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True Michael Jackson
... in his own words and in words of those, who knew him
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"Don't believe the nonsense about Michael being gay and stuff. When there were girls around he'd talk about them to the guys and run around pinching their asses and then run away. He was a real funky street dude, know what I mean?"
Michael Lovesmith, former fellow Motown recording artist
Q: "Was Michael ladies´ man?"
Tito Jackson: "Oh! Are you kidding me? I used to tell people, when they used to say things, ´He´s gay´or whatever, I said no. Leave your wife or your girl with him for a day and you'll find out."
Tito Jackson explains who his brother Michael really was (Sept 2019): youtu.be/TuMjo6nwcDY and Michael´s nephew confirms it:
"(...) And not to mention, @jmoffettmjm himself worked with Michael for over 30 years and knows how much Michael was CRAZY about women. He told me many stories. I can't say them (out of respect to both my fiancé and Michael), but he's not the only one who knew him very well to say this... (...)"
Myra Hissami, designer, filmmaker, musician, entrepreneur, fianceé of MJ´s longtime drummer (who liked this post) www.instagram.com/p/BumdzZiAud-/
"He would always, like everywhere he went, he would kind of (*shows looking around*) - he called it fishing. He looked around for all the hot girls and he was like: ´Turkle, Turkle, that one´s really hot, look look, oh she, look how her hair is...´ (...) I think he had fears about intimacy, you know, from his childhood. I don´t think he really had great examples of how a relationship works."
Karen Faye, MJ´s longtime make-up artist, and hair stylist - youtu.be/62c64u4qhfg (MJ´s stylists talk about his sexuality)
"When I was little I grew up in an adult world. I grew up on stage. I grew up in night clubs. When I was seven, eight years old I was in nightclubs. I saw striptease girls take off all their clothes. I saw fights break out. I saw people throw up on each other. I saw adults act like pigs. That's why to this day I hate clubs. I don't like going to clubs - I did that already, I've been there. That's why I compensate now for what I didn't do then. So when you come to my house, you'll see I have rides, I have a movie theatre, I have animals. I love animals - elephants and giraffes and lions and tigers and bears, all kinds of snakes. I get to do all those wonderful things that I didn't get to do when I was little, because we didn't have those things."
Michael Jackson in Gold Girl Interview
M: I remember, like I told you before, when Marlon and I had to share a room with Jermaine and Bill was asleep. Jermaine would have girls up there all the time screwing and stuff. I always (said I'd never ??) Marlon said the same thing. I felt so guilty when we used to home from the circuit and stuff before we made it, y'know we used to do the club circuits and stuff. I felt so guilty, and I just cried and Joseph choked me, almost broke my arm one day. But he was proud of it. It's like, (joseph's voice) "Oh, this is what you should do, boy." I mean, he didn't say that but he was screwin' women in the other room and stuff.
From Glenda Tapes
"I didn't really have any girlfriends when I was in school. There were girls I thought were cute, but I found it so difficult to approach them. I was too embarrassed – I don't know why – it was just crazy. There was one girl who was a good friend to me. I liked her, but I was too embarrassed to tell her."
'Because I really don't want to offend anyone by watching them. Some people really get uptight if they know someone is looking at them. But I have this weakness - I love looking at girls!'
'Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat them that way. That's why I always say don't stare right at a chick. She'll begin to fidget, wondering if her hair's messed up or if her make-up is smeared. It's kind of like going to an art gallery to see beautiful paintings. If you look at a painting just the right way, you get the most out of it!'
'The guys who are doing the rating are missing the whole point. They're so busy counting up the scores that they're not looking - I mean really looking at the girls.'
'The way a girl walks. You can tell a lot from the walk. If she's happy or sad - if she's proud of being a girl. And then, there are the chicks that look so helpless that I want to rush over to them and put my arms around them!'
'And if I'm lucky enough to be close enough to see her face - well, that's like your favourite dessert after a fine meal!'
'The eyes - do they wink at you? What makes them shine like they do? Love? Or just happy at being alive?'
'And the mouth. Is it smiling at some secret? Or is she just doing her best to spread a little happiness by smiling at every person she sees?'
Michael Jackson, in Tiger Beat Magazine Article, 1972
"Sometimes a young lady´s physical beauty can by no means oushine the inner beauty that radiates from her heart and spirit."
Michael Jackson, 1976
"Let's face, I'm too darn young to be thinking about marriage and kids. I'm still just a kid myself. Being nineteen soon doesn't mean that I'm ready to settle down."
"I'm too busy for dating girls right now. I'd like to try, maybe. What do you think? Think I should, yeah? Well, I'll think about that. I'll think about what you said. We'll see… But I'm happy. "
Michael Jackson 1977
"I'm certain that I will get married and settle down to raise a family – I'm just not ready yet. I do meet young ladies that I respect and enjoy being with – but marriage is an important step and I want it to last forever. A family is something that I want more than anything in the world."
´"I have caught him staring at Diana, not just her butt (which he did at times) but just her and he would have this smile on his face..."
Carry, a friend of Diana Ross' in the 80s
"Needless to say, I love the interaction between the sexes; it is a natural part of life and I love women. I just think that when sex is used as a form of blackmail or power, it's a repugnant use of one of God's gifts."
"I do think that marriage can be a wonderful thing if it's the right thing for the two people involved. I believe in love – very much so – how can you not believe after you've experienced it? I believe in relationships. One day, I know I'll find the right woman and get married myself."
Sometimes it's hard for me to look my dates in the eye even if I know them well. My dating and relationships with girls have not had the happy ending I've been looking for. Something always seems to get in the way. The things I share with millions of people aren't the sort of things you share with one. Many girls want to know what makes me tick - why I live the way I live or do the things I do - trying to get inside my head. They want to rescue me from loneliness, but they do it in such a way that they give me the impression they want to share my loneliness, which I wouldn't wish on anybody, because I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world."
Michael Jackson in "Moonwalk", 1988
Michael definitely LOVED WOMEN! https://t.co/60NmYfAb9H
— Brenda Harvey Richie (@BrendaRichie) March 13, 2019
Did you know about the girl he wanted to propose to before Lisa Marie? https://t.co/YnOfihQU2A
— caramella (@Caramelicedtea) March 13, 2019
I know of a women Michael proposed to in 1991 but she was not an artist from Oakland! Yes, African American! https://t.co/5DzqlRf51L
Karen Faye: "He did tell me he only dated with the intention of marriage. It was a part of his JW beliefs."
Brenda Harvey Richie: Exactly the same thing we discused!
Question: I wonder if that changed after he was married? bc Bill & Javon picked up 2 different women from the airport, on 2 separate occasions, they didn't stay long & he waited a couple of days b4 even seeing them-they sounded like flings (which is normal for a single divorced 49yr man)
Brenda Harvey Richie: MJ did not change about that!
Question: "Was Michael ever engaged to someone other than Lisa?
Karen Faye: Not that I am aware of. If he was, he never mentioned it. I know he asked Brooke to marry him, but she said no."
Twitter 9/2019 twitter.com/BrendaRichie/status/1175319529741676545
From Glenda Tapes, 1992:
G: Tell me something, you know what? You told me before that you're the loneliest person.
M: I am!
G: Then how can you be that way when there are so many people…
M: I want to be with someone… I want to know what a relationship is all about before I die, can't you understand that, girl?
I never had… I mean I've been with Tate… I've been, well not with… I been with Tate. I thought I was with Diana… that was just in my own mind.
G: You were a little boy.
MJ: I know, I have never had a real relationship, my brothers have been married… My brothers have had girlfriends I really haven't had that.
G: How long did it take you to get over Diana?
MJ: Years… A hell of a long time. I just wanna know what it's like, girl, to have a real relationship with someone who doesn't want me for me. That I don't, I don't have to look over my shoulder all the time.
G: That doesn't have an ulterior motive?
