| Amid UN
Censorship Correspondents Silent on
Genocide But Record Themselves for $400
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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Feb 4 – Each day, the current
United Nations gets worse. We
have questioned Secretary
General Antonio Guterres
moving from concealing his
links to indicted pedophile
procurer Ghislaine Maxwell and
to UN briber CEFC China Energy
to banning the Press that
asks, also about failures on
Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Haiti,
Honduras (Narco President JOH)
& Nigeria (Nnamdi and
Igboho).
Guterres
had a representative on
Ghislaine Maxwell's Terramar
board of directors, one of
only five members of the
board: Amir Dossal. Inner City
Press asked about that, and
about Jeffrey Epstein's UN
fellowship. Not only wouldn't
Guterres answer - he had Inner
City Press roughed up and
banned, now 1403 days.
The
board members
of the UN
Correspondents
Association,
functioning it
seems as
Guterres'
partner in
banning Inner
City Press,
after dodging
its questions
about money
they took from
Chinese
government
briber Ng Lap
Seng's South
South News and
an UNCA
officer's
financial link
with an
accused war
criminal from
Sri Lanka,
have neither
responded to
or offered any
explanation
when a
lawyer's
letter from
the Quinn
Emanuel firm,
on ongoing pro
bono
engagement- to
each UNCA
Executive
Committee
member - urged
them to have a
dialogue about
ending the
UN's banning
and censorship
of Inner City
Press.
They have done
nothing, and
they have not
asked Guterres
about his
attendance at
the Genocide
Games in
Beijing.
Instead, they
want to record
themselves,
and they get
serviced:
"Dear
colleagues,
Some of you
have raised
concerns
regarding the
change to the
recording
feature on
EZTV that has
recently been
turned
off. We
sent an urgent
letter to the
Spokesperson's
Office and
MALU
requesting to
have the
feature
restored.
MALU has
communicated
the issue to
BCSS and sent
the update
below.
We will keep
you posted on
the situation
as soon as we
receive more
information.
Valeria
Robecco
President,
United Nations
Correspondents
Association
Dear
Valeria,
Thank you for
raising the
issue.
We reached out
to colleagues
from BCSS
(Broadcast and
Conference
Support
Section) and
they inform us
that the EZTV
platform was
recently
upgraded,
since the
older version
is not
supported by
the vendor
anymore.
Furthermore,
EZTV was
provided to
follow
meetings but
recording was
an extra
feature, which
the EZTV
vendor did not
provide in the
latest
upgrade.
Understanding
the importance
of recording
option to some
of the
resident
media, BCSS
will check
with the
vendor if they
can customize
recording
options on the
latest EZTV
platform.
As you note,
there are
fiber lines
available for
interested
broadcasters
with one time
payment (no
recurring
costs).
We can also
take limited
number of
cameras to the
media booths
with escort
from our
office.
We will keep
you posted and
regret the
inconvenience.
Best, MALU"
On
February 4,
with these
correspondents
silent on US
Senator Jeff
Merkley
calling their
Secretary
General
Guterres
"shameful" for
going to the
Genocide
Games, this:
"Dear
colleagues,
We have been
informed by
MALU that the
EZTV recording
feature has
been restored
via a process
provided by
BCSS.
All resident
media, as long
as they have
access to the
UNTV ethernet
network (at
cost of
approximately
$400/year) can
follow the
instructions
below (of
course, other
options for
coverage are
still
available ex.
AV library,
fiber lease,
media
booths).
Thank you for
your
attention.
Valeria
Robecco
President,
United Nations
Correspondents
Association."
On
December 8,
amid the
Ghislaine
Maxwell trial
in the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
(Inner City
Press cited in
the Telegraph
and Sun,
and on radio)
UNCA is
raising money
selling access
to Guterres at
Cipriani at 25
Broadway, in
what some call
the
Pedophiles'
Ball.
