Protesters paid...

After the Internet shut down and the social media machine was disabled temporarily, it's back to the down and dirty hired mobs for the Egyptians it looks like.  Just like old times.  There are so many accounts and many speculations about where Wednesday's pro-Mobarak demonstrators came from.  Some might have been genuine.  In a dictatorship that has been going on for 30 years, there are sure to have been some distingushished "haves" (vs. the "have nots") who would like to stay in a place of power.  But  many, I'm betting were paid and encouraged by the regime or its cronies.  Sigh.

Some of these pictures are pretty nice. Read the blog for an explanation of the last two pictures.