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Maybe we can open a BAD 25 chapter? I have a feeling there might be more around the corner.

You may listen to the snippet on the second link.

• JUNE 5TH RE-RELEASE OF THE #1 SINGLE, "I JUST CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU" INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DEMO TRACK "Don't Be Messin' 'Round" is available for the first time on the re-release of "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" the first of five consecutive #1 singles from MJ's landmark album BAD which celebrates it's 25th anniversary with the release of BAD 25 on September 18th. MORE INFO | LISTEN

JUNE 5TH RE-RELEASE OF THE #1 SINGLE, "I JUST CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU" INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DEMO TRACK | The Official Michael Jackson Site

Michael Jackson News  JUNE 5TH RE-RELEASE OF THE #1 SINGLE, "I JUST CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU" INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DEMO TRACK 
Buy the single Here
On Tuesday, June 5th The Estate of Michael Jackson and SONY Music Entertainment will re-release the first #1 single from BAD, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", with a previously unreleased bonus demo track from the BAD sessions titled, "Don't Be Messin' 'Round". This special single re-release will not be released digitally; it is only available on CD at Wal-Mart.com, Wal-Mart stores in the U.S. and at other locations worldwide.
"Don't Be Messin' Round" was re-discovered in MJ's personal vault during the research process for BAD 25, the 25th anniversary edition of BAD available September 18th. Listen to a preview clip below.

JUNE 5TH RE-RELEASE OF THE #1 SINGLE, "I JUST CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU" INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DEMO TRACK | The Official Michael Jackson Site

Are you ready for a feeling time
are you ready for a good treat
now there's so much entertainment
are you yeah ..in to me

Chorus:
So don't be messin' around, don't be messin around
don't be messin' around hey hey hey
don't be messin' around, don't be messin' around
don't be messin' around hey

If I started now in the deep
thinking said this feeling is your life
I'll be so proud if you let the only one
that we love before a little while

Chorus:
Don't be messin' around, don't be messin around
don't be messin' around hey hey hey
so don't be messin' around, don't be messin' around
don't be messin' around hey
oho yeah yeah,
oho yeah, oho yeah, oho yeah

Now just started think of pumpin
to the beat I said let's movin up late
she said to keep your mind
there's won't be no romance
no no mess around with me I..

Chorus:
Don't be messin' around, don't be messin around
don't be messin' around hey hey hey
so don't be messin' around, don't be messin' around
don't be messin' around hey hey

Full song on youtube:

Michael Jackson - Don't Be Messin' 'Round (Demo) - YouTube

[Michael Jackson Reincarnated as Dagestan Construction Worker?]

watch...

Michael Jackson Reincarnated as Dagestan Construction Worker?
June 1st, 2012 2:43 PM by Free Britney

The Republic of Dagestan is a federal subject (a republic) of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Dagestan is rich in oil, natural gas, coal, and many other resources.

Like SICK DANCE MOVES!

Check out this video of a construction worker breaking it down on the job to Michael Jackson's classic "Billie Jean." Guy can moonwalk like a champion!

Michael Jackson Reincarnated as Dagestan Construction Worker? - The Hollywood Gossip

[I just hope, we can get back to our purely investigative and funny talks again.]

I'm opening this in a new thread to not exploit the thread about Back and Front.

There will be more attacks to unhinge us and the board as such. The more the other sides realize they were on the wrong path, the more they will come try to get us out of the way. Psychological moments of scratched vanity. Not to be underestimated when it comes to those big players we keep pricking like a dry bred crumb.
Tiny but effective.

I think it is time to show as a group where we stand.
This attacking and slandering cannot be avoided and will be repeated. Those after ban executions of poisoning the world will see their fate arrive without any actions from our side.
But we can avoid to fall into their similar traps again and again while they are here.

We need to stay united, in between us the older forum-members, because most probably we will see more tabloid-TROLLS like this trying to attack the forum (admins) and disintegrate our group.
Now more than ever we need to support Souza in her actions and decisions, unless we want to see the forum closed! I think Souza's patience and energy are close to an end, and NOBODY could blame her... watching all the bizarre users/comments lately!!

New forum-members are welcome, but they need to watch out how they behave if they don't want to be mistaken/confused with forum-haters/trolls!

I just hope, we can get back to our purely investigative and funny talks again.
I for one, I am sick and and tired of ALL the whining, drama-stories, wives-wannabes, sexy-dreams about Mike, hysterical trolls attacking and accusing us of all the world atrocities! I think that we are stronger and ABOVE that, we, as a group of this forum! Let's get over with this CIRCUS once and for all and look at the amazing things that are unfolding in FRONT of our eyes!! There are still so many interesting, unheard of things to discover, YET we are stopped/blocked by superficial, naive , useless and time-consuming "conflicts".

@Sim and everyone else, I've been quiet recently and have not been spending much time here because I've really had it with all the fighting and drama (and obsessed 'fans' as well). I've almost got to the point where my 'deadline' that I talked about a few days ago actually will not come into play because I'll have left the forum long before that time comes.

Then I read Sim's post above and think 'do I really want to be forced out by the workings of troublemakers?' Isn't that giving them just what they want?

Which leads me to wondering if there's not a different/better way of tackling these 'interruptions' than getting into pages and pages of public arguing.

Souza, I've spoken to you before about my experiences on another forum (non MJ related) where the admin/mods actually read and moderate EVERY SINGLE POST before allowing them to be seen! Obviously this is extremely time-consuming and actually in reality, spoils the free-flowing nature of conversation (so I stopped posting there!), but it did keep the site safe and on-topic. I'm not suggesting you do this!

But I wonder if you'd consider a different course of action when you come across a post you're not happy about. How about if instead of questioning the poster publicly on the thread and thus opening the floodgates to god-knows-what, you were to (temporarily) delete it from the thread, question the poster in PM, and then depending on their response, either re-instate their post or leave it permanently deleted. I don't think this would be more time-consuming than your current way of dealing with things - in fact it could be a far quicker way of sussing out a member's true intentions. By doing it in private, a troublemaker would not be getting the public attention they crave, while a genuine poster with a genuine point would be happy to clear up any misunderstanding before going public.

So, firstly, would this be possible techie-wise, you know, with your awesome admin superpowers?!  And secondly, would this, or some other approach, be something you would be willing to consider in order to keep your house clean?

@Curls, you are bringing up an interesting example.

Still the question is what we want to share in here.
Freedom and flow of conversation - this will invite troublesome souls as we saw it happen many times. This is our current approach as I understand it and enables everybody to join and post without being "managed".

Or is it a fully moderated forum that we want - this will diminish the aggressions from the beginning but also lead to rumors of "censorship behind closed doors" (and requires additional mods or a tremendous workload for the existing ones.)

Isn't there a third way to allow the forum to remain as it is and simply change our reactions?
Can we not just step back and ignore posts that are expressing a mindset we don't agree with?
Wouldn't it be more than fair to support Souza in her tremendous workload if we would agree and align in refraining from any emotional argy-bargy OURSELVES?

We 1) know what it leads to and 2) have better to do than spend our precious time and resources on feather-picking. Trolls and troublemakers can only be ignored. There's no other way to get rid of them. They feed on attention. They get away when they don't succeed.

We don't need to change the forum IMHO.
We just need to stop to dance according to troublemakers' rhythm.
E.g. for getting the "ignore as of now" known, we may use PM.
We don't have to leave the house cleaning solely on Souza's shoulders either.

What do you folks think we should do about it?

[Unpublished: Michael Jackson and Dr. Murray, a fatal friendship.]

Unpublished: Michael Jackson and Dr. Murray, a fatal friendship.

Three years after the death of Michael Jackson, back on the court case that has fascinated the entire world: the trial of the doctor of the star.  Found guilty of manslaughter, Dr. Murray was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the death of "King of Pop".  Dissemination of new documentary in France "Michael Jackson and Dr. Murray: a fatal friendship" (2011), directed by Tom Roberts, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 20:35 on France Ô.

By Amandine Deroubaix:
"Convicted of manslaughter, the cardiologist Conrad Murray did not want to testify at his trial ultra publicized, but agreed to confide to the camera by Tom Roberts. In this documentary, filmed during the court hearings, he gives his version of events. He described a relationship with the pop star and is about a man alone, and insomniac addicted to drugs. He recounts the many pressures on the eve of the tour and ensures that on the night of his death, the star had begged him to inject a dose of propofol, a sedative that Michael Jackson used as a sleeping pill last few years. "

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.leblogtvnews.com/article-doc-inedit-michael-jackson-et-le-dr-murray-une-amitie-fatale-105746665.html

Original article:
Document inédit: Michael Jackson et le Dr Murray, une amitié fatale. - Leblogtvnews.com
The website of the TV station:
Accueil - France Ô

France Ô is a French public television network featuring programming from the French overseas departments and collectivities in Metropolitan France. It is part of the France Télévisions group. Its overseas counterpart is Outre-Mer 1ère. It is available through cable, satellite, ADSL and the new digital terrestrial television system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_%C3%94

[Michael Jackson costumes to be exhibited, sold]

Michael Jackson costumes to be exhibited, sold   

10:26 AM, May 14, 2012
By SANDY COHEN Associated Press

An undated image released by Julien's Auctions, shows a a Michael Jackson "Beat It" style jacket used on stage during the 1992-1993 Dangerous Tour.  /  Julien's Auctions / AP PHOTO

An undated image released by Julien's Auctions, shows a Michael Jackson right handed glove covered in crystals, designed by Tompkins & Bush.  /  Julien's Auctions / AP PHOTO

Michael Jackson's glittery gloves, spangled jackets, stage-worn costumes and personal fashion effects are going on a world tour.
Celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien says clothing created by Jackson's longtime costume designers will be exhibited in South America, Europe and Asia before being sold to the highest bidder in December.
The exhibit opens May 18 at the Museo de la Moda in Santiago, Chile. It features items such as Jackson's Captain EO shirt, the black spandex outfit from his "Scream" video and the breakaway suit he wore during his BAD tour in the late 1980s.
The items will be sold by Julien's Auction on December 2, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting Guide Dogs of America and Nathan Adelson Hospice in Las Vegas.
Michael Jackson costumes to be exhibited, sold | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Looking back and forwards, I think there are some reasons to pay attention to the upcoming months leading to June and July. Hope I got it all right - what else did I miss?

