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What's in the fridge? Whatever happened to TV? A gigantic crime infestation, that's wot, the Brits on top as the best and nasty nancies, gor. The other day I tried to find something to watch besides CSI. After 9 years of shows and spinoffs, I had to forcibly restrict access with sticky yellow and black CRIME SCENE DO NOT CROSS tape and shut the damn thing off with a latex glove.

Maybe we need another another CSI: Burbank. Where CSI Tech Forensics hack into Studio Heads to investigate who murdered Prime Time. It has to be somebody. Somebody bludgeoned Entertainment, threw the body into a vault and started cloning CSI Miami, New York, Vegas, what next?

Our relentless pursuit of some kind of life has reached brain-numbing potentials. Are crime and reality TV, disaster movies, what we're all watching? Don't we do anything else? Maybe it all started with the Terminator. After all didn't he take over Hollywood before California? Thanks Arnold but why can't you hold down 2 jobs like the rest of us? Try Fiscal Crisis California. Try USA. Take them out! Make another movie if nothing else works.

In the early days of Tech all you had to do was watch your consumption of movies and TV as pure entertainment. And telephone as a tool, not a chatter line, leaving some space for friends and hobbies. The Internet has changed all that. Anyone connected now can have it all streamed through a PC or iPhone, virtual friends and demons included, like an updated Roman Polanski: No mirrors but we've got screens. Fasten your seatbelt or restraining device and scream, still optional, for your daily Virtual Life Transmission.

It should ring some alarm bells like 1984. It doesn't yet because we are our own Virtual Managers and that conveniently drains whatever spare time we might have to think a way out of a Virtual Life into a real one. But who has any time left? Not only do we spend it working on learning this and that dumbass software, but to make it work or work better and do things for us we don't need, we wind up debugging it and Windows too. Is this fair or sensible? Everyday we're working for Microsoft or some other conglomerate for free yet and there's no painless MS Anxiety Manager App to download and get us through, unless you pay for Hindi .ddl Support or join a Support Group like Microsoft AA, online of course. Help! Auto Update keeps tyin to install KB967715 a thousand times!!!

There goes the time for hobbies and friends unless you're a gamer too and you've got your own Sims family and friends where you want them. Then OK, who needs a real life, when you have absolute control.

If you're still happy with all that, there's one thing you've probably overlooked. You could be totally alone and alienated. A Web basket case. Welcome to the underlying reality nobody talks about. But you've got options. There's crime TV or gaming to vent unverbalized frustration, that or reality TV if you need to borrow somebody else's reality for awhile. Or if you're a guy, fantasy porno from a thousand willing webcam girls to upgrade your libido. Easier, cheaper and more secure than a 2 Dollar Whore.

Maybe that's where Sarah Palin has an edge. Why else is she everywhere? The simple soccer mom gal who hires someone else to update her Facebook and Twitter friends, avoiding the nerdy dirty for the happy days of '50's push button dreams. A dishwasher I can handle. If you ever catch her lugging a laptop around, you'll know it's the end.

Is this the direction we're taking? Sarah Palin and the end of time? Done deal so far. Not easily uninstallable. With Retro out, what would you reinstall? We've already lost a lot of hardware that we're emulating with fancy software or smaller hardware. Not the same thing going out with friends to the movies and your own home theater setup. Small screen, big screen, your place--your kids--your distractions, lights out--darkness--mystery--magic. Gone.

The big hardware, the theaters are vanishing. With no time to go out, so are real restaurants, real places to hang out, real places to go to meet people and friends. A loner's game at home. With no society, no social skills, more paranoia going out to shop, as we're still shopping but with more antisocial elements like ourselves, the other shoppers.

It's happening at break (your) neck speed. $3.40 for a Starbucks? WiFi extra? At the office it's all computer time and what computers want if you've still got a job. Some big business boxes and towers don't allow talk. Keystrokes only. And they count them. Send an email or text the guy in the next cubicle for perfect company productivity. Dead people work better.

What can we do? Buy life insurance, sounds good at least. Become a hacker, a terrorist, a billionaire like Madoff. Fake it so you've got a private identity somewhere. Don't put it on Facebook unless it's funny or absolutely dumb or you might fall through the giant cracks of comedy into the abyss of a humorless legal system compromised by open-ended conspiracy theories from the KB20010911 Auto Update: Resolves and restores default insecurity codes, and allows temporary implementation of suspect codec bushwacking through a modified firewall algorithm before deletion, overwriting, and final stripping of all bushwacking files in Recycle Bin Bypass serving a modified Cheneydump.

