Flip-Flop-Identities

 

In 2010, a young Chinese asylum seeker was discovered on a flight to Vancouver. It was found out that he had been able to board it disguised as an elderly, white man by wearing a remarkably effective silicone mask called "The Elder ". It was made by a company in Hollywood, named SPFXMasks, which has specialized in life-like masks like that. 

Some of these silicone masks are for fun, like e.g. for Halloween, but others are not, as several criminals have used them to give them the anonymity they need not getting caught. It is quite amazing that these masks work that well, but they do. The transformation of the wearer can be quite amazing!

Yes, that is the same guy - and both of them are bank robbers .... 

We already knew about the popular life-like silicone-dolls, but the masks should be known as well, as they may lure somebody into trusting the wrong people. 

A real baby, or a doll made to look like one? Well, it is a so-called "reborn baby", which is a doll made in silicone, and as can be seen it has an amazing, yes, almost alarming or even uncanny, resemblance to a genuine human baby. However, I find that some of them look much more like little corpses than live babies, but I may be wrong as they are - or have been - very popular.

Cute as a doll, that's for sure, as this is a doll!

Also, as was to be expected, there are several kinds of "sex-dolls" in silicone. I think that most of them are life-sized, which may give the men who use them the feelings they are looking for. That is, if they like corpse-like partners or those who are forbidden by law: Underage children ....

Yup, if you are lusting for Greta, but know that she wouldn't have the eye for you, rip out that money and buy a doll made in her likeness! 

All kinds of plastic surgery rely heavily on silicone 

https://www.instagram.com/spfx_masks/?hl=da

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mask-maker-unmasks-suspect-philadelphia-bank-robberies/story?id=26728849

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Money The Disappearing Way

Well, I have to admit that I'm shocked at the American lack of knowledge of the workings of their own society. I suspect that many still live in the illusions of, somehow, getting RICH in the future. These poor deluded people even side with those who are able to rob them because they are dreaming of becoming rich like them "sometime in the near future". When money is the marker of success and a "good life" dreams of getting it sure turns people into easy targets for those who set out to rob them of money, time, health - and life.

What was the exact moment when the non-billionaires stopped looking out for themselves and to secure their lives for choosing dreams of fairy tale riches which most likely are not coming their way. Could it be when that, in my opinion, criminal TrickleDown-system was introduced almost 50 years ago? The cynicism of it is baffling, but somehow those who suffer from it, and who are robbed by it, don't realize what's going on.

Ronald Reagan outlining his plan for the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 from the Oval Office in a televised address, July 1981  

The Reagan economic policies included large tax cuts for the wealthy, which is the crucial part of the trickle-down-robbery. What makes it acceptable to those who are being robbed is the lie that the money they earned by working will be spent in e.g. job-making by those filthy rich people who got their hands on it. If the money came back to those who earned it - and lost it in taxes - the system would gain some legitimacy, but as it is, that's not the case. Rich people harvest fortunes that were not made by them, and rich people stick to the money, not to any implied, but non-substantial obligations toward those who made them rich.

Not only is this a robbery-system, but it's also a demoralizing machinery, as it turns the have-nots on the have-absolutely-nothings. Siding with the robber has that impact, no doubt about it, but the have-nots rationalize the situation by e.g. twisted religious beliefs of their own making.

Yup, that it is, and to me, it's obvious that Jesus was turned into a weird Santa who is worked by people by some kind of religious magic. It's very, very strange as well as extremely stupid because it's against the actual teachings of what they propose is holy, namely The Bible. 

 

https://www.faireconomy.org/trickle_down_economics_four_reasons

 

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/trickle-economics-flood-drip/ 

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Afghan Women Making Statements

To me, this looks like the epitome of male suppression of women: Cloaked, and thus made anonymous women with a heavily armed man, who looks like he is patrolling them. What comes to mind when seeing this photo is that it looks like someone herding cattle for slaughter, and I see nothing whatsoever in such a situation that condones what has been done to women like these. 

However, this particular photo makes me wonder if this lady on the desolate beach is an Afghan woman, doing what many others have done, namely transfixing her situation by turning her feelings into a special kind of poetry: A landay. These poems seem to be to Muslim women, e.g. in Afghanistan, what the political songs of protest were to the people of Western countries 50-60 years ago. However, although the protest - even rage - is obvious, but in my opinion the "bite" (and "landay" means "bite by a snake") is more often of an unstructured feminist nature and not political as such. Some of them are of an erotic nature, quite blunt at that.

