@Mons89 What child in her circumstances would not be... her brothers are no less affected... http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Paris-Jackson-shows-bedroom-shrine-to-Michael-Jackson-Photo/8764782
Past week, 3-4 times I heard in my mind, Mikey screaming, yelling out of concern "the children, the children!" "my children!" I don't know what to make of this. My own concerns are I hope California will be ok, but then this is my own interpretation, and I could be wrong.
Five years ago today we lost MJ. Not much has changed in 5 years, nothing resolved, money still flowing, no end in sight. It just isn't right! I read a nice article in Slate about how he deserves to be remembered truthfully. Maybe those ugly lies about the trials and allegations will finally be universally exposed. Something positive has to happen eventually. Right? Hope springs eternal. My best to everyone on this very sad anniversary. Patti
hi Patti, True, not much has changed in 5 years. There does not appear to be any semblance of justice left in our once, to my mind at least, great country. All has been subverted and trivialized. But still, I hold out hope that with the ebb and flow of time things will change and Michael will be remembered as the person he truly was. My best to all here as well. Irina
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Some interesting information in Murray's interview. I agree with the interviewer in that CM certainly got some bad advice as he should have taken the stand.
There are others who are stating the same about Michael's relationship with his family. I feel it factored strongly in Michael having been left so vulnerable prior to the end of his life.
There are some that have reported that Michael was asking for his father in the last days of his life, while others state that Joe was kept out of Carolwood by security at Michael's request.
Joe's post is very touching. Seems that Michael may have forgiven him for past abuses. Joe does not seem all that strong lately. His face is more gaunt since his stroke. To my eye Michael resembles him more than anyone else.
Thank you so much for posting Bonnie and for your continued efforts at assisting Michael. You are wonderful!
Big Hug, Irina
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Thank you for all of your relentless hard work to help and assist Michael. He sure picked the right person! You never wavered always choosing the high road in the fight for the truth. You kept your word to Michael. You are a gem!
I also want to thank you for creating a safe place to come and share, learn, and grow together. It has been quite a journey. I was always more of a lurker than a poster but I spent countless hours here, over the last 5 yrs, and I am truly grateful. Thank you
Irina I want it thank you also. You always offered a fresh Perspective and the information you provided Bonnie, Michael, and the board, was priceless! You were my first contact here and you made me feel welcomed and a part of it. I thank you for all of your time and the many hours you spent searching for the truth. You were such a nice addition to Bonnie's board and I appreciate everything you did!!!! You never left a stone unturned. You dug and you dug deep. Thank you !
Just wanted to say thank you to you Jane for sticking with me all these years. It has not always been easy, but knowing there are people who believed in me and my mission is priceless.
From John and Yoko to Tupac, PBS Digital Studios' "Blank on Blank" series has taken music journalists' unheard audiotapes and fused them with clever animation. Now the series has unveiled yet another amazing interview: An intimate conversation with Michael Jackson from January 1980, years before "Thriller" and his ascension to the King of Pop. In the interview, Jackson – and, in a way, his sister Janet – discuss labeling music, perfectionism, meeting Quincy Jones and godliness while chatting with music historian John Pidgeon.
"I do deeply believe in perfection. I'm never satisfied," a young Jackson tells Pidgeon. "I'll cut a track or something, I'll come home and I say, 'No, that's not right, we got to do it over, it's not right.' And then go back and back and back. Then, when it's finally out, you say, 'Darn it, I should have done this.' It's Number One on the charts, you're still screaming about what you should have done." Jackson also speaks out at being labeled – at the time – as a disco artist, saying that all music is music, and genres are like trying to figure out if a beautiful birdcall is courtesy of a blue jay or a crow.
The dynamics of the interview are just as weird as the answers: Michael Jackson forces Pidgeon to direct questions to his sister, a then-13-year-old Janet, who in turn asks her older brother Michael the same question he just heard Pidgeon say aloud. For example, Pidgeon asks Janet, "When Michael is in the studio, is it important for him to go for a vocal straight away or does he kind of build up to doing the one," and then Janet asks Michael, "When you're in the studio, does it… do you… do you have to go for a vocal straight away or do you have to build up to it?" It's an odd game of "Telephone," but it's captured perfectly in the animation.
We also learn from this unearthed interview that Jackson needed only one take to record the vocals for "Ben," his 1972 ode to a rat and the singer's first solo Number One hit. Jackson also discusses meeting Jones for the first time at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. It's an enlightening, candid look at the future King of Pop before fame forced him to become a recluse. For the entire Jackson interview with Pidgeon, check out Rock's Back Pages.
