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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Written by: GoemagogA space geek sent me a link to a story about the Commie Positioning System, known as Galileo. The United States and NATO are standardized on the GPS system we started putting in place back in the late 80's. This means that the Euroweenies have unlimited access to it. Thanks to the miracles of civilian technology, pretty much everyone else does too. The catch is that the accuracy can be reduced by the Pentagon during a war, so our enemies can't use it. Our allies would still be able to use it, but civilians wouldn't get the exacting detail. Our NATO allies decided that wasn't good enough. They wanted to make their own system, because they either think Europe ceased being part of the globe or they plan on being one of those enemies. Previously, officials touted only the commercial benefit of Galileo, which is expected to tap into a burgeoning market for satellite positioning systems that doubled from 10 billion euros in 2002 to 20 billion euros in 2003. If they wanted to make money off of positioning, why don't they make stuff that works off of the GPS system? They're paying the cost of building another satellite network that does the EXACT SAME THING as ours. Either they're wasting money by building stuff that won't work (like most euromilitary hardware) or they're planning on not having access to our system. The really fucked up part is that the euroweenies are letting every country that wants access to have access. If everybody has access then you can't turn the damned thing off, or down, or anything else. The newest addition to the Commie Positioning Consortium is China, a country which is planning on going to war with the United States no later than 2020, a 16 year window. Putin's Russia, already headed deep into totalitarianism, is already involved. Toss in the Euroweenies, to whom rights are either a direction to turn or enemies of the "people", and you've got the socialist triumvirate. On the plus side, India's becoming less socialist by the day so we may not have to stand alone. Unless the State Department gets involved, then nobody will want to help us. Goe, wonders why our state department works for france.
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