tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164381222012-02-11T20:37:54.772Z- YOUR REFUGE FROM REALITY! - THE WEBLOG OF COLONEL "WHOPPER" CREEDON -Colonel Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.comBlogger11471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-49698179045974729702012-02-03T00:00:00.000Z2012-02-03T00:00:00.755Z

During their investigation into "irregularities" within the UNPASID and UNETIDA organisations over the past number of months, the Special Investigation Committee are believed - but unconfirmed to have discovered startling miscalculations in budget and personnel payroll. These beliefs may now be compounded by a newly released report by the Committee’s parent organisation, the U.N.'s

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The anticipated sequel to Guy Richie’s seminal interpretation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Homes character, sadly does not continue in the same vein as it’s predecessor with Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows. It’s with a heavy heart I must report that the movie is a bitterly disappointing experience overall and captures none of the magic which brought the series to life. Yes there were

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It was pointed out to me this week that I hadn't yet reviewed The Thing [the 2011 prequel]. I was sure I had, so I claimed I did. In reality I hadn't actually finished this post and must publicly apologise to Sith Master and submit the following: In Time In Time is a high-concept hard-science fiction tale from Andrew The Truman Show Niccol. Set in a world where you are genetically

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After a satellite tracked an ultraviolet flash from a massive solar eruption - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency’s Space Weather Prediction Center, the U.S.' official source of warnings about space weather and its impact on Earth, issued a watch for a geomagnetic storm expected to hit the  planet on Tuesday morning.While the NOAA have stated that there is no risk to humanity, as a

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The DOD on Saturday identified the six brave men from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 363 killed earlier this week in a helicopter crash in Helmand province, Afghanistan. German Brig. Gen. Carsten Jacobson, a spokesman for the NATO coalition in Kabul, said Friday that they were examining a “technical fault” as the possible culprit. Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 363 known as the “

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The "Doomsday Clock" has become a universally recognised indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies in the life sciences. Last week, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved the symbolic minute hand from six to just five minutes before midnight. This was to reflect their analysis of the world’s lack of progress

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On December 12th last, FOX News broke a story revealing that at least two major United Nations development agencies, described as having accumulated some $3.2 billion in cash in 2009, refused to divulge exactly what they spent their program money on. The information was contained in a confidential draft report prepared on behalf of the Norwegian development agency known as NORAD [not to be

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Happy New Year folks. We say goodbye to 2011. A year of Arab Spring and occupiers. Rioting in Athens and looting in London. Flooding in Thailand, Pakistan and Brazil, earthquakes in Turkey and New Zealand, but alas Japan suffered the worst of both. Gerard Depardieu was pissing, Charlie Sheen was "winning" and Glen Beck was goodbye-ing. The Colonel joined Twitter, Prince William got hitched

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The years most hilarious post-heading aside, it seems that Christmas has come early for the people of North Korea as the evil dictator and long-suspected extra terrestrial Kim Jong-il [pictured left] died earlier in the week. Despite this great news, we must err on the side of caution. Jong-il's death may not plunge the country into chaos as he had begun grooming his son, Kim Jong-un to

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An Extra Terrestrial spacecraft is currently in orbit of the planet Mercury possibly sending in ground forces to establish a permanent staging area from which to launch an assault on Earth. That was the chilling revelation from Rear Admiral "Smokestack" Henderson Acting Director of UNETIDA speaking from the UN in New York this afternoon. Henderson said he had received actionable

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Today marks the 70th Anniversary of the cowardly attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan "which awakened a skleeping giant" and broughtthe United States into World War II. Seven decades later President Barack Obama called for the Stars and Stripes to be flown at half mast on federal buildings across the country, to mark National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. "On a serene Sunday

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NASA concept artist's impression of Keplar 22b Defying UNETIDA suggestions, NASA have revealed the discovery of the first ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system. While earlier this year astronomers "confirmed" the first rocky exoplanet to meet key requirements for sustaining life was Kepler-22b, initially glimpsed in 2009, their findings were much dismissed as those

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Drive In this crime drama, Ryan Gosling portrays a nameless Hollywood Stuntman who moonlights as a Driver for the criminal underworld. It is similar in many respects to the 1978 Walter Hill movie The Driver but is a very different beast. Some may even call Drive a modern Western in it's execution. Drive is directed by the little-known Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn and  features

