| UN Whispers of its Budget
Woes and NYT Passes It Through
Silent on Censorship & Oct 7
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NEW YORK,
Feb 1 – As the UN moves on in
2026 to pick a new Secretary
General, as its last one
Antonio Guterres fails on
Ukraine, Gaza and basic
transparency, it is whispering
about its financial woes to
friendly media, while banning
the Press that continues to
expose corruption.
On
February 1 the New York Times
has published a piece about
the UN budget that could
easily have been written by UN
News, a relentlessly pro-UN
website run by Guterres' long
time propagandist Melissa
Fleming (who famously bragged
"we own the science), of
getting disfavored views taken
by the big tech platform.
After a
breathless letter from
Guterres to member states,
easy to get but presented as
"obtained by the New York
Times," a self-described
"senior UN official" briefed
the scribes of the UN
Correspondents Association,
which includes Xinhua and
IRIB, an Iranian outlet that
has published statements under
torture as interviews. The
official warned that the UN
might have to leave NYC, and
not hold its General Assembly
high level week.
Maybe that
would be good - Fleming and
Guterres for example banned
the critical press from the
last UNGA week.
And see
recent criticism of the UN by,
for example, Iranian dissident
Masih Alinejad (who US
Ambassador Mike Waltz
paradoxically recently tried
to use to make the UN look
functional, and promote his
deck chairs on the Titanic,
band aid on a cancer work -
does he want more dues to
mindless be paid? No comment).
The Times does
not mention any criticism of
the UN - rapes by UN
peacekeepers, introducing
cholera to Haiti, role in
October 7, 2023 - beyond the
catch-all phrase corruption.
Inner City Press,
which reports daily on the UN
as while banned, can verify:
today's UN is corrupt.
It's all in
a new book "United
Nations Betrayals: From
Election Stolen by Guterres to
Bribes and Banning of the
Press," by Matthew Russell Lee
(who quickly discloses that he
has been ousted and banned
from the UN by Guterres, for
his reporting).
A noted
by New York Magazine on Lee's
Maximum Maxwell book,
at times here he uses the
character Kurt Wheelock, who
first appeared in his
Predatory Bender.
The book
begins with Guterres beating
out female candidates for the
UNSG post, after a murky year
being paid by Lisbon-based
Gulbenkian Foundation. The
book digs into the bid by the
China Energy Fund Committee,
convicted of UN bribery, for
Gulbenkian's oil company.
Readers can draw their own
conclusion, including on the
need for SG campaign finance
disclosure in 2026.
Part of
the book in italics delves
into the UN Correspondents
Association and its efforts to
throw Lee out. They appear
again in the afterword /
novella, "Whacking Qaddafi,"
which was first mentioned in
the New Yorker magazine's Talk of
the Town piece about
Lee. It addresses more
countries: from India to
Pakistan, Guinea to Guinea
Bissau.
The main
text addresses UN failures in
Sri Lanka - including the UNCA
connection - Cameroon, Western
Sahara, Syria, North Korea,
Sudan, Gaza and elsewhere. UN
Betrayals indeed - this should
be the first of a series.
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