MJ: Yeah, that doesn't question me. I mean… (i) I don't… and, and.. like La Toya said in her book… she said, either I am going to have to find somebody who doesn't even know who the heck I am…
G: (i)
MJ: Orrr..oorr deal with somebody whose career is equally as important, or equally like mine.
G: Well.. a nix to both of those.
MJ: What am I gonna do… I don't want to die without knowing about… having a real relationship with a women or being involved… I don't… I was involved but we never did anything… we never really had sex…
G: But that was your decision, that wasn't her's, I mean.
MJ: But, yeah, but girl, girlfriend had my nose wide open, okay? You could drive a truck through my nose.
G: Laughs…That is the craziest expression. How did they come up with that? I am just wondering who thought of it. I don't understand how your nose can be wide open.
MJ: I don't know
G: But it had to come from somewhere and I just wanted to the people who made it up.
G: It's the craziest expression I have ever heard
MJ: It's a black thing
G: ( Laughing) Black thing? What is it with your nose? I can't understand how your nose can be wide open?
MJ: I don't know..(whispers – It's just, it's personal)
G: I mean it had to come from somewhere. Somebody had to have made it up and I was wondering what they were thinking when they made it up?
MJ: It's a black secret.
G: Okay Laughing
MJ: So I loved her so much… God.
G: So was that the first time…
MJ: No, no (whispers) (it was in her bedroom?)
G: Where did Tatum and that… what was that other girls…
MJ: Tate… I dealt with Tate when I was a little bit younger. She came up to me in a club, we were in a club (she came up to me?) and she put her hand on mind and I couldn't believe it
(break in tape)
{This is obvious the poster of these audios was throwing us off. They skip from talking about Tatum O'Neal to this woman] [Glenda laughing, now they are talking about someone else]
MJ: …anything. I would give her money, I would give her jewelry, I would give her a house, a car, whatever… I was never good enough. It was like… you know…
G: Well she wanted all of you Michael… she wanted a relationship
MJ: She knew how I was from the beginning. It wasn't like she didn't.
G: Well, she was probably hoping then that it would change
MJ: But, not until I got married
G: Well I know that… and I'm sure that she loved you… and when you have been with somebody for that many years.
MJ: I loved her so much… I didn't want to see that. I did not want to see that.and I knew she was fooling around. I know, girl. I know it for a fact.
G: Don't you think that attracted you to the fact that she was such a strong person and she stood up for you against your dad and she was always there? Wasn't that a lot of the attraction?
MJ: Yeah
G: Because she's older than you huh?
MJ: Well yeah…
G: (beep sound) That you were drawn to that.
MJ: Yeah I was.
MJ: And I was so in love and I had my nose wide open and I didn't want to believe what was really going on. (Tape cut) It didn't matter she was (Tape cut) (I), but, that's another story. (I) And it was a good thing that it was finally over.
G: You don't have any regrets?
MJ: No, uh uh, I don't regret that I didn't sleep with her. I'm glad I didn't. (I)….
G: Yeah, that's a long story.
MJ: I didn't. I wish it changed but I haven't experienced it before, ever… having a relationship like that before, I never… Being in a normal…having a relationship with someone (I) I never had that.
G: Well, I think everybody wants too…
MJ: But, I haven't.
G: Okay
MJ: And that's what I want. I know I'm not going to be here very long or whatever.
G: I hope it will be years…
MJ: What?
G: How long do you think you will be here?
MJ: You can't ask me, I don't know, what kind of question is that I don't know.
G: You don't have any ideas?
MJ: I don't know… I mean, you could come up with all kind of statistics and facts and die!
G: But you said you think (I) Now? (I)
MJ: Well you know, like Melissa told me today… and she was right… she said like, "I want to see you I want to spend time with you before you leave. I don't care what the circumstances are." Because she knows my situation now, and she's like, "I don't care, whatever you want. But I don't know if I will ever see you again," and stuff… she was honest enough, I mean, she told me…
G: She sounds very good.
MJ: It doesn't matter with her no matter what, you know?
G: She sounds very nice. She sounds very good.
MJ: I don't want to die not having like, a relationship like everybody else around me have had… I don't want to die.
G: I know, I think that to accept you…
MJ: For someone to accept me, and I've never experienced that, for someone to accept me totally, no matter what.
G: That's hard to find Michael.
MJ: I don't have time to wait.
G: You're pushing 34 my dear. (Laughing)
MJ: Yeah and I have never had that. I've never had that kind of relationship. Like I'm alone (Tape cut). Everyone else I know have had it. But, I never have.
G: Well, I guess it's time you get it.
MJ: I know it is. (Tape Cut)… I trusted her. Even though we had fallen in love (even though we had a little falling out?). I ruin my own relationships. Agree?
G: You do!
MJ: Oh, I won't do that. I don't know how I'm gonna get it (I)
G: You sabotage your own relationships.
MJ: Well, I won't do it.
(Tape cut)
G: Because it sounds like she loved you
MJ: Yeah (I) What?
G: That will be very sad!
Transcripts from: rhythmofthetide.com/category/glenda-tapes/
"My first girlfriend, Tatum O´Neil, she´d won the Academy Award for Paper Moon... I was sixteen, she was thirteen. And I was naive. She wanted to do everything and I didn´t want to have sex at all, because there were a lot of values associated with being a Jehovah´s Witness. I said: ´Are you crazy?´ One of those was to be kind to everyone. When I held Tatum´s hand it was just magic, better than anything, kissing her, anything. Her, Ryan O´Neil, an myself went to this club and were watching a band and underneath the table she was holding my hand and I was melting. It was magical. There was fireworks going on. It was all I needed. But that means nothing to kids today. She grew up so fast. She wasn´t into innocence and I love that (the innocence).
Now Brooke Shields, she was one of the loves of my life. We dated a lot. Her pictures were all over my walls and mirrors. I was at the Academy Awards with Diana Ross and she just came and said: ´Hi, I´m Brooke Shields. Are you going to the afterparty?´ I said: ´Yeah´ and I just melted. I was about twenty-three, during Off The Wall. I thought: ´Does she know that (photographs of her are) all over my room?´ So we get to the party and she says: ´Would you dance with me?´ And we went on the dance floor. And man, we exchanged numbers and I was up all night, spinning around my room, just so happy. She was classy. We had one encounter when she got real intimate and I chickened out. And I shouldn´t have.
Lisa... we´re still friendly, but she´s running around. She just changed her number and we don´t have the new one yet." (...) Lisa was great. She was a sweet person. But it is hard to tie me down. I can´t stay in one place one time so that´s why I don´t know if I (can) really be completely married all the time. (...) I have such a life when I´m always on the move and women don´t like that. They want you to be settled in one place all the time but I have to move. (...)
I'm not easy to live with in that way for a wife. I'm not easy and I know I'm not easy. Because I give all my time to someone else. I give it to children, I give it to somebody sick somewhere, to the music. And women want to be the center. And I remember Lisa Marie would always say to me, "I'm not a piece of furniture, I'm not a piece of furniture. You just can't..." I say, "I don't want you to be a piece of furniture," and, you know, there´d be some sick little girls calling on the phone and she´d get mad and hang up on them. And, you know, I feel that´s my, that´s my mission, Schmuley. I have to do it. (...)
I wanted children and she didn't. (...) And she promised me that before we married, that would be the first thing we'd do was have children. So I was broken-hearted and I walked around all the time holding these little baby dolls and I'd be crying, that's how badly I wanted them. So I was determined to have children. It disappointed me that she wouldn't keep her promise to me, you know? After we got divorced she would hang out with my mother all the time. I have all these letters saying, "I'll give you nine children. I'll do whatever you want," and of course the press don't know all these stories and she tried for months and months and I just became too hard-hearted at that point. I closed my mind to the whole situation. (...)"
