At
UN, Gabon's Dynastic Ali Bongo
Celebrated by Bronx Zoo, Bill
Clinton, Citi & Leo diCaprio
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED NATIONS,
June 6 – Ali Bongo, whose
family has ruled Gabon since
1967, is being feted by the
World Conservation Society /
Bronx Zoo and arranged a
softball National Geographic
interview with pre-screened
questions, documents obtained
by Inner City Press show. The
WCS event, according to the
documents exclusively leaked
to Inner City Press by Bronx
Zoo whistleblowers, includes
representatives from Citigroup
(recently praised by UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres), Mitsubishi, Walmart
/ Walton Family Foundation,
the Leonardo diCaprio
Foundation, Robin Hood and the
Office of President Bill
Clinton. Document
here. Last year in
Washington the Atlantic
Council reportedly canceled an
award it was quietly giving to
Ali Bongo, after his
dictatorship (and cut off of
the Internet as in Cameroon)
were raised. (Atlanic Council
in a denial
says Bongo was never
considered.) But the UN and
its Ocean Conference
apparently suffer no such
vetting or scrutiny: hence the
leaking to Inner City Press.
This too: National
Geographic's questions, and
Ali Bongo's answers including
the ocean as "a vessel for
recording past climate change"
were known in advance of the
interview. Click here
to view the document, via Patreon. We'll have
more on this.
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