Just finished reading the front page stories in today's Washington Post on Boston bombings. One of the stories mentions the role of crowd sourcing and social media, referring to what they call “vigilante detectives” who propound wildly “irresponsible” theories of what happened. I think it well represents what the Post thinks of web sites such as Phi Beta Iota. Especially interesting is they quote the mother of the Chechen alleged bombers regarding the FBI knowing about them for years. However, they say nothing, zero, zilch, not a word anywhere in the paper about her or father saying the FBI framed them. Very selective quoting.
Also, while the article rants about innumerable vigilante detectives with their cell phone cameras getting in the way of professional investigators, analyzing the photos for clues, they omit any mention whatsoever of vigilante detectives noticing the Craft operatives with their backpacks, and have many pictures to prove it.Whatever one thinks of the significance of those pictures, it is utterly irresponsible journalism to omit any attention to them. Very, very selective reporting, and clearly shows the most powerful propaganda works especially by omissions of facts, of avoiding notice or mention of what is right in front of one's eyes or ears..
But for 102 hours last week, nothing seemed certain in the manhunt that paralyzed a major metropolis, captivated the nation and confronted counterterrorism operatives with the troubling and unforgiving world of social media and vigilante detective work.”
Before long, they had set up a makeshift triage center in the lobby of the ER and began to treat the incoming — sewing up victims’ wounds and sending those with more-serious injuries through to be admitted. “We were prepared for waves of victims,” Feins told TIME, still wearing his scrubs outside his apartment near the hospital. “In the end, we worked on six people. Four had small lacerations, and we sewed them up.” Two other patients who had been in close proximity to the explosions complained of abdominal pain — a warning sign to Feins, who had been trained during his residency that explosive shock waves can cause internal trauma even if no shrapnel is present.
Phi Beta Iota: We count exactly four apparently wounded in these photos. FOUR.
“In the end, we only saw a few minor injuries,” Feins says, “But I have a feeling that some patients were taken straight from the ambulances to the operating theater. I was told we had four, very busy operating theaters today.”
Tell others please — Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The Nation — now is the time for the public to come together.
Update 1.4 There is a very good chance no one was actually injured and this was a “no real blood” false flag. Tell others. The second post below is the new master post with links to all other posts.
Update 1.3 to add focus on collapse of corrupt media, bloggers rule plus prediction: USA will lose freedom of speech and freedom of assembly next, town by town. Oathkeepers and bloggers are all that stand between American the Beautiful and practical tyranny.
In the compelling video below, direct manipuatlion of NBC footage is shown, and one of the alleged wounded is identified as a known double amputee being used as an actor to fake a new double amputation.
Phi Beta Iota: It is now known that bomb-sniffing dogs were all over the event and should have, would have, “alerted” on a couple of homemade bombs. The government stories being replayed by the media are simply not credible. There has been no grid plot, no showing of where every victim was, nor have the actual victims, their limbs, and the scrap metal produced. It is now highly likely that this was a staged event in two phases: explosions, prepared staged wounded, perhaps a few innocent by-standers also killed or wounded; and then a second stage, at an Israeli-controlled hospital, of fabricating the alleged treatment of actors as if it were real. All signs point to this being a totally controlled, totally manufactured event. The extraordinary number of amputees claimed, in contrast to the very limited number of those killed and wounded (none amputated) by past pressure cooker bombs, appears to result directly from one bright idea (use real amputees to fake new amputees) carried to excess. The below YouTube has not been validated — it merely provides addition grounds for public concern about the lack of a coherent credible narrative for the Boston event. As of today we have not found photographs of more than 10 alleged victims, and there are no photographs of victims at the hospital or interviews with victims after the fact.
In my view history is going to condemn the Obama Administration as one of the most destructive in the country's history for three reasons: Its disregard for personal privacy, with the resultant surveillance state we now have; its absolute attempt to stop whistle blowers from revealing the corruption and incompetence that is so rife in our government; and its complete unwillingness to hold villains accountable if they are big and rich. ! The combination of these three things is destroying people's faith in the American system, as poll after poll makes clear.
When Thomas Drake, then an official at the National Security Agency, realized that the agency’s decision to shut down an internal data analysis program and instead outsource the project to a private contractor provided the government with less effective analysis at much higher cost, he tried to do something about it. Drake’s decision to join three other whistleblowers in asking the agency’s inspector general to investigate ultimately made him the target of a leak investigation that tore his life apart.
In 2005, the inspector general of the Department of Defense, of which NSA is a part, confirmed the whistleblowers’ accusations of waste, fraud and security risk.
Earlier this year, former NSA Director Michael Hayden even conceded that TrailBlazer, the program for which the NSA paid over $1 billion to the Science Applications International Corporation, had failed. The agency, after killing its own program (called ThinThread) ‘outsourced how we gathered other people’s communications,” he said in response to a question from investigative journalist Tim Shorrock. ‘And that was a bridge too far for industry. We tried a moonshot, and it failed.”
Nevertheless, Drake’s efforts to expose that waste and abuse would ultimately lead to his being charged under the 1917 Espionage Act – a law intended for the prosecution of spies, not whistleblowers.
Drake, a subject of a new documentary, War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State, could have been put away for the rest of his life. ‘Speaking truth to power is now a criminal act,” Drake told filmmaker Robert Greenwald.
The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation
Michel Chossudovsky (Editor)
I-Book No. 3, January 25 2012
Global Research’s Online Interactive I-Book Reader brings together, in the form of chapters, a collection of Global Research feature articles and videos, including debate and analysis, on a broad theme or subject matter.
In this Interactive Online I-Book we bring to the attention of our readers an important collection of articles, reports and video material on the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe and its impacts (scroll down for the Table of Contents).
GlassKeys at 6:02 AM April 20, 2013 Perhaps this is a giant blinking neon sign that says “we longer trust corporate news”.You have all done such a bang up job: A) Exposing the lies that led us to the Gulf War B) Holding government officials' feet to the fire when torture becomes official policy. C) Ignoring the “Occupy” movement for months until it was impossible to do so, then failing to report why no bankers go to jail for defrauding the public. D) Totally failing to hold President Obama accountible for extending the Patriot Act, not closing Guantanamo, using signing statements when he promised not to. IE all campain promises he has broken . E) Ignoring massive abuses of civil liberties and wastes of money by the TSA and the DHS. F) Ignoring the politicians that back increasing H1B visas, whilst millions are still unemployed.I could go on, but you have to cover important news like Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga's new meat dress.
Last night, the city of Boston, Massachusetts and some surrounding suburbs shut down. The only people on the streets were heavily armed police and military. Most businesses closed, many hospitals closed, and people were ordered to stay in their homes. Why? Because a 19-year-old terror suspect was running from police, and maybe had guns or bombs with him.
I saw an incredible lack of concern about this, both from locals and from people watching elsewhere in the US. Sure, declaring martial law in a city is inconvenient, and does horrible damage to civil liberties, but there’s a terrorist out there! He killed people, and he could kill more people! Staying in our homes keeps us safe.
Noticed today as comment on Boston bombings: Social media spirals out of control