Russo-Chinese joint military exercice

In the image below ( BBC's In pictures: Russia-China war games ), a building is stormed by elite forces, a tank and apparently a guy on a stick. The name of the building in Russian is 'School'...

This shows us that the Russian methods of dealing with school terrorism haven't changed a bit since the Beslan massacre... Or maybe they were re-enacting for the Chinese their brilliant strategy.



On a similar note, it seams that Putin is starting to revamp his image in the eve of 2008 re-election. And what better way for that than to play an endemic and primitive nationalist card.

Google does it again...

Google Shareholders Vote Against Anti-Censorship Proposal
The failed shareholder proposal would have stopped Google from engaging in self-censorship.

Ok, the search getting worse, questionable acquisitions (youtube), choppy applications (ganalytics, blogger, igoogle - Nothing you pay, beta you get...), un-trusted and spyware referrals (adsense), censorship works. And Sergey and Larry are still saying they're in control... For their own reputation I hope they're not.

By next year the web2.0 (god, how I hate this word) bubble will start to burst. Get the word out (or your actions).

-- Octavian Mihai

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Also, check out my article Google on the block with more explanatory rants on the subject.