Putin calls up Occupy leaders

[FluffyMcDeath]

It seems that our Occupy protesters have some powerful friends and it just might be that they are not a bunch of idealists and are instead a bunch of useful idiots being used to undermine the government.

 

[Glaucus]

Who needs to undermine a government on the street when you can just buy them off?
Yanukovych's Friends On The Hill

Around 60 Ukrainian protesters from across the United States gathered on February 5th to protest outside the Podesta Group and Mercury/Clark & Weinstock, which are among the largest PR and lobbying firms in America. They sang the Ukrainian national anthem, chanted “Slava Ukraini” (Glory to Ukraine) and held up placards saying, “Podesta Group Takes Blood Money,” “Return Blood Money,” and ‘Mercury, Stop Supporting The Bloody Regime In Ukraine.”

The two PR firms have been the subject of an extensive investigation by Ukrainian journalist Sergiy Leschenko, who has accused them of acting on behalf of president Viktor Yanukovych and Ukraine’s ruling Party of Regions to advance the government’s interests on the Hill. Leschenko’s reporting echoes a recent investigation by Reuters that found Yanukovych supporters had paid substantial amounts of money to the two firms.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Who needs to undermine a government on the street when you can just buy them off?

Yes, that's how we usually do it, and if that doesn't work we threaten, and if that doesn't work we either kill them covertly or launch a war against their countries, but first we have to get public opinion on our side using PR. It's ironic to see Ukraine using the same PR firms that we use to try to topple governments and start wars, but it is the game they are forced to play. The PR companies will happily accept the cash from both sides, just the way arms dealers do.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Who needs to undermine a government on the street when you can just buy them off?

By the way, I'd like to hear your opinion of what our government would do if the opening hypothetical were the case, and what you would recommend they do.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Let's hear about the machinations from the inside. This could be the ravings of a conspiracy loon's made-for-tv script but the US has already confirmed it by calling the Russians rude names for tapping the phone of a diplomat. They feel it HAD to be the Russians because no civilized nation would tap the phones of diplomats ... obviously.

Nuland: OK. He's now gotten both Serry and [UN Secretary General] Ban Ki-moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, {bleep} the EU.

Screw those EU pussies, am I right? If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing yourself - especially if your henchmen just don't have the stomach for it.