Re:so naive (Score 1)

They (US Govt and Google, and neither are naive) are providing the means to more easily assist the "common" person in the street for "mass uprisings" and "revolutions", at the same time making it less easy for the Iranian Gov't structure to utilize them. The small time gap is all that's needed in the digital age of overnight 'revolutions'. How many of these color revolutions were really organized and funded by the CIA and their NGO fronts...? and the new tools they use now to help facilitate this....social networking, cell phones, and I can only imagine giving the masses access to digital mapping capabilities is just another way to assist mobilizing regime change. Is it easy to work around...? yes I'm sure it is....but not on a scale and in time to stop the US/UK/Israel from organizing the easily manipulated and destabilizing the current system.

That’s the game...strip away all the ideology and rhetoric....whoever can organize (physically, psychologically, and economically) and prevent any others from forming any unity themselves, will always hold a position of power relative to all others....no matter the slogan they are trying to sell us.

This is an ongoing refinement and evolution of earlier social manipulation techniques.....now updated using to the tools of the digital age and moving at much faster rates.

This is from the book 'Full Spectrum Dominance' by F. William Engdahl:

'Washington perfects a method for staging coups'
 
The operation - engineering democracy through the ballot box and civil disobedience - is now so slick that the methods have matured into a template for winning other people's elections. - Ian Traynor, London Guardian, Nov 26, 2004

In the year 2000, a strange new political phenomenon emerged in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia in the former Yugoslavia. Although it appeared seemingly out of the blue, it signaled a change in the course of US covert warfare. On the surface, it seemed to be a spontaneous and genuine political 'movement'. In reality, it was the product of techniques that had been under study and development in the US for decades. The RAND Corporation's military strategists had been analyzing the patters of successful political protest movements such as the 1968 student uprising in Paris. They characterized the techniques as 'swarming' because they were decentralized but connected, like a swarm of bees.

In Belgrade, several specific organizations were key players: the National Endowment for Democracy and two of its offshoots, the National Republican Institute, tied to the Republican Party, and the National Democratic Institute, tied to the Democrats. While claiming to be private NGO's, they were, in fact, financed by the US Congress and State Department. Armed with millions in US taxpayer dollars, they were moved into place to create a synthetic movement for 'non-violent change'.

Washington Post writer Michael Dobbs, provided a first-hand description of what took place in Belgrade.

In a softly lit conference room, American pollster Doug Schoen flashed the results of an in-depth opinion poll of 840 Serbian voters onto an overhead projection screen, sketching a strategy for toppling Europe's last remaining communist-era ruler.

His message, delivered to leaders of Serbia's traditionally fractious opposition, was simple and powerful. Slobadan Milosevic- survivor of four lost wars, two major street uprisings, 78 days of NATO bombing and a decade of international sanctions-was "completely vulnerable" to a well-organized electoral challenge. The key, the poll results showed, was opposition unity......

Dobbs reported that the United States government had 'bought' the removal of Milosevic for $41 million. The operation was run out of the offices of the US ambassador Miles, he reported, with specially trained agents coordinating networks of naive students who were convinced they were fighting for a better world, the 'American way of life'. .....There the Serbian students received training in such matters as how to organize a strike, how to communicate with symbols, how to overcome fear........ ....The principal lecturer was retired US Army Col Robert Helvey, former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, who trained and then used the Otpor! activists to distribute 70,000 copies of a manual on nonviolent resistance. Helvey had worked with Gene Sharp, founder of the controversial Albert Einstein Institution in Boston where the Pentagon learned to conceal its coup d'etats under the guise of non-violence..... ....The non-violent tactics that the Otpor! youth had been trained in were reportedly based on RAND corporation analysis of the warfare methods of Ghengis Kahn upgraded with modern networking technologies that connected people like swarming bees. Using GPS satellite images, special agents could direct their hand-picked, specially trained leaders on the ground to maneuver 'spontaneous' hit-and-run protest that always eluded the police or military. Meanwhile, CNN would be carefully and conveniently pre-positioned to project images around the world of these youthful non-violent 'protesters'.

What was new in the Belgrade coup against Milosevic was the use of the Internet - particularly its chat rooms, instant messaging, and blog sites - along with mobiles or cell phones, including SMS text-messaging. Using these high tech capabilities that had only emerged in the mid-1990's, a handful of trained leaders could rapidly steer rebellious and suggestible 'Generation X' youth in and out of mass demonstrations at will. ....two things were necessary for such destabilizing transformations: "building internationally committed networks of international and locally committed organizations" ( the equivalent of today's human rights organization and other NGOs) and the "creating global events through the transformation of a local event into one having virtually instantaneous international implications through mass-media...... .....In 1997, RAND researches John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt published their work on exploiting the information revolution for the US military. By taking advantage of the network-based organizations linked via email and mobile phones to enhance the potential of swarming, IT techniques could be transformed into key methods of warfare.

After the financial cost, mess, and embarrassment in Iraq and Afghanistan....the bottom line is $41 million is far cheaper to the corporate minded people orchestrating these wars...and they can hide behind the lies of empty slogans ( liberation, fighting for freedom, democracy, etc...) And the best part, they can have other people fight for them and not have to take the blame for the destruction and violence.