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In UN Guterres Will Open Censor UNAOC Event Then Meet Moratinos To Give Top Job in Corrupt UN

By Matthew Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY Post

UNITED NATIONS, November 18 – Today's UN and its partners are well versed in hypocrisy - but sometimes things go so far they must be noted in advance. On November 19 the UN Alliance of Civilizations, which engaged in open censorship inside the UN in May 2018 by spiking a film screening to cover up for Egypt and Turkey, will open an event with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, himself a censor. Guterres later in the day will meet with the person banned Inner City Press, kept out of the UN for 138 days by Guterres after he had it roughed up for covering the UN Budget Committee and his tawdry deal with Cameroon as chair of the Committee, has exclusively bee informed by sources is set to be given the UNAOC top post by Guterres: Miguel Ángel Moratinos. Inner City Press, roughed up by Guterres' Security on June 22 and July 3 and now put by Guterres on his secret banned list, will cover it from outside. This is today's UN. On December 5 in an expensive catering hall near the UN, Secretary General Antonio Guterres who this summer had investigative Inner City Press roughed up, ousted and banned ever since will appear in a tuxedo as a guest of honor - of the UN Censorship Alliance. The tickets are expensive and the guest list is secret. Previously this group, formally the United Nations Correspondents Association, took money from now convicted UN briber Ng Lap Seng and then provide Ng a photo op with the Secretary General. Who will be paying this year?

  What we can report is that the UN Correspondents Association's prize for broadcast media is sponsored - that is, paid for - by the UN Alliance of Civilizations, the same group which in May 2018 canceled an event in order to censor testimony about Egypt, Turkey and others. Photo here. Inner City Press (video of the type used as a pretext to oust it here), and even then how self servingly UNCA, along with CNN's Brian Selter and others, expressed outrage.

 Now UNCA is taking their money, just as they took Ng Lap Seng's money then lobbied to get Inner City Press which reported on it ousted from the UN.

  So on the morning of November 8, banned from the UN noon briefing for the 127th day by Antonio Guterres - but according to spokesman Stephane Dujarric, at the request of at least some bigwigs in UNCA, the UN's Censorship Alliance, Inner City Press submitted written questions to Guterres, his Deputy Amina J. Mohammad, his Global Communicator Alison Smale and two spokesmen including: "November 8-5: It appears that the “UN Alliance of Civilizations” is sponsoring an award at an event the SG is slated to attend on December 5. Please state whether any UN money is being used to sponsor this award, and what safeguards are in place such that access to or photos with the SG are not exchanged for money as presumptively took place with regard to now incarcerated UN briber Ng Lap Seng." More than six hours later, not a single answer to any of the questions, despite Smale's promise to UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression David Kaye that questions would be answered. There's more sleaze, back in the news again: after the Sri Lanka government of Mahinda Rajapaksa and Palitha Kohona, and military figure turned UN adviser Shavendra Silva slaughtered tens of thousands of Tamil civilians, UNCA gave what was called a “UN screening” to their war crimes denial film Lies Agreed To. The decision was made, without consulting then UNCA board members like the author, by UNCA President Giampaolo Pioli. Who is organizing this year's tuxedo sleaze fest with UNAOC? Giampaoli Pioli, and his handpicked successor. We'll have more on this.

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