Everyday more and more people are drawn away from George Bush and pulled towards Noam Chomsky, or Naomi Klein. More people want to know what is really happening and more are looking beyond the mainstream. That is due to the audiovisual reports on CNN. The owners of the media assumed we were stupid, they underestimated the power of collective consciousness and without knowing it, have made us repudiate them. We learned to disgust them for their empty promises and wars presented as acts of peace. They presented us peacekeepers dressed up as soldiers and soon we understood. They talked to us about atomic energy and never disarmed, it didn’t takes us long to react. The same happened with those wars on terrorism, soon we understood they were taking away our rights, airports became intolerable, people kept disappearing, our democratic governments were torturing and all this without fair trials.

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GameSpot's first tournament of the year will be...explosive. Registration begins at 4 p.m. Pacific today for GameSpot's Bomberman Live Bombs Away tournament. The Bombs Away tourney is open to GameSpot Total Access users, where six players will enter the battlefield, but only one will depart without a singe in Bomberman Live's battle mode. Matches begin January 28 at 11 a.m. Pacific, and the finals will be broadcast live on Tournament TV on February 1 at 4 p.m. Pacific.

The Bomberman Live tourney is open to all US and Canadian residents (excluding Quebec) aged 13 and up.

Bible readers have many versions to choose from

The Life Application Bible tends to be the most popular, Trichel said, because of the personal notes that apply to everyday life."Someone told me this Bible was like comparing the Herald & Review newspaper to the Wall Street Journal; the local paper hits you where you are and what's going on in your life at the time," she said.The Family Foundations Study Bible is widely used and has a list of topics that apply to everyday family life, Trichel said. The owner of Berean Bookstore, David Byrne, is the contributing general editor of that Bible.Bibles are available for members of every branch of the military: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard. "These Bibles have special notes and devotions from military leaders," Trichel said.Young people can read the Beginners Bible. There's the 2:52 Boys Bible, designed for boys age 8 to 12, which refers to Luke 2:52: "And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.""It has fun gross facts in it about different things, and they love it," Trichel said flipping to a page that reads: "Jesus spat and put his spit on the deaf and mute man's tongue.

Nike Invitational Day One

The evening session held room for just two distance events, but the Ladies managed to make history in one of those events. In the meet-opening swim, the 800-yard freestyle relay, a University of Kansas quartet set the Kenyon Athletic Center Natatorium record with a time of 7:29.42. Kenyon's entry in the same event placed third with a time of 7:30.78, which was a new College record. The Ladies responsible for that time were Lauren Brady (Tyngsboro, MA/Phillips Exeter), Tina Ertel (Halle, Germany/Sportgymnasium Halle), Rebecca Wenzlau (Palo Alto, CA/Palo Alto Senior), and Danielle Arad (Yorba Linda, CA/Tarbut V'Torah). They erased the old Kenyon mark of 7:33.38 set at the 2004 Division III national championship meet. It went without saying that the time was also good for automatic qualification into this season's NCAA DIII Championship.

Obama Che Guevara Flag ‘Scandal’

That's the Cuban flag with the image of Ernesto Che Guevara superimposed on it. It's tacked onto the wall of an office in Barack Obama's Houston campaign headquarters. An office belonging, apparently, to a low level staffer who's in charge of setting up the office.

Does Obama know his Houston supporters honor a terrorist in his campaign office? I'm sure he doesn't.

Dems Should Thank Nader, Not Trash Him

Hillary Clinton blamed Ralph Nader this weekend for Al Gore's 2000 loss to George W. Bush. She's hardly the first to make such a statement, but the comment reveals the patronizing attitudes that still pervade her party.

But it's Clinton's comments that really got to me: She said categorically that Nader "is responsible for George W. Bush." She's wrong. You know who is "responsible" for Bush being elected? Gore. The Democratic Party. The American public. I first became aware of Nader as a high-school senior in 1996. I didn't get to vote that year - the election was held about five weeks before I turned 18 - but I would have voted for him.

Phone users do almost everything but talk on the phones

The cameras in them are better than most of the real cameras I've ever owned. And some even can be used as MP3 players so that the owner can listen to his or her favorite music in between calls. Speaking of music, pick an artist and song, and it's a good possibility that you can use it as a ring tone.

That is, if you ever use your phone as, well, a phone.

My wife and I bought our daughter a cell phone. She's not yet a teenager, but we have peace of mind knowing she can reach us or we can reach her when she's at a friend's house or at some kind of activity. As a reward for doing chores and helping around the house, she gets a text-messaging plan.

Am I the only parent who has noticed that kids today don't talk much anymore? They just text message their friends using the keypad on their phones.

Science Tough Roads Loom Ahead for U.S. Pharmaceutical Giants

The reason biotech firms are popular purchases for pharmaceutical giants is that there is currently no U.S. regulatory pathway for generic biotech drugs, effectively allowing biotech drug inventors to sell a brand only product indefinitely until new legislation is mandated.

Many pharmaceutical companies are cutting staff to maintain profits with companies like Eli Lilly & Co announcing it will cut 10% of its workforce and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. announcing it will cut about 4300 jobs and close 27 manufacturing facilities. Some drug makers are also looking to outsource the manufacture of their medications overseas where the costs are much lower. Such costs saving measures are unlikely to mean lower drug prices for U.S. consumers where the brunt of the cost of development of a medication is made back by drug makers.