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United nations investigator launches probe into us housing crisis

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Breitbart.tv United Nations Investigator Launches Probe Into US Housing Crisis
The New York Times: The United Nations has assigned an official, “a special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing,” to check the city’s affordable housing. The rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik, is to tour the city for the next three days with housing advocates and city officials to “hear the voices of those who are suffering on the ground,” she said.

"Right to adequate housing"...

Get a job? Pay for it yourself? Nah, those are sooo outdated modes of thinking.
 
How the hell is this legal? The UN seriously needs to stay the **** out of our economic problems.

Chevy, you need to get with the Obamatimes man, let go your old ways of thinking and embrace the future of world governance, it's for your children after all! ;)
 
Maybe we should stop funding the U.N.....
Then she could go look for a real job...
The money could be better used elsewhere.....;)
 
Why is this in breaking news? At best it should be News 2.0. A blog like thing with a youtube link is hardly mainstream media.

Fact, the person in question has been doing this job since 2008 all around the world. The position has been in place for a very very long time. Her job is pretty simple, namely to investigate, monitor and recommend solutions to human rights problems within her mandated area. And in this case on adequate housing. So it is basically a fact finding mission in New York to see the good and bad of the US housing market and to see if it can be improved or/and if possible human rights violations are occurring... note the possible. From this she gathers experience that she will pass on to other nations when she visits them. She has done this in many countries around the world including many western countries. Hey, who knows, maybe the New York officials might learn a thing or two from her experience.

There is nothing sinister about it, but you would not know that if you trusted the OP source would you.. Things like this is done all the time. US congressmen go on fact finding missions to other countries and we rarely hear a peep about it now do we?
 
How the hell is this legal? The UN seriously needs to stay the **** out of our economic problems.


Well, unfortunately, our economic problems are dragging down the rest of the world with it. (and vise versa)

It's not just *us* apart from *them* - worldwide issues are effected, directly or indirectly, by what we do.

Now, I still feel that this situations isn't worthy of a "UN investigation" ... but one cannot deny that we're not an isolated country.
 
Well, unfortunately, our economic problems are dragging down the rest of the world with it. (and vise versa)

It's not just *us* apart from *them* - worldwide issues are effected, directly or indirectly, by what we do.

Now, I still feel that this situations isn't worthy of a "UN investigation" ... but one cannot deny that we're not an isolated country.

I agree that we arent an isolated country but if a US bank has committed something illegal according to US laws than only US lawyers should look into it. The UN has no business in this.
 
I agree that we arent an isolated country but if a US bank has committed something illegal according to US laws than only US lawyers should look into it. The UN has no business in this.

I agree, absolutely, with that.

I think this action (from the UN) reflects widespread distrust that other countries have in us ... not necessarily the citizens, but in our government and corporations, etc.
 
Its not a criminal investigation, its not even an investigation that can result in anything legally binding for the US or anyone. If you all bothered to look into the case instead of believing so called media source you would quickly see that there is nothing evil or anything about it. For god sakes people you are making a mountain out of an ant hill here.
 
The Indypendent Exclusive: U.N. Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Speaks with the Indypendent

Raquel Rolnick: This is an official mission of the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. The Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing was appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council in order to monitor the implementation of the right to adequate housing in the world. And in order to do that, the instruments that the Special Rapporteur has as an independent expert, one of the instruments is doing fact-finding trips that we call missions, to different countries, in order to meet both with official government and non-government and community and see what’s going on in the country in this specific topic, the specific right to adequate housing and then report back to the Human Rights Council.

RR: First, which is not so clear to everyone, adequate housing is a human right. Second, today, now, it’s time to go forward, to implement that. I think that few countries in the world have the conditions to do that. And U.S. is one of them.
 
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Its not a criminal investigation, its not even an investigation that can result in anything legally binding for the US or anyone. If you all bothered to look into the case instead of believing so called media source you would quickly see that there is nothing evil or anything about it. For god sakes people you are making a mountain out of an ant hill here.

The UN should be investigated for fraud, waste and abuse. Then disbanded for being a drain on the world and doing nothing more then enthralling the weak minded.
 
Its not a criminal investigation, its not even an investigation that can result in anything legally binding for the US or anyone. If you all bothered to look into the case instead of believing so called media source you would quickly see that there is nothing evil or anything about it. For god sakes people you are making a mountain out of an ant hill here.

Thank you, Peter, for injecting some common sense into this discussion. Unreal how people jump the gun without looking at the whole picture.
 
The UN should be investigated for fraud, waste and abuse. Then disbanded for being a drain on the world and doing nothing more then enthralling the weak minded.

