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Large Explosions Reported At Boston Marathon; Numerous Injuries And Casualties
North Korea's daily war bluffs may be (rightfully) ignored by the market, but an unexpected and tragic development comes out of Boston, where local media reports of two explosions and numerous injuries:
- AT LEAST 12 INJURED IN BOSTON MARATHON BLAST: BOSTON HERALD
- BOSTON BLAST SEEM CENTERED IN `TRASH CAN': BOSTON HERALD
- CNN CITES SOURCE ON REPORTS OF DEVICE AT BOSTON MANDARIN HOTEL
- AT LEAST 3 DEAD AT BOSTON MARATHON, FOX NEWS CITES SOURCE
- BOSTON POLICE SAY "SECONDARY DEVICES" ARE STILL BEING FOUND
Where the blasts occurred, via the WSJ:
What happened:
According to the NY Post there are at 12 casualties so far, although according to the Boston PD 2 are dead and 22 are hurt.
Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers in the 26.2-mile trek from Hopkinton were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts.
A federal law-enforcement source told The Post there are at least 12 dead and twice as many injured.
Law-enforcement sources said at least the first explosion occurred in the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel.
A more credible report comes from Reuters:
Two explosions hit the Boston Marathon as runners crossed the finish line on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring 23 on a day when tens of thousands of people pack the streets to watch one of the world's best known marathons.
Boston police also reported another explosion at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, which is three miles from the marathon's finishing line.
"We are not certain that these incidents are related, but we are treating them as if they are," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told a news conference.
Boston police said two people were killed and 23 injured in the explosions on the marathon scene.
Two high-level U.S. law enforcement officials said one or more bombs were responsible for the explosions.
"It sounded like a sonic boom. I haven't stopped shaking yet," said Melissa Stanley, who watched her daughter cross the finish line four minutes before the explosions.
A fireball rose from behind spectators and a row of flags, video posted on the New York Post website showed. Other pictures showed blood stains on the ground and several people knocked down.
Massachusetts General Hospital was treating 19 victims of the explosion in its emergency room, six of them in critical condition, a spokeswoman said.
Witnesses said two explosions hit as spectators were cheering on people finishing the Boston Marathon, which was first run in 1897.
Reporters in the media center heard two blasts.
Mike Mitchell of Vancouver, Canada, a runner who had finished the race, said he was looking back at the finish line and saw a "massive explosion."
Smoke rose 50 feet in the air, Mitchell said. People began running and screaming after hearing the noise, Mitchell said.
"Everybody freaked out," Mitchell said.
Ambulances, fire trucks and dozens of police vehicles converged at the finish line.
U.S. President Barack Obama was notified and directed his administration to provide whatever assistance was necessary, the White House said. Obama was being briefed by Homeland Security Adviser Lisa Monaco and other staff, the White House said.
Authorities tightened security in Washington and New York.
"Blood everywhere, victims carried out on stretchers. I saw someone lose their leg, people are crying," the Boston Globe's Steve Silva reported from the scene, the Globe said on Twitter.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators typically line the 26.2 mile race course, with the heaviest crowds near the finish line. The blasts occurred more than five hours after the start of the race, at a time when most top athletes were off the course but slower amateur marathoners were still running.
The transit agency shut down all service to the area, citing police activity.
Ambulances arrived on the scene within minutes and runners and spectators could be seen crying and consoling each other.
The Boston Marathon has been held on Patriots Day, the third Monday of April, since 1897. The event, which starts in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and ends Boston's Copley Square, attracts an estimated half-million spectators and some 20,000 participants every year.
Earlier on Monday, Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa and Kenya's Rita Jeptoo won the men's and women's events, continuing African runners' dominance in the sport.
Clip from right after explosion...fwd to 0:33...
First picture of the explosion:
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You can't take scissors away. DHS says that those are how I'm supposed to defend myself from a rogue shooter if soiling myself under a desk should fail me.
***Nobody really needs their own airplane anyway***
Well can I a least own a drone?
Clearly angry white men from the AL-NRA suicide unit.
Eric Holder will announce they have found an NRA membership card completely intact any minute...no bodies.
Our government is so busy buying ammo and subsidizing the takedown of gold and silver by private banks that they can't protect people in downtown Boston. Wasn't that goofball in Texas attacking people with an Exacto knife. I suppose they'll ban those too. Better stop packing a plastic knife in kids lunches too, while they're at it. That way they can get us all slaughtered. Fuckwits!
