The North Pole is Ours, Not Russia's

aim.org ^ | August 4, 2007 | Cliff Kincaid

[bboop]

EVERYONE knows it belongs to Santa.

[JohnA]

Whaddya gonna do? Go back to the 15th Century to stake claims like colonists (per Peter McKay - Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs)? Ratify the damn treaty.

[OCC]

In your face, Putin!

[eyedigress]

There is a clause in the international agreement which relates to your specific continental shelf. Russia is claiming the shelf which encompasses their continent indeed encompasses the North Pole. It will be interesting to watch this.

[puppypusher]

Actually the U.S. could make a claim for the Arctic because the U.S.S. Nautilus cruised right through there in the 1960’s.Now who’s to say that the crew of the Nautilus did not leave a flag on the floor of the Arctic ocean.No one would have seen it happen and couldn’t prove otherwise..

[SevenofNine]

All North Pole belong to Santa and Polar bear perhaps Looter guy

[tdewey10]

LOST. Is there a worse unratified treaty out there?

[RasterMaster]

Putin must be smokin’ rope....they lost all rights when they sold off Alaska.

[dufekin]

Yes. The Kyoto Voluntary Economic Implosion Treaty is the worst.

[monkapotamus]

[BallyBill]

Oh Yes!

The U.N., they'll handle it. They will probably give it to Uganda or something brilliant."Yes, they need the ice, it is very hot in Uganda"

[SevenofNine]

HOW CUTEEE Monk you disappoint me where is Santa LOL!
NO Vlady where is Santa that main hood the North Pole I hope Looter guy get some Christmas gift this year

[CremeSaver]

That’s what I was thinking, as if the US could ever get a fair hearing in that pit of vipers called the UN. What a joke.

[motor_racer]

Nothing is yours save that which you take and hold by force.

[Charles Martel]

EVERYONE knows it belongs to Santa.

Yep, and if I were Putin, I wouldn't go messing with the guy...

[Citizen Tom Paine]

As I recall, sovereignty - supreme power or authority, in the ocean was based on how far the King’s cannon could shoot. Outside the three mile limit he could not exercise sovereignty. Loosely applied, it means what one can take and hold by force or by the agreement of other concerned nations. Only very recently has the US put stress on treaties.

[ModelBreaker]

Whaddya gonna do? Go back to the 15th Century to stake claims like colonists (per Peter McKay - Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs)? Ratify the damn treaty.

Any treaty that gives the UN any permanent funding source is a very, very bad idea. The UN must be kept completely dependent on donations by member states. As soon as it cuts the tether to the member states, you will start seeing standing UN armies (in fact, the UN recently proposed that it have a standing army).

For example, the UN managed to convert it's role in the Oil-For-Food money transfers into huge sums of money for the UN. It will do the same for Law of the Sea.

The UN was a bad idea in the first place, advanced in the US by communist agents (Alger Hiss) in the State Dept. If I had my way, it would be disbanded today. But in the absence of that, I oppose any augmentation of its power in any manner.

[vetsvette]

“Yet, the U.S. State Department wants to turn the whole matter over to the United Nations.”

Of course we do — it’s the dumbest possible move, so that’s what the State Dept. wants to do. Makes perfect sense.

[F.J. Mitchell]

And who plays Santa to the whole d*mn world? The USA, that’s who.