July 3, 1983 - release of Thriller
July 3, 2008 - release of Thriller 25
July 3, 2009 - release of Neverland ghost video - "privacy was key" - with a huge key jumping into our eyes (Miko Brando & CNN)

Michael Jackson - Neverland Ranch "Ghost" - YouTube

July 3, 2009 - LaToya visits Carolwood Drive
La Toya Jackson Leaves Michael Jackson's Estate. - Video Dailymotion

July 3, 2009 - announcement of memorial lottery
Michael Jackson memorial tickets available via online lottery | News Briefs | EW.com

July 3, 2012 - release of "The Amazing Spiderman" (Columbia - Sony)

The Amazing Spider-Man Official Trailer 2 - YouTube
July 10, 2010 - mjjpictures.com went on hiatus

MJJPictures will be on hiatus for a few weeks. We need time to work things out and come back with a new look. We'll keep u update ...

Michael Jackson Death Hoax Investigators • View topic - Mjjpictures.com on hiatus ...

July 20, 2011 - postponed start of C. Murray's trial
July 20, 2012 - release of "Batman - The Dark Knight Rises" (Warner Bros.)

The Dark Knight Rises - Official Trailer #3 [HD] - YouTube

 Just for the records:

TMZ are permanently linking on their PR activities' site to EHM Productions, Inc. and HPMG News.
http://www.tmz.com/pr

identifying Corporate Parent Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. for EHM Productions, Inc.

.
http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuits/trademark-lawsuits/california-central-district-court/62148/ehm-productions-inc-v-john-does-1-10/summary/

EHM Productions, Inc. are listed as
- Theatrical Producers/Services
- Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities
http://www.manta.com/c/mmygzb8/ehm-productions-inc
HPMG (Huffington Post Media Group) is an AOL company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Huffington_Post

AOL and Time Warner split into separate companies in 2009.

On May 28, 2009, Time Warner announced that it would spin off AOL as a separate independent company, with the change occurring on December 9, 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Time_Warner
http://money.usnews.com/money/business-economy/technology/articles/2009/05/28/time-warner-to-spin-off-aol-ending-ill-fated-deal

These are the major share holders of AOL shares:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=AOL+Major+Holders

So what is the basis for a continued link cooperation between TMZ and HPMG?

Has anybody noticed this before?
There is a helicopter at Neverland in 2003 around the time of the birthday bash that looks like Sheriff's rescue #5?

At 0:03.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbRWog8jUFs&feature=channel

[Martin Bandier Signs Long-Term Contract to Remain Chairman and CEO, SONY/ATV Music Publishing]

Martin Bandier Signs Long-Term Contract to Remain Chairman and CEO, SONY/ATV Music Publishing
* Reuters is not responsible for the content in this press release.
Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:00am EDT

Martin Bandier Signs Long-Term Contract to Remain Chairman and CEO, SONY/ATV Music Publishing
Renowned Music Executive To Continue Leading Award-Winning Business
Sony Corporation of America announced today that Martin N. Bandier has signed a long-term contract extension to remain as Chairman and CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. Sony/ATV Music Publishing is a joint venture between Sony Corporation and the Estate of Michael Jackson.
Since arriving at Sony/ATV Music Publishing in 2007, Mr. Bandier has grown the company in impressive ways. Throughout the past five years, Mr. Bandier has re-energized the music publisher by putting an emphasis on attracting the industry's best emerging talent including signing writer-artists like Lady Gaga, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull and Shakira as well as songwriter-producers like Jeff Bhasker, Boi-1Da, Evan Bogart, JR Rotem and RedOne. As a result of his efforts, Sony/ATV Music Publishing has gone on to win many of the industry's top honors including the ASCAP Pop Publisher of the Year (for the first time in the company's history in 2009) and the BMI Pop Publisher of the Year (for the first time in over 15 years in 2011). Sony/ATV Music Publishing has also been awarded both the BMI Country Publisher of the Year as well as the ASCAP Latin Publisher of the Year every year of Mr. Bandier's tenure at the company.
Since joining the company, Sony/ATV Music Publishing has twice been awarded the prestigious Sony Corporation Award for Excellence, which recognizes an operating company's stellar performance in a given fiscal year. Prior to Mr. Bandier's arrival, Sony/ATV had never been presented with the award.
In November 2011, an investor group that includes Sony Corporation of America in conjunction with the Estate of Michael Jackson, Mubadala Development Company PJSC, Jynwel Capital Limited, the Blackstone Group's GSO Capital Partners LP and David Geffen signed an agreement to acquire EMI Music Publishing. Subject to approval, Sony/ATV Music Publishing will help oversee EMI Music Publishing and will reunite Mr. Bandier with a company he spent over 17 years building.
"Working at Sony/ATV Music Publishing, especially with its talented artists, songwriters and staff, has been one of the best highlights of my career," said Mr. Bandier. "Over the past five years, we have shared some incredible moments and I am humbled by the confidence and support that Sony and the Estate of Michael Jackson continue to place in me for the development and growth of their joint venture. With the addition of EMI Music Publishing, a company I spent over 17 years building, the future looks very promising for many more shared successes."
"At a vital time for Sony/ATV, I am delighted that Marty has agreed to continue his expert leadership of this important company," said Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman, CEO & President, Sony Corporation. "Music publishing is an incredibly successful part of our business and with Marty staying on at the helm, Sony/ATV is well positioned for the years ahead."
"Marty Bandier is, and for years has been, the leading publisher in the world," said John Branca and John McClain, co-executors of the Estate of Michael Jackson. "We are thrilled he will be at Sony/ATV for years to come. Marty's experience, wealth of knowledge and creativity set the standard by which others are measured."
Mr. Bandier's move to Sony/ATV Music Publishing in 2007 matched the most renowned music-publishing executive in the industry with the company that not only controls some of its most valuable catalogue assets, but also boasts a stellar roster of the most active and popular current artists and writers. The catalogues include a generation-spanning mix of some of the biggest names in music, from the Beatles, Brooks & Dunn, Leonard Cohen, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Richie Sambora, and Hank Williams to Akon, Lady Gaga, Enrique Iglesias, Jessie J and Taylor Swift.
Mr. Bandier was named chairman and CEO of EMI Music Publishing in 1989 after a merger between SBK, a company he founded, and Thorn EMI. Under his leadership, the combined company became one of the world's most successful music publishing companies.

SONY/ATV
Jimmy Asci, 212-833-4513
Jimmy.Asci@sonyatv.com
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/19/idUS134648+19-Mar-2012+BW20120319

[James Murdoch Gives Up Role at British Unit]

February 29, 2012
James Murdoch Gives Up Role at British Unit

By JOHN F. BURNS and AMY CHOZICK  LONDON —

After months of deeply uncomfortable scrutiny, James Murdoch resigned on Wednesday as head of his father's scandal-ridden newspaper properties in Britain. He said he would now concentrate on the company's lucrative international television properties, working from the New York headquarters of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's global media conglomerate.

The announcement that the younger Mr. Murdoch, 39, had quit as executive chairman of News International, the British newspaper subsidiary of News Corp., came at a moment of intensifying pressure on the Murdoch-owned tabloids at the center of the scandal, The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World. The papers' reporters, editors and corporate executives, including James Murdoch, have been at the center of overlapping investigations by the police, Parliament and a judicial inquiry into a pattern of widespread phone hacking and payoffs to police and other public officials acting as sources for stories.

A statement by News Corp. depicted James Murdoch's transfer to the New York headquarters as a routine step that company insiders say was first ordered by his father 18 months ago. In effect, they said, he had already abandoned his London office for New York. Rather than a punishment, they sought to portray the move as an enlargement of his responsibilities for News Corp.'s international television holdings, a field in which he has won plaudits as profits have soared in the British, European and Asian operations he has overseen for the past decade.

The announcement said that he would continue as News Corp.'s deputy chief operating officer, and that oversight of the British newspapers would be taken up by Tom Mockridge, chief executive of News International, who would report to News Corp.'s president and chief operating officer, Chase Carey.
But the company's bid to present the changes as a routine reshuffle ran into a wall of skepticism on both sides of the Atlantic, with some critics saying that Rupert Murdoch, who is 80, was trying to protect his son at the expense of News Corp.

"Today's announcement is designed to protect him and give him a fresh start in New York," said Michael Pryce-Jones, a spokesman for the CtW Investment Group, a shareholder activist group based in Washington that works with pension funds for large labor unions like the Teamsters and United Farm Workers. "Everyone else involved in the scandal has been thrown under the bus, but James Murdoch is being protected."
But other analysts said it was unlikely that James would escape the legal problems no matter where he lives or works.

"You could put him in any division, and there's no way he escapes the implications if he was involved" in hacking and bribery at the British newspapers, said David Bank, a media analyst at RBC Capital Markets.
Mr. Murdoch's effort to limit the damage comes at a time when the scandal seems more likely to worsen than to relent. Scotland Yard's chief investigative officer in the case said Monday that "people at a very senior level within" The Sun had authorized hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to "a network of corrupted officials" in the British police, armed forces and government.

It was the most serious allegation yet made against the Murdoch papers, and one that appeared virtually certain to presage high-ranking prosecutions.
James Murdoch has not been questioned by the police in the scandals, which have seen at least 30 individuals linked to The Sun and News of the World arrested, questioned for up to 10 hours and released on bail. He has denied any role in the wrongdoing, rejecting as false the testimony of high-ranking colleagues in the British newspaper operations that he was told as early as 2008 of widespread phone hacking by News of the World.
In the case of one damaging e-mail sent to him in 2008 by Colin Myler, then News of the World's editor, that contained explosive information about the extent of the phone hacking, Mr. Murdoch has said that he failed to grasp the message's significance because he did not read all of the e-mail chain that came with it.

