| UN Whispers of Budget Woes
Echoed by NYT No Sans UN Office
Press Corpse Empties Out
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NEW YORK,
Feb 13 – 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
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.
On
February 13 Inner City Press
learned from inside the UN
that the NYT no longer has its
office there, that a
correspondent previously with
CBS has been given the office,
solo. So it goes - a major
financial newswire is now
covering UNHQ in NY from DC
and Geneva. Maybe it's time
for UNHQ to move out -
especially if they can't treat
NYC Press fairly.
Mike Waltz
at USUN is said to be
projecting that money will
soon come through to
unreformed Guterres. What?
With the Press still banned?
What does Tammy Bruce have to
say? We'll have more on this.
The Times did 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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