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The Bob Livingston newsletter. Tailor made to frighten the elderly and to sell them marginal services and products to 'help' them save their money from the government

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:The Bob Livingston newsletter. Tailor made to frighten the elderly and to sell them marginal services and products to 'help' them save their money from the government

What the fuck do you know? Your being on the dole are the frightened one.

http://www.vox.com is surprisingly good. Their coverage of the VA scandal(s) is the best I've seen.

Bump.

Free news sites I find useful:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty-- consistently excellent and they allow you to search by country. They get a lot of things first and the features are great. My current favorite.
Eurasianet.org-- focused on the various stans. Worth a look maybe twice a week if you're interested in the region. The blogs are excellent (about a third of the news is hidden in them). George Soros pays the bills, but the bias seems to be limited to than better than average price and currency coverage.
Agence France-Presse (AFP)-- they're everywhere, the French language side may be better than the english one (I wouldn't know), but the English side is very good.
Reuters-- excellent for international news; neck and neck with AFP.
Thomson Reuters (trust.org)-- like Reuters but different.
AllAfrica-- Africa focused news aggregator from local sources-- they catch a lot that nobody else does.
IRIN-- development focused news, but good for third world type stuff. It's ok.

For those who like BBC, try NHK (Japanese equivalent) and DW (German equivalent).

Nontraditional news sites:
Relief Web-- they aggregate pretty well (they have a different AFP feed than you'll get on the AFP website) if you search by country. As advertised, they focus on relief related stuff (development and refugees), but it's worth a look. Some of the development agencies are putting out very informative products, although they're not always timely. Whether you want a superficial look or to dig deeper, it's a worthwhile rabbit hole. It takes some getting used to separate what's useful from what isn't.
data.unhcr.org-- aggregations of UN reports (many of which are very good)-- more limited than ReliefWeb, but easier to navigate.
CrisisGroup-- worth a look about once a month, their magazine (online) is worth flipping through, as are some of their country reports.
Assessment Capabilities Project-- nice brief overviews of capabilities, problems, and limitations of some of the crappier places in the world. Better done than most of the ones out there.
FloodList-- a specialty site with good worldwide reach that covers exactly what you'd expect.

I have an RSS feed on xhamster.

Testiclaw wrote:I have an RSS feed on xhamster.

Now we're talking.

I mean, it's not quite as interesting as allafrica.com, but still.

Testiclaw wrote:I have an RSS feed on xhamster.

That would be fine if people tagged videos appropriately. It's better to subtly favorite 100-200 users for a custom-made feed.