UN
Guterres Uses Qatar Al Jazeera
To Lie While Covers Up Child
Rapes and Flies to Lisbon
Censoring Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT Video
UN
GATE, September 21
-- Who
gets to decide
which media
can enter the
United Nations
to cover this
week's United
Nations
General
Assembly
meeting, for
example the
September 21
"Youth Climate
Summit"? It's
Antonio
Guterres, who
as Secretary
General has
covered up
child rapes by
UN
peacekeepers
and his many
jet flights to
his real home
in Lisbon, and
has banned
Inner City
Press which
asks about
both for 445
days now.
But Guterres
has his pliant
scribes, chief
among them
gas-producing
Qatar's Al
Jazeera, whose
James Bays on
September 21
served up
softball
questions on
the UN's 38th
floor,
including "You
are a family
man." Really?
Guterres' wife
Catarina
Marques de
Almeida Vaz
Pinto hasn't
moved to New
York after
more than two
and a half
years.
This is
fluffer
journalism,
from a "chief
correspondent"
who retweeted
Inner City
Press'
stakeout in
front of the
57th Street
public mansion
Guterres lives
in alone in
order to alert
him out to
avoid the
Press'
questions on
Cameroon and
corruption.
This is a
pattern for
Bays and Al Jazeera,
back to June
2018, here.
Disgusting.
Earlier
on September
21 Guterres
sat leering in
the UN
Trusteeship
Council
Chamber,
trying to
co-opt the
youth energy
against
corporate
polluters.
His Climate
Envoy Luis
Alfonso de
Alba was
lurking around
the UN at
midnight
smoking a
cigarette and
joining in
Guterres'
censorship of
Press. His
Youth Envoy is
not young, and
partners with
Saudi Prince
MBS who had
journalist
Jamal
Khashoggi
killed. Guterres
is killing the
UN.
And although
Guterres the
supposed
listener at
the youth
event then
gave a
prepared
speech, Bays'
dispatch
called him a
humble
listening, not
mentioning his
speech. Like
we said,
fluffer
journalism
paid for by
natural gas
monarchs.
His new
yes-woman is
Melissa
Fleming. She
previously
served as his
spokesperson
during his
tenure at the
UN refugee
agency UNHCR.
Guterres
parlayed that
into the top
UN job by
showing great
deference to
China on its
refoulement to
North Korea
for
torture.
Guterres took
money from
Lisbon-based
Gulbenkian
Foundation
during the
year after he
left UNHCR.
Then once
despite his
feminist
rhetoric
Guterres
shouldered out
women
candidates to
take over the
UN with
China's
support,
Guterres
omitted these
Gulbenkian
payments from
the UN public
financial
disclosure he
filed covering
2016.
When Inner
City Press
which while
reporting
daily from
inside the UN
also covered
the UN bribery
trial of CEFC
China Energy's
Patrick Ho in
the federal
courthouse in
lower
Manhattan
asked Guterres
about that
case, Guterres
refused to
answer.
Worse,
Guterres
pretended
through his
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric to
not have even
heard Inner
City Press' question
when called on
at the UN
Security
Council
stakeout about
Cameroon and
his closeness
with 37 year
president Paul
Biya.
On 3 July 2018
Inner City
Press was
interviewing
Biya's long
time
Ambassador
Tommo Monthe
outside a
meeting of the
UN Budget
Committee that
Monthe
chaired.
Suddenly
Guterres'
security
detail, led by
UN DSS
Lieutenant
Ronald E.
Dobbins,
grabbed Inner
City Press'
computer and
twisted its
arm, video here, right in front of
Guterres'
official
Christian
Saunders, now
conducting
cover up for
him at
UNRWA.
After Inner
City Press
went to file
an assault
complaint with
the NY Police
Department on
4 July 2018
but was told
the UN is
entirely
immune, the
next day Inner
City Press was
barred from
even entering
the UN to
continue to
cover the UN
Security
Council, that
day a meeting
about Yemen as
Guterres took
money from
Saudi Crown
Prince
MBS.
After a review
that did not
afford Inner
City Press a
single hearing
or opportunity
to be heard
or to see
evidence, the
UN on 17
August 2018
formally revoked
Inner City
Press' 10-year
UN media
accreditation.
Guterres'
motive became
clear as Inner
City Press,
awaiting
reinstatement,
more closely
covered the
SDNY federal
court where it
is now fully
accredited.
Convicted
Patrick Ho's
CEFC China
Energy had
been seeking
to buy
the Partex Oil
Company from
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which paid
Guterres
undisclosed
moneys. It was
and is, in
short,
outright
personal
corruption by
Guterres, on
which he
refuses to
answer
questions.
On 24 August
2019,
alongside
continuing the
cover the SDNY
court, Inner
City Press
submitted a
simple
application to
the UN like
hundreds of
other media to
enter and
cover the UNGA
High Level
week beginning
September
23.
In response,
Inner City
Press received
a Kafka-esque
response by
Guterres' UN
Security
Gilles Michaud
that the
assault on it
was for being
in a "locked
area" - that
is, the wide
open lounge
outside the UN
Budget
Committee
meeting - and
that all UN
Security is
doing is
enforcing a
decision by
the UN Media
Accreditation
and Liaison
Unit, now
under Melissa
Fleming.
Fleming
refused to
answer any of
four letters
sent to her.
At 4:30 pm on
Friday, August
30 her MALU
issued a
one-line
denial of
access:
"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."
So Guterres'
lawless UN can
withdraw a
critical
media's
accreditation
for daring to
ask why he
omitted from
his financial
disclosure
payments from
a company
selling its
oil company to
a Chinese
government
bribery
vehicle - then
use the
withdrawal to
automatically
deny access to
the UN General
Assembly, the
so-called
global
parliament of
"We the
Peoples."
If press
freedom means
anything, and
if the UN is
anything more
than a
dictatorship
of a single
corrupt
censor, this
cannot stand.
Inner
City Press
will be
reporting on
the UN and its
UNGA either
way - but
demands to be
allowed to
enter and
cover the
often shameful
deals of
undemocratic
nations, like
the hundreds
of their state
media that
Guterres lets
in to praise
him.
The
peoples demand
the fall of
this Guterres
regime.
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