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The Survival Of The Fittest Shoppers

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , Thursday, January 15, 2015 7:32 AM

BY ALAN FEUER


TULSA, Oklahoma – Disasters happen. It is a fact as certain as income taxes. And when a solar flare erupts or a flu pandemic hits, there is only one question that will matter: Are you, or are you not, prepared?

One could have found an answer – actually, many answers – here recently at the third annual National Preppers and Survivalists Expo. A trade show catering to those with an apocalyptic bent, the two-day exposition was an opportunity for vendors of calamity swag to meet their clientele.

“We tried to gear our event this year to the ordinary person who wants to be ready for any situation,” said Ray McCreary, who organized the conference for the trade show company Expo Inc.

Ever since Isaiah, someone somewhere has been talking about the imminent demise of civilized society. Still, one could argue that today’s connected world of globalized supply chains and multinational banks is especially susceptible to a catastrophic failure. Just last month, a study financed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration found that, because of financial inequality and environmental problems, the industrial world could suffer “a precipitous collapse “within decades.

Alvin Jackson, a jazz musician from New Orleans, wants to be ready. Mr. Jackson, 66, was at the exposition checking out the Ark 290: a month’s supply of freeze-dried food.

“People think that preppers, and I use that term with caution, are guys in beards who live in bunkers and bury ammunition in their yards,” said Mr. Jackson, who had come to the conference with his wife, Marlane. “But I went through Katrina, and I’m not crazy. I know from experience that things go south, and it can happen just like that.”

Mr. Jackson’s cautions inspired by a hurricane notwithstanding, it would be easy to assume that a prepper convention would be peopled with right-wing zealots with a taste for guns and gold, or what survivalists like to call “the bullet-and-bullion set.” But while there was one man standing at a booth handing out business cards for Operation American Spring, a movement to impeach President Obama, there was also a countervailing element of organic gardeners, homeopathic healers and publishers selling books on the commercial uses of hemp.

The exposition seemed to be less about politics than consumer economics and was, if anything, an exercise in modern-day capitalism.

Apparently, there are endless ways to commodify catastrophe. There were tactical knives ($135), mass casualty bags ($ 250), solar-powered generators ($ 4,299), automated defibrillators ($695), gravity-fed water filters ($150) and vacuum-sealed packs of alligator jerky ($15).

Amy Alton, a co-founder of the survival-medicine company Doom and Bloom, feels that fear-mongering is less effective at persuading people to prepare than building a community.

Ms. Alton, a former Army nurse, is a purveyor of medical kits like the Stomp Supreme Trauma Survival Bag ($649) and the author, with her husband, Dr. Joseph Alton, of “The Survival Medicine Handbook.” Her latest project is a survival board game, which she is financing through Kickstarter donations and envisions as a way to introduce the subject of prepping to children.

“Being prepared is only possible if families and communities take part in it,” she said. “The idea of the lone survivalists living underground in a bunker with his guns – it’s absolutely crazy.”

The way Ms. Alton sees it, living in a tight-knit community where you know and trust your neighbors is the surest way to survive a disaster.

“We have to get back to a time when someone had the cow and someone made the quilt and everyone worked together,” she said. “That’s how America was founded.”


Taken from TODAY Saturday Edition, April 12, 2014

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Lifestyle changes may cut Alzheimer's risk, says study

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , Sunday, September 4, 2011 10:11 PM

On the other hand...
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Posted: 20 July 2011

(AFP/File/Sebastien Bozon)
PARIS: Up to half of worldwide cases of Alzheimer's disease could be due to modifiable lifestyle risk factors, according to a study released Tuesday based on a mathematical model.

The theoretical analysis suggests that seven known behaviour-related risk factors, taken together, account for 50 per cent of the more than 35 million cases of dementia worldwide.

The findings "suggest that relatively simple lifestyle changes such as increasing physical activity and quitting smoking could have a dramatic impact" on the number of Alzheimer's cases over time, said lead researcher Deborah Barnes, a professor at the University of California in San Francisco.