They need to tighten up those loose bomb control laws.
Pool,
All bombs in CT have to be register and you have to be finger printed. This will make everyone safe.
YUP. the age of arab muslim terror is over. Welcome to the era of right-wing redneck retard terrorism. Funny thing is... we're the smart ones.
we are smart enuf to stockpile weapons and ammo for SHTF day.
Why the fuck is the marathon on IRS-Tax freaking day? People are known to be pi$$ed off today anyway. Probably the work of some rich-fuck insider trading muppet.
Rednecks are better at chemistry than Asians are at math.
Look at the freakshow of clowns who manage to not blow themselves up and live long enough to be tried for manufacturing meth.
When they get pissed they could skip RDX and go straight to cooking Octogen.
What's Meth? What's RDX? What's Octogen? Should I Google for it? Or just ask Spock?
I looked it up for you ,, Octogen (aka HMX) is used to implode/compress fissionable material to create a runaway reaction...
Sorry, Octogen is basically the most powerful explosive made, short of the atom-splitting type in the Hiroshima/Nagasaki club (which it happens to be used for triggering). It has a bad rap because of the high production cost (on an industrial scale) and complex chemistry. Then last year a bunch of Iranians came up with a rather novel (and frankly redneck-like) way of making it (published in a South Korean Chemistry Journal). Compared to the stuff used in Oklahoma City (which almost killed/maimed a couple of my relatives) it is 70% more powerful-- which doesn't sound like much, but it, esp. b/c the explosive used in OKC was significantly more powerful than the shit/fertilizer/ANFO bomb that it was generally described as by the MSM (or the ANFO bomb that was used a few years later in Buenos Aires).
As unfortunate as today's events are- it is somewhere between amateur hour and small shit on the planned bombing scale, and only a "large explosion" in the dysfunctional mind of an MSM employee or teleprompter reader.
I am sure things would have been worse if a magazine clip with a capacity of over 10 cartridges had been laying on the ground somewhere.
Yep. High capacity magazine ban would have prevented this.
Guesses on who takes the blame-
Syria?
NK?
Iran?
Single, white, men, between the ages of 25 and 45?
Tea Party or Libertarian leaning citizens?
NRA activists?
Judean People's Front.
Or,... was that the People's Front of Judea?...
Splitters!
CIA?
DHS?
American Al Qeada?
Yes.
I said who takes the blame, not who more than likely were involved or perpetrated it. I'm waiting to hear audio with something akin to, "pull it."
Sarah Palin
Let me do my duty and search her lingerie and all body cavities necessary
Iraqi WMDs finally surface?
Most likely whomever gets the blame wasn't the ones that done it...
Larry Summers farted to close to an open flame.
Has Obama blamed the sequester yet?
WTF Janet.. How much are we paying your fat ass... Ban all marathons they may explode..
New DHS Campaign: "If You See Something, Run Towards It".
... With Scissors.
Oh look a reason to lock down more explosives.
I bet it was made with something similar to Ammonium Nitrate but a different chemical so they can restrict sales of that as well.
Probably a potassium nitrate / gunpowder / smokeless powder combination bomb.
False flag goal: Eliminate / totally regulate sales of powdermaking materials.
Gas and soap flakes make napalm. Better ban gas and soap. That way the whole country will be on food stamps living in tunnels and under overpasses.
The problem with that is that smokeless powder is not an explosive. These powders burn at a very high rate, but they do not explode. You can still make a pipe bomb out of it, but it's not going to act the way you expect.
This is a truly sad and disheartening video... 400,000 perfectly good bullets being dropped, burned, run over, abused and generally WASTED. However, it should be required viewing.
http://www.saami.org/videos/sporting_ammunition_and_the_firefighter.cfm
Correct, which is why any truly decently designed explosive weapon weighing more than a pound would have done MUCH more damage than what went off.
If that was meant to do serious damage it would have been loaded with ball bearing. Lots of flash and bang, but it looks as though unless you were right next to it, not much happened. The more educated I get about US history and the slight of hand false flag ops that have happened just in the 20th century alone, it hard not to be totally skeptical.
