By Fr. Shay Cullen
How to feed a hungry world (click here)
...Last week Irish fishermen staged a public protest in Dublin and gave away fish and threw more into the river Liffy to highlight their protest at the strict European Union restrictions on the number of boats allowed to put to sea and the tonnage of fish they are allowed to catch. The price of fish is soaring along with everything else....
Interview with Barry Scott Zellen: Arctic Lessons (click here)
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 6/5/2008
Barry Scott Zellen is the Deputy Editor of "Strategic Insights", and Research Editor of the Arctic Security Project at the Center for Contemporary Conflict.Q. In your book "Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic" (Lexington Books, 2008) you describe the long and, ultimately, fruitful quest by the native tribes of the Arctic to regain a modicum of sovereignty over their ancient lands. Can you give us a capsule history of this process?...
The USA's response to the DEMISE of the Arctic Ocean is to attempt to raise the question of whether or not the rising sea levels change the continental borders enough to bring more sovereignty to the American claim.
While Russia is preparing for what Pravada is calling WW III (click here).
Russian strategic bombers fly routine patrol over the Arctic (click here).
MOSCOW, June 9 (RIA Novosti) - A pair of Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers took off Monday from the Engels airbase in central Russia on a routine patrol flight over the Arctic Ocean, an Air Force spokesman said.
Russia resumed strategic bomber patrol flights over the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic oceans last August, following an order signed by then president Vladimir Putin.
"Two Tu-95 bombers have started a regular patrol flight over remote areas of the Arctic," Lt. Col. Vladimir Drik said. "The aircraft will perform a variety of tasks, including midair refueling from two Il-78 aerial tankers based at the Dyagilevo airbase [also in central Russia]."
Drik said that all flights by Russian aircraft were performed by skilled pilots in strict compliance with international laws on the use of air space over neutral waters, without violating the borders of other states....
But, Canada is the best prepared along with Russia to claim the Lion's share of the Arctic and for that the United Nations "Law of the Sea" should prove to be a very valuable guide post to assist in the protections for this region of the world and its role as a 'Sustainability Stabilizer' to reverse the trend in Human Induced Global Warming.
A map showing the newly granted Australian seabed territory. The purple is the new stuff equalling 2.5 million square kilometres, slightly smaller than Canada's proposed gains in the Arctic and North Atlantic.Photograph by : Handout/Government of Australia
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (crystal wind chime) is melting STILL :
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
Local Time: 12:47 AM AKDT
Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137.0° W
Temperature :: 43 °F / 6 °C
Conditons :: Overcast
Windchill :: 43 °F / 6 °C
Humidity :: 93%
Dew Point :: 41 °F / 5 °C
Wind :: Calm
Pressure :: 30.15 in / 1021 hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 7.0 miles / 11.3 kilometers
UV :: 0 out of 16
Clouds:
Few 4300 ft / 1310 m
Overcast 7000 ft / 2133 m
(Above Ground Level)