The study, presented at an international Alzheimer's conference in Paris, is among the first attempts to link risk factors with the degenerative brain disease, which causes memory loss, disability and eventually death.

Only a tiny percentage of cases -- about one per cent -- are clearly caused by genetic factors.

Otherwise, while the process by which the disease attacks nerve cells in the brain is well known, its origins remain poorly understood.

Barnes and colleagues used a statistical method to measure the percentage of cases which might be attributable, at least in part, to each of the risk factors assessed.

Worldwide, they found that a low level of education was linked to 19 per cent of cases, smoking to 14 per cent, physical inactivity to 13 per cent, depression to 11 per cent, mid life hypertension and obesity to five and two per cent, respectively, and diabetes to two per cent.

When combined, these seven modifiable risk factors contribute to as many as 17 million Alzheimer's cases worldwide, and about three million in the United States, the study found.

While eliminating harmful lifestyle habits entirely is likely to remain a theoretical exercise, the more realistic goal of reducing them by a quarter would cut the number of cases globally by three million, the researchers calculated.

"The next step is to perform large-scale studies with people to discover whether changing these lifestyle factors will actually lower Alzheimer's risk," Barnes said in a statement.

The number of people afflicted by Alzheimer's is expected to more than triple by 2050 as populations across the planet age.

The disease is characterised by unwanted proteins that form plaque in some areas of the brain, ultimately destroying neurons and leading to irreversible brain damage.

Typical symptoms are memory loss, erratic behaviour and extreme agitation.

Alzheimer's affects 13 per cent of people over 65, and up to 50 per cent of those over 85.

-AFP/ac


Taken from ChannelNewsAsia.com; source article is below:
Lifestyle changes may cut Alzheimer's risk, says study


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Head injuries in war, sports may boost dementia

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , 10:09 PM

Somehow, some memories would rather be forgotten by vets, don't you think? Or you also don't remember anything anymore?
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Posted: 19 July 2011

A doctor looks at several brain scans a hospital (AFP/File, Fethi Belaid)
PARIS - Brain injuries sustained on the battlefield and the gridiron of American football likely boost the risk of dementia later in life, according to two studies released Monday.

In a third study, also presented at an international Alzheimer's conference in Paris this week, researchers unveiled evidence that falling over in daily life may be an early warning sign of the onset of Alzheimer's.

Older war veterans who experienced traumatic brain injury face a doubled risk of developing dementia, according to a study led by Kristine Yaffe, head of the Memory Disorders Program at the San Francisco Veterans Association medical centre.

Reviewing the medical records of 281,540 US veterans aged 55 and older, they found that the risk of dementia was 15.3 percent in those who had had traumatic brain injuries (TBI) compared to 6.8 percent for ex-soldiers who had not.

"This issue is important, because TBI is very common," Yaffe said in a statement.

"About 1.7 million people experience a TBI each year in the United States, primarily due to falls and car crashes."


Brain injuries sustained on the battlefield and the gridiron of American football likely boost the risk of dementia (AFP/Getty Images/File, Spencer Platt)
Such injuries are also known as the "signature wound" of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, accounting for 22 percent of casualties overall and 59 percent of blast-related injuries.

The research suggests that the death and damage of axons -- long cell extensions that form connections among nerve cells in the brain -- may be to blame for the higher risk of dementia.

The swelling of the traumatised axons accompanies the accumulation of proteins called beta-amyloid, a hallmark of Alzheimer's.

Amyloid plaques similar to those found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's are present in up to 30 percent of TBI patients who do not survive their injuries, regardless of age.

In the second study, scientists led by Christopher Randolph of Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago compared the likelihood of decline in basic cognitive functions among retired football players and in older adults who had not played professional sports.

The repeated head-on clashes typical of American football may -- despite protective gear -- boost the chances of long-term brain damage.


