Life Insurances Don't Insure YOUR Life

"Money makes the world go around", or so they say. Well, to have or have not is a crucial distinction when it comes to money, and most often we don't have a choice, unless we decide to turn our back on society, work and banks or to resort to crimes. 

A wonderful plan, but will is work? Many have tried doing something like that, just to be brought back home in handcuffs. Of course, they may have had a good time spending what's not theirs, but no, being wiser and more ambitious than that what we are looking for is a fool-proof, forever-solution that will not send us to jail. One plan stands out, even though it doesn't always lead to the desired outcome: Someone has a loaded, elderly relative whom he/she is to inherit. Being a greedy grifter, the heir decides to speed up the process, taking care that this murder isn't an obvious crime. I feel assured that some did just that - and got away with it.

Others turn their fully legal job into a robbery-asset, and banks being where money is a bank tiller may get ideas. Not good ideas, but still, ideas that may or may not work out .... 

Sadly enough, morals come cheap for some, which money doesn't, as all they want is money. To defraud or even murder for money seems to be quite "natural" to some, even when the target e.g. is one of their own children. When that's the case, then there may be a special way to earn money by killing the child, wife, husband or parent: Set up a life insurance on the one whom they plan to "do in". 

I remember a gruesome story of a man who married a young and loving woman for no other reason than to be able to set up a life insurance for her. Actually, I remember a couple of such stories of pre-mediated murder plans, both by men and women .... 

 

https://scholarship.law.campbell.edu/fac_sw/140/#:~:text=Of%20course%2C%20if%20a%20beneficiary%20murders%20a,he%20may%20be%20prosecuted%20for%20insurance%20fraud. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/karl-karlsen-wife-insurance.html 

 

https://iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/2021-08-31-cop-allegedly-insured-family-members-hired-hitmen-to-kill-them-and-claimed-insurance-money/ 

 

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Poem: "Eyes Everywhere"

 

Eyes Everywhere  

 

Some people grow eyes everywhere

actually, their eyes are coming and going  

sometimes they even go blind

 

Desperate, they cover their eyes in tears for protection 

sometimes they put on bandages or treat them with eye lotions 

some choose to sit in darkened rooms, eyes covered in moist tears

and yes, blind they are, although still seeing

 

Letting the tears trickle down for solace, they feel a quenched sadness

while the flames take over within, even the wetness get scorched

Yes, their thousand eyes burn in tears

blinded, they stumble off for the eye lotions and some bandages 

 

All Rigths Reserved © Copyright by Else Cederborg

Franz Kafka's Brave And Compassionate Sister, Ottla

Ottilia (called Ottla) was the youngest of Franz Kafka's sisters. She was his favorite sister, and they were very close, helping each other when help was needed. 

Franz and Ottla

For instance, he supported her decisions when she, as a very young woman, entered an agricultural program. Being the only woman, she met problems that were difficult to handle, and he told her that it would be perfectly all right both to stay and to leave if that was what she felt was the best. As it is, she persevered and got herself an education that made it possible for her to manage her brother-in-law's farming estate. 

In 1920 Ottla married a Czech Catholic, Joseph David, and the couple had two daughters, Vera and Helene. Ottla had been able to keep the contact with her brother, but mostly by letters. However, the tuberculosis of Franz Kafka worsened, and in 1924 he died. 

With WWII life became very difficult for Ottla and her family. Presumably, in order to protect her daughters and their father against the Nazi persecutions she divorced her husband in 1942, but that didn't save herself from being deported to Terezin. 

Ottla and her husband, Joseph David 

When her daughters begged to follow her their request was refused, and somehow they were not deported, but were able to stay with their father. They may have spent their time collecting and editing the letters from their uncle to their mother which later on were published as "Letters to Ottla and the Family" by Franz Kafka. Sadly enough, her letters to her brother were lost.

