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Surreal! Two distinct realities - mass media hypnosis versus reality

Connie Cook Smith
Connie Cook's Cafe
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00 UTC
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I think that 9/11 was the birth of two distinct realities emerging on Earth and beginning to separate. The mass-media/mass-hypnosis version of the world that we grew up in, and the alternative-media/_truth_-media
that's growing evermore powerful.

It all seems to be at some sort of breaking point now with Boston. There is the lynch-mob mentality there, waving flags and chanting "USA," having convicted the brothers before proof is established. And there's the alternative media with better evidence that "security forces" at the Marathon are the culprits.

And now there is evidence The Boston Globe (is this real, is it fake?) -- that the Globe sent several tweets about a "controlled explosion" that would occur shortly before it actually did. Was there a "white hat" at the Globe doing what he or she could to warn the Marathon? Is it a trickster now implicating the meda with cold and uncaring _foreknowledge_?

If these tweets below really did come from the Globe, we have arrived at two distinct realities. The truth of what's been going on against humanity for a long time, vs. the mass media lynch-mob (who have virtually executed "the terrorists" who have evidently been framed).
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Eye 1

Boston bombing is already being exploited to introduce tyranny

Brandon Smith
Activist Post
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00 UTC
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I have no personal experience in the business of false flag terrorism, but I imagine that engineering a successfully staged terror attack to be blamed on innocent or semi-innocent parties with the goal of psychologically manipulating a population requires that one also be an accomplished storyteller. It demands an avid imagination and an organized sense of foresight. And, most of all, it requires a consistency of narrative. Without consistency, the audience's ability to suspend its disbelief is damaged, and they become disconnected from the fantasy being portrayed.

If I were the "writer" behind the "story" of the Boston Marathon Bombing, I would consider my efforts an abject failure.

The narrative of the event has changed multiple times in only a few days, following a hailstorm of conflicting observations from the government and the establishment-run media. The "villain" of the original plotline was clearly meant to be "rightwing extremism" as numerous mainstream talking heads, led by federal agency inferences, began repeating the "homegrown right wing terrorist" meme everywhere. This meme was partly abandoned after the alternative media and the Liberty Movement began its own investigation, revealing a large federal presence on the scene, including military Civil Support Teams often tied to the DHS and NORTHCOM, as well as the witnesses who observed what on-scene officials called "training exercises" during the marathon. I have no doubt that these citizen investigations forced the establishment to change the direction of their crime tale, and use Plan B patsies instead. This, however, complicated the momentum of the fiction, and created even more questions.
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Question

Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Experts puzzled as hunt for terror links gleans little

Ed Pilkington
Raw Story
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:15 UTC
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Federal prosecutors are trying to piece together the complex web of influences that transformed a young man with no confirmed militant training or links, apparently acting alone with only the assistance of his younger brother, into a brutal bomber prepared to kill and maim in pursuit of a cause that remained largely unarticulated.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev has become the focal point of a global FBI investigation into whether any organised group or wider conspiracy lay behind last week's Boston Marathon bombings. The 26-year-old, who has been identified through fingerprinting as the man killed in the shootout with police in the Watertown suburb of Boston, is widely assumed to have been the mastermind of the marathon outrage, with his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev allegedly playing the role of junior partner.

Yet so far the hunt for clues as to the motivation of the Tsarnaev brothers has failed to throw up concrete evidence that they were inspired to militancy by any particular extremist cleric or politician. Nor is there any known link to any nationalist or Islamist group in the Caucasus region that they regarded as their homeland, a link which would suggest they were recruited as foot soldiers and given operational instructions to strike the Boston Marathon.

In the absence of any firm connections to inspirational leaders or terrorist groups, federal investigators and counter-terrorism experts are increasingly of the view that the brothers were acting alone. The surmise is that the elder Tsarnaev largely provided his own motivation and training through the internet.
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Jon Stewart castigates Congress for loosening insider trading law

Eric W. Dolan
Raw Story
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:05 UTC
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On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ripped Congress for weakening a recently approved law that subjected lawmakers to the same insider trading laws as every other American.

Following a scathing 60 Minutes report on the topic, Congress passed the STOCK Act in 2012 to prohibit lawmakers and their staff from trading stocks based on information they learned during congressional briefings.

Stewart renamed the bill the "No Shit Sherlock Act of 2000 and Always" last year.
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New Hampshire State Representative says Boston bombing was a government black-op

Eric W. Dolan
Raw Story
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:01 UTC
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New Hampshire state Rep. Stella Tremblay (R-Auburn) believes that Alex Jones' website Infowars has revealed the truth behind the Boston Marathon bombings.