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The Pentagon announced this week that on Nov 17th it successfully test fired an Advanced Hypersonic Weapon [above], understood to be one of a number of alternatives [including the Falcon programme] under consideration as part of it’s "prompt global strike" system that can deliver long-range weapons anywhere in the world while avoiding flying over third-party nations as revealed through a

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Sadly the work of Task Force Razor is at an end, but and it had a hell of a ride over the past 10 years. A super-secret multi-service Tier-1 Special Operations unit commanded directly from "someone" in the NMCC. It began with 48 operators in 2001 who rotated in and out every few months to form four six-man standard teams. It'll make a great TV show one day if only they could ever declassify

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A special message from General James F. Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps and Sergeant Major Micheal P. Barrett, Sergeant Major of The Marine Corps to mark the 236th Birthday. Semper Fi!

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The last several movies I've seen since Captain America haven't compelled me to write full reviews for them - they literally weren’t anything to write home about, which is a bit sad considering the performance of summer movies in recent years. I managed to avoid both Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Cowboys And Aliens in the last batch despite enjoying the previous Planet of the Apes remake

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Lance Corporal Spazweki once asked me: "How come you always shoot every animal we encounter Sir?" Always one to impart knowledge, my response was exceedingly simple, "Because you never know son, you just never know..." Army Public Health Command poster From Bruce via Wired.

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Moammar Gadhafi was born in 1942 and abandoned Geography studies to pursue a military career. He rose to power at only 27 after a bloodless coup against King Idris in 1969. In the 70's he laid out his Third Universal Theory which walked a line between communism and capitalism and oversaw the rapid development of Libya with regards to her oil industry and military. He improved living standards

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There was some unfounded speculations that after he left the governor's position that Arnold Schwarzenegger would pick up a weapon and stand on the U.S. / Mexican border to prevent illegal aliens from crossing - but he didn't, he's going back to acting. So you therefore have to hand it to fellow 80's action star Steven Seagal though, because next year he's grabbing a gun and going to do it

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  On Friday the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services at the request of the Security Council announced the appointment of a Special Investigation Committee to examine the manpower, assets, finances and procedures of UNPASID after a number of high profile debacles put the directorate under scrutiny. The committee will also jointly assess UNETIDA with regard to manpower and budgetary

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The filming of the movie adaptation of Max Brooks' World War Z starring Brad Pitt hit a snag this week as Hungarian police confiscated some 100 weapons at Budapest's Ferenc Liszt Airport destined for use on the movie. Apparently Hungaran police were dissatisfied with the methods that the London armourers used to deactivate the real weapons from being able to fire live ammunition. Janos

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The factory-applied layer of silver polish had just about worn off my first set of eagles, when I was given command of Task Force Razor - not two weeks after the twin towers fell. Rummy gave me my orders in the executive bathroom of the White House of all places. There would be no records - I had to flush the orders after reading. The man stood there and watched as I did so. "We're not declaring

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You probably won't recognise the name Charles Napier too quickly as he wasn't particularly famous for it, but because of his voice, his face and the square-jawed tough guys and military types he played in many movies and TV shows, he will be remembered forever - even if only as "that guy!" Gen. Gilmore [Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery] Napier was born in Scottsville, Kentucky,

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Admiral Michael Glenn "Mike" Mullen, retired from the United States Navy at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va. on Friday Sept. 30. He passed the reigns as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Army General Martin E. Dempsey during a change of responsibility ceremony there before an audience that included President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of Defense Panetta, senior military

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A Supernova, the death cry of a star. One supernova is a rare occurrence but in the galaxy designated Arp 220, a mere 250 million light-years from our Solar System, not only one supernova is occurring - but SEVEN! According to IO9, a team of astronomers at Chalmers and Onsala Space Observatory found that all seven supernovas went off in the last sixty years (allowing for the 250 million years

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A poorly conceived advertisement for a Cork city music event at a nightclub has left three dead in the wake of a UNETIDA raid on the premises on Friday morning. The advertisement for a music event sponsored by a prominent European beer company was presented in a "wrap around" format over the real cover of the local newspaper. It presented the ad in such a way that it posed as the newspaper's

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UNETIDA has appeared not once, not twice but three times in the press in the past few days... Source: Getty The Commander, UNETIDA Naval Tactical Support Capt. "Harpoon" Dutton KBE, speaking in the absence of Contraalmirante "Tridente" Carlos UNETIDA Naval Operations Commander, said "UNETIDA is currently not in command of either the USS Jefferson City nor any other U.S. naval asset afloat

