SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Sept 25 – Today's UN system is
corrupt from top to bottom. Consider the UN
Federal Credit Union, which paid Iran spy
Afrasiabi, and swindled UN staff in Sudan. A
whistleblower asks Inner City Press, of the
UNFCA message reproduced below:
"How United
Nations loses its trust from its own staff as
all transaction is originated from UN
accounts? The statement never said about
external transfer but only Member to member
transfer. Very strange and weird instruction.
The statement says staff members not to
conduct any transaction for commercial
purposes. So why United nations credit union
is giving credit cards for staff members? Why
United Nations credit Union buying stock from
New York market while denying staff not to
purchase and use accounts for personal
uses? UN Staff are moving their account from
United Nations account and keeping and looking
for suitable banks. A number of frauds are
going on in the credit union. including
stealing from deceased accounts. Very sad!
The message
from UNFCA, much UNsaid:
Dear
member, Please note the following limits
regarding member-to-member transfers:
Two transfers per month: You may make or
receive up to two member-to-member transfers
in a calendar month.
Maximum of
$2,000 per transfer: For each of the two
allowed member-to-member transfers, you may
send or receive up to $2,000. This means that
the total dollar amount of your monthly
transfers (whether incoming or outgoing)
cannot exceed $4,000. These changes are
aimed at ensuring that we remain compliant
with US anti-money laundering laws while
keeping your accounts secure.
As a reminder,
UNFCU account(s) are for personal use only. This
is indicated in our Membership and Accounts
agreement. You may not use your account(s) to
conduct transactions on behalf of others or for
commercial activity. If the above
conditions and limits are not met, we may need
to implement additional restrictions on your
accounts
September
26, 2022
UNGA Has Ukraine Zelenskyy Applause
After Guterres Cover Up Biden Trudeau Censors
UN GATE, Sept
21 – How corrupt is today's UN, and this
week's UNGA debate? Well, while the US
President did not on the first day (Bolsonaro
kicked it off, Inner City Press voice over
video here),
on Day 2 did, as did Ukraine's Zelenskyy, here
UNGA virtual
signaling: just now this applause for #Ukraine
prez Volodymyr Zelenskyy's virtual speech - after
UNSG @AntonioGuterres
said invasion wouldn't happened, then ordered UN
staff not to say it happened - while banning Press
which exposes him. @UN_PGA
too pic.twitter.com/It8E7Ndsfs
Day 2
in the morning had craven waiting for Joe
Biden, entrance video and voice over here
#UNGA
circus: red carpet entrance of dictators and
censors, prioritized by UN channel over droning
speech by Mongolia, like yesterday's Central African
Republic. @AntonioGuterres
will do anything for money - then bans the Press
that exposes it / him pic.twitter.com/HIAwl9KK09
Just happened: Joe
Biden entry into #UNGA,
to speak after Suriname while @USUN
does nothing about UNSG @AntonioGuterres
banning Inner City Press from UN, for exposing
omission from his financial disclosures of CEFC
China Energy, convicted of UN bribes @SDNYLIVEpic.twitter.com/H1X6qUZ1H2
A fake press conference was held at
6:30 pm, in which Canada's Justin Trudeau
posed in the UN press briefing room but only
called on traveling Canadian press (UNCA
rolled over, as they have to Guterres, and
colluded in censorship). Bob Rae, who blocks
Inner City Press on Twitter, ws there and
supported this censorship too. Video here
Now in UN "Press"
Briefing Room Inner City Press is banned from by
corrupt UNSG @AntonioGuterres@JustinTrudeau
is calling only on Canadian press which lobs him
softball questions on Ukraine. UNCA getting rolled -
after they let Press be banned. @BobRae48
in on in pic.twitter.com/AwyDuT2ao8
And that's
just Day 2! Inner City Press timely applied to
re-enter and report. Melissa Fleming did not
answer, as spokesman Stephane Dujarric refuses
Press questions about the rapes. That's how
corrupt today's UN is. And tomorrow? Watch
this site.
