Posted on 01/26/2015 4:54:31 PM PST by Nachum
In May 1881 US explorers approached Jeannette Island, Wrangell Island and Henrietta Island in the Arctic Ocean and claimed them for the United States.
But according to the Obama Department of State no claim exists today over these US islands. In fact the State Department is conspiring with Russian President Putin to give away Wrangell Island to Russians. Wrangell and its 200 mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) has billions of barrels of oil/gas reserves and hundreds of millions of pounds of fisheries. It also has a strategic military location for tracking Russian moves in Arctic.
The Coast Guard is a component of the Department of Homeland Security. It unequivocally states:
“On 12 August 1881, he [William Reynolds] was at the head of the party that landed on what would be later named Wrangell Island and took possession of the island in the name of the United States.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
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They want to buy Putin into the NWO.
What’s an island between communists? Now if it were a country, that would be another story.
The Undocumented First Moslem PROMISED
to be more flexible, with continuing
help from the corrupt, enabling, hated EXEMPT Congress,
after the election.
Maybe he should give them California. They wouldn’t have to change much there.
He should have at least made them pay for it. But he’s a foreigner and a bastard and should be impeached.
I’m scratching my head over this one. This is an island off the coast of Siberia. The U.S. government agreed it was on the Russian side of the boundary in the Bush 41 administration.
This story has been popping up once or twice a year for years now.
During his circumnavigation of the world, English seaman Francis Drake anchors in a harbor just north of present-day San Francisco, California, and claims the territory for Queen Elizabeth I.
Do you have any maps between 1881 and 2008 that shows these islands as possessions of the U.S.?
What about the decades that the Soviets occupied these islands?
These islands are off the north coast of Siberia.
These islands are surrounded by ice and ice floes most of the year. Why is this crap being posted again on FR?
He can certainly give thm California. Would not be missed except for Disneyland.
The article is garbage.
I blame Obama for about everything including tooth decay. But he has nothing to do with Russia controlling this island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island
and NotsBerry Farm.
Disney World is bigger, we can do without Disneyland and Hollywood...No problem.
If some guy who has never been in my neighborhood pulls up and parks in my driveway, he doesn’t own my house.
I would kind of miss Canoga Park, because it has the Rocketdyne division of United Technologies. Even though I've never been there.
Putin or Obama?
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