UNITED
NATIONS, May 7
-- It was
inside the UN,
but there was
no sign on the
door. In
Conference
Room E of the
Temporary
North Lawn
Building,
Inner City
Press was
told, Henry
Kissinger was
speaking.
Having
covered, in
the time
of Occupy Wall
Street, a mock
award ceremony
for
Henry
Kissinger
held in front
of a midtown
Manhattan
hotel (video here), Inner
City Press had
a sense there
could be news:
Kissinger in
the UN!
Again!
And
so Inner City
Press set up
shop at a Cafe
Austria table
in front of
Conference
Room E. The
electronic
blue sign
which usually
announces
what's taking
place in a UN
meeting room
-- the Law of
the Sea, or
even
sometimes,
"Questions
about
Information"
-- was blank.
There
was a paper
sign on the
door itself,
DPI-NGO, but
that event
(which
Inner City
Press also
covered, in
the context of
an internship
with
an NGO inside
the UN being
auctioned off
for $26,000)
was over.
A
UN Security
medical
officer
arrived, to
unfold and man
a wheelchair, along
with two
bodyguards.
Two of the
three looked
skeptically at
Inner City
Press. But it
is an open
area.
After
several false
alarms, the
moment came.
Henry
Kissinger came
out of
Conference
Room E. But he
said, even
before he was
out, "no
pictures of me
in a
wheelchair."
Well.
There
have been
other
sightings by
Inner City
Press in
the UN this
year:
Judith Miller
of Iraq and
New York Times
fame, here
in the time of
Syria and
chemical
weapons, on
April Fool's
Day no less.
Beyonce,
for whom
photographers
were
ordered to
turn over
their memory
cards and
have them
erased.
(Meanwhile,
the UN took
photos while
raiding
Inner City
Press' office
on
March 18, then
shared them
and had them
leaked on
March 21 once
the UN was
asked about
the raid.)
There
are many
orders in the
UN, usually by
the UN or its
allies,
on what
to publish.
This one, we
will respect.
What remains
is a picture
of
the wheelchair
sans
Kissinger,
here.
Watch this
site.
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