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ktlight

16th July 2011, 09:37

Veterans Today Senior Editor, Gordon Duff, on Press TV. The subject is Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Israel and the recent spy and bribery scandal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4l79ES2yLg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4l79ES2yLg&feature=player_embedded

Bryn ap Gwilym

16th July 2011, 10:01

Lets see how this plays out.
In the shop window the politicians don't seem to be doing that much. The law is doing even less. Corruption is on all levels & in all groups.

loveandgratitude

16th July 2011, 10:21

He said it all - THE HOUSE OF CARDS ARE FALLING and WITH IT HEADS I PRAY

<8>

16th July 2011, 10:45

Here is a clip of what this guy own. (well what this tell us anyway)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8J4IqCWQGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8J4IqCWQGU

pickle

16th July 2011, 11:22

Thanks KT, awesome find... I just hope the pressure is kept up on Murdoch and that the extent of his wrong doing is known to all.

Peace,

Pickle

loveandgratitude

16th July 2011, 11:38

The end of the road for media mafioso?
Murdoch witch hunt

Fox, of course, equals the vile Fox News which has turned broadcast news in the US into a sewer.

Well, it look like Murdoch's long run of luck is over. Maximum arrogance has a way of catching up with people, even if it takes decades.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCX2bKm_co4&feature=channel_video_title

http://www.youtube.com/user/MOXNEWSd0tCOM?blend=4&ob=5#p/u/0/TCX2bKm_co4

Billy

16th July 2011, 11:43

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EgZBb31rfs

Bryn ap Gwilym

16th July 2011, 11:55

This is just a snippet taken from the Edgemedia (http://www.edgemediatv.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3461) forum

News Corporation - Rupert Murdoch...
Owns almost everything. Check THIS out!

Film
* 20th Century Fox
* Twentieth Century Fox Español
* Twentieth Century Fox International
* Twentieth Century Fox Television
* Fox Searchlight Pictures
* Fox Studios Australia
* Fox Studios Baja
* Fox Studios Los Angeles
* Fox Television Studios
Television
Broadcast/Production assets
* 20th Century Fox Television
* 20th Television
* bTV
* Foxtel
* Fox Broadcasting Company
* Fox International Channels
* Fox International Channels Italy
* Fox Kids (1990–2002)
* Fox Sports Australia
* Fox Telecolombia
* Fox Television Stations
* Fox Television Studios
* Imedi Media Holding
* Latvijas Neatkar?g? Telev?zija
* MyNetworkTV
* STAR TV
* TV5 R?ga
* British Sky Broadcasting
Cable Assets
* Big Ten Network (49%)
* Fox Business Network
* Fox College Sports
* Fox Movie Channel
* Fox News Channel
* Fox Soccer Channel
* Fox Sports Enterprises
* Fox Sports en Español
* Foxtel (25%) -
* Fox Sports Net
* FUEL TV
* FX Networks
* Fox Reality Channel
* National Geographic Channel (50%)
o National Geographic Channel UK (50%)
* Speed Channel
* SportSouth
* LAPTV (Latin America — co-owned with Paramount Pictures/Viacom, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/MGM Holdings and Universal Studios/NBC Universal)
* Telecine (Brazil — co-owned with Globosat Canais, Paramount Pictures, MGM, Universal Studios and DreamWorks);
Direct broadcast satellite Assets
* BSkyB [United Kingdom] (39.1%)
* Sky Deutschland (39.96%)
* SKY Italia
* SKY Network Television [New Zealand] (43.65%)
* Foxtel [Australia] (25%)
* Star TV [India & Greater China] (100%)
* Tata Sky [India] (20%)
Internet
* Fox Interactive Media
o AmericanIdol.com
o AskMen.com
o Direct2Drive
o Fox.com
o Foxsports.com
o GameSpy
o Hulu.com
o kSolo
o IGN
o Drownedinsound.com
o MySpace
o MyNetworktv.com
o NewRoo.com
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o SpringWidgets
o WhatIfSports
* Beliefnet
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* Authonomy via HarperCollins
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United Kingdom
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* thelondonpaper (a free newspaper which closed in September 2009)
Australia
News Limited
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National
* The Australian including weekly insert magazine The Deal and monthly insert magazine (wish)[1]
* The Weekend Australian including insert magazine The Weekend Australian Magazine[2]
* Australian Associated Press (45%)
* www.news.com.au National online news website
New South Wales
* The Daily Telegraph[3]
* The Sunday Telegraph including insert magazine sundaymagazine[4]
* mX (Sydney)[5]
Victorian
* Herald Sun[6]
* Sunday Herald Sun including insert magazine sundaymagazine[7]
* mX (Melbourne)
Queensland
* The Courier-Mail including weekly insert magazine QWeekend[9]
* The Sunday Mail[10]
* Brisbane News[11]
South Australia
* The Advertiser including the monthly insert the Adelaide* magazine[12]
* Sunday Mail[13]
Western Australia
* The Sunday Times[14]
Tasmania
* The Mercury[15]
* The Sunday Tasmanian[16]
Northern Territory
* Northern Territory News[17]
* Sunday Territorian[18]
Community suburban newspapers
Sydney
Cumberland/Courier (NSW) newspapers[19]
* Blacktown Advocate
* Canterbury-Bankstown Express
* Central
* Central Coast Express Advocate
* Fairfield Advance
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* Inner West Courier
* Liverpool Leader
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* NINETOFIVE
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* NORTHSIDE
* Parramatta Advertiser
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Melbourne
Leader (Vic) newspapers[20]
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Brisbane
Quest (QLD) newspapers[21]
* Albert & Logan News (Fri)
* Albert & Logan News (Wed)
* Caboolture Shire Herald
* Caloundra Journal
* City News
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* Ipswich News
* Logan West Leader
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* North-West News
* Northern Times
* Northside Chronicle
* Pine Rivers Press/North Lakes Times
* Redcliffe and Bayside Herald
* South-East Advertiser
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* Southern Star
* The Noosa Journal
* weekender
* Westside News
* Wynnum Herald
* Weekender Essential Sunshine Coast
Adelaide
Messenger (SA) newspapers[22]
* Adelaide Matters
* City Messenger
* City North Messenger
* East Torrens Messenger
* Eastern Courier Messenger
* Guardian Messenger
* Hills & Valley Messenger
* Leader Messenger
* News Review Messenger
* Portside Messenger
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* Weekly Times Messenger
Perth
Community (WA) newspapers[23] (50.1%)
* Advocate
* Canning Times
* Comment News
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* Guardian Express
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* Joondalup-Wanneroo Times
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Sun (NT) newspapers[24]
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Regional and rural newspapers
New South Wales
* Tweed Sun’
Victoria
* Echo
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* Ayr Advocate
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* The Noosa Journal
* Townsville Bulletin
* Townsville Sun
* weekender
Tasmania
* Derwent Valley Gazette
* Tasmanian Country
Northern Territory
* Centralian Advocate
Papua New Guinea
* Papua New Guinea Post-Courier
Fiji
* The Fiji Times No longer Fiji Times
United States
* New York Post
Community Newspaper Group
* The Brooklyn Paper
* Courier-Life Publications
* TimesLedger Newspapers
* Bronx Times Reporter Inc.
International
Dow Jones & Company
Consumer Media Group
* The Wall Street Journal – the leading US financial newspaper.
* Wall Street Journal Europe
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* Barron’s – weekly financial markets magazine.
* Marketw*tch – Financial news and information website.
* Far Eastern Economic Review
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Enterprise Media Group
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* Betten Financial News — leading Dutch language financial and economic news service.
Local Media Group’
* Dow Jones Local Media Group (formerly Ottaway Community Newspapers) – 8 daily and 15 weekly regional newspapers.
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* STOXX (33%) – joint venture with Deutsche Boerse and SWG Group for the development and distribution of Dow Jones STOXX indices.
* Vedomosti (33%) – Russia’s leading financial newspaper (joint venture with Financial Times and Independent Media).
* SmartMoney (50%)
* FiLife.com (50%)
Books
* HarperCollins
o HarperCollins India (40%) joint venture with India Today Group
* Zondervan Publishing
o Youth Specialties — organisation helping youth workers worldwide through training seminars and conventions, resources and the internet.
o Inspirio — religious gift production.
Miscellaneous
* National Rugby League (NRL) (50%)
* Ansett Australia, Until 2000 (50%)
* Fox Music
* Jamba! – Mobile Entertainment/Mobile Handsets Personalisation/Games.
o Maximedia Israel (67%)
o Mosgorreklama (50%) – Russia sign and marketing material manufacturer
* NDS Group (49%) – DRM and conditional access company.

