Tuesday, February 22, 2011

same stuff, different bucket

Reuters:
Russia blames Google for stirring Egypt unrest: report
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's deputy blamed Google Inc in an interview published on Tuesday for stirring up trouble in the revolution that ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
"Look what they have done in Egypt, those highly-placed managers of Google, what manipulations of the energy of the people took place there," Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told the Wall Street Journal.
For "highly placed managers," read "learned elders."
Via DailyKos, which often has good stuff but ranks lower than Firedoglake and TPM in my esteem because of their incomprehensible, gleeful support of the individual mandate.
Putin&Co. are no doubt preparing lest Russia get as interesting as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain.... Looking way down the road, Tienanmen scenario? No, I think, because the military is hardly better off than it was before perestroika. Hama? Definite possibility with Putin in charge. But that is way down a road not yet paved - one gets the impression the wealthy are happy and entrenched, and the masses are too dispirited to make a real move.

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