The announcement of James Murdoch's removal from the British newspaper operations came after Rupert Murdoch decided to take temporary charge of the British newspapers himself, according to a News International executive who spoke off the record because of the confidential nature of the discussions that led to the move. The executive said that Mr. Murdoch was "in his element" when personally involved in running the newspapers, and reveling in the start-up of a Sunday edition of The Sun, Britain's highest-circulated newspaper, which he oversaw over the weekend.

Mr. Bank, the media analyst, said that Mr. Murdoch was intent on finding a way to put the scandals in the past. "Rupert Murdoch is trying to change the narrative and move on," he said. "The further he gets away from the legal issues in the U.K. the more he'll get his autonomy back."

In the News Corp. announcement, Rupert Murdoch emphasized that James Murdoch would be overseeing "essential" properties, especially in the company's pay-for-view international television operations like Britain's BSkyB, other Sky franchises across Europe and Star TV in Asia. He also seemed to offer a glancing defense of his son's role in the tabloid scandals by saying that he had made "lasting contributions" in his "efforts to improve and enhance governance programs" at News International and the TV operations.

James Murdoch, too, seemed to claim credit for helping to clear up the British scandals by saying in the company announcement that with the start-up of The Sun on Sunday and "new business practices in place across all titles, News International is now in a strong position to build on its successes in the future." In addition to The Sun, the Murdoch newspapers in Britain include the up-market Times and Sunday Times.

But the reaction among many of those who have taken a lead in demanding public accountability for the Murdoch tabloids' excesses was harsh. John Whittingdale, chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport that twice questioned James Murdoch last year, said in a BBC interview that "even if he wasn't aware of the details" or scale of the phone hacking, as the younger Murdoch testified, he had become a liability to the company's operations in Britain.

"If News International wanted to move on from this problem, and start afresh, James Murdoch's presence was clearly going to be a problem for them," he said.
Even if not acknowledged as a demotion, the shift of the younger Murdoch and his effective replacement by his father appeared to many of News Corp.'s critics to signal that James Murdoch was no longer considered the likely heir to the throne of News Corp. Until the British scandals erupted, he had held that role, succeeding his older brother, Lachlan, 40, who had a bitter falling out with his father and other executives in 2005, quitting New York to return to an executive job with the company in Australia.

Two weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch appeared to signal that Lachlan was back in favor by making a dramatic visit to The Sun newsroom in the East London district of Wapping in the company of Lachlan, with James nowhere in sight.
People familiar with the dynamics of the Murdoch family have said in recent months that Elisabeth Murdoch, sister of Lachlan and James, has been urging her father to remove James from all executive authority because of what she has described, often openly at London dinner parties, as James's incompetence and arrogance in his handling of the tabloid scandals.

Along with the reputational damage to News Corp., Murdoch family members are also said by people who know them to be increasingly disturbed by the mounting financial costs of the British scandals, which some media analysts believe could run as high as $1 billion, when compensation and legal costs for the victims are factored in.

John F. Burns reported from London and Amy Chozick from New York. Alan Cowell and Julia Werdigier contributed reporting from London, and Ravi Somaiya from Stockholm.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/world/europe/james-murdoch-gives-up-role-at-british-unit.html

[Twitter's Fit for a Prince]

Twitter's Fit for a Prince Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bets $300 Million on Social Media
DECEMBER 20, 2011 By  ELLEN KNICKMEYER and AMIR EFRATIRIYADH

Saudi Arabia—Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has made a $300 million investment in Twitter Inc., expanding his media empire into social-media sites and giving the Saudi billionaire a stake in an online forum that was widely used by activists in this year's Arab uprisings.

The investment was made several months ago when existing Twitter shareholders sold $400 million of shares, according to people familiar with the matter. At the time, Twitter also raised $400 million from a direct investment led by Russia-based DST Global, known for its investments in social media companies including Facebook Inc. The identities of other investors weren't disclosed.

In an emailed statement from Prince Alwaleed's Kingdom Holding Co., Prince Alwaleed stressed both the investment potential and growing clout of the short-messaging social network in announcing the purchase, which he said was part of a drive "to invest in promising, high-growth businesses with a global impact."

San Francisco-based Twitter, whose investors include several venture-capital firms, was valued by analysts in October at about $8.4 billion, suggesting that Prince Alwaleed's stake is equivalent to 3.6% of the company.
Twitter, which allows users to send messages called "tweets" of up to 140 characters each, said recently the network had grown to 100 million active users who cumulatively send 250 million tweets a day. Facebook, by comparison, has more than 750 million users.

Twitter's fledgling online-ad business is expected to generate around $145 million this year, according to research firm eMarketer, as brands such as Starbucks Corp., luxury-brand giant LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA and others dip their toes into Twitter's ad products, which aims to target ads based on people's personal interests. That revenue figure is up from $45 million last year.

Prince Alwaleed, a nephew of Saudi King Abdullah, was rated by Arabian Business magazine earlier this month as the Arab world's richest businessman, with more than $21 billion in wealth in 2011.

Kingdom Holding officials didn't provide any further details of the purchase early Monday. Matt Graves, a Twitter spokesman, confirmed the investment.

"I see him as an investor happy to invest in any industry that he might think is lucrative at any stage," said Reda Haidar, a media and Internet analyst based in the United Arab Emirates.

Prince Alwaleed has focused his investments on banks, hotels and media companies, building sizable stakes in companies such as Citigroup Inc., News Corp., Apple Inc. and Time Warner Inc. News Corp. owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal. He is also developing a new Arabic-language satellite-news channel with Bloomberg LP.

Many people use Twitter as a kind of new-age radio, getting the latest information about everything from transportation delays and retailing promotions to news about various industries by tracking the Twitter accounts of trusted sources, including news agencies, analysts and companies or their executives.

Activists and social-media advocates say Twitter played a strong role in the Arab Spring uprisings this year, helping activists unite, win followers and spread the news of their grievances and demonstrations.
The investment by a Saudi prince in a social-media site that has served as an outlet for Middle East and North Africa dissidents throughout the Arab Spring alarmed some, who feared politically and socially conservative Saudi Arabia might thereby wield a chilling influence on free speech on Twitter.

But Prince Alwaleed's relatively small stake in Twitter isn't likely to have such influence. Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo has frequently said the company is "the free speech wing of the free speech party."

Jamal Khashoggi, the prominent Saudi journalist whom the Saudi prince has picked to run his planned news channel, called fears that the Saudi royal would seek to rein in political expression on Twitter "ridiculous."
"He does separate between his investments and his long-term plans from day-to-day politics," Mr. Khashoggi said. The hope among young Saudis he had talked to was that the purchase would help make Twitter "more accessible to Arabs" by involving an Arab in the ownership.

—Spencer Ante in New York contributed to this article.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204791104577107733831343976.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEFTTopNews

Who made the other $100 million investment?

[Citigroup Sells EMI in Parts for $4.1 Billion to Vivendi, Sony]

This deserves a thread on its own - it is even old news already.

