Large Explosions Reported At Boston Marathon - Photos Released

[Glass]

I did a search on your suggested title. I viewed 2 YT's that were a cnn story. I didn't see anyone who looked like him so maybe scrubbed. Liveleak copy taken down. Everything else seems to be circular references.

The video is still a useful thing. It leaves no doubt things can be staged and it's is about a company named here before who does stage them.

[PatColo]

^ that's it! I found the same 2 CNN vids U did, they were the top results. Shame on me for not rechecking when I made the post, as it was a couple months ago that I had the null search results I described. I don't know now what happened then wrt the YT search results, coz I know I searched that title; but I see the following copy was uploaded Dec '12,

I'm speculating that's "Bauman" at 1:02. We don't get a straight-on look at his face, but what we do see of his head shape and gaunt body, FIT. AND, we know he's an "amuputee actor" who does gigs with .mil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSLm_yWqADc

[Amanda]

Well, this is no surprise.


http://intellihub.com/fbi-agent-clea...rathon-bomber/


FBI agent cleared of killing man with ties to alleged Boston Marathon bomber

March 21, 2014 6:42 PM EDT
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Shepard Ambellas


Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) evidence response agents work outside the apartment where a suspected friend of the Boston bombers was shot and killed by FBI on May 22, 2013 in Orlando, Florida. Ibragim Todashev was being questioned by the FBI about his ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects when he was killed after attacking the agent. (Photo by Gerardo Mora/Getty Images)RT

An FBI agent has been cleared in the fatal shooting of a Chechen man who was associated with alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Prosecutors ruled that the agent acted in self defense and did not violate any laws.

Florida prosecutors concluded that the agent – whose name has not been disclosed – was reacting to an attack from 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, who used a metal pole against the agent during questioning in his Orlando apartment. Todashev was a mixed martial arts fighter.

The agent suffered a wound to the back of the head which required stitches.

First accounts from law enforcement officials said the agent had been attacked with a knife. However, federal agents later said that Todashev was unarmed.
Florida prosecutor Jeffrey L. Ashton said his findings will be released on Tuesday.

The Boston-based FBI agent came to the young man’s Orlando apartment to question him about his friendship with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers. The latter died from injuries sustained in a shootout with police days after the bombing, which killed three people and injured more than 250 others.

According to law enforcement officials, Todashev implicated himself and Tsarnaev in connection with a triple murder in Waltham, Massachusetts, on September 11, 2011. Police suspected him and Tsarnaev in the killings of the three men in a well-kept rental home.

At the same time, Todashev’s family insisted that he had never spoken to them about his friendship with the elder Tsarnaev brother.
Commenting after her husband’s death, Todashev’s widow told media that “they weren’t friends or anything.”

Shortly after the incident in Todashev’s apartment, the FBI claimed the suspect “just went crazy” and attacked the agent after agreeing to sign a confession which would have implicated both he and Tsarnaev in the unsolved 2011 killings.

The FBI first began surveillance and later questioned Todashev several days after the April 15 Boston attack took place. He had cooperated with investigators up until his death.

The FBI cleared its agent several months ago.

The Florida ruling mostly brings the 10-month process to a close. However, the Justice Department’s (DoJ) Civil Rights Division’s ruling is still to come. The DoJ is in the final stages of finishing its own investigation and is also expected to clear the agent, according to officials.

The surviving Boston Marathon suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is to go on trial in November and could face the death penalty if convicted. He has been charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, and with malicious destruction of property resulting in death.

[Amanda]

April 11, 2014
The Boston Marathon Bombing’s Constructed Reality ^Reply

Home • Tags: Boston bombing, news media, police state, state crime, terrorism


By James F. Tracy

“The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event … For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.” Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, 1922.

[Photo Credit: Aaron Tang/Wiki Commons]

The careful coordination of information and visual representations governs the mass mind. The conditions for such are accentuated in times of perceived crisis. For a relatively brief period following the Boston Marathon bombing two sets of photographs emerged that actually depicted what appeared to have taken place at “ground zero,” where the first explosive device detonated. Each series of photos strongly suggests the execution of a mass casualty exercise.

