"Workable" Lies Upon Lies

 

Yes, this is a very strange transformation of Jesus and the Christian religion - and then maybe not, when one considers the fact of America being a totally Capitalist country: As everybody else, Jesus is to bow to the mighty $$$, even though he never spoke for the money-worshippers of his time. On the contrary ....

That's one way of putting it: There is a spiritual dilemma, and it doesn't solve itself. Also, nobody is trying to solve it as a genuine problem. No, it's sort of being shovelled under the carpet, as it's supposed to vaporize and just disappear. It's the same with the American "Santa": One day you're to stop believing in this nice, old man bringing presents, and instead starting to look at "that kind of men" with suspicion. And, by the way, it's called "growing up" as is the belief in the benefits of e.g. this sadly enough quite common robbery-system:

It's obvious that the words are to mask, not to explain what's really going on. Actually, words like e.g. "freedom", "faith", "poverty", etc. have that ability. So does this image of how different people may attain the same goal without any changes to the well-known structures:   
 

Poem by Else Cederborg: "A Stone In The River"

  

She stands on a stone in the river

sticking out her tongue she drinks in the world

each rounded drop a planet in its own right

falling from above

shooting up from beneath

each and one of them new to this world as is she

a child of five, but ready to make her impact

actually, a conqueror in disguise

Her tongue speaks out for her

singing, humming, sucking in

what it says is: This is life!

Was that the moment she slipped and fell?

That very moment, never to be lived again?

A moment lost and turned into eternity?

And she?

She nearly drowned, was rescued, got scolded

"survived" it was called

so she got wet, lost faith and grew "normal"

all in one second

she is never to stand on a stone in the river again

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Nazi-Lover

 

In this photo the British historian and author David Irving (born 24th of March 1938) looks like an impersonification of what he is/was, namely a Hitler- and Nazi-loving relic from 1938. Being born before WW II, he didn't take part in the atrocities, and maybe he wouldn't have if he were a true contemporary of Hitler. 

 

Evil eyes, as he has, don't add up a human personality, but this man has published 40 books or so about Hitler and WW II as a historian and expert on the Nazis, which means that he may have influenced many people, young and old. However, it seems that the academic establishment never accepted his conclusions about what went on in the Nazi-world. His ideas may strike people as interesting, as well as disturbing, because of his academic status which some will see as a guarantee of a genuine expert knowledge of the Nazi subject. 

 

His first book, "The Destruction of Dresden" (1963), became a bestseller as it fell in line with the new understanding of the sixties, namely that the heavy Allied bombings of Germany were non-acceptable: Many started to feel that The Allieds had gone too far. Several of other books by Irving also made a stir, so to speak. However, something like e.g. his refusal to admit that there were ovens for cremations in the camps seem ridiculous today. We know better, also when it comes to his allegations that there weren't mass murders of Jews in the camps as there were no photos depicting them in these, according to his opinion, "non-existing" ovens.

Buchenwald Memorial

Not only did he deny what happened in the kz-camps, but also that Hitler took part in the planning of the atrocities. Actually, Irving's way of thinking is quite bizarre when it comes to the "Endlosung" as he refuses to see what went on: IF some of it was true - which he was sure that it wasn't - then, Hitler, in his opinion, knew nothing about the plans of murdering all the Jews of Europe. That means that he chose not to take in what Hitler said about the planned genocide of the Jews in his speech of January 30, 1939. Also, his will is a clear indication that the future exterminations of the Jews were very important to him now that he himself was on the brink of committing suicide. 

"Die Endlosung" was a very important part of his program and can't be denied such as Irving has done. Actually, this abominable "Endlosung" was adopted as the main part of his plans on the Conference in Wannsee of January 20, 1942. As should be remembered, the main purpose of this conference was to establish the "how to" of the planned genocide. There is no doubt that innocent people were tortured and murdered, solely for being Jews or of what was considered an "inferior race", like e.g. gypsies.

