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Snapshots of life in Afghanistan, as seen by press photographers over the past two months. An Afghan Special Forces policeman walks through a poppy field as he searches for Taliban fighters in the village of Sanjaray in Zhari district early April 26, 2008. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) An Afghan...

USAID reveals its plans for subversion in Cuba BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD IN its new plans for destabilizing Cuba, the USAID is to promote the clandestine dispatch of electronic materials to the island via European and Latin American intermediaries, which will undertake the dirty work that it cannot...

My friend has a theory on racial preferences and Soda. I'm interested to see what the Siccness' preferences are. Please vote in the poll.

I got this error last night while using soulseek. Totally shuts down soulseek, stops downloads, you lose all your current searches, etc. Has anyone encountered this before with soulseek or any other programs? Anyone have a fix for this or know how I can trouble shoot and then fix this...

The makings of a China-Latin love affair http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JE31Ad01.html By William Ratliff The explosive growth of China's links to Latin America in recent years are but the latest developments in a history that reaches back to the Spanish colonial empire in the early-16th...

How the Pentagon shapes the world http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JE31Df04.html By Frida Berrigan A full-fledged cottage industry is already focused on those who eagerly await the end of the George W Bush administration, offering calendars, magnets and t-shirts for sale as well as...

And the winner is ... the Israel lobby http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF03Ak01.html By Pepe Escobar WASHINGTON - They're all here - and they're all ready to party. The three United States presidential candidates - John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Madam House speaker...

Clinton Only Needs 153% of Remaining Delegates by David Swanson Page 1 of 1 page(s) http://www.opednews.com So, the Democratic National Committee has bent the rules for Senator Clinton and effectively given her 87 delegates and Senator Obama 63 from two states that were not supposed to...

Why bananas are a parable for our times http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/364179_bananaonline23.html?source=mypi JOHANN HARI Below the headlines about rocketing food prices and rocking governments, there lays a largely unnoticed fact: Bananas are dying. The foodstuff, more heavily consumed...

50 Cent's Long Island Home Burned Down In 'Suspicious' Fire By Chris Georg 20:55, May 30th 2008 Rapper 50 Cent's $2.4 million Long Island home, in which his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins and the former couple's son lived rent-free, burned down last night after a "suspicious" fire broke...

Charming Chavez gives ‘media terrorists’ a closer look Note to Readers: Buffalo News Editor Margaret Sullivan spent last week in Venezuela as part of a fact-finding delegation from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Margaret Sullivan / Letter from Venezuela Updated: 05/18/08 6:33 AM...

By Jeremy McDermott BBC News, Medellin Marulanda led the Farc from its formation until his death The legendary leader and founder of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) is dead. Can the Colombian rebels, who have never been without the leadership of "Manuel Marulanda"...

Nepal's lawmakers abolish the country's monarchy By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA, Associated Press Writer KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepal's lawmakers abolished the monarchy and declared the country a republic Wednesday, ending 239 years of royal rule in the Himalayan nation. The newly elected assembly, led...

MTV has posted a trailer for CHOKE. This one's from actor-turning-writer/director Clark Gregg (IRON MAN, IN THE LAND OF WOMEN, TV's THE WEST WING) & is adapted from a novel by FIGHT CLUB author Chuck Palahniuk. http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=235956

10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help Dude that wrote this book was on the radio this morning I didn't have a chance to listen much or call in because I had to be at work. Thought I'd move the discussion here. What are your reactions to his list? I don't know...

Director and actor Sydney Pollack dies at 73 May 27, 4:00 AM (ET) By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON (AP) In this Sept. 25, 2006 file photo, Sydney Pollack arrives to the opening of the Metropolitan Opera... LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director who collaborated with a...

As health costs shoot into the stratosphere, the U.S. has turned to Canada for a steady supply of low-cost drugs and medical care. Overall, medical tourism -- in which U.S. citizens travel to other countries simply for cheap care -- doubled over the course of one year (from 2006-2007). The Key...

9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_he_me/absorbed_twin;_ylt=Ag4_nn2qT7NproxPNW5Jmp6s0NUE ATHENS, Greece - A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin...

Every Steelers fan in the whole damn state of Penn. is gunna vote for this guy come re-election ------------------------------------------------------------- Specter’s Floor Statement on New England Patriots Videotaping...

Copyright 2008 Time Inc. All Rights Reserved Time May 12, 2008 U.S. Edition THE WELL; Campaign '08, Ickes; Pg. 34 Vol. 171 No. 19 1630 words The Man Who Wrote The Rules James Carney Harold Ickes has toiled for insurgent Democrats since Eugene McCarthy in 1968. Now he's...