Boston/Iraq bombings.

The US reporting by the BBC is wall to wall, live and full to brimming with close up shots of injuries, endless shots of the injured accompanied with numerous interviews with security consultants keen to engineer the terrorist agenda. The same is true of Sky, RT, al-Jazeera and print and other TV media. There is no coverage at all of the situation in Iraq bar a few lazy, innacurate and badly written print reports on a few newspaper websites.

White blood, excellent quality, best price.

Today, a number of bombs exploded in Boston, US. killing two and injuring more than 50. On the same day, 18 bombs killed 32 Iraqi's and injured many hundreds all across Iraq. The Iraq bombings are far more serious than those that have occured in Boston.

The US reporting by the BBC is wall to wall, live and full to brimming with close up shots of injuries, endless shots of the injured accompanied with numerous interviews with security consultants keen to engineer the terrorist agenda. The same is true of Sky, RT, al-Jazeera and print and other TV media. There is no coverage at all of the situation in Iraq bar a few lazy, innacurate and badly written print reports on a few newspaper websites.

What is the difference between these attacks and what is the thing that differentiates the reporting?

The difference is this.

In Iraq, there is no media system available to beam these attacks live to the world in realtime along with stills, video clips, interviews and helicopter shots of the general view. There are no security consultants keen to exploit the atrocity for profit and there are no journalists keen to seek fame and fortune by syndicating their talents. Copyright content does not exist so exclusive licences cannot be offered and syndicated for profit among an affiliate system of profitable news companies keen to pay for good dramatic packages. Repeat syndication and licences cannot be offered so no profits are available to be had by selling this content to the rest of the world. In addition, the Iraqi people are not given to excessive displays of hysteria so don't make good subjects for panic shots and good audio. When an atrocity occurs, the Iraqi people do not have a Presidential system of government that can respond in real time to requests for media interviews and photo-opportunities, all within hours of the real-time event from happening.

Iraq do not have a cult cadre of political journalists whose purpose in life is to engineer conflict and disunity to facilitate war and conflict on behalf of their governments.

Iraq is not a free-market dictatorship in which blood and gore is most valuable if it happens to be white.

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not islamic, but right wing gun nuts?

15.04.2013 23:40

bombs in dustbins are not the hallmark of islamic jihadists.
im betting on some kind of right wing militia group or individual.

curious

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prob gov

16.04.2013 01:14

Did it then blame it in pro gun people. Give em moer leeway to ban em.

dirtytricks dept

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False Flag ?

16.04.2013 06:45

This has the hallmarks of a classic US/UK false flag attack like 7/7 and 9/11. The Boston marathon has massive security with hundreds of CCTV cameras and yet we are supposed to believe that some 'terrorists' were able to stroll in and plant bombs right next to the course ?

Yeah right !

How convenient that a news camera was there and pointed at the exact spot of the explosion !

not important

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False Flag ? _ almost certainly

16.04.2013 07:30

The evidence is already coming in.

CCTV in the local street "not available" according to the police. (same as London bombings, same as Madrid bombings)

FBI announce hunt for "dark skinned or black Saudi man" less than 20 minutes after explosion. (same as 9/11)

Two men of military build and demeanour seen near site of explosion less than 30 minutes before it goes off. (same as Madrid bombings)

Rubbish bins on other parts of the route removed before marathon but these two left in place

Annemarie Powell, daughter of former Secretary of State Colin Powell pulls out of race day before after meeting her brother for unscheduled lunch. (numerous similarities with 9/11 and London bombings)

US 'Security Consulting' firm Pacific Solutions is hired by the City of Boston Mayor's office to undertake a drill less than 24 hours before the race that simulates "a terrorist attack using bombs planted on the race route" (exactly what they did on 7/7)

Expect new laws from Obama being announced in the next few days to further tighten the grip of the Federal government on the population.

