by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Sept 9 – The annual ritual of the UN General Assembly week is getting more and more wan under Antonio Guterres.
This as he this week spends public money flying and lying from India to Cuba. In Stop 3, India, he offered empty praise to Modi - who is skipping the UNGA "high level" week while his spokesman who refuses real Press questions bloviated to Neha Khanna for 20 minutes about attendance being a responsibility of states, not individuals. Both said the UN would rename it Bharat - just like eSwatini. A censor, not a spokesman.
In 2023 not only Xi of China and Russia's Putin for obvious reasons isn't coming - even French president Macron, and the UK's not-for-long prime minister are blowing it off.
That's four out of the five Permanent Members of the Security Council, those who on paper benefit most from the decaying UN, not bother to come. Guterres is lying about reform, including of the "international financial architecture."
Only Biden is coming - and the US is the country watching as Guterres hands post after post to China, while concealing his financial links to its convicted bribery firm CEFC China Energy, and banning Inner City Press which uncovered and asked about it.
The schedule released on September 1 still listed the "head of state" of Gabon, Ali Bongo, who pleading for (and receiving Guterres' useless) support to keep his family in power for another year after fifty.
Inner City Press on June 19 applied to Guterres' censoring sidekick Melissa Fleming for access to UNGA week, which she gives to countless blood-splattered state media of Saudi Arabia, Iran and even Cameroon.
No answers, even as the supposed September 1 deadline passed. The UN's time has passed. Watch this site.
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