Brain injuries sustained on the battlefield and the gridiron of American football likely boost the risk of dementia (AFP/File, Samuel Kubani)
Of more than 500 ex-football players, mean age 61, who responded to a health survey in 2008, just over 35 percent gave answers suggesting possible dementia, nearly triple the rate of Alzheimer's among Americans over 65.

Researchers followed up on this data to identify players with Mild Cognitive Disorder (MCI), often a precursor to full-blown dementia or Alzheimer's.

The study compared neurological and psychological test results from this group with two other groups, neither of which had played pro sports: demographically similar adults who showed no cognitive decline, and adults diagnosed with MCI.

The former athletes were clearly impaired compared to the normal adults. They were slightly less impaired that the non-athlete group diagnosed with MCI, but were considerably younger.

"It appears that there may be a very high rate of cognitive impairment in these retired football players compared to the general population," Randolph said, pointing to "repetitive head trauma" as the likely culprit.

In the last study, Washington University researcher Susan Stark and colleagues tracked 125 older adults over eight months, asking them to log any falls they made in day-to-day life.

Those adults with so-called preclinical Alzheimer's -- signs measurable in brain scans even in the absence of memory loss -- were nearly three times more likely to fall for each notch on a scale used to measure Alzheimer's progression.

"This study suggests that higher rates of falls can occur very early in the disease process," said Stark.

Traditional hallmarks of Alzheimer's such as memory loss remain critically important, said Maria Carrillo, a senior director at the Alzheimer's Association in the United States, commenting on the study.

"But these results also illustrate the significance of understanding that, in some people, changes in gait and balance may appear before cognitive impairment," she said.

-AFP/rt


Taken from ChannelNewsAsia.com; source article is below:
Head injuries in war, sports may boost dementia


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Face transplant man shows face

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , Sunday, May 15, 2011 5:36 PM

This is a second chance to life, and being more handsome than at first? Now that's a bonus!
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10 May 2011

Face transplant recipient Dallas Wiens (AFP Photo/ADAM HUNGER)
BOSTON, Massachusetts: A Texas man who burned his face off after his head touched an electrical wire while he was working in a cherry picker showed off his new look Monday as doctors presented the first US full face transplant.

Wearing black sunglasses and a dark goatee beard, 26-year-old Dallas Wiens appeared at a press conference alongside doctors who performed the operation at Brigham and Women's Hospital in the northeastern city of Boston.

"To me the face feels natural, as it if has become my own," said Wiens, acknowledging that he still feels numb in some places and needs to continue rehabilitation work to rebuild nerve function.

"I can never express what has been done, what I have been given," he added, thanking the donor family who wished to remain anonymous.

Wiens was injured in November 2008 when his head touched a high voltage electrical wire, causing dramatic facial deformities and burning off his nose and lips.

Plastic surgeon Bohdan Pomahac led the team of physicians, nurses and anesthesiologists for more than 15 hours to replace Wiens's nose, lips, facial skin, nerves and muscles.

The operation was done in March by a 30-strong team at Brigham and Women's Hospital, which said it was "the first full face transplant" performed in the country.

"He was quite literally a man without a face," said Pomahac.

The world's first full face transplant took place in Spain, and was unveiled in July 2010 by doctors at Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona.

The 31-year-old recipient, identified only as Oscar, reportedly suffered injuries in a shooting accident and spoke at a televised news conference with considerable difficulty. He could not close his mouth and his face appeared swollen.

The first successful partial face transplant was performed in France in 2005 on Isabelle Dinoire, a 38-year-old woman who had been mauled by her dog.

Since then face transplants have been carried out in China, the United States and Spain, which carried out its first such operation in August 2009.

Wiens, who lost his eyesight in the accident, also spoke with some difficulty, but said he has already begun to regain his sense of smell.

"The ability to breathe through my nose normally, that in itself was a major gift," he said.