Carmen

16th July 2011, 12:01

Holy Mackerel!! That is amazing.

Eric J (Viking)

16th July 2011, 12:42

MMA_Fan

16th July 2011, 13:33

Load of tosh.

Murdoch was born in Australia. Why do some sites like pressTV spread this ignorance?
If you are going to post these vids please check the sources.

Cidersomerset

16th July 2011, 13:38

Thanks Ktlight I,ve kown this for 30 yrs , Its whether we can get at the puppet masters behind the curtain....We know the world is run by zoinist/illuminati and main stream knows it ,
but has been muzzled by black mail and riddicule, the same as many other subjects Religion , history, UFO's , science everythink we've been taught has to be Black & White , if its not
in the text book or bible it can't be right......Now with the web and social media we are able to get the truth out to a wider audiance than the old TV enviroment , the digital age has
given us more freedom...Granted a lot of rubbish as well , but we may be able to out the old manipulating Elites from the behind the curtains , Murdoch the wizard of 'OZ' hopefully
will be no1 in the 'Dock' facing public as well as legal scutiny..Depends how much muck he has on the establishment.......

Another possibility is he may do a Maxwell another publishing Tycoon with jewish /Israeli connections who we are told commited suicide, when he finnally got caught fiddling the books ,
maybe not as big a fish as Murdoch , but was thought a hero in Israel and its funny how a tiny country smaller than any state in the US, has been allowed to cause so much death and hardship
over the last 60 yrs , keeping the world on allert for most of that time ,so the military industrial complex and banksters can borrow virtual money to buy arms and create and fuel wars for
perpatuaty , and when you look into history this has always happened , ancient Kings borrowed money off merchants and religious temples to pay for arms & soldiers to attack their neighbours.
This is happening as I type in Libya, 30 countries have reconised the rebal government so as to make it easier to give credit to them to buy arms and ammo, which the Banksters will get back
after Ghaddaffi is deposed and the west has direct access to the oil fields..I would like to say I'm cynicle , but this has been going on in this way since the fall of communism, but goes back
much further than that..

Murdoch is only a mouthpiece for them , I don't know whether mommentum can be kept up to dig deeper , unlikely if past scandels are anything to go by...The difference now is social
media, just think a few years ago people like you and me around the world would never have a platform to express our views like this . Lets all keep positive and keep talking...Cheers Steve

loveandgratitude

16th July 2011, 13:50

Murdoch, though born in Australia is an Israeli citizen and Jewish

jasontorque

16th July 2011, 14:10

Speaking purely from a limited perspective here in the UK, this perhaps could just be an extremely significant tipping point in terms of public awareness asserting itself. I think many very good people within the establishment and other governmental departments have seen a chance and taken it, maintaining that they have simply had enough and that no one should be allowed to control so much of the media.

MMA_Fan

16th July 2011, 14:14

Murdoch, though born in Australia is an Israeli citizen and Jewish

Hi,
Have you got a link that says that?
I am trying to confirm this but am only coming up with conspiracy sites.

Cidersomerset

16th July 2011, 14:22

Thanks Bilyji..... excelent little film sums Murdoch up in a nutshell..cheers

Cidersomerset

16th July 2011, 14:32

Thanks loveandgratitude good film , always known Alister cambell was a wormue, I did not like his comments about letting polititions get on and govern with no scrutiny, Thats what they have been
doing ! and why the world is in a bloody mess...Its scrutiny we need !!!!!!!! Not fabrigated lies and tabliod schoolboy bully tactics , backed by NEOCONS and ZIONISTS...
Murdochs media does not balance issues it drives a 'ulta 'right wing agenda....'Fascism' ironic from someone of his background......

