UN
Throws NGO's
Tax Body
Mascot Out,
Days After
Threw ICP
Files Onto 1st
Ave
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, April
18 -- Amid the
Panama Papaers
and UN bribery
scandals, now
linked, Inner
City Press
went to the
April 18 press
conference of
the Civil
Society
Organization,
Financing for
Development
(FfD) Group.
There,
while the
group's "Tax
Body" globe
mascot stood
on stage,
photo here,
a UN staffer
who
participated
in the
eviction of
Inner City
Press'
longtime UN
office on
April 16 (video
here and here; petition
here) came
in and waited.
After saying,
"I am not
reading your
laptop," the
staffer
stepped
forward and
pulled the
globe mascot
off the
podium.
Inner
City Press
asked about
it, and Tove
Maria Ryding
said the
groups had an
agreement with
the UN that
the mascot
could be on
the podium.
But the UN is
lawless. It is
not the UN
staffer's
fault - this
rot comes from
the top.
See
Vine, here.
Inner
City Press
asked about
the presence
in the Panama
Papers of
Macau-based
businessman Ng
Lap Seng and
his South
South News,
which paid
money to the
UN
Correspondents
Association
then at the UN
Ball at
Cipriani's was
given by UNCA
a photo op
with Ban
Ki-moon.
Moderator
Stefano Prato
answered about
the corporate
capture of the
UN's public
spaces - an
apt
description of
UN DPI's
Cristina
Gallach
letting
Ng-funded
Global
Sustainability
Foundation
take over the
Visitos Lobby
for an event
that broke UN
rules. If you
pay, you are
invited. The
Global Tax
Body and
investigative
Press? Show
them the door!
More to follow.
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