issues including
praising Paul Biya, dictator of Cameroon.
Its Permanent Representative, a pleasure
enough man, when Inner City Press standing at
the Delegates Entrance raised the issue of its
expulsion and ban by Guterres, replied that if
the UN Correspondents Association with state
media like Xinhua on its Executive Committee
was colluding with Guterres there was nothing
to be done. One, this is weak for a member
state. Two, it confirms how disgusting the UN
has become under Guterres.
So what were the
achievements, again? We'll continue to cover
this and the UNSC, even while the censor
Guterres and his Melissa Fleming maintain their
ban on the Press. Viet Nam takes over January 1,
2020. December
30,
2019
The UN
Is Being
Killed By
Guterres And
His Team As
From Cameroon
To China
Rosewood Flows
A Cautionary Tale By
Matthew Russell Lee
Patreon - BBC
- Guardian
UK - CJR -
PFT
UN GATE, Dec
28 – The lobby of the United Nations still had
the veneer of futurist cool, but upstairs it
has all gone rotten. It was to the penultimate
story that lobbyist Daniel Lang was headed
that day, not to meet the top man Fat Tony
Guterres but his African fig-leaf deputy Amina
J. Mohammed.
The two were equally corrupt, she having
signed and backdated thousands of export
certificates for endangered rosewood from
Cameroon already shipped to China for the
over-classes bed frames and other furniture.
But it was this Cameroonian connection that
Lang hoped to play on today.
Amina Mohammed's factotum Nelson Muffuh, who
had worked for her at the Nigerian Ministry
for the Environment and Sustainable
Development as well, approached lobbyist Lang
in the lobby.
"Ah, Daniel,"
Muffuh said in the faux French style
for which the UN has known. "I trust you got
through security alright?"
In fact Daniel has seen a man with a big
backpack being taken out of the line in front
of him, loudly demanding why he as journalist
was being barred and calling Guterres corrupt
as he was ushered back out only First Avenue.
"It was alright," Lang answered, eager to get
up to the 38th floor and make his pitch to
Mohammed before the interns started drinking
in the UN Delegates Lounge at 5 pm. He had set
this meeting for late afternoon for just that
reason.
"Follow me," Muffuh said, leading Lang deeper
into the UN General Assembly lobby, past a
series of panels claiming how the UN had tried
to stop the Rwanda genocide, to a turnstile
facing a bank of elevators.
"He's with me, Ronald," Muffuh told the
security guard by the turnstile, who pushed a
button and let them through. "He represents
Cameroon."
The security guard nodded and, it seemed to
Lang, smirked. What was so strange, a French
white man lobbying for Cameroon? At least the
country was no longer an explicit colony.
Up on the 38th floor there was more guards, in
front of a big window looking out over the
East River at Brooklyn and Queens and behind
them, Long Island all the way to the Hamptons.
"Amina's
waiting for you in her office," Muffuh said,
heading down a hallway that smelled of the
cigars that UN staffers smoked in the
stairwell one firedoor away.
There were in her corner office she was, Amina
J. Mohammed in her ubiquitous flowing robe and
head scarf, a politically correct exporter of
stolen rosewood. Lang aimed to use her guilty
knowledge to get her and Guterres' support for
another Chinese project in Cameroon, this time
in the Anglophone Zone. It should not be
difficult.
To Be Continued; and see Patreon
December
23, 2019
UN Guterres
Covers Up Yet
More UN Rape
In DRC While
Banning Inner
City Press
534th Day
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video here,
Vine here
UN
GATE, Dec 19 -- Stephane Dujarric,
the lead spokesman of UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres, and
now Guterres'
Global
Communicator
Melissa
Fleming have
joined their
boss in
personally
covering up
child rapes
and sexual
abuse by UN
personnel,
including
recently a
child rape by
a UN
"peacekeeper"
from Paul
Biya's
Cameroon in DR
Congo.
Even while
they and OIOS
Ben Swanson
purport to
care - and
even answer
questions - on
the UN's cover
up for
Burundian and
Gabon rapes in
CAR in 2017,
they have
adopted
corrupt
Guterres'
solution going
forward: cover
up the cases
in advance.
Rough up and
ban the Press
which asks,
leave inside
only insiders
who ask why
they can't use
the UN
escalator
instead of
walking one or
two flights of
stairs, and
refuse to
answer written
questions.
Their UN is
dying - and
taking young
victims with
it.
