Delays in Renovation Costly to U.N.

[Eugene]

Delays in Renovation Costly to U.N.

UNITED NATIONS, Apr. 18, 2006

(AP) Delays in the renovation of the United Nations headquarters, caused chiefly
by the United States, are adding $225,000 a day to the project's costs, a U.N.
official said Monday.

The United States is the lone holdout on the committee that must approve the next
$100 million needed to proceed with the estimated $1.6 billion renovation,
said Fritz Reuter, the U.N. official overseeing the program.

The projected cost of the project was good up through April 1. Every subsequent
day of delay adds an estimated $225,000 _ $3.8 million so far, he said.

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the United States only wants to grant approval
for some $23.5 million because the General Assembly needs to agree on how
to proceed with the project.

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Full article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/18/ap/world/mainD8H238Q01.shtml

[tom_paine]

1. Sounds to me like the Busheviks are using the Bolseheviks' playbook again

(although, as usual, it could also be the Nazis' playbook, too)

Remember the US Embassy in the Old Soviet Union which had tons of surveillance equipment built into it? So much so that Old America refused to move in?

My guess is that is what, in the end, these "renovations" will be and Bolton is buying time to put things in place.

As we all have known for quite some time, at it's core Bushmerika = Old Soviet Union.

So that's my theory. Once again, Busheviks are indistinguishable from Bolsehviks but for a tiny bit of economic philosophy.

Don't fall for it UN! You'd be fools to put your trust in a Totalitarian Regime like Imperial Amerika!

[54anickel]

2. And here I just figured the contractor was a Bush crony. eom

[tom_paine]

3. When dealing with such naked evil as Busheviks, one must think darker

Look at their list of crimes they are complicit in (too numerous to list here) and just a couple, purposefully denying CA electricity in 2001 (how many harmed or even killed by that conscious decision to aid and abet the other Busheviks at Enron?)

Invasion of Iraq = Invasion of Poland (same lies, same degree of lies, same frequency of lies, both sides maintained they were "liberating" their victims...to be fair the Busheviks haven't set up Industrial Death Camps, so far as we know...it would be bad PR since the Nazis gave them such a bad name)

Here are questions that best help understand the Busheviks:

WWFMD? What Would Ferdinand Marcos Do?
WWPD? What Would Pinochet Do?
WWBD? What Would Brezhnev Do?
WWHD? What Would Hitler Do?

Usually one or more of these questions sufficiently answers Bushevik motivations.

[cal04]

4. Renovation of U.N. Complex Stalled by U.S., an Official Says

The director of the $1.6 billion plan to restore the aging and dilapidated headquarters of the United Nations said Monday that persistent objections from the United States were causing delays in meeting deadlines and jeopardizing the future of the entire project.

Under the plan, the United Nations intends to move its operations into a new temporary building on its existing campus and some office space in midtown Manhattan over the next seven years so that the iconic Secretariat and General Assembly buildings can undergo long-postponed refurbishment. If approved by the General Assembly, the arrangement will end a 10year search for updated space that has caused the United Nations to consider everything from housing on cruise ships to a move to Brooklyn.

"We're poised with an incredibly responsible set of drawings, completely tested in the market, tested by so many outside auditors that I don't want to tell you," said the plan's director, Louis Frederick Reuter IV, a veteran of large project management in New York, "and these are real costs, they are competitive, they are real good numbers for doing this kind of work in the city." "It's one of those moments in time that I don't think will be recreated if not acted on in a very short period of time," he said.

Before taking on the remodeling task in 2001, Mr. Reuter was responsible for the $1 billion rebuilding of New York/Weill Cornell Medical Center over the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. He said the absence of American agreement was resulting in rising costs and disillusioning the team of experts he had assembled for the task. "I won't kid you that we're not frustrated that this is being delayed and that the building is not getting healthier," he said. "We are very near consensus, and we are having issues not only with cost increases but also brain drain. There is a lot of other work out there going on in New York."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/world/18nations.html