:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::

"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.

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[::..What's all this then?..::]
"News is the first rough draft of history." -Philip L. Graham

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:: the news [>]
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:: meg [>]
:: places for writers [>]
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:: digitalbutterfly [>]
:: runwithscissors [>]
:: synkronisiteez [>]
:: loopy librarian [>]
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:: russian beauty [>]
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:: douglas rushkoff [>]
:: this girl thinks [>]
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:: anti-blog [>]
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:: the world ends @ 9, pictures @ 11 [>]
:: notes from the overground [>]
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:: started the same day as this [>]

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:: myelin: blogging ecosystem [>]
:: alternative tentacles [>]
:: are we having fun yet? [>]
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:: the mail art interview project [>]
:: the postcard project [>]
:: found magazine [>]
:: chuck palahniuk [>]
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:: chomsky archive [>]
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:: the smirking chimp [>]
:: plastic - recycling the web in real time [>]
:: open secrets [>]
:: william s. burroughs [>]
:: beautify your lunch - eat an artist [>]
:: bartleby [>]
:: disinformation [>]
:: imdb [>]
:: rotten tomatoes [>]
:: aboutcultfilm.com [>]

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"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished." - Clifford Stoll

:: 8.21.2003 ::

:: "Patriot Act II Resurrected?" ::

From Wired
By Ryan Singel
02:00 AM Aug. 21, 2003 PT

Congress may consider a bill that not only expands the government's wiretapping and investigative powers but also would link low-level drug dealing to terrorism and ban a traditional form of Middle Eastern banking.

The draft legislation -- titled the Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003, or Victory Act -- includes significant portions of the so-called Patriot Act II, which faced broad opposition from conservatives and liberals alike and embarrassed the Justice Department when it was leaked to the press in February.

The Victory Act also seems to be an attempt to merge the war on terrorism and the war on drugs into a single campaign.

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:: 7:53:00 AM [+] ::
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