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December
5, 2022
UN
Tells Inner
City Press
You're Banned
Then PGA Spox
Says There's
An Appeals
Process But
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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BBC -
Honduras
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Trial book - NY
Mag
UN GATE, Dec 2
– For
a United
Nations "Civil
Society Town
Hall" meeting
on December 2,
Inner City
Press was
invited and
had its RSVP
confirmed -
but on First
Avenue, was
told it is
"banned from
the UN."
Tweeted audio
here.
When
it asked the
basis of the
ban, since
none had ever
been
expressed, it
was told by a
UN Security
officer at the
door of 801
First Avenue
that a
supervisor
would come and
explain. None
came, for 40
minutes and
counting.
Inner City
Press e-mailed
the
spokesperson
for the
President of
the General
Assembly Csaba
Korosi, whose
event it was,
and Melissa
Fleming of the
Department of
Global
Communications,
who sat on
stage and
heads UN Media
Accreditation.
Fleming did
not answer, as
she has not
answered a
July 2021
letter about
Press access
from the pro
bono law firm
of Quinn
Emanuel, here.
But
Paulina Kubiak
came onto
First Avenue,
to her credit,
and went into
to speak with
the UN
Security
officer. She
emerged to
say, You are
banned but
they tell me
there is an
appeals
process, you
are to write
to the
Investigations
Unit and the
Police
Chief.
Inner
City Press
expressed
skepticism,
including in
light of
Fleming's
non-answer,
but asked the
PGA's office
to follow
through.
Kubiak said
she would go
into UNHQ, to
UN Security /
DSS in the
basement, and
get Inner City
Press the
addresses to
appeal
to.
But
she later
wrote to Inner
City Press,
"Hi
Matthew,
I’ve spoken
with a number
of people on
the issue of
your access to
UNHQ, but
unfortunately,
was unable to
get any useful
information.
Best,
Paulina."
Inner
City Press
wrote back, "
Paulina
-
You told me
there is an
appeals
process, and
that you were
doing inside
to DSS in the
basement to
get me the
address that
I, or the
Quinn Emanuel
law firm,
should write
it with the
appeal. So
what is the
address?
Thanks."
But there has
been no
answer, even
as Kubiak held
a questionless
session in the
UN Press
Briefing Room.
Prior to that,
Inner City
Press asked
UNSG Antonio
Guterres'
spokespeople
Stephane
Dujarric and
Farhan Haq,
and the Indian
Mission to the
UN as UNSC
President,
"Immediately
explain both
the basis for
UN Security at
801 1st Ave on
the morning of
Dec 2 tell me
I am "banned"
from entering
the UN despite
confirmed
invitation to
UN PGA Town
Hall, and (2)
the "appeals"
process that
DSS told PGA
Spokesperson
about to,
conveyed to
me. What is
the
"Inspections
Unit" and
"Police Chief"
email address
an appellee is
to write to?
Why did USG
Fleming not
respond to the
July 2021
Quinn Emanuel
letter with
information
about this
appeals
process, if it
exists? How
many people
are on the
UN's "banned"
list? On what
bases? On
deadline." No
answer -
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November 28, 2022
UN Rot
Typified by Silence on Qatar by Volker Turk Tapped
by Tony Genocide Games Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
Book
BBC-Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN NY
Mag
UN GATE, Nov
20 – The United Nations has hit a new low,
after its now-gone human rights commissioner
Michelle Bachelet withheld her report on
Xinjiang until the very hour she left, after
whitewashing China's genocide against the
Uighurs for her whole term.
To
replace Bachelet, UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres tapped his crony, Volker Turk
formerly of UNHCR then a Guterres promoter.
(Inner City Press back on July 2 predicted
this pro-China move, here).
Now in
November 2022, Volker Turk is entirely silence
on Qatar and human rights, including the 7000
migrant workers they killed building stadia
for the FIFA World Cup. Some human rights
commissioner.
This comes
after Qatar welcomed Volker Turk's appointment
(photo here),
and paid for a large room at the UN in Geneva.
