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Los Angeles — Michael Jackson - the pop music icon who charmed the world as a child star, dazzled the planet as the King of Pop and, in later years, alarmed millions with his eccentric behavior and unsettling sex-scandal trials - died Thursday. He was 50.
Jackson’s brother says it’s believed that the pop star died of cardiac arrest.
Jermaine Jackson cautioned at a hospital news conference Thursday that the cause of his death would not be known until an autopsy was performed.
He said (…)

A look at the career of Michael Jackson
By The Associated Press – 27 minutes ago
A look at the life and career of Michael Jackson: Aug. 29, 1958: Michael Joseph Jackson is born in Gary, Ind., the seventh of nine children. 1963: After several years of training, The Jackson 5 begin to perform in public. Dec. 14, 1969: The Jackson 5 appear on the "The Ed Sullivan Show." 1970: Their first album, "Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5," includes the hit singles "I Want You Back" and "I’ll Be (…)

In this day of mega, modern, and super-automated food production, the spirituality of food, the essence of our connection with the Great Mystery, through the food production and cooking process has been destroyed. It is imperative that we reclaim our spiritual appreciation of food and the process of growing, cultivating, preparing and cooking the food that sustains us.
I have always felt that the way we procure food today is unhealthy, both spiritually and physically. Somehow, we have (…)

By David Glenn Cox
There are few people in this world that I wish hard tidings upon, some, but few just the same. Generally they fall into three categories. The first are the media rich who offer us suggestions as to how to climb to their lofty level without having wealthy birth parents. They are, for the most part, full of it! “Max out your 401K contributions every year and start a medical savings account. Don’t buy that new car every year; keep it for two or even three years, then use (…)

MEDIA PROPAGANDA ON IRAN
(Submitted by a WRH reader)
Okay Mike, I had to share this with you, I would have laughed at how pitiful this propaganda is, but as a british ex-pat, maybe I will just cry.
You know the LA times article you listed with Ahmadinejad waving and the caption ’Hundreds of thousands in Iran protest vote result’?
Continue to read:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/iranprop.php

The Ghosts of Detroit (Part 2) By David Glenn Cox
It was Durant who invented the modern car company, different models in different price ranges with different features all made with basically the same parts. The problem was Durant was a victim of his own success, he kept on buying more and more suppliers and car companies that added little to the GM line up. He bought thirteen different car companies and ten parts companies and then the sales began to slump. GM would need $12 million to (…)

* From Madrid the anarchist group Star, linked to the Iberian Federation of Anarchists Youths (Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Anarquistas-FIJA-), has raised questions whose answers will let us know today and in detail what is doing and saying the known Venezuelan anarchist newspaper. Anarchist group Star (GS) - Could you start talking about your project?
º El Libertario is a newspaper published since 1995 (56 issues from then to June-2009). We try to report on anarchist theory and (…)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Ge8KiaWTA

Despite repeated international calls for a halt in the expansion of settlements, Israel continues the construction of illegal buildings in the occupied West Bank.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved the construction of 240 new homes in the West Bank on Tuesday, Haaretz reported.
Based on the report 60 of the 300 homes slated for the Talmon settlement have already been built.
While the international community including the US, Israel’s closes ally, has been calling for a complete (…)

By David Glenn Cox
For the most part they have been forgotten; they are just empty, vacant memories like the empty, dilapidated homes which line her once proud streets. It was a land once ruled over by giants, captains of industry and labor and political thought.
Of course, some remember the obvious ones, Ford or Durant. Yet there were so many more who, by their brains and backs, created out of thin air an economic powerhouse unrivalled anywhere in the world. Young Mr. Ford was a (…)