Prepare for Michael Jackson funeral online: Finding live feeds, photos and video

   Preparing for the Michael Jackson funeral online, Internet connection problems and finding live feeds, photos and video amidst bogus websites.  

Michael Jackson’s funeral will air on television and online on Tuesday July 7, 2009. This day may pose problems for online access whether or not Michael Jackson funeral live feeds, photos and video is sought. Fans should also prepare for Internet congestion and bogus website claims.

For starters, many sites claim to have the Michael Jackson funeral live and online already, even though the event has yet to take place. Some of these are harmless sites, others are not. Otherwise, Michael Jackson's funeral is scheduled at 10:00 a.m. at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and a number of legitimate live feeds from the nearby Nokia Center will be available but may be difficult to access. 

When seeking to get a live feed of Michael Jackson's funeral, event photos, video or news – or to avoid Internet use problems – follow these tips:


-- Conduct important transactions online on Monday – or defer to Wednesday –to best avoid Internet congestion problems related to the event.

--Look at the domain name before clicking on a link. Stick with established sources, be it CNN, TMZ or Examiner to best avoid spyware and bait-and-switch website techniques. 

-- Prepare for popular websites hosting funeral video and live feeds to be inaccessible temporarily. YouTube videos, for instance, may be slow to load. Try again rather than clicking on random sites haphazardly.

-- Get the facts on the Michael Jackson funeral and related memorials in advance. As mentioned, the Michael Jackson funeral is to be held at the Staples Center with a live televised feed expected at the Nokia Theater. Some websites may have domain names with similar spellings or play off the Michael Jackson name. Look for “Official“ websites via a search engine.


Michael Jackson funeral and Internet traffic

Perhaps, the interest in Michael Jackson’s death and funeral is difficult to grasp. The closest comparison based on worldwide popularity may be Princess Diana’s death in Sept. 1996. Here, an estimated 2.5 billion people watched the funeral on television alone.


Back then, of course, Twitter, YouTube or SMS messaging – among other technologies – didn’t exist, and the Internet was a loosely organized somewhat rare commodity. Add to this the record-breaking visits to websites with stories on Michael Jackson’s death. From this, a rough prediction on search volume for the Michael Jackson funeral can be applied.


The feverish number may well be in the billions on and around July 7. Individuals with dial-up, public wireless or low-end broadband will fare worse than higher-speed connections.

Australian Airbus makes emergency landing in Guam

SYDNEY, June 11 (Reuters) - An Australian Jetstar aircraft with 203 passengers and crew made an emergency landing on the island of Guam on Thursday after a cockpit fire broke out as the aircraft flew over the Pacific Ocean.

The Airbus A330-200 aircraft was flying from Japan to Australia late on Wednesday night when, four hours into the flight, smoke was seen in the cockpit and the right-hand cockpit window area caught fire, Jetstar said.

"One of our pilots utilised an extinguisher and we conducted an emergency diversion to Guam where the aircraft landed without incident," Jetstar spokesman Simon Westaway told Australian radio. The plane touched down in the early hours of Thursday, Australian time, Jetstar said.

All passengers and crew were safe and no one had been injured, the airline said, adding that the flight was carrying mainly Japanese passengers.

The aircraft was only two years' old and would be held in Guam until the cause of the fire was established, Jetstar said.

An Air France Airbus A330 jet crashed at sea on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris last week, killing all 228 people on board.

Jetstar is a unit of Australian carrier Qantas Airways Ltd (QAN.AX).

Chinese Guantanamo Inmates Head for Taiwan Ally Palau

June 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration will transfer as many as 17 Chinese Muslims from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay to Palau, a Pacific island nation that recognizes Taiwan sovereignty.

“The United States has asked Palau to assist with such a critical task,” Palau President Johnson Toribiong said in a statement e-mailed today. Palau, a former U.S.-administered territory about a third the size of New York City, is located about 15,000 kilometers (9,322 miles) from Cuba.

China opposes the resettlement of the ethnic Uighur detainees to third countries and has repeatedly urged their repatriation. Lawyers for the group say they would be persecuted at home. Palau is one of 23 countries in the world to have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan instead of China.

The resettlement agreement comes after American government officials speculated that some Uighurs would have to be released in the U.S. to convince other countries to take Guantanamo detainees. The State Department has had trouble relocating the roughly 240 detainees held at the prison camp in Cuba, which President Barack Obama made a campaign pledge to close.

“If the Americans repatriate them, then the U.S. administration would be under a lot of pressure to make sure that these people were treated OK within China,” said Steve Tsang, a fellow in modern Chinese studies at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, in the U.K. “That’s actually more problematic for the Chinese than if these people are parked in some pacific island.”

$200 Million?

The U.S. is prepared to give Palau as much as $200 million in development, budget support and other assistance in return for accepting the inmates, the Associated Press reported, citing two U.S. officials that it didn’t identify.