Ecnal61

16th July 2011, 14:45

how did one man get to have so much power???

Cidersomerset

16th July 2011, 14:46

This is a reminder to readers all over the world why the Murdoch press are regarded as gutter
rats over here,,,,Yet millions still buy the trash daily !!!!!!!!!

Reviled in Liverpool
http://dontbuythesun.co.uk/site/

The Belgranos illegal sinking..
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/frontpage/gotcha.html

Up your Delores..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/437565574/

The Evil sun portaying arthur Scargill as a Nazi...upsetting there own print union..
http://www.anorak.co.uk/233052/news/flashback/the-sun-at-40-when-arthur-scargill-was-mein-fuhrer.html/

There a hundreds of embarressing headlines that have always made me 'cringe'
and felt manipulated ,even though I knew better.....Steve

Ecnal61

16th July 2011, 14:54

thanks cider, i was just thinking the same thing, but lets not forget he has very powerful allies or as you say his puppetmasters. i wonder if they would consider cutting his strings?

Billy

16th July 2011, 15:04

Murdoch, though born in Australia is an Israeli citizen and Jewish

Hi,
Have you got a link that says that?
I am trying to confirm this but am only coming up with conspiracy sites.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/07/gordon-duff-wikileaks-conspiracy-theory-and-the-assange-arrest/

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

quote:

What few Australians know is Murdoch himself, an Israeli citizen and advocate of Likudist policies that have placed the US and Israel at loggerheads of late. Murdoch is seen, by many, as the real power behind Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as the prime force behind the Neoconservative movement in America. Murdoch’s politics, strong support of American military policy in the Middle East, places him at total odds with the values Assange supporters believe he espouses.

http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-entertainment-news-monopoly-murdoch-jew-part4.html

RUPERT MURDOCH'S JEWISH MOTHER, SCHOOLING, ZIONIST ROOTS, ISRAEL, ADL, WTC, 911, ETC.

The information archived below was found at http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=1130 on October 22, 2005 and is made available here for scholarly, research, educational, and personal use under "fair use" regulations as legislated in Title 171 of the copyright law.
Murdoch's Deeply Hidden Jewish Roots -- A Biography
By Christopher Bollyn – American Free Press

Christopher Bollyn is an investigative journalist who has written extensively on the events of September 11, 2001 in the Washington-based American Free Press. He has researched different aspects of the 9/11 attacks and uncovered facts and evidence that challenge the official version of events. tried to smear Bollyn as an “anti-Semite” in order to discredit him and diminish the significance of his work. At the helm of both organizations, the ADL and Fox News, is an Australian-born Zionist named Keith Rupert Murdoch.

Murdoch's Jewish Roots

Murdoch “became an American citizen for business reasons,” according to Richard H. Curtiss, editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Keith Rupert was born in Melbourne, Australia, on March 11, 1931. “Rupert’s father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a newspaper publisher, and his mother an Orthodox Jew,” Curtiss wrote, “although Murdoch never offers that information in his biographies.”

Murdoch’s father married Elisabeth Joy Greene, daughter of Rupert Greene in 1928. They had one son, Keith Rupert and three daughters. Later in life, Keith Rupert chose to use Rupert, the first name of his Jewish maternal grandfather.

The young Keith Rupert was educated at Australia’s fashionable Geelong private school, and went on to the elitist and aristocratic Oxford University in England, according to Candour (UK) magazine.

“Rupert’s father Sir Keith Murdoch attained his prominent position in Australian society through a fortuitous marriage to the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, née Elisabeth Joy Greene. Through his wife’s connections, Keith Murdoch was subsequently promoted from reporter to chairman of the British-owned newspaper where he worked. There was enough money to buy himself a knighthood of the British realm, two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town,” Candour wrote in 1984. “For some reason, Murdoch has always tried to hide the fact that his pious mother brought him up as a Jew.”

While Murdoch may have “tried to hide” his Jewish roots, he has been quite forthright about his support for extreme right-wing Zionists, such as Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon.

Netanyahu, who wrote a book entitled The War on Terror: How the West Can Win in 1986, is a frequent commentator on Murdoch’s Fox News.

Murdoch’s support for Zionism extremists is well known and a matter of record. As New York Governor George Pataki said, “There is no newspaper in the U.S. more supportive of Israel than the [Murdoch’s] New York Post.”

It is through a network of Zionist organizations, in which Murdoch plays a central role, that Murdoch is connected to the individuals who arranged the privatization – and obtained control of the World Trade Center – shortly before its destruction.

These key individuals are: Larry Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Frank Lowy, the lease holders of dubious repute who gained control of the WTC property six weeks before 9/11, and Port Authority Chairman Lewis M. Eisenberg, who authorized the transfer of the leases.

Murdoch belongs to, and has been honored by, a number of leading Zionist organizations in which Silverstein, Lowy, and Eisenberg all hold senior positions. These organizations include the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), and the New York-based Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

Fifty days before 9/11, Silverstein Properties and Lowy’s Westfield America secured 99-year leases on the WTC. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey turned control of the World Trade Center over to the private hands of Silverstein and Lowy on July 24, 2001.

Silverstein and Lowy then took control of the 10.6 million-square-foot complex, which included the twin towers office buildings and two nine-story office buildings. Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Lowy then controlled all access to the World Trade Center.

Lowy leased the shopping concourse called the Mall at the World Trade Center, which comprised about 427,000 square feet of retail space.

“Six weeks before the WTC towers were destroyed, the Port Authority completed the process of leasing them for 99 years to Larry Silverstein, the developer who had built 7 World Trade Center [which mysteriously self-demolished at 5:25 p.m. on 9/11].

“Simultaneously, the retail space underneath the complex was leased to Westfield America, the US division of an Australian company that is one of the world’s largest operators of shopping malls.” Paul Goldberger wrote in New Yorker, May 20, 2002.

“Silverstein and Westfield were given the right to rebuild the structures if they were destroyed, and Westfield has the right to expand the retail space by 30 percent,” Goldberger wrote.

