| UN Guterres Pressless
Presser Bans UN Rape Cameroon and Corruption
Questions
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon YouTube
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UN GATE, Feb 4 –
UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres first threw the
investigative Press out of the
UN, then even to the pliant
state media he left in,
canceled his scheduled press
conference on January 28.
Instead he held a closed door
meeting - which banned Inner
City Press live-streamed (I,
II, III)
and now posts portions of on
YouTube, here.
Then on
February 4, a full 35 days
into 2020, Guterres belatedly
held his "beginning of the
year" press conference. Two
hours before it, evidence of
yet more UN rapes and sexual
abuse, in Darfur and South
Sudan, was data dumped. Inner
City Press immediately in
writing asked Guterres,
spokesman Stephen Dujarric and
head censor Melissa Fleming
about it - but not answer,
even three hours after
Guterres' press conference.
During the
press conference, despite 60%
of the UN supposed work (and
rapes) being in Africa, there
were no such questions as UNCA
Italiano, and state media from
Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia
and others asked repetitive
softball questions. Banned
Inner City Press thread here,
alongside SDNYLIVE trial of
CIA leaks here,
and a radio appearance in
Brooklyn about corruption
and... the UN, here.
We'll have more on this.
After Guterres'
January 28 closed door
meeting, and ten hours before
this publication, Inner City
Press in writing asked UN
Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming, "January
28-2: On SG Guterres'
statements at his January 28
Town Hall, and that questions
to him, what is his response
to and action if any on the
questions from staff in Addis
Ababa, about the lowest paid,
least secured people working
for the UN?
January 28-3: On
SG Guterres' statements at his
January 28 Town Hall, and that
questions to him, what is his
response to and action if any
on the questions about "UNOPS
contracts" and (from Brindisi)
on outsourcing?"
Ten hours, no
answers, despite Dujarric's on
camera promise, and written
promises from Fleming's
department. Instead, she does
propaganda interviews with in
house scribes. We'll have more
on that, and this expanding
corruption. Watch this site.
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