Qatar already
bought Antonio Guterres in New York, where its
state media Al Jazeera - now with its UN
correspondents and alumni singing for the
supper defending the corrupt World Cup -
worked with Guterres' spokesman Stephane
Dujarric to get Inner City Press thrown out, here
On human
rights, Inner City Press previously asked
Volker Turk 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?
To Access UNGA Inner City
Press Applied But PGA Csaba Kőrösi Blocks Now Lies on Rape
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
UN Gate, Nov
21 – 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.
Will this
continue under incoming PGA Csaba Kőrösi of
Hungary? On September 15, 2022 Inner City
Press wrote to members including his "Special
Assistant" Adel Hriczu - despite claims of
transparency, as of September 17 no response
or action: "As a journalist who has reported
on the United Nations and its work for more
than ten years, and who today was allowed to
question the IMF but was not (yet?) allowed
back into the UN, I am writing to you as
deputy chef de cabinet of the Office of
President of the General Assembly to formally
ask that you ensure that my application, a
week ago, to UN MALU to cover next week's UNGA
week is approved, on Sept 16."
Still now in November, nothing.
Instead, while
Korosi continues to refuse a written request
for comment on UN rapist Karim Elkorany (who
drugged and raped 13 aid workers), submitted
by Inner City Press to his spokesperson
Paulina Kubiak, now this: "Ahead of the 16
Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
campaign, the President of the United Nations
General Assembly and the New York City Mayor’s
Office will meet with domestic violence
survivors and visit the Manhattan Family
Justice Center, one of five borough-based
service centers providing free and
confidential social services including mental
health counseling, civil legal, and criminal
justice assistance for survivors and their
children. During the
visit, President Kőrösi and Commissioners
Cecile Noel and Edward Mermelstein, will also
meet with NGOs at the Manhattan Family Justice
Center to better understand the local services
offered to survivors of domestic and
gender-based violence." And no comment on UN
rapist Elkorany, and banning of the Press that
asks. Hypocrite.
In fact,
Korosi went so far, contrary to his claims of
transparency, to block Inner City Press on
Twitter, see here.
A day after Inner City Press exposed it, it
was reversed but no explanation offered. Then,
sadly, this: After Korosi bragged online about
his December 2 civil society summit, Inner
City Press registered. The form specifically
envisioned entry and attendance by individuals
not affiliated with any groups - including
"private sector" - and for those not
affiliated in any way with the UN, saying
special passes would be provided.
On the morning of November 10 Inner
City Press asked Korosi's spokesperson Paulina
Kubiak to confirm, and " given PGA Korosi's
promotion, including on Twitter, of his Dec 2
townhall in the UN, please immediately confirm
that it is he and his office controlling who
is allowed in - that is, that he cannot try to
pass the buck to MALU and USG Fleming, as
he/you have tried to do to
date. To test this,
yesterday evening I applied
https://www.un.org/pga/77/csotownhall/ - I am
informing you (and him) of this in order to be
upfront, and also to ensure if there are any
questions, I be allowed to answer them. I am
expecting that ticket to enter on December 2
and to be informed of it long before that,
asap."
Eight hours later, Korosi's spokesperson
Kubiak replied, "The Civil Society Town Hall
on 2 December is for civil society
organizations in consultative status with
ECOSOC or those formally associated with DGC.
The attendees register through the link that
you noted, as part of a process to check
accreditation by ECOSOC or DGC prior to
issuance of special event tickets by DSS.
Should your accreditation not be confirmed by
DESA or DGC, you may still follow the
discussions on UN WebTV."
Well, no.
"Paulina, that does not seem to be true.
the form specifically allows for entities /
people not affiliated with the UN - and people
not affiliated with an organization, as well
as "private sector" - I am writing this story
now paste 9.Organization
Representation Type NGO
(Non-Governmental Organization)
Academia Private Sector Do not
belong to any organization 10.Your
organization's affiliation with the UN (check
all that apply) Associated with
Department of Global Communications In
consultative status with Economic and Social
Council Both ECOSOC-accredited and
DGC-associated Not
affiliated 11.Do you have a valid
UN grounds pass? Yes. (A special event
ticket will not be requested for you to access
UNHQ) No. (I require a special event
ticket to access UNHQ)."
