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Russia Claims North Pole for Itself, Plants Titanium Russian Flag on Floor of Arctic Ocean
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| 8/05/15
| Morgan Chalfant
Posted on 09/01/2015 3:57:59 PM PDT by Libloather
Russia formally staked its claim Tuesday to a large portion of the Arctic Ocean that includes the North Pole, even planting a flag on the floor of the ocean below the area to exercise its control.
If the United Nations committee that arbitrates sea boundaries accepts Russia’s claim, the waters will be subject to Moscow’s oversight on economic matters, including fishing and oil and gas drilling, though Russia will not have full sovereignty. Under a 1982 United Nations convention, the Law of the Sea, a nation may claim an exclusive economic zone over the continental shelf abutting its shores. If the shelf extends far out to sea, so can the boundaries of the zone. The claim Russia lodged on Tuesday contends that the shelf extends far north of the Eurasian land mass, out under the planet’s northern ice cap.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 1982; antifracking; arctic; continentalshelf; crimea; donetsk; energy; flag; fracking; landgrabs; lawofthesea; methane; ocean; opec; petroleum; putinsbuttboys; resources; russia; territorialclaims; ukraine; vladtheimploder
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To: Libloather
Flag or no flag, the USS Nautilus was there first in 1958.
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:01:00 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:01:03 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Embrace the suck)
To: Libloather
Notice how all the countries with bad intentions have gone into overdrive because they know the P*SSY in the White House will be leaving soon?
0dingo is too busy helping Iran to worry about China's island building in the pacific or Russia's land grabs in the Arctic.
U.S. weakness like this makes my BLOOD BOIL.
To: Libloather
Ahhh...So that’s what Putin was doing in that little bubble submarine!
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:03:33 PM PDT
by
woofer2425
(Obama inhales immensely!)
To: Libloather
Meanwhile in Portland Oregon, the local communists blocked Shell’s icebreaker with arctic drilling equipment.
To: CivilWarBrewing
Nailed it. They know that if someone with a big brass pair is elected, we'll go toe-to-toe. Steal what you can while Barney Fife is in charge.
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:06:00 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(The Avatar is back by popular request.)
To: Libloather
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:06:50 PM PDT
by
Rusty0604
To: Libloather
Santa and his Elves OBJTECT!!!
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:06:55 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Libloather
Vladimir, the other nine year old...
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:14:47 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
To: Libloather
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:15:50 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: CivilWarBrewing
I’d love to whisper to Obama. Wait until after the next election. Trump will have the opportunity to be more flexible.
Count on it skippy.
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:17:18 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
To: Libloather
President Obama was briefed the afternoon and immediately got on the phone to Putin.
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:20:13 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
To: Libloather
Let’s go pull the damn flag out!
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:21:41 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: DoughtyOne
President Trump would probably send a submarine up there to accidentally tip over that flag. No intentionally.
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:22:00 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
To: Bryanw92
Great year! The year of b4!
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:22:18 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: McGruff
Cruz will torpedo it. On porpoise!
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:23:16 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: McGruff
Let this nutjob think he’s won a victory. The next guy that comes long, start some sane talks to address the issue.
That flag and my burps warrant just about an equal amount of attention.
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:27:40 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
To: Libloather
Vlad just got put on Santa’s naughty list.
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:30:28 PM PDT
by
bgill
( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Bryanw92
Weren’t we the first to leave a flag on the moon?
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:34:04 PM PDT
by
Sasparilla
(If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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