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Advisory Board says LightSquared can’t coexist with GPS

Advisory Board says LightSquared can’t coexist with GPS. The board said ain’t no way LightSquared is gonna work without screwing up GPS. In response, LightSquared said the test results reflect “bias and inappropriate collusion” because the PNT committee included non-government employees with ties to the GPS industry. In other words, it included people Obama doesn’t control. No fair.

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Jim says:

January 14, 2012 at 9:23 am

If Obama agrees to fly around in Air Force One using an off the shelf Garmin GPS, I will endorse Light Squared and their plans... Hey pilot guy, that's not a mountain ahead! See, it's not on the screen!
Trust us, fly straight ahead!!!!!!!
deepthinker says:

January 14, 2012 at 8:45 am

Big brother in the 1oth degree. This whole project was about controlling the masses and knowning every last move that they make. Hitler and the SS would be so proud of this administration and all that it's doing in the "name" of security and protection.
RobertW says:

January 14, 2012 at 7:26 am

Falcone... wow.

Is it just me or does it seem like potus is trying to put everybody on the grid, whether they want to or not doesn't make a difference?
- DefHarryMelon says:
  
  January 14, 2012 at 8:11 am
  
  How can he be sure everybody is paying their fair share if he doesn't know where they are, where they come from or where they go to? How can he be sure they're not really getting more than he knows about, thereby cheating him out of their money? How can he know they aren't doing something he doesn't approve of or with people they are not allowed to be with? He requires control to get the changes made!
  
  It was never called the National Positioning System. That has a ridiculous ring to it, but lends an air of sovereignty. A one currency/credit world where each person feels equally oppressed is their goal and he is their man in America!
Kip Hooker says:

January 14, 2012 at 7:04 am

This story (along with Solyndra and Fast & Furious) should be the lead news stories every day and night until King Barry abdicates or is forced out through the impeachment process. As I often point out I have very little love for Nixon (President EPA, Wage and Price Controls and Fiat Currency) but it is a travesty that he was destroyed for covering up a botched break in (that he might very well not have known about) while Barry constantly gets away with items like this.