Michael Jackson in MJ Tapes
The two following tweets are reacting on an insulting article in a tabloid:
My uncle LOVED Lisa Marie Presley. He told me and my brothers this many times over the years. It was genuine. He felt she was his equal, didn't want his $, and could truly understand his life.
This is shameful article, and your source is a proven liar. Anyone else see a pattern. https://t.co/D5hGv3TORn
— Taj Jackson (@tajjackson3) March 13, 2019
This article is a total insult to the LOVE Michael and Lisa Marie shared! It was totally not about the money. Michael and Lisa Marie Both told me of their love for each other and there desire to start a family! Stop with the LIES! #The Sun https://t.co/A04DbSbRYN
"I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period. Period. And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently."
"With Michael Jackson, unfortunately, too much happened, too much got between us. There was a very deep strong love there; intense. But people got in the way, on my end and his end. We had so many people telling us what to do and intercepting and speaking on behalf of the other. Had it been just he and I, towards the end, I don't think we would have divorced."
Flo Anthony talks Michael Jackson Love Triangle with Lisa Marie and Debbie Rowe in 1997:
Interview with Debbie Rowe, Michael´s ex wife and mother of his two first kids.
Starts at 3:50 min
More on Michael Jackson´s relationships here:
lacienegasmiled.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/the-cliff-notes/
Michael Jackson Scoping Out Pretty Girls in Budapest 1996:
"I don´t like women who are always saying, ´My nails to be done. I have to do my toes. I need a manicure." I hate all that. I like it when girls are a little bit more tomboyish. If they wrestle, climb a tree... I love that. It is sexier to me. I like class though. Class is everything."
"He's always saying to me that there is a beautiful woman. He and I talk about him not having many dates and it's because he doesn't know if they are interested in his money and celebrity or whether they have a genuine interest in him. He's a romantic."
Rabbi Schmuley on Howard Stein, April 6th, 2001
"You know it's funny… Michael was a big sex symbol. Which has kind of got lost in the thing, but Michael was a huge sex symbol and… I'll tell a story that's not in the book because I actually didn't have the right framework for it but in talking to LA Reid and talking to Teddy Riley, guys that spent a lot of time with him, they both told me stories about these women in the studio. It's an interesting thing, everyone has their perceptions about what Michael was about, but I'll tell you what… LA Reid is a guy I know very well, I know Teddy Riley very well, these are very straight guys. And they're telling me that Michael had fine-ass women in the studio, you know, hanging out with him. I believe them. But also, the other thing he said about that was that he… would not… this is another story, another story, another friend of mine, a giant Michael Jackson fan, befriended him, I guess it must be around the turn of the century. So he goes to a party with Michael, Michael's asking him, "Where's Beyonce?" 'Cause he's never met Beyonce at this point, 'cause he wanted to see her, he made a reference about her derriere. And he goes, "I want to see the girl with the…[derriere]" So he introduces him to Beyonce.
And Michael sees a woman in the crowd, and gets them to bring her over, Michael chats with her, Michael does not take her phone number. As any well known star knows you never take the phone number, your man takes the phone number. So this guy ends up getting the number for Michael. So it's interesting that there's this whole narrative about Michael as a heterosexual male, hanging out with guys I know who are very heterosexual male, but there's something interesting… he himself, would never consciously publicly… it was like he had this whole thing… he was selling the innocent, magical thing."
Nelson George, Conversations on Michael's Black America, June 4 2010
Invincible Meet and Greet flirting footage:
"He'll see a girl and comment on her or want to touch her [bottom]. He likes girls."
'We'd go out for dinner or a coffee and he would notice women walking past and say, 'She's so cute, she's got a nice tush,' but then he would be very apologetic."
MJ in Gary Indiana, June 2003:
"When we were riding around in a car in Berlin, Michael would look at the women in miniskirts and high heels …"Look at her hips!" and "Look at her ass!" Michael would say.
However, when we passed the girl in question he realized she was a 50 year old woman.
It is needless to say that Michael and I had a good laugh about that. It goes without saying that Michael is pro ass?"
A bodyguard for Michael Jackson in Berlin 1988 (rough translation)
"By this time I was about 20 and we had much more to talk about. I'll never forget the first thing he asked me was about my aunt. He had a thing for my Aunt J in the 80′s. She was ten years older than him and about 100 pounds heavier than him. She had always been pretty big and curvacious, most of her weight settling towards her lower body. It cracked me up that after all that time he was still checking for her. My mother had always told me that she thought Michael was some kind of undercover freak. He tried to be a shy boy in his younger days but he often got caught stealing some peeks. As she says, she thinks Michael was an "ass man."
We caught up over the phone. He never failed to remind me of what a "pretty woman" I had grown up to be. He also never hesitated to bring up my childhood (and adulthood lol) crushes on Jermaine and Jackie. The Michael I was talking to was no "freak" and he surely wasnt weird. In fact he was way more normal than me. We called each other for the next few years and chatted about this and that. He was the same ol Michael to me. I started to think about making him pay my phone bill because he liked to talk…A LOT.
The Michael that people read about and see on TV was not the real Michael. They portray him to be some weird, quiet, asexual, virgin hermit that he's not. Michael Joseph Jackson was one of the most flirtatious men I've ever encountered. It always throws me that people think he's asexual or even gay. Michael loves women. Period. Black women, big women, little women, white women, tall women, short women…all women. No woman could be safe around the King of Pop. As shy as he was, he never hesitated to place his hands on my hips or stare at different women. He would be embarrassed to be caught taken a peak at cleavage or a booty. It was always a good laugh catching Mike glancing at someone's assets. I saw him with different women over the years and I can be a witness to him being very much hetero.
We would get together and drink a little. We chatted about everything under the sun and laughed about everything. No one can make me laugh the way Michael did. He liked to joke about his bad luck with women. Some of the best laughter I've ever had was hearing him drop an f-bomb every now and then or his face when I made him dance with me to In The Closet. There was never a quiet dull moment around him. He allowed me to steal kisses from him and playfully tug at his clothes. I'd let him sneak a kiss in and I wouldnt bust him out for feeling up my thigh. I would nev er pass up the chances I got to get the famous MJ hugs. He has the best hugs in the world. But our relationship was never anything but platonic with a bit of the good ol Jackson flirtation."
Myspace post from someone who knew him
Magdalena: Who would be your ideal leading lady, and why?
Michael: An actress? [laughs] You and I should do a film together. Let's do it, I'd love that…
Magdalena was the interviewer in Gold Magazine, 2002
"I came out front with him and we were dancing around and playing guitar, and he was right next to me," she said, encouraging fans to visit her website to look for photos of the two together. "We never really had any contact with each other. We're doing the show, night after night after night. One night, I think we were in Buenes Aires, or Chile, I can't remember which … I had my eyes shut and I'm playing guitar, doing a guitar solo. All of a sudden I feel something on my butt. I was like, 'Oh my God, some crazed fan had somehow gotten past security and was on stage. But he was just having fun with me. I turned around and I saw that it was him, and my jaw dropped. And the drummer, I think he skipped a beat because he was laughing so hard."
Becky Barksdale, lead guitarist for Michael during the Dangerous World Tour
Interviwer: Did he ever flirt with you?
Kai: Oh yeah, he would flirt you know, in his own charming way. I remember Prince coming into the kitchen, "daddy wants to know when dinner's going to be ready?" I said, "It's going to be ready at 6:30." "Okay, well when it's ready can you come and set it on the table." So I'm in the dining room and I'm putting the dishes down and the food and what not and he walks in. I have menus on the table for the kids to see. So I'm leaving the area and I have on my chef's uniform, the chef's jacket and on the back there's a little openning at the back of the apron. So I have my white jeans on and I remember as I'm walking out, I turn around just to see and all of a sudden "psshht" his head turned and it was right on my tush. I was like okaaaay.
Interviewer: Fair to say that in that moment the King of Pop was reading more than one menu at the same time.
