Social networks 'driving up violent extremism'

from sbs.com.au: Social networks - not radical ideology - are the major driver in the creating violent extremists, according to the findings of a four year study.

More than 100 current and former extremists participated in the study, which found that social networks and online forums were enabling people to get in touch with "radical" and "terror" groups.

According to Greg Barton, the director of Monash University's Global Terror Research Centre, terrorists and radicals are often lonely individuals who lack any sense of belonging.

“Your life hasn't gone so well, you're a bit of a failure…If you do this thing, come join with us, you can go as they say from zero to hero and that's often the logic of a suicide bomber,” he said.

Mr Barton used Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in 2011, as an example of someone who found his voice and sense of belonging online.

“He was reaching out on social media, connecting and posting pictures of himself…Clearly his virtual community was very important to him."

The research will be used to identify and prevent terrorism in the future.

Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists

from salon.com: Michael Hayden equates potential angry reactions to Snowden indictments to al-Qaida operations. 

The cyberscare, like the redscare or the greenscare of the ’90′s, is already under way. We’ve seen it take root with the fierce federal persecution of Aaron Swartz, the hefty charges and prison sentence facing LulzSec hacktivist Jeremy Hammond and the three-year jail sentence handed down to Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer for pointing out and sharing a vulnerability in AT&T’s user information network. On Tuesday, former NSA chief Michael Hayden put it into words.

Hayden warned that hackers, cyberactivists and transparency groups who might act in support of NSA leaker Edward Snowden could target the U.S. government — equating such groups and individuals to al-Qaida terrorists. Using trite and old-fashioned descriptions of anarchists and hackers as dangerous loners, Hayden said during a Washington speech Tuesday (as the Guardian reported):

“If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here to the United States for trial, what does this group do?” said retired air force general Michael Hayden, who from 1999 to 2009 ran theNSA and then the CIA, referring to “nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years”.

“They may want to come after the US government, but frankly, you know, the dot-mil stuff is about the hardest target in the United States,” Hayden said, using a shorthand for US military networks. “So if they can’t create great harm to dot-mil, who are they going after? Who for them are the World Trade Centers? The World Trade Centers, as they were for al-Qaida.”

Hayden provided his speculation during a speech on cybersecurity to a Washington group, the Bipartisan Policy Center, in which he confessed to being deliberately provocative.

It was under Hayden’s directorship that NSA programs designed to hoard data and metadata on almost every online and phone communication within and going out of the U.S. were developed. 

His comments reflect the government’s troubling attitude towards online and open-data activists: they are prefiguratively framed as criminals and terrorists, and are treated as such. Although no longer at the NSA’s helm, Hayden’s attitude suggests with disturbing honesty the potential manner in which the government will treat groups who fight for whistle-blowers like Snowden, who risk their lives to reveal the darker side of U.S.’s nexus of cyberpower.

Nuclear Christmas, False Flag In America To Blame On Iran

Gordon Duff, Veterans Today Senior Editor, discusses possibility of nuclear false flag this holiday in PressTV article, "Nuclear Christmas, false flag in America to blame on Iran." Duff sees more than one city involved, if nuclear terrorism takes place!  Nukes gone missing include those lost in the early nineties in Somalia and 2007 Barksdale missing nuke episode here in the US:

"In 2007, a religious cult within the US Air Force stole between 6 and 9 H Bombs and loaded them on a B-52 bound for “places unknown.” Not all of those weapons were recovered when the plane was forced down at Barksdale Air Force Base. The public was told a wild story of dozens of mistakes in mishandling nuclear weapons."

Senior Editor Duff does excellent job building case with background info many Americans still do not recognize:  "There is substantial reason to believe that, in order to shift blame from powerful extremist groups in the US, with ties to drug cartels and multi-national organized crime, the 'Global War on Terror' was begun and the non-existent organization, 'Al Qaeda' was invented." Yes, the "War on Terror" is a complete fiction - intended to shift blame - for illegal activities of multinationals, other organized crime and their government lackeys to a stereotyped bogeyman:  Al-CIAda!

A nuclear false flag rumor resurfaces, over years, based on model - terrorism at home - begins with drills!  Portland went through extensive 2007 Top Off 4 that alarmed even casual observers, and also, Phoenix with similar 2011 Vigilant Guardian drill.  Drills in Portland and Phoenix, are recounted, in prior post here and a 2011 Intel Hub article.

Readers should be reminded of predictive programming in mainstream media last year with report of 25 letters received in Chicago area, claiming nuclear devices hidden by Al Qaeda in US cities!  Predictive programming became obvious, last year, when Zen Gardner pointed to obvious and clumsy planting of idea in public's mind.  Gardner referred to a report of a lost bomb during Vigilant Guardian in a Sept 5, 2011 Intel Hub article, when he posted, "Are you frikking kidding me? They’re practicing with live bombs? And they LOSE them? And they TELL everybody?" Phoenix would be the Freemason favorite as city is located on 33rd parallel, its very name implies the credo "Ordo Ab Chao," i.e., Order Out of Chaos.  The symbolic shouldn't be underestimated, the perps are insane!

Duff may be fear-mongering to hype his website, but implies there's recent activity from his anonymous sources: 

"Sources within the intelligence community have confirmed that key former military personnel, some employed by the government to provide security for nuclear facilities, others with training in the assembly and detonation of  'special weapons,' are being sought and actively recruited by “militant extremists” who represent, for the most part, powerful international corporations."

The body of evidence pointing to a nuclear false flag, on Christmas, in Phoenix, AZ proved sufficiently compelling that author S K Bain included an addendum to his book, "The Most Dangerous Book In The World," below:

"In a weighty addendum entitled, The Next 9/11?, Bain moves into the world of speculative fiction. Once again making use of occult symbolism and numerology, he warns of a possible new and even more horrifying act of mass terror, coming this Christmas to Phoenix, AZ, and the rest of the world."

The present writer, hopes certainly, present article will help deter perps from implementing their dark intentions!