In its traditional form, a landay consists of a single couplet, with nine syllables in the first line and thirteen in the second. These poems, which, as is obvious, first and foremost are for more or less illiteral people, are meant to be sung out. However, more than 100 have been collected by Eliza Griswold and published in her book, "I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan".

 

As we know from the Western poems and songs of protest these formed a strong tool of disapproval and dissent. They were used to highlight social injustice, and they worked very well. Some even survived as such up to today. Will that also be the case with landays like e.g. these:

 

“When sisters sit together, they always praise their brothers.
When brothers sit together, they sell their sisters to others.” 

 

“Is there not one man here brave enough to see
how my untouched thighs burn the trousers off me?”  

 

"Making love to an old man

is like fucking a shriveled cornstalk blackened by mold" 

 

"You sold me to an old man, father.

May God destroy your home, I was your daughter"

https://static.poetryfoundation.org/o/media/landays.html 

 

https://proletarianpoetry.com/2014/12/10/landays-by-afghan-women/ 

 

https://boobytrapec.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-new-male-sport-taharrush-gamea.html 

 

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161116-the-22-syllables-that-can-get-you-killed 

 

https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2102127.pdf 

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-protest-songs-1235154848/ 

 

https://juhibansal.com/rebellion-in-afghan-womens-poetry-landays/ 

 

https://www.afghan-web.com/culture/poetry/ 

 

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The Royal Pretender

 

One of these three people is a big time royal pretender .... 

Up through history, several people have been popping up from an often quite obscure background, claiming that they are a lost prince or princess. One of the most well-known of these pretenders is Anna Anderson (1896-1984), who claimed that she was the youngest daughter of tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Her claim was that although her father, mother and all her siblings were killed by Bolsheviks on 17. July 1918, she escaped, wounded, but alive. Private investigations by the brother of the dead Tsarina Alexandra, Duke Ernest Louis, brought the truth to light: This woman, who went by the name of Anna Anderson, was no Grand Duchess, but a Polish factory worker, Franziska Schanzkowska, who had been institutionalized in a mental hospital after a suicide attempt in 1920. I don't think she ever owed up to her birth name, and after some time as a patient, she started to use the name "Anna Anderson". However, in 1922, she began claiming that she was the lost Grand Duchess Anastasia, and many believed - and supported - her. Not until the dead bodies of the tsar family were found were her lies disproved. 

Grand Duchess Anastasia flanked by the pretender, Anna Anderson

Just like her parents, brother and sisters, Anastasia was dead, but the myth of the surviving Grand Duchess gave vent to movies, articles, books as well as countless theories of her survival, untill her remains were found and identified with those of her family.

Some of the most famous royal pretenders are Lambert Simnel (c. 1477-c. 1525) who claimed to be Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, i.e. the last Yorkist with a claim to the English throne. Perkin Warbeck (ca. 1474-1499) said that he was Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the younger son of Edward IV, who somehow disappeared in 1483. None of them were what - and whom - they said they were, but when James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766) claimed to be the legitimate son of King James II of England he was right, which has been proved by modern day genetics. He and his son fought hard to be accepted as English princes, but both were rejected as England had decided that no matter what, the days of Catholic royalties were over once and for all. 

"The Old Pretender", James Francis Edward Stuart

A son and his parents? Naaaahhhh ....

 

Simon Charles Dorante-Day is a British-born Australian man who has been harassing King Charles III and his queen, Camilla, asking for DNA-testings of the couple to prove his assertions that he is their illegitimate son who was put up for adoption when newborn. According to him "his grandmother", the late Queen Elizabeth II, testified this "truth" to him on her deathbed, and now he wants to be recognized as a royal prince ....

 

"Good luck," is all, I can say - you will need it ....

 

The "Three Sons" of Charles III????