/bravo/

Citigroup Sells EMI in Parts for $4.1 Billion to Vivendi, Sony

November 14, 2011, 4:11 AM EST
By Matthew Campbell, Amy Thomson and Andy Fixmer

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. agreed to sell EMI Group's recorded music and publishing businesses in separate transactions for a combined $4.1 billion.
Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group will buy EMI's record labels, home to Katy Perry and Coldplay, for 1.2 billion pounds ($1.9 billion), and a Sony Corp.-led group that includes billionaire David Geffen will pay $2.2 billion for the publishing unit, according to statements yesterday.
The breakup of London-based EMI, the 114-year-old music company that owns Abbey Road Studios, sells Beatles albums and publishes songs written by the late Amy Winehouse, ends a nine- month bidding war. Citigroup, the New York-based lender, seized EMI in February after investor Guy Hands fell out of compliance with loan covenants.
"The two companies coming in to buy the asset know the music industry well; they're not going to have any false pretenses about what will or won't happen," said Ben Rumley, an analyst at Enders Analysis in London. "We might be getting close to the point where the decline, in the recorded side at least, is ending."
The auction had a surprise ending, with the two winning bids outstripping rivals who had been in the lead for much of the process.
Warner Music Group, owned by billionaire Len Blavatnik, offered $1.5 billion to $1.6 billion for EMI's recorded arm, people with knowledge of the situation said last month. Sony was vying with BMG Rights Management GmbH, the music company controlled by KKR & Co., which had bid $1.8 billion to $2 billion for publishing, people said then.
Credit Markets
Uncertainty in credit markets worked in Sony's favor, because the private-equity suitors rivals for the publishing business depended on higher debt leverage and could extract fewer cost savings, said Rob Wiesenthal, chief financial officer of the Tokyo'based company's U.S. unit.
"It accrued to our advantage," Wiesenthal said in an interview. "While credit markets fluctuated, we were able to secure soverign entities, which are long-term holders."
The Universal transaction values EMI's recorded-music arm at about seven times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and before synergies, Paris-based Vivendi said in a statement.
Citigroup, based in New York, agreed to assume liability for employee pensions and any litigation with Hands' Terra Firma Capital Partners, said two people with knowledge of the talks. Universal Music will assume all risk related to regulatory approval, said the people, who weren't authorized to talk publicly.
Geffen Role
Vivendi plans to finance the purchase with existing credit lines and a 500 million euro sale of non-core assets of Vivendi and Universal Music, the world's largest music company.
"Universal will go from being the largest recorded music company to significantly the largest recorded music company," Rumley said. "Universal can generate huge economies of scale."
The Sony group, including the Mubadala Development Co. sovereign fund of Abu Dhabi, secured financing of more than $500 million from Blackstone Group LP's GSO unit, people with knowledge of the talks said. Geffen, 68 and based in Los Angeles, made his fortune founding and selling Asylum Records and Geffen Records.
Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the joint venture formed in 1995 that is co-owned with Michael Jackson's estate, will oversee the world's second-biggest music catalogue. Martin Bandier, Sony/ATV's chairman and CEO since 2007, had previously overseen EMI publishing.
Song Value
"This is the greatest grouping of songs from every decade," Martin Bandier, chairman and CEO of Sony/ATV, said in an interview. Bandier had previously overseen EMI publishing. "It was a real advantage for us and our investor group to have a sense of the value of these songs and the potential that is yet untapped."
Music was the second-biggest contributer of operating income after financial services at Tokyo-based Sony during the fiscal year ended in March.
The expanding girth of Universal Music and Sony will likely draw the attention of regulators, said Makan Delrahim, a former deputy assistant attorney general for antitrust under President George W. Bush. Sony's music publishing business may draw more interest, he said.
"That is a very concentrated industry," Delrahim said in an interview. "That's where you're going to see much more scrutiny."
Opposition in Europe
Impala, the European trade group that represents independent music companies, said it will oppose the deal.
The combination of EMI's record label with Universal will ultimately be good for the industry and musicians, Vivendi Chief Executive Officer Jean-Bernard Levy said.
"We are very confident that this transaction will be approved by the regulators," Levy said on a conference call. "We expect to have a very deep and fruitful dialogue with them, and we believe we have very strong arguments."
Legal music-streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Inc.'s iTunes have helped record labels blunt the effect of plummeting CD sales, reviving investor interest in the sector.
Industry wide, sales of record albums, which include digital downloads, compact discs, some vinyl LPs and cassettes, are up 3 percent, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the music industry's sales tracking system. A total of 255 million albums have been sold in the U.S. so far this year, compared with 247 million this time last year. At this point last year, overall album sales were down 13 percent from the previous year.
Digital Sales
Sean Parker, whose Napster music-sharing service helped destroy music companies' traditional business models, said this year that labels were "dramatically undervalued" and were poised to make gains as a result of new online applications.
EMI is the second major music label to change hands this year. Blavatnik acquired New York-based Warner Music in May for about $3.3 billion, including $1.99 billion in debt after a three-month auction.
Citigroup slashed the value of what it was owed on EMI to 1.2 billion pounds from 3.4 billion pounds after the February takeover.
Vivendi and Universal Music were advised by Allen & Co. and the law firm SJ Berwin, according to their statement.
Sony's group was advised by Joe Ravitch's Raine Group, Peter J. Solomon Co., UBS Investment Bank and Guggenheim Securities LLC. UBS led the lending group and legal advice was provided by Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP.
Citi Global Banking acted as financial adviser to Citigroup and EMI, while Clifford Chance LLP, Shearman & Sterling LLP and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP served as legal advisers.
--With assistance from Patricia Kuo and Katie Linsell in London, Anne-Sylvaine Chassany in Paris, Ragnhild Kjetland in Frankfurt and Jeff Bliss in Washington. Editors: Kenneth Wong, Anthony Palazzo, Donna Alvarado
To contact the reporters on this story: Matthew Campbell in Paris at mcampbell39@bloomberg.net; Amy Thomson in London at athomson6@bloomberg.net; Andy Fixmer in Los Angeles at afixmer@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Kenneth Wong at kwong11@bloomberg.net; Anthony Palazzo at apalazzo@bloomberg.net
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-14/citigroup-sells-emi-in-parts-for-4-1-billion-to-vivendi-sony.html

[drewsheart@live.com]

I am posting this without any consent from Eliza but I thought Eliza's post deserves your attention to an uncomfortable situation that asks for answers. Thank you.
For those who are not familiar with Eliza, there are many threads about her that I will add at the bottom of this post.

Eliza has posted several times on her blog about the health issues of her son.
This is what she wrote today.

http://elizapresley.blogspot.com/2011/11/drews-heart.html

11/2/11   DREW'S HEART - an urgent update    Hello everyone,

As you can see from my last posting here from the Time's article and where I asked for continued prayers for my son - he is one of the millions of uninsured in the US. The only jobs that he has gotten at his age & in this economy (as a waiter); none offer health insurance or full-time hrs. He was discharged from the original hospital after they put him on medication and then considered 'stable'. When he called to arrange the surgery that Monday, he was told that his portion would be 7k. It didn't happen & was impossible. It's been an ongoing fight since then to get him the heart surgery he still needs. Spoke to a wonderful doctor in Los Angeles yesterday. We have a very dear & mutual friend in common. He has agreed to arrange for Drew's surgery if we can get him there. I am beyond grateful. Just sat & cried after hanging up from him yesterday.

Now, I need your help to make this happen. While he will not have to come up with any of the funds for the medical care up-front (as was required by his local hospital after learning he had no medical insurance); the cost of the trip and for him to stay in Los Angeles has to be through donations. No matter if you can only donate $5.00 to help him, it will be so very appreciated. He has to be able to stay in CA long enough to have the initial procedure to stabilize his heart. If that is unsuccessful, they will then have to install a pacemaker. Because all of the testing wasn't done at his local hospital (they didn't have the facilities); we still do not know the extent and what all has to be done re: surgery, treatment, etc. Because of this, we have to allow him to be there for at least 2 weeks.

The PayPal email address to make a donation is: drewsheart@live.com

As always - please continue with your prayers for him ..

Much love,
Eliza

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More on Eliza's case:
http://www.probatelawyerblog.com/2010/11/eliza-presley-case-on-track-and-moving-towards-resolution.html
http://www.probatelawyerblog.com/elvis-presley/

http://www.michaeljacksonhoaxforum.com/smf2.0/index.php?topic=15871.msg273457#msg273457
http://www.michaeljacksonhoaxforum.com/smf2.0/index.php?topic=17506.msg299007#msg299007
http://www.michaeljacksonhoaxforum.com/smf2.0/index.php?topic=15793.msg266634#msg266634
http://www.michaeljacksonhoaxforum.com/smf2.0/index.php?board=106.0
etc.

They are on the 9th floor again - remember when they had to move to the 9th floor last time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUvkk9CnSwU&feature=related

[Willow the cat finally found 2,000 MILES from home after travelling from Colorado to New York and going missing for FIVE years]

Willow the cat finally found 2,000 MILES from home after travelling from Colorado to New York and going missing for FIVE years

• Cat went missing from Broomfield, Colorado, in 2006/7
• She turned up on a street in Manhattan, New York
• Owners were tracked thanks to microchip inside her
  

By Mark Duell

Last updated at 5:54 PM on 15th September 2011
A cat has made an extraordinary journey of almost 2,000 miles after she went missing from Colorado five years ago and turned up in New York.
Willow disappeared from a home in Broomfield but was found on Wednesday in Manhattan and will soon be reunited with her owners.
Jamie and Chris Squires, of Boulder, Colorado, were 'shocked' to hear of her whereabouts, but she had a microchip implanted as a kitten.

Eyes have it: How Willow got to New York, which is more than 1,600 miles away, and the kind of life she lived in the city are both mysteries

The family, who live near the Rocky Mountains, have two of three kids and one of two dogs who may still remember Willow.

But how she got to New York, which is more than 1,600 miles away, and the kind of life she lived in the city are both mysteries.

'To be honest, there are tons of coyotes around here, and owls,' Mrs Squires said. 'She was just a little thing, five and a half pounds.

'We put out the "Lost Cat" posters and the Craigslist thing, but we actually thought she'd been eaten by coyotes.'

Journey: How Willow made the distance of more than 1,600 miles from Broomfield, Colorado, to Manhattan, New York, is still a mystery

Long trip: Willow disappeared from a home in Colorado, but was found on Wednesday in New York City and will soon be reunited with her owners 

The couple were 'astounded' when they got a call from Animal Care & Control in New York City, saying she had been found on East 20th Street.

Mrs Squires added that her husband told her not to tell their children until they were sure it was indeed Willow that had been found.

'Then we saw the picture, and it was Willow,' she said. 'It's been so long.'

Animal Care & Control Executive Director Julie Bank said a scanner found the microchip that led to the Squires family.

'All our pets are microchipped,' Mrs Squires said. 'If I could microchip my kids, I would.'

The children are aged 17, 10 and 3 - so the older two remember Willow. Mrs Squires said her 3-year-old saw a photo and remarked: 'She's a pretty cat.'

The Squires family also have a yellow labrador named Roscoe, who knew Willow, and an English mastiff named Zoe.

'We had another dog back then too, and I remember Willow would lie with them as they all waited to be fed,' she said. 'She thought she was a dog.'

Found: Jamie Squires, right, and Chris Squires, left, were 'shocked' to hear the whereabouts of Willow, who had a microchip implanted when she was a kittenMrs Squires said Willow escaped in late 2006 or early 2007 when contractors left a door open during a home renovation.

Since then the family had moved about 10 miles from Broomfield to Boulder, but kept its address current with the microchip company.

Ms Bank recommended that all pet owners use microchips.

She said Willow, who now weighs 7lbs, is healthy and well-mannered and probably has not spent her life on the mean streets of Manhattan.

But there are no clues about her trip east or anything else in the five years she's been missing.

Looking: Willow stares out from a cage at her temporary home on Wednesday in New York's Animal Care & Control facility, after her very long journey

The ACC and the Squires family were trying to arrange for transportation back to Colorado and health certificates.

They said it might be two weeks before the reunion. Willow may spend some time with a foster family in New York.

