Leaving Neverland, by documentary filmmaker Dan Reed, is a tough show to watch — but it should be seen. Its central question is whether Michael Jackson used his fame and money to seduce young boys and their families into enabling a hidden pattern of serial pedophilia.
That charge was denied strongly this week by members of the Jackson family, who have sued HBO for $100 million. They claim that the two men interviewed at the core of Leaving Neverland are only in it for the money from lawsuits, and, before changing their stories, once defended Jackson against similar charges in court.
Which they did. Wade Robson won first prize at a Michael Jackson imitation dance contest in Australia when he was five, and soon ended up on stage a few nights during the real Jackson’s tour for his album Bad, showing off his mini-Michael dance moves. Another young boy, James Safechuck, was a Simi Valley kid who did some acting work in commercials — including a 1980s Pepsi commercial in which he meets Jackson in his dressing room.
When Jackson was put on trial for charges of sexual abuse against minors — he was acquitted in 2005 — both Robson and Safechuck denied Jackson had done anything to them as young boys. In Leaving Neverland, they change their stories — and explain why.
this is a man who is possibly going to run for president under the democrats party … and a man who could possibly win, and this just shows how far removed he is from actually standing up for the marginalized.
He’s very far removed from caring about justice for all.
Joe Biden consistently states he will bend as far as possible to make things work between the two parties… a man like that stands for nothing more than votes.
Painted quartzite, recut for her father, Thutmose I
The word “sarcophagus,” from the Greek sarkophagos, “flesh-eater,” refers to a stone coffin that devoured its occupant. (Such a coffin was presumably made of limestone, because of the material’s corrosive action on flesh.) Although the very notion of a container that would devour the body inside it would have horrified the ancient Egyptians, we use the term “sarcophagus” today to refer to coffins of stone as opposed to wood. The Egyptians used a happier name, “lord of life,” because it was meant to protect and preserve the body forever.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Hatshepsut, ca. 1478-1458 BC. Now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 04.278.1
Research by Dutch province Gelderland shows that a female wolf has been residing in Dutch National Park De Veluwe for over 6 months, meeting the criterion to officially speak of settling.
This conclusion has been drawn from DNA research conducted on feces that were collected in the past few months by volunteers from Dutch organisation Wolven in Nederland (”Wolves in the Netherlands”).
The female wolf originates from a pack located in German place Brandenburg, a few kilometers away from the Dutch border. Another female wolf has been residing for a while in De Veluwe as well.
And to make it even more exciting; feces from a male wolf have been found as well! This wolf is abundantly marking it’s territory, indicating pairing. Earlier indications of pairing were observed, such as joint howling, and two wolf tracks next to each other in the snow. These clues weren’t sufficient enough to speak of pairing, but after finding this DNA proof, researchers and volunteers keep a close eye on the brand new pair by the use of camera traps and testing more fecies.
I can remember you guys asking for my thoughts on the possibility of wild wolves returning to the Netherlands, and it was always such an abstract, theoretical subject to talk about. I had confidence they would reappear here at one point, especially seeing how the wolf population in west Germany was pretty much pushing them over the Dutch border, but I could only hope they would actually séttle here as well. And now that time has finally come!
It seems the two wolves in De Veluwe found each other just in time for the mating seasons, so fingers crossed for the first wild Dutch wolf pup litter in over 150 years!
Picture: wolf in the Netherlands, by Staatsbosbeheer