Dear bonnie, I would like to ask you 2 questions about Michael, please. The first question I would like to ask is this: he, recently, has been accused by 2 men of molesting them. What Mike thinks about these new 2 allegations? Then, Bonnie, I noticed that: after Mike died, all his websites, forums,, all kind o sites about him ownered by his fans are totally disappearing because his fans are destroying them. So, Bonnie and Michael, you can understand why I'm so angry with his fans. They should have keepen his sites ko maintein his legacy and his memory! In this way, they are doin the exact opposite! What Michael thinks about the behaviour of his fans? Is he disappointed? Michael, I love you very much! I am your LOYALEST fan, i will keep on loving and supporting you IN THE SAME WAY I used to do when you were alive, remember!
I am feeling concerned for Michael's kids. I hope they are ok and nothings bothering them. I wish happiness for them. I feel like telling the paparazzi to buzz off. The children should eat healthy.
I know this is off topic but this time 8 years ago Michael was awarded a diamond reward for Thriller being the biggest album in history at World Music Award 2006 after being vindicated.
For the past few years, I hadn't been remembering as much but this year I am feeling it more, esp tonight. *Sigh*
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"Sleep my friend! For the dawn will come again in another time, And your kindly soul can finds some solitude at last, Rest, as your seedlings grow and sparkle from the vine, And children laugh and play as God above looks down
On that other morn, as sun strikes the earth with shafts of light, And ripened grapes shake and gently tremble on the boughs, As mountain streams stall and turn back around their paths, The heavens open and each man falls prostrate on the ground
Jesus comes amongst us, as propechies of the past did fortell, Your rested body then wakes from the slumber of the age, Rose scented petals fill the Temple, falling, circling all around And you shall rise and take your rightly place by his side,
And man shall then forever know all the evil that was done, To fellow man, to starving child and also to you alone, The destitute shall then arise, the sickly smile again, And each shall know your beauty in the judgement of the age."
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I am amazed at how Michael had so much love in his heart! How he was filled with so much love! He had so much love for people. I find that so hard, I wish I was like him. I wish my heart fills with love.
So interesting how relevant MJ is even now. His music and message is timeless.
Before I knew about TDCAU being used in the protests, I was blasting it in my outrage over what has been going on.
And now with the news of those 2 cops being assassinated in NYC, its clear people are just saturated with hate. MJ's message, although rooted in advocacy, was peaceful. And that is the only way anyone will be able to solve anything.
Additionally, the tidbits about Sony were very interesting. Im sure that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Thank you Bonnie for posting this interesting article! However it's really hard to read paragraphs like this one, it makes me soo angry: "...The singer’s savviest financial move was to name as his executors Los Angeles lawyer John Branca and music producer and family friend John McClain. With Jackson no longer dangling babies over balconies, Branca and McClain have been able to get down to business. In their hands, the Jackson estate made $250 million by extending the singer’s contract with Sony and more than $260 million from “This Is It,” a film cobbled together from footage of Jackson rehearsing for concerts canceled in the wake of his death..."
---------- "...be alive, be free, feel consciousness, subsciousness, being GOD..." MJ
Aphrodite Jones's book describes what happened during the 2005 trial and how ridiculous and unfounded the prosecution's case was.
However a new book "Innocent" just came on the market with the transcripts of the actual trial. I recommend you start here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0992854806/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?qid=1421117201&sr=1-4&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70
Also read Lynton Guest's book "The Trials of Michael Jackson" You can find an updated epilogue here http://www.13june2005.com/
If you want to get a still better sense of what transpired around Michael you can also read Geraldine Huges's book. "Redemption" And LaToya's book "Starting Over" Those are good starter books.
Also you may want to visit this site: teammichaeljackson.com
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Hi Irina, you didn't understandard what I wrote in my previous message.
In my post I noticed this fact: AFTER MICHAEL DIED, ALLS his website ownnered by his fans ARE TOTALLY DESTROYED by them. His fans are drestroying him and HIS MEMORY.
Irina, you are talking me about A. Jones book but that book it's all about the trial.
You aren't anwering my question. What have that trial book to do with the fact that, his fans AFTER HE DIED are delaying all his websites?
Hi Irina, you didn't understandard what I wrote in my previous message.
In my post I noticed this fact: AFTER MICHAEL DIED, ALLS his website ownnered by his fans ARE TOTALLY DESTROYED by them. His fans are drestroying him and HIS MEMORY.