 

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/king-charles-and-camilla-s-security-on-high-alert-after-secret-son-sends-chilling-warning-before-australia-tour-101729282867292.html 

 

https://www.livemint.com/news/trends/royal-family-news-britains-king-charles-iii-camilla-secret-son-simon-dorante-day-royal-lineage-1965-australia-visit-11716349763814.html

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1900621_1900618_1900620,00.html

 

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The Family Killer Who Dreamt Of Becoming A Sort Of James Bond

 

In my opinion, William Bradford Bishop (born August 1, 1936) looks Satanic, but that may be because I know what he did to his family: His dreams of living a glamorous and free James Bond-like life made him kill his mother, his wife and their three sons, using a blunt instrument which makes this mass murder even more brutal. 

It seemed to him that he had a much more interesting and fulfilling job as an American diplomat in Europe, but then he was sent back home and was put behind a desk to do what he may have seen as "menial work". That was not what he wanted, and when he didn't get the promotion he had hoped to get, he decided to start a new life. However, to him that meant doing away with his family, namely five family members: His mother, wife and three children. It must have been something that he had started to plan some time back in time. Anyway, as he succeeded in escaping and not being found, it was well planned. Staying a fugitive ever since 1976, there is still nobody who knows what life he got after the murders. Did he find something that fulfilled his dreams? Hardly, and he is still wanted by FBI, which must be a strain on him as it would for anybody else. 

His crime is so gross that it seems unique, but it's not: Most of those who commit what's called "familicide" - namely "killers of what may be an entire family" - are men, but there are female family killers too. One of these women is Andrea Yates, who, suffering from a severe post-partum depression, drowned her five children. She had been committed several times to receive treatment for her psychological problems. Her doctor had warned her that she ought not to have more children, as the many responsibilities of motherhood were too much for her fragile psyche. However, being very religious, she - and her husband - had the idea that "they should have as many children as God would give them".  

In 2018 a lesbian couple killed their six adoptive children in a murder-suicide incident which is known as the Hart family-murder. Why? Nobody really knows, but six kids may have been too much of a financial responsibility for the couple. Not that that is a valid excuse, because it's not, but it may be a sort of explanation or at least a valid theory.

One of the, in my opinion, worst cases of a family killing is the Watts-murders in 2018: Just like William Bradford Bishop, Christopher Watts wasn't satisfied with his life. He and his wife, Shannan, had two young daughters, and, against his wishes, she was pregnant once again, this time with a son. As Chris was dreaming of starting all over with another woman, he decided to kill his family, thus murdering four people without obtaining anything but life in jail. In court, he gave a chilling account of his killing of the girls, who loved and trusted him, but ended up, stuffed down crude oil tanks after being suffocated by their father. 

According to research into the subject of family killings, it seems that men who murder their entire families are driven by the same urges as those who harass and maybe kill their wives after a divorce: They feel obliged to "teach them a lesson" as they hate to lose control over them. However, when I read about cases like e.g. the ones of William Bradford Bishop, Chris Watts as well as Scott Peterson, John List and many others I get the impression that one concept stands out: "The idea of getting a new life". These men hate the social and/or family situation they are in and wants to start all over, often with another woman. Of course, women may feel the same urge to start all over again, but no matter what there are fewer female family killers, and most of these suffer from a mental disease or have been abused by their husband before they "snap" and do what they do to free themselves. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/08/04/archives/mother-killed-with-6-children-in-utah-plunge-joining-the-father.html

 

 

 

https://www.denverpost.com/2006/10/08/yates-finds-friend-in-similar-mom/

https://boobytrapec.blogspot.com/2021/08/nar-forldre-tror-de-ejer-deres-brn.html

 

 

https://showbizzed.com/father-kills-10-year-old-son-with-autism-family-dog-and-himself-in-murder-suicide-missing-20-year-old-daughter-also-found-dead-in-home.html&s=red 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/11/woman-jailed-life-murdering-parents-bodies-essex-virginia-mccullough

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/230412.pdf

 

 

https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=132646&page=1 

 

 

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From Wife to "Sister"

Anne of Cleves by Hans Holbein

 

After the death of his third wife in childbirth, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII of England went looking for a No. four to replace her. At that time he had three living children from his previous marriages: His and Jane Seymour's son, Edward, and two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, by two former wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. However, he wanted more male heirs that would keep his Tudor-dynasty thriving by, in their turn, having male heirs who were able to procreate - and so on and so on. Girls were not wanted the same way as boys, because even though they were Tudors, they didn't keep the family name alive when marrying as did their brothers.  