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I like to convince myself that the Matt Salinger Captain America movie never even happened. So for me, this was my first time seeing the star spangled avenger come to life in a live action motion picture. Marvel Studios and Paramount have collaborated on several movies now and each entry in their catalogue has been continuously impressive. Captain America: The First Avenger is inexorably

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On September 2nd 1864 the forces of Union General William T. Sherman marched  into Atlanta, Georgia, one day after the Confederates evacuate the city. Exactly 147 years later, the people of Atlanta stood aside as a 40,000+ force of fans of Science Fiction, Fantasy, TV shows, Games, Comic Books and Movies descended on downtown Atlanta and literally became an occupying force of five of the

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That's just one of the cheesy promo lines that I wish Don LaFontaine was still with us to deliver during an Expendables 2 teaser trailer. And it's true, Sylvester Stallone himself has confirmed that he will be battling "The Muscles from Brussels" himself - Jean-Claude Van Damme on screen in the sequel to one of the greatest action movies in history, The Expendables. JCVD turned down

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10 years ago today the skyline of New York City was forever altered, brave heroes acted in the skies above Pennsylvania and the nerve centre of those who establish peace and security across the globe was wounded. Today we remember and honour those who lost their lives that day in the World Trade Centre, United Airlines Flight 93 and The Pentagon. Also the first responders and emergency

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Overrated actor Gerard Depardieu, like an a-typical frenchman decided to get one over on infamous "wanker" Neil Prendeville by urinating in the aisle while on a flight to Ireland to shoot a new Asterix movie. Obviously not a follower of the "go before you go" rule, the weak-bladdered actor apparently demanded access to the lavatory as the aircraft was preparing for take off [he had presumably

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UNETIDA was said to be on high alert in the past 24 hours following two reported sightings of possible extraterrestrial activity on two different continents. In England, while Tom Watson MP was discussing recent developments in “Hackergate” on Channel 4 News on Wednesday, an unidentified object sped through the back of frame and over the Houses of Parliament. Channel 4 is not known for what they

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the third and final part of Michael Bay's magnum opus - The Transformers trilogy - is upon us. Bay promised to correct the "errors in judgement" he had with Revenge Of The Fallen in 2009, but not only had he to do that; he also had to end his tale with such a bang that it would resonate throughout the history of cinema for years to come. He was also faced with

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's [DARPA] second test of the $320m FALCON program launched at 07:45 from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Thursday. It's mission ended much as it's first one did in April 2010 - with the loss of the unmanned Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2). According a statement, DARPA said that everything was going to plan up until the glide phase of the

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On Saturday August 6th in Tangi Vallery, Wardak province, Afghanistan, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed with the loss of all on board. 30 U.S. service members along with 7 Afghan commandos and an interpreter who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, died as a result of the crash - the greatest single loss for U.S. forces in the war. A local resident in Tangi, told AP Television News that

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Crap TV show, but a suitable headline for commentary on the London rioting. Although it's not just London now is it? It spread to Birmingham yesterday and the Scousers of Liverpool got in on the act late last night. Tonight #manchesterriots is the trending hashtag on Twitter. Nottingham, Bristol, Kent and Leeds have also been affected. The flashpoint was the fatal shooting of an alleged criminal

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The United States Senate cleared a staggering backlog of routine military officer promotions and confirmed pending presidential nominations for some top officers this week.Chief among these was the confirmation of General Martin E. Dempsey [right] as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is now confirmed to replace retiring Admiral Mike Mullen in September as the US Military's top

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I’m not going to be one of those reviewers who feel they have some sense of entitlement to “the best game ever” in Duke Nukem Forever. This was a wholly unrealistic expectation to have for a game that took 14 years to develop. Due to it changing entire design teams, developers and even engines over the years, the project had to reset and start from scratch on several occasions each with a new

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Actually, I like the idea of Air Force One 2...

