Category Archives: Dead used for propaganda or profit
Xeni Jarden from Boing Boing is just back from Guatemala where some 20 murders a day take place and 98% of all violent crime goes is not investigated and not prosecuted. White Crosses to Mark Murders Prensa Libre today, caption: “Today, the principle roads of the city appeared painted with white crosses, an action of [...]
From the Body Farm to mystery writer to celebrity, Bill Blass will give you facts you’ll never forget like: “It takes longer to burn a 90-pound individual than a 300-pound individual,. The increased amount of fat on the larger individual accelerates the cremation process.” The Cult of Forensic Expert Dr. Bill Blass Such is the [...]
Well, this is one way to increase city revenues. Japanese cities raiding remains of dead for precious metals Tokyo collected some 700 grams of gold, 500 grams of palladium and 1.9 kg of silver from cremated bodies in 2007, adding Y3.2 million (£24,600) to the city’s bank account. The city also banked around Y90,000 (£690) [...]
My apologies for not posing over the holidays and my best wishes to all my readers for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. Now catching up on grave matters, the North East Lincolnshire Council bans mourners from laying artificial flowers on graves because of the health and safety risk. While the $10M lottery ticket [...]
Cash-for-corpses murders probed Chinese police have arrested members of a gang suspected of murdering more than 100 disabled or elderly people and selling their corpses in a bizarre scheme to avoid cremations, a newspaper said on Tuesday. Burials have traditionally been seen as the most respectful way to handle the dead in China, but were [...]
To see how low Wrangler has gone with a new ad campaign, “We Are Animals”, you have to click over to Wizbang to see corpses being used to sell jeans.
I’m on record as being creeped out by the Bodies exhibition that has traveled across the country. Skinned cadaver exhibit Gruesome Profiting from the Dead Now I find that There are a few things you ought to know about those ‘Bodies’. Peter Bronson answers the objections of those who say “only uptight Cincinnati” would object [...]
After you report that 11 of your family members have been slaughtered in Iraq, you become an international sensation giving press conferences and winning great sympathy, particularly among the anti-war media ensconced in Jordan where you now live. Imagine the embarrassment when your supposedly dead family members back in Baghdad show up and wave for [...]
Al Qaeda’s “Working Paper for a Media Invasion of America” – from a recently translated document originally published on a jihaddist web site brought to you not by the mainstream media but from the Mudville Gazette, a blog by an American soldier…. Targets listed: – US discussion forums – US chat rooms – Well known newspapers and magazines – American TV channels with web sites – Famous US authors with email addresses such as Friedman, Chomsky, Fukuyama, Huntington, and others – Famous US web sites like MEMRI, or those of the Zionist lobby (AIPAC), or research institutes like Rand CNN has already aired one video showing American soldiers being killed by snipers with film supplied by a terrorist organization.
CNN is the network that refuses to air beheading videos or the Mohammed cartoons yet defends its showing of an American soldier being shot by terrorists in Iraq as the “unvarnished truth”, no matter how disturbing it might be for millions of viewers and especially the soldier’s family…. The plan suggests a remedy for this oversight, and the paper calls for talented professionals to join the jihad – specifically, translators, and people with journalistic or literary talent who can provide a “ringing and powerful style that will have impact on the American people.”