Kai: (laughing) I think so. Kai Chase, Michael´s personal chef during his last months
Question: Did you see MJ flirting with girls a lot? Was he a natural flirt or just avoided the whole thing because of his shyness?
MJ´s bodyguard: I was not going to answer this, but I'll give you guys a little. Yes, MJ was very charming, he did flirt from time to time. Sometimes he would ask me to get someone's number or ask do I think someone is cute? It was so funny to watch the dude flirt. I tell women I meet that I have a dog, I would hear MJ tell women he has a Zoo! How do you top someone that has a Zoo?
One of Michael Jackson´s love letters:
Why did you take away your love, the same love that made me unable to speak and made me forget my worries, the love that saved me? Tell me, did I come to short? Wasn't I enough? Have I done or said something wrong? I believe in miracles and [blocked] angels. I know you escaped through heaven's gates to brighten the [blocked]. I believe in FAITH, deep inside I feel that nature has banded us.
I have seen nothing but misery in my life until [blocked] all these years, I have been seeking to give while I only desire now to receive from you. Your heart commanded me to follow while my soul was hurt and my mind CONFUSED.
I allowed you to take possession of my feelings. In return, I loved, obeyed and honored you beyond words.
I revealed myself to you in ways from which I thought they were impossible.
I saw and still see you as my soulmate, as my wife and as the mother of my fourth child.
Then what is your reason for leaving?
Why did you go away, silently in the middle of the night without me, the slave of your heart?
I cannot conceive it possible.
I know we are meant to be, I can feel it. Still I have no regrets for what happened between us, [blacked out]. I can only come to the conclusion that you have made an unnatural decision that was not supported by your heart, nor were these your words. It is my will to believe that other matters have caused you to run away like this.
But whatever the reason maybe, I will not let it divide us. I prefer myself to believe that our parting is only temporary.
Let me strive for another outcome.
[blacked out]
For ever yours
Call me [blacked out]
Reported source:
It's a newspaper article, claiming to have spoken with a previous girlfriend of Michael, who could "prove" this with a love letter.
The title is "We're getting the facts right. Is this the prove that J**o was not gay?"
Former girlfriend shows proof.
The writer asks why she comes forward while she wants to remain anonymous.
She tells she is tired of the lies and the filthy press. She wants the world to see and know Michael for who he really was. She is not looking for publicity or money.
She tells he always was a loving person, very sweet, always concerned, nervous type, cared for and wanted to save the entire world.
She refused to answer to intimate questions concerning their relationship, if they had sex etc.
She says people who accused him from all these bad things should go straight to prison or hell.
She says they broke him, hurt him so much, he was lost when she met him the first time. He feared to trust.
She also tells about how much he loved the fans, how much they meant to Michael, how much he talked about the fans and how he missed the fans during the years he was gone. Then she talks about Michael and children, that he lived for children. There is also a part about Neverland. She never went there. She never asked Michael to go there with her. She did view pictures of Neverland from before the accusations.
Source of the letter: rhythmofthetide.com/michael-jackson-love-letters/#comments
Last interview with Lisa Marie Presley about her ex-husband MJ on Oprah 2010:
Michael Jackson's Bodyguards (2007 - 2009) talking:
Bill: Being a father myself and being a man, men know men, he had the desires of women like we do.
Narration: In fact, they say he had at least two girlfriends, dispelling that other rumor.
Bill: We had a curtain that covered the backseat, you couldn't see in the backseat, they talked back there… I mean, you know.
Interviewer: So he's making out in the backseat.
Bill: Or chewing loud gum (everyone laughs).
Interviewer: It sounds like you're chaperoning two teenagers on a date.
(All nod and agree)
Javon: It was cute for us.
That is your opinion and everyone has one. However, Michael has never been about what he is being accused of! As a very close friend of his since he was 12 years old it is time people knew Michel was in a very loving relationship with a special women in his life! https://t.co/u4kojRCGQE
Paris Jackson via Formspring
There may have been a lot of young ladies around Michael but he would have only gotten serious with someone he would consider marrying! He would also want his Mother to like the person!
That much is very true. He was also engaged to a very nice young lady before he was killed. https://t.co/Nqgj0pCj3k
Family and Ancestors
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God, faith, spirituality, consciousness, unity
On Art And Its Message
On production and working with Michael Jackson
On Dance
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His Image
His Aura, Light, Love... the effect he had on others
On Unconditional Love
Great Soul and Messenger
On Suffering, Compassion and Healing the World
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On Privacy
On Fame, Loneliness, Pain and Desire for Love
On Magic
On Nature and Animals
How To Be Successful & Why To Study Constantly
On Racism And Equality
Prejudice, Injustice, Strength to Persevere
Accusations And Trial
On Death And Immortality
The Greatest Of All
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Michael Jackson during an Interview In 1970, Aged 12:
Michael: (gets up and browses through magazines on a table, picks one up and goes to sit back down)
Jermaine: Michael, please. No, he got the Playboy. He got the Playboy. (tries to snatch it away from him)
Michael: (fighting his brother off) No, sit down. (to interviewer): Now, I would like to tell you all the people on (Inaudible) TV (flicking through it) one of my favourite things…
Brother: (Inaudible)
Michael: … in The Playboy magazine.
Jermaine: Michael, they filming you.
Michael: (looking like he's been caught, looks up at camera and smiles)
@ 8:56
Michael: (flicking through the magazine) This is a big butt.
Mrs. Fine - Michael what is this???
Michael - nothing ._.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6bXMvrkAqg
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Michael was an ass man
"He'll see a girl and comment on her, or want to touch her [bottom]. He likes girls."
"I came out front with him and we were dancing around and playing guitar, and he was right next to me. We never really had any contact with each other. We're doing the show, night after night after night. One night, I think we were in Buenes Aires, or Chile, I can't remember which … I had my eyes shut and I'm playing guitar, doing a guitar solo. All of a sudden I feel something on my butt.
I was like, 'Oh my God, some crazed fan had somehow gotten past security and was on stage. But he was just having fun with me. I turned around and I saw that it was him, and my jaw dropped. And the drummer, I think he skipped a beat because he was laughing so hard."
Becky Barksdale, lead guitarist for Michael during the Dangerous World Tour: (https://www.tbnewswatch.com/news/60375/Guitarist-toured-with-King-of-Pop-Jackson)
A Bodyguard for Michael Jackson in Berlin 1988 (https://www.lipstickalley.com/4774626-post19857.html)
"The only difference between me and an ordinary 13 year old boy is that he can go to a place by himself. With me, it's a little different. I can walk to stores around my hometown by myself but anytime I go somewhere else, I have to have some kind of security. I don't mind. I kind of like the idea of the girls trying to get to me.!
Michael Jackson On The Dating Game, 1972:
Michael Jackson kissing and flirting with women:
Michael Jackson with some of the women of his life:
Michael Fishing girls:
youtu.be/kfWxs_oPfDU
youtu.be/hONn6QPbbU0
"I've never loved ANY woman the way I love Diana!"
See more: lacienegasmiled.wordpress.com/category/1976-1982-diana-ross/
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The word 'teamwork' extends far into our everyday life, right from our earliest days. It is a word which is often taken for granted. Teamwork means living in harmony with other persons. Teamwork means helping your mom, dad, sister or neighbor. It reflects your feelings towards others. Teamwork is almost synonymous with the "Golden Rule"*.
Just imagine life without it! Without teamwork, your mom would be overworked to the bone. Teamwork means things like taking the garbage out, walking the dog or just keeping your room in some sort of order. It means helping your dad wash the car or paint the garage door. Teamwork is helping your neighbor. It might be something you don't even associate with teamwork like a problem which has to be talked over with someone.
Teamwork goes with you into the schoolroom and out onto the sports field. You take it along with you to every job you will ever have. Teamwork is the backbone of every successful marriage and starts on the first date. It is even more important than a winning smile or padded bank account. It is that certain 'something' which makes us compatible with everyone we meet along life's path.