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The Pentagon revealed recently that in March it suffered a foreign government cyberattack resulting in the loss of 24,000 sensitive data files. The military has since been pursuing a new strategy which emphasizes superior defenses of its networks, working with private industry and new measures to prevent the efforts of "malicious insiders.""We have a pretty good idea" who did it, Deputy SecDef

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A UNETIDA Special Operations and Containment team was dispatched to the village of Gezhai in Henan Province, China last Thursday. They were responding to frantic telecommunications chatter concerning the appearance of an Unidentified Xenobiological Entity, but it turned out to be just a malnourished monkey."At first I thought it was a rabbit, then I was shocked to see it had an alien face," said

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I have returned. Obviously, for security reasons I can't tell you when I'm going to be absent for a while, but I'm back now.I wasn't too far, I had to attend a course at the Command and Staff School at the Military College in The Curragh, something necessary to have on paper for career advancement.I also had a UNETIDA Special Operations budget review for the UN Security Council and even had to

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If you're a DC Comics superhero these days and someone says they're going adapt you for TV or a movie, my advice is: unless you're Batman, you should decline politely. Superman's last big-screen outing was an unmitigated disaster and they've just shit-canned David E. Kelly's attempt at bringing Wonder Woman to TV. They're going to try Superman again, bless 'em, but before that they decided to

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Some sick bastards hacked into Fox News' Twitter account yesterday and posted a series of messages "reporting" the assassination of President Obama."We will be requesting a detailed investigation from Twitter about how this occurred, and measures to prevent future unauthorised access into FoxNews.com accounts," said Jeff Misenti, head of Fox News Digital."This is blatant threat against the peace

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The Russians, Americans and Japanese personnel on the ISS had a narrow escape Tuesday when a piece of debris came within 335m of the platform.While debris' size is unknown, experts suggest even a small object could do considerable damage to the ISS because they travel at many thousands of kilometres per hour. NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Operations, Bill Gerstenmaier, said it was the

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The X-Men series of movies started out very well with the original proving to be as good as Spider-Man. then like Spider-Man, it’s sequel was massively superior to the original. Alas like Spider-Man the X-Men had a “turd third” and had to be stopped in it’s tracks before it completely destroyed the franchise. However, it soon emerged that both franchises would be sent down the “reboot” path, such

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The daring secret mission to get Osama bin Laden by elite U.S. forces will be told in the pages of a graphic novel that aims to shed more light — with a bit of creative license — on the event.Capt. Dale Dye (USMC, Ret.) and Julia Dye have written an 88-page hardcover graphic novel Code Word: Geronimo which takes a look at the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden.Illustrated by artists Gerry

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“See this? It’s a Hurley. The Irish use it in a game that’s a cross between Hockey and murder.”The opening speech delivered by master orator Jason Statham portraying Det.Sgt. Brant in Blitz a well directed gritty British thriller from Elliott Lester. It’s good to see Statham hasn’t completely ‘Americanised’ himself from appearing in the likes of The Mechanic, Death Race, The Expendables and

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After he replaced Donald Rumsfeld during the Bush administration and after being asked to stay on by President Obama, the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, a former director of the CIA will take another stab at retirement on June 30th. Gates will be replaced by current CIA Director Leon Panetta who has already vowed to put National Security and the troops first.Behind POTUS, [Left to Right]

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The Irish political scene was dealt a severe blow today with the untimely passing of its only intellectual giant - Brian Lenihan TD, the country’s previous Minister for Finance. For many it was a shock but not an unanticipated event as Mr. Lenihan was diagnosed with terminal cancer some months back and only 3 weeks ago laughed off Internet rumours that he had already died. Despite his serious

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When I heard that Kenneth Branagh was going to helm Marvel's movie based on the superhero The Mighty Thor, I was initially dumbfounded. One's first instinct is to think "Doesn't Brannagh do serious drama or Shakespearean stuff?", it was only realising the latter genre was his most prolific playground was what sold me on the whole idea because if you've read Thor you'll know that the characters

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Composer Bear McCreary, a student of Elmer Bernstein, composed the music for every episode of Battlestar Galactica after it went to series in 2004 until its finale in 2009.McCreary has just published a piano book of some of his work on the show which includes "Prelude to War" from Season 2, my favourite track of his. He even made a video of it for his blog and it's well worth a listen [even if

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Almost nine and a half thousand US soldiers are buried in this cemetery in Normandy.Almost all died on D-Day.

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Not unlike last year’s movie Centurion, this is another take on the Legio IX Hispana legend of Roman history where an entire legion of fully armed Roman soldiers vanished behind Hadrian’s wall in the Highlands of Scotland. While Centurion was firmly a British movie however, The Eagle bears all the hallmarks of a mid-low budget U.S. production.Mostly because of Russel Crowe’s disastrously muddled

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Apologies, this was to have auto-posted during the week. Blogger fuck-up.I'm "somewhere hot" with "the boys". Be back soon.

