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# Praktike provides some
recent highlights from
the Egyptian Political Blogs.

# Somewhere along the way,
I picked up the URL for:
the Egyptian Blog Ring.

# Michael J Totten and Jim Hake
are in Lebanon. They seem to be
political activists. There used to be
people who were Civil Rights Activists
and, before that, there were people
who were Labor Organizers.

So, I guess this is the latest trend:

*He showed up at our pre-arranged meeting place, a table at an outdoor cafe under the shade of a ficus tree, wearing a suit, a blue independence ribbon, and a prominently displayed red and white scarf - an open and public declaration that he belongs to Lebanon's democratic opposition...

"Every waiter," he said, "every taxi driver, every shopkeeper, and every person who works in hotels is a potential informer."*

A persistent question among
young trolls on the Net:
Is Jim Hake a CIA agent?

I don't know anything about him. Would you prefer George Soros' Open Society Foundation or Rev Moon as their patrons? How about: The Ford Foundation, The Pew Family Foundation, The Yenta Sisters Foundation or Bill Gates? What difference would it make?!

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