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September 19, 2022
For UNGA Week
Banning Press Guterres Has Long Portuguese Answer
Spreading Censorship
UN GATE, Sept
14 – Six days before the UN's hyped and often
decadent General Assembly week, Secretary
General Antonio Guterres on September 14 held
a briefing with friendly journalists only,
delivering a lengthy answer in Portuguese with
no translation.
This
came after a year of UN failure on Ukraine,
Haiti, and corruption in the DR Congo exposed
by Inner City Press.
Guterres and
his head of media access Melissa Fleming have
kept Inner City Press banned, most recently
not even responding to its application last
week to enter and cover the UNGA week.
While
Guterres sufficiently serviced the Permanent
Five members of the UN Security Council to
grab a second term, now he is spreading his
censorship to and through them.
On
September 15 US Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield will limit questions about
USUN's work, weak on China, to correspondents
accredited - and not banned - by Guterres' UN.
Watch this site.
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September 12, 2022
To Access UNGA
week Inner City Press Applies Citing Scoops on UN Sex
& China Bribe Scoops
UN Gate, Sept
10 – As the United Nations after a year of
failing on Ukraine and covering up sexual
abuses from the DR Congo to Colombia gears up
for its annual UNGA Week this month, it has
tried to further limit access and coverage by
independent press.
Nevertheless
on September 8 Inner City Press, which only
this month exposed a UN sex quid pro quo
scandal in the MONUSCO "peacekeeping" mission
and the UN links of indicted Chinese briber
Cary Yan, applied to the UN for access:
Sept 8, 2022
United Nations SG Antonio Guterres & USG
Melissa Fleming Media Accreditation and
Liaison Unit
I am writing
to you more than ten days before the UN
General Assembly high level week as a
journalist who after covering the United
Nations for Inner City Press for ten years was
roughed up and thrown out of the UN as I
covered its Fifth (Budget) Committee on 3 July
2018 and have been denied all access since.
There was no due process, no right to appeal,
nothing.
The
Department's and MALU's lack of any content
neutral accreditation rules, rule process
including appeal rights for journalists, must
also be addressed.
For the
upcoming UNGA High Level Week, I noticed that
as of Sept 8, 2022 the MALU site says /
claims: For UNGA week, the UN has limited
media access to only to correspondents
“residing in the tri-state area or Washington,
D.C.”
While
(1) that is discriminatory, (2) will not be
implement as regards pro-government media
traveling with delegations - I noted that I am
an long-term UN reporter (since 2005), se quid
pro quo scandal in the UN Mission in the DR
Congo, and reside in NYC. My access badge
should be provided
immediately. You and others
including but not limited to USG Fleming have
been written to on my behalf by the Quinn
Emanuel law firm, no response yet despite
confirmation of receipt, see this
videoLetter
I
have a right to cover the UN, the Security
Council, ECOSOC and General Assembly including
this month's High Level week. For your
information despite the Under Sec-Gen having
assured the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom
of Expression that during my exclusion my
written questions would be answered, the
questions have not been. Nevertheless, here
are some recent stories: UN
Sexual Harassment in DRC Leads to UNON Job
as UNV Jobs Traded For Sex Amid Coverup
SDNY / UN
GATE, Sept 2 – Chinese businessman and
fraudster Cary Yan is the subject of a Federal
indictment unsealed on September 2, 2022, in
the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York.
Using a
UN-affiliated non-governmental organization,
Yan paid bribes in New York to officers of the
Marshall Islands and others. Indictment on
Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here.
In
2018, Inner City Press from inside the UN
reported on Cary Yan's suspicious activities,
(including video here,
and bribe-bought promotion by UNCA here)
as it was reporting on the parallel UN bribery
by Patrick Ho of Ye Jianming's NGO CEFC China
Energy.
[Update: after
Inner City Press' initial report, Yan retained
Jonathan Bolz, who also represented Patrick
Ho. Word is Yan was extradited in from
Thailand and will be presented before the
assigned District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald,
who also presided over conviction of UN rapist
Karim Elkorany]
Soon
thereafter, Inner City Press was thrown out of
the UN by Secretary General Antonio Guterres,
who omitted from his financial disclosures his
link to CEFC.
