Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Amputation / Body Modification
I don't know if this photo is genuine or photoshopped, but I found it posted at the BMZINE blog:
(Title of blog: "My Left Hand"):
"“I did this to my left hand over a period of two years, and I’m not finished, yet. I won’t be happy with it until all the digits are completely gone. I love the look of ancient Roman and Greek statues with “missing” parts, they’re so beautiful! And mine, is even more so."
Read comments here.
(Title of blog: "My Left Hand"):
"“I did this to my left hand over a period of two years, and I’m not finished, yet. I won’t be happy with it until all the digits are completely gone. I love the look of ancient Roman and Greek statues with “missing” parts, they’re so beautiful! And mine, is even more so."Read comments here.
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Dig for bodies at Manson family hide-out called off
LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Police in California have ended their dig at a former desert hideout of notorious convicted murderer Charles Manson after two days of digging failed to find any evidence of bodies buried at the site, authorities confirmed Thursday.
Teams of forensic scientists and officers had been due to undertake three three days of "limited excavations" at the remote Barker Ranch in Death Valley national park, roughly 200 miles (321 kms) northeast of Los Angeles.
However the dig was halted at the end of the second day after work on four sites of interest failed to uncover evidence of clandestine graves.
Arpad Vass, a scientist with the Oakridge National Laboratory involved with the dig said he was frustrated at the failure to unearth evidence.
"Unless the science improves in a few years I see no need of further digging," Vass said.
Mammoth Lakes Police Detective Paul Dostie, whose private investigation of the site in February last year after his cadaver dog detected odors of possible human remains at five locations on the ranch, admitted defeat.
"We don't know all there is out there, there is something," Dostie said. "Is it possible there are bodies out here? Sure. Is it worth spending more money on it? I don't think so."
"There's plenty of probable cause. But you can't dig up the whole desert."
Manson, 73, is among the most notorious inmates in the United States. He and four of his followers were convicted of seven counts of murder following a crime spree in Los Angeles County.
The Manson family's crimes included the gruesome killing of five people in the home of actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant at the time of her murder with her husband Roman Polanski's child.
The Manson family have been rumored to have claimed other victims at the Barker Ranch, however, according to reports and investigators.
But after two days of digging all investigators were able to unearth was a bone believed to be from an animal and a bullet casing that post-dated Manson's killing spree.
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Monday, 12 May 2008
Police to Dig for Graves at Manson Ranch
FRESNO, Calif. (May 9) - The sheriff of the remote region where Charles Manson hid after a killing spree in the summer of 1969 said Friday that he will allow researchers to begin digging into the sandy soil in search of possible human remains.
Authorities said they'll begin digging for possible human remains at a California ranch where Charles Manson's infamous "family" of outcasts and drifters once made their home. Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze said he will allow a limited four-day excavation at Barker Ranch beginning May 20.
In February, a team of forensic researchers visited the Death Valley ranch where Manson took refuge and found at least two sites that could be clandestine graves holding the bodies of additional victims.
Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze said he will allow a limited four-day excavation at Barker Ranch beginning May 20 because forensic tests of the soil had produced mixed results.
"There was no consistent response from the dogs that searched, and no conclusive findings from the soil samplings tested by top experts in the field," Lutze said in a statement. "The only way to determine once and for all whether there are bodies buried at Barker Ranch from the time of the Manson family is to proceed with limited excavation."
National Park Service officials said Thursday that the ranch, located within Death Valley National Park in the rugged Panamint Mountain range, would be closed for as long as four days "to protect the integrity of the investigative process."
Lutze has jurisdiction over the dig because the park land lies within Inyo County boundaries, sheriff's officials said.
The ranch was briefly closed in April, but a decision to dig was put off because a piece of high-tech soil-testing equipment was damaged en route to the site. Authorities said they wanted to conduct tests using lasers before disturbing the soil.