Past
3 pm on
December 19
the UN data
dumped a new
case of rape,
by a UN
"Volunteer"
whose
nationality
has yet to be
disclosed -
Inner City
Press has
asked - in the
DR Congo in
June 2019.
Inner City
Press
immediately
wrote to
Guterres,
Fleming, the
spokesmen, DSG
Amina J.
Mohammed and
others for the
if-asked
information.
Or will the
cover up
continue, as
to UN rapes?
Guterres is
turning the UN
into a
criminal
conspiracy.
A
similar
request was
sent, without
response yet
but their
knowledge
confirmed as a
matter of law,
on more than
11 previous
cases - enough
to make out a
criminal
conspiracy
pattern to
among others:
ag [at]
un.org,
dujarric [at]
un.org, haqf
[at]
un.org,
David Kaye,
amina.mohammed
[at] un.org,
marialuiza.viotti
[at] un.org,
jiang1 [at]
un.org,
melissa.fleming
[at] un.org,
gilles.michaud
[at] un.org,
pozenel [at]
un.org, zoe.paxton
[at] un.org, peter.reid
[at] un.org -
the
communicator
brought in
from McKinsey
with public
money while
Guterres said
he had no
money (this
was prior to
taking $50,000
in presumpively
El Chapo's
money from
Honduras
government of
Juan Orlando
Hernandez, UNanswered.)
No
answers,
despite
Dujarric's
previous on
camera
commitment /
lie about
answering
Inner City
Press'
questions.
Video here.
December
16, 2019
In
Corrupt UN of
Guterres UNSC
Post Set Aside
for Nils
Schmieder
After Viotti
Gave Filho GB
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, PFTracker
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- The
Source
UN GATE, Dec
13 – The UN has been so corrupted and
dominated under UNSG Antonio Guterres that his
chief of staff Luiza Viotti has been allowed
to pick an over the hill Brazilian and give
him Guinea Bissau. The corruption reaches in
the the Security Council Affairs Division, as
Inner City Press showed by exposing Rosemary
DiCarlo's chief of staff's photographer
husband getting the contract for the Council's
website, before Guterres had Inner City Press
banned.
Now on
13 December 2019 from banned Inner City Press
this exclusive, on the corruption in
recruitment about the chef de cabinet Viotti’s
friend. She recruited her friend José Viegas
Filho from Brazil as SRSG Guinea-Bissau. He is
not anymore there, but according to multiple
locals he had dementia and could not engage
with anyone. In Bissau during a meeting with
international community, he didn’t know why he
was there and they took him out and the Deputy
SRSG proceeded with the meeting.
Whistleblowers tell banned Inner City Press he
was there because CdC Viotti was doing him a
favor to flee corruption charges from Brazil,
and because he was not well mentally, his wife
took charge of his functions and attended
meetings with him. In a meeting with the
President of Guinea Bissau, it was clear that
he was not well mentally. A EU representative
asked if it was true that the SRSG was not
mentally well. But the representative said
that they learned that he would be leaving the
mission. This is a horrible story of how
corrupt is Guterres' cabinet.
SCAD -- the Security Council Affairs Division
-- is also corrupt in recruitment, as Inner
City Press previously showed regarding the
website. They posted a P4 position and other
male staff knew they would take German Nils Schmieder
who
has been there only for a few months and
bypass so many experienced colleagues. He was
picked up from the roster few days after
posting the post which was advised for a month
and the EO questioned the procedures, when
they received the memo but they are still
going with the recruitment
The name of
the person being recruited is Nils Schmieder.
Inner City Press will have more on this.
On December 8,
in a new low in hypocrisy, Guterres
robo-tweeted: "People are right to be angry
about corruption. It diverts much needed
resources from schools, hospitals and
infrastructure. Anti-Corruption Day
highlights the need for us to unite to stop
illicit financial flows draining these funds."
But he is a
fraud, and a censor. December
9, 2019
UN Spox
Dujarric
Covers Up UN
Rapes and
Cameroon As UN
Correspondents
Association
Sells SG
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
PFTracker
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- The
Source
UN GATE / WALL
ST, Dec 6 – The UN has been so corrupted
and dominated by China under UNSG Antonio
Guterres that now its ostensible journalist
award is controlled with Chinese state media.
On November 22 Chinese state media "won" the
third vice presidency of UNCA, albeit with
only 40 votes of only 143 ballots supposedly
representing journalists worldwide. The United
Nations Correspondents Association is totally
corrupt. Results here:
state media in. Low turn out for a dwindling
membership. Yet Guterres uses his scribes to
continue censorship.
