The dramatic case, Sam-Thambiah against the Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority, involves allegations of sexual harassment and pornography. One side charges “distortions and fabrications.” The other side alleges “mismanagement and irregularities.” What makes this case unique is that it involves the shadowy world of a U.N.-affiliated agency that the U.S. Senate is poised to provide with millions of dollars through ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). 

There was an interesting news item out of Moscow in late September to which most people probably paid little heed. “Russia is one of several countries that have rushed to lay claims to the area where a U.S. Study suggests as much as 25 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas could be hidden.”

Call your Senators (202) 224-3121) and ask each of them for their position on the Convention on the Law of the Sea. Ten-to-one says that a young, well- tutored voice will say something like: “we don’t have a statement on that,” or “the Senator has not taken a position yet,” or the Senator is still studying the issues.”

President Bush’s demands in the Medellin murder case, now being heard before the U.S. Supreme Court, are “bizarrely grotesque,” according to the chief counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. 

Reconstruction funds channeled through the United Nations for the reconstruction of tsunami-devastated Indonesia are being systematically pilfered and skimmed to the tune of $500 million dollars because the world body has failed to implement its own anti-fraud measures, the U.N.’s former deputy director of investigations has charged.

The case for free trade rests on a simple principle: people should be free to buy from whomever they choose, even if the supplier is a foreigner. The opponents of free trade believe that there are legitimate exceptions to this principle. When foreign businesses have an allegedly “unfair” advantage, Americans competing against them want Uncle Sam to rescue them by adopting protectionist policies, such as import quotas and tariffs. They want the government to “level the playing field.” They fear losing their jobs, and/or they are afraid that free trade will result in the economic decline of our country. The first concern is valid; the second is not.

"If Democrats had any brains, they’d be Republicans.” This is the new partisan blast from Ann Coulter. One major problem with her thesis is that her book is being released at a time when members of the Bush Administration are currently joining with liberal Senate Democrats in trying to rush through the dangerous U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty. It is the same correlation of forces we saw trying to ram the illegal alien amnesty bill through the Senate. So being brainless is not a partisan issue. In the case of the U.N. treaty, opposition should be a no-brainer.

In promoting their latest cause, liberals have managed to enlist a member of a small group getting smaller by the year - conservatives in academia. “Academics did not get anywhere near this,” John Norton Moore of the University of Virginia told an audience at the Heritage Foundation on June 22 of the the United Nations’ Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) that would give the UN control over seven-tenths of the earth’s surface.

WASHINGTON – The hottest selling book in China right now is called “Currency Wars,” which makes the case that the U.S. Federal Reserve is a puppet of the Rothschilds banking dynasty and it has persuaded some top officials Beijing should resist America’s demands to appreciate its own undervalued currency, the yuan.

WASHINGTON – For the second time in three years, the Bush administration is putting on a major effort for Senate ratification of the United Nations’ Law of the Sea Treaty, a wide-ranging measure critics say will grant the U.N. control of 70 percent of the planet under its oceans. 

My apologies. This is going to be a rather heavy piece. So if it’s too early in the morning, wait until this evening to read it.

Come Thursday, the future of the United States Senate will begin to take shape. On that day, the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee will begin the first of two days of hearings on the ratification of one of the most momentous international agreements in memory: the United Nation’s Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).

With all the critical problems facing America today, it’s hard to see why President Bush is wasting whatever is left of his political capital to partner with Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., to try to get the Senate to ratify the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty.

Recently, Russia and China held joint military maneuvers in the presence of both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao. However, a new strategic alliance between the two countries is not likely for China poses the greatest strategic threat to Russia. Many in the Kremlin seem blind to this as they rattle sabers at America and the West.

You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to think that the United Nations is a weird place.