The first set of photographs was taken by amateur sports photographer Benjamin Thorndike, whose employment as a financial advisor at FOC Partners on Boylston provided him with an ideal position. The second set was taken by graphic designer Aaron Tang, whose office is several doors down Boylston Street from FOC. In fact, Tang’s photos are especially revealing as they chronicle the unusual law enforcement and first responder reactions to the incident.While Tang’s photos and personage are almost entirely absent from corporate news reportage and commentary, Thorndike and a handful of his more than two dozen photos receive sporadic consideration in the short-lived news cycle preceding 5:00PM on April 18, when the FBI revealed images of Tamarlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the vicinity of the finish line. The federal government and its major media appendages would then employ this dubious evidence vis-á-vis the Tsarnaevs’ non-American otherness to essentially indict the brothers in the court of public opinion. The spectre of Muslim terrorism–an important propaganda element of the “war on terror”–further legitimated the declaration of martial law in the greater Boston area, culminating in the extrajudicial killing of Tamarlan and the near-murder (so far as the public is lead to believe) of Dzhokhar.

The Boston bombing’s “forgotten” photographs are worthy of further consideration as they suggest the ways in which major news media operate in a de facto censorial fashion with the federal government to highlight certain phenomena while simultaneously rendering important artifacts down the memory hole. The images’ misuse or sheer absence arguably contributed to a major tragedy and miscarriage of justice.

Thorndike’s credentials alongside his bird’s eye perspective of America’s most horrendous terrorist attack since September 11 are of tremendous significance. With this in mind one would think major media would have been clamoring to disseminate his eyewitness account and series of photographs worldwide. Indeed, following the event Mr. Thorndike made himself readily available to the media for interviews.

Although the Associated Press circulating a select few of Thorndike’s photos, LexisNexis and Start Page web searches for “Ben Thorndike” and “Boston Marathon bombing” between the dates April 15, 2013 to May 15, 2013 reveal photo credits in only three US print publications within two weeks of the incident–the New York Daily News (April 17) the Boston Globe (April 18) and the New York Times (April 27)[1] each of which used the photo below; one European paper, the Scottish Express, also used the photos in two pieces.[2] The Globe was the sole outlet to publish remarks from Thorndike extending beyond a soundbite.[3]
As for broadcast outlets, the same search for transcripts reveals only four stories referencing Thorndike, none of which extend beyond a reference or brief interview excerpt. CNN published seven of Thorndike’s photos on its website, yet referenced them only once in subsequent broadcasts.[4]

Mr. Thorndike asserts that he was at his office building on Boylston almost directly above where the first explosion erupted on April 15, 2013. “Almost momentarily when I got there, directly in front of me, right in my sight-line, the explosion went off,” he said. “Just out of reflex, I had the camera on, had it in sports mode, which means I can shoot rapid-fire.” As CBS Boston reported,

“Thorndike shot a sequence of 25 photos right after the blast that shows injured and stunned victims on the ground below. But it was the behavior of one man — seen running from the scene — that prompted Thorndike to contact the FBI.”

“His reflex is to sprint away that really caught my eye [sic]” Thorndike recalls. “Everyone else in the photo is stunned, shocked and frozen,” he said. “It’s either someone who is badly burned, panicked and running, or they’re running for another reason.”[5]

The important fact overlooked, however, that the observed man is running with all limbs intact from the epicenter of a harrowing blast and its purportedly lethal wave of shrapnel.

Thorndike turned the photos over to FBI investigators, who repeatedly interviewed him concerning what he observed. The FBI was tight-lipped concerning the investigation, and what some media termed the “running away man” depicted in the photographs who remains unidentified.

Thorndike’s photographs of what transpired at “ground zero” of the Boston Marathon bombing event contrast sharply with the widely-circulated video footage from the Boston Globe, where the videographer appears to purposely arch the camera away from alleged bombing victims and activity on the sidewalk.




Although more than 260 individuals supposedly suffered injuries as a result of the bombings,[6] the high resolution photographs of both Thorndike and Tang indicate no more than three-to-four dozen persons in the immediate vicinity of the initial explosion, most of whom remain mobile in the immediate aftermath and are soon eclipsed in number by law enforcement and medical responders.

