ran 1.4 miles
You may not know this, but President Obama's State Department is giving (yes, giving!) away seven "strategic, resource-laden" Alaskan islands to Russia. The Russians will also be given tens of thousands of square miles of surrounding oil-rich seabed. According to the Department of Interior, estimates of barrels of oil are in the billions.
Posing as a simple maritime boundary agreement between Alaska and Siberia, in which our federal government put the islands on Russia's side, the state of Alaska was not allowed an opinion in the matter and Alaska's people were not permitted to comment.
(Source)---thanks for the link, Betty!
203.4 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day243.
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