Russia claims The North Pole

[high as hell]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1811

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic, giving himself claim to its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.


His audacious argument that an underwater Russian ridge is linked to the North Pole is likely to lead to an international outcry.

Some commentators have already observed it is further evidence of growing Russian assertiveness under its authoritarian president.

The Russian media trumpeted the findings of a Moscow scientific mission to the region which boasts "sensational" geological discoveries enabling the Kremlin to make the territorial claim.

Populist newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda - a cheerleader for Putin - printed a map of the North Pole showing a "new addition" to Russia, a triangle five times the size of Britain with twice as much oil as Saudi Arabia.

The six-week mission on a nuclear ice-breaker claimed that the underwater Lomonsov ridge is geologically linked to the Siberian continental platform - and similar in structure.


The detailed findings are likely to be put to the United Nations in a bid to bring it under the Kremlin noose, and provide the bonanza of an estimated 10 billion tonnes of gas and oil deposits as well as significant sources of diamonds, gold, tin, manganese, nickel, lead and platinum.

Under current international law, the countries ringing the Arctic - Russia, Canada, the US, Norway, Denmark (Greenland) - are limited to a 200 mile economic zone around their coastlines.

Currently, a UN convention stipulates that none of these countries can claim jurisdiction of the Arctic seabed because the geological structure does not match that of the surrounding continental shelves.

The region is administered by the International Seabed Authority - the authority now being challenged by Moscow.

A previous attempt to claim the oil and gas resources beyond its 200 miles zone five years ago was rejected - but this time Moscow intends to make a far more serious submission to the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.


The head of the government-funded expedition Valery Kaminsky, director of the All-Russian Oceanic Scientific Research Institute, said he has key photographic evidence to prove the geological claims. "These are very interesting facts for the world community," he said.

Yuri Deryabin, head of the Institute of North European Countries, said: "I estimate Russia's chances to gets its piece of the Arctic pie highly enough - but the main battle is just starting." He acknowledged the negotiations would be "complicated".

The claim is likely to provoke an outcry from green groups but there is also Russian opposition.

Sergei Priamikov, of Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, said the notion was "strange" and warned other countries could make counter claims.

Canada "could say that the Lomonosov ridge is part of the Canadian shelf, which means Russia should in fact belong to Canada, together with the whole of Eurasia", he observed drily.

A diplomatic source said that Russia was "seeking to secure its grip on oil and gas supplies for decades to come. Putin wants a strong Russia, and Western dependence for oil and gas supplies is a key part of his strategy. He no longer cares if his strategy upsets the West".

[sky dog]

Santa is going to be pissed

[SuicidalSpaz]

Originally Posted by sky dog

Santa is going to be pissed

LMAO! +rep bro. Simply amazing.

[StonerMike]

Originally Posted by sky dog

Santa is going to be pissed

Fucking lol.

[Still Smokin]

Originally Posted by sky dog

Santa is going to be pissed

LMAO!

[DJ1337]

This will certainly cool their relations with USA.

[The Big C]

I used to wish when I was young, that I was born in the future: 2050, 2060 etc.. instead of 1965, but now? I dont think there will be a world as we know it in 2050.
Of course, anything we know now would be different then, but I mean I dont think there will be ANY world.

So hopefully, we as a race are wiped out ASAP, because that is the only way the planet will survive, because as a species, humans are parasites.

Like agent Smith? said in the Matrix , "We are a virus on this planet. We consume all the resources, then move on in mass and do the same"

Fuck, I HATE being human!

[StonerMike]

Originally Posted by The Big C

I used to wish when I was young, that I was born in the future: 2050, 2060 etc.. instead of 1965, but now? I dont think there will be a world as we know it in 2050.
Of course, anything we know now would be different then, but I mean I dont think there will be ANY world.

So hopefully, we as a race are wiped out ASAP, because that is the only way the planet will survive, because as a species, humans are parasites.

Like agent Smith? said in the Matrix , "We are a virus on this planet. We consume all the resources, then move on in mass and do the same"

Fuck, I HATE being human!

That's a very pessimistic way to look at things.

[da_sAUCE!]

but seriously...maybe that disgusting black muck was SUPPOSED to stay underground.

i think hydrogen is the ideal feul as it has the LEAST environmental impact. and we are only on loan for this planet.

ya know?

[rumandromanism]

Originally Posted by The Big C

I used to wish when I was young, that I was born in the future: 2050, 2060 etc.. instead of 1965, but now? I dont think there will be a world as we know it in 2050.
Of course, anything we know now would be different then, but I mean I dont think there will be ANY world.

So hopefully, we as a race are wiped out ASAP, because that is the only way the planet will survive, because as a species, humans are parasites.

Like agent Smith? said in the Matrix , "We are a virus on this planet. We consume all the resources, then move on in mass and do the same"

Fuck, I HATE being human!

Deal with it. You think you are more special than any of the billions of people on Earth? Well, you're not.

[b3hj]

Originally Posted by rumandromanism

Deal with it. You think you are more special than any of the billions of people on Earth? Well, you're not.

Notice how he used "we". He didn't use "you".

[bert_mcgirt]

and Fedor will armbar anyone who has anything to say about it