According to the CBS Boston report, “Thorndike and his co-workers fled soon after the photos were taken.” This is perhaps an unusual observation since journalists given that within seconds of the detonations the Boston Police locked down surrounding buildings in order to strictly control media access to the unfolding event. [See, for example, video here at 0:07-2:24].[7] CBS also curiously reports, “All the other bay windows in the office were blown out except the one where Thorndike stood.”[8]

{Photo Credit: Benjamin Thorndike]

In terms of broadcast, with the exception of the more detailed interview highlighted above by CBS Boston, the novice photographer is given a soundbite on ABC and NBC newscasts, as the photos are presented and lightly touched upon.[9] For example, like Thorndike, NBC’s Pete Williams similarly references the man emerging from the center of the initial blast. “[Y]ou can see the impact of the blast has partially ripped his clothes away,” Williams remarks.[10]
Thorndike’s photos are also brought up twice on one specific CNN program by the cable channel’s “law enforcement analyst” Mike Brooks, who explains how the visual evidence from a typical crime investigation is handled. “What [federal law enforcement] have done,” Brooks remarks, is that they will take this picture, any video that is along that route, and they will try to put together a timeline. Going back before, during and after and what they’ll do is they’ll take this video, and they will send it to Quantico. The FBI lab at Quantico has an engineering section. I have used them on a number of my cases to help enhance video and the technology has increased so much, you know, over the years–”[11]

What the FBI in fact proceeded to do with the assistance of major media was almost the exact opposite–focusing on the Tsarnaevs to the exclusion of all other agents and phenomena–and foregrounding these images alongside those of purported evidence and the injured to forthrightly incriminate the Tsarnaevs. The overall effect of this gross manipulation was evident in the jubilation exhibited by Boston residents upon Tamarlan’s murder and Dzhokhar’s capture; mass ecstasy eerily akin to the effect of a public lynching.

Events such as momentous political assassinations, the Tonkin Gulf, Oklahoma City, and 9/11 have suggested that government-corporate manipulation of the public for broader political ends is not difficult to achieve. Control over an event and the select use of stimuli elicits certain desired responses. This is particularly the case in a society that exercises almost unquestioning allegiance toward what Erich Fromm termed “anonymous authority.” The Boston Marathon bombing event suggests the end result of this blind faith; how such finely tuned stagecraft can mobilize a mass mentality to the degree that it misinterprets the implementation of martial law as a genuine representation of a public will.

Notes:
[1] Bev Ford, Greg B. Smith, and Larry McShane, “Police Narrow in on Two Suspects in Boston Marathon Bombing,” New York Daily News, April 17, 2013; Brian MacQuarrie, “Spectator’s Picture [sic] of Scene Draws Attention,” Boston Globe, April 18, 2013; Katharinie Q. Steelye and Ian Lovett, “After Attack, Suspects Returned to Routines, Raising No Suspicions,” New York Times, April 28, 2013.
[2] “Boston Terror Link to N-bomb at Olympics,” Scottish Express, April 21, 2013; “Did Hamza [sic] Inspire Boston Bombers?” Scottish Express, April 28, 2013.
[3] Sera Congi, “Photographer Discusses Images of Boston Marathon Bombing Blast,” CBS WBZ TV Boston, April 17, 2013.
[4] “After the Explosion: Moment by Moment,” CNN, April 17, 2013.
[4] Congi, “Photographer Discusses Images of Boston Marathon Bombing Blast.”
[5] Ibid.
[6] James F. Tracy, “The Boston Marathon Bombing’s Inflated Injury Tallies,” Global Research, May 11, 2013.
[7] PlasmaBurns, “Heroes Are Scripted – Boston Lies,” YouTube, January 11, 2014.
[8] Congi, “Photographer Discusses Images of Boston Marathon Bombing Blast.”
[9] Brian Williams, Anne Thompson, et al., “NBC News for April 16, 2013,” NBC; “Images of Bomb and Torn Backpack, Pressure Cooker with Ball Bearings,” ABC News Transcript, April 17, 2013; Anderson Cooper, Tom Fuentes, et al., “Reports On Bombing Arrest; Justice Department: No Arrest Made,” CNN, April 17, 2013; Mark Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, et al., “NBC News for April 17, 2013.”
[10] Lauer, Guthrie, et al., “NBC News for April 17, 2013.”
[11] Cooper, Fuentes, et al., “Reports On Bombing Arrest; Justice Department: No Arrest Made,” CNN, April 17, 2013.

[Amanda]

No surprise here. I think the only ones who died as a result of Boston were Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his friend, Igbragim Todaschev:

Prosecutors Refuse to Give Jahar Tsarnaev's Defense Team Pictures of Autopsy Exams for "Victims" Who Died in The Boston Marathon Bombings




Federal prosecutors asked a judge Monday to bar Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from seeing some of the gruesome autopsy photos of the three people killed in the attack.

In a court filing, prosecutors said Tsarnaev should only be allowed to look at autopsy photos that will be used during his trial and sentencing. They said he should not be allowed to see the many other photos that will not be used against him in court.
"Allowing photos of the mutilated bodies of the victims to be viewed by the man accused of mutilating them would needlessly revictimize the family members in the same way that innocent children who are photographed pornographically are revictimized whenever those photos are seen by others," prosecutors wrote.

