SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 19 – How
irrelevant has the UN become under Antonio Guterres and
Missions like this month's President of the UN Security
Council, Bahrain - and last months, the US?
On Sunday April 19 amid claims
the Strait of Hormuz was open, two Indian tankers were
fired on by Iran. Meanwhile on no fewer than three Sunday
TV shows, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz claimed the
UN was doing great, and said he is in close communications
with the IAEA, whose Rafael Grossi is misusing the agency
to run to be next SG, perhaps as bad as the old SG.
UNGA votes have no effect, and there
are been much larger margins. And SG Antonio Guterres
continues to be allowed to ban the Press that reports on
UN waste and corruption. So where is the reform? Even from
USUN "reform" man Jeff Bartos, nothing.
Back on April 1 while Bahrain and Guterres
were barring Inner City Press from a UN press conference
into which they allowed a UN Correspondents Association
member who did a fundraiser with sex traficker Ghislaine
Maxwell, in Washington the International Monetary Fund,
World Bank, and International Energy Agency said they are
forming a coordination group to respond to the economic
impacts of the Middle East war.
Antonio Guterres often pretends that while
failing on wars and transparency, he is linking the UN
into the Bretton Woods institutions. In fact, he is as
invisible as his deputy Amina J. Mohamed, both made even
softer by the softball press corpse they and Melissa
Fleming have curated in UNHQ, GMax's old stomping (and
grooming) grounds.
The three institutions decried "one
of the largest supply shortages in global energy market
history," with impacts they characterized as "substantial,
global, and highly asymmetric." They spoke of coordinated
data sharing, financing assessments, concessional lending,
and risk mitigation tools.
Meanwhile Guterres' UN is blowing money in
South Sudan on empty planes, in Colombia and
elsewhere.
This is the culmination of a decade
of UN decay under Guterres.The contrast was on display at
the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington April
14-15. Inner City Press was accredited to the IMF
meetings, and in person asked the IMF's Tobias Adrian
about Anthropic's Mythos. The next day, after UNCTAD sent
Inner City Press an update that it was not allowed to a
lower profile "Borrowers' Platform" event with Antonio
Guterres, Guterres rudely ignored the staff that pour him
water, then pontificated about domination. But what
are Mike Waltz and the others at USUN doing? Watch this
site - including for coverage of the April 21-22
"dialogues" with the four wan SG candidates.