Anyone seen a Hot Fix for this one?

Of course the real hackers and terrorists and stars of popular crime are busy subverting everything because we won't do it ourselves in a fair and nice way. They think we've abandoned civilization and them, except in TV shows and movies where we love'em or hate'em. For criminals with philosophy or religion, it's hard to argue against their baseline assumptions if you're rational and humanistic: Society is sick and dickheads did it.

When real criminals absolutely believe themselves they go in for revenge. And we go after them like Thought Police and nothing changes except we feel better because we're doing something about crime or terrorists like talking about it, or feeling worse like we're becoming the suspects for some real pain, or at least watching some actors doing something that's more real than being chained to a PC, unless we stick out our necks and go into law enforcement or the army.

With enough commitment, but it's too late already, we could have avoided the Fiscal Crisis at least. If the War on Terror wasn't preempted by sanity and Obama, we'd all be fully employed and secure. Plastic please! Homeland Security Check. Civilian and/or Democrat? Terrorist? Maxxed out? Swipe here.

Anyway we got here by ourselves and we're going to a future breakdown we've seen in dozens of disaster movies, Obama or not. The real failure of civilization goes beyond politics and the economy. It's a loss of soul and culture.

Is that it? Can't we just walk out of this show and find something better? No, not yet. A direction has been set by MS and Google Technocrats and us following them. It's a totalitarian history repeating itself. A civilization arises, overextends itself and dwindles into power-groping and decadence or falls into vinyl gear absurdity only to crash and burn. Remember Star Wars?

2012: The only way out. Galactic Alignment? Mayan Cycle? Mountain of Fire? Global Warming? Nothing on TV, already the reality. But try Level 26.

--Alan Gillis

NewsHammer Exclusive

It's taken a while to get an overview of the global impact of the deadly H1N1 Swine Flu outbreak in Mexico back in April. It doesn't look good. The World Health Organization reports over 700 dead worldwide, a dramatic doubling of fatalities this month. 116 countries have laboratory confirmed cases of H1N1 as of July 6, 2009. The WHO's latest summary, July 16, 2009 (included in a change on its H1N1 reporting guidelines):

The 2009 influenza pandemic has spread internationally with unprecedented speed. In past pandemics, influenza viruses have needed more than six months to spread as widely as the new H1N1 virus has spread in less than six weeks.

The WHO also notes that the continued spread of the pandemic to all countries is inevitable.

The last time an influenza pandemic moved something near as fast, was the H1N1 Spanish Influenza of 1918 that killed 50 to 100 Million. As reported first in NewsHammer, there are other similarities between the Spanish Flu and the current pandemic, officially declared finally on June 11, 2009 by the WHO, too late to contain it.

Recently a trickle of patient data has become available as well as the first major study of this new or novel Influenza A (H1N1). Although they are different, the current H1N1 does behave in a similar manner to Spanish Influenza H1N1. If similarities hold then this first outbreak could mutate into a later more virulent second stage attack like Spanish Flu did.

The UW-Madison Study published in Nature July 13, 2009 confirms that people born before 1920 who were exposed to H1N1 then, carry protective antibodies to the current N1H1. Clearly both pandemic influenzas are similar in effect.

Even though there are common seasonal H1N1 influenzas circulating now, those who've become ill with them won't have any immunity to today's pandemic H1N1. The new H1N1 also replicates more efficiently than seasonal influenzas, and so people get sick faster. Some are overwhelmed by the virus's virulence, needing hospital care while some die because the new H1N1 penetrates deeper, spreading from the nose into the lungs, unlike seasonal head cold influenzas, and causing lung damage, leading in some cases to pneumonia, organ failures and death. It's also highly contagious, way more than seasonal flus. It takes the same route though, into the nose as you breathe in contaminated droplets of water from sneezes and coughs from people already infected. But it also can pass from a contaminated hand if you touch your nose, hence the frequent need for hand washing.

The Study also notes that "sustained person-to-person transmission might result in the emergence of more pathogenic variants, as observed with the 1918 pandemic virus". That point was also made in NewsHammer back in May, "H1N1 Mexican Swine Flu: A Two Stage Attack And The New Spanish Influenza?".