Irina, you are talking me about A. Jones book but that book it's all about the trial.
You aren't anwering my question. What have that trial book to do with the fact that, his fans AFTER HE DIED are delaying all his websites?
Hi Irina, you didn't understandard what I wrote in my previous message.
In my post I noticed this fact: AFTER MICHAEL DIED, ALLS his website ownnered by his fans ARE TOTALLY DESTROYED by them. His fans are drestroying him and HIS MEMORY.
Irina, you are talking me about A. Jones book but that book it's all about the trial.
You aren't anwering my question. What have that trial book to do with the fact that, his fans AFTER HE DIED are delaying all his websites?
Suyana Your question about the fan base was removed by the administrator of this site. The only question posted remaining here is about the AJ book.
However since you insist on knowing, and obviously have not read much on this site, the fan base is being controlled by the Estate and Sony. These entities are manipulating the fan base and Michael's legacy and facts about his death through infiltration and tight control of information. I hope this answers your question.
Many strange things have come to pass since Michael's death, Suyana. The fans are divided between a handful who know that there is something very wrong with the way Michael passed and that his estate assets have been hijacked and the majority of old and new fans alike, who are being steered clear of the truth via the media and directly via fan sites by individuals and corporate entities now in control of Michael's estate and publishing rights.
Edited to add: What is going on in the fan community is not being done for the purpose of preserving Michael's legacy but rather with the goal of rewriting history to suit the agenda of those who eliminated him.
It would serve Michael well if you were to stop supporting the faux products being put out under Michael's name and would lend your prayers and support to his kids and Mother in their efforts to bring out the truth about Michael's murder.
Please be kind to Michael in your thoughts. And please take your frustration out elsewhere. This is a forum where respect for Michael and those who visit here are paramount. You really must do some deep thinking and feeling about this and you will find your answers.
~ Irina
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By Sarah Grant Contributor on 01.26.15 in Features When Alessandro Brustenghi emerged from the elevator in a Midtown Manhattan office building, he looked like any other young rock star: just over 5 feet tall, tanned skin and a touch of scruff. The only difference was that he was also dressed in a friar’s habit.
Friar Alessandro kept his aviators on indoors. His eyes were weary, he explained, from a weeklong media blitz for his first record for Decca, Voice From Assisi. This was the farthest distance and the longest time the 34-year-old friar had ever been away from his Perugia homeland. We sat in a sleek room with floor-to-ceiling glass paneling that made it feel as if we were dangling in an ornament over Central Park. The friar’s publicist explained to him that the park was entirely manmade, information Brustenghi accepted with a cautious nod.
In 2011, Brustenghi became the first religious brother to land an exclusive record contract with a major label. Producer Mike Hedges (U2, the Cure) heard the Italian tenor sing and invited him to record at Abbey Road Studios (“It is not possible to explain the importance of the Beatles,” Brustenghi said). He had little hope that his Assisi brotherhood would give him the green light. But they did, under the conditions that Brustenghi take a vow of poverty — meaning that any money he earned went to the Order of Friars Minor for charitable work — along with vows of obedience and chastity. As far as Brustenghi was concerned, he was living the rock star life.
When the young friar speaks, he is in sermon mode. His pauses are measured, his intonation even. He comes across as sweet and modest. I asked him if he had a favorite pop artist. Without hesitation, he answered, “Michael Jackson.” His favorite MJ album? Dangerous. “Michael Jackson, like Bach, recognized that the well of music is God. Bach used to sign his compositions with ‘Soli Deo Gloria’ (‘for the glory of God’) and Michael Jackson used to say that his music was from Heaven.”
‘Combining music and religion, attributing one to the other, struck me as hokey — a view that I would expect coming from a member of the brotherhood, but not from many other people.’ “Music is like a key,” he continued. “We can open the door and we can enter in Heaven. And in Heaven, we are enriched by the music, and we can give this gift to all people.” You don’t have to be religious to understand where Brustenghi is coming from — the sense of wonder that accompanies the best music is universal. Still, every time Brustenghi brought up God, I cringed, thinking, “Can’t we leave Him out of it?” Combining music and religion, attributing one to the other, struck me as hokey — a view that I would expect coming from a member of the brotherhood, but not from many other people. But as he spoke, I realized what Brustenghi was really talking about was a sense of awe.
