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Originally Posted by DDoug
VK you are really complicating things now we have to get Obama thing out of the way first,but still very interesting subject. That is going to be a hard one to answer. This could be a leading matter to head towards the one government world.Really dont want to go to that but it could be the created crisis that the powers would want to start. As the politictions have said dont waste a crisis.
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That's the problem. Governing
IS complicated! Our elected officials--and the public who only listens to the partisan arguments they feed to us--completely ignore important issues in favor of spending all their time making partisan political arguments, trying to get re-elected and gain more power.
While our Congress is arguing with one another, one side trying to displace the other side's President and then vice-versa when an election changes things, life is going on without U.S. involvement and influence. The Russians planted their flag hundreds of miles out on the ocean floor of the continental shelf extending out from their boundaries into the oil and resource-rich Arctic Ocean. They have claimed ownership of those reserves uncontested by the U.S. They have begun exploration. They have begun the business of extracting oil and selling it. They will soon begin shipping the oil within a few miles of our western coastline. All without our involvement or influence.
Here's an article you might consider. Note the following excerpt from the middle of thr article...
...The Third Law of the Sea Conference created a UN body — the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf — whose mandate is to decide the claims concerning the continental shelf. The Commission is made up of independent experts drawn from states which have ratified the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention. There are no U.S. members on the Commission as the USA has not ratified the Convention, due to narrow nationalistic fears in the U.S. Senate. There are efforts currently underway to revive Senate action on the Law of the Sea Convention, but even if the USA ratifies, there will not be a vacant seat on the Continental Shelf Commission for some time (until one of the countries sitting on the Commission vacates their seat to permit the seating of a "late ratifying" nation)...
So while those governing the U.S. are bickering about who will be re-elected to the White House and those sweet 535 jobs in the capital, the world goes on. And the Russians are proceeding to claim the huge oil reserves and other natural resources off our northern coastline. Countries such as Nigeria, Mauritus, Romania, Cameroon, Ghana and The Seychelles have a vote on the matter...we don't!
Here, read about it...
http://www.theoservice.org/node/155