 

 

Because of this undeniable, total cruelty, this extreme injustice I find it very hard to see what has become of the formerly so very persecuted Jewish people. They are literally doing what Hitler did to them, only targeting another innocent people: The Palestinenians. I've become very split in my opinion of them and their cause. When I'm thinking of what happened to them in WW II, I feel that they should have been offered a large part of Germany for building their state. However, I never felt that the German murder atrocities against them gave them the right to do what had been done to them to a flock of Arabs and to set out to steal their land. In a weird, backwards manner they have become Nazi-lovers themselves by accepting some of the Hitler lore about race and history. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgr71z0jp4o

 

https://folkedrab.dk/artikler/hvordan-ved-vi-at-holocaust-har-fundet-sted 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Lipstadt

 

https://www.information.dk/kultur/2013/06/nazi-chefideologs-dagboeger-fundet-usa 

 

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WhenThe Object of One's Love is Non-Human

 

Of course anyone who hears about such a case love the dog and calls him a hero. Actually, the girl was a hero(-ine) too for not panicking and even finding food and other ways to survive. Anyway, in this case there was a reason to admire and love the dog. So there is in many cases of human-pet-relationships, even though the animal hasn't saved lives in such a dramatic manner as in this case.

 

The owner of these two dogs call them "The Light of My Life", and that may very well be a true description of their relationship. These dogs may have become what's generally known as "fur-babies": They are being seen and treated as the human babies their owner - male or female - have chosen not to have. Maybe he/she refers to them as my "sons", and maybe he/she "adopted" them, e.g. from a shelter. To treat and relate to a pet like to a human baby is a way to "keep one's cake and eat it", and I fully understand why women these years chose an animal over a baby. Actually, I'm more surprised that not all women do just that in a time period that's polluted with tRumpian, misogynistic laws, making it very difficult for women to have and raise children. 

Also, let's not forget that for some people animals are a sort of "toys", that may be "chosen away" when they get tired of having them. It's extremely unfair to treat a four-legged friend - a "son or daughter" - like a toy, but it may happen which is not that easy with human babies: You can't just leave them in the wood or on a busy street like it has been done over and over with pets. Such a Good Riddance-operation may mean nothing to the owner who talked about his/her pets as "sons/daughters", because, after all, "they are only animals" ....

    

However, animals are not inanimate objects without feelings or personality. This cat, for instance, has adopted a rat as a pet or a surrogate "kitten". Not normal, not happening very often, but this special cat chose to have its own "fur-baby", just like he/she is the "fur-baby" of his/her owner. 

WW II And the Cats of London

  

I'm not sure how many cats the, at that time, 19 years old Iris Davis saved from the debris of the bombed London, but the number 600 has been mentioned. Probably she saved even more when she went out looking for the poor pets, who - just as their humans - had lost their homes and all of a sudden had to fend for themselves. She used a kind of laso that made it possible for her to catch and secure the cat.

This is an image we are used to see from all kinds of wars: A hapless animal, struck down by the weapons that were meant to kill humans. Without Iris, London might also have seen an awful feline tragedy. Not that she saved all the poor homeless cats, but with her the number of victims was reduced.

I'm not sure that this is Iris, but whoever it is does what has to be done to save helpless pets. However, pets also saved humans, and several of them were awarded medals for bravery, for instance when they found and thus rescued people who e.g. were stuck in the rubble. 

As to Iris and her efforts for the cats of London, she became quite famous at the time as a cat saver, but her war fame doesn't seem to have stuck with her, as I haven't been able to find her biography. Anyway, there is an irony in her humane work as an animal saver, as pet owners had been advised to euthanize their pets before the bombings started, namely to save them from starvation. This led to what has been called a "massacre" of maybe 500,000 pets or even more. 

 

https://www.historyonthenet.com/war-animals-55-birds-dogs-horses-saved-thousands-lives-world-war-two 

 

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205357526 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24478532 

 

https://x.com/TheNameofWar/status/2067980781809475917 

Poem by Else Cederborg: "Balloon"

 

 

 

Stepping out
dressed like a billion
all too glittering for this world
happily enough her head is floating
you may find it on a cloud up in the sky
moving in air, far from reality, it’s gleaming

It can’t be denied it’s a lantern
a will-o’-the-wisp, that’s leading her on
feet in the world of fashion and riches, head in the sky
no wonder she is out of reach, even for herself

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Poem by Else Cederborg: "Cruelty"

 

Cruelty doesn't go shoeless
no, it trips wherever it wants to go, dressed in fine shoes
its tortured victims drag themselves along

moving on sharp stones
still, some don't call it injustice 

 

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A True Heroine

 

Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914-2015) 

Wars and accidents may rob humans - and animals - of their inborn good health and looks. What started out as agility and the ability of free movements may end up in something very sad, namely disabilities of various art. That's a fact of life, and we know it, at the same time pushing it in the back of our mind, and doing whatever we can to forget about it.