Can you imagine sports without teamwork? Just picture a basketball player who dribbles the ball from one end of the court to the other, not passing it to his teammates! Sports like relay races could not exist because one runner would want to run all the laps himself. Even doubles in tennis would have to be eliminated because one player would not allow his partner to hit the ball. Take skating pairs, where harmony of movement is a must. Without teamwork these competitions could not take place. Teamwork is just as important while dancing the waltz or tango.
Teamwork follows you into your work place. It means sharing the computer with your fellow worker or standing in for him if he can't work overtime, taking an interest in his health problems or just trying to understand him as a person. Teamwork is even more important if you are a section manager or the chairman of the board of any large corporation.
Regardless of your position, you have to work with other people and that means teamwork.
Was it Einstein who said, "if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours"? That's just a fancy way of saying teamwork is a two-way street. Life is complicated enough as it is, so hang on to teamwork and share it with others. Spread it around to those who are not sure just how it works. Implant it in your children. Just like 'Johnny Appleseed' who planted orchards, become the sower of teamwork at home, in school, at the office or on the sports field. The results will be breathtaking!
*Golden Rule - Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.


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Kamil : INCREASE RPM wrote on 22nd Saturday, April 2017.
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lalit : bajaj first failer bike 135 wrote on 18th Saturday, October 2014.
this bike is first failer bike of bajaj company.i m using this bike.this bike only good for two years or 20000 km. after that it will be distreb to you.Its engine is very bed or u can say very poor.engine will be very noisee.and once if bike has engine problem then it engine can not be assamble properly.Its only shopeace bike.
shubham : please say all wrote on 14th Tuesday, October 2014.
ibrahim khan : palsar 135 wrote on 01st Friday, August 2014.
Keya agar ham lena cahe to keya kist par milega? Awar hame mahrajganj me lena hai to keya aap ka koi branch hai? Lene ke liya kon si pepar ka jrurat hai? Rasan card , ki satifiket agar satifiket lagega to kitani cllas ka?
Kamil : INCREASE RPM wrote on 21st Thursday, December 2017.
Rpm increase automatically many time,hard suspensions and hard seat is the biggest problem in this bike . Bike quality is not so good.
Devinder : socker and engine problm wrote on 23rd Thursday, November 2017.
i am using pulsar135 since jan 2015. main prblm i am facing that front socker which are very hard to face any twitch and handle get stuck very hard. and second for engine when speed around 90kpm then its ok but when its low down about 50kpm then i cant feel good due to vibration or rpm.
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Viral : Good for mileage and quality wrote on 22nd Friday, May 2015.
No doubt Yamaha has given awesome 150cc bikes recently. All FZ, Fazer, FZ-S and R15 looks really sporty and futuristic in their Version 2.0 But this 125 segment is mainly for mileage savvy guys. It has new design, alloys, electric start and tubeless tyre which is plus. Digital console is missing. Newly design engine is, unlike older 125cc Yamaha bikes - YBR 125, Gladiator, SS125, gives better mileage and better performance. One extra star for its price. It is priced lower than many of its 125cc competitors.
Z.ato : Starting. wrote on 29th Sunday, April 2018.
Starting, engine gets very hot.went to yamaha dealership dimapur nagaland three times but mechanics are fraud.they don't look at the problem solving.
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overall good ! but headlamp componant weak ,headlamp clip opening autometicly fitment of all side very weak easily damage mostly headlamp wizer.
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I misse new design when I see Yamaha Saluto. I know its budget savvy and all, but something new is always needed for eyes also. Also there is digital speedometer missing.
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I am getting 70 kmpl while I am 45-50 km speed.
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Rosslare Security, a global provider of professional Access Control solutions, announces the release of its new family of Open to Secure (O2S) smart card readers. These readers support reading from and writing to the secure memory of the world's most accepted RFID technologies – MIFARE DESFire EV1, MIFARE Plus, and MIFARE Classic.
Rosslare's Open to Secure (O2S) family of readers are highly flexible smart card readers that redefine ease of use and high security in the world of RFID access control solutions. With MIFARE DESFire EV1 and MIFARE Plus credentials, users have access to the highest levels of cryptographic security with support for 128-Bit AES encrypted communications between reader and credential. With O2S preprogrammed readers and credentials, users can have the highest level of secure access control solutions right out of the box.
The O2S readers utilize a three-pass authentication technique together with a random number generator (high-speed triple-DES data encryption) and a flexible memory organization structure to guarantee data integrity during contactless transactions. They can be programmed as a Card Serial Number (CSN) or as a MIFARE Plus/DESFire application data reader. The MIFARE Plus/DESFire reader utilizes DES encryption and is compliant with the Common Access Card (CAC) standard for secured access control systems. The readers meet IP65 and are suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.


The Commonwealth of Heloin is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Emily Smith with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 15.34 billion Heloians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Salisbury. The income tax rate is 100%.
The frighteningly efficient Heloian economy, worth a remarkable 3,727 trillion Heloian Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 243,011 Heloian Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
The government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting, the Salisbury Film Festival recently voted 'Heloian Getting Hit By Football' as best film, the Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers, and parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are given a short jail sentence. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heloin's national animal is the Sable Antelope, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Heloin is ranked 263rd in the world and 1st in Alyr for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 17,423.63 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.
1 day 5 hours ago : Following new legislation in Heloin, parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are given a short jail sentence.
1 day 10 hours ago : Following new legislation in Heloin, the Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers.
1 day 10 hours ago : Heloin was reclassified from "Corrupt Dictatorship" to "Democratic Socialists".
1 day 14 hours ago : Following new legislation in Heloin, the Salisbury Film Festival recently voted 'Heloian Getting Hit By Football' as best film.
1 day 23 hours ago : Following new legislation in Heloin, the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting.
2 days 3 hours ago : Following new legislation in Heloin, Heloian husbands are dead good at fathering kids.
2 days 3 hours ago : Following new legislation in Heloin, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate.
2 days 16 hours ago : Following new legislation in Heloin, life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average.
2 days 22 hours ago : Following new legislation in Heloin, young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus.
3 days 1 hour ago : Following new legislation in Heloin, it is quite common for bar patrons to discuss Wittgenstein over cordials and games of backgammon.


Panzer Tracts No.16-1 – Bergepanther book.
While researching Panzer Tracts No.16-1, the Panzer Tracts team made important discoveries. The history of the Bergepanther has been difficult to unravel: first, there was a lack of clarity in the original German documentation; second, the Allies were only interested in the vehicle equipped with the 40t winch and associated spade. Now, Panzer Tracts can reveal a much more complete story of the Bergepanther which was essential to the functioning of Panther and Tiger units. Besides the Ausf.A & G they found three different versions converted from the turretless Pz.Kpfw.Panther chassis! Two were new vehicles, while the final one was rebuilt from large numbers of Panther Ausf.D in a previously undocumented factory. Between 25% and 30% of all Bergepanthers were turretless Panther chassis. Hundreds of hours were spent accurately measuring surviving vehicles and drawing at full-scale to create accurate as-built drawings. This 84-page Panzer Tracts book is the ultimate primary source reference on the Bergepanther with more than 21 pages of 1/35 scale drawings and 82 clear, large-format photos, many which are seen for the first time. Furthermore, this book can be considered the best source of reference for the Takom 1/35th scale Bergepanther model kit.


The Street Crime Unit is responsible for identifying problems within the community, creating solutions for these problems and implementing the solution. The members of this unit are proactive in their approach to policing and perform their duties in both plainclothes and uniformed assignments.
The Street Crime Unit predominantly targets high crime areas and implements innovative ideas to thwart criminal activity. On average the members of this unit make an arrest every shift they work.
On-scene apprehension of the perpetrator and successful prosecution of criminal offenders within the City of Manchester.
