Alt-US
Mission to UN Trashes Nikki
Haley While Power Did Nothing on
UN Corruption
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
February 17 – On US inauguration
day on January 20 at the US
Mission to the UN the photos
of Obama, Biden, Kerry and
Samantha Power came down. As
of February 17 they have not
been replaced.
But as elsewhere an
"Alt USUN" Twitter account
continues in a parallel online
universe the views of Power,
most recently
calling out new Ambassador
Nikki Haley for only attending
three of 13 UN Security
Council meetings, on Ukraine,
ISIS and Israel - Palestine.
Fair
enough. But how many meetings
did Samantha Power attend? And
after the Israel - Palestine
meeting Nikki Haley took questions
at the Security Council
stakeout, not pre-screened by
Power's spokesman Kurtis
Cooper - who remains at the US
Mission, tweeting, along with
many others.
In fact,
Isobel Coleman who did nothing
when the DC-based whistleblower
protection group Government
Accountability Project wrote
to her about the UN's eviction
of the investigative Press, here,
still as of February 17 lists
herself as the US
representative on UN reform.
Is it true?
In
the UN itself, Obama and
Hillary Clinton nominee Jeffrey
Feltman has gotten his UN
contract extended. Inner City
Press first
reported, from multiple
sources, that Feltman sought
this so that his UN pension
would hit the five year
vesting dateline. The UN's
holdover spokesman Stephane
Dujarric called Inner City
Press' question, and by
implication Inner City Press,
"despicable."
Or is that, deplorable?
Meanwhile
Voice of America, which was
shown under the US Freedom of
Information Act to have asked
the UN to throw out the
investigative Press, has now
asked about Jared Kushner
(video via
here) and asked the UK
about Nikki Haley's
inexperience. Like we said, an
alternative universe.
Other
former State Department officials
like Bathsheba Crocker wring
their hands about changes in
foreign policy. But what did
they do, when the UN killed
10,000 plus people in Haiti
with cholera? They had their
time to try to improve the UN,
and largely failed. It's time
to #MoveOn.
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