It's a beautiful idea, but this boy obviously didn't get the opportunity to rise from his wheelchair in this life, so to speak. He didn't survive his illness, but died. Many other children did survive, but they were severy damaged by a drug which their mothers took against morning sickness when pregnant with them. It's a tragedy that ruined the health of British babies in the 1950ies, and so it might have done in the USA had the release of the drug - which was known as THALIDOMIDE - not been stopped by a Canadian doctor and scientist, who was living in America. Her name was Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914-2015).

Being Canadian born she was a sort of British, but most of her life she lived and worked in the USA, and even though she became a naturalized American, she moved back to Canada to be with her family when she retired.

She really was a HEROINE, and that word shouldn't have been in brackets in this newspaper article. What she did was to save America from very serious birth defects like these:

This kind of birth defects do have a severe impact on the one who suffers from them, but also on their families and society as such. Because of her research and her putting a stop to the release of Thalidomide she received The President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from John F. Kennedy. 
 

 

 

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/frances-kathleen-oldham-kelsey 

 

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Power the Mae West-Way

 

Mae West (1893-1980)

I've never read this 1944-play by Mae West or seen it performed, but I've read about it and the literary ambitions of West. People of today who even remember who Mae West was, most likely don't know that she went on the stage as none less than the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in a play she herself wrote, but she did. Allegedly, the play, which ran for 191performances, was inspired by at least one psychic message from the actual - but very dead - empress.

Catherine the Great of Russia (1729-1796)

The actual Empress - also known as Catherine II - started out as a very young and naive German princess. She was chosen as the wife of an immensely childish, immature and non-impressive Grand Duke, Peter, by the then current sovereign Empress, Elizabeth, who was the daughter of the Emperor Peter the Great and his wife, The Empress Catherine I. Of course the marriage of the German princess and the Russian milksop, the Grand Duke Peter, wasn't a success. However, that led to the coup by which she established her power as the new Empress, Catherine the Great.

When I see stage performances of Mae West it's obvious to me that she, in everything she does, is a proponent of what she understands as FEMALE POWER. Of course, she would be a Catherine the Great-fan as this specific empress exercised power over men in a very spectacular manner, just as the stage-queen Mae West proposed to do: A very important stage "prop" in the West-shows were the loads of muscular and good-looking men who sort of were her "backdrop". What her message was, having this special "backdrop", is "I rule, the strongest and best-looking men bow to me". She did what countless men have done, walking around with an extremely pretty woman as the symbol of their power and potency. 

Her shows were very sexual in a special female manner which I see as some sort of "a symbolic, subdued aggression". Interesting enough, several actresses before WWII appeared in what Mae West had wanted to be, but never did: Catherine the Great-movies.

However, the most famous one of these movies was the one with Marlene Dietrich, which came at almost the same time as the one with Elizabeth Bergner, namely 1934. The Catherine-market at that time was full, so to speak, and the attempts by Mae West to make her own movie about the Empress in 1938-39 was not met with enthusiasm.

The Catherine-play by Mae West was didn't bring her any acclaim. It was called "boring" by critics, and she even had legal problems as she was sued for "plagiarism". She may have had dreams of turning her career, but this play didn't bring her what she wanted.  

Her shows with extremely muscled and good-looking, half-naked men were a success, but also something which targeted her as "immoral". Not that that seems to have bothered her, but still, she might have deserved better. Anyway, her choice of Catherine the Great looks to me as her way of signalling the use of female power: How to move from pawn to the ultimate power as a sovereign empress. In real life she had to contend with the stage power over men.  

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/catherine-was-great-1318

 

 

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/g32404699/catherine-the-great-movies-tv-series/ 

 

 

https://www.tiktok.com/@timeflowinglikeariver/video/7312795964220165419?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc 

 

 

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Poem by Else Cederborg: "Scooped Out"

 

 

Scooped Out

Sometimes what is, pretends not to be

disowning itself a feeling turns painful, even torturous

maybe you survive, but your heart was scooped out

empty heart-shells abound where certain people are

blocking the sight of the ones which are still alive

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WHY Did She Have To Rape Him????? What About SEDUCING HIM INSTEAD????

In 1977 she was an American beauty-queen, and he was a Mormon missionary in England, where she met him. OK, OK, maybe a bit unusual, but still, that might work out if both were for the union. However, Joyce McKinney, as was the name of the beauty queen, couldn't wait for Kirk Anderson to make the move. With the help of a male friend she went into action, kidnapping the kind of "milksop-looking" young man at gunpoint, chaining him to a bed in Devon, England, and raping him for three days.

