Presaging
UN Censorship Guterres Dodged on
Cameroon and Ho Bribery 6 Months
Before Banning Inner City Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, July 13 –How
corrupt has
Antonio
Guterres made
the UN? Before
roughing
up and banning
Inner City
Press in July
2018 and
since as
it asks
about his failure
to disclose
his links to
UN briber CEFC
China Energy, back on 2
January 2018 Inner
City Press
asked Guterres
Deputy
Spokesman Farhan Haq
about his
failure in
Cameroon:
January
2, Inner City
Press asked
Guterres'
deputy
spokesman
Farhan Haq, UN
transcript here:
Inner
City Press: I
want to ask
you about
Cameroon...
There's been
quite a lot of
military
action,
including near
the border of
Nigeria, more
refugees.
Did Mr.
[Francois
Lounceny]
Fall, during
this 10-day
period, have
any
contacts?
Because things
seem to
actually be
getting more
militarized
and more
people killed
in the towns I
emailed you
the names of.
Deputy
Spokesman:
He's following
the situation,
and he'll
continue to
engage with
the
authorities in
Cameroon as
well as the
contacts he's
made on this."
What
contacts were
those? 18
months later
nearly
everyone
acknowledges
things are
worse in
Cameroon.
By the end of
January 2018,
long after
Patrick Ho of
CEFC China
Energy had
been indicted
and jailed for
UN bribery of
Uganda's Sam
Kutesa and
Yoweri
Museveni,Guterres
in Addis Ababa
met Museveni,
with Kutesa
himself in
Addis as well.
Museveni
tweeted a
photo and read
out -- "Met UN
Secretary
General
@antonioguterres
on the
sidelines of
the 30th AU
Ordinary
Summit in
Addis Ababa.
We discussed
regional
peace, UN
reforms and
support for
refugees."
Meanwhile,
consistent his
declining
transparency,
Guterres did
not issue any
read out. Did
the UN bribery
scandal come
up? Or get
further
covered up?
Cover it, it
seems clear. When
will Guterres
resign or be
impeached or
indicted?
Back on
5 March 2019
when Guterres
refused
Press
questions on
Cameroon, Saudi
Arabia, UN
sexual abuse,
Japan, China
abuse and
his own
censorship, Guterres
had the day
prior spent
public
money to spin
unnamed
correspondents,
one of
whom Stephen
Schlesinger
later gushed:
"I attended a
fascinating
off-the-record
lunch today
with UN
Sec-Gen
Antonio
Guterrez,
along with a
few other
journalists." Photo
here; Dutch
Ambassador
Karel von
Oosterom, who
has withheld
every single
document about
Cameroon from
Inner City
Press under
the WOB,
retweeted
it. On
the morning of
March 5, Inner
City Press in
writing asked
Guterres, his
deputy Amina
J. Mohammed,
Alison
Smale and
spokesman Stephane
Dujarric,
"Please
immediately
state who,
with public
funds, the SG
invited to eat
halibut with
him on March
4, and why it
was not on his
public
schedule.
Please state
whether the UN
considers "The
Century Fund"
to be a media
and if so, why
- and, AGAIN,
immediately
explain how it
is legitimate
to ban from
enter into the
UN the media
that has been
asking about
these and
other
questions,
with no
hearing or
appeal." Nine
hours
later, nothing
at all. And so
we look at
this Stephen
Schlesinger, considered
by Guterres
to be a journalist
while Guterres
roughs up and
bans
Inner City
Press which
just on March
5 wrote about
UNIS, the UN
Staff Union,
Cameroon, etc.
Here's
what Stephen
Schlesinger
has been
putting out,
more opinionated than
Inner City Press'
new and ongoing
question of
who has been at the
trough
of Guterres' halibut:
"Donald J.
Trump Your
entire
campaign — and
everybody in
it — were
riddled with
Russian
connections.. More
Trump repeated
all the old
right-wing
charges
against
Democrats —
caravans,
partisan
investigations,
criminal
abortion,
socialism,
Iran’s mayhem,
etc. So much
for Trump’s
call for unity.. I
don’t believe
a single one
of his
statistics
@realDonaldTrump
... Please
stop talking.
You are an
idiot.Stephen
Schlesinger
added.... He’d
get killed
politically
for shutting
down the
government a
second
time.Stephen
Schlesinger
added... Hewitt
is an idiot.
After one
hundred and
fifty years of
US
intervention
in Latin
America,
getting us
involved in
yet another
debacle south
of the border
will hardly
unite
Americans—
instead
Mr Hewitt, do
you know the
words
“divide”,
“anger”,
“enrage”
Americans.
They apply
here!... Is
she still
around?Stephen
Schlesinger
added, Charles
P. Pierce
Verified
account
@CharlesPPierce
It’s a sad day
in the
Twitterverse
when you
discover
you’ve been
blocked by
Michelle
Malkin.' And
that's just 2019.
The UN of
Guteres and Smale
and Dujarric
is CORRUPT. Now
the question
is, who were these
"other journalists"
who ate
Guterres'
halibut
apparently
without asking
about his
failure on
Cameroon, or
UN corruption,
or his
censorship?
Guterres'
published
schedule for
March 4 had only
two appoints,
neither
of which was
this publicly
funded spoon
fed lunch.
There
was been no
answer
from the
attendee "Stephen
Schlesinger
@cannon367
Fellow at the
Century
Foundation
@tcfdotorg" -
but who were
they? Watch
this site. We'll
have more on this
- and on
Cameroon: after
Paul Biya who
has ruled
Cameroon for
36 years on
January 28 had
his opponent
Maurice Kamto
arrested,
Inner City
Press again asked UN
Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres and
his spokesmen for
their comment
and action, if
any. This came
after Guterres
had Inner City
Press roughed
up on 3
July 2018
after it
interviewed Biya's
Ambassador
about the two
men's Budget
Committee
deals and banned
from the UN
since -
Guterres even tried
to get Inner
City Press
banned from
the Park East
Synagogue,
here, which
was denied /
dodged by his
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric. We'll have
more on this.
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