To gather information on all types of criminal activity by maintaining continual contact with Crime Analysis and by effectively utilizing information provided by concerned members from the community.
To create a deterrent for persons intent on committing criminal acts in the City of Manchester.


Recently, I ran into a childhood friend at the grocery store. She mentioned how grateful she was that my parents helped her family in a time of need. Reflecting on my childhood, I have many memories of my parents helping families and friends when there was an illness, death in the family, or other hardship. They helped by bringing food, physical labor or a listening ear and expected nothing in return. They are both gone now, and I often reflect on the times they demonstrated the importance of family and the custom of a helping hand.
To this day, my family continues to offer a helping hand. We shovel our elderly neighbor's driveway, watch the neighbor's dog and will bring a meal to families experiencing an illness. We also volunteer for organizations in our community. We helped with Toys for Tots at Catholic Charities, The Good Shepherd's Pub Crawl, packaged food for Kids Fighting Hunger and various school activities. It's a great way to spend time as a family, meet new people and it gives me great comfort to help others.
There are many ways to volunteer. Central Minnesota offers volunteer opportunities for every one of all ages. Volunteer for your church or school, be a Big for Big Brothers Big Sisters, play games with residents at Country Manor, bake cookies at Quiet Oaks Hospice, help build a home with Habitat for Humanity, board member for a non-profit or get involved on a committee to plan a fundraisers or celebration. The options are endless. United Way's website lists more than 80 agencies and over 200 volunteer opportunities to explore. Give me a call. I enjoy talking and meeting with people to help find an opportunity that will fit their passion and time commitment.
To find a way to make a big impact and volunteer opportunity that is right for you, visit the United Way Volunteer Connection page. Volunteer for an organization that is important to you and make time to support your family, friends, neighbors and people on the street we do not know. The best New Year's resolution is to provide a helping hand.


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FAN-Fair March 2016: Trending 1st Amendment Issues
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The Constitution's framers intentionally provided the press with broad freedom, believing it necessary to the establishment of a strong, independent (if unofficial) "fourth branch" of the government.
At the end of each month, IWPA's First Amendment network offers a roundup of free speech discussions trending in the media. Have you read about, or experienced an issue impacting First Amendment rights? Email IWPA1885@gmail.com with your tip.
Video Game Maker Fails to Get Protection from the Supreme Court under the First Amendment
EA Sports, makers of the wildly popular video game Madden NFL, petitioned the Supreme Court to review a 2013 ruling against them in a San Francisco appeals court. The petition did not go in their favor. Click the link above for the complex details of this case.
The original suit, brought forth by the NFL and NCAA football players, resulted in a $40 million dollar settlement against EA Sports for using the names and likenesses of players without financial compensation.
The SCOTUS decision to decline EA's appeal was terse: "Without comment, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to side with Electronic Arts' contention that it had a First Amendment right to use professional football players likenesses without their permission in one of the world's most popular video games, Madden NFL."
Is the Removal of Political Protestors a Violation of 1st Amendment Rights?
The 2016 presidential campaign cycle has not been short on controversy. It seems journalists have been forced to write more about the infighting and wild rhetoric than they have the actual issues that matter to voters.
One of the most hotly covered topics is the behavior of protestors, particularly those at Donald Trump rallies. A few events have ended in violence, the aggressive removal of protestors, and physical mistreatment of media members. The hyperlinked article poses questions about these events, and the impact on free speech, to several First Amendment attorneys.
"'Even on public property, there can be layers to this as a First Amendment issue,' said Gerry Weber, an Atlanta attorney and senior staff counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights. 'If the ejection is done by government officials or police officers acting on the request of
[campaign] organizers and they're doing it because of [the protesters] views, that presents a First Amendment problem. If it's because of their conduct, then they can be ejected.'"
Hulk Hogan Awarded $140 million in Lawsuit Against Gawker
The former professional wrestler filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit against the tabloid website after they published a video of Hogan engaging in sexual acts. A Gawker statement argued that, "frequent public discussion of his sex life made the clip newsworthy and thus protected by the First Amendment." The jury did not agree.
But the discussion is not over. As the article linked above notes, media companies object to the new judicial precedent: "Advocates for free speech, however, spoke up, saying that ruinous media fines were in contradiction with the First Amendment and that Gawker was well within its rights as a news site to publish interesting stories pertaining to celebrities."
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Becky Sarwate was the 49th President of the Illinois Woman's Press Association (2013-2017). She continues serving the organization in the role of Digital Marketing Chair. Becky is a former freelance writer who contributed to a number of publications including the Broadway Blog and Edge Media Network, where she reviewed Chicago theater productions, and Wrigleyville Nation, chronicling the highs and lows of lifelong Chicago Cubs fandom. She also published a political/cultural column for Contemptor. In addition, she's written for PoliticusUSA.com, RootSpeak magazine, NewCity, Make It Better and StreetWise. Becky is a multiple IWPA Mate E. Palmer Communications Contest winner, as well as a 10-time National Federation of Press Women award recipient.
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Q: Apache 2.2 + PHP 5.3.2 + cURL not working When I try to start the Apache server (with PHP and cURL extension), it says:

The Apache2.2 service is restarting.
Starting the Apache2.2 service
The Apache2.2 service is running.
rmine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.1.8 for ServerName
[Tue Sep 07 14:30:57 2010] [warn] pid file C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?

(I'm guessing that the fourth line should start something line "Determine"; probably a race condition.)
Then it terminates (and if I retry I get the same "unclean" message). If I comment out the extension=php_curl.dll in php.ini, httpd.exe works again. The PHP error log is empty.
When I run php-cli, cURL functions normally, so it must be caused by some magic behind the scenes that I don't know anything about.
Suggestions? Can I retrieve more information some way? Thanks!
Edit: Apache + PHP works nicely without cURL.

A: You might be using the wrong PHP version :

Which version do I choose?
If you are using PHP with Apache 1 or Apache2 from apache.org you need to use the VC6
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So first make sure you're using VC6 (Thread safe) and check if that solves the problem, or alternatively remove your current apache, php and mysql and install Zend Server CE.

A: Looks like non-production server to me. You can install XAMPP or WAMPP, it has all the extensions already functioning out of the box. No need to waste time with server config.
[XAMPP] - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
[WAMPP] - http://www.wampserver.com/en/

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I've said it before, and I will say it again. You and Richard and everyone else at BookLocker and Writers Weekly are THE BEST.
Every now and then someone will ask me about a POD company (Publish America and Lulu to name two). I always tell them not to go anywhere else but Booklocker. I point out that you have a selection process and that you do not publish everything that comes along. I tell them that if their book is selected for publication, they will be extremely happy with Booklocker.
I wish other companies (not just book publishing companies, but ALL companies) would take a lesson from BookLocker's business model. The world would be a much better place.


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Chris Hemsworth Donates a Staggering $1 Million to Help Australia Fight and Recover from the Fires
Chris Hemsworth is doing his part to help his country as fires rage through Australia by donating $1 million — and is urging his followers to give what they can too.
"Hey there guys, as you're well aware the bushfires in Australia have caused massive devastation," the 36-year-old actor said in a video shared on Instagram Monday. "They continue to burn, there's warmer weather on its way, we're really still in the thick of it here, as is plenty of challenging times ahead still to come."
The fires burning across New South Wales and Victoria as well as other parts of the nation have wiped out millions of acres and destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings, displacing thousands of people — and animals — in the process.
Tragically, as of Monday, at least 25 people had died as a result of the ongoing crisis, and experts say that the fires will go on for months, NPR reported.
Ecologists from the University of Sydney also believe almost half a billion total mammals, birds and reptiles have died since September as the more than 130 fires continue to burn.
