Claims by LOST's proponents that this problem was fixed by a 1994 agreement that was not signed by all LOST's parties cry out for close examination by the Senate and the nation.
Instead, the Senate's Democratic leadership seems determined to secure LOST's ratification by running silent, running deep preventing needed hearings, silencing the critics and otherwise suppressing debate.
Regrettably, the Bush Administration has to date chosen to overlook this and the Treaty's other adverse implications for U.S. sovereignty, and says it supports LOST's ratification.
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Shows such as Fox's 24 and Prison Break, ABC's Lost and Grey's Anatomy, and the CW Network's Everybody Hates Chris are now being streamed using Move software.
Networks have seen that when viewer's favorite shows go off the air for an extended period of time--think the Walt Disney Co. (nyse: DIS - news - people )-owned ABC's Lost and CBS 's (nyse: CBS - news - people ) Jericho--it's hard to get those viewers back.
Mr. MEYERS: Well, I suppose the simple power of the theme and the idea that a man who is weak and poor and old, and has gone through tremendous physical hardships, including having his hands sort of torn up by the rope and the struggle, does in fact endure, and prevail, even though he's lost what he's fought for, because the sharks have eaten the marlin.
Apparently, by approving our previous signature to a piece of paper, the U.S. will change Iranian behavior by somehow strengthening the American position that LOST's provisions allowing "transit passage" through international straits, such as the Strait of Hormuz, are already customary international law, of which the U.S. is entitled to avail itself.
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Scarcely more appetizing is LOST's empowering of a UN agency to impose what amount to international taxes.
Few Senators have more immediate reason to worry about LOST's dire implications for our sovereignty than Sen.
Like those of virtually every other international organization, LOST's institutions (executive, legislative and judicial, if you please) are rigged-games.
Enforcement of the unprecedented commitment not to pollute the marine environment can be compelled via LOST's mandatory dispute resolution mechanisms.
After all, the Law of the Sea Tribunal--like most of LOST's other institutions--operates on the basis of one country, one vote.
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He plays an angry young man who is healed by the love of a pretty girl, played by Lost's Emilie de Ravin.
He has asked for additional hearings before the Foreign Relations Committee, offering an opportunity for more witnesses to explain LOST's myriad shortcomings.
Ronald Reagan objected to LOST's creation of a supranational agency to govern the world's oceans at the expense of U.S. sovereignty and America's capacity to utilize and assure freedom of the seas .
LOST's provisions on prevention of marine pollution from land-based sources could easily serve as a convenient peg on which to hang the greenhouse gas-regulating Kyoto Protocol, even though that treaty has also never been ratified.
President Reagan refused to agree to LOST's ratification in part because he found anathema the idea of empowering an international organization to raise its own revenues through what amount to taxes on seabed mining and energy exploitation.
Even if the Navy and its sister sea-services were right about the value of the treaty from their parochial perspectives, roughly 60 percent of LOST's provisions have to do with the supranational management of two-thirds of the world's surface and its resources.
Apart from a front-page article in the Washington Times last Friday and postings by an array of on-line news outlets, bloggers and a couple of newsletters, the so-called "mainstream media" have denied the American people virtually any information about LOST's growing difficulties.
Furthermore, while there is a LOST provision exempting "military activity" from such dispute resolution mechanisms, the Treaty makes no attempt to define "military activity, " virtually guaranteeing that such matters will be litigated - in all likelihood to our detriment - before one or another of LOST's arbitration mechanisms.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs would have a two-fer, due (1) to the fact LOST may require, among other things, the compromise of sensitive information about domestic industries in the name of environmental regulation, and (2) the growing allegations of corruption and incompetence in LOST's utterly unaccountable International Seabed Authority.
Meanwhile, given the potential for LOST's arbitral panels and regulatory bodies to infringe massively upon the prerogatives of the Congress to say nothing of the constitutional rights of millions of Americans it would seem only natural for myriad Senate (and, for that matter, House) committees to want to hold their own hearings about this accord.
He's lost a lot of his party's support too, so it will be very difficult for him to stay in Dutch politics.
Some are now talking openly of a Lost Decade, much like Japan's lost years after its great property crash at the end of the 1980s.
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