Kubiak after
that stopped answering, including refusing to
provide any Korosi comments on the 13 rapes by
UN staffer Elkorany. UN Spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric and Farhan Haq day after day refused
this: "
On
UN opacity, immediately state whether
the Dec 2 "civil society summit" is
limited to representatives of NGOs
already OK-ed by ECOSOC or USG Fleming's
DCG, or (as the online form says),
to people and entities not affiliated
with the UN."
Now
it turns
out Melissa "We Own the Science"
Fleming is "moderating" the December 2
Town Hall - while lying about who is
allowed in, and not answering legal
mail.
On
November 19, four minutes after his
apparent Boss Tony Guterres
issued his speech - this time,
not the wrong text - Korosi via Paulina "No
Answers Or False
Ones" Kubiak
issued canned
pablum: "I
commend COP
President
Sameh Shoukry,
as well as
Simon Stiell
and the United
Nations
Framework
Convention on
Climate
Change, and
their teams,
for their
efforts to put
into action
this year’s
slogan of
“together for
implementation”.
As the
President of
the General
Assembly, I
will work with
Member States
to support" - Big
Tony and his
corrupt regime
of censorship.
Puppet PGA.
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November 21, 2022
Qatar
Bans Filming
Of Migrant
Workers But
Blinken
Promotes Emir
Like UN
Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
UN GATE, Nov
18 – For
the FIFA World
Cup that Qatar
paid bribes to
get, it issued
restrictions
on the media
that go to
cover it,
including that
journalists
will not be
allowed to
film or
photograph in
"residential
properties,
private
businesses and
industrial
zones."
Reporting on
the deaths of
migrant
workers is not
permitted.
But
with US
Secretary of
State Antony
Blinken set to
visit on
November
21-22, two
State
Department
officials on
November 18
said Qatar has
been doing
good work on
labor rights.
The officials
Deputy
Assistant
Secretary for
Near Eastern
Affairs Daniel
Benaim and
Deputy
Assistant
Secretary for
Educational
and Cultural
Affairs Stacy
White were
asked about a
Qatar diplomat
telling
Germany TV
that gays have
mental
problems, and
declined
comment,
pointing to
the Emir
inviting
"everyone."
Yeah.
Qatar
also bans
filming in
“restricted
areas where
filming
requires prior
permission”
and at “any
site with
signage or
security
advising of no
photography/videography."
Some
who are
criticizing
these
restrictions,
however, say
nothing when
the United
Nations does
the same.
Consider the
reasons given
by UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres'
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric for
having Inner
City Press
roughed up and
banned from
the UN, for
three years
and counting,
from CJR:
"access
is not a
right, it’s a
privilege,”
Dujarric says.
“None of this
is happening
now because of
what he
writes.”
Dujarric says
that Lee is
often critical
of fellow
journalists;
walking the
halls in the
evenings,
he’ll
live-stream
running
commentary
criticizing
other
reporters. Not
long ago,
encountering a
crew from Al
Jazeera—which
Lee believes
has misled
viewers about
its connection
to the Qatari
government—Dujarric
says that Lee
Periscoped
while
shouting,
“Fuck you!”
repeatedly.
(Lee says he
was
complaining
that Dujarric
had given the
Al Jazeera
crew a private
interview, and
excluded him.)
“He creates an
atmosphere of
incivility
within our
working
environment,”
Dujarric
says."
So
Inner City
Press is
banned by
MALU's Melissa
Fleming
because it
filmed on the
fourth (media)
floor, and for
what it said?
Or for
criticizing
his and
Guterres'
relations with
Qatar's Al
Jazeera, which
got the
exclusive to
Guterres' two
stolen UNSG
elections?
We'll
have more on
this.