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Today, the Commander in Chief and his wife paid a visit to Ireland of all places today. It was a flying visit. Arriving early this morning but already departed.The Obamas were met with the usual wet and blustery conditions one is normally met with at Dublin Airport which has is own unique weather system to remind those coming home from holiday that they're back in reality now. Tánaiste Eamon

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Thanks to Pints

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It's been suggested that I spend a few moments commenting on the fact that a frenchman could be a scumbag sexual deviant? To be honest, it's really the same as telling you that water is wet.Apparently the head of the International Monetary Fund [the organisation that owns The Republic of Ireland] one Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested while boarding his flight home from New York at JFK airport.

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I'm a bit behind in reviews again and I must go out of order to warn people about Hanna.Hanna is like some inbred child born from a union of Luc Besson’s Leon and La Femme Nikita which then in turn had a bastard child with The Bourne Identity. The result produced excellent performances from Eric Star Trek Bana and Saoirse City of Ember Ronan but other than those performances and some satisfying

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Today we celebrate the birth of the greatest director, creator and now deity of all time. George W. Lucas is 67 today.Happy Birthday George!

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In 2006, Joint Special Operation Command [JSOC] commander General Stanley McCrystal was operating under the understanding that that U.S. units could not enter Pakistan except under extreme circumstances and even then, Pakistan would deny giving them permission. Wikileaks later revealed JSOC was conducting an ongoing drone program, along with snatch & grab and assassination operations, based in

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The White House released a photo on Monday which was reprinted almost everywhere yesterday. It shows POTUS, VPOTUS, SECDEF, SECSTATE, CJCS, other individuals from DHS, NSA and those with responcibilities for National Security and Counter-Terrorism.For security reasons I was photoshopped out from the original but it's safe to post here [and yes the White House vending machine was out of Chilli

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"We will not tire. We will not falter, and we will not fail."- George W. Bush, September 11th, 2001.While indeed Bush never wavered in his resolve to locate and capture Osama Bin Laden "dead or alive", it was President Obama who ordered a “detailed operation plan” in 2009 for finding and capturing bin Laden from CIA Director Leon Panetta. It would be another two years before there was enough

Colonel Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-46596008193091648692011-04-22T13:20:00.001+01:002011-04-22T13:27:25.010+01:00

Without a shadow of a doubt, Bioware are the masters of the RPG. They’ve proved many times over that it’s not just meaty combat, powerful weapons, amazing spells and exciting enemies that make an RPG, but also a well crafted dramatic and emotionally gripping storyline worthy of the greatest fantasy novels and films ever created. These tales also contain a wealth of varied interpersonal

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Despite stiff competition from Star Trek and District 9, Moon was the best science fiction movie of 2009 proving that no matter how much flash, lasers, special effects, explosions and aliens you have in a sci-fi movie it can still be bested by a well written, well acted tale that hearkened back to the days of hard-core sci-fi even on a 10th of the blockbuster budget. Duncan Jones, the man to

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The Chinese showed off their new stealth fighter to SECDEF Gates during his visit to China in January. It was first public account of a flight of the new aircraft, the J-20 dubbed "Black Silk". Flying the prototype during Gates' visit didn't strike me as a very peaceful welcome. Had China’s realistic approach to joint defense relations with the U.S. turned into a hard line? Was Beijing’s growing

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Afghan & coalition forces killed four militants & detained two suspects in a Wardak Province operation targeting an IED-network commanderThat was a 140-character "tweet" sent officially to the masses of individuals including news sites following them on June 1st 2009, hours before a formal traditional announcement to the media. It was one of the first examples of the U.S. Military embracing

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Marine Cops Systems Command [MARCORSYSCOM] will soon issue specially designed combat underwear to protect U.S. Marines in Afghanistan from Improvised Explosive Devices.Constructed of lightweight silk, they look like bicycle shorts and the British Army is already sporting them. While they fall short of completely protecting against fragmentation, they do provide added defense to mitigate wounds to

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The Office of Naval Research has conducted a successful test using a High-Energy Laser [HEL] to disable and ignite a small craft in water off the coast of California.While similar systems had tested successfully on land, moist sea air presented an additional problem as it reduces a later beam's power. Now the U.S. Navy think that ship-borne lasers could eventually be used to protect vessels from

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Glenn Beck the demented bigot that made Bill O'Reilly look like a wussy liberal and Charlie Sheen seem like a perfectly well-adjusted human being; will finally end his programme on FOX News. It was becoming a problem for a fair and balanced news service [that some may regard as slightly right leaning] to give airtime to a man who accused President Obama of being a racist against Caucasians.

