UN
Journal Re-Tweets Porn Video
Then Deletes As Inner City Press
Asks and UN Calls It Spam
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT Q&A, NY
Post
UNITED NATIONS,
November 13 – The United
Nations Journal on November 13
re-tweeted a come-on for
pornographic videos. Inner
City Press is publishing the
screenshot, from 10:31 am, here.
Then as Inner City Press asked
UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres' Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric who has had it banned
from entering the UN for 132
days since having it roughed
up while it reported on
dirty deals in the UN Budget
Committee, the UN's promotion
of porn came down.
Inner City
Press asked Dujarric and his
deputy, as well as Guterres'
Deputy Amina J. Mohammed and
chief of staff Maria Luiza
Viotti (all of whom are
responsible for the UN's 132
day and counting censorship)
this question: "Beyond the
unanswered questions on
Cameroon, UN censorship and UN
bribery cases, etc, this is a
request for the UN's and SG's
explanation of and response to
the UN Journal Twitter account
having this morning, at 10:31
am, re-tweeted a pornographic
video advertisement."
Dujarric's
deputy Farhan Haq, who left
the Cameroon and censorship
questions below unanswered,
wrote back to Inner City
Press: "A staff member of the
Journal Unit, who is the
focal point for the Journal’s
social media, noticed an
inappropriate retweet on the
Twitter account. It seems to
be a spam post on the Journal
Twitter account, which we have
no control over. As a safety
measure, we have immediately
changed the password of the
account and removed the
tweet." But spam is an
unsolicited message one
receives. Accepting arguendo
the response, the claim is
that the UN was hacked
The UN Journal is
the way the United Nations
announces formal and informal
meetings, and documents such
as member states' letters
filed with UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres. Its
Twitter account, along with
porn promotion for "more happy
customers and new content cmon
baby," re-tweets UN promotions
such as “@antonioguterres: At
a time of multiplying
conflicts, advancing climate
change, deepening inequality
and rising tensions over
trade, we need a reformed,
reinvigorated and strengthened
multilateral system. My
remarks at #ParisPeaceForum.”
(Inner City Press review of
Guterres' speech
here).
But while
Guterres UN justified having
Inner City Press roughed up
and banned on it supposedly
improperly covering the UN
Budget Committee meeting after
7 pm, it seems no one at his
UN other than a critic is help
accountable, whether for
re-tweeting porn or in the
case of his UN Security,
watching bestiality porn
during the work day. His
peacekeepers commit child
rapes and face as a penalty
being sent back to their home
country.
Guterres
calls himself a feminist. He
is on November 13 once again
out of town, this time to attend
a predatory investor's award
ceremony without answering how
much it costs and what the
benefit to the UN is. We'll
have more on this. And on this
- here are just some
UNanswered questions Inner
City Press has submitted to
the UN this week, on top of
200 others unanswered despite
the promise
by Guterres' head of Global
Communications Alison Smale to
UN Special Rapporteur of
Freedom of Expression David
Kaye that despite having
withdrawn Inner City Press'
accreditation (and put it on a
banned
list) its questions would be
answered:
November 12-6: On
the Philippines, what is the
SG's comment and action on the
authorities movin to charge
Maria Ressa's news website The
Rappler with tax fraud?
November 13-1: On
Uganda, what is the SG's
comment and action on that
Police in Uganda have arrested
more than 80 suspects from
Bobi Wine's Kyarenga concert -
and on the government's
treatment of opposition MP
Bobi Wine more generally?
November 13-3: What is the
SG's comment and action on the
most recent weekend killings
in Beni in DRC and what is the
UN doing to protect civilians,
in light of MONUSCO's budget?