We have to be prepared for a killer pandemic that might mutate like the Spanish Influenza. And we're going that route with mass vaccinations on the way. A shot of a weakened H1N1 will produce protective antibodies that will neutralize the real H1N1 virus. We'll be protected in a similar way as those who recovered from the Spanish Influenza and are immune to today's threat. Mass vaccinations are our best hope to stop the current pandemic.

On the positive side, the vast majority of current infections are mild, requiring no hospitalization. Mild cases may now number a million or more in the U.S. As of last week U.S. fatalities numbered 263, up from 170 as of July 6th.

Since lab testing is costly and time consuming, and a general picture has emerged, the WHO has also changed its requirements for reporting H1N1, so now we won't be getting a country by country breakdown. Instead the WHO will concentrate on new cases of H1N1 in new countries and any atypical cases. It looks like we won't know the overall numbers or what the odds are in catching H1N1 or the odds of recovering from H1N1. Not that we'd ever know except if we had massive testing of all cases of influenza, certainly impracticable.

There's still the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control that's doing global monitoring. As of July 20, 2009 we have as many as 140,000 confirmed cases according to the ECDC.

The best and last global guideline we have from the WHO is 94,512 confirmed cases, 429 dead as of July 6, 2009. Or about a 0.45% chance of dying if you have been diagnosed with H1N1. Those hospitalized for H1N1 have a much higher 5% chance of dying. If the U.S. trend continues with infections estimated at a million now, 263 dead out of 40,617 confirmed cases, and ultimately hitting 30% to 50% of the population as one of the leading vaccine producers, Novartis AG expects, we might see a lot more deaths within a year if there's no vaccine available. In the U.S. based on the above statistics it could be as high as 22,092 to 36,820 dead.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the CDC made its own estimates last month but only released them today, July 24th to AP. Up to 40% of Americans could get H1N1 within 2 years. Deaths could range from 90,000 to several hundred thousand. Again if there's no effective vaccine. But how did the CDC arrive at such high numbers? During the Spanish Influenza doctors and nurses were dying, hospitals were always packed. Many of the sick couldn't get any help. Economies, infrastructure crashed.

If the current virus mutates dangerously it could be mean a worldwide collapse. More virulent or less virulent strains of H1N1 will change the odds. In the Northern Hemisphere we haven't entered the seasonal flu season yet but when we do researchers expect that we'll see a resortment of its genetic material when it combines with other flu viruses circulating. This is the mechanism by which H1N1 evolved in the first place. The odd thing is we have not only deadly H1N1 but a great number of cases of mild H1N1 flu spreading wildly as though we're in the winter flu season now.

That's why there is a rush to get a new vaccine out that prevents or mitigates the consequences of H1N1 infection. The U.S. has already ordered $289 Million of vaccine from Novartis back in May and has placed further orders totaling $979 Million, plus with other manufacturers to inoculate the entire U.S. population. Vaccine trials in the U.S. should start soon and if all goes well the U.S. will have 160 Million doses available in October. In the U.S. and elsewhere health professionals will be first in line for immunization.

The last influenza pandemic in 1968, an avian flu, killed about 700,000 people worldwide. The 1957 flu pandemic killed about 70,000 Americans. And we still have a serious threat developing of another bird flu pandemic, the recent H5N1, still spreading and killing people: 262 dead as of July 1, 2009.

Plans for a massive vaccination campaign in many countries show that governments are expecting a worst case scenario. Some are also stockpiling the two major flu antivirals, Tamiflu and Relenza, that are used in serious flus and have been beneficial in cases of H1N1. Though lately 5 cases of H1N1 have been shown to be resistant to Tamiflu, with more being reported, a new worry that suggests H1N1 can rapidly mutate, and might become generally resistant. The problem is that Tamiflu is widely used to treat any severe flu and some people have been taking it as a preventative. A man in Quebec took it that way, but at less than the recommended dosage and caught H1N1 from his son. Seems the virus became Tamiflu resistant in his own body. Some parents are sending their kids to camp with Tamiflu in their backpacks as insurance, but wide spread and unnecessary use as we've had with antibiotics is just going to speed up Tamiflu resistance in H1N1. There are very few antivirals as it is. If a vaccine that works isn't out in time, we will be in big trouble.

