The Boston Baked Bombing Game!

As we all know (or should), the trial of the Boston Baked Bomber, Joker Tsarnaev, is underway in Boston and he is as guilty as sin. We know this because his own lawyers said he was guilty in their opening statement last week. If his government appointed attorneys say he is guilty then that's good enough for me. Regardless that one of his lawyers said before the trial started that the surveillance video of Joker dropping the pressure cooker bomb laden backpack on the ground didn't exist, the prosecution introduced it in the trial! Apparently, the rule of discovery doesn't exist for this trial or his lawyers are idiots; or, of course, both. Watch the video below and you see Joker with the backpack and then he doesn't have it.

Why, that cocksucking little Chechen bastard! But, wait! Like so many things related to the Boston bombing, there is an anomaly. Joker's backpack is light in color, but the FBI will go to it's grave saying the bomb backpacks were black. Well, if the FBI says the backpacks were both black, then that's good enough for me! As Americans, we should know better than to use any critical thinking skills. I mean, really! So, now it's time to look at just a few more of these odd anomalies (for looking at them all would take weeks to create and days to read and as Americans, the last thing we want to do is read for days). Let us play the Boston Baked Bombing game! It's easy, but, I must warn you, it is also ultimately depressing.

The bombs have been described as very powerful. Look, depending on the source, the bombs injured anywhere from 170 to 250 people and killed 3 people. How then can we fathom that the second bomb (the one planted by Joker) couldn't even knock over plastic cups on a table only 10 feet away?

You can see the plastic cups on the table to the left of the woman in red.

Here are the same plastic cups on the same table in the same position after the explosion.

Let's blame it on the odd happenstance of air currents and that flying shrapnel and people never hit the table so we can sleep better at night. Along those same lines, an even stranger occurrence happened at the first bomb site. It involved two wooden benches situated about 25 feet from the blast.



This photo was taken about 10 seconds after the first blast, they look pretty good.



The same wooden benches in a photo taken about 30 minutes later and they're smashed to pieces.

I'm sure that some delayed, uhm, er, there's a property in physics that, uhm, and oh just fucking forget it. Joker's guilty, just go back to sleep. Now, it's time to move on to blood. We see blood all the time. In movies, video games, television and even theatre (especially if you go see a production of Titus Andronicus). Here are 2 rather nearly insane examples of blood, both at the first bombing site. Let's start with the man. For nearly 20 seconds after the blast we see this man standing with his wife and daughter as they react to what just happened. They are about 25 feet away from the blast and when the strange second engulfing smoke cloud comes along, they disappear. Then we see the man lying prone in front of a candy store and it's been about a minute since the explosion.

He is obviously in some pain, but as you can see, there is no blood below his raised leg.

A few seconds later there is blood below his leg.

About a half-a-minute later, there's blood all over the place, despite the tourniquet.

What the hell? He was standing with no blood and then he was lying down with no blood and then there is blood all over the place. But, he wasn't the only one. There were many others with this long delayed sudden bleeding. Let's look at one more: a poor, helpless old lady. In this first picture, she is sitting on the sidewalk about 10 feet away from the blast and about 6 seconds afterward. She is obviously in shock, but there is no blood except for a trickle on her right knee and then...well, by now, you can probably guess.

Here she is about 5 minutes later. What the hell indeed? Not a mark on her in those places before and then she looks like she's been in an explosion...oh, that's right!

I don't know about you, but when I cut myself it starts bleeding right away and if it is a real bad cut it bleeds like a son of bitch, especially on the head. I don't know if I can sleep well at night after this part of the game, but no matter, the government's story is the correct one. Why would they lie? Finally, it's a gallery of the effects of both black backpack bombs: shredded pants, but no blood. Well, in later pictures, of course, we see them with blood all over, but in the immediate aftermath, the bombs have shredded their pants, although modestly leaving the underwear untouched. Odd bombs to be sure. Sending the shrapnel no higher than the waist most of the time, unless one was sitting down, of course. And this is how the game ends. You're left to figure it out and to realize that there are no winners here. There is something wrong here, to be sure, and it will probably never be addressed except on those cwazy conspiracy sites, which is a shame. This was a tragedy, but mixed in with this tragedy were some very dark underpinnings of time, space and the belief of one's own eyes to look at it.

