OBAMA QUIETLY SEEKING TO CEDE
U.S. OCEANS TO U.N. LAW
President Obama’s ambitious plan for
stepped up government regulation of the oceans includes an unreported effort to
cede U.S. oceans to United Nations-based international law, WND has learned.
The plan was previously a pet
project of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, whose ocean-zoning scheme was
partnered with a globalist group that also aimed to hand over U.S. oceans to
U.N.
Obama’s plan is still in draft form.
It calls for an executive order to be issued for a National Ocean Policy that
will determine how the ecosystem is managed while giving the federal government
more regulatory authority over any businesses that utilize the ocean.
The executive order is to be based
on the recommendations of Obama’s Interagency Ocean Policy Taskforce, created
in 2010 also by executive order.
The agency is tasked with
recommending specific actions for a presidential plan to achieve the vision of
“an America whose stewardship ensures that the ocean, our coasts, and the Great
Lakes are healthy and resilient, safe and productive, and understood and treasured
so as to promote the well-being, prosperity, and security of present and future
generations.”
The Taskforce’s final
recommendations, based in part on the supposed effects of “global warming, were
released in a 78-page paper reviewed by WND.
The entire third section of the
report recommends that the U.S. join the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Convention.
The convention defines the rights
and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world’s oceans,
establishing guidelines for businesses, the environment and the management of
marine natural resources.
States the report:
The Task Force strongly and
unanimously supports United States accession to the Convention on the Law of
the Sea and ratification of its 1994 Implementing Agreement. The Law of the Sea
Convention is the bedrock legal instrument governing activities on, over and
under the world’s oceans.
United States accession to the
Convention will further our national security, environmental, economic, and
diplomatic interests.
The report lists key reasons for
compliance with the law, including:
·
The Convention has garnered the
unequivocal support of our national security leadership under both Republican
and Democratic administrations, because, among other things, it codifies
essential navigational rights and freedoms upon which our Armed Forces rely.
·
The Convention sets forth the rights
and responsibilities of nations to prevent, reduce and control pollution of the
marine environment and to protect and preserve resources off their shores.
·
By becoming a party to the
Convention, U.S. legal rights to our extended continental shelf can be put on
the strongest legal foundation.
·
As a party to the Law of the Sea
Convention, the United States would have the ability to participate formally
and more effectively in the interpretation and development of the Convention.
·
Joining the Law of the Sea
Convention would reaffirm and enhance United States leadership in global ocean
affairs.
While the White House claims its
ocean plans are not meant to zone the seas, a major conclusion of the Taskforce
was to “establish a framework for effective coastal and marine spatial planning
(CMSP) that establishes a comprehensive, integrated, ecosystem-based approach
to address conservation, economic activity, user conflict, and sustainable use
of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources.”
Panetta’s
ocean scheme
Much of the Taskforce’s
recommendations were previously called for by a group headed by Panetta until
his appointment as CIA director in 2009. Panetta became defense secretary in
July 2011.
Until his CIA appointment in 2009,
Panetta co-chaired the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, which is the partner
of Citizens for Global Solutions in a push to ratify U.S. laws and regulations
governing the seas.
The oceans initiative bills itself as
a bipartisan, collaborative group that aims to “accelerate the pace of change
that results in meaningful ocean policy reform.”
Among its main recommendations is
that the U.S. should put its oceans up for regulation to the U.N. Convention on
the Law of the Sea.
Other recommendations of Panetta’s
Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, which mirror Obama’s taskforce
recommendations, include:
·
The administration and Congress
should establish a national ocean policy. The administration and Congress
should support regional, ecosystem-based approaches to the management of ocean,
coastal and Great Lakes.
·
Congress should strengthen and
reauthorize the Coastal Zone Management Act.
·
Congress should strengthen the Clean
Water Act.
The Joint Ocean Commission
Initiative Leadership Council includes John Podesta, president and CEO of the
Soros-funded Center for American Progress, which is reportedly highly
influential in advising the White House on policy.
Podesta served as co-chairman of
Obama’s presidential transition team.
Panetta’s oceans initiative is a key
partner of Citizens for Global Solutions, or CGS, which, according to its
literature, envisions a “future in which nations work together to abolish war,
protect our rights and freedoms and solve the problems facing humanity that no
nation can solve alone.”
CGS states it works to “build the
political will in the United States” to achieve this global vision.
The organization currently works on
issues that fall into five general areas: U.S. global engagement; global health
and environment; peace and security; international law and justice; and
international institutions.
CGS is a member organization and
supporter of the World Federalist Movement, which openly seeks a one-world
government. The World Federalist Movement considers the CGS to be its U.S.
branch.
The movement brings together
organizations and individuals that support the establishment of a global
federal system of strengthened and democratized global institutions with
plenary constitutional power accountable to the citizens of the world and a
division of international authority among separate global agencies.
The movement’s headquarters are
located near the U.N. building in New York City. A second office is near the
International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.
The locations are significant, since
the movement heavily promotes the U.N. and is the coordinator of various
international projects, such as the Coalition for the International Criminal
Court and the Responsibility to Protect military doctrine. That doctrine formed
the basis of Obama’s justification last year to launch NATO airstrikes in
Libya.
Source: World News Daily, Aaron Klein is WND's senior staff reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief. He also hosts "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" on New York's WABC Radio. His latest book is the N.Y. Times best-selling, "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists."More ↓
Comments:
The first thing the U.N. would do is to levy taxes
payable to the U.N. These would be taxes levied against oil exploration
companies and coastal fishermen. It’s
time to close the U.N.
Norb Leahy,
Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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