Crumbling U.N. Seeks $1 Billion for Renovation

[GePap]

Damn boy, you sure are filling in for Fez nicely.

The UN authorized the occupation after the fact, not the war before the fact.

Oh, and Hitler Jr? Not even that original.

BUt I will stop feeding the troll now.

[Chris 62]

Just like your brain seems to have stopped getting oxygen I gather.

Your act is as inane as you are Gepap, it hasn't changed.

Didn't like it that someone disagrees with the UN, and it becomes "ramblings."

You may be a big hero here in the Bizarro world, but you of course realize that 70% of Americans laugh at the UN, and the people who slavishly support it, or are you too far gone for that?

[Ming]

Would you two just chill...

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by GePap
I thought the idea of making Governors island the new site for a new UN headquarters was ebing floated about: now that the Coast guard moved out that would give the Island some use, and that land on the east side could be opened up. It might also make security much easier.

Couldn't we just give them an abandoned oil derreck somewhere in the North Sea to play on?

[SpencerH]

I vote for Paris or Vienna, but anywhere outside of the USA is fine by me.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
One billion to renovate existing occupied structures of that size to modern standards and code compliance isn't outrageous - that's one reason a lot of historical structures are demolished and replaced, rather than renovated.

Sounds like it would be cheaper to tear it down and start over.

[Spiffor]

Financing of the UN

Simply a quick fact. I don't intend to use it to prove a point right now, but it could be useful in the future:

From Onu-admin.ch

The amount paid to the UN is a function of payment ability. Special treatment is given to developing countries with high population and low per capita income. The most important contributiors to UN's budget are (% in, 2002)

USA: 22 %
Japan: 19,669 %
Germany: 9,845 %
France: 6,516 %
United Kingdom: 5,579 %
Italy: 5,104 %
Canada: 2,579 %
Spain: 2,539 %
Brazil: 2,093 %
Republic of Korea: 1,866 %
Netherlands: 1,751 %
Australia: 1,640 %
China: 1,545 %
Switzerland: 1,274 %

[GePap]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Sounds like it would be cheaper to tear it down and start over.

Well, the secreteriat building can come down with no problem: the building were they hold the meetings have some nice murals and other art, and the grouds are very nice, so They might be too much of a loss. But they could always move the whole thing to governors Island. The UN stays in NYC (were it should), but East side traffic concerns are eased, that land is opened up, and security can be simplified. Evryone wins (except the UN haters, but who needs them?)

[yavoon]

maybe we could move the UN to nashville.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by GePap
Evryone wins (except the UN haters, but who needs them?)

As long as it is written in somewhere that they have to display a reasonable amount of care for the buildings they use (Letting the building go to **** like they apparently have doesn't qualify), I'd be happy with that.

[Az]

I've heard lots of good things about Gary, Indiana.

[Spiffor]

There's a problem with destroying the building : all the people who work at the UN would need to be relocated for the time needed to build the new thing. In the end, a new building will be better, but the costs will be high in the meantime.

Wait, the European Parliament in Strasbourg will be available to lease in a few years

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Spiffor
There's a problem with destroying the building : all the people who work at the UN would need to be relocated for the time needed to build the new thing.

Let them eat cake.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Let them eat cake.

What has LTEC! to do with this ?
(more seriously, I don't know the meaning of "let them eat cake" - care to exmplain please ?)

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Spiffor
(more seriously, I don't know the meaning of "let them eat cake" - care to exmplain please ?)

It means that I don't care and the UN should have thought of that before letting thier building go to crap to this degree.