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The Pentagon recently released plans that outlined the needs to better protect military satellites and improve its ability to use them as weapons as the battle-lines become drawn in the increasingly crowded and dangerous environment of space.A new strategy for space calls for greater cooperation with other nations on space-based programs to improve America’s ability to deter enemies. “It’s a

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In 1996, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin brought us the greatest Extra Terrestrial invasion movie ever, Independence Day. Since then there been a few attempts to address the very real possibility of invasion; Signs, War Of The Worlds, The Day The Earth Stood Still and Skyline to name but a few. Alas they were all exceedingly boring in comparison to ID4. Why? Because no one was shooting back at

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I'll admit I've not always been first in line to see British cinema. British films rarely promote action and excitement over "worthy substance" and "remarkable acting performances" and thusly are not so thrilling to watch. There have been a few exceptions to this rule however, Dog Soldiers, 28 Weeks Later and Reign of Fire are some recent examples of excellence from the United Kingdom and I'm

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A U.S. Air Force F-15E Eagle based in RAF Lakenheath, England, which was flying out of Aviano Air Base, Italy in support of the no-fly-zone, crash landed in Libya in the early hours of the morning after suffering engine failure.The pilot and weapons officer were separated when they ejected at 23:33 local time and parachuted to safety near the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Rebels rescued the

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RoboCop statue updateThe group intending to erect the statue have got the funding and have confirmed that moulds, materials and the artists and craftsmen needed to accomplish the statue are almost ready.RoboCop star Peter Weller released this wacky video for Funny or Die:Wonder WomanWarner Bros. have released an image of Adrianne Palicki in her ultra-reflective Wonder Woman costume. I have

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As of 14:00GMT today, Libyan tanks were on the streets of the main rebel-held city of Benghazi. A a fighter jet was shot down earlier this morning and explosions have been heard.Since then, World leaders from many Western and Middle Eastern countries, including the Arab nations of Jordan, Qatar and the UAE have met in Paris to discuss military action and have signalled that such action is

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Paul, the latest movie from comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who both starred together in the pants-wettingly hilarious Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, is a tale of two British Sci-Fi nerds who visit San Diego Comicon and subsequently go on a road trip across the U.S. in their trusty camper van, with the intention of visiting famous UFO related sites like the Area 51 mailbox. Along the way

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The 31st Dáil convened at 12:00 yesterday where first order of business was to appoint Sean Barrett as Ceann Comhairle. The members of the house approved the decision but already Shinner Commander Adams tried to cause trouble by suggesting the Ceann Comhairle should be appointed from the opposition - in fairness Adams isn't used to a real parliament coming from one that had to make up rules in

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Carlos Irwin Estevez better known to the world as Charlie Sheen, a man who has a star on the Walk of Fame, has been a household name since his early appearances in such '80's movies as Red Dawn, Platoon and Wall Street. In the '90's he took on more questionable roles in Navy SEALs, The Rookie and The Three Musketeers but mastered comedy as Topper Harley in the Hot Shots! movies. At the turn of

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The 83rd Academy Awards took place Sunday night. The British film The King's Speech was the big winner for Screenplay, Actor [Mr. Firth as I predicted], Director Hooper and Best Picture. Portman secured her place as Best Actress [as I predicted], Bale - Best Supporting Actor [as I predicted]. Melissa Leo dropped an F-Bomb during her acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress so she should

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The Oscars are tonight and it’s time to tell you what I thought of four of the most recent nominated movies I’ve seen:The Kings SpeechThe quintessentially British Colin Firth portrayed HRH King George VI in Tom Hooper's adaptation of the true story of an incredible issue which the king suffered from; that of speaking. Hooper explored the lengths at which Queen Elizabeth [Helena Bonham Carter]

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Cork will never turn it's back on Fianna Fáil.