My thanks to Peekay for inspiring this article

All photos copied under Fair Use
 

JOHN LENNON - A Conspiracy Of Silence

©2010 by Rod Harrel

Author's Note: This is the original script for the documentary of the same (see link to video below).  

            Thirty years later there remains the accepted history of John Lennon’s death: a lone nut Beatle fan gunned down the pop culture hero. The songs, the tributes, the articles, the videos rarely mentioned the killer, and when they do, he was always alone. Or, perhaps, he did have company, but it was in the form of his demons, his misconceptions of Christianity, or his craving for infamy. A lone nut, a fan no less, had gunned down our dear, beloved, ex-Beatle John. It would seem all sewn up, except for what Sean Lennon said in 1998.

 

            “He was a countercultural revolutionary, and the government takes that shit really seriously historically,” Sean Lennon said of his father’s death. “He was dangerous to the government…These pacifist revolutionaries are historically killed by the government, and anybody who thinks that Mark Chapman was just some crazy guy who killed my dad for his personal interests is insane, I think, or very naïve, or hasn’t thought about it clearly. It was in the best interests of the United States to have my dad killed, definitely. And, you know, that worked against them, to be honest, because once he died his powers grew. So, I mean, fuck them. They didn’t get what they wanted.”1

Photo: Bob Gruen

The quote, from an interview, was an amazing thing to see in print: Sean intuitively lays out the groundwork for further investigation of his father’s death. Unfortunately, perhaps predictably, less than two weeks after the interview there was some serious backpedaling by Sean. Older half-brother, Julian Lennon, had publicly chastised Sean, saying that his remarks were “ill-advised” and that “if you’re going to say something like that, you need to have your facts.” Through a spokesman, Sean said that he regretted saying what he did immediately after the interview.2 In the world of celebrity, the word regret is apparently a synonym for “sorry that I told the truth.” All that is left is a brotherly debate, in public no less.

            Incredibly, in the conspiracy-strewn landscape of American pop culture, the Lennon brothers’ statements represent only the second public contradiction of the accepted history their father’s assassination. Only Fenton Bresler’s groundbreaking 1989 book, Who Killed John Lennon? stands as the first. The book caused nary a ripple in the mainstream media, the press corps, America’s fourth estate.

OCCUPY PORTLAND - Day 1 - new video documentary

It was certainly an interesting day in the annuals of marches in Portland. The crowd, which I estimated to be near 10,000 at one point, was, how can I say, cordial. Of course, as you will see in this short documentary, there are many underlying causes to bring out an overnight camp out in downtown Portland. I mean, Portland! Home of the sit-lie ordinance among others, and here the mayor let's them stay overnight, but gotta be out of there by 9am! What will happen next? What do you think? Portland has not seen a mass occupation of property in a long, long time.

So far, as of Day 5, Occupy Portland continues to occupy two downtown parks. The Portland Marathon went off without a hitch, despite some shrill interweb postings predetermining what the protesters would do to their marathon. The police are now trying to get Main St. between the parks reopened.

I hope you enjoy and share this video.

http://youtu.be/hVjTpOAOZwk

SHOOTING ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET - PART 3

WARNING: bad language ahead!

I love film making!!!

First, I should point out that I learned my film editing chops with film. It was one of my favorite parts of the process being tactile and real and non-linear. Then, along came video with its original linear or it's the highway attitude. And then, digital, sorta like film, sorta like video. And it is non-linear. However, digital comes with a large caveat: the computer. It's not like film, which you can actually hang your "clips" on the wall.