On
December 6 Inner City Press now banned from
the UN 521 days and counting went after
reporting on the SDNY court all day down to
Wall Street. There Stephane Dujarric, the
spokesman for Guterres and Ban Ki-moon before
him, sauntered in tuxedo and flowers. Despite
a previous on-camera
promise to answer banned Inner City
Press' questions, he has not, on ranging from
Cameroon to UN child rapes. And on December 6,
asked, he did not. Inner City Press tweeted video
here.
The event? UNCA was selling access to Guterres
to a slew of people in tuxedos and gowns, many
with no UN connection.
Video here.
Inner City
Press asked questions outside, of Guterres'
chief of staff Viotta and USG Melissa Flemming
(no answers), Nigerian UN PGA Bande about
Cameroon (no answer), and to UNCA
correspondents (VOA's long time UN bureau
chief responded with her middle finger). Some
were more polite, noted.
An
expensive car was auctioned outside. Inside,
sponsored by a seller of facial sheet masks,
UNCA celebrated state media and Egypt. Inner
City Press has a right to re-enter the UN and
asked questions, just like the retired and
state media Guterres and Fleming allow in. We
will continue on this.
Now
after UNsurprisingly omitting any and all
coverage of China's abuse of Uighurs and Hong
Kong from its bogus awards, the UN Censorship
Alliance will hold a glitzy celebration of
Guterres on Wall Street, no less, on December
6. They are entirely corrupt. No questions on
the new UN rapes, links to fraud and bribes,
nothing.
Another
proof: two of the top six spots are controlled
by Italy, including a Treasurer Giampaolo
Pioli who rented one of his Manhattan
apartments, funded by a scam pasta company, to
a Sri Lankan war criminal. He and Valeria
Robecco quickly told a "publication" with UN
office space, ONUItalia, that UNCA "remains
Italian." The UN Correspondents
Association is totally
corrupt.
With China
having a veto in UNCA, will stories
about CEFC China Energy's proven bribery at the
UN, and bid to buy an oil company linked to
Guterres through the Gulbenkian Foundation, even
get through a first round of review with this
Chinese "journalism" veto? Fat chance.
December
2, 2019
UN
Correspondents
Association
Gave China
Veto Then No
Uighurs or
Hong Kong In
Its Corrupt
Wall Street
Awards
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
PFTracker
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- The
Source
UN GATE, Nov
27 – The UN has been so corrupted and
dominated by China under UNSG Antonio Guterres
that now its ostensible journalist award is
controlled with Chinese state media. On
November 22 Chinese state media "won" the
third vice presidency of UNCA, albeit with
only 40 votes of only 143 ballots supposedly
representing journalists worldwide. The United
Nations Correspondents Association is totally
corrupt. Results here:
state media in. Low turn out for a dwindling
membership. Yet Guterres uses his scribes to
continue censorship.
Now
after UNsurprisingly omitting any and all
coverage of China's abuse of Uighurs and Hong
Kong from its bogus awards, the UN Censorship
Alliance will hold a glitzy celebration of
Guterres on Wall Street, no less, on December
6. They are entirely corrupt. No questions on
the new UN rapes, links to fraud and bribes,
nothing.
Another
proof: two of the top six spots are controlled
by Italy, including a Treasurer Giampaolo
Pioli who rented one of his Manhattan
apartments, funded by a scam pasta company, to
a Sri Lankan war criminal. He and Valeria
Robecco quickly told a "publication" with UN
office space, ONUItalia, that UNCA "remains
Italian." The UN Correspondents
Association is totally
corrupt.
With China
having a veto in UNCA, will stories
about CEFC China Energy's proven bribery at
the UN, and bid to buy an oil company linked
to Guterres through the Gulbenkian Foundation,
even get through a first round of review with
this Chinese "journalism" veto? Fat chance.
Now on
November 11 from US State Department
spokesperson Morgan Ortagus, this: "The United
States is watching the situation in Hong Kong
with grave concern. We condemn violence
on all sides, extend our sympathies to victims
of violence regardless of their political
inclinations, and call for all parties— police
and protestors— to exercise restraint.
We repeat President Trump's call for a humane
resolution to the protests.
The increased polarization within Hong Kong
society underscores the need for a broad-based
and sincere dialogue between the government,
protestors, and citizenry writ large.