Hi everyone. Like you, I want to support the fight against the bushfires here in Australia. My family and I are contributing a million dollars. Hopefully you guys can chip in too. Every penny counts so whatever you can muster up is greatly appreciated. In my bio I've added links to support the fire fighters, organisations and charities who are working flat out to provide support and relief during this devastating and challenging time. Beyond appreciative to everyone around the world for their well wishes and donations. It really does make a difference, so dig deep! Love ya.
A post shared by Chris Hemsworth (@chrishemsworth) on Jan 6, 2020 at 6:34pm PST
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"So, what we need is your support and your donations," Hemsworth continued, sharing that his family is donating $1 million to go towards relief efforts. "That money goes directly to the firefighters, the people on the front lines, the people who have suffered, the communities that have taken a hit and are in desperate need for our support."
The box office star urged his fans and followers to join him in contributing in "any way, shape or form."
"Every dollar counts," he added, before thanking "everyone who's sent all their well wishes and donations already. It's greatly appreciated here in Australia."
"But dig deep, and lots of love, and we'll keep pushing forward. Cheers," he concluded.
He captioned the video with a similar message, writing, "every penny counts so whatever you can muster up is greatly appreciated."
He shared links for several places to donate, including the Australian Red Cross, the World Wildlife Fund, and more, including the Irwin's Wildlife Warriors organization.
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Muslim Brotherhood's Papers Detail Plan to Seize U.S. - Jason Trahan (Dallas Morning News)
Amid the mountain of evidence released in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial in Dallas is previously classified evidence detailing Islamist extremists' ambitious plans for a U.S. takeover.
Terrorism researchers say the memos and audiotapes in Arabic contain detailed strategies by the Muslim Brotherhood to replace the Constitution with Islamic law.
A strategy paper for the Brotherhood found in the Virginia home of an unindicted co-conspirator in the case says: "The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within."
Eight Israelis Feared Dead in Thailand Plane Crash (AP/Ha'aretz)
Two Israelis were hospitalized and eight more are feared dead after a passenger plane filled with foreign tourists crashed Sunday in heavy rain on Thailand's tourist island of Phuket.
See also Two Israeli Couples on Honeymoon Missing in Thailand Plane Crash (Ynet News)
See also Israel to Assist Thailand in Identifying Plane Crash Victims - Efrat Weiss (Ynet News)
Six Israeli forensic experts will leave for Thailand on Monday to assist Thai authorities with the identification of the fatalities from the plane crash on Phuket.
Israel Fears Terror Attack at Sea - Eitan Glickman (Ynet News)
Israeli officials fear that terror groups are planning attacks against Israeli holidaymakers abroad, Yediot Ahronot reported on Monday.
An Israeli official said security officials believe terror groups plan to use a boat laden with explosives to sink an Israeli cruise ship in the Mediterranean.
"Over the last two years there were two attempts to target Israeli ships in Turkey," an official said.
Jordan, U.S. Sign Nuclear Agreement - Dale Gavlak (AP/Washington Post)
The U.S. has signed an accord with Jordan aimed at supporting the peaceful development of the kingdom's nascent nuclear program, the U.S. Embassy in Amman said Sunday.
Fewer Foreigners Crossing into Iraq from Syria to Fight - Karen DeYoung (Washington Post)
The number of foreign fighters entering Iraq from Syria has decreased noticeably in recent months, corresponding to a similar decrease in suicide bombings by al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Border crossings from Syria that averaged 80 to 90 a month have fallen to "half or two-thirds of that over the last two or three months," said Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq.
U.S. officials said they are not prepared to attribute the decrease to Syrian action, instead citing increased U.S. operations against al-Qaeda inside Iraq and stepped-up cooperation by terrorist "source" countries, such as Saudi Arabia, in prohibiting travel to Damascus.
A Dubai Leader Faces Charges of Enslavement - Nicholas Wapshott (New York Sun)
The deputy leader of the Arab emirate of Dubai has become the subject of a class-action lawsuit in Kentucky that accuses him of encouraging the enslavement of thousands of boys for use as jockeys in camel races in the Middle East.
Sheik Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who is also the finance and industry minister of the United Arab Emirates, is accused of "obtaining boys through abduction, false inducement, or agreement" from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mauritania, and Sudan, according to a document filed on September 11 in U.S. District Court in Lexington, Ky.
The suit is being brought by the parents of five former camel jockeys.
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U.S. Says "All Options" on Table with Iran, But Prefers Diplomacy
The U.S. will stick to diplomatic and economic pressure to force Iran to halt its nuclear drive, but "all options are on the table," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday. "I will tell you that I think the administration believes at this point that continuing to try and deal with the Iranian threat...through diplomatic and economic means is by far the preferable approach," he said. The U.S. has never ruled out taking military action against Iran but on Friday, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei brushed off the notion that it could now threaten the Islamic republic. (AFP)
See also America Preparing for War with Iran - Philip Sherwell and Tim Shipman
Senior American intelligence and defense officials believe that President Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran, amid growing fears that diplomatic efforts to slow Iran's nuclear weapons program are doomed to fail. Now it has emerged that Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, who has been pushing for a diplomatic solution, is prepared to sanction military action. Rice's bottom line is that if the administration is to go to war again it must build the case over a period of months and win sufficient support on Capitol Hill. (Sunday Telegraph-UK)
See also France Warning of War with Iran
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says the world should prepare for war over Iran's nuclear program. "We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war," Kouchner said in an interview on French TV and radio. He said negotiations with Iran should continue "right to the end," but an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose "a real danger for the whole world." Kouchner also said a number of large French companies had been asked not to tender for business in Iran. (BBC News)
See also France Calls for Iran Investment Boycott - Peggy Hollinger and Pan Kwan Yuk (Financial Times-UK)
See also Germany Refuses to Support New Iran Sanctions, Sanction Route Seen Dead - James Rosen
A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime, FOX News confirmed Tuesday. Germany - a pivotal player among three European nations to rein in Iran's nuclear program over the last two-and-a-half years through a mixture of diplomacy and sanctions supported by the U.S. - notified its allies last week that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel refuses to support the imposition of any further sanctions against Iran that could be imposed by the UN Security Council. According to one source, the announcement at a meeting in Berlin left most Bush administration principals concluding that sanctions are dead. (FOX News)
See also Germany Backs French Minister on Iranian Nuclear Weapons Warning (DPA/EUX.TV)
U.S. Official Says Syria May Have Nuclear Ties with North Korea - Mark Mazzetti and Helene Cooper
A State Department official said Friday that the U.S. had concerns about Syria's involvement in illicit nuclear activities and suggested that North Korea might be aiding the Syrians in their efforts. Andrew Semmel, a top official on countering the spread of nuclear weapons, said that Syria may have a number of "secret suppliers" for a covert nuclear program, and that North Korean technicians were currently operating inside Syria. A Bush administration official said last week that over the past several weeks, Israel had conducted several aerial surveillance flights over Syria to take pictures of what Israeli officials were said to believe could be possible nuclear development installations. (New York Times)
See also Syria Might Be Seeking Nuclear Weapons Technology through North Korea - James Rosen
U.S. intelligence officials have developed evidence showing that North Korea is helping Syria to develop a nuclear program for weapons purposes. One source told FOX News in late August that the North Koreans had sold the Syrians a nuclear facility, most likely related to uranium enrichment. (FOX News)
See also The Links between North Korea and Syria - Michael Sheridan
Syria possesses the biggest missile arsenal and the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the Middle East, built up over the last two decades with arms bought from North Korea. North Korea, which exploded a nuclear device in October last year, has become critical to Syria's plans to enhance and upgrade its weapons. Earlier this year, foreign diplomats who follow North Korean affairs took note of an increase in diplomatic and military visits between the two.
