Iran Says Nuke Assassins May Have Used Intel From The U.N.
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Iran Says Nuke Assassins May Have Used Intel From The U.N.
The Iranian government is crowing that they have shot down and seized an American stealthy drone. It is, from the published pictures, an RQ-170, a B-2 look-alike that was probably developed in a “black” program and still highly classified. (Black programs are so highly classified that no one admits they exist. Well, no one who is not a Democratic senator, as Durbin, Rockefeller, and Wyden did a few years ago on a black satellite program. (My column from about Dec 04 on “Don’t Play ‘Misty’ for Me” revealed what those three sluggos did.) Was it shot down? What did we do about it, and why didn’t we do more? From the photos we’ve seen, it’s highly unlikely that the Iranians brought it down with a kinetic weapon. If it had been shot down, it’d be heavily damaged. What the Iranians are publishing looks like a drone that is damaged very little, if at all. The likelihood is that the guidance/control systems malfunctioned and the aircraft landed softly on some Iranian runway. Otherwise, some Iranian version of Spiderman caught it in his webbing.
National Journal: Either Bachmann Leaked Classified Intel or She Suffered Another Seemingly Random Highly Inaccurate Public Comment
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National Journal: Either Bachmann Leaked Classified Intel or She Suffered Another Seemingly Random Highly Inaccurate Public Comment
Homeland Security Adviser Allegedly Leaked Intel to Attack Rick Perry
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Homeland Security Adviser Allegedly Leaked Intel to Attack Rick Perry
As DeMint called it today, “venture socialism.” (Fox News) — Solyndra, the solar panel company whose highly publicized failure and consequent investigation by federal authorities has flashed across headlines recently, isn’t the only business to go belly up after benefiting from a piece of the $800 billion economic stimulus package passed in 2009. At least four other companies have received stimulus funding only to later file for bankruptcy, and two of those were working on alternative energy. Evergreen Solar Inc., indirectly received $5.3 million through a state grant to open a $450 million facility in 2007 that employed roughly 800 people. The company, once a rock star in the solar industry, filed for bankruptcy protection last month, saying it couldn’t compete with Chinese rivals without reorganizing. The company intends to focus on building up its manufacturing facility in China. SpectraWatt, based in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., is also a solar cell company that was spun out of Intel in 2008. In June 2009, SpectraWatt received a $500,000 grant from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as part of the stimulus package. SpectraWatt was one of 13 companies to receive the money to help develop ways to improve solar cells without changing current manufacturing processes. The company filed for bankruptcy last month, saying it could not compete with its Chinese competitors, which receive “considerable government and financial support.” On Tuesday, Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman wrote an editorial for “USA Today” in which he blamed China in part for the failure of U.S. solar energy manufacturers to compete.
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Good News: Two Other “Green” Energy Firms That Received Stimulus Funding Went Bankrupt…