'The kids can't wait to see her,' Mrs Squires said. 'And we still have her little Christmas stocking.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037609/Missing-cat-5-years-2k-miles-away-Willow-travels-Colorado-New-York.html

But thanks to a microchip implanted when she was a kitten, Willow will be reunited in Colorado with her owners, who had long ago given up hope.

http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?p=884789

Sep. 15, 2011 4:37 PM ET
No NY claim on cat missing from Colo. for 5 years

Willow, a 6-year calico cat that went missing from her Colorado home during a renovation 5 years ago, sits in a cage at her temporary home on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010, in New York's Animal Care and Control (ACC) facility. Willow, found as a stray in Manhattan and brought to ACC, had been tagged with an identification microchip and will soon be  reunited with her owners.   (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)        1 of 5

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's animal-shelter agency says a calico cat that disappeared from Colorado five years ago and was found on a Manhattan street had some human care in recent days. But there's no custody fight over it.No one is claiming ownership of Willow besides a family in Boulder, Colo.Willow was found on Wednesday and was linked to the family by an embedded microchip.The animal agency says Willow probably would have been dirty, scabby and flea-ridden if she'd spent much time on the streets. Instead, she's well-fed, and her coat looks good. An animal-welfare official even described her as chunky.The Colorado family plans to get Willow back home once she's cleared for travel.

Associated PressCopyright 2011

http://hosted2.ap.org/COGRA/APUSnews/Article_2011-09-15-Cross%20Country%20Cat/id-eabbdf4501984cb7a0e0b34f551ebb22

What a propaganda circus to fish for sympathy for the chip.
All news agencies have jumped on this train.
Nothing else worth to be reported, right. Not at this detailed length, right.

AP has been sent to the shelter and took a series of at least 5 (in words: FIVE) photographs of this cat.

The first article I read originates from the NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/nyregion/willow-lost-cat-from-colorado-resurfaces-in-manhattan.html?_r=1
A version of this article appeared in print on September 15, 2011, on page A28 of the New York edition with the headline: Lost 5 Years, a Colorado Cat Finds Her Way to Manhattan. (JIM FITZGERALD is the author, working for Associated Press, mentioned in other publications)

Comments to the various articles across the web indicate that the path is definitely getting paved for meeting exactly the desired result:

"THANKS TO THE CHIP, IT IS USEFUL, IT IS POSITIVE, THANK GOD WE NOW HAVE THE CHIP":

reading heartwarming stories like this make me so happy.

lovely story for a change

I love these happy endings!!!

She's lucky to be in American, if in SIN she will be treated like a stray cat n put to sleep

Very Lucky Fellow...!!!!Cheers

I wonder where she was all this time. WOW!!!!!!!!!! If cats could only talk!
I am so very happy for the family and Willow.

how cute!! reminds me of that movie, Homeward Bound or something!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/lost-cat-colorado-found-york-030509169.html

Only few comments are questioning:

Ermmmmm ...... ??????
Instead of the owner trace the chip, ..... the chip traced the owner ??????
Its so much of a "runnaway", most likely "abondoned".
Guess, instead the ACCNY should investigate the owner
first before returning the animal (pet).
Well,weI tried to "trace" our CPF. Where its been ??
How come not return to us (in FULL) when 55 ??????

Eh... its a land of freedom right? i think it wants to goes to manhatten, why not let it be...

[Charlie SheenI'm Gonna Watch My Own Funeral]

Charlie Sheen
I'm Gonna Watch My Own Funeral
8/6/2011 1:00 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF

Charlie Sheen hasn't just come to terms with his death on "Two and a Half Men" -- the actor tells TMZ, he'll be CELEBRATING it ... with his very own at-home screening of Charlie Harper's funeral next month.

The Warlock tells us, "I will be watching my fake funeral, attended by my fake ex-girlfriends, from my very, very real movie theater, with my very real hotties in tow."

As we previously reported, the new season of "Men" kicks of on September 19th with Charlie Harper's requiem -- and every memorable chick Harper ever banged on the show will be attending.

Still winning.

http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/06/charlie-sheen-watching-two-and-a-half-men-funeral-at-home-private-screening-premiere-pictures-photo/

[Illuminati : Michael Jackson]

I ran into these theories and wanted to share them as they somewhat tie together different points that have been discussed lately (LaToya, hoax vs. murder etc.).

Illuminati : Michael Jackson

June 25th, 3 days after the summer solstice, the "King of Pop" suddenly dies after days of preparation for his last tour "This is It" in London, a key city. I couldn't help but feel like it meant something in a way but I tried not to think to much about it until my friend who's name happens to be also Michael asked me if I thought anything special of it;  here it is what I could come up with.

Summer Solstice, 3 Deaths

First, 3 days exactly after the summer solstice is a big date, not only cause 3 is a meaningful number in the occult and the spiritual, but because exactly 3 1/2 years from that day will be December 25th 2012, a perfect day for the Illuminati to reveal their christ to the world to give their final touch to the New World Order (Read "June 21st is here"). Also remember that the dead of 3 different famous people occurred during those days, one of them being Farrah Fawcett one of "Charlie's Angels", so in a sense, before Jackson was gone the same morning an "angel of Charlie" fell or why not "sent back to heaven", maybe to send a message(i.e angel=messenger).

The meaning of Charles is:

Usage: English, French
From the Germanic name Karl, which was derived from a Germanic word which meant "man". However, an alternative theory states that it is derived from the common Germanic element heri meaning "army, warrior".

"An Angel of Man" or messenger was sent back that morning, then Michael was coming behind. First let me say that it should be very clear that Michael Jackson's death alone is creating a buzz in the media all around the globe so overwhelming that makes it seem like it may have been planned out for the eyes and "hearts" of the people to be focus on MJ and not on what the world leaders are doing behind the scenes with our world, because let me repeat that Jackson's death is a worldwide event used for worldwide change of the system.

The Name "Michael Jackson"

Let's see the spiritual or ritualistic aspect of his death, by seeing the meaning of the name which is the essence of who you are in one word, the reason why I am so jealous to maintain the Awesome Name of my Messiah and of the Father pure, Yahweh Yahuwshua and not the world corrupted words Jehovah Jesus.

MICHAEL
Usage: English, German, Czech, Biblical

Pronounced: MIE-k?l (English), MI-khah-el (German) [key]
From the Hebrew name (Mikha'el) meaning "who is like God?". This is a rhetorical question, implying no person is like God. Saint Michael was one of the seven archangels in Hebrew tradition and the only one identified as an archangel in the Bible. In the Book of Revelation in the New Testament he is portrayed as the leader of heaven's armies, and thus is considered the patron saint of soldiers.

Daniel 12:1
"At that time Michael shall stand up,
The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people;
And there shall be a time of trouble,
Such as never was since there was a nation,
Even to that time.
And at that time your people shall be delivered,
Every one who is found written in the book.

Maybe because of this promise or prophecy, they decided to kill a Michael at the beginning of their ultimate rebellion against the Almighty, Yahweh.
Revelation 12:7
And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
There are scriptural reference to say that Yahuwshua the image of Yahweh who walked the earth and is to come back carries also the name Michael as the heavenly chief.
"The term "archangel" is another shoddy Greek transliteration of arXaggelos. It means Chief Envoy. There is only One Chief Envoy. The Chief of the envoys is Yâ-hwéh, as they are the envoys of Yâ-hwéh. Somehow many have lost sight of this. Scripture calls the Chief of the envoys Miykhâ'Ë´l (Michael). None of the others are called this term, Chief Envoy ("archangel"). This name, or title, means Miy (He Who) – kha (is like) – 'Ël (the Mighty One [singular meaning the Father]). Who is the Tmunath Yâ-hwéh ("express Image" of the Father)? Who is like the Mighty One? Who is the only One Who is like Him?"
Taken from, Yahuwshua.org
The meaning of the name is an important one, one of which I'm sure Illuminati would love to make use of when sacrificing blood for some power or influence of the dark powers to meet their goals according to plan. Lets not stop there though, his last name is maybe as important as the first one, as we'll see.

JACKSON
Surname Meaning & Origin:
This patronymic surname means "son of Jack." The given name Jack may be a diminutive of John or James, or a derivation of the Old French given name Jacque, the French form of Jacob.

Therefore the name Michael Jackson can be translated as "Who is like God? the Son of Jacob".

It is a big deal, when you think about the fact that Jacob is he who became Israel the Father of the real nation of YisraEl, so in a way Yahuwshua the real Messiah can be called the Son of Jacob because of him being a descendant of course.

The throne of England is on top of what they say is "the Stone of Destiny" or "Pillow of Jacob" which is the rock where Jacob rested his head when he saw the Angel of Yahweh at the top of a ladder by which many angels where coming up and down, he anointed that stone and pronounced a blessing.

Genesis 28:10-22

Jacob's Vow at Bethel

10 Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
11 So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep.
12 Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of Yahweh were ascending and descending on it.
13 And behold, Yahweh stood above it and said: "I am Yahweh Mighty One of Abraham your father and the Mighty One of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.
14 Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you."
16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I did not know it."
17 And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of Yahweh, and this is the gate of heaven!"
18 Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place Bethel;[a] but the name of that city had been Luz previously.
20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If Yahweh will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on,
21 so that I come back to my father's house in peace, then Yahweh shall be my Mighty One.
22 And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be Yahweh's house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You."

The stone is there because they believe to be the rightful owners of the Kingdoms of the earth, therefore even the kingdom of King David who is also "the Son of Jacob", they are expecting to give that throne to their messiah soon, as I believe it to be in exactly 3 years and a half from the day of the ritualistic death of Michael Jackson = "Who is like God? the Son of Jacob", many believe this "Antichrist" is Prince Charles, cause is "a name of Man", others believe that instead it is his son William, who will do his own Will, the Will of I Am, which could be consider a blasphemy name.

Going even deeper into it, in the spiritual sense when it is spoken of the nation of Jacob, name which means "supplanter", it refers to the nation who still follows the supplanter cause they refuse to change the name they call upon, from Jesus to Yahuwshua, just like Jacob the "Supplanter" became YisraEl, which means "He who will rule like the Mighty One".

H3290
יעקב
ya‛ăqôb
yah-ak-obe'
From H6117; heel catcher (that is, supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch: – Jacob.

H3478
ישׂראל
yiśrâ'êl
yis-raw-ale'
From H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: – Israel.

