Yet, the U.S. State Department wants to turn the whole matter over to the United Nations.
State Department officials, led by Condoleezza Rice’s top lawyer, John B. Bellinger III, are telling the press that the U.S. should immediately ratify the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in order to contest Russia’s claim to the seabed under the North Pole. They seem to have forgotten that the U.S. Navy’s first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, passed under the North Pole on August 3, 1958, and its second Commanding Officer, Commander William R. Anderson, claimed the region “For the world, our country, and the Navy.” He wrote the book, First Under the North Pole, about the secret mission called “Operation Sunshine.” President Eisenhower sent the message, “Congratulations on a magnificent achievement. Well done.”
While the Russians are claiming to have traveled to the Arctic Ocean floor at the North Pole in a submarine and planted their flag on August 2, the Nautilus reached the geographic North Pole almost 50 years ago. A second submarine, the Skate, actually surfaced at the Pole.
Before the Nautilus, of course, two American explorers, Dr. Frederick Cook and Robert E. Peary, a U.S. Navy commander, led missions that reportedly reached the Pole in 1908 and 1909. On the Peary mission, it was his aide, Matthew Henson, a black explorer, who planted the American flag in the ice. A website in his honor refers to him as the co-discoverer of the North Pole and a U.S. postage stamp recognized their achievement.
http://www.aim.org/special_report/5658_0_8_0_C/
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The North Pole<br />
· The Arctic, north of Greenland, appears on the Vinland map, with topography correct allowing for glaciers.<br />
· The Arctic was navigable in 1422 (NMI Delf Technical Institute; Buismann; European Union.)<br />
· 30 Chinese claims to have reached North Pole (Needham; Professor Wei; Martin Tai)<br />
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The writer must be considering us already part of the empire.
Ed Deak.
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"....equidistant from the closest landmasses, Ellesmere Island and Franz-Josef Land, 1,094 km (680 mi) away."<br />
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Don't know where the Yankees get their nerve from........seems the "contest" is between Canada and Russia. If the Yankees wanna use who's first, well, it appears the Chinese beat everyone by 600 years.......<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
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Strategic Plan for the Iqaluit Deepwater Port Project <br />
<a href="http://www.city.iqaluit.katittut.ca/i18n/english/pdf/portproject.pdf">http://www.city.iqaluit.katittut.ca/i18n/english/pdf/portproject.pdf</a><br />
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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.
Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.
Thanks for that, and Welcome to Vive.
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Yeah, I know what you mean, like all the aid given off in Afghanistan and Iraq. I mean, where would those two countries be without the blessing of the USA? The people of Iraq lived in terror under Saddam, sure he was helped along by the USA, but Iran was a bigger threat to worry about, at least the people are now being terrorized and tortured under the banner of freedom and democracy rather than under yet another foreign financed dictatorship. Yeah yeah, there's oil, but I know deep down inside the USA is there to help.
In Afghanistan, for at least the 5th time in history, those sorry people are being assisted by a noble military effort that's designed to make Afghanistan a great nation. The going is tough only because those pesky terrorists that the USA financed to kick out the evil USSR Imperialists are ungrateful bastards and want to run their own damned country all for themselves. Yeah yeah, there's oil and gas, but I know deep down inside the USA is there to help - and to git Bin Laden too!
<a href="http://www.1421.tv/pages/evidence/content.asp?EvidenceID=202">http://www.1421.tv/pages/evidence/content.asp?EvidenceID=202</a><br />
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