 

Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536)

Just like the Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, who became Henry's first wife, his fourth, Anne of Cleves (1515-1557), was out of a royal house. I think, that had that not been the case, Anne's fate might have been much different from what it was, because he really, really wanted to get rid of her "because she was so very ugly". His second wife, Anne Boleyn (c. 1501-1536), whom he had beheaded when he wanted to get rid of her, was out of a noble family, but she wasn't born a royal princess, like Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves. He may have felt tempted to behead these royal wives too, but how could he? Both of them had strong political allies through their family ties to foreign royal houses, which none of his other four wives had, so they didn't have any protection that was as strong as the ones of the royal born queens. 

 

Anne Boleyn

 

Both his royally born wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves, ended up with annulments of their marriage to the king. In both cases, he used the fact that there had been some kind of previous engagements to other men before they were married to him. Catherine had been engaged to his late brother, Arthur, and Anne of Cleves was originally contracted to Francis I, Duke of Lorraine. The annulment meant that these two queens were stripped of their royal titles, but at least they weren't beheaded.

 

Anne, being a clever woman, feigned sorrow at losing the "love" of Henry, but I suspect that she must have laughed at him and all his machinations to get rid of her. The annulment brought her several advantages at the court of her former husband. After the annulment, she became "The Lady Anne of Cleves", and she would later on be elevated to a new stage above all other women in England, except the current queen and Henry's daughters, as "The King's Beloved Sister". That should do it, but she also was granted an annuity, some generous settlements, a pension, as well as some rich properties: Hatfield, Richmond Palace, Blethingley Estate and Hever Castle, which was the ancestral home of the king’s second wife, Queen Anne Boleyn. 

 

Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (1517-1545) 

 

Of course, Anne of Cleves missed a properly very good, and peaceful marriage to the Duke of Lorraine, Francis I, as well as having children by him, but she sure gained a lot by marrying Henry VIII: Well, sometimes it kind of pays off to be considered "ugly" - which she wasn't by far! - as the annulment also gave her a personal freedom she might not have had otherwise. She even maintained a close relationship with Henry and his children, particularly Elizabeth.

 

A "twist of fate" is that Francis I married the Danish princess, Christina, whom Henry VIII had wanted either for one of his illegitimate sons or for himself as his fourth wife. However, she reclined the offer and is reputed to have stated that "If I had two heads, I would happily put one at the disposal of the King of England".

 

Christina of Denmark 

 

 

 

https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/anne-of-cleves/#gs.mpkzus 

 

https://www.royaltynowstudios.com/blog/blog-post-title-one-pxydc-3e4k2-lwr6a-kleed-dxwc4-cr3nm-welff-kkp9h-lzwy8-gz3dk-z97n3-7xlk8-g2kyc-dk646-ynpbs-py5tj-6aw9j-d7c6n-63rgp-jyrsa 

 

Britannica 

 

Wikipedia 

 

Swedish Craziness 350 Years Ago: June 1, 1675

The Witch lore 350 years ago is almost as crazy as some of the modern day religious nonsense that makes teleevangelists rich, and their followers poor. Today, 1st of June 2025, marks the 350 years since 71 (innocent!!!) Swedes were executed as witches at what is called "Haxberget" (i.e. the "Witch Mountain"): 4 boys, 2 men and 65 women.  It should be noted that these 65 executed women were every 5th woman in the so-called Torsåkers Parish. What a waste of human lives and all in all there were c. 400 such witch executions in Sweden!

 

One of the many very interesting details of these witch trials and witch executions is that many of the so-called "witches" were accused by children who claimed that they, for instance, had taken them to meet and/or worship Satan. I take it that it can't have been all that easy to be a poor, uneducated child, living in a bigoted countryside, riddled with poverty and superstition, but still, accusing someone for wild and crazy acts with "Satan" looks more than insane to me. As it is, many/most of these children were also executed, which they must have known most likely would happen: "Playing with fire, may lead to the pyre" - Yup, that's for sure ....".

Many other European countries had more witch trials than Sweden, but it was intense while it lasted. The worst cases were from the time period 1668-1676, and the last one was 1704 which to me looks rather late.  

 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/WA7JUsnKejLnz7L99

 

https://haxmuseet.se/  

 

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