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The intention is to destroy the principal of the freedom of space and replace it by giving sovereignty over space to the international community in the form of the UN. In some ways this can be seen as a back door way to get the US to agree to the 1979 Moon Treaty, which it has so far refused to accept.

By allowing the UN to grab control of space activities and to impose limits on who can and cannot operate in space, the French government is simply continuing its policy of trying to degrade America’s space advantage. This policy backfired badly during the attempt to overlay Galileo’s operating frequencies onto those of GPS. This effort may do even more harm to French-American relations and eventually to the UN itself.

Within the next decade it will probably be possible for Americans and other to set up privately-owned facilities in orbit and perhaps elsewhere in the Earth-Moon system. These could include space habitats as well as space solar power satellites. If the UN tries to impose heavy-handed regulations on these enterprises they will simply find ways to avoid UN control and taxation. Alternatively, it may be that these businesses will never come into existence due to the legal risks involved.

The Law of the Sea Treaty has effectively killed most seabed mining projects. A “Space Sustainability Agreement” could do the same for most off-Earth economic activities. The result will be a poorer, hungrier, more violent world. Those who want to constrain American power in the name of peace should think about this. – The Space Review

Sure, let’s have the UN control the undersea resources. That’s 2/3rds of the Earth’s surface. Then let’s give them control of the Moon’s resources. The Chinese will love that.

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Our government puts our health and safety at risk by refusing to close our border with Mexico despite the outbreak of swine flu down there. They put the interest of multi-national corporations above those of the citizens of this nation. They sign treaties that send our jobs and livelihoods overseas and invite illegal aliens to come and take whatever few jobs are left. They take 1/3rd of what we earn. The federal government makes King George seem like a saint by comparison.

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