Battle for oil rests not on flags but on obscure UN panel (L.O.S.T.)

Financial Times Deutschland ^ | von Michael Peel and Daniel Dombey (London)

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The complication with Unclos is Washington's reluctance - not for the first time - to submit to UN authority by ratifying a treaty approved by much of the rest of the world.

President George W. Bush has called on the Senate to ratify the treaty to "secure US sovereign rights over extensive marine areas, including the valuable natural resources they contain", as well as giving Washington formal negotiating rights.

Negotiating rights?

[wastedyears]

There’s no sovereignty in submitting to a global government.

[Issaquahking]

Quit sending the damn fools money and the U.N. will be bankrupt in three months.Why are we turning a fox in the loose in the hen house?

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There’s no sovereignty in submitting to a global government.

Exactly!

A secured and controlled border is a pipe dream, it'll never happen.

Just peeling the onion.

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Quit sending the damn fools money and the U.N.

Take a peek at my home page when you have some time and see just how much our government gives to this corrupt organization.

Why are we turning a fox in the loose in the hen house?

Come on now, get with the program. What are you a believer in national sovereignty? /sac

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

bttt

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We’re gonna lose this country to the un if we ain’t very careful and diligent.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

You are right.

I have hope that there are enough folks still awake to reverse the progress the socialists are making.

[RightWhale]

to submit to UN authority

Impossible to submit to a nonexistent. Even the 'treaty' is not a Treaty. Unlike the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty, which also has nothing to do with the nonexistent UN authority.

[Smokin' Joe]

We're going to let the 'oil for food' gang decide who gets the plum and who gets the pits? Off our shores?

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I have hope that there are enough folks still awake to reverse the progress the socialists are making.

There are plenty. They're simply dozing for now but they'll be roused soon enough.

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Impossible to submit to a nonexistent. Even the 'treaty' is not a Treaty.

Get back to me when that non-treaty is voted on. Maybe you should tell Bush there's no such thing and he'll stop pushing it.

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We're going to let the 'oil for food' gang decide who gets the plum and who gets the pits? Off our shores?

If this this administration gets its way-yes.

[RightWhale]

He luvs this kind of thing even if it’s not a treaty exactly. International trade is the game. The 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty we know about and so does he, but he is in no hurry to do something about that either, and that is his Prime Maxim: There is no hurry to do something.

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This may come as a surprise to you but have you ever heard of Executive Order 13366?

[RightWhale]

No

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When you have some time, you probably should have a look at it.

[RightWhale]

Since it is an EO and I am not in the FedGov Exec Branch it has nothing to do with me. How about an Exec summary since I am wasting valuable Retirement time getting sidetracked on nothingness.

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How about an Exec summary since I am wasting valuable Retirement time getting sidetracked on nothingness.

I'm not your private secretary, do it yourself. You're retired.

If your not willing to do the leg work yourself, have you ever considered staying off these threads if you don't have the time to put forth an engaging argument. You're always on these trying to twist and turn everything on them.

Are you a retired un worker?

[RightWhale]

Take an interest in the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty.