Canada and Denmark using Google as Battleground

TedRiot writes "Canada and Denmark are fighting over Hans Island using Google as battleground. A quick search of 'hans island' revealed a paid advertisement with the banner headline: 'Hans Island is Greenland. Greenland natives have used the island for centuries.' The ad was linked to the Danish government's foreign affairs web page with the letter condemning Graham's visit. Toronto resident Rick Broadhead placed a Google ad and said the Canadian government needs to get with the times." Reuters has coverage as well.

Comments

Poor innocent people who took out the ads.

[Fireflymantis]

I can confirm that the ad does show up. the link goes to here.

What I feel bad about is the fact that these ads were placed by citizens of their respective countries. Now that slashdot will be battering the click-through into oblivion... at $.05 a click...

might get mighty expensive...

Google Ad

[justasecond]

I wonder if the publicity (and slashdotting) forced the Google ad. over it's daily limit? (For those who don't know, when you buy a Google ad. you specify how much you want to pay for clicks per day -- go over that limit and your ad. doesn't appear.)

Hmmm...now to "research" the vaginainstute.com ad...

Re:Google Ad

[nocomment]

That might be. When the Article was first posted i tried it (there were zero comments then) and I saw the ad, clicked blah blah. Now nothing.

For those interested here's the URL.

Northwest Passage Skirmish

[Doc Ruby]

This battle is not merely over tiny little Hans Island. It is part of the positioning of Arctic countries, including Canada and Denmark (via Greenland), for access to the Arctic Sea. The Sea is now clearly destined to remain navigable for most, if not all, of the year, due to Greenhouse warming that has melted over 40% of the previous Summer ice. At 9% melt per decade, already begun, many ohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_passagef us will live to see the European "holy grail" of the Northwest Passage finally gained. The more national territory around the circle, the easier it will be for ships to travel under that nation's "protection". Subject to its rules and taxes, of course.

Re:Mod parent down (fundie troll)

[daveschroeder]

Wow.

I think you've trolled me before, but anyone is welcome to look at my web page:

http://das.doit.wisc.edu/

There is nothing remotely having anything to do with Christianity, much less fundamentalist Christianity, anywhere in it. In fact, there's nothing even about politics or religion in it.

And since I know of troll of this nature would probably claim that I "just changed it", please feel free to look at the http://das.doit.wisc.edu/>wayback machine archives of my web page.

Further, this Google comment has nothing to do with Bush, right wing politics, religion, or anything asserted in this troll post. And yes, please do look at my posting history. You'll find that out of my over-1000 posts, probably 5 of them are along the lines of the "before anyone bashes Bush..." variety. They're all also typically highly moderated, meaning they're not trolls or flamebait in the opinion of mods and metamods (because they're generally not). Further, I have not said anything remotely related to evangelism or fundamentalist Christianity, or indeed really Christianity or religion at all except tangentially, in any of my posts, or anywhere else on the web.

So in short, I have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

Google Map

[molo]

In case you are wondering where this is.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=80.827952,-66.64718 6&spn=0.015675,0.101435&hl=en

-molo

Re:Northwest Passage Skirmish -MOD PARENT UP

[erbmjw]

It's not the island by itself that is important to these two nations - the important point is that the island grants the nation maritime territorial rights.

Re:I don't get it

[Durrik]

Unfortunately, and not to raise a flame war, but the US treats almost all coastal Canadian waters as International waters.

The small straight between Vancouver Island, and the mainland coast of Canada is under dispute as well. The US likes to use it as a torpedo proving ground. Which of course upsets all the whale watchers. Since the torpedos use sonar, which the enviromentalists claim distracts the whales. Of course the US Navy claims it doesn't, its a royal mess.

The Northwest Passage is also one of the reasons the US got real upset when the Canadian Navy started to look at acquiring a nuclear submarine. Which is why we're stuck with second hand diseal boats, that catch on fire when they leave port. Not that Canada's military can afford a nuclear boat now. But it is what is needed to patrol the waters of the north.

I'm not sure which set of conventions the US follows when it comes to waters. I think they claim the 200 mile limit, and reconigze 3 mile limits. Except where Canadian waters are concerned, since I don't know of any waters that Canada claims, that the US recongizes. Of course this is one of the many frustrations Canada has with the US governement.

Re:I don't get it

[kilrogg]

I think you're wrong about the Straight of Georgia, look at any map and you see a U.S.-Canada border marked across the straight. The waters are considered "internal waters", any foreign warships entering those waters without prior consent could be viewed as engaging in an act of war.

The nanoose bay torpedo range you talk of is jointly run by the Canadian armed forces and the US Navy. The area was owned by the BC gov until the Feds expropriated it a few years ago. It has geographical features that make it an ideal range, something our allies lacked. More info: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/na noose.htm