Galileo satellite project under threat?

Galileo satellite project under threat?
By Jan Libbenga
Posted: 01/12/2003 at 12:40 GMT

Galileo, the prestigious European satellite navigation system, is under threat by the US military, which wants to degrade its accuracy, according to the German TV news programme Tagesschau
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Talks are underway between the US and the European Union to ensure that the navigation satellite system will operate with - not interfere with - the present U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS). In practice this would mean the US can jam frequencies if desired (without consulting the Europeans first), but it also wants control over the accuracy of the system for security purposes, according to Tagesschau.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/34272.html

By what stretch of the imagination does the US think it can control whatever it wants anywhere in the world?
I just read another story where out government thinks it can go into another country and arrest whoever they want for breaking our laws! :wtf:

Can you imangine ANY other country trying that here?

is the colliseum, where dissenters and competitors are given a fair chance to state their respective cases before the court of King Leo. Sadly, few of them present a good enough case, or run fast enough, to win a judgement against the emperor, but many have made the attempt. In the end, of course, the greatest empire tha world has ever known will triumph and prosper, because the Gods have smiled upon us. Then came the Visigoths.

why the US can do this: because it has the most weapons, and it is ruled by bullies.
imo the interesting bit is that Eu didn't make the slightest fuz about this, rather they just comply.

all part of the plan.

"These challenges are well understood by the Defense Department and the Bush Administration more broadly. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld chaired a recent congressionally-mandated commission on the future of space, which recognized that “we know from history that every medium -- air, land and sea -- has seen conflict. Reality indicates that space will be no different.” The panel also concluded that “given this virtual certainty, the must develop the means both to deter and to defend against hostile acts in and from space.” And Ryan’s comments are surely a preview of a central tenet of the forthcoming Quadrennial Defense Review. “Space war” may sound like science fiction, but it is a competition the United States must prepare to win, perhaps even to the point of creating a new branch of the armed services. In space as on earth, we preserve the peace by maintaining our strength."

http://www.newamericancentury.org/defense-20010802.htm

grrrrrrrrr