by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Dec 25 – As inside the increasingly marginal United Nations a process begins to select a successor to Antonio Guterres who stole the post from female candidates in 2016 and drove the UN into the ground including through censorship, it is time to review the history.
Inner City Press, which Guterres banned from the UN as it reported on his links with briber CEFC China Energy and to sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, both convicted in the SDNY Federal court, closely covered Guterres' dubious selection, and after. A book is forthcoming, soon - but here's from Chapter One, in which Guterres steals the election for UNSG from female candidates, by making promises to tyrants.
Amid much talk of the UN finally having a female Secretary General, and with a half dozen female candidates putting their names forward, Antonio Guterres in April 2016 came to UN Headquarters in New York to try to steal the post.
While pontificating about the need for the UN to improve its communications, he had no Twitter account. His lead spokesperson / propagandist, Melissa Fleming, would go on to brag how she could get UN critics taken off the Big Tech companies' platforms.
(Inner City Press did in fact later have all of its books including about Ghislaine Maxwell and Antonio Guterres' UN (Maximum Maxwell), about Guterres' Deputy Aminda J. Mohammed (Identity Thieves) and about Guterres and China (Belt & Roadkill) taken down.)
But Inner City Press didn't know that yet. It had asked Guterres questions on-camera at the UN Security Council stakeout when he was head of UNHCR, on February 26, 2015, about the treatment of middle income countries like Lebanon and Tunisia at the International Monetary Fund, where Inner City Press was and still is a registered correspondent invited to ask questions including remotely by WebEx, as it is denied by Guterres' Fleming.
In the first straw polls in the Security Council, Guterres had no fewer than three "discourage" votes against him. However, after secret meetings with P5 members China and Russia, the discouraging votes disappeared.
Candidates like Helen Clark, and Kristalina Georgina who would go on to head the IMF and answer Press questions, were passed over. The UN was about to be Gutted.
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