Regardless of what ass-hat did this, my heart goes out to those hurt.
if ment to do a lot of damage the explosive would have been on a gas canister sitting next to a bunch of nails .... remember France in the 1990
@ Silver Rhino:
Regulating smokeless powder would be 1 way of clamping down on reloading supply sales.....
Precisely ....
you mean a caucasian veteran, age 23 to 67?
I give you 3:1 on that.
8:1 on Christianist, rattlesnake dancing First Church of the Blessed Banjo
12:1 on Hutaree separatists
17:1 on Mennonite Liberation Front
29:1 on OG playas (that's Original Gadsen)
Not mentioned: Islam (means peace) and brown people of any sort.
You're not making odds on this getting pinned on Fatties?
Dude, thanks to GMO gluten and high fructose corn syrup, which ones aren't fat? Throw in a nice, relaxing sedentary lifestyle encouraged by 250 channels of "Dancing with the Fattashians" and you're lucky to find a regular BMI. Only sparkly, bohunk queer vampires are fit anymore.
Uh, or we few who don't eat that shit. Not everyone eats everything they sell you.................
Today is 'Patriots Day' and tax day. Hmmm....
Just another isolated incident.
I give it 48 hrs before a proposal to suspend the sequester and spend the money on security.
Angry white male tea party members to be more precise.
I recommend full pelvic exams for all white grandmothers at airports, train stations and sporting events .... until this is stopped !
When they stop lying about what they do. And we powerless just take it. Big Day huh?
Since Sandy Hook I've been saying that it is ironic that sheeple are clamoring to disarm their fellow citizens when it is governments that should be disarmed.
Some excerpts from an article pointing out the real situation:
The anti-gun arguments presume that the state is morally superior to individuals.
Even though they seldom say it explicitly, the gun control proponents believe that average people are too violent and erratic to hold guns. They want the government – the state – to take our guns away because only the state is responsible enough to handle serious weapons.
There is, however, a gigantic problem with this: States are far more dangerous than individuals.
20x more dangerous…http://www.freemansperspective.com/death-by-government/
Please be sure to remind people of this fact the next time you have a chance to argue in favor of the 2nd amendment - you know, the one that comes right after the 1st amendment - so that the 1st amendment can be protected.
managed to post same comment twice - sorry
absolutely.
meanwhile at a foreign petting zoo or weeding reception, the same thing happesn via drone on a weekly basis.
Shall we take a percentage guess that the "Religion of Peace" has struck again?
And why did Tyler edit this? The original was pulled down in the 5 min it took me to turn on another computer so I could link from my own site...luckily, though the Globe has a way to defeat download helper - it doesn't have a way to erase temp files in my browser cache, so I made a copy the hard way - vidcam off my screen, and uploaded it, unlisted, for my site.
This was a black powder bomb - don't ask how I know my high and low explosives, but I do.
The next sound was an echo - not another blast. Listen carefully to the original video - no sharp risetime like the original blast. No new smoke, no new orange fire (which only black powder makes like that).
Note how slow the debris flew, and how few windows were broken? Signature of a high-heave, low brisance explosion, and not that large a one.
Ammonium nitrate explosives that don't fully detonate (the usual case) leave orange smoke, and due to an oxygen deficit, high explosives (TNT, C4, Semtex) leave black smoke - and create a visible supersonic shock wave, which this didn't - you'd have seen it, just like the movies and gun camera footage show when a real HE is set off.
We'll see how this is spun - fellow fight club members - follow the "money" or in this case power - to see who benefits and you'll know who was waving the false flag. This is fucking sick...someone hurting innocent people for what reason, exactly? We'll know soon - watch who benefits, someone always "never lets a good crisis go to waste" at the very least.
And do remember me if I wind up in gitmo for taking real truth and evidence before Tyler and others removed it. (the globe may have forced it, dunno, it may not be Tyler's fault). You gotta move quick these days to get the truth before its spun and pulled away from we sheep.
Wow that is intense, hopefully everyone is ok.
http://ericsprott.blogspot.ca/
muslem.
Lance?
Nike... Just do it!
Wow that is intense, hopefully everyone is ok.
Judging from the severed limbs in the pic, and the blood everywhere, I do not see that happening,unfortunately.
On that note, it will be blamed on GBush, and the NRA.
Two people dead, 21 Injured, so sad!!