Dave

Boston atrocities

16.04.2013 07:37

No-one knows what the situation is with the Boston atrocities yet, but, biased as media reporting of such atrocities is, it 's important to remember they're still atrocities (and no thanks for the repulsive picture btw - we already know what violence looks like).

Speaking of "lazy, innacurate and badly written" reports however, this piece says "in Iraq... there are no security consultants keen to exploit the atrocity for profit" - in Iraq there are THOUSANDS of security consultants constantly milking the bombings etc for massive profit

Libertarian socialist

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False Flag comments hidden, no surprise on Indymedia

16.04.2013 08:39

Well what a shock, once again Indymedia moderators bow to their masters and hide posts and/or comments that show the evidence of the false flag nature of this attack.

This self proclaimed voice for the voiceless was all too ready to hide reports of evidence concerning the CIA/Mossad attacks on the New York Twin Towers and Pentagon, the clear details of how Flight 93 was shot down on the orders of Dick Cheney and the frame up of some innocent Saudi citizens.

This is the same Indymedia that refused to publish pictures of the Photoshop CCTV images of the 'London 7/7 bombers' despite the 100% truth of them, that hid comments about the 'suicide bombers' buying return tickets on the day, hid posts showing how one of the bombers had just booked a family holiday two weeks before the attack, refused to allow discussion of the Israeli ambassador being warned of the attack in advance and deleted a post that named the Security Service agents involved.

I'm not sure why I even bothered to post the first time, I might have known what would happen.
I hope in the years to come when the 'Brave New World' can no longer be resisted the moderators here will be able to explain why they contributed nothing to the fight.

Dave

They're all Fascists

16.04.2013 17:03

Whether it's Nazis, Jihadis or false-flag, in Europe, the USA or Iraq, they're all Fascists

Anti-Fascist

Whatever the position...

16.04.2013 17:20

..take down this picture. It is intrusive, unnecesary and traumatic for all of us.

This is better.

16.04.2013 18:04

Sterile picture without blood or gore. No offence possible.

This is a better picture.

It doesn't show any blood or injuries and sterilises the viewers attention span. There is no way to take offence at this picture.

It is completely benign.

Anonymous.

Take down the picture

16.04.2013 20:15

I think Indymedia users are politically sophisticated enough to already have pretty a good handle on issues like opposition to war without actually having to see graphic atrocity pictures.

Most of us strongly, in most cases actively, opposed the Gulf Wars without needing to see all the gore. Credit radicals with a bit of intelligence

Jean

not very nice to the victims or their families

16.04.2013 20:34

.....to splash their picture all over the internet like this author has.

plus, they are bitching about iraq or something, about how the western media dont pin up pictures of iraq bombs because of......... "white flesh is more valuable?"

WTF????????????!

Is it actually possible to get more racist?

Just in case you really are that ignorant...........
The reason that the story is plastered all over the western media is because it happened on the homeland. It doesn't matter what colour the victims are, if they were all brown, it would still be plastered all over the media, because it happened on the homeland. Want proof? a load of white soliders get killed in iraq and it aint plastered all over the media to this extent

So quit your racist bullshit trying to stir up racist feelings

Geddit?

getout

Hmmmm.

16.04.2013 20:54

"I think Indymedia users are politically sophisticated enough to already have pretty a good handle on issues like opposition to war without actually having to see graphic atrocity pictures. Most of us strongly, in most cases actively, opposed the Gulf Wars without needing to see all the gore. Credit radicals with a bit of intelligence"

I took the picture away and read the sentiment of the words again.

They weren't as strong. In fact, they became completely benign.

If you are who you claim you are, that at least would have been abundantly clear.

Mike

Grrrr!

16.04.2013 20:58

"Just in case you really are that ignorant...........The reason that the story is plastered all over the western media is because it happened on the homeland. It doesn't matter what colour the victims are, if they were all brown, it would still be plastered all over the media, because it happened on the homeland. Want proof? a load of white soliders get killed in iraq and it aint plastered all over the media to this extent So quit your racist bullshit trying to stir up racist feelings. Geddit?"

