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| Russia Claims North Pole | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 5 2015, 05:29 AM (173 Views) | |
| Catseye | Aug 5 2015, 05:29 AM Post #1 |
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Pisa-Carp
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From The American Interest's "Seven In The Morning" dispatch: Russia Claims North Pole Moscow just staked claim to the land of Santa's workshop, if you believe that sort of thing. The Kremlin submitted a claim to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (UNCLCS) that would expand Moscow's Arctic holdings by some 463,000 square miles, using the informal-sounding Law of the Sea to include a vast new swathe of territory on the grounds that it extends from Russia's continental shelf. A similar claim was rejected by the UNCLCS 13 years ago, but Russia hopes new research from a fleet of vessels that has patrolled Arctic waters in those intervening years will produce a different outcome this time around. Moscow wants to get a leg-up on the other Arctic nations—Norway, Denmark, Canada, and yes, the U.S. -- in a region scientists promise is opening up as our planet's warming surface temperatures melt its ice. An ice-free Arctic will present a host of new strategic interests and concerns, not least of which includes the opening of new international shipping lanes. But we'd be remiss not to mention that the Arctic is estimated to contain 13 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves, a fact not lost on Russia -- or Canada for that matter, which itself has already tried to extend its exclusive economic zone in the region. Who said the days of exploration and land grabbing were over? |
| "How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex | |
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| Copper | Aug 5 2015, 05:47 AM Post #2 |
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Shortstop
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Maybe if we apologize and draw a line in the snow they will go away. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 5 2015, 05:48 AM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Indeed not! Can't blame them. They have 142 million mouths to feed. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Renauda | Aug 5 2015, 07:45 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Based upon what I heard discussed on the BBC World Service yesterday, believe that the Russian claim is reasonable and geographically provable under international law. I am equally sure that that some North American politicians such as Stephen Harper, will disregard the reasonableness and scientific veracity of the claim for their own domestic political profit. |
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| sue | Aug 5 2015, 08:23 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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well yeah. Our Stephen isn't a big fan of science. |
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