When he got free, he talked to the police, and she was arrested. That meant that she served three months on remand at Holloway Women's Prison in London. However, she skipped bail and fled England to return to her native country, America. And HOW did she do that? Well, she disguised herself as a deaf-mute mime, and that disguise worked so well, that she wasn't bothered by anyone. Not being held accountable for her crime - and a crime it was - she went scot-free as a non-convicted rapist.

 

Years later she sort of resurfaced in South Korea, after having had her dead dog cloned. 

 

https://eehe.org.uk/28321/mormonkidnapping/ 

 

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Murder-Satisfaction

 

All right, Pedro Alonso Lopez (1948-probably still alive) did have a difficult childhood, but that was not the fault of those young girls - mere children - he murdered. It wasn't even the fault of the mother he hated, the poor widow who had to turn prostitute to feed the 13 kids she gave birth to, most of them after the murder of her husband. I suspect that Pedro may have worshiped this dead father whom he never met, as he died some months before his birth. One thing is sure, the childhood home of young Pedro was steeped into violence and sexual sceneries of various art.

When you look into the face of Pedro he doesn't strike one as either dumb, nor violent, but it can't be denied that he did commit many dumb and violent crimes. Why did he "have to" murder more than 100 girls of 8-15 years of age? According to himself it was for his sexual fulfillment: He "needed" something like that to feel good.  

 

Rape was his game, but he himself was also raped at an early age. At that time he had run away from home, only 8 years old. Having to fend for himself in a poor and brutal world he may have been easy to get lured by a stranger, pretending to be his friend. This man was not the only one who abused him, as it happened several times. When he, in what looks like a miracle, was adopted by an American family it only lasted for a year or so. After stealing from them his excuse was that a male teacher had been harassing him sexually. When he was arrested for auto-theft he was raped in prison by four men, but killed three of them with a makeshift knife. Still, not even those continuous rapes are an excuse for what he did to those girls he killed for his own sexual satisfaction. According to himself he had killed many more than 100 girls over a couple of years after being released from prison. The exact number is not known, but there is no doubt about him being one of the worst serial killers at this time. If one takes his words as the truth, he killed 350 girls of 8-13 years.

He was arrested more than once, but when he was sentenced to 16 years of prison he was released two years before time. I find it very strange that he wasn't held in custody for the rest of his life, but somehow the police didn't quite trust his confessions. One of the reasons for that was that he sometimes said that not he, but someone else had committed the murders, and that he only was his helper. Something which hasn't been proven neither then nor now.

https://www.benthamscience.com/chapter/6940

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Don't Fence In this Tigress

 

I admit it: I like Eleanor Jarman (1901-???) although she was a criminal and did something I don't like. 

Eleanor was born into a large family of German descent. She had 9 surviving siblings, and, as might be expected, the family was poor. After dropping out of school because of the poverty of the family, she started to work as a waitress at the tender age of 12. When she married and had two children her husband left her after some years to live a life as the sole bread-winner. Maybe that was the reason why she let the criminal George Dale move in with her and her children. As it is, he did what he could to support the family, which unfortunately meant that Eleanor and her children now had to rely on his robbing small shop owners. 

In 1933, Eleanor took part in a robbery which led to the death of a shop owner who was shot by George Dale. Even though she didn't kill the unfortunate victim of George Dale and their associate, Leo Minneci, she was sentenced to 199 years in prison. 

 

I find that much too much, and so did she obviously as she only served 7 years before she, climbing a prison fence, escaped and vanished for good. This successful escape earned her a reputation as extremely devious and dangerous, something which I think is ridiculous. Yes, she took part in a robbery with a fatal outcome, and yes, she escaped, but she wasn't the "tigress" - or "superwoman" - that some newspapers dubbed her.  

For 35 years Eleanor let her family know that she was all right "somewhere out there" by posting coded messages in newspapers, but nobody knows for sure how she lived after her escape, and how she died. However, in 1975, when she was 74 years old, she had a secret meeting with her son, Leroy, one of her brothers and his wife, but after that she disappeared once more, never to be heard of again, except by her coded newspaper-messages, which didn't taper off until mid-1990s.

 

https://murderpedia.org/female.J/j/jarman-eleanor.htm 

 

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