| UN Noon Briefings Have No
African Journalists While Guterres Raises
Money Off Africa
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 16 – The United Nations
in the time of Antonio
Guterres has devolved not only
into corruption
and censorship,
but also racism.
Today's
example: while the UN and
Guterres use Africa to raise
most of their money (while
providing no accountability to
those raped in Central African
Republic, and given COVID-19
in South
Sudan by UN busses with
no
social distancing),
there has not been a single
African journalist on any of
the virtual noon briefing held
by Guterres' spokesman
Stephane Dujarric.
Nearly all
of those questioning Dujarric
in his $10 million apartment
on East 86th Street in
Manhattan are themselves in
expensive apartments.
There is
Reuters retiree Evelyn
Leopold, and CBS News blowhard
Pam Falk. There is a new guy
from Deutsch Presse Agentur.
Off-screen in a Brooklyn
Heights townhouse and
apparently on
the run is Margaret
Besheer of Voice of America.
Also off-screen in an
expensive part of Brooklyn is
FP's Colum Lynch, silent on
censorship but most recently
over-estimating China's
monetary contributions to the
UN by a power of 100, here.
Sure,
there are a few foreign
correspondents (and part time
adjunct professors) from the
Middle East.
But
no Africans. And, relatedly,
no questions about Africa,
despite outrages like the
UNMISS no social distancing
bus in South Sudan, and
Guterres' covering up for
Cameroon's disappeared
octogenarian president Paul
Biya.
At the IMF
virtual briefing on April 15,
transcript here,
there were questions taken
from journalists in Ghana, and
Inner City Press' questions
taken by name on Cote d'Ivoire
and Zambia, on which Dujarric
not only didn't answer the
question Inner City Press
submitted in three format, but
blocked Inner City Press on
Twitter and on WhatsApp
through which he said he took
questions. The overall
blocking, and exclusion of
these questions, is
perpetuated by Melissa
Fleming, also broadcasting
from a huge apartment.
Guterres' UN is racist, a
censor, and a fraud. It should
be defunded, like and beyond
WHO. Watch this site.
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