Miriam Conrad, one of Tsarnaev's lawyers, declined to comment on the request.

In their motion, prosecutors say they told the defense that if Tsarnaev were allowed to view all the photographs, the government would continue to make them available for lawyers' review but would not provide copies. They said Tsarnaev's lawyers "refused to accept any limitation on Tsarnaev's ability to view the autopsy photos and repeated their demand for copies of all of them."
http://kstp.com/news/stories/s3364731.shtml

[Horn]

the government would continue to make them available for lawyers' review but would not provide copies. They said Tsarnaev's lawyers "refused to accept any limitation on Tsarnaev's ability to view the autopsy photos and repeated their demand for copies of all of them."
http://kstp.com/news/stories/s3364731.shtml

Huh, shouldn't they be submitted as evidence for both parties to use with their experts to review?

[Horn]

The Accomplice: Boston jihad bomber’s widow Karima Tsarnaev





How is it that this jihad widow has not been charged? She called her husband, the Boston bomber, just days after the bombing, after seeing the brothers identified on television, and warned him that he was being hunted. Bomb-making residue was found in her kitchen sink, bathtub, and on the kitchen table. The first issue of the al Qaeda online magazine Inspire, which included an article titled “How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom,” was found on her computer. And she has made it clear to law enforcement that she will not cooperate.

http://indiandefence.com/threads/the...sarnaev.45376/

[Amanda]

The whole thing was a hoax. Nobody died.

Special Report on the Boston Marathon: The Curious Case of the Man Who Could Only Sit Down (Part 1) http://davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr114.html

Dr. Stan Monteith, a 35-year orthopedic surgeon on Jeff Bauman’s leg amputations: “I believe that this young man was an actor” http://fauxcapitalist.com/2013/05/10...-was-an-actor/

[Amanda]

Here's the latest from Prof Tracy's site:

http://memoryholeblog.com/2014/04/13...-and-analysis/

The Boston Marathon Bombing: A Compendium of Research and Analysis ⁵³

Home • Tags: Boston bombing, censorship, conspiracy research, Department of Homeland Security, news media, police state


By James F. Tracy and MHB Guest Contributors

The following overview of articles addressing the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing aids in developing a broader understanding of how the event transpired and was presented by corporate and alternative news media. The US public was given a storyline largely constructed by federal law enforcement authorities and channeled through major media to promote the eventual theory that Dzokhar and Tamarlan Tsarnaev were the sole culprits in the bombing.

[Image Credit: Wikicommons]

The official narrative has become an established reality through the major news media’s faithful and pronounced repetition of the story’s many seemingly related facets. The Tsarnaevs’ culpability is reinforced by the prejudiced cultural inclination to correlate non-Western and/or Muslim individuals with terrorism. This proposed scenario of deviant Muslim terrorists has also tended to obscure the possibility that the Tsarnaev brothers may have been manipulated and at the hands of federal and state law officials. Moreover, the April 18-19 search for Dzokhar Tsarnaev involved the removal of constitutional protections and enactment of full-throttled martial law throughout the Boston area.

The collection of posts written by James Tracy and MHB guest authors over the past year addresses the various subtle and more blatant inconsistencies of what has been slated as America’s greatest terrorist attack since 9/11. Whether authentic or at least a partially constructed reality, the Boston Marathon bombing incident holds major significance going forward, particularly in terms of the country’s continued “war on terror,” which increasingly appears to be a selectively waged war of terror on the world’s population.-JFT



Hard Questions Posed on Boston Bombing
April 18, 2013

At an April 15th press conference on the Boston Marathon bombing reporters from corporate media outlets arrived to play their typical roles as “stenographers to power,” throwing routine softball questions to federal, state and local authorities, including Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.


Witnessing Boston’s Mass Casualty Event
April 22, 2013

“For the most part we do not first see, and then define,” Walter Lippmann observed in 1921, “we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.”

A founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Lippmann looked with suspicion to the potential dangers the hopelessly uninformed public posed in the unfolding “Great Society.”



