So apparently, the people out there that are completely into the Command and Conquer Universe are a bit confused. So APOC over at EA's C&C central has chimed in to clear up a big confusion about the mess:
"It seems our friends at the UK magazine PC Zone have made the
friendliest blunder of all, and everyone is up in arms inferring these details
and portraying them inaccurately.
Per my recent e-mail conversation with LION at the Den which
you can now view on his website, our official title is Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. It?s
in the logo my friends!
That said, Command & Conquer has harbored two universes
since it was established back in 1995. Those two universes are exactly what you?d
expect to hear, the Tiberium universe (Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun, Firestorm,
Renegade, and Tiberium Wars), and the Red Alert universe (Red Alert 1, 2, and
Yuri?s, and yea Counterstrike J).
If you recall, the website I created for the community, www.cncmovies.com directly speaks to this
on the first page where you get to choose a universe.
What Chris Corry, our Executive Producer is speaking to in
the UK PC Zone article is simply that Red Alert 3 will not look to connect the
Tiberium and Red Alert universes together in our story or fiction overall. The official
reasoning for this is provided in the article text which you can read at www.cncden.com if you?d like. Certainly
we understand the debates and theories regarding this issue, but we would never take away the
name ?Command & Conquer? from Red Alert 3.
Just wanted to clarify this critical point, so everyone
understands the accuracy of what was supposed to be interpreted in the PC Zone
Magazine in that segment of the feature article."
Earlier this month, crushing rains left 20 people dead and over 20,000 stranded when overwhelming rainfall left five feet of standing water in the low-lying areas. This is on top of already taxed landscapes that flooded when melting Himalayan glaciers burst the 200 rivers that web across the country last year. Bangladesh under water is seeming like a real and permanent possibility.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — whose claims are usually conservative — said that Bangladesh is heading to lose 17 percent of its land and 30 percent of its food production by 2050. That's like California and New York drowning, and the whole Midwest ceasing production of food.
If this happens, more than 20 million Bangladeshis will be without a patch of land to stand on. Though hardship in the country isn't entirely recent: since 1971, Bangladesh has endured over 200 disasters that have left a total of 500,000 dead and affected a total of 500 million people.
And I haven't even said anything about the plague of rats that's consuming all of their food. A plague of rats. I wish, wish there was more room for stories like this in the general consciousness — shouldn't we be hearing about this every night? Not to dwell on the gloomy, but just knowing about this makes the answer to this question pretty clear to me.
Reuters - The Polish prosecutor's office is
investigating allegations that there was a CIA prison in Poland
where al Qaeda suspects were questioned and guards might have
used methods close to torture, the prime minister's top adviser
said on Friday.