On September
2, 2022, after finding the just-unsealed
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
indictment of Yan and Gina Zhou in the docket
at the SDNY court which it now covers, still
banned from the UN, Inner City Press emailed
Guterres, his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric,
Eri Kaneko and Melissa Fleming questions about
the UN's role in the bribery by the NGOs,
including the United Nations International
Organization for Sustainable Development and
the World Organization of Governance and
Competitiveness, WOGC.
Inner City
Press resurfaces: A
whistleblower forwarded this to
Inner City Press: "UNCA is
extending an invitation from the
Permanent Mission of Zambia to
the UN and the World
Organization of Governance and
Competitiveness to a High-level
Global Meeting discussing 'Road
to the Future of Sustainable
Development: Moving from
Commitments to Results through
Inclusive Innovation,' taking
place on Friday, August 25th
from 1:30 - 6:00 pm in ECOSOC
chamber. Sherwin Bryce-Pease,
President, United Nations
Correspondents Association." The
promotion: "H.E Mr. Lazarous
Kapambwe, Permanent
Representative of Zambia to the
United Nations, Mr. Cary Yan,
President of WOGC, Special
Guests include: H.E. Mme Marie
Chatardová, President of the
Economic and Social Council
(tbc), H.E. Mr. António
Guterres, United Nations
Secretary General (tbc), H.E.
Mme Lorena Herrera, Vice
President of Honduras, H.E. Mr.
Alvaro Colom, Former President
of Guatemala, H.E. Mr. Kessai H.
Note, Former President of the
Republic of the Marshall
Islands, H.E. Mr. Francisco
Merino, Former Vice President of
El Salvador, Hon. Mr. Freidi
Torres, Former President of
Legislative Assembly of the
Republic of Panama." The press
release said Antonio Guterres
would speak.
Then
Guterres had Inner City Press
thrown out of the UN, and his
UNCA did nothing (here).
So far, no
response - complicity and corruption.
The case is US
v. Yan, 20-cr-402 (Buchwald)
August
29, 2022
After UN Fails
On Non Proliferation Guterres Phones In Concern 12 Hours
Late Banning Press
UN GATE,
August 27 – The United Nations these days is a
venue of failure, censorship
and even rape.
Throughout
August it has held meetings on the
Non-Proliferation Treaty. Inner City Press,
banned from entering the UN for exposing UNSG
Antonio Guterres' corruption, covered the NPT
as it could, noting on August 26 the cutting
off of Ukraine here.
On
August 26, after an insiders' press conference
from which it was also banned, the conference
failed, Inner City Press video here,
portrait of Costa Rica and Ambassador Maritza
Chan here.
Pick up in Costa Rica OnceNoticia here
(and still not action or response from PR
Chan).
Twelve
hours later, emerging from slumber or worse,
UNSG Antonio Guterres issued a canned
statement about how concerned he was. Really?
Then where was he? Either lazy or no impact or
both - while he bans the Press that asks. "The
Secretary-General expresses his disappointment
at the inability of the tenth Review
Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to
reach consensus on a substantive outcome...
The Secretary-General expresses his sincere
appreciation to Ambassador Gustavo Zlauvinen
(Argentina), President of the Review
Conference, for his vigorous efforts to
facilitate agreement on an outcome
document. Stéphane Dujarric,
Spokesman for the
Secretary-General New York, 27
August 2022
Even
during the endless speeches Friday night, in a
"press" conference that was nothing but
Japanese and Russian state media,
Ambassador Gustavo Zlauvinen, President of the
Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, absurdly claimed that it was NOT a
failure.
He said it had
been a four week movie, just no photo at the
end. Today's UN: defining failure down.
A fish
rots from the head. That's today's UN.
August
22, 2022
UN Melissa
Fleming Censors with Public Funds As Arrogant As Any
Dictator Banning Press
UN GATE,
August 20 – If one is sure
of having the right message, how far to go in
shutting down disagreement? In China, for
example, the answer is locking up critics and
erecting the Great Firewall of China.
The United
Nations is similar, but different.
Central to the
UN's current work in this field is Under
Secretary General Melissa, recently in the
news, if not Google News, at the interstices.
But Inner City
Press has a longer experience with Fleming as
a censor.
