Explosions at Boston Marathon
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- GeorgesIV0
- ooops dropped the link
(sorry daily mail)
http://www.dailymail…GeorgesIV - maybe just a Harlem Shake fan?Krassy
- shoppedset
- sadfly it's not, imagine a future terrorist driving with his friend who had a terrorista plate, inception lolGeorgesIV
- look at it. it looks like a bad pshop jobbie.prophetone
- ooops dropped the link
- detritus0
So this is more a tale of nihilistic rich kids trying to get their kicks?
I wonder how ths'll abut with people's sense of what defines a 'terrorist'.
Actually, pretty much describes Bin Laden.
Hmmm...
Perhaps we need to wage a war not against terror but rather privilege and inheritance?
I wonder how warmly the Republicans and Conservatives of the world would embrace that?
- oey0
no way!
everybody knows the brothers did it!
- ZOOP0
Perplexed
While I strongly prefer to believe that the Boston incident was the act of two lone radicals, this case is still far too dynamic to conclude much of anything for certain. The one person who knows the most has a hole in his throat and immediately questioned while under sedation. Eyewitness and official reports conflict at times, and the accuracy of either, historically speaking, can vary greatly.
A well established timeline, public and civil photos/video, and the physical evidence are the keys to finding the truth. Too much conjecture and outright hoaxes cloud the focus.
Personally I'm curious about the reddit suspect that wound up in a river, and the ice pick weed sprinkle triple homicide. The latter will take time, being a cold case.
I'm going out on a limb here.... the pope did it.
- yurimon0
I'm surprised they didnt arrest everyone who sings along to "Con Los Terroristas" on youtube and does the harlem shake.
- whatthefunk0
- Still assholes that think this was a hoax, and he lost his legs in the war lmfao.CygnusZero4
- ZOOP0
Father of Chechen Killed by FBI Says His Son Was Executed to “Shut Him Up”
“We have confirmed through senior sources within the FBI that Ibragim was indeed unarmed when he was shot seven times in the head, what appear to be even in the back of the head,”
- if alarm bells aren't going in the heads of the 'official story is truth' brigade, they never will.set
- ZOOP0
Remember Sunil Tripathy, the original reddit "suspect"?
Also remember, in his last post on FB, he proclaimed innocence and said he was on his way to the police station...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/2…
No updates in over a month. Some claim he resembles Dzhokhar.Yesterday...
Saudi Boston Bombing Victim Speaks Out for First TimeAbdulrahman Ali Alharbi: "I’ve been trying to just forget it and all these stuff. ... But I couldn’t forget. I am double injured from the explosion, then from the media. So, it’s not easy to forget. Because you just going to write my name and search about [me], you are going to think that I am from al-Qaeda and, like, terrible things."
http://www.democracynow.org/2013…4chan and reddit may have had more information on the Boston attack, but QBN had more accurate information, even with the bleed-over. R.I.P. Sunil
- Oh, and this http://www.nypost.co…ZOOP
- Russia and Saudi Arabia. On 911 I saw for the one and only time reports that Russia, Germany and Israel all heard chatter the day before.ZOOP
- chatter of an imminent attack on the U.S. on the previous day...
fucked we areZOOP
- utopian0
- he's so dreamyCygnusZero4
- Fucking hipsters man!kgvs72
- so dreamy, right?Gucci
- Wasn't he in Mars Volta?mg33
- newuser0
- Jonas Brothers.newuser
- < terrorists?monospaced
- They ruined more ears than the boston bombers thats for sure.CygnusZero4
- artists?kingsteven
- newuser0
Look at the comments!
http://www.rollingstone.com/cult…- Manson was on the cover in 1970. This isn't new.bulletfactory
- yupmoldero
- aliastime0
A disgustingly smart move by RS.
- nb0
"We're Americans! We only want to see him on the TV!"
- benfal990
Rolling $tone
- nb0
^ Whoa, whoa. I was joking, in order to make a point:
It is interesting how quickly a general outrage forms over this magazine cover while there is virtually zero outrage over endless television news cycles dedicated to this event.
Clearly, Rolling Stone's intent was to stir up controversy. We can at least hope that their intent was to get people to read the article, which I'm sure they feel is an important issue that needs to be discussed in a rational manner.
But, let's say this is just a ploy to sell magazines. Let's assume for a moment that it's completely tactless, and that even the editors at Rolling Stone are entirely doing it for the money.
If that were true, it would mean simply that they have been brought down to the level of television news. The news broadcasts that you see are not meant to inform you of anything. They'll show images of dying people, images of scared people, interviews with scared and affected bystanders. They'll discuss how this affects all Americans, and remind you that you should be afraid, too. And they'll add dramatic music and graphics. Read that again: THEY ADD IN DRAMATIC MUSIC AND GRAPHICS. They'll tell you to go online and add your comments. They'll brainstorm for the best hashtag to draw in an audience from the internet. And they'll remind you that they will "stay with the story" and give you every gory detail as it develops. "Follow us on Facebook and Twitter" so you don't miss a single moment of the excitement.
The television news is doing it ENTIRELY to attract viewers, to keep people glued to their TV or their computer. It is the number one goal of television news. It is entertainment for a people who are so desensitized of violent images, that they are now only afraid of violence and gore that is real. Even if the actual threat to their personal safety is extremely low. Very few aspects of the story are news. The television fills it's hours with mostly commentary and discussions that are designed to stir up an emotional response and hold your attention.
Sure, Rolling Stone put his image on the cover. Maybe they did it for the wrong reasons, it's hard to know. But it's interesting how the majority reacts with outrage while at the same time ignoring what is happening every single day on their TV.
- News coverage is different than a Rock n' Roll magazine when it comes to reporting.monospaced
- We EXPECT his face on the news, but not on Rolling Stone, y'hear?monospaced
- As a TV subscriber, I can change the channel. As a Rolling Stone subscriber, I'm forced to have his face on the cover.monospaced
- Oh, Rolling Stone has been doing political commentary and reporting on current events since the 1970s..nb
- http://en.wikipedia.…nb
- Also, you can throw away the cover or the whole magazine. You can't argue that you're being forced to look at it.nb
- Yes, of course. But it's NOT the same as TV News, which you're comparing it to!monospaced
- I'm suggesting that if they are doing it for the money, they are no worse than TV news. So why the outrage?nb
- Because people buy Rolling Stone to read about music, NOT the fucking terrorist daily newsmonospaced
- Good write up nbidentity
- Except that Rolling Stone has had political coverage in every single issue since the 70s.nb
- And plenty of Rolling Stone subscribers are interested in the political commentary that it provides.nb
- colin_s0
so, explosions go off and everyone in america flips their lid and asks "why? why us? why would this happen?"
and a magazine with a strong history of politically minded, charged reporting decides to use an associate editor in a two month investigation to possibly answer that question as close as it could be
and america then says "no! we don't want this! he's evil!" and walgreens stops selling copies.
ignorance is bliss.