Russia Working Hard To Steal Arctic From The Rest Of The World

This new aged land grab by the Soviets as we need to start calling them again, seeing now that under Putin they have resorted to their old cold war KGB hard liner style bullying tactics, started with their underwater Sputnik making it's supposed moon landing type flag plant, claiming the North pole and the surrounding Arctic land as their own personal new world.

I use the term "supposed" as there remains questions surrounding the nearly comical placing of this Soviet flag underneath the pole somewhere and whether or not this act even took place in the first place and what significance to even attach to the mostly symbolic gesture.

BTW, where are the conspiracy freaks that think Apollo was nothing more than an elaborate Hollywood type government concoction faking the lunar landing in the seventies, as this recent event has all the hallmarks of propaganda that these folks frequently claim to recognize.

They (the Soviets, lol) are using some self serving formula that in their eyes only for the most part entitles them to stake a larger claim to this natural resource bonanza being created by the apparent warming trend that is thawing a good portion of the region. (video here) This is a new boon to civilization in many ways which will uncover a literal goldmine of badly needed oil, gold and natural gas reserves along with who knows what else laying beneath the frozen continent.

These are the 5 countries that have legitimate claims to the valuable real estate there:

International law states that the five nations which control a coastline in the Arctic -- Canada, Russia, the United States, Norway and Denmark via its ownership of Greenland -- have a 320 km (200 mile) economic zone north of their shore.

The liberal viewpoint as we all know classifies this occurrence as a tragedy created by man and our neglect for the environment known now as Global Warming...Fooey.

New soil samples prove the Arctic is ours: Russia -

Yahoo! News: "MOSCOW (Reuters) - Samples of earth taken by Russians who planted a flag on the seabed below the North Pole last month show beyond doubt the Arctic is Russian, its natural resources ministry said on Thursday.

The Arctic 2007 expedition was the first to plant a flag on the seabed directly below the North Pole and it symbolically claimed the area, which geologists believe is rich in minerals and energy deposits, for the Kremlin. Now Russia says the scientific evidence cements their claims and they will present it to the United Nations. Other countries aspiring to own the Arctic seabed have rushed to reiterate their own claims before a May 2009 deadline.

"We have received preliminary data from an analysis of models of the earth's crust from Arctic 2007 which confirms that the Lomonosov Ridge ... is part of the adjoining continental shelf of the Russian Federation," the statement said.

The Lomonosov Ridge, named after 18th century Russian writer and scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, runs hundreds of kilometers along the bottom of the Arctic seabed below the icy North Pole and is key to claiming the region's untapped resources. continued

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