The King of Pop Dead

The last important factor to take into account is that among many similarities between Elvis' dead and Michael's is that, just like Elvis was called the King, so was Michael Jackson called the King of Pop. When Freemasons and other ritualistic orders do their blood sacrifices to their god, killing "a king" means a lot, because their god will appreciate the blood of such an important person basically the best out of an entire kingdom, in the sense of monarchy, like when they took Kennedy out, the king of the United States at the moment, on the street with the shape of a pyramid without the capstone in a Masonic city.

Pop Music
Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and a conventional structure. The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" (see popular music), but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternative to rock and roll.

At the end of all these, thinking of how Doctors have said he was healthy, the fact that he was only 50 years old and they are now saying that it could've been an overdose provided by his own doctor, I have come to conclude, that Michael Jackson was a victim of an Illuminati Ritual, The King of  Popular appeal, the "King of the People", they are now going to get rid of the people under the king, like it is normally done in a war.

The "Angel of the man" left that morning to then finish it off with "Who is like God? the Son of Jacob" the world acclaimed "King of the Population", as a subliminal message to come for the rest of the population, keeping the minds of the world busy on his death while they do what they have been planning for so long for these days.

Be ready prepare and open your eyes.

"They Don't Care About Us"

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, aggravation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Bang bang, shot dead
Everybody's gone mad

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us (Illuminati)

Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
Jew me, sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, kike me
Don't you black or white me

Tell me what has become of my life
I have a wife and two children who love me
I am the victim of police brutality, now
I'm tired of bein' the victim of hate
You're rapin' me of my pride
Oh, for God's sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy...
Set me free

Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible because you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, now
I'm tired of bein' the victim of shame
They're throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can't believe this is the land from which I came
You know I do really hate to say it
The government don't wanna see
But if Roosevelt was livin'
He wouldn't let this be, no, no

Some things in life they just don't wanna see
But if Martin Luther was livin'
He wouldn't let this be

"They Don't Give A Fuck About Us"

Y'all ain't never just tripped and pictured
And just looked at the whole situation
Cause once u look at it
You know
(really do)

They don't give a fuck about us
They don't give a fuck about us
They don't give a fuck about us

Thuggin' till the day I die
They don't give a fuck about us
And when I start to rise
A hero in their children's eyes
Now they give a fuck about us

[Tupac]
Some say niggaz is hard headed cause we love to trick
Equipped with game so we bang wit this thuggish shit
I see you trying to hide
Hoping that nobody don't notice
You must always remember you still a member of the hopeless
See ya black like me
So you snap like me
When these devils try to plot
Trap our young black seeds
Look it
Cops are just as crooked as the niggas they chasin'
Lookin' for role models
Our father figures is bases
Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep
Niggas at the party with they shotties
Just as rowdy as me
Before I flee computer chips
I gotta deal wit brothas flippin
I don't see no devils bleedin'
Only black blood drippin
We can change
Whatcha now say?
I'm watchin niggaz work their lives out without pay (huh)
Whatever it takes to switch places wit the bustas on top
I'm bustin' shots make the world stop
They don't give a fuck about us

[Tupac]
I'm seeing it clearer
Hating the picture in the mirror
They claim we inferior
So why the fuck these devils fear ya?
I'm watching my nation die genocide the cause
Expect a blood bath
The aftermath is y'alls
I told ya last album, we need help cause we dying
Give us a chance, help us advance cause we trying
Ignore my whole plea, watching us in disgust
And then they beg when my guns bust
They don't give a fuck about us

http://www.thedoggstar.com/articles/michael-jackson-illuminati/

Michael was Murdered

I've been wanting to post this update for a while but I just haven't had the time, not long after I had written the first article where I commented my suspicions of Michael Jackson having been some sort a sacrificial victim used by the Illuminati for power and as a distraction for the entire world, based on the meaning and importance of his name as well as his Title as The King of Pop.

"Michael was Murdered"

Michael's sister Latoya Jackson, made a statement, giving some validity to my initial thoughts.

"I believe Michael was murdered," she said. "I felt that from the start. Not just one person was involved, rather it was a conspiracy of people. He was surrounded by a bad circle. Michael was a very meek, quiet, loving person. People took advantage of that. People fought to be close to him, people who weren't always on his side."

"He had needle marks on his neck and on his arms and more about those will emerge in the next few weeks," she said. " I cannot discuss that any further as I may jeopardize the investigation. I can, however, say that I have not changed my mind about my feeling that Michael was murdered."

"I am going to get down to the bottom of this," she said. "I am not going to stop until I find out who is responsible. Why did they keep the family away? It's not about money. I want justice for Michael. I won't rest until I find out what — and who — killed my brother."

She mentioned very clear that it was a conspiracy perpetrated by a group of people, that he had needle marks on his neck, which obviously he didn't inject himself, than later goes on to say that it was not about money.

From some years back Michael Jackson had become very outspoken when it came to the injustices of the Music Industry towards their artists, he had stated very clear in several press conferences that there was a conspiracy to destroy his image, ever since he broke all of the Beatles and Elvis records ha had seen how the media immediately turned on him, he even when as far as describing Tommy Motola as "a devil". Many times also in his songs and videos we can appreciate how he felt about the Illuminati and the control they had over him, this can also be seen in many of his early videos which are many times full of symbolism.

Here is a video posted by Farhank where Michael Jackson gives his thoughts concerning Illuminati and about the control they have over the music industry, please watch and listen very carefully because I believe that in these video alone, there's enough evidence to suggest that he was murdered by the Illuminati, as I believe in a ritualistic matter, making out of the "The King of Pop" a sacrifice to their god Baphomet.

After watching and hearing the comments made by Michael Jackson, just imaging everything he had to say on his London tour called "This is It", some say he was going to reveal the plans of the Illuminati for the depopulation of the world, which has been going for years but will increment very quickly this year and will get worst as the years go by, others believe also that he was going to speak about what will happen in 2012 which the governments know and are not informing the people. I guess it will remain as speculations, but after everything you heard him say on the video, I'm sure Illuminati did not want him alive for the last tour, where we he was going to spill the beans on everything he knew, being that the last chance(i.e. This is It).

They Don't Care About Us

Lastly I'd like to point out something I have noticed from watching the news talk all day and night about Michael. I believe that Illuminati is making a mockery of his dead everyday and are even telling the world that they did it, by playing on the background the same piece of video from his rehearsal over and over again, when he was singing "They Don't Care About Us". I'm pretty sure they have footage of other songs during the same rehearsal but show this song only because it was the most direct song which he wrote and performed against the Illuminati, so by playing it they are showing that indeed they don't care about us nor him, that is why they killed him and they are showing that they are proud of it, as usual.

http://www.thedoggstar.com/articles/michael-jackson-illuminati/michael-was-murdered/

Michael Jackson, Dead or Alive?

Here is the second and most likely last update to the article on Michael Jackson's death and the connections to the Illuminati.  I have had all these info waiting for me to put it all together, but it has not been as simple as I thought, since a lot of the evidence coming out lately on Michael Jackson´s death is just opening more questions that answering, which I´ll put here for everybody to feel free to give their own opinion at the bottom, maybe Michael will read it and clear this whole thing up lol, Holla at me MJ. I want some inside info lol.

Is Michael Jackson Alive?

There has been much speculation about Michal Jackson maybe being alive, claiming his death was actually a hoax to escape certain individual and his money problems as well as the Illuminati, interestingly there is a lot of peculiar evidence supporting this theory.

For example, there is a series of videos in YouTube made by JonellStar in which she is showing all the evidence pointing to the death Michael being a Hoax. Here I´ll show you a couple of those videos I found quite remarkable, the first you´ll hear Lou Ferrigno saying in a interview that unlike what everybody has said on the news about Michael being in bad health, he was in perfect shape and couldn't wait to start the tour, also pointing out some characteristics about Michael that only add more fuel to the belief of MJ pulling the hoax, like the fact that he would love to wear disguises and make different voices to prank people even mentioning using a Mannequin in an ambulance to fool the paparazzi.

I´d like to point out from the past video also, the last interview with the guy who presented, what I´m sure was a double of Michael Jackson, during the Press Conference for the tour ¨This is It¨, who said that he was told about the job the day before, something I find odd, like if it was just set up to fit its purpose in the whole ¨hoax¨ or future coverage of his tragic death before his last tour making everyone believe Michael was actually alive and going to make the tour. He also said that the first thing ¨Michael¨ did was ask if the teleprompter on, as if he didn't even know what to do or say even though no one could know more about the tour than himself, if it was him that is, plus, as the guy mentioned, he didn't need it since all he ended up saying was ¨this is it this is it cause this is it¨, something way to simple, maybe for the double not to mess things up.

In this next video you can see how part of the hoax belief is, that Michael Jackson himself is Dr. Murray, disguised as he did for the video Ghost, being his own murderer which would be a crazy twist in the whole hoax production. Adding to this belief there is also his regular physician Dr. Arnie Klain saying on Larry King supposedly by mistake that Michael is the most talented actor and also Kenny Ortega, the Emmy award winning director and producer, taking it one step further saying that Michael had been with him in the same building where they had the memorial, less than a week before, even though the memorial was 12 days after the supposed death. He also ¨mistakenly¨ said during an interview that Michael Jackson was the one who took care of directing the movie ¨This is It¨.

Was the Hoax created by Illuminati?

I would like to think he is alive, believe that he was actually clever enough to fool the Illuminati in this way, he was without a doubt a extremely talented and smart guy, but it really makes me doubt since, if indeed his death was a hoax, like the evidence supporting this shows, seems like way too many people knew about it, even the media seemed to have been involved, which makes it seem as if it may have been to fool the public and not really the Illuminati, but then, the real fans were the ones able to spot the many details which not fit in the picture presented by the media to the public, so then they believe Michael just wanted to let them know. He was a performer, that´s what he did best, he always made the best videos/short-films and even before his death, he was talking a lot about wanting to begin getting involved in film, like directing, and create something that had never been done in the industry. Could it be that he is now making his last and most memorable performance to the whole world taking the fiction of the TV to the real lives of all his fans. What if that is exactly what the Illuminati is trying to make the fans think and is using all that energy of all these people for their purposes whether to reach certain goal of theirs or just to keep everybody focus on his death or possible hoax while they keep destroying the world and taking our liberties.