Every
weekday for three years, Inner City Press has
written to Fleming seeking to end her
Department of Global Communications' ban
on its entering the UN and asking questions,
as it had for years before she and Antonio
Guterres decide to Sinofy the place, and ban
critics.
No
answer. A pro bono law firm, Quinn Emanuel,
wrote to Fleming, here.
No answer.
Like
China's Xi, Fleming is so much her message is
the right and only one, she will not accept
any debated but rather abuses the UN's legal
impunity lowers to ban and silence critics.
And then try to silence even the
complaints.
In a
month the UN holds its annual UN General
Assembly week. Before Guterres, Inner City Press
covered this in detail from inside - but now it
banned. It will be applying to enter and cover
it. Watch this site.
August
15, 2022
UN Official
Censors Press Report of Bestiality and UN Security
Corruption From Search in EU
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, August 9 –
The United Nations under Antonio Guterres has
become a place of censorship to cover up
corruption including sexual corruption.
After Guterres
had Inner City Press which exposed both
roughed up by UN Security and banned ever
since, now he has embolded UN staff in Europe
to get at least two Inner City Press reported
blocked from Google Search, at least in
Europe.
One
story involves the UN paying a sexual pervert
involved in bestiality; the other, corrupt
promotion within UN Security. Who filed the
complaint with Google, and why do they claim
the EU regulations mean that the UN can pay
and spread about the world sexual predators,
without accountability, getting the names
covered up? From Google:
Notice of
European data protection law removal from
Google Search To: Webmaster of
http://www.innercitypress.com/, Due to a
request under the data protection law in
Europe, Google can no longer show one or more
pages from your site in Google Search
results.... We aren’t disclosing which queries
have been affected.
SDNY, August 5 – The
United Nations used for now imprisoned arms trafficker
Viktor Bout to move Pakistani "peacekeeper" to East
Timor, and Belgians to Somalia where they urinated on
corpses, is now silent on the impending trade of Bout
for Brittney Griner.
On the morning of August
5, Inner City Press asked UN Spokesperson Stephane
Dujarric, in writing, "What are the comments and action
if any of the offered and impending trade of arms
trafficker Viktor Bout, given his role in West Africa,
Colombia and elsewhere for which he was sentenced to 25
years in prison in SDNY court?"
Twelve hours later,
nothing, despite an on-camera promise to answer Inner
City Press' written questions after having it thrown out
of and banned from the UN, by Melissa Fleming, the
censorship chief of SG Antonio Guterres. The
UN is totally corrupt, as are some others - watch this
site.
One thing about the
Wikileaks data-dumps was that they often resurfaced,
made relevant again by current events.
As Kurt Wheelock
began digging through the more than 300 references to
Wikileaks in US Federal court cases, he came across the
State Department memo about bribes paid to witnesses
against Viktor Bout in Thailand.
Now in 2022 there
was talk of Bout being traded by the Administration for
WNBA player Brittney Griner.
The leaked memo:
"Classified By: Ambassador Eric G. John, reason: 1.4 (b)
and (d). 1. (S) Summary: The
Ambassador on March 4 pressed Thai Deputy Prime
Minister Suthep Thaugsuban to ensure retraction or
rebuttal of false court testimony in the
extradition proceedings of Russian arms trafficker
Viktor Bout, which resume March 6. Suthep
said Prime Minister Abhisit had previously
discussed the matter with him, and he would
investigate and take appropriate action."
Bout was
convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York, before then-Judge Shira A.
Scheindlin.
She shot down
Bout's argument as being "based on two 'secret United
States State Department cables which [were] leaked to
Wikileaks' that reveal 'a multi-pronged effort to seek a
successful reversal [of the Thai lower court’s denial of
extradition] during the appeals process.' However, far
from any impropriety, the cables merely demonstrate the
State Department’s view that Bout was “a high priority
for the United States," etc.
Now, with the
SDNY prosecutors raring to ask for a lengthy sentence
for Joshua Schulte, those above them were said to mull
freeing the merchant of death.
They'd made a movie
about Bout, with Nicholas Cage. But no movie, barely a
podcast, about Joshua Schulte.
