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www.POE-News.com for world and national; www.Nola.com for local stuff...
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For local I look at http://www.smh.com.au.

For all other I just come here.
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This forum.
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www.aftonbladet.se for Swedish news.

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MSNBC.com, mostly. For obvious reasons.
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Dalton wrote:MSNBC.com, mostly. For obvious reasons.
You really drink the Kool-Aid, don't you?
And you may ask yourself, 'Where does that highway go to?'

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The BBC, because spin makes me dizzy.
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Robert Treder wrote:
Dalton wrote:MSNBC.com, mostly. For obvious reasons.
You really drink the Kool-Aid, don't you?
Hey, only because I work there. Helps to know what we're covering. Plus it's the homepage at work.
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Slashdot.org

Even important general news will show up there~
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
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Mostly CNN, BBC and MSN.
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
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In order that I visit:

www.antiwar.com (it links news articles from all over)
www.smh.com.au (for Aussie news)
www.foxnews.com (because it has a simple format and the polls are always ridiculously skewed to the right-wing interpretation- for a laugh)
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thestar.com - Local Canadian/world news
cnn.com, - For an american viewpoint
space.com - Space news
spacedaily.com - Alternate space source
xbox.ign.com - Xbox gaming news and forums (I subscribe)
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Cnn.com for world news
Maariv.co.il for local news
slashdot.com for general stuff
And Gamespy.com for gaming news.
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Vympel wrote:In order that I visit:

www.antiwar.com (it links news articles from all over)
The Speznatz minion gets his news from antiwar.com. This makes the baby Stalin cry.
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Col. Crackpot wrote:The Speznatz minion gets his news from antiwar.com. This makes the baby Stalin cry.
Think of it this way- I like the hardware, the organizations. I enjoy reading about it after it happens. But I'm anti-the war actually happening, in so far as I think the war is a stupid one (if it's justified, that's another story). I happened upon it during the Kosovo debacle.
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Vympel wrote:
Think of it this way- I like the hardware, the organizations. I enjoy reading about it after it happens. But I'm anti-the war actually happening, in so far as I think the war is a stupid one (if it's justified, that's another story). I happened upon it during the Kosovo debacle.
The exact same stance as myself, comrade Vympel. Warfare has cool toys, but no one likes it if it is unnecessary bloodshed and with loved ones involved.

You also enlightened me to Disinfopedia.org as well, another good source on politics and current affairs issues.
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Reuters. Then CNN.
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spiegel.de
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Vympel wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:The Speznatz minion gets his news from antiwar.com. This makes the baby Stalin cry.
Think of it this way- I like the hardware, the organizations. I enjoy reading about it after it happens. But I'm anti-the war actually happening, in so far as I think the war is a stupid one (if it's justified, that's another story). I happened upon it during the Kosovo debacle.
List me under Number Three.

As for who I use, CNN, BBC, this forum, CBC sometimes. Slashdot.
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BBC, CNN, and here.
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BBC is my main source for news.

Bless the Beeb.

It has the added advantage of being fine for both local and international news for me. Also on my list of stopping points for news is Reuters, but after that it's usually off to the papers to read what opinions of events are now I know what the events are. ;)
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I have my homepage set to Google news, so I skim the headlines there whenever I open my browser. I also typically listen to the news on the radio when I wake up in the morning. The rest I get mainly from message boards.
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SDNet, and Yahoo! News (comics mainly).
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For me, it's mainly Reuters, but I use a variety of others as well, including CNN, the Beeb, and ocasionally CBC (for Canadian news)...
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