The Occult Ritual

If in fact everything still the same since the last update and he is dead, taking in account several of the points on the hoax theory, I would think that he was dead way before the media announced it, since the guy doing the conference for ¨This is it¨ was obviously one of his doubles. I believe they chose that date to make it official and known to the world because of the occult importance of it, as discussed in the first article on his death, and also for the release of negative energies in the entire world, like the sadness and suffering, to please their demons who are junkies for these, reason why the Illuminati wants the world under constant fear, filling them every day with Terror. They did the same on July 7th, another meaningful date, only for the emotion of the people to flow since there was not even a body in the casket, yet the whole world was crying mourning the body of MJ.

There is something which should be mentioned and it is that whether or not a hoax, the Illuminati has used his death to speed their agenda at a very fast paste, first, on the day he died they passed a bill to reduce human liberties further, on the day of his memorial the pope called for a world political authority, he meant the beast I´m sure, also they passed ¨Hitler´s¨ health care bill, then the Codex Alimentarius cataloging all Nutrients as ¨poisons¨ and Barack Obama just signed an executive order not long ago that puts the United States on the verge of Martial Law. Michael Jackson´s death and everything involved in it, have been a clear distraction from all that is going on in the world as they keep working to form their New World (dis)Order.

Is Dr. Murray a Mason?

There are reports claiming Dr. Murray is a Freemason, mainly because of the picture showed next, in which he is wearing a Freemason Lodge Officer Chain Collar, yet a Masonic website claims that he belongs to a fake lodge saying that the "United Most Worshipful Scottish Rite Grand Lodge of Texas, A.F.& A.M." which is supposed to be the one Dr. Murray belongs to, is a group that has been long recognized as a bogus organization. (Source:MasonicInfo)

Conrad Murray Masonicofficer
Some of those who think it was a hoax believe that Michael is playing the role of Dr. Murray, but I found some reports on Dr. Murray's criminal past, showing how he has been sentenced to jail a couple times before but has never step a foot in a cell, maybe being a Mason has something to do with it, twice he got in trouble with the law for child support and once back in 1994 for domestic violence of which arrest is the next picture.(Sources: Hollyscoop & ExtraTV)
Dr. Murray arrested in 1994
I guess Michael was murdered by a hired Dr. Mason who needed a clean record and has been regarded as a fake Mason by his brethren once the news of his allegiance to the cult were known.
Sacrifice of Michael as a Jesus Figure

In the first article about MJ´s death, I wrote most of the relations of Michael Jackson being sacrificed by the Illuminati, being like a Jesus figure, as a ritual and also as preparation for what could be the biggest Deception the world will ever go through, a fake second coming of Jesus, exactly 3 and half years after Michael´s death, a number known very well by all students of Bible prophecy to be one of the two equal last periods in history, the first of the last 7 years to be exact. After I had come to all those conclusions which you can read in ¨Michael Jackson: Illuminati Ritual¨, I was surprised to find a lot more connections to this theory being a reality, whether hoax or not, it applies to both as you´ll see.

Something that to me was very big to support the theory, was the song they chose for the choir to sing while they were introducing Michael into the place, if it was that his body was in the casket which I don´t believe, which would even give more credibility since they were supposedly bringing into the place Michael Jackson, which means ¨Who is like the MightyOne?, the Son of Jacob¨, that is the Messiah Yahushua according to the Bible, and everybody bought it, in the place were the memorial took place and also all around the world and all this was going on while they were all chanting:

"Soon and Very Soon"
Soon and very soon we are gonna see the king, talking about Jesus since it is a christian song talking of the second coming of Jesus

Think about it, this could represent the fake presentation of Jesus to the world which everyone will buy because will receive full coverage in the media like the death of Michael did and will also be an empty image like the casket at the memorial, filled only with all the emotion of the people of the world who will be completely deceived by the technology in the hands of the Beast. Also remember that for a prince to begin his reign as king, in this case of the POPulation of the world, as explained in the first article, the King of the moment must die first and remember that the murdered of Michael, ¨the black king of the POP¨, was done to bring a new black king into the hearts of the world, Barack Obama who around the time of Michael´s death was just reaching his 173th day of which he spoke during his speech at the dinner in May at the White House, which I mentioned in ¨The Last 7 Years¨ and adding to this, now the mass sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of people as another ritual in Haiti, which I know is a sensitive subject to talk about and I pray to Yahweh for every soul out there, but if you investigate enough you would come to the conclusion, as myself, that the Haiti Earthquake tragedy was done by the powers that be, using H.A.A.R.P Technology which I will get more into in another article in the future, all these to make the image of Obama once again lovable by the whole world, since most of his credibility has been lost, yet this is in the United States, which sadly but true, he doesn´t care about much what the country thinks but what world thinks.

The Purpose of ¨This is It¨

The theory of Michael´s death preceding the fake second coming of Jesus is also supported by the movie ¨This is It¨ as well as the theory of this whole thing being a Hoax. Many people believe that Michael was going to warn all the people of the world if possible during the tour, about all that the Illuminati has planned for the world for the next 3 years, 4 when the movie was being filmed, some others believe that he is still on it, with the hoax, but either way, the movie gave everyone a hit of what he knew about what is coming in 2012, as you can hear in the next video as he expressively says that "We got 4 years to get it right, or else it is irreversible".

The songs that were used in the movie and their order seemed to have some significance as well, for instance the song thriller could be related to the chapter in the Bible speaking of the pit of hell opening at some point, which would let all evil spirits out to posses whatever they can.
Revelation 9
1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Then by the end of thriller, you can see a spider coming on stage, which could mean in a way, a Star Gate, because of its eight legs, representing the octagon which is commonly used by Illuminati to symbolize star gates, this would mean then than Michael or Fake Jesus would be entering this dimension right after something very ugly is happening in the world, when the spider(star gate) is opened and Michael(Jesus) appears with open arms as Christ on the cross being revealed out of the spider(star gate), then the song thriller suddenly changes to a somewhat angelical choir, like most would imagine the coming of Jesus being, seeming to bring peace, yet once again not long after the new appearance he begins performing the most symbolical song of all, to support basically all theories, because of its content and the timing in which he decided to perform it along the show.

Here is about a 90% of the song for you to read it for yourself with my comments in a parenthesis on the side and keywords of the song in bold letters.

Threatened
Michael Jackson

[INTRO]
Tonight's story is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction
A monster had arrived in the village (Monster=Beast & Village=World)
The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown
And this person or thing is soon to be met (could it be the beast and its image?)
He knows every thought, he can feel every emotion (¨The Architect of the Universe¨?)
Oh yes, I did forget something didn't I? I forgot to introduce you to the monster.
You're fearing me, 'cause you know I'm a beast
Watching you when you sleep, when you're in bed
I'm underneath
You're trapped in halls, and my face is the walls
I'm the floor when you fall, and when you scream it's 'cause of me
I'm the living dead, the dark thoughts in your head (Where do the dark thoughts come from?)
I heard just what you said
That's why you've got to be threatened by me
You think you're by yourself, but it's my touch you felt
I'm not a ghost from Hell, but I've got a spell on you (Lucifer is not in hell yet, that is Samael)
Your worst nightmare, it's me, I'm everywhere (The god of this world)
In one blink I'll disappear, and then I'll come back to haunt you (The Fake rapture?)
I'm telling you, when you lie under a tomb (He who was, is not but will be)
I'm the one watching you (The all seeing eye?)
That's why you got to be threatened by me

[ROD SERLING VERSE]
The unknown monster is about to embark
From a far corner, out of the dark
A nightmare, that's the case
Never Neverland, that's the place (the opposite of eternity in the Kingdom of Yahweh)
This particular monster can read minds (from a higher dimension, hence the need of a star gate)
Be in two places at the same time (same as above, lol)
This is judgment night, execution, slaughter
The devil, ghosts, this monster is torture
You can be sure of one thing, that's fate
A human presence that you feel is strange
A monster that you can see disappear
A monster, the worst thing to fear.

[OUTRO]
What you have just witnessed could be the end of a particularly terrifying nightmare.
It isn't. It's the beginning. (Right after the fake coming of Jesus everyone will believe the nightmare is over but it will be actually just starting  and lasting for the next 3 and half years)
This is how the end is gonna unfold

Very clearly he states this is how the end is going to unfold, I don´t think this could be clearer, now if you are thinking that is too far-fetched given the fact that the song was written so long ago, remember that the Illuminati has their plans laid out decades in advance, since at the end it is not their plan but that of the god they serve, Lucifer. Then also, keep in mind the articles on all the artist who sold their souls to the Devil literally, to receive all the fame and power, remember that Michael was the most famous guy in the world, in the same art as the rest of artist who sold their souls, music, this could mean that maybe since he was taking into the music industry as a little kid, pure in mind, the devil was able to make almost complete use of him, turning him into what he became, channeling his songs from the spirit named lee he claimed to have in his house living in the room of mirrors who would speak to him. I believe he realized what was going on with him and in his whole life and started doing his own research into the occult must likely and several religions and saw his bosses, the Illuminati, for what they really are, devils controlling him from inside and out, so then he turn against it and was murdered because of his knowledge on what the powers that be have in mind since he had been under their wing ever since he could remember, so I believe at the end he got his soul back by the mercy of the Most High since he might have never given it consciously in the first place which it would be when it actually counts, cause you are not guilty of a sin unless you know is a sin or in other words unless you know what you are doing and Michael being just a kid, that lifestyle is all he knew, but thankfully it seems, like I said before, that by the mercy of the Most High he opened his eyes before disappearing.

Did Michael Jackson fake his death, which would be the unknown mentioned in the intro, or is the unknown he is talking about the spirit world, which the world is blind to and will be dramatically open to right after 2012. Maybe he faked his death to escape the harassment of the FBI for 14 years or maybe instead the FBI decided that the best shot would be to get rid of him.

