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On Coronavirus UNSG Guterres Left Staff UNmasked For Cheap PR in NYC Inner City Press Is Told

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UN GATE / SDNY COURT, March 29 – The United Nations held a four speakers, one M.C. event to raise funds for itself off of Coronavirus on March 25.

But three of  the participants had refused to make public even the UN's bare-bones financial disclosures: Mark Lowcock, Henrietta Fore of UNICEF and Melissa Fleming.

The head man, Antonio Guterres, has lied on his form, omitting his financial links to convicted UN briber CEFC China Energy. So their credibility to ask for more money is questionable. Guterres wears a mask.

  Now Guterres is ghoulishly bragging about giving New York City some masks - the same UN which brought cholera to Haiti, killing 10,000 people and paying not a penny, and which has been covering up COVID-19. Even if NYC's pro-UN office echoes praise, the UN of Guterres is corrupt and lawless: "the donation of 250,000 protective face masks, just located in United Nations stores in New York, to the United States.   These masks, in surplus to United Nations requirements" -- not so fast. From UN staff:

In Inner City Press' story yesterday about Un donating “excess” masks to New York -- Many UN staff in New York don’t have masks for themselves or their families and have been left abandoned by Guterres to fend for themselves.    Most Staff followed the Surgeon General's plea from 2 March to not get and wear masks unless they were sick, here.

Now the advice has changed for healthy people to always wear a mask, here.  UN Staff now cannot get masks themselves given the shortage and have had to resort to seeking them on the black market if they are lucky.    This story of the SG currying favor with the host government by donating all the “excess” masks in UN stock without even consulting with staff representatives and not even keeping a small portion of the now donated 250,000 masks for staff has left the staff in uproar about the SG's pathetic “leadership”.   Guterres constantly waxes lyrical about staff 'being the UN greatest asset.'  And yet he sells them up the river for a bit of news to try to get praise from the host government when he has already sunk into the abyss of irrelevance." We'll have more on this.

  There was a photo op with the masks, same personnel and then gate as this video, here.

    Inner City Press, which for asking these questions has been banned from the UN for 631 days by Guterres and M.C. Melissa Fleming (who has not filed her financial disclosure), streamed their event along with analysis, here on Twitter, here on Periscope.  It also submitted questions through the UN's Periscope feed.

   But the questions Fleming picked, in advance and seeming providing them to Guterres in advance, were from China state media Xinhua, Radio France, etc. To this has the UN sunk under Guterres. We'll have more on this. 

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