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November 14, 2022
To Access UNGA
Inner City Press Applied But PGA Csaba Kőrösi Blocked It
Now Dissembles
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
UN Gate, Nov
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.
Will this
continue under incoming PGA Csaba Kőrösi of
Hungary? On September 15, 2022 Inner City
Press wrote to members including his "Special
Assistant" Adel Hriczu - despite claims of
transparency, as of September 17 no response
or action: "As a journalist who has reported
on the United Nations and its work for more
than ten years, and who today was allowed to
question the IMF but was not (yet?) allowed
back into the UN, I am writing to you as
deputy chef de cabinet of the Office of
President of the General Assembly to formally
ask that you ensure that my application, a
week ago, to UN MALU to cover next week's UNGA
week is approved, on Sept 16."
Still now in November, nothing.
In fact,
Korosi went so far, contrary to his claims of
transparency, to block Inner City Press on
Twitter, see here.
A day after Inner City Press exposed it, it
was reversed but no explanation offered. Then,
sadly, this: After Korosi bragged online about
his December 2 civil society summit, Inner
City Press registered. The form specifically
envisioned entry and attendance by individuals
not affiliated with any groups - including
"private sector" - and for those not
affiliated in any way with the UN, saying
special passes would be provided.
On the morning of November 10 Inner
City Press asked Korosi's spokesperson Paulina
Kubiak to confirm, and " given PGA Korosi's
promotion, including on Twitter, of his Dec 2
townhall in the UN, please immediately confirm
that it is he and his office controlling who
is allowed in - that is, that he cannot try to
pass the buck to MALU and USG Fleming, as
he/you have tried to do to
date. To test this,
yesterday evening I applied
https://www.un.org/pga/77/csotownhall/ - I am
informing you (and him) of this in order to be
upfront, and also to ensure if there are any
questions, I be allowed to answer them. I am
expecting that ticket to enter on December 2
and to be informed of it long before that,
asap."
Eight hours later, Korosi's spokesperson
Kubiak replied, "The Civil Society Town Hall
on 2 December is for civil society
organizations in consultative status with
ECOSOC or those formally associated with DGC.
The attendees register through the link that
you noted, as part of a process to check
accreditation by ECOSOC or DGC prior to
issuance of special event tickets by DSS.
Should your accreditation not be confirmed by
DESA or DGC, you may still follow the
discussions on UN WebTV."
Well, no. "
Paulina, that does not seem to be true.
the form specifically allows for entities /
people not affiliated with the UN - and people
not affiliated with an organization, as well
as "private sector" - I am writing this story
now paste 9.Organization
Representation Type NGO
(Non-Governmental Organization)
Academia Private Sector Do not
belong to any organization 10.Your
organization's affiliation with the UN (check
all that apply) Associated with
Department of Global Communications In
consultative status with Economic and Social
Council Both ECOSOC-accredited and
DGC-associated Not
affiliated 11.Do you have a valid
UN grounds pass? Yes. (A special event
ticket will not be requested for you to access
UNHQ) No. (I require a special event
ticket to access UNHQ)."
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video Letter
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November
7, 2022
Ghana as UNSC
President Bans Free Press But Invites Iran State Media and
Ghislaine Maxwell Fundraiser
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
Book
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Book - NY
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UN GATE, Nov 1
– With Ghana taking over presidency of the UN
Security Council on November 1, 2022, on
October 21 Inner City Press wrote to the Ghana
Mission to the UN to request in advance access
to its Novemer 1 press conference by
Ambassador Harold Adlai Agyemanthe.
To
submit the request, Inner City Press went to
the Ghana Mission profile on Twitter, on which
the Mission follows @InnerCityPress, and
clicked through to the Mission's website.
There, under Contact Us, it claimed there was
a form. But there wasn't, only an email
address: info@ghanamissionun.org.
So Inner City
Press wrote there - and received,
"<info@ghanamissionun.org>: The e-mail
message could not be delivered because the
user's mailfolder is full."
At least
two others did not answer, in the two day run
up to November 1: Mr.
