Headline from another century ... but actually it isn't; it just READS like one:

http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=de36814e-c822-4f16-ae4e-108e328a959b&k=83848

Russian expedition sets sail to claim Arctic for the Kremlin

"The Arctic is Russian," Artur Chilingarov, the expedition leader and deputy leader of the country's parliament, told Russian television.

"We are going to be the first to put a flag there, a Russian flag at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, at the very point of the North Pole."

Oooh, a -flag-. I guess that's an improvement over pissing on a tree to establish territory. Yes, planting a flag is a great way to establish property rights. Especially if you stolen property (everything every government owns) to accomplish said flag-planting.

Savages!
  ¶ 11:40 AM