http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2006/03/jackson-50.html Jackson 5.0 The pop star, who is said to be $240 million in debt, had paid six figures for a ritual cleansing using sheep blood to another voodoo doctor and a mysterious Egyptian woman named Samia, who came to him with a letter of greeting from a high-ranking Saudi prince, purportedly Nawaf Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, now the chief of intelligence of Saudi Arabia... http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/050411roco03c 6:58 PM Anonymous said... hmm. According to that Vanity Fair article, Jacko and Uri Geller met through "that other fellow devotee of children's charities Mohamed Fayed, the chairman of Harrods in London, who believes that the C.I.A. and Prince Philip had Princess Diana and his son, Dodi, killed." 7:37 PM starroute said... Anonymous quoted, "Jackson's stay at the Cedars was arranged through David Kuo . . ." Hold on -- the Cedars is the headquarters of the Fellowship Foundation, the creepy Christianoid cult with deep political connections. Here's a bit of the original Madsen article that the Michael Jackson quote comes from: In 1976, the Fellowship began looking for a permanent headquarters in Arlington. It set its sights on the estate of George Mason IV, The Cedars, located at 2301 North Uhle Street. Mason was one of the drafters of the Bill of Rights. The Fellowship, also known as the International Foundation, bought the property from Charles Piluso. Although not much is known about Piluso, the Los Angeles Times reported that Howard Hughes, the man with whom Fellowship Senator Ralph Owen Brewster once sparred, also lived there. According to a senior Pentagon official, the Cedars had been used as a CIA safe house prior to the Fellowship's purchase of the estate. The Fellowship paid $1.5 million for the Cedars, the money coming from Tom Phillips, the CEO of Raytheon, and Ken Olsen, the CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation. Sanford McDonnell of McDonnell Douglas Corporation was another deep-pocketed supporter of the Fellowship through Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International, an activity linked to Fellowship core member Pat Robertson. 9:15 PM Richard said... Suffer the little children, eh? If this is what power & wealth does to you, I'm damn glad I have neither. You said, "Perhaps rather the point is that the program exploits pre-existing conditions for abuse which are more common than most suspect." Couldn't agree more. I think that pedophilia's relative commonality is what really makes it frightening. My experience happened when I was 15. A friend of mine met this guy who was twice our age & who was more than willing to buy us all the whiskey we could drink . We were both enamored with Kerouac & Jim Morrison & meeting strange characters & this guy definitely fit the bill. He was muscle for a Pittsburgh madam named Tex Gill. She dressed like a man & ran most of the massage parlors in Pgh. He was into black magick & Crowley & booze & drugs & on & on.