And as a good conservative you have zero clue on what the UN actually does. But that is not a shocker since it was you that posted this hit piece in the wrong forum just because you thought it was a way of getting yet another cheap shot at an organisation that you have zero clue on what actually does. If you want to discuss this, and I mean actually discuss this, then start a thread and we can discuss facts and not Fox News/RNC talking points.
 
And as a good conservative you have zero clue on what the UN actually does. But that is not a shocker since it was you that posted this hit piece in the wrong forum just because you thought it was a way of getting yet another cheap shot at an organisation that you have zero clue on what actually does. If you want to discuss this, and I mean actually discuss this, then start a thread and we can discuss facts and not Fox News/RNC talking points.

The UN wastes money, and wants us all to transfer our wealth to the poor nations to stop global warming.

A goal so evil that it should be causing revolt in every independently minded person on the planet.
 
New York isn't different in its outrageously high housing costs from other major cities of the world.

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(note the asterisk next to New York indicating that they are speaking of Upper Manhatten)
 
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The UN/US/UK/Denmark/Australia/random tribal chief in Africa wastes money, and wants us all to transfer our wealth to the poor nations to stop global warming.

A goal so evil that it should be causing revolt in every independently minded person on the planet.

That sounds a bit more realistic. But funny how you have to derail your own thread because you find out that the premiss of the OP was false.... just accept defeat Mr V.
 
Great! Now we have some Euro-clown from the UN telling us we have to create more entitlement programs.
 
New York isn't different in its outrageously high housing costs from other major cities of the world.

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(note the asterisk next to New York indicating that they are speaking of Upper Manhatten)

It aint, but that is not what she is here too look at :) Plus it is the whole US she will be touring. As she stated her mandate is very clear and she believes that the US as one of the few nations who signed the Universal Human Rights Declaration that actually live up to the adequate housing part of the document. So in fact she is praising the US...
 
Great! Now we have some Euro-clown from the UN telling us we have to create more entitlement programs.

Fail yet again.. She aint European.
 
Its not a criminal investigation, its not even an investigation that can result in anything legally binding for the US or anyone. If you all bothered to look into the case instead of believing so called media source you would quickly see that there is nothing evil or anything about it. For god sakes people you are making a mountain out of an ant hill here.

If nothing can come of it, then there's no point in doing it.
 
If nothing can come of it, then there's no point in doing it.

Of course there is lol. The experiences she gets from the US will be used in countries that are not living up to the treaty on this point. Her role is not only "investigating" but more so a consulting role in countries that do not meet the treaty requirements. She aint exactly an idiot in urban planning.... google her and you will see.
 
Of course there is lol. The experiences she gets from the US will be used in countries that are not living up to the treaty on this point. Her role is not only "investigating" but more so a consulting role in countries that do not meet the treaty requirements. She aint exactly an idiot in urban planning.... google her and you will see.

If she wants to investigate housing rights, maybe she should start in Kenya and look at Obama's brother's 6 foot by 10 foot slum hut he has to live in.
 
Why is this in breaking news? At best it should be News 2.0. A blog like thing with a youtube link is hardly mainstream media.

Fact, the person in question has been doing this job since 2008 all around the world. The position has been in place for a very very long time. Her job is pretty simple, namely to investigate, monitor and recommend solutions to human rights problems within her mandated area. And in this case on adequate housing. So it is basically a fact finding mission in New York to see the good and bad of the US housing market and to see if it can be improved or/and if possible human rights violations are occurring... note the possible. From this she gathers experience that she will pass on to other nations when she visits them. She has done this in many countries around the world including many western countries. Hey, who knows, maybe the New York officials might learn a thing or two from her experience.

There is nothing sinister about it, but you would not know that if you trusted the OP source would you.. Things like this is done all the time. US congressmen go on fact finding missions to other countries and we rarely hear a peep about it now do we?

She works for the Human Rights Council the most ineptly misleadingly named organization on the planet, tell me sport has this woman gone to Cuba, Sudan, Pakistan, or other tyrannical dictatorships which sit on the UNHRC to investigate where there are actual human rights violations being committed? Because if not then why is she coming here where people enjoy a far higher standard of living than any of those countries? The UNHRC is a biased joke of an organization populated with tyrannical and genocidal regimes and has absolutely 0 credibility.
 
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She works for the Human Rights Council the most ineptly misleadingly named organization on the planet, tell me sport has this woman gone to Cuba, Sudan, Pakistan, or other tyrannical dictatorships which sit on the UNHRC to investigate where there are actual human rights violations being committed? Because if not then why is she coming here where people enjoy a far higher standard of living than any of those countries? The UNHRC is a biased joke of an organization populated with tyrannical and genocidal regimes and has absolutely 0 credibility.

Who says she has not? Now she wants to see how it is done right maybe? Maybe you missed the part where she praises the US....
 
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