Middle eastern style drama arrives on American shores! and NO not everyone is OK obviously
Bullish Govt workers needed to search every trash can in America prior to a public event!!!
Let me guess, ex-military white male, with pro 2nd amendment politics with explosives experience from the "oil wars" in Iraq and Afganistan???? NO well then count the enemies we have racked up over the last 15 years! Could be fucking anyone at this point!
Allright...where was Richard Jewel?
Poor fucking hero,
then publicly maligned,
then a nice settlement,
and now worm food.
worm food? When did he whip a gasket? I'm gonna take a wild stab at it and say it was his heart that gave out, looked like his blood type was Raghu.
Boston is on someones shit list.
Nice bang up finish. It may be time if you like to run and run out of the cities.
A lot of people don't know that a hand gun can cause just such an explosion - unless it is in the hands of a criminal.......
the british are coming...
Rosie Ruiz.
I was in that race, 1980.
I guess it's time to launch a full scale attack on Iran (even though it's the idiot in Pyongyang that has real nukes and is threatening to use them). But the US would get their ass handed back to them on a plate if they engage N. Korea. So they go for the low hanging fruit. Hey! Trash can bomb in Boston -- let "Shock and Awe" Tehran. It's coming.
Can somebody tell me when it was that American turned into Empiral Rome right along with Obama Caesar. He'll probably be rapping in the WH with Snoop Dog while the US burns.
So Tyler, the first words in the bylines are North Korea?? Interesting...
yes...it's april 15th...and Boston....$100 bucks says they try to connect this to the Soverign Citizen Movement...and from there it's easy to throw in patriots, constitutionalists, etc from there.
They won't blame TD (has alibi). Instead, they'll blame DT (Domestic Terrorism).
"Never let a good crisis go to waste". - Rahm Emmanuel, former Chief of Staff at White House, 2008-2011.
No. It's a sanctioned U.S drone attack to take out all the falafel venders named Osama in Boston. Boston has now been made safe for democracy and it is regrettable but necessary that innocent people have been killed and maimed.
WTF? Isint that a fvkin bombfree zone? How can this happen, cant they read the no bombs signs? Idiots carring a fully loaded bomb to a race. Musta been a fvkin drunken indian.. that is feather if ya wana know.. the dot injuns are too fvked up to go to the races..they gota sell more ice outa the 7/11.
Ya its a false flag op to promote the amnesty of millions of unknown foreigners, something our Senate desperately wants.
A MUSLIM HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR THE BOMBINGS
Nah, a false flag would need to be way bigger of a bloodbath. Probably some crazy dude's action, an angry contractor or CCTVs' lobbyists wanting some more Orwelians legislations ...
So who won?
Oh oh...on a retake of this powerful history making day...looking at this very last picture on the bottom of this report that WB7 is prolly already eyeing up for use later...one can not mistake the blatant sign from the universe pointing to the FLAG that waves in the background over these action-jackson figures. Does it get any more incredible than nature herself showing one the Way?
Was it caused by someone's head exploding after loading up the gold futures chart on their phone?
Great. Now we're gonna have to outlaw bombs.
Only assault bombs.
Bet 3D printer dude's already thinking about printing with plastique.
Don't need 3d.
Pretty simple to make if you did any chemistry in school.
Every thing is readily availble for purchase without restriction.
Just amazed there are not more explosions really.
Winston Churchill's alias = Walter White
I'll take that as a compliment, however you meant it..
Definitely as you took it, sir. Only respect for WC.
Only black 'scary' looking assault bombs....
Nope, they'll outlaw fertilizer. Then you'll be force to buy Monsanto GMO seeds that utilizes chemtrail ejecta that makes it into the soil base, where the genetic manipulated Frankenstein plants turns it into nutrients that make the plant grow, albeit without any nutritional value for organic life-forms who consume them.
/sarc off
Peter Schiff?
ZOMG... Batman shootings, Sandy Hook, now THIS...
~~~
Help us Obi Wan Obama ~ You're our only HOPE...
Must have been those pesky AR-15's
Just watching it on BBC, they're already yelling to ban all guns.
Obama will use this yet again to ban guns.
Great days for crisis actors.
Well, it is comforting to see some familiar faces in a crisis.
Darn it! You saw that too?
Like, you mean, the same troop going around the country or something, really Outer Limits like?
Yeah, sure.
