Admonished by the UN for human rights violations, the US is now a 3rd world country.

[Hasbinbad]

Hi mainstream media! I didn't see you there. OH WAIT, YOU WEREN'T THERE AFTER ALL!!

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies...33-Add4_en.pdf

[Uthgaard]

This is just a report on water sanitation. All it says is most people in virginia aren't up to code, and homeless people don't have good access to clean water. I've never experienced any difficulty finding a way to tap into public water no matter matter how far from home I am. And sewage isn't required to be replaced every time the building code changes or every certain time interval, only when someone makes new construction.

Aside from this, water purification is simple and accessible to anyone. A fully effective water filter can be made from bituminous and anthracite coal, sand, plastic, garnet and gravel. Same accessible stuff that's in military water filters. Chlorine and citric acid will neutralize any microbes and the pH. Reverse osmosis is the only part that might seem a little tricky, but guess what? A $50 pool filter has the same RO element and the pump.

You can get water from anywhere. Ponds and lakes are surface representations of the water table (that's how far down you have to go to get water). If you're 25 miles from water, you can take a topographic map, find the water gradient from the difference in elevation between the nearest pools, dig about that far down. As long as it doesn't smell like sulfur, you've got a well. If it does, move about 10 yards and try again.

Simple stuff. Now no one from p99 should ever die of thirst.

This is worse than your Time magazine thing (by the way both things were on both front page covers, if you looked).

[Hasbinbad]

Yes Uthgaard, the United Nations investigated the United States of America's indigent populations so that it could write us an essay. ..for what? ..college credits?

GTFO with that nonsense dude, The UN doesn't make "reccomendations" regarding "human rights issues" for "no reason."

[Uthgaard]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Like how we're just swimming in funds for infrastructure right now right? Like how discretionary spending isn't just a piggy bank for the air force, but actually is spending of our tax dollars used with discretion.. RIGHT??

When was the last time you drove on a road in the United States bro?

Getting to the right answer isn't about responding with what you're sure is a witty response, that really has nothing to do with the topic.

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yes Uthgaard, the United Nations investigated the United States of America's indigent populations so that it could write us an essay. ..for what? ..college credits?

Go back here, and answer your own questions. That means you need to do a little bit of research on the UN and what it does, why it does it, and at what intervals it writes routine assessments of every country, and then reconsider whether the writing of a routine assessment equals your ridiculous accusations. Hint: You'll find that by your logic, every country in the UN is third world.

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Uthgaard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Getting to the right answer isn't about responding with what you're sure is a witty response, that really has nothing to do with the topic.

You are over nine hundred thousand percent wrong. It has everything to do with the topic. If you read the report, you would see that the UN calls into serious question our plan and ability to move beyond nineteenth century technology as far as clean water distribution and sanitation for our most marginalized people. This is an infrastructure problem (you know, roads and aqueducts and things?), and our inability to meet our own needs as it pertains to infrastructure while simultaneously borrowing money from yellow people to kill brown people to the total tune of trillions of dollars over time is one of my central issues with this government, and the reason why this particular subject garnered my interest in the first place.

Originally Posted by Uthgaard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Go back here, and answer your own questions. That means you need to do a little bit of research on the UN and what it does, why it does it, and at what intervals it writes routine assessments of every country, and then reconsider whether the writing of a routine assessment equals your ridiculous accusations. Hint: You'll find that by your logic, every country in the UN is third world.

I mean, I see your point Uth, I do know what the UN is and what it does in a very general sense. That being said, I would be surprised if you could find that the UN told a majority of "1st world countries" that they had low confidence in a plan or ability to implement a basic human right. If that is true, it makes us - AT THE VERY LEAST - "towards the bottom of all developed countries as far as the sustainability of basic human rights for their citizens."

Spin that however you want. Do your own research. I know (based on 1,000 swabs in five different communities in the bay area, part of a biological assay in my biotech program) that with our current water deployment technology, bacterial swabs of the vast majority of water outlets will yield viable colonies of E. coli, S. marcescens, S. aureus, and S. Enteriditis, among other nice little critters (the four listed were on ~90% of the 'clean' water outlets tested, with a smattering of other organisms found here and there). I know (based on hella hella documentaries and YouTube videos, and hella independent media reports / interviews) that in certain places in this country, corporations are allowed to rape nature in such a way as to make the ground water fucking flammable.

Let alone what fucking chemical impurities we allow into the "clean" water system at large.. Can you say "excreted in the urine?"

You've really got to be fucking kidding me dude. I know you're an educated person, but you're arguing the impossible. Shit is going to get worse, not better, and if we don't do something about it, the UN is going to be the least of our worries.

[Uthgaard]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Shit is going to get worse, not better, and if we don't do something about it, the UN is going to be the least of our worries.

This is me worried. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I just told you how to get clean drinking in bulk water no matter what. Sure, there's shit in the water. There is in every country, industrialized or not. I depend on myself, not others. I don't really care if the water is crap. There are about 100 ways to make pure water even without a traditional water source.

This is what the UN does. It runs around writing papers on things to see where things stand. You're acting as if they singled out the US and said, human rights violators! When that's as ridiculous saying that a restaurant is racist because the health inspectors did a routine checkup.

[Uthgaard]

The nonsense is this crap you keep posting. I'm not sure what your source is, but the theme I'm seeing is someone who thinks they think, but is too biased to do it. Critical thinking is the enemy of proving a point, and the ally of finding the true story.

Look up the answers your own questions. You might be surprised how moot your points are.

[Hasbinbad]

Like how we're just swimming in funds for infrastructure right now right? Like how discretionary spending isn't just a piggy bank for the air force, but actually is spending of our tax dollars used with discretion.. RIGHT??

When was the last time you drove on a road in the United States bro?

[Diggles]

I want to be a 2nd world country

[loopholbrook]

http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/itunes.pdf
If you look in one of the paragraphs in the middle you will see that the US is not a third world country. This link shows how completely idiotic your post is.