There was, however,
as of July 16 a blues, here.
And as of July 13, a booklet
- now with eight typos fixed (better late than
never).
One thing not
corrected but amplified: while some set a strangely high
standard for "who is a whistleblower," not unlike "who
is a journalist," Kurt with experience as both thought:
having covered the United Nations, showing abuses of
power and immunity with the help of staff whistleblowers
who can not only be fired but also deported from NY if
they are found out, conclude a person doesn't need to
confess in order to be whistleblower.
Some were
comfortably setting a requirment of voluntary martyrdom.
But some martyrdom's are unintentional, ineffable. The
search continued.
This might be a new
project, a follow-up to Brutal
Kangaroo.
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As UN Kills
Congolese It Says They Were Stealing Rice As Guterres
Censors From Vacation
UN GATE, July
27 – After UN troops in Eastern Congo shot
civilians, on July 27 in a UN briefing the
Press was banned from UN official Khassim
Diagne said that those shots were "looters,"
defined as those making off with bags of rice.
That
is, under UNSG Antonio Guterres, the UN had
moved from killing Haitian with cholera to
shooting Congolese who are hungry, and serving
up justifications to state media in
ill-attended briefings from which Guterres and
his media accreditation official Melissa
Fleming ban Inner City Press.
The
justification of shooting civilains was
coordinated on July 27 by deputy spokesman
Farhan Haq. Lead spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
like Guterres, remained on vacation while the
UN kills civilians in the Congo.
Inner City
Press will have more on this. It has asked
each of the above named about the killings,
about UN corruption and censorship, and to
respond to these: protester Jack Sinzahera
said: "We have our own police that will look
after our security and property. We don't want
anything to do with Monusco." and "They are
tear-gassing us because we came to say that
Monusco does not help us," protester Anselme
Musimbwa said "They've been in Congo for 22
years and nothing works;" and
On DRC,
immediately confirm or deny: At least five
people have died during protests against a UN
peacekeeping force in Goma in the east of the
Democratic Republic of Congo. Local
media have reported that they were shot by the
peacekeepers. The UN mission, known as
Monusco, has not responded to these reports. -
on deadline. No answers.
Today's UN is
corrupt.
July
25, 2022
UN
Guterres 1st Covered Up Ukraine Invasion then
Claimed Credit for Food Now Odesa Bomb
UN GATE /
SDNY, July 23 – As he slowly kills the UN,
Antonio Guterres has misplayed Ukraine at
every stage.
He assured
that there would be no invasion, then through
Melissa Fleming's Department of Global
Communications ordered UN officials to not
call it an invasion or a war.
After behind
chided, below, he tried to get back in the
game through food.
From an
undeserved vacation, he flew to Istanbul and
bloviated that "the initiative we just signed
opens a path for significant volumes of
commercial food exports from three key
Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea – Odesa,
Chernomorsk and Yuzhny."
Through
deputy spokesman Farhan Haq - lead and
longtime spokesman Stephane Dujarric was also
on vacation - he refused to make his deal with
Russia public.
Now on July
23, this: "The Secretary-General unequivocally
condemns reported strikes today in the
Ukrainian port of
Odesa.
Yesterday, all parties made clear commitments
on the global stage to ensure the safe
movement of Ukrainian grain and related
products to global markets."
Not so clear.
Once again, predictably and some would say
intentionally, Guterres got played. Because
he's spend six years (so far) calling Putin
papacito. Week 21 song here;
Week 22 song (on Odesa) here.
Previously: at
the United Nations under Antonio Guterres
fails on Ukriane, belatedly some former UN
officials wrote to Guterres, (too) gently
chiding him for presiding over the UN's
morphing into the a League of Nations, useless
and now defunct.
On April
15 they wrote: "As former staff members of the
UN system, we, the undersigned... implore you
to intensify your personal efforts, deploying
all capabilities at your disposal and acting
upon lessons learnt from previous conflicts,
for the cessation of hostilities."
Inner
City Press, banned from the UN by Guterres,
has reviewed the signatories, see one below
and Dimitry Dovgopoly we've asked about. UN
associate Spokesperson Eri Kaneko, refusing to
answer, on April 22 announced: "The
Secretary-General will visit Moscow, in the
Russian Federation, on April
[26th]. He will have a
working meeting and lunch with Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov. The Secretary-General
will be received by President Vladimir Putin."