Franz Kafka made his name as an author, but his sister, Ottla, made hers as a genuine heroine when she volunteered to follow a group of Polish, Jewish children to Auschwitz. She did so because she took compassion on them when they arrived in Terezin, sick and terrified, with shaven heads and weak from hunger. On the 7th of October 1943 she was murdered with them. In Terezin she had secretly been their councillor, trying to console and comfort them, and she didn't want to let them down as they were terrified of what might happen to them.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-critique/article-abstract/52/1%20(154)/31/394922/Death-Writes-Franz-Kafka-Tubercular-Soundscapes?redirectedFrom=fulltext 

 

https://dailykafka.tumblr.com/post/741124990537285632 

 

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The "Reality" of TLC TV

 

I've got the opportunity to watch TLC. Normally I chose something else as my "television-treat", but on a lazy day when I felt like some "not too heavy food for my mind" I went for TLC. I must say, I'm surprised at the programs they offer, as all of them are extremely shallow reality-shows. Many of them are about food, either too much and too unhealthy or extremely elaborate, even glamorous as well as very fattening: For instance some chefs, e.g. from Australia, compete for a title as the best one. Not being very interested in cooking or baking, I don't watch these special programs, but I notice that they are on, maybe even on a daily basis. What's also on, day in, day out are programs about losing all that flab which will inevitably be the outcome of consuming a lot of food of all kinds. 

Cakes like this one are in one end of the specter, and in the other end there are several programs of extreme obesity. More or less desperate people fight the flab, using diets and/or surgery. Some succeed, others fail miserably, or end up half-way in a process of change which they obviously don't really want because they are hooked on the unhealthy food that brought them all that killer-flab. 
 

Sometimes the programs side with the often very, very heavy reality-stars, but not always. The specter contains both unhappy fatties doing their best to lose weight and gleeful people, who presumably are enjoying being "heavy-set" or whatever they call it. This weird mix of elaborate and glamorous cooking competitions, fatness surgery, tough diets and what looks like desperate attempts to give flab some value, even as a beauty asset, is so very odd, that it almost appears to be schizophrenic. 

Little people - namely midgets - in one end of the specter, and very, very big ones in the other end

However, I admits that it's interesting to watch something like TLC if one wants to gain insight in the "art" of reality-shows. I bet that those people who are to be found as the "stars" of those shows felt lucky to get the chance of becoming famous in this weird world of a set-up "reality". All I can say is, that hopefully they earn a lot on their shows and don't fall too heavily when it's over and someone else becomes a "star of the day" ....

  

https://collider.com/tlc-reality-tv-exploitation/ 

 

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Dr. Strangelove And Nuclear War

 

Recent extremely worrying events reminded me of a wonderful, but grim, politically satirical Peter Sellers-movie from 1964, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". The movie is loosely based upon Peter George's thriller "Red Alert" (1958), and the director was the renown Stanley Kubrick, who succeeded in making a masterpiece, which received four Oscars, and which absolutely is worth watching even today.  

The movie stars the British actor Peter Sellers in three different roles, and he is brilliant in all of them: 1) Dr. Strangelove, who is the wheelchair-bound, German-born "Merkwurdigliebe" with an unruly hand which loves making Nazi-gestures. Also he is an expert in nuclear war and weapons, 2) Merkin Muffley, the president of the USA, and 3) Lionel Mandrake, a RAF exchange officer from England 

 

The problem of keeping world peace in The Cold War is that one can't account for totally insane - or selfish - people doing something absolutely crazy. In this movie the insane individual is a brigadier general of The United States Air Force, Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden), who orders a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It appears that he has succumbed to the delusion that Soviet Union has been fluoridizing American water supplies thus polluting the "precious bodily fluids of Americans", which presumably means males and their semen. It's very obvious that looking masculine and fit doesn't tell the truth  about who and what brigadier general Jack D. Ripper is ....

What he doesn't know is that the Soviet Union created a doomsday machine, made of many cobalt bombs, which will detonate automatically should the country be attacked. And, as one may expect, the nuclear fallout would render the Earth uninhabitable for 93 years - or more. This demonic device cannot be deactivated, as any attempt to do so will make it explode. 

President Muffley is desperate to stop the air planes with the bombs as is his crew, but in vain. After some very hectic, but not quite succesful activity to put a stop to the diaster brigadier general Jack D. Ripper commits suicide. His CRM-code is deduced from doodles on his desk blotter as Strategic Air Command all the planes carrying bombs are recalled, except one which is under the command of major T. J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) who rides the bomb down to the "Big Bang", which also will kill him.  

The future of those who survive the nuclear war will be living in underground caves, fighting for whatever there is to eat - which can't be much - and that's a pretty strong warning even today.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/26/opinions/dr-strangelove-60th-anniversary-kubrick-trump-berlatsky 

 

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The Rossi Ruses

 

Here he is, the infamous Nicholas Rossi, as so often before pretending to be someone else. At the time of this photo, he fought hard to be accepted as an Irish professor teaching at a Scottish university and not at all the American fugitive who was to stand trial for rape and other crimes in his homeland of the USA. 

