{"id":197386,"date":"2008-02-07T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/07\/assininity-in-the-uk-wind-farms-a-threat-to-national-security\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T23:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T04:43:00","slug":"assininity-in-the-uk-wind-farms-a-threat-to-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/07\/assininity-in-the-uk-wind-farms-a-threat-to-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Assininity in the UK:  Wind Farms a Threat to National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s nice to know that we in the US don&#8217;t have a monopoly on ignorant, incompetent, militaristic prats.<\/p>\n<p>The MoD is claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article3300814.ece\">wind farms are a threat to national security<\/a>, because the large rotating blades of the turbines interfere with the early warning radars.<\/p>\n<p>I do understand that the British military is concerned about the possibility of the USSR launching nuclear armed bombers against the British Isles, but I think that a <i>slightly<\/i> more immediate threat is sending money to supporters or right wing religious fanaticism, like&#8230;I don&#8217;t know&#8230;the House of Saud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s nice to know that we in the US don&#8217;t have a monopoly on ignorant, incompetent, militaristic prats. The MoD is claiming that wind farms are a threat to national security, because the large rotating blades of the turbines interfere with the early warning radars. I do understand that the British military is concerned &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}