The United States urges the Hong Kong
government to build on its dialogue with the
Hong Kong public and begin efforts to address
the underlying concerns driving the
protests. We also urge the protestors to
respond to efforts at
dialogue. The United States
believes that Hong Kong’s autonomy, its
adherence to the rule of law, and its
commitment to protecting civil liberties are
key to preserving its special status under
U.S. law, as well as to the success of “One
Country, Two Systems” and Hong Kong’s future
stability and prosperity. We urge
Beijing to honor the commitments it made in
the Sino-British Joint Declaration, including
commitments that Hong Kong will “enjoy a high
degree of autonomy” and that the people of
Hong Kong will enjoy human rights the freedoms
of expression and peaceful assembly— core
values that we share with Hong Kong." And the
UN?
Days
after Guterres and his team denied access even
to enter to cover UN General Assembly high
level week to Inner City Press which closely
covers the UN bribery convictions at the SDNY
court, China state media Xinhua shows smiling
UN Correspondent Association officials on a
tour of China without any reference to the
abuse of Uighurs and Hong Kong, much less to
bribery. See here.
The headline is "Members of United Nations
Correspondents Association visit Fujian." The
caption is "Lin Dongmei (1st R), associate
director of National Engineering Research
Center of Juncao Technology, introduces Juncao
plantation to members of the United Nations
Correspondents Association, at Fujian
Agriculture and Forestry University, in
Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian
Province, Sept. 9, 2019. (Xinhua/Lin
Shanchuan)."
The
UNCA officials are past president (and Sri
Lanka war criminal landlord) Giampaolo Pioli,
and his successor Valeria Robecco, along with
another Italian hanger-on who oversaw the
confiscation and attempted destruction of
Inner City Press' live-streaming smart phone
in front of UNCA's corrupt annual fundraising
event. This while Inner City Press,
investigative media, is banned by these thugs
from entering the UN. What of this China tour,
and those who signed off on or didn't complain
about it? We said, "We'll have more on this" -
and now we do.
Inner City
Press has repeatedly asked corrupt Guterres
and team " September 10-2: What are the SG's
and USG Fleming's view of the ethics of UN
Correspondents Association official taking a
paid trip to China at this time, with regard
to Xinjiang, Hong Kong and bribery by China
Energy Fund Committee, which tried to buy the
oil company of Gulbenkian Foundation which has
made payments to the SG? See
here." More than a month, no answer at
all.
But
several disgusted UNCA members have sent this,
an admission, guilty knowledge, arrests and
re-admission of the Press should follow: "The
UNCA Executive Committee has taken a decision
and is notifying its members of the below:
If any member of the UN Correspondents
Association, including members of the Executive
Committee, is invited on a paid trip (travel and
lodging) to represent UNCA, it must be submitted
to the UNCA board for approval. Appearance fees
on behalf of UNCA should be declined as it
compromises the integrity and credibility of the
association. If UNCA members are offered paid
trips or other complementary benefits as
individual journalists, it is up to them and
their news outlets to decide how to
proceed. UNCA OFFICE." Too
little, too late.
November
25, 2019
As UN
Cries Poor
Guterres With
3 Cars Starts
Junket To
Germany and To
Lisbon of Fado
Corrupt
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video,
Memo
BBC
- The
Times UK - Honduras
- The
Source
UN
GATE, Nov 23 -- While UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres cries poor
and scales back "official travel,"
he has just made another undisclosed
trip to Lisbon paid for the public,
this time appearing at a concert
there on November 9 for Carlos
do Carmo,
noted in the Portuguese media here.
So
how much did it cost the public,
taking UN Security there? Where did
they stay? Inner City Press asked on
November 11, before the day's UN
noon briefing which it is banned
from entering to attend by corrupt
Guterres, for the now 507th day. No
answers.
Instead
on November 22, from corrupt
Stephane Dujarric, this: "I have a
trip announcement. On Monday,
25 November, the Secretary‑General
will be arriving in Berlin, Germany,
to take part in the 14th UN Internet
Governance Forum, hosted this year
by the Government of Germany." Is
this just another pretext, for
another trip to Lisbon? Dujarric
refuses to answer any Inner City
Press question.
Therefore
on November 23 Inner City Press went
to check out the Sutton Place
mansion in which Big Tony lives on
the public dime. There, fully three
vans were in front. When Inner City
Press started live streaming, one
left and backed into a dead end
around the corner. Finally Guterres
slipped out though his / your back
door, like a common criminal to
avoid questions or legal process and
sped away. Video here.