After a full
day of
covering the
Maxwell trial,
Inner City
Press went
there, to seek
an answer from
Guterres. Live
stream from
Foley Square here;
1 hour stream
from outside
the
Pedophiles'
Ball here.
Inner City
Press greeted
US Ambassador
Jeffrey
DeLaurentis,
who knows
about
Guterres' ban
of the Press
but has done
nothing, and
commented on
the entry of
Saudi's
ambassador,
with craven
UNCA asking
nothing about
Jamal
Khashoggi.
But it emerged
that Guterres,
the guest of
honor access
to whom had
been sold,
would be a
no-show. Inner
City Press put
the question
of the new UN
child rape in
Gabon to
Guterres' head
of censorship
/
accreditation
Melissa
Fleming at the
end of this
video, here.
There has been
no answer.
The
Quinn
Emanuel letter
was received
by the UN's
Melissa
Fleming, Maria
Luiza Vioti
and Tal Mekel
and to each
UNCA Executive
Board member,
to them citing
UNCA's stated
goals that it
has a charter
to supposedly
uphold.
Nothing, yet.
What's
next? Since
the letter,
Inner City
Press has
published
exclusive
stories not
only from the
U.S. court
systems but
about the
United
Nations,
including its
agencies UNOPS,
UNFPA,
UNITAR
and UNESCO.
(Also credited
in AP,
Daily
Mail, and
Nigeria's
Sahara
Reporters,
amid answers
from the IMF.)
But
none of its
written
questions have
been answered
by the UN
Spokespeople,
now including
Paulina Kubiak
for the UN
PGA, and it
remains banned
from entry to
the UN's
briefings.
This must
end.
Having
asked for a
collegial
discussion,
and while
still offering
it, things
must turn to
the law. UNCA
is a New York
State
non-profit
which has not
only not
abided by its
stated goals -
it has
tortiously
interfered
with a
journalist's
right to cover
the United
Nations.
The United
Nations itself
propounds
Article 19 of
the Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights,
and has other
legal duties
that must be
addressed by
national
courts,
particularly
in the UN's
host
country...
Those
in receipt of
the first,
friendly
letter:
melissa.fleming@un.org,
marialuiza.viotti@un.org,
mekel@un.org,
malu@un.org,
and
UNCA
Valeria
Robecco, ANSA
News Agency,
Nabil Abi
Saab,
Al-Araby,
Jianguo Ma,
Xinhua News
Agency, Edith
Lederer,
Associated,
Giampaolo
Pioli,
Quotidiano,
Linda Fasulo,
Ibtisam Azem,
Al-Araby
Al-Jadeed
Newspaper, Ali
Barada, France
24, Asharq
Al-Awsat;
Oscar Bolanos,
OMB News,
Sherwin
Bryce-Pease,
SABC South
Africa -
Alexander
Hassanein, The
Tokyo Shimbun,
Maria
Khrenova,
TASS, Philippe
Rater, Agence
France-Presse,
Kaori Yoshida,
Nikkei, Betul
Yuruk, Anadolu
Agency at
president@unca.com,
valeria.robecco@gmail.com,
nabisaab@gmail.com,
mjg222888@gmail.com,
elederer@ap.org,
giampioli@aol.com,
lindafasulo@gmail.com,
ibtisam.azem@alaraby.co.uk,
abarada@hotmail.com,
ombyvozque@gmail.com,
s.brycepease@gmail.com,
alexander@tokyoshimbun.us,
khrenova_m@tass.ru,
philippe.rater@afp.com,
kaori.yoshida@nex.nikkei.com,
byuruk@aa.com.tr
Three
of the 15 are
from French
media, two
from Italy,
with various
dictatorships
represented.
Newly
"elected" is
Carrie Neuton
of Le Monde,
with 32 votes.
She is now
responsible
for the UNCA
board's lack
of response to
a law firm's
letter about
their / her
role in
censorship.
Will there be
a response?
We'll have
more on this.
Watch this
site.
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