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Opposing Guterres Inner City Press Filed
to PGA As SG Flew to Kentucky Derby on UN
Allotment
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Song
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 3 – How corrupt and
undemocratic is today's United
Nations?
Well, now that
Antonio Guterres is pushing
for a second five-year term,
while banning
the Press for the 1036th day
for daring to ask about his
finances and failures, he has
collaborators.
On May 1
Guterres, flying back from
Europe, flew to Louisville for
the Kentucky Derby horse race.
While his spokesman Stephane
Dujarric refuses all of Inner
City Press' questions, on May
3 he said that Guterres'
travels was somehow
attributable to a "system of
allotment," not that Guterres
who receives a large tax free
salary paid for it. What
waste. What arrogance. Dump
Guterres.
The
current President of the
General Assembly Volkan
Bozkir, a strongman from
Turkey who due to his bigoted
comments even pro-UN New York
City Mayor Bill de Blasio
wouldn't meet with, has the
duty of circulating letters
from candidates.
But
throughout February, March and
now April 2021, Bozkir refused
to circulate any letters or
CVs. Now on April 27 his
spokesman Brenden Varma, who
blocks Inner City Press on
Twitter, described with a
straight face a one-man
"debate" on May 7, Guterres as
Dear Leader, and said there
are not criteria or rules
under which Inner City Press
and others are not having
letters and CVs blocked. It's
just corruption.
Guterres will do anything for
a 2d term.
Bozkir's
spokesman Brendan Varma, who
blocks Inner City Press
on Twitter, continues to dance
around what the rules are and
won't answer.
So, as a
test - and to raise the issue
of the UN's lack of content
neutral media access rules, lack
of a Freedom of Information
Act (fought for the Free
UN Coalition for Access) and
lack of scruples - Inner City
Press on the morning of
February 26 submitted a signed
letter
and C.V. to the PGA's Office
and to Varma. Since
then, four weeks of dodging
and blockage, now of four. And
this:
Pakistan supports
Guterres, here.
Apparently, Paul Biya's
Cameroon and other states like
that of narco Juan Orlando
Hernandez are asked to be more
quiet with their support for
their favorite dictator
supporter, Antonio Guterres,
for now. Watch this site.
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