So Russia has Claimed the North Pole

[Linkster]

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/02/arctic.sub.reut/index.html

Now Russia figures it can prove that the North Pole is part of their continental shelf - which would then give it all kinds of opportunities for drilling for oil and gas
Of course the point missed in all the recent articles about this is that the only reason they can even get to the area to dive like they did is that the polar cap has melted enough in the last 3 years to give acces to ships that didnt exist prior to that

[Bill]

Imagine me saying this is a deep redneck accent...

"Dey toook ar oyl! Dey toook ar oyl!".

The fight over the arctic! Break out the submarines!

[Moby]

I read about this a few weeks ago and it seems that Canada may be connected in the same way.

That means that Anne Coulter's wish of us invading Canada for their natural resources may come true.

[disrupter]

I don't see how it is any more absurd than Monsanto patenting chunks of your inherited genetic code.

A public domain, natural birthright has been stolen from people in BOTH cases.

What happens when Monsanto sues you for use of 'THEIR' genetic code?

This crap has to be put into check.

mind you, this is not some new genetic innovation this is just directly plagiarized patches of what the human genome project,

guess we should have called it "Monsanto's genome project" instead.

wrong is wrong.