Posts Tagged death

Rumors of your death…

…may not be exaggerated.   But the acknowledgement may be delayed.

David Carter Found Dead In Foreclosed Ho mme As Many As Four Years After Suicide (VIDEO) Huffington Post
By Henry Bradford  Feb 6

“Abandoned homes have become an increasingly common sight amidst a national foreclosure crisis. Yet what may lurk forgotten behind closed doors may be much worse than nothing at all.

“A Milwaukee real estate agent entered one such house last month after it was repossessed due to tax foreclosure — the government can foreclose on a home if taxes and subsequent fees are not paid off within a designated time period — to find a sight he’s not likely to forget soon. The body of the owner David Carter was found on the stairs in a “nearly skeletonized” state after being left there undiscovered for what investigators believe to be up to four years, The Daily Mail reports.”

Bradford ties in another story and, by doing so, he creates a new genre, theater of the absurd vérité:  “A Florida woman is currently suing her lender, JPMorgan Chase, after the bank mistakenly declared her deceased in 2010, which she claimed ruined her credit score.”  Seriously, why should there even be a suit?  What is so wrong with JPMorgan that they would not settle this right away.  Never mind justice and common decency, this makes them look even worse that they already look.

Two stories of our time of decline… In one the unbearable poignancy of a suicide unnoticed for four years speaks to the widespread alienation and isolation of so many. In the other, someone who wants to live and user her credit is denied proof of life despite what must have been multiple visits to JPMorgan banks and offices.

Where is the “right to life” movement when life is denied in the face of undeniable empirical evidence?

This is the stuff of Nathaniel West or Samuel Beckett.

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Haley Barbour and the Culture of Death

By Michael Collins

  “After issuing just eight pardons in his first seven years, Barbour pardoned 208 convicts, 41 of them murderers, sex offenders or child molesters, during his last 48 hours in office.” Time Jan 13

It’s a big day for murderers in Mississippi, sex offenders and child molesters too! Just before leaving office, Republican Governor Haley Barbour pardoned 208 convicts in a stunning act of candor and honesty in behalf of the party and system he has served so well. (Image)

Tired of the same old script featuring religious values and law and order year in and year out by politicians you just know are lying? Your search for honesty is over. Haley Barbour is the poster boy for the culture of death that pervades the political leadership.

Why would Barbour do such a thing? In his own words, he told us: “I have no question in my mind that these men have repented, have been redeemed, have come back hard working to prepare themselves to go out into the world…”  CNN Jan 13

Go out in the world and do what? Murder, maim, commit sexual assaults against children and adults?
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Humiliation and Death as a Tool of National Policy


“It’s not acceptable to kill a person without trying him,” said Louay Hussein, a Syrian opposition figure in Damascus. “I prefer to see the tyrant behind bars.” New York Times, October 20

The New York Times reported that a NATO jet and drones disabled vehicles in a convoy carrying Muammar Gaddafi near the besieged town of Sirte on October 20. Loyalists in the remaining vehicles scattered becoming easy prey for the emboldened fighters of the new Libyan state.

Reuters expanded the narrative on the 21st by reporting that Gaddafi fled from his jeep, hid in a drainage pipe, and emerged with an automatic weapon and side arm. He was manhandled and slapped by the soldiers of the new Libya. He allegedly asked the crowd, “Don’t you know right from wrong?” They took exception to the question and shot him twice in the head. He was transported to Misurata, scene of one of the few decisive victories by the former rebels. Gaddafi’s corpse was placed on a bare mattress and put on display for the public on the 22nd. It remains there today, although it is now reportedly covered by a blanket (Reuters, October 23).

There’s a new sheriff in town, NATO.

(See a lively discussion of the article and issues raised at The Agonist).

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Media Porn Hides Real Threats to Children

 

By Michael Collins

Who knows if Casey Anthony is guilty or innocent?  Even Casey might not know at this point.  We do know one thing, without any doubt.  As our economy and nation crumble around us, we’re being amused to death by the corporate media.  They’ve got good reason to keep the headlines on Casey.  Absent a major distraction, there might be a focused look at the misrule and looting of this country for the past decades that has created the real threats to the health of children.

“Infant mortality is an important indicator of the health of a nation, and the recent stagnation (since 2000) in the U.S. infant mortality rate has generated concern among researchers and policy makers.”  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC, November 2009

The run rate for deaths for children less than one year of age, infants, is around 30,000 per year.  Have we heard that figure from corporate media lately?  Our international ranking fell for infant mortality from 12th in 1960 to 23d in 1990 and to 29th in 2004.  The US is currently ranked at number 46 in the world in preserving the lives of its infants.

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Guest Author Stewart Hutchison – A Cautionary Tale and Other Outcomes of Imperialism

The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal.  Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socialist, or even too democratic, for that carries the danger of allowing god-knows what kind of non-America-believer taking office.  Honduras 2009, Haiti 2004, Venezuela 2002, Ecuador 2000, Bulgaria 1990, Nicaragua 1990 … dozens more … anything, anyone, if there’s a choice, even a dictator, a torturer, is better.  William Blum

From — “Hutch” — Stuart Hutchison of Prosecute Them Now
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