Eva Peron :: RIP July 27

The New York Times obituary notes that Eva Peron died on July 27, 1952.

For years, I held on to the uncorrected proofs of the book Life and Death of Eva Peron which was published in 1979.  (see photograph below). The book came to me at one of the many book sales in this area where bibliophiles comb through piles of oddities from reviewers, publishers and disappointed readers. 

Recently I donated the book to the friends of the local library, so they can offer it for sale.  And so the book change hands, possibly circuit around other used book stores and sales, much like Eva's corpse has traveled.

Does anyone  born after 1995 know who Evita was?  The broadway musical Evita! might help her live on, similar to the way Jesus Christ Superstar helps Jesus.

Mournful fictional video depicting Eva's end.

Who died? :: Who lied?

Twin Towers Deaths, Wars, Lies and Incompetence 

This is what happens when elected officials, executives and other unprepared "leaders" put their cronies and sycophants in jobs they aren't equipped to handle.

• Nine Eleven  ::  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html
• Hurricane Katrina Aftermath :: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9266986/ns/us_news-katrina_the_long_road_back/t/fema-chief-relieved-katrina-duties/#.UArrmI5vaFI
• Arlington Cemetery ::  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20007337-503544.html

Have you seen the video clip of former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice stating that 3,000 Americans died in the destruction of the Twin Towers, the World Trade Center in New York City, famously known as “911”?

The numbers aren’t quite right.   

• 2,176 of the people who died at the WTC collapse and aftermath were born in the USA.
• 372 were foreign nationals, excluding the perpetrators of the crimes.
• 90 countries were represented in the casualties.
•  573 of the dead were born in other countries. 

Data in the report noted below are based on 2,746 death certificates filed with the Office of Vital Records and three rescue worker deaths that were reported outside New York City through October 31, 2003.


Data on total deaths related to the events of that day in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia were not included in the WTC Disaster Death report authored by the City of New York.
Sources: Departent of Mental and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Vital Statistics, The City of New York.  Special Section: World Trade Center Disaster Deaths, December 2003.  
http://www.nyc.gov/health
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_September_11_attacks

It was convenient for the decadent Bush administration to pick a number and describe all the deceased as “Americans”  but that wasn’t true.

Among the dead were people of fame:  Berry Berenson, photographer, a relative of art historian Bernand Berenson and the sister of actor Marisa Berenson.  Anne Patten, “Mrs George Crile," the daughter of  diplomat and author Susan Mary Jay Alsop, a descendant of John Jay. 

And many, many people were just doing their job -- pouring coffee, taking tickets, typing e-mails, answering phones and mopping floors. 

Let's not forget the rescue workers and medical personnel.

Thirty Years War in Afghanistan and Iraq ::  1991 to 2012

GHW Bush Announcement of 1991 War against Iraq -- Daddy's War

3,000 Armed Forces have perished in Afghanistan, Bush Junior's War, reports the Telegraph.  

Do you think that 300,000 Iraqis and Afghanis have died after a decade of war?  Probably, but nobody knows.

Does anyone acknowledge those children, girls, grandmothers, boys and blind men who happened to be in the way? Ah, right, it's war.  Terrible things happen to bystanders.

Good news, the official count is not 300,000 people, yet. As of 2011, according to Wired Magazine, the number was only around 132,000.

Polyphagia :: Definition :: Eat :: Swallow

Do they still eat humans? " They " being other humans?
Ugh. Um, yes.

This article in the English newspaper The Telegraph  is about cannibalism in 2012,
not 1550,  the time frame of Hans Staden's True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil, edited and translated by Neil Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier.  He lived to tell the tale.


In April 2012, the Huffington Post reported, the unfortunate three met the killers when they applied for a nanny position in the household of  those charged by Brazilian authorities with murder and cannibalism.  According to a CBS News report, there were other victims.  CNN also covered the story. 

Flesh, cells and protein rot.  You've seen vegetables disintegrating into piles of squashed odor and off-beat color.  You've smelled rancid milk.  You didn't eat that meat or the fish that seemed a little off. You know that wounds are risky sites.

Social niceness keeps us in the dark about the decadent reality of human flesh as it decays.
Political and business interests avoid revealing the facts of iatrogenic disease, which is a fancy name for infection that starts in medical settings -- clinics, emergency rooms, ICU, surgeries, waiting rooms, examining rooms, and all the other places where practitioners of all stripes wear latex gloves but forget to wash their hands.

Read more about staph infections and the many ways they are transmitted in medical settings.  Know the symptoms and act immediately to secure proper care.  Understand how to protect yourself from infection after or during emergency care settings, particularly in certain states, provinces, regions and countries where you'd think medical care is universally top notch, but in fact, it's not.   Not by a long shot.

The key to evaluating medical care  is not counting how many successful transplants or open heart surgeries occur, nor how many elaborate imaging and analytic processes are on offer, but knowing the incidence of staph infection acquired during brief emergency room encounters or infection associated with routine procedures will help you keep your flesh, and your life.

Does the U.S. Center for Disease Control weekly Morbidity and Mortality report include iatrogenic staph infection numbers?  Did you know common staphylococcus aureus infections are resistant to medication?

Florida  2012

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57431162-10391704/aimee-copeland-24-battles-flesh-eating-necrotizing-fasciitis-following-zip-lining-accident/

“...was zip-lining last Tuesday near her home with her friends when she suffered a cut on her calf that required 22 staples to close. She came back to the emergency room at Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton, Ga. ...”

Perhaps the staphylococcus aureus infection and subsequent necrotizing fascists commenced but after contact in the emergency room where her leg was stapled (!) together.  The cut wasn't the source of infection, but the subsequent emergency room contacts infected her. 

Florida 2012

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/257238/3/Starke-man-dies-after-fight-with-necrotizing-fasciitis

Florida - Tampa

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163297/Flesh-eating-bacteria-Lisa-Maria-Carter-sues-Tampa-hospital-losing-hands-feet.html

South Carolina 2012

http://www.wtsp.com/news/health/article/255604/12/Another-woman-victim-of-flesh-eating-bacteria 

“It's caused by two usually common bacteria, streptococcus and staphylococcus aureus ...”

commonly found in hospital emergency room settings as well as on the human body.

Resources:

http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/030313illich/Frame.Illich.Ch1.html

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5953a1.htm?s_cid=mm5953a1_w

http://www.fidanoski.ca/medicine/staphylococcus-streptococcus.htm

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/state/golf-outing-palm-frond-leads-to-flesh-eating-disease-necrotizing-fasciitis-for-florida-man

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18476182

Green Graves

Jessica Mitford wrote extensively about the unnecessary procedures promoted by the opportunistic funerary industry in America in her ground-breaking (hah!) 1963 book The American Way of Death, reissued in 1998.  Embalming is not necessary, a waste of resources and a pollutant, not to mention an insult to the body and memory of the beloved deceased. Check out these resources for green gravesites.

Avoid embalming unless you are a Civil War soldier whose body will be sent back home by rail express, FedEx, UPS, or military cargo flight.