| Bianca Jagger
Whitewashes UN Guterres Despite
Sellout of Uighurs and Banning
of Press
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Dec 28 – Bianca Jagger
has lost her fastball. In a
lengthy Daily Beast piece
mostly about her own work
throughout the decades, she
declares Antonio Guterres her
hero for a few canned quote he
issued, finger as ever in the
wind.
But she
ignores Guterres' silence on
China's mass incarceration of
the Uighurs, and outright
complicity in Cameroon's
Paul Biya's slaughter of the
Anglophones. (In the worst
time, Guterres went to Yaounde
and accepted a golden statue
from Biya, silent on mass
killing in exchange for favors
from Biya's Ambassador then
chairing the UN Budget
Committee.)
Beyond that,
there is Guterres' corruption
and lack of transparency. He failed
to disclose, when he came into
the UNSG post, the money he
took in 2016 from the
Gulbenkian Foundation, which
tried to sell its oil company
to convicted bribery CEFC
China Energy.
And then, along
with his chief censor Melissa
Fleming, Guterres banned
Inner City Press which asked
about the Gulbenkian - CEFC
connection, and complicity in
Cameroon. Inner City Press
remains banned
from the UN, with no
response by Fleming to
two pro bono law firm letters
seeking dialogue.
Hero? Maybe
Bianca Jagger is angling for
the same UN Censorship
Alliance (UNCA) award that
Sharon Stone accepted earlier
this month in a garish
Casa Cipriani gala Guterres
slipped into the backdoor of.
Hero.
Watch this site -
and the feed of the Free UN
Coalition for Access, @FUNCA_info
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