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Opposing Guterres Inner City Press Filed
to PGA Spox Varma Cites UNwritten Rules
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Song
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 20 – How corrupt and
undemocratic is today's United
Nations?
Well, now that
Antonio Guterres is pushing
for a second five-year term,
while banning
the Press for the 991th day
for daring to ask about his
finances and failures, he has
collaborators.
The
current President of the
General Assembly Volkan
Bozkir, a strongman from
Turkey who due to his bigoted
comments even pro-UN New York
City Mayor Bill de Blasio
wouldn't meet with, has the
duty of circulating letters
from candidates.
But
throughout February and now
March 2021, Bozkir refused to
circulate the letter of UN
staffer candidate Arora
Akanksha.
Bozkir's
spokesman Brendan Varma, who
blocks Inner City Press
on Twitter, continues to dance
around what the rules are and
won't answer.
So, as a
test - and to raise the issue
of the UN's lack of content
neutral media access rules, lack
of a Freedom of Information
Act (fought for the Free
UN Coalition for Access) and
lack of scruples - Inner City
Press on the morning of
February 26 submitted a signed
letter
and C.V. to the PGA's Office
and to Varma.
Now in
March, from inside
the UN, this: "the website on
the process still shows only
one candidate, Guterres. One
applicant is Arora
Akanksha; another may be
Matthew
Russell Lee, according
to his Twitter account;
neither person has a national
endorsement, which could
prevent them from being
considered official
candidates."
There is
no written rule on that. The
UN is lawless, promoting
continued rule by a corrupt
censor, Antonio Guterres.
Later in March:
"SPOKESPERSON FIELDS QUESTIONS
ON SECRETARY-GENERAL SELECTION
& APPOINTMENT
PROCESS Asked to comment
on whether the next
Secretary-General should be a
woman, the Spokesperson said
that, as the President had
already said, that was a
matter for Member States.
Replying to a further question
on the Secretary-General
selection and appointment
process, the Spokesperson said
that, if Member States
presented candidates, those
names would be circulated to
all Member States, as per the
joint letter on this topic
from the Presidents of the
General Assembly and Security
Council, and then made
public." Again, that is not
the rule. These people are
corrupt.
Watch this
site.
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