Silverstein is suing for some $7.2 billion in insurance money for the loss of the destroyed World Trade Center – and his expected earnings – for property he had leased with a down payment of $100 million – of borrowed funds.

read more http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-entertainment-news-monopoly-murdoch-jew-part4.html

Cidersomerset

16th July 2011, 15:09

This is a good sign.....A look at why the sun online platforms were rated the worst for newspaper........Hopefully murdochs empire will die with him !!!!

http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2011/05/23/21761-a-look-at-why-the-sun-s-online-platforms-were-rated-the-worst-for-newspapers/

To be fair most people who read the sun, do not buy it for political reasons although the papers views are bound to rub off....Traditionally when it came out in 1967 it was something radically
different than, what was on the market and most people always looked at page 3 first then the back page sport and worked their way to the front . We had it delivered at home when I was a boy and even then i viewed it more as a comic..I used to like 'Hager the Horrible' cartoon though ...

Cidersomerset

16th July 2011, 15:34

How Murdoch destroyed the print unions and moved to Wapping, Murdoch has never been a man of the people , just a manipulative bully...

http://www.anorak.co.uk/233052/news/flashback/the-sun-at-40-when-arthur-scargill-
was-mein-fuhrer.html/

Whether you agree with unions or not they are a vital 'safety net' for the working man/woman.
without them the victorian sweat shops would be back....
The corporations still run sweat shops and 'slave' labour they just moved them to third world countries and made bigger proffits . This was set up 40 years ago in plain view , thats why
the west has little industry left and are so massively in debt ..This was designed to keep us in debt to the 'Bankster' run by the elite family bloodlines..Thus giving them influence and power over the governmental policies of all countries.....Neat way to keep us trapped...and if we get close to paying our debts...start another war or creat a crisis which will mean we have to borrow more money !! HO THEY JUST DID THAT....

MMA_Fan

16th July 2011, 15:53

Cidersomerset

16th July 2011, 16:13

This is a interesting article from the Guardian giving a little history of previous meddlesome press barons..........

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Rupert Murdoch is not the first press baron with a thirst for power
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David McKie: From Northcliffe to Maxwell, Murdoch has his antecedents. Yet only he succeeded in unifying the Commons against him

There have been brutal, bullying and in various senses bizarre press proprietors before him, but Rupert Murdoch's achievement in combining all the main political parties to try to thwart his ambitions in the House of Commons would appear to outdo them all.

While the careers and ambitions of Northcliffe, Rothermere and Beaverbrook, the outstanding buccaneer press barons of the earlier years of the 20th century, and their later counterparts, Robert Maxwell and Murdoch, are by no means identical, they raise one common question. Did these men begin to behave as they did simply because they had got their hands on the levers? Or was the attraction of getting their hands on the levers the chance to act as they did?

"Every extension of the franchise," wrote Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe, in 1903, "renders more powerful the newspaper and less powerful the politician." As the right to vote spread wider, the opportunity of using the press to sway opinion and thus dictate the course of events grew with it. What these men wanted was influence at the least; power – indirect or even direct – where that could be contrived.

Northcliffe, the first big 20th-century beast to emerge, had from the start his own particular, sometimes peculiar, views on how the world should be run. By the end of his life, in 1921-22, he was constantly detecting conspiracies, believing that Germans were lying in wait to kill him (he had a gun concealed in his pocket, he used to claim, with which he could kill seven Germans), that attempts were being made to poison him with Belgian ice cream – so much so that his staff had to intercept messages full of wild instructions, which he tried to send back to his newspapers.

But for many years before that his editors had to put up not just with his philosophies but with his whims. Displeased with his picture desk, he lined them up and put the tallest in charge; he astonished the Mail's head porter by promoting him to advertising director.

Yet here, on his own valuation, was the man who had won the first world war by his part in overthrowing the prime minister, Asquith, and replacing him with Lloyd George. And the government that Lloyd George then formed found places for two more proprietors: Rothermere, Northcliffe's brother, and the Canadian adventurer Beaverbrook, entrusted with responsibility for running the government propaganda machine (neither Maxwell nor Murdoch aspired to that).

They sought to impose their own agendas at home and abroad on the course of British politics. Rothermere's was the uglier, endorsing the British Union of Fascists and in time openly sympathetic to Hitler. When the two combined to try to oust Stanley Baldwin he responded by condemning, in words written by his cousin Rudyard Kipling, "power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot through the ages".

Beaverbrook liked to claim that he gave his editors freedom to say what they chose, and indeed his Daily Express, Sunday Express and Evening Standard sometimes took a contrary line; yet he kept bombarding them with messages outlining what he wanted to see in his papers.

In their book, Power without Responsibility, James Curran and Jean Seaton record that on one occasion 147 such messages were whizzed out to the Daily Express in a single day. Some were on matters of moment: the commitment to empire and imperial trade. Others were petty. The Express was required to print from time to time denunciations of Lord Mountbatten – replaced when Beaverbrook ended his feud by eulogies of Mountbatten – and complaints that Jean Sibelius still called himself a composer though he hadn't produced a new work for many years.

Unlike subsequent party leaders, Neil Kinnock did not truckle to Murdoch: indeed after the move to Wapping and the fight with the unions, he set up a boycott of Murdoch's papers, denying them receipt of Labour documents and press releases. Yet when Robert Maxwell, whom the Labour leadership distrusted, with very good reason, moved to acquire the Mirror papers, Kinnock and his colleagues were desperate to keep in with him, seeing it as the party's best hope of hanging on to the one group that customarily supported the party.

As for Murdoch, historians will dispute the nadir of the politicians' submission to Rupert's priorities. Tony Blair's attendance at the Hayman Island News Corporation conference? The opening to Rupert by successive prime ministers of doors closed to others? The secret consultations before high decisions over, for instance, the war in Iraq?

