Re: Russia Stakes Claim to North Pole
 

Uh oh. Shit's about to go down up north

[url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070709-1430-canada-arcticsovereignty.html]SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Canada to increase military presence in the Arctic despite U.S. objections[/url]

Re: Russia Stakes Claim to North Pole
 

This whole thing is becoming more comical by the day. It's starting to resemble a game of "Age of Empire."

This is going to get good and possibly turn ugly.

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Global warming is melting the ice cap so by the time they get there it will be gone.

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the canadian military? what's that consist of again? a destroyer and a tug boat, right?

the whole thing is really pretty silly.

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Update:

[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=R4YA22ACPBC1TQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/08/01/wpole101.xml]Russia claims North Pole with Arctic flag stunt - Telegraph[/url]

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[quote=That Guy;326841]the canadian military? what's that consist of again? [B]a destroyer and a tug boat, right?[/B]

the whole thing is really pretty silly.[/quote]
this is a great line

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[quote=saden1;322902]LOL...this is so ridiculous. They should just stop with all this b.s. and invade it, point all their missile arsenal at the entire planet and say "We claim the North Pole, anyone have a problems with that?"[/quote]


Invade it? Ha..."you penguins and polar bears...hands up and don't try anything, you are now Russian."

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I liked the line that the oil and gas would be easy to get to because of global warming and the melting of the ice. Even by Gore's account that still 100 or more years away.

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[quote=firstdown;335663]I liked the line that the oil and gas would be easy to get to because of global warming and the melting of the ice. Even by Gore's account that still 100 or more years away.[/quote]

Yes, weathermen can't get tomorrow's forecast right, but they can predict the temperature in 100 years. :cheeky-sm