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The FIFA World Cup Thread #2/Sports Thread #2 For 6/18/10: US With Historic Comeback But Denied A Late Winner

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Photo from Getty Images and FIFA.com The Full Analysis: 1) Koman Coulibaly should never be allowed to ref another World Cup game again, until he has proven that he can be a competent officer of any future contest on the highest of level. What a disaster he was. 2) Landon Donovan exhibited today why he is semi-world class at the very least. Terrific 1st goal, and should of had an assist on the what should have been the winning goal on great service at the back of the post there. Awesome performance. 3) Michael Bradley will not be playing at Borussia Mononchglabach next season. His performance in that second half, especially his VITAL 2nd goal, shows that he is worth a bigger club in either the Bundesliga, or somewhere in the Barclays Premier League. 4) Oguchi Onyewu, and even Steve Cherundolo, were shells of their terrific shelves from England on Saturday. Onyewu made the two crucial mistakes just like he did against the Czech four years ago, leading to the two Slovenia goals an...

The Sleep Time And Rise "n" Shine Thread For 6/2-3/10: Only Brazil Has Given Haiti The Full Promised Pledge

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Photo from the AFP The rest of the world has got to get it together, especially the country that I am from and currently in at the moment : Haiti's president has called on leaders from Europe and the Americas to keep their promises of aid for the Caribbean country as it struggles to rebuild from the January's devastating earthquake. Speaking at a donor conference in the neighbouring Dominican Republic on Wednesday, Rene Preval said that the nation faced an "immense challenge" to rebuild. According to aid experts, Haiti needs about $11.5bn for its anticipated decade-long rebuilding effort. But so far, Haitian government officials say, only Brazil has delivered its entire aid pledge of $55m. We can't even do consistent aid correctly right now. Hopefully that will change soon ladies and gentlemen. To Tevin, Goodnight:

The Read International For 10/1/09: Well, What Do You Know? Diplomacy Works Again (Updated)

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But the neo-cons would just call it being weak A new phase in the diplomatic effort to get Iran to freeze its nuclear activities will be opened this week. Talks are set to resume a week after the revelation that Iran has built a new enrichment plant in the mountains near Qom. Western diplomats say that the talks represent the last chance Iran has to convince the countries negotiating with it that its intentions are peaceful and that if there is no progress, then further sanctions will be considered by the end of the year. Now really, things didn't change at all in the whole picture between current US relations with Iran, besides Iran opening their facility and all. The same main talking points are being made and all. That won't stop the neo-con nutcases from yelling all over TV today and tomorrow. Updated : This, however, is significant, and is vastly overlooked : Iran agreed in principle at high-level talks here to ship most of its enriched uranium to Russia , where it would...