Scientists completed four kinds of tests at five locations on the ranch and found some corroboration of a "possible find of human remains" at some of the sites, Lutze said.
Manson and his followers hid out in the decrepit ranch after a series of gruesome murders that set Los Angeles on edge in 1969. They were arrested there in a raid.
Manson is serving a life sentence at Corcoran State Prison for the murders of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate.
Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze said he will allow a limited four-day excavation at Barker Ranch beginning May 20 because forensic tests of the soil had produced mixed results.
"There was no consistent response from the dogs that searched, and no conclusive findings from the soil samplings tested by top experts in the field," Lutze said in a statement. "The only way to determine once and for all whether there are bodies buried at Barker Ranch from the time of the Manson family is to proceed with limited excavation."
National Park Service officials said Thursday that the ranch, located within Death Valley National Park in the rugged Panamint Mountain range, would be closed for as long as four days "to protect the integrity of the investigative process."
Lutze has jurisdiction over the dig because the park land lies within Inyo County boundaries, sheriff's officials said.
The ranch was briefly closed in April, but a decision to dig was put off because a piece of high-tech soil-testing equipment was damaged en route to the site. Authorities said they wanted to conduct tests using lasers before disturbing the soil.
Scientists completed four kinds of tests at five locations on the ranch and found some corroboration of a "possible find of human remains" at some of the sites, Lutze said.
Manson and his followers hid out in the decrepit ranch after a series of gruesome murders that set Los Angeles on edge in 1969. They were arrested there in a raid.
Charles Manson/ATWA links
Manson Direct
Official site for the Charles Manson Truth
One World Order/ATWA
Air Trees Water Animals - All The Way Alive
Sunday, 11 May 2008
3 accused of using corpse head to smoke pot
By BRIAN ROGERS
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Two men and a juvenile are accused of digging up a corpse, decapitating the body and using the head to smoke marijuana, according to court documents.
Matthew Gonzalez and Kevin Jones have been charged with the misdemeanor offense of abuse of a corpse, said Scott Durfee, a spokesman for the Harris County District Attorneys Office.
According to documents filed in the case, Gonzalez, Jones and an unnamed juvenile on March 15 went to an Humble cemetery, dug up a man's grave, left with the head and turned it into a "bong."
Gonzalez told authorities about the incident Wednesday, and showed officers the defaced grave, including a 4-foot hole. Because of a heavy rain, officers were unable to determine whether the casket or the body had been disturbed.
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Two men and a juvenile are accused of digging up a corpse, decapitating the body and using the head to smoke marijuana, according to court documents.
Matthew Gonzalez and Kevin Jones have been charged with the misdemeanor offense of abuse of a corpse, said Scott Durfee, a spokesman for the Harris County District Attorneys Office.
According to documents filed in the case, Gonzalez, Jones and an unnamed juvenile on March 15 went to an Humble cemetery, dug up a man's grave, left with the head and turned it into a "bong."
Gonzalez told authorities about the incident Wednesday, and showed officers the defaced grave, including a 4-foot hole. Because of a heavy rain, officers were unable to determine whether the casket or the body had been disturbed.
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Do they eat babies in China?
from about.com "Urban Legends".
Dear Guide:
I received an email last week which was quite disturbing and, to say the least, disgusting. It is about dead babies that can be bought from hospitals in Taiwan for $70 to meet the high demand for grilled and barbequed babies!
I am sure this must be a hoax, although the message comes with an attached slide show, showing how the baby is prepared, cooked and eaten.
Could you please investigate?
Dear Reader:
I think we can safely say that the Chinese as a people do not routinely eat babies or fetuses; nor do Jews, Christians, witches, aborigines or any other groups accused of doing so over the centuries. There's simply no proof of it. There has never been. What the historical record shows is that the allegation has surfaced time and time again as an ethnic and religious slur.