No results yet on any vaccines at a clinical trial stage. But 2 different H1N1 vaccines are being tested.

Novartis AG developed the first H1N1 vaccine back in June, in a new type of mammalian cell culture. Clinical trials started in July according to the Novartis AG website. This type of vaccine hasn't been tested widely, about 3500 people treated for other diseases. It promises to be much quicker to produce than chicken egg embryo incubation. Gearing up for extreme mass production of an effective vaccine might be a lot slower than anticipated. H1N1 isn't easily produced in chicken eggs, the standard medium, as it yields a third to a half of what other influenzas produce. Then too, researchers are saying that two shots of vaccine will probably be needed per person, spaced apart, for effective immunity.

Although Australia has been hit hard with H1N1, 14,703 confirmed cases and 41 deaths as of July 22, 2009, there's some good news. The first Australian clinical trials of an H1N1 vaccine are underway. Results will be available in another 6 weeks.

Trials started July 20, 2009, but one of the biotech companies involved, Vaxine, isn't promising any miracles.

Vaxine research director Nikolai Petrovsky told BBC News that there "is no guarantee any of these vaccines will work. Swine flu is a very peculiar beast, it's a very different virus that we're dealing with. But we are hopeful."

What is striking and disconcerting are the contrary comments from researchers and labs that an H1N1 vaccine is not difficult to make or produce, as there's plenty of experience gained from seasonal flu vaccines and that results should be in line with expectations, that like seasonal flu vaccines, an H1N1 will work. So much so that in Britain, according to The Independent, "high risks groups such as children are likely to receive the vaccine before the final clinical trial results are in."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration thinks it could be fast-tracked, as reported by AP, "because it's brewed exactly the same as regular winter flu vaccine, merely using the new swine influenza virus, part of the common H1N1 influenza family, as the chief ingredient. Companies just have to take the normal steps required for each year's regular winter flu vaccine, such as proving the inoculations are manufactured appropriately."

We'll find out who's right soon enough. Though if there isn't some certainty provided by solid clinical studies, vast quantities of vaccines might be made with little or no value, possibly including dangerous side effects. The WHO at least isn't perfectly sanguine about the mass vaccinations coming.

Since new technologies are involved in the production of some pandemic vaccines, which have not yet been extensively evaluated for their safety in certain population groups, it is very important to implement post-marketing surveillance of the highest possible quality. In addition, rapid sharing of the results of immunogenicity and post-marketing safety and effectiveness studies among the international community will be essential for allowing countries to make necessary adjustments to their vaccination policies.

Currently 850-900 Million doses of vaccine have been ordered by governments, on a one dose per person basis, says the WHO, or full coverage for wealthy countries. Most have options or are considering options for 2 doses per person, doubling the demand to 1.8 Billion doses. But orders are from higher income countries for their needs.

Can we make it that fast with few major vaccine companies, that much vaccine, when we haven't even got to the stage of finding a vaccine formula that we know works?

Russia and China and other middle income countries would produce an additional 10% for their needs, according to their capability, not even close to anticipated needs of their 3.114 billion people.

Low income countries of about 2.662 billion people without local vaccine production would have no vaccine.

Expect an international fight over swine flu vaccine.

A bad case of the flu is now an alarm bell for people everywhere as it might be the new H1N1. Who's at risk? According to the WHO, the short answer is everybody. WHO Guidelines: What can I do?

--Alan Gillis

Other References

Nature, "In vitro and in vivo characterization of new swine-origin H1N1 influenza viruses", July 13, 2009 U-W Madison

Nature News, "Swine flu shares some features with 1918 pandemic", July 13, 2009

U Wisconsin School of Medicine, "UW-Madison Study: H1N1 More Dangerous Than Suspected", July 13, 2009

NewsHammer, "H1N1 Mexican Swine Flu: A Two Stage Attack And The New Spanish Influenza?", May 22, 2009

The media storm around Michael Jackson is less about him and more about the media monster that makes and breaks our pop icons. We still don't know how or why he died. All we have is a lot of confusion from a lot of insane coverage.

Armies of journalists swoop down on him again. Drugs and death, the new postmortem, not quite as sensational as ruining him and his reputation with unsubstantiated charges of extreme moral depravity, the boy-man-god a pedophile, but drugs and death a suitable followup and a glorious media fire for the final end of a fallen star.

