and yes, the National Guard is there, although it looks like the bureaucrats almost cluelessly were ignoring the emergency in New York before the press got hold of the story.
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Austin Bay at the apolitical site StrategyPage discusses Benghazi, and has some military questions to ask.
--------------------------------A seven-hour firefight in a city is sustained combat engagement. It indicates the attackers had plenty of ammo. I've also learned that two of our dead were former SEALs, two Americans with the will and military skill to take on several hundred militiamen. The seven hours they fought is plenty of time to dispatch reinforcements -- at the minimum an air strike. Did they request support, as one news report claims? If so, were their requests denied? Who denied them? Was military support denied because it might violate Libyan sovereignty? These are reasonable questions that demand honest answers.
We ate at Luz Restaurant, which is now a hot spot, but during the cemetary visit, a bored Ruby was connecting her new computer to Chano's iPhone to get on line to message her friends.
But all of this takes cellphone towers.
StrategyPage discusses how the Military can put up their "hot spot" via satellite.
Yes, we had commercial satellite coverage in Oklahoma for both cable TV and internet... and it is available in the Philippines, but quite expensive, at least when I looked into it a few years ago when we were spending a lot of time in the farm...cheaper and easier to just surf via the local cellphone company...
Equipment for doing this has been getting more and more portable and inexpensive year by year since 1991. The most recent development is a satellite phone and a separate mini-router device that allows you to quickly establish a wi-fi hotspot (within 30 meters of the “Hotspot” router). Currently, Thuraya sells a phone (for about $800) and a router (for $300) that makes this happen. Data rates are not cheap, costing $3-$4 per megabyte. Thuraya satellites only cover Eurasia and most of Africa
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The decline and fall of western art in two photos.
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and finally,
An Unexpected Briefing.
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