I live in England. America is not our homeland.

I don't need to see it broadcast as though it happened in my own town.

Geddit?

Mike

mike the man without a remote

17.04.2013 01:30

I dont need to constantly see east enders because i dont love in london

My solution is to turn tv off or change channel
I've had to do this for many many years
Im sure you can manage same for a few days without whining about how difficult it is

getout

this is not the USA

17.04.2013 09:01

' Get Out: 'The fact that the British media prioritises US lives over those of other countries particularly the countries where British forces invade and occupy is a valid complaint. Your comment on UK Indymedia that the atrocity in Boston occurred in 'the Homeland' is pretty dumb whichever way you look at it.

geography

Go back to bed.

17.04.2013 09:13

" My solution is to turn tv off or change channel
I've had to do this for many many years
Im sure you can manage same for a few days without whining about how difficult it is"

I would like to turn my TV off and just ignore but you see I have to pay for it. Im not going to be told to stop using something I have to pay for.

The BBC is wrong...and I am right.

Its coverage of the Boston Bombings was not objective and even worse, was dripping with ethnic centrist bias towards white Americans. The BBC's coverage of news in the US is entirely different from its reporting elsewhere in the world.

This bias should not be funded from the public purse. We should not be forced to pay for what is clearly politically sponsored purification of the news.

Mike

market forces

17.04.2013 16:39

maybe you should write a letter to the bbc, or apply for a job there so that you can get involved witht decision making process of how they do the news.

Personally, i think if they didn't show what was going on the US, and just showed what was happening in iraq to great lengths, people would just switch over to Sky News instead......... because no one is interested in what is happening in iraq to any great length.

The BBC gives the people what they want. If they didn't, everyone would switch over to a different service who gave them what they want instead.

And what people dont want, is racism towards white people.

What "You" want is not necessarily what the statistical majority want.
deal with it.

getout

Garbage choices.

17.04.2013 18:56

"maybe you should write a letter to the bbc, or apply for a job there so that you can get involved witht decision making process of how they do the news."

I don't need to do that because I pay people to do that. I pay them a couple hundred thousand pounds per year to do that job. Why on earth would I pay them that amount of money only to have to go through the tiresome palava of getting up each morning to go and do their jobs for them? Would you do that? No you wouldn't.

"Personally, i think if they didn't show what was going on the US, and just showed what was happening in iraq to great lengths, people would just switch over to Sky News instead......... because no one is interested in what is happening in iraq to any great length."

Don't willfully misundertand me. I am not saying that it isn't news. I am saying that it isn't important news as far as we here in the UK are concerned. The BBC reported this as one long newsflash over the course of about 22-28 hours. All other news was relegated in favour of this "Breaking News from America". They did this because an American life is clearly more important to the world than, say, the life of an Iraqi. This is how the BBC think. Nobody except the BBC knows why!

"The BBC gives the people what they want. If they didn't, everyone would switch over to a different service who gave them what they want instead."

No. The BBC is more concerned with giving the people what the BBC wants.

"And what people dont want, is racism towards white people."

But that is exactly what the BBC is giving us. A white American is worth more than a black Iraqi. If it weren't true, the BBC wouldn't behave in the way that it has, and this article would never have been published.

"What "You" want is not necessarily what the statistical majority want. deal with it."

But what "I" want is of huge importance to the BBC. Not a day goes by in which they are not asking for "my" view, appealing for free-use of "my" pictures, requesting free use of "my" video for their web pages and news broadcasts, incessantly seeking "my" opinion on the critical topic of the day. Everything they publish demands the addition of "my" view. What "I" believe is the cornerstone of the entire output of the BBC, without it, they have no product.

It is bizaare that you would say that the BBC does not care about little old me, are you a Communist?

I am afraid you need to bone up on reality fella.

Mike

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