Questions, a lot of questions and conflicting and misleading answers and more doubt and misery. A lot of really great friends who weren't there for him. A lot of questions nobody asks. Journalists paid to ask them, but they don't.

Police slow to see that a simple death of the King of Pop doesn't make sense. Joe Jackson apparently, always say apparently when covering Michael, Michael's father ordering 2 moving vans to remove Michael's effects from the scene of his death, a rented mansion belonging to the Nation of Islam, rented at 3 or 4 times the going market rate for $100,000 a month. Janet, Michael's sister, dropping by the same day, but what was taken away from a possible crime scene two days after Michael dies? Does she know, does Joe estranged from Michael to boot, have any authority to mess things up for the inevitable police investigation?

Then a belated appearance by LA police confiscating 2 large bags of drugs after the moving vans have been long gone.

Then later still, the DEA shuffles in after nobody knows what happened at Michael's mansion before, during and after Michael's death, what was removed, what might have been planted later.

A lot of Diprivan found by the DEA, missed by the LAPD, unlabeled, IV anesthesia used only to knockout a patient for an operation, but what was it doing there? Michael couldn't sleep without it sometimes?

What doctor would prescribe it for insomnia when a small overdose is easily fatal, when ordinary doses are also sometimes fatal? It happens under ideal conditions in hospital operating rooms with an anaesthesiologist present monitoring vital signs.

Some very close to Michael say he wasn't a druggie, abhorred and never used recreational drugs and only took prescription drugs like anyone else would. Started with Pepsi, the hair on fire commercial, later a broken leg, broken vertebrae, performance injuries, then the painful cosmetic surgery and possibly skin cancer. And beat up badly twice for months by the media on unsubstantiated child molestation charges that would depress anyone. More and more people close to him thought he had a prescription drug problem. If he did, no one seems to have actually caught him doing drugs. One of his former bodyguards, Matt Fiddes, says he and Uri Geller often confiscated drugs and needles lying around. And Michael was in rehab once though what for exactly? The same people who say he was addicted to prescription drugs like the TV journalist Diane Dimond who broke the pedophilia allegations, say he also had a big drinking problem back then.

The more you repeat a story, the more people believe it, true or not, as the media and psychologists must know. If that's hard to swallow since we think we're not so easily fooled, remember when disinformation and propaganda were a daily routine made famous by Lenin who invented the formula: Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.

Even easier to smear anybody if you use unnamed sources. According to a close, but unnamed member of the Jackson family Michael took daily shots of the super-painkiller Demerol and had a shot an hour before he died.

Anyone see needle tracks on Michael's arms? An unnamed Jackson family source did. Noted on the autopsy? No info released yet. An unnamed source commenting on the body, "surprised at how healthy Jackson was."

Unnamed sources always seem to be very sure of themselves. Some very close to Michael say he lived on prescription drugs. Look how thin he was, how little he ate. Then one of the people he knew best, Grace Rwaramba from Rwanda on staff as an assistant and promoted to nanny his kids was reported as saying by Times Online that she often had to pump his stomach when he mixed his drugs. On a news video later she denied she ever said that she did, didn't know how to pump a stomach either. Then she went further in print, saying she never even spoke to Times Online. Her full rebuttal to the long and juicy Times Online article was published in The Huffington Post.

The two autopsies and the lab tests will finally tell us something about the cause of death when they're released in a month or so. For now, who and what can you believe?

Could Michael have been saved? The AEG concert promoter for Michael's comeback series in London, Randy Phillips and the tour's director, Kenny Ortega, both said he was in great shape the night before he died. The AEG This Is It video of Michael's rehearsal at the LA Staples Center 2 nights before he died [also at the above link] confirms he wasn't on a doped-up downer going into London. If he could have been saved, the only one who could have done it on the spot was his cardiologist, Dr Conrad Murray, who tried to resuscitate Michael when he found him collapsed in bed that catastrophic day in LA's Holmby Hills, still alive.

