>Those demonstrations are more or less nation wide, but Dresden hits the peek by a factor of least 100. For me those are not all inhabitants of that town.... Strange concentration of busses and the like.

Ah, just ask who paid for lunch packets and who are the employers of the passengers and it becomes much more clear.

We had that technology of shaping the public opinion since Sloba's times. He also specialized in never showing the overall picture of the square on his TV Bastille (aka state TV), but always shooting with long tele lenses into whatever meager crowd he managed to muster. OTOH, when the opposition gathers between 100 and 500 thousand people, his cameras show the place as it was about two hours before the beginning...