The New Hampshire Democratic Party on Tuesday highlighted a Facebook message Tremblay left on Glenn Beck's fan page last Friday.

The message claimed the U.S. government secretly carried out the Boston attack and that the suspect who was arrested was merely a patsy. The post linked to an Alex Jones video.
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War Whore

Boston bombing lessons: Martial law doesn't work

Thomas R. Eddlem
The New American
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:47 UTC
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Only after the curfew in Watertown, Massachusetts, was lifted and alert resident David Hanberry went outside his home to get a smoke, according to news reports, did the case of the Boston Marathon bombing manhunt for suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev crack open. That was when Hanberry saw blood on the tarp of his dry-docked boat and called the police.

Up until that time, a wide assortment of local, state, and federal officials were engaged in a dragnet that essentially shut down the city of Boston, and included house-to-house searches in the neighborhoods of Watertown, Mass. and New Bedford, Mass., the latter being near where 19-year-old Russian immigrant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had enrolled in college. Tsarnaev, a Muslim from the Dagestan area of Russia that abuts Chechnya, became a U.S. citizen on September 11 of last year.

In essence, the lessons from the Boston Marathon mean that the following procedures employed in the week-long manhunt proved to be completely ineffective in apprehending Tsarnaev:
- House-to-house searches in a dragnet-style;

- Use of military-style helicopters across the state;

- Use of tanks and armored vehicles on the streets of Boston, Cambridge, Watertown, and New Bedford;

- Shutting down the city, except for limited coffee shops;

- Stopping all public transportation;

- Banning taxi service across the city of Boston; and

- Abandoning the federal Posse Comitatus law banning the use of soldiers in law enforcement.
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Bomb

Orwell does America

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:17 UTC
Welcome to the sweet abyss of an Orwellian vortex. 2013 increasingly looks like 1984.

In two previous articles, for RT and for Asia Times Online I have looked into the superimposed levels of blowback implied by the Boston bombing.

With still so many unanswered questions regarding what took place on the ground in Boston after the bombing, it's time to look at an extra, possible Top Ten list of lingering absurdities.

And this without sidestepping other unanswered crucial questions, such as why a bomb drill - organized by Craft - was going on during the marathon at which the bombing took place; and why it was vehemently denied that a bomb drill was going on.

For this current set of questions, I'm grateful for the help of Asia Times Online's Bostonian readers.
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Eye 2

Psychopath Ann Coulter: Boston suspect's widow 'ought to be in prison for wearing a hijab'

Stephen C. Webster
The Raw Story
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:13 UTC
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Appearing on Fox News Republican talk show "Hannity" Monday night, right-wing columnist Ann Coulter said she's sad that not only does she think the Boston bombing should shut down the nation's immigration reform debate, she would like to see the alleged bomber's widow in jail too, not for committing a crime but for "wearing a hijab."

"I don't care if she knew about this," Coulter said. "She ought to be in prison for wearing a hijab. This immigration policy of us, you know, assimilating immigrants into our culture isn't really working. They're assimilating us into their culture. Did she get a clitorectomy too?"

Hannity seemed momentarily puzzled at the sudden citation of female genital mutilation, stammering his reply. "I, uh, I don't know the answer to that," he said before confidently adding: "But your point is well taken."

Comment: Ann Coulter ought to be exorcised and/or entombed for being a demon.

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War Whore

Police State: Weapons of war have no place on our streets

planestrainsautomobiles
Live Leak
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:43 UTC
Boston Lockdown
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Boston Lockdown
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Comment: Say hello to the new normal - For the authoritarians and their followers it's a dream come true.

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Pirates

The FBI Boston-Chechnya charade

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:18 UTC
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The Boston bombing was major blowback. That much is certain. The question is, what level of blowback?

It could have been a covert op gone real bad. It could have been blowback from former ''freedom fighters'' - in this case ethnic Chechens - reconverted into terra-rists. It could have been straight blowback for United States foreign policy targeting Muslims, whether dispatching them to Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib or Bagram, extraordinarily renditioning them, or target assassinating them.

The FBI, predictably, is not admitting any of these three options. It sticks to a convoluted screenplay worthy of those cocaine-fueled Hollywood nights in the 1980s; a couple of bad guys who ''hate our freedoms'' because... they do.

As I've written elsewhere in a sort of preamble for this article, there are inter-galactic holes in the story of the Tsarnaev brothers. Now we also know - via their mother - that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was monitoring elder brother Tamerlan for at least five years. In a subsequent interview to CNN's Piers Morgan, the mother actually talked, significantly, about ''counseling''.
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