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Opposing Guterres Inner City Press Filed
to PGA As Even Blue Washers Take a Pass on
Q
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Song
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 1 – 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 1003rd 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. Since
then, four weeks of dodging
and blockage, now of six or
more.
But it is not
only Bozkir and his censoring
spokesman Brenden Varma who
cover up the names of those
running. Even the friendly
Blue opposition refuses to
name names, all the while
offering praise of
rape-denying Guterres. Inner
City Press submitted this
question, twice, to their
panelists:
"How can this be
considered a legitimate
election when there is nowhere
to file legal challenges, for
example to the 'unwritten rule'
that candidates should have
endorsement of a member
states? And about Guterres
abusing the power of
incumbency, using UN Spokesman
Dujarric as his campaign
spokesman, and spending the
public's money to campaign?
-Matthew Russell Lee, Inner
City Press, banned from the UN
1003 days and counting by
Guterres."
And while
taking half-baked questions,
from a Mr. Gomez, about WFUNA,
the above question they
refused to read out much less
answer. The panelists who got
it: Kristen Saloomey of AJE
whose James Bays worked with
Stephane Dujarric to get Inner
City Press banned,Dulcie
Leimbach, Stephanie Fillion
and Sonah Lee-Lassiter. Every
day is a new day, but this is
why the UN remains corrupt.
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