The Uighur detainees are from Xinjiang, a predominantly Muslim far-western desert region of China that borders Kazakhstan. Before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, they traveled to Afghanistan to train in camps in the Tora Bora mountains, according to U.S. court filings.

The Uighurs fled China because of racial repression and discrimination, their lawyers said. The camps in Afghanistan were run by a Uighur separatist group designated a terrorist organization by the State Department, according to the U.S.

Enemy Combatants

Many of the Uighurs fled to Pakistan when the U.S.-led coalition’s bombing campaign to oust the Taliban regime began in October 2001, according to the U.S. They were captured, turned over to the American military and branded enemy combatants, though that label was later dropped.

Palau, located 500 miles southeast of the Philippines, consists of eight main islands and 250 smaller ones. Tourism accounts for more than half of its economy, according to the U.S. State Department.

Palau received $450 million in U.S. aid since 1994 under the terms of an independence agreement signed that year. The money is set to stop after this year. The U.S. also agreed to provide defense for the nation of 21,000 people until 2044.

Palau citizens volunteer and serve in the U.S. armed forces. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cited Palau as one of America’s “staunchest allies” during a May 6 hearing of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Muslim Brotherhood Members to Attend Obama's Cairo Speech

The expected attendance of the Brotherhood members is already stirring some criticism from conservatives in the U.S. who say they do not represent the kind of moderate Muslims Obama should be appealing to.

Egyptian lawmakers from the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood are expected to attend President Obama's highly anticipated speech to the Muslim world Thursday in Cairo.

Khaled Hamza, editor of the Muslim Brotherhood Web site, confirmed to FOXNews.com that 10 members of the Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc received official invitations to attend the speech.

The list includes Mohammed Saad el-Katatni, head of the parliamentary bloc.

The expected attendance of the Brotherhood members already is stirring some criticism from conservatives in the U.S. who say they do not represent the kind of moderate Muslims Obama should be appealing to.

"What kind of signal are we sending?" said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, warning that such an invitation will be seen more as a sign of weakness than strength. "I think the president takes some big risks by unilaterally putting out these olive branches."

The Muslim Brotherhood, though, has a complicated history.

Though the hard-line group, which calls for an Islamic state and has close ties to the militant Hamas, is officially banned in Egypt, its members have considerable sway in the country and its lawmakers, who run as independents, hold 88 seats in Egypt's 454-seat parliament.

The Brotherhood renounced the use of violence in the 1970s and now says it seeks democratic reform in Egypt. It is the most powerful opposition movement in the country, and many analysts argue Washington should engage the Brotherhood directly to show it is open to dealing with nonviolent Islamist movements.

The group is not on the State Department's official list of foreign terrorist groups.

Despite some reports suggesting the Obama administration arranged the invitations, officials said invitations were only sent out by Cairo University and Al-Azhar University.

"I can tell you that invitations have gone out to the full range of actors in Egyptian political society," Obama adviser Denis McDonough said Friday.

It is unclear what Muslim Brotherhood members hope to hear in the speech. One member said last month on the group's Web site that Obama's trip to Egypt would be "useless" unless preceded by concrete changes in U.S. foreign policy.

Scott Wheeler, director of the National Republican Trust PAC, slammed the administration for apparently allowing the Muslim Brotherhood into the event.

In a written statement, he charged that the group is linked to "international terrorists attacks, advocates suicide bombings, and the very founders of Hamas."

"The American people did not vote for President Barack Hussein Obama to make peace with Muslim terrorists," he said in the statement.

Obama is hoping to strengthen fractured ties between the East and West in his Cairo speech Thursday.

Actor David Carradine Dead at 72

"Kill Bill" star David Carradine was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room Wednesday, his manager told FOX News Thursday. While the cause of death has yet to be determined, a Thai newspaper claims the actor died in an apparent suicide.

Chuck Binder told FOXNews.com Thursday that Carradine, 72, was staying in Bangkok while shooting a movie. The film crew became aware of his absence when they went to dine out at a restaurant yesterday. When a producer went to his room, he discovered that the actor had died.

Binder told FOXNews.com Thursday that the cause of death is "under investigation." While there have been conflicting reports as to the nature of Carradine's death, Thai newspaper The Nation is claiming that an unidentified Thai police source said the actor was found hung in his hotel room from curtain rope in an apparent suicide.

A statement on behalf of his family has yet to be released, but Binder called the death "shocking and sad."

The Nation also reports that the hotel maid discovered Carradine's half naked body in a closet Thursday morning and that there were no signs of a struggle or assault.

Carradine was a leading member of a venerable Hollywood acting family that included his father, character actor John Carradine, and brother Keith.

In all, he appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby.

But he was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series "Kung Fu," which aired in 1972-75.

He reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues."

He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill."