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Press release 7-04-08
Dutch guy claims the North Pole and sells pieces of his claim to
the public. Seeks now licensees abroad.
5 countries claimed the North Pole. Now there are 6 claims.
Dutch guy claims as First Person in the World the North Pole and
began to sell pieces of his claim to the Dutch public via his
website. Another European country will join later on this year
with “selling his North Pole”.
Harald van Reenen, a former librarian made redundant by his
local library, claimed in 2007 the North Pole. He is believed to
be the very first person who has a claim to the North Pole and
its vast oil- and gas reserves.
3 months ago (dec. 2007) he began to sell pieces of his claim to
the public via his website giantclaim.com. More than 1300 people
have since then become “co-owner” of his claim.
“When I started out just 3 months ago I had no idea it would be
such a great success,” he says. “I thought I would sell
something like 4 North Pole Packages which includes the claim in
a month. It became 400 in one day. If only I was 1 month earlier
I could have sold 20.000 certificates and that for a small
country like Holland.”
As he found out along the way the certificates are a perfect
Christmas gift.
He is now seeking businesses licensees in other countries as
well who want to sell personalized North Pole certificates in
their countries. “I recently signed a license contract with a
French business who will sell my claims over there. But this is
just the beginning. I want other countries to follow suit.”
Mr. Van Reenen put up a special web site
www.northpoleguy.com
in order to find businesses who can sell his claim to other
countries as well.
He explains on his site how it works:“ People can join me when
they buy a North Pole Claim Certificate Package. They will be
registered on my International database system as a claimant to
the North Pole, joining me as the Master Claim holder of The
International People’s Claim to the North Pole, that’s the
name of my claim.
Those who join me become “co-owner” of my claim. Meaning,
everyone who has joined me will have a fair share of those
profits once our claim is recognized by the United Nations or
any other organization that deals with the North Pole.”
He had the idea about claiming the North Pole himself after
reading an article in the Daily Telegraph about the 5 so called
Polar nations (United States, Russia, Denmark, Norway and
Canada) who are all claiming the North Pole. So far nobody owns
the North Pole. “I thought: why shouldn’t I as individual claim
the North Pole as well?,” he explains. “If I have to pay for the
oil at the petrol station, why not claiming it myself?”
He continues: “Let’s face it: Whether you’re a British, American
or a Dutch citizen, we all have to pay for the rising oil
prices. So to be 100 percent clear, it’s not against the
citizens of these great Polar nations.
“If you’re an American or a Russian , you all have to pay at the
petrol station. So why wouldn’t we as ordinary citizens claim
the North Pole oil ourselves, no matter if you’re a national
from the U.S, Russia (Polar nations) or from Europe?”
He wants to emphasize that if we as ordinary world citizens take
over the North Pole we decide what happens to the North Pole.
“Do we want the oil or do we want to leave the North Pole alone?
If our People’s Claim is recognized we decide what happens to
the Artic and not just the big players in the world.”
His first attempt to find a licensee outside his
country was to write to moonestaes.com, a UK based business
selling pieces of the moon in Britain, making at least 1 million
pounds a year from it. They wrote to me saying their company
moonestates was unable to market my product because
“it has the potential to affect the sales of our
other product lines.”
(e.g. the moon business)
Although they didn’t want to take the North Pole
claim on board, it made Mr. Van Reenen quite clear he has “a
license to print money” in his hands as he describes on his
website
www.northpoleguy.com
“Without knowing they made me a big compliment,”
he smiles. “My North Pole business is greatly inspired by the
MOON selling and will no problem whatsoever copy their success.
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