Now he is considering university education and is looking forward to leading a more normal life with his young daughter, who was enamoured by his new look.

"She actually said 'Daddy, you're so handsome,'" he said.

-AFP/wk


Taken from ChannelNewsAsia.com; source article is below:
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BLACK AND WHITE FILMS

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:26 AM

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NEARLY 30 years ago, 48 Hrs. arrived in theatres with a bang. That 1982 movie, in which a gruff white detective partners with a smooth-talking black convict to hunt down a killer, took in US$78 million ($110 million) at the North American box office on a US$13 million budget, transformed a young comedian turned actor named Eddie Murphy into a Hollywood megastar and gave wings to a cinematic tradition as emblematic of the '80s multiplex as John Hughes' teenage dramedies: The interracial buddy-cop movie.

Among the hordes of teenage boys who flocked to 48 Hrs. was the comedian-turned-actor Tracy Morgan.

"I loved it. You've got these two guys alone in this cop car, sharing their lives despite their differences," Morgan, the 30 Rock star and former Saturday Night Live cast member, said this month.

"I grew up watching 48 Hrs., Lethal Weapon and all of those movies, and I always wanted to be in one of them."

With his new film, he has gotten his wish. Cop Out, which opens in the United States on Friday, stars Morgan as a Brooklyn detective, with Bruce Willis as his partner. The movie is a throwback to the heyday of Murphy-Nolte, Glover-Gibson and the rainbow coalition of wise-cracking, scum-busting partners that followed close behind, including Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal in Running Scared.

CLEARLY BLACK AND WHITE

The interracial buddy-cop movie (in which, it bears noting, the buddies aren't always police officers per se, but are always crime fighters) was an '80s bumper crop, but it has outlived the decade.

48 Hrs. gave way to a stream of riffs and re-imaginings that included Another 48 Hrs., The Last Boy Scout, Die Hard: With A Vengeance, Men In Black, Rush Hour and Training Day. Cop Out, however, was intended as an homage to the genre as it existed in its classic incarnation.

"I wanted to go for the same vibe Running Scared or Beverly Hills Cop had, where there's a real sense of danger, but you still get to make the funny," said Kevin Smith, the film's director.

"I tell people this movie is like Lethal Weapon, only with 60 per cent less action." To nail the retro ambience Smith hired Harold Faltermeyer, the composer of the Beverly Hills Cop theme song, to write a synthesiser-heavy score.

If the interracial buddy-cop movie has proven itself long lasting, it owes much of this resilience to its relationship to hot-button social concerns. The genre has allowed film-makers to confront race relations but in a rock-'em, sock-'em context: Low on speechifying, high on car chases.

This was true of perhaps the first interracial buddy-cop movie to speak of - Norman Jewison's In The Heat Of The Night. That 1967 murder mystery, which brought together Sidney Poitier as an ace Philadelphia homicide detective and Rod Steiger as a backwoods Mississippi sheriff, is an attack on Southern bigotry and an ode to racial cooperation.

In an interview several years ago Jewison said his hope for the film was that white audiences would experience "the relationship between white and black in the South", stressing that, for this to work, the subject "had to be confronted in a very entertaining and theatrical way".

In The Heat Of The Night is a high-minded sort of thriller, but it shares its basic plotline with many of the flashier action vehicles that succeeded it: After initial hostility, a black man and a white man gradually work past their differences to focus on the greater good. Sometimes the racial tension between them is explicit, as in 48 Hrs., in which Nick Nolte's Jack subjects Murphy's Reggie to a barrage of nasty slurs.

Sometimes that tension is more diffused, or shades into broader anxieties about age or class, as in Lethal Weapon and the Beverly Hills Cop films.

BROMANCE IS COLOUR-BLIND

Racism figures overtly into 1989's Lethal Weapon 2 as an obstacle that unites, rather than divides, Mel Gibson's Riggs and Danny Glover's Murtaugh. The villains in the film are pasty-faced avatars of intolerance: Diplomats from apartheid-era South Africa.