Kaneko
actually said April 25, but they later fixed
it. But the Russian government says only that
Guterres will meet Lavrov. As Inner City Press
noted,
maybe only if Guterres is obsequious with
Lavrov as usual will he get face time with
Putin, his papacito.
Hours later,
the UN put this out, trying to mirror the
"received by" language but not explaining why
Russia doensn't mention Putin - nor that he is
being used to normalize the slaughter.
Guterres is the worst SG ever - and that's
saying something.
On April 26
cowering under Sergey Lavrov when asked of US
expulsion of Russian spies including a UN staff
member, Guterres said, "we believe that it is
very important that all Member States, including
the Russian Federation, have a normal treatment
of their visa requirements. It is essential to
have the full participation of all countries in
UN procedures. And we will be keeping a very
strong position with the host country in order
to guarantee that we move swiftly in that
direction." Guterres lazed around on genocide
but expulsion of spies? He's all over it. Then
he met Putin, long table video here.
July
18, 2022
To Head Up UN
Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Saunders Is Picked By
Guterres After Overseeing Ouster of Press
UN GATE /
SDNY, July 15 – The United Nations has a
growing record of rapes by its peacekeepers,
including of children, under Secretary General
Antonio Guterres.
Inner City
Press has reported on the escalation in UN
rapes, even after Guterres had it thrown out
of the UN and banned since.
On July
15, Guterres named a new head of UN Sexual
Exploitation and Abuse: Christian Saunders. It
is no coincidence. Saunders oversaw the
physical ouster of Inner City Press from the
UN on July 3, 2018, as it covered the murky
deal-making around the UN's $6 billion budget,
video here.
(Since
the ouster and ban, Guterres' head of Media
Acceditation Melissa Fleming has refused to
respond, including to a polite letter from pro
bono law firm Quinn Emanuel, here.)
The
July 15 announcement was made by UN
Spokesperson Farhan Haq (lead spokesman
Stephane Dujarric is on vacation) - and none
of the few correspondents in the day's noon
briefing asked anything about it.
The UN is dying,
entirely unaccountable. Watch this
site.
July
11, 2022
For UN Human
Rights Another Guterres Crony Volker Turk UNaware of
Cameroon, A Censor
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, July 2 – The United Nations has
hit a new low, after its supposed human rights
commissioner Michelle Bachelet whitewashing
China's genocide against the Uighurs during a
stage-managed trip to the country.
Now to
replace Bachelet, loudly rumored is another
Antonio Guterres crony, Volker Turk formerly
of UNHCR then a Guterres promoter. On human
rights, Inner City Press asked him about the
slaughter in Cameroon of Anglophones by the
army of Paul Biya - and he'd never heard of
it. Story
here.
When
Inner City Press published video
(here) of Turk's answers about Gramsci,
Inner City Press was then blocked from the
UN's web site. So he is a cover up man and a
censor. Anyone who had put up with Guterres
reign of censorship and corruption has no
human rights credibility or chops.
As to
Bachelet, at the end, in a press conference
dominated by scripted questions from Chinese
state media in response to which she read from
prepared notes, she said she was unable to
access what is happening in Xinjiang.
On June 13,
Bachelet having served China said she was now
leaving. And Guterres praised her: "She has
moved the needle in an extremely challenging
political context." Yes - she moved his UN's
needle even more pro-China. And did nothing
about Guterres' ban on Press. Defund the UN.
Some say
they are surprised by this outcome. But a fish
rots from the head. The head of the UN system
is Antonio Guterres, and the reasons for his
silence on China's abuses is more
sinister.
Before being
selected - by China, which like Russia could
have vetoed him - Guterres took money from the
Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. The China
Energy Fund Committee, whose Patrick Ho was
convicted of UN bribery involving UN President
of the General Assembly, offered top dollar
for Gulbenkian's oil company.
Guterres omitted the money he took from
Gulbenkian from his financial disclosure form.
