Search results

By TOBY MUSE, Associated Press Writer 2 hours ago BOGOTA, Colombia - Hundreds of leftist rebels bombarded a remote police station with makeshift mortars in a pre-dawn attack Wednesday and ambushed a column of police reinforcements, killing at least 16 officers, authorities said. The six-hour...

I’m going to provide a lot of information regarding the current situation in Mexico, mainly what’s been going on in Oaxaca and various other cities. I will provide recent articles, pictures and video’s. This thread may seem a bit erratic and unorganized at first, but I know...

Anyone play this game? I read about it and it sounds like a game I've always dreamed about (being a commie rebel and ingniting a revolution to overthrow a currupt Central Amerikan country). "Just Cause" plays like a jungle edition of "Grand Theft Auto." Both have giant landscapes to explore...

Amid the furious debate over Iraq and the speculation that George Bush may be a lame duck after next Tuesday's mid-term elections, an extraordinary political milestone is approaching: a cantankerous 65-year-old called Bernie looks set to become the first socialist senator in US history. Bernie...

First chance for an Amerikan to reclaim a Heavyweight belt from the Soviets this saturday (probably not too many people will watch because of the Mayweather fight). Briggs tips the scales at 268 pounds (47-4-1, 41 KOs) "I'm looking to get him out of there early," Briggs said. "He's a young...

Haven't seen a thread yet, so why not? Who's watching the fight this saturday? I heard Mayweathers trainer and uncle, Roger, will be serving jail time and wont be at the fight. Could this be a big upset? Unlikely, but it makes for an interesting story

BERLIN (Reuters) - Two Israeli warplanes and a German navy vessel have clashed off the Lebanese coast, the Defence Ministry in Berlin said on Wednesday without giving further details. Germany daily Der Tagesspiegel earlier on Wednesday quoted a junior German defence minister as telling a...

Ethan Albright Strikes Back An image of excellence. To: John Madden CC: Electronic Arts Sports From: Ethan Albright Re: Being the worst rated player on Madden ‘07 Hi, John, my name is Ethan Albright. I play line for the Washington Redskins. You probably already knew that, so I’ll...

“We have all the plants in the territory occupied and we will not allow a single truck from Coca-Cola to leave with soft drinks… Now we will see if they will pay workers what they owe them,” Varela said. Rosa Natera the lawyer representing the workers in the dispute said that they were owed...

Here is a little something that didn't get any media play, mainly because the suicide bomber was not brown and did not pray to Allah... (BTW, this happened on Sept 11th, 2006) Additional terroristic activities by the anti-abortionists since 1977: According to statistics gathered by the...

CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO The explosion occurs at 3:56 of the video. On October 11, 2006, a Tactical Nuclear Device appears to have exploded when fire broke out in an ammunition dump at Camp Falcon inside Iraq. Video from live nightly newscast in Baghdad caught the detonation - miles away -...

Yes, oil is what this war is about. No cute conspiracy theories, simply the nature of Capitalism. Nothing more, nothing less. :: :: By Joshua Holland Four big oil companies are on the verge of locking up its massive, profitable reserves, known to everyone in the petroleum industry as "the...

Many latin american right-wing candidates, all of which are allies with el presidente bush, love to follow his example... Conservative candidate Alvaro Noboa has regained the lead in the latest partial count of Ecuador's presidential poll. With almost 80% of the votes counted, the electoral...

The chess world has an undisputed world champion for the first time since 1993, after Russia's Vladimir Kramnik won a reunification match in a tie-break. His match with Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov was tied 6-6 at the end of the scheduled series. In a tiebreaker series of four rapid-play games...

PART 1: Winning the intelligence war By Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry Introduction Writing five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, US military expert Anthony Cordesman published an account of the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. "Preliminary Lessons of the Israeli-Hezbollah War" created...

by Sarah Boseley Republished from The Guardian Lancet study updated by Johns Hopkins researchers The death toll among Iraqis as a result of the US-led invasion has now reached an estimated 655,000, a study in the Lancet medical journal reports today. The figure for the number of deaths...

Very informitive article... Home foreclosures soar in US By Naomi Spencer 9 October 2006 The social impact of the bursting of the US housing market is already being registered in a sharp increase in home foreclosures. In August, the foreclosure rate rose a staggering 53 percent over the same...

Social Networking websites are being bought by large corporations at an amazing rate. Google’s purchase of Youtube will give this over more powerful corporation 56% of the online video viewing market. As the Internet become a more and more powerful medium we should question if this kind power is...

Putin silent as fiercest critic is murdered · Reporter was investigating torture in Chechnya · Protesters blame Kremlin for apartment shooting Anna Politkovskaya Tom Parfitt in Moscow Monday October 9, 2006 The Guardian A crowd of protesters gathered in central Moscow yesterday...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/powerranking 1 (1) Bears 5-0-0 Think Don Shula and the '72 Dolphins are getting a little nervous? The Bears have yet to show any real flaws so far this season. 2 (2) Colts 5-0-0 So they didn't cover the 18.5-point spread and it was a close game. Those...