| As UN
Guterres Uses Lisbon For 2d Term Murky PGA
Bozkir & UK Delay on Arora
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Feb 24 –
The moves by Antonio Guterres
to try to get five more years
in the UN Mansion on Sutton
Place by further selling out
human rights, banning the
Press which asks questions
about genocide in Cameroon,
peacekeepers' rapes and
Chinese bribes at the UN
continue.
But in his
lust for an unmerited second
term as UNSG, Guterres on
February 5 got fellow censor
UK PR Barbara Woodward and
Turkish strongman PGA Volkan
Bozkir to issue a letter
kicking off what he hopes to
be a rigged process. Woodward
even gushed
about openness, while her UK
Mission refuses
to answer written questions
from Inner City Press,
including about Guterres'
shameful cover up of sexual
abuse by his crony Fabrizio
Hochschild.
Now on
February 24 Guterres through
censor / spokesman Stephane
Dujarric bragged that he now
has a letter of support from
Portugal. Yawn. But the play
is to strong-arm fellow
insiders to say there is an
"unwritten rule" that
candidate must be supported by
a regime. It's not in writing.
Watch this site.
On February
8, a first of what should be
many challengers, leading over
the hill corrupto Guterres to
withdraw. First out the box:
Arora Akanksha. She's worked
at the UNFPA, so she should
know just how low Guterres has
taken the UN system.
Inner City
Press first reported her
campaign on February 8, and on
the morning of February 9
asked not only Guterres and
his spokespeople about it, but
also PGA Zolkan Bozkir and his
spokesman Brendan Varma, and
UNSC President Barbara
Woodward, who promised
"openness." Nothing, no answer
- collusion.
Likewise, those
state media and retirees let
into Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric's February 9 briefing
by Melissa Fleming tellingly
did not ask about Arora or any
other candidate. Corrupt.
From Arora's
launch letter (Inner City
Press will cover any and all
opponents to Guterres, ABG:
Anyone But Guterres) -
"The UN has not
failed because we lack
resources. We annually burn
through more than 50 billion
dollars. Most of what we spend
goes to bureaucracy. Less than
30 cents of every dollar goes
to the beneficiaries....Not
enough has been done other
than reshuffling of the
bureaucracy and recycling
ineffective leaders with new
titles and nameplates.
What ails the UN is a failure
of leadership."
What ails the UN
is... Antonio Guterres and his
corrupt cronies. We'll have
more on this.
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