By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
CIA Trial book - NY Mag FIFA Song I, II
UN GATE, Nov 24 – For the FIFA World Cup that Qatar paid bribes to get, it issued restrictions on the media that go to cover it, including that journalists will not be allowed to film or photograph in "residential properties, private businesses and industrial zones."
Reporting on the deaths of migrant workers is not permitted.
When the Cup began on Nov 20, Qatar was listless against Ecuador, and its "fans" left early. On Nov 19, England blew out Iran as the Netherlands did Senegal. But the US was tied by Wales - and UN Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres slipped in, even more quiet than his visit to China's Genocide Games at the beginning of the year. He said nothing, and the UN Correspondents he lets into "his" briefing asked nothing.
On November 22 Inner City Press asked Guterres' spokespeople Farhan Haq, Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming: "Nov 22-1: AGAIN, On human rights-challenged FIFA World Cup in Qatar, when did SG Guterres decide to go? Why so little put out publicly? Since SG said nothing, was the trip paid for by him personally? If not, how much did it cost?"
No answer at all. In Doha, after another nil nil tie between Morocco and Croatia, Japan upset Germany 2-1. Spain laid a 7-0 licking on Costa Rica (which to its relative credit replied to Inner City Press), then Canada of censoring Bob Rae was beaten by Belgium which bragged about Devils amid Qatar's corruption.
On November 24 - Thanksgiving Day in the US - after another nil nil between Uruguay and South Korea, Ghana put up more fight against the Portuguese than they do against Guterres at the UN. Thread - and Song II (Twitter) YouTube
Game on: Portugal dominating, but Ghana almost scored on counter-attack. GhanaUN has banned Press as UN Security Council president but it's mostly that they mimic Fat Tony Guterres, hides his money from Gulbenkian here
Doha deception: Fake fall by Cristiano Ronaldo for a cheap penalty - not unlike how Guterres stole 2d term as UNSG, having all opponents banned and their candidacy documents thrown in the garbage, not circulated, here
FIFAasCorruptAsUN Comeback! Ghana scores a real goal to tie Porgugal at 1 - the way UNSG Guterres avoids from Anglophones by only meeting about #Cameroon with Paul Biya's decrepit cronies, here
The Empire Strikes Back: almost (?) off-sides, Portugal re-grabs the lead like Big Tony Guterres grabs fois gras, or bans all his critics and whistleblowers from the UN. GhanaUN still has 9 minutes and whatever FIFA's arbitrary arbiters give
With Cristiano Ronaldo already on the bench with a 3-1 lead, like Guterres went to Qatar and didn't bother to say anything, now Ghana shows heard and closes it to 3-2. Wish @GhanaUN would stand up to Fat Tony
Qatar also bans filming in “restricted areas where filming requires prior permission” and at “any site with signage or security advising of no photography/videography."
Some who are criticizing these restrictions, however, say nothing when the United Nations does the same. Consider the reasons given by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric for having Inner City Press roughed up and banned from the UN, for three years and counting, from CJR:
"access is not a right, it’s a privilege,” Dujarric says. “None of this is happening now because of what he writes.” Dujarric says that Lee is often critical of fellow journalists; walking the halls in the evenings, he’ll live-stream running commentary criticizing other reporters. Not long ago, encountering a crew from Al Jazeera—which Lee believes has misled viewers about its connection to the Qatari government—Dujarric says that Lee Periscoped while shouting, “Fuck you!” repeatedly. (Lee says he was complaining that Dujarric had given the Al Jazeera crew a private interview, and excluded him.) “He creates an atmosphere of incivility within our working environment,” Dujarric says."
So Inner City Press is banned by MALU's Melissa Fleming because it filmed on the fourth (media) floor, and for what it said? Or for criticizing his and Guterres' relations with Qatar's Al Jazeera, which got the exclusive to Guterres' two stolen UNSG elections?
We'll have more on this.
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