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US Senators Asks Stefanik of UN Domination by China and Terrorism But Not Censorship Yet

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE / SDNY, Jan 21 – At the confirmation hearing for the next US Ambassador to the UN Elise Stefanik, questions ranged from the UN's dominance by - and bribe taking from - China to complicity in the October 7 attacks. But barely scratched was the full depth of the current UN's rot, from corruption to censorship.  Inner City Press live tweeted, below

Chair Risch starts with "decay" of UN.

Ranking member Shaheen calls UN imperfect but argues for continued engagement or else China will just take it (more) over.

 Senator Ricketts asks how to combat China buying the UN.

Chris Coons says he worked to keep CCP from running ITU and other technical UN agencies. But ITU is still corrupt and so is WIPO  

Dave McCormickPA asks about antisemitism at the UN.  @timkaine asks about Haiti (though doesn't mention that the UN brought cholera there)

Senator Hagerty asks about UNRWA role in terrorism, but not yet UN Guterres' role in censorship and banning of Press which asks about the SDNY lawsuit against UNRWA. Now Sen Booker bring up deportation returns to... Egypt

Sen John Curtis asks about Taiwan being subsumed into the PRC in UN agencies like ICAO - true. As Inner City Press reported, before being thrown out of the UN, journalists from Taiwan are not even allowed into the UN building 

Chris MurphyCT asks about antisemitism - Inner City Press before being thrown out of the UN reported on UN Security being used to throw out a pro-Israel NGO representative

@SenRickScott asks about UNRWA - a trend in this hearing. Sen Jacky Rosen shifts to UNESCO - on which Inner City Press has a 100-story series 

John Cornyn asks about UN & Iran - there's the time "SG Guterres Gave Beirut Post to Hezbollah Crony Rola Dashti While Calling Her Kuwaiti"

@ChrisVanHollen says Hamas should have no role- SDNY lawsuit says UNRWA does not agree

@SteveDaines what she will do about Guterres who, he says, lowered flags for the death of Iran's butcher president.

@SenJohnBarrasso asks Stefanik about holding the UN accountable, including to local laws / sovereignty. Exempt from 1st Amendment principles:Something recent: UN exempts itself from NYC congestion pricing: 

@SenMikeLee asks about the wisdom of US granting UN "inviolability" as to ICC. Now @SenBrianSchatz (of Hawaii) asks about island nations and China.

@SenTedCruz asks about the "deep rot" in the UN and its worsening role after October 7.

@SenDuckworth asks about Myanmar / Burma. UNSG Guterres has failed there too

And with that, it's over - those are all the committee members who put questions

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