8/17/12, "Republican senator says sea treaty might pass after election," The Hill, Zack Colman
"Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) says she's hopeful that the Law of the Sea Treaty will pass Congress in the lame-duck session after the election, despite the fierce opposition of some conservatives.
Murkowski told The Associated Press the sea treaty will have better prospects in the Senate when the fall campaign is over. The global maritime pact would establish de facto rules for the nation’s oceans, and business interests say it will create opportunities for offshore drilling....
Murkowski and Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) both support the treaty, and Murkowski has championed several other efforts to tap the state’s natural resources. The untapped deepwater oil and natural gas off Alaska’s coast could be a significant economic boon for The Last Frontier and the entire nation, she and many of her Republican colleagues argue.
“I don’t want us, as an Arctic nation, to abandon those opportunities, and we would be doing that if we fail to ratify the Law of the Sea treaty,” Murkowski said.
Senate Republicans thwarted passing the treaty in July by securing the 34 votes needed to block it. Since it is a treaty, the measure requires a two-thirds majority for approval.
Treaty opponents argue it would infringe upon national sovereignty by letting member nations refuse U.S. Navy operations in their territories. It also would give the International Seaboard Authority power to disburse some oil and gas royalties from offshore operations.
But with the powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is usually aligned with Republicans, backing the treaty and Democrats and President Obama also supportive, the lame-duck chances might indeed be better.
An aide for Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) posed that scenario in July, blaming the resistance on a “white-hot political campaign season.”
Still, Murkowski said the U.S. Chamber would have to make the treaty one of its top priorities to muster enough Republican votes in the cramped lame-duck session."
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"Thirteen of the world’s 20 most corrupt nations according to Transparency International are parties to LOST. Even Cuba and Sudan, both considered state sponsors of terrorism, could receive these “international royalties.”
7/6/11, "Law of Sea Treaty Could Cost U.S. Trillions," Steven Gross, Heritage
"So who would benefit from this American largesse? The final say regarding distribution of Article 82 royalties is the “assembly,” a body made up of more than 160 countries. The United States would be powerless in the assembly, where it has only a single vote, to prevent the transfer of royalties to repugnant regimes. The assembly may vote to distribute royalties to undemocratic, despotic or brutal governments in Belarus, Burma, China or Zimbabwe—all members of LOST.
Perhaps the funds will go to regimes that are merely corrupt. Thirteen of the world’s 20 most corrupt nations according to Transparency International are parties to LOST. Even Cuba and Sudan, both considered state sponsors of terrorism, could receive these “international royalties.”
Those who favor U.S. accession to LOST must ask themselves why the United States should siphon off wealth from its own continental shelf for the benefit of foreign countries that cannot or will not spend the necessary resources to develop their own continental shelves. Instead of diverting U.S. revenues to such dubious purposes, the Treasury should retain any wealth derived from the U.S. ECS for the benefit of the American people."
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US politicians are eager to sell Americans to unelected and unaccountable terrorists that define the UN:
7/23/2009, "“ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT”: A STEALTH VEHICLE TO INJECT EURO-STYLE PRECAUTION INTO U.S. REGULATION," Lawrence A. Kogan, Washington Legal Foundation
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Unelected, unaccountable UN personnel can't be prosecuted for any crime anywhere in the world, and can put US taxpayer dollars funneled to them in personal Swiss bank accounts with no consequence. US elected officials are fine with this.
"It creates an International Seabed Authority and gives it unprecedented powers to regulate seven-tenths of the world’s surface; and the power to levy international taxes; and the power to impose production quotas on deep-sea mining and oil production; and the power to regulate ocean research and exploration; and the power to create a multinational court system to make judgments about who owns what, and enforce those judgments. And that’s not all. The Law of the Sea Treaty also imposes mandatory information-sharing so that our enemies will get all our confidential military information. And the Treaty requires obligatory technology transfers that would equip actual or potential enemies with sensitive information about all our submarine and anti-submarine technology.
Tell your U.S. Senators to vote No any time the Senate brings up the Law of the Sea Treaty."
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Do UN "agencies have immunity if they siphon (their U.S. grants) all off into Swiss banks? Is that accurate? They will be totally immune, no matter what they do with the money?" "My understanding is, yes," Gambatesa replied." (near end of piece). "The contractor on the project for the U.N. Development Program (UNDP), spent about $200,000 in U.S. money to renovate his guesthouse. Witness names were withheld by USAID."
"Federal prosecutors in New York City were forced to drop criminal and civil cases because the U.N. officials have immunity,"...
4/16/09, "Report: U.N. spent U.S. funds on shoddy projects," USA Today, Ken Dilanian
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The UN "props up despotic regimes in the name of 'climate change.'" This continues to be fine with US politicians.
"Well, the rent-seekers, money-hungry NGOs, grifters, post-normal “scientists”, con-men, Eurotrash, and the usual camp followers are gearing up again for another monumental waste of money. This time, it’s for the upcoming extravagarbonza, the new Rio+20 Climate Carnival."...
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1/23/12, "Attack on U.S. Sovereignty - The Law of the Sea Treaty," Dr. I.L. Paugh, Canada Free Press
"To spread the wealth, the UN “Authority” (of Law of the Sea Treaty) must regulate and exploit mineral resources by asking companies to pay an application fee of half a million dollars, recently changed to $250,000, and to reserve an extra site for the Authority to “utilize its own mining efforts.”
A corporation must also pay an annual fee of $1 million and up to 7% of its annual profits and share its mining and navigational technology. Mining permits are granted or withheld by the “Authority” which is composed of mostly developing countries. (Heritage Foundation)
Any kind of maritime dispute, fisheries, environmental protection, navigation, and research, must be resolved under this treaty through mandatory dispute resolution by the UN court or tribunal which limits autonomy. Disputes should be resolved by U.S. courts. (Heritage Foundation)
The United States provisional participation in the Laws of the Sea treaty expired in 1998. Should we consider the ratification of another treaty that has the potential to further chip away at our National sovereignty?
The GOP has recently passed (January 14, 2012) a resolution exposing United Nations Agenda 21 as “a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control that was initiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).”
“According to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy, National sovereignty is deemed a social injustice.” United Nations treaties and programs want to force “social justice” through socialist/communist redistribution of wealth from developed nations like the U.S. to third world countries."...
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Hideous Trent Lott is lobbying to turn America over to global courts and taxation via Law of the Sea Treaty:
4/30/2012, "Former Senator Trent Lott Lobbies for U.N. Treaty He Vehemently Opposed," Heritage.org
Sen. Lugar is a longtime advocate of the UN Law of the Sea Treaty. Lugar's among many who would sell out Americans to psychopaths from hellhole countries.
6/24/04, "U.N. LAW OF THE SEA TREATY THREATENS U.S. SOVEREIGNTY," Tom DeWeese, NewsWithViews.com
"Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Richard Lugar (R-IN) and his allies are mad because they had hoped to sneak LOST through the Senate before anyone noticed....Does the Law of the Sea Treaty give the UN decision-making power over the world’s oceans? Of course it does....
The Law of the Sea Treaty is closely integrated with the Convention on Climate Change, the World Heritage Treaty, the Convention on Desertification Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Ozone Depleting Substances and its Montreal Protocol, the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species, and several morethat can be traced back directly to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Six departments of our federal government (including the Department of State) and 44 U.S. environmental organizations are members of the IUCN. The IUCN uses the United Nations as the conduit to funnel the treaties to member countries for ratification. As such, the United Nations becomes the monitor for enforcement and implementation of the treaties. For Sen. Lugar to imply that the UN is not even part of the process is beyond disingenuous; it’s downright deceitful."...
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