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On May 24, 5:07 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Obama donates 7 Alaskan/American 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 I hear he is going to
> > give away all the 'RED' states to help in his re-election.
>
> > Obama Donates 7 Alaskan Islands to Putin for Zero dollars
> > This is what our beloved president Obama has done in 2012 for America so
> > far this year. I am sure there will be more to come along these lines. This
> > president needs to be impeached. 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.
> > [image: Obama donates 7 Alaskan/American Islands to Putin for Zero Dollars]<http://feeds.feedburner.com/MyCrazyEmail>
>
> > 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<http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/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?
> > WorldNetDaily.com
>
> > 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<http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/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 <http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/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
> > President Obama or Secretary 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<http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/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<http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/george-washington/>DeLong, the captain of USS Jeannette. Also in 1881, he discovered and
> > claimed these three islands for the United States<http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/united-states/>.
> > He named them for the voyage co-sponsor, New York City newspaper 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<http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/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-...
> > Link 2.http://commonamericanjournal.com/?p=39807
>
> > The State Dept. Watch says:
> >http://www.statedepartmentwatch.org/GiveawaySummary.htm
> > And you can "Google" many more links with "Alaska island giveaway"
>
> > This is the most despicable man ever born. Why is he getting away with all
> > of this?
>
> > —————————————————————–
>
> > *Hold on there Bob, I went over tohttp://www.factcheck.organd looked
> > this up. Below is a portion of their findings.*
>
> > A look at the map will give the reader some notion of the frozen "Alaskan"
> > islands under discussion. All are far closer to the Russian mainland than
> > to the Alaskan mainland. All lie on the Russian side of the U.S.-Russia
> > maritime boundary set by a treaty that the U.S. Senate ratified
> > overwhelmingly more than two decades ago, after being signed by President
> > George H.W. Bush, and with the support of both of Alaska's senators.
> > <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BIMm6GveLdM/T7ZNLGEWmkI/AAAAAAAAqtE/1wyusW_...>
>
> > The largest, Wrangel Island (in Russian, Ostrov Vrangelya), is named for
> > the Russian explorer Ferdinand P. Wrangel, who heard of the island from
> > Siberian natives as early as 1820. According to the Encyclopedia
> > Britannica, Wrangel did not land on it while mapping the Siberian coast
> > that year. The first European to sight it may have been the British
> > explorer Capt. Henry Kellett, who in 1849 discovered and landed on nearby
> > Herald Island, and saw Wrangel in the distance.
>
> > The uninhabited Wrangel Island was sighted by U.S. vessels in 1867 and
> > 1881, but not settled. A Canadian explorer named Vilhjalmur Stefansson and
> > survivors of a disastrous expedition reached the island in 1914. But when
> > Stefansson later tried to claim Wrangel for Canada without authorization,
> > he caused an international incident, infuriating the Canadian government.
> > Then in 1926 the Soviet Union<http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/soviet-union/>staked a claim to the island and settled a few native families there…
>
> > …And sure enough, no president or secretary of state since has shown any
> > interest in disputing the Soviet/Russian claim to Wrangel Island or the
> > others. Which brings us to the present accusation that President Obama is
> > somehow giving away something the U.S. has never claimed to own. How can
> > that be?
>
> > For one thing, the maritime boundary treaty has never been ratified by the
> > Russians, which is required for it to take full force. By the time the U.S.
> > Senate had ratified the treaty (signed by the Soviets the previous year),
> > the Soviet Union <http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/soviet-union/> was
> > near collapse. Shortly afterward, the Russian Federation notified the U.S.
> > government <http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/u-s-government/> by
> > diplomatic note that it would continue to abide by the terms of the
> > agreement on a provisional basis, however.
>
> > Ironically, in view of claims of a U.S. "giveaway," it is the Russians who
> > have sought to renegotiate the terms of the boundary treaty on grounds that
> > their side gave up too much to the United States. A history of the matter,
> > by Vlad M. Kaczynski of the Warsaw School of Economics, published in the
> > May 1, 2007, edition of the Russian Analytical Digest, details why the new
> > Russian Federation refused to ratify the treaty. Read More
> >http://www.factcheck.org/2012/03/alaskan-island-giveaway/.
>
> > ?
>
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