Keep settin' `em up, I'll keep knockin' `em down.
Posted on 05/20/2012 10:18:50 AM PDT by Innovative
A proposed Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which has been signed by President Obama but not yet ratified by Congress, will subordinate U.S. naval and drilling operations beyond 200 miles of our coast to a newly established U.N. bureaucracy. If approved, it will grant a Kingston, Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority (ISA) the power to regulate deep-sea oil exploration, seabed mining, and fishing rights.
As part of the deal, as much as 7% of U.S. government revenue that is collected from oil and gas companies operating off our coast will be forked over to ISA for redistribution to poorer, landlocked countries. This apparently is in penance for America's audacity in perpetuating prosperity yielded by our Industrial Revolution.
Like the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol debacle that preceded it, this most recent LOST cause embodies the progressive ideal of subordinating the sovereignty of nation states to authoritarian dictates of a world body. The U.S. would have one vote out of 160 regarding where the money would go, and be obligated to hand over offshore drilling technology to any nation that wants it... for free.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Obama is actively working for the destruction of the US and our sovereignty.
Highly recommend: READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE and save it.
Can this nation survive a second Obama term? I’m becoming more doubtful.
He can sign all the treaties he wants, still needs 67 Senate votes.
Nobody believed he would be able to pass Obamacare either.
BUT don’t forget that Congress DID pass Obamacare — what makes you think he won’t bribe and blackmail enough Senators/House reps that he can’t get this passed?
Damn the Constitutional crisis ... INVESTIGATE AND REMOVE THIS ILLEGAL USURPER !!!!
Can we survive Obama’s first term?
It will be much simpler to simply NOT reelect him, and the ONLY way to do that is for every sensible person to run, not walk to the polls and vote for Romney to defeat Obama.
When your house is burning down, are you going to stop the firefighters from saving it, because you have a personal dislike of the particular firefighter who is trying to save your house?
Obama acan sign any thing he wishes but it’s worthless without the Senate’s consent.
When your house is burning down, are you going to stop the firefighters from saving it, because you have a personal dislike of the particular firefighter who is trying to save your house?
That’s exactly right.
And Obama's favorite Republican backer of LOST got defeated in his primary. I doubt his example will be lost among Republican incumbents who still face primaries this year or face reelection in 2014.
We’ve down to the last six months of Obama’s first term. I think we can hang in there that long, bad as things are.
We can block some of this garbage if we elect the right people in the House and Senate.
Anyone thinking of sitting out the election this fall because of Romney; quit complaining and get to work for political candidates down the ticket.
Stay out of the POTUS race if you want; but work hard for other candidates.
Keep settin' `em up, I'll keep knockin' `em down.
This is plain and simple pandering to the eco left-wing base.
No doubt some rich San Francisco commie with deep pockets ordered Obama to sign this in exchange for campaign cash.
Just remember, nobody thought Obamacare will pass Congress either...
Good point. Or put it another way, the doctor that saved your life may not have a good bedside manner, but still he did his job. We can’t afford four more years of this.
That's incorrect. There is a certain binding legality on a signed treaty regardless of its ratification, that constrains the actions of the signing executive authority -- and future congressional legislation.
That is why Bill Clinton made a cottage industry of signing left-wing U.N. bullcrap "treaties" and "conventions" that would never see the light of day in the Senate. He did it to impede the U.S. and show "good faith" like a good liberal dipshit.
The next real Republican president needs to submit all these unratified treaties and conventions to the Senate for ratification. The Senate then needs to stomp on them, hard, and the president then needs to denounce and abrogate the treaty -- then the U.S. will be completely free of said treaties.
Including, if it comes down to it, the U.N. Treaty.
Of course, R-Money, the current RiNO/Yacht Club/NWO candidate, wouldn't touch any of those NWO holy grails -- hell, he would probably sign some more of 'em if Bribeme Annan and Bunko Moon pushed them Mitty's way.
Senate gears up for Law of the Sea Treaty push
“The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has scheduled a hearing next week on the decades-old international Law of the Sea Treaty, confirming the Senate’s desire to try again for ratification after failing five years ago.
The treaty is championed by the State and Defense departments, which argue that the treaty would create a new legal framework for the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes. It has already been signed by more than 160 countries.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey are all slated to testify Wednesday, underscoring that ratification is a priority for the administration. The Senate is expected to take it up this summer.”
Just think what Obama will do in his second term...
Obama and Reid’s plan to drive this POS down America’s throats after the election in the next “lame duck” session!
Obama Seeks Sovereignty Surrender Via LOST Treaty
http://news.investors.com/article/610769/201205081849/obama-pushes-law-of-the-sea-treaty.htm
“Sovereignty: Even if he’s not re-elected, the president hopes to leave behind a treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and to which we’d be required to give half of our offshore oil revenue.
The Law Of The Sea Treaty (LOST) has been lurking in the shadows for decades. Like the Kyoto Protocol that pretended to be an effort to save the earth from the poisoned fruit of the Industrial Revolution, LOST pretends to be an effort to protect the world’s oceans from environmental damage and remove it as a cause of potential conflicts between nations.
Like its Kyoto cousin, LOST is an attempt at the global redistribution of power and wealth, the embodiment of the progressive dream of the end of the nation state as we know it and the end of political freedom by giving veto over all of mankind’s activities to a global body — in this case something called the International Seabed Authority, located in Kingston, Jamaica.”
I might not question a “real” fireman... but if some guy on a bicycle wearing a black suit and tie starts to run in with a can of gasoline, I might.