But Murray the cardiologist failed at CPR, and there was some delay in calling an ambulance. How long was that? 40 minutes until the ambulance arrived says The Guardian. Murray couldn't find a phone, but he had his own cell phone, but he didn't call because he didn't know the address where he himself was living, doctor in residence at Michael's Holmby Hills Estate, that any goofball at 911 would be able to track down by a street name or 5 blocks from you know where. Stupid shit if you're Michael Jackson's doctor and you're doing CPR on Michael's too soft a bed for CPR when Michael should be on the floor as the 911 Operator reminded him on the phone when Michael's security guy finally called 911. Stupid shit when you're supposed to be a cardiologist and you're not Board certified, letting that lapse last year, when you don't pay your debts in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to creditors who were after you because your heart clinic was flatlining, like Michael who died under your care.

If CPR doesn't work it's a bloody emergency and you get help. Murray said he never gave drugs like Demerol to Michael, but if Michael took an accidental overdose himself of something or other, CPR isn't going to help. You pump his stomach, you get him to a hospital for life support, a heart-lung machine, maybe a total blood transfusion when you suspect poisoning by unknown drugs, but when the ambulance came the paramedics still did CPR for another 45 minutes, though the nearest hospital was 6 minutes away. Stupid shit, but shit happens when you're stupid.

The LAPD tow away Murray's BMW that same day, oddly not really his anyway. Great. Smart. Could be full of AMA Journals. Why not check the mansion first before 2 vans clear out a mountain of potential evidence in broad daylight with news cameras rolling?

The first sensible thing Murray does is he gets a lawyer. Then he talks to the LAPD for 3 hours. No one says what happened, just that he was cooperative. Not a suspect. Yeah, great.

A little later Dr Deepak Chopra talks to Larry King on CNN. He says Michael asked him for Oxycontin, another major painkiller back in 2005 and Deepak refused. Deepak warned Michael about getting hooked on prescription pain meds, but Michael didn't want to talk about it, didn't return his calls later. Deepak talked around the problem with Michael so he could stay in touch with him. Said to Larry that there were plenty of enablers in LA, doctors who liked to hang around celebrities and prescribe whatever narcotics they wanted. No shortage either of plastic surgeons I'd add, who turned Michael into a freak.

With all the bullshit flying, was Deepak right about Michael? If Michael had his own enablers would he bother Deepak about an easily obtainable prescription drug? With a lot on his mind, with things going badly since the embarrassing Bashir documentary and new allegations suddenly surfacing, Michael then was in over his head in the biggest fight of his life. $18 Million in legal fees for the child molestation case that consumed the nation and Michael too. Not guilty on all counts. Maybe all Michael wanted was a little help from a friend he was staying with to numb his pain? Michael was a child after all, as everyone who knew him well always said.

But then there's another screaming media report I saw on TV a few days ago, but oddly not archived on the corporate website, that said Michael was spending $48,000 a month on prescriptions and owed his pharmacy $100,000 when he died. But if true why isn't this big story plastered everywhere? Hope somebody at the DEA has been watching the megaTV investigation for leads. Can't be sure of that either after the LAPD apparently missed the televised Big Joe Jackson Moving Day.

If that's really $48,000 a month for Michael's drugs that's way more than 2 bags full collected by the LAPD. Enough to stuff an SUV every month and even so, how much can a single human being consume? 20 tabs of Demerol per day would turn you into a cataleptic couch potato for less than $1200 a month.

What's known? What's proven? Nothing really. Dead like Elvis.

Michael was married for awhile to Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley. She said Michael told her years ago he was worried he'd end up dead like Elvis. "He Knew" she wrote on MySpace the day after Michael died. A premonition, a guess, or fate? More questions, no answers.

Michael Jackson's public funeral/ceremonial is set for tomorrow Tuesday 10AM Los Angeles time at the Staples Center. 1.6 million people applied for 20,000 free tickets, but all the major U.S. TV networks are covering it. If you're abroad and don't have access, you should be able to catch it on the Internet, on E! Online and CNN Live.

--Alan Gillis

Michael Jackson Videos

Moonwalkers from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo. Toronto, the night after Michael's death.

From AEG, a hot promo video in advance of the London shows on the casting and rehearsals for This Is It [alternate link] at the LA Staples Center.



From AEG, a last look at Michael [alternate link] from the LA Staples Center rehearsal 2 nights before he died.


*****UPDATE July 10, 2009

BBC: Jackson foul play 'not ruled out'

The head of Los Angeles police has refused to rule out murder in the investigation into the death of singer Michael Jackson, two weeks ago. . . .