The Unlikely Antics of Boston’s Cowboy Hero
April 26, 2013

Carlos Arredondo has been widely praised by an array of corporate news media as among the most valorous figures of the Boston Marathon bombing. He was “heralded as a true American hero,” the International Business Times gushes, having allegedly “risked his life to help the victims of the two explosions that rocked the Boston Marathon.”
[Photo Credit: Wikipedia]


Video Analysis: Boston Marathon Bombing Injuries
May 2, 2013

Arrangement and analysis of still photos from the aftermath of the initial Boston Marathon bombing blast reveals incongruities in the appearances of injuries, absence of wounds where wounds should be readily observable vis-à-vis punctured and torn clothing, and possible application and donning of makeup by figures present.


Anomalies Emerge in Photos of Second Bomb Site
May 4, 2013

This detailed set of observations was submitted as a lengthy

comment and addresses unusual elements of the far-less-photographed second bombing site. Given its especially important points I have requested the author’s permission to present the commentary as a guest post, to which she agreed provided her anonymity is preserved.


Bloodless Femoral Arteries
May 6, 2013

A chief narrative of the Boston Marathon Bombing (BMB) is that Jeff Bauman was tragically maimed when the first “pressure cooker bomb” detonated at the finish line. The charge blew both of Bauman’s legs clear off, leaving him with the disturbing remains of apparently exposed tissue and bone.




More Photographic Evidence Suggests Boston Bombing Was Training Exercise
May 8, 2013

The Boston Marathon bombings have a lot of features that can only be reconciled as being a mock training exercise, and the recent history of using the Boston Marathon for bomb training exercises makes that comparison even more compelling. The Boston Herald reports that emergency drills were conducted at the 2012 Boston Marathon in which maneuvers included training for “bombs at the finish line”. Further, an experienced athlete and eyewitnesses at this year’s Boston Marathon, Alastair Stevenson, also testifies “there were dogs with their handlers going around sniffing for explosives and, and, we were told on a loud announcement that we shouldn’t be concerned, it was just a drill”.


Cellphone Video of Initial Blast Aftermath / Additional BMB Videos
May 10, 2013

This cellphone video captures the immediate seconds following the first blast of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing. Taken several meters away from where the bomb was detonated, the footage documents a number of apparent figures who subsequently appear in media coverage as purportedly injured from the ordnance.

Along these lines, an overarching feature of the video is the visual and aural absence of the bomb’s fallout in terms of traumatic and injurious effects alongside property damage that would likely attend detonation and the broad dispersal of variously-shaped shrapnel. For instance, the photo to the right shows the Lenscrafters retail outlet’s front windows burst asunder. However, in the cellphone video the very same windows are thoroughly intact for a considerable time following the first blast.


[Photo Credit: Aaron Tang/Wikicommons]

The Boston Marathon Bombing’s Inflated Injury Tallies
May 11, 2013

Exactly how many people were injured as a result of the April 15 Boston Marathon Bombing (BMB)? An official tally from the Boston Public Health Commission puts the number at an incredible 282 injured and four killed, including MIT police officer Sean Collier. “Only two patients wounded in the Boston Marathon bombings remained in critical condition” on April 22, the Boston Globe reported, “but the count of injured people who were treated in area hospitals has risen sharply to 282, according to the Boston Public Health Commission. That is far higher than the initial estimate of 170.”


Obama’s FEMA Director Planned Boston Mass Casualty Event in 2008
May 21, 2013

Authored in 2008 by Richard Serino, then-Director of Boston’s Emergency Medical Services, Marathons – A Tale of Two Cities and the Running of a Planned Mass Casualty Event (PDF) provides a detailed and fully operationalized plan for carrying out a mass casualty drill uncannily similar to what transpired at the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013.

In 2009 Serino retired from his post at Boston EMS after being appointed Deputy Administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Administration by President Barack Obama.


Boston’s Custom Designed Terror: Operation Urban Shield
August 3, 2013

On June 6, 2013 “Operation Urban Shield Boston” published videos via its YouTube Channel highlighting the so-named 2011 and 2012 law enforcement and emergency response drills that bore a remarkable resemblance to the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing allegedly carried out by Tamarlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev.

Two days after the videos were distributed the Boston Globe reported that the entire April 15 Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath indeed played out almost in identical fashion to the Department of Homeland Security-sponsored terrorist drill scheduled for June of 2013.


CNN Tapped Fledgling Media Personality as Boston Bombing “Eyewitness”
August 12, 2013

At 4:18PM on April 15 while CNN ominously reports that two are dead and more than 110 injured as a result of the Boston Marathon bombing, anchorwoman Erin Burnett conducts a telephone interview with a young woman claiming to be an eyewitness to the explosions occurring 90 minutes earlier. (Quinn Brettler also appeared on MSNBC and CBS, but no footage of these interviews can be identified online.) “Joining me on the phone right now is Cassidy Quinn Brettler,” Burnett begins. “She was 30 feet away when the explosions happened. [She] was watching her coworker cross the finish line.”


