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letter_factory
19th February 2012, 07:36 AM
The Obama Administration is reportedly giving away Wrangell, Bennett, Jeannette and Henrietta islands in Alaska to Russia. The federal government drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side
Former senatorial candidate Joe Miller broke this story at World Net Daily (http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/obamas-giveaway-oil-rich-islands-to-russia/):
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. This is despite the fact the Alaska Legislature has passed resolutions of opposition – but the State Department doesn’t seem to care.


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/02/report-obama-administration-is-giving-away-7-strategic-islands-to-russia/

letter_factory
19th February 2012, 07:39 AM
The resulting U.S.-U.S.S.R. Maritime Boundary Treaty was passed by the
Senate and ratified by former President George Bush in 1991. Russia,
however, never ratified the treaty because its leaders complained that the
U.S.S.R. didn’t benefit enough from it.
Nevertheless, former U.S. Secretary of State Jim Baker and the Soviet
Union’s Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze signed a secretive
executive agreement the year before that bound both governments to the
treaty.


Hope for change!

mamboni
19th February 2012, 09:04 AM
Sounds like a state's right issue to me. I hope that Alaska makes a huge stink about this. The federal government has to right to carve up a state without the latter's consent.

osoab
19th February 2012, 11:32 AM
Must be bond redemption time.

Is China only getting California?

midnight rambler
19th February 2012, 11:58 AM
Must be bond redemption time.

Is China only getting California?


Mexico got southern Californicate.

vacuum
19th February 2012, 02:31 PM
There was a time I probably would have been pissed about this, but I find myself having no strong feelings about it. Other than the very important fact that mamboni brought up, which is, where does the federal government think they can give away portions of a state to another country?