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In a few hours from now the the people of Ireland will democratically elect the leaders of the country for the next few years. Opinion polls point to a change to the status quo as the party that traditionally leads the polls, Fianna Fáil, is expected to suffer from heavy losses as many people unjustly blame them for the financial crisis which has the nation in a stranglehold.As a great proportion

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The situation in the North African country of Libya is deteriorating rapidly. Last evening the madman Colonel Gaddafi made a very brief and bizarre appearance on state television in which he praised the rain that kept him from addressing the youth in Green Square [who wants to give a speech while getting wet?]. He also stated that he was in Tripoli and not in Venezuela and continued to ramble

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The popular uprising in Egypt gave Washington a bit of a headache; Mubarak had been an ally for three decades. A moderate leader at peace with the Israelis despite being somewhat repressive in his own land. But how could the most free nation on the planet continue supporting him with one hand while professing to support the universal rights being demanded by the protesters in Cairo? The answer

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That was gist of an argument tweeted recently to Dave Bing, Mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Sadly Mr. Bing did not appear to think a statue of a fictional police cyborg created from the remains of a murdered cop by a fascist monopoly who then went on to brutally dispense justice in a future-Detroit by violently killing or maiming lawbreakers before finally breaking his programming and continuing to

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Upon seeing the success of nearby Tunisians ousting their own President, the people of Egypt who had been living under the oppressive rule of President Hosni Mubarak for 30 years decided that it was finally possible to change the country for themselves. For almost 3 weeks the eyes of the world have been on the country that links Africa with Asia.While it was good that under Mubarak, Egypt kept

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...well actually he does kind of, but its more of a hobby like listening to the exact same Schubert record over and over again like some sort of bizarre obsession... but I digress.Jason The Expendables Statham takes a well deserved break from driving cars insanely through a movie [The Transporter Trilogy, The Italian Job, Death Race] to present himself as Bishop, a subdued killer for hire. We're

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If someone asked you "Who was the greatest President of the United States of America, and why?" What would you say?Washington, for setting America on course to be a great democratic republic?Lincoln, for his leadership during the Civil War, abolishing slavery and strengthening the union? F.D.R., for his leadership during WWII, helping to create the UN and introducing Social Security?Ike, for

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Yesterday, the Department of Defense announced the release of the National Security Space Strategy (NSSS), signed jointly by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.It is derived from the National Security Strategy and the National Space Policy and outlines necessary changes to enhance national security through DoD and intelligence community

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The legendary English film score composer John Barry Prendergast, OBE died on Sunday at age 77, from a heart attack.Barry began playing the piano at age 9 and later trained as a classical pianist. He was however more drawn to jazz and loved playing the trumpet. He began composing as a bandsman in Cyprus and Egypt and began arranging music for his band, The John Barry Seven before debuting as

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What a great movie to start the new year with. A medieval, fantasy, action, buddy-movie directed by director Dominic Swordfish Sena with Nicholas Cage and Ron Perlman as 13th century crusaders. What the fuck could possibly go wrong...?Yes, you guessed it - almost everything. Strangely Cage's torch didn't spontaneously extinguish in this sceneThe movie opens with the execution of three suspected

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I distinctly recall watching the original TRON on a friends video player in late 1984. The idea that he could put in this big black cassette into a large box near the TV and watch this movie any time it was free for him to do so, was as awesome as the world that the movie itself transported us to. We had no idea who this Jeff Bridges was but we all knew Bruce Boxleitner from Bring Em Back Alive,

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The backstabbing bastards, The Green Party today prematurely withdrew as coalition partner from the somewhat controversial current government of Ireland. An Taoiseach Brian Cowan's already wafer thin majority was effectively destroyed by this "dick move" and probably isn't a surprise to anyone who has followed the nefarious antics of the Greens up to now.While admittedly, things weren't all rosy

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My friends, we recently lost a true hero and I apologise I was not here until now to address it. Major Richard "Dick" Winters, commander of Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on D-Day has passed away at age 92 only days before what would have been his 93rd birthday.Anyone who watched HBO's legendary successful mini-series Band of Brothers is familiar

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The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) is the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. At 342m, she is the longest naval vessel afloat in the world. She displaces over 93,000 long tons and is due to be decommissioned in 2013 after serving for 51 consecutive years, the most of any U.S. aircraft carrier. The "Big E" is one of 11 Aircraft Carriers currently in US naval service and to command her is one

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