By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 27 – How corrupt and bought by China is today's UN?
Well, amid escalating protests and repression of anti-Xi protests of COVID-lockdowns, from Xinjiang to Shanghai and Beijing, the UN of SG Antonio Guterres and his weak human rights commissioner Volker Turk have said nothing.
This silence includes, even grows from or is justified by, the typical collusion of the UN's man in China, Siddharth Chatterjee, former UNSG Ban Ki-moon's son in law and while in the Indian military, a killer of Tamils. He is supposed to be Guterers' eyes and ears in China, but he only sees what he wants, and only tells Guterres what Guterres wants to hear. Belt and Roadkill!
Will the beating not only of Uighurs and Chinese students by the BBC's Ed Lawrence mean the UN has to whisler something? We'll see.
This as Guterres prepares to be sold on December 9 by the UN Correspondents Association, which has among its membership Iran state media which broadcasts forced confessions.
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting is known for filming forced confession, many of them with torture.
They also have a correspondent accredited by and allowed into the United Nations, Kamran Najafzadeh, a full dues-paying member as "Iran TV" of the UN Correspondents Association, which has given China a permanent board seat while working with the UN to ban independent Inner City Press which reports on it. Photo here
The US State Department on November 16 issued a press release about "designating," presumably for sanctions, representatives of IRIB - but the State Department and its US Mission under Linda Thomas-Greenfield have done nothing about the IRIB representative in the UN and UNCA - which Thomas-Greenfield calls on first - nor on the UN's continuing ban of Inner City Press, despite this letter.
UNCA will be selling access to UNSG Antonio Guterres on December 9, charging diplomats and bribers hundreds of dollars for a garish event at Cipriani downtown with Kate Hudson and prizes to cronies, here. Who will attend IRIB's blood fest? Watch this site.
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