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Governor Cuomo says Boston bombing part of 'new normal'

Colin Campbell
Politicker
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:41 UTC
Police state
© Getty
Cambridge, Massachusetts earlier today.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have canceled his morning radio appearance today in response to the ongoing manhunt for a suspect involved in Monday's deadly bombing attack on the Boston Marathon, but another top New York official, Governor Andrew Cuomo, scheduled his own radio interview on The Capitol Pressroom soon after. Mr. Cuomo directly addressed the high-profile situation in the Bay State by employing a phrase he previously used to describe climate change in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: "the new normal."

"It's a terrible situation in Boston. And, unfortunately, ... one gets the sense that this is more reflective of the 'new normal,' if you will," he explained. "So much of society is changing so rapidly. We talk about a 'new normal' when it comes to climate change and adjusting to a change in the weather patterns. 'New normal' when it comes to public security in a post-9/11 world. Where these random acts of violence, which at one time were implausible, now seem all-too-frequent."
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Stormtrooper

Massive manhunt drags on; anxiety grips city - but where is the evidence?

Pete Williams, Richard Esposito, Michael Isikoff & Tracy Connor
CNBC.com
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:08 UTC
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A Black Hawk searches above the locked down Watertown neighborhood.
More than half a day after a bloody rampage that ended with his accomplice brother dead, Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev eluded a massive manhunt that has put the city and surrounding suburbs on total lockdown.

Anxiety was rising as SWAT teams and troops hunted door to door for the fugitive - and for more bombs - with more than a million people told to hunker down behind locked doors. Friday night's scheduled Red Sox and Bruins games and Big Apple Circus performance were canceled. Amtrak service between Boston and New York was suspended.

Tsarnaev, 19, remained on the lam hours after he and brother, Tamerlan, 26, made a desperate effort to flee the city following the FBI's release of their photos Thursday evening.

They killed a campus security officer, carjacked a man, and led police on a wild chase that ended in a firefight in which more than 200 rounds were exchanged, police said. The older brother, who had a bomb strapped to his body, was killed but the younger one escaped, though he may have been wounded, law enforcement sources said.
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Video

A Noble Lie: The Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995


YouTube
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:20 UTC
This is the first feature length documentary to examine the Oklahoma City bombing in the light of new and suppressed evidence that proves the official story to be false and that Timothy McVeigh was not the sole perpetrator on that terrible April 19th, 1995.

Documentary available for purchase here.

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Bulb

Suspects' aunt gives blistering interview and suggests that her nephews were set up

Brett LoGiurato
Business Insider
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:56 UTC
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© CNN
A Toronto woman who identified herself as the Boston Marathon bombings suspects' aunt suggested to reporters Friday afternoon that her nephews had been set up.

"All these pictures are on the computer," Maret Tsarnaeva told reporters in a press conference that was aired by CNN.

"I have to see them. You have to have a motive first - something that would drive you to some actions. They cannot go crazy or mad or sick just for one day. As far as I know, they are fine."

"I don't trust the FBI," she added. "Show me evidence."

She was asked who she thinks set them up.

"Whoever needs this," she said, shrugging. "Whoever is looking for those who need to be blamed for these attacks."

That was a different take from the one expressed by an uncle of the suspects who spoke with reporters in an angry press conference earlier Friday. Ruslan Tsarni called both of the suspects "losers," and he urged Dzhokar to turn himself in.

"What I think was behind it: Being losers," he said.

Here's the video of the suspects' aunt with reporters
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Newspaper

Boston bomb suspect's dad tells him to surrender, thinks his sons were "set up"

Bianna Golodryga and Christina Ng
ABCNews
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:38 UTC
Anzor Tsaraev
© Associated Press
The father of Boston bomb suspects, Anzor Tsaraev reacts as he talks to the media about his sons, in his home in the Russian city of Makhachkala, April 19, 2013
The father of a suspected Boston Marathon bomber called on his son today to give up peacefully, but warned the U.S. that if his son is killed "all hell will break loose."

Anzor Tsarnaev spoke to ABC News from his home in the Russian city of Makhachkala as Boston police carried out an intense dragnet for his son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, survived a running gun battle with police during the night that left an MIT security officer dead and a Boston cop badly wounded. His older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout.

