| UN Votes
Itself $3.2 Billion In Public Funds With
Press Banned & No Summary for Days
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Dec 24 –
After UN President of the
General Assembly John Ashe was
indicted for taking bribes
from Chinese government
businessman Ng Lap Seng, and
died before trial, the UN's
lone reform was to say that
future PGAs would disclose how
their office and travel and
staff members were
funded.
And now, even
that insufficient reform is
not being complied with. And
the Press that asks about
ongoing UN corruption is
banned.
Inner City
Press has written to PGA
Abdulla Shahid's spokespeople
Monica Grayley and now Paulina
Kubiak, "state when you will
put on the PGA website the
financial and staffing
information committed to after
the indictment of then PGA
John Ashe."
Despite
Kubiak asking for it to be
resent, the question has yet
to be answered. To this has
the UN sunk. On December 24
she put out this: "Concluding
the main part of its
seventy-sixth session early
Friday morning, the General
Assembly adopted numerous
draft resolutions and
decisions presented by its
main committees, including one
recommending a $3.12 billion
programme budget for
2022. A complete summary
of the meeting will be
provided on Monday, 27
December." $3 billion and no
summary for days. So see this
Inner City Press video with
commentary, here.
There is a
pending application to the UN
Media Accreditation and
Liaison Unit, acknowledged but
not acted on.
On September 17,
with the "Team" section of PGA
Shahid's website still empty,
Inner City Press wrote to two
other staffers in the PGA's
office, Carl Mercer
Lead, Communications, Advocacy
& Speechwriting and Ahmed
Salman Zaki, Executive
Assistant to the PGA. Months
later, no answer. $3 billion
for nothing. Watch this site.
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