Hopefully DHS will be putting out another video showing the sheeple how they can defend themselves with SISSORS from 'active bombers'.
In the event of an assault bomber from AL-NRA the office working can defend themselves in the office enviroment by hiding behind a wall of copier paper.
Listen to the corporate HR diversity team members has they will have profiled angry white males.
* Reading Zerohedge
* Anti-Gov rants
* Doom and gloom on economy and nothing positive to say
* Hatred of debt and banking
* Refuses to accept Dr Paul Krugman's intellectual superiority
* Claims that Gold, lead and assault rifles provide insurance
* NRA membership
* Clearly racist
Many more... but.
Yup.......here comes the false flag....baaastids never stop
North Koreans
wtf is going on???
Can just make out four Mossad agents dancing on one of the buildings.
Don't these people understand bombs in public are illegal.
There probably wasn't a "Do not set off your bomb here" sign posted.
Someone locate Cheney, Rumsfeld and Holder. Those muderers are behind it. You can bet on that. The Federal Govt is attacking the States.
Funny how that camera is OK for most of the marathon, and then it starts messing up right before the explosion that is also all funky and blurry.
Hard copy all video, pictures, and reports NOW!!!
Report for analysis later.
Babylon is studying the Americans reactions in real time.
Tavistock lab rats!
No joke intended, but what absolutely shitty luck to spend several exhausting hours running only to find you've been running toward an explosion.
Filming of Ben Affleck and Jon Hamm in The Town II.
we are all running in that direction.
"Reuters India" What, are we out-sourcing dommestic terrorism now?
US news outlets are just waiting for permission to file their stories, but the WH is kinda busy these last few days.
Look at those awsome cops in the last photo protecting everyone.
Save their pensions at all costs!
Fear not. They protected you.
I hope everyone is ok. For an off-the-cuff-zero-knowledge explanation - it could be just another explosion due to America's crumbling infrastructure.
Doesn't look like everyone is OK - those big red blotches in the last photo are blood puddles.
Casulaties on the ground. Image is too fuzzy to zoom in much.
Messed up world we live in.
Blood is running in the streets.
You know what that means.
Uhm, buy gold?
But all of my money is already IN precious metals.
Let's Eat?
Wendigo Meats, LLC.
Very sad. Looking more like a bombing now.
Well, that's one way to clear out the stands. Boston probably couldn't afford the overtime to pay the clean-up crews.
That looks like the dye pack of a bank bag explosion. The red is not blood.
It was a bag of bitcoin wallets with ketchup on it...
@francis "gleeful psychopath" sawyer
The fact that you find any of that humorous says volumes about your mental shortcomings.
It looks the wrong shade. Are they making a movie?
Sounds like your speaking from some experience!
As a paramedic, I can tell you without a doubt, that is blood splatter. Seen it first hand two or three times in the last 18 years.
Time to ban marathons
I'm Anti-Running Shoe myself...
We need automatic background checks on all joggers.
If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.
OMG that last pic...
What?... It looks like the Faber College Homecoming Parade...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
Disgruntled Gold Bugs are to blame.
Time to outlaw private ownership of Gold.
The Guvvamint will offer to pay you the COMEX front-month asking price.
The race is still on TV.
Edit: My sports channel is showing a replay already so it isn't live. Two explosions after the race was over. Dozens injured.
Seriously people! Get a grip... no time for joking! Have some desency! Who are these people your approving for accounts here ZeroHedge?
lighten up Francis.
You just made the list buddy!
Ok Mary, everybody start singing kumbaya.
He's not your buddy, guy.
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Unfortunately it's "anything goes" here, it's anarchy rather than a constitutional republic.
To be clear, I think anyone should be able to write what they want but the "Ignore user" feature should be implemented for those who don't care to listen to the small minority of bigots and other morons...
Your mom gets ignored.
The media only cares when rich white people are killed by bombs,
Where was their outrage at the poor brown people killed by bombs yesterday?
And the day before that?
And the day before that?
And the day before that?
If you and your buddy want to fall into a catatonic state that is ok.
Like morons who don't know the difference between chaos and anarchy?
So, I guess if that feature were in place you'd be the only one being ignored?
What? Must've skipped reading your post...
Uniquesnowflake, I suggest read the ZeroHedge manifesto and study the piece of fiction that is Fight Club before proceeding with further observations.
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