What are your regular websites for current affairs?

[Lord Beria3]

My daily online fixes are the following;

Telegraph - starting with ultra-doomer Ambrose from the Finance section

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comm ... pritchard/

World Socialist Web Site - a Marxist analysis of global affairs.

http://www.wsws.org/

Daily Mail - mainly for the celebrity gossip (pictures of Kelly Brook to lighten up my reading material ) but also the occassional headline to see how lower-middle class Britain feels over issues.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Financial Times - usually a few decent finance articles around.

http://www.ft.com/home/uk

Oil Drum/Energy Bulletin - required daily reading, usually a few good articles.

Guardian - generally a decent paper, like its culture/politics stuff and there energy/environment coverage is the best among the broadsheets.

Asia Times - a couple of good articles on geopolitics/Middle east/asian affairs.

http://www.atimes.com/

The Sun - more light-weight reading if the PO stuff gets to me.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/

I also get the Times paper at home everyday, which is good.

Last but not least, Powerswitch! Where I keep sane with my hidden PO thoughts so I don't bother living humans

[Kieran]

Most of those plus (don't laugh) the Graham Hancock website

http://www.grahamhancock.com/news/index.php

[RenewableCandy]

Beeb News and EnergyBulletin. And here, of course.

[biffvernon]

Aurora on PS

[JohnB]

Aurora on PS

+1

I let you lot filter out the useful news for me .

I also look at some of the stuff on the Beeb's RSS feed, and listen to Radio 4 most of the time I'm indoors (although R4 isn't a web site!).

[PS_RalphW]

BBC, grauniad, energy bulliten, TOD, and google news when I'm bored, or I'm following a more obscure story.

And PS of course.

[Eternal Sunshine]

Lord Beria do you read fast or do you have nothing else to do? I'm not criticising, it's just that I can't imagine a life with so much free time that I could look at all of those ANY day let alone EVERY day.

I can only just about manage to read some of the posts on here during the week, and read a few monthly magazines such as The New Internationalist.

[Comp_Lex]

Your daily online news fixes? Don't you have a job or something? I can't imagine myself reading all that stuff besides attending university and working on software/research projects / having a part-time job. I don't even check TOD on a regular basis.
I want to apologize in advance if I come fiercely out of the corner as I don't know your background.

[RenewableCandy]

Perhaps LB3 writes news-digests for a living?

[Aurora]

Perhaps LB3 writes news-digests for a living?

Perhaps LB3 writes sh1te for a living?

[adam2]

The Times
The London evening standard, though its rubbish now its free
The BBC website
BBC World Service
321 energy website
Here.
New scientist

[Lord Beria3]

I was a student, than worked part-time and now looking for a regular job.

I also speed-read, so I absorb a lot of information quickly. Its a great skill which comes from reading.

I have other sources which I go on once a week;

Spectator

New Statesman

EIR - a odd website, but they do have some interesting articles on the British oligarchy.

Spitfire List ( http://spitfirelist.com/ ) - anather of my alternative websites, its thesis is that elements of the old Third Reich survived the war and abosrbed into the postwar world order. For example, the Gehlen Organisation who were basically SS thugs, were the core of the West German intelligence agency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesnachrichtendienst

The predecessor of the BND is the German eastern military intelligence agency during WWII, the Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost or FHO Section in the General Staff, led by Wehrmacht Major General Reinhard Gehlen. Its main purpose was to collect information on the Red Army. In 1946 Gehlen set up an intelligence agency informally known as the Gehlen Organization or simply "The Org" and recruited, initially quite modestly, some of his former co-workers, operatives of Wilhelm Canaris' Abwehr, but he also recruited from the former Sicherheitsdienst, SS and Gestapo.[2] The organization worked almost exclusively for the CIA, which contributed funding, equipment, cars, gasoline and other materials. On 1 April 1956 the Bundesnachrichtendienst was created from the Gehlen Organization, and transferred to the West German government. Reinhard Gehlen became President of the BND and remained its head until 1968.[3]

The more you read into post-war West German history, the more that Nazi era networks are clearly running the show, even if most of them are realists and do not subsribe to Nazi idealogy.

[featherstick]

Not surprisingly, given that the only people with high-level admin and managerial experience after the war were former members of the National Socialist party, who by and large were compelled to join as a condition of promotion pre-1945. It's a bit like saying most dentists were Nazis. They were members of the National Socialist party too, for the same reasons. Doesn't mean they all gather in Munich and sing the Horst Wessel song every year (apart from the really scary one in Marathon Man, of course).

[Lord Beria3]

To a certain extent that is true.

The true story is much stranger.

Paul Manning wrote a brillant book on the post-war activities of these Nazi capital networks...

http://www.animalfarm.org/mb/mb.shtml

http://www.DODGY TAX AVOIDERS.com/Martin-Bormann-Ex ... 0818403098

Anticipating the defeat of the Third Reich, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann set up 750 corporations in neutral countries, primed as vehicles to receive the liquid wealth of Germany in addition to patents and other proprietary industrial information. An organizational genius and the real power behind Hitler, Bormann, known as the "Brown Eminence", successfully fled Europe for South America and administered a "Reich in Exile" in the years following the war.

With remnants of the SS as an enforcement arm, former Gestapo chief General Heinrich Mueller as security director, the 750 corporations as a base of economic power and the willing silence and cooperation of the Western Allies, Bormann guided his organization to a position of consummate power.

One banker quoted by Manning termed the Bormann Organization, the "world's most important accumulation of money power under one control in history". Controlling Germany's major corporations, the Federal Republic itself and much of Latin America, the Bormann Organization also maintained a formidable circle of influence in the United States. Paul Manning has written the definitive text on the Bormann Organization.

Manning himself was a respected CBS journalst.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manning_(journalist)

was an American broadcast journalist. He worked closely with Edward R. Murrow during World War II as a correspondent for CBS Radio, and with the Mutual Broadcasting System later on in the war.

A good book to read with the above is a book on the secret history of Himmler, head of the SS.

http://www.DODGY TAX AVOIDERS.co.uk/SS-Unlikely-Dea ... 1841153079

Covers the international networks, centred around certain banks, the Dulles brothers and City of London factions (along with royal connections) to the German ruling elite during WW2 and the secret negiotations for a truce with Nazi Germany and a joint war against Stalin.

[the mad cyclist]

I’m far too busy trying to be a middle class peasant to read that lot.

LB3 You need some land to dig .