Agenda 21… Obama Quietly Seeking To Cede U.S. Oceans To U.N. Law!

 

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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. ~ Josey Wales

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. governance.

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.

 

Josey Wales – April 20, 2012 – posted at Before It’sNews

 

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