What do Sudan and Estonia have in common?

News reports this week from the Darfur region of Sudan stated that Sudanese army troops used their weapons against unarmed villagers in another of the impoverished, vulnerable towns in that region. The Sudanese government, true to form, denied that any such thing happened. Other news reports this week from Estonia, one of the tiny Baltic republics that sawed themselves free of Russia, stated that government and financial electronic communications were seriously disrupted to the point of crippling their function. The source? Denial of service attacks massively orchestrated and seeming to emanate from Russia. The fact that Estonia had just recently decided to remove a statue of a Russian soldier from their capital, Tallinn's center, to a military cemetery last month. Russia asserted that the move was an insult to the soldiers who defeated the Germans. Riots involving Russian-speaking Estonians ensued. Regarding the DOS attacks? Russia had no comment but was reportedly not returning calls from the Estonian government. Servers identified in the attacks appeared to include some tied directly to the Russian President's office. The common factor in this age of information overload is that the Big Lie seems to be easier to pull off then ever. We have so much data simultaneously it's difficult to sort through it and decide what's true. It is also clear that more 'proof' that something bad is happening does not make it any more likely that there will be action to stop it.