What happened yesterday in the Commons is hailed as a signal of a new and healthier era in which press barons will no longer have any hope of calling the shots. Maybe the decline in newspaper readership and the rise of media forms less susceptible to use for the purpose of baronial bullying will mean we shall see no more Northcliffes, Rothermeres, Beaverbrooks, Maxwells or Murdochs. Maybe; but don't bet on it.

guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media 2011

Cidersomerset

16th July 2011, 16:33

Interesting Article billyji .......As the games of the elite are fluid it is possible as Murdoch is in the 'sunset' of his mortal experiance , he maybe offered up as a sacrifice to deflect mainstream
being brave enough to follow his connections with 9/11 ....Judging by his performance with Millie Dowlers parents yesterday, I wonder if he is preparing to take severe enough punishment.
In the hope this scandel stops quicker...The PTB would not want an inquiary to go to deep......IMHP...Cheers Steve

I should say Mossad and other agencies had to be implicit in 9/11, the story fed to the mainstream is beyond a fairy tale. I still cannot believe journalists are so blind to this !!!

Billy

16th July 2011, 17:08

Murdoch, though born in Australia is an Israeli citizen and Jewish

Hi,
Have you got a link that says that?
I am trying to confirm this but am only coming up with conspiracy sites.

...

The truthseeker link doesn't work and that is where jewwatch says it got it's info from.

The veteran's today article has no proof either, merely opinion or BS, but no proof.

The articles origins came from the Amercan Free Press, Write to them and ask for a copy of the research, otherwise there is enough info of Murdoch family names and history in the article to do more research, for example registration of Marriages, births and deaths in Australia. If you try hard enough you will find your confirmation.

hholder

16th July 2011, 17:12

Sounds like he and his cronies may be robotoids or synthetic doubles

Carmody

16th July 2011, 17:37

Murdoch belongs to, and has been honored by, a number of leading Zionist organizations in which Silverstein, Lowy, and Eisenberg all hold senior positions. These organizations include the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), and the New York-based Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

Fifty days before 9/11, Silverstein Properties and Lowy’s Westfield America secured 99-year leases on the WTC. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey turned control of the World Trade Center over to the private hands of Silverstein and Lowy on July 24, 2001.

Silverstein and Lowy then took control of the 10.6 million-square-foot complex, which included the twin towers office buildings and two nine-story office buildings. Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Lowy then controlled all access to the World Trade Center.

Here's the part that no-one tends to pay any attention to.

the fact that the buildings were full of asbestos.

There was a law that was coming down the pipe very soon in NY state, at the time.

Now, Silverstein was a real estate man and he would have been VERY aware of the coming law.

The coming law was that the asbestos MUST be removed. And the asbestos was a hazard. so the removal was a hazard. Expensive, complex, time consuming. So difficult that not one single person would ever want to own or have anything to do with the WTC complex. To touch it was financial suicide, as the cost of removing the asbestos was worth almost as much as the value of the buildings. This would be a near immediate expense to the new owner or leaseholder.

OK. so these folks eagerly step into that kind of loss?

Not a chance.

Draw your conclusions.

MMA_Fan

16th July 2011, 18:08

ktlight

16th July 2011, 19:15

]

Murdoch, though born in Australia is an Israeli citizen and Jewish

Hi,
Have you got a link that says that?
I am trying to confirm this but am only coming up with conspiracy sites.

The articles origins came from the Amercan Free Press, Write to them and ask for a copy of the research, otherwise there is enough info of Murdoch family names and history in the article to do more research, for example registration of Marriages, births and deaths in Australia. If you try hard enough you will find your confirmation.

Herein lies the problem. The articles that allege all these things on RM, do not provide any such research. The onus is on them and anyone else making such claims or spreading them round the tinterweb.;)

Try this :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch

There is no mention of his ties with Israel.

MMA_Fan

16th July 2011, 19:21

Cidersomerset

16th July 2011, 22:45

Heres a sketch from Stephen Fry and Hugh 'House' Laurie satirical comedy show , its a parody of the classic movie 'Its A wonderfull Life' from 1995..
ln it Hugh Laurie plays Rupert Murdoch as the main charecter, quite amusing and topical...

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loveandgratitude

17th July 2011, 03:39

Most Israelie citizens have dual citzenship and passports.

MMA_Fan

17th July 2011, 09:01

Most Israelie citizens have dual citzenship and passports.

He is not israeli though is he?

Billy

17th July 2011, 09:28

another article on Murdochs roots by David Irvine

http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/05/Murdoch2.html

QUOTE:

BIOGRAPHICAL details of [Rupert] Murdoch's past are sketchy and often contradictory. One reads that his grandfather was an impoverished Presbyterian minister who migrated to Australia from England, that his father was a low-paid reporter for a British newspaper in Australia, and yet, young Rupert divided his time between his family's suburban home near Melbourne and the family's sheep ranch in the country. He was educated first at the fashionable Geelong private school, and went on to the elitist and aristocratic Oxford University in England.

"Rupert's father Sir Keith Murdoch [see below] attained his prominent position in Australian society through a fortuitous marriage to the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, née Elisabeth Joy Greene. Through his wife's connections, Keith Murdoch was subsequently promoted from reporter to chairman of the British-owned newspaper where he worked. There was enough money to buy himself a knighthood of the British realm, two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town. For some reason, Murdoch has always tried to hide the fact that his pious mother brought him up as a Jew...

And that, as I am sure you know, makes him a Jew according to the law of the Talmud, and indeed according to the present laws of Israel.

END QUOTE:

and again.
Quote:
Rupert Murdoch's televised statements on Israel

THIS is how Mike Bloomberg decided to go for the gold at City Hall. Last spring, he asked Ed Koch what it was like to be mayor of New York. [. . .]

"Mayor Mike related the story at the 25th anniversary dinner of the Jewish Community Relations Council at the Plaza Hotel, where JCRC president introduced him as Mayor Mordechai. And how did Koch become mayor?

"He said that in 1977 the editors of the New York Post interviewed the seven candidates. Koch stood sixth in the polls. A week later his phone rang. "Is Congressman Koch home?" "Who's calling," Koch asked. "Rupert."

"Rupert? . . . Rupert? . . . doesn't sound Jewish to me."

"Murdoch proceeded to inform the candidate that the next day's New York Post would endorse him on the front page.

"Rupert," Koch replied, "you just elected me mayor of New York."