And after
Inner City Press, which had aggressively
reported on Guterres' predecessor Ban Ki-moon
from inside the UN, asked about it, Guterres
had Inner City Press roughed up and banned
from the UN ever since. Very Xi.
In the run up to Bachelet's trip, Inner City
Press put written questions repeatedly to
Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who
daily takes three of more questions in his
noon briefing from Chinese state media. But to
Inner City Press, no answer.
Likewise, when
pro bono law firm Quinn Emanuel wrote to
Guterres' head of media accreditation Melissa
Fleming asking for Inner City Press to be
allowed to re-enter the UN and ask its
questions, she refused to response, as did the
supposed UN Correspondents Association, on
whose Executive Committee China has a
permanent seat.
So how
is it surprising the the UN covers up for
China?
But
where if the US Administration and US Mission
to the UN under Linda Thomas-Greenfield on
this? They praise the UN and their work there,
amid all the failures and censorship.
UN GATE, July
1– With Brazil taking over presidency
of the UN Security Council on July 1, 2022 on
June 30 Inner City Press wrote to the
Brazilian Mission to the UN to request in
advance access to its July 1 press conference
by Ambassador Ronaldo Costa
Filho.
Inner City Press asked asked
the Brazilian
Mission, and the UN,
about the murders in
Brazil of journalist
Dom Phillips and
indigenous rights
leader Bruno
Pereira. No answer
at all.
Instead,
Ronaldo Costa
Filho took
questions from
Chinese state
media, about food
and climate
change. On
this, he
said the IPCC
says the
connection
between
climate change
and conflict
is very weak. No
one said
anything. He
said he
wouldn't
promise to
doany
stakeouts. To
this has the
UN sunk. Here's
the
program of
work. We will
keep asking,
and we will
report on it.
Inner
City Press wrote to the Brazil Mission
including distri.delbrasonu@itamaraty.gov.br
and fabio.coelho@itamaraty.gov.br: "This is a
timely request that you send Inner City Press
the pass code(s) to access your UNSC
Presidency Program of Work press briefing, as
you've announced on Twitter (I notice your
Mission follows @InnerCityPress, along with
149,999 others, on Twitter).
Please confirm
receipt of this email and provide the WebEx
codes or other way to access, immediately. I
have questions to ask on what you will do this
month about the conflicts in Ukraine, Haiti,
Sudan, DRC, Cameroon, Yemen and Libya - and on
recent cases of sexual abuse and exploitatoin
by UN peacekeepers on Inner City Press
first reported - Inner City Press is asking to
be provided with access / the passwords to
your Brazil mission's stakeouts and press
conferences this month with Ronaldo Costa
Filho as UNSC President. Given your stated
focus on the rule of law, you should ensure
due process (and access) for Press covering
the UN. Please note that Inner City
Press and I participate in the WebEx briefings
of, for example, the IMF on March 31, 2022, here
As you all have now moved the Council back
into its Chamber, either way I would also like
to ask you to instruct MALU / USG-DGC
Melissa Fleming to allow me to enter to cover
it, for Inner City Press. She has not
responded to this
letter (your Brazil mission
should) Please immediately
confirm receipt, and provide the passcode or
state why not.
But by the
morning of July 1, nothing.
Inconsistent,
to say the least, with Brazil's duty as
President of the UN Security Council.
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 Brazilian
Mission and Brazil 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 is up to
Brazil and the Brazilian Mission to provide
access.
Watch this
site.
June
27, 2022
UN Bans Press
Reporting on Whistleblowers as Guterres Uses AJE Softballs
BBC Phoning it in
UN GATE, June
21 – The UN's retaliation is not limited to banning
Inner City Press that Secretary General
Antonio Guterres doesn't like - he also fired
and penalizes UN staff who dare speak out
about the Organization's abuses.
On June
16, a week before a documentary on the topic
that includes leaked audio first published by
Inner City Press, Inner City Press asked UN
Spokespeople Stephane Dujarric, Farhan Haq and
Melissa Fleming:
"What are the
comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on
the BBC piece about UN whistleblowers being
retaliated against, set for worldwide view on
June 21 but presumably already in the SG's
awareness? See this."