Diplomats believe North Korean engineers have worked on modifying the Scud-Cs to extend their 300 mile range. That means they can be based in the deserts of eastern Syria - the area of the September 6 Israeli strike. More worrying for Israel were reports from diplomats in Pyongyang that Syrian and Iranian observers were present at missile test firings by the North Korean military last summer and were given valuable telemetry data. The nuclear threat in Syria was long believed dormant, as Damascus appeared to rely on a chemical first-strike as an unconventional deterrent. But American intelligence officials believe Syria then recruited Iraqi scientists who fled after the fall of Saddam Hussein. (Sunday Times-UK)
No Agreement of Principles at Fall Peace Meeting - Barak Ravid
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that Israel and the PA will not present an agreement of principles on final status issues at a U.S.-hosted meeting this fall, but will rather issue a joint declaration. U.S. Secretary of State Rice will arrive on Tuesday for talks to prepare for the November meeting. (Ha'aretz)
IDF Military Intelligence: Israeli Deterrence Restored
Israeli military deterrence against Syria and Iran has returned to the level it was at before the Second Lebanon War, and is now having a major impact on the region, Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, head of Military Intelligence, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Sunday. Yadlin also said that Hamas is planning a major terror attack in Israel in an attempt to derail the Mideast meeting set to take place in Washington in November. He said Hamas is capable of taking control of the West Bank, but has so far failed to do so due to Israel's military presence in the area. (Jerusalem Post)
Palestinians Shoot Two Israelis Driving in West Bank - Raanan Ben-Zur
An Israeli man and woman driving in the West Bank were injured when Palestinians fired gunshots at their vehicle Friday between Karnei Shomron and Kedumim. "The couple were hit by shrapnel from the window, which was detached from the car, and by a bullet apparently fired from a hunting rifle. Another woman sitting in the back seat suffered from shock," said paramedic Danny Tiram. (Ynet News)
IDF Foils Terror Infiltration in West Bank - Efrat Weiss
IDF troops stopped an armed Palestinian from infiltrating Shevei Shomron Sunday. The gunman was trying to cut through the fence surrounding the West Bank settlement, northwest of Nablus. (Ynet News)
Palestinian Rocket Fire Continues - Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel and Mijal Grinberg
Palestinians in Gaza fired six Kassam rockets at Israel on Sunday. One rocket hit Kibbutz Nativ Ha'asara and damaged greenhouses there. (Ha'aretz)
Ahmadinejad Escalates His Rhetoric - Y. Mansharof and A. Savyon
In a speech about Iran's nuclear program, Ahmadinejad declared that Iran has become a global power, and that it would place its nuclear technology at the service of those determined to confront the U.S. and other Western countries. He announced that Iran was now successfully operating over 3,000 centrifuges, continued to downplay the impact of the UN Security Council sanctions on Iran, and reiterated Iran's official stance of refusal to freeze its nuclear activity. In addition, Ahmadinejad declared that the world was now at an historic turning point. The history of the West, he said, had reached its end, and the appearance of the Hidden Imam, heralding the era of Islamic Shi'ite rule, was nigh. Thus, he called on the nations of the world to rise up against the hegemony of the West, headed by the U.S., and predicted the imminent collapse of Israel, which he called "Satan's standard-bearer." (MEMRI)
See also Interview with Iranian President Ahmadinejad (Channel 4-UK)
Engaged to Hamas - Melanie Phillips
In Britain, the volume of pressure to "engage" with Hamas is fast approaching critical mass. While the official position of Prime Minister Gordon Brown is that Britain will never talk to Hamas as long as it aims to eradicate Israel, the number of voices insistently urging that Hamas be "brought in from the cold" has made such a proposition respectable. The most prominent political proponent of "engagement" is the Conservative grandee and former Northern Ireland spokesman Michael Ancram, who has now met Hamas (and Hizbullah) in Beirut on three separate occasions in the past year. Ancram says he believes that a two-state solution to the Israel/Arab conflict is only possible if Hamas is part of that solution. In similar vein, last month the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee recommended that the British government should now "engage" with moderates in Hamas, along with Hizbullah parliamentarians, Syria and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ultimately, the "engagement" rationale appears to mean that we should talk to tyrants simply because they have won power, a doctrine which effectively holds that power confers legitimacy, however illegitimately it has been pursued. It is hard to imagine an argument that hands terror a greater victory. (Jerusalem Post)
Anti-Semitism Rises Again - Victor Davis Hanson (Washington Times)
Who claimed at a UN-sponsored conference that democratic Israel was "much worse" than the former apartheid South Africa, and that it "undermines the international community's reaction to global warming"? Clare Short, a member of the British parliament who was a secretary for international development under Prime Minister Tony Blair.
A new virulent strain of the old anti-Semitism is spreading worldwide. This hate - of a magnitude not seen in over 70 years - is not just espoused by Iran's loony president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or radical jihadists. The latest anti-Semitism is also now mouthed by world leaders and sophisticated politicians and academics. Their loathing often masquerades as "anti-Zionism" or "legitimate" criticism of Israel. But the venom exclusively reserved for the Jewish state betrays their existential hatred.
Israel is always lambasted for entering homes in the West Bank to look for Hamas terrorists and using too much force. But last week the world snoozed when the Lebanese army bombarded and then crushed the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, which harbored Islamic terrorists.
The world has long objected to Jewish settlers buying up land in the West Bank. Yet Hizbullah, flush with Iranian money, is now purchasing large tracts in southern Lebanon for military purposes and purging them of non-Shiites.
The world seems to care little about the principle of so-called occupied land - whether in Cyprus or Tibet - unless Israel is the accused. Mass murdering in Cambodia, the Congo, Rwanda, and Darfur has earned far fewer UN resolutions of condemnation than supposed atrocities committed by Israel.
For many abroad, attacking Jews and Israel is an indirect way of damning its main ally, the United States - by implying that Americans are not entirely evil, just hoodwinked by those sneaky and far more evil Jews.
Iran's President Ahmadinejad is coming to the UN.
He funds and supports terror around the world.
He wants a world without the US and Israel.
He is developing nuclear weapons.
He denies the Holocaust.
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I'm able to click all activators and open all content while it needs to open only one and close the other(s).
See here the script I use:
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President Barack Obama sent a clear message this week when he made recess appointments naming Richard Cordray head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency and filling out the members of the National Labor Relations Board. It was a challenge to Republican manipulations on behalf of Big Finance and corporate plundering.
The Senate Republicans had decided to sabotage the consumer protection agency, part of the GOP-despised financial reform law, by denying it a director. The Mortgage Bankers Association, Chamber of Commerce and Republicans in lockstep denounced the appointment of Cordray and questioned the president's constitutional authority to make recess appointments.
It's a cover for financial giants to continue profiteering off the backs of millions of hard-working Americans with unregulated payday loans, subprime mortgages and credit card fees.
Most media focus has been on the Cordray appointment. Yet the NLRB appointments are also vitally important for the nation's workers and their ability to exercise their rights including to bargain collectively for pay and benefits.
The Republicans have made it their priority to attack worker rights and undermine existing labor law and protections – all to benefit their corporate backers' profit margins. After eight years of George W. Bush, where the NLRB did nothing but do Big Business's bidding, it has been a welcome relief to have this government agency actually fulfill its mission – upholding and enforcing the country's labor laws. So the Republicans sought to stop it from functioning by keeping seats vacant.
The sound and fury emanating from the likes of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Obama's recess appointments is not a new feature in American politics. The far right has a long and inglorious history of obstructionism and efforts to nullify progressive federal government action – from the 19th century moves to curb and end slavery and then to establish Reconstruction to the 20th century moves to end segregation. This obstructionism really centers around the vortex of race and class, seeking to divide and conquer our multi-racial working class.
Last year, we editorialized that in 2011 the Republican right – emboldened by their obstructionist tactics that helped lead to their 2010 electoral victories – would wage intensified class warfare. And that's what they did.
Imagine what would happen in 2013 with Republicans in control again of all levers of government.
The president's bold move reflects a similar mood among a broad section of the electorate . It's a welcome beginning for a crucial election year.


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What can explain this behavior ?