What are the best news websites?
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by floatingingalway (Posted 1 hour ago)What sites do you recommend? Which ones are updated the most regularly?
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Aid workers killed in Afghanistan.
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by Twin Towers (Posted 2 hours ago)Irish girl dragged from a car and murdered in cold blood.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7558076.stmCorrection: no Irish citizens were involved. And the descriptions I've received from Afghanistan (where I've lived and worked in the past, as long term p.ie-rs will know) indicate that nobody was dragged from a car; rather the car was sprayed with bullets. ...
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Irish minister Peter P Says we should send troops to Georgia
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by politicsisrotten (Posted 2 hours ago)My Apologies it was the Irish Development Minister Peter Power, What An Idiot.http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B286789.htm
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Have you got the SF Factor?
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by David Cochrane (Posted 4 hours ago)Just got this in from the Sinn Fein Press Office in Belfast.............Have you got the SF Factor?The 'SF' Factor will take place this Friday, August 15, in the Felons Club in west Belfast at 7pm. The event will see a number of Belfast republicans taking to the stage to perform their chosen song in a competition to be the winner of The SF Factor 2008. MLA ...
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How the US helped Pol Pot to power
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by Nagy (Posted 4 hours ago)The US genocide in Cambodia meant the cambodian peasants looked towards the Khmer Rouge for revenge.http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ameri ... a_LFE.html
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Leaving Cert Stuffed Ducks
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by patslatt (Posted 5 hours ago)Today's Leaving Cert results will generate a lot of self congratulary feeling,the favourite Irish emotion. But the exam's predictability is producing stuffed ducks,students whose main ability is to repeat from memory what they were taught. It is a factory system,similar to what the Chinese describe as stuffing the duck,that is,learning by rote. It has some value as ...
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'It pays to choose engineering as a career' - Indo
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by HanleyS (Posted 8 hours ago)Indo wrote:STUDENTS were yesterday urged to opt for a career in engineering after it was revealed that salaries in the sector have risen significantly over the past three years. The information comes as all areas of the construction industry report a downturn in the economy.A study by Engineers Ireland found that salaries for Chartered Engineers in healthcare have ...
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Greens to canvass members on Lisbon: Times
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by kerrynorth (Posted 13 hours ago)With the leadership being shown to be grossly out of step with Green voters on Lisbon according to the opinion polls, the Green Party is e-mailing all it's 2100 members to request them to give a one page response as to how we should progress post the rejection of Lisbon. From the article it would appear that the questions posed are leading to the possibility of ...
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P.ie - hate filled homophobic neo-nazi diatribe?
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... today about the discussion of gay issues on Politics.ie - rather than engage with the person privately, ... to allow hate filled homophobic diatribe appear on Politics.ie. One would expect to find some of the ... that you will not tolerate abusive behaviour on Politics.ie so you are clearly in violation of ... and prejudiced in society an opportunity to use Politics.ie as a platform to give expression to ...
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China: Humiliation & the Olympics
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By Orville Schell
By Orville Schell
Dark Matter
a film directed by Chen Shi-Zheng
China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society
by Daniel A. Bell
China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy
by Peter Hays Gries
China's Great Leap: The Beijing Olympic Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges
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