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Amid
Park's Shaman
Gate, Ban
Ki-moon's
Shamans on
Yemen, Haiti
&
Censorship
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Follow up on
Exclusives
UNITED
NATIONS,
November
16 --
As in South
Korea
“shaman-gate”
threatens to
drive
President Park
from power,
her
once-presumed
successor Ban
Ki-moon has
had his own
shamans during
his tenure at
the UN.
Consider for
example Ban's
dropping of
the Saudi-led
Coalition from
the UN's
Children and
Armed Conflict
annex for
killing
children in
Yemen. There
was an
American
whispering in
Ban's ear,
multiple
sources tell
Inner City
Press.
More
publicly, UN
Special
Rapporteur
Philip Alston
has said that
it was the US
government and
Mission to the
UN which boxed
Ban entirely
into not
paying a penny
for the UN
killing over
10,000 people
in Haiti with
cholera. No
answer from
the shamans.
Faced with
evidence of UN
Peacekeeping
failures in
the Central
African
Republic and
South Sudan,
instead of
firing Herve
Ladsous, the
fourth
Frenchman in a
row atop DPKO,
Ban fired
officials from
Senegal and
Kenya. How do
you say shaman
in French?
And which
shaman
buttressed
Ban's
Administration's
February 2016
ouster of
Inner City
Press which
asks these
questions, and
the April 2016
eviction of
all its files,
to try to give
its long time
work space to
an Egyptian
state media
which never
comes in, and
confine it
still to
minders to
cover
meetings?
Further back,
there was
Ban's dizzying
about face of
on a Sunday
inviting Iran
to the Syria
talks in
Montreux --
and once
confronted by
the shaman of
US Power,
dropping the
invitation the
next morning.
Perhaps Ban is
more like Park
than has yet
been written
about. There
will be more.
Watch this
site.
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