Rafael Correa, Kanadahar prison, Allen Telescope

Taliban fighters have attacked the main prison in Kanadahar, southern Afghanistan, blasting through its entrance and engaging in a gun battle with police.
Nearly all of the estimated 1,150 prisoners, including some 400 Taliban, have escaped, Afghan officials have said.
aljazeera

Just how badly is USAusBrit loosing this war ?
Not mentioned in MSM here
Whare were the 'look Down heat seeking cluster bombs' and other fancy technology?
[ps: NYT (not on front page of site) says motorbikes were used,
thermal signature to small in urban situation?]
pps: A large 100? attack on USA/Karzai forces earlier in the day may have diverted the smart bombs

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unep
African climate change atlas (Past, not predictions???)

I havnt seen this but it might be interesting

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I have just watched DVDs of 2 historic movies:
Our Man in Havana Director: Carol Reed 1959 (Alec Guiness, Noel Coward from book by Grahame Greene
The Tailor of Panama (2001) Director: John Boorman (an evident homage to the earlier film)
from novel by John le Carré (novel)
Cast Pierce Brosnan Geoffrey Rush Jamie Lee Curtis

Despite stellar casts and directors (Boormans "Point Blank" the best Gangster|Noir in colour)
I wasnt satisfied by either film. I dont mind black farce (FishCalledWanda was great Curtis was funny)
Something about the unbelievability of the farces grated.
Is seems my standards of seriousness for LAtinAm may be too high:
aljazeera:

Ecuadorean police have arrested four men for allegedly plotting to kill Rafael Correa, the president, security officials say.

Washington Pesantez, Ecuador's attorney-general, said security officials uncovered the plot by the men, who included three Colombians, on Thursday.
But Correa himself cast doubt on the plot.
there is a strong probability they were just scam artists.

"We have dozens of cases like this every month".

Correa said last year that unidentified groups tried to buy rockets to kill him.

Brosnan predictably failed to carry the bad-guy role, but not my that much, and Rush chewed the scenery, which was more fun in Quill.
Aro Video in Wgtn has a decent range of Classic Videos
- Bressons 1962 Joan of Arc was surprisingly bad, despite using actual transcripts. Bresson may be the father of the Nouvell Vague, but I wont watch any more of him
Dreyer's 1928 Silent Joan remains in my memory as a Masterpiece...
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Cretan bull
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Aiens Arrayed:
space
if aliens had a farm that was 15 miles on a side consisting of a collection of rooftop TV antennas spaced every 10 feet, and receivers as noise-free as those we build for our radio telescopes, they could pick up our TV carriers in two minutes of listening from 50 light-years away. That, incidentally, is where the earliest episodes of "I Love Lucy" are hanging out now.
The carrier would tell them we're here ..to actually watch Lucy drive Desi nuts, they'd need an antenna farm 150 times bigger in each direction. That's a large herd of antennas, approximately the size of the United States

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...About one percent of the cosmos lies within a quarter-degree of the path of the Sun through the sky, and any galactic neighbors who happen to be situated in that lucky stripe could ...detect Earth's transits (they last up to 13 hours) taking place every year.... they might send us a ping timed to arrive during the half-day or so when this mini-eclipse occurs.
... we could make ourselves receptive to such deliberate pings by simply aiming our SETI antennas in the direction opposite to the Sun. That means pointing to the east right after sunset, and tracking the sky to the west by dawn.

Allen Telescope Array [$25M from the computer guy]
... 42 dishes have begun making observations at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory, 290 miles north of San Francisco, and the array will include 350 antennae at completion.
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They can further refine their search by focusing on where the ecliptic intersects the plane of the Milky Way galaxy, home to most of the galaxy’s 100 billion stars.
The two great planes intersect near Taurus and Sagittarius...
SKA, Australia hopes to build it (will they come?)
skatelescope
skatelescope
Phased Array, PA at focii, IC chip detectors?
2009??
LAR also planned (Canada?

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effectmeasure
Why the Right Wing attacks science
CTTs, Conservative Think Tanks, a network of paid consulting groups supported by multinational corporations and foundations bankrolled by wealthy far-right ideologues like Richard Mellon Scaife. Examples include the American Enterprise Institute, the Hoover Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and many others.

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Rafael Correa, Kanadahar prison, Allen Telescope