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New U.N. Building Will Cost at Least Five Times Previous Estimates | National Review
October 7, 2011 11:41 A.M.
By Brett D. Schaefer
On Wednesday, New York officials signed off on the Memorandum of Understanding that sets the stage for New York City to sell Robert Moses Playground to the United Nations. The international organization wants the land to build a second skyscraper to house its burgeoning bureaucracy.

The financial implications of this project for the U.S. government are unclear. News reports estimated the new building to cost between $370 million and $475 million. However, experience with the current U.N. renovation project (originally estimated at $600 million, the Capital Master Plan has cost more than $2 billion) raised serious concerns that the new tower would turn out to be vastly more expensive than these estimates suggest.

It turns out those concerns were justified. Last month, the U.N. Secretary-General quietly released a report titled “Feasibility Study on the United Nations Headquarters Accommodation Needs 2014–2034” (A/66/349). There, on page 13, is an initial cost estimate for the new building.

The U.N. has not promoted these estimates. And no wonder. Constructing a new building on the north lawn of the current U.N. headquarters is estimated to cost $1.97 billion. Constructing a new building in another location is estimated to be $2.42 billion.

In other words, according to the U.N., the new tower will cost about five to six times the earlier, widely reported cost estimate.

Total costs will be even higher. The report notes that the new estimates don’t include financing costs. Nor does it likely include the additional security-related costs. (Why should it? The U.N. deems those expenses to be the responsibility of the host country—us!).

The organization typically sticks the U.S. with 22 percent of the tab “shared” by all members. What the new estimates mean, then, is that the new U.N. building looks to leave U.S. taxpayers on the hook for some $500 million to $600 million, rather than the $100 million to $200 million initially forecast.

That still won’t be enough for Turtle Bay. In the same report, the U.N. projects that it will need to lease additional space—even after the new building is complete. Why? Because it expects to greatly increase the number of U.N. staff in New York over the period.

If these staff projections are realized, one wonders how the U.N. Development Corporation would be able to prematurely terminate its current leases on two city-owned buildings. The buildings are leased at below-market rates, and their sale is supposed to be a key source of funding for Mayor Bloomberg’s East River Greenway project.

Interestingly, the report projects that continuing to lease required space will be even more expensive in the long run than building a new tower, due in part to the perceived need for additional leased office space for more staff and the fact that the currently leased buildings will become more expensive when the current below-market-rate leases expire after 2023.

But the assumed staff increase is critical. If the staff is not increased or is located outside New York, the cost will be reduced.

Although the report acknowledges that U.N. operations are expected to decentralize in the future, it still bases its projection for increased office-space needs on the rapid growth in U.N. staff (and budget) in recent years.

The report does not indicate why the anticipated additional staff must be housed in U.N. offices in New York, rather than in other countries with lower living costs. The extremely expensive cost of living in the Big Apple translates into significant pay-scale adjustments for U.N. staff based there. Neither does the report offer insight into why many tasks performed by U.N. staff could not be handled by contractors not requiring U.N. office space. The U.S. should challenge these staff projections.

All of this only serves to underscore the need for the U.S. government to oppose this project until a detailed financial analysis of the project is provided, including a definitive estimate of the cost for the U.S. taxpayer.

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  1. This is the paradigm under which the Black Pope , London City Banksters, and the Cabal have planned to control the world. First destroy old Europe and bring in United Nations, then later using such powers of the UN ecomomically and through diverse takeover programs, to create such fear and havoc and war, and profit by that, that afterwards out of the chaos the Cabal can implement their New World Order.

    They are cooperatively forcing this upon us in the final phases of their takeover, even as we speak. As quoted by Jayapataka Swami Sept 5, 1985 letter to GBCs ” We cannot rest until we have implemented a New World Krsna-conscious Order !”

    Now Mr. Obama is head of the Security Council, which is against US law, and thus treasonous. He has a council who make all decisions instead of the congress, and they have illegally taken powers of life and death into corporate decision making hands. The GBC has similarly abandoned Srila Prabhupada’s service.

    The world depopluation eugenecist agenda 21, codex alimentarius, is being forced through world wide. Here in Canada, our Prime Minister Harper promised not to implement it, or so he lied before the election, but as soon as his party was in, he rammed it through immediately on the command of the murderous UN. This plan restricts sale of vitamins including vitamin “D” and “C” and natural herbs, among other things, putting total control and money in the hands of big nwo chemical and pharmaceutical companies like Monsanto, Pfizer, etc thus and taking away our natural rights to use herbs etc.

    Now in Canada, these are controlled or banned under globalist depopulation plan agenda 21. Without good nutrition, we shall succumb to their man-made diseases and chemcial poisons, especially the old and the young and the weaker ones. The cancer rate is currently 100%, and children are dying worldwide of what used to be an unheard of thing in children.

    Use of known poisons fluoride, GMO foods, bisphenyl-A, polysorbate 80, MSG, aspartame, neotame, vaccines, radiation is also part of the UN program to weaken and kill off people, but not before they take your life savings money as you die from cancer contaminated vaccines and the poisons purposefully and scientifically introduced into the water and food supplies worldwide. The chemotherapy drugs are almost exactly the same molecules as Raid bug killer, cost about $5. to manufacture, and they sell it at $50,000 dollars.

    For example;
    “Fluoride at the 1 ppm concentration is as toxic as arsenic and lead … there is an increasing volume of evidence of the injurious effects of fluorine, especially the chronic intoxication resulting from the ingestion of minute amounts of fluorine over long periods of time.” —Journal of the American Dental Association, 1936

    “We do know that the use of drinking water containing as little as 1.2 to 3.0 parts per million of fluorine will cause such developmental disturb ances in bones as osteosclerosis, spondylosis and osteopetrosis, as well as goiter, and we cannot afford to run the risk of producing such serious systemic disturbances in applying what is at present a doubtful procedure intended to prevent development of dental dis fig ure ments.” —Journal of the American Dental Association, October 1944

    So, we can see that the deleterious effects of the fluoride, the prime ingredient in rat poisons and used to dumb down prisoners in totalitarian gulags and concentration camps in the war years, its effects are well know by the UN decades ago.

    Do we want oe need this organization of control by murderous Cabal plans? I rather think NOT. And if they continue to hold power, these same persons who arranged Srila Prabhupada’s poisoning will do the same to others to come.

    Hare Krishna

  2. Quotes for the day. . .

    “We are likely to do better by building our house of world order from from the bottom up rather than from the top down …. An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, is likely to get us to world order faster than the old fashioned assault.”
    – Richard N. Gardner, CFR Member and former deputy assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations in “Foreign Affairs,” quarterly CFR magazine April 1974.

    “To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.”
    – Brockman Adams, Director UN Health Organization.

    “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
    – David Rockefeller.

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