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To A UN Siding With Colonists Under Guterres Activists From Puerto Rico Marched Before UNGA

By Matthew Russell Lee, Photo here, Church vid

UN GATE, Sept 22 -- After its  reporting on the United Nations as a resident correspondent for a decade, exposing war crimes and UN scandals from Sri Lanka to Yemen and support of colonialism from Cameroon to Puerto Rico, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had Inner City Press roughly ousted by his UN Security and media accreditation stripped without a hearing by his Department of Global Communications now run by Melissa Fleming.

  On September 16 after the ban was reasserted by Guterres in Kafkaesque fashion, see below, Inner City Press went to ask why outside the "UNGA Prayer Ceremony" he and his Deputy SG Amina J. Mohammed, as well as her fellow Nigerian now President of the General Assembly Tijjani Muhammad- Bande participated in. See below, and Sept 16 UN Church video here.

  On September 21, echoing the Drop the Debt protests at the federal courthouse Inner City Press covers including streamed bankruptcy proceedings from the District of Puerto Rico, from Manhattan's Columbus Circle to the increasingly locked up UN activists marched for fair treatment of Puerto Rico, a promise never fulfill by the UN even less so under colonial Guterres. The energy was high but it is high time people realize that the UN under Guterres has nothing to do with its stated principles, and everything to do with self-serving hypocrisy and corruption. We'll have more on this.

  Back on September 16, arriving after a full afternoon of reporting from the SDNY federal court which saw the conviction for UN bribery of Patrick Ho of  CEFC China Energy, financial linked to Guterres, Guterres was just leaving. Inner City Press asked him why it had been banned from the Democracy Day event only hours before. As he mounted into his public funded limousine, Gutteres did not answer.

  Same with Amina J. Mohammed, hustled into her Escalade by UN guards. Tijjani Muhammad- Bande seemed to affirmatively say no, Anglophone Cameroon's illegal refouled by his country will NOT be considered during his year as PGA. We'll have more, much more, on this.

 Past 4 pm on Friday, August 30 the UN issued a denial of accreditation with no reasoning other than that accreditation had previously been revoked:

"From:  malu at un dot org
Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:23 PM
Subject: U.N. eAccreditation request for Matthew Lee Ref # M5413398 has been declined
To: Inner City Press:

Greetings Matthew Lee from Inner City Press,  Your media accreditation request, with reference no: M5413398, has been declined for the following reason: Media accreditation was withdrawn on 17 August 2018."

  This is Kafka-esque, and corrupt. We will have more, much more, on this.

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