2) The U.S. has never actually claimed the islands. Russia claimed the islands back under the Tzars.
3)The treaty on the maritime border was negotiated in 1990 and ratified by the Senate and signed by President Bush in 1991.
A map of the islands:
Posted on 03/02/2012 5:57:22 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
Exclusive: Joe Miller sounds alarm over deal to put land in hands of Putin's Kremlin
The Obama administration, despite the nation’s economic woes, effectively killed the job-producing Keystone Pipeline last month. The Arab Spring is turning the oil production of Libya and other Arab nations over to the Muslim Brotherhood. Iraq is distancing itself from the U.S. And everyone recognizes that Iran, whose crude supplies are critical to the European economy, will do anything it can to frustrate America’s strategic interests. In the face of all of this, Obama insists on cutting back U.S. oil potential with outrageous restrictions.
Part of Obama’s apparent war against U.S. energy independence includes a foreign-aid program that directly threatens my state’s sovereign territory. Obama’s State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin.
The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. The Russians are also to get the tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds surrounding the islands. The Department of Interior estimates billions of barrels of oil are at stake.
The State Department has undertaken the giveaway in the guise of a maritime boundary agreement between Alaska and Siberia. Astoundingly, our federal government itself drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side. But as an executive agreement, it could be reversed with the stroke of a pen by President Obama or Secretary Clinton.
The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy. The state of Alaska was not allowed to participate in the negotiations, nor was the public given any opportunity for comment.
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Joe Miller was the 2010 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Alaska.
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I have an old atlas which proved to me that the article was a bunch of bull.
1) It would not surprise me if obama had indirect or direct contact with kgb persons in his youth, he is one type of profile and hung out with people they might have found useful
2) he may have been debriefed/etc. when he was briefly detained in russia a few years back. they certainly had him alone for several hours.
3) a map is useful for looking at this case here. the only real question is whether there are counter-claims of russia’s that should logically have been withdrawn as part of this deal, because the islands themselves are far, far from what anyone is going to look at and call american.
Anyone got a map?
While I’m not a fan of Obama, he is not selling out US sovereignty, at least on this issue. The United States has NEVER claimed the islands. If you look at an atlas, you will clearly see they are to the north of Siberia and are not near Alaska or the Aleutian Islands.
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Some U.S. individuals assert American ownership of Henrietta Island based on the 1881 discovery and claim. A resolution of the Alaska State Senate in 1988 supported this claim. There also are various documents from the former Department of the Navy stating that the United States asserts sovereignty over the island. However, according to the U.S. Department of State in 2003, the U.S. government has never claimed Henrietta Island. In 1994, the Alaska State Supreme Court ruled in D. Denardo v. State of Alaska that Henrietta Island, along with several islands, is not part of Alaska.
This is obama’s jimmy carter moment.
2) The U.S. has never actually claimed the islands. Russia claimed the islands back under the Tzars.
3)The treaty on the maritime border was negotiated in 1990 and ratified by the Senate and signed by President Bush in 1991.
A map of the islands:
Exactly what Obama is doing!
HINT: The name Hussein is a dead give away
Yes, a map would be nice. I recall reading an article back in the 70’s about how Wrangell Island was considered geologically part of Alaska, included in the Alaskan sale of 1867 and was even explored by Americans. But one day in the 1920’s, Russian marines showed up, occupied the island and later set up a forced labor camp. FDR’s State Department basically signed it over to them so as not to damage the World War II alliance.
What does an old atlas have anything to do with the article? Please explain your strange comparison. I can show you that it’s true because I have a newer map of Alaska. How’s that for the explanation.
I have no idea who has title to any of these islands, but:
How in the hell can Zer0 or Hitlary make any kind of a ownership proclamation without a vote on a new ownership treaty by the full Senate????
Or, is that old curled up parchment document getting in Zer0’s way once again???
probably. he acts 1) in the intersts of russia and 2) in the interests of trans-nationalist radical islam. choose your poison, he seems to do both.
I didn’t know this, and it is interesting.
You can read the Treaty: Google the Avalon Project
Sometimes these treaties are rewritten to better define a line. The 1783 USA/British Treaty defining the division between the US and Canada wasn't "accurately" defined until the Treaty of Ghent in 1814.
They would seem to be on the Russian side of the line.
And # 11 shows some history.
I used the posted map as a starting point in google map and google world. Islands in question where not even labeled.
You are incorrect on point 2. These islands were claimed by officers of the US Navy on the Jeannette Expedition in 1881. My ancestor perished on that expedition, so I want to make sure the facts are correct. Page 21 of “In The Lena Delta” by George Wallace Melville describes claiming Henrietta Island for the US. http://books.google.com/books?id=O20SAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (see page 21). See also the official Navy records here: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/ev-1880s/jean-c.htm
This is official Navy history, but apparently the State Dept. decided to rewrite history in 2003 and disavowed this historical claim, likely to gain favor with Russia. The brave men of the USS Jeannette discovered and claimed these islands for the U.S. which is a historical fact. It’s disgusting that their memory and extreme sacrifice would be lessened by the very country they proudly served.
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