While we're all waiting to find out if Google went all adrianlamo on us with regards to the government orders demanding the personal data of Wikileaks volunteers (as exposed by Twitter), here's an example of the strategy of "it's already done" (or, historically known as a fait accompli) that's characterizing recent coup d'etat interventions by Western intelligence and -- perhaps coincidentally -- the strategy is being shared by western media including al-jazeera, NATO, the DOD, the MOD and "community activists."



Just like Gaddafi was dead or fled 20 times in the news, or that Tripoli had been bombed by Libyan fighter jets, or Saif al-Islam was killed half a dozen times or the rebels had "taken Tripoli" (when they are still fighting pitched battles there today), it's obvious that the psyops strategy relies on news traveling at the speed of internet memes to create a perception of reality that buys time to actually implement that reality.



This site (Ogle Earth), albeit with a bit of political naivete, has documented in detail how this is playing out on Google Maps as internet trolls keep changing the names of streets in Syria, ultimately creating enough discord to settle on a neutral but nonetheless unofficial street name that's not correct.



If it's in doubt, working to overthrow sovereign, foreign governments is still illegal in the United States and under international law. But for the numbed-out populations in the US and Europe, exposing war crimes is the worst offense (nod to julian assange and bradley manning) while cheering on high-tech contras-style death squads is 'activism' ...