| UNSG
Candidate Grossi Supported by
Sock Puppet on X As DRC Bans
Press from Q&A
By Matthew Russell Lee Patreon Book
Substack NEW YORK,
July 10 รข€“ With the UN moving
such as it does - behind
closed doors, public be damned
- in 2026 to pick a new
Secretary General, as its last
one Antonio Guterres fails on
Ukraine, Gaza and basic
transparency, a new book has
been published. It
is "United
Nations
Betrayals
(see below) Now
on July
10, the PR of
DR Congo Zenon
Mukongo, whose
Mission banned
the Press from
its program of
work press
conference,
whispered to UN
insiders at
the UNSC stakeout
that under his
presidency the
Security
Council
conducted
three secret
interviews
with one to
come on July 27,
of "Spinizo"
as he called
her. [Espinoza]. He said
the first straw poll
is July 30. Interviewed
on July 7 - whether
Mike Waltz was
there or not
is not known,
he is
virtual
signalizing
from Haiti
(where the UN
brought cholera and
cited
immunity) -
were Macky
Sall and
Rafael Grossi. On July 10
Inner City Press
asked the
IAEA, and
Guterres and
his
spokespeople
Dujarric, Haq
and Fleming,
questions
including: "Immediately
state the UN's
knowledge of,
position and
action on, the
robotic
pro-Grossi X
account @tammiterel
and whether
any UN system
funds are
being used for
this or other
(anonymous,
pseudonymous)
campaigning
for Next SG
More
generally,
given the SG's
public
statement
about online
disinformation,
what rules
apply to UN
system staff
campaigning
for Next SG
candidates,
particularly
anonymously or
pseudonymously?" No answer -
corrupt. The
https://x.com/tammiterel
account on May
10 self-replied,
"Rafael Grossi
didnรข€™t just
talk about
multilateralism
he made it
operational.." Then:
"Rebeca
Grynspan is
respected in
development
diplomacy, but
she has never
managed global
security
crises.
M.Bachelet
left the UN
Human Rights
office under
heavy
criticism
after her
Xinjiang
visit.Macky
Sall left
Senegal amid
deadly unrest
and
accusations of
democratic
backsliding."
And so forth. Note that
Grossi has refused to answer
the questionnaire from the
Free UN Coalition for Access
including about press access
to the UN, and that Amina J.
Mohammed has been complicit in
Guterres Press ban throughout.
We'll have more on all this. "United
Nations Betrayals: From
Election Stolen by Guterres to
Bribes and Banning of the
Press"is by Matthew Russell
Lee (who quickly discloses
that he has been ousted and
banned from the UN by
Guterres, for his
reporting). A noted
by New York Magazine on Lee's
Maximum Maxwell book,
at times here he uses the
character Kurt Wheelock, who
first appeared in his
Predatory Bender.
The book
begins with Guterres beating
out female candidates for the
UNSG post, after a murky year
being paid by Lisbon-based
Gulbenkian Foundation. The
book digs into the bid by the
China Energy Fund Committee,
convicted of UN bribery, for
Gulbenkian's oil company.
Readers can draw their own
conclusion, including on the
need for SG campaign finance
disclosure in 2026. Part of
the book in italics delves
into the UN Correspondents
Association and its efforts to
throw Lee out. They appear
again in the afterword /
novella, "Whacking Qaddafi,"
which was first mentioned in
the New Yorker magazine's Talk of
the Town piece about
Lee. It addresses more
countries: from India to
Pakistan, Guinea to Guinea
Bissau. The main text addresses UN failures in Sri Lanka - including the UNCA connection - Cameroon, Western Sahara, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Gaza and elsewhere. UN Betrayals indeed - this should be the first of a series.
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