Living in Texas, I have the luxury of voting third-party (right now the Ailurophile Party has some appeal, as does the Universal Janitors Party) and not having to worry about Obozo ever taking this great State -- hey, that's a large part of why Texas is great! -- but you can bet I'll be trying to help the down-ticket races. As time goes by, we'll need either more re-migration homewards of the Mexican hosts, or a lot of voter education.
I recently was redistricted out of Sheila Jackson Lee's district into that of Rep. Ted Poe, who is one of the best congresscritters in the Lone Star delegation, and my state rep (a Tejana liberal Dim) also went away, replaced by an energetic young Republican. To say I was deliriously happy when I finally read my new voter-registration card is to understate the obvious!
Well, it is kind of hard when RINOs take more consultation advice from him than Bill Clinton would...
Bill Clinton insisted he had “no relationship” with Obama and had been consulted more frequently by his presidential successor, George W. Bush.
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/mb.asp?cmd=display&forum_id=0&thread_id=3169673
“we want you to be successful”, “Islam is peace”
According to our Constitution a treaty must first be approved by the senate before a President can sign it.
Well, it is kind of hard when RINOs take more consultation advice from him than Bill Clinton would...
Bill Clinton insisted he had “no relationship” with Obama and had been consulted more frequently by his presidential successor, George W. Bush.
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/mb.asp?cmd=display&forum_id=0&thread_id=3169673
“we want you to be successful”, “Islam is peace”
Boehner, Romney, Bush, all affable RINO hypocrites who submit to the actor powers of those that beat them in looks or media prop submission...
Even if he gets one -- not much. Not after we get through with his Senate golfing buddies.
That's why he's pushing LOST forward now, to beat us to the punch. Well, guess what, folks -- get busy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmA3ilFFGt0&list=UUPkuXB5CZJIVerREXE-81tw&index=8&feature=plcp
Vote for Obama then,but even my liberal associates are waking up; not so much you, or unless your a liberal in sheep’s clothing. Good day idiot.
requires a 2/3rds affirmation from the Senate.
Not going to happen.
LOL
That’s a swell animation.
God Bless Ronald Reagan, he fired them all.
“.......And in addition to establishing and having to deal with still another U.N. agency,.....”
That’s part of the goal right there to establish another of the many tenticles of the large as the World monster known as the U.N. in creating World governance.
The U.N. has to be stopped even if it takes drastic actions.
The Boy Emperor can sign all of the treaties he wants.
Congress has to ratify them, before they become binding.
“Obama acan sign any thing he wishes but it’s worthless without the Senate’s consent.”
The dark lord has no problem running this country like a banana republic dictatorship with one Executive order after another. The vast majority of these EOs have noting to due with the Executive branch are all most exclusively the privy of the Congress. But who cares? The man can read a mean teleprompter.
That was during a Congressional majority.
This has to pass the Senate and the split is 51/47.
Not going to ever come close to attaining 2/3rds of Senators voting in the affirmative.
That was during a Congressional majority.
This has to pass the Senate and the split is 51/47.
Not going to ever come close to attaining 2/3rds of Senators voting in the affirmative.
It will require the help of some RINO's but I fear he will have plenty of them to help. People need longer memories, this is a New World Order objective of long standing. I am pretty sure GW signed this cr@p as well, and even our beloved Sarah was for it, at least in the past.
Half of this site is voting for Obama for a second term, it can’t be that bad.
Can some Navy person explain why the U.S. Navy supports this BS. Why the hell does the US Navy want some foreign body determining where we can and cannot sail?
Whoa! nOOb!
Not cool being new to the neighborhood and going all in with the personal attacks.
Every Single Decision Obama makes is meant to harm America.
LOL, I believe the Senate has co-equal power in Foreign relations and a 2/3rds vote, in the affirmative of those present is required to ratify.
You do NOT want to attack me.
I’m totally frustrated in Florida! We are dealing with Bill Nelson(D) who at this point will win another term handily because we can not come up with anyone to run against him who has enough clout or money to take him down. The GOP-e has thrown us Connie Mack(R) who is a useless playboy. George LeMiux is not horrible, but he has past baggage that turns folks off. The other guys are all nice but no gravitas. We are screwed! We need help here and fast, worst is no one is talking about it. We have to take the Senate over to make a difference in these garbage bills and treaty’s getting rejected.
I’m voting for him but only because my vote here in KahLeeFahwNeeYuh doesn’t matter.
/S
“The U.S. Navy maintains that we need LOST to guarantee free transit in dangerous waters”
WHO in the US Navy?! I don’t believe this either.
All we need is Humblegunner for a Quorum and it’s over.
People are forgetting what Obama has already gotten through the Congress.
Do we really trust Congress to turn this down?
I don’t.
In fact I don’t trust them at all.
Has one of them asked for Obama’s school records, his Social security card, His draft card? Has one of them spoken to Joe Aripaio about the counterfeit Birth Certificate. What have they done about Obama’s recess appointments. ,The EPA regulations against coal. against Obamacare.
Trust Congress to do the right thing?
Not me .
“The U.S. Navy maintains that we need LOST to guarantee free transit in dangerous waters”
I think I found the answer - Obama appointed the Sec of Navy, so he naturally supports him.
Obama Taps Mabus for Navy Secretary
“Mabus, 60, is a Democrat who served as governor from 1988 to 1992 and was President Bill Clinton’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. A Democrat, Mabus endorsed Obama before the 2008 primary season and campaigned extensively on his behalf. “
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/27/obama_taps_mabus_for_navy_secr.html
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