The father said he spoke to his sons by phone earlier this week. "We talked about the bombing. I was worried about them," Anzor Tsarnaev said.

He said his sons reassured him, saying, "Everything is good, Daddy. Everything is very good."
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Question

What is a 'false flag' attack, and what does Boston have to do with this?

Philip Bump
Atlantic Wire
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:17 UTC

Comment: The following article is a debunking effort. What is important is the fact that the very idea of a False Flag Attack has become so prevalent among the people that the MSM feels that it must address it.


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During the Boston Police Department's final press conference of a confounding and deadly day, someone in the audience asked if Monday's bombing was a "false flag" attack. We can both explain and answer that question.


The questioner - who appears to be Dan Bidondi, a radio host for InfoWars - asked:
Why were the loud speakers telling people in the audience to be calm moments before the bombs went off? Is this another false flag staged attack to take our civil liberties and promote homeland security while sticking their hands down our pants on the streets?
To which Governor Deval Patrick, at the mic to field questions, flatly responded:
No.
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Magnify

What the failure on background checks tells us about Washington

Chris Cillizza
Washington Post
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:11 UTC
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The failure of an amendment to expand background checks on gun purchases - the signature piece of a legislative package backed by the White House to curb gun violence - ends a journey that began in late December when 20 children and six adults were murdered in Newtown, Connecticut.

Studying the path from Newtown to the vote on the amendment offered by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) that came up short of the 60 votes it needed is an instructive exercise in how Washington works.

We've spent a lot of time thinking about what the failure of the background checks compromise means. Our lessons learned are below.
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Megaphone

Syria's Assad warns West over Qaeda, says defeat of his regime 'not an option'


Hurriyet Daily News
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:57 UTC
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President Bashar al-Assad warned on April 17 the West that it will pay a heavy price for its alleged support of Al-Qaeda in Syria and said his regime's defeat is not an option.

Assad, whose regime has been battling an uprising since March 2011, reiterated in an interview with official television Al-Ikhbariya his long-held claim that the roots of Syria's conflict lie in a foreign-backed conspiracy.

He also warned the conflict could spill over into Jordan, and that there would be no dialogue with the exiled opposition.

"The West has paid heavily for funding Al-Qaeda in its early stages in Afghanistan. Today it is doing the same in Syria, Libya and other places, and will pay a heavy price in the heart of Europe and the United States," Assad said.

Last week, the jihadist rebel group Al-Nusra Front pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, who had previously urged rebels to establish an Islamic state in Syria.
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Che Guevara

Iran slams innocent killings anywhere: Leader


PressTV
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:53 UTC
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Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei leads prayers after a meeting with Army commanders in Tehran on April 17, 2013.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Islamic Republic condemns the death of innocents in the US or anywhere else in the world.
"Pursuant to Islamic logic, the Islamic Republic of Iran opposes any blast or the killing of innocents be it in Boston in the US or Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria and condemns it," Ayatollah Khamenei told a group of Army commanders on Wednesday.
"The US and other so-called human rights advocates remain silent on the massacre of innocents in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, but they cause a ruckus after a few blasts in the United States," the Leader stated.
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Eye 2

Video: Israeli soldiers blindfold and arrest young boy in Hebron

Maureen Clare Murphy
Electronic Intifada
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:46 UTC

A two-minute video uploaded to YouTube yesterday by the International Solidarity Movement shows a blindfolded Palestinian boy being led away by two heavily-armed Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron that same day.

Israeli soldiers demand to see the passports of internationals observing the arrest of the child. The soldiers tear the passports from the internationals' hands and soon they are flanked by persons who appear to be Jewish settlers.

"Go today!" a soldier repeatedly shouts at the woman holding the video camera. A man, presumably a settler, approaches and the woman asks the soldier, "Who is this man?" The man answers in English with a North American accent, "Who are you? I live here."

Another man in civilian clothes carrying a large gun approaches the woman in an aggressive manner. Soon more settlers come to the scene, as if they were backing up the Israeli army.

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© Flickr
Human rights volunteers say the boy, 14, was arrested by Israeli soldiers at his home
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