What does it mean to feel awe? It’s more palpable than feeling impressed. It’s a physical, prickling sensation. It has a spiritual quality. Try describing what it feels like to be in awe of something, and it’s easy to slip into religious terminology. Music history abounds with so-called “rock gods” and “rock goddesses.” Music fans of all ilk love to canonize their favorite artists. Stages become altars. Punks preach and divas testify. When people talk about the “miracle” of music, only higher realms will do, because feeling “awe” is spiritual. But there is also a physical aspect to it. Hearing a favorite song again and again can literally feel different each time. As Brustenghi suggested, music isn’t Heaven itself, rather, it is the act of entering in Heaven. The movement signifies the physical element of “awe.”
As it turns out, the awe we experience for both music and spirituality comes from the same place. Neuroscientists are beginning to understand more about the connection. When the brain is faced with complex patterns, as it is in music and religion, it engages in the same way it would with a fellow human being. Dr. Michael Graziano, of the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, studied the connection between the human brain and spirituality in his book God Soul Mind Brain. “We’ve evolved to become social animals,” Dr. Graziano said over the phone, “and part of that means we have this incredibly fine-tuned intuition about what might be going on in someone’s mind.”
‘As it turns out, the awe we experience for both music and spirituality comes from the same place. Neuroscientists are beginning to understand more about the connection. When the brain is faced with complex patterns, as it is in music and religion, it engages in the same way it would with a fellow human being.’ The human brain is perpetually socializing. When we are faced with inanimate stimuli — like music, religion, nature and technology — the brain scrambles to figure out how to react. That’s partially why the solitary acts of praying to God or listening to music make us feel less alone. “We attribute mind states [to inanimate objects] at the drop of a hat,” Dr. Graziano said. “You get mad at your coffee machine when it doesn’t work. Children attribute minds to stuffed animals. If you turned down the volume on our tendency to [do that], we would be less attuned to each other socially.”
Harvard University’s Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone demonstrated the strength of the brain’s social machinery in what I will call the “Does the Mind Rule the Body or Does the Body Rule the Mind?” experiment. Dr. Pascual-Leone monitored a group of volunteers that practiced a one-handed piano exercise for two hours a day for five days. After the fifth day of practicing, he saw that there were significant changes in the area of the brain that controlled the practicing hand. Then, he split the volunteers into two groups. The first group continued to practice the piano exercise for four weeks, while the second group stopped. After the four weeks, the group that stopped practicing lost nearly all of the brain growth they’d gained.
But there was a third group of volunteers who only mentally practiced the piano exercise. They didn’t use their hand at all. By merely thinking about the piano exercise for four weeks, this group showed nearly the same brain growth as the group that had actually practiced the piano. In other words, the brain is equally influenced by what is real and what is imagined.
The brain’s social machinery works by imitation. We perceive people and things by creating a model of their brains. Obviously, we can’t create an exact model, so our models are simplified. But they suffice. Creating a model of another person’s mind allows us to intuit the thoughts, intentions and motivations of others even when they aren’t expressly stated. Model-making is an automatic function. It occurs in the region of the brain above the ear, roughly two inches in, an area that’s next to — and likely connected with — the auditory cortex. Dr. Graziano theorizes the brain evolved like this because socialization is “the key to our survival — to be able to work with other people and solve problems individuals can’t solve.”
The human brain treats music like an intelligent, complex being. “Regions of that brain that are known to be involved in really high-level social processing light up during rich, complicated music,” said Dr. Graziano, “Anyone who has listened to the music of Beethoven, for example, knows that it has a distinct personality. The music has the kind of emotional range and complexity that we would normally associate with a human personality.” The emotional states we attribute are largely computed unconsciously.
Belief in the spiritual world heightens that internal sense of awe. To believe requires an acknowledgment of non-human forces — angels, devils, ghosts, gods, spirits — and a belief that they can impact the world without a human body. “Awe is part of religion, because people attribute that kind of a giant, impressive deistic mind to the space around them and feel a great deal of awe for that being. That’s straight-up social emotion,” said Dr. Graziano.
To take it out of the specifically religious realm: If you are pre
I just felt like sharing this beautiful and healing song as so many conflicts are in this world right now:
"People all over the world, people from country to country, One and the same in the world and one song we sing, Life should be harmony in this world of self-destruction Nations lift your voices and sing!"
---------- "...be alive, be free, feel consciousness, subsciousness, being GOD..." MJ
New Michael Jackson Book To Come Out Despite Millions Spent To Block It Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1849453/new-michael-jackson-book-to-come-out-despite-millions-spent-to-block-it/#v8xqkobcXdfCWIIZ.99
New Michael Jackson Book To Come Out Despite Millions Spent To Block It
A company in Basel, Switzerland has announced today that they have successfully obtained exclusive rights to market a book by Michael Jackson’s business manager and confidant, Dieter Wiesner.
