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Correspondents Association Swag Bag
UNinvestigated Like Guterres on Wall
Street
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
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UN GATE / WALL
ST, Dec 6 – The UN has
been so corrupted and
dominated by China under UNSG
Antonio Guterres that now its
ostensible journalist award is
controlled with Chinese state
media. On November 22 Chinese
state media "won" the third
vice presidency of UNCA,
albeit with only 40 votes of
only 143 ballots supposedly
representing journalists
worldwide. The United Nations
Correspondents Association is
totally corrupt. Results here:
state media in. Low turn out
for a dwindling membership.
Yet Guterres uses his scribes
to continue censorship.
On
December 6 Inner City Press
now banned from the UN 521
days and counting went after
reporting on the SDNY court
all day down to Wall Street.
There a UN correspondent in a
tuxedo was getting into a
taxi, carrying a "swag bag."
Inner City Press asked, What's
in the bag. Video here.
He said, I
haven't looked, it's not a big
issue for me. Inner City
Press asked, But then why did
you take it? Why didn't you
leave it inside?
He
said that he, Ian Williams,
comes "from a poor area of
Liverpool, working class, and
when someone gives you
something free, you f*cking
take it."
Inner City
Press replied, That's what
Antonio Guterres said, when he
took bribes. Like the golden
statue from Cameroon's Paul
Biya, and Gulbenkian and CEFC
China Energy.
Ian
Williams insisted that
Guterres never said he is from
Liverpool. True: Guterres uses
Lisbon.
Inner City Press asked
Williams if he will
investigate Guterres. "I'm
working on it," he said. But
those in the UN have not
reported on Guterres and the
Gulbenkian Foundation, or even
Guterres' undisclosed publicly
paid trips to his real home in
Lisbon, with UN Security.
Earlier Stephane
Dujarric, the spokesman for
Guterres, sauntered in tuxedo
and flowers (he had apparently
sent out his swag bag with
another, more on this soon).
Despite a previous on-camera
promise to answer banned
Inner City Press' questions,
he has not, on ranging from
Cameroon to UN child rapes.
And on December 6, asked, he
did not. Inner City Press
tweeted video
here.
The event?
UNCA was selling access to
Guterres to a slew of people
in tuxedos and gowns, many
with no UN connection.
Video here.
Inner City Press
asked questions outside, of
Guterres' chief of staff
Viotta and USG Melissa
Flemming (no answers),
Nigerian UN PGA Bande about
Cameroon (no answer), and to
UNCA correspondents (VOA's
long time UN bureau chief
responded with her middle
finger). Some were more
polite, noted.
An
expensive car was auctioned
outside. Inside, sponsored by
a seller of facial sheet
masks, UNCA celebrated state
media and Egypt. Inner City
Press has a right to re-enter
the UN and asked questions,
just like the retired and
state media Guterres and
Fleming allow in. We will
continue on this.
Now after
UNsurprisingly omitting any
and all coverage of China's
abuse of Uighurs and Hong Kong
from its bogus awards, the UN
Censorship Alliance will hold
a glitzy celebration of
Guterres on Wall Street, no
less, on December 6. They are
entirely corrupt. No questions
on the new UN rapes, links to
fraud and bribes, nothing.
Another
proof: two of the top six
spots are controlled by Italy,
including a Treasurer
Giampaolo Pioli who rented one
of his Manhattan apartments,
funded by a scam pasta
company, to a Sri Lankan war
criminal. He and Valeria
Robecco quickly told a
"publication" with UN office
space, ONUItalia, that UNCA
"remains Italian." The UN Correspondents
Association is
totally
corrupt.
With China having
a veto in UNCA, will stories
about CEFC China Energy's
proven bribery at the UN, and
bid to buy an oil company
linked to Guterres through the
Gulbenkian Foundation, even
get through a first round of
review with this Chinese
"journalism" veto? Fat chance.
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