Guterres is corrupt.
And
did Guterres only agree to go to the
Paris Peace Forum, with sponsor
Gulbenkian which tried to sell its
oil company to UN briber CEFC China
Energy and whose payments to
Guterres have been omitted from his
financial disclosure covering 2016,
as a fig leaf for his Lisbon trip?
Will he meet dictator Paul Biya at
the PPF? Watch this site.
Also,
this high cost hire
for Guterres' propaganda / vanity
shop: "Zoe Paxton, head of media at
the Department for International
Development (DfID) and a rising star
in the Government Communication
Service, is leaving for a top comms
job at the United Nations." This
comes right after his hiring from
McKinsey of Peter Reid for a
position that even Ban Ki-moon left
empty, because wasteful, for a
decade. This is Guterres' hypocrisy.
On October 14 Inner City Press went
to check it out, from gate.
Periscopes I,
II,
III,
IV,
V,
VI,
VII.
On
October 17, even banned from entering
the UN for the 471st day by corrupt
Guterres, Inner City Press can
exclusively report that in the
closed-door October 16 meeting of the
UN Staff Union and Controller
Chandramouli Ramanathan, the latter
was asked about Guterres' many trips
in 2019 specifically those to
"Portugal where his life lives" and
what asked how that is accountable?
Ramanathan, in Guterres fashion,
dodged - but the questioning
continues, until there is
accountability.
November
18, 2019
UN Guterres
Covers Up
Cameroon Sex
Exploitation
Whispers on
Colombia and
UN Rape
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video here,
Vine here
UN
GATE, Nov 12 -- Stephane Dujarric,
the lead spokesman of UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres, and
now Guterres'
Global
Communicator
Melissa
Fleming have
joined their
boss in
personally
covering up
child rapes
and sexual
abuse by UN
personnel,
including
recently a
child rape by
a UN
"peacekeeper"
from Paul
Biya's
Cameroon in DR
Congo.
Even while
they and OIOS
Ben Swanson
purport to
care - and
even answer
questions - on
the UN's cover
up for
Burundian and
Gabon rapes in
CAR in 2017,
they have
adopted
corrupt
Guterres'
solution going
forward: cover
up the cases
in advance.
Rough up and
ban the Press
which asks,
leave inside
only insiders
who ask why
they can't use
the UN
escalator
instead of
walking one or
two flights of
stairs, and
refuse to
answer written
questions.
Their UN is
dying - and
taking young
victims with
it.
At 10 am on
November 12 -
after not
responding on
November 11
cases which
remains the
case as of
this
publication -
the UN data
dumped a rape
by its
personnel in
South Sudan as
well as UN
sexual
exploitation
in a new
mission,
Colombia.
Inner City
Press
immediately in
writing asked
for the
if-asked
information.
Now - and we
immediately
publish it -
deputy
spokesman
Farhan Haq has
responded on
these two,
while leaving
the previous
dozen cases
UNresponded
to:
From:
Farhan Aziz
Haq [at]
UN.org
Date: Tue, Nov
12, 2019
Subject: RE:
Press request
that you
immediately
provide the
if-asked
information
about today's
cases of UN
rape in South
Sudan and
sexual
exploitation
in Colombia,
on top of the
November 11
case of rape
in Liberia,
and by a
Cameroon
"military
observer" in
Mali...
To: Matthew
Russell Lee
[at]
innercitypress
On South
Sudan The
United Nations
Mission in
South Sudan
(UNMISS) has
received an
allegation of
sexual abuse
and
exploitation
involving a
civilian
national
staff. The
allegation
refers to the
sexual abuse
of a minor
that allegedly
took place on
unspecified
date in 2019,
and an
exploitative
relationship
with a victim
whose age is
unknown that
allegedly took
place in 2018
- both victims
became
pregnant as a
result.
The
Office of
Internal
Oversight
Services
(OIOS) is
investigating
the
allegation.The
Mission
offered
appropriate
assistance to
the victims in
line with the
UN’s victim
assistance
protocols.
On
Colombia
The
United Nations
Mission
Verification
Mission in
Colombia
(UNVMC) has
received one
allegation of
sexual
exploitation
involving two
civilian
international
staff. The
allegation
refers to
transactional
sex with an
unidentified
number of
women on
unspecified
dates. The
Office of
Internal
Oversight
Services
(OIOS) is
investigating
the
allegation.Once
identified,
each victim
will be
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