At the end, you can see what Michael Jackson showed by the end of the movie ¨This is It¨ in which he was playing a character from an old movie called ¨Gilda¨ who fakes his death to get vengeance at the end, by surprising the woman giving the name to the movie, representing those who fell for the hoax or maybe the whore ¨Babylon¨.

So my conclusion is that I have no conclusive conclusion, but these next three options which I leave here for everybody to think about and comment right below:

1. They killed him a while back before July 25th 2009 and the Illuminati is doing the whole hoax thing to keep ALL the fans still focused on him and every detail around his possible death while they use it to further their plans of world control.

2. Michael Jackson is doing the hoax, with the media and everybody involved, as the greatest stunt ever to be pulled by the greatest performer, his last job, like said before, taking fiction to reality, bringing the whole world into his movie, his final act.

3. He is pulling the Hoax and is planning something against the Illuminati to expose them, which is what most people who believe he is death, think he was going to do at the tour.

Either way I know he is fine wherever he may be at.

Peace and Blessings

http://www.thedoggstar.com/articles/michael-jackson-illuminati/michael-jackson-dead-or-alive/

[Prosecutors want another delay in trial of Michael Jackson's doctor]

Prosecutors want another delay in trial of Michael Jackson's doctor

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Prosecutors want another delay in the start of the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor, but the judge will wait until next month to decide the request.

"I'm not surprised by all of this," Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said during a hearing Friday.

The trial has already been delayed twice since Dr. Conrad Murray invoked his right to a speedy trial after his arraignment in January.

"When I got myself involved in it, I said 'It ain't gonna happen,' " Pastor said, referring to the original starting date of late March. The case has been "creepy crawly," he said.

Jury selection was under way in May when the defense requested a delay so its expert witnesses could have more time to prepare for new experts hired by the prosecution. Pastor then dismissed hundreds of prospective jurors and rescheduled the trial to start on September 8.

Deputy District Attorney David Walgren said Friday morning that the prosecution needed another three weeks to prepare because of "scheduling issues." Defense lawyers did not object to moving jury selection to the end of September.

Pastor, who said he "rearranged all sort of cases, including capital cases" to start the trial in September, said he would wait until a July 12 hearing to decide.

Also on Friday, the judge approved a plan to allow defense lawyers and prosecutors to view dozens of hours of raw video shot of Michael Jackson's last rehearsals. The video was bought by Sony Pictures for its film "This Is It."

Pastor hasn't ruled on what clips, if any, defense lawyers might be able to show at the trial. He has previously limited the prosecution to just raw video of Jackson's last two days alive.

Saturday is the second anniversary of Jackson's death, which the Los Angeles coroner ruled was from an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol, combined with other drugs.

Murray, who was hired as Jackson's personal physician as he prepared for his comeback concerts in London, is charged in the singer's death.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/24/california.conrad.murray/

[Spanish protest movement vows to fight on]

It is not only North-Africa, Yemen or Syria.
Many young people in Europe are fed up with their actual life situation and are meeting in the streets.
They are planning their activities in the web and go meet one-on-one and stay there visibly to establishment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=oBakrZUgbEE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlhxdAAH9uo&feature=relmfu

Spanish protest movement vows to fight on
May 30, 2011, 11:23 GMT
Madrid - The young people's protest movement that has gripped Spain for two weeks remained
defiant on Monday, with protesters vowing to continue occupying squares in several cities.
Hundreds of people staying at Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square will remain there for the
time being, said a spokesman for the movement, known as M-15 (May 15).
Madrid's conservative regional authorities and Puerta del Sol shopkeepers have urged Prime
Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Socialist government to disperse the protest camp.
Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said he will discuss eventual measures against the
camp with police representatives.
Police last week temporarily dispersed a similar protest camp in Barcelona. About 100 protesters
were injured in the clashes, which sparked a new wave of sympathy for the M-15 movement.
Protesters who have returned to Barcelona's Catalonia Square announced over the weekend that
they will stay put at least until Tuesday.
Demonstrators in Seville, Valencia, Santiago de Compostela and Bilbao also said they would
maintain their camps.
However, the protest movement was increasingly moving from central squares to neighbourhood
assemblies. In the Madrid region, more than 20,000 people attended around 120 weekend
assemblies discussing proposals to improve Spain's political system, according to figures given by
organizers.
The M-15 movement seeks a reform of Spain's democracy, which it sees as corrupt and as serving
the interests of financial markets. The movement was sparked partly in reaction to Spain's 20 per
cent jobless rate. Among young people, unemployment exceeds 40 per cent.
The movement has already collected more than 250,000 signatures from supporters, according to
representatives in Madrid. It has also spread around Europe and Latin America, with about 40,000
people attending a rally in the Greek capital Athens over the weekend.
In Paris, police dispersed about 1,000 people who had gathered on Bastille Square to protest
against unemployment and corruption.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1642361.php/Spanish-protest-movement-vows-to-fight-on

For knowing what's going on in the world of bloggers, this is a must watch site that collects blogs and translates them so that news from around the world don't get lost:

Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world.

http://globalvoicesonline.org/

One of the remarkable signs of spreading love despite hate:
a teacher starting to sing with kids during a shooting in Mexico.
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/05/28/mexico-teacher-sings-with-students-during-shooting/

This is needed in the world.  bearhug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlmNj5T_Brc

[New Michael Jackson Domain Names]

4/28/2011
New Michael Jackson Domain Names

The Michael Jackson Estate just registered a couple of new domain names related to the first "MichaelFest" event they announced yesterday for this December.
As I previously reported, the MJ Estate registered the "MichaelFest" trademark a year ago. Now we know the reason.

See below the list of the new domain names:
MICHAEL-FEST.COM
MICHAEL-FEST.NET
MICHAEL-FEST.ORG
MICHAEL-JACKSON-FAN-FEST.COM
MICHAEL-JACKSON-FESTIVAL.COM
MICHAEL-JACKSON-FESTIVAL.NET
MICHAEL-JACKSON-INTERNATIONAL-FESTIVAL.COM
MICHAEL-JACKSON-INTERNATIONAL-FESTIVAL.NET
MICHAEL-JACKSON-INTERNATIONAL-TRIBUTE.COM
MICHAELFEST.NET
MICHAELFEST.ORG
MICHAELJACKSON-FESTIVAL.COM
MICHAELJACKSON-FESTIVAL.NET
MICHAELJACKSONFANFEST.COM
MICHAELJACKSONFANFEST.NET
MICHAELJACKSONFANFEST.ORG
MICHAELJACKSONFESTIVALINTERNATIONAL.COM
MICHAELJACKSONFESTIVALINTERNATIONAL.NET
MJ-IF.COM
MJ-IF.NET
THE-FIRST-ANNUAL-MICHAEL-JACKSON-INTERNATIONAL-FESTIVAL.COM
THEFIRSTANNUALMICHAELJACKSONINTERNATIONALFESTIVAL.COM
THEMICHAELFEST.COM
THEMICHAELFEST.NET
THEMICHAELFEST.ORG
THEMICHAELJACKSON-FESTIVAL.COM
THEMICHAELJACKSON-FESTIVAL.NET
THEMICHAELJACKSONFANFEST.COM
THEMICHAELJACKSONFANFEST.NET
THEMICHAELJACKSONFANFEST.ORG
THEMICHAELJACKSONFANFESTIVAL.COM
THEMICHAELJACKSONFANFESTIVAL.NET
THEMICHAELJACKSONFANFESTIVAL.ORG
THESECONDANNUALMICHAELJACKSONINTERNATIONALFESTIVAL.COM

And just for the curiosity, below you may find the whole list of domains owned by The Michael Jackson Company LLC:

365MJ.COM
BESTOFMICHAELJACKSON.COM
CLUB-MJ.COM
CLUBJACKSON.COM
JACKSONWEAR.COM
MICHAEL-JACKSON-LIVE.COM
MICHAEL-JACKSON-RINGTONES.COM
MICHAEL-JACKSON.BIZ
MICHAEL-JACKSON.NET
MICHAEL-JACKSON.ORG
MICHAEL-JACKSON.TV
MICHAEL-JACKSONS-NEVERLAND-RANCH.COM
MICHAELJACKSON-LIVE.COM
MICHAELJACKSON.TV
MICHAELJACKSONBIOGRAPHY.COM
MICHAELJACKSONCOMPANY.COM
MICHAELJACKSONFANCLUB.COM
MICHAELJACKSONLIVE.COM
MICHAELJACKSONRINGTONE.COM
MICHAELJACKSONRINGTONES.COM
MICHAELJJACKSON.COM
MICHAELJOSEPHJACKSON.COM
MICHAELJOSEPHJACKSON.ORG
MIJACMUSIC.COM
MJEXCLUSIVE.COM
MJJ-FILMS.COM
MJJ-NEWS.COM
MJJ-NEWS.NET
MJJ.BIZ
MJJ.NET
MJJFANCLUB.COM
MJJFANSONLINE.COM
MJJFILMS.COM
MJJMUSIC.NET
MJJONLINE.NET
MJJPRODUCTIONS.COM
MJJRADIO.COM
MJRADIO.COM
NEVERLAND.ORG
PETERPAN.NET
PETERPAN.ORG
THEJACKSON5.COM
THEJACKSON5.NET
THEJACKSON5.ORG
THEJACKSONFIVE.COM
THEJACKSONFIVE.NET
THEJACKSONFIVE.ORG
THEJACKSONS.BIZ
THEJACKSONS.COM
THEJACKSONYEARS.COM
THEKINGOFPOP.COM
THEMICHAELJACKSONCOMPANY.COM
THEMICHAELJACKSONFANCLUB.COM

http://lesliemjhu.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-michael-jackson-domain-names.html

Very interesting.
34 new domains for the fans' fest.
Compared to 53 already existing domains (of which 2 name Michael Joseph).