Boston Marathon Bombing Timeline
August 14, 2013

The following timeline of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured many more provides a platform to better understand how the event was publicly presented by corporate and alternative news media. The chronological assemblage of coverage is not comprehensive of all reports published on the incident but is an ongoing project that also seeks to explain how the storyline was largely constructed by federal and state law enforcement, medical authorities and major media around the eventual theory that Dzokhar and Tamarlan Tsarnaev were the sole instigators of the bombing.

[Photo Credit: Aaron Tang/Wikicommons]


Convicted on Wikipedia
October 6, 2013

“Let’s convict the son-of-a-bitch in the press. That’s the way it’s done.”-President Richard Nixon

We are familiar with conviction in the press, one sub-category of the lying and propagandizing featured on a daily basis in the mainstream print and electronic media. But in this age of transparency and equal opportunity, we now find conviction on Wikipedia—and anyone can do it. Especially anyone with a huge government or military or corporate budget and hundreds of paid employees who use pen names to write their Wikipedia articles—and to vigilantly monitor them so that their views will stay posted. And we all use Wikipedia, although we know that we can’t trust it. But we use it anyway, and the things we read there, especially if well articulated and effectively illustrated, stick in our heads and become part of our reality. Most topically, we have wiki-convictions in two recent shootings in Washington, D.C.


Video: Boston Marathon Bomb Simulators Exposed
January 16, 2014

Photos and Eyewitnesses Confirm BOTH Boston Marathon Bombs Were Fake

This brief (9:47) video presents a compelling argument and set of video and photographic evidence concerning the incendiary devices detonated shortly before 3:00PM on April 15, 2013 at the Boston Marathon finish line.


“One Fund Boston” and the Boston Mass Casualty Event
January 17, 2014

An integral and by now much-anticipated element of a spectacle such as the Boston Mass Casualty Event (BMCE) of April 15, 2013 involves establishment of charities through which the incident may gain legitimacy in the public mind. Such entities provide fiscal channels by which event participants may be compensated and are also vital for public participation via charitable offerings.

Here, perhaps predictably, one find the unusually swift development of “The One Fund Boston,” a now celebrated aid organization whose very name oddly resonates with the new agey themes of “resilience” and “unity” promoted by mass grief and woe maven John Woodall. “We are one Boston. We are one community,” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is quoted as saying on “One Fund’s” website. “As always, we will come together to help those most in need. And in the end, we will all be better for it.”


The Legacy of Oklahoma City
February 1, 2014

The correspondence below, received over one month ago from a former Oklahoma City resident, is especially timely given recent developments in the Boston Marathon bombing case. On January 30 the US Department of Justice announced that it will pursue the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston bombing. (See BMB Timeline.) This is the most high-profile death penalty case pursued by the federal government since it sought to execute Timothy McVeigh for his alleged role in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building.


Aurora, Sandy Hook, Boston and Kiev: Connecting the Dots
March 16, 2014

With the ‘Anti-firearms’ moves that started in the 1980’s a young American woman moved to Australia. Rebecca Peters studied law for two years and then quit. She became employed by ‘The Australian Broadcasting Commission’ (ABC), and then started ‘The National Coalition for Gun Control’. At the time she also coyly joked about the rumours that her father was ‘CIA’.

The ‘National Coalition for Gun Control’ was considered a political lobby group, but after Rebecca Peters founded the ‘International Action Network on Small Arms’ (IANSA) in the United Kingdom, which again was considered as a ‘political lobby group’, it appeared that both of these bodies were in fact NGOs that is ‘Non-Government organisations’.

[Photo Credit: Wikicommons]

The Boston Marathon Bombing’s Constructed Reality
April 11, 2014

“The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event … For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.” Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, 1922.

The careful coordination of information and visual representations governs the mass mind. The conditions for such are accentuated in times of perceived crisis. For a relatively brief period following the Boston Marathon bombing two sets of photographs emerged that actually depicted what appeared to have taken place at “ground zero,” where the first explosive device detonated. Each series of photos strongly suggests the execution of a mass casualty exercise.

[Dachsie]

From my files


Jeff Bauman April 15, 2013

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http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/b...pitch-red-sox/

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