Ban
Ki-moon Supports THAAD & US-Saudi Coalition, US
Power Downplays Ban Indictment
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 15 – Ban Ki-moon left
the UN on January 1 and
tellingly his first move was
to take legal action against
the press. Before he left, he
named his own son in law Siddarth
Chatterjee to the top UN
top in Kenya.
Ban's
scripted re-entry to South
Korea has featured the kissing
of babies, the mis-introduction
of money into the express train
subway, and claims he
advocated for the downtrodden
- despite selling out 10,000
dead Haitians, and more
Yemenis than that.
Ban,
explicitly for money, removed
the Saudi-led, US-supported
coalition that has been
bombing Yemen from the UN's
Children and Armed Conflict
annex of shame.
And on
January 13, when Inner City Press
asked outgoing US Ambassador
to the UN Samantha Power about
the indictment of Ban
Ki-moon's brother and nephew,
who used Ban's and UN's name
to try to sell a building in
Vietnam.
Tellingly,
Samantha Power said no
comment, "that does not
involve the UN." Video
here. That is false -
the indictment describes Ban
Ki-moon's nephew Dennis Bahn
using the UN General Assembly
to angle to meet the Amir of
Qatar, which Ban Ki-moon in
fact did, on September 24,
2013.
But it's a
two-way streets. One of Ban's
very first announcements in
South Korea is that he supports
the US' deployment of THAAD
missiles.
One hand washes
the other. But one hand is
leaving, and the other may
well lose. Watch this site.
Even on his
main claim, of being a solution
to the North Korea problems,
Ban Ki-moon has been a
failure. Click
here for 2011 coverage from
Inner City Press, which Ban
Ki-moon is desperation in 2016
would have his head of
"Communications" Cristina Gallach
evict from the UN, and
restrict still. How different
is Ban Ki-moon from is portrayal
of Kim Jong-un?
Interest
in South Korea is growing
about Ban Ki-moon's brother
Ban Ki-ho's mining in Myanmar,
including Ki-ho not only being
on a "UN delegation" as ICP
first reported, but having a
January 21, 2015 meeting with
Myanmar officials - and UN
officials. We'll have more on
this: including on an upcoming
South Korean radio program.
Ban's
moonlighting mentor Han
Seung-soo was allowed by Ban
to be a UN official while his
Doosan Infracore sold
desalinization equipment in
the UAE, where Han gave
speeches - and sold
equipment to a gold miner
(hmm) in Myanmar.
And after leaving
the UN, Ban openly enlisted a
person still in the UN job
he'd given him, Jeffrey
Sachs, to campaign for
South Korea's presidency with
him. This is now reported by
CNBC as well, here.
Inner City Press
on January 9 asked Ban's
holdover spokesman Stephane
Dujarric about Sachs' comments
and Dujarric said, as he so
often does without coming back
with anything, that he will
look into it. Video
here.
This while media
reports link
“full time” UN official Kim
Won-soo to Ban's wannabe
campaign.
Ban
Ki-moon has used and abused
the UN, not only the General
Assembly resolution he is
ignoring by running, but by
using public taxpayers' money
to further his own ambition.
In his final year
Ban evicted Inner City Press
from the UN, where still under
his successor it remains
restricted to minders to cover
events on the UN's second
floor.
Back in
2009, when Inner City Press
reported on Ban's nepotism in
connection with a promotion of
Ban's son in law, an
invitation to lunch came from
South Korea's Mission to the
UN.
Then deputy
ambassador Kim Bong-hyun used
the lunch to berate Inner City
Press on how to cover (and not
cover) Ban. (The article, and
his full reply, are here).
Now he's listed
on Ban's campaign team, along
with still UN official Kim
Won-soo and former South
Korean Ambassadors to the UN
Kim Sook and Oh Joon.
Oh Joon
has just given an interview
claiming that press criticism
of Ban Ki-moon is of his
"inclusive leadership." How
about his nepotism: son in law
promoted to top UN job in
Kenya, nephew with UN
landlord, brother Ki-ho mining
in Myanmar after being on a UN
delegation?
Tellingly,
the UN's Office of Internal
Oversight Services never
looked into or acted on these;
Ban through still at the UN Cristina
Gallach had Inner City
Press evicted
and still
restricted, still even
on January
9, 2017 harassed for daring
to cover the UN...
Sachs,
Ban and his fan club, UN Censorship Alliance, UN
Photo
In
early January, Inner City
Press asked Kim Won-soo
directly, when will you be
leaving the UN? He refused to
answer, backing away smiling.
But it is no joke, to take
public funds while reportedly
on the campaign team of a
political candidate. We'll
have more on this.
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