« CONSTITUTION Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next

Re: Putin Has America Right Where He Wants It..

By: lkorrow in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 30 Jun 12 4:57 AM | 72 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner
Msg. 18762 of 21975
(This msg. is a reply to 18761 by DueDillinger)

Jump:
Jump to board:
Jump to msg. #

He doesn't know who to bow the lowest to.

7 Alaska Islands to Russia

Date: June 27, 2012 1:31:55 PM PDT

Obama Donates 7 Alaska Islands to Putin for Zero Dollars

This is what our beloved president Obama has done in 2012 for America so far this year. This was just sent to me and got very little press to keep it unknown from the American public. Please read the following to see what is happening. Why is he getting away with all of this?


Is there a "REST OF THE STORY"?


This article on Feb. 16, 2012 appears in very few places. Apparently, the regular "professional reporters" consider Obama giving away islands belonging to Alaska and part of the United States as no big deal. Obama is giving these islands to Russia for free, no cost, $zero money or any other consideration. Guess what? The state legislature in Alaska (still one of our 50 states) voted several times in opposition to THE GIVEAWAY! The islands have billions of barrels of OIL and Obama could let oil companies lease parts of the islands and start drilling for MORE OIL!!! Should you suspect Obama was trying to sneak this by? Why?

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 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 seabed's 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 Pres. Obama or Sec. 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.

The imperiled Arctic Ocean islands include Wrangel, Bennett, Jeannette, and Henrietta. Wrangel became American in 1881 with the landing of the U.S. Revenue Marine ship Thomas Corwin. The landing party included the famed naturalist John Muir. It is 3,000 square miles in size.

Northwest of Wrangel are the DeLong Islands , named for George Washington DeLong, the captain of USS Jeannette. Also in 1881, he discovered and claimed these three islands for the United States . He named them for the voyage co-sponsor, New York Citynewspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett. The ship's crew received a hero's welcome back in Washington , and Congress awarded them gold medals.

In the Bering Sea at the far west end of the Aleutian chain are Copper Island , Sea Lion Rock and Sea Otter Rock. They were ceded to the U.S. in Seward's 1867 treaty with Russia .

Now is the time for the Obama administration to stand up for U.S. and Alaskan rights and invaluable resources. The State Department's maritime agreement is a loser - it gives us nothing in return for giving up Alaska 's sovereign territory and invaluable resources. We won the Cold War and should start acting like it. Also see Link 1,2 below

Link 1. http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamas-giveaway-oil-rich-islands-to-russia/

Link 2. http://commonamericanjournal.com/?p=39807

The State Dept. Watch says: http://www.statedepartmentwatch.org/GiveawaySummary.htm




Avatar


- - - - -
View Replies (1) »



» You can also:
- - - - -
The above is a reply to the following message:
Putin Has America Right Where He Wants It..
By: DueDillinger
in CONSTITUTION
Sat, 30 Jun 12 4:50 AM
Msg. 18761 of 21975

Thanks to Obama's inept diplomacy.

Last week's G-20 summit was the first time U.S. President Barack Obama had seen his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, since 2009. An account of their long, loveless meeting on the sidelines of the conference, along with photographs of their unhappy tête-a-tête, was splashed on the front page of the New York Times. The real story belonged in the obituary section: The "reset," Obama's attempt to mend relations with Putin's Russia, is dead. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed it.

But the two countries' fundamental disagreement about what to do about Assad, the dictator whose bloody attempts to suppress a popular revolt has resulted in the deaths of 14,000 Syrians, was only the last straw for a policy that has been on life support since its inception. On a vast array of issues -- ranging from human rights to Iran to the territorial integrity of the post-Soviet states -- Russian behavior has consistently been a thorn in the side of the United States and its allies. The reset only provided Obama with a justification to cover his retreat in the face of Russia's advance.

Worth reading the rest...

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/28/putin_has_america_right_where_he_wants_it

Uploaded Image

∆∆


« CONSTITUTION Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next