| On Coronavirus UNSG Guterres Left
Staff UNmasked Will Now Sell Them Out Should
Be Defunded
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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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. But not for long. Here's
an analysis to Inner City
Press by a trusted source:
Staff are now
doing their best to continue
their functions as if they are
in the office while also being
a full time teacher and nanny
to their kids - without the
masks Guterres gave away in a
PR stunt for this himself.
They do not
realize however that their
Herculean efforts and
ingenuity to keep functions
going uninterrupted is likely
to be recognized by senior
management as further proof
that their jobs can be done
from anywhere. And
that they don’t need as much
office space in New
York. If staff can
do their functions remotely
from home in New York, the
irrepressible argument shall
be that this is further proof
that their jobs can be done in
far cheaper locations than New
York.
In
addition, many member states
will likely be unable to pay
their assessed contributions
in 2020 due to the
catastrophic economic impact
of the shutdowns resulting
from the COVID-19
pandemic.
Voluntary contributions shall
certainly be
slashed. If the UN
was in a financial crisis last
year when the global economy
was booming, the next two
budget cycles shall be even
more challenging.
They will likely regret their
push to implement annual
cycles for the regular budget
as there will no doubt be
massive pressure later this
year to implement large cuts
for 2021.
The convergence of all these
factors shall certainly bring
GSDM back on to the agenda and
shall be expanded once they
have realized that things have
managed to be maintained
without being physically in
New York and also in
Geneva. The US
should be pressing for 30-40
percent cuts at least.
And certainly defund more
agencies especially WHO." The
defunding should start
immediately.
Meanwhile
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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