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General Assembly Day 1 Jordan Up 4th As UN
Limits Media Access to NYC or DC Residents
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UN GATE, Sept 5 –
For the 2022 UN General
Assembly week, with coverage
from the inside restricted
to scribes living in New York
City's tri-state area or in
DC, will feature on Day 1 as
the fourth speaker, between
Chile and Colombia, Jordan.
This as
Jordanian journalist Adnan
Al-Rousan was pulled from his
home in Amman. The Jordanian
public prosecutor ordered
Al-Rousan’s arrest because he
allegedly violated Jordan’s
cybercrime law by writing
articles “insulting to Jordan”
and “offensive to the national
approach and fabric, and
insulting the cohesion of
Jordanian society and state
institutions.”
Sound like the UN of Antonio
Guterres. He will be charged
with unspecified cybercrime
offenses over his last two
Facebook posts. The most
recent one, on August 14, was
directed at King Abdullah II
bin Al-Hussein, saying “Jordan
isn’t your property, it’s for
us Jordanians.” The second
most recent one, on August 10,
blamed the king for poor
living conditions and said the
king failed to “give justice
to the oppressed.” He will not
be at the ghoulish UNGA of
Antonio Guterres. Watch this
site.
How
corrupt is today’s United
Nations and its in-house UN
press corps? For this months
UN General Assembly Week 2022,
the UN while inviting from all
over the world diplomats like
the South Sudan ambassador who
recently raped
a woman in NYC then fled with
diplomatic immunity has
limited media access to only
to correspondents “residing
in the tri-state area or
Washington, D.C.”
The announcement
was quietly placed on the UN’s
website.
First, “NOTE
ON UNGA: In order to manage
overall risk related to
COVID-19 during the high-level
period of the General Assembly
(UNGA), entry to the United
Nations will be limited to
long-term media pass
holders.”
When you click
through to see what
“long-term” means (after the
UN under Guterres ousted Inner
City Press which covered Ban
Ki-moon and even the end of
Kofi Annan) you find it means
correspondents “residing in
the tri-state area or
Washington,
D.C.”
This was
presaged by a cryptic
message from United
Nations Corrspondents
Association boss Valeria
Robecco, who like UNSG Antonio
Guterres' Media Accrediation
and Liaison Unit censor Melissa
Fleming have refused to
answer a polite letter about
Press access from the pro bono
law firm Quinn Emanuel, here.
So the less than
100 correspondents, heavy with
state media and retirees,
making up the UN
Correspondents Association
(which partnered
with a Chinese government
fraudster whose bribery
indictment was unsealed on
September 2 in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York)
have sold out journalists all
over the world – and, as with
Inner City Press, in New York
City.
We’ll have more on this.
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