Solomon Korbieh at skorbieh
at yahoo.com and ghanaperm at aol.com
Now
Ghana has taken over the UN Security Council,
amid its failures on the Black Sea Grain
Initiative and peacekeepers' rapes -- and its
website misstates that there is a form, and
its lone public mailbox is full.
Not an
auspicious beginning. Nor was the November 1
press conference, which featured repeated
questions from Iran state media IRNA, a
long-winded question suggesting what should be
asked of Grandi. The mission coyly hid
where they will meet with the Elders. Then
Ghana called on UN Spokesperson Eri Kaneko -
and the Permanent Representative ended it,
with none of Inner City Press' questions
answered. But we'll keep asking - and
reporting, including on Ghana. For now, here's
the Program of Work
Inner
City Press asked the Ghana Mission, and the
UN, about the MONUSCO scandal - sex for UN
Volunteer jobs paid with taxpayers' funds - in
the DRC Congo. Inner City Press exclusive here.
This
while Inner City Press is banned
from entry, which it had for years until it
exposed UN corruption. No response to this
appeal. Impunity.
Inner
City Press will be covering the Ghana
presidency, quite actively, this month.
Our
requests and questions remain; we will publish
any responses, and also on non-responses. Watch
this site.
October
31, 2022
UN Staff Gets 15 Years For Raping 13
Women and Drugging 19, Elkorany Protected By
UNSG
By Matthew
Russell Lee Patreon Periscope Song
BBC
- Decrypt
- LightRead - Honduras
- Thread
SDNY
Courthouse, Oct 27 – UN former staff member
Karim Elkorany was arrested then freed on
$500,000 bond on September 2, 2020 in
connection with drugging and raping women in
Iraq while working for the UN in 2016, then
allegedly lying to the FBI about it in 2017.
On
October 27,
2022, after
the testimony
of victims
including
about how
Elkorany while
a UN
"Communications
Specialist"
drugged and
raped them,
including in
the US,
Elkorany was
sentenced to
15 years in
prison.
Inner City Press
live tweeted it, here
and, after no answers from complicity Big Tony
Guterre's "spokesman" Stephane Dujarric, this
e-book here
October
24, 2022
UN Guterres Corruption Leads to
Layoffs of Communications Officers, Fleming
Censors
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
UN GATE, Oct
17 – As corruption in the UN grows under SG
Antonio Guterres, Inner City Press which
Guterres has banned
for its coverage receives more and more
communications from UN whistleblowers. Here is
one more:
"Guterres's
reform flops . Mass layoffs at UN DCO due to
mismanagement
To Matthew.Lee [at] innercitypress.com
Discontinuation
of regional communication
services" “DCO senior management
summer break results in financial
mismanagement. “ Our 5 key DCO
colleagues, who are senior regional
communications officers, contracts were
terminated in a brutal manner due to DCO HQ
mass mismanagement and lack of experience in
managing funding. Among the affected staff a
pregnant female whom DCO denies maternity
rights. Mismanagement of DCO must
be investigated.
Deputy director of DCO informed the effected
staff that DCO is “ a starter entity in the
system” and “ DCO individual managers do make
mistakes” and “ that was “ unfortunate series
of events” and the only solution to rescue DCO
reputation is to terminate those 5 positions.
More to come!
On 6
October , the affected staff were informed by
email that their positions will be abolished
due to DCO mismanagement of cash” while DCO
was still hiring roving 7 posts of p5s and
other p4s. DCO who claims
transparency wants to cover up on their poor
management by layoff highly performing 5
regional communications officers hired by the
global communications in service of the Reform
within DCO regional offices.
On 13th
October, DCO Deputy Director Rosemary
Kalapurakal, told the affected staff
;
1- In July and
August, many senior managers were away. As a
result, when there were acting managers in
DCO, there were decisions that were taken and
communicated that should not have happened as
they were not aware of some of these issues.
That is an unfortunate series of events.
2- Sometimes individual managers make
mistakes. DCO has to own up to it and be
accountable for it and whenever hard decisions
are made, they need to be communicated with
empathy and respect. In this case, that was
not done and it should have been better
communicated.
