This week, Yahtzee tempts fate and risks insanity by reviewing a JRPG (Front Page here I come!).
May 2008
Monthly Archive
Thu 29 May 2008
Thu 29 May 2008
Thu 29 May 2008
Author Jason Leopold reports on one of the top censored stories. Halliburton sold key components to Iran as late as 2005, through an Iranian private oil company, Oriental Oil Kish. In 1996 VP Dick Cheney told US businessmen while on a trip to the Middle East, to ease sanctions in Iran & Libya to foster better relationships with them.
Thu 29 May 2008
Five Arctic coastal countries will meet in Greenland on Wednesday to discuss how to carve up the Arctic Ocean, which could hold up to one-quarter of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas reserves, far more than Saudia Arabia’s.
Thu 29 May 2008
Greg Palast of the BBC has uncovered over 500 emails sent by Karl Rove from GOP and RNC servers that were later deleted to inhibit a justice department investigation. What Palast has uncovered is a preliminary plan to ‘cage’ black voters out of the 2008 election. Oh, O am proud to be an American… c’mon guys, you know the words!
Thu 29 May 2008
Breaking news on Tuesday’s Countdown, as Keith Olbermann reveals that former Senator Phil Gramm, a general co-chair of Senator John McCain’s campaign, actually lobbied Congress on behalf of financial giant UBS to try and stop legislation aimed at installing industry regulations that could have prevented the current mortgage foreclosure crisis.
Thu 29 May 2008
LONDON (AP) — The United States is shirking its duty to provide the world with moral leadership and China is letting its business interests trump human rights concerns in Myanmar and Sudan, a human rights group said Wednesday.
Wed 28 May 2008
These people are definitely going to regret these tattoos of Conan, Oprah, Britney, and other famous faces.
Wed 28 May 2008
The entertainment industry had US diplomats lean on Russia, claiming that if it didn’t shut down the site, the US would block Russia’s admittance into the WTO. So, eventually, Russia did shut down the site through somewhat questionable means. Of course, within minutes of it being shutdown, the company reappeared under the name Mp3Sparks.
Wed 28 May 2008
Spielberg “wanted to make sure it looked like all the other” Indy films, Landis explained Friday in an interview with CNET News.com here at ILM’s headquarters. Spielberg even shot the film with one of the very lenses used for the first Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was released 27 years ago.