Mercenaries

"The ECB have turned the team into mercenaries by taking part in this match" - GB

BBC Sport (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

"The ECB have turned the team into mercenaries by taking part in this match" - GB

UK: Civilian ships must be armed against pirates

Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

Britain's senior Royal Navy commander in the Gulf has called for merchant shipping to hire mercenaries to fight off the increasing danger of piracy. At a time when there is a record number of ships being hijacked off the coast of Somalia, Commodore Keith Winstanley said he believed that the situation has become so serious that civilian vessels should be armed. He said that private security companies...

• UK Civilian ships must be armed against pirates - The Telegraph
• UK Civillian ships must be armed against pirates - The Telegraph

Mercenaries 2: World In Flames DLC Trailer

Voodoo Extreme (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

An amusing preview of Total Payback, the free, soon-to-be-released, Mercenaries 2 DLC: Flash...

Blackwater Yard Sale!

Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008

Oh man, this is why you have got to sign up for the Blackwater email list: Is this a sign of the times? How will the credit bust affect mercenary armies'? THINK OF THE CORPORATE MILITIAS, PEOPLE.

Leo’s Goatee and Russell’s Gut Can’t Save Ridley’s Scorched Bore

The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

BODY OF LIES RUNNING TIME 128 minutes WRITTEN BY William Monaham DIRECTED BY Ridley Scott STARRING Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong Body of Lies is yet another in a long, tiresome line of loud, violent, nauseating and incoherent riffs on how mercenary and inhuman the spooks in the C.I.A. are, even to each other. Pointless and plotless, it’s nothing more than a series of gut-blasting near-death...

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GAMER Deals (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

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Deals: Mercenaries 2 for $45, free gift card with 360 and more

Xbox 360 Fanboy (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

Filed under: Deals and Bargains As is customary every Sunday, we diligently looked through the Sunday retail ads on the search for Xbox 360 related deals, discounts and offers. So here you go shoppers, enjoy the money savings fruit of our ad searching labor. Starting off with Best Buy, they're giving away a free RC Centaur tank with Gears of War 2: CE pre-orders (available when game picked up) and...

[RS] Babylon A.D. (R3) DVD Quality

oussamedia (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

[RS] Babylon A.D. (R3) DVD Quality In the near future, Toorop (Vin Diesel) is a mercenary who takes the job of escorting a woman named Aurora from Central Asia to New York. While he thinks this is just an ordinary mission, he gradually finds out that his guest is carrying twins that have the potential to [...]

The noise we thought would never stop

Liars and Lunatics (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

I'm not going to bitch about Lydon selling out, because he never pretended to be above that shit and we've all got bills to pay in this mercenary world. But all the same, it's fucking painful for me to watch him in that butter advert (which you can probably find on YouTube, but I won't dignify with a link). Let's just take a minute to remember him as he was - the opening riff of this still makes me...

Babylon A.D. DVDSCR XviD-ALLiANCE

full and free download (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

Babylon A.D. DVDSCR XviD-ALLiANCE Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.

Walter Mitty weekends for lawyers

GeekLawyer's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008

During litigation Geeklawyer has acquired a chum ‘X’ who is an ex-army bodyguard who has amusing bar tales of hair-raising adventures in Iraq. He is well regarded among military professionals for his close-protection expertise, unlike the numerous inept American ‘Blackwater’ mercenaries causing chaos there. He is a particular expert in thing like evasive driving hand-brake [...]

No Mercenaries 2 Update for PC

Evil Avatar Forums - News Items (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008

BigDownload (http://www.bigdownload.com) brings word that there will be no new characters etc. for the PC version of Mercenaries 2. ---Quote--- PC owners will apparently have to do without the console extras, as EA's PR spokesperson tells us, "... as of right now the Mercenaries 2: World in...

Iyambo Twisted Facts, Charges National Society for Human Rights

All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008

A claim by a senior Cabinet Minister that a recent mass grave discovery in north-central Namibia was sold to the public as a "new discovery" of a human rights organisation and that its executive director was allegedly a "mercenary using human rights a springboard for financial reward and international exposure" came under fire yesterday.

Phillies bring down Brewers' horse Sabathia

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008

Ride a horse long enough, it's going to collapse. The Brewers' horse couldn't carry them last night. CC Sabathia, the Brewers' mercenary ace, had never pitched on 3 days' rest before the Brewers asked him to do so Sept 20.

Reign of Fire - 7:00 PM ET, SCIFI

PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008

Click Here to download full episode Is it getting hot in here or is it just that dragon? Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey star as scruffy freedom fighters in this 2002 action fantasy from director Rob Bowman. When dragons scorch the earth and drive the surviving humans underground, mercenary Van Zan (McConaughey) gathers a small army. [...]