| UN of Guterres Blocks From
UN Website IP of Inner City Press As France24
Barada Colludes
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Video
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UN GATE, Sept 20
– While the United Nations
speaks about press freedom and
the upcoming UN General
Assembly week under new
President Zolkan Bozkir of
Turkey, UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres has banned
Inner City Press amid its
questions about his finances
and failures on Cameroon and
in combatting or even just
disclosing UN sexual
abuse.
On
September 17, Guterres'
spokesman Staphane Dujarric
was asked about it, and said
"Mr. Lee's status remains
uncharged. Video here.
But then
something changed. On
September 19 and still as of
this writing on September 20,
the IP address Inner City
Press uses was blocked from
the UN's website. Video here.
The UN sites worked when
checked from another's laptop.
So can the UN use public money
to block Internet access to
their "transparency" page by
media which ask and criticize
them about it?
Certainly
the UN Censorship Alliance /
UNCA will not try to stop the
UN's descent under Gutteres.
On September 20, as Guterres'
UN blocks Inner City Press not
only on Twitter but from its
publicly funded websites, a
strange message
from UNCA bigwig Ali Barada of
whom we've previously reported
" Ali Barada of
An-Nahar, filed a
complaint against Inner City
Press with the "Special
Investigations Unit" of the UN
Department of Safety and
Security.
The only basis? What Inner
City Press said when Barada
bragged that he immediately
deleted without opening Inner
City Press' email requesting
to see the "information
available on request" listed
in the report Barada signed
off on - and which was then
sent anonymously to the
government against Inner City
Press. In
fact, while all Inner City
Press responded with was a run
of the mill host country
insult, Barada cited his
involvement with a "terrorist"
group, as a reason Inner City
Press shouldn't express its
opinion. Update: And on
Friday, July 6, Inner City
Press had to spend two and a
half hours with UN Security
responding to Barada's
frivolous and pretextual
complaint."
There's been more since
- watch this site.
Watch this site.
Brenden Varma,
for PGA Bozkir, has refused to
answer Inner City Press'
questions about his
backsliding on the one reform
from the UN corruption scandal
Inner City Press reported on,
often exclusively, about PGAs
Ashe and Kutesa; Bozkir has an
empty
"Ethics" page.
Varma then
blocked Inner City Press on
Twitter. This is today's UN -
we'll have more on this issue.
Inner City Press should be
given the codes to access
and ask questions at briefings
immediately, like the state
media and retirees Guterres
and Melissa Fleming prefer and
favor.
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