| At UNCA Ball Guterres a No
Show But Woody Allen Defender
Feted Amid Undisclosed Costs
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN
GATE,
Dec 12 – In the UN bar
now on December 12 there
is an overpriced tuxedo event
which was billed as featuring
UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres.
Expensive tickets
were sold - previous guests
have included the indicted and
imprisoned UN briber Ng Lap
Seng and others. Then,
no Guterres. Instead, PGA
Annalena Baerbock, the subject
of detailed complaints of
corruption.
Also celebrated
is Javier Bardem, who famously
defended Woody Allen (whose
photos with Jeffrey Epstein
were released in DC today).
In the morning
Inner City Press asked dozens
of UN officials in writing to
"immediately disclose the
financial and other
relationships and payments
between the UN and UNCA for
use of the Delegates Lounge
and any other facility for
tonight's "gala" with the PGA,
and how it relates to the
stated policy (including on
paper towels and Cafe) of
saving money." No answer. Just
UNITAR patting itself on the
back.
The UN
Correspondents Association
will be giving a "Gold" award
to two of its own board
members. The membership
includes Iranian state media
known to feature "interviews"
of tortured guests. Javier
Bardem is another honoree.
The UNCA
group targeted Inner City
Press, ultimately working with
Guterres to have it banned
from the UN, after it reported
that UNCA President Gianpaolo
Piolo gave an UNCA event to
Sri Lankan ambassador Palitha
Kohona after engaging in a
financial transaction with
his. Pioli is still on the
board, having handed over the
presidency to a friendly
fellow Italian. Whistleblowers
be damned - and ousted.
This is today's
UN - and we will have more on
it.
***
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