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The United Nations has been called a firetrap by a number of elected officials, Mayor Bloomberg among them. He recently demanded that the building stay on track to fix its many violations of the fire code.
The famous Secretariat building doesn't have an internal sprinkler system, and it was built with asbestos, which could fill the air if pipes explode. Additionally, apparently, if too many fire trucks are parked in the plaza, they might fall into underground parking. The Daily News reports that Bloomberg's letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon claimed that only 20% of the 866 violations were fixed, while the U.N. says it has fixed 40%. Still, that means there are over 500 violations to go!
Of course, the city, state and even U.S. governments have no jurisdiction over the U.N. But the city wants to avoid another Deutsche Bank incident, where tragedy strikes at buildings chock full of known violations, hence strong language in Bloomberg's letter such as, should the U.N. not comply in a timely manner, the city "will be forced to direct the cessation of all public school visits to the United Nations."
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Erm... with a 1.3 billion dollar debt to the UN, the United States hardly has a foot to stand over funding: http://www.globalpolicy.org/finance/info/usdebt.htm
Quite simply if the place catches on fire have the responding FDNY units park out side and say, "We have no jurisdiction over the U.N."
Erm... with the US having shouldered by far the largest burden of the costs of the UN since its creation, perhaps some of the other nations that drowning in oil wealth could step up to the plate? How about Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Kuwait, Norway, etc. recycle some of their unwanted dollars into New York's construction industry? How about China? I hear they hate dollars as well.
whi gives a ... about US and their dollars nowadays?
Let the UN take the 10 billion dollars they stole from the Iraqi children in the oil-for-bribes scandal and build themselves a new building.
...in Iran.
The UN SUCKS! LET THEM MOVE TO SWITZERLAND OR TO OUTER NAIROBI FOR ALL THE GOOD THE ASSHOLES DO TO SOLVE THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS. Oops I forgot I had the cap keys lock on.
If a fire breaks out in the building there probably wont be any loss of valuable human life. Maybe two or three people, but for the rest?
Let those absolute pieces of shit ambassador jerks rock on in Dubai or where ever those assholes gather.
Let them eat boiled kangaroo or whatever those sub human shits consider food. Just get them out of New York City. Is Brooklyn or Camden, New Jersey an option for their new headquarters?