Of course, relations between the police and the black residents were hardly utopian in late-'80s Los Angeles - a city just a few years shy of Rodney King and the 1992 riots.

"The movie's a sort of wish fulfilment," said screenwriter Shane Black, who created the Lethal Weapon franchise and wrote The Last Boy Scout. "In a troubled ethnic climate, a movie where black and white work together with nothing but mutual respect? I think it pointed to a better future." (A fifth Lethal Weapon sequel has been rumoured, but, Black said "with near-complete certainty, it's not happening".)

Melvin Donalson, a professor of film at California State University, Los Angeles, and the author of Masculinity In The Interracial Buddy Film, is more ambivalent about the genre's politics. Interracial buddy-cop movies were a leap forward from earlier black-and-white pairings - Will Rogers and Stepin Fetchit, say, or Jack Benny and Eddie (Rochester) Anderson - in which, Donalson said: "The black character serves mostly to enhance the white one."

But, he added, movies like 48 Hrs. tend to treat racial tension as something that can be simply worked through and gotten over, an interpersonal problem rather than an entrenched institutional one. "As cops, the black and white characters fight for and validate a system that, for all intents and purposes, works."

Donalson also sees the genre as tied to a broader backlash against feminist upheavals of the era: A brawny bloc of movies where men could be men and women hardly figured.

To him, interracial buddy-cop films put a multi-cultural face on traditional notions about gender, "affirming that whether you're a black man, white man, Asian man or Latino man, you're still the person who should be in charge." (The films also represented the rising commercial viability of black actors in the '80s.)

In Cop Out, there is no racial tension between Tracy Morgan's Paul and Bruce Willis' Jimmy.

When the movie begins, they have been partners for nine years, and they behave more like a married couple than wary bedfellows.

"They can't see that one's bald and one's black," said Robb Cullen, who wrote the film with his brother Mark. "We never came at it as, this is a black-and-white movie."

Mark Cullen said Cop Out was the interracial buddy-cop movie given a post-racial makeover - a film in which bromance is colour-blind. "The way we looked at it, we were just writing a romantic comedy for two guys." THE NEW YORK TIMES

From TODAY, Monday, 22-Feb-2010
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Aerosmith cancels rest of tour

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , Friday, August 14, 2009 2:28 AM

LAS VEGAS - APRIL 27: Aerosmith singer Steven...Image by Getty Images via Daylife

Well, getting old is one reason, I believe so, and that the accident may be fatal after all, or that just like Schumacher who can't race yet as the previous accident left the neck unable to contain further strain, the same is true, I believe, for Steven Tyler. The similarity is striking for his daughter Liv Tyler.

Anyway, Aero fans, I think you can wait. Steven has to rest awhile.

Read that news story here.


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FAA on the Hudson plane crash

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With so many accidents happening, we keep thinking, do we know the cause, and more importantly, can we prevent them? And what if the reason was negligence? What do you do? Or how are the victims, more so their families, compensated? Money is not gonna bring them back, no matter how much.

That question remains open and unanswered.

For the latest development on the Hudson crash, read it here:

FAA suspends 2 air traffic controllers over Hudson crash

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Lawyer: Jackson's 'unusual problems' surprised doctor

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , 2:18 AM

Michael JacksonMichael Jackson via last.fm

It won't end so soon.

Doctor administered drugs too potent…

Doctor left Jackson after sedating him…

And so on, and so forth…

If you are following the news on Michael Jackson's continuing investigation on the cause of his death, see the latest news here:

Lawyer: Jackson's 'unusual problems' surprised doctor


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Updates on Michael Jackson

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:33 AM

Michael JacksonMichael Jackson via last.fm

Even after his death, much remains to be settled for Michael Jackson.

