To
A UN Siding With Colonists
Under Guterres Activists From
Puerto Rico Marched Before
UNGA
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Photo here,
Church
vid
UN
GATE, Sept 22 -- After
its
reporting on
the United
Nations as a
resident
correspondent
for a decade,
exposing war
crimes and UN
scandals from
Sri Lanka to
Yemen and
support of
colonialism
from Cameroon
to Puerto
Rico, UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres had
Inner City
Press roughly
ousted by his
UN Security
and media
accreditation
stripped
without a
hearing by his
Department of
Global
Communications
now run by
Melissa
Fleming.
On September
16 after the
ban was
reasserted by
Guterres in
Kafkaesque
fashion, see
below, Inner
City Press
went to ask
why outside
the "UNGA
Prayer
Ceremony" he
and his Deputy
SG Amina J.
Mohammed, as
well as her
fellow
Nigerian now
President of
the General
Assembly
Tijjani
Muhammad-
Bande
participated
in. See below,
and Sept 16 UN
Church video here.
On September
21, echoing
the Drop the
Debt protests
at the federal
courthouse
Inner City
Press covers
including
streamed
bankruptcy
proceedings
from the
District of
Puerto Rico,
from
Manhattan's
Columbus
Circle to the
increasingly
locked up UN
activists
marched for
fair treatment
of Puerto
Rico, a
promise never
fulfill by the
UN even less
so under
colonial
Guterres. The
energy was
high but it is
high time
people realize
that the UN
under Guterres
has nothing to
do with its
stated
principles,
and everything
to do with
self-serving
hypocrisy and
corruption.
We'll have
more on this.
Back on
September 16,
arriving after
a full
afternoon of
reporting from
the SDNY
federal court
which saw the
conviction for
UN bribery of
Patrick Ho
of CEFC
China Energy,
financial
linked to
Guterres,
Guterres was
just leaving.
Inner City
Press asked
him why it had
been banned
from the
Democracy Day
event only
hours before.
As he mounted
into his
public funded
limousine,
Gutteres did
not answer.
Same with
Amina J.
Mohammed,
hustled into
her Escalade
by UN guards.
Tijjani
Muhammad-
Bande seemed
to
affirmatively
say no,
Anglophone
Cameroon's
illegal
refouled by
his country
will NOT be
considered
during his
year as PGA.
We'll have
more, much
more, on this.
Past
4 pm on
Friday, August
30 the UN
issued a
denial of
accreditation
with no
reasoning
other than
that
accreditation
had previously
been revoked:
"From:
malu at un dot
org
Date: Fri, Aug
30, 2019 at
4:23 PM
Subject: U.N.
eAccreditation
request for
Matthew Lee
Ref # M5413398
has been
declined
To: Inner City
Press:
Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City
Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018."
This is
Kafka-esque,
and corrupt.
We will have
more, much
more, on this.
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