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UN Taxes Public $3.2 Billion With Press Banned By SG Guterres On Lisbon Junket PGA Corrupt

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 31 – The UN General Assembly on New Years Eve confirmed its tax and waste of over $3 billion in public funds in a meeting from which UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres banned Inner City Press while he sat on vacation in Lisbon.

  The meeting was presided over by Turkish operative Volkan Bozkir, whose bigoted statements have resulted in even NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio refusing to meet with him, and who has refused to disclose who pays his staff.

  Previous Presidents of the General Assembly John Ashe (RIP) and Sam Kutesa were shown to have taken Chinese government firm bribes. The only reform announced by the UN was the disclosure of who pays which staff members. But Bozkir has eliminated even that. And his spokesman Brenden Varma, as soon as banned Inner City Press in writing asked him about it, blocked Inner City Press on Twitter.

  Bozkir looked angry as Syria spoke against the IIIM, and Myanmar defended its treatment of the Rohingya. When he called on the US and a voice said, "please hold," he tried to move on. But they he waited, until Kelly Kraft - yet to act on Guterres' censorship - came to the seat to speak.

 There weren't even the rights of reply one would have expected. The UN under Guterres and Bozkir is dying a slow death, sinking into irrelevance as well as censorship. What is the public paying for? 2021: shape up or ship out.

 In the past, votes were taken before Christmas. But with lazy Secretary General Guterres fixated on leaving town to either collect bribes or launch a campaign for a second term with Portuguese media, the UNGA floundered more than usual.

   When finally the trough was opened up, it was dominated by anti human rights speeches including by Cameroon, here. (Guterres has suppored 30+ year ruler Paul Biya in killing civilians there).

  Cameroon voted with the rogues throughout, as did Kazakhstan, while at least 40 states weren't even present. Yemen voted against Iran.

When a vote was called for, some bemoaned it.   And it wasn't even over - it has to be repeated on December 24. Watch this site.

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