Murdoch told of the time he took a group of editors from New York and London for a weekend at Ariel Sharon's ranch. Sharon took them on a bird's-eye tour of Israel aboard a helicopter gunship, flying over the Golan Heights, West Bank and settlements.
END QUOTE:

QUOTE:

MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE

Rupert Murdoch Praises His PR Exec Howard Rubenstein

HOWARD RUBENSTEIN, the quintessential PR professional, usually takes a back seat and lets his clients bask in the spotlight. But this was Howard's time to shine as the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. [... Rupert Murdoch] explained at a Museum of Jewish Heritage dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria that, "I have always believed in the future of Israel and the goals of the international Jewish community".

END QUOTE:

MMA_Fan

17th July 2011, 09:39

That's not proof he is an Israeli citizen. In fact, that article and the others it links to are just innuendo and hearsay.
C'mon, you are really starting to look silly now.

jesterking

17th July 2011, 10:29

The ancient sacred alphabets of the magi did not use separate symbols
for numbers and letters. For example, if we do the same with the modern
English alphabet, the glyph that forms the sound 'A' also represents the
number 1. In this system B = 2 through to J = 10, K is then 20, on to S =
100, T = 200 etc. In such a system, a series of letters which form a word
can otherwise be read as a series of numbers. Thus, F = 6, O = 60, and X =
600; hence, 666 being the number of the beast, the beast is a fox, a creature
of cunning. This is purely a demonstration of the basic concept.

excerpt from "The thirteenth stone" by R. Lewis

I just found the comparison amusing....

ktlight

17th July 2011, 10:40

That's not proof he is an Israeli citizen. In fact, that article and the others it links to are just innuendo and hearsay.
C'mon, you are really starting to look silly now.

Will this help?
"By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor, Veterans Today

Today the British papers not owned by Rupert Murdoch “rumored” that he might be jailed. Americans, even Brits, have little or no idea what is at risk here. There is simply no one who can report it when the individual who, not only controls the world’s largest news organization turns out to be, well, what?

Who is Rupert Murdoch?

What he is not is an Australian “right wing” billionaire. Murdoch, though born in Australia is an Israeli citizen and Jewish. Why is this important?"

http://www.bushstole04.com/media/murdock_israeli.htm

Cidersomerset

17th July 2011, 10:54

Hi MMA=Fan ....conflicting info on the web , Seems to be a strong Scottish prebyterian background.....If it could be ascertained that any of his parant/grandparents/Gt grandparents were Jewish
they would seem to have the right to apply for Israeli Citizenship...Through the 'Law of Retun' but since 1999 you would have to practice the Jewish religion to do so. Unless he did it before pure
speculation. Although I have found no others links than what bilyji put up.

Israeli nationality law
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Israel's nationality law defines the terms through which one can be granted citizenship of the state of Israel. It also includes the Right of return for Jewish diaspora. Israeli law also follows jus sanguinis as the primary mechanism through which one may obtain citizenships, rather than jus soli.
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* 1 Rights of citizens
o 1.1 Responsibilities of citizens
* 2 Citizenship acquisition
o 2.1 Return
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o 2.3 Birth
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* 3 Cancellation of citizenships
* 4 Dual citizenship
* 5 See also
* 6 References
* 7 External links

[edit] Rights of citizens

* Israeli citizens have the right to fully participate in the political system of Israel.
* Israeli citizens have the right to obtain an Israeli passport and use it legally.
* Israeli citizens have the right to travel into and out of Israel whenever they wish (Note: this right may be limited at certain times with special warrants)

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[edit] Responsibilities of citizens

Virtually all responsibilities are imposed upon citizens and non-citizen residents of Israel equally.[citation needed]

A responsibility which is imposed on Israeli citizens only is the requirement to be in possession of an Israeli passport at all times when outside of the country. Israeli citizens must thus have acquired a passport before being allowed to leave Israel.

Military service is legally mandatory for virtually all of Israel's citizens and residents although various exemptions can be granted. Certain ethnic groups, such as Arab Israelis, have received a blanket exemption.

An Israeli citizen is obligated to abstain from assisting a country or an organization which is defined as an enemy of Israel. Such assistance may lead to deprivation of citizenship at the advice of the Minister of Internal Affairs (in addition to a possible criminal trial).
[edit] Citizenship acquisition
[edit] Return

The Law of Return defines that all Jews possessing an Oleh's certificate shall become Israel nationals[citation needed] and allowed to immigrate to Israel. Such a certificate would almost automatically turn into Israeli citizenship upon arrival in Israel if so desired. In the 1970s the Law of Return was further expanded, and it was defined that the spouse of a Jew, the children of a Jew and their spouses, and the grandchildren of a Jew and their spouses would also be covered under the Law of Return and thus be eligible for an Oleh's certificate provided that the Jew on behalf of whom they request the certificate did not practice a religion other than Judaism willingly (he or she may, however, be a non-observant Jew). In 1999, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that Jews or the descendants of Jews that actively practice a religion other than Judaism would not be allowed to immigrate to Israel as they would no longer be considered Jews under the provisions of the Law of Return. On April 16, 2008, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled in a case brought by a number of people with Jewish fathers and grandfathers whose applications for citizenship had been rejected on the grounds that they were Messianic Jews. The argument was made by the applicants that they had never been Jews according to halakha, and were not therefore excluded by the conversion clause. This argument was upheld in the ruling, and the government agreed to reprocess their applications.

Israeli legislators chose to make a clear distinction between the Law of Return, which allows for Jews and their descendants to immigrate to Israel, and between Israel's nationality law, which formally grants Israeli citizenship based on the Oleh's certificate. In other words, the Law of Return in and of itself does not determine Israeli citizenship; it merely allows for Jews and their eligible descendants to permanently relocate within the territory of Israel. The state of Israel does, however, grant citizenship to any applicant who immigrated to Israel via the Law of Return if the applicant so desires, though this is not mandated by the Law of Return itself.