The claim that baby or fetus eating is an accepted practice in China (or Thailand, or Japan, or Korea, or Israel, as other variants of this same rumor claim) is more or less a modernized version of an ancient legend known as "Blood Libel". It has typically taken the form of one culture accusing another (or a subculture) of ritually sacrificing infants and in some cases eating them. The Greeks accused the Jews of it, the Romans accused the Christians, Christians accused the Jews again, and so on throughout history.
Folklorists say the driving forces behind such legends are ignorance, xenophobia (fear of other peoples and creeds) and/or one culture projecting upon another its misgivings about unsettling moral trends at home. One might speculate in the present case, for example, that the spread of horror stories in the West about the crass use of fetuses as food in Asia is fueled by qualms about the practice of abortion and the so-called "cannibalization" of fetal tissue for scientific research in our own countries. There are few more emotionally charged issues in modern life.
In any case, it's hard to tell (and under dispute) whether the horrific photographs circulating via email since December 2000 are real or fake. We do know because we found documentation on them at a site called Chinese-Art.com that they were created by a conceptual artist named Zhu Yu, who exhibited them at an underground art show after they were rejected as too controversial by curators of the Shanghai 2000 Bienniale. In the piece, which he called "Eating People", a series of photographs indeed appears to show Zhu cooking and eating a human baby or fetus. For those who haven't seen them here are two examples from this postmodern masterpiece collected from forwarded emails:
The artist himself, whose past accomplishments include an opus entitled "Canned Human Brains," has claimed in interviews that he used real aborted fetuses stolen from a medical school to create "Eating People" and that he actually cooked and ate them "for art's sake."
Should we take him at his word?
Dear Guide:
I received an email last week which was quite disturbing and, to say the least, disgusting. It is about dead babies that can be bought from hospitals in Taiwan for $70 to meet the high demand for grilled and barbequed babies!
I am sure this must be a hoax, although the message comes with an attached slide show, showing how the baby is prepared, cooked and eaten.
Could you please investigate?
Dear Reader:
I think we can safely say that the Chinese as a people do not routinely eat babies or fetuses; nor do Jews, Christians, witches, aborigines or any other groups accused of doing so over the centuries. There's simply no proof of it. There has never been. What the historical record shows is that the allegation has surfaced time and time again as an ethnic and religious slur.
The claim that baby or fetus eating is an accepted practice in China (or Thailand, or Japan, or Korea, or Israel, as other variants of this same rumor claim) is more or less a modernized version of an ancient legend known as "Blood Libel". It has typically taken the form of one culture accusing another (or a subculture) of ritually sacrificing infants and in some cases eating them. The Greeks accused the Jews of it, the Romans accused the Christians, Christians accused the Jews again, and so on throughout history.
Folklorists say the driving forces behind such legends are ignorance, xenophobia (fear of other peoples and creeds) and/or one culture projecting upon another its misgivings about unsettling moral trends at home. One might speculate in the present case, for example, that the spread of horror stories in the West about the crass use of fetuses as food in Asia is fueled by qualms about the practice of abortion and the so-called "cannibalization" of fetal tissue for scientific research in our own countries. There are few more emotionally charged issues in modern life.
In any case, it's hard to tell (and under dispute) whether the horrific photographs circulating via email since December 2000 are real or fake. We do know because we found documentation on them at a site called Chinese-Art.com that they were created by a conceptual artist named Zhu Yu, who exhibited them at an underground art show after they were rejected as too controversial by curators of the Shanghai 2000 Bienniale. In the piece, which he called "Eating People", a series of photographs indeed appears to show Zhu cooking and eating a human baby or fetus. For those who haven't seen them here are two examples from this postmodern masterpiece collected from forwarded emails:
The artist himself, whose past accomplishments include an opus entitled "Canned Human Brains," has claimed in interviews that he used real aborted fetuses stolen from a medical school to create "Eating People" and that he actually cooked and ate them "for art's sake."
Should we take him at his word?
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