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LOST and Found: Senate Moves Toward Ratification of U.N.'s 'Law of the Sea Treaty' - Presidential Politics | Political News
The Senate is gearing up to ratify a Nixon-era U.N. treaty meant to create universal laws to govern the seas -- a treaty critics say will create a massive U.N. bureaucracy that could even claim powers over American waterways. LOST -- the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, also called the Law ...
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American Sovereignty May Be LOST
Moonbattery — ... One of the long-term ramifications of putting people who don't like our country in charge of our government is the likely passage of the insane Law of the Sea Treaty , which would turn over an alarming degree of authority to the corrupt and relentlessly anti-American United Nations — including jurisdiction over our rivers. ...

Kerry Pushing To Put U.S. Waterways Under UN Control
Pat Dollard | Young AmericansFOX: LOST and Found: Senate Moves Toward Ratification of U.N.’s ‘Law of the Sea Treaty’ The Senate is gearing up to ratify a decades-old U.N. treaty that critics warn could create a massive U.N. bureaucracy that could even claim powers over American waterways. By Joseph Abrams The Senate is gearing up to ratify a Nixon-era U.N. treaty meant to create universal laws to govern the seas — a treaty critics say will create a massive U.N. bureaucracy that could even claim powers over American ...

LOST
Neptunus Lex — It’s not just a TV show: LOST — the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, also called the Law of the Sea Treaty — regulates all things oceanic, from fishing rights, navigation lanes and environmental concerns to what lies beneath: the seabed’s oil and mineral wealth that companies hope to explore and exploit in coming years. But critics say the treaty, which declares the sea and its bounty the “universal heritage of mankind,” would redistribute American profits and have a reach extending into ...

The LOST Boys
Cold Fury — ... puzzled, then finally interrupted. “Uh, Al, isn’t this what the whole thing was all about?” Mr. Adelman recalls Mr. Reagan responding. Mr. Haig asked him what he meant. … “Well,” Mr. Reagan shrugged, “Isn’t not going along with something that is ‘really stupid’ just because 150 nations had done so what the whole thing was all about — our running, our winning, our governing?” A stunned Mr. Haig folded up his briefing book and promised to find out how to stop the treaty altogether. FOX News : Sen. John Kerry. Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said during a ...

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