[lowbridge]

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[lowbridge]

In a follow-up interview with Mr. Connaughton, I asked him about the commercial side of the treaty that establishes for the first time a commercial venture called the "Enterprise" that will charge $250,000 for the right to mine the ocean sea beds. Since this is a U.N. Treaty, proceeds will go to the U.N.

Just what the UN needed...more open doors for corruption.

[Wonder Warthog]

"When I asked about if the purpose of the Law of the Sea was to protect history, he said, "It is one very successful component of implementation because whenever someone discovered a missing ship from history, they had total rights to it.""

Translation--"we can't have those nasty capitalists getting their hands on the gold and other goodies from sunken Spanish ships".

[doc30]

Doesn't this treaty have some serious military implications? Something about making it illegal for submarines to travel while submerged under certain circumstances. Also aren't there restrictions on the activities of naval vessels like needing U.N. permission to be in international waters? I thought parts of this treated were designed to keep the U.S. navy from going outside U.S. waters or some such nonsense. Anyone have info on this?

[William Terrell]

Why not just contract with the Mafia to provide municipal police forces?

[Lazamataz]

The only place in the world where there was essentially no law was the open sea.

Now they are planning to remedy that little loophole.

[hedgetrimmer]

Geez, I'm out of touch for 3 days and look what happens!

So the most corrupt organization in the world that has pulled of the most expensive rip off of taxpayer and public money(oil for food) is in charge of the oceans. Which means they are in charge of commerce, oil, natural resources (mining) and fishing.

Just great.

I ask you to please personally contact your senators and get in writing how they voted for it. We need to keep track of these people and vote the internationalists out of office.

[RightWhale]

if property rights are to be associated, they can be done in arrangement with science.

By property rights they mean resource development rights. This is probably how outer space property rights will go as well.

[sauropod]

sad ping.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Is it too late to write our senators? I still don't understand why the U.S. or the administration would be in favor of it.

[highlander_UW]

In a follow-up interview with Mr. Connaughton, I asked him about the commercial side of the treaty that establishes for the first time a commercial venture called the "Enterprise" that will charge $250,000 for the right to mine the ocean sea beds.

It all comes down to another way for the UN to make money. The UN is shameless.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

I venture that since the Law of the Sea is a done deal that this new agreement will be made part of the Law of the Sea legislation – or perhaps it will be the other way around. Since "we the people" have become nothing more than serfs with government collecting our tax dollars and using them without representation, it is our freedoms, using the treaty's acronym, that have been LOST!
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Guys, This is a bet on which you can "bet the farm". Or lose it. Peace and love, George.