we're ripe for false flag event?

Zen Gardner, at Before It's News, believes circumstances are set for a false flag event, in other words, "we're ripe". Gardner sees, as an ominous sign, Geraldo Rivera's recent reconsideration of Building 7's collapse as questionable. "This may seem like a drop in the bucket to some, but when he confesses he wouldn't listen to anything before and shouted down challengers to the canned govt explanation, and then says he's now open to the subject, that's significant. Something's up." Gardner compares it to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's press conference on Sept. 10th, 2001 about the missing billions from the Pentagon budget.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a powerful oligarch, may have revealed the roadmap in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting on Feb. 7, 2007: "then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on Iran; culminating in a 'defensive' U.S. military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan". Gardner believes so and makes an even stronger case by noting the larger framework, where the world government agenda is stepped up, the plug continues to be pulled on the world economy and restricting world food supplies. We're ripe!

defcon 8/19: flashback flares & jackal hacktivism

video: top physicist says solar flare would set us back 100yrs*
sun affects earth more than you might realize*
call it 'operation ajax truth':
iranian activists deface uk genetics website*
19 aug '53 - anglo-american military coup in iran*
'day of the jackal' & 'odessa file' author/journalist blames nsa for wife's laptop hack*
wikileaks says pentagon offers afghan files help*

wikileaks founder hunted by pentagon over massive leak

from philip shenon: Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports. Plus, Daniel Ellsberg tells The Daily Beast: "Assange is in Some Danger." (This story has been updated to reflect new developments on Assange's whereabouts, including the cancelation of a scheduled appearance in Las Vegas.)

Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Daily Beast.

The officials acknowledge that even if they found the website founder, Julian Assange, it is not clear what they could do to block publication of the cables on Wikileaks, which is nominally based on a server in Sweden and bills itself as a champion of whistleblowers.

“We’d like to know where he is; we’d like his cooperation in this,” one U.S. official said of Assange.

American officials said Pentagon investigators are convinced that Assange is in possession of at least some classified State Department cables leaked by a 22-year-old Army intelligence specialist, Bradley Manning of Potomac, Maryland, who is now in custody in Kuwait.

And given the contents of the cables, the feds have good reason to be concerned.

updates: wikileaks founder has afghan massacre video*
wikileaks 'confirms' it has video of US massacre in afghanistan*
wikileaks inspired 'new media haven' proposal passes in icelandic parliament*
3 weeks after manning arrest, still no charges in wikileaks probe*

word of a soldier's death leaks on facebook

from danger room: Everybody is dumping on Facebook right now – & CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s non-apology apologies for giving away his customers’ personal information aren’t exactly helping matters. But in the military community, there’s an interesting twist on the Facebook-as-privacy-sieve debate. Turns out the names of soldiers dying in Afghanistan are sometimes appearing on Facebook before they’re officially released.

This is not a small deal in military circles. U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan go into what’s called “River City” - with access to the outside Internet shut down - when one of their troops is killed in action. The idea is to give time to notify next-of-kin before word of the death leaks out.

Last Wednesday, however, King’s College of London PhD student Daniel Bennett was able to penetrate that veil of silence. With a few clicks of the social media search engine Kurrently, Bennett found Facebook chatter about the death of 20 year-old Pfc. Billy G. Anderson (pictured) in Afghanistan’s Badghis province. The Pentagon didn’t announce that Anderson had been killed until two days later, on Friday the 21st.

From what I can tell, this Facebook leak appears to have come from Anderson’s parents, indirectly. On Tuesday the 19th at 9:09am, Robin McAllister Vance wrote on her Facebook wall: “Please pray for the family of Billy Anderson. This is the son in law of Gina Lewis, who works with me in Accounting. They learned yesterday that Billy was killed in Afghanistan. Billy is survived by a young wife and baby girl.” But I’m guessing news of other battlefield deaths has spread on Facebook even faster, before families heard the news.

It’s exactly the kind of personal information that the armed forces have begged its troops for years not to disclose online. It’s exactly the kind of material that caused some branches of the military to block access to Web 2.0 sites from their networks for a while.