  1. His estates: Battle looms over Michael Jackson estate
  2. His autopsy report: Jackson autopsy reports released next week: coroner
  3. And still looking for clues to what caused his death: Police search Vegas home of Jackson doctor

When the clouds settle, what will we see?


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Patricia Mok 'sexually harassed' as a teenager

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:13 AM

This is really something that will tell ‘when I was young’… Patricia Mok had an experience of being sexually harassed when she was a teenager.

Read that news article here.

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Lawyer: Manslaughter evidence sought at Jackson doctor's office

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:29 PM

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Just like an inquisition, Michael Jackson family members are looking at angles more than one on his death. Could it be manslaughter? Read that news story here.

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Jackson movie could be a Halloween thriller

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , 9:12 PM

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I was almost joking on this, but could it be true? Finally Michael Jackson is a real 'thriller'… but only in the movies.

A movie made from his footages? Read that news story here.

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Malaysia busts officials in trafficking syndicate

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:15 AM

A human trafficking awareness poster from the ...Image via Wikipedia

And how about human trafficking? Immigration officials in Malaysia are the latest to get 'whacked' for being involved in human trafficking activities. Read that news story here.

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Michael Jackson movie in works: reports

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For those who will buy into this 'movie', it shows Michael Jackson in his rehearsals for the supposed 'This Is It' concert that would eventually 'close the curtains' on his pop-concert career.

And while the curtain closed prematurely, they may still make something of the video footages taken during his rehearsals.

Will it be a substantial series of spliced on video footages?

Who can tell? A short take here, a short take there, all nicely put together – it could be Michael Jackson's final video.

Not to wax longer, read the news story here.

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Malaysia prince sues Indonesia teen wife for libel

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , Monday, July 20, 2009 11:48 PM

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I don't find this funny, or amusing even just a bit…

I was really waiting for the reply from the prince, and it has come, with a big bang, worth 105m ringgit worth of a defamation suit against the runaway wife and her mother.

What can I say? A common citizen like me can't even imagine of a half-a-million bucks under my name here on earth… what's with a 'measly' 105m ringgit?

Anyway, the summary of the news story is here.

Now I'm waiting for Aug 2, for the continuation, if not the final, of the Pinot vs Prince story.
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A Father’s Heart – notwithstanding anything else

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , Sunday, July 19, 2009 6:27 PM

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I was following the news on Michael Jackson, his sudden death, the world's reaction, and ripples of reaction that followed after, shooting up sales of MJ's various products, a look at his estates, his properties, his debts, not to mention the facts and mysteries surrounding his death… then his will.

His father was not even mentioned anywhere in the will, but that doesn't change their relationship.

La Toya, Michael Jackson's elder sister, tells of a 'murder', or as she tells, 'killing' of MJ for his money.

Then it was the father's turn to speak. Notwithstanding he and Michael's relationship, which is known that they are not in good terms, which may have made MJ not to include him in his will, when he spoke about his son, you can see the heart of a father.

That is what I was waiting for.

A father's heart – despite everything else, takes precedence.

Read the news story below:

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/442222/1/.html

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/5723554/jackson-wasnt-ready-for-comeback-dad/

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/837110/jackson-wasnt-ready-for-comeback-dad

http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=352149

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/MichaelJackson/story?page=1&id=8067482

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Michael Jackson's sister La Toya says he was 'killed'

Posted by PrfyVdlx , Labels: , , , , , , , , , , Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:52 AM

LaToya JacksonLaToya Jackson via last.fm

This is a recovering post, a late one, that is.

Anyway, long time ago, many years back, when La Toya Jackson grabbed the limelight, it was again on a very controversial issue: she wrote a book.

And just what is so controversial about that book?

It was supposed to be a book about the Jackson family secrets.

Back then, I was thinking to myself, why become famous at the expense of your family.

That is past. Now she again grabbed the limelight:

Accusing some greedy handgers-on of 'killing' his brother Michael Jackson for his money.

How true is that?

Anyway, read the news story here.

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