However, to many people the question is: WHO - and WHAT - is he really?????? Having sported several aliases ever since early youth, many people, who claim to know him, see him as someone different from whom he is, i.e. was born as. Well, the truth is that he was born in 1987 as Nicholas Alahverdian. His father was a confirmed sociopath, wife abuser, and all in all a very unpleasant character. When he left his wife and their three kids, she found a new husband who adopted the children, and thus the name of "Alahverdian" became "Rossi". The new adopted father of Nicholas has told about their continuous fights from day 1, but the young boy must have felt that adoptions gave him the best options because later on, when he was a teenager of 14 he tried to make a Rhode Island Representative, Brian G. Coogan, adopt him. At that time, the very young Nicholas made an impact on several Rhode Island politicians who saw him as a budding political talent, although it was rumored that he was some kind of a homeless individual who slept in the building of the Rhode Island Parliament.

As to Nicholas himself, then he alleged that he was an orphan who had been abused in several ways by The Department of Children Youth and Families, which is the Rhode Island's social service system. When he sued them in 2011 he didn't win, and I wonder if he at that time may have continued the rapes and sexual crimes of 2008 that brought him in conflict with the American judicial system. Anyway, he was accused of failures to register as a rapist when he in 2020 decided to flee the USA, but before doing so he faked his death by non-Hodgkin lymphoma. As FBI at the same time had started an investigation against him for fraud, many who knew him suspected that his "death" was one of his many ruses - which it was.

 

In 2021 he was identified in a hospital in Scotland as a Covid-patient, but he didn't accept that his true identity was Nicholas Rossi. No, he wouldn't have any of that, but kept repeating that he was an Irish professor at the University of Glasgow, that he had been an orphan when a child, and had been abused and mistreated by numerous people. Actually, he claimed over and over that someone had changed his identity in some intricate and very evil ways. His ruse didn't work, as he was arrested on charges of two alleged rapes back in 2008 and some other crimes. One of the reasons why his claims of a mistaken identity were repelled, was his very special tatoos.

He fought bravely for his fake Irish identity, but in 2024 he was extradited from Scotland and brought in for trial at a Utah court, where he admitted having faked both his identity and his death. 

 

One of the strange facts about Nicholas Rossi is that he is - or was - able to make an impact on powerful and influential people. For instance, here he is with the then-Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence, back in 2013. It's obvious that his personality seemed perfect for shady politics and lobbyism, but even though he founded "NexusGovernment", which is an organization to lobby for child-welfare, his criminal machinations sent him to court on severe criminal charges: The trial is set for September this year.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2349d9k999o 

 

https://news.sky.com/story/nicholas-rossi-us-fugitive-to-stand-trial-for-rape-after-plea-deal-withdrawn-13285355 

 

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Restless Souls for Entertainments

In a little while I'm going to see a program called "Ghost Nation". It's not the first time and neither the last, although I'm not a 100% believer in ghosts and "The Super-Natural". Why do I see such a program, is it the need of some sort of scary kick? No, it's more like a persistent "maybe" that leads to a "?". And, of course, that feeling may be translated into what's known as curiosity .... As it is, there are loads of events of all sorts that would need some explaining as well as a validation, but most of them don't concern all living creatures, animals as well as humans, the same way: None of us are living forever which opens up to a lot of questions. 

The Egyptian Queen Tiye

Like everyone of her culture and historical time period she had her ideas of life and death. To many age old people, Egyptians as well as others, death seemed to be the most important one of the two stages: To be dead without withering away and disappear took hard work and many preparations. Strangely enough, I've seen pictures of many Egyptian mummies, but I've never heard of any dead persons turning into ghosts. Why not? Didn't they share our, more or less, common belief that that might be the ultimate fate of ordinary people dying ordinary deaths? 

As to me, who don't really believe in ghosts, but who am curious, this is the cutest image, I can think of: A ghost-baby feeling forlorn and very, very unhappy finding solace in the arms of a human who cares and who wants to comfort the little one. That's how I would like to feel that those "ghost hunters" react to what they themselves proclaim to be "dead people", but that's not what they do. Actually, they sort of use these allegedly dead, but restless souls for entertainment, and that I don't like  ....