By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - Song - Review
LITERARY UN GATE, Jan 29 -- Each morning now when Kurt got to Foley Square he took in front of the court house, on a piece of yellow duct tape a TV crew had left during Maximum Maxwell, a recorded a two minute vlog.
The first minute was about the cases - this week, US v. Avenatti, today Stormy Daniels on the cross - and the second minute now about the Genocide Games of Guterres.
Today there was light snow, something there was none of in Beijing. UN correspondents who never asked about the genocide read canned questions off note cards about the environmental issue of diverting water.
On this, Guterres' feckless spokesman Dujarric was willing to deploy an equally canned answer. The Secretary General was always concerned about carbon footprint. Yeah. That's why he was flying to Beijing for days in a closed loop sucking up to dictators, probably by way of Lisbon to visit his Chinese bribe money if not his supposed wife, the Beard Guterres' security called her.
After Kurt finished recording, he got a medium coffee and an everything bagel from the Egyptian guy with a glassed-in cart in front of 60 Foley, and went into the courthouse. The Avenatti trial day still hadn't started, so he had time to upload the vlog, first to YouTube.
But Google's YouTube didn't just say it would take time to check if the video could be monetized, if is was "appropriate for advertisers," as they said. No, they went further and immediately demonetized it. Kurt thought of announcing that on Twitter, but that platform for sale had recently gone further and entirely disappeared then blocked his song about the Burma military coup, supported by not only China but also Guterres. These platforms were falling in line with the Genocide Games. Did they now automatically demonetize or shadow ban anything with the word genocide or Uighurs? Or only from certain, already-flagged channels or accounts?
Avenatti was tearing into Stormy when Kurt started tweeting it. About her paranormal TV show that wasn't even on TV. About the statement she'd put out after getting paid by Michael Cohen, that she never had a sexual relationship with the Orange Man. This she tried to word smith away, that to be grabbed coming out the bathroom and schtumpt was not a relationship.
But what about saying you never took hush money from Trump?
It was from Michael Cohen.
And Cohen was there, telling the courtroom artist whom Kurt knew that he should have worn a T-shirt for this podcast Mea Culpa if he knew he'd be the subject of her drawing that day, that she should get paid less because he like everyone else other than Avenatti and Stormy in their respective plastic boxes.
When it over Kurt ran down to Worth Street with the crew. He started a Twitter Live Video, which the platform immediately mad unviewable. Then he did straight record to phone video of his attempted Q&A.
He asked Avenatti what was in the Nike stipulation that he refused to sign - no answer, maybe Kurt could look the Nike version up - then why he had asked Sean Macias if in the last 24 hours he'd taken cocaine or marijuana. No comment.
Finally he got an answer, with what was he thought a softball: Who did Avenatti think should replace Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court? Avenatti's eyebrows raised above his mask and he answered. Someone young, someone progressive and mostly, a big Democrat.
Kurt ran back and put it on YouTube. And this time, they immediately monetized it. #GenocideGamesOfGuterres.
From January 21, 2022: UNSG Antonio Guterres: This visit to the Olympics is not a political visit. We consider that the Olympic Games are an extremely important manifestation in today's world of the possibility of unity, of the possibility of mutual respect, of the possibility of cooperation, of peoples of different cultures, of different religions, of different ethnicities. And this is more important than ever when we see xenophobia, when we see racism, when we see white supremacy, when we see anti‑Semitism, when we see anti‑Muslim hatred proliferating all over the world... That is the reason why I am going to the Olympic Games. And it has nothing to do with my opinions about the different policies that take place in the People's Republic of China.
Spokesman Dujarric: Okay, sir, I think you're then off the hook.
Will Guterres be taking his Deputy Amina J. Mohammed, supportive of the killing and targeted detentions perpetrated by Buhari of Nigeria? See, Identity Thieves - and, forthcoming, Genocide Games of Guterres. For now, Belt and Roadkill.
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