Another important distinction should be made between Israeli citizens who live abroad and Jews who are covered under the provisions of the Law of Return. A non-Israel Jew or an eligible descendant of a non-Israel Jew needs to request approval to immigrate to Israel, a request which can be denied for a variety of reasons including (but not limited to): possession of a criminal record, currently infected with a contagious disease, or otherwise viewed as a threat to Israeli society. Israeli citizens on the other hand are allowed to travel within the borders of Israel whenever they so desire without limitation. Israeli citizens are also the only persons allowed to obtain an Israeli passport. Eligible applicants under the Law of Return have no claim to any of the rights or privileges of an Israeli citizen unless they are formally cleared by the government, given an Oleh's certificate, and granted Israeli citizenship. This is possible after one year of residency in Israel under the Oleh's certificate. New arrivals making Aliyah (return to Israel) are issued an Israeli Travel Document during this year, after which they can apply for citizenship.
[edit] Residence

Citizenship by residence was intended for non-Jewish denizens of the British Mandate of Palestine (Arabs, Druze, Bedouins, etc.) who were considered to be associated with Palestine during the period immediately prior to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Such denizens who were still within the territorial confines of Israel after the war were granted full Israeli citizenship. In order to determine who was eligible for citizenship under this provision, the state of Israel conducted a population registration in 1952 and again in the 1980s. Those found to meet the requirements obtained Israeli citizenship. For purposes regarding modern Israeli citizenship, this section is usually irrelevant.
[edit] Birth

A child born to an Israeli citizen (including children born outside of Israel as first generation out of Israel) is considered an Israeli citizen.[1] Persons born outside Israel are Israeli citizens, if their father or mother holds Israeli citizenship, acquired either by birth in Israel, according to the Law of Return, by residence, or by naturalization.[2] In other words, the principle of jus sanguinis is limited to only one generation born abroad. Despite this limitation, the descendants of an Israeli national abroad can obtain Israeli citizenship through other methods, such as the Law of Return, if they are eligible.
[edit] Naturalization

Adults may acquire Israeli citizenship through naturalization. To be eligible for naturalization, a person must have resided in Israel for three years out of the previous five years. In addition, the applicant must have a right to reside in Israel on a permanent basis. All naturalization requests are, however, at the discretion of the Minister of the Interior.
[edit] Cancellation of citizenships

There are cases in which the state can initiate a cancellation of a citizenship of an Israeli citizen. Article 11 of the Israeli nationality law establishes three circumstances for which a citizenship would be revoked by the state:

* If the person entered a state which is considered an enemy state or if he got a citizenship at the enemy state.
* If the person committed an act which is considered a breach of loyalty to the country.
* If the person's citizenship was given to him/her on the basis of false information. In such a case, the revocation might apply even to the citizenship of the person's children.

Furthermore, an Israeli citizen who wants to renounce his/her citizenship can address the Israeli Interior Minister in writing and ask for it to be done. Nevertheless, the final decision would be up to the Interior minister to make, and he can also refuse the application, according to his own discretion. The policy of the Interior ministry has so far made it difficult for people to give up citizenship, requiring them, among other things, to prove that they have been living outside of the state of Israel for a long time.[3]
[edit] Dual citizenship

Israel allows citizens to hold foreign citizenships in addition to their Israeli citizenship, a situation known as dual (or multiple) citizenship.

For example, a citizen of Israel who also has a foreign citizenship is considered a foreign citizen in accordance to the Israeli Security Service Law and is subject to a mandatory military service according to that law; he is considered a citizen of Israel regarding the criminal liability of Israeli civilians according to the Israeli Penal Law; and he is considered a citizen of Israel according to the Israeli laws of personal status, such as the authority jurisdiction of the rabbinical courts in the matters of marriages and divorces, according to the Israeli Rabinical courts jurisdictions law.

Regarding entrance to Israel, staying in Israel and working in Israel, an Israeli citizen which also possesses a foreign citizenship is considered an Israeli citizen for all purposes. Therefore, he is entitled to enter Israel without a need of a visa, stay in Israel occording to his own desire, engage in any profession and work with each employer according to the provisions of the Israeli law.

An exception to the permission of holding dual citizenship was determined in the additional law added to the Basic Law: the Knesset (חוק יסוד: הכנסת) (Article 16A) according to which Knesset members would not be able to pledge allegiance unless they have revoked their additional citizenship, if that would be possible according to laws of that country.
[edit] See also

* Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law

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math330

17th July 2011, 14:12

Apologies if this has already been posted - it's Rupert Murdoch's speech to the ADL in October 2010
Speaks volumes.

http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/Murdoch_Soft_War_Israel.htm

*edit
and here - he says he's not Jewish, states it here (I think!), but a Friend of Israel no doubt
http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.5018279/k.7184/AJC_Honors_Rupert_Murdoch.htm

MMA_Fan

17th July 2011, 15:11

Billy

17th July 2011, 17:02

I think this deserves a post here,

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101115007704/en/Business-Financial-Leaders-Lord-Rothschild-Rupert-Murdoch

Quote:

Business and Financial Leaders Lord Rothschild and Rupert Murdoch Invest in Genie Oil & Gas

NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Genie Energy Corporation (Genie Energy), a division of IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT, IDT.C), today announced that Lord (Jacob) Rothschild and Rupert Murdoch have each purchased equity stakes in Genie Oil and Gas Inc. Jacob Rothschild will join Rupert Murdoch on Genie Energy’s Strategic Advisory Board and Jacob Rothschild’s interests will partner with Genie Energy to raise capital for the eventual commercialization of its oil shale projects.

“Genie’s success will ultimately depend, in part, on access to the expertise of the oil and gas industry and to the financial markets. Jacob Rothschild and Rupert Murdoch are extremely well regarded by and connected to leaders in these sectors. Their guidance and participation will prove invaluable.”

Jacob Rothschild and Mr. Murdoch separately purchased equity positions equivalent to a cumulative 5.5% stake in Genie Oil and Gas Inc., which consists of IDT’s interests in American Shale Oil, LLC (AMSO), and Israel Energy Initiatives, Ltd., (IEI), for a total of $11.0 million dollars.
End Quote:

And this

http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Rothschild%27s_South_Sudan_Oil_Grab/14739/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Quote:

The Rothschild's South Sudan Oil Grab
July 16, 2011
Print Version

By Dean Henderson- BLN Contributing Writer

On July 9, 2011 South Sudan became the world’s 193rd nation. Less than a week later violence has erupted in South Kordofan, an area on the new border between Sudan and South Sudan which is controlled by Sudan and rich in oil. Not content with the seizure of South Sudan’s oilfields, the Rothschild-led Eight Families banking cartel looks set to push the new border further north, grabbing yet more crude oil from the Sudanese people.