No
answer from the UN. Instead, they arranged for
a colloquy about a useless "hot line" with
pro-UN Qatar state media, which asked about
Guterres now acting on these "new" cases of
sexual misconduct. But the hands down the
pants happened long ago, and was exposed by
Inner City Press - and the audio used without
credit in the documentary shows Guterres
covered it up.
While
Team Guterres has not answered Inner City
Press, on June 20 BBC World tweeted, "The BBC
was handed a secret recording of Ben Swanson,
staff had come to him in tears describing how
an assistant secretary general had put his
hand down her trousers."
HANDED?
Inner City Press exclusively published the
audio long ago on SoundCloud here.
It has asked
the BBC about it, and why its
correspondents so rare ask about UN wrongdoing
including banning Press, in which some of them
have colluded.
BBC's arch
response: "Reference CAS-7209948-F6D6K3
Dear Matthew, Many thanks for contacting
us about ‘The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN’,
and our reporting around this story.
We’ve discussed your complaint with the
programme team. An audio clip featuring Ben
Swanson, director of the investigations
division of the Office of Internal Oversight
Services (OIOS) at the UN, was given to
us...we don’t see any need to credit this
further. We hope this helps to clarify
matters and wish you all the best, BBC
Complaints Team
www.bbc.co.uk/complaints Please
note: this email is sent from an unmonitored
address so please don’t reply. If necessary
please contact us through our webform (please
include your case reference number)." Not even
a "previously published by Inner City Press."
And BBC did not even bother to send anyone to
the June 21 noon briefing to ask.
One BBC
correspondent at the UN (still on BBC TV)
protested when Inner City Press reported the
anti-Tamil comments of one of the UK's UN Relief
Chiefs, saying, You cost us access. Another,
still on BBC Radio, took part in the UN
Correspondents Association push
to oust Inner City Press for reporting
that UNCA's president Giampaolo
Pioi took rent money from a Sri Lankan war
criminal then gave his government's genocide
denial film an UNCA screening.
June 20, 2022
UN Bachelet
Quits After Whitewashes Uighurs As China Purchase of SG
Guterres Pays Off
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, June 13 – The United Nations has
hit a new low, with its supposed human rights
commissioner Michelle Bachelet whitewashing
China's genocide against the Uighurs during a
stage-managed trip to the country.
At the end, in
a press conference dominated by scripted
questions from Chinese state media in response
to which she read from prepared notes, she
said she was unable to access what is
happening in Xinjiang.
On June 13,
Bachelet having served China said she was now
leaving. And Guterres praised her: "She has
moved the needle in an extremely challenging
political context." Yes - she moved his UN's
needle even more pro-China. And did nothing
about Guterres' ban on Press. Defund the UN.
Some say
they are surprised by this outcome. But a fish
rots from the head. The head of the UN system
is Antonio Guterres, and the reasons for his
silence on China's abuses is more
sinister.
Before being
selected - by China, which like Russia could
have vetoed him - Guterres took money from the
Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. The China
Energy Fund Committee, whose Patrick Ho was
convicted of UN bribery involving UN President
of the General Assembly, offered top dollar
for Gulbenkian's oil company.
Guterres omitted the money he took from
Gulbenkian from his financial disclosure form.
And after
Inner City Press, which had aggressively
reported on Guterres' predecessor Ban Ki-moon
from inside the UN, asked about it, Guterres
had Inner City Press roughed up and banned
from the UN ever since. Very Xi.
In the run up to Bachelet's trip, Inner City
Press put written questions repeatedly to
Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who
daily takes three of more questions in his
noon briefing from Chinese state media. But to
Inner City Press, no answer.
Likewise, when
pro bono law firm Quinn Emanuel wrote to
Guterres' head of media accreditation Melissa
Fleming asking for Inner City Press to be
allowed to re-enter the UN and ask its
questions, she refused to response, as did the
supposed UN Correspondents Association, on
whose Executive Committee China has a
permanent seat.
So how
is it surprising the the UN covers up for
China?
But
where if the US Administration and US Mission
to the UN under Linda Thomas-Greenfield on
this? They praise the UN and their work there,
amid all the failures and censorship.
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