UN GATE, Jan 23
–"Secretary General Guterres
will be traveling to Beijing
for the Winter
Olympics."
The United
Nations' longtime spokesman
Stephane Dujarric slipped it
in after ten minutes of
reading out press releases to
the half dozen correspondents
sitting in the 100-seat UN
press briefing
room. And no one
asked him about it.
Qatar state media asked about
why the UN escalators weren't
working, to get him up the
three flights of stairs to Al
Jazeera's four large offices
(there was, of course, a bank
of
elevators).
A
retired French correspondent
who had held a fundraiser with
now-convicted global pedophile
Ghislaine
Maxwell asked a similar
question in French. Dujarric,
also French and a genocide
denier for the UN's Secretary
General who less gleefully
covered up the Rwanda
genocide, answered in French,
and smiled.
"No more questions?"
Dujarric asked rhetorically,
glancing down at the empty
mirror of those the UN's media
accreditation chief Melissa
Fleming allow to ask
questions remotely, as nearly
every institution in this time
of COVID-19, the link of which
to Wuhan she spent public
money to
censor. Then
I leave you in the hands of
Paulina Kubiak, Dujarric said.
The second
spokeswoman in only four
months for UN General Assembly
President Abdul Shahid of the
Maldives, also purchased by
China, also going to the
Genocide Games.
She spoke,
without irony, about Shahid
calling for an Olympic truce.
This while the host was
involved in the mass killing
and incarceration of Uighurs
in Xinjiang, or East Turkestan
as many including Kurt
Wheelock referred to it.
For her, there
were no questions at all, not
even about the
escalator. It was
over. The UN's legitimacy had
died long before. But this was
a new low, and a new season.
And a next text, follow-up to
Belt
and Roadkill: Genocide
Games of Guterres.
From January 21,
2022: Guterres: This
visit to the Olympics is not a
political visit. We consider
that the Olympic Games are an
extremely important
manifestation in today's world
of the possibility of unity,
of the possibility of mutual
respect, of the possibility of
cooperation, of peoples of
different cultures, of
different religions, of
different ethnicities. And
this is more important than
ever when we see xenophobia,
when we see racism, when we
see white supremacy, when we
see anti‑Semitism, when we see
anti‑Muslim hatred
proliferating all over the
world... That is the reason
why I am going to the Olympic
Games. And it has nothing to
do with my opinions about the
different policies that take
place in the People's Republic
of
China.
Spokesman
Dujarric: Okay, sir, I
think you're then off the
hook.
Will
Guterres be taking his Deputy
Amina
J. Mohammed, supportive
of the killing and targeted
detentions perpetrated by
Buhari of Nigeria? See,
Identity Thieves - and,
forthcoming, Genocide Games of
Guterres. For now, Belt
and Roadkill.
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