November 13-4: On Cameroon,
what is the SG's comment and
action on that “teachers’
trade union of the Anglophone
sub system of education in
Cameroon have frown at the
recent decree of the Head of
State reorganising the
Cameroon General Certificate
of Education Board. In a
memorandum addressed to the
Head of State and signed by
the various leaders of the
five teachers’ trade union,
Paul Biya has been asked to
review his decision which
could be seen as a dissolution
of the Anglophone sub system
of education. The teachers say
the new text reorganising the
GCE Board does not take into
consideration the April 1998
Law in Cameroon which lays
down guidelines for education
in Cameroon and took into
considderation the historical
reality of the country which
provided for two-sub systems
of education. Ignoring that
law in the recent text is
grossly abusive to the
Anglophone system of
education, the teachers said.
The teachers also say the fact
that the board has been
charged with organising not
only GCE Examinations but the
Advance Professional
Certificate, a change of name
of the structure would have
been suitbale. They went
further to proposed the board
be called The Cameroon
Anglophone Examination Board
or simply the Cameroon
Examination Board.” Again,
when was Francois Fall last in
Cameroon?
November 13-5: Now that it is
clear that Foreign
Intelligence Surveilance Act
wiretaps show Sheri Yan,
jailed for UN bribery in the
PGA John Ashe case,
communicating and planned with
Patrick Ho of CEFC, please
explain why SG Antonio
Guterres has not even started
an audit into the range CEFC's
bribery and interactions in
the UN, why it still has
access to UN while Inner City
Press which which pursued Ng
Lap Seng's and Yan's bribery
even into the UN Press
Briefing Room (29 Jan 2016)
and the Patrick Ho / CEFC
case, has been denied access
to anything in the UN for 132
days with no due process.
November 13- 6: As asked since
November 8 and now further
specified: I am informed that
the SG's spokesman has
selectively contacted some of
those (from Europe) raising
questions about the UN 3 July
2018 Press ouster and ban
since and urged watching my
Periscope broadcasts “outside
of the SG’s residence” - as if
those stand-ups, across Sutton
Place from this $15 million
mansion, are not covered by
free press principles and
claimed among other things
that Inner City Press
improperly filmed on the 4th
floor. Since MALU told me I
could film on the 4th floor
without an escort or minder,
this is a request that you
immediately provide the
information requested
yesterday and the specifics of
the incidents the Spokesman
has referred to, and that you
state in what capacity Antonio
Guterres' spokesman undertook
these communications.
I specifically ask you to
explain the statement that “ I
have responsibility to make
sure that my staff is safe” -
which is precisely what the US
Administration is saying
regarding the CNN reporter
who's six day ban they are not
being sued for. This is a
request that immunity lifted.
Given his vague allusions to
hostile environment, please
explain why he and the UN have
done nothing whether some
correspondents were shouted
down by Dujarric's favorites,
were elbowed at the UNSC
stakeout, etc - clearly the
concern about environment is
selective and a pretext, to be
address by communication not
roughing and and banning
including no due process
inclusion on a withheld
“banned from the UN” list and
even targeting for attempted
ouster as from the Park East
Synagogue on Oct 31.
Since even the Spokesman's
false claims do not justify
banning me from the noon
briefing now for 128 days this
is a formal request that
beginning Nov 13 I be allowed
- escorted if you see fit - to
enter to attend and ask
question at the noon briefing
on, for example, Sri Lanka,
Burundi and the UN Budget,
which the Spokesman purports
to respect my right to do.
There is no allegation that at
any noon briefing I caused any
of the Spokesman's unnamed
sources to feel “unsafe.”
Ironically, I was covering the
Budget Committee when I was
roughed up by UN Security on
July 3. For re-entry to noon
briefing, my application to
MALU in early September was
never acted on - MALU is being
cc-ed here - and should now be
approved and access restored
in light of the contents of
the Spokesman's
communications. Immediately.
November 13- 7: On Niger, what
is the SG's comment and action
on that “the opposition
demonstrated against the
electoral code on Sunday.
Several articles are
problematic, in particular
Article 8. It prevents anyone
sentenced to one year or more
in prison from running for
president - a clause excluding
de facto the leader of the
Nigerian opposition, Hama
Amadou?
November 13-8: The SG's trip
to DC today - how much does it
cost? How many UN personnel
are going? When was it
decided on? Where is the
speech the SG will read? What
is the benefit the UN?
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