For decades Western intelligence agencies backed the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in an attempt to lop off the southern half of Sudan for the Four Horsemen of Oil. The region contains 75% of Sudan’s oil reserves. What became Africa’s longest running civil war finally came to an end when Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was pressured into ceding the southern part of his country to the IMF/World Bank vampires after the conflict they created left more than 2 million people dead. [1]

END QUOTE:

Cidersomerset

17th July 2011, 19:15

Thanks math330 ....interesting speeches he is obviously very pro Israel fair enough.....Seems very cozy with the Rothchilds and other wealthy people again thats the circles he
does buisiness in....But his speech only made things more confusing, by design maybe ? to keep everyone guessing. I'm edging on the side that he is not..All Jews I've seen are proud
to be Jewish and would not hide it.....but who knows ? cheers Steve

Cidersomerset

17th July 2011, 19:34

Thanks billyji..Two more interesting articles....Obviously tying up more oil countries for the corporate elite , saudi is firmly on board so are the Gulf states ,Iraq is aquired ,
sudan has been manipulted for years and is now ripe for picking. Libya is being played for now , probably Iran in a few years time.Its funny how so called 'democracy'
seems to imply a windfall for the already filthy rich !!! sickening..I don't have a problem with freedom and trade , but the same players always cheat to win the game !!

DeDukshyn

17th July 2011, 19:47

Load of tosh.

Murdoch was born in Australia. Why do some sites like pressTV spread this ignorance?
If you are going to post these vids please check the sources.

Check the vid again ... no statement to the contrary. Only claimed he was an Isreali citizen.

EDIT: Nevermind .. I see this has been dissected already .. ;)

ktlight

18th July 2011, 09:05

We are going round in circles now :)
That source links to the same collection of unverifiable rubbish.
There is no evidence to say RM is an israeli citizen so if the guy in the video embedded in the OP is lying about that then how reliable is the rest of the info?

FYI:
"Rupert Murdoch's Jewish origins: a matter of controversy

A well placed correspondent with connections to the newspaper world (who has asked to remain anonymous) reports to us:

"I shall quote exactly what Candour [a rightwing British journal edited by A K Chesterton] said in its June 1984 issue (vol. XXXV, no. 6):

BIOGRAPHICAL details of [Rupert] Murdoch's past are sketchy and often contradictory. One reads that his grandfather was an impoverished Presbyterian minister who migrated to Australia from England, that his father was a low-paid reporter for a British newspaper in Australia, and yet, young Rupert divided his time between his family's suburban home near Melbourne and the family's sheep ranch in the country. He was educated first at the fashionable Geelong private school, and went on to the elitist and aristocratic Oxford University in England.
"Rupert's father Sir Keith Murdoch [see below] attained his prominent position in Australian society through a fortuitous marriage to the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, née Elisabeth Joy Greene. Through his wife's connections, Keith Murdoch was subsequently promoted from reporter to chairman of the British-owned newspaper where he worked. There was enough money to buy himself a knighthood of the British realm, two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town. For some reason, Murdoch has always tried to hide the fact that his pious mother brought him up as a Jew...

And that, as I am sure you know, makes him a Jew according to the law of the Talmud, and indeed according to the present laws of Israel.

Spotlight [a rightwing Washington weekly published by Willis Carto] in fact examined Murdoch in considerable depth in no fewer than three issues, 30th January and 6th and 13th February [1984]. My friend Ivor Benson whom I regarded as a very judicious observer and commentator, reckoned, along with Spotlight, that his meteoric ascent was completely artificial, and that he was a front for far more powerful super-rich subversives, Michel Fribourg, Armand Hammer and Edgar Bronfman, "all of them part of a super-rich 'Zionist Mafia'", to quote Benson, who added: "By comparison with these three, Murdoch is just an ambitious midget who has been given the job of drawing all the public attention away from those who make the real decisions." (Benson's Behind the News, March 1984)

Could well be. Certainly I can confirm that at least part of his meteoric ascent was artificial. I remember my brother-in-law [a former editor of The Times] telling me, at the time of Murdoch's acquisition of The Times, that it was a strange business. Murdoch was by no means the highest bidder.

For my part, I myself have always had good personal motives to take a favourable view of Murdoch, because my brother-in-law was easily his favourite editor of The Times, and, when my brother-in-law died (in office), Murdoch treated my sister completely fairly, from a financial point of view, without making the slightest difficulty. But, despite that reason for some prejudice in his favour, I have always been forced to the judgement that he has been a force for unspeakable evil.

His was the "breakthrough" which made the tabloids genuinely pornographic.
In my opinion at least, his policy with The Times completed its collapse from its position as the most respected newspaper in the world.
And his republicanism makes me sick -- it is not for the purpose of creating a better world, but quite obviously purely destructive. And I could go on.

PS: QUITE recently, a Times correspondent actually resigned because he was not allowed to report properly what was going on in Israel, or even to use accurate words to describe facts which were undisputed. He stated: "Murdoch's executives were so scared of irritating him that, when I pulled off a little scoop by tracking, interviewing and photographing the unit in the Israeli army which killed Mohammed al-Durrah, the 12-year-old boy whose death was captured on film and became the iconic image of the conflict, I was asked to file the piece 'without mentioning the dead kid'. After that conversation, I was left wordless, so I quit." Unusually courageous for a modern journalist."

Tane Mahuta

18th July 2011, 16:29

Veterans Today Senior Editor, Gordon Duff, on Press TV. The subject is Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Israel and the recent spy and bribery scandal.

I don't believe he's entirely behind it, but he's part of the sum. There are others too that make up the sum of the toatal. But......this is great news for humanity.
The truth will be the authority!! Not vice - versa!!

A corrupt system will always fall apon itself - Just hurry up and fall(I say), so a transform can take place.

nuff said TM

Tane Mahuta

18th July 2011, 16:35

News Corporation - Rupert Murdoch...Owns almost everything.

No he doesn't........he dosen't own me!!! Good informative post!!

Tane Mahuta

18th July 2011, 16:38

how did one man get to have so much power???

We gave it to him!!