But DCO
can’t correct those mistakes now and the 5
staff affected have to be separate from
service by 15th November. 3- “DCO
is a starter entity”. She asked the affected
staff to leave in silence and added . “ I’m
aware of your torture. I’m not here to
negotiate. The first thing a senior manager
doesn't do when there is a problem is go
broadcast it to the entire world. “
Please help us
spread the word, and address questions to the
SG and all RCs who are meeting at the moment
in NY under the reform’s umbrella while our
colleagues suffer from DCO
mismanagement. Member states
should call for an investigation on DCO
financial corruption. The above
statements are on record."
Spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Farhan Haq
refuse all questions; Melissa Fleming doesn't
even answer the letter
from pro bono law firm Quinn Emanuel. These
people are corrupt.
October
17, 2022
UN
Guterres Rents UN Flag to Trammo as Firm Sued By
Puerto Rico for MTBE, Cooking Books
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
Book
BBC-Guardian
UK - Honduras
- NY
Mag Song
UN GATE, Oct
10 – As he slowly kills the UN, Antonio
Guterres has failed on 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. UN DGC email here.
After behind
chided, below, Guterres tried to get back in
the game through food. He's now trying to
raise money for commodities firm Trammo,
involved in litigation in US courts.
Notably, Trammo has been sued by Puerto Rico
for polluting its waters with methyl teriary
butyl (MTBE), in the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New York which Inner
City Press covers daily since been banned from
the UN by Guterres.
In
another SDNY case Inner City Press has been
covering, Trammo is said to be "concealing
trading losses from the outside world by
maintaining two separate sets of books." On
what authority is Guterres selling the UN flag
and what's left of its name to this
commodities trader?
October vlog
First Avenue vlog here.
October
10, 2022
Gabon as UNSC
President Was Asked of DRC Scandals But No Answer and No
Press Access
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial
Book - NY
Mag
UN GATE, Oct
3 – With Gabon taking over presidency of the
UN Security Council on October 1, 2022, on
September 30 Inner City Press wrote to the
GaboneseMission to the UN to request in
advance access to its October 3 press
conference by Ambassador Michel Xavier Biang.
Video here.
Inner
City Press asked the Gabon Mission, and the
UN, about the MONUSCO scandal - sex for UN
Volunteer jobs paid with taxpayers' funds - in
the DRC Congo. Inner City Press exclusive here.
Its email to the lone email address listed for
the Mission, which has a total of 421
followers on Twitter, was not answered by
October 3.
Instead,
a scam press conference by Michel Xavier
Biang, with softball questions in French
(video here)
including a question given to a UN
Correspondent who did a fundraiser with
convicted global pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell, here.
This
while Inner City Press is banned from
entry, which it had for years until it exposed
UN corruption. No response to this
appeal. Impunity.
Inner
City Press will be covering the Gabonese
presidency, quite actively, this month. It
publish Gabon's empty Program of Work, here:
Western Sahara (Gabon is sure to sell out and
take no questions) on Oct 10 and more,
Colombia where the UN is embroiled in a sex
scandal as in DRC on Oct 17, Syria (another
Guterres failure) on Oct 26 and of course,
lunch with Big Tony on Oct 7.
Our
requests and questions remain; we will publish
any responses, and also on non-responses.
Watch this site.
October 3, 2022
UN Federal Credit Union Limits Staff
to Staff Transfers While Banking for Iran Spy,
Fraud
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
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
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
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
Day 2
in the morning had craven waiting for Joe
Biden, entrance video and voice over here
and actual entrance here
followed by Biden's speech, beginning here
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
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
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
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
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
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
video Letter
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
NGO
Fraudster Cary Yan Indicted For Bribery Incl
of Marshall Islands
There are
many more Watch this site.
September 5, 2022
As UN
Affiliated Fraudster Cary Yan Indicted For Bribery Video
and UNCA Links Noted Here
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
Book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA Trial
Book - NY
Mag
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,
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