Many books have been written and published since Michael Jackson died. In fact, there are currently at least 227 books published and available and apparently even more are forthcoming.
However, the latest book, to be financed and handled by Artlima AG, is something different. It is written by the one person who managed Michael Jackson during the last decade of his life. Wiesner was responsible for the hiring and firing of people around Jackson and was privy to much confidential information on his boss and the people who surrounded him. He worked as his business manager from 1996 to 2003.
Wiesner has access to a large amount of exclusive and unreleased material on the King of Pop, material that is apparently making some people nervous. Because of this, more than a million dollars has been spent in legal fees in Germany by Michael Jackson’s estate, trying to block this book.
Following a battle covering three years in the German courts, finally that country’s highest court has ruled in Wiesner’s favor, giving him full rights to publish his book, not only in German, but in any language worldwide. The book is to be published in both paperback by Random House and also as an audio book which will contain voice messages.
On top of this, Wiesner has started a channel on the popular video sharing platform YouTube, where he intends to share exclusive material with Michael’s fans. He will also share his own, more personal experiences with Jackson on that platform.
A spokesperson for Artlima Ag said it is time for everyone to know who Michael Jackson actually was and what happened to him.
“It is time for the public to know, first hand, who Michael was, what actually happened. Not only from Mr. Wiesner but also directly from Michael! Artlima stands behind freedom of speech and information. We are happy to financially support this project.”
Besides the book, Artlima AG has something really unique for any art collectors out there. They have the original working paper for the song “Smooth Criminal” by Michael Jackson. The company bought the paper from Wiesner and it is apparently a unique document, containing the ideas Jackson scribbled down for his magna opus song “Smooth Criminal.”
According to the company, it is possible to observe firsthand how Jackson formed the words of the song, played with the ideas in his mind and presented the music on paper, including the crescendo and rallentando moment of the song. Apparently, Jackson’s fingerprints are still in evidence, all over the document.
Collectors would need quite a bit of money behind them to make the purchase, however, as according to Artlima AG, the minimum bid for the paper is U.S.$3 million. The website offers photos of the document.
Artlima AG is an international business company, based in Switzerland, who have a focus on financing, licensing, and the management of art.
Wiesner has a website with many images of himself with Michael Jackson over the years, that he is now able to share with the public. In the following video from his YouTube channel, Dieter Wiesner speaks of a gift Michael Jackson received from Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain.
In other news about Michael Jackson, the Inquisitr reports his son Prince has published a letter on his 18th birthday, telling the world how his father was “an incredible human being.”
[Images: Dieter Wiesner screengrab from video, Michael Jackson CC BY-SA 2.0 Francesco]
Yesterday I was going through many pictures where Michael visited children in hospitals. These children were burned and disfigured, yet he held them with so much compassion. If I would have met him, I would have gone down on my knees and kissed his hand! I would give him the same respect I would give a saint!
Also happy I got an A+ today in my social work course! :)
For the past 3 days I've been having this strong feeling that I am part of something greater than me. I feel surprised because before that I've always felt that I'm this separate individual, and now I feel mistaken. Now I feel I'm am really a small piece of energy that is part of a greater energy and when united together, the energy is stronger.
Things seem to make sense now, John Lennon's songs, Michael's songs. Who can express these feelings better than...
I just want to share some things, which may not really mean anything. I am no more psychic than most people and I've been wrong many times.
On May 8 when the lyrics from Michael's song "The planets are linin' up" kept coming to my mind, I really did not make the connection to something else I was doing. Questions that I had never thought about in my whole life, not even in third grade :) began coming to my mind like "Why are some planets retrograde on their axis and why not others? What could've caused that?" And then I began reading the news and the same theme of planets came up from 2 more sources. One news where a dancer (who curiously happens to be similar to Michael in how he lives his life spiritually and is also facing false allegations of abuse) is connected with the theory of pole shift. And then there are people on several blogs who are saying major planets will be lining up this month. Seem to be quite a few coincidences, which again may not really mean anything.
And today some other thoughts came to my mind: Paris is the kind of person who needs to know she is loved and how much she is loved. She needs to be told and shown this everyday. Words, hugs, feelings expressed, even a paper with the drawing of a heart can mean a lot to her and comfort her. She is not asking for much, really.
I wonder what the children and Michael's family are being told as a justification for the sale of Neverland ... it is hard for me to believe that, unless they are being lied to, they would be comfortable with the sale. Just my two cents.
